These two alternatives can be seen as playing with Beauty Equals Goodness. In the first, the slightly hidden physical beauty is a sign of the internal goodness, in the latter, it represents the danger inherent in Evil Is Sexy. Medusa is a lithe, pale skinned beauty whose "snakes" are just ankle-length hair that get blown around a lot during battle. The whole "turn to stone" thing is the product of her Mystic Eyes Of Petrification (one of a good number of Mystic Eye types in the Nasuverse), and is easily mitigated by an enchanted visor or sexy nerd glasses. Oh, and she's really attractive too. Who is she? Rider. Justified in that this is supposed be Medusa before she was transformed into a monstrous creature. Her actual monster form looks more like a giant demonic mass of shadow snakes all joining together into a huge worm thing. As well as the fact that Word of God says that history is Written by the Winners, so what is recorded in legend is not necessarily what actually happened in-universe. In fact, this may even be an example of Shown Their Work, as most myths actually present Medusa as having once been very beautiful, either being turned into a monster because of Athena's jealousy, or because Poseidon had sex with her (or raped her, the myths vary) in Athena's temple. Rider can still become the famous ugly monster version for a power boost. She just chooses not to because she loses control of herself in the process. The furry comic Goblin Hollow has a gorgon in one arc who looks like an ordinary vixen with snakes under her headscarf . The Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III. It's an avatar of pure destruction out to end existence ...but for some reason, it decides to take the form of a completely nude green woman. Her appearance in Dissidia is pure fanservice ◊, though based on her original concept art. ◊

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Lucy and the other diclonius from Elfen Lied are frequently reinforced as non-human, horned killing machines that are dire threats to everyone around them and the doom of mankind...and they're pink haired Woobies with cute little horns. Yes, they may also be horned psychopaths with a genocidal instinct against mankind and able to project kinetic arms capable of ripping apart armoured soldiers as if they were made of paper...and Lucy does this lots of times, but then there's her other personality, Nyu, who is harmless, innocent, and kind. The gorgons who appear in Shadowchasers Series are rather attractive if you can get past the snake-hair. (Because interaction with humans is impossible in this reality, a gorgon can use simple dark sunglasses to render her gaze harmless.)Inverted in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones where the class description of Gorgon calls it a "beautiful and cursed creature" when its more of a full on snake humanoid with snakes for hair and arms.

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Final Fantasy IV's bestiary includes a mildly disturbing amount of monsters who are either entirely beautiful women or part beautiful women-part snake, or part spider, or part bat, or...you get the picture. The Medusae in the PS1 game Deathtrap Dungeon manage to both play this trope straight and subvert it - their faces are pretty monstrous, but their figures, on the other hand...In American Horror Story: Roanoke, this is Played With - the actress who plays Scáthach is played by Lady Gaga, and as such, is still attractive despite the attempts to make her appear disheveled and wild. This is averted in Return to Roanoke, where we are shown the real Scáthach, who appears much less like a woman and more like a thing. The manual incorrectly portrays her as an overweight cyclops woman when she, in fact, has no body in her monster form.

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Medusa is a recurring boss in the Castlevania series, but her appearances are almost uniformly aversions of this trope. Her first few appearances are as a floating, disembodied head, while the other ones are similar to her classical ugly design. About the only one where she is conventionally attractive is the appearance from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, which, while still a giant, disembodied head, is still conventionally pretty. The Kendril species in Last Res0rt consists almost entirely of Gorgeous Gorgons and Cute Monster Girls, even accounting for the whole Medusa aspect. They still wear masks, though. This is taken to its logical extreme by Medusas in 5th Edition. They are supernaturally beautiful because in that edition, a Medusa is the result of an extremely vain person making a Deal with the Devil for beauty. They get their wish, but eventually they become cursed for their arrogance and become a Medusa. They retain their looks, but it's now a cursed beauty as anyone who dares to look at their beauty gets the usual result. This includes the Medusa, too: they can't look away from their reflection if they see it, and it will turn them to stone. Deliberately subverted in 1981's Clash of the Titans. Ray Harryhausen felt that a woman with snakes in her hair was not monstrous enough, so he turned Medusa into a scaly, serpent-tailed, crone-like horror with fangs and Glowing Eyes of Doom that turned people to stone. Monster Musume: The Gorgon subspecies of lamia are as attractive as is normal for the series. A racial trait of theirs, however, is they all near-constantly have a withering glower on their face, one so intense it's been known to freeze people in place. It's because they all have bad eyesight, forcing them to squint. When Kimihito meets women from the modern Gorgon tribe, they seem to not have this problem because they all wear glasses, instead making them a tribe of Meganekko.Infested Kerrigan from StarCraft has a little something too, especially on the cover and title screen. Medusa from Castle Crashers fits this trope. Even though she's trying to kill you, she's still fairly nice looking for someone who's half snake. The Medusans from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " Is There in Truth No Beauty?": you'll be driven insane just by looking at them. They're actually quite friendly, and it's not their fault they make you go crazy when you look at them.

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The climax of Once Upon a Warrior sees Sorcerous Overlord Irendri attaining a powerful, Scaled Up form after a ritual, which changes her into a gorgon-like form with a shapely, humanoid body. Her face in particular has a mix of human and serpentine features.The protagonist of Little Medusa is a very cute and adorable gorgon, embarking on a quest to stop the evil and spiteful goddess who cursed her.