Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Difference between revisions

* Both [[Jerkass|Ryo]] and [[Chivalrous Pervert|Kairi]] Okayasu pretty much state this in ''[[Peach Girl]]'', this is pretty much played straight when we learn that {{spoiler|Ryo has always been in love with Misao}}. However, we see that in the beginning, Kairi has no qualms about being his normal pervy self while around Momo.

* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' novels, Nami is perfectly willing to be harmlessly flirty towards men (like Lemon) to try to get her way, and is very open about teasing and making mock advances. However, there's one person she just can't do it with: Sōsuke. She turns extremely shy and nervous whenever she's around him, and has a ''very'' hard time acting open, flirty, and how she normally does whenever she interacts with him. So obviously, [[Forbidden Fruit|the one guy she has a hard time with]] is the guy she's head over heels in love with. Especially noticeable when she feels so shy about the idea of rooming with him and sleeping [[There Is Only One Bed|in the same bed with him]], and tells him they can't do that. They end up with the arrangement of Sōsuke sleeping on the floor under the bed, and she sees no problems with sleeping in the same bed as Lemon. Evidently, she can only feel modesty whenever Sousuke is involved.

* Somewhat similarly to the above example, in ''[[Strike Witches]]'', Eila has comments in [[Audio Adaptation|her himegoe tracks]] regarding the chest of every member in the 501st Joint Fighter Wing except for [[Protectorate|Sanya]], who gets agitated [[Angrish]] instead. This is made even more humorous when one considers that Sanya knows Eila goes around feeling girls up and questions why she doesn't get the same treatment.

* Averted in ''[[Naruto]]'', where Naruto considers peeping on Sakura, to whom he is attracted (but she has not reciprocated his feelings, at least not openly) in the hot spring baths in Part II, but is too scared to do so after Yamato tells him a story about Tsunade nearly killing Jiraiya with her super strength for doing so, and suggesting Sakura would do the same if she caught him. Inverted in the manga when Sakura tells Naruto to go behind a tree to pee in the Forest of Death, but Inner Sakura reveals that she would be willing to watch Sasuke, the object of her affection, pee.

* In ''[[Onani Master Kurosawa]]'' the titular character, who masturbates while thinking about various girls from his school, starts to develop feelings for Takigawa. However, in a sort of different example of this trope, he only really realizes he is in love with her when he reacts to his own masturbating to her by vomiting. He refrains from ever using her in such a way again. {{spoiler|Until later on, in a moment of extreme despair and desperation. He vomits again.}}

* In ''[[Happy World]]'', the main character's best friend is a crude, violent, lecherous [[Jerkass]]... who falls in love with the local [[Ill Girl]], and proceeds to have near-panic attacks at the idea of kissing her, because "It's like a lion attacking a rabbit, you know?!" The main character thinks that it's more akin to "a lion being afraid of a rabbit". Although, the guy is still far cruder and more perverted than most others in the show, he's simply ''less'' perverted around the girl.

* In [[Sora no Otoshimono]], Tomoki Sakurai acts perverted towards every female he came across, be it human or Angeloid, except the heroine Ikaros. At one point, this is [[Lampshaded]] when he was asked about it and he couldn't figure out why himself either.

* In [[NEEDLESS]], Adam Blade was a shirt chaser but was never shown acting perverted towards Eve, who was meant to be Blade's soul mate.

** This is probably more due to the fact that [[Token Mini-Moe|she isn't his type]].

== Literature ==

* Subverted in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'': Rearden fantasizes of using Dagny to satisfy his "degrading need," but when he turns his fantasy into action, he finds to his shame that she's as "depraved" as he is, and is quite proud to have slept with him.

* Chuck with Blair on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. [[Up to Eleven]] - he has no problem ''forcing'' other girls, but when it comes to Blair he asks "Are you sure?" the first time, wants to ''wait'' later on, and even refuses to have sex until they can admit they love each other.

* Averted ''hard'' by Morgan and Garcia of ''[[Criminal Minds]]''. Between Garcia's photoshopped-picture collection, the rated-NC-17 phone banter, and the fact that their nicknames include "my vision", "tech kitten", "sexy mama", "sweetness", "baby girl", and "gorgeous", it's safe to say there's no lack of sexualization occurring. And they're not even a canonical ''romance'' -- it's mostly left unsaid, with a few "I love you"'s exchanged during stressful times.

{{quote|'''Mulder:''' Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.

'''Scully:''' Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all the other tapes that aren’t yours... }}

{{quote|'''Scully:''' ''(while pulling Mulder onto her lap after he gets shot)'' Mulder, you're in shock. You need to regenerate body heat.

'''Mulder:''' I've heard the best way to generate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with someone else who's already naked. }}

'''Scully:''' Scully, Mulder. Good night.

'''Mulder:''' The thrill is gone. }}

* An entire episode of ''[[Coupling]]'' is devoted to Steve's girlfriend Susan finding his collection of lesbian porn videos. And the excruciating consequences afterwards.

* Lampshaded in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Wilson points out that since House ''isn't'' objectifying his hallucination of Amber, he must have feelings for her.

== Video Games ==

** An even better example is Rin, whose ability to be [[The Tease]] towards Shirou gets sorely tried during "Unlimited Blade Works".

* Yuri in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' is a megaperv toward Alice after they first meet, contemplating molesting her in her sleep, and telling monsters that literally want to eat them "If anyone's going to eat her, it's me!" He knocks it off when he starts to genuinely care for her.

* Averted in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', where the [[Chivalrous Pervert]] Zidane makes open passes at Garnet throughout most of the game. In fact, as he gets closer to Garnet, his passes at other women become less frequent.

* Averted with Thoma in ''[[Record of Agarest War]]''. Doesn't matter if one of his three [[Love Interest]] gets closer to him. He'll still make a pass towards them as much as any other woman. ''Even towards a [[Hermaphrodite]] goddess''.

** That's actually pretty in-character with Mao. When he gets focused on something, he sometimes misses painfully obvious things that someone as smart as he is should notice. Like the fact Beryl wears a perfectly liftable skirt. Or like the fact that stealing a Hero's title forces him to act heroic.

== Western Animation ==

** There's also the fact that she's a bombastic self-assured and thoroughly confident Brazilian supermodel. Who can, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|if you couldn't tell by her code name]], surround herself in flames and shoot them at will. He might be rash and reckless, but he's not ''completely'' stupid.

** He's also very respectful toward Linda Park in ''Flash and Substance''. At one point she tries to give him her phone number and he [[Oblivious to Love|hands it back with an autograph]]. In the comics he's married to her.