The Pornomancer: Difference between revisions

{{trope}}

 

Does sex just happen as naturally as breathing around you? When alone with a woman, is the next shot always of [[Dress Hits Floor|her dress hitting the floor]]? Did an [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem|instant harem]] appear at your house? Perhaps you have a [[Compelling Voice]], and take to its [[Power Perversion Potential|logical conclusion]]. You almost certainly make [[Bow Chicka Wow Wow]] music on the soundtrack when you walk down the street. People will look.

* Basically the entire concept of ''[[DNA 2]]'' with the ''Mega-Playboy'' having a Marvel-style mutant power (i.e. it naturally activates at puberty) to become such a perfect man that he can literally seduce ''any female'' (except his [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] who's immune to his charms since she's known him for so long) into falling head-over-heels in love with him with just by looking at them. That, and he also gains instant Saiyan-level combat prowess.

* As mentioned, this is extremely common in [[Hentai]]; to the point that it's actually a slight subversion in ''Jiburiru'' when the title character needs to convince her boyfriend to have sex so she can ''[[Deus Sex Machina|charge up]]'' her [[Magic From Technology|magic robot powers]] to fight evil, as opposed to more typical hentai titles like ''La Blue Girl'', where rape, consensual sex, and pornomancy all get mashed together in one big naughty stew.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'': Akio exhibits this trope. Touga as well, although he's not quite as skilled as Akio (and to be fair, Akio's pornomancy seems legitimately magical, whereas Touga is just suave.) {{spoiler|eventually Touga decides to submit to Akio's power and become his herald / implied buttboy. Touga's best friend calls him out on it, and Touga admits that being around that much power feels just plain good.}}

* ''[[My Balls]]'' has the demon sealed within Kohta's bollocks actually doing this to him. Most of it is justified in that the demons of hell are trying to make him ejaculate, so that the demon sealed in his balls will be freed. However, there's also a normal instance of this trope in Minayo, who has the worst timing EVER in revealing that not only is she interested in the boy, but that she also becomes a raging nymphomaniac when [[Bottle Fairy|drunk]].

* ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' has Tylor himself. After saving the ship as he always does by just being his [[Born Lucky|blissfully ignorant and incompetent self]], the other crew members give him a porno tape and wanted him to enjoy it for himself, but threatened him if they didn't get it back. Blissfully unaware that there is an alien princess hiding behind his bed (who honestly doesn't know anything about human relationships), Tylor puts in the tape, but keeps fumbling to turn it off as ''EVERY FEMALE ON THE SHIP'' comes to his door to express their sexual desires for him. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. On top of that, Tylor ended up joining the military to begin with because his ignorance ended up causing a [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual|female COMPUTER to confess her love for him]] in the first episode!

* Tamura Makoto of ''Boys Empire'' is this. In a sort-of subversion, he doesn't think it's such a good thing.

 

 

 

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[Discovery]]'': Prowl was apparently a huge slut back in the day; the comic has shown him use his animal magnetism to his advantage twice already.

 

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* As one would expect from the name, characters in pornographic movies (at least those that actually try to have a plot) are especially adept at pornomancy; because of narrative contrivance, characters have little inclination to avoid sex, and sex is both the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

* ''Dangerous Liasons'' and remakes like ''Cruel Intentions'' specifically avert this trope by spending quite a lot of time on the planning and implementation of a seduction.

* ''[[Austin Powers]]'''s mojo also counts.

* ''Alvin Purple'' was a 1973 Australian sex comedy about the title character, who is irresistable to all women, except of course the one he falls in love with.

* Tony Stark aka ''[[Iron Man]]'', right from the start of the movie. While establishing his character, it's shown that he can easily turn a reporter from trying to paint him up as some kind of evil warlord to falling into bed with him in about 20 seconds.

* All of the British Sex Comedies of the 1970s. But especially the Timmy Lea ''Confessions of'' series, ''Adventures of'' series, and ''The Ups and Downs of a Door-to-Door Salesman'' (a film which screamed for sequels).

