History Main / InstantSeduction

See also: TakeOurWordForIt. Not to be confused with InstantSedation, which has nothing to do with this trope.

A common feature of ThePornomancer is the ability to seduce women in the course of a five minute conversation. It gets across just how irresistible the guy is to women -- to be able to go from "hi, my name is" to sex that quickly must by necessity involve some serious skill. For good guys this can often be the first step to a successful infiltration operation. Mind you, most just do it [[TheCasanova 'cause they want to get laid]]. Many times, it involves a code phrase.

Happens very rarely with women, since in fiction usually all they have to do is ShowSomeLeg or even blithely say "want to have sex?" to get most guys into the sack with them, and therefore it's not considered a special ability. (This may have something to do with the insistence on only casting highly mainstream-attractive women in the first place. Or perhaps that MostWritersAreMale and AllMenArePerverts.)

* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/WKRP''. Jennifer is at a bar and several of the gang send her drinks. They each approach with some jokey pick-up line except Les. When she ancourages him to try his best line Les says, "I'm extremely wealthy." Jennifer snuggles up to him.

* Par for the course in Film/JamesBond movies, but ''Film/Moonraker'' takes the cake with Bond hooking up with a gorgeous Brazilian agent after about five minutes of conversation.

* The Scout of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' once had sex with a women after a two-line conversation in a fast food restaurant. [[UnreliableNarrator Allegedly]]. He claims to be great with girls; ladies, no so much.
-->'''Scout''': "Hey, we've both got buckets of chicken. Wanna do it?"
-->'''Fried Chicken Tramp''': "Eh, okay."

** The same episode plays the trope for maximum comedy effect by having the resident [[TheStoic stoic]] Kimball Cho perform instant seduction at a bar as part of an undercover operation... which he proceeds to do without ever deviating from his trademark [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]], stone-faced persona. What takes the scene to near-[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]] levels is that the InstantSeduction conversations actually ''are'' depicted on-screen, and despite (or because of) his demeanor, Cho has a high and actually quite credible success rate.

* A particular Twix "Need a Moment?" commercial a few years back had two guys at a small party running into a hot woman. One guy had a book about picking up women (and very prominently featured that on the cover) and was showing it to the second guy, who then needed a moment, stuffed his mouth with a Twix, then promptly said something about the book being degrading to women. Cue sigh of desire.

* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': Payet somehow knows how to do this. It might be because everyone believes he's an Epic Hero.

* Handsome Rob from the ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' remake. In fairness, we don't actually hear Rob's conversation, or even all of it. Though he still is successful in acquiring Becky's uniform and her van so that Stella can infiltrate Steve's house.

* ''Literature/TheGame'': "Watching Mystery work, I noticed that he used the exact same openers, routines, and lines--and got a phone number or a tonguedown nearly every time, even if the woman was with a boyfriend. I'd never seen anything like it. Sometimes a woman he was talking to was even moved to tears." Unique example, because the process isn't only shown, it's dissected, analyzed and compared with similar processes.

** In the 70.5 omake chapter features an unnamed waitress, who fell in love with her [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c070.5/4.html at first sight]]. Simply sucking tea of her fingers was enough to literally make her [[JizzedInMyPants cream]] [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c070.5/7.html her panties]] (SFW).

* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': [http://yafgc.net/comic/0549-da-rulez/ The bard demonstrates the game of love]] to Clover by seducing a tavern wench in under a minute.

This trope is, to an extent, TruthInTelevision[[note]]But Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease[[/note]], with the important caveat that no one is ever 100% successful in their pick-up attempts in RealLife. Again, in fiction, the perfect success ratings are important to establishing the character's skill.

See also: TakeOurWordForIt. Not to be confused with InstantSedation, which [[UnfortunateImplications hopefully]] has [[DudeShesLikeInAComa nothing to do]] with this trope.

** There's a trick called The Naked Man; guy is invited back to a woman's place (not for sex). She leaves the room for a second [[note]]usually after he finds some pretext for her[[/note]] and he strips naked and poses. This has a roughly 66% chance of working, whether out of pity, admiration at his chutzpah, or "sure, why not?" The only one who tries it and it doesn't work is Barney. Go figure.

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* In an extra for ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'', it's revealed that it took Agon 5 minutes to pick up a college girl at the gym and get her to come with him (Agon himself is in 11th grade). Good-speed ''indeed''.
** He then subverts the trope by having the poor girl drive him to a football game instead.

