History Main / UglyGuyHotWife

** ''Film/{{Click}}'', Adam Sandler's wife is played by Creator/KateBeckinsale. Marty, the clerk who sells him the remote in the "Way Beyond" section of a Bed Bath and Beyond cannot believe they're married is in awe of her beauty.

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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The gorgeous Princess Tsuyu, a minor character who appears in a one-off arc, was somehow attracted to a, let's say just a little too pedestrian, daimyo. Maybe it was an ArrangedMarriage and she just had to try to develop affection, who knows, it was feudal Japan after all? But to top it off, he was [[spoiler: possessed by a disgusting frog {{Youkai}}, and then in secret, kidnapped young women in the region, trapped them in frog eggs until their body dissolved into tadpoles, and swallowed them, and he was about to turn the princess into his next victim]]. Thankfully with the help of Characters/InuYasha's gang and (?) [[BasedOnATrueStory Nobunaga]], [[spoiler: the evil frog was expelled]] and the couple lived happily ever after much to Nobunaga's saddened disappointment.

** In ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', Dario Brando is a [[BaldOfEvil bald man]] in his 50s [[YoungerThanTheyLook whose appearance makes him look even older]]. When compared to his wife (assuming she ''is'' the woman the audience saw when Dario robbed the Joestars' carriage), it's pretty obvious where Dio got his good looks from.
** In ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', Stephen Steel is a middle-aged man who barely manages to lean into {{Gonk}} territory, while his wife, Lucy, is a [[ArtisticAge 14-ye]][[YoungerThanTheyLook ar old]] MsFanservice. [[spoiler:This is [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], however, when it's revealed they're [[PlatonicLifePartners not actually married]]]].
** In ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'', how a man like [[{{Gonk}} Tamaki]] [[FatBastard Damo]] ended up becoming the boyfriend to [[BrainlessBeauty Hato]] [[ProudBeauty Higashikata]] is a question even the rest of the Higashikata family asks.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': The [[OneShotCharacter character of the day]]'s parents in an episode called [[Recap/PokemonS1E34TheKangaskhanKid The Kangaskhan Kid]] (Pictured [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/a/a1/Tommy_Parents.png here]]). The mother, called "[[UnnamedParent Mama]]" is a normal anime woman, while "Papa", is a very short, stout fellow, with a bowlcut, SkintoneSclerae, swirly marks on his cheeks (which his son inherited), and a proportionately large head. Papa is shown as a rather dopey fellow as well, holding their baby out the window of their helicopter, and then dropping him, resulting in their child getting [[RaisedByWolves raised by pokemon]]. Afterwards Papa [[NeverMyFault blames Mama]] for letting him hold him.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': Pretty Wanda and her {{Gonk}} boyfriend eventually end up MarriedAtSea. At the very least, we know that the boyfriend is a sweet guy since he made sure not to disrupt the easily scared Whismur when digging at Rustboro cave.
* ''Anime/PokemonHorizonsTheSeries'': The ugly guy part is downplayed with Liko's father Alex, who is a painter. While not ugly at all, he's rather plain-looking compared to his more attractive wife Lucca.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': following a timeskip, Dayakka and Kiyoh are married. Also, Makken is the husband of the scientist, Leite. They even have three kids together.

* "WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2" has Red and Silver. While Red wasn't explicitly ugly, but Silver is just extremly gorgeous, [[AdaptationalAttractiveness even so more what she used to be in the game continuity]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': WALL•E and EVE, being a rusted trash compactor and a sleek, top-of-the-line scout droid, respectively. Although WALL•E may be rusted, you gotta admit that he's pretty [[UglyCute adorable]]!

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* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': George Ushiromiya's parents are Hideyoshi and Eva. Eva still looks good despite pushing 50, while Hideyoshi looks his age and is quite pudgy. However, this is played with in that Eva is a RichBitch and Hideyoshi is a NiceGuy who married into the family. The surprising part? They ''[[HappilyMarried actually love each other a lot]]''.
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* "WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2" has Red and Silver. While Red wasn't explicitly ugly, but Silver is just extremly gorgeous, [[AdaptationalAttractiveness even so more what she used to be in the game continuity.]]

** Meng Huo, fat king of the Nanman barbarian tribe, is married to a hot babe Zhu Rong, daughter of the god of fire.
** Meng Huo is also a badass LargeHam who probably has [[GagPenis another large ham between his legs]].
** Inverted in a way, but only if you [[AllThereInTheManual read the character info]]. Zhuge Liang was never described as anything noteworthy in regards to his looks, but his wife Yue Ying, despite being given a very stately and beautiful character model in the game, was supposedly a very ''un''attractive woman.[[note]]This is primarily ValuesDissonance: she apparently had light hair and tan skin, and in that age the exact opposite was considered the epitome of beauty.[[/note]] Zhuge Liang isn't exactly MrFanservice, but he's certainly not as ugly and off-putting as Meng Huo.

