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According to many movies, books, and TV shows, seriously good-looking men will usually turn out to have character defects making them just short of the [[Anti Christ]]. Can be a case of [[Truth in Television]].<ref>
Might happen because the authors are dealing with their own issues (ex-girlfriends or nerds). If it's the latter, the plain nice guy wins. If the former, then a fantasy idol who is an exception will be in the story.
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== Straight (Male) examples
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Griffith in ''[[Berserk]]'' is so Bishonen it hurts. He's also the major [[Big Bad]] of the series.
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** Some of the guys that Laura becomes interested in usually end up being jerks who just want to sleep with her.
* Damon Salvatore of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]''.
* Angel and Spike in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. They've both spent a good amount of their lives [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing]], murdering and [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|even raping]] various people, and never reform completely, but it doesn't seem to detract from their sexual appeal. They dress a lot more stylishly than either [[Cool Loser|Xander]] or [[Good Is Boring|Riley]] and, [[Informed Ability|judging by the reactions of other characters in universe
* Eric from ''[[True Blood]]'', especially after he took a level in sexy in seasons two and three.
** And Bill and Jason have had their moments of complete bastardry, too.
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== [[Distaff Counterpart|Female]] examples
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* [[Eiichiro Oda]] appears pretty fond of it. Especially [[One Piece|Nami and Boa]] often use their looks to get work done for them or get through with absurd actions.
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