History Main / DoggedNiceGuy

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is this in his original depiction. He's madly in love with Death (the incarnation ''and'' the concept) and does everything to earn her favor. Among other things, he creates a massive monument, resurrects his granddaughter as an UndeadAbomination and wipes out half of all life in the universe, solely to impress her. When she continues to turn her back on him, he gets angry that she's not giving him what he "deserves".

* ComicBook/TheNew52 would turn ComicBook/WonderWoman's long standing LoveInterest Steve Trevor into this due to her romance with Superman. She gently turned Steve down when he asked her out and he took it well, but when affected by Pandora's Box he becomes a {{Yandere}} who wants to kill Clark. ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' though retconned his actions out and brought Diana and Steve back together again.
* In ''ComicBook/PocketGod'', Nooby has a crush on Sun and was the first of the tribe to be nice to her. However, she ended up with Ooga, Nooby's best friend. This made Nooby feel unloved by both, but he got over it once Ooga apologized for neglecting him.
* ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan in his first incarnation in Milligan's ''Vertigo'' reboot.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Kaidan Alenko does NOT take romantic rejection from a female Shepard well in Mass Effect 3. He'll be gracious to a Male Shepard's rejection, but a female Shepard who has never romanced him before and might even already be in a relationship with someone else? He'll "jokingly" stick her with the bill for a lunch date HE invited her to. And that's not counting his bitter reaction to being turned down for sex in Mass Effect 1 just before the mission to Ilos.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Poor Dr. Michel. She has a ''massive'' crush on Garrus (since he helped rescue her near the beginning of the first game). [[ObliviousToLove And he has no idea.]] In the second game, she sends an email to Shepard asking whether (s)he's seen him and if he's alright, and bringing Garrus to the geth dreadnought mission in the third game leads to this conversation:

'''Garrus''': She said she saw it and thought of me...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint why?]]\\

* In the third game from the GirlsLove series ''Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wo'', we have a dogged nice girl in Mai. To make things interesting, Mai was actually confessed to first by the Type A {{Tsundere}} Reo, but Mai didn't accept because she was [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to her own love for Reo]]. Mai quickly realized she loved Reo back but for a while, Reo was [[LeaveMeAlone too heartbroken to give Mai the time of day]].

-->'''Crowley''': Shall I drop you anywhere?
-->'''Aziraphale''': No! Thank you. Oh, don't look so disappointed. Perhaps, one day we could... I don't know... go for picnic, [[RomanticCandlelitDinner dine at the Ritz]].
-->'''Crowley''': I'll give you a lift, anywhere you wanna go!..
-->'''Aziraphale''': [[CommitmentIssues You go too fast for me]], Crowley.

* Shōko Nishimiya the main female protagonist of ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' has got this bad for the male protagonist Shoya Ishida having had a crush on him since elementary school (despite his bullying of her) and even more so after after he TookALevelInKindness and becomes TheAtoner. Tragically she is unable to properly reveal her feelings to him due to being [[DisabledLoveInterest deaf]] with her SpeechImpediment leading to a particularly heartbreaking AnguishedDeclarationOfLove that Shoya being ObliviousToLove mistakes for her saying “I love moon”. It’s worth noting Shoya does eventually develop feelings for Shōko in return, it’s just that his self-hatred is so severe that the idea that Shōko could love him in the first place after what he put her through simply doesn’t compute with him at all and initially treated her more like a close friend that he had to make up to. [[spoiler:Making matters worse is that Shōko almost commits suicide at seeing the anguish and pain she’s inadvertently brought to the boy she adores and is only just saved in time by Ishida himself.]]

* Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' chased comically after Leela. As time went on Leela returned more and more of his affection.

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' becomes a mild version of this after he realizes that he ''likes'' likes Lila.
* Bolin in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. He's supportive of and nice to [[ActionGirl Korra]] from the moment he meets her, but she's interested in his standoffish brother Mako, who becomes more cordial with her as he gets to know her. What raises Bolin to actual NiceGuy status is that he accepts Korra's choice and respects her feelings and goes on to be friends with her. By the end of the show Bolin has gone on to have serious relationships with three other women... while Mako gets bounced from Korra to Asami and then spends the remainder of the show single.

** Cat Noir continues to pine after the titular heroine even after being rejected twice, much to her annoyance.
** Ladybug AKA Marinette herself is a gender-flipped version of this, since she’s still trying to win Adrien’s love even after he told her in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E21ThePuppeteer2 The Puppeteer 2]] that he loves another girl [[spoiler:who may actually be her own alter-ego]].

** Spike is this to Rarity. Whether she feels the same, just considers it a cute crush, or is even ''aware'' seems to [[DependingOnTheWriter change with each episode]]. Ultimately, nothing came of it, as by the time of the GrandFinale, Spike appears to have let his crush go and dedicated himself to being Twilight's adviser and official Friendship Ambassador to the dragon lands, while Rarity is managing a fashion franchise all around Equestria.

* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'': Unlike the kind of [[AristocratsAreEvil dickish]] and [[WhatIsThisFeeling melodramatic]] Wang Pu brothers, crown prince Jun'er is basically a nice guy and easily comes to recognize his feelings for Xiaxi, but part of her persona is behaving with near-complete indifference towards him and brushing aside all his attempts to tell her how he feels. She is, in fact, attempting to stall until he becomes king so she can complete her mission that much more quickly. At that point, she intends to "accept" his confession, collect her reward and then leave.

* ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange''

-->'''Max''': ''(thinking)'' ''"At least I kissed Warren once... [[GiveGeeksAChance to let him know how I feel."]]''

* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series has Guybrush and Elaine's turbulent relationship. ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' has the main character Guybrush in love with Elaine even though she thinks he's pathetic. She initially showed him contempt, before later finally realising she does like him, only for [=LeChuck=] to kidnap her later on, after which she isn't interested in Guybrush anymore. By ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', she has moved to get away from him and has named her dog after Guybrush as a sign of what she thinks of him. Guybrush initially succeeds at winning her back, until she realises that the only thing he wants is her map piece. By ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', they have gotten engaged, but he accidentally gives her a cursed diamond ring which turns her into a statue - the game is about turning her back to normal. By ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' they have gotten married and have moved back to her mansion on Melee Island to live together. By this point, she exerts control over him and because he likes her so much he is scared not to go along with it.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona3 Portable'' as the Female Protagonist, there’s a particularly obsessive NPC you can encounter at the Club Escapade who periodically gives you rare items in the hopes that one day you will reciprocate his feelings. Nothing comes out of it, though.

** Garrod Ran from ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' is a mild version of this towards Tiffa Addil. He does have a crush on her, goes TongueTied when she speaks to him and sorta chases after the girl -- but he '''never''' demands anything from her in return and gradually moves on [[DeclarationOfProtection genuinely wanting to help and protect her]], something that she BADLY needs.

** Parodied in the article, "[[https://local.theonion.com/romantic-comedy-behavior-gets-real-life-man-arrested-1819565117 "Romantic Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested]]", which provides the Page Quote. The dogged pursuer, Denny, stalks a woman named Kellie, who does not return his affections, driving him to resorting to more over-the-top ways to try getting her to fall in love with him (and Kellie wasn't the first woman he'd done this to either). However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a sane person would not find that kind of thing endearing]], and he winds up getting arrested.