Attractiveness Isolation: Difference between revisions

Related to [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]], but that trope is when a girl feels very ordinary next to a hero, yet he wants her anyway. This is when a guy feels too inadequate or ordinary to have a chance with the girl, and how she feels as a result of so many guys feeling this way.

 

 

On whether or not this is [[Truth in Television]], one view states that this happens in real life because of unconscious social cues sent out all the time, causing others to modify their behavior accordingly. The other view, however, states that because [[Most Writers Are Male]], and therefore unable to fully empathize with the female mind, that the girl's loneliness and desperation for male company may be used wrongly, instead of introducing real-life complexities.

 

 

== Anime/Manga ==

* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', Sakaki is [[Huge Schoolgirl|an extraordinarily tall and athletic girl]] with several [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] under her belt. But she's also very shy and affectionate. Other students are scared to talk to her either because they think she's too awesome or because she's intimidating. She wind ups often wishing she'd get invited into club activities, since she's too timid to reach out for them herself.

* Happens to Iori Yoshizuki from ''[[I''s]]'', who's so pretty and popular that pretty much nobody approaches her at school.

* Himemiya Chikane from ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]''. [[Lampshaded]] by a character, who says that "simply having the courage to directly ask her out makes one a hero". [[Even the Girls Want Her|Even the girls feel intimidated by her charm]].

* To a milder extent, [[The Ojou|Kotobuki Tsumugi]] from ''[[Keion|K-On!]]'' suffers this trope. There is an episode about her trying to make her bandmates closer to her. She ends up making Mio cry.

* Ayla and Jondalar do this to each other during ''[[The Valley of Horses]]''.

** Less because of beauty and more because of assumptions that had ''nothing to do'' with beauty. Jondalar assumes that, because of Ayla's isolation and silence, she's a shamen on a quest to commune with the Earth Mother; Ayla doesn't realise that the feelings she has for Jondalar are sexual. When she finally does realise it, she tries everything she can to get him to sleep with her, but Jondalar, under the impression that it would be improper, doesn't make a move. It's more mutual misunderstandings that come from being from different cultures that separates them, not their good looks.

 

 

 

== Mythology ==

 

 

* In ''[[Planescape Torment]]'' you can meet a Harmonium guard in the forum who has a nascent crush on one of the regulars, but has never dared approach her because he always sees her chatting and being social with other people and thinks this trope is in effect. She, on the other hand, is actually terribly lonely because she has a problem with being a [[Motor Mouth]], which means that none of the people she talks to ever comes back to talk with her more. The Nameless One can, depending on inclination, either tell the guard this particular piece of info (which gives him the resolve to confess) or tell him that she's actually incredibly popular with men (which breaks his heart). As with many of the game's side quests, Fell makes a unique tattoo out of either resolution.

* Mentioned in ''[[Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', during one of the repressed memories. Ezio's older brother tells him men are afraid of attractive women, and thus the first person to actually talk to them has the advantage.