Single Woman Seeks Good Man/Playing With

Basic Trope: A woman finds a man attractive for his virtues.
 * Straight: After a fire where Jack bravely helped save people from the flames and then volunteered food and shelter for them, Jill concludes he is the right one for her.
 * Exaggerated: Jack gives a beggar a penny. Jill falls in love.
 * Justified: She wants someone reliable.
 * Jill has a good head on her shoulders and actually wants someone who will be good to her.
 * Inverted: All Girls Want Bad Boys
 * Subverted: Jill dates Jack but is secretly trying to make her ex-boyfriend, a bad boy, jealous so her ex will return to her.
 * Double Subverted: Until Jill falls in love with Jack for his incredible kindness.
 * Parodied: Men recklessly paraded heroics and give everything away to charity because it's the only way to attract Jill.
 * Deconstructed: Jill foolishly does not consider what the hero is like in day to day life, and finds out the hard way.
 * Jill looks only for goodness and does not consider whether she finds him attractive, has interests in common with him, or can stand the tension of his dangerous occupation.
 * Reconstructed: Jill just didn't look deeply enough; she considers whether he reliably acts honorable on a day to day basis.
 * Jill looks for goodness as well as other attractive traits.
 * Zig Zagged: Sometimes Jill is attracted to sweet guys, other times to Jerk Asses.
 * Averted: Jill is single and happy.
 * Jill is a lesbian, celibate or asexual.
 * Jill is the Big Bad's consort and she likes her men just as evil as she is.
 * Enforced: The Moral Guardians will hit the roof if she ends up with the villain.
 * Lampshaded: "Yes, bad boys are Hotter and Sexier, but good guys make much better husbands in the long run."
 * Invoked: Jill puts Single Woman Seeks Good Man in a personals ad in the paper or on the Web.
 * Defied: Jill deliberately seeks out bad boys.
 * Discussed: "Aooww! All the good men are gay, taken, priests, too old, too young, fictional characters, or any combination thereof!"
 * Conversed: "Well, not all of them. But many are. It's just Murphy's Law."

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