He's not The Casanova, he's not Kavorka Man, but he pulls girls in about as fast as they do, if not faster. It's probably a good thing he's too innocent to notice.
A Chick Magnet is a guy who just seems to draw girls to him like bears to honey. He can charm the pants off any girl, of about any age, without even trying, and he usually doesn't. He may not know just the right things to say to a girl, but says them anyway. This usually means he ends up with twoor more girls vying for his affections.
But unlike the scoundrels mentioned above, even when he does finally realize the feelings of the girls around him, he never tries to take advantage of them. He usually ends up digging himself in deeper, because by this time, he's come to care for all of them, even if just as friends, and doesn't want to break their hearts, or lose any of them if/when he finally chooses the girl he really loves. This sometimes makes him look like a wimp in the eyes of some fans, especially those who have their own favorite girl, and usually don't share his concern for the others.
Overlaps often with the Unlucky Everydude. Crank this magnetism up and then Even the Guys Want Him.
If he is young and seeks out girls like The Casanova, he's Kid Anova. The Gender Inversion (and this trope's alternate title) is Dude Magnet.
See Mr. Fanservice for the guy designed to be a magnet for chicks in the real world. Don't forget Clueless Chick Magnet, when the Chick Magnet doesn't even notice. And The Charmer, who is seen as charismatic by others.
Compare Hello, Nurse!.
Examples
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Pick a Harem anime protagonist. Any Harem anime protagonist.
Seina from GXP is Tenchi turned Up to Eleven. He seems pretty normal on Earth, but once he gets into space, he starts attracting girls outside his harem too.
Rei from Urusei Yatsura breaks up loving couples just by walking past them, and causes squees whenever anything of the female gender sees him. His being dumb as a plank and loving only food does nothing to dissuade the girls. His transforming into a giant goofy tiger-bull whenever excited might. Sometimes.
Ranma Saotome of Ranma ½ is a little more competent but no less hapless when it comes to girls. Or guys, for that matter. And let's not get into the whole panda doodle incident. By the end of the series, a massive Love Dodecahedron is formed with him at the centre.
Negi Springfield from Mahou Sensei Negima!. He's a little too young to be worrying about love. Unfortunately for him, he's also a little too cute for his own good, which draws in girls that don't have any romantic interest in him yet. (A prime example is a chart, apparently made by Chamo, measuring the type and extent of several girls' affection for Negi is partially shown. One girl, while having rather low romantic feelings for him, has a maternal score of 12 out of a possible 10.) Having selective maturity helps. The situation is most likely going to get worse once he hits puberty, which has prompted Chisame to wonder if it's not best that they kill him now (chapter 125).
To make matters even worse, he has a habit of unintentionally saying things that sound like love confessions or even proposals. With a straight face (by which we mean an adorably innocent smile). Worse yet, he'll really and truly mean it, though not in the way the person he says it to will first interpret it.
Lampshaded in chapter 285 by Chisame again with an exasperated "We've got us another one..." after Shiori shows visible signs of attraction to Negi.
If you thought Negi was dense, you clearly haven't seen Kotaro. Natsumi, Mei and Madoka plus nearly as many nameless fangirls as Negi, yet manages to be even more oblivious than Negi. At least Negi understood the confessions he's gotten and picked up on.
Fubuki from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX; he's fully aware of his powers, but is too carefree to consider exploiting it. He happily humors the female students who admire him... Most of the time. (In one episode he faces of stampede - literally - of girls chasing after him, and he escapes using a quick disguise.)
Kei Takishima of Special A, and probably every male member of Special A.
The entire Ouran High School Host Club, but especially Tamaki Suoh, whose good looks, suave manners, and genuine desire to make every girl he meets feel special and happy all make him the club's most popular host, and Haruhi, who is identified by the rest of the club as the "natural type" when she starts attracting fangirls just by being her normal self. Tamaki even gets jealous of her Chick Magnet abilities when she accidentally steals away one of his fangirls, and he rants that it's not fair that she's so good at getting girls when she herself is a girl.
Yuuichi Aizawa from Kanon is often considered the one true capable harem leader; all 5 girls fall in love with him and he even gains the trust of the 3 supporting ones. He does not think of himself as a magnet, nor purposely tries to attract girls, nor ever notices how popular he is with the opposite sex.
Akito Tenkawa of Martian Successor Nadesico manages to attract the eyes of about half the female crew over the course of the series, to the vocal annoyance (and sometimes envy) of some of the male crewmembers. It gets Lampshadedconstantly.
The tenants in The Wallflower, with varying levels of embracement and sympathy between them. Kyohei, who is poor, is sympathetic since he has to leave most of his jobs due to sexual harassment (even male bosses, and his headmaster at school try to come on to him). Ranmaru is the exact opposite, embracing the role fully to his own advantage.
Takuya Enoki from Aka-chan to Boku(Baby and Me) is this to a lot of girls. When he finds out that several girls are in love with him he almost has a mental breakdown. It appears to run in the family; his widower father Harumi has several coworkers who crush on him, and two little girls at the daycare fight over Takuya's little brother Minoru.
Jotaro Kujo from Part 3 was beloved by all the girls at his high school, probably due to his Troubled, but Cute image. They still think he's irresistible when he tells them to go away.
This also happens with the other JoJos of the different arcs, including a bit in Part 4 where this happens to another character who was disguised as the hero.
Jotaro, Josuke and Giorno all have a crowd of girls begging for their attention near their introductions; Jotaro and Giorno are too cool to dopily embrace it unlike Harem protagonists.
Rental Magica's Itsuki Iba who has at least three girls displaying affection for him, plus a younger one who looks up to him as her "onii-chan", and an older lady sort of likes him. And this doesn't stop on living or humans — one of the three girls is a ghost. Nekoyashiki began to muse aloud when a homunculus joined the ranks of female admirers.
Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto has so many emotional problems that he hardly even notices the girls that become entranced by him. You could probably count the number of girls his age (and younger... and a bit older...) who don't show attraction to him on a single hand. Considering he gets most of this when he's twelve, it gets a bit ridiculous at times. Things do even out later though.
Naruto doesn't do too bad for himself, either. Especially not if you consider the Filler arcs. And the movies. (Thinking of a particular post-credits gag in particular...)
In Tantei Gakuen Q, handsome Ryu Amakusa is somewhat of a chick magnet, with girls of all ages (including Megumi Minamiand Kyu/Q) blushing at the mere sight of him. Once during a case that happened in Kazuma's school, a flock of several girls no older than 11 years old almost glomp-attacked him, much to his embarrassment.
