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The Abhorrent Admirer differs from more sympathetic characters in one key respect: the audience is expected to find her both unattractive and extremely unsympathetic, and is supposed to feel ''sorry'' for the protagonist because she has him in her sights and [[Stalker with a Crush|just won't take a hint]] or proves resistant to the [[Selective Obliviousness|clue-by-four]].
These characters tend strongly to be female rather than male, as a result of a few different gender stereotypes. For one thing, [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]] means the mere fact that a woman takes the initiative in courting a man is often portrayed as evidence that she must have something wrong with her; for another, [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|double standard rape]] means that sexually aggressive women are viewed as less threatening, and therefore more comical, than men who impose their attentions on obviously unwilling women. However, in recent years the male "undesirable suitor" has become more common in comedies.
An increasingly occurring variant of this trope is when the amorous woman in question is [[Transsexualism]]--typically when a male character discovers that the lovely lady he's been chatting up in the bar either isn't ''really'' a lady, or wasn't born with [[Unusual Euphemism|the standard-issue female equipment]]. This is typically played for laughs, tending toward mocking the hapless and naive fellow.
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This trope is [[Older Than Print]]: the original might be the medieval legend of the "loathly lady", which is the basis of the Wife of Bath's Tale in [[Canterbury Tales|that thing]] by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]. Loathly ladies also figure in several [[Child Ballad|Child Ballads]].
May or may not overlap with [[Stalker with a Crush]], though that one usually isn't [[Played for Laughs]]. The [[Old Maid]], the [[Grande Dame]], and [[Lady Drunk]] are likely candidates to act out this trope. Compare [[
The whole trope usually provides a [[Broken Aesop]] in series where [[Be Yourself]] is a strong theme.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The very minor Tezuka anime and manga series ''[[Don Dracula]]'' has this as a [[Running Gag]]. [[Dracula]] prefers to subsist on the blood of beautiful women, and somehow never quite manages to grab one onscreen, but a grotesque (and overweight) young woman keeps popping up, determined to offer her neck and other... charms to the foreign nobleman.
* The "Sexy Ninja Tea Ladies", the stepfamily of the ninja Konatsu in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', there's the "Bowling" chapter, where Longchamp invites Tsuna and Gokudera to go on a three-person blind date. Of course, Longchamp's idea of a "cute" girl has always been... [[Gonk|unique]]. So the three girls he invited were absolutely hideous (one of them even being Reborn in an ugly drag). The whole chapter pretty much consists of Tsuna and all of his [[Bishonen]] guardians / male friends coming by, being horrified by how ugly these women are, and then trying to run away from them as the women aggressively pursue them.
* In ''[[Houshin Engi]]'', Venus, one of Chou Koumei's hideous three sisters, is head over heels in love with [[Anti-Hero]] protagonist Taikoubou. He literally spit up blood from seeing her strike a "sexy pose." Of course, being the [[Manipulative Bastard]] he is, he ''did'' fake being slightly friendly towards her just so he could immediately distract her and defeat them. His disgust and horror towards her constant aggressive advances toward him are played for laughs.
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* 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.}}
* A variation in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. Belarus isn't unattractive, her object of affection even admits that she's really pretty. It's her [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] tendencies that makes her abhorrent -- that and the fact that the person who she is an abhorrent admirer of is her brother.
* 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.
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* Mark, the protagonist of ''[[Invincible]]'' was once almost forced to marry the princess of Atlantis (in this version of Atlantis, merpeople are half-fish all over their bodies, like a Lovecraftian horror). Subverted in that the princess would rather marry one of her race and with a cunning plan, Mark escapes to the surface and she happily marries a more suitable groom.
* The Mexican comic ''Simon Simonazo'' used this trope in a rather strange manner; the Admirer in question had a comically horrid face, [[Butter Face|her body on the other hand...]]
