Chick and dude magnets in literature.
Male
- G from the Agent G series is this, as befitting a James Bond Expy. He has numerous affairs with his beautiful secretary, female cybernetic assassins, and other women that all seem to swoon over him. This even applies when he crosses dimensions in The Tournament of Supervillainy, in which the lead of Bright Falls Mysteries and he have an affair.
- Ayato Amagiri from The Asterisk War earns the affections of several girls across the Asterisk city. He is aware of it but is already devoted to Julis Riessfeld, who is too prideful to admit her affections.
- Jerin Whistler of A Brother's Price is a young man approaching the age of marriage in a world where such creatures are rare and treasured and guarded so as to protect them from "husband raids". When he goes out with his sisters to protect him he gets a lot of stares. In this world well-to-do women will see very few men; maybe their father and grandfather, if they're lucky their brother or husband, if they're very lucky their son, so any man with both eyes and all his teeth would be seen as exotic and attractive, but it's later confirmed that Jerin really is good looking even with other males to compare him to. A lot of people go after him over the course of the book, and it's a decided cause of stress and anguish, especially when he's kidnapped.
- Chalion: Paladin of Souls presents Arhys dy Lutiz, who is blessed by the Father of Winter (god of leadership, justice, fatherhood, what engenders fatherhood, and so forth) to an almost embarrassing degree. The chain of events leading to his "condition" started when the sorceress sent to seduce his unmarried bastard half brother got a good look at him.
- The Change Room: Andrew, Eliza's husband, is a handsome, charming man who always draws women to him. He never cheats on her though.
- The Cold Moons:
- In his youth, Buckwheat was a handsome badger who many sows appreciated.
- Buckwheat's son Beaufort inherited his father's looks and, if anything, he's more handsome than his dad. He is fawned over, but he's dedicated to his wife Corntop.
- Deltora Quest: Lief was like this before and after he was King of Deltora, though he only had eyes for Jungle Girl Jasmine.
- Barda "the bear", is also one, though it took some time to find a women who matched his personality.
- Adin the first king was like this, due to being The Blacksmith hunk.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
- Bryce Anderson is very popular with girls, and Greg is jealous of him.
- Grandpa Heffley has at least 50 online-dating relationships going simultaneously. He accidentally invited a bunch of them to his apartment, even though he only wanted to invite one. This is partially because his retirement home's residents are mostly female, and so they are all competing for him.
- Jaume of The Dinosaur Lords is a head-turner whenever he goes, and Nuevaropa's fashion style making him a Walking Shirtless Scene off the battlefield doesn't hurt, either.
- Dirk Pitt Adventures: As demonstrated by this quote in Shock Wave:"Who else but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?"
- Vimes of Discworld does pretty well for himself, considering he's essentially a grumpy old sod. He manages to win the heart of the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork, three Uberwald sisters are rather interested in the prospects of him ravishing them, and even Vetinari's aunt makes a move!Oh dear, here we go again, thought Vimes. Why did I wait until I was married to become strangely attractive to powerful women? Why didn't it happen to me when I was sixteen? I could have done with it then.
- Laharl in the Disgaea Novels. It seems he was able to attract multiple girls, including, Etna, Flonne, Jade, and Sakura.
- Thomas Raith of The Dresden Files, supernaturally so. He tries to hold down a job like a normal person... and keeps losing his job when women throw themselves at him. He eventually solves it, in a rather hilarious but effective way. Harry Dresden himself subverts this trope. He has a surprising amount of offers over the course of his adventures, but most of them are from evil, usually supernatural women (or magical beings taking the form of women) who would use the opportunity to murder him or weaken him. Harry knows this, and it is why he's essentially sworn off having relationships (well, that and severe trauma involving the first woman he loved as a teen). Human women may be attracted to him in that way, but there aren't enough vanilla humans in the series to make that assumption.
- Mr. Christian Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey. Word of God says that the only women who aren't attracted to him are either related to him or are lesbians.
