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11	[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/TheScorpion https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mejai_8237.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney I feel her, I see her, the sun caught in her raven hair is blazing in me out of all control!]]"'']]
13	->''"From nowhere through a caravan\
14	Around the campfire light\
15	A lovely woman in motion\
16	With hair as dark as night\
17	Her eyes were like that\
18	Of a cat in the dark\
19	They hypnotize me with love\
20	She was a gypsy woman"''
21	-->-- '''Music/CurtisMayfield''', "Gypsy Woman"
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23	The UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} people have long had an ambiguous status in Western societies and popular culture: alien enough with their dress and on-the-road lifestyle to serve as a convenient Other, but geographically near at hand. As a result, they have been both vilified and exoticized. The stereotype of the Hot Gypsy Woman is an example of the latter.
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25	She typically has olive skin, dark hair which she wears loose, a low-waisted long skirt [[SexySlitDress with a slit up the side]], a low-cut [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine midriff-baring]] blouse, [[EarthyBarefootCharacter bare feet]], and plenty of jewelry. She also tends to have [[HotBlooded a fiery personality]] and to be overt in her sexuality, sometimes making her an EthicalSlut. She dances in a provocative way, sings, and strums guitar. She may make a living as a StreetPerformer doing music, magic tricks, juggling and telling fortunes. Some some may be involved in [[TheCon con schemes]].
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27	She is flirtatious and MoralGuardian types warn the local young men to avoid her as they say she is the "wrong type of girl". Indeed, the townspeople are warned about even going near the Romani's temporary encampment on the edge of town, where campfires burn all night and singing can be heard. If 19th-century adventure fiction and romances are to be believed, there is also something special about the eyes of these women, which are dark and variously described as large, beautiful, fascinating, and even hypnotizing.
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29	OlderThanSteam, the trope tends to be mostly encountered in stories set in the early modern era. In North America, almost the same archetype is used with a different ethnic origin as the SpicyLatina.
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31	Be aware that the term "Gypsy" is rejected by many if not most Romani people because of its negative connotations, and calling real Romani people by that name is likely to be considered offensive.
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35	!!Examples:
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37	%%[[folder:Advertising]]
38	%%* Referenced in the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20101228044616/http://www.bongda.com.vn/Data/Image/2010/Thang07/08/n-d1.jpg Fall 2010 advertisement campaign]] of the Soleil Sucré lingerie brand.
39	%%* Used in [[http://illamasqua.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-of-darkness-gypsy-queen.html this fall 2010 advertisement campaign]] for makeup brand Illamasqua.
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42	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
43	* Faye Valentine from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is not averse to using her good looks to lower men's guards down before she shows what she can do. She also claims to be Romani, though she has pale skin rather than dark. Subverted as an episode on her childhood implies she's actually from [[spoiler:Singapore]].
44	* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'': Subverted with Noah. She has the wavy black hair, attractive looks, dancing abilities, and dark skin, but otherwise doesn't fit expectations. Noah doesn't play up her sexuality or display many stereotypes. She wears either a conservative white or black gown and has a subdued personality. She was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] a love interest to Edward; however, that was scrapped in development, although in the finished film they're good friends.
45	* ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'': Irma is a red-haired and pale-skinned Romani woman who captures [[spoiler:Andréa]]/Count Red's heart after tending to his wounds. In his flashback, it's revealed he slowly fell in love with her while viewing her dancing with a tambourine.
46	* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Camila has unkempt, messy black hair and IcyBlueEyes. Her and her mother were discriminated against for being UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, but Lillas Craven was always kind to her.
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49	[[folder:Comic Books]]
50	* ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'': Hermine is a hot-tempered Romani girl with brown skin and black hair. She spends the first half of the series barefoot and doesn't hesitate to use her charms to get her ways. She is quite chaste, though, and deeply in love with Don Lope.
51	%%* ComicBook/DoctorDoom's mother, Cynthia Von Doom, based on flashbacks.
52	%%* ''[[ComicBook/GypsiesOfTheHighSeas Gypsies of the High Seas]]'': The [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twin sisters]] Angelina and Leane.
53	%%* Played with in ''Gypsy''. The hero is Romani, whose sister looks nothing like the standard attractive Romani woman, but the evil DarkActionGirl looks a lot like Mejai (despite being Arabic).
