Ooh also if protagonist is a girl they HAVE to become conventionally attractive. Even tho they are already a literal actress.
“She’s got glasses and a ponytail. Look, she’s got paint on her overalls, there’s no way she could be prom queen”
It’s ok, though. All she has to do is take off her glasses and let her hair down.
Don’t forget ditching the coveralls for some clothes from Old Navy
We just call this a ‘glow up’ these days.
Dark Academia flavored glow up?
Cottage Core?
(Has that one just fully turned into ‘TradWife’ yet?)
GothAltEmoPunk?
(Because Gen Z apparently can’t figure out the difference between these things, because they sorta look the same, and personalities don’t exist, only aesthetics do.)
MomJeans Core?
(JFC, I made that up as a joke, apparently ‘MomCore’ actually is a thing… as are ‘Momiforms’ … smdh…)
Are there any movies like this? I can’t think of any.
Have you never watched a movie?
Shrek if you play it in reverse
Breakfast Club is the classic example. Word emo chick was so hot and awesome and then just becomes… blah.
There’s actually very few straight examples of Beautiful All Along. It’s a trope that is played with, but mostly parodied and lampshaded, sometimes even purposefully inverted to make the point that Anon is making here.
Taming of the Shrew and everything that is basically the same story, like 10 Things I Hate About You. So like a good half of all teen romance.
Also breakfast club
I’ve seen 10 things I hate about you, I only remember how utterly awkward the final scene was.
