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| 11 | ->''"A high-ranking matriarch, in a society that oppresses men, falls for the Hero's rugged charms."'' |
| 12 | -->-- Item #52 of the ''Website/TheGrandListOfOverusedScienceFictionCliches ([[Website/OverusedSciFiPlotDevices Section III]])'' |
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| 14 | Most [[LadyLand Amazon-type female societies]] avoid the male sex but a certain manly type of hero is capable of winning over these tribes of women, even their leaders. |
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| 16 | Ironically, this trope may occur out of a misplaced if well-intentioned desire to make a beloved character's intended just as good as they are rather than the [[DamselInDistress significant other being 'helpless']]. Thus, a twist on this trope is where a female character conveniently never runs into a situation where this scenario is fulfilled, thus technically pleasing anyone still using this cliché and also those who hate it. |
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| 18 | This trope is OlderThanFeudalism: in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], Hercules is sent on a quest to the land of the Amazons in order to steal the golden girdle of Hippolyta. The ''Library'' of Apollodorus first tells the version in which the two of them battle to a stalemate and the queen is so impressed with him she gives it up freely (in fact, Hercules may well have married her if Hera hadn't been so intent on making his life a living hell). |
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| 20 | Compare WomenPreferStrongMen, where the focus of the attraction is on the man simply being strong ''for a man'' rather than stronger than the woman. Also see BestHerToBedHer, AmazonChaser. Related to TheWorfEffect or FauxActionGirl (depending on how powerful the women really are). See NeverASelfMadeWoman. The evil version of this is sometimes VillainessesWantHeroes. The polar opposite of WeaknessTurnsHerOn. Related to LoveAtFirstPunch, when the Amazon first meets her Hercules, and BattleCouple, which also involves both partners being capable fighters without the man necessarily being stronger. |
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| 22 | This trope is not universal enough for aversions to be meaningful; examples saying "averted in..." will be removed. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 29 | * ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'': Miz Mishtal is revered as the great water priestess of Mt. Moldune, which makes her one of the most powerful beings in El Hazard. She first becomes drawn to the [[AlmightyJanitor humble PE teacher]] Masumichi Fujisawa, who comes to her rescue at Arlamann. But when he hammer tosses the mech-sized Buggorm in episode 7, Miz was sold. |
| 30 | -->'''Miz:''' ''[blushing]'' My God! Umph! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis What! A! MAN!!]] |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/KemonoJihen'', the female kappa of Kyoto are incredibly passionate about their love for sumo and respect anyone who can beat them in a sumo contest. When Inugami gets in the ring with a teenage wrestler named Kiyo to earn the Purity Calculus, he's nearly thrown out at the outset due to her powerful lower body. But he beats her by transforming into an enormous bear-like tanuki large and strong enough to pick her up in a BridalCarry and gently place her outside of the ring. This one gesture gets the entire crowd of female wrestlers head over heels for him and he has to flee in tanuki form to avoid the crowd of fangirls. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/InuYasha'': Kagura is one of the strongest female characters in the story. She's not only stronger than several male protagonists but she's also so strong-willed even the BigBad can't control her without magical means. Sesshoumaru is pretty much the most powerful character in the story. He's the only character that she was never able to manipulate which led her to start freely helping him in the fight against the BigBad and ultimately led to her falling in love with him. The manga {{implied|LoveInterest}} that her feelings were not one-sided. |
| 33 | * Shampoo's Chinese Amazon tribe in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' qualifies with the law that [[BestHerToBedHer a warrior must marry any man who manages to defeat her]]. In addition to being ordered to wed him by the law, [[AccidentalMarriage despite the fact that he didn't intend to betroth her]], Shampoo genuinely loves Ranma and in no small part does so because of his superior fighting abilities. Ironically, Shampoo also has rather "un-Amazonian" [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel views on romance]] and is quite happy with the idea of being Ranma's "damsel" if he'll let her. |
| 34 | ** In the anime, two younger Amazons, Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung, also fell for Ranma, much to his consternation and Akane's annoyance. |
| 35 | ** Whether the Chinese Amazons gender-twist this trope to "All Herculeses Want Amazons" is unknown. Mousse, a male Chinese Amazon, is most certainly attracted to Shampoo, and being that he is [[BlindWithoutEm comically poor vision]], it seems to be that it's her combat expertise that drew him to her. Unfortunately for him, when he challenged her to a marriage match (they were only three years old at the time), she beat him utterly. It's not known whether or not he's tried it again since, but Cologne (who, admittedly, is also Shampoo's great-grandmother and doesn't like Mousse, particularly compared to Ranma Saotome) insists that his initial loss means he can't ever win Shampoo by that method. The fact he's stronger than she is now doesn't really mean all that much, as it's heavily implied that Mousse could never bring himself to really hurt her, and so she will always be able to beat him. |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy winds up on Amazon Lily, an island of badass women almost totally oblivious to the ''existence'' of an opposite sex ruled over by one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the ridiculously gorgeous Boa Hancock; a [[KickTheDog puppy-kicking]] VainSorceress-to-be who [[DoesNotLikeMen despises men]] and has the power to [[TakenForGranite turn people to stone using their own impure thoughts]]. This being a shounen manga, Luffy gets his Hero on in a big way and Hancock winds up falling for him. Interestingly, [[ChasteHero Luffy not only doesn't reciprocate such feelings]], he's barely aware she has them. Even after seeing her topless twice and [[NotDistractedByTheSexy the second time complaining because he expected food instead]]. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in that former Empress Nyon implies that this happens to ''every'' Empress of Amazon Lily eventually, and subverted because it's implied that it's killed them all except for Nyon, and now Hancock (who was dying but recovered as soon as she had the chance to help Luffy and stay with him a bit longer) because they were all too stubborn to act on their lovesickness. |
| 37 | ** Another major subversion is not only Hancock stronger than Luffy, it isn't his 'manly' traits that attracted her to him in the first place. It was his empathy, chastity (being able to resist her charms), and his general affability. In this case, it was more like all Amazons end up with Hercules because they're the only ones capable of surviving long enough to show they're not complete dicks. |
