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* {{Discussed|Trope}} by Yahtzee in his ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' review, when he analogizes Doom's focus on pure fun and shunning of the then-standard pacekiller tropes enforced in contemporary FPS shooters as being like if a sexy woman insists that she's attracted [[SelfDeprication hairy, middle aged gamers like himself]], and would suspect such a woman as being a GoldDigger. Once Doom proves to be a SheepInSheepsClothing, he decides that instead, the hypothetical woman must instead be [[ShockValueRelationship trying to get back at her dad]].

A CasanovaWannabe is ''never'' GenreSavvy enough to suspect this might be happening, and thus makes [[LoveMakesYouStupid a very good mark]] for this particular con. Then again, in fiction AManIsAlwaysEager and AllMenArePerverts, so it does not usually take much for most of them to be DistractedByTheSexy.

* ''Film/LAConfidential'' has one that prominently figures into the plot, even if it doesn't become obvious until much later on: the chunky, alcoholic, ill-tempered Det. Stens was apparently dating a bombshell porno actress who looked just like Creator/RitaHayworth, but [[spoiler: it turns out she was sent by her employer to get close to Stens in order to put him into a specific location where he could be assassinated in what would look to the public and his fellow cops like an ordinary robbery turned bad. Unlike most examples, the poor actress/hooker was not in on that stage of the plan, and she's gunned down along with everyone else in the café as part of the coverup]].

* ''Film/LAConfidential'' has one that prominently figures into the plot, even if it doesn't become obvious until much later on: The chunky, alcoholic, Ill-tempered Det. Stens was apparently dating a bombshell porno actress who looked just like Creator/RitaHayworth, but [[spoiler: it turns out she was sent by her employer to get close to Stens in order to put him into a specific location where he could be assassinated in a what would look to the public and his fellow cops like a ordinary robbery turned bad. Unlike most examples, the poor actress/hooker was not in on that stage of the plan, and she's gunned down along with everyone else in the café as part of the coverup.]]

* The title character from ''Series/{{Castle}}'' got seduced by an actress who wants a part in his movie. When he confronts her with the possibility, she breaks down in tears and asks "How could you? Do you know how ''hard'' it is for a woman in Hollywood?", leaving him feeling bad. Of course, she ''was'' just after a part. He ended up not rescinding his recommendation because she was a good enough actress to fool him into thinking he'd really hurt her with the accusation.

* ''Film/SpaceMutiny'': Lea in a {{Squick}} moment. The ''Series/{{MST3K}} riffing, naturally, lampshades the hell out of this: "You know, the last eight times this happened, the woman just wanted to get away!"

* Mystique and a prison guard from ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Sure, she drugged and injected him with iron, so that Magneto could ''rip it from his blood'' and escape, but he got to make out with Rebecca Romijn. Lucky bastard. This trope is basically lampshaded when Magneto [[BondOneLiner tells the guard]] that he should never trust a beautiful woman, especially one who's interested in ''him''.

* The ''[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E4IncaMummyGirl Inca Mummy Girl]]'' episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Ampata try this on Johnathan, so she can suck the life force from him. To his credit, he picks up on clues that something is wrong, and because she's meant to be with Xander when he shows up Johnathan rejects her.

