History Main / PrettyFreeloaders

Related to FriendsRentControl, as the characters' ability to do this is frequently {{handwave}}d as one of the characters having a rich family, the main character won a giant house and commodities in a contest, etc., and the plot point is promptly forgotten for the rest of the series. If this behavior is tolerated or encouraged, it may be due to FavorsForTheSexy. If someone gets sick of them, usually roommates who are NotDistractedByTheSexy and just want them out, it usually turns into TheThingThatWouldNotLeave.

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'' starts straightforward, then plays with this a bit. At first, it's just Asia living in the Hyoudou house's spare room -- it was this or homelessness, and [[ChivalrousPervert Issei]] and [[OpenMindedParent his parents]] were hardly going to kick her out. Then Rias moves in as well, and she could very easily pay her own way. Then when the rest of the harem moves in, it gets completely flipped and averted in one move -- the house is renovated into a palatial mansion overnight, and it's all but outright stated that Rias is footing the bills now. She tolerates Issei's parents, since she treats them as future in-laws anyway ([[ParentalObliviousness and they could be paying doctored bills without noticing]]), almost all the rest of the residents are members of her Peerage and do Devil work for her, and the one exception is effectively a VIP diplomat.

-->-- '''Jet''', "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

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--->'''Leonard:''' (''to Penny'') How can you walk around with no money? \\

* Music/TheOffspring's "Why Don't You Get a Job?" is about either a Pretty Freeloader or an UnwantedSpouse. The last verse also contains a SpearCounterpart version, a man mooching off his girlfriend.

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Sixteen}}'' episode "Cheapskates" Jen dates a guy named Griffin who is a cheapskate and has her pay for things for him. She wasn't happy when it turned out he was rich the whole time.

See also the GoldDigger, who may turn into a non-platonic version of this trope once they've got their hooks into a suitably wealthy sugar-daddy[=/=]mommy.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Inverted in ''Manga/AirGear'', where ''the main character'' Itsuki/Ikki is the one freeloading from his childhood friends, the beautiful and quite badass Noyamano sisters. (With one of them being his UnluckyChildhoodFriend Ringo [[spoiler: though she ''may'' not be that unlucky now in the manga]].) They make him "pay" via pretty much having him as their busboy.

* The entire cast of ''Manga/HappyLesson'', who tend to annoy Chitose at the worst possible times, and were once kicked out of his house as a result. [[spoiler: This makes the pseudo- LastMinuteHookUp plotline involving one of the teachers all the more unusual.]] The freeloader part may be subverted, considering all the mothers are full-time teachers or a nurse. It's implied they pay the food bill, since they once ask how much Hazuki spends on eating.

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'' starts straightforward, then plays with this a bit. At first, it's just Asia living in the Hyoudou house's spare room - it was this or homelessness, and [[ChivalrousPervert Issei]] and [[OpenMindedParent his parents]] were hardly going to kick her out. Then Rias moves in as well, and she could very easily pay her own way. Then when the rest of the harem moves in, it gets completely flipped and averted in one move - the house is renovated into a palatial mansion overnight, and it's all but outright stated that Rias is footing the bills now. She tolerates Issei's parents, since she treats them as future in-laws anyway ([[ParentalObliviousness and they could be paying doctored bills without noticing]]), almost all the rest of the residents are members of her Peerage and do Devil work for her, and the one exception is effectively a VIP diplomat.

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--->'''Leonard''': (''to Penny'') How can you walk around with no money? \\
'''Penny''': I'm cute, I get by.

*** Taiga doesn't sleep at Shirou's house, she does spend a lot of time and take all her meals there, leading Shirou to think of her like this. [[SubvertedTrope She's a subversion, however]]: the house actually belongs to a Yakuza clan that lets Shirou live there to repay HUGE favors that his father Kiritsugu did to them... and the leader of the clan ''happens'' to be [[YakuzaPrincess Taiga's grandfather]]. So in a way, Shirou's house is technically ''Taiga's'' to begin with.
*** Played hilariously with Rin, who has a large home of her own and it's implied she's the only resident there-in. She moves in anyways to help Shirou during the Grail War and ends up staying. She even offers a totally made up line to Taiga about her place being renovated and thus can't stay there, to gain her approval.

