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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"My man! Come to Lena!"''
|'''Lena Hyena''', ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' (pictured, much to our dismay)}}
An [[Gonk|ugly and/or overweight female]] is noticeably attracted to a male protagonist. Maybe she's even a little forward about it. The protagonist realizes this, and is profoundly uncomfortable with the whole idea, but the female character either doesn't realize he's not interested or [[Mad Love|is undeterred]]. Yet the character is not just uncomfortable; he's shocked, horrified, or disgusted. Even a wave and a smile from her will be treated as a fate worse than death for the recipient. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
In some cases, the point of the joke is that the protagonist is too nice to say anything, thus allowing the situation to come up repeatedly. In others, just portraying the protagonist's
The Abhorrent Admirer differs from more sympathetic characters in one key respect: the audience is expected to find her both unattractive and extremely unsympathetic, and is supposed to feel ''sorry'' for the protagonist because she has him in her sights and [[Stalker
These characters tend strongly to be female rather than male, as a result of a few different gender stereotypes. For one thing, [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]] means the mere fact that a woman takes the initiative in courting a man is often portrayed as evidence that she must have something wrong with her; for another, [[Double Standard Rape (Female
An increasingly occurring variant of this trope is when the amorous woman in question is [[
This trope is [[Older Than Print]]: the original might be the medieval legend of the "loathly lady", which is the basis of the Wife of Bath's Tale in [[Canterbury Tales|that thing]] by [[
May or may not overlap with [[Stalker
The whole trope usually provides a [[Broken Aesop]] in series where [[Be Yourself]] is a strong theme.
{{examples
== Advertising ==
* One ad for Pretzel M&M's has the pretzel trying to convince the M&M to hook up with an attractive woman across the party. The M&M protests, but the pretzel points out they exist to be eaten, "and I'd rather go with her than Hungry Eyes over here." The camera then pans back, showing a very unnerving man staring at them as "Hungry Eyes" plays.
* The very minor Tezuka anime and manga series ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The "Sexy Ninja Tea Ladies", the stepfamily of the ninja Konatsu in ''[[Ranma
▲* The very minor Tezuka anime and manga series ''[[Don Dracula (Manga)|Don Dracula]]'' has this as a [[Running Gag]]. [[Dracula]] prefers to subsist on the blood of beautiful women, and somehow never quite manages to grab one onscreen, but a grotesque (and overweight) young woman keeps popping up, determined to offer her neck and other... charms to the foreign nobleman.
* In ''[[
▲* The "Sexy Ninja Tea Ladies", the stepfamily of the ninja Konatsu in ''[[Ranma One Half (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]''. Of the three [http://www.majhost.com/gallery/misterq/misc/konatsu_sisters.jpg "Sexy Ninja Tea Ladies"], the best-looking and most feminine one was modeled after American actor [http://www.google.com/images?q=Edward+G.+Robinson Edward G. Robinson].
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', there's the "Bowling" chapter, where Longchamp invites Tsuna and Gokudera to go on a three-person blind date. Of course, Longchamp's idea of a "cute" girl has always been... [[Gonk|unique]]. So the three girls he invited were absolutely hideous (one of them even being Reborn in an ugly drag). The whole chapter pretty much consists of Tsuna and all of his [[Bishonen]] guardians / male friends coming by, being horrified by how ugly these women are, and then trying to run away from them as the women aggressively pursue them.
▲* In ''[[Houshin Engi (Manga)|Houshin Engi]]'', Venus, one of Chou Koumei's hideous three sisters, is head over heels in love with [[Anti Hero]] protagonist Taikoubou. He literally spit up blood from seeing her strike a "sexy pose." Of course, being the [[Manipulative Bastard]] he is, he ''did'' fake being slightly friendly towards her just so he could immediately distract her and defeat them. His disgust and horror towards her constant aggressive advances toward him are played for laughs.
▲* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''
** If you're an elderly woman, you're given a license to bug Sanji.
** And according to Luffy, Alvida. Subverted by how [[Chaste Hero|he still wasn't interested after she became drop dead gorgeous]].
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** The ''real'' Lola is this as well, though she's not as [[Ax Crazy]] as her zombie was. Franky plays an advance from her cool, saying he's too "[[Catch Phrase|super]]" for anything to work out between them.
** The ugly psychopath Vander Decken IX to Princess Shirahoshi.
* Dama from ''[[
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Miyako Miyazaki from ''[[
* A variation in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Shautieh Ley has ''four'' chasing after him in ''[[Bowling King]]'', Maya (everyone who meets her mistakes her for an alien initially) and the pint-sized, overweight, fanatical, [[Stalker
* The short [[Junji Ito]] story titled ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiKCFWcp_k The Fashion Model]'' takes this trope to [[I Am a Humanitarian|horrifying levels]]. [[Captive Date|Poor]] [[Bored
* Mimi from ''[[
* Julietta of ''[[
* ''[[
** Lum has Rei, her ex-fiancé from the Oni world, who may looks like a gorgeous bishonen in human form, but can [[Involuntary Shapeshifter|easily turns into a bull-tiger hybrid monster whenever excited]]. Not to mention he's dumber than a sack of brick and, when not pursuing Lum, can only think about one thing: [[Big Eater|eating non-stop]]. Lum quite understandably want nothing to do with him.
** Shinobu has one too: Soban of Busumetsu High, who besides being the boss of a deliquent gang, is [[Giant Mook]]-sized and a most extreme [[Gonk]] even by [[Rumiko Takahashi|Takahashi standards]]. A running gag is how much he has trouble acting even like a human being and not an animal (toss him a ball, he'll play with it like a tamed seal). He does little beyond charge at Shinobu yelling: "Shinobu-saaaan! SUKI DAAAA!!!!" Thankfully, Shinobu is [[Waif Fu|even stronger]] than Soban and usually sends him flying.