In The Prince of Tennis, several popular players have their own fanclubs; some of those are Echizen (though Tomoka and Sakuno are the only fangirls seen often), Oishi (in the anime, and much to his discomfort), Keigo Atobe and Hiroshi Wakato from Jyousei Shonan (who also *adores* the attention from the ladies).
In one of the fanbooks, Fuji is said to be popular with the girls of his class. Not to mention his young admirer Kurumi Ijuin from the anime.
Yuta from Mermaid Saga, though played in a much more serious and tragic tone than any of the above, as Yuta knows any relationship he gets into will end badly for him. One time, the girl that fell in love with him was killed by her jealous fiance.
Lelouch from Code Geass; even if you ignore his Unwanted Harem full of the usual suspects, Word Of God says that a vast majority of the female populace at his Elaborate University High has a thing for him, and that he might even have his own fan club - and all this is before his Ninja Maid sets him up with 108 dates in the second season...
Interestingly enough, despite the fan club and 108 dates, both of Lelouch's main love interests start out thinking Lelouch is an arrogant Jerkass, and only fall for him after seeing his hidden kind side.
Keitaro from Love Hina fits in. By the end of the manga, only two girls had not fallen in love with him. One of them was eight years old...
Jing from King of Bandit Jing is definitely a Chick Magnet. 99% of the time, when his adventure has something to do with a girl, she'll fall for him. There's also a reason why they call all the girls in the series "Jing Girls".
Sagara Sousuke from Full Metal Panic. Kaname, Tessa, and the novel-only character Nami are all in love with him, Ena Saeki has a crush on him, Mira Kudan apparently also fell for him and "gave her heart to him" ever since he saved her life, and there are strong hints that Grace Weissman (AKA Gray) had some feelings for him (or, at the very least was attracted to him). Indeed, his pheromones are so strong that he managed to get her to feel this way towards him in the span of a few days, despite him being really quiet and hardly talking. Oh, and he also has one crazymalestalker...
It's implied that a bunch of girls (and guys) at school harbor crushes on him and find him incredibly good looking... the thing is that his insane, violent behavior and unapproachability keeps them from daring to chase and pursue him.
Suguru Misato of Mahoromatic has all the girls in the series after him, including two (maybe all three) members of triomatic, Mahoro, and his slutty, depraved, insane teacher miss Shikijo.
Train from Black Cat is. He has three women vying for his attention (okay, well, one of them was cut short), but only manages to see them as friends / acquaintances because he's a Chaste Hero. Although he could be considered an even more extreme example in that Even the Guys Want Him.
Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach is known in the fandom for attracting entire harems. Orihime is outright in love with him, and Nel (Orihime's equal as a well-endowed beauty) glomps him at one point. Riruka of X-Cution, who saw Ichigo's face only once, fell to her knees, gaping at his hotness. Yoruichi has made a pass at him (although it might solely be to tease him), and Rangiku deliberately tried to seduce him once when she thought it would get her what she wanted. It's heavily implied that Senna from the first movie had feelings for him. If that wasn't enough, the fandom will then argue about whether or not evidence exists for Rukia and Tatsuki having feelings for him too. Unsurprisingly, Ichigo is a Chaste Hero who doesn't seem especially interested in getting a girlfriend, and he's still surprisingly innocent in that area.
In the zanpaktou filler, Hyorinmaru is considered attractive by several females, from the obvious Haineko to Tobiume, and Suzumebachi marvels at his hotness at one point.
Allen Walker from D.Gray-man doesn't do too badly for himself. Rohfa is infatuated with him, Road claims to love him, and one interpretation is that For may have a crush on him. In the second Reverse novel, it is also implied that Lenalee has someone she secretly likes, and that that person is probably Allen. And that's not even getting into the aspect of how Even the Guys Want Him, where Allen is shown to be able to manipulate Komurin (a robot) by turning up his charm (complete with Bishie Sparkle) which makes Komurin fall for him, or how Tyki really really likes Allen.
Akio Asakura from Wangan Midnight. In fact, when he ends up repeating his last year of high school due to excessive absences caused by driving the Devil Z at night so much, the lower-grade female students got excited over being able to attend high school with Akio for another year. Said obsession with the Devil Z prevents him from hooking up with them.
Kamijou Touya, Touma's father, of A Certain Magical Index is hinted to be one. Unlike Touma, he's prone to flirting back, even if his wife is standing right next to him.
Nozumu Itoshiki (the titular 'Mr Despair' of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei), the certifiably suicidally depressed teacher whose fashion sense is stuck in the 19th century and whose personal goal is self-annihilation, somehow manages to get almost every girl in his class to fall in love with him by accident (or at the least make him the subject of their various fetishes and insanities, which is just as good... right?)
Li/Hei from Darker than Black. Apart from the standard UST with Kirihara, he's also attracted the romantic interest of two LoonyFangirls, a Contractor that regularly forgoes the hat of rational self-interest because she's in love with him, and a girl that isn't even supposed to feelanyemotions, much less love.
He manages to charm almost every female who encounters him, really. Even several who meet him with their only initial assumption being, "Evil, inherently heartless killing machine." Even the ones who don't fall for him want to adopt him; his elderly landlady treats him like a surrogate son, and at least one teenage girl decided she wanted him to be her big brother. About the only exception is Season 2's Mina Hazuki... a Psycho Lesbian who Does Not Like Men.
Paptimus Scirocco of Zeta Gundam fame. It's implied he uses Psychic Powers to subtley manipulate women. A particularily dangerous example, he has managed to weaponize this ability, convincing his lovers to fight & die for the sake of his nebulous goals & it's even implied his ultimate goal may be to use this power on a global scale.
Tsukune Aono from Rosario + Vampire. Any female monster who comes within smelling distance of him will want him for her own. This might be because his human blood is highly attractive to any monster, so the women just interpret it as sex appeal. Although his Nice Guy attitude and bishonen appearance are clearly contributing factors. In some chapters it's been shown that human girls find him attractive as well (possibly even his cousin).
Guts from Berserk. Not at all obvious in the Golden Age, which has as a plot point his slowly building relationship with Casca. Rather, it happens to him afterwards, where he seems to have more of a knack for having girls several generations his junior fall for him. Farnese (who is a generation younger than him) falls in love with and practically worships the ground he walks on. And then there's Schierke, who is more than a generation younger than him, and has a huge crush on him. It's implied that Jill (who looks to be around the same age as Schierke), an abused village girl, developed a huge crush on him as well (to the point where she repeatedly kept begging for him to allow her to permanently follow and come with him). And along with (much) younger girls, he also seems to be a demon magnet, and not just because of the Brand of Sacrifice he bears. There's Slan, the only female member of the Godhand, who is very attracted to him in an evil and sadistic way. Rosine, a fairy-like Apostle, flirts with and mentions how attractive he is (despite her almost Single-Target Sexuality obsession with Jill). And getting into Even the Guys Want Him, Griffith, who would become the latest member of the Godhand, had a Yandere obsession with him.
