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20->''"She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up."''
21-->-- '''Philip Marlowe''', ''Film/TheBigSleep''
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23A FemmeFatale in training, a Fille Fatale (French for "fatal girl", idiomatically "girl to die for") is an adolescent or younger girl who knows how to use her looks to get what she wants.
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25Where some will [[KidAnova focus solely on their peers]], [[LikesOlderMen others want actual grown men and will proceed to seduce one]]. She may well initiate a TeacherStudentRomance plot. This, of course, has much bigger implications for the adult in question, who is very liable to suffer sacking at best (if he's a teacher), with a statutory rape charge being more common (depending on jurisdiction).
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27It is also not uncommon to depict her as an adult, but so much younger and less mature than the rest of the cast that she is far closer to this trope than to FemmeFatale or TheVamp, particularly if her advances towards older men are rejected.
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29Note that, in real life, children who exhibit sexualized behavior have often [[PromiscuityAfterRape been the victims of sexual abuse]]. This is rarely addressed in fiction. In some people's opinion, overexposure to adult content like movies, porn, {{the internet|IsForPorn}}, and music can cause the same kind of prematurely sexualized behavior, though how true this is is '''hotly''' debated.
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31Compare her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterparts]], the KidAnova and DirtyKid. In gay media, a particularly young and aggressive [[TheTwink Twink]] can fill much the same role.
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33For obvious reasons, DawsonCasting is very likely, as is a HandWave that the character is much older than she looks (maybe even to the point of ReallySevenHundredYearsOld). See also TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior. In some Western countries ([[ValuesDissonance though certainly not all of them]]), a major source of {{Squick}}.
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40* Touka Yada and Hinano Kurahashi from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', while we don't see much of them, are shown to be this trope thanks to being students of Irina Jelavic, a [[FemmeFatale professional seductive assassin]] who serves as the class' foreign language teacher.
41* Mitsuko Souma of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' tries to be a FemmeFatale, but she really is this. Unlike most examples of this trope, it actually ''is'' a result of [[RapeAsBackstory sexual abuse as a child]].
42* Juno from ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' proudly uses her looks and her wolf strength to get what she wants.
43* Alois Trancy from the second season of ''Manga/BlackButler'' is a RareMaleExample; despite his young age, he's already very aware of how to use flirtation and sex appeal to get what he wants, often wears skimpy booty shorts, and has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. He's a textbook example for the oversexed behavior of some young victims of sexual abuse. [[spoiler:Sadly, Alois (or better said, Jim Macken) ''is'' one: he and other boys around his age were {{Sex Slave}}s for a rich nobleman, and he was the only one who survived. Already unstable from ''before'' the abuse thanks to the death of his younger brother Luca, Alois /Jim ultimately crossed the DespairEventHorizon and make a DealWithTheDevil, summoning Claude Faustus...]]
44* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Lessar of New Light is a middle schooler who probably can't be much older than 14, yet already possesses an impressive knowledge of seduction and love of lewdness of someone many years older. She's willing to use every trick she can think of to "convince" Touma to get with her. Granted, it ''is'' partially motivated by her desire to get him to swear loyalty to the UK, but at times that just seems to be the official excuse since she was always interested in him [[RescueRomance after he saved her life]].
45* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. Given her age of only 13 years old, Kuroko Shirai's sexual fixation of her "Onee-sama" makes her this. Especially when you see her taste in underwear and swimsuits.
46* Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' is a rare real life example in that in the manga, the entire first six volumes are a flashback to the sexual and physical abuse that he received at the hands of his stepfather. While this is going on, Jeremy begins to envision drinking Ian's blood in a fetish sort of way, and repeatedly forcibly kisses his roommate William (although this is more along the lines of SexForSolace). In the latter, present day half of the story, Jeremy becomes a teenaged prostitute and is constantly making advances toward or is trying to seduce his stepbrother Ian to "bring him down to his level" and essentially punish him for not believing or helping him when he first confessed that he was being raped by their father. He seduces or trades sex for things like drugs from his older classmate Pansy or even a random adult at a party in exchange for a cigarette. Although on the older side at 16, Jeremy's flirtations are blatant examples of FanDisservice and are far more adult than they should be.
47* In ''Manga/Cyborg009'''s story ''Heart of the Machine'', Albert/004 strikes an OddFriendship with a 13/14-year-old girl named Nana. She turns out to be this, due to ''extreme'' ParentalAbandonment; [[spoiler:at some point she even strips naked to taunt Albert, and when he doesn't take the bait, she covers herself and breaks down crying]].
48* Akari in ''Manga/DominaNoDo''. She's way too dangerously oversexed for a grade-schooler.
49* ''[[Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka GTO: 14 Days in Shonan]]'': Twins Miko and Riko Sakaki use their {{yakuza}} foster father's inappropriate interest in their bodies to [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey wrap him around their little fingers]].
50* In ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', Minnie May was working as a prostitute and taking age-slowing drugs to appeal to those with a young girl fetish. Though it's explained rather vaguely, she used drugs in order to hasten her puberty so that her adult boyfriend wouldn't feel weird about being with her. She got breasts and hips a lot earlier than normal, but, as a side-effect, stopped growing for good.
