Line #92 AllGirlsWantBadBoys/LiveActionFilms


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2	* Subverted in ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' with Kat and Patrick. Everyone around them thinks this is what's going on, because they both have a reputation for being mean and/or scary. But in reality, the only reason Kat begins to develop feelings for Patrick is because he starts revealing [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold the genuine emotion and kindness]] he tends to hide. In contrast, whenever Patrick attempts to use a typical line or act like a "bad boy" - particularly in the beginning of the film - Kat is instantly turned off.
3	-->'''Patrick:''' ...You're not afraid of me, are you?
4	-->'''Kat:''' Afraid of you? Why would I be afraid of you?
5	-->'''Patrick:''' Most people are.
6	-->'''Kat:''' Well, I'm not.
7	-->'''Patrick:''' (flirting) Well, maybe you’re not afraid of me, but I’m sure you’ve thought about me naked, huh?
8	-->'''Kat:''' Am I that transparent? I want you. I need you. Oh baby. Oh baby.
9	* ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' plays with this in a scene in which the titular character is calling out his friends with a slightly angry attitude, at the same time, a girl he met earlier observes him from a distance and swoons over him while telling another girl: "He is such a ''Bad Boy''." Earlier, she fell for him when he was following his friend's advice to act like "David Caruso in ''Film/{{Jade}}''".
10	* ''Film/AngelHeart'': The dead occultist Johnny Favourite was a real ladies man. Subverted with Epiphany's mother however, who according to her daughter eventually realized with a monster Favourite was.
11	-->'''Epiphany:''' You know what they say. It's always the badass that make a girl's heart beat faster.
12	* ''Film/BachelorParty'' (Creator/TomHanks). The band they get for the party sings the song, "Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys?"
13	* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has the [[GirlOfTheWeek movie's designated girlfriend]] Dr. Chase Meridian flip-flopping between Bruce Wayne and Batman, depending on who she thought was more fucked in the head at the time (and getting a twofer? HUGE bonus for her).
14	* In ''Film/Beast2017'', Moll is strongly attracted to rebellious poacher Pascal and stays with him even when she learns about his criminal record and violent streak. As it turns out, she herself isn't exactly a saint. [[spoiler: She's not so keen after finding out he's a murderer though]].
15	* Parodied in ''Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}}''; Alison says how she wants a sensitive man who can understand her feelings. The Devil agrees to make Elliot the most sensitive man on Earth. Then [[spoiler:she ditches him for a {{jerkass}}]]. Elliot's conclusion is that women don't really know what they want. The Devil agrees.
16	* Inverted in ''Film/BeyondTheLights''. Noni wants straight-laced cop Kaz. Kaz, the potential congressman, in turn wants super-sexual R&B star Noni.
17	* In ''Film/BlackRat'', NiceGirl Asuka is in love with [[JapaneseDelinquents resident bad boy Ryota]]. Him dumping her for Saki is a major factor in her being DrivenToSuicide.
18	* ''Film/TheBoyfriendSchool'' (originally titled ''Don't Tell Her It's Me''): shy, overweight cartoonist Gus is persuaded by his romance novelist sister to adopt the persona of Lobo Marunga, a long-haired leather-clad biker from New Zealand, in order to win over the girl he's fallen for. The ruse falls apart eventually, but it definitely does the job of attracting her interest.
19	* In the classic 80s teen movie ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', popular 'princess' Claire falls for rebellious 'criminal' Bender. Throughout the whole film he abuses her and calls her all sorts of obscenities, belittling her shamelessly in front of everyone else...which is of course why [[DracoInLeatherPants she ends up passionately kissing him at the end]]. Creator/MollyRingwald revisiting the film for ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' while respectful of Hughes’s filmmaking still thoroughly criticises her character’s relationship with Bender. She cites the abuse and harassment he gives her as completely unacceptable by [[ValuesDissonance today’s standards]] and the fact Bender “gets the girl” by the end, even worse.
