History Main / TrophyWife

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on ''Series/LoisAndClark'', where the [[ObfuscatingStupidity seeming trophy wife]] of Intergang's boss swiftly takes over and proves to be her husband's equal in brains and ruthlessness after he is imprisoned.

Averted in Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun: [[spoiler:While most people think Lucy Steel is one for Steven Steel, the truth is that was the one who came up with the idea of the Steel Ball Run while Steven Steel was drunk in a bar and ranting about a horse race. Steven Steel was going to thank her, but then he learned that her family had debts to the Mafia and they were going to take her to pay off the family's debt. Steven saved her by claiming that he already defiled her, and since then she has been his (technically) wife.]]

Compare HotConsort; contrast GoldDigger and MealTicket. Not to be confused with the series ''Series/TrophyWife''.

]]

Averted in JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun: [[spoiler:While most people think Lucy Steel is one for Steven Steel, the truth is that was the one who came up with the idea of the Steel Ball Run while Steven Steel was drunk in a bar and ranting about a horse race. Steven Steel was going to thank her, but then he learned that her family had debts to the Mafia and they were going to take her to pay off the family's debt. Steven saved her by claiming that he already defiled her, and since then she has been his (technically) wife.]]

Averted in JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun:

* ''Film/BillAndTed'': In ''Excellent Adventure'' Bill's dad has divorced his mother and gotten married to Missy, who is only three years older than his son. In ''Bogus Journey'' they have split up and now Ted's dad is the one married to Missy; in the epilogue she marries the BigBad.

* ''Film/{{Steam}}'': Laurie's ex-husband Tom is remarried to a much younger woman, who's very beautiful, blonde and dimwitted. It's quite clear he'd only married her for her good looks, she probably for money. Laurie meanwhile has more average looks, with it being implied he "traded her in".

* ''Series/TheCloser'', had the victim's really young fourth wife and daughter actually attend 8th grade French together.

* ''[[Franchise/AlienVsPredator Aliens/Predator]]: Deadliest of the Species'' follows Caryn Delacroix, a sheltered young woman who is a trophy wife to one of Earth's most powerful corporate leaders. Caryn believes herself to be a custom-built clone until she starts having nightmares and flashbacks of a life she never knew.
* When a group of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s kidnap and brainwash ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', this is the fate of Swift, who is creepily "given" to one of the men behind the scheme. It turns out that keeping one of their victims nearby and alive in this way isn't such a good idea once the brainwashing is inevitably undone.
* A subversion in ''{{ComicBook/Blacksad}}'', where the trophy wife is a) a lot more intelligent than she lets on, and b) the husband's [[spoiler:''daughter'' from a previous marriage]] (although he doesn't know it). It ends in tragedy as [[spoiler:the husband is murdered by the wife's lover]], then [[spoiler:the lover murders the wife's sister who he thought was a witness]], and then [[spoiler:she murders the lover for the second murder]].

* Occasional ComicBook/SpiderMan villain [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain (the term should be used loosely)]] the White Rabbit claims she was once this to an elderly millionaire named Lewis Dogson, and the reason she can even get any Mooks to work for her is because she can pay them better than they could get anywhere else, seeing as she inherited his fortune. (She claimed that she [[BlackWidow "cleverly bumped Dogson off"]] and that [[OutWithABang "he died happy"]], but very little of what she says [[CloudCuckooLander should be taken at face value]].)

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Being a bald slob with little personal charm, the only way Stan Zbornak can get a date to be generous with his credit card.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'': Fabiana Branco, a young attractive socialite that is married to wealthy real estate developer Rodrigo Branco. Rodrigo even says that Fabiana 'does not love him for his body'.

* Jefferson D'Arcy on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is close to this, as his wife seems to care mainly about his looks and willingness to indulge her. He married her hoping to get at her money. He's close but not close enough to permanently prevent her from forcing him to get a job.

* ''Film/RoadHouse'': Wesley's girlfriend, Denise. He clearly keeps her around because of how hot she is, and judging by her "dance", she's likely a former stripper.