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