- Isaac Asimov's George and Azazel series has a story about a man who was made that by the titular demon (he redesigned his body chemistry to produce a lot of pheromones). Unfortunately, all the girls are extremely jealous... and he ends up with the strongest one (that is, all muscle and brothers to match — 7 to 8 feet tall).
- The Han Solo Trilogy: Han has six girlfriends in the books over just a few years, and he had been with other women before the first shown too. Many women are easily charmed by him, just by Han grinning and flirting lightly.
- Harry Potter:
- Harry, with Ginny Weasley, Cho Chang, Romilda Vane, Gabrielle Delacour and Moaning Myrtle.
- Hermione Lampshades it in Half-Blood Prince by telling him that he's 'never been more fanciable' now that everyone knows he was telling the truth, they can all see the scars on his hand from Umbridge's detentions, and he's hit a growth spurt between school years. Unfortunately, this new-found popularity comes with people like Romilda trying to slip him love potions.
- Cedric "Pretty Boy" Diggory, to the annoyance of the other boys (especially Harry when Cedric asks Cho out first).
- Ron Weasley, although he has little luck at first, becomes this after winning at Quidditch, but tones it back to win the heart of Hermione.
- Victor Krum, natural since he's a athlete superstar, even Hermione was attracted to him personality-wise.
- Neville Longbottom, no seriously after Taking a Level in Badass and slicing off Nagini the snake's head (the last piece of Voldermort's soul) pissing off the V man himself, Neville has a whole horde of admirers... Well it's not like the movies would do the same- HOLY SHIT
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- James Bond in the James Bond books by Ian Fleming almost goes without question. However, it should be noted this is actually subverted more than a few times. There are a couple of times he Does Not Get The Girl for reasons of fiance, disinterest, or lesbianism. Though the latter was subverted in one infamous case of Values Dissonance.
- Bertram Wooster from Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. (The TV series version has the advantage of Hugh Laurie's Puppy-Dog Eyes.) It's not as strange as it first sounds; Bertie's loaded, affable enough and not very hard on the eyes.
- Journey to Chaos: According to Nolien, he himself and his younger brother, Dosh, are the only boys in Heleti that are not crushing on their sister, Hailey. When she attends the Festival of Arin's Ascension in Dnnac Ledo, she quickly attracts admirers there as well.
- Spinnock Durav from the Kharkanas Trilogy, just barely out of the clueless territory. He is just old enough to join the Wardens of the Outher Reaches, walking eye candy — which the Warden's uniform just so happens to accentuate — and usually all smiles and flirting. It's not like he's trying, it's just the way he is, but he's got the attention of every female within sight.
- Finn in The Kingdom Keepers. In the first book, Willia, Charlene, and Amanda are all described as being attracted to him. Jez also flirts with him, and Maleficent notes it was sincere.
- Due to Kydd's swarthy looks, he attracts note his fair share of women.
- Lolita: Humbert Humbert, the narrating Villain Protagonist. According to himself, he's truly irresistible. It's a source of some irritation, given that he isn't all that interested in grown women. He assures readers that Lolita swoons over him, Charlotte falls for him passionately and becomes possessive, and their young neighbour Jean Farlow develops a crush on him and kisses him, and he's really popular with women wherever he goes.
- Mikael Blomkvist in the Millennium Series. The number of women falling over themselves to sleep with this financial journalist is incredible, and one can't help but feel that there is a certain amount of wish-fulfillment on author Stieg Larsson's part. In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, he is already having a long-term affair with his business partner Erika. Upon moving out to Hedeby island, he is quickly seduced by Cecilia Vanger, whom he has an ongoing relationship with throughout the book. Then Lisbeth comes to town as his research partner and ends up falling in love with the guy. In the sequel, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Blomkvist is sleeping with Harriet, the woman he had believed to be dead for 90% of the first book.
- Benjamin Avery, hero of The Pyrates. Every single woman in the book pursues him, from the pirate queen to the jungle princess, but he only has eyes for the admiral's daughter. For her he's not prepared to move beyond kissing until they're married.
- Quarters: Bannon is quite handsome, it's indicated, as many women he meets are soon smitten with him. He can easily bed women as a result.