54	* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
55	** Gypsy is part Romani with dark skin and loose black hair. Her original costume consists of an off-the-shoulder blouse, a slit skirt, bare feet, and lots of jewelry. She later changes it to something less stereotypical.
56	** ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} is [[DependingOnTheWriter (usually)]] portrayed to be Italian-Roma, and she's one of the biggest MsFanservice in the DCU. Although she's a witch, a typical trait for Romani characters, her magic isn't particularly tied to her Romani roots, and in general doesn't [[DownplayedTrope behave very stereotypically.]]
57	%%* ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'': A hot Romani gets a crush on the main character.
58	%%* Franchise/MarvelUniverse: Lilia, witch-queen of the Romani.
59	* ''ComicBook/Avengers'': Scarlet Witch has long been established as having Romani ancestry. However, the idea of her being sultry did not come in until the George Perez designed costume from ''ComicBook/TheAvengersKurtBusiek''. It looked like a stereotypical Romani dancing girl outfit. Supposedly, it was to 'honor her Romani heritage'.
60	* ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'': A Gypsy assassin who plays with the ancient idea that the Gypsies emerged from Egypt, Mejai uses her beauty as a weapon almost as much as her [[MasterPoisoner poisons]]. Her appearance hits all of the stereotypes: olive skin, loose wavy black hair, a low-cut, midriff-baring top, a low-waisted skirt slit to the hip, bare feet and lots of jewelry.
61	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The "Irish Gypsy" (Irish Traveler) woman who reads the Holliday Girls' palms is drawn as a quite attractive young woman with long wavy black hair who goes quite far out of her way to help save her boyfriend.
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64	[[folder:Fan Works]]
65	[[AC:Crossover]]
66	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': Subverted with Wanda Maximoff. She's half Romani and is notably, and famously, beautiful. However, her clothing is more practical than sexualised, and while she certainly has a temper, in that respect she more closely resembles her German-Jewish father, Magneto.
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68	[[AC:''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'']]
69	* ''Fanfic/BloodTiesFullmetalAlchemist'': Noa was a pretty Romani woman living in Germany during the Great War. One day, a group of men decided to attack her, rape her, and leave her for dead. She would have died if a pitying [[{{Dhampyr}} dhampir]] hadn't saved her by making her one of his own. Since then, she has been living as a somber half-vampire who barely interacts with normal humans anymore.
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71	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'']]
72	* Esmeralda ''again'' in ''Fanfic/HeavensLight,'' but somewhat downplayed. The three men who showed an interest in her in canon- [[UglyCute Quasimodo]], [[TheGoodCaptain Captain Phoebus]] and [[KnightTemplar Frollo]]- are not interested in her here. She still does a sensual dance at the Festival of Fools, but she directs it towards [[HoYay the Queen of Corona instead]] of Frollo. [[spoiler:She does get PromotedToLoveInterest of GentlemanThief Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert, though.]]
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74	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
75	* Pinkie Pie is Romani in ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' and is implied to be an attractive mare. She initially hides her heritage but it's an OpenSecret. Cult leader Fluttershy has a VillainousCrush on her. Both Pinkie and Fluttershy are [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to Esmeralda and Frollo from Disney's adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}''.
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78	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
79	%%* ''WesternAnimation/GypsyLife'': The one noticeably female mouse is busty and leggy, wears a yellow shirt with a red skirt, and shakes a tambourine while dancing to the music of another mouse playing violin.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': Esmeralda is a spirited young Romani woman described by Clopin as [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman "the finest girl in France"]]. She has dark skin, loose black hair, a voluptuous figure, bare feet[[note]]although she wears shoes in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameII''[[/note]], and low-cut off-the-shoulder outfits adorned with golden jewelry, including the [[LadyInRed tight red dress]] during her provocative dance at the Feast of Fools. Out of the three main characters who are attracted to her, Frollo is conflicted between his belief of himself as a righteous man, his genocidal hatred of her people, and his lust for her [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny before deciding to burn her alive]] [[IfICantHaveYou if she refuses to be his]].
81	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'': Melody and a few background Romani women.
82	%%* ''WesternAnimation/PigsInAPolka'': One of the wolf's disguises. The pigs aren't fooled.
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85	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
86	* In ''Film/CaptainKronosVampireHunter'', Kronos's love interest Carla's ethnicity is not explicitly stated. However, her HotBlooded personality, [[PrefersGoingBarefoot dislike of shoes]], and first appearance being persecuted by puritanical locals for immodest dancing in public, all imply that she is an example.
