Tropescilloscope: Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

She's a hottie. He's not. Opposites definitely attracted with this couple. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Older Than They Look Artistic License – Biology Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Smug Snake Cain and Abel Suddenly SHOUTING! The Musical Exactly What It Says on the Tin Badass Bookworm Double Entendre Rich Bitch One Steve Limit Psychological Thriller Enemy Mine Composite Character Jerkass Has a Point Fourth Date Marriage Mooks Unreliable Narrator Adaptation Distillation The Film of the Book Creator Cameo Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Epic Fail Dogged Nice Guy Hope Spot Fingore Sanity Slippage Off with His Head! Cruel and Unusual Death Despair Event Horizon Deus ex Machina Would Hurt a Child Obviously Evil No Ending Serial Killer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deconstruction Ambiguous Disorder Token Minority Gold Digger Recycled IN SPACE! Daddy's Girl Hoist by His Own Petard Taking the Bullet Attempted Rape Dark and Troubled Past An Arm and a Leg Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Power of Love Say My Name Extremely Short Timespan Shipper on Deck Spiteful Spit Adaptation Dye-Job For Want of a Nail Annoying Younger Sibling Meaningful Echo Blackmail Improbable Aiming Skills Together in Death Lampshade Hanging Conspicuous CG Offscreen Moment of Awesome A Minor Kidroduction Bond Villain Stupidity Jerk Jock Male Frontal Nudity Manly Tears Last-Name Basis Star-Crossed Lovers May–December Romance Kick the Son of a Bitch Protagonist Title Scary Black Man Left the Background Music On Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Sir Swears-a-Lot Did Not Get the Girl Failed a Spot Check Bland-Name Product Does This Remind You of Anything? Eye Scream Distracted by the Sexy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Aside Glance "Awesome McCool" Name Final Girl Big Damn Heroes Take a Third Option Race Against the Clock Romantic Comedy Disney Death Deal with the Devil Villain with Good Publicity Killed Mid-Sentence Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Italian Films Determinator And the Adventure Continues All There in the Manual Dropped a Bridge on Him Foreshadowing Punny Name Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mercy Kill O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bound and Gagged Pyrrhic Victory Hell Is That Noise Blood Knight Death by Sex Product Placement Decoy Protagonist Tranquil Fury Boom, Headshot! The Bully Bring My Brown Pants Intergenerational Friendship Meaningful Name Rule of Cool Epic Movie Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Alcoholic Horror Films In Medias Res Children Are Innocent Greater-Scope Villain Age Lift B-Movie As You Know Babies Ever After Heroic Sacrifice Wham Line Beard of Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Facial Horror Heroic BSoD Biopic Historical Villain Upgrade Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Married to the Job Police Brutality Villain Opening Scene Random Events Plot Grievous Bottley Harm Imagine Spot Manic Pixie Dream Girl Auto Erotica Bolivian Army Ending Black Comedy Kubrick Stare Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Wicked Cultured The Cameo Noodle Incident Dumb Blonde Red Herring Be Careful What You Wish For Rousing Speech Eagleland She Cleans Up Nicely Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adults Are Useless Scenery Gorn Red Shirt Real Life Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bittersweet Ending Artistic License – Military Sports Stories Slap-Slap-Kiss You Killed My Father Historical In-Joke Victoria's Secret Compartment Mama Bear Unresolved Sexual Tension Once More, with Clarity! World of Ham Film Series Alas, Poor Villain Hypocritical Humor Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Death Glare Not What It Looks Like Precision F-Strike Karmic Death Made of Iron Manchild The '80s Mad Scientist Took a Level in Badass All Girls Want Bad Boys Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptational Badass Refuge in Audacity Villainous Breakdown Grey and Gray Morality Loads and Loads of Characters Kill 'em All Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Remake Spared by the Adaptation Anyone Can Die Fate Worse than Death Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Silence Is Golden Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Reveal Your Head A-Splode Camp Gay Funny Background Event Continuity Nod Hooker with a Heart of Gold Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big Bad Worthy Opponent Sacrificial