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{{quote|''"My man! Come to Lena!"''

 

An [[Gonk|ugly and/or overweight female]] is noticeably attracted to a male protagonist. Maybe she's even a little forward about it. The protagonist realizes this, and is profoundly uncomfortable with the whole idea, but the female character either doesn't realize he's not interested or [[Mad Love|is undeterred]]. Yet the character is not just uncomfortable; he's shocked, horrified, or disgusted. Even a wave and a smile from her will be treated as a fate worse than death for the recipient. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** The ''real'' Lola is this as well, though she's not as [[Ax Crazy]] as her zombie was. Franky plays an advance from her cool, saying he's too "[[Catch Phrase|super]]" for anything to work out between them.

** The ugly psychopath Vander Decken IX to Princess Shirahoshi.

* In the ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' novel Seiran Den (chronicling Nakago's history), [[Depraved Homosexual|Tomo]] (then known as Ragun) got himself a rather ardent female admirer, the leader of the palace girls, Ba Hinhin. She is described as having a "horse-like face," and tends to "snort fiercely through her nose" when she's making advances on him. He, of course, finds her intensely annoying, and tries to distract her away from him. Then again, [[Depraved Homosexual|the mere fact of being the object of a woman's desire would gross him out]].

* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', Miroku is always chasing beautiful girls, whose reactions vary from schoolgirl glee to violent backlash, but always with the same result: no-one of them is interested in him. However, he's oftenly chased by the old, the overweight or the funny-featured, much to his horror and chagrin.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Dark Chick|Karin]] is a variation of this. Even though she isn't all that unattractive, except for [[Die for Our Ship|a certain fraction of the fandom]], the point still stands since her forward propositions are always met with an icy reaction from Sasuke. Not to mention the lengths to which she goes to get in his pants.

* Miyako Miyazaki from ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' is a cute girl with a sadistic side, but has only one major weakness: a middle school classmate by the name of Reimi Odajima who has been stalking Miya-miya ever since she beat up a boy she liked. Reimi follows her to all of her kendo tournaments snapping pictures and shooting videos of her beloved idol, often times inadvertently distracting her enough to lose her match. And yet having a psychotic for a number-one fan turns out to be quite handy later on when {{spoiler|Miyako and Azuma look through Reimi's photo and video collection to help Miya-miya train against an American rival.}}

* In ''[[Girls Saurus]]'', almost every girl who shows an interest in Shingo (that is to say, most of the cast and most female one-shot characters) becomes an abhorrent admirer, due to their tendency to throw themselves at him and his gynophobia that makes him visualise them as horrible ogres.

* Shautieh Ley has ''four'' chasing after him in ''[[Bowling King]]'', Maya (everyone who meets her mistakes her for an alien initially) and the pint-sized, overweight, fanatical, [[Stalker with a Crush]] Maruko triplets.

== Literature ==

* A variant in [[Tom Holt]]'s H. W. Wells & Co series: Rosie Tanner, who plays this kind of role to Paul Carpenter. She's a ''goblin''. However, she does have the ability to shapeshift into a beautiful young human woman. It's just that Paul can't forget her real form, not to mention that she's also the mother of his sadistic boss.

** The aging, overweight Hepzibah Smith is this to Tom Riddle, future [[Big Bad]], in a flashback. Tom plays up to this by flirting with her just enough to stay in her good graces until he can get what he wants. Then he poisons her. Unlike most of the other examples, we aren't supposed to sympathize with Tom.

** Along with Riddle, each of the main trio has one. Though none of them are physically unattractive; it is mainly their personalities. Harry has Romilda Vane, who stalks Harry and at one point gave him cauldron cakes laced with love potion, which Ron ate with tragic results. Ron, in a slight subversion, has an Abhorrent Admirer in his ''girlfriend''. At first he returns her affection, but soon finds that he's becoming more and more frightened of her, and her displays of affection gets more and more crazy. Hermione has the incredibly attractive and talented, but slightly deranged and QUITE egotistical Cormac McLaggen following her. Being a nerd, she isn't really blinded by his attractiveness, and sees him as the horrible, arrogant person he is.