51* 15-going-on-16 years old Yukime from ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' is introduced as one. She at first intended to either drag him by force with her [[IfICantHaveYou or kill him]], but when she committed the mistake of [[WouldHurtAChild threatening his students]] and [[PapaWolf he fought her off]], [[LoveRedeems her love became more genuine]] and she decided to gain his affections by more honest means.
52* Akane, a character in ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', feels comfortable flirting with the teenaged Kichijouji.
53* Despite only being 14, Lucy Steel from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'' is aware of her good looks and uses it to her advantage, first by seducing Scarlet Valentine into giving her the Corpse Parts that Funny Valentine has in his possession, followed by her disguising herself as Scarlet and trying to sway Valentine into giving up everything he has that could help him achieve his goals. Though, the latter works [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well]], as Valentine finds out that she's not actually Scarlet and still ends up attempting to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape Lucy]].
54%%* Zange from ''Manga/KannagiCrazyShrineMaidens''.
55* Ibuki Yagami from ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'', who aggressively pursues Godai, her substitute teacher.
56* OlderThanTheyThink; this archetype appeared in 1975 with Meg, the tomboyish heroine of the MagicalGirl series ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan''. The girl is pretty aware of her good looks, is coquettish and outspoken (unlike the more mellow heroines of the time), and the OP of the series has her singing about using her beauty to woo guys and get what she wants from them.
57* 15-year-old Flay Allster from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''. When her father is killed by a ZAFT pilot, she decides that she wants the Coordinators of ZAFT dead, and also wants her former classmate Kira to suffer for failing to protect her father. Knowing that Kira hates killing but is also the only one with the skills to really combat the Coordinators, she feigns a romantic interest in him and manipulates him into fighting, including at least one instance of having sex with him. [[spoiler:Eventually, [[BecomingTheMask her feigned feelings begin to become genuine]], but she dies before she ever gets to make amends for her original motivations, leaving Kira believing she was really in love with him from the get go.]]
58* Nao from ''Anime/MyHime''. She pretends to engage in EnjoKosai, then rolls the marks with her [[{{Mons}} CHILD]].
59* Evangeline [=McDowell=] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' seems like this at first glance, but the little detail about her apparently being [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the oldest entity on campus]] technically disqualifies her. Now, if only she would quit making passes at her 10-year-old teacher...
60* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'''s Asuka Langley Soryuu has a blatant, possessive crush on Kaji (and raging 14-year-old narcissism in general) that turns out to be a symptom of her trauma and desperate need for attention to give her self-worth. Kaji doesn't accept her advances whatsoever, thinking she is much too young. She also makes a few subtle (and a few not so subtle) advances at main character Shinji Ikari, most of which pass over Shinji's head. In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', Asuka's crush on Kaji is completely absent, and she tries to win Shinji over by [[ThroughHisStomach being a good cook]].
61* Shzuku from ''Manga/OmamoriHimari''. She might be ReallySevenHundredYearsOld water demon, but Shizuku is still the TokenMiniMoe here and intending to seduce the main character.
62* Green from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' is a young con artist and has no problem flirting (at least with boys near her age) to get what she wants. She grew out of it later, though.
63* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': Sheryl, who's a teenager seemingly the same age as Akira (who doesn't know his age). Sheryl contrasts with her eventual ally, the adult full blown FemmeFatale Carol. Carol is a PredatoryProstitute who sleeps with men for money, information, or favors. While Sheryl uses her smile and empathetic words to sway and dig information out of men in what’s often compared to a HoneyTrap (which her crush Akira reacts to with a combination of amazement at her GuileHero skills, and TraumaButton panic that he may fall victim.) The two women’s interactions mostly consist of Carol lightheartedly teasing Sheryl.
64* Annie Labelle in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' is a mild example as she was usually played for laughs, although it would be subject to more serious scrutiny today than back in 1985. Annie was said to be thirteen in most source materials of the time. She flirted (a lot) with Lunk, who was at least in his early twenties. She flirted not at all with Rand, whom, being 17 years old, was actually the closest to her own age. In her birthday episode, she treated the guys to what was essentially a burlesque show.
65* Ren and Maria from ''Manga/SkipBeat'', the latter invoking this trope in a daydream in which she imagines the former professing undying love. Outside said daydreams, he's fond of her (not in that way) and pities her for her family situation, so he pays attention to her.
66* Subverted in ''Manga/SoulEater'', where [[spoiler:Rachel Boyd acts this way... but ''only'' when she's the victim of Medusa's GrandTheftMe. Once Medusa leaves her body, it's presumed she returns to be a more or less normal 5-year-old girl.]]
67* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'': Becky Blackbell, Anya's only friend and classmate at Eden Academy, is actually a subversion. She's convinced her extensive knowledge of mature romantic dramas has given her the skills to seduce Loid despite being a young six-year-old girl, but even if Loid wasn't well-versed in genuine seduction, [[WrongGenreSavvy her childish perspective and the obviously romanticized ideas those shows gave her leave her completely out of her depth when it comes to real romance and seduction]]. As such, her 'advances' do nothing but confuse Loid, as the idea that a six-year-old would even try such a thing doesn't even register on his radar.
