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A very common trope is the Ugly Guy, Hot Wife pairing. This is mostly because society's standards for female beauty are far higher than that for men, and women are often thought of as loving people on the inside, while men love women for their bodies and sexual wiles. Or it can be for another very good reason. However, as rare as it may be, the inversion does in fact exist; for example, there are many bird species where the male is brightly colored but the female is duller in its feathers. While it's nowhere near as common, sometimes a totally hot hunk will end up with a Gonk of a girl. This usually plays on previous misconceptions of men and women's stances on love. Maybe the man has some ulterior motive. Maybe the girl managed to force him into such a relationship. Or maybe, just maybe, they really are in love. This is not a YMMV trope; this is when the woman is clearly ugly or very visually displeasing in some way, while the man is incredibly attractive. Don't put down an example where "the guy is kind of good looking and the girl is kinda ugly, I guess." Inverted Trope to Ugly Guy, Hot Wife. |
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In A Long Way from Chicago, this seems to be the opinion of some of the townswomen in regards to FDR marrying Eleanor Roosevelt. One can't believe someone so handsome settled for a woman so plain, while another speculates that it was because she was a good cook, as "kissing don't last". | |
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The Scotsman from Samurai Jack is married, and it's initially presented as Ugly Guy, Hot Wife; he's a hairy, burly warrior with British Teeth and a machine gun for a pegleg, and describes his wife as a paragon of beauty. Upon meeting her, it turns out the Scotsman's Wife is bigger, uglier, and meaner than he is by a fair margin, and he's nothing but a puddle of mush around her (unless she is trying to kill Jack). | |
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The Tamír Triad, sort-of sort-of-not prequel to the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling features Prince Korin and his second wife Nalia - he is dashing, dark-haired and tall (and a weak-willed drunkard and beginning to show the family madness at that point) while she is described as plain-looking at best (and by people who actually know her and see how kind, intelligent, gentle and utterly miserable the poor girl is) and outright ugly at worst, mostly due to her fleeting chin and the wine flaw on her face. Her life gets better. Tamír and her squire/childhood/friend/later husband Ki may or may not be an example. Ki is dashing. Tamír herself is not very much on the side of typical feminine beauty, shows very sharp features and she herself describes herself as rather plain. However, she has a lot of charisma, a keen mind, a strong will, and is very compassionate, which is what draws people to her. And she's definitely far from ugly. | |
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The Silmarillion has Fëanor and Nerdanel. Unlike the norm for this trope however, characters in-universe, frequently ask "what does he see in her?" and it's very much An Aesop about how looks aren't everything: usually this kind of thing is seen with the gender-inverted trope. Fëanor may be an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon with mommy issues, but he's not shallow or stupid. Nerdanel is kind, patient, wise, adventurous, and a highly talented sculptor. More than enough virtues to warrant overlooking what she lacks in the looks department: especially if, as seems to be the case with Fëanor, you have enough looks for two. Their oldest son is the only character specifically called sexy, and the other children definitely aren't ugly. Even the general loser of the Feanorian genetic lottery, Caranthir, only comes out with a "ruddy complexion": which isn't the most undesirable thing in the world. | |
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Change 123 gives us Kousukegawa's mom and dad. Dad is basically Kousukegawa aged up a few years and given a good dose of Bishounen and glasses. His mom on the other hand is short, squat, and plain-looking. | |
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Sumiyoshi's parents from the Excel♡Saga manga. His father is a "normal" attractive anime guy, while his mother looks like a girl Sumiyoshi (Gonk). Also hilarious is that the mother is the only one in that family that actually speaks, while Sumiyoshi, his father, and his adorable little sister Canal all "speak" the same way. | |
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In one Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons, the ugly evil witch who holds Bart and Lisa captive claims that she has a boyfriend named George Cauldron, but the kids don't believe her. After Homer defeats the witch by stuffing her in the oven, her handsome boyfriend George Cauldron comes to her house, wondering where she is for their date. | |
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Red Ears: The punchline to a comic where a young woman sees a hunky guy standing in front of an expensive sports car and logically assuming him to be the owner, starts imagining an elaborate, whirlwind romance before approaching him. Then an old, unpleasant-looking Rich Bitch returns from her shopping spree and yells at her trophy husband to stop philandering. | |
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Days of Our Lives featured hunky doctor Craig and his considerably overweight wife Nancy, whom he absolutely adored. | |
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She-Devil: The failure of such a relationship drives the plot. In it, a man played by Ed Begley, Jr. is married to - and later cheats on and abandons - his wife, played by Roseanne Barr, who then seeks revenge. It's stated that he was trapped into marrying her after getting her pregnant in high school. | |
