History Main / SexyManInstantHarem

* ''Manhua/UniversalLoveGrocery'': This is Shiye's excuse when turning down advances: He's busy enough at work, and has no interest in dating. [[TheTease Shu isn't convinced.]]

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'':
** Girls tend to behave this way around Kiryuu Touga. Including, at one point, [[spoiler:his sister]]. Although that was a misunderstanding... Mostly.
** Akio, who appears later in the series as the main antagonist, has a ''much'' stronger (and creepier) influence. Case in point? His Sexy Man Instant Harem includes Touga. The only thing in the series that seems to get more action than Akio is his CAR.

* Duke Devlin from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has this immediate impact on the school environment once he appears. For extra implausibility points, he pulls this off with card tricks. Lucky for him, card games in ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' are SeriousBusiness. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', where sexy theme music plays every time he opens his mouth -- which the other characters find annoying.

* Many of the males of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' have girls fall in LoveAtFirstSight, but certain characters, especially Yuki, but to a lesser extent, Momiji and Aya, inspire [[UnwantedHarem drooling fangirls]] to [[StalkerWithACrush follow him and swear to protect him from anything, ESPECIALLY other girls]].
* Way too many people at Kyouhei's school in ''Manga/TheWallflower'' seem to be entirely and unhealthily devoted to the four bishies.

* ''Manga/KongohBancho'' tends to subvert this pretty hard when it shows up. The first time occurs with [[ShelteredAristocrat Oyanana]] as an expression of how influential he is at school as the son of the school's chairman. After he's humbled by his encounters with the main character and stops relying on this influence, his "friends" all end up turning on him. [[spoiler: Fortunately, CharacterDevelopment kicks in and eventually makes him someone who earns the respect of others on his own merits.]] The other time this trope shows up, "White Rose" Bancho has a harem of beautiful young women as his underlings. [[spoiler: All it takes is for [[GuileHero Hikyou Bancho]] to make secret deals with each of them before one of them stabs him in the back in a bid for power, followed by all of them attacking each other thinking they're the one Hikyou Bancho wanted to team up with.]]
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'''s Rokujo Chikage is rarely seen without a number of women hanging off of him, whom he dates all at once (none of them seem to mind).
* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': At festival time, it seems all King Sinbad has to do is sit still for a moment and he's swamped by scantily clad girls all taking turns to lounge in his lap.
* Naze Turbine from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' probably beats most of the examples here, for having a harem [[spoiler:large enough to maintain a CoolStarship. Though, as of later episodes revealed, the "harem" part was downplayed as it's more of a front, because that the women he keeps in his group were rescued from obscurity. Still, he's not at all bothered with any of them coming to him.]]
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' gives us an example that overlaps with NoAccountingForTaste and UglyGuyHotWife: the Emperor of Kutou has several beautiful wives/concubines. He talks to Nakago while in bed with three of them. Hotohori also has a RoyalHarem, but as he's [[LovingAShadow holding out for the Priestess]], he never takes advantage of it. And, of course, both Miaka and Yui fight over Tamahome.
* ''Manga/ParallelParadise'': Being a LivingAphrodisiac to the girls of the parallel world, Youta takes this to its logical conclusion: a single touch is enough to put them in heat. Despite the obvious temptation, Youta does his absolute damnedest to keep his true identity under wraps: not only is it [[ChivalrousPervert just not in his nature to take advantage of girls like that]], Lumi accurately points out that his identity as the sole man in the parallel world could throw its social order into absolute chaos. While the inevitable happens and he does sleep with many of the girls he meets, they're portrayed as FriendsWithBenefits rather than a proper harem, and ultimately he's in a reciprocated boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with the aforementioned [[FirstGirlWins Lumi]].

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' provides the current page image. Being a Greek god probably helps. As Wolverine puts it, "I've seen it in bar after bar. Whatever women want, that guy has it." He's stated in-universe to have a reputation as a fantastic and caring lover.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Gaston in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. His fangirls appear to be identical triplets.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Michael}}'', John Travolta's character has this power over most of the women in the film -- the sole exception being Dorothy, the female lead. Frank asks Dorothy at one point just what it is that women see in the angel. She doesn't have a clue. Michael {{lampshades}} the trope by claiming that he put a "block" on Dorothy. But Michael is an angel, so it's not out of keeping for him to have magical powers. This is presumably the source of his power over women, and how he can arbitrarily "block" Dorothy

