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{{trope}}
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Behind every powerful man (or woman, occasionally), there is a secretary, assistant, or aide to keep his schedule and organize the paperwork. This character is usually calm and meticulous, is likely to wear a [[Sharp-Dressed Man|crisply pressed suit]], and may have [[Stoic Spectacles|hot little glasses]]. In other words, they're a ''perfect'' excuse to throw in a little [[Fan Service]]. Because [[Most Writers Are Male]], this tends to take the form of the [[Sexy Secretary]], but sometimes (especially in works that lean towards a female audience), it'll be [[Mr. Fanservice|an attractive guy]]: the
If the boss is also a hot guy, there's opportunity for [[Ho Yay]] via [[Subordinate Excuse]], for additional [[Mr. Fanservice]] value.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Descendants of Darkness]]'': Grouchy old man Chief Konoe has hot secretary Seiichiro Tatsumi (seen above).
* ''100% Perfect Girl'': [[Love Interest|Prince Jarte]] (himself no slouch in the looks department) has two: His secretary and head of intelligence Benjamin, who is very pretty, has [[Stoic Spectacles|little glasses]] and [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|butt-length hair]], and Kairen, the head of the secret service, who is pretty and pouts a lot.
* Sai, secretary to the Millenium Prime Minister, complete with long pretty hair and a massive case of unrequited love.{{context}}<!-- Inverted: the context is here, but the *work* isn't. What is this from? -->
* More yaoi than you can shake a large, suggestively-shaped stick at, as it's a standard plot.
** ''Specially'' in [[Boku no Sexual Harassment]], where the [[Uke]] Mochizuki is told by the [[Seme]] Honma to sex-up his way through the company he works.
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* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', we have this in G, Giotto (Vongola Primo)'s glasses-wearing right hand man. In the anime, there is even a episode where G demonstrates this. Gokudera seems to have turned into this in the future.
* Rei Hino's father had one in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga, a [[Megane]] young man named Kaidou. He's a [[Big Brother Mentor]] to Rei, though she harbors a crush on him for a while.
* Freeza from [[
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', [[Hikikomori|Isolationist!Japan]] has the [[Moe Anthropomorphism]] of the Osaka Prefecture handling his meetings with the only mantion he meets up with, Netherlands.
** In the ''[[Hetalia
*** And in the "Can't Escape from Italy" strips/episodes, England had another [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] aidé, a spy named Howard. Fans speculate that, since "Mr. Workbitch" looks like him, he may be Howard's relative (possibly his grandson)
* [[media:
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Ryan Reynolds]] to [[Sandra Bullock]] in ''[[The Proposal]]''.
== [[Live
* ''[[Mad Men]]'': Lane Pryce's <s>secretary</s> ''[[Insistent Terminology|right hand]]'', John Hooker, is one of these even within the universe: as office manager at Sterling Cooper upon its takeover by Putnam, Powell, and Lowe, he replaces Joan...and is thus in charge of the secretarial pool. The secretaries (besides Joan, who hates him for personal reasons and disdains him for professional ones) all swoon over his good looks and sexy British accent.
* In ''[[Friends]]'', Rachel hires a totally unqualified guy for her assistant solely on the basis that he was cute.
* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', the Haitian was right-hand hottie to Noah Bennet. Played by former Hugo Boss model Jimmy Jean-Louis, no less.
* ''[[
** In the first episode, Jack introduces him as the guy a) who handles clean-up, b) gets the team from place to place, and c) "looks good in a suit." So yeah, John wasn't too far off.
* On ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Harriet Jones (Prime Minister) and Torchwood One leader Yvonne Hartman both had attractive right-hand men.
* Billy Keikeya, Gaius Baltar and (to an extant in Seasons 1-3 and fully in Season 4) Lee "Apollo" Adama fill this role for Education Secretary/President Laura Roslin on the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* Maya on ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' did this as an experiment for an article, pitting a handsome doof against someone who was qualified but plain-looking. Guess who won.
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'''s [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Sir Leon is Arthur's second-in-command. Having appeared throughout season 2 simply as a random knight, he was upgraded in season 3 to this trope.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Valvatorez from ''[[Disgaea 4:
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Simpsons (
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'': in one episode, Homer gets an attractive male [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hypercompetent Assistant]] with [[Ho Yay]] overtones.
** Also Mr Smithers, assistant to Mr Burns, as far as some of the viewers are concerned.
* Kronk to Yzma in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'''s Charles Foster Offdensen.
* [[Gargoyles|Owen Burnett]] is the right hand to David Xanatos (yes, [[Xanatos Planned This Index|that Xanatos]])
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Catherine the Great]] was fond of those. Platon Zubov was a particularly outstanding example of the trope.
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