Gundam SEED has Kira Yamato. His best friend Athrun Zala becomes a more perfect example in the sequel.
By the end of Girls Bravo the male lead Yukinari has about four girls after him, or who expressed interest in him at one time or another.
Yuuji from Shakugan no Shana. No only does he have two main Love Interests, he was also involved in...ehh...questionable actions with a female villain, is desired by another female Crimson Denizen for being the vessel of her lover, and becomes actually part of a Love Square due to a third girl clinging to him later on. And he still stays Oblivious to Love for a total of 2 Seasons.
Pokémon's Ash Ketchum. Many girls (human andPokémon) have developed feelings for Ash and he's too clueless to notice any of them.
Fuyuki Hinata of Keroro Gunso has attracted a lot of female attention for a twelve-year-old boy. Girls who have a thing for him include schizo billionaire heiress Momoka, School Newspaper Newshound Chiruyo, a mermaid, a princess on the moon (just go with it) and Alicia Southerncross, an Emotionless Girl with a shape-shifting space entity who happens to be her adopted father on her head.
Touya and Yukito of Cardcaptor Sakura both have large female followings at their school. Unfortunately for the ladies, they're also the series' official Yaoi Guys.
Lancer from Fate/Zero has this as a literal superpower, per his legend - any woman (without sufficient magical resistance, that is) who looks at his face is charmed to fall in love with him. The latest woman to fall for him had enough magical resistance. Even without his superpower, he's really charming.
Ayumu Narumi from Spiral attracts the attention of Hiyono and Rio thanks to his amazing cooking skills. After he meets Hizumi he goes on to find himself being confessed to nearly every day by girls who had been attracted to him but intimidated by his demeanor and the fact that he hung out with Hiyono all the time.
Agito from Air Gear attracts female nurses and doctors without even trying. He winds up in an early chapter, surrounded by a crowd of them.
Tadase from Shugo Chara!. He has half the female population of his school after him, and he is in 6th grade.
Compared to some of the protagonists of harem anime, Van of Gun X Sword is only modestly successful, since he's only got three women chasing after him most of the time. However, he has the ability to attract women instantly. In episode 10, he receives a proposal of marriage from a successful businesswoman who wanted his assistance as an armor rider; in episode 21, he memorably gets a come on in the middle of battle from an enemy who finds him "adorable."
Ryuuji from Toradora, despite having the Face of a Thug, manages to get all three main female characters in the series to fall in love with him. Even background girls start showing interest when the discover he's very clean, cooks, and sews quite well.
Black Butler: Sebastian — in the anime, at least. Sebastian has been shown to be attractive to Ciel's aunt, three nuns (one of which he has sex with for information one screen no less), and an angel.
In Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, way back in the beginning of the series, there's all those fangirls in the school dying to give Gokudera and Yamamoto chocolates.
And in chapter 364 when Dino introduces himself as Tsuna's English teacher quite a few of the girls and one guy blush over how dreamy he is.
Ali/Alan of the Sailor Moon anime suddenly gets a lot of fangirls when he transferred to Usagi/Serena's school.
Pandora Hearts: Gil in the anime, who was almost attacked by a hoard of frothing horny schoolgirls while in Lutwidge Academy.
To a lesser extent in the manga, too. Retrace 49 has a horde of noble females swarming around him and Vincent. We already knew Vincent was this as well, but this time we see them well-dressed at a noble party. All the girls are happy, inside and outside the universe.
Karakuridouji Ultimo: Murayama. He is so bishonen that school girls run and push desks over to see him and release heart marks while fawning over him.
Ichika Freaking Orimura. If there's a female in his immediate vicinity, they'll probably be swooning over him.
Vampire Knight: Kaname. He already has Yuki, Ruka, Sara, and countless screaming Day Class girls who want him. Plus all those Nobles practically shoving their daughters at him at the Aido family's soiree.
Princess Mononoke's Ashitaka manages to effortlessly draw the affection of Irontown's entire female population. Even the married ones.
Speed Racer: Speed. Which naturally causes the occasional fit of jealousy on the part of his girlfriend.
Rin Tsuchimi of SHUFFLE!. By the end of Essence+ there is no girl shown on screen and has a name that isn't in love with him.
Tomoe and Kurama in Kamisama Kiss. The girls in Nanami's class almost start a war over who gets to sit near them.
Death Note: Light Yagami is, in his own words, "pretty popular with the ladies". He isn't very interested in romance himself, but several times uses his natural appeal to his advantage, and at a few points is quickly and easily able to pick up a girlfriend as part of a plan (not counting Misa Amane's obsession with him).
Comicbooks
Archie Andrews from the Archie Comics, for some reason. Thoroughly deconstructed when Betty brings over some photos of Archie. Veronica points out he's actually kind of ugly. This leads into them realizing he's selfish, boorish, and is generally bad, and they should both dump him. Beat. "You first." "No, you first." They glumly conclude that Archie is some sort of Kavorka Man.
And speaking of Archie Comics, Sonic the Hedgehog has attracted several potential love interests such as Princess Sally, Amy Rose, and Mina Mongoose.
Ryan Choi, The All-New Atom, finds himself utterly baffled by the way the women of Ivy Town find him attractive — including at least one supervillainess. He has to be reassured by Wonder Woman herself that there's nothing supernatural about it.
Daredevil... the Murdock mojo runs strong enough to leave even Spider-Man envious.
Longshot of the X-Men. This may well be a function of his (literal) supernatural luck, but there are other explanations.
Cyclops has had at least six different girlfriends, and that's just counting his mainstream version. Psylocke also once tried it on with him. In particular, he seems to be irresistible to telepaths.
Nightcrawler, sweet merciful crap. The guy has a list of girlfriends as long as his tail and all while he's short, blue, and fuzzy. Then again chicks dig the fuzzy.
Chicks dig the fuzzy indeed, as Beast can also count for this trope. During his tenure with the Avengers, it was not rare to see groups of women all over him whenever he went out, more than one expressing interest in running her fingers through his fur.
In one story, Supergirl spontaneously made out with him. She hastily apologized to Starfire, only for her to say she understood.
The apple didn't far fall from the adoptive tree, as Bruce Wayne has never had a problem with the ladies. Well, technically he has, but it's more of a "getting them to go away" problem than a "getting them to come by in the first place" problem.
His animated version even hooked up with Lois Lane. Even the Joker had to express his admiration for that one.