| 38 | *** She also loves him because he punched a World Noble in the face. [[spoiler:She was captured, enslaved, and tortured by them when she was young.]] |
| 39 | *** The Amazon Lily arc was obviously a ShoutOut to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the]] {{Trope Namer|s}}. |
| 40 | ** Before Hancock, there was Alvida, who became smitten with Luffy due to the fact that he was the first man to beat her in a fight. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' is complicated. Kitano is [[LightningBruiser pretty strong]] but he's also an ActualPacifist. His suitors are AxCrazy WaifFu practitioners. |
| 42 | * ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'': [[spoiler:CuteBruiser Kaoru]] seems to be attracted to [[spoiler:Choutarou aka Bancho]] when [[spoiler:he develops his own Gate Ability, the Gate of Solid Crush - which happens to be similar to Kaoru's Gate of Combat.]] |
| 43 | * Ku Fei in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' will only allow Negi to kiss her if he can beat her in a fight, though she settles for an arm-wrestling match since time is pressing. Afterward, she "jokes" that now he'll have to marry her. On more than one occasion, Negi's reduced her to a semi-coherent puddle by displaying how strong he's become. |
| 44 | * In ''Manga/RankingOfKings'', Sheena lived the life of a warrior giantess in days of battle against demons and monsters, when fellow giant Bosse crossed her path he bluntly asked of her to marry him and bear a child, first taken aback Sheena simply rebutted she would settle for the strongest man in the world, and so they fought for a while, resulting in Bosse earning Sheena's respect with them becoming a couple shortly after. |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', there is a certain degree of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST between Balalaika and Rock. It has been implied that they were one of the few people to have fought the other to a stalemate. At the very least Chang is one of the few people besides Rock that Balalaika seems to flirt with but the idea of anyone dominating Balalaika is too ridiculous to contemplate. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', Forte Stollen's secret fantasy is to be a damsel-in-distress who has her life saved from certain death by "A Strong Man, A Really Strong Man", who will then carry her around in his arms like a bride. When she encounters just such a man -- one of the galaxy's top criminals, who singlehandedly destroyed an entire planet with his bare hands and was thus imprisoned for life in a pocket dimension contained in an unbreakable boulder -- she actually disobeys her orders by actively trying to get him out and manages to ''free'' him, in order to consummate her desires. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The hot-blooded, aggressive Evangelion pilot Asuka Langley Soryu actively scorns admirers her age, but has a major crush on the suave, dashing (and much older) secret agent Ryoji Kaji. She even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this at one point by saying something along the lines of "none of these pathetic boys are a real man like Kaji." This being Eva the trope is played with by her [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn secret attraction to the much more passive Shinji Ikari]], although she is unwilling to admit this to herself. |
| 48 | * In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', female saints have to wear a mask as a symbol that they've renounced their femininity. Traditionally, if a man ever sees their face without a mask, their choices are to either kill the man or fall in love with him. This was evidenced in-story by Ophiuchus Shaina, who was seen without her mask by Pegasus Seiya, early on in the series. At first, she tries to kill him out of humiliation... but eventually she falls in love with him, to the point where she risks her life for him several times. |
| 49 | ** Coincidentally, female Saints are called "Amazonas" in the Portuguese version (since the word Saint is replaced with Knight, and a female Knight is always called an Amazon in Portuguese), making it a bit more of a literal example. |
| 50 | * ''Manga/BambooBlade'': Ura's father was going to confess his love to Tsubaki (Tamaki's mother) once he beat her at kendo, but he [[CantCatchUp Couldn't Catch Up]], never managed to win, and therefore never confessed his love. |
| 51 | * Possibly [[spoiler:Grell Sutcliff]] from ''Manga/BlackButler''. The men she falls the hardest for are the men who have beaten her in a fight. Incidentally, guess what her favorite color is? |
| 52 | %%* ''Literature/MayoChiki'': Kureha Sakamachi wants a man who's stronger than her. |
| 53 | * Alluded to in ''Manga/TheKingOfFightersKYO''. [[Characters/{{Athena}} Athena Asamiya]] is hinted to have a crush on [[Characters/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi]] ever since he defeated her in one of the KOF tournaments, and she transfers to his school to keep an eye on him and his powers. Unfortunately for Athena, Kyo ''already'' has a girlfriend named [[GirlNextDoor Yuki]] so she has no romantic chance with him; after a skittish beginning, she [[IWantMyBelovedtoBeHappy backs off]] and settles for staying friends with them both. |
| 54 | * In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' Mitsuri aims for this to an extent, after being rejected by all of her previous normal male suitors who thought her being inhumanly strong was a turn-off Mitsuri then hoped she could meet a man who’s either equally strong as her or more so she can finally marry; as a Hashira this comment of hers ambiguously made it seem she either doesn’t consider the other male Hashira strong enough or she just isn’t attracted to any of them. |
| 55 | * Saeko Nogami from ''Manga/CityHunter'' [[BestHerToBedHer has vowed to only marry a man stronger than herself]]. Or at least that's what she says: there's a good chance it's actually an excuse to get out of her father's attempts at [[ArrangedMarriage combining her marriage]]... Anyway, the first six aspirants failed the "test" and ended up hospitalized, and when the seventh (who was there only because he was a cop and Saeko's father was his boss) actually beat her she wasn't interested in him in the slightest (he fell for Kaori and then left town anyway). We have no news on what happened to the following aspirants, except there was at least a number 8. |
| 56 | ** Interestingly, Saeko ''still'' plays it straight, as her two actual love interests (Ryo and the late Makimura) ''are'' stronger than her, and she knows. |
| 57 | * An odd example in ''Literature/AccelWorld'' comes with the school idol Kuroyukihime, known as Black Lotus and the Black King, one of the most powerful players in the "Brain Burst" program. She became enamored with Haruyuki (a short, fat boy with severe self-esteem issues due to his appearance and bullying) after seeing his [[{{Determinator}} speed and drive in his squash games]], and the only reason she got higher scores than him, for the purpose of getting his attention, [[spoiler:is she had to cheat to even surpass him]]. He himself [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe still can't believe she honestly likes him in that way]]. The way it's presented, this in turn makes Haruyuki an unusual kind of "Hercules", but replace "physical prowess" with "video game skill, though within a virtual game world", it still translates to physical prowess in a sense. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/MakenKi'': During the beach party of chapter 37's bonus story, Kimmi asks the other girls what sort of guys they like. [[AmazonianBeauty Azuki]] and Chacha both say they prefer "strong ones". Except, they're both ''[[CharlesAtlasSuperpower so monstrously strong]]'' themselves that, compared to either of them, most guys would be considered ''weak''. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'': Heavily implied to be the case with Akeno, thanks to the love potion Ren gave Nagasumi. The potion caused Akeno to see Nagasumi as a martial artist with [[StoneWall such an impenetrable defense]], that she immediately concedes ''[[KnowWhenToFoldEm without a fight]]'' by casting down her sword. Then she blushes and tells him he can [[BestHerToBedHer "do as he wishes".]] |