* In issue #30 of the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series, during the story Sky Highway, Raphael gained one with a German mutated human called Hildagaard Rail. In a dimension where there is an actual highway in the sky, Raphael fell in the passenger side of her car. She wore sunglasses, had her hair wrapped up in a scarf tied behind her chin and a black dress that showed off her ample busom. Hildagaard had long legs and the body of a super model, but her [[Gag Lips|lips were so enormous]] they went from ear to ear and almost from chin to forehead taking up most of the space on her face. She openly flirted with her "dollink" turtle telling him "You're the most sexy shade of green I've ever seen." When Raphael was about to leave her car he told her "It's been funfffh!" The ninja's words were cut short because Hildagaard grabbed him by the tails of his bandana and said "Shut up and kiss me, you dumkoff!" With his head tilted all the way to the side she pulled him close to her and gave him a big passionate kiss that covered his entire beak. When he finally got away from Hilda she called out, "Auf Wiedersehen, loverboy!" Raphael referred to it as the biggest indignity he ever had to face as a hero. The turtle wiped off the giant lipstick imprint off of his face which wasn't sideways, but on straight making it seem like they locked lips for a while. At least long enough for Raphael's head to tilt.
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* In [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/index.html East of the Sun, West of the Moon], after the hero bungles the [[Curse Escape Clause]], the hero must leave her for:
{{quote|''a princess with a nose which is three eels long, and she now is the one [[Arranged Marriage|whom I must marry]].''}}
* Allison Gross is a Child Ballad in which the eponymous witch, "the ugliest witch in the North Country" tries to coerce a man into becoming her lover.
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* Subverted in ''[[Hairspray]]''. Tracy Turnblad's crush on Link, the hot male lead of The Corny Collins Show, is not only reciprocated, she also quickly becomes the show's most popular dancer. Tracy is not ugly like most of the other examples present here though; she is just fatter than most of the other women in the movie.
* The final scene of a villain in ''[[Trading Places]]'' has the villain in a gorilla disguise trapped in a cage with an actual gorilla. The gorilla is quite in lust with the villain, whom we finally see in a BSOD. Worse than that: The gorilla is male, and thinks the ''villain'' is a female gorilla. [[Black Comedy Rape|And then their clueless keepers ship them off to live in the wild together in Africa....]]
* Wickedly subverted by '''Stockard Channing''' in ''The Girl Most Likely To'' (1973). Fat, frumpish Miriam Knight is viciously rejected by various [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|fratboys]], each of whom gleefully humiliate her for good measure. Following a [[Deus Ex Machina]] car accident, Miriam slims down to a svelte college beauty and [[Hilarity Ensues|murders]] each of her former tormentors in suitably [[Karmic Death|ironic fashion]].
* ''[[East Is East]]'' has two young British Pakistani boys attempting to escape arranged marriages to the two hideous daughters of their father's friend.
* ''Merry Christmas [[Drake and Josh]]'' gives us Drake, dressing up as Santa at the mall. He is seen kissing a girl when all the kids are gone. Not long after, a rather large girl chases him around the mall asking Santa for a kiss.
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*** And the French version of ''that'' version makes their first name rhyme with the sex act to boot.
** The Indian version replaces the pastor with a weight loss program. It also goes into some [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The program provides three packages: Lose weight in six months, three months, three weeks or: bonus special package: in '''ONE DAY'''. The young man orders the three month package, and a beautiful woman appears on the first week to be chased. He orders the second package right away to see what happens, and gets a ''really'' hot chick on the second week. Catching on to the pattern, he orders the third package on the third week, and gets a [[Memetic Sex God|Memetic Sex Goddess]]. He trains with her for three weeks, becomes a pretty fast runner, and almost catches her. Excited, he orders the Special Package, ready and warmed up to catch the hottest chick of them all. The doorbell rings; and when he answers he finds a [[Egregious|she-gorilla]] dropped off at his doorstep. There's a sign around her neck: "Meet Julie. She has been "[[Title Drop|specially]]" trained to recognize you by both scent ''and'' sight. If she catches you, she '''will''' [[Black Comedy Rape|rape]] you. Have a nice day."