In other words, You know you're a Chick Magnet when you make a guest appearance on another character'sshow and temporarily steal their main love interest.
Former Robin and current Red Robin, Tim Drake, is no slouch either. While he's only ever been in a committed relationship with Stephanie (Batgirl), Darla Aquista (the Warlock's Daughter), Hong Kong gangster possibly undercover cop Lynx, Cassandra Sandsmark aka Wondergirl (though they ultimately decided they were Better as Friends), and possibly Cassandra Cain (she wasn't really herself at the time, being drugged up and crazy) have all been attracted to Tim at one time or another. Even Lady Shiva was a bit too touchy-feely with him when they first met than was really necessary.
Spider-Man as well. His lovers' gallery is probably exceeded only by Batman, and in Batman's case most of the relationships are merely used to maintain his playboy image. In fact, the Human Torch "snaps" when he learns that his best bud Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker, who he was extremely envious of for his ability to attract women. Johnny even labeled Peter's ability the "Parker Luck", much to Spidey's amusement, who uses the same term to describe his bad luck. If you still needs proof, take a look at the 'Love Interest' section of this page. He even nabbed Hercules' former wife!
Clark Kent/Superman. He's attracted: Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris (a mermaid!), Lois Lane, Cat Grant, Wonder Woman, Maxima, Amazing Grace, The Queen Of Fables, La Encantadora, Supergirl!, Ice (Guy Gardner's main squeeze), Obsession (Dana Dearden), a Latina cop, an alien insect queen that had taken Lana's form, and Lyla (a purple-haired chick from Kandor).
Conner Kent has attracted Supergirl, Knockout, Tana Moon, Roxy Leech, Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark) and Batgirl (Cassandra Cain). Chris Kent was dating Thara Ak-Var, and girls chased him wherever he went. Like father, like sons.
The Hulk, surprisingly enough. A lot of women, both human and non human, seem to fall for him. To date he has been married at least three times (two now dead and one partially insane) and bedded many more. Bruce Banner on the other hand...
One of the main running gags for Ivar Anni-Padda in Valiant's Timewalker series. Whether he's walking down the street minding his own business, running for his life from the villain of the month or falling from the top of a skyscraper, all anybody can say about it is "Gorgeous!"
Doug Ramsey/Cypher of the New Mutants. He dated pre-bodyswapPsylocke as well as teammate Wolfsbane, but has also managed to earn himself quite the following of female villains.
Fan Fiction
Kyon, the titular character in Kyon: Big Damn Hero. Being a brilliant martial artist as well as breaking up an illegal voyeuristic photography ring probably has something to do with it.
Koizumi too. All he has to do is walk into Kyon's class, and all the girls just stop what they're doing and stare.
Paul attracts his share of women (and men), but for one or another reason he never actually wants or gets any.
After Ringo defeats Mung, he is mobbed by the Warrior Women and has so much sex that the next day he's “little better than a smear on the ground.”
In The Tainted Grimoire, Luso has three girls who definitely likes him. They are Kanin, Anna and Maria.
Earth And Sky: Pipsqueak, who is described as "sma-hoking hot", and is eye candy for every mare in his age group. This is especially frustrating for Apple Bloom, before and after they hook up.
Despite his cold, cynical personality, Takeru from the Tamers Forever Series is still rather attractive to the ladies.
Spike in the Ponies of Olympus series. In addition to Rarity finally realizing she returns his feelings, Wavedancer and Scales both develop crushes on him, and it's implied Scootaloo has a small one on him as well.
Emeris Fillson in Consequences Of Unoriginality is one as a result of a curse that he dubs "the Gary-Stu-ness Effect''. The only character completely immune to it is Princess Celestia.
Films — Live-Action
Pootie Tang: For the viewers, he's a Kavorka Man, but none of the women in the film can (or want to) resist him. He rejects their affections until being tricked into losing his magical belt.
The title character in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. He also has allied female agents falling for him in the other movies.
In Captain America: The First Avenger, Howard Stark is the straightforward ladies' man, as shown in his first appearance. Post-procedure Steve was able to catch the attention of Peggy, the foxy secretary and a starstruck blond due to a combination of his stage celebrity, Greek God physique, courage and AdorkableNice Guy attitude.
Literature
Nawat Crow in Tamora Pierce's Trickster Books. His innocence is compounded by the fact that...well, 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.
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.
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, not to mention being too hung up on his lost love from the first trilogy. When he tries, he ends up sabotaging the relationship pretty severely.
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."
Star Wars Expanded Universe: Luke Skywalker, oh so very much. 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 Stuffed into the Fridge almost immediately. Mon Mothma was confident 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.
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.
Sir Berit and Sir Bevier, from David Eddings' Tamuli trilogy. Subverted 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 naive, still completely loyal to the ideal of his vows and completely unaware of the effect he has.
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.
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 embarassing degree. The chain of events leading to his... *ahem*... "condition" started when the sorceress sent to seduce his unmarried bastard half brother got a good look at him.
Isaac Asimov's Azazel series have 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).
Mikael Blomkvist in Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy". The amount of women falling over themselves to sleep with this financial journalist is incredible, and one can't help but feel there is a certain amount of wish-fulfillment going on on the author'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.
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).
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 inarguably effective way.
It's a sort of thing with the White Court's House Raith to be that.
Harry Dresden himself subverts this trope. (Probably. The story is narrated from his own self-deprecating perspective.) 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. Human women may be attracted to him in that way, but there aren't enough vanilla humans in the series to make that assumption.
Laharl in the Disgaea Novels. It seems he was able to attract multiple girls, including, Etna, Flonne, Jade, and Sakura
Georgina and Dorothea in Sorcery & Cecilia. 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).
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.
In Smallville, Clark Kent is this to ridiculous levels (and not without reason, judging from the squeeingfangirls). From main characters like Chloe, Lana, Lois and Tess, to minor characters like Zatanna, Maxima, Alicia, Kyla, not a single girl has not drooled over him, in most cases repeatedly.
In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xander tried to have a love spell cast for him. It turned him into a chick magnet for everyone but the target, and things predictably turn murderous when all the girls decide to kill him because he won't be with them.
It's a series-long Running Gag that he's a chick magnet for demons, attracting them at a supernatural (hah) rate. By the end, every single girl he's ever been interested in or been interested in him is some sort of demon or using demon powers (though retroactively in Cordelia's case).
Captain Jack Harkness is the poster boy for Extreme Omnisexual, which is good for him considering men and women of numerous species want a piece of him.
Auggie Anderson from Covert Affairs. It's played with a couple of times. One typical example:
Auggie is boarding a plane to Istanbul to attend a jazz festival and talking to Annie on the phone.
