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Author: Psychobabble6

Sep 26th 2011 at 8:44:51 PM

I mined UglyGuyHotWife for inverted examples. I just listed them exactly as is, because I'm too lazy to alter them all. Do with them as you will.

[[AC: Anime and Manga]]
* ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Hare Guu Deluxe]]'' has an inversion going in line with MayDecemberRomance. The [[spoiler:Muscular bank robber]] ends up with the [[spoiler: elderly Dama]] in a case of LoveAtFirstPunch.
* ''{{Jubei-Chan}}'' Inverted with Shiro's parents.
* Inverted with Sumiyoshi's parents from the ''ExcelSaga'' manga. His father is a "normal" attractive anime guy, while his mother looks like a girl Sumiyoshi (Gonk). Also hilarious is that the mother is the ''only one'' in that family that actually speaks, while Sumiyoshi, his father, and his adorable little sister Canal all "speak" the same way.

[[AC: Comic Books]]
* Inverted in ''Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters'', where Tyr looks like a Mr. Olympia contestant but his fiancee is fat, smelly, and very ugly. To be fair, they're aliens and from the way he acts she seems to be attractive by the standards of his race.
* Inverted in ''{{Runaways}}'': Chase, the tall, blond athlete, ends up with Gert, the one girl on the team who isn't conventionally beautiful and thin.

[[AC: Film]]
*(left out Hairspray example ^)
* Inverted in HighSchoolHigh. Mr. Clark took after his mother (who looks exactly like John Lovitz).

[[AC: Literature]]
* ''DarkLordOfDerkholm'': Inverted in her ''[[TheMagids Deep Secret.]]'' Maree is fat and dumpy, with frizzy hair, a droopy nose, and what's described as a ''very'' annoying voice. [[spoiler: Rupert still falls hard and fast for her, and they too get married.]]
* Inverted in ''TheObsidianTrilogy''. Idalia, while certainly a beautiful human, has an ''[[OurElvesAreBetter elf]]'' pining for her. Then, at the end of the series, it's subverted, [[spoiler:when she's reincarnated as an elf, though it's acceptable because this is the only way both would find long-term--by elven standards--happiness]].
** Semi-inverted with Kellen and Vestakia--the fact that she looks like a Demon may repel others in-universe, but the reader is more likely to see her as a CuteMonsterGirl.

[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Inverted on ''MarriedWithChildren'' with Jefferson and Marcy D'Arcy, the Bundys' neighbors. Amanda (Marcy) Bearse was hardly ugly, but the joke was that she was a "chicken", a scrawny woman with [[HollywoodHomely no feminine features]], and Jefferson was her trophy husband.
* Inverted on ''{{Gossip Girl}}''. Dorota's husband Vanya is much more attractive than she is. 
* A very rare {{inversion}} of this trope appears in {{Glee}}. Lauren, a fat girl (not HollywoodPudgy, she's actually pretty fat) goes out with the super-hot, super-popular jock, Puck.

[[AC: Web Comics]]
* An inverted {{xenofiction}} example shows up with two background characters in ''{{Wurr}}''--[[http://wolfpearl.deviantart.com/art/Wurr-character-design-78195663?q=gallery:wolfpearl/27404590&qo=31 namely, the big fat hellhound and her leggy, elegant mate.]] Also a case of TinyGuyHugeGirl.

[[AC: Western Animation]]
* Inverted with Eek the cat and his love interest Annabel.

No, I have no idea what that last one means.