History Main / GirlOfTheWeek

-->'''Austin:''' ''(mournfully)'' I can't believe Vanessa, my bride, my one true love, [[LampshadeHanging the woman who taught me the beauty of monogamy]], [[spoiler: was a fembot all along]]... ''([[MoodWhiplash cheerfully]])'' Wait a tick, that means I'm single again! [[CatchPhrase Oh, behave!]]

** Lies! Chekov got two girls. They didn't even die! (Like Kirk, Chekov insisted the ''Enterprise'' was [[MarriedToTheJob his true love]] and told his flower child girlfriend to hit the street. This scenario would be replayed, ad nauseum, throughout each of the five ''Star Trek'' series. Walter Koenig was ''pissed''. There was also Yeoman Landon, although [[Recap/StarTrekS2E5TheApple Vaal]] did not approve.)

** In TOS: In the first season, Yeoman Rand (the late Grace Lee Whitney) is no longer seen, w/o explanation, but she's replaced by either the "Hot Yeoman/Female Junior Officer" of the week, but not just for Kirk, in fact, not often. While many are simply eye candy; there are a few dalliances. Kirk's one is with a young psychologist, Dr. Helen Noel, whom he's acquainted with, though at first their encounter didn't go all the way. Perhaps Helen wishes that it had, because in the mind-altering chair in that penal colony they're investigating, after the attempted escape of one of their DOCTORS who'd gone mad with that chair, she plants a suggestion that indeed Kirk had bedded her, and we see his face with...a BIG smile. Then the evil director and his henchmen enter, take over, and begin to screw with Kirk's mind. Helen is mortified that what had seemed to be a harmless prank is now used to destroy Kirk; she helps him with some rather provocative crawling through the penal colony's air ducts. In the early second season, Scotty crushes on a comely blonde anthropologist, Carolyn Palamas, but when "Apollo" encounters the Enterprise, and she comes down to his planet with Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov, he also has the eye for her. Things don't go well for a jealous Montgomery Scott; but despite Apollo coming on VERY strong to her, she finally resists, mocking him as a "specimen". Apollo doesn't exactly take her "no" as final, and it's strongly implied he simply rapes her. In the James Blish adaptation of this episode, in an epilogue, McCoy informs Kirk that Lt. Palamas is pregnant, presumably with Apollo's child, and that his training in obstetrics doesn't include demi-god children.

* ''Radio/{{Ectoplasm}}'' has a DamselInDistress of the Week, played each time by Creator/SophieAldred.

** Madeleine Swann, introduced in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', is the first time a main Bond Girl appeared in more than one movie due to being Bond's SecondLove, coming back for ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.
** Bond's murdered wife [[ILetGwenStacyDie Tracy di Vicenzo]] also gets brought up every now and then, but always indirectly (possibly to hide the ContinuitySnarl of Creator/PierceBrosnan's Bond being called upon to mourn a woman Creator/GeorgeLazenby's Bond married over thirty years earlier), though this was the unspoken reason Creator/SeanConnery's Bond was so pissed at Blofeld and frantically hunted him down at the beginning of the immediate sequel to ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''.
*** Tracy would have appeared in the film after ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and be killed early in the film. Before filming of Lazenby's first film ended he had already decided not to do another, so she was killed at the end of the film.

If you were looking for MonsterOfTheWeek, WellThisIsNotThatTrope.

* The Girl of the Week was frequently used on ''Series/MagnumPI'' In fact, when they weren't Girl of the Week episodes, they were probably TemporaryLoveInterest episodes. Pretty much a staple of PI series from the 50's to the 80's (e.g. ''Series/{{Vegas}}'')

** Subverted in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', the first {{Canon}} movie of the franchise. It's an {{Interquel}} between the second-to-last chapter and the [[DistantFinale epilogue]], so the "girl" of the movie is also the main love interest and [[OneTrueLove the one]] Naruto gets HappilyMarried to: [[spoiler:Hinata]]. The movie is the tale of how [[TheyDo they fell in love]], after the long and hard road that was the main series.

