Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places: Difference between revisions

[['''Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]''' differs from [[Casanova]] in that the Casanova is a predator indulging his desires and sating himself with his conquests, while Looking For Love is desperately searching for someone who respects and cares for them. This does not mean that Looking For Love is necessarily clingy or "wimpy"; they can appear to be as manipulative and self-centered as [[Casanova]], and the two are sometimes confused for each other.

A variation on this trope is the unlucky variation of [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]; the character ([[Always Female|nearly always a woman]]) who is permanently on the lookout for Mr. (or, more rarely, Ms.) Right. Whilst she might settle for Mr. Right Now if things are particularly bleak on that front, she'll go into every relationship convinced that "this is The One!" -- however—however, unfortunately for her every relationship she engages in will result in [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensuing]] as every single man she dates either turns out to be a [[Romantic False Lead]], [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup|has some small imperfection]] or otherwise [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|turns out to be a complete jerk]], thus leaving her right back where she started. It's often a complete waste of time anyway, since a bit of close self-examination would probably reveal -- [[Oblivious to Love|much to her shock]] -- that—that she's in love with [[The Hero]] anyway.

See also [[Casanova Wannabe]] -- the—the two character types complement each other and often overlap. Compare [[Ladykiller in Love]].

* David Kruegel (a.k.a. Tekkaman Sommer) of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]] II'' is hopelessly in love with his boss, Aki Kisaragi, who has been devoted to Tekkaman Blade since day one of the original series. He disguises/denies this by surrounding himself with the Space Knights' [[Wrench Wench|Wrench Wenches]]es and [[Bridge Bunnies]], then taking all his evenings to the nearby bar and having frequent one night stands. Then he meets Dead. And then... [[Ho Yay|unexpected stuffs happen]].

* Johnny Truant in ''[[House of Leaves]]''. He idolizes one woman--awoman—a ''stripper'', to boot--butboot—but never works up the nerve to talk to her.

* Martin Tupper of ''[[Dream On]]'', who went through woman after woman in a effort to replace his true love, his ex-wife, Lilith. (It should be noted that many fans of the show found Martin and Lilith's [[Last-Minute Hookup|final season reconciliation]] to be the show's [[Jumping the Shark|Shark Jump]] moment.