Ladykiller in Love: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Lily''': Barney, how can you be in love and still be sleeping with anything that moves?

 

[[The Casanova]] has scored dozens of women, never showing any real affection for any of them. However, maybe one of the girls is [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|immune to his charms]]. Maybe he initially [[Slap Slap Kiss|hates the girl]], but then comes to appreciate her. Or maybe he just starts to see a [[Just Friends|female friend]] in a new way.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Kairi from ''[[Peach Girl]]'', toward the female lead Momo.

** Kirche may be a female version, since it's strongly implied in the anime that she [[Really Gets Around]] - or at least used to, before falling for Saito.

* ''Maybe'', [[Handsome Lech|Shuutarou Mendou]] from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' - after he meets his rival's beautiful little sister, [[Shrinking Violet|Asuka]] [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|Mizunokuji]].

* Tamaki of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' towards Haruhi.

* In ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'', Matsuzaki's crush on [[Likes Older Women|several years older]] Kyouko, where he mistakes her bossy and aloof attitude for her being experienced in sex, not knowing that she is actually a virgin.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Gambit and Rogue of ''[[X-Men]]'' are a little different than the standard—she accepts that he has genuine feelings for her, but since her powers mean they [[Can't Have Sex Ever|can't touch each other ever]], she wishes he'd stop pursuing her and reminding her of what she can't have.

 

* Prince Naveen from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''. He makes the mistake of mentioning that he's dated ''[[Really Gets Around|thousands of women]]'' while [[Digging Yourself Deeper|attempting]] to {{spoiler|propose to Tiana}}. A deleted scene has him discuss the trope with Ray:

{{quote|'''Naveen''': I am having troubles.

'''Naveen''': I have courted many thousands of the most beautiful women in all of the world. But this girl, Tiana, she has taken my heart and... and...

'''Ray''': Yeah, that's love, alright. }}

* This is the driving force behind ''[[Love and Other Drugs]]''.

* This is the plot for the Heath Ledger version of ''Casanova''.

* Averted in ''[[Hitch]]'', where the eponymous character ''can'' be a ladykiller, but he is actually very much pro-love. His job involves being the icebreaker for shy guys who want to engage in a long-term relationship. A memorable scene involves a guy (who would later be [[Burn Notice|burned]]) who just wants Hitch's help in getting a one-night stand, so Hitch simply leaves after nearly breaking the guy's arm. Unfortunately for Hitch, his [[Love Interest]] assumes he really does help guys get one-night stands and ends up ruining his career.

* ''Loveless In Los Angeles'' has a guy get fed up with pining over a [[Just Friends]] women in college after she gets engaged to someone else when he was about to do his [[Love Confession]]. This gives him a [[Freudian Excuse]] to become a [[Lady Killer]], but then his old flame re-enters the picture, freshly divorced.

 

== Literature ==

* Henry Crawford of ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' claims to be this, but the heroine doesn't trust he can give up his ladykilling ways. {{spoiler|She's right.}}

* Happens a lot in many literary incarnations of the Don Juan legend, the [[Older Than Steam]] [[Ur Example]].

* In ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', Scarlett takes great pleasure in flirting with any man that crosses her path, even ones who are already taken, but she has her heart set firmly on Ashley. It later turns out that the man she truly loved was [[Loving a Shadow|not Ashley]] but ''Rhett'' (who is also this trope towards her), but she [[Love Epiphany|realizes this]] [[Bittersweet Ending|a little too late]].

* In ''Tales of the Frog Princess'', [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Prince]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Garrid]], who's been described as a ladies man, two-times [[Naive Everygirl|Li'l]] and [[Alpha Bitch|Princess]] [[Rich Bitch|Hazel]] (Li'l is the more sympathetic of the two, since she genuinely falls for him) by courting Hazel, but meeting Li'l, and "forgetting" to mention it. When Li'l finds out she (rightfully) leaves him. He shows up later, admitting to have fallen in love with her.

* Nealan of Queenscove from [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'', has various crushes throughout the quartet on multiple noble ladies, up to and including the Queen. He has a tendency to make quite a lot of noise about these, writing (terrible) poetry and mourning to all and sundry the fact that all his crushes are hopelessly unrequited. However, when he falls in love with [[Silk Hiding Steel|Yukimi noh Daiomoru]], he is so tight-lipped about it that even his [[Like Brother and Sister|best friend]] Keladry of Mindelan has no clue how he feels about her until he faces his Ordeal.

 

* Brian Kinney in ''[[Queer as Folk]]''.

* Similar to the above example, Ricky of ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' once he falls in love with Junito (he considers breaking his promiscuous ways, but it never pans out for long.

