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[[File:chickmagnet1.jpg|link=Batman: The Animated Series|frame|A chick magnet in his natural environment.]]
{{quote|''"Do I really inspire that sort of frothing desire in the female masses?"''
|'''Miles Edgeworth''', ''[[Ace Attorney]]''}}
He's not [[The Casanova]], he's not [[Kavorka Man]], but he pulls girls in about as fast as they do, if not ''faster''. It's probably a good thing [[Chaste Hero|he's too innocent to notice]].
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{{examples}}
== Male ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Pick a [[Harem Anime]] protagonist. ''Any'' [[Harem Anime]] protagonist.
* Tenchi Masaki from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' is the classic [[Unlucky Everydude]] version.
**
** Seina from ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP|GXP]]'' is Tenchi turned [[Up to Eleven]]. He seems pretty normal on Earth, but once he gets into space, he starts attracting girls ''outside'' his harem too.
* Rei from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' breaks up loving couples just by walking past them, causes squees whenever anything of the female gender sees him. His being dumb as a plank and loving only food does nothing to dissuade the girls. His [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|transforming into a giant goofy tiger-bull whenever excited]] might. Sometimes.
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** That's just girls. Let's not even get into [[Even the Guys Want Him|how many boys want him]] or the whole [[Even the Wombats Want Him|panda doodle incident]].
* ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' has both Yusaku ''and'' a [[Gender Flip]]ped example in [[Landlord|Kyoko]], who he loves. Both are less exaggerated examples of this trope due to the nature of the story, and both of them have [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] traits to boot.
* Negi Springfield from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. He's [[Adorably Precocious Child|a little too young]] to be worrying about love. Unfortunately for him, he's also a little too cute for his own good, which draws in girls that ''don't'' have any romantic interest in him yet. (A prime example is a chart, apparently made by Chamo, measuring the type and extent of several girls' affection for Negi is partially shown. One girl, while having rather low ''romantic'' feelings for him, has a ''maternal'' score of [[Off the Chart|12 out of a possible ''10'']].) Having insane fighting and magical skills (and selective maturity) helps. As many have noted, the situation is most likely going to get worse once he hits puberty, which has prompted Chisame to wonder if it's not best that they kill him now (chapter 125).
** That's not even factoring in the "age deceiving pills" which reveal that in five years or so, he's going to be really, ''really'' [[Bishonen]].
** To make matters even ''worse'', he has a habit of unintentionally saying things that sound like love confessions or even ''proposals''. With a totally straight face (by which we mean an adorably innocent smile).
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** Boa Hancock, and [[Even the Girls Want Her|she has the fangirls to prove it]]. "Is there no end to her sex appeal?"
** Alvida has all the men and women of '''R'''oguetown [[squee]]ing for her beauty, up the the point where the police can't attack her. But she only has eyes for Luffy.
** Also, [[Badass Princess| Vivi]], [[Mermaid| Shirahoshi]], [[Gladiator| Rebecca]], [[The Vamp| Viola]], [[Nubile Savage| Marguerite]], and [[Dark Action Girl| Reiju]] have all shown some adoration towards Luffy, though rarely anything beyond flirting. Interestingly, all of these girls except Marguerite but including Hancock have royal blood in some way.
* Jing from ''[[King of Bandit Jing]]'' is definitely a Chick Magnet. 99% of the time, when his adventure has something to do with a girl, she'll fall for him. There's also a reason why they call all the girls in the series "Jing Girls".
* Sagara Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' (coupled with apparently being a Whispered magnet). Kaname, Tessa, and
** He's even more of a Chick Magnet than even that - it's implied that a ''bunch'' of girls ([[Stupid Sexy Flanders|and guys]]) at school harbor crushes on him and find him incredibly good looking... the only thing is that his insane, violent behavior and unapproachability keeps them from daring to chase and pursue him.
*** It gets much worse. You know that Whispered girl (Mira Kudan) he rescued who appeared briefly in the beginning? Yeah, she apparently also fell for him and "gave her heart to him" ever since he saved her life. Except she actually [[
* Suguru Misato of ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' has pretty much all the girls in the series after him, including two (maybe all three) members of triomatic, Mahoro, and his slutty, depraved, insane teacher miss Shikijo.
* Train from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' is. He has three women vying for his attention (okay, well, one of them was cut short), but only manages to see them as friends / acquaintances because he's a [[Chaste Hero]]. Although he could be considered an even more extreme example in that [[Even the Guys Want Him]].
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* In ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]'', Luso has three girls who definitely likes him. They are Kanin, Anna and {{spoiler|Maria}}.
=== Film ===
* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'': For the viewers, he's a [[Kavorka Man]], but none of the women in the film can (or want to) resist him. Of course, he rejects their affections until being tricked into losing his magical belt.
* The title character in ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery''. He also has allied female agents falling for him in the other movies.
* In ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'', Howard Stark is the straightforward ladies' man, as shown in his first appearance. Post-procedure Steve was able to catch the attention of Peggy, the foxy secretary and a starstruck blond due to a combination of his stage celebrity, Greek God physique, courage and [[Adorkable]] [[Nice Guy]] attitude.
