Those who Have a Type in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Admiral (Veriseple): While this doesn't actually apply to Taylor, Danny points out during a rather awkward conversation that since most of her shipgirls manifest as pretty blonde girls with blue eyes, people are likely to assume this about her... among other things.
- Auburn Strands And Red Threads: As she finds herself falling for Inuyasha, Orihime starts to wonder if she's got a thing for scowly-faced men who act tough, but are secretly really good guys deep down.
- In Avengers of the Ring, both of Denethor's sons turn out to have similar tastes. Faramir falls for and eventually marries Eowyn, a shieldmaiden of Rohan, while Boromir does the same with Sif, a shieldmaiden of Asgard.
- The author's notes of Chapter 43 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant lampshade that between her previous crush on Jaune and her infatuation with Yang, Pyrrha probably has a thing for blondes.
- break this heavy chain: Leon's narration admits that he has a tendency to fall for mysterious types like Ada and Vergil. At one point, Chris admits to Leon that he's not particularly surprised to learn that Vergil is Nero's father since he knows what type of people Leon is attracted to.
- In Child of the Storm, Harry tends to be magnetically attracted to snarky badasses - sheer force of will is the main requirement. They're also often blonde (even his Hot Teacher Betsy Braddock is actually a natural blonde under the purple hair dye), something suggested to be due to a childhood watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer repeats at Mrs Figg's. Since Carol is blonde, very snarky, and badass with sufficient force of will to not only wield the Green Lantern ring but subconsciously use it to resist dying, the UST is near immediate and inevitable.
- Dressed To Steal: It's revealed during the Thieves in Time arc that all the Coopers like women who are just like Carmelita, meaning that Sly has to put up with all of his ancestors flirting with his wife.
- Naturally found in Has a Type, wherein Jermaine grapples with the notion that he has a thing for Bespectacled Cuties.
- In Honey and Vinegar, Dracula has a thing for women with an extreme sense of determination and bravery. His lost love, Elizabetha, clung to her life for as long as she could before she finally succumbed to her illness, and Lisa bravely crossed far into Dracula's territory and demanded to be taught proper medicine.
- In Incarnation of Legends, Bell realizes that he has a thing for strong, independent women with golden blonde hair after meeting the Radiance, staring speechlessly at her face until this is pointed out to him. Unfortunately, the "strong, independent" part means that Haruhime is off the list immediately, as he just cares for her as his first friend.
- Fans of Jim Bader’s work have used Katsuhito’s crush on Misaki and marriage to Airi to determine what Cologne’s mother Bha-Alm was like.
- Ten Centuries Apart
: After learning that his cousin Supergirl is now dating Brainiac 5, Superman thinks that his old friend has a type for heroic Kryptonians, given Brainiac's crush on him when they were teenagers but Clark failed to notice until years later. - The There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton universe establishes Dipper Pines as having a thing for redheads, given that in addition to his childhood crush on Wendy, he ends up in a committed relationship with Tulip Olsen when they meet in college.
- A Throne Nobody Wants: Dany notes that all of the women in his harem could be considered contenders for the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, Buffy asks Kara about her love life. After hearing at least two of her suitors were green-skinned, Buffy remarks she's kind of detecting a pattern there:Buffy: What does he look like?
Supergirl: He's blonde.
Buffy: That's nice.
Supergirl: Green skin, too.
Buffy: Am I beginning to see a trend here? - An erotic fanfic in which the Seventh Doctor and Mel are partner-swapping with Columbo and Mrs. Columbo notes that Mel likes short, dark men and Seventh likes redheads.
- In Foxfire, Jet discovers that he has a thing for people who are both skilled fighters and deeply compassionate, being attracted to both Katara and Li.
- Common People makes all of the Robins Related in the Adaptation to Bruce. Unfortunately, Bruce has a tendency to fall for women with rather nasty temperaments. Jason came from his relationship with Sheila Haywood (though Catherine Todd claimed responsibility), Tim from Janet Drake, and Damien from Talia al Ghul. Only Dick's mother averts the trend.
- Danny Phantom Vs The Paranormal downplays this. While he's attracted to other girls, Danny wonders whether the fact he was so immediately attracted to Sam, Ember, and Ellie upon meeting each of them means he has a thing for goth girls.
- Sparks Fly has Parasite lampshading Superman's tendency to feel attracted to women with "L" names, as he lays eyes upon Leslie Willis.
- Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Ampie duPris attends a selection test for an assisted place at the faraway Assassins' Guild School in Ankh-Morpork. One of the assessing staff is Mariella Smith-Rhodes. Several days of exacting Selection whittles down the applicants from two hundred down to the last thirty-two. Ampie becomes aware, very uncomfortably so, that Mrs Smith-Rhodes-Lensen is quite attractive. What he doesn't work out is that she's aware of this, and assessing how this uncomfortably close proximity to her is affecting his thought processes and his ability to reason. She confides in her older sister, afterwards, that she is wondering if this left the poor boy imprinted with a thing for red-haired girls and she hopes it wasn't too cruel on him Several years later, he meets Mariella's niece in Ankh-Morpork. Who is also strikingly red-haired. Romance begins. Read more here in the works of A.A. Pessimal.