20	* ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'': Deconstructed, Annie's preference for her jerkass boyfriend over the sweet, loving Rhodes is just one of the ways that she shows her self-destructive tendencies, she doesn't know how to act when Rhodes is nice and caring to her, and she doesn't want to break up with her current boyfriend as much as she doesn't want to put her life back on track, which Megan calls her out on. Once she decides to better herself, she goes to SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan.
21	* Ginger proves to be this in ''Film/{{Casino}}''. While it's debatable if Sam 'Ace' Rothstein was a bad boy or not, [[spoiler:Ginger definitely disrespects him in favor of genuine bad boys. First: her ex-pimp, Lester Diamond. Later: Sam's best friend, gangster Nicky Santoro]].
22	* The first time Dylan in ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' is shown on-screen falling for someone, she doesn't know that he's evil (at first), but by the [[Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle second movie]] her taste in guys is a RunningGag and a DiscussedTrope InUniverse.
23	-->'''Alex:''' Check it out...brown shorts, red board, 11:00. What d'you think?
24	-->'''Dylan:''' ''[looking at the guy]'' Yummy!
25	-->'''Alex:''' That's what I thought. Case closed. Nat, move in, Dylan thinks he's hot.
26	-->'''Dylan:''' What do you mean?
27	-->'''Alex:''' You always fall for the bad guy.
28	* In ''Film/Cherrybomb2009'', Michelle is in a LoveTriangle with Luke and Malachy, who commit various crimes to get her attention.
29	* Gender-, race-, and class-inverted in ''Crazy/Beautiful''. It's the poor Latino boy who's the responsible one with the promising future and the wealthy Anglo girl who has the drug habit and truckload of emotional problems. Every adult in the film warns the former to stay away from the latter--including the girl's own father--but, of course, she turns out to simply be a LonelyRichKid and everything works out thanks to ThePowerOfLove.
30	* Alison falls for ''Film/CryBaby'' supposedly because she's "Tired of being good." As with most Creator/JohnWaters films, the strange outlaws end up being kind, warm, and unassuming while the respectable suburbanites are sadistic, elitist jerks.
31	* ''Film/DaysOfBeingWild:'' The main character Yuddy/York played by Creator/LeslieCheung.
32	* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Pitts remarks on this trope to try and get Knox to forget Chris: "All the good ones go for jerks. You know that."
33	* In the comedy ''Don't Tell Her It's Me'', Shelley Long helps her nebbish brother, Steve Guttenberg, construct an identity as a "dangerous" biker from New Zealand in an effort to sweep another woman off her feet.
34	* Irene in ''Film/Drive2011'' had a husband who was sent to jail before getting involved with the protagonist, who is a criminal and has some serious anger management issues as she and some Mook [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown find out]].
35	* ''Film/DuelInTheSun'' (1946). The protagonist, half-caste Pearl Chavez, is sent to live at a ranch where two brothers become infatuated with her. She rejects the gentlemanly Jesse for the lustful advances of his brother Lewt, with whom she shares BelligerentSexualTension.
36	* In ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen'', protagonist Nadine has a crush on Nick Mossman, who is said to have just gotten out of juvie.
37	* ''Film/TheFaculty'':
38	** Beautifully played with when it comes to Zeke and Marybeth’s brief relationship. He’s the resident super cool bad boy, who smokes and sells drugs out the back of his car while she’s a sweet transfer student from Atlanta who just wants to make friends. [[spoiler: Except it turns out Marybeth is the BigBad, a EldritchAbomination alien HiveQueen disguised as a human girl who takes parasitic control over the whole school and attempts to conquer Earth itself. Compared to Marybeth, Zeke is as bad as Dennis the Menace.]]
39	** When Zeke is confronted by Miss Burke over his illegal side activities, he negs her by offering her chocolate-flavored laxatives and cherry-flavored condoms, making her visibly uncomfortable. [[spoiler: In the film’s final scene, Miss Burke is seen cheering Zeke on as he plays football, implying [[TeacherStudentRomance the two now have a relationship]].]]