== Comic Books ==
* Ethel Muggs from ''[[Archie]]'' comics was originally created to facilitate this punchline. She was attracted to Jughead, who was notoriously uninterested in anything but food. She would have been unwanted anyway, so maybe they figured they'd make her unattractive just to underscore it, or perhaps they deliberately went with an ugly girl because it's one thing for him to say he's not interested in women (note how no other girl tries to so much as ask him out except under extraordinary circumstances), but if he turns down a hot one routinely he must be gay.
** Subverted in the [[Live Action Adaptation]] ''Return to Riverdale''. Set at and around the cast's 15th high school reunion, it reveals that Ethel was actually [[Beautiful All Along]] and is now a world-famous supermodel.
** Archie Comics have also downplayed this aspect of Ethel in later years. While she was as ugly as they come in her first appearances and used solely to torture Jughead, Ethel has since had some of her more distorted features toned down. She's still really tall with buck teeth and a big nose, but she's drawn much more
** Subverted again in that Archie took her out on a casual date to a comedy club and museum and ended up preferring the fact that unlike Betty and Veronica, Ethel made no demands of him. He asked her out again after taking her home.
* Subverted via the extended introduction of Mary Jane Watson in ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]''. Peter assumed that anyone his aunt was trying to set him up with must be hideous, and spent years dodging MJ.
* Mark, the protagonist of ''[[
* The Mexican comic ''Simon Simonazo'' used this trope in a rather strange manner; the Admirer in question had a comically horrid face, [[Butter Face|her body on the other hand...]]
* In issue #30 of the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage
* This was the original role of Gravel Gerty in the ''[[Dick Tracy (Comic Strip)|Dick Tracy]]'' comic strip; even grotesque villain the Brow was repulsed by Gertie's affections. She eventually met and married the equally grotesque B.O. Plenty, though B.O. was never used as an [[Abhorrent Admirer]], just as a side villain and then a comic-relief hillbilly. Naturally B.O. and Gertie's daughter, Sparkle, [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter|is a stunner]].▼
* In ''[[Zits (Comic Strip)|Zits]]'', Jeremy gets one of these in the form of Amber, a girl who obsesses about him for a week or so before she breaks up with him (via the Posse) and disappears. In a rare case, she is somewhat sympathetic and not the butt of the joke (one strip had Hector pondering why of all people she'd obsess over ''Jeremy'').▼
* ''[[FoxTrot (Comic Strip)|FoxTrot]]''▼
** Mindy of could count, however she is kind of an odd case in that she spends all of her time crushing after Peter but he remains more or less unaware of it (meanwhile, her friend keeps telling her that it's no good). It's not so much that she's unattractive, as he already has a girlfriend. It all comes to an end after she winds up going to prom with Peter's friend Steve and both hit it off very well.▼
** Morton Goldthwait is a fairly straight example. He's a short, zit-faced, coke-bottle-lenses wearing nerd who obsesses over Paige and won't be dissuaded no matter how violently she reacts to his advances. Although in one storyline he does move on and find someone who returns his advances. Paige even asks him if he forgot about her and all the times he kept hitting on her, and he replies: "The truth is, I remembered."▼
** And Paige herself, along with her friend Nicole, sometimes are this, when they're stalking and shamelessly flirting with the various popular and good-looking guys.▼
* Al Capp's ''[[Lil Abner (Comic Strip)|Lil Abner]]'' features at least two examples.▼
** First is Sadie Hawkins, A homely spinster at 35, she has a wealthy father who invented "Sadie Hawkins Day", on which women could propose to men. The character was so popular that the tradition caught on in real life, and outlived the strip character's fame entirely in the form of Sadie Hawkins dances.▼
** Then there is former [[Trope Namer]] Lena the Hyena, who was described as "the ugliest woman in Lower Slobbovia" and initially left undepicted. Cartoonist Basil Wolverton famously won a contest to portray Lena.▼
* In the newspaper strip ''[[Curtis (Comic Strip)|Curtis]]'', the title character is this to [[Alpha Bitch|Michelle]]. [[Idiot Hero|Curtis]] presses his suit despite Michelle doing everything short of calling the cops on him -- up to and including repeatedly straight up telling him "Go away. I don't like you."▼
== Fairy Tales ==
* In [
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* Allison Gross is a Child Ballad in which the eponymous witch, "the ugliest witch in the North Country" tries to coerce a man into becoming her lover.
== Films -- Animation ==
* Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has one of these (after he encountered attractive female admirers) during his song "One Jump Ahead", the one whose line is "Still I think he's rather tasty!"
* Disney previously used it 42 years earlier in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', with the wicked stepsisters towards the prince. The third movie makes it more prominent with Anastasia, though in a slight subversion she is actually pretty sympathetic and the Prince and King do like her (the Prince just doesn't want to marry her and it turns out she doesn't want to marry him).
* Lena Hyena from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Arguably Gaston from ''[[Beauty and
* Although the she-squirrel who falls in love with Arthur in ''[[The Sword in
* Dragon initially qualifies as this for Donkey in the first ''[[
* In ''[[
* [[Mole Men|Mole]] from Disney's ''[[Atlantis:
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* The eponymous ''[[Norbit]]'' (played by [[Eddie Murphy]]) is chased and lusted after by a grotesquely obese woman who looks like... [[Eddie Murphy]].
* The fat, acne-ridden Eleanor Skepple in ''[[Good Luck Chuck]]'' starts out as an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], since Chuck has to pay ''her'' for a date in order to test whether he is cursed such that any woman he sleeps with to marry the next man he meets. But once he explain he wants to "get physical," she becomes terrifyingly eager about the whole thing, and he is shown frantically scrubbing himself in the shower afterwards.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]] in, of all things, ''[[
* Played straight in ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' with the witch/cook Latrine. It's also partially inverted, in that the sheriff DOES wind up marrying her... because the alternative was death. Of course, he starts questioning his own sanity afterwards, but [[Black Comedy Rape|she already has him in her clutches.]] Further irony is introduced when she shouts, "I always wanted to marry a cop!" despite most of what she does is in fact, outright illegal, according to period law (see: the original Costner version, or Catholic attitudes towards witches around that time).
