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Simply put: in fictional bars, [[Ms. Fanservice|attractive women]] don't normally talk to men who are [[Hollywood Homely|less than absolute studs]]. They certainly never flirt or outright hit on such men... So when they do, the audience can reasonably deduce that it's because the women are coldly trying to lead the poor guys to their doom (or at least take advantage of them in a non-sexual manner) with their [[Beauty Is Bad|tricky feminine wiles]].

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** Subverted, since it doesn't work. The man's a flirt, but he puts his job before pleasure.

 

* Mystique and a prison guard from ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] 2''. Sure, she drugged and injected him with iron, so that Magneto could ''rip it from his blood'' and escape, but he got to make out with Rebecca Romijn. Lucky bastard.

** This trope is basically lampshaded when Magneto tells the guard that he should never trust a pretty woman - especially one who's interested in him.

* This happens several times in ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movies.

** Amusingly Owen had to put more effort into it than normal for the trope. Not only was he charming and good looking but he also pretended to be from the same small town and even implied (or maybe outright stated I forget) that the woman and he knew some of the same people. I guess men are easier to fool into thinking you like them? Or women are dumb enough to automatically think anyone from her home town is a good guy? Either way there are some [[Unfortunate Implications]] here.

*** She didn't think he was a good guy because of their shared home town, so much as because he was posing as a doctor working with a Doctors Without Borders-like foreign aid organization. Being from her hometown was gravy.

** This is roughly half the plot of ''[[High School Big Shot]]''; the popular Betty seduces bookish anti-hero Marv to get him to write an essay for her; the plan backfires and costs Marv his chance at a scholarship. This pushes him over the [[Despair Event Horizon]], driving him to plan to steal a million dollars of [[The Mafia|Mob]] money kept at the warehouse he works part-time at. All to get Betty's attention. [[Everybody Dies|It doesn't end well]].

** Seen in ''[[Angels Revenge]]''. Especially [[Egregious]] as they're dressed in bikinis on a ridiculously cold, foggy day on a deserted beach.

** And even more, with Watney Smith and the Queen in ''[[Gor|Outlaw of Gor]]''.

* This happened more than once with [[The Three Stooges]], typically to [[The Woobie|Curly]].

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