* Each volume of ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'' has Kyousuke help out a new girl, who also acts as his partner in performing SummonMagic. Said girls, in keeping with Kyousuke's motif as the [[AliceAllusion White Rabbit]], are referred to as his "Alices". Though he doesn't actually have a romantic relationship with any of them, presumably because [[spoiler:the White Queen, the BigBad of the series and the first "Alice", [[{{Yandere}} would kill them if he did]]]].

* Makoto of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' usually fell for each minor male character shortly after their introduction. And they all remind her of an ex-[[SempaiKohai senpai]], even [[spoiler:Haruka]].

-->'''Josh:''' Lucy might end up being the girl you date for more than three weeks!

** More like Girl of the ''Movie'' as the movies seem to love this trope. Naruto's had at least one older woman giving him a kiss, a DamselInDistress literally offering to have his babies (which, due to the way she phrased it, Naruto unwittingly accepts), and in the second Shipuuden movie he ends up with the current girl clutching him to her chest (it would be MarshmallowHell if she had bigger... tracts of land) while tearfully claiming that she'd never leave him... Since the three ''Naruto'' movies and the first six ''Shippuden'' movies are [[{{Filler}} non-canonical]], not one of them ever shows up again.

* Subverted throughout the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, as Brock generally never has even a slim chance of actually getting the girl. There have been some ''very'' rare instances of girls actually being interested in Brock, but they always go their separate ways by the end of the episode, anyway. Also subverted in that half those girls are either Nurse Joy or Officer Jenny, [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals who all look/sound/act the same.]]

* The 90s ''Batman'' films. ''Film/Batman1989'' had Vicki Vale (Creator/KimBasinger), ''Film/BatmanReturns'' had Catwoman (Creator/MichellePfeiffer) and ''Film/BatmanForever'' had Chase Meridian (Creator/NicoleKidman).

*** Although, both Vicki and Catwoman are given an explanation as to where they went. Bruce told Selina that Vicki couldn't handle his double life, and [[spoiler:as far as Batman knows Catwoman is dead]].
*** An earlier draft of the script for ''Batman and Robin'' had [[spoiler: Poison Ivy killing Julie Madison]].

** [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The 1963 original]]: Mme. Clouseau -- she divorced her inspector husband for Sir Charles Litton;
** ''Film/AShotInTheDark'': Maria Gambrelli
** ''Film/InspectorClouseau'': Lisa Morrell
** ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'': Olga
** ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'': Simone

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* ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' discusses, lampshades, and generally plays hell with this trope: the opposition is using a Hero-trap geas, meaning that all efforts to oppose him will be funneled into the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality; since he cast himself as the villain, he can only be successfully resisted by a Film/JamesBond archetype, which is played by [[TheHero Bob]]. He is quickly paired up with a female [[EagleLand Black Chamber]] agent, making her a Bond girl. [[spoiler:And then the trope is turned completely upside down: it turns out that [[TheChessmaster Angleton]] was able to successfully end-run the geas by making Bob's girlfriend, Mo, the true Bond-figure in the geas, meaning that ''Bob'' is the [[DamselInDistress actual Bond girl]], allowing Mo to save the day in a Bond-worthy BigDamnHeroes moment. The narrative also notes that there's almost always two Bond girls, one "[[TheChick light]]", one "{{dark|ActionGirl}}", thus making room for the Black Chamber agent in the geas.]]

** Zuko, or better yet Sokka, has multiple love interests. [[spoiler:However, Zuko ends up with Mai, and Sokka with Suki.]]
** TheAbridgedSeries has Sokka proudly declare "I got hos in different area codes" when this is brought up.
** Interestingly enough, [[spoiler:Suki]] was originally intended to be this, but was brought back and made a permanent love interest [[EnsembleDarkhorse due to fandom demand.]]
** [[spoiler:Suki]] is an example of FirstGirlWins while [[spoiler:Mai]] is an example of [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Victorious Childhood Friend]].
* Irene, for Terry in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. [[DatingCatwoman Melanie]] comes off as this in her initial appearance, but came back a few times.

