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* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' is a textbook example of this.

* Every speaking male in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' is on eye candy. Take your arguably Stripperiffic TeenGenius, your [[RealMenWearPink amazing dessert chef]] with the [[CoolCar red sports car]], your murderous [[StalkerWithACrush alien]], or your [[StepfordSmiler perfect boyfriend]]. Were we supposed to be watching the show for strong female characters or environmentalism? [[BishieSparkle Hmm]]...

* ''Manga/ZeroSevenGhost'' main cast has only males, with only a few women on the side. Not only that, but every male character who isn't a geezer is *fabulous* , and good looks are apparently required to be a bishop. Then there's all the rampant HoYay...

* ''Film/VelvetGoldmine''. Very young Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, and still young Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/ChristianBale (clad in glitter, makeup and feathers, [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles of course]]).

* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' had young Creator/TomCruise, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/ChristianSlater as the main cast.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies have a grand total of three female main characters. Much of the rest of the cast varies between {{Pretty Boy}}s and {{Hunk}}. Even uncursed Theoden is a SilverFox. The costumes don't help matters: these clothes would make almost anyone look good. Neither does the HoYay between main characters. Subverted in ''Film/TheHobbit'' where the prettiness of the cast is reduced by a half, since most of the dwarves are older.
* ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', thanks to DesignerBabies.
* Film/FightClub seems to do this on purpose. It gives the audience highly attractive men like Creator/EdwardNorton, Creator/BradPitt and Creator/JaredLeto in varying states of undress, a ton of HoYay... and then has them violently beat the shit out of each other. If you're into that kinda thing you'll be in heaven.
* ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' has a ''ludicrously'' [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8m16jjK3y1rdyda1o1_500.jpg attractive array of males]] in the cast - the females are pretty too, but there's much fewer of them since the movie's target audience was teenage girls.
* ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. Seriously, at least half the movie focuses on a whole band of ridiculously attractive young men in a revolutionary fervour and singing gorgeously. And the older guys are played by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Sacha Baron Cohen.
* ''Film/StopLoss'''s three leads are Creator/RyanPhillippe, Creator/ChanningTatum and Creator/JosephGordonLevitt. And they're [[GoodLookingPrivates soldiers in uniform too]]. As with many a Channing Tatum movie, there's a colossal ton of HoYay in there too.
* ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'' has become so infamous for its pretty cast that its gang of young actors are referred to as "the Dunkirk Boys."
* ''Film/TheCovenant'' is also famous for its five attractive leads including Creator/SebastianStan. Then, we have a scene in the locker room.

* ''Series/{{Home And Away}}'', where the men below the age of 50 almost invariably have perfectly sculpted physiques, are smiley and very well-groomed, even (perhaps especially) the lower-class and criminal types, such as the Braxton brothers.
* The [[TroubledButCute perpetually angst-ridden]], [[MrFanservice ridiculously good-looking, fanservicey-as-hell]] (almost entirely) male cast of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', especially since the show likes to kill off any supporting female character. Combined with the unavoidable HoYay, it almost seems as if it is being written solely to appeal to fangirls.
* Every new ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series.
** Not just the new ones. A good chunk of the old ones were considered "Showa Hotties" when their series were on.

* The Warblers in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' are, for the most part, very hot and very good at singing. And it only becomes more so after [[spoiler:Kurt transfers to Dalton]].
** All the other hot guys on the show - Finn, Sam, Puck and Mike for starters. Also Will, Sebastian and Joe.
* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': The Salvatores, Jeremy, Tyler, Alaric, Klaus and Matt - and that's just the main cast! The spin-off ''Series/TheOriginals'' follows suit as well.

* ''Series/TeenWolf''. Those poor, beautiful, beautiful lacrosse players. They can't even manage to keep their shirts on for more than ten minutes at a time.
* ''Series/FridayNightLights''.

* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' has this in spades. Duncan, Methos, Richie...many of the baddie immortals aren't exactly ugly either. It's not an *all* male cast, due to Tessa in season 1 and the recurring Amanda and Dr. Lindsay later on, but it fits. The films have it as well, but the series is more noticeable.

* A number of Korean dramas fit this trope, but particularly ''Coffee Prince'', in which a sexy 30-something rake overhauls a coffee shop by hiring only sexy young men. Of course, one of them is someone he only ''thinks'' is a young man.
* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has many characters, most of which are played by attractive young men (not restricted to just-starting-out Creator/DamianLewis, Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/JamesMcAvoy etc.). The likes of Creator/RossMcCall (Liebgott), Creator/EionBailey (Webster), Creator/ScottGrimes (Malarkey) and Creator/JamesMadio (Perconte) have huge female followings. [[GoodLookingPrivates The uniform might have something to do with it]]. The series has a huge PeripheryDemographic of female fans precisely for this reason.
* ''{{Series/Shadowhunters}}'' may have the prettiest cast of any UrbanFantasy series. Jace, Alec, Simon, Raphael, Magnus and Luke are all good-looking young men in good shape. Hodge is given AdaptationalAttractiveness to become a PrettyBoy too. Of course the other side of the spectrum isn't left out either - since Clary and Isabelle are both quite pretty too.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' didn't have this in the main cast but rather in the guest stars. It was noted that most of the recurring love interests for the sisters were lantern-jawed, chiselled {{Hunk}}s and {{Pretty Boy}}s. Julian [=McMahon=] became a 2000s sex symbol because of his role on the show and later ''Series/NipTuck''.
* ''Series/ShakespeareUnwrapped'' - an Irish EdutainmentShow went for a YoungerAndHipper cast to make ''Theatre/KingLear'' more relatable to school children. As the play only has three female parts, the majority of the cast are twenty-something guys. Notably this also plays up the HoYay between Kent and Lear, as well as between Cornwall and Gloucester.
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': For a small rural town, there sure are a lot of handsome young men in Schitt's Creek. The 30ish crowd includes David, Mutt, Ted, Jake, and Patrick as well as bit players like Dr. Miguel and the "hottie" that hits on Patrick at the store. It's so noticeable, that Buzzfeed journalist joked with Annie Murphy and Creator/NoahReid about it in an [[https://youtu.be/ml6Ga2BUGZY online video]].

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* Only 6 of the 32 name characters in ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' are female. Most of the men, even the older ones, are noted to be rather handsome. The entire Gusu Lan sect is noted as never having an ugly disciple.
* In AlessandraHazard's ''Literature/ThatIrresistiblePoison'', all the guys in the main cast are drop-dead gorgeous.
* A 2000 year old example in ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses''
* In an unusual example, the main character of ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' is a shapeshifter who has eight different forms, making him an in-universe one-man example of a cast full of pretty boys.
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'':
** The main cast of consists of four boys and one girl. While the boys are not exactly {{bishonen}}, they are good-looking enough that western viewers of the anime adaptation often wondered the possibility a case of reverse harem (as the girl is TheProtagonist). Being a series written for [[MiddleGradeLiterature tweens]], that is obviously downplayed.
** The {{spinoff}} ''Genie Team G Jiken Note'', however, plays this trope the most straight; [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/g_2shokai_s1.png the male cast]] there is the most {{bishonen}} allowed in a MiddleGradeLiterature artwork.
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* Pick an [[RomanceGame otome game]]. Any otome game. This trope is the point. In fact, this trope being so prevalent in otome games has lead people to mislabel any Japanese game featuring [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer it as an otome game]], even if it isn't actually part of the genre.

* ''VideoGame/OneHundredSleepingPrincesAndTheKingdomOfDreams'' is a puzzle game where you collect handsome princes - voiced by popular voice actors, of course. The game also features collaborations with anime such as ''Manga/BlackButler'' and ''Anime/{{K}}'', where the characters from these series get transported to the Kingdom of Dreams and get Prince forms.
* The later ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games are filled with elegant {{Bishounen}} among the heroes and villains, due to Ayami Kojima's character designs.