40	** GenderInverted with the dorky nice guy Casey who closes the film having a SmoochOfVictory with Delilah, the obnoxious bullying AlphaBitch who’s done nothing to endear herself to the other characters nor the audience.
41	* In ''Film/{{Fallen Angel\|1945}}'', June Mills loves a career ConMan who married her for her inheritance.
42	* {{Invoked\|Trope}} by Anne in ''Film/TheFisherKing''.
43	-->'''Anne:''' I think men was made in the Devil's image, and women were created outta God. 'Cause, after all, women can have babies, which is kinda like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men. 'Cause let's face it, the Devil is a helluva lot more interesting. I've slept with some saints in my day, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about. Egh-boy!
44	* Subverted in ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' as Ariel chooses Ren over her boyfriend Chuck, while Ren is a pretty free-spirited troublemaker, he’s not a violently abusive douchebag like Chuck is.
45	* Jenny from ''Film/ForrestGump'' is a rather blatant example of this. For much of the movie, she keeps moving from one abusive lowlife to another, before returning to [[ChildhoodFriendRomance the protagonist]]. Jenny's reasons for choosing such men in the first place, is due the effect her [[AbusiveParents violent and sexually abusive dad]] had on her. Its only after venting her inner grief outside her father's abandoned house, that Jenny is able to consummate her relationship with Forrest.
46	* ''Film/FreddyVSJason'' has a grimly realistic portrayal of this with minor character Gibb and her [[DomesticAbuser abusive boyfriend]] Trey. From the opening of the film he does nothing but insult and emotionally abuse his girlfriend, and still treats her like crap even right after they’ve had sex. Gibb while fully aware of his douchery still can’t help but love him, but thankfully is free of him when Jason pays a visit to her house and makes Trey an AssholeVictim. Though Gibb becomes a grief-stricken BrokenBird as a result.
47	* During the ''Film/TheGetaway'', starring Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/JenniferTilly plays a wife who falls in love with one of the main villains after he kidnapped her and her husband. It got so bad, that she openly has sex with him in front of her husband and begins to insult him. [[spoiler:It eventually causes the husband to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide.]]]]
48	** Same in the original,starring Creator/SteveMcQueen, with the wife being played by Creator/SallyStruthers.
49	** To a lesser extent with the main couple themselves, Doc and Carol. Although the two are HappilyMarried and very much in love, the bottom line in, Doc is a ''bank robber'' and it's likely that this is a huge part of his appeal to her.
50	* In the crime epic, ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' Karen sees Henry pistol-whip her neighbor with a loaded handgun, which he then asks her to hide for him. She admits this turned her on, whereas most women she knew would've gotten out of the relationship quick.
51	* ''Film/{{Grease}}'':
52	** Starts out as a Classic Good Girl Wants Bad Boy. Sandy is as wholesome and sweet as possible; Danny is ''not''. Then it's played with, as he tries to become a jock to get her, while she's learning how to be a bad girl to get him...
53	** ''Film/{{Grease 2}}'', "Cool Rider". Michelle Pfeiffer's character somehow resists the charms of the sweet British boy, because she's "...lookin' for a dream on a mean machine/ With hell in his eyes/ I want a devil in skin tight leather..."
54	* Invoked in-universe in ''Film/TheGreenHornetSerials''. Lenore Case (who is '''not''' the Hornet's SecretKeeper in this version) spends both serials convinced for no apparent reason that the Hornet is "a modern Robin Hood". Several male characters suggest her reason for this belief is that she is attracted to him.
55	* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' Gamora becomes the LoveInterest of loveable scoundrel SpacePirate Peter Quill aka Star-Lord despite being well aware of his HandsomeLech behaviour and “Pelvic Sorcery”. Although like the Tony and Pepper example below, Gamora is able to bring out Peter’s better nature and help him grow up and learn responsibility, also Gamora is hardly a saint herself being the former DarkActionGirl and DaddysLittleVillain of Thanos.
56	* Heavily deconstructed in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. In this case, the bad boy is a complete psycho, murdering three of the popular kids and intending to [[spoiler:blow up the entire school and pass it off as a group suicide]]. The girl who wants the bad boy soon realises the mess she's got herself into and how much better her life would have been without him.