87	* Venus in ''Film/{{Cartouche}}'', played by a 23 year old Creator/ClaudiaCardinale. She's attractive, she has an olive skin and dark hair, the clothes, the dancing skills and the expected hot temper.
88	* Downplayed example with [[DarkActionGirl Celeste]] in ''Film/CryOfTheWerewolf'', who is descended from Marie LaTour, a Werewolf of wealthy French-American origin who murdered her husband (over him having found her HumanToWerewolfFootprints) and then ran away to join a local band of gypsies. Celeste is presumably of mixed Roma/Cajun ancestry, and is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, but has a position of authority within her gypsy community (being deferentially called "Princess"), is fully assimilated into their culture, and wears eastern European clothing almost exclusively.
89	* Esmeralda, the central character of the barely comprehensible gypsy curse subplot in ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'', is played by 1970s Spanish sex symbol Lina Romay in her first big screen role
90	* The two scantily-clad Romani women who fight over a lover in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', inflicting copious ClothingDamage in the process. The situation is dissolved with Film/JamesBond's charm.
91	%%* Sabina from ''Gadjo Dilo'', a film by Tony Gatlif.
92	%%* Marlene Dietrich is this in ''Golden Earrings''.
93	%%* Rada in ''Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven'' wouldn't look out of place in a Bollywood musical, and so looks rather out of place among the rest of the cast.
94	* ''Film/DoctorSleep'': Rose the Hat is implied to be Romani. Dick says that her kind used to ride camels in the Middle East (referencing the apocryphal belief that Romani descend from Egypt) and later rode caravans in Eastern Europe. She wears a top hat and a lot of beaded jewelry, coinciding with some typical patterns of dress for Romani in media. She's also extremely beautiful (being played by Creator/RebeccaFerguson), which is commented on in the story. Additionally, she’s often seen walking barefoot around her camp.
95	* In ''Film/LaHabanera'', the presence of a hot Romani woman singing the local "habanera" music on the docks leads Astrée to make an impulsive decision to get off the ship back to Sweden, and instead stay in Puerto Rico.
96	%%* Creator/RitaHayworth played the TropeCodifier in ''The Loves of Carmen'', the 1948 adaptation of the ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}''.
97	* Simza Heron, played by Creator/NoomiRapace, in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. She [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished maintain her good looks]] in spite of living outside of civilization. However, she proves to be an intelligent and competent ally and not used as a MsFanservice or love interest.
98	%%* Creator/KariWuhrer plays one in ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''.
99	* Anna, the Romani princess of ''Film/VanHelsing.'' Played by the gorgeous Creator/KateBeckinsale, she spends most of the film clad either is a [[OfCorsetsSexy sexy corset]] or GorgeousPeriodDress. Also one of Dracula's brides Marishka used to be Romani too, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the actress that plays her]], and she averts the typical stereotypes associated with Romani, such as having fair skin and blonde hair.
100	* ''Film/VillageByTheRiver'': A comic interlude has Deaf Cis meeting a voluptuous Romani woman by the river. She lies down on the bank not far away from him, spreads her legs, and basically waves her vagina at him. Later, she follows him into his houseboat, asks for food, and gives him sex as payment. The next morning has Cis wake up to find that the Romani woman has left and hitched back on to her caravan.
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103	[[folder:Literature]]
104	* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Subverted with Esmeralda. Although she fits the appearance, [[TheIngenue she is quite innocent and a virgin]], rather than fiery and worldly. Furthermore, [[spoiler:she was raised by the Romani, but is not one by birth]]. Adaptations tend to have her play the trope straighter, though.
105	%%* "Makar Chudra", a short story by Maxim Gorky, is essentially about the ill-fated romance between the proud and fierce Romani Radda and the proud and charming Romani man Loyko Zobar.
106	* ''Literature/MichaelStrogoff'' has Sangarre:
107	-->''Near him, the Romani Sangarre, a thirty-year-old woman, dusky of skin, tall, statuesque, with magnificent eyes and gilded hair, stood in a superb posture... Romani women are generally attractive, and more than one prominent Russian landlord, who profess to emulate the British in eccentricity, hasn't hesitated to pick his wife among their number.''
