Ladykiller in Love: Difference between revisions

Basically, [[Lovable Sex Maniac|the]] man(whore) ''genuinely'' [[Character Development|falls in love]].

 

 

Most of the time, the character gives up their perverted ways for love; however, it's becoming more common for them to maintain their flirtatiousness, if toned down for the sake of his girlfriend.

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Kairi from ''[[Peach Girl]]'', toward the female lead Momo.

** Kirche may be a female version, since it's strongly implied in the anime that she [[Really Gets Around]] - or at least used to, before falling for Saito.

* ''Maybe'', [[Handsome Lech|Shuutarou Mendou]] from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' - after he meets his rival's beautiful little sister, [[Shrinking Violet|Asuka]] [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|Mizunokuji]].

** Fortunately we now know that he {{spoiler|is alive and they end up together.}}

* George Koizumi in ''[[Paradise Kiss]]'', with a twist: {{spoiler|it's towards ''Kaori'' and not Yukari.}}

* Apparently, both {{spoiler|Antonio Fabiani AND Leonardo Cardinale}} of ''[[Ashita no Nadja]]'', in regards to the same girl: {{spoiler|Julietta Satori}}.

* Canon-wise, Greece from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' might be this toward Japan, although his promiscuity isn't really his main character trait (apparently you can still be an all-around [[Nice Guy]] even if you have the honor of being at the top of sex frequency charts).

* Go Katou from ''[[Aishite Night]]'' has quite the ladykiller fame, but when he develops feelings for [[Girl Next Door]] Yakko, he falls ''hard'' for her.

* In some ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'' continuities, the F4's resident Casanova Soujiro falls for Tsukushi's best friend Yuki.

* Yuki from ''[[Gravitation]]'' reportedly had numerous one-night stands with women before meeting Shuichi. There's also the fact that he was reluctant to let himself love again after {{spoiler|his first love Kitazawa set him up to be gangraped and he shot him dead in self-defense}}, until Shuichi helps him overcome it.

* Chizuru for Azumi in ''[[Hen]]''.

* ''[[The Heroic Legend of Arslan]]'' has Gieve, quite the smooth talking [[Casanova]], falling head over heels for [[Lady of War]] Farangis who ignores his advances.

* Touga from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' towards Utena. Also a [[Deconstruction]]. His love for Utena doesn't keep him from trying to control her anyway, and in the end she doesn't love him back.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

 

== Film -- Animated ==

{{quote| '''Naveen''': I am having troubles.<br />

'''Ray''': Ya got that right, bro. You in love.<br />

* This is the driving force behind ''[[Love and Other Drugs]]''.

* This is the plot for the Heath Ledger version of ''Casanova''.

* Ewan McGregor's character in the '60s rom-com pastiche ''[[Down With Love]]'' is a womanizing journalist (or "Lady's man, man's man, man-about-town") who ends up falling in love with the independent, modern-minded author of the eponymous [[Straw Feminist|feminist manifesto]] who seemingly wants nothing to do with him.

** Keyword: ''seemingly''. (Hey, it's Ewan McGregor, what healthy heterosexual woman ([[Even the Guys Want Him|or human with a pulse]]) WOULDN'T want him?)

* The 70's Australian sex comedy ''Alvin Purple''. The title character is irresistible to women, but falls in love with the one who's immune to his charms.

{{quote| '''Face''': You knew I was a player, and you wanted to play. Then I wanted to get serious and you couldn't handle it.}}

** Made extra ironic by the fact that this is the first girl he's ''wanted'' a real relationship with and all he can have with her is a single day at a time.

* Averted in ''[[Hitch]]'', where the eponymous character ''can'' be a ladykiller, but he is actually very much pro-love. His job involves being the icebreaker for shy guys who want to engage in a long-term relationship. A memorable scene involves a guy (who would later be [[Burn Notice|burned]]) who just wants Hitch's help in getting a one-night stand, so Hitch simply leaves after nearly breaking the guy's arm. Unfortunately for Hitch, his [[Love Interest]] assumes he really does help guys get one-night stands and ends up ruining his career.

