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* Pick a [[Harem Anime]] protagonist. ''Any'' [[Harem Anime]] protagonist.

* Tenchi Masaki from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' is the classic [[Unlucky Everydude]] version.

 

 

* Archie Andrews from the ''[[Archie Comics]]''. For some reason.

** Thoroughly deconstructed when Betty brings over some photos of Archie. Veronica points out he's actually kind of ugly. This leads into them realizing he's selfish, boorish, and is generally bad, and they should both dump him. [[Beat]]. "You first." "No, ''you'' first." They glumly conclude that Archie is some sort of [[Kavorka Man]].

 

 

* Kyon, the titular character in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''. Being a brilliant martial artist as well as breaking up an illegal voyeuristic photography ring probably has something to do with it.

** Koizumi too. All he has to do is walk into Kyon's class, and all the girls just stop what they're doing and stare.

 

 

* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'': For the viewers, he's a [[Kavorka Man]], but none of the women in the film can (or want to) resist him. Of course, he rejects their affections until being tricked into losing his magical belt.

* The title character in ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery''. He also has allied female agents falling for him in the other movies.

 

 

* Nawat Crow in Tamora Pierce's [[Tortall Universe|Trickster Books]] is rather like this. His innocence is compounded by the fact that...well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|he's a transformed crow]] and, in the beginning, misinterpreted kissing as mate-feeding and thought that a reasonable way to substancially increase the number of available warriors was to continuously mate and have nestlings. The fact that he's adorable doesn't hurt either.

* In Simon Hawke's ''[[The Reluctant Sorcerer]]'' trilogy, women far and wide find the main character endearing to no end, because his nature strikes them smack-dab in their maternal instinct.

 

 

* Nate Archibald from the ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' series.

* In an episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Xander tried to have a love spell cast for him. It turned him into a chick magnet for everyone ''but'' the target, as these things tend to do.

 

 

* Adonis of [[Greek Mythology]]. So handsome that two goddesses fell in love with him at first sight. Aphrodite took a shine to him when he was ''[[Squick|born]]'' and Persephone fell for him when he was about [[Shotacon|thirteen]]. It didn't end well for Adonis -- when he eventually chose [[First Girl Wins|Aphrodite]], [[If I Can't Have You|a furious Persephone told]] Aphrodite's former lover [[Complete Monster|Ares]] about Aphrodite's new beau. Ares turned into a boar and attacked Adonis while he was out hunting. Since Ares is a jerk, he killed Adonis by [[Groin Attack|goring him in the crotch]].

* Diarmid O'Dyna of [[Celtic Mythology]] (who was Lancer in the aforementioned [[Fate/Zero]]) had this as an actual magical ability -- any woman who looked at his face would instantly fall in love with him. One of these was a woman who caught sight of him at her own wedding party. Her husband-to-be [[Murder the Hypotenuse|didn't take it very well]].

 

 

** It's probably more because Miz's character is basically that he is a massive tool, so he'd be the sort to provide an illustration of the concept.

* [[Daniel Bryan]] seems to be this in WWE, drawing the WWE Divas to him without even trying (or acting upon it). In one instance, he's got the Bella twins hanging on each arm.

 

 

* Ludwig von Koopa. And, very, very likely, most popular Koopaling. Of all the Koopalings, he's the one with the girls chasing after him. Everybody loves his deep voice in New Super Mario Bros Wii.

* [[Mario]] in the [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]] games is treated as such.

 

 

* Okazaki Tomoya of ''[[Clannad]]''. Ends up with six girls in love with him, and denies that any of them are.

* Hisao Nakai of ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has five very good looking women as potential love interest within only three days of arriving at Yamaku. Its a pity that he is there because of his cogential arrythmia

 

 

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' plays with the trope in [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020412 this strip from 2002].

* El Chupacabre (better known as "Chuy") in the webcomic ''[http://www.go-girly.com Girly]'', who initially is under the mistaken impression that he is using his powers for good. Unfortunately, he's also a sort of unintentional [[Kavorka Man]], and his [[Heel Face Turn]] is complicated by the fact that, no matter what he does, any woman he gets near develops a sudden and overpowering attraction to him. And let's not even ''start'' on [[Freaky Friday|what happened when everyone got shuffled into different bodies and his girlfriend got his, mojo and all]].

 

 

* Wren from [[We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay)|We Are Our Avatars]] counts as one. As Falken puts it:

{{quote|"A gravitational force that draws nearly all women in his direction"}}

 

 

* [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Disney's Peter Pan]] has Tinker Bell, Wendy, Tiger Lily and a gang of mermaids all over him and easily jealous.

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' played with the trope in one episode, with Numbuh One being the "chick magnet" {{spoiler|- for a brood of baby chicks}}.

 

 

* Frank Sinatra. ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' featuring of him frequently had the members of his audience fainting, sighing "Oh Frankie!" in ecstasy, going into seizures, or screaming. They always chased after him in huge crowds once he was done performing.

** Arguably a subversion: after his death it was revealed that many of the earlier swooning women were actually [[Astroturfing|actresses paid by his publicist]] to hype up his image before he was really famous.

** It should be noted that this man has absolutely no idea why he has this effect on women. He doesn't [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/benedict-cumberbatch-im-not-sexy-16165217.html find himself attractive] at all!