* This was a common device in old musical comedies since it made a good excuse to show off the ChorusGirls.
* Subverted in ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan,'' in which Abagnale escapes an airport filled with FBI agents by tricking hot college girls into posing as flight attendants. He strolls right by two police officers in his pilot costume, and all they can say is "I wish I was a pilot." Also counts as a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moment of awesome]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its {{spinoff}} ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' have the charming ExtremeOmnisexual and ChivalrousPervert Captain Jack Harkness (Creator/JohnBarrowman), who could probably be nicknamed Jack "Flirts With AnythingThatMoves" Harkness. And ''a lot'' of those people, regardless of species, gender or even if they're robots, find themselves reciprocating, because EvenTheGuysWantHim.

* Al-Cid Margrace in both ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. Interestingly, in A2, female Hume [=NPCs=] are rare, so he's mostly surrounded by [[OneGenderRace Viera and Gria]].
* In ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'', Shingen's route has a scene of him greeting the female main character with numerous scantily-clad women draped over him, causing her to liken him to "a villainous James Bond." However, this scene is actually a subversion: the [[PerspectiveFlip His Perspective]] version of it reveals that the women are actually spies who only pretend to be his harem as a disguise and that while he ''has'' slept with some of them, it was limited to only occasional one-night stands done just for friendly comfort.

* Webcomic/CommanderKitty dreams of being one.

* ''Liteature/ConanTheBarbarian'': Conan is portrayed as irresistible to most women he meets (having two women fighting over him in one story, which he views as perfectly normal), and as king of Aquilonia, even gets his own RoyalHarem.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'''s Rokujo Chikage is rarely seen without a number of women hanging off of him, whom he dates all at once (none of them seem to mind).

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'':

** Played straight in the [[Film/{{Aladdin2019}} live-action remake]], where they (portrayed as school girls) adore him.

** Akio, who appears later in the series as the main antagonist, has a ''much'' stronger (and creepier) influence. Case in point? His Sexy Man Instant Harem [[YaoiGuys includes Touga]]. The only thing in the series that seems to get more action than Akio is his CAR.

* ''Serires/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E16BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]" pretty much epitomizes this trope, though in that particular case it is magic-induced. Quickly proves to be a case of BlessedWithSuck, as the women begin to compete with each other, before deciding that if they can't have Xander, ''[[AxeCrazy nobody can]]''.

* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Hiroshi Abe in ''GTO: The Early Years''. Once his character is established, a random woman or harem can be seen in nearly all of his appearances.
** Averted with Makoto: He has several girlfriends, but has to be careful to keep them all a secret from one another. [[spoiler:He receives a ''lot'' of angry phone calls once it appears that one of them is pregnant.]]

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''

** Akio, who appears later in the series as the main antagonist, has a ''much'' stronger (and creepier) influence. Case in point? His SexyManInstantHarem [[YaoiGuys includes Touga]]. The only thing in the series that seems to get more action than Akio is his CAR.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* Gary from ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' has a band of attractive, short-skirted cheerleaders who follow him around in a convertible. This becomes a little more creepy when you consider that he's about ten years old.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* WebComic/CommanderKitty dreams of being one.
* Count Vinny from ''WebComic/{{Erfworld}}'' summons some [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Archons]] with a snap of his fingers [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F073.jpg here]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'':

* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', Luke Skywalker [[http://images.plurk.com/959ed025cc50e8c9971fd072fb0c540b.jpg has this effect]] on Zeltrons. They actively pursue him, and the first time he ended up surrounded by them he [[UnwantedHarem ran away]] and was alarmed whenever someone propositioned him. Later he matures and becomes composed enough to be "used to it", but he still tries to get away when it's not too rude to do so. The Zeltron [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is {{Ethical Slut}}hood, and they're attracted to novelty in general... but the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse later makes it clear that they can also pick up on Force-Sensitivity and find it immensely appealing.

** College? Try ''middle school.''

* There's a rarely recurring pin that Jughead has in ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' that not only draws every woman not related to him (we hope) to him with insatiable lust, but it also makes the chronic girl-hater actually love the attention. Another one-shot comic has Reggie claim that this happened to him on vacation, with various nationalities of bimbos featured.

See also: ChickMagnet, EvenTheGuysWantHim, HeadTurningBeauty, InstantFanClub, FavorsForTheSexy. Contrast UnwantedHarem.

