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[[File:casanova 400.jpg|link=Casanova (TV series)|frame| Check out [[David Tennant|his]] [[Doctor Who|"Companions"]].]]
{{quote|''"Gentlemen, I'm sure we can sort this out amicably. Look at it this way: if you could do what I could do, you'd do it too! But you can't. I can. And I have. And I'll do it again. So you should be happy for me, just a little tiny bit, don't you think?"''
|'''Casanova''', ''[[Casanova (TV series)|Casanova]]''}}
The sexual
Contrast with the unsuccessful [[Casanova Wannabe]]. Compare with the inexplicable [[Kavorka Man]]. A guy who gets the girls like a Casanova, but unintentionally, is a [[Chick Magnet]]. If kind-hearted, may overlap with [[Chivalrous Pervert]]. [[The Charmer]] is equally charming but less sex-obsessed. If they [[Really Gets Around|really get around]] but want to settle down it's [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]. A [[Handsome Lech]] has more negative connotations and a sparser scorecard than the Cassanova.
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Note: It should be mentioned that even after the affairs were over, most of Casanova's ex-lovers still liked him. This trope would probably fit (the fictional) Don Juan better.
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== Anime
* George from ''[[Paradise Kiss]]''.
* Guiche from ''[[
* Dio Brando from ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' is so charismatic and good-looking that he managed to father four children. ''With four different women.''
* Akio and Touga from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' use, manipulate and abuse women and men alike using in great part their sex appeal for [[More Than Mind Control]] effect. Then {{spoiler|Akio does it to Touga, establishing him as a sort of Alpha Casanova.}}
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* Takeo Tsurumaru in ''[[Narutaru]]''.
* Paptimus Scirrocco from ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' is a very evil version of this. He's basically what happens when you combine a Casanova with a [[Magnificent Bastard]] and give him the psychic powers of a Newtype. Generally the kind that uses his charms more to use woman as tools than just as sexual objects, though.
** Scirocco's more like [[Grigori Rasputin
* [[Karin]]'s brother, Ren, sucks the blood of stressed out women every night. He says they're usually quite grateful afterwards, but tend to [[Stalker with a Crush|keep bugging him afterward.]]
* Ryou from ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]'', in a [[Girls Love]] example, has bedded about a thousand girls and that's only the known ''minimum.''
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* Ryoji Kaji from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is implied to be this. The only people he doesn't hit on are the underage ones (much to Asuka's chagrin), leading to the derogatory [[Fan Nickname]] "man-whore". That doesn't stop him from teasing Shinji about him living at Misato's.
* Lord Aleister Chamber of ''[[Black Butler]]'' is implied to be this.
* Agon of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has this trait tacked on to his already unpleasant personality. It's not especially relevant to the story, it's just another extension of his [[Jerk Jock]] personality and serves as yet another reason for the heroes to dislike him ("Down with guys who have girlfriends!").
* The titular character in ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]''.
* {{spoiler|Gildartz!!!}} from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.
* ''[[Mamotte Shugogetten]]'': Izumo Miyauchi.
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* Jack from ''[[Fables]]'' and his spinoff comic ''Jack of Fables''.
** Also the entire point of Prince Charming. The reason he's in so many stories is because he constantly marries and abandons various princesses. This leads to him originally being less than popular in Fabletown.
* Starfox of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]''. It's revealed in ''[[She Hulk]]'' that he's {{spoiler|an inadvertant rapist who unconsciously uses his psychic powers to get women into bed}}, but the canonicity of ''[[She Hulk]]'' is sometimes dubious.
** It's been firmly established what his powers are and how much control he has over them. ''[[She Hulk]]'' just pointed out [[Unfortunate Implications]] that already existed.
* For your consideration ladies and gentlemen, the [[Incredible Hercules]]. Pulls about as much tail as James Bond.
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*** Ivan Mozzhukhin in a 1927 Dutch silent movie
*** Tony Curtis in another 1977 film version
*** In fact, [[Internet Movie Database|IMDB]] has no less than 85 movies or TV shows with the word "Casanova" in the title, and most of them feature the gentleman himself in a leading or supporting role.
* Telly, the HIV-infected, utterly unfeeling "Virgin Surgeon" in ''Kids''.
* [[James Bond]], of course. Partially subverted in that in some cases, he pursues the woman not for sex/conquest for its own sake, but to win her as an [[Honey Trap|ally/defector for purposes of his mission objective]].
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** A deleted scene set right before the Golmira scenes has Tony seducing and leading a woman off to bed... and picking up another in the hallway along the way. He then gives a lame excuse to bail on the apparently inebriated women. "I'm going to get ice for the champagne" or something like that. In the distance, we see Iron Man taking off.