Annie: ...How, exactly, does a blind man navigate a huge music festival in a foreign city? Auggie: I know Istanbul better than some Turks, and for anything I don't know, I can always make a friend.
They're interrupted by a stewardess on the plane, who goes from slightly annoyed to blatantly hitting on Auggie within about ten seconds. Auggie doesn't seem to mind! After he gets back to the phone conversation;
Annie: ...Made a friend already, huh.
Stefan from The Vampire Diaries. Never has a shortage of girls looking his way.
Justin from Wizards of Waverly Place. He also seems to be a vampire, a werewolf and a centaur chick magnet.
Even though House is a miserable bastard nearing his fifties, nearly every woman on the show looks at him like they want to take him into a supply closet and jump his bones. His eyes can't be that pretty, can they?
Spencer Shay, with Sasha, Miss Ackerman, Mrs. Benson (in an alternate universe), an art teacher, Gibby's mom, a female juggler, an 80 year old man, the woman who inherited Galini's pie shop, and more.
Freddie, with Valerie, Shannon, Rona (alternate universe), Melanie, Shelby Marx, Magic Malika, Jamie, Ariana, Leslie, Sabrina, Patrice, three random girls at a party ("iPity the Nevel") and the female fandom in "iStart a Fanwar", without mentioning that he dated both female leads of the show.
The wheelchair-bound Dr. John Ballard in Seven Days.
Don Draper, in Mad Men, can't go anywhere without being hit on by some girl or another. Unlike most examples, though, Don is perfectly willing to sleep with them, despite being married.
Will from Glee, having his wife Terri and guidance counselor Emma. Add to that, Rachel, Suzy Pepper, Shelby, April, and Holly.
Benton Fraser of Due South, to the continual frustration of everyone around him.
Though usually a Handsome Lech who did this intentionally, Face on The A-Team could attract a woman even when he was focusing on something else. For instance, there was the time he had to hide from Col. Decker in a woman's changing stall:
Woman (to Face): I like your face. Face: Uh, you mean...I have an honest face? Woman: No, but I like it. *leans in towards him* Face: *goes with it and gets laid offscreen in a changing stall*
Wally Cleaver was never too concerned about girls, but the girls all seemed to consider him the hottest catch in school.
Davy Jones in The Monkees. One episode has the guys playing Spin The Bottle, with the bottle's mouth homing in on him every time. When he goes into another room, the bottle flies off the table and sticks to the door...
Hayato Ichimonji had three women fawning over him when he first debuted.
John Crichton of Farscape so so much. In addition to his main love interest Aeryn, there was Gilina, Chiana, Jenavian, Jool... any female character to show up in the show instantly falls for Crichton or at least gets ship-teased with him pretty intensely.
Person of Interest: Lampshaded by a snarking Finch in "No Good Deed" when Reese fails to charm a receptionist into letting him in a building:
"I'm surprised, Mr. Reese, that nice young lady seemed somehow impervious to your charm."
Daniel Jackson of Stargate SG-1 had a new woman attracted to him nearly every single time they went to a new planet, including from several different species, and had more love interests than any other SG-1 member (all of whom died); hell, he was even raped by a Goa'uld once. It is very telling that when a Kull Warrior (actually Vala in disguise) calls him attractive, he doesn't doubt it at all.
Fonzie from Happy Days. Played with big time in the famous outtake where a prank was played by having all the *guys* crowd around him when he snapped his fingers instead of the girls.
Duncan MacLeod in Highlander...his frequent bedding of female guest stars was lampshaded in the parody song on one of the commercial outtake tapes. "He'll chop a head and land in bed with this week's guest star..."
Music
The subject of the Carl Perkins song "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby", quite fittingly covered by George Harrison of The Beatles.
Went out last night, half-past four, fifteen women knockin' on my door...
Went out last night, I didn't stay late, 'fore I got home I had nineteen dates...
Mythology
Adonis of Greek Mythology. So handsome that two goddesses fell in love with him at first sight. Aphrodite took a shine to him when he was born and Persephone fell for him when he was about thirteen. It didn't end well for Adonis — when he eventually chose Aphrodite, a furious Persephone told Aphrodite's former lover Ares about Aphrodite's new beau. Ares turned into a boar and attacked Adonis while he was out hunting. Since Ares is a jerk, he killed Adonis by goring him in the crotch.
Diarmid O'Dyna of Celtic Mythology (who was Lancer in the aforementioned Fate Zero) had this as an actual magical ability — any woman who looked at his face would instantly fall in love with him. One of these was a woman who caught sight of him at her own wedding party. Her husband-to-be didn't take it very well.
Newspaper Comics
In Popeye, Because of his silver tongue, Wimpy certainly didn't have a hard time wooing the ladies, and would definitely try if he heard they had access to hamburgers. He even had an occasional relationship with Popeye's arch enemy, the Sea Hag.
Professional Wrestling
The Miz in the WWE used to call himself a Chick Magnet, to the point where one of his T-shirts includes a chick (read: baby bird) being drawn to a horseshoe red-and-white magnet, just in case some people didn't get the gist of his gimmick.
Daniel Bryan seems to be this in WWE, drawing the WWE Divas to him without even trying (or acting upon it). In one instance, he's got the Bella twins hanging on each arm.
And of course, there's CM Punk in Real Life. His known relationships in wrestling include Maria, Beth Phoenix, Daffney, Traci Brooks, and Lita, along with rumored relationships with Kelly Kelly, Mickie James, and Serena. In fact, the "CM" in his name originally stood for "Chick Magnet." These days it stands for anything Punk wants it to be at the time.
Ludwig von Koopa. And, very, very likely, most popular Koopaling. Of all the Koopalings, he's the one with the girls chasing after him. Everybody loves his deep voice in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Many protagonists of RPGs, in particular the Final Fantasy series, display this trope, with half of the female cast falling for them on sight. Final Fantasy IX plays with this by casting a childlike wannabe ladies' man as the protagonist.
Link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Malon, Saria (before Link grew up), and Zora Princess Ruto all wanting him, and possibly Nabooru. The only major good-guy female character who didn't express some form of affection toward him was Impa (and maybe Zelda herself, but that's a whole other can of worms), who was more of a mentor figure than anything else. Not bad for someone who never speaks, and is essentially a 10 year old in a 17 year old's body.
Word Of God is that in OOT Navi was in love with Link.
In Twilight Princess, not only does he get Midna and Ilia, but the girl who runs the fishing hole seemed to have a definite thing for him. Then there's the group of fangirls he gains by making it through the clawshot minigame in Hyrule Town.
Talking to a certain chicken as a wolf in Ordon reveals that even animals have a thing for Link. There is truly no escape.
