Basic Trope: Guy who finds an Action Girl attractive because of said Action Girl credential.
- Straight: Bob is attracted to Maria, the world's greatest martial artist.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob sees Maria punch someone across a football field and falls in Love at First Sight
- In Love with Your Carnage
- Downplayed: Maria is a martial artist which Bob thinks is kinda cool and provides something for them to talk about.
- Justified:
- During her feats of ass-kickery, Maria displays incredible strength, flexibility, and stamina — often while not wearing much.
- Bob is a martial artist and so is Maria. They meet at a tournament and consider the other a Worthy Opponent. It develops from there.
- Bob finds confidence and strength attractive.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Bob just likes her for... other things.
- Bob just likes her for qualities outside of martial prowess and conventional beauty.
- Doubly Subverted: ...that's not to say he doesn't also want her for her fighting skills.
- Parodied:
- Every time Maria so much as threatens someone, Bob starts drooling.
- Bob keeps a punchbag in their bedroom for foreplay purposes.
- Maria's incredible strength and power makes Roberta fall in love with her.
- Maria is an absolute, mind-scarring Gonk who is also an awesome fighter. Bob is quite easy on the eyes. He is utterly smitten with her because of her fighting prowess.
- Zig-Zagged: One day, the boys want Maria for her fighting skills. The next, they want her for her boobs. Then, she becomes a Lady of War, and they want her for her fighting skills. The next day, they want her for her Murderous Thighs.
- Averted: Maria's martial arts skills have no effect on her attractiveness.
- Enforced:
- Author Appeal. The AUTHOR is an Amazon Chaser.
- The author wants to avoid the sexism associated with No Guy Wants an Amazon.
- The author wants to add in a Token Romance.
- Lampshaded: "You do realize Maria could grind you into the floor if she wanted to, right?" "I'd enjoy every minute of it!"
- Invoked:
- Bob falls in love with an Action Girl, but it doesn't end well for whatever reason. This causes Bob to find Action Girls attractive because it reminds him of her.
- Bob wants to feel safe so he decides to date women who are capable of protecting him.
- Bob is a great warrior, and wants a wife who can fight by his side in battle. As a result, he will only marry a woman who is a Worthy Opponent.
- Exploited: Jackie is attracted to Bob who is an Amazon Chaser so she decides to become a better fighter.
- Defied: Bob refuses to go out with Action Girls because he does not want to look wimpy in comparison.
- Discussed: "No Man Wants an Amazon? Are they crazy? No way. There is nothing hotter than a chick who can kill someone with their pinky. Heck, with the life I lead, a Damsel in Distress would be the last person I'd date."
- Conversed: "Of course some guys would be into an Action Girl. That's half the reason the trope exists."
- Implied: "Bob, why does your little black book read like the membership list at the local women's dojo?"
- Deconstructed:
- Eventually Maria has to retire. Bob abandons her now that she no longer has her one attractive quality.
- Maria starts fighting more and more for Bob's attention. Eventually her luck runs out.
- All that fighting takes its toll and eventually even amazon-ness isn't enough to compensate for a face that has been smashed in a thousand times.
- Maria eventually gets killed in a fight, leaving Bob heartbroken and depressed.
- Reconstructed:
- Maria is Happily Married to a Non-Action Guy who would otherwise think that No Guy Wants an Amazon.
- Crippled from a particularly bad fight, Maria switches from physical fighting (for example, martial arts) to mental fighting (for example, chess). She meets Bob at a chess parlor.
- While checking out of the hospital for the nth time she meets someone who is turned on precisely by 'action girls with faces that have been smashed a thousand times'.
- A face smashed in a thousand times is nothing a little Magic Plastic Surgery can't fix — and with the cash she gets by fighting, it does absolutely no dent on her funds.
- Bob has fond memories of Maria's bravery and strengh, and decides those good times outweigh his sorrow. When he dies he's reuinted with Maria in Warrior Heaven.
- Played For Laughs:
- Tony, Joey, and Jorge, Troperville High's default School Idols, go crazy over Maria, the school's best tennis player, so they start a hilariously violent "civil war" to decide who keeps her, much to Maria's chagrin because she's not interested in men, at all!
- Tony and Maria are stereotypical lovey-dovey high-school-sweetheart types even in the middle of a massive brawl. Their Falling-in-Love Montage is also as stereotypical as it can be contextually speaking, other than "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" playing over them doing googly eyes at each other across a battlefield.
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