History Main / EstrogenBrigade

%% * With ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' it's probably easier to count the female fans who aren't into either [[GenderBlenderName Claire]], Firo, or Luck. Or Ladd, or Graham, or Czeslaw.

* While ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is [[{{shonen}} targeted to young males]], the series is infamous for the the huge Estrogen Brigade that congregates around [[TroubledButCute Shizuo]] and [[EvilIsSexy Izaya]]. [[{{Moe}} Mikado]] and [[HandsomeLech Kida]], too. Heck, most of the male cast is [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys pretty]]!

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' stars a perverted hero who powers up through his love of breasts, and is filled with male-oriented {{Fanservice}}, but has a large enough female fanbase to be sold in the women's section of bookshops. Despite Issei's BrutalHonesty about his love of boobs, he is [[ActOfTrueLove deeply loyal to his beloved]], [[ChivalrousPervert always treats women with respect]] and will always help out someone who is in trouble. It doesn't hurt that the [[SupportingHarem (mostly female) supporting cast]] have ongoing {{Character Arc}}s which don't centre around Issei, and that he has both [[HoYay male allies]] and BloodKnight rivals who [[FoeRomanceSubtext get excited when they think about him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' made the Once-ler a human. A very cute human. A very cute human with a [[WellDoneSonGuy sympathetic]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds POV]]. Cue the fangirls.

* ''Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure'' is famous for its very large female fanbase due in no part to all the HoYay and [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys disproportionately male cast]], but is primarily a shonen geared towards male audiences and often full of ultraviolent content. Hell, the all-female manga artist group Creator/{{CLAMP}} even got their start doing {{doujinshi}} and slashy fanart for this series.

* [[PrettyBoy Camilo Madrigal]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}:'' has not become one of the greatest EnsembleDarkHorse in Disney history for nothing. He is a handsome teenager with a beautiful singing voice and despite being the Madrigal with the least screen time, several fangirs ([[EvenTheGuysWantHim and even fanboys]]) like to shipping themselves along with him.
** [[UnpopularPopularCharacter Bruno]] is considered weird by everyone in the universe, but hardly any fans think the same way. Fangirs have admitted to being attracted to him and even claim that they would like to have him as a husband.
** [[MrFanservice Mariano]] is not only considered "[[TallDarkAndHandsome The Man of my Dreams]]" by Dolores, but the fans also fell in love with him thanks to the fact that he is a muscular hunk with nice hair and sun-kissed skin. The fact that he has [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound Maluma]]'s voice helps a lot.

* [[PrettyBoy Camilo Madrigal]] from ''WesternAnimation/Encanto'' has not become one of the greatest EnsembleDarkHorse in Disney history for nothing. He is a handsome teenager with a beautiful singing voice and despite being the Madrigal with the least screen time, several fangirs ([[EvenTheGuysWantHim and even fanboys]]) like to shipping themselves along with him.

** [[MrFanservice Mariano]] is not only considered "[[TallDarkAndHandsome The Man of my Dreams]]" by Dolores, but the fans also fell in love with him thanks to the fact that he is a muscular hunk with nice hair and sun-kissed skin. The fact that he has [[MostWonderfulSound Maluma]]'s voice helps a lot.

** [[UnpopularPopularCharacter Bruno]] is considered weird and strange by everyone in the universe, but hardly any fans think the same way. Fangirs have admitted to being attracted to him and even claim that they would like to have him as a husband.
** [[MrFanservice Mariano]] is not only considered "[[Tall, Dark, and Handsome The Man of my Dreams]]" by Dolores, but the fans also fell in love with him thanks to the fact that he is a muscular hunk with nice hair and sun-kissed skin. The fact that he has [[MostWonderfulSound Maluma's]] voice helps a lot.

* For a rather surprising example, the anime adaptation of ''Literature/RedoOfHealer'' has more female viewers than average, ignoring the fact that the anime and the original light novels only show [[VillainProtagonist Kayal/Keyaru]] raping and torturing his slaves and his enemies, all of which are female, while the latter are brainwashed by him. [[https://animecorner.me/2021/03/redo-of-healer-female-viewership-is-higher-than-average/ Must be seen to be believed]].

* "Clique"-era Wrestling/ShawnMichaels was blatantly marketed at female fans, to the point of doing a spread in Playgirl. Of course, the result was the male fans turning against him in a way that makes the current reaction to John Cena seem positively tame, culminating in Madison Square Garden rabidly cheering Sid of all wrestlers at Survivor Series 1996. In the pre-Attitude era, that type of fan revolt was shocking. Many male fans take great pleasure in the stunned reaction of a female fan in the front row of that match when Sid pins Michaels clean in the middle as MSG erupts in cheers.

-->-- '''Jean-Pierre Polnareff''', ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', Episode 6

* {{Tokusatsu}} has been attracting female viewers at least since 2000, when Joe Odagiri was cast as Series/KamenRiderKuuga and drew the attention of adult women and teenage girls who were watching the show alongside their sons/little brothers; in fact, the Japanese even refer to this as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odagiri_effect Odagiri Effect]]. Ever since then, producers have been invoking this trope by casting handsome actors, singers, and male models as their heroes in the hopes of drawing in older female viewers with more disposable income. It's also gender-flipped, as most female roles in these shows are played by cute singers and swimsuit models in order to draw in fathers and older boys.

