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* TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: When disabled character is portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[GeniusCripple ner]][[NerdsAreVirgins dy]], it can guarantee her virginity. To qualify for this trope, the disability needs to be {{played for drama}} or {{played for tragedy}}

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* TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: When disabled character is portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[GeniusCripple ner]][[NerdsAreVirgins dy]], it can guarantee her virginity. To qualify for this trope, the disability needs to be {{played for drama}} or {{played for tragedy}}drama}}



* DisposableSexWorker: Another usual fate of "whores" is become expendable.

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* DisposableSexWorker: Another usual fate of "whores" is to become expendable.


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* ExtremeLibido


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* SuccubiAndIncubi
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': An interesting spin on this is featured in Poison Ivy's [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]], as she pretends to be the former while secretly being the latter. Publicly she's Pamela Isley, a sweet, caring woman beside herself with grief over her comatose fiancee Harvey Dent. Behind closed doors she's Poison Ivy, an unhinged seductress who put Harvey in said coma in the first place.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': An interesting spin on this is featured in [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy Poison Ivy's Ivy's]] [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]], as she pretends to be the former while secretly being the latter. Publicly she's Pamela Isley, a sweet, caring woman beside herself with grief over her comatose fiancee Harvey Dent. Behind closed doors she's Poison Ivy, an unhinged seductress who put Harvey in said coma in the first place.
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] someone thinking Music/{{Madonna}} acts like a whore... though that would probably be an example of this.

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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] someone thinking that the singer Music/{{Madonna}} acts like a whore... though that would probably be an example of this.
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* ''WebVideo/TheTake'' did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZAvmPKecE thorough breakdown]] of how this tope manifests in film, television, and culture as a whole. One key point addressed is that the same woman can fill both roles to different people; it largely depends on who is looking at them and from what perspective they are looking.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach is implied to think this way, owing in part to his rather unfortunate upbringing and [[SonOfAWhore his mother having been a prostitute]], and in part to his love of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Pretty much every time Rorschach describes a female character, they're either an untouched innocent (Kitty Genovese or Blaire Roche) or a whore beneath contempt (both Silk Spectres, his landlady). It's not hard to imagine his own issues with sex and gender aren't factors as well.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach [[Characters/WatchmenRorschach Rorschach]] is implied to think this way, owing in part to his rather unfortunate upbringing and [[SonOfAWhore his mother having been a prostitute]], and in part to his love of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Pretty much every time Rorschach describes a female character, they're either an untouched innocent (Kitty Genovese or Blaire Roche) or a whore beneath contempt (both Silk Spectres, his landlady). It's not hard to imagine his own issues with sex and gender aren't factors as well.
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** In the ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' review, a crossover with [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]], he suggests that Gord's LoveInterest is the perfect synthesis of Madonna and Whore: she's obsessed with phallic objects and blowjobs, but they never have any other kind of sex, and being a [[DisabledLoveInterest disabled]] nurse plays her as being nurturing but also needing to be nurtured herself.

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** In the ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' review, a crossover with [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]], he suggests that Gord's LoveInterest is the perfect synthesis of Madonna and Whore: she's obsessed with phallic objects and blowjobs, but they never have any other kind of sex, and being a [[DisabledLoveInterest disabled]] disabled nurse plays her as being nurturing but also needing to be nurtured herself.
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* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': Ling invokes this on herself. On the one hand, she plays the pious and quiet girl, but on the other she's shown teasing the Chosen One multiple times on the sly throughout the film. This culminates one intimate scene, where she throws caution to the wind and decides to have sex with him. However, before she even gets to the point of sex, she flips between undressing and redressing herself while worrying about what the Chosen One would think of her if she gives into her lust (including thinking he'll see her as a slut ''just for suggesting the sex'', and he's clearly ogling her the whole time).

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* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': Ling invokes this on herself. On the one hand, she plays the pious and quiet girl, but on the other she's shown teasing the Chosen One multiple times on the sly throughout the film. This culminates in one intimate scene, where she throws caution to the wind and decides to have sex with him. However, before she even gets to the point of sex, she flips between undressing and redressing herself while worrying about what the Chosen One would think of her if she gives into her lust (including thinking he'll see her as a slut ''just for suggesting the sex'', and he's clearly ogling her the whole time).
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*** Ivy herself also serves as a foil to the character’s previous civilian identity, Dr. Pamela Isley. In contrast to Ivy’s highly sexualized beauty and interest in men (at least as tools to get what she wants), Isley had something of a homely appearance and no romantic aspirations. While both were extremely dedicated to the plant world, Isley was a passionate scientist trying to prevent extinction, while Ivy used living plants for evil purposes.

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*** ** Ivy herself also serves as a foil to the character’s previous civilian identity, Dr. Pamela Isley. In contrast to Ivy’s highly sexualized beauty and interest in men (at least as tools to get what she wants), Isley had something of a homely appearance and no romantic aspirations. While both were extremely dedicated to the plant world, Isley was a passionate scientist trying to prevent extinction, while Ivy used living plants for evil purposes.

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Disabled Love Interest is now Tragically Disabled Love Interest; it is not enough to be disabled, the disability must be played for drama or tragedy.


* DisabledLoveInterest: Because someone with disability are portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[GeniusCripple ner]][[NerdsAreVirgins dy]], so it can guaranteed her virginity.



* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: If any kind of {{Fanservice}} apply to her, she is likely to be this one.

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* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: If any kind of {{Fanservice}} apply applies to her, she is likely to be this one.


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* TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: When disabled character is portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[GeniusCripple ner]][[NerdsAreVirgins dy]], it can guarantee her virginity. To qualify for this trope, the disability needs to be {{played for drama}} or {{played for tragedy}}
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* DisabledLoveInterest: Because someone with disability are portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[DisabledMeansHelpless snark]], so it can guaranteed her virginity.

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* DisabledLoveInterest: Because someone with disability are portrayed as either [[DisabledMeansHelpless helpless]] or [[DisabledMeansHelpless snark]], [[GeniusCripple ner]][[NerdsAreVirgins dy]], so it can guaranteed her virginity.
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