68* Chinami from ''Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent''. She is very used to getting whatever she wants. She initially used Manaka as an excuse for dumping one of her previous "boyfriends" and eventually ended up joining the Film Studies Club. While she does not hold any genuine feelings for Manaka, she is bothered by how unremarkable she is to him.
69* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul [[{{Prequel}} Jack]]'' provides a subtle example: [[spoiler:Uruka Minami is well-aware of her looks, and uses them to create a false LoveTriangle between herself, Fura, and Arima. She also uses her beautiful hair to lure another ghoul into attacking her, allowing her to earn the heroes' trust through being rescued by them]]. The killer's true nature is also hinted at during the very beginning of the story, when a male victim is discovered naked and robbed in a [[LoveHotels hotel room]].
70* Mel in ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' is thirteen years old and flirts with the seventeen year old Lux with surprising confidence. She's more mature than her age in other ways as well, having been forced to grow up quickly after her family was killed by Abyss.
71* Ryuuko from ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest''. The creepiest version ever possible.
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75* While pretty much every female member of the cast in ''ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'' comics is capable of this, it defines [[RecurringCharacter Cheryl Blossom]] to a T, much to the disgust (and regret) of Betty and Veronica.
76* ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'': Saree is P'Gell's stepdaughter who shows every sign of following in her stepmother's footsteps as TheVamp (and probably the BlackWidow).
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80* Very cleverly and humorously applied in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' without it being the least bit {{Squick}}y. 6-year old Susie Derkins "charmed" stuffed tiger Hobbes into giving her his water balloon during a water fight, and she used it to drench Calvin.
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84* "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33823474/ Apex Predator]]" establishes that Veela are biologically and culturally inclined to be this; Apolline Delacour has no problem with the notion of her ten-year-old daughter Gabrielle sexually pursuing Harry Potter when he's only fourteen, and she recalls that her own first time was when she was eleven and her partner was sixteen.
85* ''Fanfic/BreakYourHeart'' portrays Scootaloo as one. Rainbow was also one when she was younger.
86* ''Fanfic/MCURewrites'': {{Deconstructed|CharacterArchetype}} in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11613921 Black Widow]]'' which details how Natasha Romanoff was trained to seduce men to get information from them and she demonstrates this when she becomes the mistress to a military officer... [[{{Squick}} at the age of sixteen]]. [[Creator/{{letmetellyouaboutmyfeels}} The author]] [[FanDisservice even spells out that this is not supposed to be seen as sexy]].
87* ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' gender swaps love to turn Mob into this. Notable works include ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' in which fem!Mob, after initially being rejected by Reigen jumps into bed with Serizawa because she needs validation. ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14700726/chapters/33972216 Femme Fatale]]'' is another example of this. Fem!Mob here is also seeking out validation but not from romantic rejection. Here she feels ignored and wants attention as well as to be seen as being an adult.
88* ''Fanfic/SoRotVieBlut'': Since hitting puberty, Snow White has [[ReallyGetsAround seduced numerous men]] around the castle. Her step-mother has tried to stop this by making her act like a servant, but it didn't work. Snow White has used her seduction skills to get a man to kill [[{{Patricide}} her father]] [[TheKingSlayer the king]], as well as to escape death.
89* ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'': Sofia, one of Luca's classmates, is a coy and confident young girl who wastes no time in shamelessly flirting with Alberto, much to Luca's jealousy.
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93* Angela in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', played by Mena Suvari, is one of these--[[spoiler:except she never actually did anything; the tales of her sexual conquests of older men were fabrications, and Lester gently turned her down upon learning she was still a virgin.]]
94* Kara from ''Film/{{Brick}}'', along with [[spoiler:Laura Dannon.]] The two straddle the line between this and full-on FemmeFatale; they're high schoolers, but (seemingly) on the older end, and they're also involved in a variety of adult crimes such as drug dealing and blackmail. [[spoiler:And one is indirectly involved in murder.]]
95* Ali and Heather in ''Film/{{Bully}}''.
96* ''{{Film/Carrie 2013}}'' hints that Tina manipulates Mr Ulmann to pick on Carrie further in class. One scene has her flirting with him from the back of the room.
97* Michelle from ''Film/Cherrybomb2009'' is most certainly this.
98* Adrienne Forrester (Alicia Silverstone) in ''Film/TheCrush''. A 14-year-old girl falls in love with her parents' house guest. When he declines her advances, she makes his life a living hell.
99* Dodger Allen, ''Film/CryWolf'' [[spoiler:who is having an affair with one of her tteachers and murders another student she regards as a rival]].
100* Tracy Flick (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon) of ''Film/{{Election}}'' has had an affair with one of her teachers (who is now an ex-teacher).
101* Creator/LeeleeSobieski's character in ''Film/EyesWideShut''.
102* DoubleSubversion with Mia in ''Film/FishTank''. She is clearly intrigued by Connor from the beginning, but doesn't consciously act on it. However, when he starts reciprocating the interest, things turn inappropriate.
103* ''Film/Flower2017'': Erica is explicitly seventeen. Her m.o. is to charm older men and give them a blowjob while her friends obtain evidence of this act. The three of them then blackmail the guy for engaging in sexual acts with a minor and extort money out of him.
104* Bibi (Lynn-Holly Johnson) in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. Film/JamesBond even turns down the chance to sleep with her after she strips off and lies naked in his bed. Then, he offers to buy her an ice cream cone.