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* We actually get to see a conversation like this in ''Film/IronMan'', while Tony Stark is still in his JerkAss phase, and it's about as believable as one would expect. A television reporter, who is ''skeptical'' of his good will, asks him some questions, he gives brief answers to her questions, asks her to sleep with him...and she does. Just like that.
** The "just like that" was a GilliganCut. They might have skipped over the lines that actually did the work. Also being charming, handsome and embarrassingly wealthy tends to improve one's odds.
*** And, of course, Pepper Potts was decidedly less than impressed with this reporter when she stumbles out of Stark's bed in the morning. She implies to the reporter very clearly that Stark's mainly good at reading women he can easily persuade to jump in the sack with him.
* Casanova in the film of the same name. Obviously, TheCasanova doesn't have his reputation for squat. Doubly in this film because he's portrayed by HeathLedger.
* Famously averted in ''TheGraduate''. Despite her good looks (and him being rather plain and heavily implied to be a virgin) Mrs. Robinson has to practically throw herself at Ben before he gets the idea, and then he runs off all scandalized. When he does agree to get a hotel room with her, he worries what his parents would think if they found out, is generally horribly nervous, and has to be talked into it again.

* Happens twice in ''Film/{{Rush 2013}}'' when ChickMagnet James Hunt makes out with a nurse at the emergency room and an air stewardess on a plane.

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* An old joke that suggests that the secret is persistence and volume (as in the example from TheMentalist under LiveActionTV):

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* Remo Williams of the ''Literature/{{Destroyer}}'' series possesses this by virtue of secrets of Sinanju, the martial art he practices. Explained away by the fact that women are simple creatures governed entirely by emotion and are therefore easily manipulable.
** Except that it is specifically stated that what Remo is doing is causing the women he uses this on extreme ''physical pleasure.'' It's never implied in any of the first hundred or so that it has anything to do with women being emotional and easily manipulated-- it's the ability to manipulate nerve centers to cause pleasure as only someone trained in Sinanju can.
*** No, that refers to the Sinanju art of lovemaking, which is intensely pleasant for the woman and utterly boring for Remo. Remo mainly attracts women through pheromones (a side effect of his training). He later finds out that a diet of shark meat disrupts this effect and uses it to get some reprieve during flights and similar situations.

* ''Literature/TheGame'': "Watching Mystery work, I noticed that he used the exact same openers, routines, and lines--and got a phone number or a tonguedown nearly every time, even if the woman was with a boyfriend. I'd never seen anything like it. Sometimes a woman he was talking to was even moved to tears."
** Unique example, because the process isn't only shown, it's dissected, analyzed and compared with similar processes.

---> "Jock's strategy was to approach a woman, move in close, and wait until his natural studliness overwhelmed them. This didn't always work, but it worked often enough that Jock had no reason to try anything else."
* This is how the vampires in ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' have taken to hunting. Wake up, have breakfast, go to a nightclub and find someone attractive for a brief and intense encounter. At one point Ophelia uses it twice in short order: first on an attractive young woman in goth attire, then on an older but still attractive man after fleeing what turned out to be a young woman with an obsession with TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.
** "The fact that Ophelia now knew anything at all about “Vampire: the Masquerade” was more than she had ever wanted to know, and the knowledge was burning her in her mind. And she expected a character from the game would have just suffered a point of “humanity loss” for ditching the girl with an excuse of needing to use the restroom, then fleeing to the other side of the club."

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* Analyzed in an episode of ''Series/TheMentalist'', where one of the suspects in a murder is a "pick-up artist." He talks about his tricks for getting a woman into bed every night, but he also admits that he strikes out a lot -- the key is to keep going, so through sheer volume he finds at least one receptive woman each day. As Jane (who has the potential to be this kind of person) explains, it's a good system for one-night stands, but is horrible for establishing a long-term relationship.

* Okona from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek:The Next Generation]]'' episode uses this on apparently every second woman on the ship ([[HoYay and Wesley]]).

* Captain Jack Harkness of the 2005 revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Somewhat subverted in ''Doctor Who'' in that it never gets past 'hi', although that can be easily attributed to the family-friendly nature of the show. ''Torchwood'' demonstrates that it is completely plausible that, should the Doctor not be there to [[MomentKiller get in the way]], Captain Jack will engage in sexytime with anyone.

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney Stinson got laid by texting a question mark. True story. And it. was. legen - wait for it - dary!

** There's a trick called The Naked Man; guy is invited back to a woman's place (not for sex). She leaves the room for a second [[note]]usually after he finds some pretext for her[[/note]] and he strips naked and poses. This has a roughly 66% chance of working, whether out of pity, admiration at his chutzpah, or "sure, why not?".
*** The only one who tries it and it doesn't work is Barney. Go figure.

