Uptight Loves Wild: Difference between revisions

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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.

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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* 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 Preferred Couple|America and England]] fall under this too. Although England is not as uptight as you might expect, his usually staid demeanor contrasts with America's [[Large Ham|hamminess]] and [[Idiot Hero|lovable idiocy]].

** One could argue that [[Fan-Preferred Couple|America and England]] fall under this too. Although England is not as uptight as you might expect, his usually staid demeanor contrasts with America's [[Large Ham|hamminess]] and [[Idiot Hero|lovable idiocy]].

* Ranma and Akane from ''[[Ranma One Half]]''. It's referenced multiple times throughout the series... Such as one of the opening themes about Ranma and Akane being titled "Dont Make Me Wild Like You" and Ranma's name essentially meaning "wild horse." While (in the manga, at least) Ranma thrives on [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulation]], Akane often gets upset with his antics and reveals his identity when he doesn't want her to. He enjoys playing pranks on people, even when Akane gets mad at him for it. [[Shameless Fanservice Girl|He's]] also comfortable with being half-naked or nude around other people. Akane, on the other hand, will have none of that. She always tries to keep him covered up and maintains her own modesty at all times. True to the trope, Akane eventually becomes more relaxed about these traits and starts helping him out in his schemes and even starts coming up with some herself. (Strangely enough, although they're opposites in this sense, they're [[Birds of a Feather|alike in many other ways]].)

* ''[[FAKE (Manga)|FAKE]]'': Ryo towards Dee which he will deny.

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* Enid and Seymore from ''[[Ghost World]]''

* Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary from ''[[Weird Science (Film)|Weird Science]]''

* ''[[Stacy Attack Of The Schoolgirl Zombies]]'' - A teen girl, Eiko, gets a reclusive [[Dirty Old Man|middle-aged]] puppeteer, Shibukawa, to promise to "[[Future Slang|repeat kill]]" her when she becomes a [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]]. She's in the [[Coming of Age|final stage]] of becoming a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]], a stage called, "[[Unusual Euphemism|Near Death Happiness]]" <ref>"Death" used to mean "Orgasm" hundreds of years ago</ref> which is a [[Menstrual Menace|period]] of [[Stepford Smiler|manic giddiness]], as per usual with all girls [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|around the age of 16]], and she'll soon start [[Twilight (Literature)|glowing]] due to the [[Newspeak|B.T.P.]] or "[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway|Butterfly Twinkle Powder]]." Can [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|she help]] him [[All That Glitters|learn]] to [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter|laugh again]] in this crazy, mixed-up [[Crapsack World|world]] that's [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|symbolic]] for [[Lost Aesop|lost innocence]]? {{spoiler|Of course, once he [[The Reveal|finally]] opens up that [[An Asskicking Christmas|gift]] she [[Relationship Upgrade|gave]] him and finds a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] inside!}}

* ''[[Stacy Attack Of The Schoolgirl Zombies]]'' - A teen girl, Eiko, gets a reclusive [[Dirty Old Man|middle-aged]] puppeteer, Shibukawa, to promise to "[[Future Slang|repeat kill]]" her when she becomes a [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]]. She's in the [[Coming of Age|final stage]] of becoming a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]], a stage called, "[[Unusual Euphemism|Near Death Happiness]]" <ref>"Death" used to mean "Orgasm" hundreds of years ago</ref> which is a [[Menstrual Menace|period]] of [[Stepford Smiler|manic giddiness]], as per usual with all girls [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|around the age of 16]], and she'll soon start [[Twilight (Literature)|glowing]] due to the [[Newspeak|B.T.P.]] or "[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Butterfly Twinkle Powder]]." Can [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|she help]] him [[All That Glitters|learn]] to [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter|laugh again]] in this crazy, mixed-up [[Crapsack World|world]] that's [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|symbolic]] for [[Lost Aesop|lost innocence]]? {{spoiler|Of course, once he [[The Reveal|finally]] opens up that [[An Asskicking Christmas|gift]] she [[Relationship Upgrade|gave]] him and finds a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] inside!}}

* ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day]]'' is an odd case: while they are not romantically entangled, the relationship between wild American Delysia Lafosse and stiff British governess Miss Pettigrew follows this trope pretty closely, with each learning something from the other.

* ''[[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 Man]]'' is a very obvious example of this. The stuffy Jim Carrey gets the wild Zooey Deschanel when he finally decides to start saying yes to things.

* ''[[Yes-Man]]'' is a very obvious example of this. The stuffy Jim Carrey gets the wild Zooey Deschanel when he finally decides to start saying yes to things.

* This is pretty much the entire plot of ''[[The African Queen]]''.

* In ''[[Friday the 13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part 6.'' Everyone thinks that Tommy is crazy, but he's very sane and stuffy and goal-oriented. His love interest, Megan, is very wild. Megan cracks wise, disobeys her father, breaks Tommy out of prison at gun point, crams his face into her lap for a police chase... um, balances her chair on two legs, and is very lucky to have hooked up with the [[Final Girl|Final Guy]] for a 50/50 chance of survival.

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* ''[[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.

* '' "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - [[Angel]] is moody, broody, and [[Gypsy Curse|cursed by the Roma]]. Can Buffy help [[Incredibly Lame Pun|raise his spirits]] and break the curse? Yes. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Epicly]].

* Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on ''[[~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. And because they somehow also manage to be [[Like Brother and Sister]], this kind of puts them under the [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] trope as well.

* Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. And because they somehow also manage to be [[Like Brother and Sister]], this kind of puts them under the [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] trope as well.

* 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 [[I Carly]].

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