History PlayingWith / MailOrderBride

* '''Exaggerated''': Besides Valentina, Bob purchases an entire harem worth of brides, from the same agency to get bulk discounts and from different sites.

* '''Exaggerated''': Besides Valentina, Bob purchases an entire harem worth of brides, from the same agency to get bulk discount and from different sites.

** Bob is gay, but still in the closet. And his parents are coming over...he feels like he needs [[TheBeard a wife]] to show them.

* '''Exaggerated''': Besides Valentina, Bob purchases an entire harem worth of brides, either from the same agency (to get bulk discount!) or from different sites.

** Bob...
*** ...is desperate.
*** ...is gay, but still in the closet. And his parents are coming over...he feels like he needs [[TheBeard a wife]] to show them.
*** ...is looking for a SexSlave.
** Valentina...
*** ...wants to emigrate via the easiest way possible, either for economic reasons or to escape a bad life back home. Getting a [[CitizenshipMarriage green-card marriage]] happens to be the easiest way.
*** ...always [[ForeignCultureFetish had a "thing" for men of Bob's country]] and fantasized about marrying one, but doesn't know any, and thinks all the guys back home are jerks.
*** ...is the unfortunate victim of a people-traffiking scam.

** Bob brings Valentina to his home, but mentions nothing to her about marriage; in fact, although he met her online, they met through an actual [[MatchMakerDotCom dating site]] or social-networking site, not a MailOrderBride site.
** Valentina decides she's not happy or any better off with Bob in America, and heads back home.

** May or may not be [[TheCakeIsALie a scam]].
** Valentina is not a real person; she may be a doll, a dog, a robot, etc., but Bob buys her online (and everyone erroneously assumes he ordered himself a wife.)
* '''Double Subverted''': But Valentina lives in Bob's home and does all the things a wife is expected to (cleaning, cooking, gardening, sex, etc.). [[FourthDateMarriage Eventually]], she and Bob have a CitizenshipMarriage.

** Bob orders a "Build Your Own Bride Kit", and hilarity ensues when he tries, and fails miserably, [[DoomItYourself to assemble her by himself]].
** Bob finds that Valentina [[BlackComedy suffocated in the packaging during delivery]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': See "Played Straight"

* '''Discussed''': "Bob married a Russian some months ago." "Let me guess, they met over an online agency?"
* '''Conversed''': "Has this even any good chances to work out?"

* '''Reconstructed''': The agency gives Valentina a Fiancee Visa, and makes sure that both parties understand that if things don't work out, divorce is always an option. They also screen both the women and the men, to make sure no one has a criminal record, or a tendency towards DomesticAbuse. Everyone enters into this like an otherwise normal ArrangedMarriage.
* '''Played For Laughs''': [[BrideAndSwitch Valentina's profile said she was young, slim, and beautiful, but when Bob goes to actually meet her at the airport, she's fat, old, and homely]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is abusing Valentina and using her as a SexSlave, along with several other women. [[FromBadToWorse Until he gets tired of them...]]
* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is eager to meet Valentina and waits for her happily at the airport. She arrives, but as soon as they get home together, she transforms into [[ThisWasHisTrueForm her true monster form]] and devours him in a bloody and messy way.

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* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': "Let's show what a HollywoodDateless StrawLoser Bob is! I mean, no one in their right mind would order a wife over the Internet unless he were ''really'' desperate, right?"

* '''Straight''': [[UnluckyEverydude Bob]] [[HollywoodDateless has had no luck with dating]], and is surfing the Internet one lonely night. He decides to click on a banner ad for a MailOrderBride, and "purchases" Valentina from Russia.

*** ...wants to emigrate via the easiest way possible, either for economic reasons or to escape a bad life back home. Getting a [[CitizanshipMarriage green-card marriage]] happens to be the easiest way.

*** ...wants to emigrate via the easiest way possible, either for economic reasons or to escape a bad life back home. Getting a green-card marriage happens to be the easiest way.
*** ...always had a "thing" for men of Bob's country and fantasized about marrying one, but doesn't know any, and thinks all the guys back home are jerks.

** Bob dates Alice, a woman from his hometown, and marries her.

** Bob is desperate.
** Bob is gay, but still in the closet. And his parents are coming over...he feels like he needs [[TheBeard a wife]] to show them.
** Bob is looking for a SexSlave.