** In fact, this trope is often part of the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]'s cover.
* Dorian Gray, not only in ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' but even moreso in [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' movie]].
* Pavi Largo from ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' is close to being the epitome of this trope. As he says himself in 'Mark It Up':
{{quote|Ask a Gentern who they prefer--ten out of nine will say the Pavi!}}
* Duke of Rochester from ''The Libertine''.
** And ''Don Juan de Marco'', as well.
* Stuart Townsend's character Adam in the Irish film ''About Adam''. {{spoiler|He beds/romances with no difficulty three very different sisters, their brother's uptight girlfriend - and almost the brother as well.}}
* Timothy, the slinky, knife-throwing terrorist from 1996's ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''.
* Subverted in the movie and book ''[[Kiss the Girls]]'' where the kidnapping/rapist/murderer bad guy takes the alias "Casanova". After he {{spoiler|drugs and attempts to murder one of his victims}} a character remarks "Yeah, he's cunning, but he doesn't know his history: The real Casanova would never have approved."
* Wickham in ''[[Bride and Prejudice]]''.
* ''What's New, Pussycat?'' stars Peter O'Toole as a man who just can't say no to women. He sees a psychiatrist to help him swear them off and be faithful to his fiancee, but the doctor is a deranged lech himself.
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* Lude from ''[[House of Leaves]]'', who actually keeps a list of his conquests, their prominent features, and how he had sex with them.
* A character in ''[[Don Quixote]]' is also portrayed like this in the male villager's stories about her. We later find out these injuries were imagined, she was just being chaste and as she wisely points out, she can't help being beautiful.
* Fictional comedian Monti Tree from ''My Screwups'' fit this trope to a T, losing his virginity at 13, to bedding supermodels well into adulthood.
* [[James Bond]] again. This is brought out most clearly in the last paragraph of the series, effectively describing how he can never settle down with one woman.
** In the books it's a little more [[Byronic Hero|Byronic]]. For example, in ''Moonraker'' he expects to automatically be rewarded for his efforts by sex with Gala Brand, only for Brand to reveal that she wasn't kidding about being engaged.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''Necropolis'', Gaunt {{spoiler|after a wartime fling}} thinks of his mentor Otkar who had left a trail of tearful women behind him and warned Gaunt not to get involved, as it would weaken him. {{spoiler|Gaunt realizes that although as soon as the war is over, their social classes would separate them (which she knows too), he would now fight to the end to save this woman, and that his emotional investment in the Ghosts has in reality kept him on the job.}}
* Larry Douglas in ''The Other Side of Midnight''. The first "book" of the novel tells the life stories of two of his ''many'' conquests, Catherine Alexander and Noelle Page, via alternating chapters. The former marries him, unaware of his true nature; the latter, whom he abandoned years before he met Catherine, devotes her life to destroying him. The remainder of the story is about what happens when Noelle manipulates events to bring Larry back into her life.
* ''Never'' trust these characters in [[Jane Austen]]:
** Willoughby of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (abandoned the last girl he slept with and dumps one of the heroines for someone richer)
** Wickham of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (tried to seduce [[The Hero]]'s younger sister and succeeds in seducing the heroine's younger sister)
** Henry Crawford of ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (has every woman in the world
** Mr. Knightley fears Frank Churchill may be this in ''[[Emma]]'', given the mixed signals he keeps sending both to Emma and Jane Fairfax. It turns out {{spoiler|he's just an innocent if sometimes foolish [[Chick Magnet]] in a committed, [[Secret Relationship]] with Jane Fairfax}}.
* Spyros Stavaronas, the attractive young shrimp fisherman in ''[[Alexandra]]'' by Scott O'Dell. At first, he uses his charms to distract Alexandra so his henchmen can smuggle cocaine on her boat. When Alexandra finds out, he further tries to seduce her into keeping his secret and not turning them into the cops.
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* Jimmy (Snowman) in ''Oryx and Crake'' and ''The Year of the Flood'' by Margaret Atwood, is this and also a harbors a years-long [[Ladykiller in Love|romantic obsession]] with the same girl (then woman) as his sociopathic genius best friend, which leads to [[The End of the World as We Know It|trouble]]
* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2-D]]'', Paris makes a move on Elsie as soon as he is [[Art Initiates Life|drawn from the painting]].
* Neil Stauss's ''[[The Game (novel)|The Game]]'' is about becoming this. And the book is full of them... only thing is that they are all [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloud Cuckoo Landers]].
* In a rare example of one in children's literature, ''[[The Roman Mysteries]]'' features {{spoiler|Publius Pollus Felix, who is revealed as a Casanova in ''The Sirens of Surrentum''.}}
* Murillio of the ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' specializes in seducing and bedding married women. He notes that all the students of the man who trained him in dueling ended up pursuing some vice; his was just a bit less dangerous. Ended up quitting after {{spoiler|a younger woman seduced him and he nearly died when her suitor defended her "honor"}}.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Lord Flashheart from ''[[Blackadder]]''.
