History Main / HaremSeeker

* There's a dark variant in the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles''; ''LightNovel/TheLunacyOfDukeVenomania'' has the titular duke, Sateriasis Venomania, who seeks out multiple love interests and adds them to his harem via [[QuestionableConsent mind-control powers.]] This includes already taken women and girls fundamentally [[IncompatibleOrientation unattracted to him]] as well, not like he cares.

* Iris is the one who plays this role among the protagonists in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. Unusually for this trope, it's mostly due to her [[RaisedByWolves being raised by a family of Dragon Pokémon]], so she doesn't know (at first) that monogamy is the norm for humans, and even after learning it, it doesn't dissuade her one bit. It's first shown when she asks Misty directly if she's attracted to Ash, and makes it clear she's more than willing to share him. She's later shown trying to get [[spoiler:Anabel]] on board with her idea, and while she's reluctant at first, by the time the Indigo League rolls both her and Misty seem at least willing to let one another have dates with Ash without feeling jealous.

* Eruna [[GenkiGirl Ichinomiya]], the main character of ''Anime/MikaguraSchoolSuite'' very openly express her desire to have a harem [[SchoolgirlLesbian of cute girls]]. her attempt are results in mitigated success, while she can easely [[MagneticHero make friends]] both male and female, with a ocasional bit of LesYay, but not more.

* Ken from ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'' is pretty much the poster child of this genre. His stated objective from the beginning is that he is building a harem from the student council.[[note]]His case is somewhat unique however, as he sincerely believes that the "Harem Ending" is the ending where everyone gets to live HappilyEverAfter, and he's pursuing this to make them happy as thanks for saving him.[[/note]]

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': This is one of Motoyasu's defining traits, and a [[DeconstructedTrope major, personal reason why he fails so hard as a hero]]. His ''main'' concern is getting with every cute girl he can, to the point of only doing the bare minimum of his duties as a Hero. He's even willing to ignore the full context of situations just to justify to himself that he's "doing the right thing" like when he forcibly tries to separate Raphtalia and Filo from Naofumi, and doesn't even bother to hide his true intentions when he does so. It doesn't help that this also resulted in several gold diggers (one of whom is Malty) being on his team solely for their looks, and having no problem just sitting on the sidelines and letting him do all the work while only tossing in a spell or two as "contribution". It really shouldn't be surprising than Naofumi and his party wind up defeating Motoyasu's in a CurbStompBattle he once again forced the former into, or that the latter's party ultimately abandons him when things look dire (the Spirit Turtle incident).

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'':

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* Cuuko from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' develops into this. At first she's a PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush for Nyarko, and plays ShipperWithAnAgenda to get Mahiro (the guy Nyarko actually loves) out of the way. She gradually warms to Mahiro thanks to his being a genuinely nice person, and by the time of the second season ''Nyarko-San W'', Cuuko's plan has changed to "[[HomosexualReproduction I bear Nyarko's child]], [[TheNicknamer the boy]] [[MisterSeahorse bears mine]]". She later tells him "My party system supports up to four people."

* Eruna [[GenkiGirl Ichinomiya]], the main character of ''Anime/MikaguraSchoolSuite'' very openly express her desire to have a harem [[SchoolgirlLesbian of cute girls]]. her attempt are results in mitigated success, while she can easely [[MagneticHero make friends]] both male and female, with a ocasional bit of LesYay, but not more.

* Played with in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem''. Xiaxi first seduces one brother, then another and then moves on from both to the crown prince while still stringing the first two along when they finally find her again, but her reasons are entirely practical in nature and she doesn't love any of them.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': This is one of Motoyasu's defining traits, and a [[DeconstructedTrope major, personal reason why he fails so hard as a hero]]. His ''main'' concern is getting with every cute girl he can, to the point of only doing the bare minimum of his duties as a Hero. He's even willing to ignore the full context of situations just to justify to himself that he's "doing the right thing" like when he forcibly tries to separate Raphtalia and Filo from Naofumi, and doesn't even bother to hide his true intentions when he does so. It doesn't help that this also resulted in several gold diggers (one of whom is Malty) being on his team solely for their looks, and having no problem just sitting on the sidelines and letting him do all the work while only tossing in a spell or two as "contribution". It really shouldn't be surprising than Naofumi and his party wind up defeating Motoyasu's in a CurbStompBattle he once again forced the former into, or that the latter's party ultimately abandons him when things look dire (the Spirit Turtle incident).

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* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' FanFic ''Fanfic/YetAgainWithALittleExtraHelp'', Ino briefly considers this during the third part of the Chunin Exams. [[spoiler:She ultimately discards the idea and enters a happy relationship with Chouji.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': When [[SingleTargetSexuality Kuroko]] hears rumors that her onee-sama has clones running around, she gleefully fantasizes about constructing a harem of OneHundredAndEight Mikotos. Note that there are actually around ten ''thousand'' of the clones (exactly 9,969 clones who are biologically the same age as the original Mikoto, 1 who's younger, and an uncertain number who are biologically older), a fact that might ''literally'' blow Kuroko's mind if she learned of it. Mikoto, for her part, has quite wisely kept their existence hidden from Kuroko. And the issue is only aggravated when Kuroko met Mikoto's mother.

Some people think you can't have too much of a good thing, and that this extends to romantic and/or sexual partners. If one is good, then two is twice as good, and five is better still! The harem seeker is a character who is openly trying to date and/or marry multiple LoveInterests as part of a scheme to have lots of attractive partners all to the themself. The seeker has a different goal from the CasanovaWannabe, who aspires to become TheCasanova by sleeping with a lot of different people with no commitment, and are also different from a person with a [[YourCheatingHeart cheating heart]], who is in a nominally exclusive relationship but actually sleeps around without their partner's consent. The harem seeker's goal is to keep multiple partners in the long term, and have them explicitly agree to share. The seeker will typically be characterized as a LovableSexManiac or a ChivalrousPervert. This character can be female, but is more likely to be male; the assumption is that AllMenArePerverts, and that this character will reflect the desires of a male audience.

