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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Is heaven missing an angel? 'Cause you got nice cans!"''
|'''Dating Robot #1''', ''[[Futurama]]''}}
He wants to be [[Casanova]], but he fails horribly. Maybe it's the polyester suit. Or the gold medallion around his neck. Or the phony "hey babe". Or the obvious hair plugs. Or maybe he's a klutz or uncomfortable, despite his dedication to pursuing the ladies. Whatever it is, though, the girls see it from a mile away and give him a wide berth.
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* Kazuharu Fukuyama in ''[[Girls Bravo]]'' is possibly an even ''better'' example than Leisure Suit Larry. He has a habit of feeling up women whenever he so much as talks to them, and he has the resources to have a mansion with such features as central air in the flooring to blow up skirts, and an elevator that takes women's measurements.
* Taniguchi, one of [[Those Two Guys]] in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Francis Bonnefoy (aka France) is somewhere between this and the [[Casanova]]. None of the other countries find him very appealing, but it's [[Urban Legend Love Life|implied that he has lovers]], and he does manage to [[Black Comedy Rape|successfully molest]] ([[Shirtless Scene|or at least]] [[Naked People Are Funny|strip]]) several of the other male countries ([http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/chrismas_bonsai5.html and at least one female]). Also seen in regards to Feliciano Vargas aka North Italy, much to the despair of [[Ho Yay|his partner]] Ludwig aka Germany.
* ''[[One Piece]]'': Sanji ''never has and most likely never will score'' with any of the chicks he's wooed so far in the story. Considering [[Word of God]] definitively states [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] for the main crew, of which Sanji is a part, of course he will always fail when it comes to the ladies. Early on in his characterization, he actually ''was'' capable of attracting women; that's just deteriorated over time. In this case, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
* Takamura Mamoru from ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''. The most infamous incident being him getting rejected in front of a [[Love Hotels|Love Hotel]]. To make matters worse, a [[paparazzi]] just happened to be there with a camera ready. Cue [[Amusing Injuries]] from [[Team Dad]] Kamogawa and horrified reactions from other boxers.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Viz]]'' (the comic book, not the [[Viz Media|Anime distributor]]) gives us Sid the Sexist, who, while not wearing a leisure suit, is very much a virgin despite his claims to the contrary and his attempts to change that situation. His friends could also possibly come under the same category - while they have occasionally been shown having success with women, usually they appear to look up to Sid for his 'studliness'. One strip even featured the brother of one of Sid's friends, who wore a leisure suit and claimed to be a massive hit with the ladies. Sid attempts to one-up him by getting several love bites - with the aid of a bicycle pump. He is, of course, caught and mocked by his friends. But then the last panel shows the friend's brother, alone in a tiny bedroom, doing the same trick, surrounded by porn magazines, used tissues, inflatable dolls and other sexual paraphernalia, making him possibly the only character to have ever been made to look even more pathetic and lonely than Sid in the strip.
* Jonny Kizinski from ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. Jonny is actually married, but that doesn't stop him from hitting on every female gamer to cross his path (and failing miserably).
* From ''[[Superman]]'': WGBS and Daily Planet sports reporter Steve Lombard, especially in ''[[All-Star Superman]]''.
* One of ''[[Rudi]]'''s buddies is the most obnoxious one you can think of. [[Kavorka Man|Sometimes however he is successful.]]
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** Oddly enough, this is a bit of a [[Zig-Zagging Trope]] for this movie. Only with Veronica is he a wannabe - with other women, he's aloof enough and famous enough that even his lamest lines ''work''.
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' 2004: Bart the security guard. The [[Zombie Apocalypse]] is on, and all he can think about is how now he's missed the chance to have sex with a fat chick from Dairy Queen.
* ''[[Brain Donors]]'': Roland T. Flakfizer ''talks'' a great game.
{{quote|"Please, call me what everyone else calls me: 'Your Royal Sex Machine
* Salty from ''[[Alpha and Omega]]'' is basically a wolf version of this trope.
* Harold "Hutch"
* Moe from ''[[Slap Shot]]''. Every single thing he says has to do with sex and he has pictures from nudie mags taped to his locker. Yet he is never seen with a single woman at any point in the film. The weird goalie with a thick Quebec accent does better than Moe.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Jay on ''[[Herman's Head]]'', but Jay is also [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]].
* Larry Dallas of ''[[Three's
* Howard Wolowitz from ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' embodies this trope to a full 100%.
* Herb Tarlek of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' is on the fringe of Larry-dom since he's married and has kids. However, he does have the bad suit, attitude, and lack of success necessary to play the part.
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** In an episode where Al and Peggy split up, Al and his buddies tried to hit the club scene. Al got a makeover and became the definition of Casanova Wannabe. He also got a prosthetic ass.