* Pick any [[BoysLove BL]]-themed visual novel you want, we can guarantee its cast consists of nothing but attractive, lissome men in their late teens and early twenties.
* ''VisualNovel/ObeyMeOneMasterToRuleThemAll'' takes place in a supernatural school where you are surrounded by several handsome men where at least seven guys are interested in your heart.
** Any ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDate'' game is this trope. It's an otome series, so yeah.
* The cast of ''VisualNovel/NUCarnival'' is entirely made up of attractive men with a variety of appearances and personalities. Being a gay man with a high libido, Eiden is very happy to see that the Klein Continent has no shortage of good-looking men living in it.

* ''Webcomic/MyDearColdBloodedKing'' takes place in a land like ancient China, and the majority of the males are definitely bishonen.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' is able to pull this trope thanks to the Animesque art style and by focusing on the young sidekicks of DC superheroes.
* Judging by the many statements and fanworks of the fangirls, ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' follows this trope.

Compare and contrast ImprobablyFemaleCast, OtokonokoGenre.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies have a grand total of three female main characters. Much of the rest of the cast varies between {{Biseinen}} and {{Hunk}}. Even uncursed Theoden is a SilverFox. The costumes don't help matters: these clothes would make almost anyone look good. Neither does the HoYay between main characters. Subverted in ''Film/TheHobbit'' where the prettiness of the cast is reduced by a half, since most of the dwarves are older.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has an equal ratio of men to women, but several of the male characters are young adults with Bishounen features, but especially the [[{{Wutai}} Hoshido ]] Kingdom. The AggressiveSubmissive Takumi, or alternatively, in a certain path he is [[TheOphelia crazy and tragic, but still beautiful anyway]],NiceGuy ninja Kaze, the LittleBitBeastly {{Kitsune}} Kaden, the playful Subaki, CloudCuckoolander Izana, the diva Shigure... The Nohr Kingdom only have half of {{Bishonen}} Hoshido have, but it's there. The {{Jerkass}} BattleButler Jakob, the cool Leo, and his DudeLooksLikeALady son Forrest... Take your pick.

* ''{{Manga/Trigun}}'' borders on this, as almost all of the major male characters are attractive bishonen, including Vash, Knives, Wolfwood, Legato, etc.

** ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' tends more toward [[ImprobablyFemaleCast the opposite end of the spectrum]], though; more often than not, almost every job in town is done by a cute, single girl (and/or her [[ChristmasCake sadly unmarriable mother]]). Particularly glaring in ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans'', the first game to feature a female player option at all; Sonia gets four choices for marriage (including Aden), while Aden gets ten. ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', which will be the first to feature a female option from the beginning, looks as though it will end up with a more even pretty boy/pretty girl ratio.

* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, most of which are played by attractive young men (not restricted to just-starting-out Creator/DamianLewis, Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/JamesMcAvoy etc.). The likes of Creator/RossMcCall (Liebgott), Creator/EionBailey (Webster), Creator/ScottGrimes (Malarkey) and Creator/JamesMadio (Perconte) have huge female followings. [[GoodLookingPrivates The uniform might have something to do with it]]. The series has a huge PeripheryDemographic of female fans precisely for this reason.

* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' also features idols, but goes into full-on LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters territory with ''over thirty'' characters, all of them male, meeting [[TasteTheRainbow every possible standard of male beauty.]] There is one female character, but she rarely is seen onscreen outside of a few small cameos in cards with the male characters and [[InTheHood you never see her face]].

* ''Number'': The only male characters who ''aren't'' bishounen are the Number assassins' two corrupt targets and the ninja-maid's master, who's a [[Film/BlueVelvet Frank Booth]]-level sadist. The rest of the handsome/pretty cast [[HoYay love]] [[FoeYay to torment]] the handsome/pretty teenage main protagonist.

