History Main / AboveTheInfluence

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* All {{Asexual}}s, by definition.
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* In ''SomethingPositive'', Aubrey comes onto Jason while very drunk. He refuses on this basis, although the next morning he is met with "But I'm not drunk now..."

* Averted on ''{{Glee}}'', where [[spoiler:Puck gets Quinn drunk and gets her pregnant as well]]. This has repercussions throughout ''the rest of the first season''.

* Averted on ''{{Glee}}'', where [[spoiler:Puck gets Quinn drunk and gets her pregnant as well]]. [[{{Understatement}} This has repercussions]] throughout ''the rest of the first season''.
* A nasty use of InvokedTrope comes into play on the New Zealand soap Shortland Street, where a girl drunkenly comes on to her psychotic StalkerWithACrush, who ''murdered her brother'', [[CompleteMonster among other people]], because said brother wouldn't have been cool with his schoolgirl sister dating his thirty something year old friend. Basically, the girl has had a crush on psycho for a long time, but [[{{Understatement}} he kinda screwed his chances up when he tried to strangle her]] for suspecting him of involvement in her brother's death. It's been a while since that happened, but she's still doubtful about a relationship with him. So he shows up, gets her drunk, then invokes this trope when she goes to kiss him. Cue the poor girl deciding that he must actually be a decent guy, and they get together pretty much the next day. [[ForegoneConclusion It don't work out.]]

* [[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/3015 Part 4]] of the ''{{Knights of the Old Republic}}'' fanfic [[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/2917 Call Me Mud]].

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Our Mrs Reynolds", Wash [[spoiler:manages resist Saffron's attempts to seduce him]] (justified in that he's married to a warrior woman who can kill him with her pinky). Mal conducts himself quite admirably until [[spoiler:she shows up naked in his bed, and even then most of the crew berates him for "taking advantage" of her. Also, he appeared to be in the process of backing out on her when the drugs kicked in]].

* ''The ArabianNights'': On night number one-hundred and eighty-three, two djinn stick the two prettiest mortals they know of, Kamar and Budur, [[LockedInARoom in the same room]]. Kamar holds off on doing anything to the sleeping Budur because he thinks his dad the king is trying to trap him into showing interest in women, which he'd previously sworn off (not that way; he was Muslim).

* Agnus in {{Questionable Content}} refuses Marigold's advances toward him while she was drunk, although she truly did have feelings for him.

->"''I haven't had sex in a month! I should get a medal for that!''"

This is almost always a guy refusing a girl because on TV, [[AManIsNotAVirgin men refusing sex]] is almost unthinkable. Also note that if the character had slept with the girl, it might be considered [[UnfortunateImplications rape]], depending on the level of intoxication. The basic human decency to not rape someone should really be the neutral state; [[RousseauWasRight that]] [[HumansAreBastards varies]] [[RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale quite]] [[RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale a]] [[ValuesDissonance lot]]. Another problem is that once the guy knows "it's not the real thing", he need not have [[JustForPun iron-hard]] moral standards to behave like that, even if he's ''sure'' it's her own (normally suppressed) desire. Perfectionism is quite enough. Or just {{pride}}. Or some other reasons (see in examples below).

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Our Mrs Reynolds", Wash [[spoiler:manages resist Saffron's attempts to seduce him]] (justified in that he's married to a warrior woman who can kill him with her pinky). Mal conducts himself quite admirably until [[spoiler:she shows up naked in his bed, and even then most of the crew berates him for "taking advantage" of her]].

* ''AustinPowers: International Man Of Mystery'': Austin, for all his womanizing and love of free love, turns down a kiss from Vanessa because she's drunk.

*** Except for Cordelia, who acts as normal, due to the fact that since she is in love with him anyway, she wouldn't act any differently.

->''I haven't had sex in a month! I should get a medal for that!''