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In Harry Potter, it is established (by Dumbledore, who was, frankly, being kind) that the late Merope Gaunt was "no beauty" and got her handsome Muggle husband Tom Riddle by feeding him love potions. When she stopped drugging him, he fled the relationship, she fell victim to Death by Childbirth, and their child Tom went to an orphanage where he grew up to become Voldemort. | |
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In The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, the leader of the Gorira Alliance is as Gonky as her underlings. Her boyfriend Yuu, on the other hand, is a perfectly attractive feminine-looking boy. | |
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Married... with Children with Jefferson and Marcy D'Arcy, the Bundys' neighbors. Amanda (Marcy) Bearse was hardly ugly, but the joke was that she was a "chicken", a scrawny woman with no feminine features, and Jefferson was her trophy husband. She especially counts if the viewers go by the same standards in Ugly Guy, Hot Wife, since like everyone else on the show, she had some glaring personality problems that did nothing to help her Hollywood Homely appearance. | |
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The White Queen: Applies to the marriage of Richard of Gloucester and Anne Neville. She's not ugly, but she's explicitly described as "a plain little thing" by Margaret of Anjou, and George of Clarence, Richard's own brother, doesn't believe he can be attracted to her. George is clearly wrong, though, because Richard has adored Anne since childhood, they Marry for Love, are Happily Married, and he remains faithful to his wife for the first dozen years of their marriage. However, when Richard's romantic feelings for Anne diminish in their final year together, he falls in love with his classically beautiful niece Elizabeth of York, and she reciprocates wholeheartedly despite how closely related they are. It reinforces Richard's depiction as a Raven Hair, Ivory Skin Pretty Boy (his gorgeousness, which is even a touch feminine, is essentially equal to his niece's), whereas Anne isn't appealing enough to have any other male admirers besides her husband. | |
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In Inuyasha, Hiten and Manten's parents were both demons, but their father was a very human-like and extremely rather good looking demon while the mother was quite the Gonk, having a reptilian/toadish appearance with, in Manten's own words, "thinning hair". Manten inherited the mom's looks and Hiten looked like the Hot Dad, which gave Manten quite the inferiority complex. | |
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Several The Benny Hill Show sketches. The guy's head-turning hotness may be an Informed Ability, which is contrasted with exceptionally ugly wives. The guys are usually played by Hill or McGee, the wives are often played by men too. In at least one sketch he married her for her parents' money. Another sketch had him say his wife isn't much to look at "but you can't help who you fall in love with." | |
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Protector of the Small: Kel is compared by her sisters-in-law to a cow, but she has many many other attributes, including being one of the first women in the kingdom to become a knight. She also gets with some handsome men as well. However, it's possibly subverted, as the 'cow' description was applied when she was about 10, her older sisters are mentioned to be good-looking, and she is implied to get prettier as well as she gets older - though she never really puts much focus on it, unlike Alanna, the first Lady Knight, who developed a taste for dressing up in a Pimped-Out Dress or two. |
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In Hercules (Pure Magic), while Zeus is depicted as usual (Old, but muscular and handsome), Hera, on the other hand is portrayed as a very ugly woman, perhaps as a way to emphasize her villainous role in the story. | |
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According to Warcraft, particularly Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, the origin of the centaurs can be traced to the union of Zaetar (son of Cenarius, an attractive Night Elf/Stag centaur) and Princess Theradras, who would be pretty gonky even if she wasn't several times larger than him and built like the Venus of Willendorf with four arms and three faces. | |
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Takeo's parents in My Love Story!!. His mother is more of a gonk than his father, though she's not portrayed in a negative manner (much like Takeo himself), while Takeo's father is handsome and produces Bishie Sparkles (though he's not bishonen). | |
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Fans!: Shanna is entirely aware of her stick-figure build, whereas Will is practically a body-builder. The relationship seems to have done wonders for Shanna's body-image issues. | |
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An example shows up with two background characters in Wurr—namely, the big fat hellhound and her leggy, elegant mate. Also a case of Tiny Guy, Huge Girl. | |
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The Conquerors Saga: Lada is ugly and has no illusions about it; Mehmed is described to be extremely handsome. In addition, being the sultan Mehmed has access to a harem full of incredibly beautiful women and a beautiful wife, whom he despises, but prefers Lada—he would love to sleep with and marry her, though she's having none of it. | |
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The loving relationship between Wilbur and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray falls into this - especially in the movie musical, with Christopher Walken and a cross-dressing John Travolta singing and dancing together in "You're Timeless to Me". | |
