History Main / KavorkaMan

* An episode of ''Series/TheShield'' features an overweight, homely, trashy young woman who nevertheless has two men fighting over her. It's possible it was a RaceFetish thing, as she was white while they were [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt black]], and she would also financially support whichever one she was currently sleeping with. She enjoyed playing them off against each other and would alternate between them every couple of months, but the one she dumped would still desperately pursue her.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Wolverine has had a large number of highly attractive love interests (particularly if they're [[HeroesWantRedHeads redheads]] or Japanese), in addition to having a fairly large female fanbase. This is even though he's a short, hairy lantern-jawed guy with weird hair and a perpetual scowl. Unfortunately, poor Wolvie can never settle down and snuggle because [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies his enemies will harm and/or kill them]]--or he'll just [[MayflyDecemberRomance outlive them]] due to his extreme HealingFactor causing him to age at a much, ''much'' slower rate than pretty much everyone else. Not only that, but Wolverine also has rather [[ThePigpen poor hygiene]] (it's mentioned that he rarely bathes or brushes his teeth). The live-action movies seem to write this out (can't pass up the chance to do a Creator/HughJackman shower scene).

* Pierce Hawthorne on ''Series/{{Community}}'' has been divorced seven times. This means ''seven different women agreed to marry him in the first place''.
** In the first season, he also [[spoiler: seduced the replacement Spanish teacher to convince her to let the Spanish 101 class pass after it turned out Chang had been faking his credentials]].

** F.E.N.G believe it or not is this, as A.K.I from ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighter6 SF6]]'' is completely infatuated with him to the same [[LoonyFan dreamy-eyed extent]] that Sakura is with Ryu, despite F.E.N.G being a Fu Manchu looking creep.

* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} despite being looking like a muscly Grimace and being a deformed by Titan standards has had a literally cosmic amount of sex with Thanos’s origin story revealing much like his brother Eros [[ReallyGetsAround he’s shagged his way across the universe]], bedding numerous [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe multicoloured humanoid space babes]] resulting in loads of bastards (whom he later kills along with their mothers to appease Death). Even the EvilIsSexy Asgardian goddess Hela became infatuated with him and [[NotGoodWithRejection took it very badly]] when Thanos dumped her to be with the proper Death again, rather than just the goddess of Death. Ironically however when ComicBook/SheHulk (a SexGod of Marvel) tackled Thanos once in a fight she was more appropriately repulsed by the experience.

** F.E.N.G believe it or not is this, as A.K.I from ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighter6 SF6]]'' who is most definitely EvilIsSexy is completely infatuated with him to the same [[LoonyFan dreamy-eyed extent]] that Sakura is with Ryu, despite F.E.N.G being a Fu Manchu looking creep.

* Film/TheThreeStooges (but especially Curly) were known for this, both on and off camera.
** Shemp Howard once agreed to go along with a publicity stunt naming him "The Ugliest Man in Hollywood". He later told the reporters [[SelfDeprecatingHumor "I'm hideous"]].

--->'''Ike:''' You said you, you know, you had always led me to -- you said that, that he was a great ladies' man.\\

** Mr Satan, (Hercule Satan in the dub) is generally portrayed with an entourage of beautiful women despite looking like looking like a trailer park hick. Though he’s an extremely wealthy FakeUltimateHero with a manly moustache so that may explain it.

* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed President of the galaxy, is implied to be this. He has been described as the "[[SexGod best bang since the big one]]" by Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six. He stole Trillian away from Arthur who was unsuccessfully trying to initiate a conversation with her during a party on Earth. Zaphod is not very bright, and was voted several times "The worst dressed sentient being in the known universe." And in adaptations, he's usually played by actors who while not exactly hideous are still not known for being conventional lookers. He may be President of the Galaxy, but he holds no real power whatsoever. His function is solely to direct attention away from those who hold actual power.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Doctor Rusty Venture -- a skinny, bald, hunched, pale JerkAss with enough neuroses to fill a few books -- has managed to get a surprising amount of tail. Ironically, he has very little romantic luck when he's ''[[CasanovaWannabe trying]]''; whenever he decides to hold off on the terrible pickup lines and cheap suits and opens up a little about his problems, he can be quite the charmer. To wit, Doctor Quym, Sally Impossible, Myra, Nikki Fictel, and Doctor Mrs. The Monarch have all shown varying (and sometimes [[StalkerWithACrush impressive]]) degrees of interest.