* Judging from the amount of fanart they get online, [[BenevolentBoss Buster]], [[OnlySaneMan Eddie]], [[TheNapoleon Mike]] and [[GentleGiant Johnny]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' seem to be really popular with female fans. It helps that Buster has a sympathetic POV and Mike is voiced by [[Creator/SethMacfarlane]].

* Bamber got another brigade for ''Series/LawAndOrderUK.'' He's gotten this in basically everything he's ever starred in, even in shows already geared towards women -- ''Series/BodyOfProof'' and ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles.''

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', both Creator/RobertCarlyle and (in a rare [[LGBTFanbase female example]]) Creator/LanaParrilla have developed sizeable, occasionally combative, Estrogen Brigades. Creator/ColinODonoghue also practically has his own female cult-of-personality on account of his {{Guyliner}}.

* ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'': [[{{Hunk}} Max Irons]], [[PrettyBoy Aneurin Barnard]], David Oakes and Ben Lamb are all extremely gorgeous in period costumes ([[MrFanservice and without them!]]).

* ''Series/CharliesAngels'' had a huge female viewership, because in part the Angels often went undercover in health clubs, spas, cruse ships and other places crowded with men wearing only [[ModestyTowel towels]] or [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuits]] as well as in other places where [[{{Hunk}} a hunk]] would appear [[ShirtlessScene without a shirt]].

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Due to the relatively large LGBTFanbase, many fangirls have admitted to only watching due to finding Creator/ElizabethGillies attractive. This is helped by the fact that her character Jade is AmbiguouslyBi and wears a lot of shirts that highlight her cleavage. In fact, many queer fans of the show go so far as to say Gillies was their queer awakening.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has had a pretty damn big one ever since ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. The reason why [[SheIsAllGrownUp should]] [[{{Bishonen}} be]] [[MrFanservice obvious]] [[note]] an interview with the creators revealed this was entirely intentional. Apparently Link was designed to suit the preferences of one artist's wife.[[/note]]. This is even referenced in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. If the player finishes the STAR minigame in Hyrule Castle Town, a group of girls will squee and run away every time Link goes by. You get a couple of free hearts from the pure power of estrogen left in their wake.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has always been aimed at boys, with female characters in the franchise few and far-between. Despite this, the series has a female fanbase, which seemingly exploded in size with ''Transformers Prime''. Why? Two reasons: one, the show aired back-to-back with ''My Little Pony''; two, Knock Out. Girls LOVE Knock Out, almost as much as they love fanfictions and music videos that romantically pair him with other male transformers.

* A rather surprising example. The anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'' has more female viewers than average, ignoring the fact that the anime (and the original light novel) only show [[VillainProtagonist Kayal/Keyaru]] raping and torturing his slaves and his enemies, both of which are all female, while the latter are brainwashed by him. [[https://animecorner.me/2021/03/redo-of-healer-female-viewership-is-higher-than-average/ Must be seen to be believed]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' gives us Flik, who is a [[TheKlutz klutzy]], [[BunglingInventor bungling]] {{Nerd}}. A very [[{{Adorkable}} cute klutzy, bungling nerd]]. A very cute klutzy, bungling nerd who is easy to symphasize with. Cue the fangirls.

-->--'''Jean-Pierre Polnareff''', ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', Episode 6

->''"But we're all here for [[Creator/SeanConnery Sean]], let's face it."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''

* Originally, majority of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' fans were male until the Alicization arc, when another PrettyBoy character, Eugeo, was introduced. The following result is several YaoiGenre fanfictions and doujinshis are created.

* German actor Johannes Gabriel, as Walter, captured the hearts and possibly other anatomical regions of the Russian female fanbase of the TV show ''Series/NineteenFortyOne'' and its sequels, ''1942'' and ''1943''.

* OlderThanRadio: In ClassicalMusic, the probable TropeMaker is Nicolo Paganini, whose virtuosic violin playing and flowing long hair was said to "leave men weeping and women swooning." The TropeCodifier, though, was the dashing pianist Music/FranzLiszt, who had swarms of hysterical fans literally throwing themselves at the stage and fainting in the aisles wherever he performed. The phenomenon was given the name "Lisztomania," over 120 years before [[Music/TheBeatles Beatlemania]] happened. Quoth Wiki/TheOtherWiki:

* ''Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure'' is famous for its very large female fanbase due in no part to all the HoYay and [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys disproportionately male cast]], but is primarily a shonen geared towards male audiences and often full of ultraviolent content. Hell, Creator/{{CLAMP}} (an all-female manga artist group), even got its start doing doujinshi and slashy fanart for this series.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', both Creator/RobertCarlyle and (in a rare [[LGBTFanbase female example]]) Creator/LanaParrilla have developed sizeable, occasionally combative, Estrogen Brigades. Creator/ColinODonoghue also practically has his own female cult-of-personality on account of his {{Guyliner}} and AbsoluteCleavage.