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"So, you want to get off me, or were you just getting comfortable?"
He isn't a pervert. No, really! His hands just happened to slip and find themselves on her breasts. He just happened to trip on that rug over there and land (probably head-first) on top of her ample chest. And he just happened to be there when the only wind of the day blew up her skirt and his only sin was instinctive goggling. He can't help it if his honest-to-goodness accidental moves make him come off as as a lech that can't even muster the... "slickness"... of Leisure Suit Larry.
A characterization trap here is that they sometimes come across as really being lecherous, but are too incompetent and cowardly to be open about it. They really are leering at female body parts; but are terrified of getting hit or yelled at — or more charitably, they're tempted despite realizing that it would be wrong; in either case, the gropings are a type of Freudian slip. Of course, the girls will never believe him, and almost always believe the least charitable interpretation. Cue Armor Piercing Slap, shrill cries, and desperate attempts at redemption. In comic works, the slap is often replaced with the Hyperspace Mallet or Paper Fan Of Doom, and god help you if you have this character trait within striking range of a Tsundere.
For all practical purposes, his life is a Fanservice-laden version of Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere.
Note the possible You Suck implications.
See also Naked First Impression and Thanks For The Mammary. Overlaps with Not What It Looks Like, except that Accidental Pervert refers to a character type to which this kind of thing happens all the time, rather than just a few times. He's usually also the Unlucky Everydude to emphasize his sheer bad luck in scoring with girls. This can also happen to the Chaste Hero or Celibate Hero, for the obvious comic value. When played straight, the Accidental Pervert has at least some elements of the Chivalrous Pervert, which he may become outright if he gains enough confidence to come to terms with his libido.
This trope occurs in Real Life as Troper Tales will tell you.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
- In a Western example, Mallrats has Silent Bob turning into one of these: each time a Zany Scheme backfires, he ends up in a women's dressing room, where he sees a girl in the process of trying on clothes. And it's always the same girl.
- The girl in question, Gwen, is later seen changing in semi-public while talking to Brodie and TS, claiming that it saves him the effort.
- In the live-action adaptation of The Grinch, the titular character at one point winds up flying face-first into the bosom of his childhood crush. Without removing his head from her chest, he quickly greets her with the words, "Hello, Martha."
- Does Jackie Chan do the famed: "Double Hand Accidental Breast Grab" maneuver once per movie, or does it just seem like it?
- Frank Drebin in the first The Naked Gun movie, see the entry in Thanks For The Mammary for more detail.
Live Action TV
- Basil Fawlty became this in one episode of Fawlty Towers, "The Psychiatrist", in which his efforts to prove that one of his guests broke the rules by sneaking his girlfreind into a room lead him into one Not What It Looks Like after another.
- Then there's "The Wedding Party", in which Basil is caught once with a female guest and twice with Manuel; Manuel was drunk the first time and had accidentally knocked him over, and Basil mistakes him for a burglar the second time. Meanwhile, Basil accidentally walks in on two of the wedding guests embracing (they're related), and discovers Polly hurrying out of the lovers' room after hearing some weird noises (Polly was trying on one of the girl's dresses; the girl was giving her boyfriend a massage).
- Brazilian mini-series O Quinto dos Infernos had a man falling with his head positioned on a woman's crotch (0:35 here
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Video Games
- Jin Kazama of Tekken fame became an accidental pervert in one of Tekken 5's many endings. After being rescued by Asuka Kazama from his monstrous great grandfather Jinpachi Mishima and regaining his humanity through some kind of healing touch unintentionally administered by Asuka, he awakens suddenly and thrusts himself forward to get to his feet, but accidentally bumps into Asuka while she was trying to wake him. Naturally she falls on her back and he lands facefirst between her (somewhat ample for a 17 year old...) bosom with an obligatory "boing" sound effect. Much time passes before he stands up, at which point the hot-headed Asuka becomes outraged and punches him into a rock before storming off. This exchange is made quite disturbing when you consider the two are actually cousins...
- Well, to be fair, it's been hinted at that the two don't really know of their relation to each other.
- Yeah, but we still know that they're cousins, so it doesn't make it any less disturbing when it happens.
- During a hot spring cutscene in Tales Of Symphonia, Zelos attempts to take a peek at the females in the party while they are bathing. Lloyd, being far less of a pervert than Zelos, catches him in the act and loudly tells him to stop. This, of course, causes the girls to march out and 'catch' Lloyd in the act, while Zelos escapes.
- Subverted in the OAV when Lloyd trips and falls on top of Collete. Both of them are too innocent to see it as anything other than funny.
- Played straight in an optional scene in Tales Of Symphonia 2, where Lloyd becomes the accidental pervert again, in an almost identical situation to the first game. It's inverted in a different version of that scene, where Emil decides to go into the hot springs alone, and it's Marta, his main love interest, who peeps in on him and then joins him. He chivalrously tries to resist her advances, but ends up catching the attention of the rest of the party, who naturally dub him a pervert. Both Emil and Marta try to explain, but everyone thinks Marta is just trying to cover for Emil. Of course, only Lloyd truly believes him.
- Carried over to Tales of the World, where the girls overhear Chester telling Lloyd about his secret spot with "the best view." Though Lloyd was never given the chance to show if he had any interest in it, he is automatically labeled as a pervert by the girls. The skit ends with him shouting "I was framed!"
- Final Fantasy V, where heroes Galuf and Bartz go into (until then supposed to be a man) Faris' room, only to find that she is a woman, and peeking at her endowments in the process.
- No, actually. They go into 'his' room and swoon over how beautiful 'he' is and only find out 'his' real gender in the next dungeon.
- Mega Man Legends, where Mega Man walks in on Roll getting dressed; although Roll doesn't have a different outfit as such. You need to do this at least once, since you have to get something from Roll at that point in the plot. This is also repeated in the sequel, once you get the bathtub.
- Puyo Pop, where the dark wizard Schezo Wegey's desire for power and his frequent lapses of articulation often leave his utterances far from what he intended, leading most of the cast to label him as a pervert, much to his dismay. Schezo: "I want you to give me all of you" Arle: "You know, it makes you sound like a pervert when you put it that way."
- Hiro of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue ends up as this a lot throughout the game......and it's almost always bathing scenes.
Web Original
- Parodied in Tales Of MU, when Mackenzie walks in on a fully-clothed Amaranth, who—being a nymph—displays the typical outraged reaction of a human girl caught in a state of undress.
Western Animation
- Western Animation can do this Fanservice-free: Rockos Modern Life has a Running Gag of Rocko or another character accidentally violating the gigantic Hippo Lady's personal space. "How DARE YOU."
- Happened in The Simpsons when Homer grabs a gummy Venus de Milo stuck to a babysitter's rear end. When the babysitter looks to see Homer drooling over the candy, she interprets it as something totally different.
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