| 60 | * Sumire in ''Manga/YoureMyPet'', after being dumped by men who found dating a taller and more financially successful woman to be [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon too intimidating]], decides that she'll only date a man who's taller, more well-educated, and earns more money than her. [[spoiler:Subverted when she falls in love with Momo, a short, broke runaway who acts as her "pet" for most of the series.]] |
| 61 | * Ryunosuke Fujinami in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' is a tough and spunky young lady who talks like a thug, [[OreOnna uses only masculine pronouns]], spends much of her time hving knock-down, drag-out, property-destroying brawls with her [[AbusiveParents psychotic father]], and [[{{Bifauxnen}} looks so much like a pretty boy]] in her usual attire that [[ChickMagnet all the girls around have crushes on her]]. When the Tomobiki High School nurse asks her what she'd want in a boyfriend, she declares she'd like a guy who is tough, wild, and stronger than her, and even gets the idea to hold an open challenge to her fellow students where [[BestHerToBedHer she'll go out with whoever can beat her in a fight]]. Unfortunately for Ryunosuke, the only guys she consistently attracts over the course of the series are LoveableSexManiac Ataru Moroboshi and her [[ArrangedMarriage parentally approved spouse]] Nagisa Shiowatari; a WholesomeCrossdresser who [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy is as girlish as Ryunosuke is boyish]]. The closest she's gotten to being approved of by the rest of the guys at Tomobiki High has been when they've leered at her nearly ending up topless during the Miss Tomobiki High contest (which she only got into via a spite vote by the girls) and when her class-mates tried to cop a feel during a rugby game after she briefly decided to abandon using her {{sarashi}}. |
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| 64 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 65 | * It doesn't play out like the typical scenario, but - [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]], as AmazonianBeauty as they come, had a long-standing crush on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse take on [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]. Hercules' relationship with the actual amazons is not that great, Hippolyta is still infatuated with him; however, she's an evil violent StalkerWithACrush who will do whatever she can to sleep with him including [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale turning him into her sex slave]]. This trope is later subverted with her PsychopathicManChild daughter who hates him because of her mother's obsession with him. |
| 66 | * Franchise/WonderWoman: |
| 67 | ** In Franchise/TheDCU, she certainly had no respect for [[ComicBook/HerculesUnbound Heracles]] for doing the above to her mother (a concept which was played with in ''Comicbook/JLAAvengers'', where she gets to beat the crap out of Marvel's Herc), but Herc and the Amazons eventually made peace in modern times. Viciously parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|2006}}'' vol. 3 #24, where the producers of a Wonder Woman movie have her make an [[BestHerToBedHer "I will only marry a man who can defeat me"]] vow and get beaten by Heracles. The ''real'' Wonder Woman is '''not''' impressed. |
| 68 | *** During Creator/JohnByrne's run on ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', the opposite happened - Heracles fell in love with Wonder Woman. |
| 69 | ** Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston subverted the troupe early on in UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} with Sensation Comics #36. When Steve Trevor gains super strength equal to Diana's she initially likes the idea but over the course of the story quickly realises that she could [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn "never love a man that's stronger than [her]"]]. Learning this, Steve immediately gives up his powers as he only took them on in order to woo Diana. |
| 70 | ** It's played straight in Creator/FrankMiller's Dark Knight universe. Her attraction to Superman is a result of this. She even implied in ''Comicbook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' that Superman [[BestHerToBedHer threw her on the ground and made her his own.]] |
| 71 | ** Subverted in the Comicbook/{{New 52}}. Diana is certainly impressed by [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Superman's]] power, but she's attracted to Clark more because of his [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan nobility and compassion]]. Their relationship even begins only after he reaches out and helps her out when she's [[HeroicSelfDeprecation questioning her worth as a heroine]]. |
| 72 | ** While Diana doesn't care much for Herc her mother was falling in love with him before he and his men betrayed the Amazons and tried turning them into {{sex slave}}s. Several comics [[ComicBook/TheContest imply]] or [[ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne outright state]] Hercules is actually Diana's father but her birth was delayed due to her mother's immortality. |
| 73 | * [[Characters/GenerationX Monet St. Croix]] is a smaller example. A powerhouse mutant, who even dubs herself as the team bruiser. Her first love was Synch, a very muscular young mutant who could link up to other mutants and use their powers better than the host. Next was [[Characters/XFactor Strong Guy]] who was TheBigGuy and BoisterousBruiser of the team, possessing SuperStrength as his power. Finally there was ''{{ComicBook/Sabretooth}}'' in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2016'', who is another powerful mutant when he's not suffering BadassDecay. He's very muscular like the other two, with Monet eyeing him up at one point and volunteering to watch while he moves heavy equipment from the Blackbird. |
| 74 | * [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGallery Maxima]] was passionately attracted to {{Franchise/Superman}} because he is one of the only men in the universe who is as strong as she is and hence, a desirable father to her children. Pity that Supes doesn't give a crap because she [[WomanScorned didn't take it gracefully]]. At other times, she's hit on Comicbook/CaptainAtom and Amazing Man, who are also pretty tough. Subverted with her Comicbook/{{New 52}} counterpart, who is [[AdaptationalSexuality a lesbian]] and attracted to Supergirl, but not so much because of her physical strength as because of the kind of person she is. |
