Pretty Boy: Difference between revisions

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This doesn't necessarily mean he's androgynous, or looks like a girl, though; that's a different trope, [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] (or [[Viewer Gender Confusion]], if he's androgynous enough that the audience is genuinely confused about his real gender).

The Pretty Boy also isn't necessarily effeminate or weak. He may well be as strong or physically powerful as the other, more muscular guys, and as masculine as the more ruggedly handsome ones. Expect one of his more rugged counterparts to sneeringly call him "Pretty boy" at least once. Increasingly common for even his detractors to comment on [[Even the Guys Want Him|just how much they appreciate his looks]].

Note: East Asian media (particularly Japanese and Korean) uses a related trope, [[Bishonen]]. The main difference is that in western media there seems to be a cutoff point as to where a male can be ''too'' pretty, whereas eastern culture doesn't really have that.

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* Seems to be a [[Star Wars|Skywalker]] family trait.

* [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] back in his ''[[Titanic]]'' and ''[[Man in the Iron Mask]]'' days.

* Patrick (played by the late [[Heath Ledger]]) in ''[[~~Ten~~ Things I Hate About You]]''.

* Patrick (played by the late [[Heath Ledger]]) in ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]''.

* Loki, especially compared to his brother, ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' .

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* All of the male vampires in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. They even come with the [[Bishie Sparkle]] ''pre-packaged''.

* There are a bunch in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'':

** Ser Loras Tyrell is described as "beautiful" rather than handsome, called "The Knight of Flowers" and clad in rainbow armour {{spoiler|until he joined the Kingsguard}}. Of course, this is probably to do with the fact that he's only about sixteen at the start of the series.

** Joffrey Baratheon, who is described as a combination of his sister Myrcella and his uncle Jaime {{spoiler|who also happens to be his father.}}

** Rhaegar Targaryen was a beautiful [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] who despite being a great warrior, was also a sensitve/emo man who liked to play the lyre (fans have joked that the character seems to have walked out of an anime or a JRPG).

** "Young Griff" is a beautiful young man who has long eye lashes and dyes his hair [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue]] {{spoiler|He's actually Aegon Targaryen, the son of the above Rhaegar, or at least a convincing impostor}}.

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'''Merlin:''' (smirking at Arthur)Thank you. }}

** Lancelot manages to be this ''and'' a [[Hunk/]] Not really sure how he pulls it off.

* Michael Kelso from ''[[That 70s Show]]'', who describes himself as "man-pretty".

* Michael Kelso from ''[[That '70s Show]]'', who describes himself as "man-pretty".

* From [[Degrassi]] we have Drew, Craig, Eli, Peter, Zane, Marco, and arguably Dylan. Although the latter is a [[Manly Gay]], his facial features could qualify him as this.

* [[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries]], we have Joe Hardy (aka [[Teen Idol|Shaun Cassidy]]). Yumm.

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{{quote|"The Eldar are physically similar to humans, but with longer, cleaner limbs, slim and elegant features, pointed ears, and penetrating eyes."}}

*** Additionally the chapters based on Sanguinis' gene seed are also noted as being somewhat prettier than the other marines.

** The Emperor's Children (Chaos) Space Marine Legion. So Bishonen that they are derrisively referred to as "peacocks" by most of the other legions while they are still loyal to the Imperium's cause. Their primarch, Fulgrim, is one of the prettiest humans alive. Furthermore, even after falling to Chaos, they continue trying to make themselves look as alluring and attractive as possible, part of their pact with the Chaos god Slaanesh. It doesn't help that their armour is various shades of purple and pink...

*** Pretty much any follower of Slaanesh in either classic Warhammer or Warhammer 40k qualifies. The Emperor's Children were always bishonen, after falling in thrall to Slaanesh they became more like [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Bosch-onen]].

**** Unlike the Pretty Marines, the pre-Heresy Emperor's Children were just as brutal and ruthless as any other Space Marines, so looks can be deceiving.

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** [[Word of God|Foglio]] has said that he designed Maxim for fun, to see if he ''could'' draw a bishonen Jaeger. Well, he can!

* The titular character from [[Terinu]] is definitely bishie, coming from a genetically uplifted race designed to look cute. Being marsupials, even the females are fairly androgenous in appearance ([[Pettanko|flat-chested]] after all).

* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'': Jules reacts this way to Sean. Although that might just be because of his wings.

** Similarly, ''[[Alien Dice]]'' has Lexx. Who, in a noncanon segment from Cafe Anime, got kidnapped, blasted with a jar of [[Bishie Sparkle|bishi glitter]], and paraded around in a leash and an undershirt as a demonstration of "How To Bishi". And who has a large fan base in Canon.

* ''[[Blip]]'' portrays [[Satan|Lucifer]] this way. At one point, Luc meets an angel who is his exact double. His reaction: "I'm... gorgeous!"

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She sighed. "Sometimes Will was prettier than I was." }}

* Apollo, Dionysus, and Eros in [[Thalias Musings]].

* Hashimoto Daichi, and Nektarios Lekas, who along with most male demigods, is described as being handsome.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. Even he lampshaded it in the ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' review by trying to say he got more handsome, but couldn't do it and chose "pretty" instead.

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* ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', ''[[Winx Club]]'', and ''[[Totally Spies]]'', due to their anime influences, tend to have bishie male characters as [[Love Interests]].

* Aqualad from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. As well as Malchior (or Rorek) except his "human" form is ''made of paper''.

* Chase Young was tagged to be a [[Bishonen]] in the ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' trope-section - I guess it works if you're into 1500-year-old half-dragons immortals...he does stay in his human form most of the time.

* Julio Blanco from the MTV cartoon ''[[Spy Groove]]'' is so pretty that ''[[Leonardo DiCaprio]]'' is considered a suspect in his death {{spoiler|He faked it.}}

* Brackus from ''[[Di-Gata Defenders]]'' was revealed to be one [[I Was Quite a Looker|when he was younger]]. Blatant Fanbase pandering by the animators.

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* In [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]]''

** [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] Mako takes over the throne for Zuko in this department, (his younger brother Bolin is a [[Big Beautiful Man]])

** [[Jerk Jock]] and [[Agent Peacock]] Tahno also qualifies, and [[The Hero]] Korra disparagingly calls him such in "The Spirit of Competition."

* Shang in ''[[Mulan]]''. Yao even refers to him as such during His [[Shirtless Scene]].

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* [[Benedict Cumberbatch]].

* [[Tom Hiddleston]]

* The late [[Heath Ledger]].

* The young Gregory Peck could look like this.

* If it's possible, youtube singer Nick Pireta looks like a poutier Dean Winchester.