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{{trope}}
According to many movies, books, and TV shows, seriously good-looking men will usually turn out to have character defects making them just short of the [[Anti Christ]]. Can be a case of [[Truth in Television]].<ref>
Might happen because the authors are dealing with their own issues (ex-girlfriends or nerds). If it's the latter, the plain nice guy wins. If the former, then a fantasy idol who is an exception will be in the story.
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Related tropes: [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], [[Man of Wealth and Taste]], [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], [[Evil Is Sexy]], [[Bastard Boyfriend]], [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]], [[Handsome Devil]]. Often leads to a [[Draco in Leather Pants]] situation - he's an asshole but the female viewers/ readers love him anyway. Compare [[Beauty Is Bad]].
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
== Straight (Male) examples ==
▲=== Anime and Manga ===
* Griffith in ''[[Berserk]]'' is so Bishonen it hurts. He's also the major [[Big Bad]] of the series.
* Ryoki from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''.
** Also {{spoiler|Azusa, who is an attractive model that tries to have his friend gang-raped as revenge for ''[[Moral Event Horizon|something she didn't even do]]''.}}
* Aizen of ''[[Bleach]]'' is quite attractive. He's also pretty much a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Monster (
* Apos of ''[[Mnemosyne]]''
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]] uses the variation Hot Guys are moronic buffoons, characters such as [[Urusei Yatsura|Mendou, Rei]] and [[Ranma
* Andrea of ''[[Gankutsuou]]''.
* Sasuke of ''[[Naruto]]'', at least after he [[Took a Level
* Light Yagami, particularly [[Knight Templar|later on]] in ''[[
* Dio Brando from ''[[
* Most of the male villains of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* Nakago of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''
* Paul, the resident [[Jerkass]] trainer from ''[[Pokémon (
* Miyabi from ''[[Rosario
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* ''[[Animal House]]'' and ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' definitely qualify.
** ''[[Animal House]]'' tries to have it both ways. The opposite number of Omega House's [[Blond Guys Are Evil|Gregg Marmalard]] is clearly Eric Stratton, who's just as handsome as Gregg is but is clearly intended to be the [[Designated Hero]]. But if you consider Gregg's "good" counterpart to be John Blutarski (who ''does'' ultimately succeed in wooing Mandy Pepperidge away from him, after all), then this trope is played straight.
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=== Literature ===
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Joren]] of Stone Mountain in Tamora Pierce's ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector Of The Small]]'' books.
* Galad Damodred of the [[Wheel of Time]] was one of these. He was never evil per say but he would do what he thought was good, regardless of who got hurt. {{spoiler|He got better in Book 13.}}
* [[Agatha Christie
* The Sheik of ''[[The Sheik]]''. He's repeatedly described as handsome, but kidnaps the heroine right off the bat, and spends the next month raping and emotionally torturing her. Epic [[Values Dissonance]] ensues when they wind up getting married.
* Dr. Mark Ahriman of ''[[False Memory]]''. Handsome, successful psychiatrist {{spoiler|who [[Mind Rape|mind rapes]] (and sometimes literally rapes) his patients, sending some out to kill people and driving others to creative suicide for his own entertainment}}.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Sawyer on the first couple of seasons of ''[[Lost]]''.
* Nathan Petrelli and Sylar throughout ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
* Chuck Bass in ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.
* Stephan Urkel of ''[[Family Matters]]'' first appearance was a self-absorbed prick who couldn't care less about Carl's friend getting shot.
** Some of the guys that Laura becomes interested in usually end up being jerks who just want to sleep with her.
* Damon Salvatore of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]''.
* Angel and Spike in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. They've both spent a good amount of their lives [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing]], murdering and [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|even raping]] various people, and never reform completely, but it doesn't seem to detract from their sexual appeal. They dress a lot more stylishly than either [[Cool Loser|Xander]] or [[Good Is Boring|Riley]] and, [[Informed Ability|judging by the reactions of other characters in universe
* Eric from ''[[True Blood]]'', especially after he took a level in sexy in seasons two and three.
** And Bill and Jason have had their moments of complete bastardry, too.
* Prevalent in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. As a general rule, while a character's level of attractiveness doesn't determine how "good" they will be, the less attractive male characters seem to form better romantic relationships.
** While Sam and Dean might basically be good people (at least, when Sam hasn't gone darkside) they both manipulate women for sex and have a tendency to self-obsess and act like major jerkasses to everybody around them. If you were a random bar-frequenting women in the Supernatural universe and they hadn't saved your life, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were bastards. It's worth noting however that Sam averted this entirely before he became a Hunter again in the series pilot, instead having been in a stable and loving relationship with Jessica at the time.
** Castiel isn't sexually manipulative towards women, but that might have more to do with his general [[No Social Skills|cluelessness about human behaviour]], his devotion to his faith, and disinterest in the matter. The sexual chemistry with Meg seems to be based around violence, and he once accidentally burnt somebody's eyes out and forgot to fix them, although it seems like he could have done so easily. So he's probably not the best boyfriend material, either.
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** The only notable exception to the rule is Jimmy (Castiel's vessel), who is very pretty and was (before he became involved in angel business) a devoted and loving father and wife. And the actor who plays him is probably [[Adorkable|cuter when he plays Cas, anyway]].
** Almost every female demon, ever.
* Unintentionally subverted in ''[[
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Nick from [[Left 4 Dead 2]].
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Captain Hammer from ''[[Dr.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The Beast in Disney's ''[[Beauty and
* An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' has Peter becoming a jerk after plastic surgery turns him into one of the beautiful people, [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful|because being handsome means that he can screw the rules]]. On the other hand, considering [[Jerkass|who we're talking about]], the appearance boost may not be to blame.
* ''[[Clone High]]'''s very own JFK.
* ''[[X
* The Dark Ace from ''[[
* Justin and Alejandro in [[Total Drama]] in spades
** Also Duncan to a degree.
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Eiichiro Oda]] appears pretty fond of it. Especially [[One Piece|Nami and Boa]] often use their looks to get work done for them or get through with absurd actions.
* Asuka Langley Soryu from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. In '''spades'''. However, in her case, it's a '''''brutal''''' [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] of this trope: she's a hot bitch, yeah, yet not only she doesn't get away with her antics (Touji is annoyed to no end by her, Shinji puts up with it because he's deeply fucked up, Rei is indifferent most of the time, etc.), but she's subjected to an horrifying [[Break the Haughty]] process that reveals her terrible [[Dark and Troubled Past]].
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=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Depending
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* As a possible example of this trope, there's one ''[[Nodwick]]'' strip in which a villainess explains her face (and gender) is always hidden because only hot evil chicks are allowed to show they're evil.
** Double lampshaded because at first they just think it's because she was horribly disfigured in an accident, but then she mentions that even before the accident, a woman who was "nothing special" would have been a pretty good catch compared to her.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Azula from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* Callie Maggotbone in the earlier episodes of ''[[Ugly Americans]]''.
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