Princess Ugly

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A girl so hideous that her name comes with its own nervous response, Princess (shudder) Ugly is the reigning monarch of Gorkel. She is beloved by her people, the Gorkels, despite her failure to live up to the high beauty standards of a race of gaunt, green apes.

You can tell where this is going.

Fiction

Princess Ugly was the ruler of the Gorkels The Saga of Princess Ugly on the planet Gorkel. Too Close (Enough) for Comfort She was the niece of Vermin the Vile. Despite being hideous beyond belief, Princess Ugly was beloved by the Gorkels, and they were distraught when she was kidnapped by Vermin and placed under a sleeping spell in his Domed City so that he could rule the planet in her place. The Gorkels lived according to a tome of prophecies The Saga of Princess Ugly called the Book of the Gorkels Too Close (Enough) for Comfort which predicted that alien creatures would arrive on Gorkel and break the spell. When Planet Terry, Robota, and Omnus crash landed on Gorkel, they were soon encouraged to fulfil the prophecy. The Saga of Princess Ugly

As Terry and friends passed through Gorkel's impenetrable forest, they were observed by Scavage, who reported back to Vermin the Vile that they threatened to fulfil the book's prophecy. Vermin checked in with his dungeon guard to ensure that she was still sleeping and that his rule absolute. The guard was unable to answer any of his questions, as Princess Ugly was snoring too monstrously for him to hear Vermin over the intercom. Despite Vermin's interference, Terry and friends made it to the Domed City. When Terry refused to recognise Vermin's authority over Princess Ugly, Vermin placed them under arrest. Too Close (Enough) for Comfort

Notes

  • Since royals are typically born into monarchy (on Earth at least) and Uncle Vermin isn't a Gorkel, we can only assume that Princess Ugly is half Gorkel, half whatever Vermin is. Vermin's species is differentiated from humans by their pointy Spock ears, and we never actually see the tips of the princess's ears under her hair.
  • If you thought this fully grown woman macking on the universe's most buff ten-year-old weren't awkward enough, Planet Terry issue 11  gives us the lovely line "Don't worry, Terry... we can still be friends... even though we are first cousins!" (It was all part of a paternity scare plot by Vermin so they weren't really related, but her advances ceased around that time anyway.)