* ''ComicBook/{{Barbarella}}''. Given that she's in a FreeLoveFuture the titular heroine hooks up with a handsome guy (she's not adverse to women either) in every adventure, and is often seen making eyes at her next conquest by the end of it.

* The whole premise of Franco-Belgian comic ''[[NiceGuy Julie]], [[DumbBlonde Claire]], [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Cécile]]''. The work is nothing, but one page gags about the three girls' dating life. No guy ever stay longer than one page except for Claire who eventually got a permanent boyfriend.

* Ribbon is this to Franchise/{{Kirby}} in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', never seen after that game. She never does get a proper replacement, however, unlike most other examples, and fans ''clamor'' for her return.

** This was such a common event that characters who keep getting the Girl of the Week in a TV series are sometimes referred to as 'Kirk' or 'a Kirk', either as criticism or compliment, often by [[{{Nerd}} geeky]] characters. See various episodes of Stargate Atlantis as an example, with Rodney [=McKay=] calling John Shepherd 'Kirk' after he has met and conquered the girl - but then he's jealous! The epitome of this was when Shephard tried to hit on Rodney's married sister in the episode '[=McKay=] and Mrs Miller' (S3 E08).

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** Lies! Chekov once got a girl. She didn't even die! (Like Kirk, Chekov insisted the ''Enterprise'' was [[MarriedToTheJob his true love]] and told his flower child girlfriend to hit the street. This scenario would be replayed, ad nauseum, throughout each of the five ''Star Trek'' series. Walter Koenig was ''pissed''.)

** So far, just about every girl that Daniel Craig's Bond has had sex with has died before the closing credits. The only five Daniel Craig-era Bond girls to survive so far are Camille Montes (who Bond doesn't even get in bed with) in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', the random woman he is seen with at the beginning of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Estrella (the girl he's with in the opening sequence of ''Spectre''), Lucia Sciarra and Madeleine Swann.
** By contrast, Creator/TimothyDalton is by far the safest Bond to bed down with; only Della dies across his two films, and she's Felix Leiter's wife, not his (although it's strongly implied he and Della may have had a history). All four of the women Dalton's James sleeps with (unnamed pre-credits cameo girl, Kara Milovy, Lupe Lamora and Pam Bouvier) live to be ignored in the sequels.[[note]]Short tenure aside, Dalton's Bond was supposedly the least promiscuous because of the contemporary AIDS panic.[[/note]]

* ''Film/TheKarateKid'': Daniel had a different {{Love Interest|s}} in each one of the three movies where he appeared. By the time of ''Series/CobraKai'', he's settled down with yet another woman and had two children together.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall,'' [[IllGirl Lorna]] is this to [[SociallyAwkwardHero Wirt]]. After being freed from [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]], she opts to stay with [[HappilyAdopted her family]] rather than go with him and [[CheerfulChild Greg]].

* In the Wiki/TVTropes original series ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', Tom starts dating [[BestKnownForTheFanservice Porn Girl]], but for [[GenreBlindness some reason]], doesn't realize the relationship is doomed. [[GenreSavvy Dana]] is not fooled.

* Whenever ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' was on a major adventure, it wasn't uncommon for him to be accompanied by an attractive LoveInterest. ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' gave us Marion Ravenwood (Creator/KarenAllen), ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]'' brought along Willie Scott (Creator/KateCapshaw), while ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Last Crusade]]'' had Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody).

* Dante from the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series had one for almost each game. The first had Trish, the second had Lucia and the third (a prequel) had Lady. The fourth game brings back Trish and Lady at the same time. However, Dante has not shown explicit romantic interest in any of them, and how exactly they feel about him is up in the air as well.