* Makoto Sawatari in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' starts out as a Pretty Freeloader before becoming a Haremette. A little more justified in her case since she's a girl afflicted with LaserGuidedAmnesia and that's why Akiko took her in. [[spoiler: Specially considering that she's not even human to begin with.]]

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', Ayumu Aikawa is forced to house and feed {{Necromancer}} Eucliwood, [[MagicalGirl Magical Garment Girl]] Haruna, and Seraphim, a Vampire Ninja. HilarityEnsues. Although they do help out in the house later except Eucliwood. Averted with Maelstrom, who doesn't live with Ayumu [[AccidentalMarriage despite being married to him]].
* Zigzagged in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' with Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta insinuating themselves into the Yasaka household. All three of them have steady jobs (Nyarko's apparently pays well enough that she can splurge on {{Otaku}} goods), but for the most part they just go to high school with [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] and laze about the house all day. On occasion they'll offer to help out (Nyarko moreso than the others), but since her cooking is almost always iffy and their idea of cleaning house only makes it messier, it's probably better that they don't.

* Lynn from ''Series/{{Girlfriends}}'', who in the pilot episode gets kicked out of Toni's place, and has been a squatter at one time or another in Joan's house, Joan's yard, Maya's spare room, William's house and William's yard.

* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'': When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VvL1_RtdU Mika]] moved in with her sister Fumika, she began to leech of her and refused to get a job and kept accusing Fumika of not having a job despite the fact that she pays for everything. Mika sold Fumika's stuff and kicked her out of the house when her new boyfriend moved in. This came back to bite her in the butt when she received a lease notice that requires her to pay a lot of money.

* Jun's living doll troupe in ''Manga/RozenMaiden''. Justified, in that they are dolls and could not work for a living anyway.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'''s treatment of the group as this versus a harem fluctuates depending on continuity. Ironically, Kiyone is the only character who is ([[AlternateContinuity consistently]]) ''embarrassed'' at being a literal pretty freeloader, as she's initially forced to mooch off the cast after being stranded on Earth with Mihoshi.
** This was addressed a little in the {{Spinoff}} manga. Mihoshi does give part of her paycheck to pay for rent and [[CuteClumsyGirl all the damage she causes.]] Of course, given that Mihoshi comes from one of the richest families in the known universe, she probably doesn't even notice her paycheck.
*** Note that a ''part'' of a [=GalPol=] officer paycheck is enough for Seina's family in ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP GXP]]'' to afford a BigFancyHouse. Even if Seina does the most extreme job in the Galaxy Police (as essentially glorified bait/bounty hunter combo and with his [[SarcasmMode "luck"]], he has netted more pirates than anyone else), which translates into quite a large income, the Yamadas move out ''before'' he starts doing this, and is still just a cadet.
** In the OVA continuity, especially later on, when it moved from its original RuleOfFunny-driven action comedy premise into a more straightforward SpaceOpera setting, it was implied that all Earth!Masakis' financial problems, whether real or imaginary, are little more than {{Masquerade}}, as their family is actually ''much richer'' than the Kuramitsu clan. [[spoiler:They are, after all, members of the Jurai royal family...and nowhere near as isolated from Jurai as they let on.]]
** However, Tenchi quit attending school and started farming for carrots for feeding Ryouki. That at least showed that they have had issues regarding fuel or spaceships...
* The entire cast of ''Manga/HappyLesson'', who tend to annoy Chitose at the worst possible times, and were once kicked out of his house as a result. [[spoiler: This makes the pseudo- LastMinuteHookUp plotline involving one of the teachers all the more unusual.]]
** The freeloader part may be subverted, considering all the mothers are full-time teachers or a nurse. It's implied they pay the food bill, since they once ask how much Hazuki spends on eating.
* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' : Justified, because angeloids were designed to only follow a master's orders and cannot provide for theselves. The protagonist complains many times on how this is hurting his finances. Now he can't even afford to buy a DVD. Later, Astraea turning out to be a BigEater doesn't help (He and Nymph are reluctant in accepting her staying at their house). This leads to a new medical angeloid, Oregano, being given away to a rich Yakuza Princess (and being used as a weapon, only PlayedForLaughs). Later, the protagonist ends up trying to kick all of the angeloids out of his house in a comedy scene. SubvertedTrope: in a spin-off manga, Ikaros is seen working as a waitress.
* Anna from ''Manga/ShamanKing'', who takes advantage of her [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage engagement]] to Yoh in order to do nothing that hasn't been paid for by someone else, usually Yoh or Manta. In the dubbed version of Trey (Horohoro)'s intro episode, [[HypocriticalHumor she actually tells him "No freeloaders".]] In Anna's defense she not only is Yoh's girlfriend but she considers the TrainingFromHell menus she organizes for him (and making sure that he follows them) as payment -- and since Yoh ''does'' become stronger, she's right.
* A sizable portion of the cast of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' ends up living in Nenene's apartment by the end of the TV series. Any incidental earnings from their detective jobs is mostly squandered on their bibliophile habits.

* ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' has the titular character take this role after she "loses" her family.
* Aisha and Suzuka from ''Manga/OutlawStar''. Technically, they're not freeloading as Aisha takes menial jobs to pay her way and both usually end up working the same job as Gene (he's too afraid of Suzuka to actually charge her rent). They're more like unusual roommates. Also, they ''do'' occupy useful positions in [[CoolShip Grappler One/Outlaw Star]]'s crew, so they definitely earn their keep.
* Around halfway through ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' Haruka takes advantage of her mom's ParentalObliviousness to let Karasu and the other Dragon Knights crash at her place. She tells her mom they are bird watchers.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'':
** Tsuna has this problem. Reborn, Bianchi, I-Pin, and Lambo tended to be the more permanent moochers in his house (at least in the first half). However, Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Haru also fit this trope every now and then, at certain points in the story. (And even though Gokudera and Yamamoto are ''supposed'' to have the job of protecting Tsuna, Tsuna has shown numerous times that he doesn't actually ''need'' their protection all that much).
** On the other hand, Sayoko's scheme ''does'' pay off in the end, so it's not really fruitless mooching. And Satoru definitely gets his money worth in other departments.

* In ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', San, Maki, and Lunar all end up living in Nagasumi's house. In San's case it's justified, as she and Nagasumi are engaged, but Maki and Lunar just sort of moved in on their own. Maki tries to justify herself as being Sun's bodyguard, and she's often shown waking up Nagasume every morning by trying to kill him. (She is an assassin after all). Lunar moved in just so she can keep watch over her newly self-appointed man-servant. It is subverted later on, when Sun and Lunar's fathers (who are yakuza bosses) pay for the damage that they and their daughters cause to the house.
* The eponymous Niea from ''Anime/NieaUnder7'' is an alien girl who decides to live in Mayuko's closet, eating her food and generally being a nuisance with her boisterous attitude.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', any shinigami stationed for an extended period in the living world ends up freeloading off someone. The most notable is Rukia, who spends months at a time living in Ichigo's closet and later rooms temporarily with his sisters Yuzu and Karin. (Oddly, Renji is called a freeloader, even though he stays with Urahara, who makes him earn his keep with chores.) Meanwhile Rangiku and Hitsugaya stay with Orihime, and Ikkaku and Yumichika stay with Keigo. (Mostly because Keigo's sister Mizuho has a crush on Ikkaku. Or better said, she likes him because she has a thing for bald guys.)
* ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'' gender-inverts this, with TheHero Ikuto living under the same roof as the female lead Suzu. Neither of them, however, is willing to capitalize on the situation (even under the urging of Suzu's great-grandmother), seeing as Suzu is an InnocentFanserviceGirl that is ''very'' ObliviousToLove and Ikuto is a CelibateHero.

