The Casanova: Difference between revisions

Line 12:

Many films, TV movies and TV mini-series are named for and based on that person. The best known are Fellini's 1976 film, [[Casanova (film)|the 2005 film]] starring [[Heath Ledger]], and [[Casanova (TV series)|the 2005 BBC drama mini-series]] starring [[David Tennant]]. The latter is considered one of the more faithful adaptations of Casanova's memoirs, while Fellini's... wasn't.

For the juvenile version -- all of the above without the sex -- see [[Kidanova]]. Contrast the [[Serial Romeo]]. If the guy is actually only ''rumored'' to be a Casanova and has no evidence onscreen, it's the [[Urban Legend Love Life]]. If he develops feelings for one of his conquests ([[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|or someone who refuses him]]), he's a [[Ladykiller in Love]]. See [[More Friends More Benefits]] for when the mechanics of a game encourage the player character to act this way.

For the juvenile version -- all of the above without the sex -- see [[Kidanova]]. Contrast the [[Serial Romeo]]. If the guy is actually only ''rumored'' to be a Casanova and has no evidence onscreen, it's the [[Urban Legend Love Life]]. If he develops feelings for one of his conquests ([[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|or someone who refuses him]]), he's a [[Ladykiller in Love]]. See [[More Friends, More Benefits]] for when the mechanics of a game encourage the player character to act this way.

The comparatively [[Rare Female Example|rarer female version]] is traditionally called a [[Man Eater]].

Line 46:

== Comicbooks ==

* Different versions of [[Batman]] have either portrayed him as being with many women or as avoiding most women. A common feature to most versions is that he ends up alone.

* 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.

Line 103:

** But we can't really be sure, since he is also a self-proclaimed Outrageous Liar.

** Well, it worked on [[Dirty Old Woman|Nanny Ogg]]. Of course, expressing a vague interest would work on Nanny Ogg...

** The odds are that he's not lying about this one, at least. He's proven it to other women as well.

* Anatole Kuragin from ''[[War and Peace]]''. He's a well-known womanizer whose first interaction with a semi-main character is mademoiselle Bourienne, a maid at Prince Bolkonsky's house, while Anatole was there to court the prince's daughter [[The Caretaker|Marya]]. He later marries the daughter of a Polish farmer in exchange for room and board during one military campaign, and then, just for fun, sets out to [[Break the Cutie|marry-and-kidnap Natasha Rostov]].

* Lude from ''[[House of Leaves]]'', who actually keeps a list of his conquests, their prominent features, and how he had sex with them.

Line 109:

* Fictional comedian Monti Tree from My Screwups fit this trope to a T, losing his virginity at 13, to bedding supermodels well into adulthood. {{spoiler|However that all comes to a complete stop when he finds out he had a son he didn't know about.}}

* [[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.

Line 181:

'''Haley:''' Yes! And here. I'll make it easy for you. Take the phone book and just cross off the name of every girl you haven't been with. }}

* Sam Axe of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' seems to make his ''living'' "sponging off every rich divorcee in the greater Miami area."

* Danny Blue on [[Hustle]] and Eliot Spencer on [[Leverage]] both manage this.

* Al from ''[[Quantum Leap]]''.

* Gaius Frakking Baltar on the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''.

Line 191:

* Dr Guy Secretan from ''[[Green Wing]]''.

* Dr. Simon Hill from ''[[Combat Hospital]]''. In the middle of Afghanistan on a military base as a civilian, to boot.

* 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 [http://seductionism.com/blog/01/10/how-to-pick-up-women-like-don-draper/ "How to pick up women like Don Draper"]

Line 228:

* 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."

== Videogames ==

* Panther Caruso from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star ~~Fox~~]]'' relentlessly pursues Krystal, and is described more than once [[Word of God|by Nintendo]] as being a self-proclaimed ladies' man. He could, however, be a slight subversion in the sense that he never really gets anywhere with Krystal (who shares a mutual affection with Fox McCloud), whom tends to either ignore, humour or outright reject his advances in ''Assault'' and their cameo appearances in ''[[Super Smash Bros|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. The only game where he does seem to succeed in any way with her is ''Command'', and whilst he is depicted as devoted to her, it's very much implied the only reason she's with him is because Fox kicked her off the Star Fox team ([[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|for her own safety]], though she didn't take it that way) and that she joined Star Wolf as a means to [[Woman Scorned|get back]] [[Operation: Jealousy|at him]] rather than falling for Panther's charms. That, and ''Command'' seems to be a case of [[Canon Discontinuity]] if the current status quo is any indication.

* Panther Caruso from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' relentlessly pursues Krystal, and is described more than once [[Word of God|by Nintendo]] as being a self-proclaimed ladies' man. He could, however, be a slight subversion in the sense that he never really gets anywhere with Krystal (who shares a mutual affection with Fox McCloud), whom tends to either ignore, humour or outright reject his advances in ''Assault'' and their cameo appearances in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. The only game where he does seem to succeed in any way with her is ''Command'', and whilst he is depicted as devoted to her, it's very much implied the only reason she's with him is because Fox kicked her off the Star Fox team ([[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|for her own safety]], though she didn't take it that way) and that she joined Star Wolf as a means to [[Woman Scorned|get back]] [[Operation: Jealousy|at him]] rather than falling for Panther's charms. That, and ''Command'' seems to be a case of [[Canon Discontinuity]] if the current status quo is any indication.

* Gannayev of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer'' regularly abuses his Spirit Shaman powers for the sake of jumping into the fantasies of innocent young farmgirls and having hot dream-sex. One sidequest deals with a girl with latent powers that wasn't satisfied with just a one-night stand and ended up creating her ''own'' Gannayev in her head. Real Gann wasn't amused.

* Goto, from [[Mana Khemia]] 2, is seen going on dates with various students ''in groups'' (as well as some one on one time with the Chairman). When the main cast doubt his claims of natural desirability they take a school-wide poll, only to find out that 100% of the girls want him as well as [[Even the Guys Want Him|1/3 of the guys]], and the only reason the members of Ulrika's workshop aren't effected is he's purposefully toning down his charm around them. Then things get a bit complicated when the son of one of his old flings shows up looking for revenge...

Line 265:

* 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."

* Nolan from ''[[Regular Guy]]'': Women seem to find his beard irresistible, and he had his "thingy" declared a work of art. He's pretty modest about it, though.

* Ted from ''[[Greg (webcomic)|Greg]]'', is constantly the target of women's scorned hatred. While he is not avoiding ex-lovers, he is seeking out new women to [http://gregcomic.com/2011/10/20/storyline-back-to-campus-part-17/ love and leave].

Line 275:

* 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.

* [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] might be a [[Nightmare Fetishist]] rapist, but he's managed to get a lot of consensual male and female tail too.

Line 302:

* 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.

* [[John F. Kennedy]]. He did famously joke, though, that if he'd slept with all the women he was ''rumored'' to have gone to bed with, he'd be in a jar at Harvard.