* ''Loveless In Los Angeles'' has a guy get fed up with pining over a [[Just Friends]] women in college after she gets engaged to someone else when he was about to do his [[Love Confession]]. This gives him a [[Freudian Excuse]] to become a [[Lady Killer]], but then his old flame re-enters the picture, freshly divorced.

* Kalten in the ''[[Tamuli]]'' series by [[David Eddings]]. Particularly funny is that he can't seem to realize the girl he likes is in love with him. Of course, what with this being a [[David Eddings]] series, as soon as said girl finds out, she clears ''that'' right up. Expressively.

* Joe Morelli in the ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' series of novels.

* Sebastian in ''[[The Gardella Vampire Chronicles]]''.

* [[Kate Daniels]]' love interest Curran runs into this problem when trying to court the heroine. The fact that he's had a "parade" of girlfriends doesn't help his case at all, nor does the fact that he has an ego and hates to hear the word "no".

* Happens a lot in many literary incarnations of the Don Juan legend, the [[Older Than Steam]] [[Ur Example]].

* "[http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/loveowomen.html Love-o'-Women]" by [[Rudyard Kipling]] is about such a case.

* The [[Anne of Green Gables]] series has Gilbert Blythe, who was wont to tease and play with the affections of the girls in his class. However, after he tries his usual tricks on Anne Shirley and gets a slate smashed over his head for his trouble, he falls head over heels for her. From then on, to the other girls' massive frustration, he has eyes for no one else.

** Kenneth Ford, the [[Love Interest]] of Anne and Gilbert's youngest child, Rilla, is this, too, though it's not as clear.

* Nealan of Queenscove from [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'', has various crushes throughout the quartet on multiple noble ladies, up to and including the Queen. He has a tendency to make quite a lot of noise about these, writing (terrible) poetry and mourning to all and sundry the fact that all his crushes are hopelessly unrequited. However, when he falls in love with [[Silk Hiding Steel|Yukimi noh Daiomoru]], he is so tight-lipped about it that even his [[Like Brother and Sister|best friend]] Keladry of Mindelan has no clue how he feels about her until he faces his Ordeal.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Similar to the above example, Ricky of ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' once he falls in love with Junito (he considers breaking his promiscuous ways, but it never pans out for long.

* Barney Stinson, quoted above from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Sort of a subversion since he doesn't tone down his promiscuity at all (although he tries) for the sake of his new found love (at least until they actually get together).

* Joey on ''[[Friends]]'' had a brief thing for Rachel. However, it really started back when the girls practically threw one of his girls of the week at him and he realized what the rewards of a relationship could be.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', Otoya falls in love with Yuri. However, he ultimately falls in love with Maya, and Yuri ends up marrying another man off-screen.

* Daniel on ''[[Ugly Betty]]'', at least once a season.

* Done in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Night Court]]'', where Dan vows to give up his [[Kavorka Man]] ways and earnestly pursue his dream woman, Christine. (It should be noted that Dan confesses this to Harry, not Christine.)

* In season four of ''[[NCIS]],'' Tony DiNozzo finds himself in this position with Jeanne Benoit, with the added complication that {{spoiler|he initiated the relationship as part of an undercover operation and was never supposed to actually fall in love with her}}.

* [[Magnificent Bastard|Steven Hyde]] of ''[[That 70s Show]]'' when he falls in love with [[Tsundere|Jackie Burkhart]]. Prior to this he had been sleeping around, and was proud of never having formed any real attachments (even when he ''did'' have a thing for [[Bokukko|Donna]]). They maintain the relationship throughout several seasons, despite many setbacks involving Jackie's ex (and Hyde's best friend) Michael Kelso, and even [[Takahashi Couple|break up several times]] due to Jackie's desire to get married one day. They finally find a resolution when {{spoiler|Jackie is offered a job in Chicago, so she gives Hyde an ultimatum to propose or she will leave. He initally says no, so she leaves for Chicago, but Hyde follows her, another example of his actually being in love with her. When he gets there he finds Kelso already there with her and dressed only in a towel. This ends their relationship and Hyde goes back to sleeping around}}.

* Brendan Brady prides himself on not getting to invested in his conquests, but that all changes when he falls hard in love with Ste Hay on "Hollyoaks" .