57	* ''Film/HeavenKnowsWhat'': The closest thing to a central theme in the film is that Harley is hopelessly in love with fellow drug addict Ilya, a complete asshole. After Ilya's latest act of cruelty, Mike asks how Harley could still be in love with a guy like that. Harley says that even though she knows that Ilya does bad things, she can't out-think the way she feels. She'll always love him.
58	* Becky in ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'' is drawn to and falls in love with the title character, empathizing with Henry's withdrawn nature and seeing him as damaged goods, much like herself. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The film's subtitle should provide a clue as to how well it works out for her.]]
59	* In ''Film/TheHoodlum'', Johnny's sweetheart Rosa falls hard for Johnny's big brother Vincent: the sociopathic hoodlum of the title. This ends badly, with her being DrivenToSuicide after falling pregnant by Vincent, who now wants nothing to do with her.
60	* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Glimmer seems to have a little thing for Cato in the film.
61	* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': Helen the compassionate croaker queen has a relationship with utter {{Jerkass}} Barry who is perfectly willingly to cover up running a guy over and after dumping the body threatens Helen’s friend Julie to keep it secret, ''by grabbing her throat and screaming into her face!'' In front of her boyfriend Ray and Helen herself. Doubly subverted though, Helen breaks up with him soon after and the film does show Barry has a softer side when it comes to Helen. [[spoiler: Although it’s still hard to feel too bad for Barry [[AssholeVictim when the Hook Man kills him]].]]
62	* ''Film/IronMan'':
63	** Tony is a rich jerk who goes through women like candy. And yet women keep on coming after him. Because he's rich. And he looks like Creator/RobertDowneyJr. He could be a saint and he'd still be beating them off with a stick, this trope is just a bonus for him.
64	** Subverted with Pepper Potts, who keeps pre-CharacterDevelopment Tony at arm's length while she works for him. The two become closer after she sees him becoming a much less selfish person, but then she becomes disgusted with him when he goes back to acting irresponsibly in the second movie. (She doesn't know that [[spoiler:it's his way of coping with the fact that he's dying]]) In the third movie, she starts to leave in disappointment when it looks like he's going back to his old behavior, but comforts him when he opens up and explains why he's acting the way he is. While they stay in a steady relationship, she doesn't hesitate to call him out on his stupid moves (like [[spoiler:announcing his home address on live air, daring the Mandarin to stop by and fight him]]).
65	* ''Film/JamesBond'' series:
66	** Bond. However, he also steals girls from guys (and {{psycho lesbian}}s) who're definitely worse.
67	** Deconstructed in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' with Solange, the wife of Bond's target Demitrios. She has a fling with Bond, lamenting as she does that she had "so many chances to be happy" with "nice guys" but keeps finding herself drawn to "bad men" like Demitrios and Bond instead. Her connection to the two of them gets her tortured to death not long afterwards.
68	* [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The Nazis]] produced an antisemitic propaganda film called ''Jud Süß'' ("Süss the Jew"). However, the propaganda purpose failed; the VillainProtagonist was apparently so sexy that the actor who played him got a lot of fan-mail from smitten women.
69	* Played straight and then subverted in ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}''. Adele is deeply in love with [[TheSociopath Early]], because she believes he protects her from [[RapeAsBackstory badder men]], even though Early treats her like a slave and beats her the moment she steps out of line. However, after she makes friends with Brian and Carrie on the road trip to California, she finally accepts Early for the evil man that he is and breaks up with him. [[spoiler: Early kills her as a result. It's made even sadder after the [[TearJerker happy]] message Adele left on Brian's recorder before she was killed, which is played before the ending credits.]]
70	* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'': "Dorky" David, who has a Masters degree in Russian Literature, a PHD in biochemistry, is going to Harvard Law ([[FridgeLogic strange mixture...]]), gives homes to Somalian orphans, and is fairly attractive, is getting turned down by a girl. Elle overhears and comes over, pretending to be a WomanScorned, screaming at him about how he never called her back and broke her heart. The girl is immediately more interested (although how much of that is because Elle claims David broke her heart and how much of it is because Elle claims David is ''very'' good in bed is open to debate).