* Sarah Walker in ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' once seduced a geek who had developed a secret weapon. Of course, she also attempted this with Chuck, although not in a bar but in the Buy More, so the CIA could get their hands on the Intersect.
* Fiona from ''Series/BurnNotice'' does this many times, but it's also subverted on a few occasions. For example, in one case she approaches a [[SafeCracking professional safe cracker]] with [[TheAlcoholic multiple arrests for drunk driving]] and tries to get him liquored up so he'll be arrested again and his team will be forced to call off the job they're pulling. Due to the fact that Fiona is way, ''way'' out of his league, comes out of nowhere and then starts proposing toasts to them with expensive champagne, he figures her for a HighClassCallGirl and leaves.
** Another time it works ''too'' well. Fiona tries to drug the guy with chloral hydrate in a martini, but he's more interested in her than the martini. So she switches to [[GrievousBottleyHarm a different approach]].
* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[NoSocialSkills Parker]] does this to a mark in "The Fifteen Minutes Job" in order to sell the con (no one would look twice at him if he hadn't gotten some minor media attention). [[ItMakesSenseInContext She didn't even stab him]]!
** [[ConArtist Sophie]] also does this somewhat frequently, though in her case it's usually somewhat justified in that her marks are often rather wealthy such that someone with her looks would logically be interested in them due to their success. It also doesn't hurt that as a sophisticated grifter she comes across as having class which also helps sell things.
* This comes up in ''Series/{{CSI}}'' as early as the pilot. A woman is seducing men from out of town, then knocking them out with a sedative applied to her nipple. She then robs them blind.
* George Costanza on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' typically subverts this trope ([[KavorkaMan for a "short, stocky, bald man", he manages to date some real lookers]], if only briefly), but the episode where a gorgeous businesswoman seduces him on the subway ends up with him stripped, handcuffed to the bed, and robbed. Of course, since he lies about being a successful businessman, [[HypocriticalHumor the woman is pretty pissed to discover he's actually unemployed and only carrying a few bucks on him]].
* In the first episode of ''Series/FreshMeat'', Howard warns Kingsley about this when he pulls a beautiful blonde girl on their first night at the pub ("This does ''not'' happen! It's a trap! When you wake up [[OrganTheft missing a kidney]], don't say I didn't warn you!") Turns out she's not an organ thief... [[spoiler:she's an evangelical Christian, who talks Kingsley into setting up a standing order]].
* Lampshaded in ''Series/BetweenTheLines1992''. Mo is infiltrating an AnimalWrongsGroup, and tells them she's going to seduce a security guard working at the animal testing center they plan to attack. The security guard is actually Naylor, also working undercover. When someone asks why she didn't pick someone younger and better looking, Mo replies that men are like dog shit. "The older they are, the easier to handle". Naylor, however, is embarrassed as Mo is both his colleague and a lesbian. Eventually, Mo has to tell him to start pawing her as the others are watching and "I'm supposed to be seducing you, not taking you by force".
* A pretty lawyer does this to get dirt on a witness in ''Series/BostonLegal''. Given that he's overweight and nerdy, he immediately suspects that she's an escort girl, but she convinces him she just wants some casual conversation with someone who doesn't think he's TheCasanova.
* Played with on an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', with Special Guest Creator/JuliaRoberts. Roberts plays a girl that Chandler knew in middle school. They go on a date and she seduces him in the bathroom. [[spoiler: It's just a ruse to get him back for pantsing her when they were kids, however. She steals his clothes and leaves him in the bathroom, wearing just her underwear.]]
* Played with at the start of Season 4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. A beautiful blonde waits for a good-looking journalist to start chatting her up, only for him to ramble on about how an ArtificialIntelligence has secretly taken over the world. Rather than walk out, she listens patiently to this conspiracy theory until everyone else has left the bar, tells the journalist he's absolutely right, [[YouKnowTooMuch then kills him.]]
* A flashback in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' shows that Angie (a beautiful cheerleader) and a friend of hers asked George (a plain-looking rockstar wannabe) and Ernie (an overweight even-more-pathetic rockstar wannabe) out to the Sadie Hawkins dance, solely because the entire cheerleading squad invited "losers" to the dance in order to lead them on for spite. However, Angie ends up falling for George after he lies about painting a mural of her, meaning they both manipulated each other and lampshade how their relationship was built on lies.
* The ''[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E4IncaMummyGirl Inca Mummy Girl]]'' episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Ampata try this on Johnathan, so she can suck the life force from him. To his credit, he picks up on clues that something is wrong, and because she's meant to be with Xander when he shows up Johnathan rejects her.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Lonelyville", a writer is approached in a bar by two beautiful women who say that they have always had a fantasy about [[AThreesomeIsHot a threesome with a stranger]]. The next morning he wakes up in a TheMurderAfter situation: with one of the women dead and him being blackmailed.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Faces", B'Elanna Torres and [[MauveShirt Ensign Durst]] are kidnapped by Sula, a MadScientist trying to cure the BodyHorror disease inflicting his species. B'Elanna tries to tempt Sula into freeing her by talking of the "legendary" voracious sexual appetites of Klingon women. Sulan doesn't fall for it as he knows full well he's TheGrotesque but is very tempted to do so. In fact, it backfires as instead of freeing B'Elanna he tries to make himself more attractive to her by [[HumanResources cutting off Durst's face and wearing it]].
* ''Series/{{Cracker}}''. A VillainOfTheWeek tries this on Fitz in "To Say I Love You". It doesn't work because Fitz {{Sherlock Scan}}s her and realises she's not the student she's pretending to be, plus he knows the killer has lured two other men to where her boyfriend is waiting to kill them, so he's likely more alert than he would normally be for this trick.
* ''Series/TheBlacklist'': In "The Thrushes", Aram confesses to Samar that he feels something is wrong in his relationship with Elise because "[[SexinessScore She's an 11. I'm a 6; a 4 on most days]]". He turns out to be ProperlyParanoid as she's actually a FemmeFataleSpy for The Thrushes that's [[HoneyTrap coming on to him]] in order to keep tabs on the Task Force.
-->'''Aram''': She’s beautiful and smart. She's an 11. I mean, I'm a 6; 4 on most days. Don't get me wrong. I am going to enjoy it, but... something is up. Maybe I'm her rebound guy, or she's got three months to live or...
* ''Series/NipTuck'': In "Shari Noble", Liz falls for this scheme when going to a lesbian bar and getting the attention of what she considers a "[[SexinessScore 10]]" and tragically, the HeadTurningBeauty woman indeed turns out to be a HoneyTrap who only brings Liz to her home in order to [[OrganTheft steal her kidney]].

