This doesn't always seem to work out all that well, for me at least. I'm a Genki girl Gamer chick famous for lacking an indoor voice and always bouncing from place to place while humming off-key and going off on Cloudcuckoolander tengents. I ended up with a calm man of few words whom was also a gamer, though he was more reserved and secretive and kinda withdrawn and all that. We had a marvelous relationship, where we either adored each other, or had to fight the urge to claw each others eyes out. By the end we both cited 'Driven to the brink of insanity' as a reason for splitting.

{{Dinru}} and her boyfriend. I'm a GenkiGirl who, due to his presence, seems like she's always in CaffeineBulletTime. He's mildly {{Keet}}-ish at times, but usually he's the calmer one. Of course, I'm a KuuDere and he's basically a Dere Kuu (as in, he's nice on the outside but he's very Kuu on the inside, a complete inversion. Though deeper down inside he's Dere again.), it seems the other way around to most.

This troper's parents are basicly this. My mother is energetic, fun and a bit CloudCuckooLander-ish and my dad is her snarking foil.

This Troper and a friend pull this off, despite the fact that said friend is a lesbian. Of course, some people may be confused, since she's very huggy.

This troper and his ex-girlfriend. She was cute, hyperactive and creative. He was dark, calm and... well, also creative, but more subtly. It worked quite well.

Marina Del Grapes and her husband.

Following suit, {{Amarys}} and her boyo.

Pretty much my girlfriend and I...to a somewhat extreme level. It's not unusual to see me physically restraining her on dates so she doesn't try to set me up for molesting a Victoria's Secret salesgirl or something.

My parents. My mother is active, doing lots of stuff around the house and doing much with friends. My dad has only a few hobbies and doesn't say much. But when she needs him, he is there.

This troper and his best friend both play this trope straight and subvert it. She's normally a LargeHam GenkiGirl and this troper her calmer DeadpanSnarker foil. Subverted because I'm more likely to freak out or react in an over-the-top way to my personal issues, while she's more of a BrokenBird about hers.

This troper is going to see if she can land herself one of these with her crush... Wish me luck fellow tropers!

My dad and stepmom are like this to an extent, but theMostTriumphantExample in my life is the couple that had the following conversation: #QUOTE#'''She:''' Is this your hammer? #QUOTE#'''He:''' No. #QUOTE#'''She:''' If I had a hammer... ''(sings the entire first verse into the hammer)'' #QUOTE#'''He:''' Honey, give me the hammer. You're gonna hurt yourself. #QUOTE#'''She:''' Is it your hammer? #QUOTE#'''He:''' No, you already asked that. #QUOTE#'''She:''' I did? #QUOTE#'''He:''' Yeah, I answered the question and you started singing and you forgot I answered it.

This troper and her boyfriend. She's a loud, semi-hyper completely insane spunky punky chick, he's a calm, quiet metal head. They sometimes subvert this as she has some layers of deadpan snark in her and is generally regarded as one of the "sane ones" in her group of friends, and when he gets into things, he ''really'' gets into them, and does such things as leap out of his chair, mime actions, and growl like a feral animal.

Subverted with this troper and her sort-of friend. Even though we're both considered geniuses and we're both logical enough to count as Spock, she's the cynical DeadpanSnarker and he's the insane one. This troper is a very GenreSavvy TallDarkandSnarky loner bookworm with a hidden affinity for cats, and her friend is a nerdy LargeHam CloudCuckooLander who is obsessed with rave music and has a tendency for WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome moments. The only reason that we're actually friends is because we're the only people who like seinen/serious shonen genre anime and manga at our school.

This is how me and my friend/interest Cass are. I'm usually a laid-back, observing, snarky thinker, while she's an active, hands-on, snarky doer. We both have our moments where we act the other roles, but it's usually that way. And, yes, I know I said we're both snarky; that's because we are, and that's something I really enjoy!

Played straight in my life. He has to literally sit me down and tell me to cool it when I get to carried away.

Played straight for this troper as well -- I'm a quiet, studious, mainly introverted guy and this girl I have a thing for is much more of the extroverted, ambitious, involved, community-and-leadership type. When we first met, I was a second-year university student coming off a co-op term and returning to a community that had left me behind, and she (then in first year) took it upon herself to help me feel welcome again (she's just that kind and outgoing to everyone). Her example slowly drove me to get out of my proverbial shell more often, and I continued to run into her with some regularity, but me being me, I never could get up the guts to ask her out. Currently defied hard for me because I recently found out (indirectly) that she already ''has'' a boyfriend ... which, while not particularly surprising, is something that probably wouldn't have been the case had I acted earlier. And this isn't the first time my inaction has messed things up. Yay.

This troper has yet to be involved in dating, yet is absolutely convinced that the GenkiGirl personality is exactly the kind of personality he would find attractive, despite (if not partly because of) not being a particularly energetic guy himself.

This troper and her friend are like this. I'm usually a {{Deadpan Snarker}}, but around him, I become a {{Genki Girl}} of epic proportions. I'm not entirely sure why. He'll snark at me for doing something stupid, and somehow to me that translates to bothering him incessantly.

Inverted for my boyfriend and I. He's crazy, loud, and energetic, whereas I am severely shy and rather withdrawn. I try my best to be tolerant -- God knows he suffers me being the repressed and sarcastic person I am, the least I can do is to return the favor -- but I often end up asking him to lower his voice, please, or to calm down a little, please. I've been beginning to perk up a bit, though, when we're together without anyone else around, and he's been making an effort to mellow out a bit and try to be more serious. Hopefully we can reach an equilibrium of sorts that both of us are comfortable with.

This Troper's friends have been known to hide sugar and caffenine from her. She is off the wall and living somewhere with rainbows and shiny things. Not to mention her easily diverted attention span. She's with a calm, serious guy who often assuages her when things go wrong and makes sure nothing bad happens to her if she gets a little more than crazy.