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Contrast [[Birds of a Feather]].
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Popular '''Opposites Attract''' dynamics include:
* [[The Hero]] + [[The Lancer]] (see [[Five-Man Band]] entry)
* [[Troubled but Cute]] boy + [[The Ingenue|sweet, innocent]] girl
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* ''[[The 39 Clues]]''. Ian is a [[Handsome Devil]], [[Upper Class Wit|mega-rich]], [[Evil Brit|an Evil Brit]], and a [[Momma's Boy]]. Amy is a [[Shrinking Violet]], [[Smart Girl|pretty smart]], poor, and [[Heartwarming Orphan|an orphan]]. She apparently always found him attractive, but [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me|when he actually started flirting with her]], it was, of course, [[I Was Only Pretending to Like You|a trick]]. And then came [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo|a whole new]] [[My Beloved Smother|set of complications]].
** Also, [[The Big Guy|Hamilton]] and [[Teen Genius|Sinead]] was hinted a bit in Book 10.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Captains Carrot Ironfounderson and Angua von Uberwald
** Similarly, in ''[[
* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve has pointed out that Roarke and her have this between them, like in ''Divided In Death''. She is a cop who is crude, rude, not interested in money, believes in the law, and has morals that are basically black and white. He is a former thief who is suave, charming, has more money than you can imagine, believe more in his conscience than in the law, and his morals are very much grey. Fortunately, one thing they do have in common is that they both were raised by bad parents and had lousy childhoods.
* Enforced in the novel ''[[Youth in Sexual Ecstasy]]'', the [[Character Filibuster|sexual therapist]] actually says that for a couple to succeed in the long term, they must have opposite temperaments alongside with similar lifestyles and independent realization. The protagonist and his fiance agree on this being the case for them.
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|Up Jim River]]'', Greystroke says that he and Bridget have this.
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* [[The Ace|Laid-back, jovial "Hawkeye" Pierce]] and [[Ice Queen|hard-nosed Margaret Houlihan]] in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''.
* Penny and Leonard on [[The Big Bang Theory]] are such an extreme example as to nearly defy belief. Leonard is chubby, bespectacled, hopeless nerd with a Ph.D in Physics and alarmingly subpar social skills (which suddenly appear impressive when compared with those of the people he hangs out with); Penny is an attractive aspiring actress who works as a waitress in the nearby Cheesecake Factory and never finished college. Lots of [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this one.
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