The Oracle games' Link was popular, too. The titular Oracles, Zelda, Malon, possibly Maple, Rosa the Subrosian, the Maku Tree of Labrynna... and in the unofficial Oracle of Seasons manga, Link's own pet Cucco.
Sonic the Hedgehog is somewhat portrayed this way in the games. He even got a human character to fall in love with him. However, this isn't to the extent of the Archie Comics.
Minato, the main character of Persona 3. Minato starts off all his relationships with girls as just friends, but they quickly move things along and, whether he likes it or not, he becomes their boyfriend. His "harem" included the popular girl, the rich girl, the nerdy girl, the bookworm, the tomboy, a little girl who proposes to him, a robot, a transdimensional elevator attendant, and is essentially the subject of the affections of his teacher.
Similarly, Akihiko, who as the "cool upperclassman" type is frequently swarmed by fangirls at school. Unlike the protagonist, however, Akihiko is mostly annoyed by the attention and proves to be shy and awkward when trying to approach girls directly, to his detriment.
Tatsuya from Persona 2 is explicitly shown to be a chick magnet. Almost all the female cast wants him, major or minor characters. Even some of the guys want him.
Souji/Yu of Persona 4 is just as popular as Minato with girls (maybe even more popular). And unlike Persona 3, you can just be friends, and still max out your relationship.
In Suikoden IV, the hero also recruits an awful lot of women, and at least two cliques of three get together to gush and giggle over him. One of said cliques even declares themselves his personal bodyguards.
Random women hitting on Flik is something of a running gag. In the first game, one character only joins the group on the condition that he'll go on a date with her, and in the second he gets several more fangirls; one even has a Unite Attack with him where she breaks out in a Luminescent Blush.
Despite being a mecha otaku with no knowledge on romance with women nor interest in them, Ryusei Date from Super Robot Wars OG has manage to make no less than three girls seriously fall for him. This is considerably more than most other characters with the exception of Masaki, who is himself a Chick Magnet.
Clank, Ratchet's Robot Buddy from the Ratchet & Clank series has a strange habit of attracting various women, both robotic and organic. This starts with Edwina the RoboShack owner and the HelpDesk Girl in the first game, then a pink robot fangirl spends the next game chasing him over the galaxy in the next game, then in the third game, he gets to play a James bond-esque secret agent surrounded by adoring women, has pop star seductress Courtney Gears move in on him, in the fourth game, he begins a relationship with a robot called Venus (who is never seen again), in the Secret Agent Clank spinoff, all women in the game are in love with him. Meanwhile, the only definite love interest Ratchet has ever had is Sasha (Talwyn from the Future series seems to be on her way to becoming one, too, though).
Zero from Mega Man X and Zero had 3 girls who had been attracted to him. One became his tragic girlfriend, while another had the unfortunate luck of meeting Zero when he's bothchasteandcelibate at the same time. As for the third, Ciel's human.
If you count the Foe Yay that comes from Fairy Leviathan of the Four Guardians (which gets dialed down into simple teasing with Model Z and Model L), that makes four.
Despite his nerdiness, occasionally Guybrush Threepwood falls into this. Elaine seems to initially fall for him just after hearing his name from the lookout. The ghost bride in the Goodsoup crypt starts coming onto him immediately (granted, she's been waiting a LONG time for a man). He's oblivious that Morgan seems to have feelings for him beyond typical fangirlishness. And the Vacaylian merfolk practically throw themselves at him...to his extreme discomfort, as he can't tellwhatgender they are.
Miles Edgeworth in Ace Attorney, according to Gumshoe. His response to this is one of shock: "D-do I really inspire that sort of frothing desire in the female masses?!"
Roland, the protagonist of Luminous Arc 2, weaponizes his chick magnet status by using some of the superpowers of any woman he can kiss, though he's always a little embarrassed.
The Shadow Broker's records suggests The Illusive Man is trying to be a bigger Chick Magnet than Shepard.
Souji in Suika to the extent that random girls walking up to him on the street and kissing him is not that strange an occurrence for him.
Guy from Tales Of The Abyss. Unfortunately he also suffers from severe gynophobia and thus ends up freaking himself out every time he accidentally manages to charm a girl to take interest in him.
Flynn from Tales Of Vesperia has women throwing themselves to him for as long as his childhood friend can remember. The party's Chivalrous Pervert takes him to pick up girls only to find that girls swarm over Flynn, ignoring him.
Infinite Space has two examples: Yuri (who apparently has Unwanted Harem) and Lord Roth. The latter often appears being surrounded by fangirls whenever Yuri sees him, something that he seems to enjoy (to Nele's chagrin).
Hiroki in Canvas 2 has seven heroines, an optional sex encounter and numerous students after him. And he's completely unaware.
Yuuto in Eien no Aselia was popular at his school before ending up in Phantasmorgia, and after that he ends up winning the affections of essentially every named female in the cast.
The Tokimeki Memorial series has a few of them, with the good-looking and popular Takumi Oosawa, Tooru Sawatari, and Jun Ebisutani in the first game's saga, and Teru Saeki, Katsumi Shiba, and Shota Amachi in Girl's Side 2.
In the original Tokimeki Memorial this is Rei Ijuin's gimmick. On Valentine's Day he has to bring a truck to school to fit all the chocolates he receives. He's actually A Sweet Polly Oliver and a winnable girl in the game.
Golden Sun's Isaac has a good hint of this, having Ship Tease moments with Jenna, Mia, Feizhi, Jill (the girl who'd been transformed into a tree), and an unnamed little girl in Altin (who offers him a kiss in thanks for driving away the statue monsters).
However, in Golden Sun Dark Dawn he is outpaced: NPC gossip indicates sweet Sheltered Aristocrat Amiti to be the sweetheart of the entire female population of his homeland.
Eternal Sonata'has Jazz, who has Claves (The mole, killed off, but can later be resurrected.) as his lover, Falsetto as the envious childhood friend, and Viola, a member of the party who falls for him as they continue their journey but can't bring herself to admit her feelings out loud to him.
The main character of Duel Savior Destiny, Taiga, is really rather popular with girls, a fact he exploits to no end. Before the story properly begins he's having a bit of trouble getting dates. That is, getting enough dates since he's working on a plan to get a hundred girlfriends at once, which is only becoming difficult because of the rumors his clingy little sister spreads.
To a much, much greater extent, JinKisaragi. As shown in the manga, BlazBlue: Remix Heart, he is extremely popular with girls in his Academy days. And in-game, Tsubaki, Rachel, and Makoto have expressed interests in him.
