Beauty pageant

A beauty pageant is a contest in which individuals, usually women, compete for a prize based upon their physical attractiveness. The prize itself may range from something as simple as a ribbon, or a trophy, all the way up to cash rewards.

In the 1970s live-action superhero series Wonder Woman, the character of Diana Prince, aka, Wonder Woman went undercover in a beauty pageant during World War II in order to ferret out the ringleaders of a secret Nazi saboteur ring.

On an episode of Amazing Stories, a man named Joe Willoughby tried to promote a beauty pageant called Miss Stardust, but things turned difficult when a strange alien known as the "Cabbage Man" came to Earth as a representative of an organization that he claimed owns the rights to the title. Rather than resolve the matter through the legal system, the Cabbage Man instead threatened to destroy the entire planet.