* ''Series/ShakespeareUnwrapped'' - an Irish EdutainmentShow went for a YoungerAndHipper cast to make ''Theatre/KingLear'' more relatable to school children. As the play only has three female parts, the majority of the cast are twenty-something guys. Notably this also plays up the HoYay between Kent and Lear, as well as the FoeYay between Cornwall and Gloucester.

* Every speaking male in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' is on eye candy. Take your arguably Stripperiffic TeenGenius, your [[RealMenWearPink amazing dessert chef]] with the [[CoolCar red sports car]], your [[BastardBoyfriend murderous]] [[StalkerWithACrush alien]], or your [[StepfordSmiler perfect boyfriend]]. Were we supposed to be watching the show for strong female characters or environmentalism? [[BishieSparkle Hmm]]...

* ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', complete with [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: the flirty curvy ex-Maou Cheri and the younger inventor Anasina, sometimes joined by a trio of servants who are essentially fangirls themselves. (They write yaoi fanfic about their employers!)
** Yuuri even has an UnwantedHarem, and he's actually engaged to one of them! He pretty steadfastly ignores it, though he also gets visible man-crushes on at least one, possibly two pretty guys.

* ''Anime/MarginalPrince'', it's based on a RomanceGame after all. In fact, there isn't a single reocurring female character except for Yuuta's faceless older sister (who serves as an AudienceSurrogate).

* Almost every major male character in ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' are drawn as {{Bishonen}}: i.e. the [[CollectiveIdentity Moriarty brothers]], Sebastian Moran, Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Watson. Even Mycroft, who is less conventionally "pretty" than his brother due to his age, still looks quite handsome.

* ''Anime/StarDriver'', where basically every single male of the important cast is very, very pretty. Hell, the main character is called ''Ginga {{Bishonen}}'', for crying out loud! You know you're there when even the villain, who's actually so old that he's [[spoiler:the hero's father]], is confused for a hot highschool guy.

* ''Manga/VampireDoll'': All of the men are gorgeous flamboyant eyecandy who lay on heavy fanservice. What few girls in the series are adorable too.

* HairMetal bands from TheEighties also qualify, albiet with [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long hair]].

* Most of the {{Wrestling/WWE}} roster, to the point that quite a few wrestlers have even made their pretty looks a part of their gimmick, or given themself a nickname to reflect that [[MrFanservice they're a part of this trope]]. Examples include "Prince Pretty" Tyler Breeze, "The Shaman of Sexy" Wrestling/JohnMorrison, and of course "Dashing" Wrestling/CodyRhodes. Scotty 2 Hotty jokes that towards the end of his term in WWE, he asked if he could drop the "2 Hotty" part of his ring name, in contrast to some of the more attractive guys on the roster.

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* Pick an [[RomanceGame otome game]]. Any otome game. This trope is the point. In fact, this trope being so prevalent in otome games has lead people to mislabel any Japanese game featuring [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer it as an otome game]], even if it isn’t actually part of the genre.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', while having several plot-worthy female characters other than the lead in the manga, spends a disproportionate amount of its time on Yuki and Kyo. The rest of the cast is also heavily bishonen. Also see HaremGenre.

An array of pretty people as eye candy isn't just [[MaleGaze for the guys]]. Girls get their Cast Full Of Pretty Boys to ogle too in the name of {{fanservice}}. This tends to be less noticeable than its [[ImprobablyFemaleCast female counterpart]] because exclusively (or [[TheSmurfettePrinciple near-exclusively]]) male casts are already common and expected (thought not always with the intentional appeal to females) and the fanservice tends to be along the lines of "he cooks" or "naked chest" and thus usually objectifies in a different way than in male-oriented shows--unless there are YaoiGuys involved. The writers sometimes leave it to their audience to retrofit the standard [[TrueCompanions group of friends]] into the UnwantedHarem if they wish.

* ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'''s main skateboarder cast; they and their spectating fans of all genders certainly seem to know it.

* In AlessandraHazard's ''Literature/ThatIrresistiblePoison'' by AlessandraHazard: All the guys in the main cast are drop-dead gorgeous.

* In AlessandraHazard's ''Literature/ThatIrresistiblePoison'', it takes a long time before Seyn and Ksar can say “I love you” to one another.

* In Alessandra Hazard's ''Literature/ThatIrresistiblePoison'', it takes a long time before Seyn and Ksar can say “I love you” to one another.

* A 2000 year old example in ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses''

* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'':
** The main cast of consists of four boys and one girl. While the boys are not exactly {{bishonen}}, they are good-looking enough that western viewers of the anime adaptation often wondered the possibility a case of reverse harem (as the girl is TheProtagonist). Being a series written for [[MiddleGradeLiterature tweens]], that is obviously downplayed.
** The {{spinoff}} ''Genie Team G Jiken Note'', however, plays this trope the most straight; [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/g_2shokai_s1.png the male cast]] there is the most {{bishonen}} allowed in a MiddleGradeLiterature artwork.

* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateObeyMe'' takes place in a supernatural school where you are surrounded by several handsome men where at least seven guys are interested in your heart.

* ''LightNovel/SaiunkokuMonogatari'' has the heroine making friends with dozens of gorgeous {{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}s. If there's one thing to be said about the series, it's that it's very, ''very'' pretty.

* Only 6 of the 32 name characters in ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' are female. Most of the men, even the older ones, are noted to be rather handsome. The entire Gusu Lan sect is noted as never having an ugly disciple (except maybe Su She who up and left to set up his own clan).

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies have a grand total of three female main characters, and almost all the rest are played by very handsome actors. Subverted in ''Film/TheHobbit'' where the prettiest of the cast is reduced by a half, mostly because nearly the rest are playing older dwarves.

* ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'' has [[TallDarkAndSnarky Hak]], [[RightHandOfDoom Kija]], [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Shin-ah]], [[ChivalrousPervert Jae-ha]], [[CuteLittleFangs Zeno]], and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yoon]] escorting Yona on her goodwill tour around her country. Her first love [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Su-won]] adds his beauty to the central conflict of her life.

* The ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' comic is a comic series that adheres to this. The guys weren't exactly unattractive in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' cartoon but the reboot [[AdaptationalAttractiveness made them much more prettier]]. They updated the fashion and the {{animesque}} style makes them look bishonen. Rio, Craig, Riot, and Techrat are all slim and fashionable. Eric is now an attractive, glasses wearing businessman. Even Shana's boyfriend is a cute looking BigBeautifulMan. ''Jem And The Holograms'' is female aimed so that might be a factor behind all the main males looking as they do.

* Creator/MarvelComics has made several attempts to court {{manga}} readers, both Japanese and Western. Their latest attempt is {{OEL|Manga}} ''X-Men'' {{Shoujo}} manga entitled ''Manga/XMenMisfits''. In this manga, Kitty Pryde, the AudienceSurrogate character, is the first female to enroll at Xavier's for a very long time and thus surrounded by an UnwantedHarem composed entirely of bishonen. [[SarcasmMode Poor Kitty]]. Submitted for your horror and/or {{squee}}; the [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1570 Hellfire Club]]. Other exhibits include [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1573 Bishie Iceman]], [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1587 Bishie Nightcrawler]] and [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1574 Not-So-Bishie Bishie Wolverine]] ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed who looks like]] [[Music/TokioHotel Bill Kaulitz!]]). Also included is [[http://www.gambitguild.com/GGForum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1560 Bishie Gambit]] (at least somewhat {{justified|Trope}} given Gambit has always been [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]]), who apparently is the resident {{Goth}}/{{Industrial}} fan. Kurt is unusually human-looking in this title.