Lion Word of God He Knows Too Much What You Are in the Dark Gainax Ending All There in the Script Straight Gay Stylistic Suck Beta Couple Truth in Television Sole Survivor Revenge Undying Loyalty Stealth Hi/Bye Dual Wielding Psycho for Hire Apocalypse How Blood from the Mouth Arc Words Novelization True Companions Empathic Environment Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Armor-Piercing Question One-Word Title Death by Irony Dies Wide Open Dissonant Serenity Nothing Is Scarier Ominous Latin Chanting Riddle for the Ages Market-Based Title Suspiciously Similar Substitute Defiant to the End It's All About Me Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Well-Intentioned Extremist Every Car Is a Pinto Hollywood Law Determinator aka: The Determinator Ripped from the Headlines Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cowboy Cop Berserk Button Evil Plan Television Movie Index Only One Name Lighter and Softer Overprotective Dad Neck Snap Science Fiction Films Defrosting Ice Queen Logo Joke Artistic License – Physics Idiot Ball Made of Explodium Anachronic Order Guns Akimbo Make It Look Like an Accident All Just a Dream Ungrateful Bastard Japanese Films Show Within a Show Pragmatic Adaptation Camera Abuse Jerkass Badass in a Nice Suit Demonic Possession Book-Ends The Lost Lenore Awesome, but Impractical Informed Ability Trailers Always Spoil Crapsack World Lock and Load Montage Dutch Angle Four-Temperament Ensemble Twist Ending Up to Eleven Catapult Nightmare Didn't Think This Through Comically Missing the Point Narrator Half the Man He Used to Be Thriller Domestic Abuse Red Oni, Blue Oni Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Ass Shove The Mole Properly Paranoid Those Wacky Nazis Heel Realization Plot Hole Let's Get Dangerous! Pragmatic Villainy Gender Flip Improbable Weapon User Cluster F-Bomb Put on a Bus Retcon Important Haircut Kids Are Cruel Big Brother Instinct Dressing as the Enemy It Can Think Eureka Moment Shown Their Work Badass Longcoat Rule of Funny Mood Whiplash Mighty Whitey Homage Romantic False Lead Kill It with Fire An Aesop Heroes Want Redheads Alliterative Name Suspiciously Specific Denial Karma Houdini Almost Kiss Fat Bastard Creepy Child Even Evil Has Loved Ones Actually Pretty Funny You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! My God, What Have I Done? A Date with Rosie Palms Woman in White Red Right Hand Nice Guy Face–Heel Turn Obfuscating Stupidity Rewatch Bonus Fatal Family Photo Knight Templar Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sinister Minister Too Dumb to Live Outrun the Fireball Bunny-Ears Lawyer Vampire Fiction Papa Wolf Exact Words The Un-Reveal Bare Your Midriff Those Two Bad Guys Wham Shot Femme Fatale Have a Gay Old Time Break the Haughty '80s Hair Demoted to Extra The '70s Shout-Out It Will Never Catch On Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Attractiveness Love Triangle Missing Mom Implacable Man Early-Bird Cameo Freudian Excuse Loophole Abuse Retired Badass Drives Like Crazy Time Skip Department of Redundancy Department Funny Foreigner Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Stalker with a Crush Hollywood Darkness Stepford Smiler Amoral Attorney Death by Adaptation Does Not Like Shoes You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Alpha Bitch Bilingual Bonus The Stoic Fainting Fun with Acronyms Pretty Little Headshots Evil Brit The Load Only Known by Their Nickname Advertised Extra Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Reasonable Authority Figure Closed Circle Fire-Forged Friends Punch-Clock Villain Australian Movies Back from the Dead Irony The Cavalry Evil Laugh Your Cheating Heart Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Chewing the Scenery Batman Gambit Honor Before Reason Aluminum Christmas Trees Here We Go Again! Hypocrite Rape as Drama Parental Incest Cool Car Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer German Films Faking the Dead I'm a Humanitarian Not So Stoic Monumental Damage Award-Bait Song A Father to His Men Russian Films Chekhov's Gun Ghost Fiction Bald of Evil Whole Plot Reference Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Disproportionate Retribution Dramatic Gun Cock How We Got Here Nice Hat Hate Sink Naked People Are Funny Mundane Made Awesome Only a Flesh Wound Maybe Ever After No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Artistic License – History Reality Has No Subtitles Knife Nut Sci-Fi Horror The Oner Shower Scene Smoking Is Cool Bullying a Dragon Anti-Villain Woman Scorned Vomit Indiscretion Shot Soundtrack Dissonance Roaring Rampage of Revenge "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Authority