- Realm of the Elderlings: FitzChivalry Farseer by the time of Fool's Errand has become one. He's more a Deconstruction, however, because far from being too innocent or even-handed to take advantage of it, he's too emotionally crippled to sustain any kind of romantic relationship, plus being too hung up on his lost love from the first trilogy. When he tries, he ends up sabotaging the relationship pretty severely.
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Just by the end of the first book, Oliver has become the apex of a Love Triangle between Nanao (mutual) and Katie (friend-zoned). On top of this, Chela sometimes amuses herself by flirting with him, his cousin Shannon is overtly affectionate with him, and even Vera Miligan briefly makes a pass at him in volume 3 (out of sheer interest in his incongruously strong abilities as a fighter).
- In Simon Hawke's The Reluctant Sorcerer trilogy, women far and wide find the main character endearing to no end, because his nature strikes them smack-dab in their maternal instinct.
- Túrin from The Silmarillion (expanded on in The Children of Húrin) catches the eye of most female characters he interacts with (Nellas, Larnach's unnamed daughter, Finduilas, and Níniel), although, him being Túrin, it either goes nowhere or ends badly each time.
- Song at Dawn: Dragonetz is popular with Alienor, Emerganda, and all of Alienor's ladies (including protagonist Estela).
- Sorcery and Cecelia: Georgina and Dorothea. The former is just that good-looking. The latter has a spell cast on her to make her irresistible to all men (and she hates it).
- Space Academy: Vance Turbo seems to attract a large variety of female attention with being telepath Leah's former boyfriend, hooking up with Action Girl Hannah, and also the ship's AI, Trish.
- Star Wars Legends: Multiple:
- Luke Skywalker, as you can see here. Akanah and Callista having sex with Luke is canon, and it's heavily implied Teneniel raped him. Jem, the jury's still out on — they fell in love, but she was killed off almost immediately. Mon Mothma was confident enough in Luke's relationship with Gaeriel that she tapped him to open negotiations with Bakura; she wasn't known for making political mistakes. He finally gets married (to Mara Jade) after something like 15+ years, but it doesn't turn off his charm. Even the Guys Want Him, apparently, given Isolder and Brakiss.
- Zeltrons welcome everyone with great enthusiasm — their culture's rules are love everyone, have fun, and if you have to kill, do it quickly and cleanly. But they are incredibly attracted to Luke Skywalker. They're a species of empaths, and the combination of his pureheartedness, fame, and the sheer, intoxicatingly sensual power of the Force in him makes them flock◊ and swarm◊ to him, males and females both. They welcome nearly anyone with great enthusiasm, sure, but especially him.
- Luke Skywalker, as you can see here
- Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy TM in an Exaggerated Trope to comic effect in the superhero parody series, The Supervillainy Saga. Gary is a hardcore nerd but is the object of adoration to multiple superheroines and supervillains, including the setting's version of Supergirl and Harley Quinn. Parodied a couple of times.Cindy: Gary, you'd be so much more attractive if you just shut up.
- The Syrena Legacy: When Galen enrolls in a human high school, half the girls in school develop crushes on him. During his break-up with Emma, he gets so much unwanted attention that he pretends he has a new girlfriend so they'll leave him alone.
- Tailchaser's Song:
- Tailchaser's friend Thinbone has a string of fela after him.
- Implied with Howlsong (who incidentally looks just like Thinbone). He at minimum has two female "friends" that he enjoys talking to.
- Sir Berit and Sir Bevier, from David Eddings' The Tamuli trilogy. In Bevier's case, he's well aware of his attraction to women but his religious scruples (he's aiming to convert from knight to priest at some point) mean he refuses to act on it. Berit is utterly naïve, still completely loyal to the ideal of his vows and completely unaware of the effect he has.
- In Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note, the Academic Athlete nature of Team KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them. Exaggerated by Kuroki, who, while chaste, seems to have the natural ability to charm schoolgirls wherever he goes.
