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* On ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Belle's curse persona Lacey is drawn to Gold's villainous ways.

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* Played with in the book ''Losers in Space'' by John Barnes. Both Susan and [[spoiler: Emerald]] have relationships with Derlock. Susan doesn't love him and knows he's unfixable--she just thinks he's hot, partially because he scares her a little. [[spoiler: Emerald]], on the other hand, is a more straightforward example, despite her original protests that she's only in it for the sex. It...doesn't turn out well for her.

* Gender reversed on BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold. Both BlackCanary and [[{{Antihero}} Huntress]] throw themselves at {{Batman}}, but he's solely interested in "reforming" {{Catwoman}}.

* In the Wnder Woman film, Steve suspects this with Hippolyta and Ares. Hard to get badder than the God of War.

* ValKilmer's version of Film/{{Batman|Forever}} had the [[GirlOfTheWeek movie's designated girlfriend]] Dr. Chase Meridian, played by NicoleKidman, flip-flopping between Bruce Wayne and Batman, depending on who she thought was more fucked in the head at the time (and getting a twofer? HUGE bonus for her).

Compare with TheVamp and the FemmeFatale - ''bad girls'' that the boys all want. When it goes to the extreme (either intentionally or not), the Girl may find herself becoming a LoveMartyr. The girls may also go to the other end in what they're looking for and seek out the NiceGuy because SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan -- particularly as a SecondLove, and often via JustFriends, when they've been burned by this trope.

See SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan for a typical inversion. A popular subversion is to make the guy ''look'' like a bad guy but revealing himself as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold with litte to no criminal record.

** [[DarkChick Karin]]. [[StalkerWithACrush Dear God]], [[{{Yandere}} Karin]]. Although at the end of the Kage Summit arc Karin ditched Sasuke after he tried to kill her, [[spoiler: in manga chapter 574 we see her torn between fawning over and bashing a hand-made portrait of him]]. Time will tell if this was just an act.

* [[CelticThunder Celtic Thunder's]] Ryan Kelly, especially in the songs ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYaE7xV_drA That's a Woman]]'' and ''Heartbreaker''. The latter even provided his FanNickname of 'The Dark Destroyer'.
* RichardThompson seems to enjoy playing with this trope. For example, his "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" is about a passionate romance between FieryRedhead Red Molly and BadassBiker James, which ends when the latter is gunned down during an armed robbery (leaving the former his bike). Or there's his "I Feel So Good", about a newly released ex-con hitting the town with "a half-naked woman with her tongue down my throat". For that matter, Thompson's tongue-in-cheek but straight-faced cover version of BritneySpears's "Oops I Did It Again" turns that song into a faintly sinister evocation of this trope.

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* Played with in the book ''Losers in Space'' by John Barnes. Both Susan and [[spoiler: Emerald]] have relationships with the CompleteMonster Derlock. Susan doesn't love him and knows he's unfixable--she just thinks he's hot, partially because he scares her a little. [[spoiler: Emerald]], on the other hand, is a more straightforward example, despite her original protests that she's only in it for the sex. It...doesn't turn out well for her.

** Also in a Gender-Inversion. Bud becomes a contest on a dating show and ends up losing to the bad boy, Rodrigo, who plays the spoiler on the show. This was despite promising what a good man he would be to the female guest. Afterwards, many women end up feeling sorry for Bud and beg to date him, including a nerdy good girl who promised Bud the same love and loyalty. What does Bud do in the end? Rejects the nerdy woman for the more slutty looking one behind her.

* Played with on an episode of ''{{A Different World}}''. Lena James (Jada Pinkett Smith) is tempted when her 'bad boy' ex-boyfriend (Played by TupacShakur) visits her on campus and tries to convince her to leave the college and live with him. She ultimately refuses, even after most of her women friends claimed they would have accepted without hesitation. TruthInTelevision as well. Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she knew and had a bad boy crush on Tupac before she met and ended up marrying WillSmith.

* Played with on an episode of ''{{A Different World}}''. Lena James (Jada Pinkett Smith)is tempted when her 'bad boy' ex-boyfriend (Played by TupacShakur) visits her on campus and tries to convince her to leave the college and live with him. She ultimately refuses, even after most of her women friends claimed they would have accepted without hesitation. TruthInTelevision as well. Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she knew and had a bad boy crush on Tupac before she met and ended up marrying Will Smith.

*** Subverted as Jessica is actually worse than Bart, as she was willing to steal from the Church collection plate while Bart was not.

* Played straight and then tragically subverted in {{Kalifornia}}. Adele is deeply in love with the [[TheSociopath Early]], because she believes he protects her from even [[RapeAsBackstory badder men]], even though Early treats her like a slave and beats her the moment she steps out of line. However, after she makes friends with Brian and Carrie, she finally accepts Early for the evil man that he is and breaks up with him. [[spoiler: Early kills her as a result. It's made even sadder after the [[TearJerker happy]] message Adele left on Brian's recorder before she was killed, which is played before the ending credits.]]

* Invoked in-universe in ''Film/TheGreenHornetSerials''. Lenore Case (who is '''not''' the Hornet's SecretKeeper in this version) spends both serials convinced for no apparent reason that the Hornet is "a modern Robin Hood". Several male characters suggest her reason for this belief is that she is attracted to him.

** Bulma: Yamcha was a former bandit, until his Anti-Hero streak reached its expiry date. She also went head over heels when she first saw General Blue from the Red Ribbon Army and Zarbon from Frieza's army, ''before'' breaking up with Yamcha. Vegeta, the mass-murdering, [[KiAttacks ki-blast happy]] [[HumanAlien alien]] and SociopathicHero of the group actually managed to get Bulma knocked up, and she gave birth to their son Trunks (she eventually married Vegeta and they had a second child). Even after that, when Dr. Gero attacked her, Vegeta, instead of tending to them like [[FutureBadass Future Trunks]] requested, said he doesn't care so much about "that foolish woman and her blasted child" before he punched him. The only two moments where he showed any substantial love for his family came during the Cell Games, when he witnessed Cell kill Future Trunks with a Death Beam and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge promptly went crazy on]] BeamSpam, and in the Buu Saga, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath when he killed himself to try to destroy Buu on their behalf]]. [[HopeSpot Both]] [[SenselessSacrifice failed]].

* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' parodied this in a chapter where otaku fangirl Renge attacked nearly every club member for not being angsty enough, and declared that filming all of them wallowing in some form of angst would increase their appeal. She was crazy but apparently right, as evidenced by the huge demand for the video.