* The Spleen in the film version of ''[[Mystery Men]]'' comes off this way in one scene when he attempts to flirt with [[
* The plump, voracious doorwoman in [[
* [[Double Subversion|Doubly Subverted]] in ''[[Brazil (
* ''[[
* In the Rudy Ray Moore film ''Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law'', the title character dies and is given a chance to come back to life by [[Satan]]. The catch: he has to marry the Devil's daughter. Who was described by one reviewer as "having fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down". Needless to say, Petey goes out of his way to try to weasel out of his end of the bargain.
* Played with in ''[[Shallow Hal]]'', in which the title character has been [[Hypno Fool|hypnotized]] into seeing the "inner beauty" of an obese woman. She's so used to being treated like this that at first she thinks he's mocking her.
* In ''[[Friday (
* A hilarious scene in ''[[The Nutty Professor]] 2'' shows the grandmother lusting after Buddy Love, thinking he's the stripper hired for Denise's bachelorette party. Buddy's reaction when she drops her dress, and panties with it, is priceless.
* ''Porky's Revenge'': Porky's daughter is a butterface (if I may say so) who jumps Meat's bones, and who then gets her father to force Meat to marry her.
* You can bet that, Bollywood being what it is, has done this many a time. Ridiculous when the Abhorrent Admirer is [[Madhuri Dixit]] whom even the parents of the hero love, as seen in ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Hairspray]]''. Tracy Turnblad's crush on Link, the hot male lead of The Corny Collins Show, is not only reciprocated, she also quickly becomes the show's most popular dancer. Tracy is not ugly like most of the other examples present here though; she is just fatter than most of the other women in the movie.
* The final scene of a villain in ''[[Trading Places]]'' has the villain in a gorilla disguise trapped in a cage with an actual gorilla. The gorilla is quite in lust with the villain, whom we finally see in a BSOD. Worse than that: The gorilla is male, and thinks the ''villain'' is a female gorilla. [[Black Comedy Rape|And then their clueless keepers ship them off to live in the wild together in Africa....]]
* Wickedly subverted by '''Stockard Channing''' in ''The Girl Most Likely To'' (1973). Fat, frumpish Miriam Knight is viciously rejected by various [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|fratboys]], each of whom gleefully humiliate her for good measure. Following a [[Deus Ex Machina]] car accident, Miriam slims down to a svelte college beauty and [[Hilarity Ensues|murders]] each of her former tormentors in suitably [[Karmic Death|ironic fashion]].
* ''[[East Is East]]'' has two young British Pakistani boys attempting to escape arranged marriages to the two hideous daughters of their father's friend.
* ''Merry Christmas [[Drake and Josh]]'' gives us Drake, dressing up as Santa at the mall. He is seen kissing a girl when all the kids are gone. Not long after, a rather large girl chases him around the mall asking Santa for a kiss.
== Jokes ==
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** Another version replaces the pastor with a gym trainer, and the woman with an attractive gym buddy and sexual favors... and also replaces Lena Hyena with a very large man, who is [[Black Comedy Rape|very intent on rape]].
*** And the French version of ''that'' version makes their first name rhyme with the sex act to boot.
** The Indian version replaces the pastor with a weight loss program. It also goes into some [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The program provides three packages: Lose weight in six months, three months, three weeks or: bonus special package: in '''ONE DAY'''. The young man orders the three month package, and a beautiful woman appears on the first week to be chased. He orders the second package right away to see what happens, and gets a ''really'' hot chick on the second week. Catching on to the pattern, he orders the third package on the third week, and gets a [[Memetic Sex God
* This joke is best told to a group of close friends that are okay with a little good-natured ribbing. It helps if one of your friends tends to be the designated [[Butt Monkey]] in your circle. Let's call them Aaron, Bob, and ([[Butt Monkey]]) Charles. (Feel free to [[Gender Flip]] the roles to suit the genders/sexual preferences of your friends) You tell these beloved friends of yours that one day, [[Rule of Three|Aaron, Bob, and Charles]] died and went to Hell. [[Satan|The Devil]] walks up to Aaron and says: "Aaron! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet your new wife!". At this, a door opens and out walks the most hideous woman either of them has ever seen. She grabs the helpless Aaron and drags him away screaming to her boudoir for an eternity of violent lovemaking. Then [[Satan|The Devil]] walks up to Bob and says: "Bob! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet YOUR new wife!". Another door opens and out walks an even MORE hideous woman than the first one. She grabs the helpless Bob and drags him away screaming to her boudoir for an eternity of violent lovemaking. Charlie is terrified, of course, but then a door opens up and out steps Angelina Jolie. Charlie can't believe his eyes, and she's even more gorgeous in person than on film. As Charlie is fumbling for something to say, [[Satan|The Devil]] says: "Angelina! Welcome to Hell. I'd like you to meet your new husband!".
** There's a similar joke about 3 women going to Heaven, and being warned to [[It Makes Sense in Context|step on the ducks]]. Of course, the first two women do so and get paired up with ugly men, while the last woman goes months without doing so, and gets a very handsome man paired up with her. When asked if he's her reward for doing well, he comments that "I have no clue - all I know is that I just stepped on a duck."
* There is an anecdote about an event said to have happened in Poland, several centuries ago: when a man was about to be hanged, the oldest whore in town ran up to the gallows, and shouted, "he is mine!", invoking an ancient custom allowing for the man to go free on the condition that they will marry. The man looked at the whore, looked at the executioner, looked at the whore, then again looked at the executioner and said, "let's hang, master".