* In the video of [[Music/BowlingForSoup Bowling for Soup's]] ''High School Never Ends'', Chris has a flashback of a cheerleader flirting with him in order to pull a LaxativePrank on him. He gets his [[BestServedCold revenge]] at the high school reunion by inducing himself to [[VomitIndiscretionShot projectile vomit]] all over her.

* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'': Granted, it's Larry who hits on Fawn. But it's her who decides she wants to marry him within just a few minutes. Poor Larry ends up [[ChainedToABed tied to the heart-shaped bed in the honeymoon suite]] with the red decoration ribbon, and Fawn gets away with all his money except for ten dollars. Good thing he's at the casino already so he can rebuild his wealth.

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* Inverted somewhat in ''ComicBook/TheGoon''. Sexy bar singer Mirna tries repeatedly to talk to Goon, only for him to rebuff her with increasing rudeness. Eventually, he snaps and tells her he doesn't know what she's selling, but he's not buying. He explains to Frankie that there's only one reason a girl like her pretends to be interested in a guy like him--he learned that the hard way. He realizes the truth too late when Mirna leaves town.
* ''ComicBook/EvilEmpire'': [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. In issue 5, when a SerialKiller named Ace Partner goes to a bar to search for a new victim, he is shocked to see a group of 5 women with a man tied to a table. A woman is bragging that the man must wish that he was spending another night at that brothel instead of the bachelorette party, implying the women were having a bachelorette party and hired a male stripper they plan to murder.

* Parodied in ''Fanfic/TheTyrantAndTheHero''. Black Alice tries to seduce information out of a pair of guards. The result can only be described as an EpicFail. Not only do the guards maintain their professionalism, but Black Alice is embarrassed at the mere thought of the seduction techniques she's learned about and runs away.

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* Mystique and a prison guard from ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Sure, she drugged and injected him with iron, so that Magneto could ''rip it from his blood'' and escape, but he got to make out with Rebecca Romijn. Lucky bastard. This trope is basically lampshaded when Magneto [[BondOneLiner tells the guard]] that he should never trust a beautiful woman, especially one who's interested in ''him''.
%%* The alternate ending to the remake of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''.
* This happens several times in ''Film/JamesBond'' movies.
** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', a humorous scene involves Bond enlisting the aid of a husky Slav woman, Rosika Miklos, who works on the Trans-Siberian pipeline he's using to smuggle a defector across the border from Czechoslovakia to Austria. Her role is to distract the on-duty technician, which she accomplishes by unzipping her jumpsuit and [[MarshmallowHell shoving the man's face into her generous bosom]]. Once Bond is safely away, Rosika throws the technician back and slaps him soundly across the face, snapping "What kind of girl do you think I am?!"
** ''Film/GoldenEye'' has Xenia Onatopp, the woman whose M.O. is to [[OutWithABang sex you to death]] with her thighs. Except in her case seducing her targets is not purely out of ulterior motives, since she's also a sexual sadist.

* In ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'', the group of shady security experts arrange a matchup through an online dating site between their leader's ex Liz (played by Creator/MaryMcDonnell) and a geeky employee of BigBad Cosmo, in order to obtain the employee's keycard and voice recognition codes for use in breaking into Cosmo's office. The second Cosmo hears of this he incredulously says "A computer matched ''him'' with ''her?''" and locks down the building, knowing it's a setup.