* ''LovelyComplex'': Koizumi's love interest, Otani, has a real attitude problem and Koizumi often has to endure quite a bit of verbal abuse. It doesn't prevent her from [[DoggedNiceGirl pursuing him relentlessly]], competing with the other girls who like him--which includes his neighbor Mimi, a fashion model. Then again, she is [[{{Tsundere}} not always lovey-dovey herself]].

* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', every female in the class swoons over cigarette-smoking, dynamite-throwing, foul-mouthed juvenile delinquent Gokudera Hayato, including main love interest Sasagawa Kyoko --much to TheHero, Sawada Tsuna's chagrin...Ironically, Gokudera spends time fanboying ''[[HoYay over Tsuna himself]]''

* ''ParadiseKiss'': this is Hiroyuki Tokumori's curse. When he was a kid, [[spoiler:Miwako chose Arashi instead of him]]. Series heroine Yukari was in love with him for who knows how long, until she met [[{{Jerkass}} George]] and fell for him on the spot. [[spoiler:In the end, it's subverted when Yukari ends up marrying him, since both she ''and'' George realized that [[TheMasochismTango their relationship wasn't going anywhere]].]]
* Sousuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. A highly-skilled military specialist who works for a mercenary company, who knows half-a-dozen ways to kill you before you hit the floor, and who's been an assassin since he was ''eight'', with enough of a DarkAndTroubledPast for two or three protagonists, is prime bad-boy material. And yet the qualities for which he's best loved, both in the series and in real life, are his loyalty, dedication to duty, determination, stalwart protectiveness (in a good way), [[ChasteHero chastity]], and frequently naive earnestness. Furthermore, his tendency to seek violent solutions whether or not they are appropriate drives off prospective matches (except [[FoeYay Gauron]], but that's because [[StalkerWithACrush he's]] [[InLoveWithYourCarnage Gauron]]).
* ''CoyoteRagtimeShow'': This is essentially Angelica Barnes's reason for chasing the rogue Mister.

* Good lord, Freya from ''ImmortalRain''. She has no interest in Rain, who stays by her side to comfort her, plants a garden of beautiful flowers to cheer her up, and generally does everything chivalrous and gentlemanly when it comes to her. And just to add to how horrible her taste is, she goes after Yuca, who is not actually all that friendly towards her, and [[spoiler: is actually ''jealous'' of how Rain liked her, being [[HoYay unhealthily obsessed with Rain himself]].]] (Seriously, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/immortal_rain/v03/c013/8.html how could she not notice?]]) This ends ''very'' badly for Freya, as Yuca [[spoiler:ends up murdering her - presumably as a form of MurderTheHypotenuse, and ''feeds her flesh to a paralyzed, unconscious Rain'']].
* ''ShugoChara'' milks this trope for all it's worth with Ikuto, the NotEvilJustMisunderstood / TroubledButCute / TallDarkAndSnarky / JerkWithAHeartOfGold / PunchClockVillain who has [[MrFanservice hordes of swooning fangirls]] in the real world and manages to [[LuminescentBlush fluster the heck]] out of the heroine, even though she officially has a crush on [[BettyAndVeronica another boy]].
* Van of ''GunXSword'' is rude, lazy, and oblivious to other people most of the time. He still gathers an UnwantedHarem. One suspects that his harem members like him at least in part because of this trope. (In the series' comic {{omake}}, the puppet version of Wendy explicitly invokes this trope, claiming that "girls are more attracted to bad boys.")
* Karim of ''{{Jyu-Oh-Sei}}'' is madly in love with her superior, Zagi, despite his role as the psychotic murdering bastard with not a hint of respect for either his opponents or his allies. He hits her, manipulates her emotions, and completely rejects her when she disobeys a single order.
* Not quite invoked in ''EurekaSeven''. The trope is referenced in one of Renton's men's magazines, which advises readers to be a little wild with girls and not to come across as ''too'' friendly. Renton just keeps on being nice to Eureka, however, since romance in Eureka Seven series mostly works on the principle of SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan. The sole exception is Talho's relationship with Holland, but even that is tempered by her insistence that he act more maturely.
* This is subverted in ''FistOfTheNorthStar'', where Mamiya falls for Rei only after Kenshiro redeemed his violent attitude by saving his long-lost sister, Airi, and revealing him as actually [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan a good person]]. Sadly... Rei dies before he can share the romance with her.
* [[HimechanNoRibon Hime-chan]], while disguised as Daichi (a boy with a huge fanbase in the school due to his dequilent nature), tries to tell Hikaru, his number one fan, to stop liking him because he's dangerous...which only makes her like him even more and declare that he is extremely "cool".

* In ''{{Nichijou}}'', Weboshi admits to liking Nakanojou, the boy with the mohawk. What she doesn't know, nor believes when told, is that Nakanojou is actually a very sweet guy. His mohawk is simply his natural hairstyle.

* It's more or less the same deal in ''FruitsBasket'', when Tohru falls in love with Kyo -- also socially inept and terribly cynical, but then, he may have a ''right'' to be, just a little (not only was he was born under the influence of a curse that turns him into a cat whenever a girl embraces him -- [[spoiler:or into a monstrous cat-like ''beast'' if he ever removes his Bhuddist rosary -- as soon as he graduates from high school, his own family is going to lock him up for the rest of his life]]). As a result, a good part of his "bad boy" attitude comes from genuine psychological problems rather than him being mean.
* Gender flipped in ''SeireiNoMoribito'', when softhearted healer Tanda pines after fierce female bodyguard Balsa. And she likes him too!

* Toyed with in {{Eyeshield 21}}. Marco from the Hakushu dinosaurs wants to impress his CuteSportsClubManager Maria badly enough that he's more than willing to use Gaou as a weapon, turn Kisaragi into a psycho, and break other team's quarterbacks in order to win... but she actually loves him for the NiceGuy he used to be, and is so conflicted over his "bad boy" attitude that she becomes an EmotionlessGirl [[spoiler: and is willing to secretly give tips to others so they can defeat Marco and Co., and knock him down his pedestal]]. It's only ''after'' Marco straights his act that Maria shows him her feelings for him.
* In ''{{King Of Thorn}}'', Kasumi develops a crush on Marco Owen, who is a [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums muscular]], [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]], {{Tattooed Crook}}. Several of the other survivors notice Kasumi's crush and comment ont it, but it's hard to tell what Marco thinks, as he's somewhat hard to read. [[spoiler:Although he ''does'' come back from the dead in order to save Kasumi]]...