* [[David Tennant]] in the [[Casanova (TV series)|BBC series]] ''[[Captain Obvious|Casanova]]''.
** Frank Finlay as the title character in yet another TV miniseries in 1971.
* Face, on ''[[The A-Team]]''.
* Christian Troy on ''[[Nip Tuck]]''.
* Tony Dinozzo on ''[[NCIS]]''.
* Captain Jack Harkness in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'' - [[No Bisexuals|bisexual]], promiscuous, but benign.
* Brian in ''Seacht''.
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* Samantha of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' arguably is more of a female version of this than [[The Vamp]] or [[Femme Fatale]], as her motivations are lust rather than being a "bad girl".
* Al Mundy of ''[[It Takes a Thief (2005 TV series)|It Takes a Thief]]'' seems to pick up a new woman every episode, and even the ones who are initially frosty are charmed by him in the end. He doesn't seem to get much actual sex, though, because Noah always puts a stop to things just when the woman is softening up.
* An episode of ''[[The Equalizer]]'' had a handsome chronic womaniser get kidnapped by industrial spies who keep insisting that "she said she gave it to you" and [[Mistaken for Spies|refuse to believe his claims of innocence]].
* Before Nathan of ''[[One Tree Hill]]'' fell in love with Haley, he was most definitely one of these, even if he was taken at the time. Haley is ''not'' happy when, in Season 4, after they are married and pregnant, she finds out that Nathan made a sex tape with their friend Brooke (though it was before he even knew her).
{{quote|'''Nathan:''' You want me to write a list of every single girl I've ever...
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* Danny Blue on [[Hustle]] and Eliot Spencer on [[Leverage]] both manage this.
* Al from ''[[Quantum Leap]]''.
* Gaius Frakking Baltar on the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Star Trek]]'''s Captain James T. "Jim" Kirk and ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation's]]'' Commander William T. Riker.
** A [[YouTube]] user's summary of Kirk's philosophy of life:
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* Dr. Doug Ross starts out this way in ''[[ER]]''
* Don Draper in ''[[Mad Men]]'' is probably the most prominent illustration of this trope nowadays on TV
** this video demonstrates succinctly [https://web.archive.org/web/20140607064209/http://seductionism.com/blog/01/10/how-to-pick-up-women-like-don-draper/ "How to pick up women like Don Draper"]
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== Theater ==
* In ''[[Spring Awakening]],'' handsome, creepy, and arrogant Hanschen Rilow is mostly played for laughs, though it's a little sad when he seduces his classmate Ernst. The scene they share is tragically unbalanced, given all the power Hanschen has over Ernst:
{{quote|'''Ernst''': I love you, Hanscen, as I have never loved anyone.
'''Hanschen''': And so you should. }}
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* ''[[Into the Woods]]'' has an amazing parody of this in the songs 'Agony' and the reprise by the two princes.
* The Duke in ''Rigoletto'' certainly qualifies, and is a [[Karma Houdini]] to boot.
* Willmore from ''The Rover'' by Aphra Behn is definitely this, his name literally means 'Wills for more sex',and he comes complete with [[Karma Houdini]]
* Aldolpho from ''[[The Drowsy Chaperone]]''. He is the King of Romance, so he kisses a lot.
** "Dear Van De Graff bride, I must make love to you, and transport you to the place of ecstacy. Sooner is better than later. Signed, Aldolpho."
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** When Tip was turned into a wolf in one story arc, all the genetically engineered battledogs who were female were suddenly drastically attracted to him.
* Ian, of ''[[What Birds Know]]'', is the town Casanova, making bets with his friends about how quickly he can date and bed girls. He's also oblivious to the crush his sister's friend Elia has on him.
* Sven of ''[[Questionable Content]]'', {{spoiler|at least until his fling with Faye}}.
* Zii from ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' has a borderline superpower to seduce (presumably) straight women into sleeping with her and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for [[Everyone Is Bi|everyone being bi]]. The only girl she's tried and failed to get with so far is DiDi, but Zii still managed to convince her that she might be bi as well. Of course, Zii has also slept with a lot of men as well, but it's [[All Men Are Perverts|not exactly difficult to do that]].
* Thomas the bard from [[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]] is such a master at the game of love that he can have any woman he wants, even one who wants to clobber him. Take [http://yafgc.net/?id=549 this comic] for example, in which he demonstrates his prowess to Clover the halfling. He tips a waitress by flicking a coin into her cleavage, causing it to fall through the bottom of her dress and roll away. As she bends down to pick it up he smacks her on the rear. She understandably prepares to kick his ass, but he whispers ''[[Code Word Coitus|something]]'' in her ear that has her making out with him immediately afterward. All Clover can say after witnessing this is "Wow... you're good."