| 75 | * Subverted in ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''. Comicbook/TheJoker bulks himself up, hoping that Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} will be seduced by his muscular physique. It turns out that she still despises him. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk has this effect on women much like Herc does. Just ask Caiera. And Thundra. And ''Umar''. |
| 77 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain N|The Gamemaster}}'' comics [[{{Franchise/Metroid}} Samus Aran]] is attracted to Kevin because of his strength as a fighter, he'd make an ideal partner for her space hunting. |
| 78 | * Dwight from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is already MrFanservice but his relationship with Gail is a good illustration of this trope. Case in point: ''The Big Fat Kill''. When he returned to Old Town after the events of ''A Dame To Kill For'' (and because he had gotten them into some trouble in this very story), Gail had a gun pointed at his head. He didn't flinch and instead, formulated a plan to get them out of the current mess they were in. He then demanded that she take the gun away. She didn't listen so he slapped her. She responded with [[WhatTheHellHero "You bastard!"]] which was followed by, [[LightningBruiser "I forgot how quick you were"]] which was then followed by her [[SlapSlapKiss pulling him in for a quick makeout session.]] |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Downplayed when Cloudburst unintentionally gained the favor of the queen of a race of alien giant amazons, but she was as impressed by his intelligence and diplomatic talent as by his fighting ability. She was... disappointed by his robotic inner self. |
| 80 | * Subverted with Vartox and ComicBook/PowerGirl. He's arguably more powerful than her (has more powers, and the ones he has are at least at Kryptonian levels) but his hyper-masculinity is a complete turn-off for Kara Zor-L. It doesn't help that Vartox bears an uncanny resemblance to Creator/SeanConnery as Zed, the protagonist in the film Zardoz, nor that Vartox's world's approach to romance could be described as ''1970s Hugh Hefner on acid''. |
| 81 | * One of the stories in Creator/PhilFoglio's ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' series involves an Amazon who ''can't'' bed anyone but a warrior who bests her in battle, and who is constantly driven to challenge men. The story culminates (ahem) when a man bests her at a chess-like game whose name ''[[ProphecyTwist translates as battle]]''. (The gods backing the man and the woman are, respectively, inordinately pleased and incredibly annoyed). |
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| 84 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 85 | * Played straight and subverted within the same breath in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. The queen of the Warrior Women pants all over the large, handsome, muscular Hunter... but after the small, feeble, exhausted Ringo defeats the village's best male warrior in literally three seconds, she throws herself on him, as do many of the other women of the village. |
| 86 | * Kanril Eleya (''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'' and ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters''), a highly decorated Starfleet captain and space and ground combat veteran seems to prefer blond men who are bigger and stronger than she is (which takes some doing, seeing as how she's 6'2" and an accomplished hand-to-hand fighter). |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Maxima (mentioned above) switches targets from Superman to the Renegade after he killed Klarion, a Lord of Chaos, something only an extremely capable warrior could do. the Renegade, who is in a relationship already, and not any more interested in Maxima than Superman was, ends up convincing Maxima how stupid this trope is since she's specifically seeking a co-ruler and a father for her children. A co-ruler needs to ''compliment'' her own talents as a leader, not just be another version of her, and an alien is extremely unlikely to be able to procreate with her naturally, so even if the Renegade or Superman were interested, they'd have to create offspring through cloning. She ends up deciding to marry her current advisor instead, who happens to be a woman. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/FateKill'': The super-strong Selka becomes more and more attracted to Shirou whenever he does something powerful like wielding [[{{BFS}} Ig-Alima, the Mountain Felling Sword]] or hurling a mook across a field. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/RealmOfEntwinedScienceAndSorceryAcademyCity'': Queen Medb, who is a warrior queen, becomes more and more attracted to Touma Kamijou whenever he fights and whenever she hears stories of his feats. |
| 90 | * ''Webcomic/SwitcherooAU'': In "[[https://tapas.io/episode/1740533 Jaspinel]]", it's after Spinel literally punches Jasper through a mountain does she start reciprocating her attraction. |
| 91 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsKitchenFullOfGrace'', Jessica claims that she would have respected Matt more on their first meeting if he was more assertive and stating that he was her attorney instead of fishing for her approval. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/MaidenlessNoLonger'': Nepheli Loux jumps the Tarnished after their "[[CurbStompBattle battle]]" with Godfrey the Grafted, because she just watched a half-naked man beat up a demigod and that ''really'' does it for her. |
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| 96 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 97 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', Den is a 98-pound weakling voiced by John Candy. Sent to an alternate dimension, he transforms into a bald, muscle-bound, loin-cloth-wearing ActionHero, "with his dork hanging out." He rescues a DamselInDistress, Kath, and when they have a moment to talk in peace (Expanded upon in a deleted scene), Kath explains that she was brought into that world as well and changed to her delight into a naked MsFanservice ideal and would love to offer her attentions to her hero, and he accepts eagerly. Later, Den is forced to join a small raid against an evil queen's palace only to blunder into the queen in the dark. When the lights come on, he is [[ThanksForTheMammary clearly grabbing her (very much uncovered) breasts]]. The queen doesn't mind, considering she deliberately positioned herself to enjoy Den's touch, and a few seconds of animated sex later, she proclaims Den her messiah. |
| 98 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Hiccup is certain that this trope is the only way to get a girlfriend, especially the smokin' Astrid. However, when Hiccup forgets about that while befriending Toothless the Dragon, he eventually is confronted by her learning his secret. To explain the situation, Hiccup and Toothless take her on an amazing flight and she later makes it clear to Hiccup that she's thoroughly won over by him, a boy capable of exhilarating wonders no mere Hercules can match. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 102 | * In the '50s film ''Film/QueenOfOuterSpace'', one of the leaders of the all-female (and man-hating) society on Venus falls in love with a visiting male astronaut. |
| 103 | * Also happens to ''Jason and the Argonauts'' in the first of Steeve Reeve's Film/{{Hercules|1958}} movies. One wouldn't exactly call those Amazons "man-hating", but they did have a law on the books that required the men's deaths. |
| 104 | * ''Film/{{PCU}}'' implies that the only thing it takes to make a StrawFeminist into a man-loving party animal is [[InVinoVeritas beer.]] |