* Inverted by ''[[Quantum Leap]]''. It's established early on that Al is a [[Chivalrous Pervert]] who eyes any woman he sees and has been married multiple times. Then in the episode "M.I.A.", he outright admits that his first wife Beth<ref>Who he "lost" because he was a POW for four years and she remarried in the meantime</ref> was the only woman he ever truly loved, and that he chases skirt in the hopes of finding someone who can mean as much to him. {{spoiler|In the final episode Sam uses his "one free leap" to tell Beth not to give up on Al, which she does, and the closing text tells us that they're still [[Happily Married]] in 1999 and have had four daughters.}}

* Logan Reese, from ''[[Zoey 101]]'' seems to act like this after he starts dating Quinn, as he is not shown flirting with other girls after their First Kiss.

 

== Music ==

* A common interpretation of [[Vocaloid|Kagamine Len's]] ''Spice''

* [[Roxy Music]]'s songs often fall into this trope.

 

== New Media ==

* Liam of ''[[Gaia Online]]'' eventually develops real feelings for Sam, as opposed to meaningless flirting.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Lois on ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' falls ''hard'' for Emma, and eventually enters into an uneasy triad relationship with her, but eventually tires of playing second fiddle to Emma's primary partner Dorothy.

 

== Theatre ==

* Harold Hill in ''[[The Music Man]]''. "For the first time, I got my foot caught in the door."

* Maureen from [[Rent]] is a female, bisexual example. She'll sleep with ''anyone'', but has strong feelings for Joanne.

 

== Video Games ==

* Derek in ''[[RE: Alistair]]'', if you get his ending. He gets bonus points for {{spoiler|initially flirting with Merui solely to play with and emotionally string her along, only to admit [[Becoming the Mask|developing genuine feelings for her]] when she confronts him about this}}.

 

* Sven from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' is an interesting example. He appears to give up his womanzing ways because of his friendship with [[Tsundere|Faye]]. And [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1079 then] they started [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1198 sleeping together]. It's not a serious, monogamous relationship, but Faye makes it clear that if she finds out he's been sleeping around, [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1307 she'll leave him in an instant.] {{spoiler|1=[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1334 He has a one-night-stand], instantly regretting it, and [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1341 when he confesses to Faye], she leaves him. The incident makes [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1343 both] [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1372 of them] feel worse than they expected, and [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1650 hundreds of strips later, Sven is almost unrecognizable compared to his pre-Faye appearances.]}}

* [[The Goomba|Bogey]] of ''[[Kid Radd]]''. Sure, he always hits on her (and everyone else) because she's hot, but late into the comic he realizes he's actually fallen for {{spoiler|Sheena}}, but only adds to his feelings of utter uselessness because he can plainly see that {{spoiler|she and Radd are meant to be}}.

* Fox from ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' and ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'' flirts with [[Anything That Moves]], until he develops a serious interest in his best friend Collin. Collin, fully aware of Fox's lecherous nature, initially refuses to play into his "game" until Fox bluntly tells him, "I'm not kidding around anymore, Collin." The two wind up in a stable and loving relationship that lasts for years, and Fox {{spoiler|is genuinely heartbroken when Collin eventually breaks up with him}}.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Tip Wilkin]] of ''[[Skin Horse]]'' has this happen to him in the current story arc when he meets [[Mad Scientist]] Tigerlily Jones. He loses his superpower ability to make any woman fall into his bed, and even loses the ability to pick handcuffs with a bobby pin. Don't ask why he would need to.

** Wally's philandering ways began well [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20060913.html before] his marriage to Rebecca, and continued [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20070427.html after they were wed]; when he quit playing around, however, it seems he [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20100126.html quit for good].

* A rare gender-inversion with [[Tsundere|Mora]] towards [[The Philosopher|Minos]] in ''[[Las Lindas]]''. {{spoiler|They do get together.}}

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050817 Lars.]

* The relationship between [[Horny Devils|Sabine]] and [[Evil Twin|Nale]] in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is strongly implied to be a gender-inverted example?

** Implied? She outright admits that she sleeps around, and feels absolutely no guilt about it.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'': [[Serial Romeo|The Lord of Angels and Demons]], to the [[Action Girl|Queen of Rogues and Robbers]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* Brock Samson from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has a freakish ability to bed anyone who comes near him, but "the only woman he ever loved" was Molotov Cocktease, a badass Russian assassin who wears a chastity belt. He freely has sex with other women in spite of Molotov though, since even though he loves her, they can't enter into a relationship together. They have a history of personal vendettas which always leads to them both trying to kill one another. The fact she never puts out also might have something to do with it.

* Alejandro from ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''. He flirted with almost all the female contestants during the third season but ended up falling for Heather.

 

== Real Life ==

* Gene Simmons from [[Kiss]] had a reputation of having sex with thousands of women, but is deeply in love with his current companion Shannon Tweed. They even have a pretty stable family with a couple of kids, and finally tied the knot on October 1, 2011.

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6957268.ece This]

 

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[[Category:Love Tropes]]