History Main / KavorkaMan

* Embarrassingly common in HardboildedDetective stories a la Creator/RaymondChandler. The private eye may be a drunkard, a crackhead, and a self-pitying, self-absorbed fool, but the housewife next door, the beautiful reporter, the mysterious suspect ... in fact, every female character in the book under the age of sixty (or under the age of thirty-five, the sets are equivalent), seeks his tender ministrations.

* There are a lot of legends surrounding [[{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]] and his promiscuity. He was once voted #6 in a magazine's "Top 20 Ugliest Musicians" article.

* Tip from ''SkinHorse'', despite being a metrosexual WholesomeCrossdresser. Recently revealed that [[AttractiveBentSpecies he transcends species.]]

* VH1's reality show ''The Pickup Artist'' was basically the idea of turning average guys with little to no game into Kavorka Men.

* Dr. Venture of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''
* Principal Fakey on ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. He's not particularly attractive, tends to give horrible advice and make bad decisions, but marries a attractive[[note]]Well, Reverend Putty seems to think so[[/note]] woman (Millie Spraybooth-Fakey) and cheats on her with Nurse Bendy, who many other characters find attractive. The latter didn't seem to get anything out of her affair with him, which might be explained by this trope

* Sir Lancelot in ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' by T. H. White. He is known as ''le Chevalier Mal Fet'', "the Ill-Made Knight", as he is short, bow-legged and catastrophically ugly, to the point of almost being simian. Still, he gets it on with the beautiful Guinevere, just like the traditional myths.

* Dr. Venture of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''

* The trope is discussed in ''ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' between [[SinCity Marv,]] [[GodOfWar Kratos]], [[OriginalGeneration the Commander, and Jonesy]]. Marv is convinced the trope is bullshit. Jonesy claims it isn't and Marv could be one if he wouldn't let his self-esteem get the better of him. The Commander's only response is "Kratos gets girls", and when Kratos tells him to stop using him as an example, the Commander replies that Kratos should stop ''being'' an example.

* LyndonJohnson. He wasn't nearly as attractive as JohnFKennedy, but he had even more lovers. It helped that [[ICallHimMisterrHappy "Jumbo"]] [[BiggerIsBetterInBed lived up to its name]].

* LyndonJohnson. He wasn't nearly as attractive as JohnFKennedy, but he had even more lovers. It helped that [[ICallItMrHappy "Jimbo"]] was [[BiggerIsBetterInBed very large]].

* LyndonJohnson. He wasn't nearly as attractive as JohnFKennedy, but he had even more lovers. It helped that [[ICallItMisterHappy "Jimbo"]] was [[BiggerIsBetterInBed very large]].

* LyndonJohnson. He wasn't nearly as attractive as JohnFKennedy, but he had even more lovers.

* Shakespeare's Theatre/RichardIII is a hunchbacked, evil gnome of a man, and yet he woos the lady while simultaneously talking to the audience. Keep in mind that Richard's designs on the throne are in part motivated by his ugliness and poor record with women. ("If I cannot play the lover in these fair well-spoken days, I am determined the play ''the villain'', and '''hate''' these well-spoken days.")
** Literally over her father-in-law's dead body -- murdered by Richard's own hand, no less -- which, for an extra-romantic atmosphere, happens to be still oozing blood from its wounds. Apparently, Anne just can't resist a MagnificentBastard. Some productions like to play with the idea that Anne herself is ruthless enough to accept Richard's hand just so that she can have a tiara again.
* In ''LadyInTheDark'', Charley Johnson's female colleagues react with various degrees of offense to his habit of making drunken passes at them. However, he has little trouble getting pretty models to go out with him, even after pinching one on the behind.

* DavidCross plays a few of these in ''Series/MrShow'' (and might be one in real life) as Ronnie Dobbs, Derwin in the Lifeboat sketch and possibly Lee in "Our Secret Love." The former is a lazy, white-trash, borish celebrity who had his first wife Tammy, also ended up with a second wife played by JennyMcCarthy (and in TheMovie has a girlfriend played by Nikki Cox). Terry's inexplicable attraction to Ronnie as well might also be part of this trope. The second had been in a relationship with a woman and ''her mother,'' and the latter had an affair with an ''entire family.''

* DavidCross plays a few of these in ''Series/MrShow'' (and might be one in real life) as Ronnie Dobbs, Derwin in the Lifeboat sketch and possibly Lee in "Our Secret Love." The former is a lazy, white-trash, borish celebrity who had his first wife Tammy, also ended up with a second wife played by JennyMcCarthy (and in TheMovie has a girlfriend played by Nikki Cox). Terry's inexplicable attraction to Ronnie as well might also be part of this trope.

The polar opposite of the CasanovaWannabe, this character has a long list of conquests and can bend any woman to his will -- even though [[{{Gonk}} there's absolutely nothing attractive about him]]. In fact, he's a total sleaze and/or looks like a baboon and/or treats women like garbage. Sensible, self-respecting women may scoff, but if so, he'll pull a [[CodeWordCoitus clever come-on line]] on them or practice his patented stare on them and they'll be suckered in just enough to be proven wrong.

* Shakespeare's Theatre/RichardIII is a hunchbacked, evil gnome of a man, and yet he woos the lady while simultaneously delivering a constant HannibalLecture to the audience. Keep in mind that Richard's designs on the throne are in part motivated by his ugliness and poor record with women. ("If I cannot play the lover in these fair well-spoken days, I am determined the play ''the villain'', and '''hate''' these well-spoken days.")

* Don Draper from ''Mad Men''. He's not a bad-looking guy, but every woman he meets is charmed by him and jumps into bed with him despite his abrassive personality.

* SergeGainsbourg wasn't really physically attractive... It didn't stop him to charm beautiful women, including BrigitteBardot (who was one of the most beautiful popular stars back in the day. [[IWasQuiteALooker Nowadays? Not so much]]).

* Joey Boca (Creator/KevinKline) in ''I Love You to Death'' starts the film with a (hilarious rambling) confession that he committed adultery "ten or twelve times, give or take a few" in the past two weeks.

* One time, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] attended a party with {{Dazzler}} as his date. Everybody is shocked, not only because they think Dazzler is way out of his league, but because Tony is disheveled, sleep-deprived, and has forgotten to take a shower. Sebastian Shaw calls him a kavorka man, assuming that Dazzler was taken in by his wallet.

* Bender from {{Futurama}}. He's a rude, amoral, alcoholic, kleptomaniac robot, whose wooed several fembots and even a few human women, though this may be chalked up to AllGirlsWantBadBoys.

* Bender from Futurama. He's a rude, amoral, alcoholic, kleptomaniac robot, whose wooed several fembots and even a few human women, though this may be chalked up to AllGirlsWantBadBoys.

* LilWayne. [[{{Understatement}} Definitely not known for his looks]], yet this hasn't stopped him from shacking up with multiple women, including ''Laura London''.