 

* Laurell Hamilton's other major character, [[Merry Gentry|Meredith Gentry]], also qualifies: she's been able to {{spoiler|bring creatures of Faerie into power via sex, and even revive parts of the Unseelie enclave.}}

* [[Sir Apropos of Nothing]] gets a ring (that does not go on his finger) that gives him pornomancy in ''The Woad to Wuin'', the second book of the series. Subverted in that it quickly proves to be a curse: "The women came to me in all shapes, all sizes, young and old, pretty and . . . less so. ... Finally they tied me to the bed. There are worse ways to pass one's hours, but none come readily to mind."

** One of them is a [[Defector From Decadence]] who can't hold down a normal job because his especially strong "aura" tends to [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|cause him to be the victim of sexual harassment]], forcing him to quit or get fired due to [[Double Standard|Double Standards]]. He eventually gets around this by masquerading as an [[Camp Gay|outrageously campy homosexual]] [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|French]] hairdresser, and absorbs minute amounts of life energy coming from the feelings of sensuality his patrons enjoy by having their scalps massaged.

* Mikael Blomkvist, the male lead from Stieg Larsson's ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Millennium]]'' series. There are only two female characters featuring in more than a few paragraphs that Blomkvist ''doesn't'' sleep with. One is a married woman with young children and the other is his sister. It never seems to be Blomkvist who seduces them either, it just seems like every female jumps him as soon as she gets a chance. Luckily the movies downplay this.

* Joey from ''[[Friends]]'' is possibly the most famous modern [[The Pornomancer|pornomancer]]. Despite not having any magical skills (or intelligence) of note, he rarely needs to utter more than "Hey. How ''you'' doin'?" before scoring.

* Chuck Bass from ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. Nate Archibald as well, but to a lesser degree.

** Subverted by Andy Gallagher in "Simon Said": he has the power to control people with his [[Compelling Voice]]; he refuses to use it to seduce the woman he loves.

* Surely Charlie from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' is an 18th level Pornomancer? Admittedly he's probably Charlie Sheen's own [[Marty Stu]], but the guy's been laid more than the contents of 12 egg cartons.

* In ''[[Night Court]]'', prosecutor Dan Fielding's whole life revolved around his sexual conquests. Humorous given that the actor later went on to play a character on ''Boston Legal'', which had its own fair share of pornomancers.

* Chris Stevens of ''[[Northern Exposure]]'' has this power. There's an episode devoted to it, in fact.

* Veronica, the niece in ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' who always sleeps her ways to the top.

** Lt. Matthew "Can't Keep It In His Pants" Scott has bagged at least two women in four episodes, without any pretext whatsoever. And a flashback mentioned that as a teenager, he'd gotten his girlfriend pregnant, making it three women in the first four episodes.

** While we may not know the story behind the first one (episode-wise), Chloe at least has a flimsy excuse of a similar situation (dead dad). And he's stuck with her ever since. The real Pornomancer is Lisa Park, who's not only slept with as many people, she's done so in ''less screentime'' (two in one episode, one in a webisode). More to the point, while Scott's liaisons are at the very least an attempt at an actual relationship, Park is doing this just to relieve stress.

** By Season 3, about the only adult women on the show he hasn't slept with are Marci, his best friend's wife, the boss of his best friend, and his daughter's best friend. He ''has'' slept with Mia (the 16 year old daughter of the man he took his wife back from), his teacher's assistant, a stripper/student in his writing class, the wife of the dean of the school he's working at, Karen, and about a half-dozen random sexual encounters. It finally comes crashing down in the Season 3 final episode.

** In season 5, it appears that Charlie is now the show's resident pornomancer. As of episode 7 he's shown having sex with four women and gotten a free blow-job from a tranny hooker. Meanwhile Hank, in the same amount of time, has had sex with a grand total of two women. One of which he was in an actual relationship with.

** Season Seven: there's a boy at the rebuilt high school whom all the female characters immediately fall for, with dreamy expressions and the theme from ''A Summer Place''. Even [[Lipstick Lesbian|Willow]] (she started working a spell to change him into a woman so it could work for her). [[Hilarity Ensues]]. {{spoiler|It's the jacket.}}

* [[Lost|James "Sawyer" Ford]] gets laid more often than any other character on the show, on or off the island.