| 105 | * ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloGoToMars'': Orville falls in love with the Amazonian Queen of Venus, a love she reciprocates... until his inability to keep his hands off of her subjects, and his cohorts' foolish attempt at staging a palace revolt, gets them all shipped back to Earth. Insult is added to injury when the Queen looks at a hologram of the former King, who's one good-looking hunk, and both she and her court dismiss the dumpy Orville. |
| 106 | * In the {{Wuxia}} take on ''Literature/TheKalevala'', ''Film/JadeWarrior'', Pin Yu doesn't even consider Sintai's advances until he easily turns away her attacks. Only afterwards (with a bit of soul-searching) does she return his love. Also a subversion, [[spoiler:Sintai's companion Cho turns out to be her long-lost lover, and she returns to him with only a token display of kung-fu]]. |
| 107 | * Gender inversion in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' with Holmes and Irene Adler. Apparently she's the only woman who's ever been able to outsmart him. Twice. |
| 108 | * ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'': Artemisia spends much of the film searching for "someone to stand at my side". She offers this to Themistocles, but he denies her. [[SexStartsStoryStops After sex, of course]]. |
| 109 | * {{Defied|Trope}} in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and the spin-off ''Film/AgentCarter''. Peggy Carter is a British Army Major, co-founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a bonafide ActionGirl. So ''why'' does she keep a photo of ''pre''-serum-boosted Steve in her desk? The implication, of course, is that Peggy didn't fall in love with Captain America, the pinnacle of human perfection and the infallible personification of the American way, but [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she instead fell in love with]] Steve Rogers, the scrawny runt from Brooklyn who [[NiceGuy wouldn't even hesitate to]] pick a fight with a bully who could {{Curb Stomp|Battle}} him to uphold a grieving widow's honour, or dive on a grenade to save people who were nothing but jerks to him. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/TheLovesOfHercules '' Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, wants a piece of Hercules so badly so was willing to change her appearance to look like his love interest Deianera, despite that she apparently believes the loss of features to be the greatest price any woman can pay. But apparently "Hercules is worth it". Although also worth noting she was probably going to turn him into a tree once she was bored with him... |
| 111 | * ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'': Zula is a tough warrior woman who has eyes for Conan, who's a very muscular and a powerful swordsman. |
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| 114 | [[folder:Folklore]] |
| 115 | * In the legends of Alexander the Great, it's often said that the Amazon Queen Thalestris invited him on a 'state visit' solely to get it on with him. It doesn't mention exactly who or where the Amazons are, unfortunately... |
| 116 | * ''Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}}'': |
| 117 | ** In the German story, Brünnhilde can only be freed from her curse (of strength) by being beaten in single combat. When defeated, she falls for Siegfried, and... the whole story goes on from there. |
| 118 | ** In the Völsung Saga, [[DependingOnTheWriter which is the Scandinavian version of the same tale]], Brynhildr is punished by Odin by being put into a magical sleep until a man woke her, that man she would have to marry. Brynhildr asked Odin that at least the man would be a worthy hero, which Odin agreed to and put up a magic fire around the mountain where she sleeps so only the best man could pass through. When Brynhildr is eventually married she finds out that the worthy hero, Sigurd, has under the influence of a spell, had her marry a less worthy man. The tale goes to tragedy. |
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| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 122 | * Creator/AynRand is well known for this trope, as it falls in line with her [[AuthorAppeal personal fetishes]]. Rand liked strong, take-charge men and bodice-ripping, ravishment-type sex. |
| 123 | ** Dagny Taggart from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' is a modernized version of this. |
| 124 | ** Dominique from ''The Fountainhead''. |
| 125 | ** {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''[[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'''s Rand spoof ''Telemachus Sneezed''. |
| 126 | ** Rand also wrote an essay arguing that no rational woman would ever want to be president because "[[FemaleMisogynist the essence of femininity is hero worship — the desire to look up to man]]." A woman president, being the supreme authority of the land, would have no superior man to admire. |
| 127 | * This trope is {{subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/AppointmentWithDeath'', in which the protagonist Sarah has broken off her engagement with her strong-willed fiancé. She ends up with a rather hen-pecked MommasBoy, and with Sarah wearing the pants in the relationship, the two are [[HappilyMarried perfectly happy together]]. |
| 128 | -->''Sarah admired strength, and she thought she had wanted to be mastered. But once she met a man capable of taming her, she didn't like it at all. A high-spirited woman [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn secretly wants a man that needs looking after]].'' |
| 129 | * {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Bethany's Sin'', where the Amazon-possessed women of the town not only browbeat their cringing husbands but [[spoiler:amputate a limb from each, as they think that being amputees will concentrate the men's fertility and increase their own chances for daughters]]. They don't just spurn Hercules, they deliberately turn their men into his hapless, weakling opposites. |
| 130 | * Chris Hargenson experiences something like this in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' while, as your standard AlphaBitch she is used to wrapping boys around her little finger but is drawn to Billy Nolan because he is the first boy she hasn't been "able to dance dandle at her whim" and he controls '''her''' in the relationship. |
| 131 | * ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': In the story ''Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast'', the pirate princess Belit becomes Conan's lover after witnessing him singlehandedly slay hordes of her crew. |
| 132 | * Played with in ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness''. Megra insists on fighting Wakim before she'll sleep with him... because she has genetic SuperStrength, and wants to make sure that she doesn't [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex break him accidentally]]. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/TheEminenceInShadow'': The Shadow Garden is a mysterious assassin group comprised of beautiful ladies. Many members are in love with their founding leader, [[{{Chuunibyou}} Cid Kagenou]], who is the WorldsStrongestMan. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 135 | ** Liessa Wyrmbidder and Hrun the barbarian in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic''. There's a bit of enlightened self-interest going on too; she wants to use him to gain power. |