Visual Novels
Okazaki Tomoya of Clannad. Ends up with six girls in love with him, and denies that any of them are.
Riki of Little Busters is a marginal example at best: while he's surrounded by girls who like him, only one claims to have had a crush on him from before the beginning of her route, so at best there are only ever two after him at once. Instead, it's just that he's a nice guy and, as a character speculates, because he's cute and so attracts people who want to look after him.
Conversely, Kengo and Kyousuke are said to be quite popular with girls, but since neither of them are all that interested in all that it's something of an Informed Ability.
Hisao Nakai of Katawa Shoujo has five very good looking women as potential love interest within only three days of arriving at Yamaku. Its a pity that he is there because of his cogential arrythmia.
Tsukihime: All hail Shiki! Wielder of the Tohno gland! Any female character, and any potential female protagonist, ever. The number of females Shiki hasn't charmed to some extent can be counted on one hand.
Emiya Shirou from Fate/stay night. He starts the game with at least four girls crushing at or potentially interested in him to some degree or other (Sakura being the most obvious, plus Rin, Ayako and possibly even Taiga), and as the Grail War goes on both Saber and Rider. Though she probably doesn't quite fall for him, even Ilya at least seems to find him charming or interesting in some way (though if it's mostly in the 'big brother' sense), and Caster (a declared man hater) expressed respect for him. Oh, and Issei seems to be gay for him too, just to top it off.
In the magical girl spin-off Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA Shirou has the unnoticed favours of Illyasviel von Einzbern, her Dark Secret Identity Kuro (think Illya in Archer fashion), their best friend Miyu and Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou and Luvia Edelfeldt. Also, he seems to have a questionably good relationship with Cool Big Sis Sella.
From Funny Farm, Flink's ability to turn women (and gay men) on is inexplicable, given that he's an anthropomorphic pig. Furthermore, he's not doing anything other than standing there and talking (or just standing), and most of the time doesn't think anything of the fact that they're hanging off him. He's The Fool, but he also might be a truly asexual Chick Magnet.
"A gravitational force that draws nearly all women in his direction"
Thunderbird, in the Whateley Universe. He's gotten all the way into his sophomore year at Whateley Academy without noticing that all the girls on his training team, that girl who is always on his case about something, and that girl he thinks of as a 'little sister' are all crushing on him. Now he has Chaka after him too.
Western Animation
Disney's Peter Pan has Tinker Bell, Wendy, Tiger Lily and a gang of mermaids all over him and easily jealous.
Avatar The Last Airbender has two such characters. Sokka has had four girls swooning during the series, only liking two of them back (the first didn't end well), and not even being aware of one. Zuko is also in a relationship, but this doesn't stop him from attracting two girls he has met, plus a few additional ones when he went shirtless.
Sequel SeriesThe Legend of Korra episode "A Leaf in the Wind" introduces young pro-bender Bolin, who has "crazy fangirls." As his team enters the arena, one can be heard in the audience screaming his name.
In Futurama episode "The Butterjunk Effect," Fry gets sprayed with pheromones from a male alien Butterfly and becomes irresistibly attractive to women who take the "performance enhancer" known as "nectar," since it causes them to emit female butterfly pheromones. It's so strong even Amy—who is technically married to Kif—tried to have sex with him.
Despite being a Handsome Lech, Pepe LePew typically sent the female cats he fell in love with running for the hills, partly because of his skunk smell and partly because he just comes on too damn strong. On the other hand, when his odor is neutralized (on one occasion, the female cat's nose became clogged after an allergic reaction, which made her lose her sense of smell) or he gets black paint on his back which covers his white stripe (the female cats typically have white stripes painted on their backs, which makes them look like skunks), the female cats fall head-over-heels in love with him and the whole formula is gender flipped as they fall madly in love with Pepe and begin chasing him.
Mark Chang in his human disguise. His saying that any affection from him would cause him extreme pain, not knowing he's serious the girls just sigh dreamily.
Trent, Justin and Alejandro from the Total Drama series.
While any crushes in The Magic School Bus are only hinted at, geeky guy Arnold seems to get Ship Teased with other female characters the most, including Phoebe, Wanda, Dorothy Ann, and a one-shot character named Tiffany.
A lot of princesses from Adventure Time have shown romantic interest in Finn, but being the Last of His Kind means all of the girls are either dogs, elephants, slugs, cloud-like lumps, etc. The only femalehe is genuinely interested in doesn't reciprocate. Fortunately, after three seasons of being unlucky in love, he meets Flame Princess, who does feel the same way.
Rex from Generator Rex has so far attracted the attention of at least four girls that were significant to the plot in one way or another.
Ben 10: Max Tennyson. Bonus points in that at least two of 'em (Xylene and Verdona, the latter of whom is Ben and Gwen's grandmother) were extraterrestrials. Even better, he's still got it even as an oldman. And it's implied that that's not even the full story!
Oddly enough, Kai Green, the one girl Ben went out of his way to try to impress and woo, had no interest in Ben whatsoever until he slowly started mutating into Benwolf, and that was only because she wanted to tame him. (Unless you take into account the "Ben 10,000"/"Ken 10" alternate universe seen in the original series, as Word Of God states that the Kai of that timeline is Ben's wife and Ken's mother.)
Bob from Re Boot. He attracts Dot, Mouse, and Hexadecimal along with other minor female characters.
Droopy, in Tom and Jerry Kids and Droopy Master Detective; even his son describes him as a "Babe Magnet." In fact he always manages to conquer the beautiful Miss Vavoom on her various incarnations, even at first sight, getting usually kisses that give him explosive reactions.
Much to the surprise of everyone, Dizzy Devil from Tiny Toon Adventures had a knack for attracting beautiful women, even when he wasn't trying.
Real Life
Frank Sinatra. Looney Tunes featuring of him frequently had the members of his audience fainting, sighing "Oh Frankie!" in ecstasy, going into seizures, or screaming. They always chased after him in huge crowds once he was done performing.
Arguably a subversion: after his death it was revealed that many of the earlier swooning women were actually actresses paid by his publicist to hype up his image before he was really famous.
More or less the same things happened to The Beatles.
It has been claimed that poet/artist/songwriter/Renaissance ManShel Silverstein had to beat the ladies off with sticks. Not a perfect example, as he wasn't at all "innocent" about it.
Benedict Cumberbatch. Check out this screaming audience at the SherlockPBS Q&A (warning: DO NOT listen to the first 20 seconds with earphones). For extra points, the man has absolutely no idea why he has this effect on women. He doesn't find himself attractive at all!
Female
Anime and Manga
The title character of Miyuki-chan in Wonderland attracts the attention of everyone in the worlds she stumbles in, since they're all inhabited by girls only.
