History Main / SensualSlavs

In fiction, women from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe tend to be sultry {{Femme Fatale}}s, [[{{Pun}} Pole]] dancers, or both.

* A male example: Smoke, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', where he is revealed to be [[spoiler:Czechoslovakian.]]

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': In contrast to her brother Colossus, who's a HuskyRusskie, [[ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin Magik]] has become a tall, svelte, dangerous-looking blonde in a midriff-baring black outfit.

* A rare male example in cyberpunk thriller, ''Literature/BehindBlueEyes'', where Jake is a handsome Eastern European man who is also working as a HoneyPot to seduce cyborg assassin Nephilim.

* The mature Northern Union ship girls from ''VideoGame/AzurLane'', are fairly buxom, and play up their "Russianess" (being modeled like TheBaroness and [[VodkaDrunkenski drunkenly loving Vodka]]) for fanservice. The ships Murmansk and Talinn are almost subversions however. Murmansk is really the Eagles Union American ship ''Milwaukee'', and while a number of Americans are Slavic, Murmansk is trying to invoke this trope to fit in such as speaking Russian and taking to Vodka. Talinn meanwhile is the German Ironblood ship ''Lutzow'' that was given to the Soviet Northern Parliament, making her fall under the ethnic UsefulNotes/GermanRussians category. Ironically Talinn's flowing white hair fits how SensualSlavs are portrayed in anime anyway, despite her hesitance to assimilate into Slavic culture.

* The crowd-funded dating sim ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'' has a main plot involving TheMafiya and Russian prostitutes, so this was bound to show up. Nadya is a FemmeFatale MafiaPrincess and one of the MC's possible sexual partners, wanting him to become her heir's babydaddy. After she takes over from her father, she's also indicated to be sleeping with half her (female) staff. Further, MC also takes a shine to Svetlana, Nadya's amazonian bodyguard.

* The crowd-funded dating sim ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'' has a subplot involving TheMafiya and Russian prostitutes, so this was bound to show up. Nadya is a FemmeFatale MafiaPrincess and one of the MC's possible sexual partners, wanting him to become her heir's babydaddy. After she takes over from her father, she's also indicated to be sleeping with half her (female) staff. Further, MC also takes a shine to Svetlana, Nadya's amazonian bodyguard.

* Averted in ''Film/{{Patton}}'' where right after victory in Europe, General Patton and his staff have to smile through a celebration with their Soviet allies — and all the women are frumpy and unattractive. Screenwriter Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, in the DVD commentary, notes that this dated stereotype was based on Nikita Krushchev's wife (seen [[http://wandervogeldiary.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kennedy-and-khrushchev.jpg here]] with Jackie Kennedy) and that the recent prevalence of gorgeous supermodels from Russia has proven they actually have some of the most beautiful women in the world.

* The Northern Union ship girls from ''VideoGame/AzurLane'', aside from Gnevny, are fairly buxom, and play up their "Russianess" (being modeled like TheBaroness and [[VodkaDrunkenski drunkenly loving Vodka]]) for fanservice.

** Rosika Miklos in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' is a BigBeautifulWoman who decides to ShowSomeLeg to cover Koskov's defection. A bit different from the usual Slavic Bond girl in that she is bigger, and she does not seduce 007. [[note]]Her name indicates she might be of Hungarian ethnicity (there is a large Hungarian minority in Slovakia), in that case she is not actually Slavic).[[/note]]

** Rosika Miklos in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' is a BigBeautifulWoman who decides to ShowSomeLeg to cover Koskov's defection. A bit different from the usual Slavic Bond girl in that she is bigger, and she does not seduce 007.

* Allegedly, the creation of the US Cold War Era aversion of trope is said to originate from the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in the 1980s. Steroids were then recent things, and according to the Urban Myth the Soviets pumped their female athletes full of the stuff. Resulting in... Mannish, hairy women.

* ''Creator/MarvelComics''
** ''ComicBook/BlackWidow''. She is a Russian FemmeFatale. Certain writers really play up the Russian-ness in combination with sensuality and take it to some really stereotypical and creepy places! Rule of thumb: if she's being written with a Russian accent, she's usually being written for fetish appeal.

