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** "Ugly" might be the wrong word to describe Vinsmoke Judge (after all, he's never been seen without his helmet, which covers the upper half of his face), but he's a brutish and ferocious-looking man. His wife Sora (now deceased) was a beautiful woman with perfect skin, dark blue eyes, and wavy shoulder-length blonde hair. This was clearly a case of [[Beauty Equals Goodness]], for while Sanji despises his father [[Abusive Parent|(for good reason)]] he was very close to his mother.
** Don Sai isn't as ugly as some other [[Gonk]]s in the series, but he's not good-looking either, with an oversized mouth, unkempt sideburns and a potbelly with no defined abs on his usually-shirtless torso (despite being ''very'' strong). As of chapter 881, he and Baby-5 (the [[Ms. Fanservice]] of the Dressrosa Arc) have married, and are very much in love.
** True for most World Nobles. Most of the males are ugly, fat, and deformed, mostly due to inbreeding, the only one who could be considered handsome being Donquixote Homing (and Donquixote Mjosgard was ''much'' uglier before his [[Heel Realization]] before the [[Time Skip]]; it seems growing a conscience can do wonders for a World Noble's appearance). Regardless, all known female World Nobles are far more attractive than their husbands, although to be frank, all of them (Homing's wife being the exception here too) are just as rotten.
* In just about every single work by Adachi Mitsuru, the heroine's parents are this. The heroine gets all of her looks from her mom since it just wouldn't make sense for anything male to want to get in your pants when you get your looks from "that." Heck, sometimes it would only make sense if the mom had cheated somewhere in their marriage. This would, of course, make the heroine [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]].
* Played with in [[Tenjho Tenge]]. While Souchiro's mother Makiko Natsume is [[Hot Mom|naturally beautiful]], [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|the horrible scars]] [[Scars Are Forever|marring her face]] make for a strange inversion of the trope since {{spoiler|her ex-husband Sohaku}} is now more attractive than her.
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* ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' in both the original and the 1981 remake. Beautiful Cora, the main female character, was married to an ugly, old, boring husband. She was played by Lana Turner (1946) and Jessica Lange (1981) respectively, arguably two of the most sexy women of their time.
* Not quite the same since they're not married, but Riff-Raff in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' has the smoking hot Magenta as his lover, though by conventional standards he's unattractive himself (very thin, balding, hunchbacked etc).
* Hideously deformed anti-hero [[The Toxic Avenger]] and his knockout of a girlfriend Claire. Granted, she is - initally - blind, but even after regaining her vision via surgery, she thinks Toxie is the handsomest hunk alive.
== Literature ==
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* [[John Le Carre]]'s [[The Quest for Karla|George Smiley]] (described in his earliest appearances as a "frog" or a "toad") and his [[May–December Romance|much younger wife]], Lady Ann. As things turn out, Ann spends most of the marriage [[Really Gets Around|sleeping with other men.]]
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' books presents petite, sweet faced, and generally harmless-looking Queen's Own Herald Talia; and the love of her life Herald Dirk who is big, strong, has a lovely voice and (at least in Talia's opinion) beautiful eyes... but beyond that is explicitly described as homely at best. A major complication during ''Arrow's Fall'' was his [[Poor Communication Kills|inability to realize]] that she would prefer him over his far more handsome highborn friend Herald Kris.
* In ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', the King of Laputa (and most of the nobility) are pretty ugly [[The Caligula|(not to mention incompetent)]] due to [[Evil Makes You Ugly| their obsessions]] with mathematics, astronomy, and musical theory. Their heads have become stuck reclined to one side, and they often suffer from strabismus: one eye turns inward and the other looks up "to the zenith". The king's wife, however, is very beautiful, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa#/media/File:Willmann,_Colin,_&_Outhwaite,_the_Queen_of_Laputa,_cph.3b18906.jpg as this illustration shows.] Sadly, she does not love him in the least; all of Laputa's rulers are too engrossed in their obsessions to learn that their wives are adulterers who are using their husbands' lack of attention to carry on affairs with their more loving servants.
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Will and Grace]]'' poke fun at this, with Jack and Karen searching for a new sitcom after the finale of [[Sex and the City]]. Whilst they are channel hopping, they spin through several "Fat guy, skinny wife" shows before hitting upon a "Ugly guy, skinny wife" show.
{{quote|'''Karen:''' "Ugly guy, skinny wife? * shakes head* No, America is not ready for that just yet."}}
* A show about women's sex lives and the toys they used to enhance it featured one couple that seemed to be a middle-aged British woman who was probably rather pretty ten years ago and a Spanish or Italian male underwear model in his early to mid twenties.
* This trope gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] quite heavily in an episode of [[Rescue Me]], when Billy (one of the firefighters) {{spoiler|dies. At his funeral, they find out that he'd}} had 2 ex-wives, both of supermodel quality. The episode had a sub-plot of a measurement contest, which Billy had declined to take part in. After having talked with the ex-wives, the chief declared Billy the {{spoiler|posthumous}} winner, stating "Our friend Billy... was packing 10."
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** Chandler receives the same treatment (despite being played by the handsome Matthew Perry) in his relationships and throughout the course of his relationship with Monica—in one of the early episodes Phoebe even mentions this trope in conversation with him:
{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' "You know how you always see these gorgeous women with these really nothing guys? You could be one of those guys!"}}
* From ''[[Mad About You]]'', the beautiful Leila Kenzle with Richard Kind, who bears a marked resemblance to [[Magilla Gorilla]].
