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--->'''Kim''': You're weird.
--->'''Ron''': Ah! K.P.!
--->'''Kim''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Shhh. I like weird.]]
-->--'''Kim and Ron''', ''KimPossilbe''

[[caption-width-right:259:The cheerleader, crime-fighting teenage heroine...''aaaand'' her clumsy, social outcast boyfriend! [[{{Adorkable}} Aren't they cute]]?]]

* In Paper Towns, Ben and Lacey, and Quentin and Margo to a lesser extent

A trope common in [[RomanticComedy Romantic Comedies]] and Teen Comedies, in which a dorky ([[NerdsAreSexy not necessarily ''ugly''']], just... geeky) guy ends up with the totally hot babe. Generally, at the beginning of the story, the geek begins the story as an outcast whom the beautiful girl would never be attracted to. He may be a band geek, or a scientist with all the social graces of a tube worm, or a ''D&D'' player who still lives in his mom's basement. And through the course of the story, she begins to see through his spaz-like exterior to the [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan decent, love-worthy man within.]]

* ''Batman:TheAnimatedSeries'' writer Paul Dini is married to a very lovely magician whose resemblance to Zatanna is downright uncanny.

** Oliver Tyler, a former nuclear submarine officer (retired after losing most of his left leg( and computer nerd, albeit a former American football player, has "five and two-thirds" children with his wife, "making up" for lost time while a submariner.

--> -- '''Drew Carey'''

** BrainsAndBondage holds TruthInTelevision from coast to coast and up to Canada. ThisTroper can't testify beyond that scope.
*** ThisTroper is from Europe and would like to extend the scope of above statement to another continent.

* Neurotic, geeky Columbus and hot "bad girl"-type Wichita in ''((Zombieland}}'' are a pretty textbook example, although it probably helps that he may be the only guy her age left after the zombie apocalypse.

* ''{{Runaways}}'' provides a rare gender inversion: short, chubby, average-looking nerd Gert ends up with tall, blond athlete Chase. [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Then she dies]]]]

* ''{{Runaways}}'' provides a rare gender inversion: short, chubby, average-looking nerd Gert ends up with tall, blond athlete Chase.

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] as portrayed by David Tennant, and Rose Tyler, as portrayed by Billie Piper. Mind you, this is DavidTennant...

* [[AnIcePerson Dr. Victor Fries]] was quite the shy, timid, and introverted scientist, but that didn't stop him from marrying the late Nora, a smoking hot blonde.

Related to UglyGuyHotWife, and subject to the same DoubleStandard, since gender inversions are practically non-existent; there may be more to the male geek than his pocket protector, but for women, looks are all that matters. If a HollywoodHomely geek girl (or HollywoodHomely non-geek girl, for that matter) sets her sights on a hot guy, she might be able to [[SheCleansUpNicely make a]] [[BeautifulAllAlong few slight]] [[TheGlassesGottaGo alterations]], (although [[MegaNekko the glasses might not have to go]]) but it's more likely she'll just be the AbhorrentAdmirer who makes him run away in terror. Also extremely rare is the male geek that actually considers a similarly geeky girl. (Though they might not expect to encounter a geeky girl anyway.) This holds even for works aimed at a female audience, since [[SarcasmMode all women want to be beautiful above all else]], and therefore any nerdy girl ''will'' eventually be revealed to be BeautifulAllAlong.

** In Paper Towns, Ben and Lacey, and Quentin and Margo to a lesser extent

** BrainsAndBondage holds TruthInTelevision from coast to coast and up to Canada. ThisTroper can't testify beyond that scope.