* Played with in ''Comicbook/FantasticFour''; Sue Storm is endlessly pursued by BadBoy AntiHero Prince Namor the SubMariner of Atlantis, who isn't exactly shy about letting her know that he has the hots for her, but consistently turns him down in favor of geeky, slightly clueless Reed Richards. Needless to say, the two men don't exactly have a warm friendship. Depending on who's writing her, Sue reacts to Namor's attentions with either barely-concealed interest (which is closer to the spirit of the trope, although she nevertheless continues to spurn him out of loyalty to Reed) or outright irritation. Interestingly, sometimes Reed ''is'' on the badboy side, though when Reed is bad, he's more of a CorruptCorporateExecutive than a 100% Bad Boy. There are times when Sue admits that she feels attraction for Namor.
* Arguably, the reason so many of the females in {{Batman}}'s rogues gallery (and superteams) wind up having so much subtext with him. For the villain females, he's just good enough to spark that bit of "I could have something better" but definitely dark enough and bad enough to be NotSoDifferent. The same is true in reverse for the hero females...he's a hero, obviously, but of a very different variety than the primary-colored icons they're otherwise surrounded by.
** Batman is also an example of this trope inverted; he tends to go for Bad Girls (Catwoman, Talia Al Ghul, etc). [[spoiler: In fact, this tendency was enough to convince him in "Batman RIP" that the woman he was becoming attracted to was TheMole out to betray him to the bad guys - she was a bit too nice for him...]]
** Depending on the writer, this is the definition of Harley Quinn's attraction to the Joker.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': the Original five have this kind of thing going on. Donna could choose between the nice and shy Aqualad, funny Kid Flash, dashing Robin, and badboy Speedy. Guess who did wind up with her. Note, back then, Dick Grayson was pretty clean cut. Now, all girls flock over his dark looks, messy hair, and issues with his daddy (Bats). In short, he didn't got booty until he dropped out of college, grew his hair, and started to talk back to Batman.

* Jean Grey in ''UltimateXMen'' flat out tells Wolverine that, regardless of Xavier's belief in redemption, she doesn't trust him or want him at the Mansion: he's been scarred by the horrors of his DarkAndTroubledPast and his work as a former government assassin, and she can't read his mind to confirm her obvious suspicions that he's not nearly as committed to Xavier's cause as he pretends to be. Wolverine doesn't really have to say much else: two panels later, they're making out and she's in bed with him in the next issue.

* In the ''[[ArchiesSonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' comic, Fiona Fox performs a FaceHeelTurn because she prefers Sonic's AlternateUniverse EvilTwin Scourge over the real hero.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', the gender-flipped version applies. Laid-back Clark Kent is head-over-heels for sharp-tongued, moody army brat Lois Lane and ignores cheerful, flirtatious blonde Cat Grant and sweet, caring GirlNextDoor Lana Lang. Of course, Lois's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] turns out to be far sweeter than those of either of the other two, so Clark's probably just very perceptive.

* ''DemonOfJustice'' Zigzags and plays with this trope. Rami pines after the scary handsome demon and gets dressed up to say goodbye to him...because it's just like what's in the stories. She doesn't mind that he's going, though, because she can't picture him settling down and having kids with her. Wufei is just thankful to get away from her, and is, in fact, prone to hiding in Nantaku until he left the village.
* ''ForGood'', a BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand series, is perhaps best known for the romance between Erin, the protagonist, and Warp Darkmatter, the Evil Emperor's right-hand man. In the introductory fic, ''Breakaway'', their relationship actually begins innocently enough, at least on Erin's part. Warp comes off as less of a villain and more as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* In the ''JimmyNeutron'' movie, Cindy has the hots for local skateboarder Nick Dean...that is, until he encounters Poultra and ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.

* ''DaysOfBeingWild:'' The main character Yuddy/York played by LeslieCheung
* ''BachelorParty'' (TomHanks). The band they get for the party sings the song, "Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys?"

* Subverted in ''[[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Spider-Man 3]]'': when he [[spoiler:gets possessed by the symbiote and]] becomes a 'bad boy', Peter Parker ''thinks'' that he's God's gift to women, but the various looks of exasperation and even disgust he gets from most of the women he encounters tell a very different story - probably because, [[EvilIsCool contrary to expectations]], he's still a clueless geek, only, now that he's 'evil', he's just an obnoxious and arrogant one. The seventies disco moves and overparted hair style don't particularly help matters. Ironically, all of the women he ''does'' manage to charm were already attracted to the 'good' Peter anyway.

* In the classic 80s teen movie ''TheBreakfastClub'', popular 'princess' Claire falls for rebellious 'criminal' Bender.
* ''RepoTheGeneticOpera''. Amber Sweet has resolved sexual tension with Grave-Robber and unresolved sexual tension with [[BrotherSisterIncest Luigi]], who is also [[KnifeNut undeniably]] [[PsychopathicManchild bad]]. [[spoiler:Shilo isn't immune to Grave-Robber's bad-boy charms either. It's implied in [[CutSong Needle Through A Bug]] that he's grooming her to be his protege.]]

* Jenny from ''ForrestGump'' is a rather blatant example of this. For much of the movie, she keeps moving from one abusive lowlife to another, before returning to [[ChildhoodFriendRomance the protagonist]].

* ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' plays with this in a scene in which the titular character is calling out his friends with a slightly angry attitude, at the same time, a girl he met earlier observes him from a distance and swoons over him while telling another girl: "He is such a ''Bad Boy''." Earlier, she fell for him when he was following his friend's advice to act like "David Caruso in ''{{Jade}}''".
* Parodied/subverted in ''MysteryMen'': Roy (a.k.a Mr. Furious) would very much ''like'' to be a bad boy, and struts around making a fool of himself acting like one in the hope of impressing Monica, the waitress on whom he has a crush. Monica, for her part, is never anything less than dismissive of him...until the point where he finally just starts acting like the sweet nice, guy he ultimately is at heart, at which point she begins to warm to him.

* Parodied in the 2000 version of ''[[Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}} Bedazzled]]'', Alison says how she wants a sensitive man who can understand her feelings. The Devil agrees to make Elliot the most sensitive man on Earth. Then [[spoiler:she ditches him for a {{jerkass}}]].

* ''Film/IronMan'': Tony is a rich jerk who goes through women like candy. And yet women keep on coming after him.
** Because he's rich. And he looks like Robert Downey, Jr.. He could be a saint and he'd still be beating them off with a stick, this trope is just a bonus for him.