 

 

* The title character of ''[[Miyuki-chan in Wonderland]]'' attracts the attention of <s>all the girls</s> everyone in the worlds she stumbles in, since they're all inhabited by girls only.

* Haruhi Fujioka from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' is probably one of the only heterosexual girls who's still a genuine [[Chick Magnet]], given her... [[Wholesome Crossdresser|unique circumstances]].

* [[Hayate the Combat Butler|Hinagiku]] should be here. Apparently ''[[Even the Girls Want Her|everyone]]'' in the school likes her. Lampshaded several times, and once by the title of a chapter, "Are you a magnet or something?"

* Yuria, Kenshiro's one true love from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', is sought after by a significant portion of the cast for one reason or another; most memorably by [[Rival Turned Evil|Shin]], but even big scary [[Noble Demon|Raoh]] fell for her ''hard.''

** Also, [[Gender Bender|Ranma's]] [[Attractive Bent Gender|female form]]. Those who don't know she is a he pursue her. Those who do openly ogle.

* Natsuru from ''[[Kämpfer]]'' only starts attracting females after his gender-bending transformations; even the ones interested in his male form weren't interested before. Though more girls want the female Natsuru, the male version gets this reputation amplified when rumor goes around that he has a secret affair with the female Natsuru.

 

 

* Jessica Drew's [[Spider Woman]] is a reversion of this trope: she's actually a ''guy magnet'', thanks to her power which has a side effect of attracting men.

* [[Marvel Star Wars|Zeltrons]] are [http://images.plurk.com/7b4dada705f4bfbf1b0c332da452b38d.jpg drawn to] Leia Organa just as they are to her brother, and for the same reasons - she's heroic, famous, and Force-Sensitive.

 

 

* The entire plot of ''[[There's Something About Mary]]'' was based on the titular character being one of these.

** Although she tended to attract a [[Stalker with a Crush|particular type]] of man.

 

 

* Bella Swan of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fame. Apparently even her science teacher fancies her.

* Raven of ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'' has three guys after her at one time or another, the guys being Trevor, Jagger, and Alexander.

 

 

* Fred was a bit like this in ''[[Angel]]''. It took her forever to notice that both Gunn and Wesley liked her, plus [[Amy Acker]] apparently got quite a lot of attention on set as well.

** Characters who have been attracted to or [[Ship Tease|Ship Teased]] with Fred or {{spoiler|Ilyria}}: Angel, Angelus, Wesley, Gunn, Spike, Knox, Connor, and [[Even the Girls Want Her|Willow]].

 

 

* Asellus of ''[[Saga Frontier]]'' is a rare video game example of this (still attracting girls, not guys, mind you), and there's a in-story reason for it to boot. She has {{spoiler|the blood of the Charm Lord in her, which makes her half-mystic, but also gives her the Charm Lord's Innate abilities of seduction and attraction to females.}} If you see the [[Easter Egg]], you'll understand more.

* Pamela from ''[[Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al Revis]]''. She's a ''very'' [[Moe]], '''''very''''' [[Cute Ghost Girl]]. The ghost part doesn't deter guys (even the ''principal''!) from courting her.

 

 

* Osanai Shouko from [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Aoi Shiro]]'' attracts a lot of [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|girls]] {{spoiler|up to having something dangerously close to [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]] sex}}. The fact that she's an extremely charming [[Sempai]] doesn't help, though it's more obvious when the story is related from other characters' point of view.

** It's more [[Justified Trope|justified]] in case of [[Akai Ito|Hatou Kei]]: she is [[Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious]], so a lot of characters want her as food. Most of them settles somewhere between treating her as blood dispenser and [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|lover]].

 

 

* Thunderbird, in the [[Whateley Universe]]. He's gotten all the way into his sophomore year at [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] without noticing that all the girls on his training team, that girl who is always on his case about something, and that girl he thinks of as a 'little sister' are all crushing on him. Now he has Chaka after him too.

* [[Obscurus Lupa]] fends off the advances of [[Todd in the Shadows]] and Stickman from "[[What the Fuck Is Wrong With You]]," in addition to [[Suburban Knights|Angry Joe calling her hot, Sage and the Nostalgia Critic offering to kiss her]], [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] implying that he wants to make out with her, [[Atop the Fourth Wall|90s Kid]] outright saying he wants to make out with her and [[Diamanda Hagan]] being [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|pregnant with Lupa's baby]]. The Linkara bit has Lupa ask "[[Lampshade Hanging|Why is everyone in love with me?]]" Parodied in a [["Previously On..."]] segment on "[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]" (in fact, the same one with Diamanda) where Welshy laments that "she got another one. Film Brain is now in love with Obscurus Lupa."

 

 

* Gwen from the ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama series]]'' -- she has three guys ([[Handsome Lech|Duncan,]] [[Nice Guy|Trent]] and [[Geek|Cody]]) who like her, and a couple more who have commented that she's good looking.

* Gadget from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' definitely qualifies; Chip and Dale were constantly competing for her affection, and many guest characters fell for her charms, too, [[Clueless Chick Magnet|not that she often noticed]]. It helps that she was the [[Smurfette Principle|only regular female character]].

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