* Seen in ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'', even though interestingly enough, we never see the man in question. When a beautiful woman reports her husband's disappearance and presumed murder, suspects include his equally gorgeous mistress (who's innocent). One of the detectives expresses complete shock and confusion as to how a "2", as he describes the victim, was able to not only snag two "10's", as he describes the women, but was also able to string them both along when they both could have easily dumped the cheating lout.
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** It's also implied with the Veals, but since Mr. Veal is played by [[Firefly|Alan]] [[Perverse Sexual Lust|Tudyk]]...
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' discusses the trope with the [[Patient of the Week]] being a smoking hot woman married to a rather large guy. What does she see in him? He was the only guy there after she dated the attractive jerky guys. J.D. often gets accused of this by watchers of the show, but he's not actually ugly—it's just Hollywood casting for hot girls that makes everyone a model.
* While ''[[The Munsters]]'' looked like people from a
** Of course, Lily sees Herman as gorgeous and worries about other women stealing him away due to this. And considering how they all consider their pretty niece as 'odd-looking', their view of beauty is skewed from the cultural norm.
* Examined in a sketch on ''[[Mad TV]]'', where [[Dr. Phil]] asks the fugly husband of a beautiful ([[The Ditz|but dumb]], [[Unfortunate Implications|though that was presented as a positive]]) how it happened: "[[Money, Dear Boy|Are you crazy rich?]] [[Hypno Fool|Are you a registered hypnotist?]] [[Biggus Dickus|Do you have a freakishly large penis?]]"
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** Also, Rufus and Candy, though not married, probably count as well. Apparently he saved her from an angry waiter and according to a win quote she likes his belly.
*** Necro and Effie too.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20170707181155/http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/jgonzo/large/47981c1d8d989365a0f5e121acf0b2b8.jpg?v=142782 Huge ''red'' turkish oil wrestler Hakan and his smoking hot wife]. They have seven ''[[Daddy's Girl|adorable]]'' daughters. While Hakan's face [[Face of a Thug|is quite scary]], he is a muscleman who routinely pours oil all over his shirtless chest, thats got to be some woman's [[Fetish Fuel|fetish]]. Plus he's rich, famous, [[Gentle Giant|and said to be a good dad.]] [[Justified Trope]], considering that, in his culture, being a good father/provider counts for a lot more.
* [[Interspecies Romance]] example: A minor [[NPC]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]: [[Revenant Wings]]'' is a Seeq married to a Viera. Seeq are hideous pig like things, Viera are [[Cute Monster Girl|beautiful]] [[Petting Zoo People|bunny girls]].
** The Seeq is also quite friendly and supportive of the party's quest to save the Aegyl. OTOH, his wife is as cold and aloof as most of her race and just wishes her husband would leave the ship already. Which just raises more questions about how the hell they hooked up in the first place.
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* Hades and Persephone in the ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' series. Even though Hades ''isn't'' portrayed as an evil god, he's pretty dumpy, covered in spikes and hides his disfigured face with an intimidating helmet. Persephone, meanwhile, is a beautiful queen {{spoiler|who tries to destroy the world in revenge for being stuck as Hades' wife}}.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'': [[Blood Knight|Bartolomeo]] [[Hot-Blooded|D'Alviano]] has seen many battles in his lifetime, and his heavily scarred face - and scratchy voice that sounds like he's been gargling sand - reflect that. Ezio is understandably surprised when he sees that his wife Pantasilea; A) is a woman and not a sword and B) is very attractive.
* ''[[Chuck Rock]]''; the title character is an ugly, crude, inarticulate caveman, with a beer gut and ''really'' bad BO problem, but his wife Ophelia is a sexy [[Nubile Savage]] type - the reason he has to rescue her from [[Handsome Lech]] Gary Granite.
== Web Comics ==
* Luk River and Hala from "Irregular Elis", a lucky man married with a hot mom alien.
* Jason and Aubrey from ''[[Something*Positive]].'' Before they got together, Jason was also quite the lady's man, apparently due to some mathematical formula that lets him seduce anyone he wants. Also, [
** Davan with just about any girl he's dated, though this is largely [[Informed Deformity]].
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* Quasimodo and Madellaine from [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|''The Hunchback of Notre Dame II'']].
* Subverted with Donna in ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''. Cleveland is very overweight and has a child-like demeanor while Donna appears to be pretty with a very pronounced butt. However, on several occasions, it was shown that Donna does a lot to make herself look pretty. Donna wears a wig to cover her short and gray hair, wears make up, wears a push up bra that keeps her breasts from sagging, and wears certain clothing to smooth her figure, to which she would look very overweight without it.
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'':
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** The [[Valentines Day Episode]] shows that Killer Croc (a brutish, reptilian [[Beast Man]]) is dating Enchantress (a darkly beautiful [[Evil Sorceress]]) by her own account, she was attracted to his sense of humor; after meeting him at a dermotologist's waiting room, she asked him if any spawns of Satan had come by, and Croc replied by saying [[Evil Lawyer Joke| she was probably looking for the law firm next door.]]
** [[Darkseid]] is dating [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle|Kimberly_Guilfoyle], the two [[Take That|having met at the Republican National Convention]]. The Lord of Apokolips seems to imply that this is an [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]] situation, which Kimberly's cold expression seems to confirm.
** Nora and Swamp Thing; initially presented as a one-night fling (and one-off joke) she was dating him until at least the finale of season 3.
* In ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power|She-Ra and the Princesses of Power]]'', [[Wrench Wench|Entrapta isn't exactly "hot"]] (maybe [[Adorkable]]) but she's far more attractive than her boyfriend - {{spoiler| Hordak himself, whose [[Heel Face Turn]] doesn't do much to change his demonic appearance.}}
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