
Unfortunately, this actually works in his favor, as he uses this to prove that the Jedi attacked him, making the Republic think that the Jedi are traitors. Though being exposed to his own force lightning (redirected to him by Mace Windu) did move things along. Star Wars: Palpatine once looked like everyone else (otherwise, people probably would be more hesitant to give him emergency powers) but experiences Rapid Aging from his use of the Dark Side.The title character starts as an ugly witch, but as the children realize that she is doing good, and grow more affectionate towards her, she becomes more and more attractive (until she is Emma Thompson).
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Near the end of the film, one of the Mooks drinks a concoction that gives him incredible size and strength.and glowing red skin with horrible acne.Harry Potter: Voldemort practically turns into a snake from his dealings with the darker sides of magic.
Then the evidence starts stacking that, in this continuity at least, Odin intentionally warped and molded Loki into both ugliness and evil so that arrogant, brutish Thor would look better by comparison. Loki is withered, nearly toothless, and looks decades older than his biological mother.
Zig-zagged in Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers. The Skull himself literally took on his infamous moniker after getting hit with his own Dust of Death after one skirmish with the Captain. She is now her father's daughter in every way. Sin, the daughter of Captain America's Arch Enemy the Red Skull, received horrible facial scars in an explosion when she tried to put her father's mind into Steve Rogers' body.
Justin Law in Soul Eater after a Face Heel Turn he becomes Asura's dragon and after being disfigured he has half his face burned and shows his corruption. Kabuto, for most of his screentime looked pretty normal, even if he technically never really was a good guy. By the time the Light chases out his soul and completely takes hold of his body, his face looks like a stage mask with a permanent distorted grimace. Takuma Saioh goes through the same process the more the Light of Destruction possesses him. Untill he slips into Narm territory that is. Notably, the more Axe Crazy Dark Marik gets, the more his veins stand out, the more his eyes bulge, and the more his face stretches. Yu-Gi-Oh!: White-Haired Pretty Boy Marik was hardly a good guy, but he's got nothing on his disfigured Superpowered Evil Side for sheer malice. He obviously has ill-intent in mind when he experiments on the Claymores, and thus, half of his face is fucked up. Dae of the Retrieval Squad is another example. The Organization does have to implant the Yoma flesh into them in the first place – that could have just been scarring from the operation that they were seeing. Proof that they are already on the path of being ugly. When a band of human bandits approaches to rape Teresa, several of them turn off-screen and vomit upon seeing her begin to disrobe for it. Apparently their normal forms aren't entirely without taint either. Claymore: When the eponymous Ladies Of War tap into their Super-Powered Evil Side, they inevitably become fuck ugly. See also Beauty Equals Goodness where beauty is seen as proof of being good, regardless of if its true or not When Beauty Equals Goodness, this is used to mark Face Heel Turns.Ĭompare The Corruption, Evil Costume Switch, and Evil Makes You Monstrous and What Measure Is a Non-Cute? andĬontrast with The Makeover, Evil Is Sexy. Sometimes, an attempt at this trope fails - the character's new features improve their appearance. Taken to the extreme, the evil transformation that corrupts the super villain could do them in. The transformation may either grow or shrink in intensity the more evil one becomes.
In video games, such transformations may be caused directly by less-than-honorable actions taken by PCs. Trying to hide with makeup is sometimes tried, because Make Up Is Evil. The villain with the extra limb will find neat uses for it. A villain that has aged a hundred years, while he may be no wiser, will somehow avoid being physically hindered by the extra years. This is because these changes usually have no negative effects other than the ugliness. Since evil super villains care only about obtaining power (typically at the expense of everyone else), they generally shrug it off when they suddenly age by 100 years, have limbs that they didn't have before, or can't go out in public anymore. The external form morphs to match the internal form. When evil makes you ugly, it's often to exhibit the "side effects" of obtaining untold amounts of evil power or of using that power to hurt innocent people. So will committing acts of evil repeatedly. Using certain evil superpowers or evil artifacts will leave characters scarred, disfigured, or deformed.