71	** Elle herself ultimately subverts it when she ends up with Emmett, who was always nice and supportive of her, over her ex, who dumped her and tried to pick her up again as was convenient to him.
72	* In ''Film/LiarLiar'', Miranda appears to have a thing for [[AmoralAttorney Amoral Attorneys]] since she proceeds to [[InstantSeduction hit on]] Fletcher just moments after witnessing his incredible lying skills.
73	-->'''Miranda:''' How would you like to ''make'' a partner right now? [[NecktieLeash Hmm]]?
74	-->'''Fletcher:''' Oh, I don't know. I should--
75	-->'''Miranda:''' [[ForcefulKiss Mmmmmm]]
76	* Every now and then in ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' film series, Darla will prefer Butch over Alfalfa.
77	* Averted in the film, ''Film/TheLoveOfSiam''. Ying loves Mew who is anything but a bad boy. However, this trope was played around a bit with Donut and Tong. Tong smokes and drinks alcohol despite him being underage. Therefore, he sort of fit the bad boy archetype. However, he is genuinely a sweet and kind person who protects bully victims, which kind of warrants him a good boy status as oppose to bad boy.
78	* ''Film/ManInTheAttic'': One first meeting Slade, Lily immediately senses he is a troubled and lonely soul and immediately becomes attracted to him. He turns out to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
79	* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]: LoveInterest Elena admits to being first smitten with Zorro when she mistakes him for a bandit, and spends most of the film believing him to be some kind of criminal; however, Zorro is in reality very gentlemanly and polite (after some polishing from his predecessor) and the film's epilogue shows the two being HappilyMarried.
80	* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'':
81	** Evelyn Carnahan the nice girl librarian becomes attracted to the rugged and uncouth Rick O'Connell who gives her a ForcefulKiss from behind bars. Subverted though as Rick is at worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and soon proves to Evy he has HiddenDepths and capable of being a polite well-groomed gentleman in his second meeting with her, when not on death’s row. He saves her from a WalkingWasteland Mummy and they’re HappilyMarried with a son by the time of the sequel.
82	** Played with regarding Anck-Su-Namun and her ill-fated romance with BigBad Imhotep. While he is traitorous and ruthless and her attraction to him was spurred on by the fact it was [[ForbiddenLove forbidden]], she was the SexSlave of Pharaoh Seti I, making her affair with Imhotep and their murder of Seti before committing suicide - all pretty sympathetic. Also Imhotep in spite of his malevolence to others, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes does nothing but lovingly dote on her]]. [[spoiler: This makes Anck-Su-Namun’s final actions after her resurrection in the sequel i.e [[DirtyCoward abandoning Imhotep to save her own skin]], all the more cruelly heartbreaking.]]
83	* Parodied/subverted in ''Film/MysteryMen'': Roy (a.k.a Mr. Furious) would very much ''like'' to be a bad boy, and struts around making a fool of himself acting like one in the hope of impressing Monica, the waitress on whom he has a crush. Monica, for her part, is never anything less than dismissive of him...until the point where he finally just starts acting like the sweet nice, guy he ultimately is at heart, at which point she begins to warm to him.
84	* In ''Film/NightMustFall'', PlayedStraight, but {{Subverted}} in the end. Although contrary to her morals, Olivia is into Danny even though she knows that he’s probably a murderer. This stems from part boredom in this small village to part loneliness on her part. But in the end, she realizes that she was romanticizing a very charming criminal, and she was very wrong in doing so.
85	* ''Film/{{No Man of Her Own\|1932}}'': Connie falls for card sharp Babe who's interesting, and unbeknownst to her, a ConMan.
86	* Subverted with ''Film/OceansEleven'', yes Danny is a criminal and yes Tess ultimately chooses him over Terry. Thing is though, Terry is an utterly ruthless Casino Manager who cares more about his money than he ever did Tess, making Danny look like a total NiceGuy compared to him.