This is almost always a guy refusing a girl because on TV, [[AManIsNotAVirgin men refusing sex]] is almost unthinkable. Also note that if the character had slept with the girl, it might be considered [[UnfortunateImplications rape]], depending on the level of intoxication. The basic human decency to not rape someone should really be the neutral state; [[RousseauWasRight that]] [[HumansAreBastards varies]] [[RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale quite]] [[RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale a]] [[ValuesDissonance lot]]. Another problem is that once the guy knows "it's not the real thing", he need not have [[JustForPun iron-hard]] moral standards to behave like that, even if he's ''sure'' it's her own (normally suppressed) desire. Perfectionism is quite enough. Or just {{Pride}}. Or some other reasons (see in examples below).

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* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Ryouga forcefully rejects a female Ranma's amorous advances after the latter was bewitched by a "Fishing Rod of Love." Note that Ryouga, being Ranma's rival (and, often, enemy) is thoroughly freaked out by this, and when push comes to shove, he even goes as far as to attempt to bury Ranma deep in the woods to get her to stop (but can't actually do it anyway.)

* {{Love Potion}}s strike twice in ''ZeroNoTsukaima''. Although the second time it devolves into massive LesYay, the non-potion-ed characters are mostly noble.
* Dee spends the majority of ''{{FAKE}}'' trying to coax Ryo into having sex with him, but when Ryo, emotionally shaken after meeting and being unable to shoot his parents' murderer, comes on to him, Dee punches him in the face and tells him not to tempt him into taking advantage of him in an emotionally vulnerable state. (He does try to find out if Ryo really ''does'' want it because it's him, but Bikky interrupts them before anything can happen.)

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*** The closest thing seems to have been [[spoiler: Hero nearly [[StrawFeminist backsliding]] when she saw the results of the [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean incident]] with Other Beth (who was quick to set her straight).]]

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* ''The ArabianNights:'' On night number one-hundred and eighty-three, two djinn stick the two prettiest mortals they know of, Kamar and Budur, [[LockedInARoom in the same room]]. Kamar holds off on doing anything to the sleeping Budur because he thinks his dad the king is trying to trap him into showing interest in women, which he'd previously sworn off. (Not that way; he was Muslim.)

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* [[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/3015 Part 4]] of the ''Knights of the Old Republic'' fanfic [[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/2917 Call Me Mud]].

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* This happens to the central couple in TenThingsIHateAboutYou, with the girl drunk after a party.

* ''Superbad'' uses this, although having sex is the point of the teenager's plan. It does have him getting together with the girl at the end.
** Also subverted somewhat, as [[spoiler: Jules is completely sober, and Seth is very much drunk]]
** Happens at the climax of ''{{Superbad}}'', along with a more toned-down [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] variant.

* Mitch in RealGenius comes home to his dorm room to find Sherry Nugil there, on her quest to sleep with the ten smartest men in the world and Mitch has [[JailBaitWait just turned legal]]. He bolts from her advances and runs to his sweetheart [[GenkiGirl Jordan]] to tell her what almost happened. Dispirited but incredulous, she asks "Don't you want to do it?" at which point Mitch replies [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "Yes, I want to do it. Just not with her."]].
* In ''TheBobo'', Peter Sellers' character declines a drunken offer from Britt Ekland's courtesan character to take advantage of her,[[spoiler: possibly because he'd made a wager that he could seduce her, but it had to be in her apartment where it could be confirmed.]]

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* After downing the wrong potion, a lady friend of [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] is feeling rather grabby. Much worse is the fact that Dresden is naked, and they're stuck in a rather small protective barrier that would break should they do anything, and she'd rather grope and tell him to take her right there. There's a bit more than chivalry going on in the situation though; there's a large demon waiting outside the barrier, waiting for them to break the barrier. Look, ItMakesSenseInContext, okay?

* Something of this line is implied to happen with Alan and Mae in [[TheDemonsLexicon The Demon's Lexicon]]
* Lee from the HeroSeries does this to ''herself'', at first starting to seduce Taro while high on music, then breaking it off. [[spoiler: Then she comes back to get it on after she sobers up.]]