* This trope shows up in several ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' films.
** ''Film/SpaceMutiny'': Lea in a {{Squick}} moment. The riffing, naturally, lampshades the hell out of this: "You know, the last eight times this happened, the woman just wanted to get away!"
** This is roughly half the plot of ''Film/HighSchoolBigShot''; the popular Betty seduces bookish anti-hero Marv to get him to write an essay for her; the plan backfires and costs Marv his chance at a scholarship. This pushes him over the DespairEventHorizon, driving him to plan to steal a million dollars of [[TheMafia Mob]] money kept at the warehouse he works part-time at. All to get Betty's attention. [[EverybodyDies It doesn't end well]].
** Seen in ''Film/AngelsRevenge''. Especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} as they're dressed in bikinis on a ridiculously cold, foggy day on a deserted beach.
** Again, in ''Film/OperationDouble007'': The BodyguardBabes of the BigBad expand this trope into a scheme to steal some AppliedPhlebotinum from a military convoy in the middle of the desert. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment The can-can dancer outfits and skunk costumes play a vital role... somehow]].
** Even more, with Watney Smith and the Queen in ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]]''.
* This happens more than once with Film/TheThreeStooges, typically to [[TheWoobie Curly]].
* Directly lampshaded by a girl in ''Film/ShesTheMan'', who tells a guy, "Girls with asses like mine don't talk to boys with faces like yours". Also inverted in that she gets dumped not only by her boyfriend, [[LesYay but by her]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser boyfriend's sister]].
* Done by the mermaids in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' to some unfortunate sailors. Not only do they kill them, they ''eat'' them. Notably though, the sailors were (at least in part) trying to do the same to the mermaids, and they needed to capture one for reasons of their own.
* Done in the horror film ''Film/TrickRTreat'' by a [[spoiler:pack of female werewolves]].

* ''Film/DenOfThieves'': After a brutal argument with his soon-to-be ex-wife, Big Nick goes to a strip club. One of the dancers picks him up and takes him back to her place. It is only the next morning when Merriman walks into the apartment that Nick realises that the woman is Merriman's girlfriend and he has been taken for a ride (in multiple senses).

* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'': Wilbur (Costello) is chuffed to find himself in an apparent LoveTriangle with ''two'' gorgeous women at once. Everyone else is mystified, considering that Wilbur is TheDitz and works at a dead-end shipping job. Of course, it turns out they both have sinister ulterior motives: [[spoiler:Joan is an insurance investigator, and Sandra wants to steal his brain for the Frankenstein monster]].

* A short story by Creator/SpiderRobinson involves a painfully-awkward and very unattractive computer geek being approached by a memetic sex goddess. She puts a crown on his head, then takes him back to his apartment for all sorts of sex, saying, along the way, "Hurry, my lord, I'm positively ''dripping''!" while other bar patrons stare at him. After lots of awesome sex, [[spoiler:he ends up figuring out that the crown is a recording device for a futuristic version of amateur porn. When you can experience the other person's point of view, a porn star is just too analytical to get the voyeuristic juices flowing]].
* In the Books&Braun series by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, this happens to Mr. Books and starts the whole plot by getting him into the situation from which Ms. Braun rescues him.
* In Patrick O'Brian's ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, the wife of a captured sea officer is blackmailed into seducing spy/surgeon Stephen Maturin for intel. Except it doesn't work, because Maturin's GenreSavvy enough to know he's too ugly for her to be legitimately interested in him.
* In the Literature/{{Backstrom}} novel ''He Who Kills the Dragon'', a shady big-time art dealer who relies on Bäckström for "little services", (ie, corrupt favours) arranges him a high-class escort for the night as a "thank-you". Bäckström, vain, egotistical and with an exaggerated belief in his own pulling power, believes the beautiful woman who picks him up in the hotel bar and takes him home is genuinely attracted to him and finds him irresistible. It doesn't occur to him for one second that she's been paid for and it's a HoneyTrap to drag him deeper into corruption.
* In ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling'', [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike]] ("not handsome... [with the] high, bulging forehead, broad nose and thick brows of a young Beethoven who had taken to boxing") recalls the day that he met his beautiful and volatile ex-girlfriend Charlotte Campbell:
-->Thus had she publicly dumped her Old Harrovian boyfriend for Cormoran Strike. It had been the most glorious moment of Strike’s nineteen years: he had publicly carried off Helen of Troy right under Menelaus’s nose, and in his shock and delight he had not questioned the miracle, but simply accepted it.
-->Only later had he realized that what had seemed like chance, or fate, had been entirely engineered by her. She had admitted it to him months later: that she had, to punish Ross for some transgression, deliberately entered the wrong room, and waited for a man, any man, to approach her; that he, Strike, had been a mere instrument to torture Ross; that she had slept with him in the early hours of the following morning in a spirit of vengefulness and rage that he had mistaken for passion.