* This joke is best told to a group of close friends that are okay with a little good-natured ribbing. It helps if one of your friends tends to be the designated [[Butt Monkey]] in your circle. Let's call them Aaron, Bob, and ([[Butt Monkey]]) Charles. (Feel free to [[Gender Flip]] the roles to suit the genders/sexual preferences of your friends) You tell these beloved friends of yours that one day, [[Rule of Three|Aaron, Bob, and Charles]] died and went to Hell. [[Satan|The Devil]] walks up to Aaron and says: "Aaron! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet your new wife!". At this, a door opens and out walks the most hideous woman either of them has ever seen. She grabs the helpless Aaron and drags him away screaming to her boudoir for an eternity of violent lovemaking. Then [[Satan|The Devil]] walks up to Bob and says: "Bob! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet YOUR new wife!". Another door opens and out walks an even MORE hideous woman than the first one. She grabs the helpless Bob and drags him away screaming to her boudoir for an eternity of violent lovemaking. Charlie is terrified, of course, but then a door opens up and out steps Angelina Jolie. Charlie can't believe his eyes, and she's even more gorgeous in person than on film. As Charlie is fumbling for something to say, [[Satan|The Devil]] says: "Angelina! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet your new husband!".
** There's a similar joke about 3 women going to Heaven, and being warned to [[It Makes Sense in Context|step on the ducks]]. Of course, the first two women do so and get paired up with ugly men, while the last woman goes months without doing so, and gets a very handsome man paired up with her. When asked if he's her reward for doing well, he comments that "I have no clue - all I know is that I just stepped on a duck."
* There is an anecdote about an event said to have happened in Poland, several centuries ago: when a man was about to be hanged, the oldest whore in town ran up to the gallows, and shouted, "he is mine!", invoking an ancient custom allowing for the man to go free on the condition that they will marry. The man looked at the whore, looked at the executioner, looked at the whore, then again looked at the executioner and said, "let's hang, master".
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* Narcissa in ''[[Montmorency]]''; here, it's mostly a hygiene issue.
* Creepella Von Cacklefur is this to [[Geronimo Stilton]], although she is actually acknowledged to be drop-dead gorgeous. What makes her so abhorrent to Geronimo, however, is that she is a [[Perky Goth]] [[Nightmare Fetishist]] who lives in a crypt, while Geronimo is a major [[Cowardly Lion]] known for fainting at least [[Once Per Episode|once a book]].
* A sympathetic example from ''[[The Circus of Doctor Lao]]''; Mrs. Cassin is an older woman whose husband simply left her. Since she lost her looks and charm a long time ago, she has no luck in attracting men.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Fall of Yquatine'' has [[Chivalrous Pervert]] Fitz deal with one of these as a coworker at a pub: a much older woman, who also has a "flat, predatory face" and a mouth so big as to scare him, who wears tacky, revealing clothing which wouldn't even really suit a younger woman. She has a crush on him, to the point of touching his arse on the sly and getting jealous when he chats up an attractive customer around his age. However, this trope is subverted in that he's obviously trying to make an effort to be nice to her as a coworker, and she's just "an ageing and lonely woman".
* The ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover]]'' book [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess of Landover]] has Mistaya, Ben Holiday's daughter, is proposed to by the odious Lord Laphroaig, who has been nicknamed "The Frog" for his habit of darting his tongue out of his lips when nervous and his squat body. Besides being ugly, Laphroaig's wives and children have a habit of dying from "mysterious illnesses." Correctly, Mistaya assumes Laphroaig only wishes to marry her in order to have access to Landover's throne. At the end of the book, the [[Big Bad]] forces Mistaya to marry Laphroaig through a [[Scarpia Ultimatum]] involving her current love interest.
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** Roy has a tendency to attract this type of woman; there was also the woman who, upon encountering a bunch of tramps on their date, began shouting at them that they owed ''her'' money. Played with, in that since Roy himself is usually pretty desperate, he often ends up sleeping with them anyway.
** Not to mention the girl in the 'Friendface' episode who wears too much make-up. She's not exactly hideous, but her make-up and personality are both creepy. Roy tells Jen that "It was like breaking up with the joker".
* One episode of ''[[The Jamie Foxx Show]]'' had Jamie the victim of an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] ''named'' '''''DAMN!!!'''''
** Jamie Foxx is no stranger to this trope. He played this character himself, Ugly Wanda, when he was on ''[[In Living Color]]''. The episode might have been a [[Shout-Out]] to that.
* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', it seems anyone actually interested in Bertie is off the end of one scale or another, even though none of them actually look bad.