=== Literature ===
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* Mikael Blomkvist in Stieg Larsson's "[[Millennium Trilogy]]". The amount of women falling over themselves to sleep with this financial journalist is incredible, and one can't help but feel there is a certain amount of wish-fulfillment going on on the author's part. In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo he is already having a long-term affair with his business partner Erika. Upon moving out to Hedeby island he is quickly seduced by Cecilia Vanger, whom he has an ongoing relationship with throughout the book. Then Lisbeth comes to town as his research partner and ends up falling in love with the guy. In the sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Blomkvist is sleeping with Harriet, the woman he had believed to be dead for 90% of the first book.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': [[First Girl Wins|Ginny]], Cho, [[Abhorrent Admirer|Romilda Vane]], and [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Moaning Myrtle]]
** Hermione [[
* Thomas Raith of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', supernaturally so. He tries to hold down a job like a normal person... and keeps losing his job when women throw themselves at him. He eventually solves it, in a rather hilarious but inarguably effective way.
** It's a sort of ''thing'' with House Raith of the White Court to be that.
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* Laharl in the [[Disgaea Novels]] seems to fit this trope well. It seems in the novel he was able to attract multiple girls, this includes, Etna, Flonne, Jade {{spoiler|( Gordon and Jennifer's daughter ),}} and {{spoiler|Sakura}}
* Georgina and Dorothea in ''[[Sorcery and Cecelia]]''. The former is just that good-looking. The latter has a spell cast on her to make her irresistible to all men (and she hates it).
=== Live-Action TV ===
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** Secondly, Gibby with Tasha.
** Thirdly, Carly, with [[Hide Your Lesbians|Missy, Carly, Wendy, Valerie.]]
** Fourthly, Freddie, with Valerie, Shannon, Rona (alternate universe), Melanie, Shelby Marx, Magic Malika, Jamie, Ariana, Leslie, Sabrina, Patrice, three random girls at a party (iPity the Nevel) and pretty much the entire female fandom in iStart a Fanwar
** And those were just the main Chick Magnets.
* The wheelchair-bound Dr. John Ballard in ''[[Seven Days]]''.
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* [[Kamen Rider (TV series)|Hayato Ichimonji]] had three women fawning over him when he first debuted.
* John Crichton of [[Farscape]] so so much. In addition to his main love interest Aeryn, there was Gilina, Chiana, Jenavian, Jool...just about any female character to show up in the show instantly falls for Crichton or at least gets ship-teased with him pretty intensely.
=== Mythology ===
* Adonis of [[Greek Mythology]]. So handsome that two goddesses fell in love with him at first sight. Aphrodite took a shine to him when he was ''[[Squick|born]]'' and Persephone fell for him when he was about [[Shotacon|thirteen]]. It didn't end well for Adonis—when he eventually chose [[First Girl Wins|Aphrodite]], [[If I Can't Have You|a furious Persephone told]] Aphrodite's former lover [[Complete Monster|Ares]] about Aphrodite's new beau. Ares turned into a boar and attacked Adonis while he was out hunting. Since Ares is a jerk, he killed Adonis by [[Groin Attack|goring him in the crotch]].
* Diarmid O'Dyna of [[Celtic Mythology]] (who was Lancer in the aforementioned [[Fate/Zero]]) had this as an actual magical ability—any woman who looked at his face would instantly fall in love with him. One of these was a woman who caught sight of him at her own wedding party. Her husband-to-be [[Murder the Hypotenuse|didn't take it very well]].
=== [[Professional Wrestling]] ===
* The Miz in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] used to call himself a Chick Magnet, to the point where one of his [[Merchandise-Driven|T-shirts]] includes a chick (read: baby bird) being drawn to a horseshoe red-and-white magnet, just in case [[Viewers are Morons|some people]] didn't get the gist of his gimmick.
** It's probably more because Miz's character is basically that he is a massive tool, so he'd be the sort to provide an illustration of the concept.
* [[Daniel Bryan]] seems to be this in WWE, drawing the WWE Divas to him without even trying (or acting upon it). In one instance, he's got the Bella twins hanging on each arm.
=== Video Games ===
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* Every protagonist in the [[Violated Hero]] game series is this. Since every [[All Women Are Lustful|women in the series is a rapist]], it's a case of [[Blessed with Suck]].
==== Visual Novels ====
* Okazaki Tomoya of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''. Ends up with six girls in love with him, and denies that any of them are.
* Hisao Nakai of ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has five very good looking women as potential love interest within only three days of arriving at Yamaku. Its a pity that he is there because of his cogential arrythmia
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** In the magical girl spin-off [[Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya|Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya]] Shirou has the unnoticed favours of Illyasviel von Einzbern, her Dark [[Alter Ego]] Kuro (think Illya in Archer fashion), their best friend Miyu and of course Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou and Luvia Edelfeldt. Also, he seems to have a questionably good relationship with [[Cool Big Sis]] Sella.
