Go Seduce My Arch-Nemesis: Difference between revisions

 

Villains, curiously enough, don't seem be that bothered this kind of exploitation at all. Apparently as long as the seduction is for the sake of the greater evil, they can overlook the minor detail that this is technically adultery. It makes sense when you remember that they're evil. Of course, evil tactics often [[Laser-Guided Karma|have a tendency to backfire]] and cause his [[Dark Mistress]] to [[Sex Face Turn|feel sympathy]] ([[In Love with the Mark|or love!]]) for the hero when he's supposed to be her enemy. This rarely happens the other way around.

 

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* In the manga version of ''[[Heat Guy J]]'', [[Dark Chick|Trinity]] designs a buxom, [[Fan Service|scantily-clad]] robot girl to go seduce and strangle Clair's biggest (and ugliest) rival. (This does not happen in the anime version; Trinity does not exist, and Clair sent a tanker truck full of napalm to that rival instead of a sexy girl, human or otherwise.)

 

* ''[[Batman]]'' (1989). Vicki Vale does this to the Joker while he's forcing her to dance with him. She saw Batman nearby and wanted to distract the Joker and give Batman a chance to attack him. It works (she's played by Kim Basinger, it should).

* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082454/ The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything]'' (1981). Bonnie Lee Beaumont acts seductively toward Wesley Reins to trick him into a situation where he can be interrogated.

* In ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'', a character resentful of the protagonist sends his wife to distract him with a romantic dinner and sex, and the plan was that afterward he and his gang would kill the protagonist while he had his guard down.

 

* This occurs a few times in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series. When you're [[Satan|the Incarnation of Evil]] and have hordes of [[Horny Devils]] at your command, what do you have to lose by trying this? ([[High Heel Face Turn|Quite a lot, as it turns out.]])

* The title character of the sixteenth century Japanese story ''Akimichi'' sends his wife to seduce the man who [[You Killed My Father|killed his father]].

 

* In ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', Josie Packard is sent from Thomas Eckhardt to be the wife of his arch rival, Andrew Packard. Somewhat similarly, she was also playing both sides against each other when Ben Horne and Catherine Martell were rivals.

* In ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', Blair gets Chuck to seduce Vanessa (though not actually sleep with her) in order to humiliate her. Later, Chuck {{spoiler|swaps Blair to his [[Evil Uncle]] to get his hotel back}} - she thinks it's her decision. However, he subtly manipulated her into it, so she didn't find out until later that he'd [[Kick the Dog|organised the whole deal]].

* In ''[[iCarly]]'', Freddie begs to help Sam seduce Shane, so that he has a better shot with Carly, their best friend, who is also trying to seduce Shane.

** Pete more or less asks his wife to do, um, whatever she would need to do with an old ex-boyfriend to get him to publish Pete's short story in a reputable magazine (Pete being jealous of a coworker who has a story in the ''Atlantic''). She goes to see the guy, but turns him down when he asks her out (relegating Pete's story to ''Boy's Life'', alas) and calls Pete out on it when she gets home.

** In a later episode, Don is the only one in the office who knows Sal is gay and is grudgingly keeping it a secret. A major client, [[Depraved Bisexual]] Lee Garner, Jr., comes on to Sal and has to be rebuffed. He then refuses to work with Sal, losing him his job, and when Sal tells Don what happened, Don is unsympathetic. Sal asks if Don means he should have just done whatever Garner wanted, and Don doesn't say no. Sal [[Put on a Bus|stays fired]].

 

 

* When [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] tries to recover the lamp from Jafar, Jasmine sees him and promptly starts acting seductively toward Jafar, who she had only rebuffed a moment ago, as a diversion. She even gives him a [["Shut Up" Kiss]] at a critical moment when the clanging of the lamp alerts Jafar to Aladdin's presence, but this only succeeds in causing Aladdin to [[What an Idiot!|stare at her in stupid shock]].

** This is actually based on the original story (one of the few things that are, actually), but in the original story, Aladdin explicitly tells the princess to pretend to be in love with the sorcerer, rather than just letting her know he's in the palace and acting as shocked as everyone else when she seduces his arch nemesis.

*** Though it's mentioned in another episode that The Monarch watching Dr. Mrs. The Monarch have sex with other men is a relatively common occurence. Apparently they're into cuckolding.

* In ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]] 2'', [[Action Girl|Julie]] herself actually goes and seduces Tyler to get close enough for the kill. She succeeds in delivering what should have been a mortal blow. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that Tyler is [[Immortality|Type III immortal]].

{{quote|'''Hades''': Perhaps I haven't been throwing the ''right'' curves at him.}}

* In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', Lana Lang decides to take the initiative and attempts this on Lex Luthor despite Superman's protests.

* In ''[[El Arca]]'', Panty is sent by Dagnino to seduce Xiro.

 

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