* Gender-reversed in ''{{Seinfeld}}'', where Elaine tries to flirt with George's boss [[WeNeedADistraction to distract him while George drugs him]]. The code in this case? [[AllMenArePerverts "Sooo, I'm going to a nudist colony..."]]
* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' (both television series and movies), Gomez immediately becomes very amorous whenever Morticia [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench says anything in French]].
** It's a RunningGag in the cartoon: he'll start kissing her arm and telling her "Speak some more, speak some more!" if she so much as uses biker slang. It's a sign of how much of a funk he's in when she has to speak French twice in a row to get his attention. "Slowed down my reaction time..."

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* In ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}'', Wally manages to make managers swoon by using buzzwords.
** In another strip, Dilbert uses his computer to devise the ultimate pickup line: "Hi, I'm Mel Gibson. Did you see a dingo dog go by with my shirt?" We don't see its effect on women, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim but it sure worked on Dogbert]].
*** Of course, Dogbert ''is'' a DeadpanSnarker, so he was probably being sarcastic.
** Another, more recent arc has Wally propose a devious plan to the receptionist that will get them both out of work. She instantly falls for him.

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** As can the heroine of ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'', who must have a Charisma of 14 anyway.

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* In ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'', this ability is attributed to Rayne, the main character. Whenever he tries to pick up a woman on-screen, he uses a comedic routine that leads to failure, whereas his off-screen attempts leads to immediate sex, often in public places.
** In an extreme example, one series has Rayne's brother dragging him off to go skiing. Rayne gets injured and is strapped to a gurney by an attractive paramedic. He leaves the comic for a single panel, and when we look back he's in the middle of sex with the paramedic. In the snow, while he's injured.
** Though he does, later on, admit that much of the reason he gets laid so much is he tries this with every girl ever, and he apparently strikes out much more than he wins... he just doesn't mention those events to his friends.
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive,'' Jason possesses this skill, though it's attributed to some sort of genius math formula that ''somehow'' makes this possible.

* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': [[http://yafgc.net/?id=549 The bard demonstrates the game of love]].
* [[http://xkcd.com/853/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' comic is a rather good example.
* The French comic [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/first-date First Date]] parodies this: A pretty girl compliments a guy's watch, saying it's cute because "it's so small," and he responds with a nervous "This is the first time a girl told me that." That makes her laugh, and cut immediately to them having sex. [[spoiler:But it's AllJustADream, and the girl is actually married.]]

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* Sealy in ''WebAnimation/TheDamnFew.'' All he has to say is, "I'm a top-secret Navy SEAL!"

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* Handsome Rob from the ''[[TheItalianJob2003 The Italian Job]]'' remake. In fairness, we don't actually hear Rob's conversation, or even all of it. Though he still is successful in acquiring Becky's uniform and her van so that Stella can infiltrate Steve's house.

* This is successful in-film, but fails spectacularly from a viewer standpoint, in ''Every Which Way But Loose''. Apparently, the line "I've never met anyone who made me feel the way you do" was supposed to be accompanied by a complete change in the normally dorky sidekick's speech and body language, showing [[HiddenDepths his suave side]] to both his love interest and the audience. As played, it's arguably the most emotionally false scene in the entire movie, due to the actor's inability to pull off the change.
* Australian movie TheWogBoy has main character Steve with a 100% fool proof pick up line. He teaches it to Stephen Curry's character and warns him to use it carefully, [[HilarityEnsues he doesn't]]. [[spoiler:In the end, the pick up line is "if you are what you eat, then by tomorrow, I'll be you."]]

* Happens twice in ''Film/{{Rush2013}}'' when ChickMagnet James Hunt makes out with a nurse at the emergency room and an air stewardess on a plane.

* [[Literature/DoraWilkSeries Dora Wilk]] can do this with her magic (she's fertility witch - succubus-like creature). It's implied that she did it when she still had to "power herself up" to live, but the moment she can abandon this habit, she stops with relief.

* Remo Williams of the ''{{Destroyer}}'' series possesses this by virtue of secrets of Sinanju, the martial art he practices. Explained away by the fact that women are simple creatures governed entirely by emotion and are therefore easily manipulable.

* [[Literature/TheGame The Game]]: "Watching Mystery work, I noticed that he used the exact same openers, routines, and lines--and got a phone number or a tonguedown nearly every time, even if the woman was with a boyfriend. I'd never seen anything like it. Sometimes a woman he was talking to was even moved to tears."

* TrickyBusiness has a more realistic example. Jock isn't especially charming or articulate, just good looking enough that women throw themselves at him.

* Analyzed in an episode of ''TheMentalist'', where one of the suspects in a murder is a "pick-up artist." He talks about his tricks for getting a woman into bed every night, but he also admits that he strikes out a lot -- the key is to keep going, so through sheer volume he finds at least one receptive woman each day. As Jane (who has the potential to be this kind of person) explains, it's a good system for one-night stands, but is horrible for establishing a long-term relationship.

* Charlie from ''TwoAndAHalfMen''. The exact code varies.