* ''LegallyBlonde'': "Dorky" David, who has a Masters degree in Russian Literature, a PHD in biochemistry, is going to Harvard Law ([[FridgeLogic strange mixture...]]), gives homes to Somalian orphans, and is fairly attractive, is getting turned down by a girl. Elle overhears and comes over, pretending to be a WomanScorned, screaming at him about how he never called her back and broke her heart. The girl is immediately more interested (although how much of that is because Elle claims David broke her heart and how much of it is because Elle claims David is ''very'' good in bed is open to debate).

* Discussed in RogerDodger

* In ''OneTwoThree'', the daughter of a Coca-Cola executive falls in love with a Commie from EastGermany. And, during the ColdWar, no one was worse than a Commie.
* Val Kilmer's version of Batman had the [[GirlOfTheWeek movie's designated girlfriend]] Dr. Chase Meridian, played by NicoleKidman, flip-flopping between Bruce Wayne and Batman, depending on who she thought was more fucked in the head at the time (and getting a twofer? HUGE bonus for her).
* ''DeadPoetsSociety'': Pitts remarks on this trope to try and get Knox to forget Chris: "All the good ones go for jerks. You know that."
* The cops in ''{{Superbad}}'' "arrest" [=McLovin=] after the party, remarking, "That's gonna get you so much ass!"

* Claire to Bender in ''TheBreakfastClub''. Throughout the whole film he abuses her and calls her all sorts of obscenities, belittling her shamelessly in front of everyone else...which is of course why [[DracoInLeatherPants ends up passionately kissing him at the end]].

* In Erika Griffin's novel, 'The One Who Waited'', the main characters, Alice and the Boogeyman.

* Subverted, or at least rather well Justified, in the romantic subplot running through LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Brothers in Arms'', ''Mirror Dance'', and ''Memory''. Elli Quinn is deeply in love with the marginally sane mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith and will leap at the chance to marry him, while the prospect of becoming the consort of Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar horrifies her, even though she knows both men are one and the same. The twist is that Lord Vorkosigan's comparatively subdued public persona is the ''least'' of her problems with the latter fate (the phrase "[[FeudalFuture Dirtball barely out of Feudalism]]" came up in response to the first marriage proposal).
* In WarAndPeace, Natasha is engaged to Good Boy Prince Andre. But after Andre puts the marriage off for a year to please his father, Natasha is seduced by Bad Boy Anton, causing her to break off her engagement with Andre and also to very nearly elope with Anton. Though Anton's plans are foiled, it does succeed in permanently wrecking Natasha's relationship with Andre.

* Zachary Gray, the thinking woman's Bad Boy, turns up in multiple MadeleineLEngle novels.

* [[TroubledButCute Rook]] from ''{{Havemercy}}'', and maybe even [[AxCrazy Caius]] [[MindRape Greylace]], if the fan base is anything to go by.
* Rachel from ''TheHollows'' is subject to this trope time and again.
* Dulcinea Anwin from TadWilliams ''{{Otherland}}'' would like to be a Bad Girl. She's a [[TheCracker Cracker]], considers herself a seasoned veteran of the criminal underground, and has been lacking in physical company for a while now. Then she meets [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast John Dread]], who is baddest of the bad. So what should she do but fall in love with him and follow him around, sinking deeper and deeper into his web? After all, [[TemptingFate how bad can he really be]], right? Until she manages to hack into his system and find out [[AxCrazy what]] [[PsychoForHire he's]] [[SerialKiller really like]]. [[spoiler:At which point, she has a HeroicBSOD and tries to turn him in, only to be [[TheFarmerAndTheViper shot in the stomach]] and left to die.]]
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'' (and the film adaptation), the AlphaBitch Chris dates the bad-boy delinquent, Billy. The novel explains her attraction as Chris being used to wrapping boys round her little finger and Billy is the only boy she hasn't been able to control.

* Austen's ''MansfieldPark'' may be tied with ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'' as the ultimate TakeThat at this trope. [[ShipperOnDeck Everyone]] expects the heroine to be flattered by the HandsomeLech Henry Crawford's [[StalkerWithACrush attention]]. Isn't she excited to become his conscience and redeemer, to be the one who fixes him, and turns TheHedonist into a LadykillerInLove? No. Her cousin, however, ''did'' fall for the bad boy, and RealityEnsues.

* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'':

* ''The39Clues'': [[ShrinkingViolet Amy Cahill]] falling for [[HandsomeDevil Ian Kabra]].
* Irial from ''WickedLovely''.

* The landlord's daughter, Bess, from Alfred Noyes' poem ''The Highwayman'' has a StarCrossedLovers relationship with the titular character.

* ''InDeath'': Eve and Roarke's relationship seems to be this. Fortunately, he returns her feelings and does have good qualities to go with the bad. Coltraine and Alex Ricker had a relationship like this, but she broke it off when she realized that he considered his criminal business more important than her.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by FernMichaels: in the book ''Final Justice'', two characters are introduced, and their names are Little Fish and Stu Franklin. Both of them are genuine bad boys. Countess Anne de Silva forms a relationship with Little Fish, and Isabelle Flanders forms a relationship with Stu Franklin. By the book ''Cross Roads'', however, it becomes painfully clear that both relationships are falling apart, because Little Fish and Stu Franklin are becoming increasingly cold, distant, and disinterested in their girlfriends. The Vigilantes discover that the two men are with Henry "Hank" Jellicoe. They also find out that the two men are cold-blooded murderers who have killed a number of people. The Vigilantes are more than happy to have them punished!

* In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' story "The Spot of Art", Bertie [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope with regard to his romantic rival, [[spoiler:who, sure enough, ends up engaged to the girl by the end of the story]].

* At the end of ''TheLegendofSleepyHollow'', Katrina van Tassel (the girl schoolteacher Ichabod Crane falls in love with) ends up marrying hunter Brom Bones (who constantly made fun of Ichabod) after Ichabod was mysteriously carried off by the Headless Horseman one night.
* Edward is this for Bella in ''Twilight''. However soft he is as a vampire, he is still a brooding predator who could kill her in seconds - and often wants to. She prefers him to the good ol' boy Jacob, until he takes a change for the dangerous and then she's conflicted.
* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica: Discussed by Ben, "Girls are all the same: You claim to like Nice Guys but you can't resist a bad boy" however its defied by Daniar, who honestly can't stand them.
* Ultimately averted in the [[TortallUniverse Provost's Dog]] books. Beka Cooper, a cop, is friends with Rosto the Piper, the head of [[ThievesGuild organized crime]] in Corus. They are attracted to each other and Rosto flirts with Beka, and he's the honorable kind of thief, but "he is a rusher, a criminal, the kind of man she has sworn never to involve herself with." WordOfGod [[http://tpwords.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/why-bekarosto-wouldnt-last-and-development-of-humanity/ holds]] that the DatingCatwoman thing just wouldn't have worked in this case.