* Julian Bashir of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
** To be fair, Julian does sleep with Ezri Dax at the end of the series. After
** He has had notable success, perhaps too much to be considered the Cananova Wannabe; besides the Daxii, there's a long but not deep relationship with [[Ms. Fanservice|Leeta]], and briefer affairs with the mute genius girl and that weightless chick.
** Dr. Zimmerman, inventor of the Holodoc, certainly qualifies in his appearance on ''Deep Space Nine''.
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* Subverted on ''[[Burn Notice]]'' - even though Sam acts, dresses and looks like an archetypal Cananova Wannabe, he's actually successful with the ladies, although he uses his charms to woo rich divorced housewives who buy him nice stuff.
** Well, this '''is''' [[Bruce Campbell]] we're talking about here. "[[Evil Dead|Hail to the king, baby!]]"
* The two guys that Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell played in the Butabi Brothers sketches on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. In the awful [[The Movie|movie]], ''[[A Night at the Roxbury]]'', they were named Doug and Steve Butabi. Other examples of a Cananova Wannabe on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' include:
** Christopher Walken's "The Continental"
** Chris Parnell's "Merv the Perv" (who also had a brother played by Johnny Knoxville named "Irv the Perv")
** The Woman Watchers (played by frequent host Tom Hanks and cast member Jon Lovitz, from the mid-1980s SNL)
** The original "Two Wild And Crazy Guys!" (also played by a cast member and a frequent SNL host, only this time, it's [[Dan Aykroyd]] [the cast member] and [[Steve Martin]] [the frequent host])
* Subverted with Larry (hmm, [[Shout-Out]]?) from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', who displays this behavior for a while, only to have it revealed that it's all an act, and he's actually gay. After he comes out to Xander (in private) he drops the act, though he is never seen to come out publicly.
** Are you kidding? He's so far out, even his grandmother is setting him up with guys! (as he himself put it.)
** ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' also toyed with the idea in "Teacher's Pet"; one of the victims was very embarrassed when told that the mantis only attacked virgins.
* ''[[Yo Soy Betty, la Fea]]'' provides us with two:
* Kirk St. Moritz (a.k.a. Eric Morris) from ''[[Dear John (British series)|Dear John]]''.
** And his counterpart Kirk Morris from the [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent|American remake]], ''[[Dear John (American series)|Dear John]]''.
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Barney flips back and forth between this and [[Casanova]], with a bit of [[Handsome Lech]] thrown in. On the one hand, he is quite handsome, dresses in legitimately stylish suits, and the notches on his bedpost are well into the triple digits. However, a lot of his pickup attempts can be pretty darn cheesy, it's clear that he's not always truthful about his sexual conquests, and, since the entire series is a story told by a potentially [[Unreliable Narrator]], separating the lies from the truth isn't so easy.
** At one point, Marshall actually calculates that, given the number of women Barney's slept with, compared to the sheer number of women he hits on, his success rate is actually only a little over 1%, despite having slept with more people than the rest of the main characters combined.
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== Music ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0&feature=player_embedded# "The Creep"] by
* [[Sonic Youth]]'s "Swimsuit Issue" is about a guy from [[Geffen Records]] who annoyed the band by acting like this.
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** Not to mention a 4koma re-enacting this scene (when Axel and Sayaka are in their respective mechs) has a [[Rocket Punch]] belting Axel's mech immediately from nowhere. [[Hilarity Ensues]], indeed.
* Greg, one of the colonists in ''[[Space Colony]]''. With the voice of a late night radio personality and pick-up lines out of a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, Rick is an utter failure when it comes to women, even when compared to [[Mad Scientist]] Nicolai and [[Disco Dan]] Charles. He's a flagrant misogynist and is regarded with unmasked contempt by main character Venus; Even his ''official company profile'' paints him in an unflattering light. He's also one of the least useful colonists, having high standards for happiness and few strong skills.
** Greg, as it happens, appears to be based on a similar character from ''
* ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate II]]'':
** An elf called Salvanas found a bar—a minor character whose only function is to try to hit on every female character that talks to him (though they apparently forgot to give him any dialogue for Imoen) so blatantly shamelessly he's inevitably rejected angrily. If a female ''player'' character chooses NOT to reject him, he gets scared and runs away.
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* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'': Morte does this as an act; he knows he'll never score for [[Oracular Head|the obvious reasons]] and has nothing to lose, so he has fun with it.
* Rock from ''[[Harvest Moon|Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life]]'' is this, to the point of even wearing a leisure suit and calling the main character "babe". He fails miserably at romance (though he fancies himself quite the catch) which is lampshaded by his mother, who questions your mental health should you pursue him.
* ''[[
** His idea of being smooth and seductive: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Are you sure you're not a baker? 'Cause you've got a nice set of buns!"]]
* Ewan Devlin from ''
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==
* Slick of ''[[Sinfest]]''.
