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{{trope}}
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He's stuffy. She's untamed. It's true love.
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[[British Stuffiness|Mr. Stuffy]] is in a rut: Life is boring because he plays by the rules. Along comes this [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|wild and crazy woman to show him how to live life to its fullest]], and she just might [[An Aesop|learn a few things along the way]], too.
Though the most common form of this trope is from male creators who idealize femininity as a saving force, it could be [[Gender Flip
They could be [[Queer As Tropes|LGBT]], as well (e.g. a [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Seme]] with a [[Keet]] [[Uke]], [[Gravitation|mentioning no names]]).
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The defining trope of [[Screwball Comedy]]. ''Extremely'' common in [[Romantic Comedy]].
Compare [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]. Not to be confused with [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] as the "Wild" part of this trope doesn't need to be Manic, a Pixie, a Dream, or a Girl.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Ruby and Sapphire from ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' fit this perfectly. One other character even calls Sapphire "Wild Girl".
* Hinata Hyuga is not particularly uptight, but is certainly [[Shrinking Violet|not wild]]. Her crush [[Naruto]], on the other hand...[[Keet|really]], [[Idiot Hero|really]] is.
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* In ''[[Kanga Na Spoon]]'', the main character opens by talking about how perfect, glamorous and orderly his life is before introducing to his lover, an obnoxious, flamboyant, freeloading fashion designer with no life skills.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has [[Official Couple|Italy and Germany]]. Germany is a [[Germanic Depressives|strict, military-oriented]] neat freak who can fall into [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] at times. Italy is [[The Ditz|clueless]], [[Genki Guy|hyperactive]], and [[Lovable Coward|loves to surrender]]. The [[Ship Tease]] between them is overwhelming.
** One could argue that [[Fan
* Ranma and Akane from ''[[Ranma
* ''[[
* ''[[The Sandman|Death: The High Cost Of Living]]'' - A [[Perky Goth]] called [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] guides a [[Emo Teen|teen]] [[Emo|guy]] named Sexton on a journey of self
▲* ''[[The Sandman|Death: The High Cost Of Living]]'' - A [[Perky Goth]] called [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] guides a [[Emo Teen|teen]] [[Emo|guy]] named Sexton on a journey of self discovery and teaches him to respect life and live it to the fullest, and [[An Aesop|etcetera]].
▲== Fan Fic ==
* The popular, [[Fanon|not-quite-canon]]-[[Ship Tease|but-hinted-at]] pairing of Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]].'' They're long-time partners, and are without a doubt close ''friends,'' if not in love (though Milla definitely has feeling for Sasha). Sasha's the uptight one (of course; he's [[Germanic Depressives|German]]) and Milla's the wild party girl.▼
== Fan Works ==
▲* The popular, [[Fanon|not-quite-canon]]-[[Ship Tease|but-hinted-at]] pairing of Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello in ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[Along Came Polly]]'' (which provides the page image).
* ''[[
* ''[[Bright Star]]'' - John Keats is man back in the [[Older Than They Think|1800s]] who is hidebound by convention, emotionally closed-off, undaring, and believes himself to be a failed poet. But along comes his muse, Fanny Brawne. She's a young, vibrant, fashionable, fiery, flirty, independent-minded, outspoken, strong-willed [[Dances and Balls|party girl]] who inspires him to write a sonnet that shares a name with the film's title. Will she challenge him and motivate him to new heights and help him achieve success that lasts until the 21st century? Well, it is based on a true story, so take a wild guess.
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]''
** Ditto for ''[[My Man Godfrey]]''.
* ''[[Crazy Beautiful]]''
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* ''[[Forces Of Nature]]''
* ''[[Garden State]]''
* ''[[Grease]]'' as well as ''[[Grease 2]]''
* ''[[Harold and Maude]]''
* An unremarkable short film called ''[[Headlong]]''. As the reviewer at [[Something Awful]] puts it:
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* ''[[Into the Night]]''
* ''[[Latter Days]]''
* ''[[Laws of Attraction]]'' She's a stuffy uptight cynical genius divorce lawyer! He's a free-spirited genius divorce lawyer who believes in true love! <s>[[They Fight Crime]]!</s> - uh, they're opposing counsel on a bunch of different cases! It's actually a pretty well-done, if forgettable, example of this trope, and it definitely doesn't hurt that Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore are damned good actors.