* [[BreakoutCharacter Fonzie]], token bad boy of ''HappyDays'' and girl magnet. Of course, he became less and less "bad" as time went on, due to the writers twigging to the fact that he was becoming a role model.
* ''FullHouse'': Jesse nurtured the bad boy/nomad musician persona until he settled down and got married.
* WillSmith, ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', got a lot of his [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls of the Week]] thanks to his Philadelphia street cred as a breath of fresh air in a world of rich, preppy good boys. He was only "bad" by contrast, though, being otherwise a pretty standard protagonist.

* ''DrakeAndJosh'' features an episode where textbook {{Nerd}} Eric becomes popular (especially among the girls) after a rumor spreads that he beat up Drake.
* Every one of the Camden girls' boyfriends on ''SeventhHeaven'', with few exceptions (none prominent enough for this contributor to name), were bad boys. The Camden boys were even aware of (and made their own love lives difficult over) this trope.

** Buffy is pretty much an extreme case of this trope. The main character only ever seems to date two guys who remains on the human side of "unholy, AlwaysChaoticEvil abomination against God", one who is pretty much [[TheScrappy loathed by the fanbase]], and one she almost completely ignored[[note]]His name was Scott Hope. Remember him? No? Look him up. We'll wait[[/note]]. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by both Buffy herself and Spike, especially when she dated wholesome Riley.

* Subverted in ''TheTenthKingdom''. [[WolfMan Wolf]] does get the girl in the end, but being a bad boy didn't help, and after his disastrous initial encounter with Virginia, he spends a good part of the series reading self help books to reform himself.

* In ''VeronicaMars'', after seeing that he does have a softer side, Veronica finds herself making out with her high school's "obligatory psychotic jackass", Logan. Their relationship redefines the phrase "on-again, off-again", especially in the third season.

* To a point, Danny on ''{{CSI NY}}''... he wasn't a complete bad boy, but had some bad boy qualities surfacing in his backstory and onscreen now and then. Granted, he'd settled a lot by the time he married Lindsay.

* In ''GrowingPains'', it's the Seaver parents who are convinced that other parents would not like their children to hang around their troublesome son. In latter seasons, partially due to the actor's religious conversion, Mike's "bad boy" persona has been toned down considerably. One may see it as Mike becoming mature.
* Sean Slater on ''{{Eastenders}}''; he's an unpleasant, bullying, smug, and vicious borderline sociopath with hardly any redeeming qualities whatsoever...who, despite pretty much being an openly nasty piece of work, has to beat women off him with a stick.
* Charlie Stubbs on ''CoronationStreet'' who, if not quite as sociopathic, was nonetheless a thoroughly obvious nasty piece of work whom women seemed to find irresistible. Unluckily for him, he ended up with a woman who ''was'' a full blown sociopath.
* ''GilmoreGirls''. Rory Gilmore, over the course of the series, seems determined to date the baddest boy in the series - first dumping wholesome Dean for Jess. After Jess leaves town, she ends up back with Dean, who is a significantly darker character, given that he's cheating on his wife with Rory. Later, she again dumps Dean for Logan, who is a member of a secret society and a rebel against the wealthy society of his upbringing.
* In ''{{Smallville}}'', upstanding farmboy Clark Kent puts on his new class ring and gets a rebellious attitude, which the new girl, Jessie, loves and even Lana falls for.

** In season ten, ''Luthor'', [[spoiler:alternate-universe Tess is apparently in a relationship with Clark Luthor a.k.a. [[EvilCounterpart Ultraman]].]]
* Hyde and Jackie in ''ThatSeventiesShow''.
* Gender-reversed in the ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Little Jerry", where George falls for a female prison inmate. Of course, he's desperate and, simultaneously, afraid of commitment. On the plus side: conjugal-visit sex. And eventually, one better than that: "''fugitive'' sex!"

** The central plot of ''iDate a Bad Boy''. Griffin is a delinquent who stole the motorcycle that Carly bought for Spencer. After having a short SlapSlapKiss incident, Carly falls in love with him, much to Spencer's chagrin and Freddie's jealousy. Carly and Sam even gush at the fact that Griffin is full of scars and he punched a hole in the wall due to anger. But all of his bad boy rep went downhill when Carly discovered his deep obsession with plush toys.
** In ''iStage an Intervention'', Carly is impressed that goody-two-shoes Freddie "could be so bad" when not only does he inform her that he already knows all the "bad luck" he's been having was caused by Sam, but that he managed to pull a secret prank on Sam as revenge.
** Inverted in ''iPear Store'', when Carly goes after one of Freddie's co-workers with gusto because he's a nerdy guy - but when he turns into a CasanovaWannabe and tries to make a move on her, it turns her off completely.
** GenderFlip in ''iMake Sam Girlier''. Sam asks Carly to teach her how to behave like a real girl to catch the attention of her eye-candy, Pete. While Sam does a good job in behaving "girly", Carly gets attacked by a bully, which triggered Sam's UnstoppableRage. Unfortunately, Pete saw how Sam wrestled with the bully, but it turns out he likes a girl "who kisses well and kicks butt as well".
* The Good Doctor Sara Tancredi of PrisonBreak is the poster girl for this trope, both in-series and in her back story.

* Alex and Dean in ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', although, it being a DisneyChannel show, his badness is limited to wearing a leather jacket, liking fast cars, and going to class when he feels like it. In fact, Alex is arguably "badder" than him on several levels.

* Jax and Tara in ''SonsOfAnarchy''.

* Discussed in one episode of ''CSIMiami'':

* A ''SaturdayNightLive'' [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/19590/saturday-night-live-the-phil-donahue-show sketch parodied]] the Phil Donahue Show, with all the guests as women with abusive boyfriends. The sketch ends with a nice man in the audience telling them they should find a man who truly appreciates them, but they tell him to sit down because they're more interested in the {{jerkass}} behind him who's berating his girlfriend. When he grabs the mic and starts bad-mouthing them, they immediately fall for him, including the lesbian guest, who asks if he has any sisters like himself.