See also: ChickMagnet, EvenTheGuysWantHim, KavorkaMan, HeadTurningBeauty, InstantFanClub, FavorsForTheSexy. Contrast UnwantedHarem.

[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/incrediblehercules_1589.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The perks of being the man in charge.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': While most of the women besides Diana who show interest in ComicBook/SteveTrevor are people he'd lock in prison or shoot in the face before speaking to if he didn't have to play HoneyTrap to try to learn their plans the Holliday Girls pretty much all agree he'd delectable and spend a lot of time around him, even though they'd never make a move on him and he'd never reciprocate since they all know he's in love with Diana.

* Gaston in Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. His fangirls appear to be identical triplets.
* Never quite played straight in Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. The chorus girls start out mockingly describing Aladdin's charm as a street urchin and mostly seem to praise him as Prince Ali because of Genie's magic. Their counterpoint adoration of him during the "Prince Ali" song is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]]'', regardless.

See also: ChickMagnet, EvenTheGuysWantHim, KavorkaMan, HelloNurse, InstantFanClub, FavorsForTheSexy. Contrast UnwantedHarem.

** Brilliantly self-parodied in the ''Hai Karate'' ads of the 70s, where the guy tries to fight off the girls using karate and HilarityEnsues.

* Duke Devlin from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has this immediate impact on the school environment once he appears. For extra implausibility points, he pulls this off with card tricks. Lucky for him card games in ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' is SeriousBusiness. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', where sexy theme music plays every time he opens his mouth -- which the other characters find annoying.

** Everyone is lusting for Negi Springfield, so he's gotten this on occasion. It gets even worse when Asuna force feeds him his own LovePotion because she doesn't think it will work. [[LoveIsInTheAir It does.]] Though oddly not on ''[[AntiMagic her]]''. Then he breaks out the magic aging pills, turns into a {{Bishounen}}, and pretty much [[InstantFanClub instantly acquires ''a fan club''.]]

* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': At festival time it seems all King Sinbad has to do is sit still for a moment and he's swamped by scantily clad girls all taking turns to lounge in his lap.

* ''Manga/ParallelParadise'': Being a LivingAphrodisiac to the girls of the parallel world, Youta takes this to its logical conclusion: a single touch is enough to put them in heat. Despite the obvious temptation, Youta does his absolute damndest to keep his true identity under wraps: not only is it [[ChivalrousPervert just not in his nature to take advantage of girls like that]], Lumi accurately points out that his identity as the sole man in the parallel world could throw its social order into absolute chaos. While the inevitable happens and he does sleep with many of the girls he meets, they're portrayed as FriendsWithBenefits rather than a proper harem, and ultimately he's in a reciprocated boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with the aforementioned [[FirstGirlWins Lumi]].

* Never quite played straight in Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. The chorus girls start out mockingly describing Aladdin's charm as a street urchin, and mostly seem to praise him as Prince Ali because of Genie's magic. Their counterpoint adoration of him during the "Prince Ali" song is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]]'', regardless.

* In ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'', the main character is [[CursedWithAwesome "cursed"]] with the ability to have any woman who has sex with him find true love within a few days. The reason the word is in quotation marks is because apparently in this universe, women are so desperate for true love that they'll start throwing themselves at Chuck without abandon based solely on the Internet superstition that they'll find true love afterwards.
** To elaborate, his secretary says that the rumor about his curse has yet to be disproved (a whole article about the "Dentist who you'll want a drill from", he himself made a comment about how he always ends up invited to his ex-girlfriends' weddings.) The main ones SPREADING the rumor are his happily married exes. The main reason that the woman are throwing themselves at him are because for all intents and purposes, they really will find true love after shagging him.

* This was a common device in old musical comedies, since it made a good excuse to show off the ChorusGirls.
* Subverted in ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan,'' in which Abegnale escapes an airport filled with FBI agents by tricking hot college girls into posing as flight attendants. He strolls right by two police officers in his pilot costume, and all they can say is "I wish I was a pilot." Also counts as a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moment of awesome]].

* ''Series/HappyDays'': The Fonz can get a whole herd of woman to flock to his side by simply snapping his fingers. A {{Hilarious Outtake|s}} showed the guys of the show mocking this characteristic by going in place of the girls after the finger snap. Well, we ''are'' talking about [[EvenTheGuysWantHim The Fonz]] here, or at least the ''{{Flanderized}}'' Fonzie; before this, he was just a loser-mechanic who scored the lowest female trash in Milwaukee.