'''Basic Trope''': A female character falls in love with or feels very attracted to a 'bad boy' (i.e. a male character with dysfunctional, aggressive, socially discouraged, or outright criminal character traits), usually choosing him over a 'nice guy'.
* '''Straight''': The female character falls in love with a rebel.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The female character falls in love with {{Satan}}. How's ''that'' for exaggeration!?
** A female who's InLoveWithYourCarnage.
** ...[[IncompatibleOrientation even the]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay lesbians]]
* '''Downplayed''': She rejects a NiceGuy for being too boring in favour of a JerkAss, for a while, at least.
* '''Justified''':
** She fell in love with him [[FreudianExcuse because]] [[LikeParentLikeSpouse her father]] [[FreudianExcuse abused her]], thus resulting in a cycle of attraction to abusive men.
** She's hardly a paragon herself; BirdsOfAFeather [[UnholyMatrimony flock together]].
** It's a JerkassFacade, beneath the gruff exterior, the guy is a prize.
** We're seeing the "nice guy's" point of view and [[UnreliableNarrator he sees the guy as worse than he really is]].
** DatingWhatDaddyHates / ShockValueRelationship
* '''Inverted''':
** SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
** Or the Good Boy loves the Bad Girl.
** Or, for the potential GenderFlip, [[DefrostingIceQueen Good Boy Loves Cold Girl]].
** Or the NiceGuy is only a ChickMagnet for Bad Girls.
** VillainessesWantHeroes, for an exaggerated inversion.
* '''Subverted''':
** The woman seems to have fallen for the bad boy...but she's actually into someone else, he was misinterpreting all the signs.
** The man was a HeroWithBadPublicity
** See Justified #4: the "nice guy" point of view
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...but, later, she falls for him anyway.
** Bob is a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
** It turns out that the guy, telling us that the "nice" guy was an UnreliableNarrator, is the ''true'' UnreliableNarrator!
* '''Parodied''':
** A woman falls in love with a man because he forgot to pay a parking ticket (or some other similarly minor 'bad' trait), this making him a 'bad boy' in her eyes.
** Alternatively: a man goes to ludicrously extreme lengths to present himself as a 'bad boy' in order to attract a woman's interest. This includes kicking babies in the face, setting kitties on fire, blowing up buses full of nuns, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment playing whiny protest songs from the 60's]]. '''And it works!'''
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Alice has an obvious crush on her friend Bob, the bad boy of the school (he has yet to tell anyone but Alice that he just likes the fashion), but then Bob's put into a situation that is out of the law's hands. Alice is against all of this, [[AntiHero seeing that it's changing him]], and abandons him. Later, she gets attracted to him anyway. Doesn't help that she's also attracted to [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Charlie]] and Bob gets a new friend, [[OutlawCouple Darlene]]. Charlie has his eyes more on [[{{Tsundere}} Darlene]] than on Alice. The Creators try to get Yaoi demographic by introducing [[DracoInLeatherPants Eddy]], the [[BigBad Bigger Bad Boy]] who's involved in a HoYay LoveTriangle with Bob and Charlie. [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Alice and Darlene]] also have their own LesYay going on.
** Alice in love with Bob the {{Jerkass}}. But then it turns out Charlie the so-called "nice" guy is just an UnreliableNarrator who is in love with Alice. It turns out the person who called Charlie out was the real UnreliableNarrator all along. But apparently (s)he wasn't lying about Charlie making up all that stuff up about Bob. Then it turns outs he wasn't making all that stuff up, Bob was just picking on Charlie because he hates his guts.
* '''Averted''': There is no single 'bad boy' character; the woman's romantic options are between flawed but decent men.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to soften this criminal character up, so he has a reason to clean up his act. Maybe make one of the supporting female characters fall for him?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Of course, she loves him; bad boys are sexy, everyone knows that!"
* '''Invoked''': A guy tries to build up a bad boy image to get a girl to like him.
* '''Exploited''': ReformedRakes
* '''Defied''': "What, you think your attitude turns me on? No, thanks, unlike the girls that fawn on you, I have some self-respect."
* '''Discussed''': "It's weird, isn't it, how women seem to be really attracted to bad guys?"
* '''Conversed''': "That character is ''dreamy''! He's such a rebel!"
* '''Deconstructed''':
** A woman falls in love with a bad boy and runs away with him, only to be trapped in an unhappy relationship as the man physically and emotionally abuses her, cheats on her, and ruins her life.
** [[TruthInTelevision Because]] there are girls that like bad boys, some guys say this is the reason they're in friend zone despite never asking them out. While some go as far as thinking they're [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to hot chicks]] just because they're nice or at least (in some cases) think they are, but will never phrase it like that. This causes people to either judge women for dating bad guys mainly because they think it makes dating harder for them (and less-so because the guys are more likely to treat them like crap) or the guys who complain about it even though some might genuinely concerned with the UnfortunateImplications.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** A woman falls in love with a bad boy and runs away with him, only to be trapped in an unhappy relationship as the man physically and emotionally abuses her, cheats on her, and ruins her life. She then meets ''another'' bad boy who genuinely loves her and treats her well.
** Jane is abused by John, but all the {{Nice Guy}}s look the other way; Jack, BadAss and dangerous, stops him and teaches her to fight him on her own, and they form a BattleCouple.
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