* ''[[
* ''[[My Sassy Girl]]''
* ''[[
* Gender-flipped in ''[[Ninotchka]]'' (and its musical remake, ''[[Silk Stockings]])''.
* ''[[The Owl And The Pussycat]]''
* ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
* ''[[Something Wild]]''
*
* ''[[Sweet November]]''
* ''[[A Walk to Remember]]''
* Juno and Bleeker from ''[[Juno]]''
* Enid and Seymore from ''[[Ghost World]]''
* Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary from ''[[Weird Science (
* ''[[Stacy: Attack
* ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for
* ''[[Notting Hill]]'' - William Thacker ([[Hugh Grant]]) is an unsuccessful Notting Hill bookstore owner who is depressed that his wife has dumped him. But all that will change when Anna Scott ([[Julia Roberts]]), the world's most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop and changes his life with her glamorous Hollywood ways.
* ''[[What's Up, Doc?]]'': Once [[Barbra Streisand|Judy Maxwell]] sets her eye on Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal), not even his impending marriage to the controlling Eunice Burns (Madeline Kahn) is going to stand in her way. And as much as he protests, this crazy adventure is just the thing he needs to make him start thinking over the things he ''really'' wants (Eunice is not among them).
* ''[[Yes
* This is pretty much the entire plot of ''[[The African Queen]]''.
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (
* ''[[A Single Man]]''
* ''[[
* Uncle Frank definitely helps [[Housewife|Julia]] come out of her shell in ''[[
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Stuffy, cynical divorce lawyer Robert meets literal fairytale princess Giselle.
* ''[[Ondine]]'' - Syracuse is a cynical, reclusive, recovering-alcoholic fisherman who one day brings up a [[Our Mermaids Are Different|selky]] named Ondine {{spoiler|Romanian drug mule}} in his fishing net. She brings luck and can grant wishes. Can Ondine help Syracuse learn to live, love, and trust? {{spoiler|Yes. They get married.}}.
* [[A Fish Called Wanda]], at least for Archie and Wanda.
* Gender-reversed in ''[[The Sure Thing]]''.
* On ''[[
* ''[[Up]]'' starts out with a version of this between 10-year-olds. It's very
* ''[[Love Letters]]'' is a made-for-TV film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Laura Linney as Melissa Gardner Cobb and Steven Weber as Andrew Ladd. She is a freewheeling artist with plenty of sexual partners and a love of booze and has had a bad reputation since high school. He's a stalwart, stuffy Republican politician. Their letters to each other are his sail and her anchor, but she threatens to moon his respectable peers if his letters get too uniform.
== Literature ==
* Loretta Chase loves this trope: ''Mr. Impossible'' (Rupert is the wild one, Daphne is the nerd), ''Lord Perfect'' and ''Last Night's Scandal'' (Olivia is the wild one, Peregrine/Lisle is less so). Benedict and Bathsheba from ''Lord Perfect'' seem to be set up to be this trope, except that Bathsheba isn't nearly as wild as her daughter/the rest of her relatives are.
* At the end of the ''[[Dragaera|Khaavren]]'' trilogy, it is revealed that [[Blood Knight|Tazendra]] has been in love with [[Blue Oni|Aerich]] all along, and it seems to be mutual.
* Subverted
* Both major couples in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.▼
▲== Live Action Television ==
▲* Both major couples in ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''.
** Worf and Jadzia: he's a stuffy [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], she's a Trill with several hundred years' worth of memories who does whatever she can to avoid boredom.
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"Alright. What do you want?"