* On ''YesDear'', Jimmy advices his eldest son, Dominic, to stop catering to his date's desires, after witnessing the first date, in which Jimmy sees him being treated as less than equal. When Jimmy's wife finds out about this, Jimmy states this trope as his belief, whereas his wife disagrees.
* On ''DarkOracle'', this is the cause of NiceGirl Cally's relationship with SmugSnake and ex-BigBad [[EvilSorcerer Omen]]. Luckily, she's far from blind to his many, many failings, and calls him on them all, eventually leading to RedemptionEqualsDeath. Thoroughly averted by BigBadWannabe Vern, whose {{Goth}} look, [[PsychoLoner bad attitude]], and [[NoSocialSkills lack of social ability]] make him an outcast, completely unable to get a date.
* Hilariously parodied on ''EverybodyHatesChris''. In the episode "Everybody Hates Bad Boys", nice guy Chris tries to woo his crush, Tasha, by emulating Slava Slav, a misogynistic rapper and obvious {{Expy}}. He mistreats and utterly insults nearly ever girl he encounters, and they all show sudden interest in him, and he even manages to get Tasha to go out to a family dinner. All was going well with his "bad boy" plan until he accidentally yells at his mother, and [[AssShove proceeds to regret it immensely]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZZfRwiMFI&feature=related You really have to see it for yourself]].
* Played with in ''TheMonkees'' episode "The Wild Monkees". The four boys try to adopt "tough" personas in order to impress some female bikers. They immediately become cowards again once the girls' actually tough biker boyfriends enter the picture.

** In an earlier episode, Del Boy manages to convince Rodney that the GirlOfTheWeek likes bad boys, so he dresses like [[HappyDays the Fonz]] and acts like JamesDean on their date, only to terrify her to the point of tears when they get chased in the van.

** To a lesser extent, this trope fits almost every male character on the show except Hoyt and Terri. Jason is a chronic womanizer, Sam sexually harrasses the female barstaff and has no compunction about stalking Sookie (in canine form), Lafayette deals drugs and looks down at everybody, and no vampire on the show has ever completely stopped murdering people.

* Played with to the point of inversion in ''Series/{{Castle}}''; Richard Castle has the public reputation of a bad boy who lives a playboy rock-star life, but it's gradually made clear that this is mostly an act and he's a genuinely good and decent man when you get down to it. Kate Beckett, however, has the appearance of an upright and solid ByTheBookCop, but is gradually revealed to have wilder HiddenDepths than would not be suspected from the initial appearances, and the more the fallout from her mother's murder is examined, the more a [[BrokenBird broken]] and darker character begins to emerge. It's also subverted in that, while it's hinted several times that Beckett may have a bit of a thing for bad boys, she only really begins to seriously warm to Castle when he shows his more mature and decent sides.

* ''BeverlyHills90210'' both played this staight and averted it. It's played straight with Dylan, the bad boy that several leading ladies pined for over the years (Kelly and Brenda as the most prominent examples). Originally Dylan was even planned to only be the troubled-kid-of-the-week, but the audience took to him him so much, that he was brought back as a regular. Averted with Brandon, who had a different girl pining over him nearly every week during the first seasons despite being one of the nicest guys ever...
* This is something of a recurring theme with Britta Perry in ''Series/{{Community}}'', whose past romantic involvements seem to involve a long line of 'bad-boys', weirdos and damaged goods:

** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in "Origins of Vampire Mythology", where Britta -- previously established to have a thing for bad boys and messed-up losers - discovers an old boyfriend who works with a carnival is in town and ends up having to be restrained to prevent herself from flinging herself into an ill-advised sexual encounter which she will only end up regretting. Over the course of the episode, it's gradually suggested that Britta's urgings stem from severe self-esteem issues and that she initiates these relationships as a self-destructive way of validating her own lack of self-worth; when her friends are texting her as her boyfriend to try and throw her off, their increasingly nasty and dismissive text messages serve only to prompt increasingly pathetic and desperate responses from Britta, until a 'nice' text message serves to break the spell and cause her to dismiss the boyfriend as a 'loser'. Unfortunately, she happened to say this in earshot of Troy, [[DoggedNiceGuy who actually sent the message]], hurting his feelings and prompting a [[WhatTheHellHero calling out]] over how fucked up she and her relations with men both are by Annie.

* On an episode of ''{{Cheers}}'' Lilith writes a book called "Good Girls, Bad Boys" and is invited on a women's talk show. She brings along Sam as an example of a "Bad Boy" and her husband Frasier as a "Good Boy" women should be attracted too. The audience full of women go crazy for Sam and want him to take his shirt off. Lilith at first is clinical as she describes all the dangerous qualities that make Sam desirable to these sensible women but then she gets aroused and lunges at him to take his shirt off herself! Frasier is humiliated by this and goes to great lengths to prove that he can be a bad boy too, starting with taking a pair of scissors and running around the bar yelling "I am running with scissors!"

* [[FallingInReverse So why do good girls like bad guys? I've had this question for a really long time! I've been a bad boy and it's plain to see! So why do good girls fall in love with me?]]
* Garbage has a song titled 'Bad Boyfriend', featuring lyrics such as "And if you can't love me honey, come on, just pretend", and "It may not last but we'll have fun till it ends". The lyrics seem to be from the perspective of a bad girl, too.
* PetShopBoys song "West End Girls".
* BackstreetBoys had a song with the lyrics "If you want it to be good girl, get yourself a bad boy".
* Angel and the Reruns performed a song called "Why do Good Girls Like Bad Boys?" in the movie ''BachelorParty''.

** Twisted Sister did a gender-flipped cover of it in 1985, sung from Jimmy's POV. In this one, it's the girl who drives off and dies in an auto accident.

* No Doubt's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSGQ-mNvP8 Bathwater]]:

* TaylorSwift 's "The Way I Loved You" is about a girl who dates a nice guy but is incredibly bored with him and misses the way she and her ex would "scream, fight and kiss in the rain."

* {{Ludo}}'s Roxy has a theme like this, although it's more like "All Girls Want {{Jerkass}}es":

* BritneySpears' "Toxic" practically defines this trope. "You're toxic, I'm slipping under, a taste of your poison paradise", clearly from the perspective of a bad boy wanter!

* BowlingForSoup has "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGRxmYXi4Io Girl All the Bad Guys Want]]", which is about an uncool guy who likes a bad girl who dates bad boys. So...PlayedStraight ''and'' two or three kinds of [[InvertedTrope inverted]]?

* "Biker Like An Icon" by PaulMcCartney is about a girl who's infatuated with a rough-and-tough biker and follows him around, hoping to meet him. It's deconstructed, however, since "the biker doesn't like her", and when they finally meet up, it's implied he [[DownerEnding rapes and murders her]].

* [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] in Apache's "Gangsta Bitch".