87	* Played straight in ''Film/OceansTwelve'' as the InspectorJavert of the film Isabel ends up with loveable career criminal Rusty, though given she’s Rusty’s OldFlame and has a father who’s a Master Thief it’s not that surprising they wind up together.
88	* In ''Film/OneTwoThree'', the daughter of a Coca-Cola executive falls in love with a Commie from UsefulNotes/EastGermany. And during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, no one was worse than a Commie.
89	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' plays with it in that Good Girl Elizabeth has a Good Boy (Norrington), a dyed-in-the-wool Bad Boy (Captain Jack Sparrow), and Will, who falls somewhere between them, to choose from. By choosing Will, she gets the best of both worlds.
90	* In ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'', Lady Rebbecca falls for notorious highwayman Macleane.
91	* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' The Man in Black [[spoiler:Westley]] assumes Buttercup willingly choose the EvilPrince Humperdink instead of waiting for her true love the sweet stable boy Westley. This not the case however, as Buttercup has always loved Westley and only got engaged to Humperdink after hearing news of Westley‘s death and [[DespairEventHorizon losing all capacity for joy and love]] (she also got threatened with death in the book). [[spoiler: The FridgeBrilliance is by time Buttercup has reunited with her sweet Westley, he’s taken up the mantle of the Dread Pirate Roberts making him quite the bad boy himself.]]
92	* ''Film/{{Rags}}'': While not actually true about Kadee, as she falls for NiceGuy Charlie, he fears that she wouldn't actually want someone like him, but a "good-looking famous guy who'll be mean to them", because "girls are weird like that."
93	* Jim Stark, who provides the page image, is portrayed as a violent and menacing, if not downright ''villainous'', figure in the promotional posters for ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'', no doubt to capitalize on this trope. However, in the film, he's actually a sensitive, kindhearted boy; Judy becomes attracted to him because he's kind to her. Her previous boyfriend was the gang leader Crunch.
94	* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''. Amber Sweet has resolved sexual tension with Grave-Robber and unresolved sexual tension with [[BrotherSisterIncest Luigi]], who is also undeniably [[PsychopathicManchild bad]]. [[spoiler:Shilo isn't immune to Grave-Robber's bad-boy charms either. It's implied in [[CutSong Needle Through A Bug]] that he's grooming her to be his protege.]]
95	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. Apparently, even some boys want bad boys, even if they're a CreepyCrossdresser wearing fishnets and high heels.
96	* Discussed in ''Film/RogerDodger''
97	-->'''Roger:''' Ask any woman, What's the single most attractive quality a man can possess? And what do they invariably answer? Sense of humor...and yet, if two lean, mean, play-by-their-own-rules...motorcycle-riding men strolled up to this booth...and beat the shit out of us two humorous guys, right, and asked you out for a ride, you would be weak at the knees.
98	-->'''Andrea:''' Well, actually, guys who ride cycles are pretty sexy.
99	* ''Film/{{Scream\|1996}}'' cleverly plays with this. The heroine Sidney has a boyfriend in the maladjusted and macabre Billy, but aside from sneaking into her bedroom window he’s a chill dude who cares about her. [[spoiler: Except turns out ''he’s one of the Ghostface killers'' and has been planning to murder Sidney months even after sleeping with her due to blaming her mother for his parents’ divorce. Upon learning all this they break up in the most effective way possible with Sidney stabbing Billy in the chest with an umbrella, and then shooting him in the forehead for good measure.]]
100	* Subverted in ''Film/SpiderMan3'': when he [[spoiler:gets possessed by the symbiote and]] becomes a "bad boy", Peter Parker ''thinks'' that he's God's gift to women, but the various looks of exasperation and even disgust he gets from most of the women he encounters tell a very different story--probably because, [[EvilIsCool contrary to expectations]], he's still a clueless geek, only now that he's "evil" he's an obnoxious and arrogant one. The seventies disco moves and overparted hair style don't particularly help matters. Ironically, all of the women he ''does'' manage to charm were already attracted to the "good" Peter anyway.