108	* In ''Literature/SixOfCrows'', Inej Ghafa is Suli, which is a FantasyCounterpartCulture to the Romani people. Her DarkAndTroubledPast is that she was enslaved at 14, where she was sold to a brothel that deliberately invoked this trope for its customers.
109	%%* Angelina Lemke from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'' (to prove that, look up and see who plays her in TheMovie).
110	* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': women of the Tuatha'an ("Tinkers" or "the Traveling People") are skilled dancers specializing in a sensual, hip-rolling dance called the tiganza, often performed barefoot. Unusually, they combine the nomadic lifestyle, painted wagons, colorful dress, and seductive dance of the Romani with another people of Indian origin, the Jain, as shown by their vegetarian diet and pacifism, as [[spoiler: the last of the Jenn Aiel]].
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113	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
114	* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Edmund's autobiography is, shall we say, ''slightly'' embellished with this trope.
115	-->''It's a steaming rollercoaster of a novel, crammed with sizzling gypsies!''
116	* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', Little Joe rescues and falls for a young Romani girl who is believed to be a witch by her people because strange events happen around her. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a hoax perpetrated by her spurned lover, whom Little Joe is forced to kill. She is proven innocent and goes back to her family, which is probably the best way for Joe to fall victim to the CartwrightCurse]].
117	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Downplayed with [[MagicalRomani Jenny Calendar]] but it is there--she has the dark hair and exotic beauty, and StuffyBrit Giles has an UptightLovesWild attraction to her.
118	%%** Though we don't see her (until a flashback in ''Series/{{Angel}}''), the Romani that Angelus tortured and ate most certainly counts as all we know about her is that she was beautiful, a Romani, dumb, and her death was enough of an insult for her clan to curse Angelus with his soul and the remnants to dedicate their lives to maintaining said curse.
119	* ''Series/{{Copper}}'': Lola is one of the prostitutes employed by Eva. Lola claims that her passionate nature in bed is a result of Romani blood.
120	* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Irena is a very attractive Romani immortal, who sadly is raped by a mortal, prompting her husband's revenge.
121	* The IMF employed hot Romani acrobat Crystal Walker in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' two-parter "Old Man Out". Crystal staged a prolonged CatFight with Cinnamon Carter as a distraction.
122	* In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/CatalinaCaper'', Tom Servo has a crush on the ethnically-ambiguous "Creepy Girl", and sings to her:
123	--> Oh, what are you, Creepy Girl? Are you French, or Italian, or one of those swarthy Gypsy types? Heh heh.
124	* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': The Shelby family is part-Roma and have many contacts among the Roma community. So it's not a huge surprise that when John Shelby is widowed and requires a bride, his older brother, Tommy, selects Esme Lee, a member of the Roma Lee clan, to be his brother's wife. Although John is pissed at first, he perks up when Esme proves to be really hot and ''really'' passionate in bed. In a realistic subversion, her clothing isn't particularly sexy, though.
125	%%* Chilean {{Telenovela}} ''Romané'' is about a Romani community that are installed into a town in the north, in which the protagonist, a Romani MrsRobinson who got over a heredity vow of vengeance against the father of one of her three daughters and felt in love with his younger brother, who's a Catholic priest in the town. She, as well her daughters, take this trope straight, and even some of the young Romani men of their community, which are male examples of this trope.
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128	[[folder:Music]]
129	%%* Creator/BennyHill's "Rachel": PlayedForLaughs
130	* Blackmore's Night's "Sister Gypsy":
131	-->''And she danced through the wood\
132	Like a gypsy girl should,\
133	And she laughed in the face of the fire\
134	Under the black velvet skies\
135	With the moon in her eyes,\
136	Head held high, tambourine held higher.''
137	%%* Music/BobDylan's [[http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home#us/songs/one-more-cup-coffee-valley-below "One More Cup of Coffee"]]
138	%%* Music/{{Cher}}:
139	%%** "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q I was born in the wagon of a traveling show...]]"
140	%%** "Dark Lady" [[http://www.lyricsdepot.com/cher/dark-lady.html Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done....]]
141	%%* "My Maria" (originally by B.W. Stevenson, CoveredUp by Muysic/BrooksAndDunn): "Gypsy lady, you're a miracle worker for me."
142	%%* Literature/ChildBallads: Gender inverted with the male protagonist of the Scottish border ballad "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies". He seduces a lord's wife and persuades her to run away with him.
