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* Countess Rostov from ''[[War and Peace]]'' is very much like this except when she's talking with her daughters. Pierre Bezukhov's wife Helene would be a subversion in that she goes from having no role in society except being beautiful (and smiling a lot) to one of the eminent hostesses on the Moscow and St. Petersburg scene after getting married.
* Part of the reason Will Navidson moved his family into the titular {{color|blue|house}} in ''[[House of Leaves]]'' was to get closer to his family, including his Stepford Smiler wife, Karen Green.
* Lilith de Tempscire from ''[[Discworld]]'' is a variant of a Stepford Smiler. In Lilith's mind, life should be just like a storybook. {{spoiler|As the witch in charge, politically, in the city of Genua,}} she likes things to be the way people expect them to
* Ira Levin's book ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'', the [[Trope Namer]].
* Kaitlyn Werhner from the short story, ''Dark Red Mind''. If you were to see her smile at you with those piercing blue eyes, ''run.'' Not that it would help you any.
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