- Holger Carlsen, the displaced-to-a-magical-world hero of Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, is bemused to find himself the object of eager affection from Morgan le Fay, an Elven enchantress, and a wholesome Swan May. Apparently he never had this much success with women in our world, which the narrator attributes to his having too much concern about hurting their feelings. This is at least partly due to a pair of enchantments placed on him at birth by The Fair Folk: to have the "gift of pleasing" and the "sensibility to return the affection he inspires."
- Tortall Universe: Nawat Crow in the Trickster's Duet. His innocence is compounded by the fact that he's a transformed crow and, in the beginning, misinterpreted kissing as mate-feeding and thought that a reasonable way to substantially increase the number of available warriors was to continuously mate and have nestlings. The fact that he's adorable doesn't hurt either.
- The Twilight Saga has mainly Edward Cullen. Just about any women in the series acknowledges that he's attractive, including Bella's human friends.
- In The Well at the World's End, nearly every female character comments on Ralph's attractiveness. It's said that his first Love Interest, the Lady of Abundance, will only love the man whom all women love.
Female
- 4 Kids in 5E and 1 Crazy Year: Ashley is a pleasant and unassuming girl whom Giovanni can spend uninterrupted periods of several minutes dreamily staring at. When Ashley is transferred to 5E, the sounds of dismay from many other boys in her old homeroom make it clear that Giovanni is far from the only one drawn to her that way.
- All the male cats around town in Cat Pack seem to be smitten with the pretty she-cat Carlotta.
- Doom Valley Prep School: Petra was transformed to be a cute girlfriend. This has made her rather attractive to the boys in her school. Then she was made even more attractive as part of a nasty prank. Having previously been a boy, she realizes just how attractive she is and hates it. She is still willing to use her looks when needed to survive the many dangers of being a student at a school for villains.
- Harry Potter: Both Ginny Weasley and Cho Chang are notably popular with the boys at Hogwarts.
- The titular character of Mercy Thompson has many male admirers, including Adam Hauptman, Dr. Samuel Cornick, Stefan Uccello, Tim Milanovich, and even her mentor Bran Cornick. Her relationship with the first two drives most of the romantic tension for the first three books. She settles down with Adam later in the series.
- Much Ado About Grubstake: Hotel owner Everdene Hannigan is a shapely middle-aged woman who attracts the amorous attention of almost every resident and visitor to town, most of which she finds annoying.
- In My Ántonia, we have Scandinavian beauty Lena Lingard. The first time she appears, Lena tempted away Ole from his crazy wife Mary, though unintentionally. Later in the novel, Jim (the narrator), her neighbor and her landlord are all in love with Lena at the same time. Men have always been attracted to her, but Lena is mostly indifferent and passive about it. She's very unconventional for her time, as she doesn't want to get married and has lovers, and becomes a successful seamstress.
- Margaret Hale from North and South, who turns down two marriage proposals during the course of the novel, one from her eventual husband, as well as drawing the attention of her father's friend Mr Bell.
- Cindy Wakowski herself in Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven. Cindy has dozens of lovers and no difficulty attracting heroes or villains of either sex. At one point she claims that she's slept with the Legend of Zelda's Link. This despite the latter being fictional in-universe.
- Tales of the Pack: Lexie is hit on and attractive to several lesbians she meets without doing anything.
- The Twilight Saga: Bella Swan has five boys in love with her (Edward, Jacob, along with other three Hopeless Suitors at her school). According to Edward, who has mind-reading abilities, most of the male population of Forks is attracted to her. Apparently even her science teacher fancies her.
- In The Valkyrie by Maria Semyonova, Zima, despite being an Action Girl in a Stay in the Kitchen culture and The Unfavorite in the family for that reason, finds out, to her own amazement, that many guys turn into Amazon Chasers after meeting her.
- Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy definitely attracts men in spades, for reasons good or bad. Including Jesse Zeklos, Mason Ashford, Dimitri Belikov , Adrian Ivashkov, Rolan Kislyak, Joshua Dawes, and a couple of minor admirers.
- Raven of Vampire Kisses has three guys after her at one time or another, the guys being Trevor, Jagger, and Alexander.
