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* Silk from [[The Belgariad]] has strong tendancies of this trope, especially in the Mallorean when he trades out his vaguely tragic [[Unrequited Love]] for Queen Porenn to catching the eye of wily [[Action Girl|up-and-coming Lady-Spy]] Liselle.

'''Silk:''' "Not ''me'', my young friend. In spite of this universal plunge towards matrimony, ''I'' still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run." }}

* In ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'', friends of the warlock from "The Warlock's Hairy Heart" are convinced that he will eat his words about love when a nice girl catches his eye. They have no idea that he ''removed his own heart'' to prevent this from happening.

* Barney from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''.

* Danny on ''[[CSI: NY]]''

'''Danny''':Come on, Mac, don't say stuff like that. }}

** Of course, five seasons later, that all changed...

** His love interest, Beatrice, is a rare female version of this trope.

* ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' has Sky Masterson.

'''Sky:''' " But, Nathan, we can fight it. The companionship of a doll is pleasant even for a period running into months. But for a close relationship that can last through our life, no doll can take the place of aces back to back." }}

* ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' has a man who embodies this trope in pretty much every way in Professor Henry Higgins, he even says out loud 'So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.' the only hitch is that whether he actually does break down and end up in a relationship in the end. It's clear by the end of the movie he's grown quite fond of Eliza, and unlike the play, they even added a scene at the end where they reunite and, arguably reconcile, but even aside from the [[May-December Romance|May December]] nature of any potential romance, he's treated her so badly for the whole movie, and even in this last little scene that it's questionable at best how they would ever work as a couple. At the least he learned to love a woman even if they didn't end up married.

** This was based on the play ''[[Pygmalion]]'', by George Bernard Shaw, who added an afterword to the script railing against people who thought that the two main characters would even consider romantic entanglements with each other post-plot.

* In the musical ''[[Company]]'', Robert ("Bobby") is a 35-year-old New York bachelor whose circle of non-romantic friends are all couples. In the song "Side By Side" he sings: