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''[[Too Kinky to Torture|Sticking into your gums]].''|'''[[Tom Lehrer]]''', ''[[The Masochism Tango]]''}}
What accessory could you possibly add to up your sex appeal 20 notches, show your sensitive side, and [[Rule of Cool|look really cool]]? A rose, of course! It's a flower, so it's beautiful and romantic like you, but it has thorns, and you're no wuss. Hold it between your teeth, if you want to up your sex appeal a few more notches. Perfect!
And in some cases, [[Improbable Weapon User|it can be weaponized]] into a [[Whip It Good]] and/or [[Petal Power|petal storm]]!
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* Muraki Kazutaka in ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'' has a thing for roses, at one point stating the symbolism of the roses he attempts to give to the main character as "eternal love", which just reinforces the point made throughout the manga that he's not someone one should mess around with.
* Himuro Saeki in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]''.
* Tatewaki Kuno from ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* Creed from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' often carries a rose, and this is taken to ridiculous extremes in the anime version, where his bath is full of roses. Also, he encloses a rose in the letter he sends to the hero. The hero is Not Amused.
* Guiche from ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'' uses one instead of a wand, to complement his casanova appearance.
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* Endrance, from the ''[[.hack|.hack//GU]]'' games, has roses on his hat. And is usually accompanied by rose petals during cut scenes. And his Avatar is ''sixty percent giant rose''.
* Dist the Rose from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' does not magically pull said flower out in the game, but he does have a rose motif in his visual design and personality.
* Jun Kurosu from ''[[Persona 2]]'' fights with fortune predictions and flowers, including the aforementioned roses.
* In ''[[Soul Calibur]] IV'', Raphael's joke weapon is a rose.
* In ''[[Fatal Fury]]'', Spanish warrior Laurence Blood starts battles off by tossing a rose to his opponent, then shredding it with multiple sword swipes. This later evolved into an actual attack.
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** In the prequel, ''Dissidia 012'', Firion and [[Final Fantasy XIII|Lightning]] share the connection they both feel with roses (as Odin's summon crystal, which is possessed by Lightning in her game, is shaped like a rose), which causes sexual tension between them.
* ''[[Sapphire]]'': Boris's 'Blood Rose' attack. Which involves killing the victim ''by teleporting it into his/her heart''.
* In The ''[[Book of Amber]]'', the first protagonist, Corwin, has as his emblem a silver rose. A brief mention is made of the fact that his cloak-clasp is a silver rose, but it's not mentioned again until the second protagonist, his son Merlin, finds a real, fresh-cut silver rose on Corwin's bedside table (even though Corwin was missing, presumed dead at the time<ref>It does get established that more than one version of Corwin was around at the time, as well as the how and some of the why</ref>). Nothing is made of it because the series ends abruptly due to [[Author Existence Failure]].
** In the portrait introducing Benedict, he "leaned upon a lance about which was entwined a rope of flowers".
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Johan]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Elites]], who's {{spoiler|[[Tokimeki Memorial|Rei Ijuin]]}}'s [[Expy]] in ''[[Mitsumete Knight|Mitsumete]] [[Spiritual Successor|Knight]]''.
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* Instead of James/Kojiro, mentioned above, Jessie/Musashi of ''[[Pokémon]]'' has, on at least one occasion, held a rose during an introduction.
* Chie in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' carries a blue rose around with her, which given her [[Bifauxnen|quasi-boyish appearance]] and the fuckton of [[Les Yay]] that she gives off in her first appearance, is likely playing off this trope.
* Kodachi Kuno in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
** She also summons up a veritable storm of black rose petals whenever she makes her [[Incoming Ham|dramatic entrance]] (and [[Villain Exit Stage Left|dramatic exit]]), covering the ground, the walls, the furniture, and the innocent bystanders, who complain about having to clean up after her.
** Black rose bouquets as hidden bombs for sleeping powder and paralysis powder (and actual gunpowder, in one manga story) are also a favorite tactic.
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