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So you've got this character, usually female, always sexy. She might be his [[Dark Mistress]], she might be the hero's girlfriend, a [[Femme Fatale]], but who she is in relation to the story isn't really that important. The point is, she's hot. And hot chicks can do one thing really well. Seduce people and snare them into a [[Honey Trap]].
When a hero resorts to this kind of tactic, their situation is getting pretty desperate. After all, [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]. Not to mention the fact that having a villain be able to gloat about how they "did your girl" is something with major potential to be obnoxious. Oftentimes the hero doesn't resort to it at
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 ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'', when the hero is captured, the lady apparently defects to the [[Big Bad]], by saying she could be many things to him, including a word she uses in German. The hero asks him what that was, and the [[Big Bad]] says she said she could even be his "Cleaning Woman". This is the good guy's [[Berserk Button]] that when he hears it that allows him to defeat the Big Bad.
* In ''[[The Prestige]]'' Angier sends Olivia over to seduce Borden and steal his secrets; unfortunately for him she is so angered by this that she really ''does'' side with Borden and the two double cross Angier.
* The latest ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie (with [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]) has Irene Adler, a seductive [[Femme Fatale]] and old rival to Holmes, who is paid by Professor Moriarty to try to snag, among other things, Holmes' heart. It's arguable whether she succeeds, or indeed whether she's succeeded previously; it's also strongly hinted by Moriarty himself that this is more of a case of
* 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.
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