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* In seemingly every Huana village in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'', there's ''someone'' ([[BiTheWay man or woman]]) who has slept with Tekēhu. He's even had a fling with a member of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy violently]] [[HiddenElfVillage isolationist]] Wahaki. Few are happy to see the irresponsible carouser again.

->'''Elan:''' Wow! Thanks, Captain Scoundrél! I guess since you have no children, you're passing [your rapier] on to me instead?"\\

!! Examples:

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story ''I Am in Marsport Without Hilda'' is about a secret agent who is on another planet without his wife, and is upset at an urgent case which prevents him from spending time with an old girlfriend.

* ''Franchise/{{Fable}}'':

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': [[InsistentTerminology Captain]] Jack Sparrow returns to a port he'd visited before and immediately receives an ArmorPiercingSlap from one of his spurned exes. He begrudgingly admits, "I deserved that." It's implied that she is far from the only such woman, and the end of the original trilogy sees him seducing two more...until his ship is stolen.

* ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto:'' Some protagonists have the ability to acquire multiple girlfriends throughout that game's city or state.
** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this was a real challenge, because each girl required separate attention to keep up their RelationshipValues, which meant putting missions or other activities constantly on hold while Niko raced from girlfriend to girlfriend, trying to keep each one happy.

* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'', every port city in the Caribbean has a Governor's daughter whom the player character can court. Although he can only marry one, he can romance any number of them simultaneously, even as a married man.

It's just because the girls have a lad on every ship!"''

* Referenced and inverted in the Sailor's Dream song "Twiddles:

* ''Farewell'', a famous poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is about sailors that keep relationships like this, kissing girls and then leaving, and doing it again until their ships sunk and they die.

* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'', every port city in the Caribbean has a Governor's daughter whom the player character can court. Although he can only marry one, he can romance any number of them simultaneously.

Often PlayedForLaughs where the character finds themmself forced to return somewhere that one of their [[WomanScorned spurned]] or [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] lovers lives. Sometimes, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday they can't remember WHICH lover they had]] at this particular port, but goes OhCrap once they remember who it was.

-->--''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

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* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules'': After Herc's "death" at the end of the eponymous comic, one of his lovers, Namora, and her friend, Venus, travel to various homes and businesses that Hercules owned. At each place, they found a woman living there who was one of Herc's ''many'' girlfriends that he would visit from time to time. All of them are utterly heartbroken when they learn that he's died.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Hulk has had many different lovers and wives, and he's fathered children with some of them. The main reason why he's had so many is Bruce Banner's constant need to stay on the run and find a place where he and the Hulk won't cause trouble or hurt anyone, but he still cannot avoid falling in love with a local. Also, a lot of Hulk's separate personalities consider themselves entirely different people, often disagreeing on which woman they consider their OneTrueLove (if any). Gray Hulk, for instance, moved to Las Vegas and worked as a pimp and a bouncer, acquiring a harem of women in the process. On another occasion, Savage Hulk entered the sub-atomic kingdom K'ai and, after magically having the Bruce Banner personality become dominant in Hulk's mind, fell in love with princess Jarella, The Green Scar was forced off-world by Comicbook/TheIlluminati and found a happy life on the planet Sakaar, along with his new wife, Caiera. On yet ''another'' occasion, an otherworldly deity named Umar took an enraged Hulk back to her dimension to make him her consort. Feeling there was nothing left for him back on Earth, Hulk allowed her to, although his ex-wife, Comicbook/BettyRoss, resented it and eventually followed Hulk to that world.

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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': [[InsistentTerminology Captain]] Jack Sparrow returns to a port he'd visited before and immediately receives an ArmorPiercingSlap from one of his spurned exes. He begrudgingly admits, "I deserved that." It's implied that she is far from the only such woman, and the end of the original trilogy sees him seducing two more...until his ship is stolen.
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-->I gotta girl on the Moon, I gotta girl on Mars
-->I even gotta girl that likes to dance in the stars

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the swashbuckling CoolAirship pilot Julio Scoundrél has a long-running fan club of "Julioteers" and "a son and/or daughter in every port on the continent", so he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html settles]] for gifting prized possessions to his protégé Elan rather than sort out which one is entitled to them.
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** This can occur in ''VideoGame/FableII'', if the player is a polygamist and marries more than one spouse, he'd better do it in a different town, or very separate parts in the same town. If either spouse discovers the other, they will be heartbroken and lead to a divorce.

SubTrope of ReallyGetsAround. Common in plots with MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow, AsianBabyMama, or a FarmersDaughter.

* The song "Area Codes" by Music/{{Ludacris}} has the rapper bragging about this on a narrow scale. The chorus goes "I got hos/In different area codes", signifying that he's got a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.

A story device wherein an adventuring character, usually constantly on the move exploring new places, outrunning authorities, or being deployed in far-off lands, carries out several romantic affairs in each of the various places he stops to visit. The character could be a [[TheCasanova Casanova]], or simply trying and constantly failing to find a place to belong. Either way, every place on the map is marked with a romantic conquest, and the character is using the distance or vast separation between locations to give separate romantic attention to each lover, or to start a new life.

Often PlayedForLaughs where the character finds himself forced to return somewhere that one of his [[WomanScorned spurned]] or [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] lovers lives. Sometimes, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he can't remember WHICH lover he had]] at this particular port, but goes OhCrap once he remembers who it was.