143	%%-->''"What care I for my house and my land,\
144	%%What care I for my money, oh?\
145	%%I'd rather have a kiss from the yellow Gypsy's lips,\
146	%%I'm away with the raggle taggle gypsies, oh!"''
147	* Music/CurtisMayfield's "Gypsy Woman" (later covered by Brian Hyland and Music/{{Santana}}):
148	-->''"From nowhere through a caravan\
149	Around the campfire light\
150	A lovely woman in motion\
151	With hair as dark as night\
152	Her eyes were like that\
153	Of a cat in the dark\
154	They hypnotize me with love\
155	She was a gypsy woman"''
156	* Don Williams' "I Recall A Gypsy Woman":
157	-->''"I recall a gypsy woman\
158	Silver spangles in her eyes\
159	Ivory skin against the moonlight\
160	And the taste of life's sweet wine"''
161	%%* George Gershwin's "Beautiful Gypsy".
162	* Gino D'Auri's [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flamenco-passion-soul/id88568746 "La Paternera"]] tells the tale of an exotic Romani singer who bring misfortune to her lovers.
163	* Music/HilaryDuff's "Gypsy Woman":
164	-->''"She can swallow knives, she can swallow lives\
165	Golden black stare, but the night of your demise\
166	Try to run away with the gypsy woman\
167	Good today but gone for good\
168	Can't get away with the gypsy woman"''
169	* Music/{{Shakira}}'s "Gypsy":
170	-->''"I'm a gypsy\
171	But are you coming with me\
172	I might steal your clothes and wear them if they fit me\
173	I never made agreements just like a gypsy\
174	And I won't back down 'cause life's already hurt me\
175	And I won't cry\
176	I'm too young to die\
177	If you're gonna quit me"''
178	* Tim Buckley's "Gypsy Woman":
179	-->''"Mama, every time you turn around the fire.\
180	Mama, keep me in between the devil and the sky.\
181	And every time you look my way,\
182	Mama how you hypnotize."''
183	* Tino Rossi's "Bohémienne aux yeux noirs":
184	-->''"Bohemian with big dark eyes\
185	Your dusk-colored hair\
186	And the sheen of your brown skin\
187	Are prettier than the moonlight\
188	Bohemian with big dark eyes\
189	I shivered with tender hope\
190	I would like you to be mine"''
191	* Enrico Macias' "Zingarella":
192	-->''"Zingarella romantica\
193	When you dance open your arms\
194	All the boys around you\
195	Zingarella, zingarella\
196	Zingarella, bellissima\
197	Your black hair, your lilac eyes\
198	Shine the night like a wood fire\
199	Zingarella, zingarella..."''
200	* The Romani "queen" from ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', described in "The Hawker (Eyesight To The Blind)" and fleshed out in "Acid Queen". She combines this trope with elements of the SnakeOilSalesman, using acid (and, according to some interpretations, sex) to "cure" the underaged protagonist of his blindness and deafness.
201	-->''"I'm the gypsy, the Acid Queen,\
202	Pay before we start!\
203	I'm the gypsy, I'm guaranteed\
204	To tear your soul apart!"''
205	* Music/BrokenIris' song "Gypsy" compares the mystical and alluring woman that the singer is in love with to a mysterious, attractive Romani woman:
206	-->''She don't sleep at night; she waits for the sun\
207	Dances away all his demons when the angels are sleeping\
208	Dare you stay in her eyes, she'll read your mind; hypnotize\
209	Like a gypsy creeping through the night, she'll steal your heart\
210	She still has mine''
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213	%%[[folder:Pinball]]
214	%%* Played with in ''Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted''; one of the paranormal investigators is a GranolaGirl with psychic powers who likes to dress up as a Romani.
215	%%* Creator/SternElectronics' ''Pinball/StarGazer'' is centered on a stereotypical Hot Romani Woman {{Astrologer}}. Her only deviation from the trope norm is her light skin tone.
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218	%%[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
219	%%* Wrestling/{{GLOW}}: Little Egypt.
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222	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
223	* The Crimson Rose in ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' is a Vistani woman, which are the FantasyCounterpartCulture of the Romani and considered one of two most exotically beautiful women in the Carnival, the other being the [[SnakesAreSexy snake/elf babe Silessa]]. She has the power to [[CharmPerson enchant any men with her dances]], but unfortunately, she is also cursed to fly into a murderous rage whenever they make a move on her.
