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There's [[All Amazons Want Hercules]] for the idea that strong women want men stronger than themselves, but an even older stereotype goes even further; that the crucial part isn't even just being significantly stronger than the woman he's trying to win over; it's being strong, period. In turn, even a weak woman isn't going to be impressed by a guy merely stronger than her; he has to be fairly strong as far as guys go, too.
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Contrast [[Weakness Turns Her On]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Possible with Bulma in ''[[
** Also Chichi with Son Goku, Earth's most powerful warrior.
** Videl with Son Gohan.
** A de-aged Mai with Trunks.
** Launch has a huge crush on Tien Shinhan.
** Once he gets over his fear of girls, Yamcha becomes a [[Chick Magnet]].
* Ryo Fujihashi becomes the girlfriend of Souma Mizuno in ''[[Fire in His Fingertips]]''.
* Casca ends up falling in love with Guts in ''[[Berserk]]''.
* Rekka has sex with three different girls because of this in ''[[Blood Shadow]]''.
* After Yukiha Serizawa from ''[[The Girl in the Library: Until The Pure You Falls From Grace]]'' becomes Masami's [[Sex Slave]] of [[Happiness in Slavery|her own free will]], she calls him a strong man by Chapter 6.
== [[
* This is the premise behind [https://web.archive.org/web/20130407142822/http://www.317am.net/2011/08/98-lb-weakling-90-days-later.html/charles-atlas-ad Charles Atlas ads in comic books.]▼
▲* Possible with Bulma in ''[[Dragonball]]'', which might explain her falling for Vegeta, recently a genocidal villain, in [[Dragonball Z]].
== [[
▲* This is the premise behind [http://www.317am.net/2011/08/98-lb-weakling-90-days-later.html/charles-atlas-ad Charles Atlas ads in comic books.]
== [[Film]]: ==▼
* The pictured example from ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' is more of a parodical example.
* In ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', Gaston was admired by the village because of this, especially with the Bimbettes. Belle was the sole exception.
* In ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'', Hercules gets a following because of this. [[Single-Target Sexuality|He only loves Meg though.]]
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', all of Penny's ex-boyfriends are dumb, muscular people.
* In the ''[[Louie]]'' episode "Bully," the middle-aged Louie is on a date with a middle-aged woman. It goes well until a teenager whom Louie asked to quiet down comes over and threatens to beat Louie up. Louie backs down and his date explains in brutally honest fashion that while she understands intellectually that Louie made the sensible, adult choice, at some gut level for her he's simply not a sexual or romantic prospect anymore because he wasn't "strong." They exchange awkward, mutually unhappy goodbyes, with both of them acknowledging that this is a screwed up situation, and the date ends.
* This is a major point in an episode of ''[[
* Muzét becomes quite flirty towards some of the male characters in ''[[Tales of Xillia 2]]'', especially Gaius. If you build up her affinity and work on her sidequests, in one of her dialogues, she asks Ludger if he built up some muscle.
* This trope comes into play if you pursue Alex as a romantic interest in ''[[Stardew Valley]]''.
== [[Web Comics]]
* In ''[[Sailor Sun]]'', after a [[Gender Bender]] transformation Bay is rather disturbed to discover [[The Mind Is
* The ''[[Scandinavia and the World]]'' strip [https://satwcomic.com/different-flavors "Different Flavors"] plays this trope straight in the first panel, but then invokes [[Small Reference Pools]] to avert it in the second.
== [[Western Animation]]
* In the ''[[Daffy Duck]]'' short "Muscle Tussle," Daffy's girlfriend is swept off her feet by a muscular beach hunk.
** This short has a cruel subversion though. Daffy makes himself stronger, and beats up the rival. Daffy's girlfriend still stays with the rival because she feels sorry for him now that he's weak.
* A central trope throughout all ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons, with Popeye and Bluto trying to perform greater feats of strength to impress Olive Oyl.
* Luanne Van Houten chooses the [[American Gladiator]] Pyro over her ex-husband Kirk at the end of the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episode, "A Milhouse Divided." Downplayed in that it's not because Pyro's a strong man, but because she and Kirk were miserable in their marriage.
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