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* 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.
* The alternate ending to the ([[Narm|narmful]]) remake of ''[[The Wicker Man]]''.
* This happens several times in ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movies.
** In ''[[Goldeneye]]'' with Xenia Onatopp, the woman who [[Death by Sex|sexes a Canadian officer to death]] to steal his documents.
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** 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 again, in ''[[Operation Double 007]]'': the [[Bodyguard Babes]] of the [[Big Bad]] expand this trope into a scheme to steal some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] from a military convoy in the middle of the deserts. [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|The skunk outfits play a vital role... somehow.]]
** 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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* [[White Collar]] has a gender-flipped version, where Neal Caffrey seduces a woman in a bar to find sercret information on his boss. (Of course, she's not quite as [[Hollywood Homely|unattractive]] as male examples usually are.) Similar tactics to this are a normal part of Neal's arsenal.
* Sarah Walker in ''[[Chuck]]'' once seduced a geek who had developed a secret weapon. Of course, she also attempted this with Chuck, although not in a bar, but in the Buy More, so the CIA could get their hands on the Intersect.
* Fiona from ''[[Burn Notice]]'' does this many times, but it's also subverted on a few occasions. For example, in one case she approaches a [[Safecracking|professional safe cracker]] with [[The Alcoholic|multiple arrests for drunk driving]] and tries to get him liquored up so he'll be arrested again and his team will be forced to call off the job they're pulling. Due to the fact that Fiona is way, ''way'' out of his league, comes out of nowhere and then starts proposing toasts to them with expensive champagne, he figures her for a [[High
* [[Leverage|Parker]] does this to a mark "The Fifteen Minutes Job" in order to sell the con (no one would look twice at him if he hadn't gotten some minor media attention). [[It Makes Sense in Context|She didn't even stab him]]!
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Played with in [[Spinnerette]]: Sahira attempts to seduce a guard in order to allow Heather time to break into a lab, only for him to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this very trope...then give Sahira the video the girls were after in exchange for a legitimate date.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Critic]]'', Jay Sherman falls in love with a woman who stars in a really bad film. He says the movie is bad (Jay is a film critic) and she leaves him.
** She fell in "love" with him specifically so he'd give her movie a good review. What's really sad for him, is that he and his family and friends actually all suspected this at first, only for her to convince them otherwise. In the end, he's torn about giving her a bad review because he's fallen for her and doesn't want to hurt her feelings or career. He comes home expecting her to be furious, but she's just gone instead.
** Averted by Jeremy Hawke's sister, who's a hottie who happens to be attracted to needy losers. Her last boyfriend before Jay was Larry "Bud" Melman. After Jay? A hayseed who needed his pants zipper drawn - while wearing the pants ''backwards''.
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