* Catherine Weaver and the power plant manager in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' episode "Goodbye to All That".

* GenderInvertedTrope in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Fetal Attraction". Our handsome protagonist John Crichton hits on a much older Sebacean nurse with access to Aeryn Sun, who is being held prisoner. Crichton plays the FantasticRacism card as to why he's not hitting on someone else: "I don't do aliens" (Crichton is actually human, but [[HumanAliens the two species look similar]] so she doesn't know that). However, she's suspicious and only relents when he throws in a cure for a disease running rampant on the space station. That being said, he played the horndog well enough that--when he's captured--he's able to bluff a LivingLieDetector that the reason he tried to take Aeryn was because she was prettier than the nurse and he was planning to have sex and babies with her... which was technically the truth, but not the whole truth.

* Played with on ''Series/TheShield''. The Strike Team is tasked with investigating a series of robberies at a strip club -- the girls proposition men for alley sex, but one of the girls has an accomplice who attacks the johns. Vic tries it, picks "incorrectly", and gets a blow job. Shane tries it and gets a tire iron to the head.
* Sydney Bristow in ''Series/{{Alias}}'' did this to bad guys in nightclubs all the time.

* Provenza and Flynn really should have figured this out a lot sooner in ''Series/TheCloser'' episode "Layover". Two stewardesses start dating them as a cover for their drug smuggling activities.
* Used numerous times in ''Series/{{Hustle}}''.

* Directly lampshaded by a girl in ''Film/ShesTheMan'', who tells a guy, "Girls with asses like mine don't talk to boys with faces like yours." Also inverted in that she gets dumped not only by her boyfriend, [[LesYay but by her]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser boyfriend's sister]].

* ''Film/FuneralInBerlin''. British spy Harry Palmer is picked up by a beautiful young woman (who is later revealed to be an Israeli agent) in a West Berlin bar and invited back to her flat. He goes along with it but is not convinced for a moment that her motives are genuine, telling his German contact that "she picked me up last night, and--with my irresistible charm--I want to know why, and who she's working for." Despite his suspicions, she still manages to distract him long enough for her associates to search his hotel room.

* The ''Best-Case Survival Handbook'' (a parody, of course, of the ''Worst-Case Survival Handbook'' series) has an entry on (paraphrased) "What to do if you are approached by a fantastically beautiful woman who invites you back to her hotel room for a night of athletic, no-strings-attached sex." It goes something like "'''Run.''' The only person this happens to is Film/JamesBond and she always puts a [[AnimalAssassin scorpion under the pillow]] or something."

-->"When approached on a sexual level, covert operators should remember that they have not necessarily been found attractive beyond the moon and the stars but rather that the person making the approach is allied with the opposition and attempting to subvert, to maneuver into a life-threatening situation, or to provide the opposition with blackmail material. In any event, until a life-threatening situation occurs, it is recommended that operatives pretend to be seducible. Interesting intelligence has been produced in such situations."

* GenderInvertedTrope in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Fetal Attraction". Our handsome protagonist John Crichton hits on a much older Sebacean nurse with access to Aeryn Sun, who is being held prisoner. Crichton plays the FantasticRacism card as to why he's not hitting on someone else: "I don't do aliens." (Crichton is actually human, but [[HumanAliens the two species look similar]] so she doesn't know that). However, she's suspicious and only relents when he throws in a cure for a disease running rampant on the space station. That being said, he played the horndog well enough that--when he's captured--he's able to bluff a LivingLieDetector that the reason he tried to take Aeryn was because she was prettier than the nurse and he was planning to have sex and babies with her... which was technically the truth, but not the whole truth.

* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' has a gender-flipped version, where Neal Caffrey seduces a woman in a bar to find secret information on his boss. (Of course, she's not quite as [[HollywoodHomely unattractive]] as male examples usually are.) Similar tactics to this are a normal part of Neal's arsenal.