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226	[[folder:Theatre]]
227	* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'': Carmen is a gypsy woman as iron-willed as she is alluring, and she will only give her love to the man she chooses, who might be a different man tomorrow than today. [[spoiler:Tragically, in the end, this leads to her death at the hands of her scorned lover Don José.]]
228	%%* Though ''Il trovatore'' has no characters of this type, the "Anvil Chorus" sings the praises of "la zingarella." It's surprisingly chaste, though - "Who makes a gypsy's day brighter than the sun?", with no allusion to anything spicier than that. And the Romani woman character isn't this at all - she's traumatized and bent on revenge.
229	%%* ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'' originally had Hope compare herself to one in "The Gypsy In Me," though revivals remove the song or reassign it to Sir Evelyn.
230	%%* Zerbinette in Moliere's ''Les Fourberies de Scapin''.
231	%%* The title character of the opera ''LaZingara'' by Donizetti.
232	%%* The Soviet Union had founded [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romen_Theatre an entire]] [[http://www.teatr-romen.ru/ theatre]] specifically for performances involving Russian Romani musicians and artists and about the life of Russian Romani generally. But while the [[http://english.svenko.net/svenko/bios/12-Lera_Janisheva_17.jpg female performers]] [[http://www.svenko.net/svenko/gallery1/foto01.jpg are a living embodiment]] of this trope, [[TheCoconutEffect they are a far way]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic from their real, nomadic]] brethren, even more [[http://svenko.net/img/nomad/madjar001.jpg visible]] [[http://english.svenko.net/nomad/trip1.htm when they're together]].
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235	[[folder:Video Games]]
236	* ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara'': The second title of Creator/{{Capcom}} series, ''Shadows Over Mystara'', introduces the party's thief Moriah, who has the complete stereotype: olive skin, dark-black hair, generous curves, a red midriff-baring top, some jewelry on her neck and wrist... and of course, being the FragileSpeedster of the party.
237	%%* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', [[PlayerCharacter Ezio]] can hire groups of these women to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract guards]].
238	%%* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
239	%%** Maya and Meena in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' each have a profession that fits Romani stereotypes as well: Maya's a dancer, and Meena's a fortune teller.
240	%%** Aira in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII''.
241	%%* Tethys from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' is basically a played straight example of this trope, with a little implied HookerWithAHeartOfGold thrown in, and her skin isn't all that dark.
242	%%* Dahna from ''VideoGame/GrandiaIII''.
243	%%* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonMagicalMelody'': Gender inverted with Dan. He's an attractive dark-skinned traveler with a bandanna who works at a vineyard and is the rival for the local bartender Eve. He fancies himself a lady's man, but it's vague whether he [[CasanovaWannabe actually is one]].
244	%% Please explain about the Romani part.
245	%%* Jean from ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue''.
246	%%* Rouge from ''VideoGame/PowerStone''.
247	%%* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'':
248	%%** When you visit the gypsy camp after freeing Davy from being [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]], you meet one of these who dances with you, and Davy later says that she is his mate.
249	%%** Gender inverted with Davy.
250	%%** Magda in her youth. Even now she's [[SilverFox described as still having it]].
251	* Rose from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', introduced in the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series as the [[LiteralSplitPersonality good part]] of M. Bison, one of the BigBad of the series. Rose is an Italian fortuneteller who also has psychic powers (called Soul Power, the GoodCounterpart of Bison's Psycho Power) and fits the stereotype in various aspects (like the voluptuous figure, the legs, and a Romani-like attire), also being considered the MagicalRomani of the series. Additionally, one of her alternate outfits in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' is Rose dressed as ''Shadows Over Mystara'''s Moriah.
252	%%* Zafina from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''.
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254
255	%%[[folder:Webcomics]]
256	%%* ''Webcomic/RasputinBarxotka'': Tatiana Vasiliyeva.
257	%%* ''Webcomic/SinFest'': Monique dresses up as one to become...[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-11 Gypsy'nique!]]
258	%%* ''Webcomic/ZitaTheSpacegirl'': Lady Madrigal is a G-rated version, a badass space-circus owner and performer.
259	%%[[/folder]]
260
261	%%[[folder:Web Original]]
262	%%* ''WebOriginal/TheBookOfStoriesOCT'': Ophelia probably qualifies.
263	%%[[/folder]

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