** ComicBook/NormanOsborn gets laid a lot more than you'd expect, considering he's in his forties with a 20-something son and weird hair. But he got down with such megababes as Gwen Stacy and Lily Hollister as well as had the gorgeous Lyra make out with him while overvaluating. The former two of whom were young enough to date his son [[labelnote:*]] Both of whom ''[[LoveFatherLoveSon did]]'' [[LoveFatherLoveSon date his son]]. Lily was actually still with Harry when she and Norman slept together [[/labelnote]]. Though Gwen sleeping with Norman got mercifully [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', to the point of it being lampshaded in-story that Gwen would have never in her right mind had sex with a craggily evil businessman like him.
** Scorpion as ComicBook/{{Venom}} in ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' manages to form a harem out of and sleep with the contestants of the Miss Big Apple Contest when pretending to be the judge and none of the women are put off by the fact he’s a evil inky black monster man with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. Granted he’s a VillainWithGoodPublicity at this point, but still there’s open mindedness and then there’s this.

* ''Series/SOKOPotsdam'': Christoph is not traditionally attractive (tall and skinny with a big nose and glasses), and when the other detectives find out he has a girlfriend, they rib him a bit over what she might look like. When he brings her to a squad cookout, she turns out to be gorgeous to the point of stunning everyone else into silence for several seconds.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Mario, a short, [[ManChild eccentric]] Italian plumber with a round big nose and [[VocalDissonance high]] [[WesternAnimation Mickey Mouse-like]] [[VocalDissonance falsetto]], nevertheless manages to be a ChickMagnet, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games. Apparently, Pauline, Peach, and in one case, Daisy [[ManlyFacialHair all dig the 'stache]]. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan And the nice guy-ness, too]]. (Some fans have [[http://gabasonian.deviantart.com/art/Pauline-412657195 unique interpretations]] of this...)

* One of [[Wrestling/LAKnight LA Knight's]] [[RedBaron nicknames]] is, "The Undeniable Kravorka"...despite Knight being [[InvertedTrope a fairly good looking man who keeps himself in great shape]].

** Phillip J. Fry can be considered this as well. He's considered a dim-witted, ugly loser (and one episode suggests he has [[TeenyWeenie a small penis]]) but he still manages to get plenty of attractive women without much effort. His nice-guy personality no doubt plays a factor. Another episode implies he's not that great in bed, either... by showing a large group of women ([[CallBack all of whom appeared in prior episodes]]) at his funeral going "ehhhhhhh..."

** Groundskeeper Willie once somehow managed to get a Swedish bikini model but was more dedicated to his job of raking leaves.

* Whitney Frost aka [[Characters/IronManCentralRoguesGallery Madame Masque]], recurring ''ComicBook/IronMan'' villainess thanks to an accident has horrific FacialHorror that we only see glimpses of behind her signature gold mask but from we see she gives Freddy Kruger a run for his money, yet Tony was still willingly to shower her disfigured face with kisses and apparently sleep with her multiple times (she doesn’t take their breakup well) and Jasper Sitwell is also still attracted to her after she’s scarred. Worth noting she that while her face got damaged Whitney still has a dynamite body to extent that Kate Bishop had to pad her buttocks when posing as her.

* Mileena from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is the Kavorka woman of franchise, as when it comes to her face she is famously quite hideous due to her mouth which depending on the game/timeline is either [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_MACM0MXBXgdT2FFeYtE8i2ob8_2Uoxc6_A&usqp=CAU a little unpleasant]] or [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTF7cHLIOP3SDYaWjkKys50WgymcCvfnzy3Mw&usqp=CAU absolutely nasty]] and she gets frequent cruel remarks at her expense from other characters regarding her appearance. Despite this, Mileena [[ReallyGetsAround has had more sex than everyone else in the franchise]] having boned Baraka, Tanya, Reiko and Goro and given birth to least one daughter in her ''[=MK11=]'' ending. Of course, there’s getting past the fact whatever her face may look like Mileena is still built like a goddess from the neck down, so her conga line of partners isn’t so shocking.

** Mr Satan, (Hercule Satan) in the sub is generally portrayed with an entourage of beautiful women despite looking like looking like a trailer park hick. Though he’s an extremely wealthy FakeUltimateHero with a manly moustache so that may explain it.