** Italy does this to Germany as well, during WWI
* Elsea from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' manages to move in with Keima and his mother... by telling the latter that she's ''the illegitimate daughter of her husband!''
** Although she does help out in their coffee shop quite a bit, doing most of the cleaning that Keima's too busy gaming to do.
* Inverted in ''Manga/AirGear'', where ''the main character'' Itsuki/Ikki is the one freeloading from his childhood friends, the beautiful and quite badass Noyamano sisters. (With one of them being his UnluckyChildhoodFriend Ringo [[spoiler: though she ''may'' not be that unlucky now in the manga]].) They make him "pay" via pretty much having him as their busboy.

* Inverted in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', where the object of the {{Unwanted Harem}}'s affections stays and eats at one of the girls' houses 24/7.
* Chikahito from ''Manga/{{Gate 7}}'' is a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] version.
* Primarily subverted in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}''. Minato's harem are expected to earn their keep, as [[HaremNanny Miya]] makes it clear that those that don't contribute won't eat. Hikari and Hibiki likewise earn their keep, working a variety of odd jobs to (barely) survive. Shiina takes up a domestic role, cooking and cleaning for Yukari. On the other hand, Mikogami's army of Sekirei play it absolutely straight, living off his parents' wealth and hanging around his BigFancyHouse.
* The four bishounen boys from ''Manga/TheWallflower'' desire to be this so badly that they accept their landlady's deal of turning her niece, Sunako, into a lady and thus win free rent, essentially setting up the plot of the entire series.
* A rather disturbing example is used in one Creator/JunjiIto story, ''The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings - Second Daughter's Lover''. The protagonist is contacted by a pretty classmate who's threatening suicide because she can't stand living with her creepy, weird siblings anymore. He stops her attempt, takes pity on her, and lets her live with him. From then on, all she does is laze around the house while he works to support both of them. Every time he suggests she get a job or go live somewhere else, [[WoundedGazelleGambit she starts accusing him of not wanting her at all and threatening to kill herself]]. [[spoiler:She's taken back by her siblings and seemingly goes through with SelfImmolation, which leads to her siblings blaming the protagonist for her death and forcing him to spend the night with her charcoal-like remains. After he dies of a heart attack from the stress of it, it turns out she's alive as well and fakes suicide constantly.]]

* Deconstructed with Misaki in ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend.'' [[spoiler:She ends up being a drug runner and both she and Natsuo end up kidnapped by gangsters and nearly killed after they catch her stealing some of the supply for her own personal use.]]

* ''Manga/YuuutsuKunToSuccubusSan'': Inverted. Sakuma calls herself a freeloader, but she's the one who works to bring in money. She takes on the obligation after making Yuu leave his job due to how it overworked him to the point of intense depression. They're able to get by on what she makes on top of Yuu's severance/retirement pay.

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Initially played straight, but the girls gradually realize that they couldn't rely on Kimihito all the time and have to take care of themselves. As of Chapter 43, with the exceptions of Papi and Suu, who are too mentally immature to hold a job (not to mention that Suu, as a slime girl, is an open secret and not actually covered by the interspecies exchange program), and Lala, all of the girls living at Kimihito's house have a job, are actively seeking one, or have personal wealth to make it up; even Rachnera, who gets frequent requests for her silk from various laboratories.
* Justified in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. [[spoiler:Hayasaka becomes a NEET after graduation as having worked for the Shinomiya family ever since she was seven has left her with a strong desire to just relax, helped by the fact that her decade of service left her with a sizable savings to draw from. She alternates her time between traveling the world and lazing about at Fujiwara's apartment (she was originally staying with Kaguya, but was kicked out after only three days).]]

* Rai the main character of ''Fanfic/CodeGeassColorlessMemories'' though a Downplayed example. Like Lelouch and Nunnally, Rai is staying in the school clubhouse thanks to Milly being one of the Ashford's and thus having a lot of pull at the school. Rai at least feels guilt about this (despite Milly's assurances) and helps out at the student council regularly to make up for it.
* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': As should be expected, given the premise and the use of this trope in canon. After Sakura's house gets blown up during Rider's SummoningRitual, Rider encourages her to move in with Shirou. Saber, of course, is also living with Shirou since she's his Servant. Rin and her Servant Archer also start spending all their time there once Rin allies with Shirou and Sakura. Ayako and Assassin, while not officially allied, also start hanging out at the house a lot. Kirei (who is secretly the BigBad) has to deal with the magical Enforcer Bazett (who he tried to murder, but she didn't notice) and her Servant Lancer, as well as Caren (his long-lost daughter who hates him) and her Servant Shielder, all living with him.

