Line #7 PlayingWith/UglyGuyHotWife


1	'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman is romantically involved with an unattractive man.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is a sexy woman, her husband Bob is generously considered plain-looking.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice [[TheBeautifulElite makes the gods weep in jealousy]], and yet she's with Bob, [[{{Gonk}} whose face has to be covered lest he give the same gods heart attacks]].
5	** Alice is so beautiful she can make the hearts of men melt, while Bob's an EldritchAbomination from the literal depths of Hell who makes people [[BrownNote die instantly upon sight]].
6	** Bob is a KavorkaMan who has been married to multiple gorgeous women while cheating on them with even hotter women.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Alice is attractive, but not excessively so. Bob isn't ''that'' ugly, but he clearly won't be landing modeling gigs anytime soon.
9	** Alice is actually average-looking at best. However, her husband Bob is a {{Gonk}}.
10	** Alice may be a MsFanservice (or the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman), but her husband Bob isn't actually all that ugly; Just humorously plain compared to her.
11	** Bob is actually ''physically attractive'', but he has ''horrible'' fashion sense and even [[{{Jerkass}} worse manners]]. Alice, on the other hand is fashionable and [[NiceGuy really genteel]], still making one wonder how Bob managed to romance her.
12	** Alice is actually unattractive herself. But when compared to the ''even uglier'' Bob, she's a knockout.
13	** Bob's ''face'' may leave much to be desired but his [[HeroicBuild body]] ''more'' than makes up for it and is what attracted Alice in the first place. Alice may be pretty in the face, but is overweight or has some kind of body deformity.
14	* '''Justified''':
15	** Love is blind.
16	** Alice and Bob bonded over common interests, hobbies, life experiences and/or values.
17	** Bob [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan has a great personality]]. Kindness and a good sense of humor can make up for ''a lot'' in the looks department.
18	** Alice [[BeautyIsBad has a terrible personality]] but Bob is willing to put up with it since it's his only way of being with a woman that hot and Alice stays with Bob because she knows he'll tolerate her bad behavior while better looking men won't.
19	** Bob is rich and Alice is a GoldDigger.
20	** Alice was a [[StrugglingSingleMother single mother]] and Bob [[SingleParentsAreUndesirable was the only man willing to be with her]]. Or, tying into the GoldDigger point, she is only with Bob so that he can help raise her child(ren).
21	** Bob was handsome when he and Alice met, [[IWasQuiteALooker but he didn't age well]] or he [[FormerlyFit let himself go over the years]]. Alternatively, he suffered a disease or injury that changed his looks for the worst. Alice still loves him in spite of him no longer being good-looking.
22	** Alice was [[HollywoodHomely chubby, plain and horribly dressed]] when she and Bob met, butbecame ProgressivelyPrettier by getting cosmetic surgeries, losing weight, putting on makeup and wearing more fashionable clothing. Alice remains loyal to Bob because he loved her back when she was ugly.
23	** Bob got Alice pregnant during a drunken session and [[ShotgunWedding they married each other lest they face ostracization]].
24	** Alice [[BlindAndTheBeast is blind and doesn't know or care what Bob looks like]].
25	** Alice is physically or mentally disabled and Bob (who, though not attractive, is able-bodied and neurotypical) is one of the few men who's okay with that. On the more cynical side, Alice is merely using Bob as a caretaker.
26	** Alice was subject to AttractivenessIsolation and he was the first decent guy to ask her out.
27	** Alice finds Bob hot even though he is not conventionally attractive due to her personal tastes differing from the norm (such as her liking bald men or being a ChubbyChaser).
28	** Alice is asexual or demisexual and doesn't respond to looks at all (Bob may be ace as well, or is just so grateful to have a good-looking wife/girlfriend that he's okay with not having sex with her).
29	** Alice is a lesbian and Bob is TheBeard (or Bob is gay and ''she'' is the beard, or both are gay and each other's beards).
30	** Alice and Bob were an ArrangedMarriage.
31	** Alice [[CitizenshipMarriage married Bob in order to get her green card]].
32	** Bob may look pretty homely, but [[KavorkaMan holy crap]], is he [[SexGod a demon in bed]] and yeah, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed pretty developed there, too.]]
33	** Alice [[IAmNotPretty has low self-esteem]] and doesn't believe she's good enough to deserve a better looking man. Bob may even be a DomesticAbuser who's all too happy to keep her confidence down.
34	** Alice is a [[TransRelationshipTroubles transgender woman and Bob is one of the few men who doesn't mind]].
35	* '''Inverted''': HotGuyUglyWife.
36	* '''Subverted''':
37	** Bob isn't ugly, but he does have some features considered unattractive like being overweight, hairy, etc.
38	** Bob looks hideous, but it turns out it was makeup for a movie and [[BeautifulAllAlong he's actually quite handsome]].
39	** Alice is [[TheFaceless introduced wearing a veil]] and having a very nice body. Later, she takes off the veil, [[{{Butterface}} revealing her to be just as ugly as Bob is]].