* Eastern European features are currently highly-coveted in the fashion industry. See, for example, Creator/KarolinaKurkova [[http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/karolina-kurkova-victoria-secret.jpg]], [[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3443681503/298406bb80b4b200015400d4932f3f59.jpeg Carmen Kass]], and [[https://www.fashiongonerogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia-Vodianova-Vogue-India-October-2017-Cover-Editorial02.jpg Natalia Vodianova]]. This trend is not entirely new: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ce/1d/83/ce1d8387504fd6369bae4131c42bfb22.jpg Paulina Porizkova]] was on the cover of the ''Magazine/SportsIllustrated'' swimsuit issue multiple times starting in 1984 when she was 19 and then was signed by Estee Lauder.

* [[MeaningfulName Molotov Cocktease]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.

* ''Literature/RedSparrow'' is based on a program featuring glamorous Russian spies seducing westerners. When asked, author Jason Matthews said the CIA tried it, but Eastern Europeans didn't care about partners having sex with seductive foreigners; it was considered a perk of the job.[[/folder]]

* In ''World War Moo'' (the 2nd ''Apocalypse Cow'' novel) by Michael Logan, this trope is taken to an extreme. The horny teen hero from the first book learns he's the heir to Britain's biggest coffee seller and so he starts the second book staying at his grandfather's holiday beach villa in Croatia. At the villa, there were plenty of teens. Even though they're slightly younger than him, the Croatian teens all looked 15 going on 25 with the boys looking like handsome men and the girls could all be swimsuit models - gorgeous faces with slim builds but large breasts. Just having a portion of Slavic blood turns you into one, the main teenage female character is Irish by her father and Slavic by her mom. This makes her into a StatuesqueStunner AloofDarkHairedGirl who's worried that her breasts would keep on growing, noting they're only a step or two away from being like a car's airbags.

Women from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe tend to be sultry {{Femme Fatale}}s, [[{{Pun}} Pole]] dancers, or both.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Orphan Orphan]] : Horribly deconstructed. [[spoiler: Thanks to a combination of deformity and sexual frustration, the only reason Esther/Leena goes in and out of foster homes is because she wants to seduce the father of the family adopting her. When it invariably fails, she has a nervous breakdown and kills everyone. Rinse and repeat.]] [[spoiler: Oh, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she is actually]] [[UsefulNotes/Estonia Estonian]]]] , not Russian, so she is not Slavic anyways.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Orphan Orphan]] : Horribly deconstructed. [[spoiler: Thanks to a combination of deformity and sexual frustration, the only reason Esther/Leena goes in and out of foster homes is because she wants to seduce the father of the family adopting her. When it invariably fails, she has a nervous breakdown and kills everyone. Rinse and repeat.]] [[spoiler: Oh, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she is actually]] [[UsefulNotes/Estonia Estonian]] , not Russian, so she is not Slavic anyways.

* ''Mail-Order Bride'' (2003). Creator/IvanaMilicevic plays another sexy Russian, in this case a scam artist who marries a bunch of mafioso so she can rob them before going back to Moscow.

* Parodied and subverted with Ukraine and Belarus in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. Ukraine is voluptuous with [[GagBoobs huge breasts]] and is implied to have no problems [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey showing them off to get her way]], and when Italy goes around [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "testing" chests]] her response is to suggestively tell him she won't mind if he "takes responsibility." But this is hilariously dissonant with the rest of her personality; a [[NaiveEverygirl super kind]], [[TenderTears sensitive]], [[TeamMom motherly]] humble farm lady who would be assumed to be TheIngenue. Meanwhile, Ukraine's sister Belarus is a [[ElegantGothicLolita very beautiful]] young woman, with a cold disposition, [[{{Yandere}} violent tendencies]], and lots of sexual knowledge...[[BigBrotherAttraction who only has eyes on her older brother]] and would rather use [[KnifeNut knives]] to get her way than her beauty, and she's extremely blunt, [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] [[PsychopathicManchild and actually quite childish]]. Poland could count as a parody as well; he's a part-time cross-dresser.

The FemmeFatale version arose in the UK during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Tales abounded of the [[HoneyTrap glamorous, alluring Russian woman who would throw herself at a visiting British businessman]], seducing him into wild, unrestrained sex acts. Later, after he'd returned home to their families, the businessman would learn that the tryst had been filmed and that pictures would go to his wife and to the government if he didn't comply with whatever demands the {{blackmail}}ers made--and that the sexy vixen he'd bedded was a full colonel in the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]].