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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Now you don't need money when you look like that, do ya honey?"''
|"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet.}}
'''Pretty Freeloaders''' are a common [[Harem Genre]] archetype, and occasionally show up in other genres too: They are girls, who move in to the protagonist as [[Innocent Cohabitation]], and just stay there, without actually doing anything, or paying for anything.
Related to [[Friends Rent Control]], as the characters' ability to do this is frequently [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] as one of the characters having a rich family, the main character won a giant house and commodities in a contest, etc., and the plot point is promptly forgotten for the rest of the series. If this behavior is tolerated or encouraged, it may be due to [[Favors for the Sexy]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Jun's living doll troupe in ''[[Rozen Maiden]]''.
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** The freeloader part may be subverted, considering all the mothers are full-time teachers or a nurse. It's implied they pay the food bill, since they once ask how much Hazuki spends on eating.
* The various tenants of Narutakisou in ''[[Mahoraba]]'', who interfere in the central romance incessantly.
* Anna from ''[[Shaman King]]'', who takes advantage of her [[Childhood Marriage Promise|engagement]] to Yoh in order to do nothing that hasn't been paid for by someone else, usually Yoh or Manta. In the dubbed version of Trey (Horohoro)'s intro episode, [[Hypocritical Humor|she actually tells him "No freeloaders".]] In her defense, Anna seems to consider the [[Training
* A sizable portion of the cast of ''[[Read or Die]]'' ends up living in Nenene's apartment by the end of the TV series. Any incidental earnings from their detective jobs is mostly squandered on their bibliophile habits.
* Makoto Sawatari in ''[[Kanon]]'' starts out as a Pretty Freeloader before becoming a Haremette. A little more justified in her case since she's a girl afflicted with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] and thatr's why Akiko took her in. {{spoiler|Specially considering that she's not even human to begin with.}}
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* Aisha and Suzuka from ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Technically, they're not freeloading as Aisha takes menial jobs to pay her way and both usually end up working the same job as Gene (he's too afraid of Suzuka to actually charge her rent). They're more like unusual roomates.
** And they ''do'' occupy useful positions in ''[[Cool Ship|Grappler One/Outlaw Star]]'''s crew, so they definitely earn their keep.
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* Around halfway through the ''[[Noein]]'' anime Haruka takes advantage of her mom's [[Parental Obliviousness]] to let Karasu and the other Dragon Knights crash at her place. She tells her mom they are bird watchers.
* Tsuna from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has this problem. Reborn, Bianchi, I-Pin, and Lambo tended to be the more permanent moochers in his house (at least in the first half). However, Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Haru also fit this trope every now and then, at certain points in the story. (And even though Gokudera and Yamamoto are ''supposed'' to have the job of protecting Tsuna, Tsuna has shown numerous times that he doesn't actually ''need'' their protection all that much).
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== Live Action TV ==
* Al Bundy's entire family fits this role on ''[[Married... with Children]]''. While the kids eventually get jobs when Al forces them to, they continue sponging off him by living at home well into their twenties. For her part, Peg lazes around the house, spending whatever money Al makes on useless junk while not lifting a finger to help out either by getting a job or cooking and cleaning.
** A rare ''male'' example of the Pretty Freeloader is the neighbor Jefferson D'Arcy, Marcy's second husband, who also leeches off Marcy without getting a job, although he manages to earn his keep by serving as Marcy's trophy husband and de facto gigolo.
*** Of course, Jefferson's probably getting a nice fat pension from a former government job. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|That he absolutely did not have]]. Even when we saw him talking in code with a [[Men in Black (film)|well
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** Vashiel also gets a job at Dr. Upton's clinic, handling appointment scheduling, since his tendency to get nosebleeds just from ''mentioning'' or ''hearing'' "breasts and vaginas and stuff" is a downright terminal condition. Seriously, the poor fellow would probably die if he accidentally walked into a Hooters.
* The squirrel girls from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', who are useless at best and destructive at worst, having nearly got the main cast killed on two occasions.
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' starts with Teddy accidentally getting a contract for a succubus... luckily for him, Chloe is nice enough to let him live and try to use a loophole, but even then have to stick around and pretend she's going to seduce and kill him, so she gets to live in his house. At least, she can cook.
** ...then Chloe's classmate on the run from angels ''and'' their school mistress joins the team, because she got nowhere else to stay in the Overworld. This one is a shameless mooch and loves pranks above all else, but at least is willing to help whenever there's a trouble, and is good at his "adventuring" thing - she had to hide from the angels after she infiltrated Heaven (just for fun)... repeatedly. And became a best friend of Teddy's [[Annoying Younger Sibling|little sister]]. No, wait, that's ''not'' a good thing.
** Then his classmate Naomi ran into one of those angels ([[The Ditz|the ditziest one]]), mistook her for an "alien abductee" and voluntarily adopted as an "exchange student". Which generally improved the situation, because earlier her family got saddled with Gabrielle. If you have read ''[[Magick Chicks]]'', you already know that Gabrielle is about as benign as a rabid scorpion (and only slightly more subtle about it), and if not, it's obvious from the second page with her - [[Horrible Judge of Character|except for Naomi's parents]], that is.
== Real Life ==
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