- Android 18 from Dragon Ball Z Abridged prefers her men to be on the shorter side in both the main timeline and Trunk's Bad Future, and refers to Krillin as "the cute one" even before she knows anything about him.Android 17: You got a thing for dwarves now?
Android 18: What if I do? Societal definitions of beauty are BS anyway.
- Lucky Number Thirteen: Christian's subs are all at least superficially similar to one another (which is accurate to the original story). Ana notes that she and Sharon are both short, thin, white brunette women in their twenties, and Sharon states outright that Ana "look[s] like [her]". Sharon mentions that in hindsight, she realised all of Christian's subs look alike, which she personally finds a bit creepy and alarming. Ana mostly feels upset, because it means she's not special to Christian, merely one of many.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed
- Gold Poisons states that Jin Guangshan has a type and that Mo Xiulan resembles Meng Shi. however, the fic doesn't elaborate on what that type actually is.
- crawlersout: Fem!Harry's is Tall, Dark, and Handsome. When she was a Hogwarts student, she had things for both Oliver Wood and Cedric Diggory. Notably, she has yet to notice that this is what her charge Tom Riddle Jr. will grow up to be as long as he doesn't mutilate himself with dark magic (they're set to be the Official Couple). The sole love interest she has that doesn't fit this archetype is Gellert Grindelwald who is tall and handsome but not dark (in appearance, at least). Even then, he's more like a Stalker with a Crush than an actual love interest.
- Choosing Life Verse: It's lampshaded that Elisabet seems to have a thing for Femme Fatale Spies, having dated Tilda and later Vanasha.
- A Thing of Vikings: Snotlout is bisexual and attracted to martial prowess, becoming much more attracted to Sophia after she smashes a chair over the head of an attempted assassin. Also applies to his attraction to Gunnar and Heidrun, though that was only after they revealed their attraction to him.
- It's (Not) Your Fault: When Lincoln and Stella are admitting their feelings for each other, Lincoln says that he likes tall girls after Stella mentions the bullying she faced due to her height. This also serves as a bit of Foreshadowing, as Lincoln would later end up with Sam, who is also really tall.
- In Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents, Sam starts to suspect he's attracted to big white blond dudes like Riley and Steve.
- Dad Villain AU: Played for Laughs with Nathalie. While she doesn't remember the original timeline from before Gabriel made his Wish, both Gabriel and Adrien have retained their memories. So when Adrien sees Nathalie enjoying the sight of a shirtless Tom, he wonders if this means she has a thing for single fathers. For extra Dramatic Irony, this is a Role Swap AU, but neither Nathalie nor Adrien is aware that Tom is the new reality's Butterfly holder Viceroy.
- Feralnette AU: Played for Laughs with Adrien, who doesn't realize that he's attracted to strong people until he's complaining about how much he wishes he was the one Marinette was carrying out of their classroom instead of Felix. Note that at the time, Marinette has Felix in a headlock. It also takes Nino asking him outright if he's into strong women for Adrien to make the connection, much to his starry-eyed wonder.Adrien: I AM
Nino: Dude are you okay—
Adrien: I AM JEALOUS I DO WANT TO BE CARRIED
Nino: I... could... try to carry you...?
Adrien: (kneeling on the floor) I want to be carried by a STRONG GIRL
Nino: Adrien... are you into, like, buff women or something???
(Beat)
Adrien: (starry-eyed and bathed in light from above) Nino I have a type
Nino: uh... good?
Nino and Alya: (thinking) Is he having an epiphany right now?! - I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors plays with this: Adrien starts dating Marinette after noticing how much she looks like Ladybug... because she IS Ladybug, but he doesn't realize that. When Marinette learns that he's two-timing her by continuing to pursue her heroic alter ego, she breaks things off with him, and Adrien is confused by how upset he gets. It's unclear how much of his reaction is due to being Unknowingly in Love versus outrage over being dumped.
- Miraculous: Tales of Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black: In chapter 10, Marinette points out to Max that he has an obvious thing for sweet muscular guys, given his feelings for his best friend Kim and his blatant crush on the superhero Scarlet Beetle. Unbeknownst to either of them, Kim is Scarlet.
- Stone Streak: Juleka reveals to Adrien that before she and Marinette got together, the latter used to date Juleka's twin Luka. Marinette mutters that both twins just happened to be her type.