* Kelly Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', who makes no effort to apply herself at high school so she can pursue a successful career later on and become self-sufficient. She instead relies upon other men and teenage boys, including her father Al, to supply her with all of life's most basic essentials such as food and housing.

* Lynn from ''Girlfriends'', who in the pilot episode gets kicked out of Toni's place, and has been a squatter at one time or another in Joan's house, Joan's yard, Maya's spare room, William's house and William's yard.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', Trish and Lady often loiter around the Devil May Cry office a lot. Most of it is for business reasons since they're Dante's demon-hunting partners, but they do have the habit of lazing around there for no reason as well, often mooching off his pizza and other resources, or making him pay their shopping bills. Granted, they're strictly PlatonicLifePartners with him, and all three are fine trading all the snark in the world with each other.

* Over the course of the three routes of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', the Emiya household sees a wide variety of temporary residents, a large amount of whom were never actually invited:
** Taiga doesn't sleep at Shirou's house, she does spend a lot of time and take all her meals there, leading Shirou to think of her like this. [[SubvertedTrope She's a subversion, however]]: the house actually belongs to a Yakuza clan that lets Shirou live there to repay HUGE favors that his father Kiritsugu did to them... and the leader of the clan ''happens'' to be [[YakuzaPrincess Taiga's grandfather]]. So in a way, Shirou's house is technically ''Taiga's'' to begin with.
** Played hilariously with Rin, who has a large home of her own and it's implied she's the only resident there-in. She moves in anyways to help Shirou during the Grail War and ends up staying. She even offers a totally made up line to Taiga about her place being renovated and thus can't stay there, to gain her approval.
** Sakura started to hang out at Shirou's house and help out with chores when she was in middle school by virtue of being Shinji's little sister. Justified, as it later turns out she's being abused at the Matou household and being with her crush makes her feel safer and happier.
** The biggest freeloader and least welcome guest, Illya, wins Taiga over effortlessly, then later does the same to Taiga's mobster father so completely that he'll shelter her over his own daughter.[[spoiler:That Illya is actually Shirou's [[OlderThanTheyLook elder]] adoptive sister (he's the adopted one, she's Kiritsugu's biological daughter) justifies her "freeloading" at what is also by all rights her home]].
** ''Manga/TodaysMenuForTheEmiyaFamily'' has the "Emiya Family" consist of about two-thirds of the ''Fate/stay night'' cast, even though only three of those people are technically a part of the Emiya family. None of them do much except stay at his house and eat Shirou's food.
* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'':
** The only one actually called a freeloader is Saber, who, admittedly, doesn't do much but eat.
** At the very end, Bazett likewise invites herself in.

* Subverted with the title character of ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' when she crashes at the protagonist's apartment. While the stay ramps up the sexual tension between the two, Melody only stays at his place for one night before going to Sophia’s place.
** However, it can be played straight when Melody gets to Sophia’s house. At one point, Sophia starts coming on to Melody, and the player will have a choice of whether to stop it or let it go on.

* Rinnie from ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'' pretty much lives this trope

* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki'', Norse gods Thor, Hermod, and Loki play this role (for certain values of "pretty," anyway) in Yuuki's home. Admittedly, Thor and Hermod are there to prepare Yuuki to be a valkyrie, but Loki hangs around just to spy on Yuuki and act like an all-around pervert. Later in the series, valkyries Otsana and Shebi force their way into a random Japanese guy's house while they search for Yuuki. They do this by alternately invoking SacredHospitality and [[http://sgvy.com/archives/Edda10/Issue7/Page3.html sheer terror]] (which the gods also used). They make their freeloader status explicit [[http://sgvy.com/archives/Edda11/Issue1/Page6.html here]]
* ''Webcomic/RoninGalaxy'': Taylor is taken onboard Cecil and Giancarlo’s ship, despite not having any discernable talents. Cecil also proclaims her “his maid” though she is never shown cleaning anything. Not to mention she [[spoiler:almost got them both killed in the first chapter.]]