->'''Elan:''' Wow! Thanks, Captain Scoundrel! I guess since you have no children, you're passing [your rapier] on to me instead?"
->'''Julio:''' What, are you kidding? I have a son and/or daughter in every port on the continent, I'm just too lazy to figure out which one should get it.

SubTrope of ReallyGetsAround and YourCheatingHeart. Common in plots with MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow, AsianBabyMama, or a FarmersDaughter.

Can overlap with GirlOfTheWeek. Could be a form of {{Polyamory}} if the various loves are on board.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the swashbuckling CoolAirship pilot Julio Scoundrel has a long-running fan club of "Julioteers" and "a son and/or daughter in every port on the continent", so he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html settles]] for gifting prized possessions to his protégé Elan rather than sort out which one is entitled to them.

* "Travelin' Man", a hit for Ricky Nelson in 1961, is about this. He's left behind lovers in Mexico, Alaska, Germany, Hong Kong, and Hawaii, at least.

-->--''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

A story device whereas an adventuring character, usually constantly on the move exploring new places, outrunning authorities, or being deployed in far-off lands, carries out several romantic affairs in each of the various places they stop to visit. The character could be a [[TheCasanova Casanova]], or simply trying and constantly failing to find a place to belong. Either way, every place on the map is marked with a romantic conquest, and the character is using the distance or vast separation between locations to give separate romantic attention to each lover, or to start a new life.

Often PlayedForLaughs where the character finds themselves forced to return somewhere that one of their [[WomanScorned spurned]] or [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] lovers lives. Sometimes, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday they can't remember WHICH lover they had]] at this particular port, only to go OhCrap once they remember who it was.

* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules'': After Herc's "death" at the end of the eponymous comic, one of his lovers (Namora) and her friend (Venus) travel to various homes and businesses that Hercules owned. At each place, they found a woman living there who was one of Herc's ''many'' girlfriends that he would visit from time-to-time. All of them are utterly heartbroken when they learn that he's died.
* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Hulk has had many different lovers and wives, some of whom he's fathered children with. The main reason why he's had so many is Bruce Banner's constant need to stay on the run and find a place where he and the Hulk won't cause trouble or hurt anyone, but he still finds himself unable to avoid falling in love with a local. Also, a lot of Hulk's separate personalities consider themselves entirely different people, often disagreeing on which woman they consider their OneTrueLove (if any). Gray Hulk, for instance, moved to Las Vegas and worked as a pimp and a bouncer, acquiring a harem of women in the process. On another occasion, Savage Hulk entered the sub-atomic kingdom K'ai and, after magically having the Bruce Banner personality become dominant in Hulk's mind, fell in love with princess Jarella, The Green Scar was forced off-world by Comicbook/TheIlluminati and found a happy life on the planet Sakaar, along with his new wife, Caiera. On yet ''another'' occasion, an otherworldly deity named Umar took an enraged Hulk back to her dimension to make him her consort. Feeling there was nothing left for him back on Earth, Hulk allowed her to, although his ex-wife, Comicbook/BettyRoss, resented it and eventually followed Hulk to that world.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': [[InsistentTerminology Captain]] Jack Sparrow returns to a port he'd visted before and immediately receives an ArmorPiercingSlap from one of his spurned exes. He begrudgingly admits, "I deserved that." It's implied that she is far from the only such woman, and the end of the original trilogy sees him seducing two more...until his ship is stolen.

* The song "Area Codes" by Music/{{Ludacris}} has the rapper bragging about this on a low-scale level. The chorus goes "I got hos/In different area codes", signifying that he's got a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.
* In the song "I Got A Girl" by Music/LouBega, the singer describes himself as an extremely promiscuous man who has a girlfriend wherever he travels around the world. Taken UpToEleven with the following lines:
--> I gotta girl on the Moon, I gotta girl on Mars
--> I even gotta girl that likes to dance in the stars

* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': One quest has Geralt running around Novigrad trying to find his friend Dandelion by talking to his various ladyfriends. The DLC "Blood and Wine" has him reunited with Duchess Anna Henrietta in the far-South country of Toussaint, who denies [[{{Tsundere}} caring if Dandelion has spoken of her]]. The novels contain even more examples of Dandelion's sexual exploits, in each corner of the map.

** ''Videogame/FableII'', if the player is a polygamist and marries more than one spouse, they'd better do it in a different town, or very separate parts in the same town. If either spouse discovers the other, they will be heartbroken and lead to a divorce.
* This is quite possible to do mechanically in ''VideoGame/UnchartedWatersNewHorizons'': any PlayerCharacter except Catalina (the only female captain among the six) can woo any of the waitresses he meets in major ports around the world with stories of his exploits, jewelry, or treasures until she falls in love with him, and there is no limit on how many girls can fall for him.
* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'', every port city in the Caribbean has a Governor's daughter that the player character can court. Although he can only marry one, he can romance any number of them simultaneously.

** In ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this was a real challenge, because each girl required separate attention to keep up their RelationshipValues, which meant putting missions or other activities constantly on hold while Niko raced from girlfriend to girlfriend, trying to keep each one happy.
* ''Videogame/Fallout4'': Possible to achieve, if the player romances every romanceable character, then sends them back to their normal base of operations or permanently settles them at different towns across the Commonwealth.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the swashbuckling CoolAirship pilot Julio Scoundrel has a long-running fan club of "Julioteers" and "a son and/or daughter in every port on the continent", so he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html settles]] for gifting prized possessions to his protege Elan rather than sort out which one is entitled to them.