== Literature ==
* A variant in [[Tom Holt]]'s H. W. Wells & Co series: Rosie Tanner, who plays this kind of role to Paul Carpenter. She's a ''goblin''. However, she does have the ability to shapeshift into a beautiful young human woman. It's just that Paul can't forget her real form, not to mention that she's also the mother of his sadistic boss.
* ''[[
** The aging, overweight Hepzibah Smith is this to Tom Riddle, future [[Big Bad]], in a flashback. Tom plays up to this by flirting with her just enough to stay in her good graces until he can get what he wants. Then he poisons her. Unlike most of the other examples, we aren't supposed to sympathize with Tom.
** Along with Riddle, each of the main trio has one. Though none of them are physically unattractive; it is mainly their personalities. Harry has Romilda Vane, who stalks Harry and at one point gave him cauldron cakes laced with love potion, which Ron ate with tragic results. Ron, in a slight subversion, has an Abhorrent Admirer in his ''girlfriend''. At first he returns her affection, but soon finds that he's becoming more and more frightened of her, and her displays of affection gets more and more crazy. Hermione has the incredibly attractive and talented, but slightly deranged and QUITE egotistical Cormac McLaggen following her. Being a nerd, she isn't really blinded by his attractiveness, and sees him as the horrible, arrogant person he is.
** There's also Merope Gaunt. While we're meant to sympathize with her instead of the elder Tom Riddle, she otherwise fits the bill. She's a very ugly woman due to generations of incestuous in-breeding, mentally unstable, and obsessive over the attractive young man who catches her eye. She even feeds him love potions to win him, since he won't have a thing to do with her otherwise.
* A [[Gender Flip|gender-flipped]] version happens in ''[[
* Both used and subverted in Diana Wynne Jones's ''[[Castle in
* Narcissa in ''[[Montmorency]]''; here, it's mostly a hygiene issue.
* Creepella Von Cacklefur is this to [[
* A sympathetic example from ''[[The Circus of Doctor Lao]]''; Mrs. Cassin is an older woman whose husband simply left her. Since she lost her looks and charm a long time ago, she has no luck in attracting men.
* The ''[[
* The ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover]]'' book [[
* In ''[[The Elenium]]'' by David Eddings, [[The Hero]] gets sympathetic passage on a ship by claiming to be fleeing a wealthy but hideous heiress whom he accidentally offered to marry. He encounters the same ship in a later book; when the Captain asks what happened with the Ugly Heiress, he points to the young and beautiful Queen of Elenia and says "I married her."
* ''[[
** In the novel ''Ogre, Ogre'', the female protagonist's wish to escape such an abhorrent admirer (a rape demon, more or less) is what kicks off the plot.
** Subverted with the Dolph/Electra/Nada [[Love Triangle]] that took up a couple of books. Prince Dolph finds himself engaged to two women, the beautiful Nada Naga, whom he loves, and the more ordinary Electra, who loves him. Nada considers Dolph to be this trope, as he is far too young and immature for her. Dolph thinks this of Electra, as while she is not unattractive, she can in no way compete with the knockout Nada. To compound matters, Dolph must marry Nada to ensure an alliance between two kingdoms, and he must marry Electra or she will die from a magical curse. Despite this, the three are friends, and eventually decide to [[Screw Destiny]] by having Dolph marry Electra, divorce her the next day, marry Nada, and fix the love triangle with the use of Love/Anti-Love potions. Then it gets double subverted when during their one night of marriage Dolph discovers he truly ''does'' love Electra, and they remain married.
* [[Amelia Peabody]]'s husband Emerson managed to attract the attentions of a loathsome woman who was convinced that [[Reincarnation Romance|she and Emerson had been lovers in Ancient Egypt.]] Being Emerson, he was as annoyed by the [[You Fail History Forever|historical inaccuracies in her story of their past lives]] as he was by the lady herself.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Malcolm in
* ''[[Full House]]''
** Mrs. Carruthers was like this to Joey as a [[Running Gag]].
** Kimmy Gibler was like this towards several of the men on the show as well. Especially Jesse.
** The ''Full House'' team apparently loved this trope, because there was a character named Rusty that was depicted as such toward D.J. during the first half of season 4. The rub:{{spoiler|His mom was dating Danny}}.
* ''[[Married...
** Bud in particular was often an
** One episode had Al changing his mind and going for a ride with some middle-aged overweight women who decided he was very hot.
* This trope made up the entirety of the recurring "Wanda Wayne" and "Vera de Milo" sketches on ''[[In Living Color]]''.
* ''[[
** The show does this with Judy from series one, who has a thing for Roy. She has "hair on her eyes" and "three rows of teeth"
** Roy has a tendency to attract this type of woman; there was also the woman who, upon encountering a bunch of tramps on their date, began shouting at them that they owed ''her'' money. Played with, in that since Roy himself is usually pretty desperate, he often ends up sleeping with them anyway.
** Not to mention the girl in the 'Friendface' episode who wears too much make-up. She's not exactly hideous, but her make-up and personality are both creepy. Roy tells Jen that "It was like breaking up with the joker".
* One episode of ''[[The Jamie Foxx Show]]'' had Jamie the victim of an
** Jamie Foxx is no stranger to this trope. He played this character himself, Ugly Wanda, when he was on ''[[In Living Color]]''. The episode might have been a [[Shout
* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', it seems anyone actually interested in Bertie is off the end of one scale or another, even though none of them actually look bad.
** Honoriah Glossop is not particularly good-looking, but more importantly, large and violent. Not exactly well-suited to Bertie.
** Lady Florence Craye is physically attractive, but with a horrifyingly caustic personality that makes anyone watching want to push her down a well.