105* The title character in the 1987 British-Swedish movie ''The Girl''. She's a 14 year-old Swedish schoolgirl who prostitutes herself out of boredom and seduces Creator/FrancoNero's character, who's married.
106* Hayley Stark of ''Film/HardCandy'' appears to be an example at first--that is, [[spoiler:until she throws it all aside, ties up the man she was previously seducing, accuses him of being a pedophile, pretends to castrate him, and generally just {{Mind Screw}}s him until he commits suicide]].
107* Luli in ''Film/{{Hick}}'' is a deconstruction. She ''tries'' to be this trope but has the misfortune of dealing with someone far crazier and more ruthless than she is.
108* Wendy Hood from ''Film/TheIceStorm'' uses her sex appeal to tease Mikey and Sandy Carver.
109* ''Film/JennifersBody'': Jennifer is this, as she is in high school, but uses her sexuality to get into bars, pay for drinks, seduce boys, and lose her virginity to a cop. The fact that the same cop she teases in Melody Lane tells her "not here" since they are in public only adds to this.
110* Becky in ''Film/{{Kidulthood}}''.
111* Eli in ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'' is a subversion: she's a vampire that was 12 years old when transformed. Eli can't remember exactly how long it's been, but it's implied to be around 200 years. [[spoiler:"She" is also [[DudeLooksLikeALady actually a boy]].]]
112* Regina's little sister in ''Film/MeanGirls'' (who looks to be about 9) is seen imitating the girls on TV lifting their shirts up. Mark Waters says on the DVDCommentary that he felt it was the low point in his directing career asking the child actress to move closer to the teddy bear before flashing.
113* Creator/TaissaFarmiga's 16 years old character in ''Film/{{Mindscape}}'', although in a very subtle light.
114* Mini, the VillainProtagonist of ''Film/MinisFirstTime'', is, at eighteen, technically too old for this trope, but nevertheless is worth mentioning here since it is her youth that makes her seductiveness, manipulativeness, and evil so astonishing and compelling.
115* Tamsin in ''Film/MySummerOfLove''. She does seem to bring out the darkest, most fatalistic sides of Mona and Phil at the end.
116* ''Film/TheNightOfTheIguana'': Charlotte, played by 17-year-old Creator/SueLyon, is crawling all over Larry Shannon the Mexican tour guide. This is despite the constantly watching presence of her chaperone Miss Fellowes, who is threatening to have Shannon not only fired but arrested--in fact, that seems to be part of the thrill for Charlotte. (Yep, Sue Lyon, ''Lolita'' herself, in another jail bait role.)
117* Nikki in ''Film/OddGirlOut'', this aspect of her isn't directly relevant to why she's dangerous to the main protagonist, but we are told how she likes to manipulate boys.
118* Dede Truitt (Creator/ChristinaRicci) in ''Film/TheOppositeOfSex'' is the teenage sister of a gay teacher and, as soon as she moves in with him, sets about seducing his boyfriend and then getting pregnant by him.
119* Esther Coleman from ''Film/{{Orphan}}''. [[spoiler:Or so we think, since her real name is Leena and she's truly in her 30's.]] [[spoiler:Then again, [[Creator/IsabelleFuhrman the girl playing her]] was only 12, so it could still qualify]].
120* Ivy (Creator/DrewBarrymore) in ''Film/PoisonIvy'', who is based on an actual experience producer Melissa Goddard had as a teenager - where a friend stayed over and tried to seduce her father. In this case, it's said that Ivy's parents were abusive and neglectful, and she's viewed very much as a tragic figure.
121* One of the most extreme examples; Violet in ''Film/PrettyBaby'' is a DaughterOfAWhore who was raised in a whorehouse and has her virginity auctioned off by the madam when she's 12. After running away from the whorehouse, she seduces the photographer E. J. Bellocq and lives with him.
122* Kimberly Joyce from ''Film/PrettyPersuasion'' is a very ruthless example.
123* Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld) from ''Film/PrettyPoison'' would be a [[TheVamp vamp]] if it wasn't because she was 17.
124* 12-year-old Mathilda Lando (Creator/NataliePortman) in ''Film/TheProfessional'' (aka ''Léon'').
125* After a certain age, girls in any of the incarnations of ''Film/StTrinians'' fit this trope to a tee. Although it should be noted that this, like some of the other British examples listed on this page, features girls of 17 (the heavily sexualised Trinian's girls are Sixth Form students), and are therefore of legal age in Britain (Age of consent is 16 in the UK).
126* Jodie in ''ComicBook/TamaraDrewe''. [[spoiler:She even gets a song written about her, "Jail-bait Jody".]]
127* Tracy and Evie, the main characters in ''Film/Thirteen2003'', especially Evie, as Tracy mostly follows her lead. Aside from dressing provocatively for most of the film, at one point they seduce their hot lifeguard neighbor, who's in his 20s. He eventually resists and kicks them out of the house.
128* Sadie and [=McKayla=] in ''Film/TragedyGirls'' are a pair of teenage {{Serial Killer}}s who have no problem using their beauty and charisma to get close to their male victims. Sadie's also perfectly willing to go as far as actual sex if it means they can accomplish their goals.
129* Diane in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}''.
130* Lux Lisbon in ''Film/TheVirginSuicides'', she's the second youngest (14 years old) [[spoiler:and the only one who had [[ReallyGetsAround sexual intercourse]] among her sisters.]]
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134* In ''Literature/{{Alatriste}},'' Angélica de Alquézar uses this style to manipulate teenage squire Íñigo.
135* Ellington Feint from ''Literature/AllTheWrongQuestions'', constantly lies, tricks and manipulates Lemony Snicket repeatedly, and he knows it. But because she has a sympathetic backstory, "a smile that could mean anything", and sometimes casually invades his personal space, Snicket keeps acting really stupid around her.
136* Alluded to with Chris Hargensen in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''. Although she is a high school senior by the time the story starts, her narration mentions that she's had numerous lovers who she could "dance and dandle at her whim". She's in a relationship with a slightly older boy who's just as twisted as she is, and she convinces him to help her pull off a DeadlyPrank on the titular Carrie. It is however said that she's attracted to Billy precisely because she can't control him.
137* In ''Literature/TheClique,'' Nina Callas is Alicia's beautiful cousin from Spain. She is able to attract most of the 7th grade boys, including the main characters' crushes. She also claims to have tons of experience with boys and knows what attracts them. [[spoiler:It turns out that Nina was just using the boys to hide her kleptomania and was punished when she got back to Spain]].
138* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': Evelina is a fifteen year old girl who worked as a HoneyTrap with her father, a professional thief. Later too she becomes a GoldDigger aiming to seduce Prince Marcus with the hope she can be a royal mistress and mother of his child.
139* In Creator/JohnSteinbeck's ''Literature/EastOfEden'', the character Cathy tricks boys into tying her up and fooling around with her at the age of '''10''', only to practice her ability to manipulate people. This is only the first in a long life of shocking deeds...
140* Felicity Worthington in the ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' trilogy [[spoiler:qualifies as a deconstruction, as she actually ''is'' a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of [[ParentalIncest her pedophiliac father]].]]
141* Diana Ladris from ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' starts the series at fourteen as a {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch with no qualms about using her appearance to get what she wants, which usually works. [[spoiler:In the fourth book, when she's either 14 or 15, she tries to convince [[BigBad Caine]] to follow her plans by sleeping with him. It doesn't work and [[TeenPregnancy has consequences]].]] Somewhat justified, though, in that [[TeenageWasteland she's really not that young for the setting]].
142* ''Literature/GreatExpectations'': This is Miss Havisham's goal for Estella.
143* Adèle in ''Literature/JaneEyre'' is a sort of G-rated nineteenth-century version of this, taking after her mother, who was an [[ChorusGirls opera dancer]], by being obsessed with looking good and proto-flirting.
144* ''Journey Under The Midnight Sun'' has Yukiho Karasawa, who since a child use her charm to climb up the social ladder [[spoiler:and commit several crimes]].
145* In the Creator/JoanRivers book ''"The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz"'', the titular character is a really ribald one... ''right out of the womb!'' In the book, the authoress said that Heidi blew in the delivery doctor's ear!
146* ''Literature/LivesOfTheMayfairWitches'' trilogy: When we first meet 13-year old Mona Mayfair, she has already seduced her way through a number of her [[KissingCousins male cousins]] and proceeds to seduce the thirty-something male protagonist. She later falls for a ''much'' older man, namely, a vampire.
147-->'''Mona:''' I didn't ''lose'' my virginity. I ''obliterated all traces of its existence''.
148* Dolores (Lolita) in ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' is portrayed this way by Humbert Humbert, the pedophile UnreliableNarrator. Is possibly the TropeCodifier.
149* ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles'':
150** This is part of [[VillainEpisode Levana's backstory]]. As a teenager, she had a PrecociousCrush on Evret, a palace guard about ten years older than her. Levana is a TroubledTeen, a princess, ''and has MindControl powers''. It ends badly for everyone, and sets Levana up as the WickedStepmother that she is in the main books.
151** Levana's sister, [[PredecessorVillain Channary]], is also noted for having lots of trysts at a young age, which is apparently pretty common on Luna. However, she mocks the idea of love and sees MindControl as "cheating," contrasted with Levana's [[IJustWantToBeLoved desperate]] [[EntitledToHaveYou pursuit]] of Evret alone.
152* Late teenager Allriane Cett of ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' is accustomed to manipulating everyone around her, including her own father. She is currently in a relationship with 30+year-old Breeze, and WordOfGod explicitly states that ''she'' seduced ''him'', not the other way around.
153* The main characters in Roger "[[MoustacheDePlume Rosalind Erskine]]" Longrigg's ''The Passion Flower Hotel'', although they [[KidAnova stick to boys their own age]].
154%%* Amma Crellin (aged 13) from Gillian Flynn's ''Sharp Objects''.
155* In the Creator/AndrewVachss Burke book ''Terminal'', [[spoiler:the murder victim, Melissa Turnbridge]], is described as someone confident in and abusive of sexual power.
156* Helen of ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', an ArtificialHuman who adopts whatever roles she needs to fill at the moment as a MasterActor, usually looks like a 12-year-old girl and hangs out with her fellow children. It should also be noted that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality she experiences romantic desire as the desire to kill]].
157* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
158%%** Paparazzi, who is already a supervillainess while still in high school. Granted, it's [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], but still...
159** Solange (Tansy Walcutt) probably counts as well, since she's been using her feminine wiles and good looks to seduce and humiliate guys since she was 14.
160** Vamp deliberately cultivates this image. When Alex first manifested, she'd ended up on the street, and when not [[ItMakesSenseInContext hunting down information on the school principal who had set her up]] (and later during the time she was being [[TrappedInVillainy blackmailed into joining a team of supervillains]]) she used her CharmPerson and minor ShapeShifting talents to pretend to be a twenty-something debutante turned paid escort; none of them ever connected '[[Literature/{{Dracula}} Abby Carfax]]' with either the supervillaness Vamp or the missing teenaged [[{{Hermaphrodite}} boy]] Alex O'Brien. She later insisted that she only made her clients ''think'' she had sex with them, though she still plays the [[TheVamp sexy vampire]] angle when she thinks she can get something from one of the other students that way.
161** One of [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Sahar]]'s main knacks is the ability to [[PowerCopying copy]] ''other'' people's PsychicPowers through, ah, intimate association with them. Having [[SatisfiedStreetRat lived as a street orphan in Beirut]], she was used to seeing other people as either threats or targets, and set about seducing as many of the other Psychic Arts students, male and female, as she could. She only stopped when she fell in love with Zenith and had a HeelRealization about how much she was hurting her targets.
162* Most of the older sisters -- Fanny Casteel, Vera Claythorn -- in the average ''Creator/VCAndrews'' novel fall into this category, displaying highly sexualized behavior at a very young age. Sadly, no one ever considers the possibility that they might be victims of abuse.
163* In ''Literature/WiseBlood'', Hazel Motes briefly tries to seduce Sabbath Lily Hawks, the 15-year-old daughter of an itinerant preacher (mostly because Hazel wants to horrify the preacher). As it turns out, Sabbath is even more interested in seducing Hazel.
164* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': While just 16, Tavira seduced a Moff and then took his position later after usurping him, then murdering him (she'd also [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdered his wife to clear her path]]).
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168* One of the major plot points of ''Series/{{Californication}}'' is Hank sleeping with his ex-wife's soon-to-be daughter-in-law. She blackmails him for attention through the series.
169* In ''Series/{{Copper}}'' child prostitute Annie. Although she has a major league FreudianExcuse, [[spoiler:having been forced into marriage at the age of 10, to a man who treated her so badly that life in a brothel seemed preferable]] plus the pressures of survival on the streets of the Five Corners district of New York in the 1860s.
170* Rosie Webster in ''Series/CoronationStreet'' technically was over sixteen by the time she started displaying this behaviour, and therefore not one by UK law, but she still went after much older men. First she had {{Precocious Crush}}es on her bosses Liam and Tony and then, having previously dropped out of school, she re-enrolled so she could seduce teacher John Stape. As she entered her twenties, this side of her levelled off, and she was presented as more of a BrainlessBeauty.
171* One of the killer's victims in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "52 Pickup" is depicted as one of these in a flashback sequence.
172* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The principal villain in "Coming of Rage" is a high school girl who manipulates three of her fellow students into brutally murdering a fourth, while she stands by cheering them on.
173* ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' has Beatrix, who's a scheming manipulator that even seduces two boys into a polyamorous relationship with her to achieve her goals. She's also manipulating a faculty member, albeit in a non sexual way, to accomplish her evil plan. In Season 2, the fatale part is lessened, as she becomes more of a WildCard who occasionally helps the protagonists.
174* Marie Minshull in ''Series/FootballersWives''.
175* Sansa Stark seems to be trying her hand at this in the fourth season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', telling Littlefinger (who'd been bragging that his enemies are in the dark about his true motives), "''I'' know what you want" and dressing in a more flattering and provocative manner. A rare sympathetic example, given her precarious situation and lack of options.
176* [[spoiler:Silver St. Cloud]] in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', who is tasked by her uncle Theo to seduce Bruce Wayne.
177** In season three, Ivy Pepper is artificially aged and uses her newfound beauty to seduce rich men into giving her food, clothes, and riches. Downplayed as she is played by adult actresses after the age-up and she doesn't have to do much for men to do her bidding.
178* Ruby Buttons (Creator/AnnaShaffer) in ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}''.
179* One of the patients in ''Series/{{House}}'' seduced her father because she knew that the threat of revealing that he had committed statutory rape with his own daughter would give her power.
180* Lucy Archer in ''Series/TheLakes''.
181* Kelly Bundy was well-known for this on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Various jokes referred to her dating all her male high school teachers, being a SerialHomewrecker, juggling multiple boyfriends at once and using DistractedByTheSexy for various purposes.
182* Jane Harper from ''Series/NightAndDay'', as revealed through the flashbacks and visions of some of those she leaves behind when she disappears. Not that this remotely justifies some of them sleeping with her when she was underage. It's subverted in that sense, in that we learn as the story progresses how bad experiences with men made Jane the way she was, and that she wasn't always that way. Meanwhile, her personality as seen in visions etc probably says more about the characters imagining her than Jane herself.
183* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has teenage girls seducing grown men--though as these teenagers [[DawsonCasting are played by 20-something year old women]], the effect is somewhat muted.
184** Alison [=DiLaurentis=] was only 14 or 15 when she seduced Ian. (Though this is an AgeLift from the book, when she was only ''12''.) Among the other older men she had seduced are detective Holbrooke and Ezra. Deliberately played with Emily's crush on her.
185** Spencer is a more downplayed take on this trope--she not only hooks up with both of her big sister's fiancés, she is also flirty with her older sobriety sponsor and tries to get back on the Academic Decathelon team via strip trivia. Melissa lampshades it, and the actress herself refers to Spencer's "aggressive" sexuality in several interviews.
186** Jenna Marshall seduces officer Garret in order to protect herself from Allison, A, and just about anyone.
187* Karen Jackson in both the [[Series/ShamelessUK British]] and [[Series/ShamelessUS American]] versions of ''Shameless''.
188* Parker [=McKenna=] in ''Series/SixFeetUnder''.
189* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': Effy. Slightly scandalous, as the actress really ''was'' 14 at the time of filming--no DawsonCasting there![[note]]Note that the age of consent in the UK is 16 and having sex a year or two younger is exceedingly common.[[/note]]
190* Sugar in the first season of ''Series/SugarRush'', when she is 15 years old. By the time of the second season, [[TimeSkip she is 17-18]], so the trope no longer applies by that point.
191* ''Series/TotalRecall2070'': A runaway teenage girl becomes involved with a Virtual Reality bootlegger of sexual scenarios. The two cops put her up in android Farve's apartment for her safety, but she later tries to come on to him.
192* ''Series/TwinPeaks''
193** Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) is particularly infamous for the {{Double Entendre}}s that she aimed at almost every male she encountered in the series, and especially for the scene where she [[{{Fetish}} tied a cherry stem into a knot with her tongue]]--but just like Mena Suvari in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', it's all an act.
194** Except for her showing up naked in Agent Dale Cooper's bed.
195* ''Series/YediYuz'': In "Büyük Günahlar", fifteen-year-old Elif plays the part of fille fatale, enticing Aytaç into phone sex and thus ensnaring him in Mete's revenge scheme.
196* Ingrid in ''Series/YoungDracula''.
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200* The Music/{{ABBA}} song "Does Your Mother Know?" is about a man turning one down.
201* The Music/BoomtownRats' "Mary of the 4th Form" is an analysis of the trope.
202* The speaker's ex in the HipHop song "Slow Down" by Brand Nubian was this in her youth: "She was [[SexualEuphemism doin' lays]] [[{{Squick}} before she started]] [[NoPeriodsPeriod bleedin'."]]
203* Music/LanaDelRey's "Lolita" (arguably) uses this trope in full. While it's not outright stated if the singer is young, it can be implied from the title.
204* The [[Music/AmandaPalmer Dresden Dolls]] have fun with this trope in the song "Missed Me."
205* The dancehall song "Can't Satisfy Her" by I Wayne is about a prostitute who has been "strip dancing since she was just 11".
206* Music/JethroTull's "Cross Eyed Mary" is a school girl who "gets no kicks from little boys/Would rather make it with a leching grey"
207* The titular character of the Music/{{KISS}} song ''Domino''.
208* The song "Rock Queen" by Music/LoveHate is about an extremely promiscuous 13-year-old girl.
209* Music/ThePolice's "Don't Stand So Close to Me" uses this trope and even references Nabokov's "Lolita" in the line "Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov."
210* Music/ElvisPresley's song "Little Sister" is about a guy who has the [[SheIsAllGrownup grown-up]] younger sister of his FemmeFatale ex-girlfriend make passes at him.
211* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98QH7LdPeO0 "Beneath the perfumes and makeup, you've kept the secret of your youth. You've led me to believe you're old enough to give me love, and now it hurts to know the truth. Woah-oh-oh, young girl! Get out of my mind!]]" (Gary Puckett & Union Gap--[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Young Girl]]).
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215* ''{{Wrestling/GLOW}}'' had a character called Jailbait who never actually appeared on screen beyond a rap used in a reunion PPV. House show footage of her does exist, and she actually plays a GoodBadGirl as opposed to an outright {{Heel}}.
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219* {{Deconstructed|CharacterArchetype}} and PlayedForDrama in ''Theatre/SixTheMusical'' with Katherine Howard who is often remembered by the general public as a tramp who wasn't too bright. Except, as the show points out (along with several historians), she was ''fifteen'' when she married Henry (who was at this point well into middle age), and she allegedly lost her virginity to a twenty-three-year-old teacher when she was thirteen. Katherine's big song, "All You Wanna Do," is all about her various affairs with men who only wanted her for sex, and how she enjoyed it at first, simply because she didn't ''know'' any better. Every time, she tells herself, "this guy is different," but, as she slowly realizes, they never are. By the time she marries Henry, she really just wants a friend, and seems to find one in Thomas Culpeper. When she realizes he wants to sleep with her, too, she's crushed.
220* Ilse Neumann from ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' has shades of this, though played for tragedy, in the scene preceding [[spoiler:Moritz's suicide]]. After returning from the artists' colony and failing to reach out to Moritz, she resorts to unsuccessfully attempting to seduce him. Due to Ilse's childhood sexual abuse both by her father and the members of the artists' colony she ran away to in an attempt to escape him, it's implied that she believes the only way she can connect with people is by having sex with them.