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* Deconstructed and subverted in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' since the protagonist Jerri Blank (being her 46-year-old ex-junky-whore self) in many ways embodies the trope. How she is treated because of that varies strongly throughout the series: sometimes her flirting (with guys and girls alike) is answered with total horror, mostly she's just treated like a normal, if rather unattractive student and occasionally she lands attractive, popular boyfriends. A subversion is the fact that off-screen Jerri is ridiculously promiscuous and quite possibly leads the most active sex-life in the whole series.
* ''[[Family Matters]]''
** Male example in (who else?) [[
** There is also his cousin Myrtle Urkel, a [[Southern Belle]] with a crush on Eddie.
* There was an example in the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode 'The Flax' with the character Staanz developing feelings for D'Argo. It was made all the more hilarious by the fact that Staanz is only revealed to be the female of her species towards the end (though she does admit to not being 'cut from the standard mold', so how female is debatable) and is in fact played by a very male Ryss Muldoon.
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* Subverted on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', as the plain, average Ann is considered an Abhorrent Admirer to George Michael -- by his father. George Michael himself adores her.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', the eponymous Zack and Cody have, on separate occasions, and despite their best efforts, attracted the affections of [[Stalker with a Crush|Agnes]].
* Harper and Justin from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' are a good example of this. In earlier episodes, she was portrayed as Alex's weird friend who was convinced she was going to marry Justin despite his complete disinterest. Although in later episodes, Harper starts acting a little more calm around him and they become friends, Justin still seems highly uncomfortable when the subject of Harper's feelings for him come up.
* In 80's sitcom about a girl robot named Vicky and her family ''[[Small Wonder]]'', Harriet Brindle. Is treated as such by Jamie.
* ''[[Glee]]''
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** Subverted somewhat in two other cases as well. Rachel has an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] in Jacob ben Israel and Kurt has one in {{spoiler|David Karofsky}}. In both cases, as with April Rhodes, it's not their appearance that makes them abhorrent, but their behaviour (they're both prone to acts of blatant sexual harassment and, in one case, death threats).
** Subverted completely in the case of Lauren Zizes -- it initially looks as if she's being set up as an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] for Puck in episode 2x09, but by 2X12 he's completely fallen for her attitude and self-confidence and is desperately pursuing ''her''.
* Lily on ''[[The Hard Times of RJ Berger]]''. However RJ isn't disgusted with her so much as annoyed. The real disgust actually comes from his best friend Miles.
* In ''[[Zoey 101]]'' there is [[Butt Monkey|Stacey]] to Logan.
* On ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'', Screech is one for Lisa. However, she will [[Throw the Dog a Bone|occasionally reciprocate]].
* In ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan Fielding is forced to defer an evening's diversions with beautiful twin Swedish stewardesses out of concerns that he may have been bitten by a rabid dog. Grateful for his candor, one of the stewardesses decides to play straight (as it were) with Dan, admitting that the twins were at one time both men. [[Screams Like a Little Girl|Dan is unamused.]]
* One episode of ''[[NCIS]]'' has Ducky's senile mother become attracted to Gibbs. Fortunately she didn't appear again for the rest of the episode.
* Rose from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' would fall under this trope. Not because she's ugly (she's quite attractive) but because of her personality. She's a stalker, she would regularly climb over their balcony instead of visiting by using the front door and has engaged in elaborate schemes to make Charlie fall for her, including keeping him sick so she can play Florence Nightengale and, more recently, put on a fake wedding just to make him Charlie want her.
* Henry in ''[[CSI]]'' at one point is stuck in a BBQ joint miles from anywhere, being hit on by a woman who is, let's say, past her best. This exchange follows: "I'm engaged. I'm married, actually. I have syphilis." "Perfect. So do I."
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** Lwaxana Troi to Picard on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]''.
** On ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', Lwaxana seems to resume this role, this time with Odo as her "victim". However, this is partially a subversion, as their relationship turns into friendship and Odo genuinely starts to care for Lwaxana (albeit not in a romantical way).
* Oleg the fry cook in ''[[Two Broke Girls]]'' to both Max and Caroline.
* ''[[ANT Farm]]'''s Angus is this to Olive.
* Ironically the actress playing [[ANT Farm|Olive]] is this on ''[[Jessie]]'' to Luke more of a [[Stalker with a Crush]] though.