* Loki (yes, the guy who tricked a blind god into killing his own brother) is married to the giantess Sigyn. For his crime, he was bound with the entrails of his sons to three rocks, and a snake constantly drops venom in his eyes. But Sigyn still stands by him and catches the venom in a bowl. Sometimes, she has to empty it, then we get earthquakes. Doesn't that sound like a hybristophile following her object of affection into prison?

* ''InkPen'''s Scrappy Lad spends a week trying go bad to win over Moxie. He and Hammock [[http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2008/06/26 discuss the trope.]]

** Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, who turned heel after marrying Wrestling/TripleH. In her post-heel-turn promo, she admitted that she was always attracted to him, but her feelings were only spurred on by her desire to spite [[VinceMcMahon her father]].

** Layla choosing William Regal over Jamie Noble is another example, though she never really turned face in the first place.
** Subverted, though, by Molly Holly's heel turn in 2001. Despite the fact that it showed all the qualities of the above angles, the fact that she left Spike Dudley for ''The Hurricane'' undermines the "bad boy" aspect since he's...well, a superhero. It didn't help that neither of them really did anything heelish at all beyond disapproving of The APA drinking beer, and immediately turned out-and-out face after the WCW/ECW Invasion angle ended. A much more definitive heel turn occurred for Molly the following year, with no bad boy in sight.
* A recent and, quite frankly, bizarre example is with [[Wrestling/ChickBusters AJ Lee]], who is pursuing not one, but three men who each fit the bad boy criteria to different degrees. Her main interest is focused on [[AntiHero CM Punk]], wearing his shirts and mimicking his mannerism to a degree. Then there's [[{{Jerkass}} Daniel Bryan]], her ex who she's admitted she's not quite over yet, and is possibly just trying to make jealous. And finally there's [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Kane]], who she's been making dreamy eyes at, and apparently thinks he has a heart [[DracoInLeatherPants buried under his tormented soul]], and who she notably kissed with considerably more passion than she's shown towards either Punk or Bryan. The one thing all three men appear to agree on is that AJ is [[LoveMakesYouCrazy out of her damn mind]].
** AJ's saga continues. After a stint as RAW GM, she begins an on screen relationship with WWE's good boy, John Cena. Then she topples a ladder with him on top and takes up with bad boy Dolph Ziggler.

* JeffFoxworthy mocked and Deconstructed this trope at the same time. He said that when women say they want a "dangerous" guy, they're usually thinking of some Franchise/JamesBond-type of dude, but if a woman ''did'' end up with a "dangerous" man, then the likeliest outcome would have them on an episode of ''Cops'' with her hanging out of the trailer in a tube top, screaming ''"Lock his ass up!"''

* In ''{{Grease}}'', the "cool" girls, especially Rizzo, are attracted to bad boys, and the male lead, Danny Zuko, is a bad boy who resembles Arthur Fonzarelli. The main conflict in the plot is over Danny's "badness" and the "goodness" of Sandy, the lead female. Eventually, they end up meeting somewhere in the middle.
* In ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', Cecily falls madly in love with Jack's wayward brother without ever having met him because "a man who is very much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must be something in him after all."

* Stella in ''AStreetCarNamedDesire'' chooses to stay with Stanley, who is violent, abusive, and beneath her social class. She reasons that what goes on between the sheets makes everything unimportant. Even her sister Blanche flirts with him.

* ''ZombieProm'' sort of parodies this with TheHero, Jonny Warner. He has a motorcycle (like many bad boys), but the most rebellious thing he does is take the "h" out of his name, then tell Miss Strict he'd prefer to keep it out. Miss Strict and Toffee's parents still insist she break up with him. When she does, he is DrivenToSuicide, then comes back as a zombie. Interestingly, once he does, it is ''suggested'' that he might have been a bit more rebellious than we thought (telling Miss Strict that he "used to hate [her]" and "could not be reached"), but, as a zombie, all he wants to do is return to school and take Toffee to the prom.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Bastila in the first game will fall for the male PlayerCharacter regardless of alignment, and has some comments before the kiss about how attractive his strength (of personalty, we assume) is.

* Chillingly deconstructed in ''PlanescapeTorment''. A young, naive girl falls desperately in love with a dark, mysterious stranger covered in scars...[[spoiler:whose every word is calculated to manipulate her into being willing to do anything for him, because he needs a tool to sacrifice herself for him. He feels nothing for her but irritation for using his time. He is, after all, Practical.]] It's not until after she dies that she realizes the kind of guy he really was, ''[[LoveMartyr yet still]] [[MoreThanMindControl loves him anyway]]''...

** The trope is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in a conversation between [[NiceGuy Alistair]] and Leliana, where Alistair ponders why [[AnythingThatMoves Zevran]] is so successful with the ladies.

* ''{{Yo-Jin-Bo}}'' has [[BloodKnight Tatsunami Ittosai]] as one of your possible options. He actually [[spoiler:betrays the heroine to the villains, becoming TheMole for a substantial section of the game]], but can be [[LoveRedeems redeemed]] courtesy of the PowerOfTrust, and has some of the most emotional endings in the game.

** Also averted when Kelly says something along the lines of: "Oh I don't know, [[ShapedLikeItself good guys are pretty nice too]]."
*** Of course, this is [[AnythingThatMoves Kelly Chambers]] we're talking about. [[AnythingThatMoves It's not like she's picky]]

* Avoided entirely in the female route of ''{{Persona 3}} [[UpdatedRerelease Portable]]''. Of the men the female protagonist can romance, [[TheBigGuy Akihiko Sanada's]] [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] nature has caused him to be pegged as a Bad Boy with plenty of fangirls, while he is, in fact, a generally all-around nice guy (as well as being [[{{Adorkable}} hopelessly awkward when it comes to girls]]), Ken is [[TokenMiniMoe eleven]], Ryoji is a LadykillerInLove [[spoiler:and, while he's supposed to bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Fall]], he ''really'' [[AntiAntiChrist doesn't want to]].]] And Shinjiro [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Aragaki]]? Is not only nice to her from the very start of his Social Link, a good part of said Social Link is showing that he's [[HiddenDepths not really]] [[JerkassFacade a jerk]] [[StoicWoobie at all]]. [[spoiler:His love scene is not only completely optional (available ''after'' maxing his Social Link out), but a rare male case of ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt. The female protagonist has to be ''very'' persistent with her feelings.]]

* VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas opens with Benny shooting the PlayerCharacter in the head. Later on, they can give this trope as an excuse while seducing him. It should be noted that he is (understandably) {{Squick}}ed out by the offer, but eventually relents.