| 136 | ** Obviously set up as this but played with a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' a hairdresser and a barbarian fall in love. The barbarian half is a total nerd who only knows about [[BuffySpeak Barbering]] and is a false action hero, and the hairdresser is the child of CoolOldGuy [[PunnyName Genghis Cohen]] and has sinews of steel. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' infamously applies this idea to ''all'' women. In the first book, Tarl doesn't rape the woman he kidnaps; at first, she is [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended]], then she decides he isn't a real man and nearly manages to kill him. Once she does get enslaved she's totally into him after some token complaints. |
| 138 | * Played with in the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology. There is a woman who is as good a fighter as the hero, [[GentleGiant Ward]]. He has a crush on her. She, on the other hand, appreciates his prowess in battle but is not in love with him. [[spoiler:She falls for him eventually, but only once she gets to know him better... and his personality is rather sweet and caring.]] |
| 139 | * ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'': At one point Touya has an encounter with a woman from the Rauli tribe named Pam, who bites him to mark him as her mate upon witnessing how powerful she is. She later reappears and announces her intention to have Touya bear her a strong child, but his other fiancées reject her since it's clear she doesn't have feelings of love towards him. |
| 140 | * In ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', the Amazons are an OneGenderRace obsessed with producing the strongest warriors. Because of this, they have a tendency to instantly fall in love with any man who manages to best them in combat, and are often very ''forward'' with their affections even if the person who beat them isn't interested--for example, the [[{{Hobbits}} Prum]] leader of the Loki Familia, who is [[LikeGoesWithLike only interested in mating with his own race]]. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'': |
| 142 | ** PlayedForLaughs with the hulking Ublala Pung. All the Amazonian women want him for his...physical assets, but poor Ublala just can't deal with being used and not getting any emotional support out of it. |
| 143 | ** Desra believes that eventually those with weak wills will be subjugated to those with stronger wills. That is why the only person she can imagine submitting to as a lover is Nimander, whose will has never faltered. |
| 144 | * {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', in the LadyLand visited by Astolpho and Marfisa as the reason for their unusual marriage custom: the only way a man can avoid being enslaved is to defeat ten champions and then bed ten women in a single night -- he then has to marry the ten women and becomes the new champion. This was started when the queen's daughter desired a particularly worthy fighter, a close descendant of Hercules. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/QueenOfZazzau'': Amina is already a warrior of Zazzau when the story begins, and initially falls in love with her bodyguard's brother Suleyman, the commander of Zazzau's army. After he's murdered, she enters a sexual pact with Ruhun Yak'i, the god of war himself, and falls hard for him. |
| 146 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Reality Check'' by Charlie Brooks. Anne Westfeld is essentially an Amazon who begins the novel dating the equivalent of Hercules in Jesse Gondolin, aka the Jungle Cat. However, [[spoiler:it turns out she really wants Greg Crispin, a physical weakling]]. |
| 147 | * ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Oliver Horn's ChickMagnet tendencies get cemented in volume 3 when his friend group's StarterVillain-turned-mentor Vera Miligan, an upperclassman who singlehandedly held off both him and his {{lancer}} Nanao Hibiya in volume 1, makes a pass at him out of sheer interest in how this seemingly average first-year student is able to keep up with his naturally talented friends Nanao and Chela [=McFarlane=]. Oliver is clearly more annoyed by the proposition than aroused, and she laughs it off as a joke and doesn't push things any further. |
| 148 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in Creator/MatthewReilly's book ''Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves''. Mother, a six-foot-four, [[BaldHeadOfToughness shaved]], foul-mouthed [[TheSquadette female marine]], second only to [[TheHero the Scarecrow]] himself in terms of badassery, initially seems like she might have fallen for [[LargeHam Baba]], her French [[SpearCounterpart equivalent]] who, in his own words, eats like a bear, drinks like a Viking, kills like a lion and makes love like a silverback gorilla. However, when it really comes down to it, she realises that, no matter how badass Baba may be, he just isn't her Ralphy (her tiny trucker husband). |
| 149 | * Another male version of this is Peaceable Drummond Sherwood from ''Literature/TheSherwoodRing''. His response to a woman who manages to outsmart him (something he's never seen before) is to propose to her... before passing out from the drug that she just convinced him to drink. |
| 150 | * Gender-swapped in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 151 | ** One character notes that the only person AcePilot Jag Fel would ever have a relationship with would be one who could out-fly him. This turns out to be Jaina Solo, who has a long-running on-again-off-again relationship with him beginning in ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' before finally marrying him in ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' (it's strongly implied in ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'' that their descendants became the new Imperial royal family). |
| 152 | ** Luke and Mara may also count. Mara is strong and muscular and basically a living killing machine as a former Emperor’s Hand. Luke is no slouch but there are still instances and skills where she surpasses him. He doesn’t doubt she could easily kill him if she wanted to. |
| 153 | ** ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Teneniel (a fit, athletic warrior woman from a LadyLand society) wants Luke, who also just happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the most powerful Jedi ever]], the only male Force user she's ever seen (although she'd heard legends of his kind). Luke quickly makes it clear that he won't return her desire though, and frees himself after Teneniel has captured him easily. She thus moves on to Isolder, a buff, handsome {{muggle}} prince. |
| 154 | * ''Literature/VillainessLevel99'': Invoked but ultimately averted. Yumiella, who thanks to accidentally grinding her way up to [[AbsurdlyHighLevelCap level 99]] is the strongest person in the world by a considerable margin, tries to get rid of an unwanted suiter by telling him that she's only interested in guys who are stronger than she is. Unfortunately for her, Patrick, whom she's already friends with, overhears her say this and takes the statement at face value (not realizing that she was just trying to get rid of an annoying CassanovaWannabe) and gets discouraged from asking her to dance, not realizing that she actually did want to dance with him. |