* Ottoman sultans and Chinese emperors are just two examples of historical rulers who used their wealth and power to maintain large numbers of concubines. This was not just for pleasure, but also to increase the chance that the ruler would have at least one male heir who survived to adulthood. The former was the TropeNamer, although in reality the royal Harem was not so much a sexual playground for the sultan as it was a protective environment for all of the sultan's female relatives, including his mother. A sultan would typically stop having relations with a concubine after she gave birth to a male child, in order to make her focus her attention on grooming that one boy for power.

* Ottoman sultans and Chinese emperors are just two examples of historical rulers who used their wealth and power to maintain large numbers of concubines. The former was the TropeNamer, although in reality the royal Harem was not so much a sexual playground for the sultan as it was a protective environment for all of the sultan's female relatives, including his mother. A sultan would typically stop having relations with a concubine after she gave birth to a male child, in order to make her focus her attention on grooming that one boy for power.

* ''Manga/IonoTheFanatics'' provides a [[GirlsLove female]] version with Iono, who has succeeded to the ''tens of thousands of haremettes'' level. That's an order of magnitude more than [[Literature/TheBible Solomon]]. It's strongly implied her country has been reduced to a {{Ruritania}} mainly due to the cost of supporting so many free-loading lesbian love-slaves, to say nothing of all the women she's removed from her own populace to serve her as haremettes.
** The kicker? She has a place in her heart [[AllOfThem for each one of them]], including the women she made promise with years ago. This can't always be said of people who are this trope in real life.

* In ''LightNovel/MagikaNoKenshiToShoukanMaou'', Kazuki Hayashizaki needs a harem to grow stronger. His summon diva Leme gains power from the harem members' summoned creatures. According to Leme, Kazuki needs a massive harem to gain enough power to save the world from something that's coming.

* The unnamed protagonist of VideoGame/Helltaker entered Hell just so he could get a harem of demon girls.

* The unnamed protagonist of ''VideoGame/Helltaker'' entered Hell just so he could get a harem of demon girls.

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Bell's original goal was to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pick up girls in a dungeon]]. He gives up on this goal at the start of the series after falling head over heals in love with [[LadyOfWar Aiz Wallenstein]]. Predictably, several girls start falling for him after this and [[CluelessChickMagnet he's none the wiser]].

* When [[SingleTargetSexuality Kuroko]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' hears rumors that her onee-sama has clones running around, she gleefully fantasizes about constructing a harem of OneHundredAndEight Mikotos. Note that there are actually around ten ''thousand'' of the clones[[note]]Exactly 9,969 clones who are biologically the same age as the original Mikoto, 1 who's younger, and an uncertain number who are biologically older[[/note]], a fact that might ''literally'' blow Kuroko's mind if she learned of it. Mikoto, for her part, has quite wisely kept their existence hidden from Kuroko. And the issue is only aggravated when Kuroko met Mikoto's mother.

* Bell's original goal in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' was to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pick up girls in a dungeon]]. He gives up on this goal after falling head over heals in love with [[LadyOfWar Aiz Wallenstein]]. Predictably, several girls start falling for him after this and [[CluelessChickMagnet he's none the wiser]].

* There's a dark variant in the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles''; ''LightNovel/TheLunacyOfDukeVenomania'' has the titular duke, Sateriasis Venomania, who seeks out multiple love interests and adds them to his harem via [[QuestionableConsent mind-control powers.]] This includes already taken women and girls fundamentally [[IncompatibleOrientation unattracted to him]] as well, not like he cares.

* Fenoxo's NSFW (But really famous) text-based role-playing games (Corruption of Champions and Trials In Tainted Space). In Corruption you can obtain over a dozen different long-term lovers, and a dozen more friends with benefits. Trials has less but is still in beta.

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' FanFic ''Fanfic/YetAgainWithALittleExtraHelp'', Ino briefly considers this during the third part of the Chunin Exams in a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. [[spoiler:She ultimately discards the idea and enters a happy relationship with Chouji.]]

* Humans are, according to Jared Diamond's book ''The Third Chimpanzee'', a "mildly polygynous species", which is suggested by our level of sexual dimorphism. To put us in perspective, gibbons are one of the most monogamous species on Earth, forming lifetime bonds and almost never committing adultery, and the males and females are so equal in size and appearance that it's difficult to tell them apart. On the other end of the scale, elephant seal males are much larger than the females, and the dominant males are the ones that round up the lion's share of the females into their harems and keep other males away through superior strength. It's a winner-take-all system, because having the strongest males hog all of the females means that most males in a given generation don't get to mate or pass on their genes. Human men are, on average, just a little bit bigger than women. This suggests we are not quite as monogamous as gibbons, but still much more so than gorillas or elephant seals whose sexual dimorphism is far more extreme. Because human offspring require so much parental care compared to other animals, a human male has to invest a lot of resources into taking care of his children. This makes supporting more than one set of wife and kids too burdensome for those of ordinary means, but the creation of hierarchical societies based on agriculture allowed certain individuals to become more prosperous than the rest and therefore support multiple wives and their children. For this reason, polygamy is a sign of status in many cultures where it is practiced. There can also be economic incentives for polygamy, such as in 19th century Commanche bands where buffalo robes were produced as a surplus commodity to sell, and the necessary process of scraping the animal hides was considered women's work. A man could increase his income by getting more wives to do the work for him. As the buffalo herds were destroyed and the Commanche were driven off their lands, the practice of polygamy went into decline because the economic incentive was gone.