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  • Advice and Trust: Asuka liked Shinji, Rei cared for Shinji, and all of his female classmates had a huge crush on Shinji... and Shinji was completely clueless about it. He never ever noticed. It changed over the story, though. He accidentally got a hint Asuka was throwing herself at him and they got together... which eventually led to Rei spending more time with them AND all of their classmates deciding to chase him actively, much to his surprise and disbelief.
  • In Auburn Strands And Red Threads, Orihime never notices when someone has feelings for her unless they are very, very direct about it, being absolutely convinced that they are just being nice to her.
  • The grown-up and ponified Godzilla Jr. seems to be flirting with this trope in once he ended up in Equestria during the crossover story The Bridge. In his new unicorn form, he's no Prince Blueblood but has a degree of Tall, Dark, and Handsome to him by some mares' standards. Despite his Gentle Giant persona, he's lived his life so far without even giving romance a thought. When a guard named Blade Dancer starts flirting with him, he has no idea what she is doing and is somewhat creeped out. This is taken to its logical conclusion when Godzilla Junior gets plopped into the middle of the Mermare capital, where he is the only male for miles. Naturally, just about every mermare (with the exception of his escort) wants a piece of him and aren't afraid to let him know. Even the queen of the mermares is interested! However, given this is Godzilla, he doesn't understand their strange behavior around him and unintentionally manages to cause much accidental humor in the process. Somewhat downplayed however, in that he's gotten better at understanding the idea of romance, he's just still not very good at picking up romantically oriented cues. Also, the queen is at least aware of his interest in another and doesn't want to interfere, although she's not against trying to woo him if his interest changes...
  • Between books 1 and 2 of the Broken Bow series, Armani Dove attracts the attention of several wood nymphs due to his connection with Artemis. Because he is Artemis's son, just doesn't feel romantic attraction naturally, and learned his social interactions entirely by way of 'doing the opposite of what Apollo does', he never notices. This in turn leads him to being accidentally married to one wood nymph and having to solve that hiccup when it goes horribly wrong.
  • Children of an Elder God: Shinji is a really thick and oblivious chick magnet. In a scene, he's watching Rei trying to talk Asuka into sharing him... and he thinks that they can't possibly want a threesome with him.
    Asuka: And I'm not sharing my boyfriend with you!
    Touji: Damn, Shinji, a lot of guys would kill for a deal like that,
    Shinji: I'm sure they weren't actually talking about sharing me.
    Rei: We were.
  • The Coffin of Roboute and His 20 Sisters: Roboute is completely unaware of the number of Exodite Maidens he's inadvertently seduced, due as much to his Primarch physique as to his polite and courteous manner. His Eldar friend Asarnil finds this amusing. Roboute's sisters, not so much.
  • Le Commencement du Diable Blanc revolves around the formative years of Gambit whose smile is already a weapon of mass seduction. Unfortunately for his young admirers, his eleven-year-old self is firmly stuck in the Girls Have Cooties mindset and females swooning and blushing in front of him comforts him in the assumption that the fair sex is inherently crazy.
  • Fate/Black Avalon: Shirou, of course, as always. Just to start with he's got Rin and Sakura both after him. Morgan knows from the start she's going to end up having sex with him, but reminds herself not to be drawn into his "harem." Artoria doesn't interact with him but Morgan promises she'll end up with Archer (so Shirou from another direction), and Ayako ends up drawn into the War when Shirou saves her.
  • Fate/Black Dawn: While Shirou is finally aware that he tends to attract women in the general sense, he is still absolutely terrible about recognizing when it is actually happening. Morgan comes within a heartbeat of dragging him into her bed (hell, when he was first summoned he found herself in her bed), and he never notices until she just flat-out does it. Even then, it takes him a while to realize she is falling in love with him rather than just using him.
  • For Want of a Knight: Pretty much every girl and woman (which includes Miss Goodwitch and Neo) in Vale (along with a few guys) is in love/lust with Jaune because of his Nice Guy Knight in Shining Armor attitude, but Jaune doesn't realize because his pre-Beacon All the Other Reindeer situation has left him certain that girls wouldn't be interested in him anyway. Then an Atlas couple sets him up for a Prank Date just to laugh at him - which kickstarts the plot because Jaune's admirers had an agreement to not pursue him, and the "date" made it null and void.
  • In The Greatest of Them All, Peter is oblivious to the fact that numerous women in his life are interested in him due to being clueless about certain social aspects that are more subtle. As such, he won't figure it out unless they are very forward, someone spells it out, or someone gets him to think about their actions deeply.
  • Clueless Dude Magnet example in Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità. Italy has no idea that Germany, Japan, and Prussia are attracted to him. Or so it seems...
  • Harry and the Shipgirls has Harry Potter manage to earn the mutual affection of a kitsune, an Abyssal, and 26 shipgirls and subgirls just by being a Nice Guy. And they're all willing to share him.
  • In Incarnation of Legends, Bell is this despite his Harem Seeker and Rescue Romance goals. Due to his Country Mouse naivete, he never recognizes the effect he has the opposite sex with his pure-hearted Nice Guy and Always Save the Girl attitude. Even when the Valkyries are metaphorically and literally trying to seduce him into joining them, he can't even conceive the idea of dating them all at once because he respects them too much. Lampshaded by Kojiro when Bell turns Nyx into a blushing mess.
