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''Such a beautiful disaster...''|'''Kelly Clarkson, "Beautiful Disaster"'''}}
A hottie, usually in high school and usually male, whose first name is spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e, often expressed through fondness for leather jackets and antisocial behavior. Has [[Mr. Fanservice|fangirls]] in both his own universe and the real one because [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]. They may be revealed to have [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|a heart of gold]] or a [[Freudian Excuse|difficult home life]]. [[The Ladette|Ladettes]] and [[Femme Fatale
See also: [[The Woobie]], [[Broken Bird]], [[Draco in Leather Pants]], [[Evil Is Cool]], [[Evil Is Sexy]], [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]], [[Jerkass Woobie]].
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* Harima Kenji from the anime ''[[School Rumble]]'' takes a lot from this trope. Being rather antisocial and a juvenile delinquent, with a liking for leather jackets and bikes, he likes beating up Yakuza goons and is all around good-looking...except that, beneath all that, he's an oaf with a heart of gold who likes drawing manga and is too scared of confessing his love for a classmate. All while obliviously gaining the attention of several other girls.
* Hayato Gokudera from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' - a smoker, [[Delinquents|delinquent]], and lover of [[Stuff Blowing Up|high explosives]]. Naturally, the girls go wild for him. The only break in his
* Kouji Kabuto from ''[[Mazinger Z]]''. High-school student, male, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] with love for bikes and reputation for being a [[Delinquent]]. And he pilots a [[Humongous Mecha]]. Needless to say, girls gush over him (especially Sayaka Yumi).
* Sasuke of ''[[Naruto]]''. Completely misses the look (or at least, the [[Hollywood Dress Code|dress code]]), though - that turtleneck, shorts, and kneesocks combination fairly scream "scrawny kid". Then again, [[Ninja]] are ''supposed'' to cultivate an unassuming personal appearance, even if, in fiction, [[Highly-Visible Ninja|they usually don't]].
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* Fans of ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' are divided over whether or not Grave-Robber is actually troubled or just a sociopath with a sense of humour, but there's no denying he's incredibly foxy. The fact that he canonically lives out of dumpsters seems like it would be enough to make him the former.
* Patrick Verona from ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]''.
** However, {{spoiler|as we learn later, he is more in the line of "he doesn't deny any of this, so it must be true". He does stay away from most of his peers, but that's mostly because he just does have different tastes. Kate is the real
* Billy Tallent and Joe Dick of ''[[Hard Core Logo]]'' are what happens when examples of this trope hit their thirties, with emphasis on the "troubled" part (especially in Joe's case).
* Kovu from the second ''[[Lion King]]'' movie definitely fits this trope - if he wasn't, you know, a lion, he would definitely wear leather jackets and ride a motorcycle.
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*** He probably would have gotten the heart of gold if they hadn't [[Put on a Bus|put him on a bus]] to California to live with his biological father in order to set up a spinoff that never happened. Ugh.
*** His heart of gold got to shine later in when he reappeared for two episodes in the sixth season, having grown out of his jerkiness and into some responsibility (paying Luke back for at least the car and NOT making out with Rory when she reveals she's still with Logan).
* Christian Troy on ''[[Nip Tuck]]''. He's shallow, sex-obsessed, and in the habit of treating his sex partners like
* Dean from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', and it didn't take long for his brother Sam to catch up. Castiel also fell into this before too long, further proving that [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|improbably good-looking men]] angsting a lot is kind of the show's main draw.
* Jo from ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' is a [[Rare Female Example]].
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* Tim Riggins, drunkard and resident [[Mr. Fanservice]] on ''[[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|Friday Night Lights]]''.
* Daniel Desario from ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' is a [[James Dean]]-looking, scholasticly-challenged heart breaker from the wrong side of the tracks.
* Ricky from ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'', who has one of the biggest [[Freudian Excuse
* Mark from ''[[Roseanne]]''. His brother David was more on [[The Woobie]] side of things.
* Dean from [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] is painted with this trope in mind, but Alex Russo pulls it off much better. Alex manages this without being a [[Broken Bird]], as a part of her [[Cool Loser]] goal and charm.
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** Raiden at first comes across as well-adjusted, but turns out to have been a recovering ex-child soldier with messed-up standards of intimacy. But...so bishie!
* Kōya Aotsuki from the gay [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Morenatsu]]''.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' doesn't have highschools in it,<ref>IOSYS remixes notwithstanding</ref>
* Norman Jayden from [[Heavy Rain]] is quite handsome, but spends most of the game struggling with a debilitating addiction to {{spoiler|triptocaine}} and {{spoiler|his overuse of the ARI}}. Things get even less pretty when he starts having [[Deadly Nosebleed|withdrawal symptoms]] from trying to break himself out of the habit.
* Lightning in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' is a female example.
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