Equals Asskicking Ship Tease Brutal Honesty Red Eyes, Take Warning The Chessmaster You Have Failed Me Fantasy Films Black Best Friend Dull Surprise Stealth Pun Sequel Hook Fatal Flaw Adaptational Villainy Broken Aesop Hero of Another Story Totally Radical Intrepid Reporter Paper-Thin Disguise Obstructive Bureaucrat Broken Bird Plucky Comic Relief NO INDOOR VOICE Shut Up, Hannibal! Fish out of Water Stuff Blowing Up Call-Back Fanservice Large Ham Darkest Hour Crucified Hero Shot Fantastic Racism Fan Disservice Evil Is Petty Artistic License – Gun Safety Posthumous Character Accidental Murder Rasputinian Death Arch-Enemy Names to Run Away from Really Fast As Long as It Sounds Foreign Faux Affably Evil Crazy Jealous Guy Meet Cute From Nobody to Nightmare Blatant Lies Documentary Disguised in Drag No Celebrities Were Harmed No Antagonist Spiritual Successor Darker and Edgier Foregone Conclusion Drowning My Sorrows Wrong Genre Savvy The Great Depression Not Quite Dead Parental Abandonment A.I. Is a Crapshoot Scenery Porn Destination Defenestration Needs Wiki Magic Love Historical-Domain Character Dwindling Party Super Strength Belligerent Sexual Tension Training Montage The '50s From Bad to Worse Playing Gertrude Pet the Dog Big Fancy House Brainless Beauty Adult Fear Film Noir Eldritch Abomination Never Trust a Trailer Body Horror I Did What I Had to Do It's Personal Never My Fault Moment Killer Cold-Blooded Torture Bottomless Magazines Ascended Extra Poor Communication Kills The Quiet One Death of a Child Chekhov's Skill Title Drop Insult Backfire Artistic License – Law War Is Hell Daylight Horror Bad "Bad Acting" Groin Attack Horror Comedy "The Reason You Suck" Speech Slashed Throat Author Avatar Affably Evil For the Evulz Pretty in Mink Corpsing An Axe to Grind Coming-of-Age Story Eyepatch of Power Due to the Dead Beware the Nice Ones Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sadistic Choice Light Is Not Good The Chick All for Nothing Interrupted Suicide Self-Deprecation Vomit Discretion Shot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Malevolent Masked Men Dark Reprise Betty and Veronica Evil Counterpart Easily Forgiven Brother–Sister Incest Cat Fight The Place Music Stories Bar Brawl Politically Incorrect Villain Canadian Movies Shell-Shocked Veteran Even Evil Has Standards Hong Kong Films Freeze-Frame Bonus No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Improvised Weapon Villain Ball Catch-Phrase Actor Allusion Slasher Smile The Smart Guy Visual Pun Really Gets Around Guile Hero Film Noir Index Credits Gag Spell My Name with an "S" Video Credits The Atoner The '90s The Mafia Combat Pragmatist Wretched Hive The Sociopath Costume Porn Bavarian Fire Drill Big Applesauce Man on Fire More Dakka Dramedy "Well Done, Son!" Guy Evil-Detecting Dog Men Are the Expendable Gender Flashback A God Am I He Who Fights Monsters The Vamp The Hero Dies Get Out! Asshole Victim Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Stoner Framing Device Driven to Suicide timeperiod Evil Sounds Deep Gorn Our Vampires Are Different Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Foil Adaptation Expansion Based on a True Story Dirty Cop Deliberately Monochrome Death Seeker Non-Indicative Name Yandere Arranged Marriage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing What the Hell, Hero? The Casanova Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Action Prologue Offscreen Teleportation Downer Ending Tempting Fate Action Survivor Parental Neglect Laser-Guided Karma N-Word Privileges Instant Death Bullet The End... Or Is It? Small Name, Big Ego Animal Motifs The Alleged Car Humans Are Bastards Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Genre Throwback Diabolus ex Machina Disney Villain Death Hidden Depths Mexican Standoff Insistent Terminology Action Girl Five-Man Band Adapted Out Not So Above It All Deliberate Values Dissonance Face Death with Dignity Call-Forward Contrived Coincidence Ax-Crazy Abusive Parents Cool Guns Casting Gag 20 Minutes into the Future Disappeared Dad Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cool Shades Happily Married As Himself My Beloved Smother The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Dreaded Beauty Is Never Tarnished Expository Hairstyle Change Morality Pet Tap on the Head Redshirt Army Redemption Equals Death Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Voiceless Bond One-Liner Ambiguously Gay And I Must Scream Drugs Are Bad Evil Is Hammy Unusual Euphemism Police are Useless Amusing Injuries Black Dude Dies First Genre Shift Sexy Discretion Shot Works Set in World War II The Lancer