40	** Bob is seen bragging about his hot wife, Alice, and [[TheGhost she's never seen]] and when it's time for TheReveal, she's even more unattractive than he is, huge teeth, small mouth, perpetual mouthful of spit, overbite, turkey neck, chapped lips, rail thin with no curves, unwashed greasy hair, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking glasses that aren't even the sexy kind]]. It turns out Bob thinking she's hot is NoAccountingForTaste.
41	** Bob remains TheGhost and Alice talks about how her husband feels insecure all the time, it's set up to be this, but Bob is genuinely attractive just with self-image issues.
42	** Alice is a professional model and talks about her husband Bob sometimes and the WrongGenreSavvy viewers are led to believe it's this, until Alice reveals he's actually really, really hot and way out of her league.
43	** Neither Alice or Bob are ''actually'' married, they're just [[FakeRelationship pretending to be married]] so their respective families will stop bothering them about the topic.
44	** Bob gets MagicPlasticSurgery to ''completely change his look''. Now, he looks just as hot as Alice does.
45	** Bob decides to take his appearance more seriously and his [[ProgressivelyPrettier appearance improves overtime as a result]]. Now, he's an equal match for Alice.
46	* '''Double Subverted''':
47	** But he wears an incredibly realistic mask to hide that he's a burn victim.
48	** But she later gets plastic surgery to make her face beautiful.
49	** In the show's universe, that's considered the beauty ideal, so the men fawn over her the minute she appears.
50	** It turns out he only looks good in a suit, when wearing more casual clothing, Bob is indeed this trope.
51	** Bob turns out to be obese, nerdy, wears unflattering clothes, and is missing most of his teeth. That just happens to [[NoAccountingForTaste for some reason]] be Alice's type. Her friends roll her eyes and give a knowing look to each other. They both think each other are impossibly hot so it somehow works.
52	** But during their FakeRelationship, they [[BecomingTheMask fall in love]] and get married for real.
53	* '''Parodied''':
54	** Bob is hideous, Alice is beautiful, but they live in a world of BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad so everyone wonders how Alice lucked out or why Bob settled.
55	** Bob thinks he's a stud, Alice frets over non-existant wrinkles.
56	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob looks hideous, but he's wearing make up for a movie, only for that to be a face mask to hide the fact he's a burn victim, only for Alice to reveal she's also wearing a mask to hide the fact she's a burn victim, but then a photo reveals that Alice was attractive and Bob was fugly before the accident that turned them both into burn victims, only for an earlier photo to reveal she had extensive plastic surgery.
57	* '''Averted''': There is no extreme difference in looks.
58	** Alice and Bob aren't in relationship and are just friends.
59	* '''Enforced''':
60	** The writer of the sitcom [[AuthorAvatar is the main character]] and he [[WishFulfillment gave himself a lovely wife.]]
61	** The writer is a feminist who deliberately uses the dynamic to make a critique on the strict standards of beauty women have to follow.
62	** The producers insisted that Alice was played by a beautiful actress, even if it made her look out of Bob's league.
63	* '''Lampshaded''': "Geez Bob, how'd a dog face like you get a pretty girl like Alice?"
64	* '''Invoked''': "Don't worry Bob. It doesn't matter that you're ugly, she will still marry you."
65	* '''Exploited''': [[TheRival Charlie]] tries to make Bob think Alice is a GoldDigger so he’ll break up with her and Charlie can have her all to himself.
66	* '''Defied''':
67	** “Look, I don't care if I could buy a dozen hundred dollar an hour prostitutes a night, I've loved Alice my whole life. I don't care she turned out, as you call it, 'plain'.”
68	** Alice decides she’d rather have a hot husband.
69	* '''Discussed''': "If this were a sitcom, Bob would be dating Alice despite the fact that he's ugly."
70	* '''Conversed''': "It's so weird how, on TV, the ugly guy always gets the girls."
71	* '''PlayedForLaughs''': Bob is introduced as the morbidly obese "barbershop bass with a butt for a face" and it turns out to be literally true. His wife is the reigning Miss Universe. Somehow they're a couple.
72	* '''Deconstructed''':
73	** Bob develops a serious inferiority complex against Alice's awesome looks and constantly worries that she will eventually leave him for some stud.
74	** Alice fears that Bob views her as a TrophyWife and will dump her the moment someone better looking comes along.
75	** The above insecurities bring about the end of Alice and Bob's relationship.
76	* '''Reconstructed''':
77	** They realize that despite what other people think about them or what other people have done, Alice and Bob still love each other.
78	** Bob loses all of his money due to a series of bad luck. Turns out the bond between the couple is stronger than ever.
79	** When each discovers their insecurity, they're confused because of how attracted they are to each other.
80	* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is a HenpeckedHusband whose wife deliberately makes him uglier to avoid making other women attract to him, and even [[DomesticAbuse physically abuses him]], cause Bob to have conspicuous scar on his face.
81	* '''Implied''':
82	** Bob is shown to be an ugly man, while his wife, who is TheGhost, is considered too good for him.
83	** Alice is a beautiful actress who makes a lot of public appearances. Her husband is TheGhost and doesn't go out nearly as often.
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