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* ''[[Italian Spiderman]]''. For all his [[Hypocritical Humour|"Respecte la donna!"]], he's the biggest sexist of all time. And it's ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|hilarious]]''.

* A lot of monster movies have the girl falling in love with the biggest chauvinist in the cast. ''[[King Kong]]'' probably started it, but it's alive and well twenty years later in ''Them!'' and the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]-ified ''The Deadly Mantis''.

* Jack Crow gets a two-for-one in ''John Carpenter's Vampires''. He's both sexist AND violently homophobic.

** When was Jack Crow shown to be homophobic? The closest this Troper can recall is a couple of passing remarks Crow made about vampires performing homosexual acts, and they probably weren't meant to be taken seriously.

* He wasn't the protagonist, but the co-pilot in [[Snakes on a Plane]] was leering misogynist constantly on the edge of a sexual harassment lawsuit. After the pilot died, he locked himself in a cockpit full of snakes and kept the plane up until he died, making suggestive jokes to the flight attendants up to the end.

* The titular character of ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' '''definitely''' qualifies:

'''Harry Callahan:''' Especially Spics. }}

* Perhaps the Ur example for television (at least in the US) is Archie Bunker from ''[[All in The Family]]''. Racist, sexist, the whole nine yards. The only reason the show got away with it was because Archie was [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|portrayed as an idiot for having these views]].

* The titular character of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' says some pretty sexist things, but then he is pretty much [[Deadpan Snarker|an equal-opportunity insult-slinger]]. (Not that such a thing always stops complaints.)

'''House''': [[I Resemble That Remark|That top makes you look like an Afghani prostitute]]...[[[Beat]]]...would be an example of that. }}

* DCI Gene Hunt from ''[[Life On Mars]]'' and ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' is a particularly good example. (Heavily lampshade-hung in the Season 1 finale of A2A, when Alex tells Gene there's a ''sizeable'' percentage of otherwise intelligent twenty-first-century women who'd be perfectly happy to sleep with him.)

'''Sam Tyler:''' Think you might have missed out the Jews. }}

* The Todd in ''[[Scrubs]]'' constantly sexually harasses the female staff at Sacred Heart, and says many sexist and derogatory things....yet remains one of the most popular side characters, second only to the [[Almighty Janitor]].

** Mike Franks, Gibbs' mentor, fits this trope even better. His sexist views are FAR more blatant. When he found out Jenny Shepard was the director of NCIS, he laughed at her since she was a woman.

* Dennis Duffy on ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''. He's a sexist, homophobic, racist lout who calls Liz "Dummy" and embarrasses her in public. Oh, and did we mention he happens to be an Internet predator? (Actually he was apparently later exonerated) Well, Liz sporadically dates him and some fans seem to like [[Shipping]] them together. Witness a break-up speech he delivered:

** And Jack Donaghy on the same show. ''Only'' Alec Baldwin could get away with the line "I like a woman with ambition; it's like seeing a dog wearing clothes".

** Liz herself has some racist tendencies, but continues to be loved.

* Barney on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', as per his role as the [[Casanova]], tends to treat women like objects, but has enough [[Magnificent Bastard|style]] and goes [[Refuge in Audacity|far enough over the top]] that people still love him.

** He also has enough genuinely decent moments to keep him firmly in the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] territory.

* Chief O'Brien on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' was a (somewhat) Licensed [[Fantastic Racism|Fantastic Racist]] against the alien Cardassians. In one of the few ''Next Generation'' episodes that gave him a prominent role, he explained his excuse for this -- during a war with the Cardassians he had to kill another person for the first time (in self-defence), and hated himself for doing so. Of course he still got a lot of flak for his racism, especially in a much later episode of ''Deep Space Nine'' when he showed a lot of dislike for a young and innocent Cardassian child (though he got better over time). Nonetheless, he was generally a very likeable and sympathetic character.

** Kira follows a similar, more dramatic character arc. Her absolute hatred of the Cardassians was pretty justified, since she spent her entire life fighting against their horrifically brutal occupation of her planet. Over the course of the series, she came to accept that not all Cardassians are evil, and even began to sympathize with them when ''their'' planet is occupied.

* Buz Murdock of ''[[Route 66]]'' is a Licensed Sexist, and made at least two cringe-inducing speeches about a woman's place as helper and subordinate to her man during the show's run. He's the lead character and portrayed sympathetically: the women ''agree'' more often than not, and see the "error" of their ways! His view of relations between the sexes is, arguably, a bit of [[Author Appeal]].

* A recurring character in Series 3 of ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' is Captain Todger, a superhero with an outdated, Bernard Manning sense of humour, whose emblem is a crude drawing of a penis.

'''General Drayfox:''' (An incredibly PC supervillain) ''"THEN WHERE IS HE?!"''<br />

'''Mayor:''' ''"Well at the moment, he's in prison for statutory rape."''<br />

== Western Animation ==

* Subverted in ''[[Futurama]]'' with Zapp Brannigan, who is perceived in-world as a [[Magnificent Bastard]], but to the main characters and the audience is just a [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Jerkass]] in velour. In one episode, it is revealed that women are no longer allowed to serve in the military, not because of some societal prejudice, but to prevent his constant sexual harassment.

** The Professor has a hint of this. When Fry thought he was a robot:

'''Farnsworth:''' "You're going to do his laundry?" }}

*** When stuck at Roswell in 1947, Leela and the Professor dressed in hilariously stereotyped clothes go to an appliance store to acquire a microwave oven, not realizing they aren't invented yet. While the salesman ignoring Leela and focusing his pitch to her "husband" could be somewhat handwaved as the sexism prevalent to that era, the Professor gleefully partaking in the jokes certainly wasn't excusable, as Leela reminds him by [[Laser-Guided Karma|setting his tie on fire with an oven]].