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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.
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