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In A Brother's Price, breathtakingly handsome Jerin acquires one wife who has scars all over her face and upper body, a sight which disgusted her ex-lover so much that she left her. As sororal polygyny is the norm, not all of his wives are ugly, but this one is. Would have been played even straighter if he had had to marry the Brindle sisters, all of whom he thinks "look like horses". | |
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In Monster House, at least when he was younger, Nebbercracker was admittedly more attractive than his obese late wife, whose spirit possesses the titular house. | |
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In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, both the King and the Evil Queen were attractive. However, after the King's death, the Queen continued to be beautiful and young until she used a potion to turn herself into an old and ugly woman. | |
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Rae's (rather frumpy) mum in My Mad Fat Diary lives with Karim, who is younger and fitter than her. | |
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Girl Genius: According to Oggie (the most human-looking of the Jägers), his wife was closer to Ugly Cute than anything. He also never figured out why she always slept in his tent when visiting. | |
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The Mindy Project subverts this; while Mindy is a fine-looking woman, it's her own self-doubts and insecurities that make her believe she will end up like this given her string of handsome boyfriends, particularly Danny and Ben. While this is usually played for laughs, in some cases, such as when she begins gaining weight due to her pregnancy with Danny's baby, she has an emotional breakdown that is no laughing matter. | |
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Case Closed give us the parents of Genta Kojima, whose looks that has been compared to a monkey has a Strong Family Resemblance to his mother and his father is drawn similar to Shinichi / Conan's father Yusaku Kudo - someone who is married to a world famous actress and is universally considered to be handsome. | |
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Archie Comics in the early to mid-1990s had a skater punk makeover for Jughead and gave him a paraplegic, African-American love interest named Anita and gave his Abhorrent Admirer Ethel a blind boyfriend named Jeffrey, who, while Ethel was deliberately drawn to look less attractive than most of the girls in Archie Comics with buck teeth, a scrawny flat body with no curves, and Jughead's needle nose and a square jaw. Jeffrey was attractive and fit in the way most of the boys in the series were◊. They were both dropped along with Jughead's makeover. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The author is a huge fan of Beauty and the Beast, and it shows with the many Beast and Beauty type of relationships in the series. Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth stand out as a rare gender inversion of the trope. | |
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In Fairest, Aza, who receives rude stares and comments about her appearance and is implied to be descended from gnomes, has a handsome prince fall in love with her. | |
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In The Hudsucker Proxy, Sidney Mussburger introduces his overweight, ugly wife to Barnes. Granted, the Mussburgers are an aging couple, but Sidney is played by Paul Newman. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights: This becomes the Sheriff of Rottingham's fate, after cutting a deal with the Witch to save his life; he reluctantly agrees to marry her in exchange for a magic pill. | |
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Le Petit Spirou: The Hunk shop teacher is shown to be head-over-heels for the hideous school librarian, who impatiently turns down his advances as her heart is set on the (ugly and out-of-shape) gym teacher. | |
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The Amanda Show: One sketch has the recurring character Crazy Courtney, a homely young woman with glasses, a crooked overbite with braces, and grandmotherly clothing, at a movie theater scaring away a patron from his seat. It's then revealed she did it for her handsome, blond boyfriend when they then say her catchphrase "Ma ha!" | |
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Shiro's parents in Jubei-chan. His father looks almost exactly like the handsome Shiro, but his mother is fat, squat, with an afro and has a frog-like face. | |
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Boardwalk Empire has Giuseppe "Gyp" Rosetti, a tall and handsome Sicilian man, married to Giaconda, a pudgy, unattractive, and shrewish battleaxe. | |
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King Cayleb and Queen Sharleyan from the Safehold series are a mild example — Cayleb is absolutely gorgeous by anyone's standard (except his), but Sharleyan, though quite pretty, notes with some amusement that the many paeans to her supposed beauty are nothing more than bootlicking. The only person who truly thinks she is the most beautiful woman on the planet is her husband. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has Typhon and Echidna. Typhon, apart from being a giant who stands about two stories tall, is a handsome human man. Echidna, on the other hand, is a bald, fang-mouthed, scaly-skinned shrieking she-beast with octopus tentacles for arms and three serpentine tails in lieu of legs. About the only thing she has in common with her husband is height. They are still very much passionately in love with each other, and Typhon actually acts as something of Echidna's Morality Chain — in his introductory episode, Typhon even notes that Hera imprisoned him because without him around, Echidna's temper made her very dangerous. | |
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Kyle's parents in South Park. His father looks like a Jewish version of Stan's dad, who is fairly handsome as far as cartoon fathers go. His mother is short, very fat, has a large hook-nose, and an unflattering beehive hairdo. This trope even permeates their voices and personalities. Kyle's dad is fairly mellow with a mid-western accent. His mother is shrill with an obnoxiously thick Yiddish accent. The difference is even pointed out in the episode "Spontaneous Combustion." | |