** Madeline Bassett is so sickeningly sweet.
* Deconstructed and subverted in ''[[Strangers
* ''[[Family Matters]]''
** Male example in (who else?) [[
** There is also his cousin Myrtle Urkel, a [[Southern Belle]] with a crush on Eddie.
* There was an example in the ''[[
* ''[[
** Chandler is repeatedly plagued by the unwanted advances of Janice, who (while not unattractive) sports a gaudy wardrobe, a loud and nasal voice, and an ugly honking laugh. She's not '''entirely''' unwanted, however, as Chandler does (eventually) develop feelings for her; the two are actually in a seemingly stable relationship for a few episodes before she goes back to her husband.
** Chandler seems to be a magnet for these, as he also had to deal with the unwanted affections of overweight teenage Monica in the flashbacks. Of course, this is also a subversion, because Monica not only grew up to be quite attractive, but eventually became Chandler's wife.
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* ''[[The Office]]''
** Meredith occasionally hits on Jim. For example, when she breaks her hip she asks him to sign her pelvis cast and singles him out in particular to thank for visiting her in the hospital. Jim seems disturbed, but too polite to say anything.
** ''[[The Office]]'' likes
** In the English version, David Brent tries to encourage the camera (and whoever's watching) to sympathise with him when his date turns out to be as overweight as he is, but she's a nice person and he's rude to her so it's almost an inversion.
* Played with on ''[[Top Gear]]'', where Richard Hammond gets a fan letter, ostensibly from a mentally-disturbed prisoner about to be released on parole... named [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
* Subverted on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', as the plain, average Ann is considered an Abhorrent Admirer to George
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', the eponymous Zack and Cody have, on separate occasions, and despite their best efforts, attracted the affections of [[Stalker
* Harper and Justin from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' are a good example of this. In earlier episodes, she was portrayed as Alex's weird friend who was convinced she was going to marry Justin despite his complete disinterest. Although in later episodes, Harper starts acting a little more calm around him and they become friends, Justin still seems highly uncomfortable when the subject of Harper's feelings for him come up.
* In 80's sitcom about a girl robot named Vicky and her family ''[[Small Wonder]]'', Harriet Brindle. Is treated as such by Jamie.
* ''[[
** April Rhodes, Mr Schuester's
** Subverted somewhat in two other cases as well. Rachel has an
** Subverted completely in the case of Lauren
* Lily on ''[[The Hard
* In ''[[Zoey 101]]'' there is [[Butt Monkey|Stacey]] to Logan.
* On ''[[Saved
* In ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan Fielding is forced to defer an evening's diversions with beautiful twin Swedish stewardesses out of concerns that he may have been bitten by a rabid dog. Grateful for his candor, one of the stewardesses decides to play straight (as it were) with Dan, admitting that the twins were at one time both men. [[Screams Like a Little Girl|Dan is unamused.]]
* One episode of ''[[
* Rose from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' would fall under this trope. Not because she's ugly (she's quite attractive) but because of her personality. She's a stalker, she would regularly climb over their balcony instead of visiting by using the front door and has engaged in elaborate schemes to make Charlie fall for her, including keeping him sick so she can play Florence Nightengale and, more recently, put on a fake wedding just to make him Charlie want her.
* Henry in ''[[
* ''[[
** Lwaxana Troi to Picard on ''[[Star Trek:
** On ''[[Star Trek
* Oleg the fry cook in ''[[
* ''[[
* Ironically the actress playing [[
* Paula is this to Tim in ''[[
* Weird Ashley to Axl on ''[[The Middle]]''.
* Oleg the cook to just about every female on ''[[
* ''Gail the Snail'' on the series ''[[
== Music Videos ==
* The poor female lead of "Object of My Desire" by Dana Rayne. Truly, ''truly'' [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]].
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* This was the original role of Gravel Gerty in the ''[[Dick Tracy (
▲* In ''[[
▲** Mindy of could count, however she is kind of an odd case in that she spends all of her time crushing after Peter but he remains more or less unaware of it (meanwhile, her friend keeps telling her that it's no good). It's not so much that she's unattractive, as he already has a girlfriend. It all comes to an end after she winds up going to prom with Peter's friend Steve and both hit it off very well.
▲** Morton Goldthwait is a fairly straight example. He's a short, zit-faced, coke-bottle-lenses wearing nerd who obsesses over Paige and won't be dissuaded no matter how violently she reacts to his advances. Although in one storyline he does move on and find someone who returns his advances. Paige even asks him if he forgot about her and all the times he kept hitting on her, and he replies: "The truth is, I remembered."
▲** And Paige herself, along with her friend Nicole, sometimes are this, when they're stalking and shamelessly flirting with the various popular and good-looking guys.
▲** First is Sadie Hawkins, A homely spinster at 35, she has a wealthy father who invented "Sadie Hawkins Day", on which women could propose to men. The character was so popular that the tradition caught on in real life, and outlived the strip character's fame entirely in the form of Sadie Hawkins dances.
▲** Then there is former [[Trope Namer]] Lena the Hyena, who was described as "the ugliest woman in Lower Slobbovia" and initially left undepicted. Cartoonist Basil Wolverton famously won a contest to portray Lena.
▲* In the newspaper strip ''[[
== Pro Wrestling ==
* This was Goldust's gimmick, a rare male example of the trope. Goldust was basically a pan-sexual who would flirt with his opponents to gain a psychological advantage in a match by, for example, suddenly appearing to enjoy the grapple he's been put into or caressing his opponent in a hold.
* "Exotic" Adrian Street was working this gimmick before Dustin's daddy started wrestling, and can be seen as a major influence on the Goldust character. "Gorgeous" George Wagner was doing it even earlier
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Nosferatu from ''[[
* Naturally, taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Warhammer
== Theater ==
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operettas use this trope fairly often, though not quite as often as people think:
** For instance, in ''[[Ruddigore]]'' 's Dame Hannah is loved by two different characters, and gets to have the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|one moment of genuine romance in the play.]] Admittedly, she's also [[Crowning Moment of Funny|accidentally abducted due to poor communication with flunkies]], but the jokes are almost entirely at the kidnapper's expense, while she gets to show herself as a complete badass, completely capable of defending herself.