- In Crimson and Emerald, Rumi suggests that the Midoriyas tend to be attracted to people who are "smart with a side of crazy". Considering people romanced by Midoriyas include Kiyome, Monoma, and even All for One, she might not be wrong...
- Dirty Little Secrets: Kirishima is attracted to manly guys, and sees Katsuki as the manliest of them all.
- In Perfect Masks, Yaoyorozu denies the notion that she could end up in a romantic relationship with Izuku because she prefers men who are Tall, Dark, and Handsome. Turns out she's wrong.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A Brief History of Equestria: While Commander Hurricane Really Gets Around, both of the mares he loved, Wind Whistler and Clover the Clever, were Badass Bookworms with a strong sense of justice and surprising inner strength that enabled them to keep up with just about anyone.
- Little Uzumaki: In a platonic variant, Sakura's best friend has always been blond. At first, it was Tsunade; after she kept having encounters with Konoha's Fountain of Youth, she went through two others before befriending Ino on her fourth go-round, and then Naruto when all of Team Seven drinks from the fountain and gets rewound together.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles: Naruto comes to the conclusion that Sai has a thing for girls with ponytails, given that all the girls he dated in the past had this kind of hairstyle. In his own quirky way, Sai agrees by saying "Hmm... Come to think of it, you may be correct. They remind me of brushes, and I do like my brushes."
- Son of the Sannin: Both the boys Karin shows attraction to in the story have many things in common, being young ninja prodigies descended from prominent Konoha clans, with cold and aloof attitudes. However, the defining factor in her choosing Neji over Sasuke is that the former is more polite and shows gratitude to her after she heals him.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: In Chapter 31 of the main story, Ash notes that Anabel's hair has grown longer, and comments that it looks nice like that. Anabel asks Ash if he has a thing for girls with long hair, and his inner monologue hints that she might be right.
- The Soulmate Timeline:
- Madoka is really, really into girls who look good in suits. Just like her mom. Homura wearing one makes her unfathomably happy, and she fully intends to get Sayaka and Kyoko in them as soon as possible (Mami gets a pass on this due to the size of her breasts).
- Kyoko likes girls with large breasts who are also competent. Naturally she's quite attracted to Mami, complicated histories and current situations notwithstanding.
- Jokingly applied as well with Madoka's mother asking her if she has an orphan fetish given that Mami, Homura, and Kyoko are orphans. Madoka denies this and points out that Sayaka is not an orphan. Similarly Kanagi questions if Yachiyo has a thing for girls who get lost easily given incidents that happened with Kanae, Mel, and Iroha shortly before or after meeting Yachiyo.
- Coeur Al'Aran:
- Raven Branwen likes blonde, blue-eyed men whom she considers "strong" enough to be at least in her league. Aside from her canon former marriage to Taiyang, Raven in Coeur's works has also been in love with or at least had a childhood crush on the Future Badass Jaune "Ashari", and Jaune's lookalike father Nicholas, in Relic of the Future and Wise as an Old Qrow; respectively.
- Arcadia:
- Summer admits she's into muscular blonde men. If they are well endowed, even better.
- Her stepdaughter Yang just likes guys with nice eyes.
- Weiss likes pretty boys with a sense of style.
- Pyrrha really just wants a kind man who won't put her on a pedestal, but if she could afford to be picky then she likes them with a strong upper body.
- Blake only dates Faunus men her makeout with Yang not withstanding but she really likes them rough with solid abs. According to her mother, this has affected her relationship with Sun. While he ticks most of her boxes, he tends to go soft on her while they're dating. She then dumps him and he goes back to being his mischievous self, which draws her back in; rinse and repeat.
- Octavia Ember has an interest in aggressive, "alpha-male" types.
- Cardin Winchester is into busty, Alpha Bitch types.
- Judging by his dating history, Taiyang seems to like women with Raven Hair, Ivory Skin.
- According to her friend Coco, Velvet is drawn to the strong and silent type.
- A New World on her Shoulders: Jaune admits that he happens to like girls with ponytails, demonstrated both by his crush on Ilia and his relationship with Pyrrha.
- In A Dragon's Flight, Lyarra/Visenya is particularly attracted to Valyrian looks, a preference she likely shares with her mother.
- Crystal Clarity: While set in an Alternate Universe where Blue Diamond is Steven's Mother, Rose Quartz is still acquainted with Greg, and jokes about this when they meet up again.
- And on a related note, in other alternate universes where Steven is the child of one of the other Diamonds, one thing is certain: Greg's type is women who are tall, powerful, and emotionally complicated.
- In Switcheroo AU, a recurring element is Spinel and Japser's infatuation with each other, with various implications that she may have done something with Amethyst and gives an I'm Taking Her Home with Me! look when she sees the Famethyst. This implies that Spinel has an attraction to Quartzes in general.
- Shatterheart: Kurogane has a thing for male Broken Birds as seen to his attraction to Fai and Syaoran.
