Tropescilloscope: Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

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

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