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{{quote|''"Do the right thing; Karma will get you laid!"''|'''[[
If fictional characters knew that being good [[Good People Have Good Sex|gets you good sex]], there might not be any villains. One common way this shows up, especially in [[Comedy]], is with Sexual Karma. Though not just in the sense of "you give good sex, you get good sex back" (which can certainly come into play, but is not the end of it). What happens is that good characters will, through wacky and unpredictable happenstance, usually end up falling into a veritable [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem|harem of highly desirable and willing members of their preferred gender]], while the [[Jerkass]] will be dumped into a veritable harem of their ''least'' favored members of their (un)preferred gender. ''[[Romanticized Abuse|While in chains.]] '''[[And I Must Scream|Where no one can hear them scream.]]'''''
Implementation varies, they don't always fall through a skylight onto a pile of cushions with various scantily clad concubines (though that ''is'' the classic). Even sex need not be involved, it might just be a single guy ending up alone with a [[Bus Full of Innocents|bus full of volleyball players they helped save]] and who are grateful enough to flirt with and/or dote on him. Or the good character might mope that, after spending all the movie helping the lead solve his or her love problems they're still single... to the unbearably attractive bar-person [[Hooked Up Afterwards|who happens]] to be single! Alternately the wingman and winggirl of the two leads [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|may become]] a happy [[Beta Couple]]. Depending on the rating, they may only be implied to start dating, get it on, or ''actually'' get it on screen.
In contrast, most [[Jerkass|Jerk Asses]] (and a fair number of heroic [[Butt Monkey
It's not always a person, though; animals, "monsters", or aliens can also be substituted in [[Green
Depending on how it's used, this trope may carry [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Please don't ask us to elaborate, [[There Are No Therapists|therapy isn't cheap.]]
A subtrope of [[Black Comedy Rape]], and closely related to [[Laser
{{noreallife|Real Life is not scripted.}}
{{examples
== [[Anime]]
* Sanji from ''[[One Piece]]'' ends up on an island full of cross-dressers after {{spoiler|Bartholomew Kuma rockets the Straw Hat Pirates away from each other}}. He spends a lot of time unknowingly saying that he likes dressing in women's clothing to a cross-dresser he believed was a beautiful woman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Also, Absalom's molestation and ogling of Nami/Robin is repaid with the affections of Lola. Who is a zombie. And [[Gonk|ugly]]. And a warthog. This is [[Adaptation Expansion|more detailed]] in the anime.
** Luffy, on the other hand, for being such a good hearted moron, wins the affections of Boa Hancock, the [[
* In ''[[Jura Tripper]]'', instead of being requited by any of his love interests, [[Jerkass]] God only receives affection from pet dinosaur Miyu.
* A Yakuza member in ''[[Yamatogawa|Witchcraft]]'' is dropped into a pit full of bored homunculi. We don't see precisely what happens to him, but the homunculi were created for sex, and despite their feminine forms, they have penises rather than vaginas.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Starr in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' orders an incompetent minion to set him up with a prostitute. He gets a male one who does not take no for an answer. This is actually quite early in Starr's [[Humiliation Conga]].
* In ''[[Ernie]]'', a sleazy boss tries to get Doris to sleep with her, threatening to fire her if she don't go along. She beats him up and quits on her own. However, this was apparently not enough punishment for some people (the next strip is of the artist being chewed out by his wife and banished to the couch because the sleaze "got away with it"), so the boss is later on vacation and tries the hot tub... which is then occupied by several recently-conceiving mothers. Uh, yeah. If this seems a bit convoluted to you, you're not alone.
== [[Film]] ==
* Oh, the ending to ''[[Gremlins]] 2.'' Gets the extra points and everything, and a particularly mean example because the guy wasn't a villain so much as kind of a [[Jerkass]]. At the end he just shrugs and accepts that the amorous female Gremlin is going to have him one way or another. After all the chaos he's been through regarding the regular gremlins, the one female that has a major crush on him is probably the least of his problems.
* ''[[Ace Ventura]]: When Nature Calls'' has the protagonist enjoy a night with [[The
** Of course, this comes back to bite Ace in the ass.
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'''Ace''': ...''they can tell that''? ''*Cue entire Wachati tribe chasing Ace through the jungle'' }}
* At the end of ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', Robin ends up with Maid Marian, while the Sheriff of Nothingham ends up in the arms of [[Abhorrent Admirer]] Latrine.
* Shannon Hamilton of ''[[Mallrats]]'' likes to screw girls in an extremely uncomfortable place.
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** And the karma rebound for his [[
* In the film version of ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', the villain winds up with a (semi-sentient) gorilla... who he'd just exchanged vows with while in a dark cave, thinking it was Ursula.
* In [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Anastasia]]'', Rasputin's bat sidekick abandons him at the climax and is awarded a female bat at the end with no explanation.
** [[Fridge Logic|Obviously]] she thought that [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* The ending of ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'' subverts
* ''[[
* ''[[Sorority Boys]]:'' Throughout the film, [[Jerkass|Adam]] encourages Jimmy, his little brother in the fraternity, to take advantage of inebriated girls. So when "Adina" (Adam dressed in drag) ends up passed out in in Jimmy's room, he [[Unusual Euphemism|capitalizes on the opportunity]]. Adam then takes the same humiliating walk of shame that girls had to endure after a night with ''him''.
* ''[[Trading Places]]'': the protagonist ends up with [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], while the callous, [[Jerkass]] Beeks ends up with a male amorous gorilla in a cage.... wearing a (female) gorilla suit.....
* At the end of ''[[Shrek]] 2'', the handsome but awful Prince Charming is grabbed and forcibly kissed by the ugly step-sister.
* ''[[Intermission (
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The wife of David Hopkins, author of ''[[Jack (
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Solange of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' gets the ultimate [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921125822/http://www.crystalhall.org/jade4.html in] [[Crystal Hall]].
** The fandom promptly [[Broken Base|exploded]] after the section where it happens was posted, dividing into three groups: the first felt that Solange deserved it and it was hilarious; the second felt that, no matter what Solange had done, she didn't deserve ''that''; the third felt that while it was a terrible thing that no
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[
* Kid-friendly example: In the ''[[
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