* Creator/LouisDeFunes and Creator/ClaudeGensac played in ten movies together, including seven times as husband and wife, usually with De Funès as the short, ugly and {{nervous|Wreck}} husband and Gensac as the beautiful ''bourgeoise'' wife. The films included ''Film/{{Oscar|1967}}'', ''Film/LesGrandesVacances'', ''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie'', ''Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade'', ''Film/LeGendarmeEtLesGendarmettes'', ''Film/{{Hibernatus}}'' and ''Film/{{Jo}}''.

* Creator/LouisDeFunes and Creator/ClaudeGensac played in ten movies together, including seven times as husband and wife, usually with De Funès as the short, ugly and nervous husband and Gensac as the beautiful ''bourgeoise'' wife. The films included ''Film/{{Oscar|1967}}'', ''Film/LesGrandesVacances'', ''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie'', ''Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade'', ''Film/LeGendarmeEtLesGendarmettes'', ''Film/{{Hibernatus}}'' and ''Film/{{Jo}}''.

%%* Lucky and Dyl Piquel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}.''

* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'': Even going back to their flapper days, Dagwood has no business with a beauty like Blondie. This was an EnforcedTrope -- prior to their marriage, Blondie was portrayed as a fun-loving single woman with a few suitors lined up... then the stock market crashed, and RealLifeWritesThePlot, at which point she picked Dagwood because he was the most stable (or rather, most relatable) of her beaus.

* ''Series/StillStanding'': The overweight, balding, lazy, drunken, ManChild Bill (played by Mark Addy) and the [[BuxomBeautyStandard thin, buxom Judy]] (played by Creator/JamiGertz). It's particularly egregious in the High School ClassReunion episode, when Judy is worried about not measuring up to the AlphaBitch. She inexplicably abandons her usual tight shirts and jeans to wear unflattering, baggy clothing and a bad hairstyle. The AlphaBitch, played by the already-pretty Beth Littleford, wears the wife's usual clothes. The next episode has the wife right back to her usual clothes and hair.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and PLayedForDrama. Dr. Cyril Psycho is a man with dwarfism with an exceedingly oversized head and [[EvilMakesyouUgly eventually]], bulging eyes, while his fiancee Marva is a blonde bombshell. Marva is obivously not attracted to Psycho and is secretly attracted to Ben Bradley, a traditionally handsome man. After Bradley [[FrameUp frames Psycho]] for a crime he didn't commit to [[RemovingTheRival remove him as a rival]] for Marva, Psycho reaches the conclusion that Marva masterminded the scheme. When Psycho is finally released from prison, he forces Marva into [[AwfulWeddedLife an intentionally abusive marriage]] as revenge. Marva leaves him as soon as she's freed of his mental control by Wonderwoman.

* ''Webcomic/ZiggyPigAndSillySeal2022'': Continuing from the ''Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics'' 2018 one-shot, Silly Seal is married to Roxanne, a sexy brunette [[HighPoweredCareerWoman supermodel-lawyer.]]

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* Joplaya and Echozar are regarded as this in ''Literature/EarthsChildren''. Joplaya considered [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive "exotically"]] [[HeadTurningBeauty beautiful]], whilst Echozar is half-Clan (Neanderthal) and so is considered very unattractive by Cro-Magnon standards. Many people find it bizarre that a woman as beautiful as Joplaya would choose to mate Echozar of all people when she could theoretically have have any man she wants, although Ayla thinks to herself she can never have the one man she truly wants and so settled with a man [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she knows loves her]]. It's also worth noting that Ayla, having been raised by the Clan and so being more used to their appearances, finds Echozar to be rather handsome.

** In between Sylvia and Connie he briefly dates Gibson's niece, Cynthia. She is described as plain and lonely and seems fairly desperate. She seems to be in her late thirties (her actress, Juliana Donald, was in her mid-thirties) so it's not impossible for her to have a little OldMaid anxiety -- but she is [[HollywoodHomely certainly not bad-looking]], so to act like an overweight bald guy fifteen years her senior was the only person willing to date her (and that mostly as a favor to Gibson) is a bit ridiculous. If anything she is out of ''his'' league (but she is portrayed as somewhat socially insecure, and probably doesn't realize that).

** The Turners are both [[ParentalNeglect neglectful idiots]], with Mr. Turner being a BumblingDad and Mrs. Turner being a BrainlessBeauty.
** There's also A.J.'s parents, with his dad being a FatSlob and his mom being an [[BlackBossLady attractive businesswoman]].

