History Main / CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest

* Ataru to Lum from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' show this at two points:
** towards the end of the manga may be the most extreme example of this, considering the planet-in-crisis circumstances.
** Before the sixth anime episode, Ataru is telling Lum to PleasePutSomeClothesOn when she's lying, naked, in his futon and ''telling'' him she wants to sleep with him. Although, at this early stage, Lum was still the unofficial villain and Ataru was supposed to hook up with Shinobu.

* Nobita in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''. In few episode he like to watch Shizuka's panties or when she showers, but in others he cant act perverted toward her.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza Scarlet is a ShamelessFanserviceGirl who is more than happy to let her male guild mates see her naked, but when her boyfriend Jellal accidentally gropped her breasts at the water park during the Grand Magic Games, she had a LuminescentBlush. In addition, in an omake chapter, where the [[ChristmasEpisode Fairy Tail guild held a Christmas party]], Erza and the rest of her guild mates got drunk and she played a cruel "master" game, where every time she was given the "master" position, she demanded Gajeel, Natsu, and Gray to strip naked and Lucy and Juvia to strip into their underwear. When Grey got the master position, he demanded Erza to walk home naked. She took off her clothes without hesitation and with a smile on her face, much to the chagrin of Lucy as well as all of the boys, including Gray who gave her the command in the first place. He insisted that he was just yanking her chain and begged her to put her clothes back on again, but she just punched him in the face and tells him to "grow a pair" and starts walking home anyway. She was only at worst mildly inconvenienced by the cold air, but then she noticed Jellal... and then she started blushing and acting all embarrassed, contrary to when she took her clothes off in the first place.

** And {{Inverted}} along a different axis with Elliot. The fact that he isn't as physical towards Sarah as he was towards other girls is one of the early signs that he isn't actually in ([[LikeBrotherAndSister romantic]]) love with her.

* Jin towards Misaki in ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou''. Even though it's pretty evident Misaki is willing to do anything with him, he always acts AboveTheInfluence towards her. [[spoiler: A huge example occurs during episode 14, when Misaki asks the Sakura Hall residents to leave the building during Christmas Eve. Both alone, she appears before Jin naked, embraces him and confesses to him again. He finally tells her he loves her, but doesn't want to do anything towards her, which once again breaks her heart.]]

-> '''Adachi:''' I guess I noticed it recently. I can't get off to Yamada anymore! I mean, look. Don't they say when you really like someone you can't jerk it to her? That's how you know it's serious!!
-> '''Kyōtarō (thinking):''' ''I didn't need to hear that...''

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Played with Miroku. He hits on every pretty girl, asking them "will you bear my children?" (although that question has a double meaning, since his bloodline suffers from an ancestral curse that empowers him but will eventually kill him if he can't kill Naraku before that happens, and he wants to leave behind children to continue his legacy after he's gone), but he conspicuously refrains from posing that question to Sango when she joins the main character's team. (When she points out that he hasn't, he does halfheartedly try to ask but she irritably cuts him off). Eventually, Miroku does get around to asking Sango his notorious question, and when he does, he means it as a marriage proposal. But while he never asked that question to her specifically, that never stopped him from groping her every chance he had. Miroku's restraint only goes so far.

* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Louise casually changes clothes in front of Saito because she sees him as a mere {{Familiar}} and less than human. When she eventually develops feelings for him, she changes in the closet instead.

* The main point of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' is averting this almost entirely, as Issei's growing harem finds his perversity rather charming in its own unique way. In fact, when Issei doesn't act like a horndog, it's a sign that there's something very, very wrong (which has been PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama in equal measure during the series' run). That's not to say he doesn't have limits, though; while he fantasizes out loud with great enthusiasm, when it comes to actually doing anything, informed consent is [[ChivalrousPervert something he will not compromise on]].
* {{Defied|Trope}} in ''Literature/{{Konosuba}}'': even after Kazuma acknowledges that Megumin and Darkness are clearly love interests, he decides to stop hiding his true (perverted) nature, and continues to sexually harass them as he did before.

* Yuri in ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' is a megaperv toward Alice after they first meet, contemplating molesting her in her sleep, and telling monsters that literally want to eat them "If anyone's going to eat her, it's me!" He knocks it off when he starts to genuinely care for her.