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224* Misha of ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' seems like one, but [[spoiler:her true self is an adult and she's able to switch between her young and adult forms. She adopts a younger form through most of the game for various reasons, one of them being that she believed [[NiceGuy Lyner]] preferred her that way]].
225* Lola Lombardi from ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' fits this one. She's pretty overtly sexual and uses it to con money, gifts, grades, and whatever else she wants from the male students.
226* ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': [[spoiler:Monaca Towa]] uses [[spoiler:Nagisa Shingetsu]]'s [[PuppyLove crush on her]] to get him to do what she wants, and in one particular scene, she goes as far as to forcibly kiss him and rather distressingly indicates she'll grant [[spoiler:Nagisa]] sexual favors if he pleases her.
227* Remilia Scarlet from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is sometimes [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation portrayed]] as such by the fandom, with [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]] usually being the object of [[SleepingWithTheBoss her desire]]. She's a vampire who [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks like a young child]] which can be {{Squick}}.
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231* Illyasviel von Einzbern in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' very much enjoys watching Shiro squirm when she puts the moves on him in the anime series. Also an EnfantTerrible and a {{Tykebomb}}. It turns out that she's actually biologically ''older'' than the person she tries to seduce, and only [[OlderThanTheyLook looks like a young child]]. Even after that, she doesn't have her own H-scene; in the [[HaveANiceDeath Tiger Dôjô]], we're told that she was going to have an H-scene in that gorgeous bed, but her route was dropped in favor of expanding the Heaven's Feel route.
232** Chloe from the spin-off ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' is [[spoiler:a magical clone containing Illya's repressed memories and abilities as the Holy Grail, and is represented as such by her having the personality of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight's'' Illya in the Prisma Illya universe]]. As such she is just as precocious as her Visual Novel counterpart, but actually ''is'' as young as she looks, with all the {{Squick}} it entails. Thankfully her antics are PlayedForLaughs since ''PRISMA☆ILLYA'' is a LighterAndSofter entry in the ''Fate'' series, but some scenes have gotten the spin-off [[BannedInChina banned in other countries]] as child pornography (while Chloe is not the sole offender, she's easily the biggest).
233* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' seduced a childlike man at the age of 14 and forced him to [[spoiler:make a suicide pact for her]]. It's her MoralEventHorizon moment. To make things worse, she has plenty more where that came from, and the {{Ephebophile}} she dated (and who may or may not be mentally challenged) looks ''far'' more sympathetic than her [[spoiler:as he kills himself in court.]]
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237* ''Webcomic/BetterDays'' includes a girl who seduces the not-quite-old-enough main character and has sex with him repeatedly over the length of their relationship. Then, her abusive family is found out and she's sent off to foster care. The main character bears the psychic scars of his own abuse until he happens to meet her again... she's [[spoiler:been through counseling and a loving foster family that taught her all the right things, and she's making a go at her own career, well aware now of the wrongs of her past (both those done to her and those she did to others).]]
238* Blue from ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell''. She doesn't hesitate to use the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation skills]] learned by all children of the Green family to seduce Dave.
239* Gloria Goode from ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'' (at least she thinks so... she's had [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/248/ mixed results]] so far).
240* Larisa from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' likes to [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/06/07/0171-guilty-as-defended/ dress sexy to appeal to her male schoolmates]], has already smooched around a dozen of them, and [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/06/10/0172-not-a-role-model/ doesn't mind being called a slut]] for this sort of behavior. After she starts dating [[NiceGuy Landon]], she channels most of her teasing into PDA with her boyfriend.
241* Rose Crowley from ''Webcomic/TreadingGround'' ([[NotSafeForWork may be NSFW occasionally]]). It turns out that she is legal in her state by the time she starts chasing Nate Ashborne, but it is indicated that she lost her virginity long before then.
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245* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Dot Warner appears petite and adolescent and often flirts with other characters, including occasional deliberate double entendres and upskirt shots. Watching the program again as an adult can turn out to be extremely uncomfortable, although her actual age is not established (if the characters were born in the 1930s, they're ReallySevenHundredYearsOld).
246* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode Swiss Miss, the underage rich guy's daughter ISIS is trying to protect. She tries to seduce Archer, and given his ExtremeOmnisexual reputation he has a hard time convincing his colleagues that [[EveryoneHasStandards Even He Has Standards]]. As the show spoofs spy movies, she may have been inspired by Bibi (Lynn-Holly Johnson) from ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.
247* Lolita and Tanqueray from ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' use their sex appeal to manipulate the titular duo in no less than three episodes.
248* With assistance from Ms. Bellum, ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' employ this to defeat and destroy the Rowdyruff Boys.
249* Jessica Lovejoy from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Amongst boys smitten by her, she falls right into the role of femme fatale, and isn't afraid to use it.
250* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s 19th season, the BigBad, [[spoiler:Leslie]], is able to charm both Jimmy and Kyle into helping her, all while seeming like an innocent victim. As a [[spoiler:sapient advertisement]], she's really good at manipulating people.
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