101	* ''Film/SpyKids'': Carmen has a crush on [[BadButt Gary Giggles]], much to the shock of her brother Juni, who's Gary's favorite target for bullying. It gets egregious when Gary crushes Juni's RobotBuddy and smugly hands him the remains while claiming it was an accident, and Carmen believes him. Her response to Juni's protests is "[[ICanChangeMyBeloved I think I can change him]]."
102	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
103	** In the original trilogy, Leia Organa goes for Han Solo (a near-perfect storm of bad-boy beauty) over Luke Skywalker. Then, of course, we find out the true nature of Luke and Leia's relationship, and breathe a collective sigh about the [[SurpriseIncest "ewww" moment]] from which this trope has saved us. She still kissed Luke, though.
104	** In the prequel trilogy's ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', slaughtering the Tusken Raiders didn't stop Padmé Amidala from being in love with Anakin. Ultimately leads to tragedy in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' [[FallenHero where he turns to the Dark Side]].
105	** PlayedWith in ''Film/TheLastJedi''. Rey [[spoiler:is willing to overlook Kylo's 'bad boy' demeanor and tries to pull him back to the light side, but she forms a bond with him because of his ''good'' traits, ie his understanding and empathy for her loneliness, not his ''bad'' ones. When he makes it clear that ''no'', he will not turn to the light, Rey promptly rejects him.]]
106	*** Further explored in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', when Rey explains that she loves [[spoiler:Ben Solo, ''not'' Kylo Ren, and only pursues a relationship with him after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
107	* ''Film/StepUp'': Played straight with Tyler in the first film.
108	* The cops in ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' "arrest" [=McLovin=] after the party, remarking, "That's gonna get you so much ass!" This is them making up for them unintentionally interrupting his first time with a hot girl.
109	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ''Film/TopGun'', with Charlie falling for Maverick, definitely invokes this, considering... well, his nickname says it all.
110	* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': When Goody tries to warn a club girl who Vadim and Ivan had been in the process of seducing (and had planned to feed on) that they're bad guys, she says she likes bad guys, causing Goody to hypnotize her, ordering her not to go with them, and telling her [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan to pay attention to nice guys from now on]] with the girl walking past an annoyed Vadim and Ivan, muttering about guys who listen when she says stuff and who compliment her.
111	* ''Film/{{Troy}}'': Sweet Trojan priestess Briseis willingly loses her chastity to her captor the super violent hothead Greek warrior Achilles, the guy who invaded her country and killed everyone else at her temple. Played with though as Achilles is incredibly gentle with Briseis, willingly lets her go back home and does genuinely love her (to the extent of desperately searching for her during the sacking of Troy) unlike DirtyOldMan BigBad Agamemnon who sees Briseis as nothing more than a SexSlave. Also Achilles looking like Creator/BradPitt likely helped matters.
112	** This counts as an OlderThanFeudalism example too as Briseis despite being a CaptiveDate did actually fall in love with Achilles in the ''Literature/TheIliad'' and hoped to be his wife.
113	* In ''Film/WereTheMillers'' tattooed bad boy Scotty P. attracts the attention of Casey.
114	* Katie in ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'' invokes this trope when choosing Creator/PaulRudd's character over Michael Showalter's nice character. She says she is sixteen and therefore isn't looking for a nice stable boyfriend.
115	* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', Samantha, the timid and sweet-natured daughter of the headmaster, has a crush on the school's bad boy Daniel. His cruel mocking of her causes her to make the wish to be popular, which triggers of the chain of deadly wishes which sweeps through the school.
116	* In ''Film/YouthInRevolt'', the reason why Nick creates Francois is because Sheeni requests that Nick be "very, very bad." [[spoiler: He complies and she wants him more than Trent after burning down half his town]].
117	* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' the (very) mild-mannered Columbus has fallen for Wichita and asks her sister what kind of boys she likes. When she answers "she kind of likes bad boys" he flings a bowl of popcorn in the air in despair.

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