| 155 | * ''Literature/WhoNeedsMen'' has a post-{{Gendercide}} all-female society that goes game-hunting for the last enclave of men, in Scotland. The protagonist, a hunter of escaped men, ends up in their settlement and falls for the leader. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 159 | * Maxima hasn't changed much from the comic books in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. At two points, when Clark Kent grabs her and she can't break his grip, she gushes. |
| 160 | * The title part of the trope happens literally in an episode of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. A group of Amazons show up and want to get it on with our hero. He explains that he's still in mourning for his dead wife. This in turn comes from the myth of the Labors of Hercules, one of which was for him to take the belt of the Amazon Queen. The king who assigned the task assumed that the Queen would never hand it over (as it was a gift from Ares). When Hercules arrives though, the Queen respects his strength and conquests and thinks he's worthy of it. Depending on the legend, they then either swap stories or she wishes to marry him. [[spoiler:Neither case turns out well since Hera is displeased at Hercules' fortune and manipulates the Amazons into attacking him, killing the Queen by mistake in the process.]] |
| 161 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Zig-zagged. Buffy is stronger than all the men she dates, not one of them ever beat her in a fight, and are all heavily implied to be weaker fighters than her. However, any man who she's involved with for more than a few episodes is a substantially stronger and better fighter than normal—unnaturally so, whether due to [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampirism]] or to the [[BioAugmentation meddling of evil government scientists]]. Normal, human men like [[ForgettableCharacter Owen, Scott]], [[TheCasanova Parker]], and [[OccultDetective Dowling]] were out of the picture extremely quickly, and [[BadassNormal Xander]] [[JustFriends never got a chance in the first place]]. Buffy may be the strongest around, but she also tends to gravitate more toward men who can at least ''keep up'' with her in a fight. |
| 162 | * The [[SeasonalRot early episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E13AngelOne Angel One]]" had Riker and the leader of a Women-Dominant society. |
| 163 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' initially plays it straight with the Cole/Phoebe relationship as he is the first alpha male figure on the show with offensive powers. Piper and Prue's love interests had either been human or just TheMedic. But then later on in the show, all men with powers tended to lose them or turn evil and get vanquished. |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' devotes an entire episode to subverting this, and establishing that Zoe is firmly devoted to her geeky husband and does not, nor has ever, felt any attraction to Mal. Although Wash is brilliant as a pilot, he never beats Zoe at "her own game" so to speak. In one of the novels, Zoe specifically says Wash has things that are more important than big muscles, chest hair, and large certain male anatomy. |
| 165 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' did this in a Season 6 episode. Will tries to flirt with an attractive female boxing trainer at the gym but gets beaten up by her instead. The next day, he comes back and beats her, countering every single punch of hers. She immediately throws herself at him. |
| 166 | * Atalanta in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. In ''Ares'', she was pleased by how Hercules nearly beat her in arm-wrestling (and lost only after being DistractedByTheSexy). In ''If I Had a Hammer...'', she even created a metallic statue of Herc. |
| 167 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Averted when huge and hairy Tormund falls head-over-heels for [[LadyOfWar Brienne of Tarth]]. Under all her armor Brienne is still a virgin Southron highborn lady, and [[NoManWantsAnAmazon not used to being lusted after by any man]], let alone huge hairy barbarians from Oop North. |
| 168 | * ''Series/SnogMarryAvoid'' had a female weight lifter as a contestant, and when we see her boyfriend, he was a bodybuilder who was more jacked than she was. They worked out together. |
| 169 | * Subverted in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' - where Jessie assumes that Christy the girl wrestler has to be attracted to Slater because of this trope. But it's actually Zack that Christy is interested in. |
| 170 | --> '''Jessie:''' But Lisa said Christy was dating a school {{Hunk}}! |
| 171 | --> '''Zack:''' What am I? A baloney sandwich? |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Multiple Media]] |
| 175 | * In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', [[TheLadette Kiina]] begins to develop feelings for [[spoiler:Mata Nui. His true form is a 40 million foot-tall Humungous Mecha, he's the ruler of a "universe", and he's voiced by Michael Dorn.]] Can't get much manlier than that. It's also the ''only'' kinda-romantic relationship among major characters in the entire story canon. The thing is, though, [[spoiler:[[AnchoredShip he doesn't even acknowledge her as more than a good friend.]]]] |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 179 | * The title character in Marian Call's Series/{{Firefly}}-inspired ballad "Vera Flew The Coop." |
| 180 | -->The man who shot her through was the only man she could admire... and as she died she said 'I love you,' and Vera always told the truth. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 184 | * Implied to be a major factor in Dragon Lady's desire for Pat Ryan in ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''. Highlighted in the following exchange: |
| 185 | -->'''Pat Ryan:''' Funny how women can be realistic about everything but themselves! They know they can rule an empire - but in the final pay-off they aren't satisfied unless '''someone''' rules '''them'''!\ |
| 186 | '''Dragon Lady:''' '''No''' person rules the Dragon lady!\ |
| 187 | '''Pat Ryan:''' Sure... That's what Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth thought - but they both realized, finally, there was no use kidding themselves - that a woman can't be '''really''' satisfied with absolute power! It's her destiny to be conquered! |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 191 | * Of former WWE Diva Wrestling/{{Aksana}}'s [[{{Kayfabe}} storyline]] romances, the only one that matches this trope was when she was with [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro (Claudio Castagnoli)]], who is strong enough to deadlift 7'3, 430 lbs. Wrestling/TheGreatKhali! |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 195 | * In the strategy dice game ''TabletopGame/DragonDice'', the Amazon race has access to one male unit - he is their most powerful melee unit and sports a distinctly Herculean beard... |
| 196 | * In the city-state of Danuvia from the ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' role-playing game, foreign male warriors are invited to parade themselves and compete in athletic events once a year. The highest-grade beefcake is claimed for her harem by Danuvia's queen, while her Amazon warriors bid for the companionship of the runner-ups. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 200 | * ''VideoGame/{{Discworld}}'' has a scantily clad Amazon warrior who can only marry a man who defeats her in armed combat. To the death. |
| 201 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', both [[{{Tomboy}} Sully]] and [[spoiler:her daughter]] [[GlacierWaif Kjelle]] are very strong {{Action Girl}}s who will ''only'' accept love declarations from guys who are as strong as they are in the battlefield. |