Vitriolic Best Buds Black Comedy Rape Getting Crap Past the Radar Gilligan Cut Reality Ensues Mind Screw Psychopathic Manchild Badass Grandpa Animated Credits Opening Gory Discretion Shot folderlabel BFG Expy Fiery Redhead The Big Guy Tagline Bad Boss Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality No-Sell One-Man Army All Men Are Perverts Good Is Not Nice Big Bad Duumvirate Double-Meaning Title The Ghost Historical Hero Upgrade Laughing Mad Would Hit a Girl Everyone Has Standards Dirty Coward Flipping the Bird Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bowdlerise Kick the Dog Creative Closing Credits Covers Always Lie The Stinger Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Pimped-Out Dress The Faceless No OSHA Compliance Butt-Monkey Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience This Is Gonna Suck Sassy Black Woman Motor Mouth Immune to Bullets Toplessness from the Back Cool Old Lady Cat Scare Villain Protagonist The Brute Soft Glass Slasher Movie Taking You with Me Race Lift Broken Pedestal Match Cut Parental Substitute The Starscream Christmas Movies Index Our Zombies Are Different Heel–Face Turn Ironic Echo Adaptational Heroism Chekhov's Gunman Only Sane Man She's Got Legs Air-Vent Passageway I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Captain Obvious Crazy-Prepared Military and Warfare Films Green-Eyed Monster Martial Arts Movie Humiliation Conga Establishing Character Moment Retirony Breaking the Fourth Wall The Hero Early Installment Weirdness Not Using the "Z" Word The Bad Guy Wins I Need a Freaking Drink Only in It for the Money Vacation Films Insane Troll Logic Re-Cut Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Car Fu Madness Mantra Mistaken for Gay Curb-Stomp Battle Leitmotif Peek-a-Boo Corpse Central Theme Rated M for Manly Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Jump Scare Extreme Doormat Shirtless Scene La Résistance Affectionate Parody Genre Savvy Gratuitous English Dramatic Irony British Films The X of Y Big-Bad Ensemble Same Language Dub Calling the Old Man Out Chase Scene Dirty Old Man Hair-Trigger Temper Scare Chord Break the Cutie Sequel Escalation Bloodier and Gorier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Earn Your Happy Ending Chiaroscuro Ambiguous Ending Accidental Misnaming Curse Cut Short Handicapped Badass Deadpan Snarker MacGuffin Card-Carrying Villain Badass Normal Meaningful Background Event Shoot the Shaggy Dog Author Appeal Major Injury Underreaction Mythology Gag Wounded Gazelle Gambit Spanner in the Works Eiffel Tower Effect The Ace Bloodless Carnage Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Sealed Evil in a Can Brick Joke Developing Doomed Characters Jitter Cam The Smurfette Principle Evil vs. Evil Reality Is Unrealistic Heterosexual Life-Partners Silent Movie Those Two Guys In Name Only Room Full of Crazy Villain Song "Shaggy Dog" Story Mr. Exposition Dying Moment of Awesome Antagonist Title Naïve Newcomer Character Development Big Eater The Dragon Mugging the Monster Manipulative Bastard Overly Long Gag Fanservice Extra What Happened to the Mouse? Country Matters Famous Last Words Bait-and-Switch Anti-Hero Pay Evil unto Evil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Frame-Up Better to Die than Be Killed Animal Title Index Captain Ersatz Adorkable Male Gaze Running Gag Abhorrent Admirer Superhero Index of Film Westerns I Have Your Wife As the Good Book Says... Setting Update Artistic License – Geography Not So Different Bloody Hilarious Depraved Bisexual Fake Shemp Mystery and Detective Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Anachronism Stew Cassandra Truth Adaptation Name Change Public Domain Feature Films Dark Is Not Evil Cloudcuckoolander Love at First Sight Badass Boast Neck Lift Line-of-Sight Name Damsel in Distress Real Life Writes the Plot Rule of Symbolism Corrupt Corporate Executive Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Translation Convention Hero Antagonist Black and Gray Morality The Dog Bites Back My Greatest Failure Zombie Stories Gone Horribly Right Cool Old Guy The Ditz Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big "NO!" Take That! And Starring French Films No Name Given Stock Footage Bi the Way Becoming the Mask Anguished Declaration of Love Action Genre After the End Ms. Fanservice In the Back Agony of the Feet Bury Your Gays Dark Action Girl Never Found the Body Celebrity Paradox Henpecked Husband Rule of Three Reckless Gun Usage Skewed Priorities Storming the Castle Friend to All Children Took a Level in Jerkass The '60s Serious Business Oh, Crap! Canon Foreigner Mr. Fanservice Very Loosely Based on a True Story