    Kojiro: Wooing divinity? So young, yet so ambitious. [chuckles and scratches his chin]
    Bell: [frantically waving his arms with a Luminescent Blush on his face] I-I was just being nice!
    Kojiro: I know that. That only makes your potential so much more terrifying. [shakes his head with an overly dramatic sigh]
    Bell: What are you talking about?!
  • The legendary Saiyan in a fairy's world: Broly gets warped to the world of Fairy Tail and starts changing the story by helping people. So far, he has won the affections of Erza, Lucy, Aquarius, Cana, and possibly Mirajane. Due to his lack of social skills, he doesn't notice and only sees them as friends.
  • Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Pokedamia is this, very much. He's got all the girls in his class (and quite a few from others) trying to catch his eye, some of them quite blatant about their affection, and he's completely oblivious about it.
  • Izuku Midoriya is this in My Huntsman Academia. Due to spending the last thirteen years of his life as a laughingstock among his peers for wanting to become a Huntsman despite being a Moon Child, he's become thoroughly convinced that no girl on Remnant would ever want to date him. Because of this, he's utterly oblivious to the fact that his warm and understanding personality is winning him the affections of the many gorgeous girls around him, including Weiss, Pyrrha, Yang, and Blake. In the latter case, he even encourages Blake to ask out a guy she describes as "good", "kind and just", and "a stand up person", assuring her that this guy would definitely say yes if a pretty girl like her asked him out on a date. Meanwhile, Blake is wondering if the gods are trying to make her die of embarrassment with his cluelessness. His belief is further reinforced by the fact that he's considered "plain-looking" compared this more typically Bishōnen peers like Ren and Shouto. This is in spite of the fact that Izuku is lean and muscular with six-pack abs that happen to be mesmerizing for his female friends to look at.
  • Shinji in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide doesn't get that he is amongst the popular boys of his class because he has quite the "cute factor" with the girls, being Tall, Dark, and Handsome as well as having Innocent Blue Eyes. His old subconscious belief that everyone hates him still makes him paranoid.
  • The One I Love Is...: Shinji drew women wherever he went... and he had absolutely no idea about it. He was genuinely shocked and surprised when Rei gave him chocolates and when Hikari told him that Asuka was in love with him because he was completely oblivious to their feelings and to the hints Asuka constantly dropped.
  • A side story of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines establishes that even when he was a kid, Ash was very popular with girls, but never noticed their affection. In the present time, he still remains this way to a degree, since he's unaware that his female companions all harbor a degree of attraction towards him. However, after the Sabrina arc, this is no longer in effect with Ash no longer being clueless and expressing interest.
  • Leo in Seven's a Crowd has absolutely no idea that all of his friends are interested in adding him to their respective relationships. In fact, they all like him so much that they all decided to get together just so they can share him.
  • Roxas in A Song of Ice, Fire and Heart fails to understand that his good looks and heroic behavior have made him very attractive in the eyes of almost any woman (and some men) he meets, chief among these admirers being Sansa Stark, Myrcella Baratheon, and Tyene Sand.
  • The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: Luca is quite unaware of the charm that he unknowingly exercises on his female classmates, who are head over heels for him because of his kind and caring heart.
  • A running gag in Sunny, Moonie, Twily is the existence of a support group for stallions and mares unwittingly rejected by Twilight Sparkle. Apparently, she takes all flirting literally, and nobody has ever successfully managed to ask her out before she mistakenly assumes they're there for her Lovable Sex Maniac roommate. The one pony that was going to ask her directly was preemptively recruited into the group on the assumption that he would have been rejected, much to his frustration. And then it turns out there's another group for those unwittingly rejected by Sunset Shimmer...
  • Played With in the Total Drama Comeback Series. After going home from Total Drama Island, Cody specifically avoided looking up the show on the internet. When he shows up for TDC, he's stunned to learn from everyone else that he's the show's biggest Ensemble Dark Horse and has legions of fangirls.
  • White Sheep (RWBY):
    • Due to his earnest nature and habit of giving girls honest compliments on their looks, Jaune gets a lot of girls interested in him. He never notices them, partly because he grew up without any girls around but his sisters, who gave him a rather skewed definition of normal. Ruby, Velvet, Pyrrha, Blake (sort of), Emerald (a little), and Neo (a lot) all end up with crushes on him that he remains completely oblivious to. Ironically, he mistakenly believes that Yang is interested in him due to taking her promise of "it's a date!" literally. His behavior on these "dates" is so charming that she ends up falling for him despite her best efforts.
      Yang's brow twitched, and she vaguely remembered Summer once warning her about boys who made her heart race without meaning to. Those were the ones you needed to watch out for, or so Summer had said. They were dangerous, and could make you think dangerous things without meaning to.
    • Ren not only has Nora (his Childhood Friend who Cannot Spit It Out) crushing on him, but also slightly Blake, definitely Jaune's sister Lavender, and even High Leader Sienna Khan of the White Fang. At the end of the story, Jaune comments that he's glad he's not in Ren's situation, with multiple girls chasing after him. Weiss smacks him upside the head.


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