* Toyed with in VisualNovel/CrescendoEienDatoOmotteItaAnoKoro. Ryo, the main character, is a gruff guy with a bad reputation and a troubled past who sleeps through school enough to put his graduation in jeopardy. However, the girls like him... because [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's a kind-hearted guy who stands by them when they need support]], not the fact that [[BadAss he can beat up 3 guys at once]].

* Ashley in ''SoulSymphony'' has a thing for local bad boy metalheads Charlie and Tom.
* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2142 Satan's TV ad promises "Evil: chicks dig it!"]]
* Heavily deconstructed in ''[[http://twilightcomic.com/ When Dawn Breaks, So Too, Shall You.]]'' The women and girls who have become fans of the ''[[{{Twilight}} Twilyte]]'' series seek to gain boyfriends like Edward Cullin.[[note]]this name is not a misspelling; it is how his name is spelled in-universe[[/note]] However, they instead end up horrifically abused and mistreated by their boyfriends who they believe are their "true loves", [[LoveMartyr still staying with them and putting up with every second of the abuse because they believe that their boyfriends are doing it out of love.]] This results in overflowing numbers of women being sent to women's shelters, including the one the protagonist works at, and even the shelter's therapist is unable to convince them that they are being used instead of loved. Compounded by the in-universe Liberatist Feminist movement, created by Stephanie Mayer[[note]]her name is spelled this way in the webcomic itself[[/note]] built around the idea that women are nothing without men and need men to "complete" them.

* Subverted in an issue of ''TheDescendants'' that goes so far as having the same name as this trope.

* In ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Rosa Fiametta's attraction to JJ Sturn, despite the fact that he's pretty much an asshat (whilst they're dating, at least). This backfires on her in a major way.

* [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1945481 This]] parody from College Humor, showing what [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] and [[SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] discuss when the heroes aren't around.

** And now that we mentioned her, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick. She gets manipulated into sex with Spoony, can't stop dating drunk guys, has a "history" with the Critic, and keeps on fawning over an [[ToddInTheShadows asshole with no interest in her]]. Both of these can be considered deconstructed though, as the Critic's a "glutton for punishment" with very little power and the Chick herself is a BastardGirlfriend with issues.

* In the series ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', Kitty (Shadowcat) is attracted to and dates the TroubledButCute Lance (Avalanche), even though he tried to kill her in an earlier episode. The whole relationship was an homage to Claire and Bender from the 80s teen movie ''The Breakfast Club''. Avalanche looks exactly like an animated version of Judd Nelson's Bender.
** Also note that Pietro is the single most jerkass member of the Brotherhood, has repeatedly bullied and tormented the X-Men, primarily Evan, and, later, teased Kitty, was an irredeemable DirtyCoward, and, in some episodes, seemed like a budding sociopath. This has not stopped him being able to date FOUR girls at the same time.

* Gender inverted in ''ReBoot'' with the relationship between Bob and Mouse. Early episodes showed a certain degree of {{UST}} between them, but we knew Bob's {{OTP}} was with Dot and Mouse found her love interest with Ray Tracer, the web surfer.

* There's an episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' where Buttercup develops a crush on Ace from the Gangreen Gang who, naturally, upon noticing, decides to suck up to her to get her on his side while the rest of his gang try to kill her sisters.

* ''JusticeLeague'':

** Comicbook/GreenLantern falling for EnsembleDarkHorse Hawkgirl, however, is nearly a GenderFlipped version of this.

** The trope is also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in one episode when Chris gets a girlfriend and Peter tells him to treat her like crap so that he'd be "cooler than the other side of the pillow." [[NiceJobBreakingItHero She dumps him almost immediately for it.]]
* In one ''SlackerCats'' episode, Eddie seduces a female cat by pretending to be a hardcore bad boy, this proves too much for him because, while he was always a bit of a jerk, he was never as bad as she wanted. Eventually, he tries to prove how evil he is by robbing a baby panda, but it backfires and, eventually, she leaves him to date [[spoiler:Dooper, the local homeless cat]] (who she considered more "bad"). But due to the ResetButton, this never lasted after the episode.
* In ''KickButtowski'', Kick has a crazy stalker in Wacky Jackie. He also has gotten Kendall (who has a boyfriend already) to fall hard for him.

* On ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', when Bugs tried to find a way to break up with [[StalkerWithACrush Lola Bunny]], he disguised himself as a woman warning Lola to break up with him or have her heart broken. It ended up not working because she then thought Bugs was a bad boy.

* Discussed in WesternAnimation/BabyBlues. Were Daryl bemoan that his babysitter is going out with a complete jerk who acted like he was 'hurting inside. They try and set her up with a nice boy but she displays no interest in him and runs back to the jerk at the episodes end. The jerk boyfriend even threatens Daryl to get Dizzy together with him again. Despite the threat of violence he refuses and gives the guy a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how nice guys like him are the ones hurting inside because girls flock to utter assholes like him who treat them like crap.

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* Heavily deconstructed in ''When Dawn Breaks, So Too, Shall You.'' The women and girls who have become fans of the ''[[{{Twilight}} Twilyte]]'' series seek to gain boyfriends like Edward Cullin.[[note]]this name is not a misspelling; it is how his name is spelled in-universe[[/note]] However, they instead end up horrifically abused and mistreated by their boyfriends who they believe are their "true loves", [[LoveMartyr still staying with them and putting up with every second of the abuse because they believe that their boyfriends are doing it out of love.]] This results in overflowing numbers of women being sent to women's shelters, including the one the protagonist works at, and even the shelter's therapist is unable to convince them that they are being used instead of loved. Compounded by the in-universe Liberatist Feminist movement, created by Stephanie Mayer[[note]]her name is spelled this way in the webcomic itself[[/note]] built around the idea that women are nothing without men and need men to "complete" them.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** Tenshinhan and Launch. Launch falls in love with him because of how ruthless he was in fights.

** In a gender-inversion, Krillin, an all-around good guy, married Android No.18, a killer cyborg and someone who stated she wanted to kill his best friend, simply for giving him a kiss on the cheek. Justified by the fact that 18 and her brother were AntiVillain FriendlyEnemy types rather than the cold-blooded killers of Future Trunks' time. Otherwise, he and the other Z-Fighters would all be dead. And, [[GentleGiant 16]] aside (who would later change his tune anyway), they didn't take the Goku hunt all too seriously.

* Averted in ''FanFic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Sunny Breeze, a total NiceGuy, actually finds himself [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/racer-and-the-geekup to his neck]] in love interests, partially because Pinkie Pie is acting as the ShipperOnDeck, and partially because he is genuinely a very good-hearted individual.