Attractiveness Isolation/Playing With
Basic Trope: A female is so attractive that no man dares to ask her out.
- Straight: Alice is a strikingly beautiful woman, yet she remains alone because guys are afraid to ask her out.
- Exaggerated: Alice is devastatingly beautiful - to the point where men won't even look at her because they don't have the chance.
- Justified: Most men are afraid that a gorgeous woman like Alice would reject them immediately. Also, due to social customs, she can't do the asking.
- Inverted: Alice is an unattractive woman who gets more than her fair share of propositions because the guys generally feel like she doesn't really have much of a choice as to who she dates.
- Subverted:
- Alice gets several propositions in one night despite the Attractiveness Isolation.
- Alice isn't alone because she's too attractive. She's alone because she's a total bitch.
- Double Subverted:
- But those men didn't really mean it - they were just using her as a sounding board so they could ask out a woman more in their league.
- She became bitchy from years of pent-up frustration.
- Parodied: Alice has impeccably high standards; despite hundreds - if not thousands - of potential male suitors asking her out, she rejects them then laments she's all alone because of her beauty.
- Deconstructed: Alice, convinced something must be wrong with her, tries various ways of making herself more attractive. She ends up making herself feel terrible, but this takes her down enough that guys start asking her out...and stop whenever she gets healthy again.
- Reconstructed: ???
- Zig Zagged: Alice is alone because of her bitchiness, which she claims comes from years of pent-up frustration. Thanks to the magic of flashback we learn she's lying.
- Averted: There are a steady stream of men asking Alice out at all times.
- Enforced: "My totally awesome character needs some sort of flaw...hmm, maybe I'll have her be all alone because of her incredible beauty!"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice has no problem about making the first move--and since she's beautiful, guys are flattered when she does so.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "She's so beautiful...yet so lonely..."
Back to Attractiveness Isolation. I'm so lonely...if only someone would be brave enough to click that beautiful, beautiful button.