** While Katisha in ''[[The Mikado]]'' is mostly a straight example of this trope, she does get the Act II song "Alone, and Yet Alive" which describes the pain of being forever thwarted in love rather nicely. Some modern productions play Katisha as the hero and [[Villain Protagonist|Nanki-Poo as the]] [[Jerkass]] who jilted her. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|It's unlikely that Gilbert wrote with this intention, though.]]
* In [[Shakespeare]]'s early play ''[[
* In ''[[
* [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''Passion'' works toward a [[Subversion]]. The soldier hero pines for his beautiful (and married) lover Clara and is repulsed by the attentions of the unattractive and sickly Fosca. Eventually he realizes Fosca's love is more, well, ''passionate'', to put it [[Stalker
* ''[[Tanz
** Herbert von Krolock is a borderline example of the male homosexual variety, depending on who's playing him. He might be [[Bishonen|handsome]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse|endearing]] but he's also a clingy, aggressive vampire who's very intent on getting his teeth into vampire-hunting [[Tenor Boy]] Alfred.
** Rebecca, Chagal's wife, who presumably used to resemble her lovely daughter Sarah, has become one of these to her husband in the same show, driving him toward his beautiful scullery maid Magda. This is especially jarring [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722002938/http://grono.net/gallery/photo/show/11444776/obraz-008/ in productions where she's not even played as particularly obnoxious or ugly]. (However, the fact that he isn't particularly charming or attractive either renders ''him'' a genderswapped example of the same trope as far as Magda's concerned... until he bites her, at least.)
* ''The Changeling''. De Flores has a terrible skin disease. He might actually be a [[Dogged Nice Guy]].
== Video Games ==
* Some versions of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' story world place Bowser as this to explain why you're rescuing the princess from him.
** Birdo is often cast as the female equivalent, particularly in games like ''[[Mario
** In ''[[
** ''[[Paper Mario:
* ''[[Henry Hatsworth in
** During the Lance Banson boss fight, his fangirls (Banson being a famous opera singer and [[Sky Pirate]]) will rush out from time to time. Sometimes they're attractive and mildly replenish his health. If Henry screws up his singing via the [[Match Three Puzzle]], they're rather plain and
** Also, the first boss Lady D is this for Henry. He tells her he hasn't the time and she promptly tries to destroy him with her giant Wedding Cake Battle Fortress.
* Bit of a cutesy inversion in ''[[Fat Princess]]'' if you Fridge it.
* Inverted with Laharl of ''[[
* ''[[
** Inverted in "Chariots of the Dogs", where the titular lagomorph (Max) ends up being the object of obsession of the fairly attractive Momma Bosco. Of course, Max doesn't like girls (for the same reasons a 10 year old boy is disgusted by girls) and finds her advances on him to be gross. In the same game, a young version of Max tries to avoid going to the prom because there's a girl who has a crush on him who is apparently known for french kissing every boy she likes.
** In the "Tomb of Sammun-Mak" we have the Mole-girl, Nefertiti, who is hopelessly in love with a pre-vampire Jurgen.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Terk from the Tarzan world of the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
* The Rip Van Fish from "The Only Water Level" in ''[[Something]]''. If they see Mario, they immediately chase him. Also, they're dreaming about finding love since they create hearts when they're sleeping.
== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Phoenix Wright
** [[Punny Name|Wendy Oldbag]] is attracted to several younger male characters over the course of the series, most notably [[Deadpan Snarker]] Miles Edgeworth. Of course, part of the reason this is considered repulsive is probably the fact that Oldbag is a completely obnoxious [[Jerkass]], and that she simply [[Stalker
** Sal Manella, a fat, sweaty, ugly geek who speaks in internet memes and "l33t speak", is this to Maya in one case in the first game.
* [[Smug Snake|Gilgamesh]] to [[Lady of War|Saber]], from ''[[Fate/stay
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** There's features an interesting take on
** When Gren briefly breaks up with Bob, she has Arachne set her up on a number of blind dates. All of the prospects are this in some way, either from being perverted (the kuo-toa), attractive but too sensitive (Turg), or absolutely disgusting (the otyugh and neo-otyugh). It's possible that Arachne did this on purpose, as she [[Does Not Like Men|despises men]] and thinks Gren should as well.
* Torg's [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980110&mode=weekly blind date] from ''[[
* Sherry from ''[[Out There]]'' finds her admirer Clayton fairly abhorrent, and while he has many flaws (surly, shiftless, dishonest, alcoholic), the other notable female characters seem to like him.
* ''[[
** Sister Finland for Sweden, though it's less about her looks and more about her [[Knife Nut|violent tendencies]] and his [[
** Estonia, of the Baltic girls trio, just wants to party with the cute Nordic boys. They however hide from her in fear. Except for Finland, who does accept her booze before slamming the door in her face.
* In ''[[Dubious Company]]'', Elly has [[Unwanted Harem|three of them]]. While all of them are physically attractive, their personalities terrify him. Not to mention that Mary and Marty are also the [[Foe Yay|bad guys]].
** Mary is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous]] [[Valley Girl]] that comes on [[Perverse Sexual Lust|too strong]].
** Marty is [[Selective Obliviousness|damn sure]] that Elly is a [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|girl]] and also comes on [[Ho Yay|too strong]].
** Raque is a [[Yandere|guano]] crazy [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|raccoon]] girl that sees [[Replacement Goldfish|her beloved]] in Elly.
* ''Lowroad'' - a demon girl good looking enough to be mistaken for a succubus is pretty much doomed to get excess of [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20091125.html these]. And she (otherwise) [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20090306.html likes to visit anime conventions]...