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== Theater ==
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operettas use this trope fairly often, though not quite as often as people think:
** For instance, in ''[[Ruddigore]]'' 's Dame Hannah is loved by two different characters, and gets to have the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|one moment of genuine romance in the play.]] Admittedly, she's also [[Crowning Moment of Funny|accidentally abducted due to poor communication with flunkies]], but the jokes are almost entirely at the kidnapper's expense, while she gets to show herself as a complete badass, completely capable of defending herself.
** While Katisha in ''[[The Mikado]]'' is mostly a straight example of this trope, she does get the Act II song "Alone, and Yet Alive" which describes the pain of being forever thwarted in love rather nicely. Some modern productions play Katisha as the hero and [[Villain Protagonist|Nanki-Poo as the]] [[Jerkass]] who jilted her. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|It's unlikely that Gilbert wrote with this intention, though.]]
* In [[Shakespeare]]'s early play ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'', Nell the Kitchen Wench becomes enamored of one of the Dromios. She's an offstage character, but is heavily described. "... she would have me as a beast: not that, I being a beast, she would have me; but that she, being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me." (III, ii). On the other hand, in something of a subversion, the ''other'' Dromio actually seems to like her back.
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* [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''Passion'' works toward a [[Subversion]]. The soldier hero pines for his beautiful (and married) lover Clara and is repulsed by the attentions of the unattractive and sickly Fosca. Eventually he realizes Fosca's love is more, well, ''passionate'', to put it [[Stalker with a Crush|lightly]], and gives in to her. {{spoiler|Of course Fosca suffers a very direct and literal [[Death by Sex]] afterwards, but still, victory!}}
* ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]''
** Herbert von Krolock is a borderline example of the male homosexual variety, depending on who's playing him. He might be [[Bishonen|handsome]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse|endearing]] but he's also a clingy, aggressive vampire who's very intent on getting his teeth into vampire-hunting [[Tenor Boy]] Alfred.
** Rebecca, Chagal's wife, who presumably used to resemble her lovely daughter Sarah, has become one of these to her husband in the same show, driving him toward his beautiful scullery maid Magda. This is especially jarring [http://grono.net/gallery/photo/show/11444776/obraz-008/ in productions where she's not even played as particularly obnoxious or ugly]. (However, the fact that he isn't particularly charming or attractive either renders ''him'' a genderswapped example of the same trope as far as Magda's concerned... until he bites her, at least.)
* ''The Changeling''. De Flores has a terrible skin disease. He might actually be a [[Dogged Nice Guy]].
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== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]''
** [[Punny Name|Wendy Oldbag]] is attracted to several younger male characters over the course of the series, most notably [[Deadpan Snarker]] Miles Edgeworth. Of course, part of the reason this is considered repulsive is probably the fact that Oldbag is a completely obnoxious [[Jerkass]], and that she simply [[Stalker with a Crush|refuses to leave Edgeworth alone.]] And, just to top the whole thing off, she's obscenely old and no longer attractive.
** Sal Manella, a fat, sweaty, ugly geek who speaks in internet memes and "l33t speak", is this to Maya in one case in the first game.
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** 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]].
** Raque is a [[Yandere (disambiguation)|guano]] crazy [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|raccoon]] girl that sees [[Replacement Goldfish|her beloved]] in Elly.
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* The Starfish loves [[Charlie the Unicorn]] and WANTS TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER!
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] to [[Todd in the Shadows]]. She's a pretty lady, but her [[Cute but Psycho|personality]] and [[Stalker with a Crush|behaviour]] towards him is the reason why she's seen as abhorrent.<ref> Ironically, the pair are a happy couple in [[Real Life]].</ref>
** Todd himself is this toward [[Obscurus Lupa]] (who seems to bring this out in most of the males on the site), almost to the point of [[Single-Target Sexuality]]. It's unclear whether he really dislikes the Chick, or if he's just too blinded with love for Lupa to even notice her feelings for him.
