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