** Mary is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous]] [[Valley Girl]] that comes on [[Perverse Sexual Lust|too strong]].

** Marty is [[Selective Obliviousness|damn sure]] that Elly is a [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|girl]] and also comes on [[Ho Yay|too strong]].

* ''Lowroad'' - a demon girl good looking enough to be mistaken for a succubus is pretty much doomed to get excess of [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20091125.html these]. And she (otherwise) [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20090306.html likes to visit anime conventions]...

{{quote|'''Giselle''': The only problem is that whenever I go to one of these things, an army of drooling teenage fanboys keep trying to hit on me, "OMGWTFBBQ! [[Kawaisa|Kawaii]] demon girl [[Meganekko|with glasses]]!! MOE!!!" Fap, fap, fap... }}

* A large female alligator named Antoinette also falls in love with Donald in the ''[[Quack Pack]]'' episode "Gator Aid". Constantly puckering her lips in front him while crawling and swimming after Donald she tries to kiss him several times. She only succeeds on camera once by planting a kiss right on the top of his head. However she may have kissed him on the lips a few times because at one point she turns him away from the camera, kissing noises are heard and pink hearts float in the air. When we see the two both of their lips are already puckered and Antionette is getting ready for a giant smooch. This is when Donald escapes from her embrace, but Antionette never gives up trying to make out with him. During the cartoon Donald even has a nightmare that they are married with half alligator and half duck children and in that dream she gives him a peck on the cheek. Some time after he wakes up, the gator who is five times larger than Donald Duck offers him a pink heart shaped box of candy. She also offers him a wedding ring while wearing a white veil! This time around Daisy is rather indifferent to the alligator's crush on Donald.

* ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]]'': Olive Oyl becomes this to Shorty in the Popeye cartoon ''The Marry Go Round''. Over at Olive's house Popeye is not having much luck proposing to her. So Shorty grabs Olive and kisses her on the lips to show Popeye how to seduce a woman even though he isn't really attracted to her. Unfortunately for Shorty, Olive winds up falling for him. After a quick costume change Olive puts on a dress and red shade of lipstick. She manages to kiss him two more times and chases him around the house. Popeye becomes jealous and attempts to beat Shorty up at the same time. Shorty spends the rest of the film trying to escape from both of them.

* Valerie Gray in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' gets this in one episode with Nathan (another rare male example) who is portrayed as a stereotypically "ugly nerd" who wants to ask Valerie to the prom (despite it being three years away) while Valerie was a former popular girl.

* In the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "Talent Show a Go-Go", after [[Insistent Terminology|"borrowing"]] Tom Jones's voice, Dodgers ends up attracting the attention of an ugly alien queen.

** This was reversed a few times with Simon getting struck with a love arrow and falling for the hideous Mother Brain once, almost marrying her in the episode Mr. & Mrs. Mother Brain. There was also a mutual attraction between Simon and Queen Dwarfine in The Feud of Faxanadu. While she had a rather plump yet nice figure she may not have been very attractive to the audience given her blue skin, green frizzy hair and big nose. The Vampire Hunter was attracted to more classic beauties such as Lana and Princess Zelda however, throughout the series.

* Jackie "Wacky Jackie" Wackerman on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' definitely fits this trope, not only is she a [[Stalker with a Crush]], but she ain't exactly a looker either.

* Early episodes of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' toyed with this, as Janine, the heavily-made-up spiky-haired caricature of 80s femininity, constantly flirted with Egon and was constantly rejected. He was never portrayed as immune to the charms of women other than Janine. Later in the series she was redesigned to be more attractive and less outlandish, and curiously her relationship with Egon became more sweet and less annoying on all counts.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', it's no secret that Moe Syzlak has a long-time crush on Marge. Though he respects the sanctity of Homer and Marge's marriage too much to actively pursue her.