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* Sympathetic example from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Meng, who falls in [[Love At First Sight]] with Aang in the episode "The [[Fortune Teller]]". Also subverted in that Aang doesn't react negatively to her at all, but simply fails to notice her affection until she tells him. When she does, he's not disturbed either, in fact he's sympathetic and says he likes her, just not the way she likes him.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]''
** Arguably, the single greatest [[Abhorrent Admirer]] in the history of animation is Pepe Le Pew. Not because of his looks, as he is very handsome for a skunk (it seems the cartoon cats with the accidental white stripes seem to dig his groove after they have been rendered stinky or he had been rendered unstinky) but because of his unique, flower-wilting scent.
** [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] with the female cat, Penelope, whenever her nose is plugged up and she loses her sense of smell, she becomes stinky herself, Pepe gets rid of his scent, or he has his white stripe covered by black paint and looks like a cat, at which point Penelope immediately goes crazy for Pepe and starts pursuing ''him''. His reaction is pretty much the same as hers. Along with whatever scent-related issues are involved, the problem with both Pepe and her seems to be that they both just come on too strong.
** Mama Bear turns into one of these at the end of ''[[Bugs Bunny]] and the Three Bears'', after the rabbit's attempt at distraction-by-seduction works a little too well. ("Tell me more about my eyes!")
** It happens to Bugs Bunny again in the cartoon ''Rabbit Romeo''. He is pursued by a large Slobbovian rabbit named Millicent who wants to "kees" him and "make marriage". Eventually she loses interest in Bugs and falls in love with Elmer Fudd who was tricked into wearing a rabbit suit. So Millicent starts chasing after Elmer instead.
** ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' has Lola Bunny (first appearing in ''[[Space Jam]]'') chasing Bugs. He thinks she's pretty, but she has the minor handicap of being a totally insane ditz.
** The show also has Daffy bought at a bachelor auction by Granny, though it turns out she only wanted help cleaning her attic.
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* The Kanker Sisters in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]''. The fact that their affection always ends up as torture makes them fall into this category.
* Mr. Barkin in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' spends one episode being (clumsily) hit upon by an unattractive, annoying woman and reacts with outraged disgust (admittedly, Mr. Barkin reacts with outraged disgust to almost everything, but still...). And the woman in question later turns out to be the villain of the week.
* [[Tex Avery]] was fond of this trope.
** The cartoon ''The Chump Champ'' has Droopy and Spike competing for the title of "King of Sports", with the prize being a kiss from the "Queen of Sports". After Spike cheats his way to victory, he goes to kiss the Queen, who appears to be a knockout... until [[Butter Face|her face is revealed]]. She chases the horrified Spike into the distance, as Droopy informs the audience that "[[An Aesop|cheaters never win]]".
** In ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', Red's grandmother is very forward in trying to catch the Wolf, who reacts with utter panic. Pretty much the same thing happens with the fairy godmother in ''Swing Shift Cinderella''.
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* Velda acts as one of these for Crash in the short-lived ''[[Stunt Dawgs]]''.
* [[Straw Fan|A number of these]] featured in the ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]''.
* ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]''
** Used in the cartoon ''A Fine Feathered Frenzy'' with Gorgeous Gal who had a sexy voice but was an overweight and eldery anthropomorphic bird. After falling head over heals over Woody Woodpecker the second she laid eyes on him she chased after and attempted to seduce him ("How 'bout a twosome hon?") despite his reluctance. Gorgeous Gal still managed to kiss him on his cheeks and lips several times and even married Woody against his wishes.
** The cartoon ''Alley to Bali'' features two; a light gray gorilla and a giant pink octopus with blue eyes. The octopus likes Woody and both of these girls like Buzz Buzzard. The boys in turn are chasing after a balinese woman with an hourglass figure and wind up in the clutches of these admirers by mistake. With a tentacle around his neck, the giant octopus presses her big red lips against Woody's cheek twice. Buzz, on the other hand, gets kissed right on the beak by both ladies. However, the gorilla and octopus turn brown in disgust after locking lips with the Buzzard!
** On ''[[The Woody Woodpecker Show]]'' short "Date With Destiny", a Cupid decides to teach the Woodpecker a lesson and strikes a male black and white sharp toothed badger with a love arrow. The badger with a very raspy voice says to Woody "Hi ya buddy!" He closes his eyes and puckers his lips while pink hearts appear above his head. The horrified Woodpecker runs down the street with the badger in hot pursuit.