* Douglas Renholm on ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' fancies himself a Pornomancer but the jury's still out on whether or not he actually ''is'' one. He failed to seduce Jen, but things like iPod parties seem to back up his claims.

* [[The Wire|Jimmy McNulty]] has shades of this. A Season 2 episode starts with him effortlessly picking up a waitress despite being slovenly drunk and nursing a wounded hand from an earlier car crash. Then of course there was the incident with the two prostitutes during a sting, something [[Never Live It Down|that other BPD Officers would joke about well into the show's final season.]]

* From ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', Mata Hari's pantyhose can make anyone [[Yandere]] for the wearer.

* Monty Pippin from ''[[Keen Eddie]]''.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** So basically to master this school of magic you have to become one of those dead-eyed joyless porn stars, going through the motions passionlessly. You should see the school of magic based on money.

** Also, [[Body Horror]]. There is ALWAYS body horror in Kult.

* Most White Wolf games feature a power or ability that can be used for this purpose. ''[[Exalted]]'' features a charm called Husband-Seducing Demon Dance, which works on everyone that can see you. Being that it works on a person or cause, it can be used both for instant seduction, instantly recruiting a [[Redshirt Army]] or becoming a one man [[Propaganda Machine]]. Being Exalted, it's available to a starting character.

** On a related note, [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Alchemical Exalted]] can get the Thousandfold Courtesan Calculations. which lets them have sex that is so good ''it can be used as a form of mind control.'' Of course, the sex has to be consensual for the mind-control effect to work, but it's doubtful that anyone with the charm is going to have that problem.

** There's even a whole [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Sidereal Martial Arts]] Style (that being the most powerful level, which is about as similar to mortal martial arts as theoretical physics is to arithmetic)- Sapphire Veils of Passion- for this sort of thing. One particularly fun technique makes anyone who grapples you lust after you.

** From [[Vampire: The Requiem|''Requiem'']], there's the Daeva Bloodline, the Duchagne, whose primary power is Licencieux, which can cause spontaneous waves of pain or pleasure in the target, meaning you can make anything attractive or repulsive, not just yourself. Bonus: repeated uses on the same target following a repeated action can cause addiction. Addiction to the caster's favor, addiction to doing as they're told, [[Rule of Three|addiction to]] [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|contributing to wikis]]... the applications are endless.

* This is the nickname for a certain Archetype in ''[[Shadowrun]]'', who can throw a ridiculous amount of dice at any social roll. Their powers aren't explicitly related to sex, though the ones capable of spellcasting often end up taking the spell that [[Power Perversion Potential|induces a mass orgasm]] for the take of living up to the name. And yes, that is a canon spell.

** There's actually a good reason for them having it BEYOND [[Power Perversion Potential]]. Breeding is VERY important for the Garou, since being a Werewolf is in the blood...only they can't breed with other Garou, without cranking out a deformed child called a [[The Woobie|Metis]](Which you can play as). Since Wolves spend a LOT of time fighting the Wyrm and dealing with their own brand of tribal politics, its a little...difficult to get into a committed relationship (But not impossible), making one night stands preferable. That's right, Pornomancy is almost mandatory for their very existence.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[The Witcher]]'': Geralt of Rivia can't seem to avoid falling into bed with townsmaidens, nurses, and sorceresses; some of the sillier things that lead to sex for him include passing a quiz on the language of the Elves and giving a ring (any ring) to a young woman who is jealous of her sister's marriage... it can be ''any'' ring. Luckily for him, [[STD Immunity]] and sterility are standard effects of Witcher mutations. And a literal example exists in an off hand note that magic can induce orgasms.

* This does tend to happen to the hero of the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' mod "The Bastard of Kosigan". With a high Charisma and decent ranks in Persuade, women will literally be falling into bed with him.

** [[The Protagonist|The Princess]] from the [[A Dance With Rogues]] ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' module can be this, or an [[Accidental Pornomancer]]. Depending on how you play her.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Quagmire and his ubiquitous "Giggity Giggity Goo!"

** And on that note, [[Bill Clinton]] in the episodes he graces.