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* Fangirls and fanboys in the ''[[Official Fanfiction University]]'' series are not necessarily unattractive, but tend to have no grasp at all of personal space or no meaning no. Most of them are also underage, if the OFU is in a continuum where that applies, or even if it doesn't -- milennia-old elves really do not see the appeal of thirteen-year-old girls. Plus the sheer number of them tends to get wearing. "Fangirl Stampedes" are not uncommon.
* The Starfish loves [[Charlie the Unicorn]] and WANTS TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER!
* [[
** Todd himself is this toward [[Obscurus Lupa]] (who seems to bring this out in most of the males on the site), almost to the point of [[Single
* For most of Volume 1 and the first half of Volume 2 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Jaune Arc was this to Weiss Schnee. This essentially ended the night of the dance in Volume 2, between upbraiding Neptune for turning Weiss down and discovering the deepening friendship he had with Pyrrha.
== Western Animation ==
* Sympathetic example from ''[[
* ''[[
** Arguably, the single greatest
** [[Gender Flip
** Mama Bear turns into one of these at the end of ''[[Bugs Bunny]] and the Three Bears'', after the rabbit's attempt at distraction-by-seduction works a little too well. ("Tell me more about my eyes!")
** It happens to Bugs Bunny again in the cartoon ''Rabbit Romeo''. He is pursued by a large Slobbovian rabbit named Millicent who wants to "kees" him and "make marriage". Eventually she loses interest in Bugs and falls in love with Elmer Fudd who was tricked into wearing a rabbit suit. So Millicent starts chasing after Elmer instead.
** ''[[
** The show also has Daffy bought at a bachelor auction by Granny, though it turns out she only wanted help cleaning her attic.
* ''[[
** Trope continued with Pepe's female counterpart/
** Elmyra is this to Max Montana in a couple of episodes, one in which Max reluctantly agrees to go to the prom with her, and another in which he (also reluctantly) goes on a date with her. Subverted in the end of the latter in which he gives her an [[Accidental Kiss]] at the end of their date.
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* Sierra from ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' definitely counts with her [[Stalker
* The Kanker Sisters in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
* Mr. Barkin in ''[[
* [[Tex Avery]] was fond of this trope.
** The cartoon ''The Chump Champ'' has Droopy and Spike competing for the title of "King of Sports", with the prize being a kiss from the "Queen of Sports". After Spike cheats his way to victory, he goes to kiss the Queen, who appears to be a knockout... until [[Butter Face|her face is revealed]]. She chases the horrified Spike into the distance, as Droopy informs the audience that "[[An Aesop|cheaters never win]]".
** In ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', Red's grandmother is very forward in trying to catch the Wolf, who reacts with utter panic. Pretty much the same thing happens with the fairy godmother in ''Swing Shift Cinderella''.
** Subverted in ''Little Rural Riding Hood,'' though: the gawky hick Red inspires paroxysms of lust {{spoiler|in ''both'' wolves!}}
* ''[[
** There're one-off jokes about a few women like this (including a few moderately attractive celebrities), but the most recurring one is the [[Butt Monkey]], Meg Griffin. Boys would rather set themselves on fire and kill their siblings than go to a dance with her. Strangely enough, Quagmire apparently thought she was at least somewhat attractive, since he kept asking when she turned 18. He's more or less alone in thinking that though.
** She was able to attract some males in the pre-cancellation era, before her "[[Hollywood Homely|ugliness]]" was played up, not to mention she has her own recurring
** Quagmire thinks pretty much everything is attractive, swinging between
** Quagmire's attraction to anyone and everything (including Meg) is also subverted in "Barely Legal". Meg has been Brian's abhorrent admirer all episode and when she is sent round to Quagmire's house so he can "take care of her", it is heavily implied he is going to seduce her. He strips, puts on music and...has a heart to heart with Meg about the pressures of growing up and gives her a copy of Shel Silverstein's ''The Missing Piece''.
* Velda acts as one of these for Crash in the short-lived ''[[
* [[Straw Fan|A number of these]] featured in the ''[[The Beatles (
* ''[[
** Used in the cartoon ''A Fine Feathered Frenzy'' with Gorgeous Gal who had a sexy voice but was an overweight and eldery anthropomorphic bird. After falling head over heals over Woody Woodpecker the second she laid eyes on him she chased after and attempted to seduce him ("How 'bout a twosome hon?") despite his reluctance. Gorgeous Gal still managed to kiss him on his cheeks and lips several times and even married Woody against his wishes.
** The cartoon ''Alley to Bali'' features two; a light gray gorilla and a giant pink octopus with blue eyes. The octopus likes Woody and both of these girls like Buzz Buzzard. The boys in turn are chasing after a balinese woman with an hourglass figure and wind up in the clutches of these admirers by mistake. With a tentacle around his neck, the giant octopus presses her big red lips against Woody's cheek twice. Buzz, on the other hand, gets kissed right on the beak by both ladies. However, the gorilla and octopus turn brown in disgust after locking lips with the Buzzard!
** On ''[[The Woody Woodpecker Show]]'' short "Date With Destiny", a Cupid decides to teach the Woodpecker a lesson and strikes a male black and white sharp toothed badger with a love arrow. The badger with a very raspy voice says to Woody "Hi ya buddy!" He closes his eyes and puckers his lips while pink hearts appear above his head. The horrified Woodpecker runs down the street with the badger in hot pursuit.
* Used ''repeatedly'' in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' with Toot Braunstein. Slight irony there too: she's actually drawn somewhat nice-looking most of the time, if you like them chubby. It's her disgusting slovenly habits which are the actual deal-breaker to those of us not in the show. She receives the brunt of the Ren & Stimpy [[Dramatic Art Shift|super detail]] gags as a result of this trope, however. (And, some characters do reciprocate, much to the horror of the rest of the cast, like Ling-Ling's dad.)
* On ''[[Histeria
** Evidently [[Truth in Television]], from a purely physical standpoint. Statues and the imprints on coins, which were designed to ''flatter'', are at best nothing special by either our own standards nor the standards of her time. In real life she managed to win over the boys by being intelligent, funny, and engaging in conversation.