* In chapter 3 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/2712908/chapters/6377063#workskin Buy Your Love]]'', Nico gets annoyed at Nozomi [[ThanksForTheMammary always feeling her breasts]] (especially [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment as punishment for not focusing on her studies]]) and asks why doesn't she grope Eli [[BuxomIsBetter since hers are bigger than Nico's]]. Nozomi's awkward decline of feeling up Eli cues Nico in that her classmate has been using Nico as a substitute for Eli's body because she's too nervous to confess her feelings to Eli.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and instead, tries to be nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more and when he starts to feel more worried for her.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and instead tries to nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more and when he starts to feel more worried for her.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more and when he starts to feel more worried for her.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more and starts to act more worried for her.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has two main cast characters that follow this trope.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'':

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics (Though in ''Persona 3 Portable'', he does try to be a good friend of the female protagonist), but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more and starts to act more worried for her.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics (Though in ''Persona 3 Portable'', he does try to be a good friend of the female protagonist), but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

** Ryoji from ''Persona 3 Portable'' is a known womanizer, but feels uncomfortable using his usual flirting methods on his actual love-interest, the female protagonist, stating, it wouldn't "feel right" to talk about her that way.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, though in ''Persona 3 Portable'', he does try to be a good friend of the female protagonist, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.
** Ryoji from ''Persona 3 Portable'' is a known womanizer, but feels uncomfortable using his usual flirting methods on his actual love-interest, the female Protagonist, stating, it wouldn't "feel right" to talk about her that way.

** Junpei is usually a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

** Junpei at the beginning starts off as a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way towards her and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

** Junpei at the beginning starts off as a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters and the girls, especially Yukari, get fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

** Junpei at the beginning starts off as a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters with the girls, especially Yukari, getting fed up with him and his antics, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

** Junpei at the beginning starts off as a CasanovaWannabe who often makes sexual comments towards the female characters with the girls, especially Yukari, getting fed up with him, but when he meets Chidori, he doesn't act that way and is instead nice and gentle with her, especially when she lands at the hospital when he finally gets a chance to get to know her more.

* Ryoji from ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 Persona 3 Portable]]'' is a known womanizer, but feels uncomfortable using his usual flirting methods on his actual love-interest, the female Protagonist, stating, it wouldn't "feel right" to talk about her that way.

* The main point of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' is averting this almost entirely, as Issei's growing harem finds his perversity rather charming in its own unique way. In fact, when Issei doesn't act like a horndog, it's a sign that there's something very, very wrong (which has been PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama in equal measure during the series' run). That's not to say he doesn't have limits, though; while he fantasizes out loud with great enthusiasm, when it comes to actually doing anything, informed consent is [[ChivalrousPervert something he will not compromise on]].

[[folder:Light Novels]]

* In the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' novels, Nami is perfectly willing to be harmlessly flirty towards men (like Lemon) to try to get her way, and is very open about teasing and making mock advances. However, there's one person she just can't do it with: Sōsuke. She turns extremely shy and nervous whenever she's around him, and has a ''very'' hard time acting open, flirty, and how she normally does whenever she interacts with him. So obviously, [[ForbiddenFruit the one guy she has a hard time with]] is the guy she's head over heels in love with. Especially noticeable when she feels so shy about the idea of rooming with him and sleeping [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed in the same bed with him]], and tells him they can't do that. They end up with the arrangement of Sōsuke sleeping on the floor under the bed, and she sees no problems with sleeping in the same bed as Lemon. Evidently, she can only feel modesty whenever Sousuke is involved.
* {{Defied|Trope}} in ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': even after Kazuma acknowledges that Megumin and Darkness are clearly love interests, he decides to stop hiding his true (perverted) nature, and continues to sexually harass them as he did before.
* One of the signs in ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' that Haruhi and Kyon are getting closer has to do with Haruhi's habit of nonchalantly stripping down for gym while male classmates are still in the room. Kyon supposes this behavior reflects how little respect Haruhi has for men, essentially treating them like inanimate objects. When she demands Kyon leave the club room when she changes, it's significant.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Gleefully averted in the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books. ChivalrousPervert Bones takes great delight in being as crude and as sexually explicit as he can, under the pretense of helping Cat overcome her blushing naïveté.
* Subverted in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'': Rearden fantasizes of using Dagny to satisfy his "degrading need," but when he turns his fantasy into action, he finds to his shame that she's as "depraved" as he is, and is quite proud to have slept with him.
* A variant in ''Literature/TheOutsiders:'' Sodapop was known to brag about his various conquests, but Ponyboy is actually a bit surprised that his longtime girlfriend, Sandy, "[[StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism went to live with her grandmother in Florida]]" since Sodapop had never talked about her that way. (It's later confirmed by third brother Darry that Soda couldn't possibly be the father of her baby, but proposed marriage to her anyway.)
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