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Miranda (2009) constantly makes jokes about Miranda Hart being masculine, overweight, and very, very tall. Despite this, she gets attention from quite a few very handsome men, especially Gary, her main Love Interest. However, it should be noted that Miranda Hart writes it herself, and there are a few real-life men who consider her attractive. | |
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High School High: Mr. Clark took after his mother (who looks exactly like Jon Lovitz). | |
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Used in The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey. Idalia, while certainly a beautiful human, has an elf pining for her. Then, at the end of the series, it's subverted, when she's reincarnated as an elf, though it's acceptable because this is the only way both would find long-term - by elven standards - happiness. Semi-used with Kellen and Vestakia—the fact that she looks like a Demon may repel others in-universe, but the reader is more likely to see her as a Cute Monster Girl. |
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The Belisarius Series has Rana Sanga and his wife. Rana Sanga is tall, handsome, broad-shouldered, widely considered the epitome of Rajput manhood, and one of the half dozen best generals and personal combatants in the world. Lady Sanga is a short, pudgy, plain-looking woman whose hair was completely grey before her thirtieth birthday. Needless to say, Rana Sanga loves his wife more than anything in the world and turns into a tongue-tied teenager in her presence. | |
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Frasier: Niles Crane and his (unseen) first wife Maris are strongly implied to be this. Niles is fairly handsome, while Maris is so monstrous—both on the inside and outside—that she was turned into The Ghost because by the time they toyed with revealing her, the crew had determined that no actress was ugly enough to fit the outlandish descriptions of her appearance. (For instance, she has webbed hands and super pale skin, and is so thin that she's been mistaken for a hat rack.) She's also rich, and that's likely why Niles put up with her for so long. | |
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The Sopranos has Johnny Sack, who’s not exactly “hot” but is a fairly well-kept and groomed Italian man of high status in the mafia, who is married to the very overweight Ginny Sacrimoni. Johnny genuinely dotes on his wife and has never taken a goomah, and goes so far as to threaten fellow mobster Ralph Cifaretto with death for the latter cracking an insensitive weight joke about Ginny at a dinner, almost leading to Sack's own death when he refuses to obey his Don and stand down over the issue. He does mention that she used to be Formerly Fit, but started overreating due to anxiety problems. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, this MIGHT eventually be the case for Hiei and Mukuro. In a twist Mukuro used to be beautiful, but she willingly scarred half of her body to gain her freedom from sex slavery. | |
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Mortal Engines: Tom is handsome, and a few conventionally attractive women show interest in him throughout the book series, but he ends up with Hester Shaw: A heavily scarred and disfigured (as in, missing an eye, part of her nose, and most of the lower half of her face) Dark Action Girl. Their relationship is tumultuous, especially given that Hester's moral alignment is also significantly less... pretty than Tom's, but they truly do love each other. Also an example of Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy. Gets downplayed in The Film of the Book, where Hester's scars are still present, but significantly toned down when compared to her description in the novels, leading to some criticism of the movie. | |
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In the post-movie Spongebob Squarepants episode "Banned in Bikini Bottom," we're given a stuffy, uptight elderly lady whose husband turns out to be the young, muscular, ridiculously humanlike Chief of Police. It's implied he married her for her cooking, which is odd considering she literally hates anything "fun and delicious," leading a whole community against it. | |
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In Deep Secret, Maree, despite being fat, smudgy, and whiny of voice, had a rather attractive boyfriend before the story proper began, and later ends up with Rupert, who's rather handsome (if not the most handsome fellow in the story; that'd be Andrew) and has a fondness for leather jackets. | |
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Gravity Falls has a story where an ugly old witch tries to blackmail Stan into kissing her; instead, Mabel offers to give her a "Love Makeover" so she can get a guy of her own. She ends up... still ugly, but less terrifying, and in the end, she is last seen with a handsome young rock climber who had been climbing by her cave. | |
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Haré+Guu Deluxe has an example going in line with May–December Romance. The Muscular bank robber ends up with the elderly Dama in a case of Love at First Punch. | |
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Cold Case: One episode centered around a handsome man who had a string of unattractive female partners. The team initially writes it off as a fetish before discovering the truth: he was a scammer turned Serial Killer who targeted homely women because they were easy marks for his charm due to being overlooked and starved for affection. That said, he did genuinely come to love one of his marks, who in turn became his partner in crime. | |
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