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

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Ranma has, in separate occasions and sometimes repeatedly, manipulated Akane, Shampoo, Ukyou, and Kodachi's affections for some ulterior motive. He's usually interrupted by an outside factor, though, at which point he either flees, curses his luck, or feels remorseful (or a combination of the three.)

** In a similar vein, Ranma is far more willing to show physical, romantic affection for someone he doesn't care about than to show it for someone he does, due to too much respect for the other's opinion of him in that regard. At one point, after Ranma flat-out refuses to kiss Akane (even though kissing her just once means he'll be able to go back to China), she asks him:

'''Ranma:''' [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|I-Idiot!]] If I did, it'd be easier. }}

* One of the signs in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' that Haruhi and Kyon are getting closer has to do with Haruhi's habit of nonchalantly stripping down for gym while male classmates are still in the room. Kyon supposes this behavior reflects how little respect Haruhi has for men, essentially treating them like inanimate objects. When she demands Kyon leave the club room when she changes, it's significant.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Miroku flirts with every pretty girl, asking them "will you bear my children?", but he conspicuously refrains from posing that question to Sango when she joins the main character's team. (He does try to ask when she points out that he hasn't, but she irritably cuts him off.)

** Eventually, Miroku does get around to asking Sango his notorious question, and when he does, he means it seriously.

'''Miroku:''' [[Visible Silence|....]] ''(looks ''really'' indecisive, earning a glare from Sango)'' }}

** It should be noted that while he never asked that question of her specifically, it never stops him from groping her every chance he has. Miroku's restraint only goes so far.

** What makes it even more hilarious is that the rest of their team no longer notices or comments on the their banter anymore. Even when Garcia made up a fictional child between them to oust a skeevy adoption agency, no one even batted an eye.

* Mulder of ''[[The X-Files]]'', who concealed his porn habit from Scully out of respect and [[UST]].

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

** Actually, that could be more embarassment that she had discovered his porn stash than anything else. Mulder is infamous for reading porn magazines and making lewd comments while Scully's around. From "Detour":

'''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. }}

** From "Syzygy":

'''Mulder:''' No, no, no. Be my guest. I know how much you like snapping on the latex. }}

** From "Arcadia"; Mulder and Scully are undercover as a married couple:

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

* One episode of ''[[That 70s Show]]'' has Kitty remember an incident before she and Red were married when he had cheated on her by making out with another woman at a movie. When she angrily demands to know why he did that with another woman but never assumed that ''she'' would have enjoyed something like that (which, keep in mind, would have been rather improper around the time they were dating), he more or less [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this trope.