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Dr. Psycho is a misshapen dwarf with an exceedingly oversized head and bulging eyes while his wife Marva is a blonde bombshell. He is extremely abusive towards her and she leaves him as soon as she's freed of his mental control.

This is very common in DomCom situations (Oftentimes because the star of the sitcom is also the executive producer, [[ExecutiveMeddling thus has say in which actress gets to portray his partner]]). It also pervades in cartoons and comic strips due to TertiarySexualCharacteristics; the men can liven up the artists' art styles, but the women have to be differentiated. This requires [[HartmanHips round hips]], [[BuxomBeautyStandard big bosoms]], full lips, and exquisitely-designed hair ([[ImpossibleHourglassFigure and often an abstract shape]]), resulting in a beautiful woman and a cartoonish husband.

Also note that this trope's name is not ''Scary'' Guy, Hot Wife. Being scary is not the same as being ugly. Although it may stil count if it is mentioned in-universe.

* An ad for Evian is narrated by a rich old tough, with an Italian-American accent, who describes how drinking Evian his whole life had kept him virile enough for his young, beautiful wife, but then ends with the suggestion that his wife has been swapping his Evian with water from the fishtank.

** Doraemon himself and his former girlfriend Noramyako (after her ArtEvolution). Sure Doraemon's not unappealing, but he's still your standard stout and chubby robot cat model compared to the [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal tall, curvacious]] female bot.

* ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'': Luluco's parents (although they're not married anymore). Keiji is rather rugged looking while Lalaco is ridiculously hot and wears an {{Stripperific}} outfit.

* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'': "Melody and Thad" sketch (which involves InnocentlyInsensitive professional singers who sing very rude and personal songs) once took place at a wedding where there was a blonde and pretty bride with her neanderthal-esque groom; they decide to sing this ditty:

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': Tobias (Creator/DavidCross) married to Lindsay (Creator/PortiaDeRossi). It's made clear that Lindsay isn't attracted to Tobias physically and doesn't like him personally (plus she thinks he's gay), she just married him to annoy her parents.
** For that matter, Lucille (Creator/JessicaWalter) and George/Oscar (Creator/JeffreyTambor) ... she's only married to one of them, but she's slept with both, and while her relationship with George is somewhat explicable because of George's money, Oscar has pretty much always been a penniless bum. They were both in or approaching their 60s when the show started so the discrepancy is less shocking, but Walter was at one time leading-lady pretty (and still fairly attractive for her age), while Tambor has pretty much always looked like Jeffrey Tambor.

* ''Webcomic/FlorkOfCows'' has Conneticut Clark, a shrimpy, badly-drawn fellow with BlackBeadEyes and a big nose, and Malfina the witch, a tall, busty, much more realisticly-drawn woman who's [[TinyGuyHugeGIrl literally about four times taller than Clark]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': [[SleazyPolitician Municipal President Rodriguez]] is a short, balding, old man with yellow teeth, while Mrs. Rodriguez is a lovely young woman. She also gets way more milage out of the "bachelor charity auctions" he sets up, something he's aware of but can't seem to do anything about.

-->"If you let her go, there is no way you'll find anyone else. Speaking on behalf of all women, it's not going to happen. We had a meeting."

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Played with on the ThreeShorts episode, "Toe Tags." Turns out that neither married person in the relationship felt good about the looks of the other (the "hot wife" had depression (but no info is given if it was in response to the marriage or not) while the "ugly guy"...well, he pushed his wife off a cliff, stomped down on her fingers ''hard enough to break bone'' when she managed to hold on to the ledge, and then tried to convince the police that she had committed suicide because she was fed up with him, finally giving a MotiveRant that his life had become hell ever since he married her once he's caught, [[UnreliableNarrator supposedly]] because of this trope).

** The couple in the Compass Killer arc is a straight version of this trope.

* ''Series/HenryDanger'': Henry and Piper's mom and dad, Jake and Kris match this trope quite well. Henry and Piper's mom, Kris, is a gorgeous blonde that Ray Manchester/Captain Man, the superhero who is Henry's (and eventually Piper's) boss on the show, can't resist having an obsessive crush on despite the fact that he's fully aware that she's married. Henry and Piper's dad, Jake on the other hand, is not extremely ugly, but he is considerably plain and average-looking compared to his stunning wife. And as far as being dorky is concerned, he has a tendency to be quite eccentric and quirky compared to her on top of the fact that he's not as attractive and appealing as her.

** Considering that Jake is not quite the best looking guy on the show and is not as conventionally attractive and appealing as the other male characters on the show, compared to his son Henry, once Henry gets older and hits puberty in the later seasons of the show, Jake and Henry start to turn into a gender -inverted case of TheUglyGuysHotDaughter.