** Played straight in [[The Movie]] where Leon falls for a woman and ends the story married with a child, but still doing his radio show.

* A season one episode of ''[[Supernatural]]'' introduces us to [[Casanova|Dean]] [[The Charmer|Winchester]]'s [[New Old Flame]] Cassie. We get a glimpse of what Dean looks like in love, and it turns out he's kind of a sap. Sam has fun needling him about it until he realizes who dumped whom and why, and how badly [[The Woobie|Dean]] actually got hurt.

* Over the course of two seasons and roughly forty episodes, Rick [[Castle]] has fallen so hard for Kate Beckett that a) he has asked her to take care of his daughter should something happen to him, b) without hesitation, he calmly informed her that she was coming to live with him when her apartment {{spoiler|got blown up}}, and c) the very ''sight'' of her kissing another man brought a look to his face that was so brokenhearted, fangirls cried. Yup, the guy's arse over teakettle, all right.

* Nathan on ''[[One Tree Hill]]'' started as a [[Jerk Jock]] who'd do [[Anything That Moves]]. Then he fell in love with Haley, so in love that he not only reformed his ways but he married her in high school. Years later they're still married.

** Noah "Puck" Puckerman, having dated Quinn, Rachel, Mercedes, Santana and half the Cougars in Lima, finds himself falling head over heels, to the point of joining Celibacy Club because he wants to be less of an "I'm a Man I can't help it" type guy, for Lauren Zizes, President of the AV club and only girl on the school's wrestling team, because she's as much of a [[Badass]] as him. She initially, despite being attracted to him, tells him they'll have to be [[Just Friends]] at first because "she needs to be wooed." And Puck - who formerly couldn't even get through an evening with Quinn without sexting Santana - is okay with this arrangement. In short - we have one Casanova who's found a love match!

* ''[[ER]]'''s Doug Ross. Established from the first episode as a grade-A womanizer. . .who was desperately in love with [[Hello, Nurse!|Carol Hathaway]].

* Lee Stetson/Scarecrow of ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]'' gradually abandons his womanizing ways over the course of the series as he falls for (and eventually marries) Amanda King

* Inverted by ''[[Quantum Leap]]''. It's established early on that Al is a [[Chivalrous Pervert]] who eyes any woman he sees and has been married multiple times. Then in the episode "M.I.A.", he outright admits that his first wife Beth<ref>Who he "lost" because he was a POW for four years and she remarried in the meantime</ref> was the only woman he ever truly loved, and that he chases skirt in the hopes of finding someone who can mean as much to him. {{spoiler|In the final episode Sam uses his "one free leap" to tell Beth not to give up on Al, which she does, and the closing text tells us that they're still [[Happily Married]] in 1999 and have had four daughters.}}

* Pretty much the whole deal behind [[Chivalrous Pervert|Yuushi]] [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|Oshitari]]'s paths in the ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]]. Specially in ''Gakuensai no Oujisama'', where the main girl Shizuka even gets to see him get bitchslapped by an old girlfriend.

* Zidane Tribal, the protagonist of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', has this as a major part of his [[Character Development]]. He starts out as a fairly open skirt chaser (at the age of [[Artistic Age|16]], no less), but then he falls for Garnet/Dagger, causing some emo-ness to ensue. Of course, in his case, it's made worse by the fact that Garnet's a princess, therefore supposedly not "reachable" for him even if he changes his ways. {{spoiler|Doesn't stop them from getting together in the end, though.}}

 

 

* Zii, the resident [[Anything That Moves|gleefully bisexual]] [[Handsome Lech|Cute Lech]] (or [[Depraved Bisexual|amorally perverted sex criminal]], depending on who you ask) from [[Ménage à 3]], is [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/giggling_schoolgirl headed down this road]... [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/like_any_other without brakes].

* Joe Rosenthal of the [[Walkyverse]] comics, whose defining trait is his blatant sexism and sexual magnetism, falls into this after finding love on an Internet forum and eventually settling into his first monogamous relationship with his crush. However, it would appear that this trope [http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-10/06-jacob-travels-to-the-penis-building/hotlibrarian/ no longer applies to him.]

** Implied? She outright admits that she sleeps around, and feels absolutely no guilt about it.