* Used ''repeatedly'' in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' with Toot Braunstein. Slight irony there too: she's actually drawn somewhat nice-looking most of the time, if you like them chubby. It's her disgusting slovenly habits which are the actual deal-breaker to those of us not in the show. She receives the brunt of the Ren & Stimpy [[Dramatic Art Shift|super detail]] gags as a result of this trope, however. (And, some characters do reciprocate, much to the horror of the rest of the cast, like Ling-Ling's dad.)
* On ''[[Histeria!]]'', [[Cleopatra]] is often portrayed this way (particularly when played by the World's Oldest Woman), to the point where [[Julius Caesar]] and Marc Anthony both happily go to their appointed deaths to get away from her. When Cleopatra herself dies and show up in [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|the afterlife]] with the pair, all Caesar can utter is "This is heaven?"
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* ''[[Futurama]]''
** This describes the relationship between Zapp Brannigan and Turanga Leela. Zapp is the admirer in this case. Of course, on their first encounter Leela sleeps with him out of pity, complicating things for herself for the rest of the series. Note that Zapp is quite handsome (if a bit overweight): Leela hates him purely for [[Jerkass|his personality]].
** Fry gets one in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love". Edna is considered highly desirable by Decapodian standards, but hideous to humans. When Fry admits it was he who coached Zoidberg in the ways of flirting, Edna falls for him because she has never experienced romance before (it being unknown to her species). When Fry is stuck with the prospect of either ending up with her or being killed by a vengeful Zoidberg, he considers both options equally horrific.
* ''[[House of Mouse]]''
** Clara Cluck to [[Donald Duck]] on the short "Double Date Don". She falls for Donald Duck and spends the cartoon trying to kiss him and win him over by wearing different outfits and posing provocatively for him. Eventually while she is lying on the ground she grabs him and forcibly manages to kiss him passionately on the lips. Soon after Clara almost tricks Donald into marrying her. Daisy stops the wedding in time.
** In "Donald's Pool", an elderly female turtle and Donald Duck initially dislike each other. Donald is also grossed out when he sees her remove her shell and appear in a one piece purple bikini. She changes her tune by the end of the short when she thinks that Donald taught her son Shelby how to swim. She thanks him and says that she will bring her son back to the pool every single day of the summer. On top of that she grabs Donald to congratulate him with a kiss on his beak! Donald fends her off but winds up falling in the pool and sinking to the bottom. Her son Shelby laughs at the duck's misfortune.
* 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.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'': Irwin (a rare male example) for Mandy.
* 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.
* ''[[Captain N: The Game Master|Captain N the Game Master]]''
** A dress-wearing pink octopus with blonde hair and blue eyes had a crush on Simon Belmont during the episode entitled "I Wish I Was a Wombatman". This short yet shapely and well-endowed director's assistant said to him with a beautiful voice, "Ooooh! You're a dream boat!" She gave him a big hug wrapping her tentacles around him. While embracing him, the assistant gave him a giant wink and extended her enormous red lips inches away from his. Simon seemed repelled because she was of a different species. The cartoon ended with the octopus leaning forward exposing the top of her ample cleavage and asking "Uh, anyone one call for make up?" Ignoring everyone else in the room she made a beeline right to her beloved Belmont. The blonde babe had no make-up kit on hand because this was just her excuse to get Simon alone in a dressing room for some hugging and kissing. Simon ran away in terror. She slithered right after him with a big smile and open tentacles like a love-struck groupie.
** Simon Belmont had another such admirer in the episode "Queen of the Apes". After defeating the leader of a pack of gorillas a female that had a blonde beehive complete with curlers and a pink skirt fell for Simon. The muscle bound large breasted hairy ape closed her eyes and tried to kiss him with her big pink lips but he got away. The pack of gorillas carried Simon away to end the episode so there's a chance she got around to kissing him off camera.
** 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.
* The Ice King from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' kidnaps princesses [[And Now You Must Marry Me|and forces them into marrying him against their will]]. And on a more platonic level, he wants to be friends with Finn and Jake. His loneliness makes him a [[Jerkass Woobie]], but that he forces princesses into marriage, which to him means keeping them locked up, and is [[Yandere (disambiguation)|very stalkerish towards Finn and Jake]] pretty much seals his status as an adversary.
* 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.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]''
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