The Tease: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Favours to none, to all she smiles extends"'' |'''Robert Browning''', "The Rape of the Lock"}}

Sometimes a character might only tease their [[Love Interest]]. This might be considered flirting instead of teasing, since the assumption is that that [[Will They or Won't They?]] eventually will become They Did. (Denial of the implied sex is what makes a tease a tease, if a tease later puts out her past teasing retroactively becomes flirting).

== [[Anime]]/[[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Yoruichi likes to show herself naked in front of Ichigo, because of his [[Celibate Hero|hilarious reactions]]. To a lesser extent, Rangiku as well.

** Sachiko is also not above acting seductively toward Yumi, especially in the first and fourth anime seasons.

* Hagino from ''[[Blue Drop]]'' starts doing this toward Mari as she gradually [[Defrosting Ice Queen|breaks through her composed stance]].

** At one point, she pulls a curtain between them and calls it the "Wall of Jericho," ostensibly warning him not to come near her. It's not clear if she's intentionally dropping a hint, but Bible-savvy viewers will remember that the Wall of Jericho is best known for ''falling down.''

* ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'' has ''nine minutes straight'' of Hitagi starting naked, getting dressed and undressed again in front of Koyomi. Then the next episode starts with her talking about how beautiful she is and constantly skipping for [[Gainaxing|absolutely no reason at all.]] {{spoiler|They did not long after.}}

* Satella in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''.

== Literature ==

* Ziva in ''[[NCIS]]'' frequently sends Tony's blood pressure ridiculously high on purpose.

* Blair admits she's this on ''[[The Facts of Life]]''.

** Probably because they do it to that level only with each other. Morgan flirts with all women to some degree, but only so outrageously with Garcia. In one flashback, it's shown it started when he casually called her a petname when they first met, she called him out on it, he immediately apologized and she admitted she liked it. It's not sexual harassment unless one of the members asks the other to stop and that person does not stop.

* Kate Beckett in ''[[Castle]]'' loves to drive [[Chivalrous Pervert]] Rick Castle up the wall with her comments and her flirting. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in one episode:

{{quote|'''Castle:''' You should really moonlight [as a dominatrix]. Trust me -- you would make a ''fortune''. Come on, isn't there anything you would like to do with your handcuffs besides arresting criminals?

* Keiji from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' is a male version, though he doesn't use his own charms. Rather, all he needs to do to make his favourite victim and resident [[Chaste Hero]] Yukimura blush is mention that he should find someone to love.

* Sayoko Uehara, the character for ''[[Persona 4]]'''s Devil Social Link, makes her introduction by hitting on the protagonist, and does it some more for the next 3 or so levels of the S-Link. {{spoiler|Then she stops being playful as we see [[Workaholic|another side of her]]...}}

** Isabela however is this trope incarnate. She teases just about everyone during party banter, especially [[Adorkable|Carver.]]

** [[Tsundere|Morrigan]] is a milder version in the first game, she limits her teasing to [[Player Character|the Warden]], [[The Stoic|Sten]], and [[Deadpan Snarker|Alistair]] but certainly does tease those three quite a bit.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Misfile]]'': Emily does a [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1025 rather mean one.]

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has two. One [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-09-06 insist] on [[Shapeshifting]] into ''attractive'' female, other [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-05-19 combines] it with being [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] through having [[Single-Target Sexuality]].

* [[The Cinema Snob]]'s wife has shown shades of this during Softly Through Cable.

* Dr. Tease from [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s show. Her full name is basically a pun for "cocktease".

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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