** Lancer from ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' has this as a literal superpower - any woman (without sufficient magical resistance, that is) who looks at his face is charmed to fall in love with him. This never goes well for him.
=== Web Comics ===
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* Tip in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' even when he's [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=40132 transformed into a different species]
** So much so that he even has this effect on women who are so lesbian as to be ''[[Up to Eleven|off the Kinsey scale]]''.
=== Western Animation ===
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=== Real Life ===
* Frank Sinatra. ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons featuring him frequently had the members of his audience fainting, sighing "Oh Frankie!" in ecstasy, going into seizures, or screaming. They always chased after him in huge crowds once he was done performing.
** Arguably a subversion: after his death it was revealed that many of the earlier swooning women were actually [[
** More or less the same things happened to [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. Including the paying of actresses. Their publicists must have known each other.
* It has been claimed that poet/artist/songwriter/[[Renaissance Man]] [[Shel Silverstein]] had to beat the ladies off with sticks. Not a perfect example, as he wasn't at all "innocent" about it.
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== Female ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* The title character of ''[[Miyuki-chan in Wonderland]]'' attracts the attention of <s>all the girls</s> everyone in the worlds she stumbles in, since they're all inhabited by girls only.
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* While neither of the two protagonists in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' have love interests hanging off them due to their [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]], Honoka is noted to get love letters from boys all the time. More relevantly, poor Nagisa is chagrined that she gets them from the ''girls'' all the time.
** Not entirely true. Nagisa had a very strong crush on Honoka's good friend Fuji P., while Honoka herself was in love with [[The Mole]], Kiriya, who ended up {{spoiler|dying, being reborn and presumably loosing his memory in the process.}}
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* Yuria, Kenshiro's one true love from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', is sought after by a significant portion of the cast for one reason or another; most memorably by [[Rival Turned Evil|Shin]], but even big scary [[Noble Demon|Raoh]] fell for her ''hard.''
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'':
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* Hino of ''[[Kiniro no Corda]]''.
* Kirie of ''[[Girls Bravo]]'' is both a [[Dude Magnet]] and a [[Even the Girls Want Her|Chick Magnet]].
* Mikado Akira of ''[[Hayate
* Karan of ''[[No. 6]]''.
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* [[Marvel Star Wars|Zeltrons]] are [http://images.plurk.com/7b4dada705f4bfbf1b0c332da452b38d.jpg drawn to] Leia Organa just as they are to her brother, and for the same reasons - she's heroic, famous, and Force-Sensitive.
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* The entire plot of ''[[There's Something About Mary]]'' was based on the titular character being one of these.
** Although she tended to attract a [[Stalker with a Crush|particular type]] of man.
* In ''Chicago'', Roxie Hart imagines herself as a [[Dude Magnet]] (and a Marriage Proposal Magnet) in her "I'll be a star and boy will it be swell" song.
=== Literature ===
* Bella Swan of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fame. Apparently even her science teacher fancies her.
* Raven of ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'' has three guys after her at one time or another, the guys being Trevor, Jagger, and Alexander.
=== Live-Action TV ===
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* Annie in ''[[Being Human (UK)]]''. Tully and Gilbert from Season 1; the [[Love Triangle]] with Hugh and Saul in Season 2; and now {{spoiler|Mitchell in Season 3.}}
* In one episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', "The Window", Ted recalls his longtime crush Maggie whom he never got to date because, as he describes her, she is "catnip for men".
=== Video Games ===
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* The [[Distaff Counterpart|female protagonist]] of [[Updated Rerelease|Persona 3 Portable]] counts as a Dude Magnet. Junpei (the only male in SEES [[Platonic Life Partners|she cannot have a romantic relationship with]]) notes that a number of guys he talks to are interested in her. At least two of her Social Links develop feelings for her, although she can't have a relationship with them, another one calls her beautiful, and she is able to (optionally. As noted above, the game developers have realized that it ''is'' possible for boys and girls to just be friends) romance Akihiko (himself a Chick Magnet), [[The Cutie|Ken]], Ryoji {{spoiler|who eventually turns out to be an unwilling [[Big Bad]]}}, and Shinjiro {{spoiler|who is implied to have fallen for her whether the player chooses to become lovers with him or not}}. Then there's Theo...
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* Osanai Shouko from [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Aoi Shiro]]'' attracts a lot of [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|girls]] {{spoiler|up to having something dangerously close to [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]] sex}}. The fact that she's an extremely charming [[Sempai]] doesn't help, though it's more obvious when the story is related from other characters' point of view.
** It's more [[Justified Trope|justified]] in case of [[Akai Ito|Hatou Kei]]: she is [[Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious]], so a lot of characters want her as food. Most of them settles somewhere between treating her as blood dispenser and [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|lover]].
* Kaine from ''[[A Profile]]'', which is funny considering he's not even the protagonist. He actually gets more attention from girls than Masayuki does. {{spoiler|But if it wasn't for the fact that Masayuki hangs around with Miou, a suspected prostitute, he would get even more attention.}}
=== Web Original ===
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