* ''[[Hey Arnold
** Curly is ''definitely'' this to Rhonda. "I haven't changed my underwear in seventeen days", anyone?
** Brainy too, to Helga.
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
* Deconstructed in an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
* The Weavil Princess to Beezy in ''[[Jimmy Two
* ''[[Chowder]]'': Hey Num-Nums.
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* ''[[
** This describes the relationship between Zapp Brannigan and Turanga Leela. Zapp is the admirer in this case. Of course, on their first encounter Leela sleeps with him out of pity, complicating things for herself for the rest of the series. Note that Zapp is quite handsome (if a bit overweight): Leela hates him purely for [[Jerkass|his personality]].
** Fry gets one in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love". Edna is considered highly desirable by Decapodian standards, but hideous to humans. When Fry admits it was he who coached Zoidberg in the ways of flirting, Edna falls for him because she has never experienced romance before (it being unknown to her species). When Fry is stuck with the prospect of either ending up with her or being killed by a vengeful Zoidberg, he considers both options equally horrific.
* ''[[House of Mouse]]''
** Clara Cluck to [[Donald Duck]] on the short "Double Date Don". She falls for Donald Duck and spends the cartoon trying to kiss him and win him over by wearing different outfits and posing provocatively for him. Eventually while she is lying on the ground she grabs him and forcibly manages to kiss him passionately on the lips. Soon after Clara almost tricks Donald into marrying her. Daisy stops the wedding in time.
** In "Donald's Pool", an elderly female turtle and Donald Duck initially dislike each other. Donald is also grossed out when he sees her remove her shell and appear in a one piece purple bikini. She changes her tune by the end of the short when she thinks that Donald taught her son Shelby how to swim. She thanks him and says that she will bring her son back to the pool every single day of the summer. On top of that she grabs Donald to congratulate him with a kiss on his beak! Donald fends her off but winds up falling in the pool and sinking to the bottom. Her son Shelby laughs at the duck's misfortune.
* A large female alligator named Antoinette also falls in love with Donald in the ''[[
* ''[[Popeye (
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Valerie Gray in ''[[
* In the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "Talent Show a Go-Go", after [[Insistent Terminology|"borrowing"]] Tom Jones's voice, Dodgers ends up attracting the attention of an ugly alien queen.
* ''[[Captain N:
** A dress-wearing pink octopus with blonde hair and blue eyes had a crush on Simon Belmont during the episode entitled "I Wish I Was a Wombatman". This short yet shapely and well-endowed director's assistant said to him with a beautiful voice, "Ooooh! You're a dream boat!" She gave him a big hug wrapping her tentacles around him. While embracing him, the assistant gave him a giant wink and extended her enormous red lips inches away from his. Simon seemed repelled because she was of a different species. The cartoon ended with the octopus leaning forward exposing the top of her ample cleavage and asking "Uh, anyone one call for make up?" Ignoring everyone else in the room she made a beeline right to her beloved Belmont. The blonde babe had no make-up kit on hand because this was just her excuse to get Simon alone in a dressing room for some hugging and kissing. Simon ran away in terror. She slithered right after him with a big smile and open tentacles like a love-struck groupie.
** Simon Belmont had another such admirer in the episode "Queen of the Apes". After defeating the leader of a pack of gorillas a female that had a blonde beehive complete with curlers and a pink skirt fell for Simon. The muscle bound large breasted hairy ape closed her eyes and tried to kiss him with her big pink lips but he got away. The pack of gorillas carried Simon away to end the episode so there's a chance she got around to kissing him off camera.
** This was reversed a few times with Simon getting struck with a love arrow and falling for the hideous Mother Brain once, almost marrying her in the episode Mr. & Mrs. Mother Brain. There was also a mutual attraction between Simon and Queen Dwarfine in The Feud of Faxanadu. While she had a rather plump yet nice figure she may not have been very attractive to the audience given her blue skin, green frizzy hair and big nose. The Vampire Hunter was attracted to more classic beauties such as Lana and Princess Zelda however, throughout the series.
* Jackie "Wacky Jackie" Wackerman on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' definitely fits this trope, not only is she a [[Stalker
* The Ice King from ''[[
* Early episodes of ''[[
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[
** Eugene a.k.a. Bling-Bling boy loves Susan Test but she wants nothing to do with him. Conversely Susan and her sister Mary both have a crush on Gil but he is barely aware of their existence.
** In the short "Johnny of the Deep" Johnny Test is transformed into a shark and is approached by a top heavy female shark with long eyelashes, red hair, green eyes and big red lips who speaks with a slight southern accent. She called him a flaming haired hunk of shark and said "I think you're cute as all get out!" She ran a fin through his hair and asked, "How 'bout a little kiss sugar?" Moving in to hold him and blowing kisses while puckering her lips, the horrified Johnny swam away. She pursued smacking her lips during the chase scene. Later, a ring dubbed Suzanite that Bling-Bling Boy had that could make any female fall for him (but it was obviously intended for Susan) worked it's magic on the shark thanks to Johnny and Dukey. She gazed at Eugene with hearts in her eyes. The smitten shark declared, "Ah'm in love," and wanted "Just a little kiss!" This was despite the fact that Bling-Bling Boy was not transformed into a shark like Johnny and was still a human, but it was all due to the power of the ring. The shark lady swam after Eugene and called out to him a few times aking for her "Sugar? SUGAR?"
** Another episode has a female Bigfoot fall in love and smother Dukey (who was transformed into a monster by a [[Transformation Ray]] gun for a time) who obviously didn't enjoy the affection.
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' {{spoiler|It's Maybelliiiiiiiiine, nigga!}} from the episode, Wingman, when Robert Freeman is confronted by a long lost ex.
* At the end of the episode "Cartman Finds Love" from ''[[
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