* Helle Belle from ''Webcomic/{{Devilbear}}''. She's the Daiva of {{Sloth}}, and more than lives up to the title. Normally seen planted firmly on the sofa. She's also [[http://www.thedevilbear.com/bios/png/belle.png ridiculously hot]] for a couch potato.
* In ''Webcomic/OwMySanity'', Nancy, Shubby and the various other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who have taken the form of women, and are drawn to David, are a creepier-than-normal version of this.

* In the ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Sixteen}} 6teen]]'' episode "Cheapskates" Jen dates a guy named Griffin who is a cheapskate and has her pay for things for him. She wasn't happy when it turned out he was rich the whole time.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Index, and by the end of the first StoryArc [[spoiler:Touma doesn't even remember why]]! At one point, Touma finally gets sick of it and tells her to clean the bathroom and make herself useful, and she ends up pouring detergent into the bathtub heater and nearly starts a fire.

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', Ayumu Aikawa is forced to house and feed {{Necromancer}} Eucliwood, [[MagicalGirl Magical Garment Girl]] Haruna, and Seraphim, a Vampire Ninja. HilarityEnsues. Although they do help out in the house later except Eucliwood. Averted with Maelstrom, who doesn't live with Ayumu [[AccidentalMarriage despite being married to him]].

* Zigzagged in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' with Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta insinuating themselves into the Yasaka household. All three of them have steady jobs (Nyarko's apparently pays well enough that she can splurge on {{Otaku}} goods), but for the most part they just go to high school with [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] and laze about the house all day. On occasion they'll offer to help out (Nyarko moreso than the others), but since her cooking is almost always iffy and their idea of cleaning house only makes it messier, it's probably better that they don't.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' starts straightforward, then plays with this a bit. At first, it's just Asia living in the Hyoudou house's spare room - it was this or homelessness, and [[ChivalrousPervert Issei]] and [[OpenMindedParent his parents]] were hardly going to kick her out. Then Rias moves in as well, and she could very easily pay her own way. Then when the rest of the harem moves in, it gets completely flipped and averted in one move - the house is renovated into a palatial mansion overnight, and it's all but outright stated that Rias is footing the bills now. She tolerates Issei's parents, since she treats them as future in-laws anyway ([[ParentalObliviousness and they could be paying doctored bills without noticing]]), almost all the rest of the residents are members of her Peerage and do Devil work for her, and the one exception is effectively a VIP diplomat.
** Later the house acquires two more straight examples: [[spoiler:Le Fey, who lives unobtrusively in a room in the basement, and Kuroka, who's been after Issei's genes from day one and so just offers to make her cohabitation less innocent whenever rent is mentioned.]]
*** They can be considered to be contributing (somewhat) in their own way in the later volumes. [[spoiler:Kuroka is helping Koneko and Gasper train. Her training helped Koneko unlock Shirone Mode thus increasing Team Rias' firepower. Le Fey on the other hand becomes Issei's magician contractor, so she may likely contribute in the future.]]

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Motoyasu's party consists solely of women who cheer him on from the sidelines. Justified in that Malty both wants to enjoy the benefits of being in the party and doesn't want anyone to outshine her. As such she used her status and other underhanded methods to quietly drive off everyone except for other parasites like herself, and she only tolerates them because they defer to her.

* The short story "Even a Loser Can Win" features a severely downplayed version: Lara moves into the narrator's home without asking, but she's gainfully employed, pays all her own expenses (with the possible exception of rent), and is a positive, pro-social influence on the unemployed, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] narrator. This turns out to be part of a scheme to [[spoiler:manipulate him into parting with his [[NeverWinTheLottery lottery winnings]]]], implying that her long-term goal was to play this trope completely straight.