Urusei Yatsura: The whole of Tomobiki High School knows that Ryuunousuke's rather delusional father insists on making a man out of her, and she still gets more love letters than any guy on campus.
Mahou Sensei Negima!: It was only a two-chapter interlude, but the whole Cinema Village incident proved that Sakurazaki Setsuna + Samurai Costume = SQUEE!!!!
Futari wa Pretty Cure: Honoka is noted to get love letters from boys all the time, and poor Nagisa is chagrined that she gets them from the girls all the time.
Hayate the Combat Butler: Hinagiku. Apparently everyone in the school likes her. Lampshaded several times, and once by the title of a chapter, "Are you a magnet or something?"
Yuria, Kenshiro's one true love from Fist of the North Star, is sought after by a significant portion of the cast for one reason or another; most memorably by Shin, but even big scary Raoh fell for her hard.
Akane Tendo is wanted by Ranma, Ryoga, Kuno, the entire school, etc. It isn't until it's confirmed that Ranma is Akane's fiancée that the school gives up on trying to woo her.
Also, Ranma'sfemale form. Those who don't know she is a he pursue her. Those who do openly ogle.
Natsuru from Kampfer only starts attracting females after his gender-bending transformations; even the ones interested in his male form weren't interested before. Though more girls want the female Natsuru, the male version gets this reputation amplified when rumor goes around that he has a secret affair with the female Natsuru.
Celty of Durarara has had people fall in love with her headless body (it is a very nice body), as well as with her severed head.
Mikan of To Love-Ru also seems to be a Dude Magnet, and is continually being asked out by the boys in her class. Unfortunately for the guys, she's a Bro-con in denial. It seems the Yuuki family is God's gift to the opposite sex.
Chiba from Wandering Son is a Dude Magnet. Few straight boys her age in the series have not taken a liking to her at one time or another.
Momo from Peach Girl has about four guys after her at one time or another.
Like her brother, Natusumi Hinata of Keroro Gunso has quite a following. Only it seems to be of the same gender. From her swooning all girl fanclub at school, to Koyuki, she's a real draw for chicks. The only male that seems to have any interest in her, is Giroro.
THE iDOLM@STER - More of a Fangirl Magnet, but otherwise fits Makoto to a T.
Miki is pretty skilled at attracting the guys without trying. This is actually part of what leads to her Brilliant, but Lazy attitude.
Sena Kashiwazaki from Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai is often followed around by a gaggle of guys tripping over themselves to do favors for her. She couldn't care less about them, though — she's only interested in the one guy who stood up to her.
Alvida has all the men and women of Roguetown squeeing for her beauty, up the the point where the police can't attack her. But she only has eyes for Luffy.
Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman, thanks to her power which has a side effect of attracting men.
Marvel Star Wars: Zeltrons are drawn to◊ Leia Organa just as they are to her brother, and for the same reasons - she's heroic, famous, and Force-Sensitive.
Films — Live-Action
The entire plot of There's Something About Mary is based on the title character being one of these, although unfortunately only a particular type of man seemed to be attracted to her.
In Chicago, Roxie Hart imagines herself as a Dude Magnet (and a Marriage Proposal Magnet) in her "I'll be a star and boy will it be swell" song.
Literature
Bella Swan of Twilight fame. Apparently even her science teacher fancies her.
Raven of Vampire Kisses has three guys after her at one time or another, the guys being Trevor, Jagger, and Alexander.
Live-Action TV
Fred was a bit like this in Angel. It took her forever to notice that both Gunn and Wesley liked her, plus Amy Acker apparently got quite a lot of attention on set as well. Characters who have been attracted to or Ship Teased with Fred or Ilyria are Angel, Angelus, Wesley, Gunn, Spike, Knox, Connor, and Willow.
Annie in Being Human. Tully and Gilbert from Season 1; the Love Triangle with Hugh and Saul in Season 2; and now Mitchell in Season 3.
In one episode of How I Met Your Mother, "The Window", Ted recalls his longtime crush Maggie whom he never got to date because, as he describes her, she is "catnip for men".
Spencer Carlin from South of Nowhere is possibly the best example of a lesbian chick magnet. She has no problem attracting girls without any effort
Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1 is almost as much of an example as Daniel, with multiple love interests and explicit and implicit interest from dozens of men, including an Ancient and a Replicator.
In one episode of Seinfeld, Elaine becomes a Shiksa Goddess and has every Jewish man she meets fall in love with her, including a boy at a bar mitzvah, his father, their rabbi, and even Jerry.
Video Games
Asellus of Saga Frontier is a rare video game example of this (still attracting girls, not guys), and there's a in-story reason for it to boot. She has the blood of the Charm Lord in her, which makes her half-mystic, but also gives her the Charm Lord's Innate abilities of seduction and attraction to females. If you see the Easter Egg, you'll understand more.
Surprisingly, Tali gets almost as much attention from the guys as female Shepard. She's one of only two recurring squadmates who can end up with a love interest who isn't Shepard (namely, Garrus, the other squadmate), and she draws positive attention from Joker, Kenneth, Kal'Reegar, and even Javik in a way.
The female protagonist of Persona 3Portable. Junpei (the only male in SEES she cannot have a romantic relationship with) notes that a number of guys he talks to are interested in her. At least two of her Social Links develop feelings for her, although she can't have a relationship with them, another one calls her beautiful, and she is able to (optionally; the game developers have realized that it is possible for boys and girls to just be friends) romance Akihiko (himself a Chick Magnet), Ken, Ryoji, and Shinjiro who is implied to have fallen for her whether the player chooses to become lovers with him or not. Then there's Theo...
Osanai Shouko from Girls LoveVisual NovelAoi Shiro attracts a lot of girls up to having something dangerously close to Twin Threesome Fantasy sex. The fact that she's an extremely charming Sempai doesn't help, though it's more obvious when the story is related from other characters' point of view.
Kaine from A Profile, which is funny considering he's not even the protagonist. He actually gets more attention from girls than Masayuki does. But if it wasn't for the fact that Masayuki hangs around with Miou, a suspected prostitute, he would get even more attention.
Gwen from the Total Drama series — she has three guys (Duncan,Trent and Cody) who like her, and a couple more who have commented that she's good looking.
Parker Kovak IS this trope! Men, women, infants, robots, computers, and more have all had at least some romatic interest in her.
The Lance Nine Trillion in his sole episode of Time Squad is a literal example of a dude magnet. This is also true of his human coworker, J.T. Laser, but only Lance actually attracts his adoring fanboy (the Larry 3000, in this case) magnetically.
An episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force has Shake buying a literal Chick Magnet. It ends up feminizing those in its aura.