* '''Gender Inverted''': [[TheChick Alice]] purchases [[HuskyRusskie Ivan]] over the Internet.

* '''Exploited''': A scammer sets up a "Russian Brides" website, but there are no actual brides; the idea is to have losers send their money and get nothing in return.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Played Straight''': [[UnluckyEverydude Bob]] [[HollywoodDateless has had no luck with dating]], and is surfing the Internet one lonely night. He decides to click on a banner ad for a MailOrderBride, and "purchases" Valentina from Russia.
* '''Exaggerated''': Besides Valentina, Bob purchases an entire harem worth of brides, either from the same agency (to get bulk discount!) or from different sites.

** Bob is looking for a SexSlave.

* '''Inverted''': Bob dates Alice, a woman from his hometown, and marries her.

* '''Gender Inverted''': [[TheChick Alice]] purchases [[HuskyRusskie Ivan]] over the Internet.

** Bob brings Valentina to his home, but mentions nothing to her about marriage; in fact, although he met her online, they met through an actual [[MatchMakerDotCom dating site]] or social-networking site, not a MailOrderBride site.

** Valentina is not a real person; she may be a doll, a dog, a robot, etc., but Bob buys her online (and everyone erroneously assumes he ordered himself a wife.)
* '''Double Subverted''': But Valentina lives in Bob's home and does all the things a wife is expected to (cleaning, cooking, gardening, sex, etc.). [[FourthDateMarriage Eventually]], she and Bob have a CitizenshipMarriage.
* '''Deconstructed''': Valentina could be deported, as the agency may not be scrupulous about getting those Fiancee Visas in order in a timely manner if at all. She could also be in danger if Bob turns out to be abusive.
* '''Reconstructed''': The agency gives Valentina a Fiancee Visa, and makes sure that both parties understand that if things don't work out, divorce is always an option. They also screen both the women and the men, to make sure no one has a criminal record, or a tendency towards DomesticAbuse. Everyone enters into this like an otherwise normal ArrangedMarriage.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Check out my new wife. She's from Russia; I met her through Buy A Lovely Bride Dot Com."

** Bob orders Valentina, who turns out to be...an inflatable sex doll.
** [[FunnyForeigner Bob]] [[CrazyCulturalComparison mistakes the Victoria's Secret catalog as a mail-order-bride catalog]]; the operator he calls has to explain [[RuleOfThree three times]] that the women in the catalog are just models; they sell only lingerie and clothing, not wives or girlfriends.

* '''Enforced''': "Let's show what a HollywoodDateless StrawLoser Bob is! I mean, no one in their right mind would order a wife over the Internet unless he were ''really'' desperate, right?"

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''': [[BrideAndSwitch Valentina's profile said she was young, slim, and beautiful, but when Bob goes to actually meet her at the airport, she's fat, old, and homely]].

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is abusing Valentina and using her as a SexSlave, along with several other women. [[ItGotWorse Until he gets tired of them...]]

* '''Justified''': Bob is desperate.

* '''Subverted''': Bob brings Valentina to his home, but mentions nothing to her about marriage; in fact, although he met her online, they met through an actual [[MatchMakerDotCom dating site]] or social-networking site, not a MailOrderBride site.
** Alternatively, Valentina decides she's not happy or any better off with Bob in America, and heads back home.

*** May or may not be [[TheCakeIsALie a scam]].

* '''Parodied''': Bob orders Valentina, who turns out to be...an inflatable sex doll.

** Valentina is a {{GIRL}}

* '''Defied''': Bob decides he isn't ''that'' desperate, and decides to tough it out on the dating scene a bit longer.

* '''Basic Trope''': A man "purchases" a wife through an agency.

* '''Exaggerated''': [[BrideAndSwitch Valentina's profile said she was young, slim, and beautiful, but when Bob goes to actually meet her at the airport, she's fat, old, and homely]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': See "Exaggerated"

* '''Gender Inverted''': [[TheChick Alice]] purchases [[HuskyRuskie Ivan]] over the Internet.

* '''Played Straight''': Bob has had no luck with dating, and is surfing the Internet one lonely night. He decides to click on a banner ad for a MailOrderBride, and "purchases" Valentina from Russia.

* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice purchases Ivan over the Internet.

*** May or may not be [[TheCakeIsALie a scam]].