Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,462
edits
Distracted by My Own Sexy: Difference between revisions
m
added Category:Distraction Tropes using HotCat
m (clean up) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (added Category:Distraction Tropes using HotCat) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 2:
[[File:ComicforThursdayJul32003-2 9031.gif|link=El Goonish Shive|frame|[[Distracted by the Sexy|Yes. Yes, she is...]]]]
{{quote|''"Ohh, this is how it all ends. Pond flirting with herself. It's true love at last."''|'''The Doctor,''' ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 Red Nose Day Special Space and Time|Time]]"}}▼
▲{{quote|''"Ohh, this is how it all ends. Pond flirting with herself. It's true love at last."''|'''The Doctor''' ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 Red Nose Day Special Space and Time|Time]]"}}
Describe '''Distracted by My Own Sexy''' her- ''Oh.'' Well, hel-''lo.'' Aren't ''I'' something?
Line 16 ⟶ 15:
Compare [[Distracted by the Sexy]], where a character's sex appeal distracts others; see also [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]], where a man is distracted by his own newly gender-swapped sex appeal. Contrast [[Rage Against the Reflection]], where characters hate to see their own image.
----
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In the H-manga ''[[Bondage Fairies]]'', the fairies avoid mirrors because they have a maddening tendency to fall in love with their own reflections (pond reflections are all right, because the ripples spoil the effect). Naturally, Pfil is tasked with guarding a mirror alone after an incident...
Line 33:
== Literature ==
* In one of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''Black Widowers'' stories, the guest is a man whose specialty is job interviews. He keeps a variety of objects on his desk, and judges people's character by how they interact with those objects. The fashion-conscious Mario Gonzalo asks how ''he'' did on his interview, and the guest replies that he never reveals his secrets, but he will mention one thing: "There was a mirror in the room."
* [[Bishonen|Bishie]] werewolf [[
* [[The Bible|Eve]] falls to an innocent version of this in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'': the first thing she sees after being made is her reflection and is captivated by its beauty, then she sees Adam and decides he is not as good looking as her and tries to go back to looking at her reflection. {{spoiler|They end up together}}.
* One of the minor characters in Frank Yerby's [[Pirate]] novel ''The Golden Hawk'' wore a thick, unkempt beard. When the protagonist, as part of disguising the whole crew, shaved him by force, he was shocked to discover, "I'm right pretty!" (the narration acknowledged that he ''was'', indeed, [[He Cleans Up Nicely|quite a handsome fellow under all that facial hair]]) and thereafter he was often seen checking himself out in a mirror.
Line 65:
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
* Toreador-clan vampires in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. Their clan weakness is that they're easily entranced by anything beautiful, including themselves.
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', there is Sigwald the Magnificent, a champion of Slaanesh. He wears a magic armor of solid gold, and his retinue has mirrored shields so he can watch his reflection during the battle. (In game terms, he is subject to stupidity — as sometimes he will get distracted in the least appropriate moment.) Anyone who might try to use this distraction for attack will quickly discover that Sigwald, vain as he might be, is still a haughty [[Bishonen]] with a cool sword... which is bad news in most universes.
Line 108:
[[Category:Body Image Tropes]]
[[Category:Describe Topic Here]]
[[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]]
[[Category:Reflective Tropes]]
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Distraction Tropes]]
| |||