"Room service. I wanna be pampered. I want a staff to cater to our every whim - I wanna be ''embarrassed'' by the size of our room." }}
** Odo and Kira: he's a policeman so uptight he can't stand people moving the things in his room an inch out of place, she's a [[Fiery Redhead]] ex-guerrilla fighter with little respect for any rules but her own.
* ''[[Queer
* ''[[The L Word]]''
* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' as parodied on ''[[Family Guy]]'' as seen [http://i53.tinypic.com/dmv7kw.jpg here]
* ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[Life
** The same goes for Alex (untamed) and Justin (stuffy), of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''.
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'': As of the episode "If Venjix Won", this is Dr. K and Ziggy.
* ''[[Flying Blind]],'' a short-lived series from 1992, explored the difficulties faced by self-conscious and repressed Neil in dealing with the erotic antics of liberated Alicia.
* Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary from ''[[Weird Science (TV series)|Weird Science]]''.
* [[Kissing Cousins]] George Michael and Maeby in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''. George Michael was mostly a timid, dutiful son while Maeby was something of an independent delinquent.
* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' messes around slightly with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Alex and Gene]]; at first it seems that Alex ([[Brainy Brunette|sophisticated, intelligent]] [[Married to
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' - Penny moves into an apartment next door to two brilliant but socially awkward physicists and shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.
* '' "[[
* Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* This is gender-flipped in ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', with Blair as an uptight, proper, virginal lady, and Chuck a hedonist who likes his hookers to come in twos. She makes him less wild and more responsible, and he makes her far more sexual and liberated.
* As of the episode 'iOMG', this trope could be in the offing for 'Seddie' (Sam and Freddie') in [[
* Gender-flipped in ''[[Skins]]'' with Chris and Jal. Like the ''Gossip Girl'' example, Jal inspires Chris to work hard to get and keep a job, and Chris inspires Jal to let her hair down a little.
* ''[[Free Spirit]]'' was [http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1460/medium/Free_Spirit_2.jpg
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Greyhawk]]'' deities Wee Jas "[[Ice Queen|the Stern Lady]]" and Norebo "[[Loveable Rogue|the Lord of Chance]]" remain lovers for the last thousand years or so.
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* ''[[Guys and Dolls]]''
* ''[[Rent]]'' - Maureen and Joanne
* ''[[Barefoot in
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* This is how the player character's relationship with [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Bastila]] appears in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has several pairings that end up looking like this, especially Renegade Shepard and Miranda, and to a lesser extent Shepard and Liara.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII
==
* The ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series]]'' seems to enjoy subverting this, playing it straight only with Candi and Denny. Denny allows Candi to learn to lighten up a little. Otherwise, Candi pairs with Donte in what feels like Uptight Loves Slightly-Less-Uptight. Steve and Miriam are a case of Wild Loves Slightly-Less-Wild. Worse in the comics than the alternate universe books, as comic Donte [[Shallow Love Interest|has all the personality of a cardboard box]].
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''; a female bureaucrat is attracted to Fry because he's so slobbish.
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'''Morgan Proctor:''' DIRTY BOY! Dirtydirtydirty!
'''Fry:''' I thought you were anti-dirty, not pro-dirty!?
'''Morgan Proctor:''' I'm surrounded by neat freaks all day. There's nothing kinkier to me than a filthy slop jockey like you!
'''Fry:''' Oh, stop... }}
* Courtney and Duncan in ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. She's an uptight priss with high hopes for her future; he's a wild teenage delinquent.
* Happens in [[The Simpsons]] when the eternally uptight Principal Skinner falls in love with the free-minded music teacher.
** Marge and Homer also fit, respectively.
* Seems to be the case for Kendall on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' who is the residential "Fun Police", a lover of school, rules, books and opera who seems to be holding a torch for the daredevil Kick... even going so far as to flat out tell her actual boyfriend that she wishes he could be more awesome like him (ouch!).
** Not that Kick hasn't complimented Kendall on her "elegance"...
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