* Lampshaded in ''Series/BetweenTheLines1992''. Mo is infiltrating an AnimalWrongsGroup, and tells them she's going to seduce a security guard working at the animal testing center they plan to attack. The security guard is actually Naylor, also working undercover. When someone asks why she didn't pick someone younger and better looking, Mo replies that men are like dog shit. "The older they are, the easier to handle." Naylor, however, is embarrassed as Mo is both his colleague and a lesbian. Eventually, Mo has to tell him to start pawing her as the others are watching and "I'm supposed to be seducing you, not taking you by force."

* Defense contractors and other firms handling sensitive or classified data don't beat around the bush at all. They will put up conspicuous workplace posters that say, in effect, "If she's a 10 and you're a 2, be careful."

* Played with at the start of Season 4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. A beautiful blonde waits for a good-looking journalist to start chatting her up, only for him to ramble on about how an ArtificialIntelligence has secretly taken over the world. Rather than walk out, she listens patiently to this UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory until everyone else has left the bar, tells the journalist he's absolutely right, [[YouKnowTooMuch then kills him.]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' inverts the trope. In "Fetal Attraction", handsome John Critchton hits on a much older Sebacean nurse with access to Aeryn. However, she's suspicious and only relents when he throws in a cure for a disease running rampant on the station as well. That being said, he played the horndog well enough that, when he's captured, he's able to bluff a species that is mildly psychic that the reason he took Aeryn is because she was prettier than the nurse and he was planning to have sex and babies with her... which was technically the truth, but not the whole truth.
** The nurse is also the only Sebacean for light-years, so Critchton plays the FantasticRacism card as to why he's not hitting on someone else: "I don't do aliens." Critchton is actually human, but [[HumanOutsideAlienInside she doesn't know that, as the species are outwardly similar]].

* ''Film/FuneralInBerlin''. British spy Harry Palmer is picked up by a beautiful young woman - who is later revealed to be an Israeli agent - in a West Berlin bar and invited back to her flat. He goes along with it but is not convinced for a moment that her motives are genuine, telling his German contact that "she picked me up last night, and - with my irresistible charm - I want to know why, and who she's working for." Despite his suspicions, she still manages to distract him long enough for her associates to search his hotel room.

* In many strip clubs in the United States, exotic dancers earn all their money from tips and from commissions on drinks ordered for them by their customers. Therefore, it's standard practice for them to flirt with their customers whilst "in character" in order to encourage them to spend more money. Website/TVTropes [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement is not the place]] to debate the ethics of this practice; however, there are some (often loosely-enforced) laws on touching which attempt to protect both workers from clients and clients from workers.

The poor schlub will likely be ChainedToABed, humiliated in some other fashion, [[OrganTheft short a kidney]], or dead once the lady in question has what she wants from him. In supernatural settings, she may be a LiteralManeater. The least worst case scenario seems to be she wants to use his presence to [[OperationJealousy make someone else jealous]] (ignoring the possibility of it escalating to something much worse). Or if the schlub is rich or [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted has just had a windfall]], she may be a GoldDigger.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rarity has shown a few instances of this, and the fandom extrapolated it into her standard M.O. [[UnEntendre when she needs something that a male can give]].

* In many strip clubs in the United States, exotic dancers earn all their money from tips and from commissions on drinks ordered for them by their customers. Therefore, it's standard practice for them to flirt with their customers whilst "in character" in order to encourage them to spend more money. Wiki/TVTropes [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement is not the place]] to debate the ethics of this practice; however, there are some (often loosely-enforced) laws on touching which attempt to protect both workers from clients and clients from workers.

See also HoneyTrap, KissOfDistraction, FavorsForTheSexy, and IHaveBoobsYouMustObey. A specifically sexual {{subtrope}} of TooGoodToBeTrue. Contrast ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe, a romantic [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Also compare and contrast TheMurderAfter.

* Lampshaded in ''Series/BetweenTheLines''. Mo is infiltrating an AnimalWrongsGroup, and tells them she's going to seduce a security guard working at the animal testing center they plan to attack. The security guard is actually Naylor, also working undercover. When someone asks why she didn't pick someone younger and better looking, Mo replies that men are like dog shit. "The older they are, the easier to handle." Naylor, however, is embarrassed as Mo is both his colleague and a lesbian. Eventually, Mo has to tell him to start pawing her as the others are watching and "I'm supposed to be seducing you, not taking you by force."