| 202 | * ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': H'aanit [[TheBeastMaster the Huntress]] is the strongest physical female character. She regularly hunts powerful beasts and can tame them. When asked by Primrose what sort of man she would love, H'aanit states she would at least like a man stronger than her. Primrose mentally notes that H'aanit will have a ''very'' hard time finding such a man. |
| 203 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'', if you're able to beat Meryl's high score on the shooting range, she'll let you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVMtdboa3bs grope her boobs]]. Kind of subverted in that the person she eventually reveals real interest in is her friend Dave, who could never outshoot her. Plus, her breasts make an [[FanDisservice elephant trumpet sound effect]] when grabbed. |
| 204 | * ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'': According to some of her bios, one of Rulue's primary preferences in a man include someone who can actually keep up with her in battle. Aside from the RescueRomance that sparked her adoration for him, this is implied to be yet another reason why she is so infatuated with Dark Prince. |
| 205 | * Janne from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' swears by this. She seems to quite... admire J. Carn if his ending is to be believed and later considers asking Hanzou out in one of her own endings (even when Ryouko is following him around), but when Fuuma asks her out she openly turns him down. Either this or HeroWorshipper (or maybe a mix of both) is the basis of Ryouko's ''massive'' PrecociousCrush on Hanzou. |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 209 | * Captain Jordan Lee from ''{{Webcomic/Skins}}''. She leads the team and is a tough, capable soldier but she prefers her men to be even tougher and exclusively dates werewolves. Scenes and artwork in the comic have also implied she likes her werewolf lover Vinnie to be very dominant in bed. |
| 210 | * [[PirateGirl Captain]] [[DarkActionGirl Bangladesh DuPree]] in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' - the only time she shows any sort of attraction to anyone is to the [[SuperSoldier ex-Jaeger]] Vole, more specifically [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224#.VvFz-OKLTIV once he starts talking about why he's changing his allegiance]]. |
| 211 | -->'''Vole:''' Dot's gonna be some '''''var!''''' Messy, terrible, civil var! De empire vill be in '''''flames!''''' De pipple vill be '''''crushed''''' between hyu! Hyu vill unleash an '''''ocean''''' ov blood! '''''Dis is more den Hy effer could heff hoped for!''''' IT VILL BE '''''GLORIOUS!''''' |
| 212 | ** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140804#.VvFy_OKLTIU It only gets better]] once Gil pulls Vole out of the timestop and he ages hundreds of years in a few minutes - since Jaegers are immortal, this means him getting twice as tall, twice as broad, teeth as long as your hand, spikes growing out of his shoulders... |
| 213 | --->'''Gil:''' [=DuPree=], I'm really sorry about this. I'm doing my best to-\ |
| 214 | '''Bang:''' Oh... Oh '''''wow! Gil!''''' Is it '''''Christmas?''''' My '''''birthday?!''''' |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 218 | * As mentioned in Comic Books above, Maxima also pursued Superman in [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the Dini-verse]]. At the end of that episode, she got over Superman and set her sights on Lobo! Whether that went anywhere is unknown, since the episode was Maxima's only appearance in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. |
| 219 | * Brock Samson from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' gets both sides of this: |
| 220 | ** As a male example, he fell in love with Molotov Cocktease when, the first time they met, she kicked his ass and set the building on fire. |
| 221 | ** Season 6, meanwhile, has a side arc involving series regular Brock Samson falling for a heroine named Warriana, who is an obvious parody of Franchise/WonderWoman. Although they start by [[LoveAtFirstPunch antagonizing one another]], and Warriana then has to get over some [[NotStayingForBreakfast weirdness]] after they do hook up, in the end, she is completely protective of "her man"—out of the entire series, probably the character ''least'' in need of protection. For bonus points, Warriana is a literal Amazon (to the point of having only one breast), and she tends to call Brock "Hercules". |
| 222 | * Queen Hippsodeth in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', with the unexpected result that she falls in love with ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass the Sultan of Agrabah]]'' after he defeats her when she kidnaps Jasmine. |
| 223 | * The Tetramand alien species from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' and its numerous SequelSeries. They are a species of super-strong, MultiArmedAndDangerous {{Blood Knight}}s, with females being the physically stronger sex. Any male who can beat one of the females in combat wins the right to marry her. Ben finds this out just a little bit too late, and to make matters worse, he beat the Tetramand ''princess'', who is quite the DaddysGirl. "Daddy" in this case being willing to destroy Earth if his little girl doesn't get whatever she wants. |
| 224 | * Defied like in the [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger original film]] in the [[Recap/WhatIfS1E1WhatIfCaptainCarterWereTheFirstAvenger first episode]] of ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''. Even after becoming a SuperSoldier instead of Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter loves Steve [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan because he's humble, supportive, kind, and good to her]], and doesn't care if he's short, scrawny, sickly, and asthmatic. That being said, it is played straight when she learns alternate versions of Steve are a SuperSoldier and wants to see what he looks like. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 228 | * TruthInTelevision. Many women lauded for their combat prowess throughout history would reportedly refuse to take a husband unless the husband could beat her at her preferred combat style/weapon proficiency, invoking [[BestHerToBedHer a variation of this trope]]. (Example: the Mongol princess [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khutulun Khutulun]], daughter of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan's great-grandson Kaidu Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, who would not marry any man who could not best her in traditional Mongol wrestling.) In the current age, many female bodybuilders express a preference for men who can at least match them physically. |
| 229 | * Former Characters/{{WWE Diva|s}} Wrestling/{{Sable}} is married to '''[[Wrestling/BrockLesnar BROCK LESNAR]]''', a 286 lbs. powerhouse {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er who once [=superplexed=] the 7' 500-lb '''[[Wrestling/BigShow THE BIG SHOW]]'''! |
| 230 | * Creator/JoanCrawford was married four times, and it's said that her final husband, Alfred Steele, was her favourite. Barry Norman's book ''The Hollywood Greats'' attributes it to Joan being combative and temperamental with her previous husbands, whereas Al was able to handle her - and he also moved her into his life rather than into hers as the previous ones had. |
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