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* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'': "The Broca Divide". Let's just say "Carter," "sweet little tank-top number," and "de-evolution" and leave it at that.
* In ''TheBigBangTheory'', Leonard gets a kiss from Penny, whom he has been nerdily lusting over (while she's wearing a [[CatGirl catgirl]] suit no less), but then rejects her on the basis that it's more to do with the fact she just had an argument with her ex and was very drunk.
* The duplicate Dax created from Bashir's imagination in Star Trek Deep Space Nine is rather...eager. The scene where Bashir is using his tricorder to try and figure out what is wrong with Dax while she is trying to seduce him is ''hysterical''.
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a couple.
** In "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," Xander is AboveTheInfluence of [[LovePotion every female in Sunnydale]], particularly Buffy.

-->'''Chandler''': How drunk are you right now?
-->'''Monica''': Drunk enough that I want to do this. Not drunk enough that you should feel guilty about taking advantage.
-->'''Chandler''': That's the perfect amount!

* In the ''That70sShow'' episode ''Roller Disco,'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cayY5C709E Fez rejects a drunken Jackie's advances.]] Bonus points for creative use of the GoodAngelBadAngel trope (Batman vs. Riddler variant).

** Echo attempts to seduce Paul as well, but he turns her down because he thinks it's because the Dollhouse {{Mind Screw}}ed her.
* Averted on ''{{Glee}}'', where [[spoiler: Puck gets Quinn drunk and gets her pregnant as well]]. [[{{Understatement}} This has repercussions]] throughout ''the rest of the first season.''
* A nasty use of InvokedTrope comes into play on the New Zealand soap Shortland Street, where a girl drunkenly comes on to her psychotic StalkerWithACrush, who ''murdered her brother'', [[CompleteMonster among other people,]] because said brother wouldn't have been cool with his schoolgirl sister dating his thirty something year old friend. Basically, the girl has had a crush on psycho for a long time, but [[{{Understatement}} he kinda screwed his chances up when he tried to strangle her]] for suspecting him of involvement in her brother's death. It's been a while since that happened, but she's still doubtful about a relationship with him. So he shows up, gets her drunk, then invokes this trope when she goes to kiss him. Cue the poor girl deciding that he must actually be a decent guy, and they get together pretty much the next day. [[ForegoneConclusion It don't work out.]]
* {{iCarly}}: The episode ''iSaved Your Life'. After risking his life to push Carly out of the way of a truck, Carly is lovestruck and they enter a relationship. Soon, Freddie realises that Carly is potentially only in love with him because he saved her life, so he tells Carly they should wait a while, and see if she still has feelings for him later.
* In the {{Firefly}} episode "Our Mrs Reynolds", Wash [[spoiler: manages resist Saffron's attempts to seduce him]] (justified in that he's married to a warrior woman who can kill him with her pinky). Mal conducts himself quite admirably until [[spoiler: she shows up naked in his bed, and even then most of the crew berates him for "taking advantage" of her]].

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* In MassEffect 2, you can't actually complete Jack's romance subplot unless you prove to be above the influence (she won't open up if she thinks you are only interested in her for sex, after all).
* Likewise in Baldur's Gate 2 with Aerie, who will break up with the player for having sex with her prematurely. Normally, the ME2-Plot would be somewhat of a recycling, but since Aerie and Jack more or less are polar opposites...

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* It's explained early on in ''{{Erfworld}}'' that lower-ranking units will do whatever their superiors tell them to do. It's also implied (and later stated) that while the beings of Erfworld don't reproduce sexually, they do have sexual relations. [[TheEveryman Parson]] puts two and two together, and realizes that as a high-ranking strategist he can have his pick of women, without them ever objecting or even ''conceiving'' of rejecting his affections--and immediately after thinking of this as "awesome," it hits him hard that this is essentially rape, and he reconsiders. (He ''does'' spend a lot of time with female soldiers, but apparently he's trying to romance them.)

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