Hot Guys Are Bastards: Difference between revisions

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]].

* Griffith in ''[[Berserk]]'' is so Bishonen it hurts. He's also the major [[Big Bad]] of the series.

* Ryoki from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''.

* ''[[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.

* [[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.}}

* Sawyer on the first couple of seasons of ''[[Lost]]''.

* Nathan Petrelli and Sylar throughout ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.

* Nick from [[Left 4 Dead 2]].

* Captain Hammer from ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]''.

* The Beast in Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', before his curse. And Gaston throughout.

* 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.

* [[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]].

* [[Depending on the Writer]], [[Archie Comics|Veronica Lodge]].

* 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.

* Azula from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.

* Callie Maggotbone in the earlier episodes of ''[[Ugly Americans]]''.