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* Hugh Griffin, president of the *USA in ''[[Decades of Darkness]]''. As the author writes, his wife knows when to look away.
* Jake from the ''Booty Call'' set of Flash games.
* Shadow Hawk from ''[[Epic Tales]]''.
* Dustin Royal from ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' Version four. That is all.
* Zander, an [[Original Character]] from ''[[Nepeta Quest 2011]]'', has quite the charm with the female trolls.
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* Bender from ''[[Futurama]]'', although he usually goes after hookerbots, and does fall in love occasionally.
* Juandissimo Magnifico on ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', who has every female fairy swooning over him (except Wanda, his TRUE and ONLY LOVE INTEREST).
** To a lesser (and less
* JFK from ''[[Clone High]]''.
* Prince Naveen (of Maldonia!) from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' is like this [[Character Development|at first]].
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== Real Life ==
''Note: All The Tropes is not a gossip site. As per [[Topic:Wj3jclzpasz0mj6h|this discussion]], if you add a historical [[Real Life]] example, please keep in mind [[All The Tropes:No Lewdness, No Prudishness]] when adding examples to this section and ensure it's documented. Please do not add current Real Life examples at all.''
* Anthony Quinn. Three marriages, ten legitimate children, three acknowledged illegitimate children, and a string of acknowledged and confirmed sexual conquests stretching across four continents.
* [[Errol Flynn]]. He was such an accomplished and charming seducer that when he got into legal trouble in the early 1940's about having an affair with a teenager, he not only charmed the mostly-female jury into acquitting him, but ended up marrying the L.A. country sheriff's daughter, who was running a concession stand in the courthouse during the trial. The slang expression "in like Flynn" reportedly was coined as a result of that particular scandal. (This may also be an expression of [[Values Dissonance]], in that Flynn would probably have had his career wrecked today, charm or no charm.)
** David Niven, in one of his autobiographies, recounts a practical joke he and a couple of Flynn's other buddies once pulled. They hired a beautiful young prostitute to play the role of an innocent teenager. Just as Flynn was about to consummate his seduction of the girl, another sexy streetwalker, playing the girl's aunt, walked in. Much [[Hilarity Ensued]] as the other woman roundly scolded both Flynn and the girl and ordered her "niece" out of the room. When the girl had left, the older woman asked Flynn, "Do you know why I did that?" Errol said no, and the woman said, "Well, Mr. Flynn, it's because...''I wanted some of that myself!!''" and jumped him.
* Screamin' Jay Hawkins estimated he had about 57 children by different
* Gene Simmons of [[Kiss]] fame, who has the pictures to prove it. Though his claims are still probably exaggerated. In fact, could be applied to many rock stars to some degree.
** One is well-advised to take some of his wilder claims with a grain of salt, since he's been "happily unmarried" to former ''Playboy'' playmate Shannon Tweed for over 2 decades and has had two children with her. Then again, his reputation certainly doesn't seem to bother her all that much...
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** [http://www.cracked.com/article_16120_historys-7-most-astounding-sexual-resumes.html Cracked]'s calculations are a little different, but no less unlikely.
* Hugh Hefner. That is all.
* Anthony Kiedis of [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] is infamous for this, in his book ''Scar Tissue'' it appears he is with a different girl in every chapter or so. However, he averts this trope somewhat in that he only has one child who was born fairly recently.
* Bryan Ferry likes to cultivate this image both in his music and in real life. He has regularly been in relationships with women considerably younger than him (in one case, 35 Years younger). He was however happily married for 21 years (from 1982 to 2003) and had several children, ironically his wife wanted the divorce because she was having an affair herself.
* [[Warren Beatty]], until he got married.
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** Felix reportedly got a woman pregnant, than proceeded to end the affair and inform her husband of what had occured, getting her thrown out in the street. The woman in question was well-known for her inability to keep her legs closed (she was in fact famous in the tabloids for sleeping around), but Felix's behaviour was so callous that the press actually sided with her.
* [[Mick Jagger]].
* [[Olympic Games|Olympic skier]] Suzy Chaffee's a female version of this. She insists that throughout her skiing career, she had sex every night during competitions and she also boasts of her numerous one night stands and flings with [[Chick Magnet|many different men]] and that she never recorded [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=your%20number her number]. For all her [[The Pornomancer|blatant flirting]] though, Ms. Chaffee has never been the aggressor in her sexual encounters explaining "I give men assertive training out of bed and [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|they give me more assertive training in bed]].".
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