* Robin DeSanto of the ''[[Walkyverse]]'' may qualify as a female version (just for being so much of a [[No Social Skills]] [[Genki Girl]]), especially with the recent [[The Reveal|Reveal]] that she's a virgin. She is pretty attractive, though.
** [[Smug Snake]] Faz owns this trope in the ''[[Walkyverse]]''; he's both certain he's a lot more attractive and desirable than he in fact is (the permanent expression of self-satisfied smugness doesn't help) and is absolutely convinced that one day he and Amber will enjoin together in passion. He isn't going to let the fact that Amber openly and loudly detests him and everything about him dissuade him.
** What about the fact that {{spoiler|they are probably related}}?
* In ''[[Misfile]]'' this trope is filled by Colin the Counter Guy in the local autoparts store.
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* From ''[[Little Gamers]]'', [http://www.little-gamers.com/2010/07/22/pick-her-up-from-the-floor/ "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? Because your face is really fucked up."]
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-85/ Henry brags that he has lots of chances, just no time.]
* Eridan Ampora from ''[[Homestuck]]'' is practically the classic example. Being from a [[Bi the Way|naturally bisexual species]], his options are a bit more widely-ranging than most. Doesn't do him any good, though - not only is he rejected every time he tries, but by the time {{spoiler|he dies}}, he doesn't have any romantic relationships at all. Even his moirail has dumped him, fed up with his [[Narcissist|narcissism]] and his [[Makes Sense in Context|constant threats of genocide]].
* In ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', Elon tries to follow Rolan's smooth style of talking to the elven women. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150121073639/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/449 They are not impressed].
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* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', anyone?
* Disco Bear from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''. Obviously the best example on the show.
* Eddy from ''[[Ed, Edd
* Ditto for Quagmire from ''[[Family Guy]]'', who manages a good deal of success, but he's also failed enough times to not only develop an immunity to mace, but also to be able to tell different types of mace apart.
** Brian is also this, usually with more failures. Not only he acts like a tool just to impress women, he's also known to date really stupid women so he can feel smarter than them and have an easier time to get in their pants, along with hitting on Lois several times. He has been called out on this as well.
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** It is implied that Homer was like this before he met Marge, as evidenced by the time Lisa wanted advice on how to tell a guy you aren't interested. ("Let me handle this Marge, I've heard them all. "I like you as a friend", "I think we should see other people", "I no speak English", "I'm married to the sea", "I don't want to kill you, but I will...")
** Given the longevity of the show, Bart is little better. The episode "Moonshine River" lampshades this when no less than five of his girlfriends from previous episodes make cameos, and all of them are angry at him.
* Martin Tubbs in ''[[
* Whenever Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' breaks out the hairpiece and polyester vest, you know you're in for a night of "Rusty's back!", despite the fact that he was never ''there''. Ironically, Rusty's not a virgin.
** Though he hasn't gotten laid in nineteen years.
* Carl from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''. His schemes range from desperate to disturbed.
** Shake is quite similar, to the extent that he ''vastly'' overestimates his own sex appeal. Oddly enough, Frylock has accidentally given himself away, a few times, as depressingly incompetent with women even when Shake and Meatwad aren't around to kill the moment.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': Pepe Le Pew, with the joke being that his intended mates tend to be [[Interspecies Romance|cats with stripes painted on them]]
* XR from ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''. This is funnier because his voice actor is actually named Larry.
* ''[[Daria]]'': Charles "Upchuck" [[Meaningful Name|Ruttheimer]] III is Lawndale High's resident Cananova Wannabe.
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* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'': Cody and to a lesser extent, Harold.
* Ace McCloud of the ''[[Centurions]]''.
* [[Big Bad|Gaston]], from ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. Seriously, get a clue fellah, kidnapping a girl's father won't exactly turn her on! Not to mention that the only girls who ever even listen to his hammy, narcissistic rants are his three backup singers who are likely prostitutes [[Getting Crap Past the Radar| (yeah, it's kinda obvious to anyone even a few years older than the target audience)]]. ▼
* [[Eccentric Mentor| Phil]] from ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''. You expected different from a satyr?
* Pam from ''[[Archer]]''. Ultra-rare female example, although, unlike most male counterparts, she is [[Bi the Way|equal opportunity.]]
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* Heath Burns from ''[[Monster High]]'' definitely qualifies.
{{quote|If you were a booger, I'd pick you first!}}
▲* [[Big Bad|Gaston]], from ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. Seriously, get a clue fellah, kidnapping a girl's father won't exactly turn her on! Not to mention that the only girls who ever even listen to his hammy, narcissistic rants are his three backup singers who are likely prostitutes [[Getting Crap Past the Radar| (yeah, it's kinda obvious to anyone even a few years older than the target audience)]].
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