Accidental Pervert: Difference between revisions

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[[File:ap 3 9627.jpg|frame| ...kids grow up so fast nowadays.]]

 

{{quote|'''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''': Don't you just wish this moment could last forever?

 

He isn't a pervert. No, really! His hands just ''happened'' to slip and find themselves [[Thanks for the Mammary|on her breasts]]. He just ''happened'' to trip on that rug over there and land (probably head-first) on top of her [[Funbag Airbag|ample chest]]. Maybe he needed to use the bathroom and ran into her taking a bath or a shower. And he just ''happened'' to be there when [[Marilyn Maneuver|the only wind of the day blew up her skirt]] and his only sin was [[Male Gaze|instinctive goggling]]. He can't help it if his honest-to-goodness accidental moves make him come off as as a lech that can't even muster the... "slickness"... of the [[Casanova Wannabe]].

 

A characterization trap here is that they sometimes come across as really being lecherous, but are too incompetent and cowardly to be open about it. They really are leering at female body parts; but are terrified of getting hit or yelled at—or more charitably, they're ''tempted'' despite realizing that it would be '''[[Chivalrous Pervert|wrong]]'''; in either case, the gropings are a type of Freudian slip. Of course, the girls will never believe him, and almost always believe the least charitable interpretation. Cue [[Armor-Piercing Slap]], shrill cries, and desperate attempts at redemption. In comic works, the slap is often replaced with the [[Hyperspace Mallet]] or [[Paper Fan of Doom]], and god help you if you have this character trait within striking range of a [[Tsundere]].

 

For all practical purposes, his life is a [[Fan Service]]-laden version of [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]].