* In ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'', all of the ladies in Larpa are crazy for Ronfar. While he's not hideous, he's sleazy and certainly below average in looks by ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' standards.

* Krillin from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is a short bald dude and one of the universe's greatest {{butt monkey}}s, but somehow he dated a knockout like Maron and married the badass Android 18, to the surprise of the fans of the series.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Señor Pink is a middle-aged unkempt fat man dressed like a baby (and has grown fatter with time). For some reason, he is surrounded by beautiful women who are constantly yearning to throw themselves at him, whom he feels ambivalent towards. Like everything else in ''One Piece'', this has an explanation: [[spoiler: The reason he rejects the women is that he still considers himself to be HappilyMarried to his wife who is in a vegetative state. Back when he was younger (and quite a handsome man too), they got married without her being aware he was a pirate, (he told her he was a banker) and after the death of their child and the accident that put her in said state, the only thing that got her to smile was when he dressed up in their dead son's baby clothes]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Condorito}}'' is a rather ugly bird, yet he doesn't only have a beautiful girlfriend, but is often seen with other pretty women (all human). This also applies for his human friends, none of which are particularly good-looking.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': ComicBook/NormanOsborn gets laid a lot more than you'd expect, considering he's in his forties with a 20-something son and weird hair. But he got down with such megababes as Gwen Stacy and Lily Hollister as well as had the gorgeous Lyra make out with him while overvaluating. The former two of whom were young enough to date his son [[labelnote:*]] Both of whom ''[[LoveFatherLoveSon did]]'' [[LoveFatherLoveSon date his son]]. Lily was actually still with Harry when she and Norman slept together [[/labelnote]]. Though Gwen sleeping with Norman got mercifully [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', to the point of it being lampshaded in-story that Gwen would have never in her right mind had sex with a craggily evil businessman like him.

* This potentially applies to the PlayerCharacter of any game that has both CharacterCustomization and {{Romance Sidequest}}s, as you can make the ugliest {{Gonk}} possible who easily gets one or more attractive partners into bed over the course of the game.

* [[DubNameChange Zabel Zarock]] (Lord Raptor) is Capcom's ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''' Kavorka Man. The Australian zombie lusts after fellow undead and Chinese [[ChineseVampire Jiang Shi]] [[DubNameChange Lei Lei]], much to her annoyance. This "relationship" is further explored in VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom. Subverted if Zabel is still alive or is able to look like his human self, where he is a good-looking rock star.

** [[EvilMatriarch Big Mom]] is an [[FatBastard obese]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen cruel]], [[TheCaligula insane]] {{Gonk}}. Nevertheless, she has had dozens of lovers over the years (and eighty-five children to show for it). However, the author Oda later draws a sketch for the fans showing that [[IWasQuiteALooker during her youth Big Mom was quite attractive]]. She just got uglier as she got older.

* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': GenderInvertedTrope: Tante Sidonia is a thin woman with large feet, a long nose, glasses, a hideous quiff, and virtually no breasts. Yet there have been men who were in love with her. Though her recurring suitor is the JerkAss [[WillTheyOrWontThey Lambik]].

* This trope is the principle behind the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tumblr-sexyman Tumblr Sexyman]]", the slang for a character that was not designed to be physically attractive, but who still is a sex symbol on art websites because of his demeanor which makes him distinct from the rest of the cast. Examples include Wheatley from ''VideoGame/Portal2'' (a literal IdiotBall dubbed by Creator/StephenMerchant), [[Characters/UndertaleSans Sans the skeleton]] (a small, big-boned and chill skeleton man), [[Characters/DeltaruneSpamton Spamton G. Spamton]] (an even smaller PerversePuppet dressed as a 90s salesman with a glitchy speech pattern), and [[RascallyRabbit Jax]] from ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' (a LeanAndMean anthropomorphic rabbit doll who enjoys torturing his comrades in misfortune).

In some cases, the character is treated as a SexGod even by other characters. In other cases, the character isn't treated as particularly good at getting women - in fact, he might be an outright CasanovaWannabe - and yet, when you actually do the tallying, you realize he's managed to nail about a dozen people, and the entertainment industry [[DoubleStandard being what it is]], most of those people are going to be played by good-looking women who should by all means be out of his league. This is especially common in {{Long Runner}}s, where by nature of the format, even ugly or unpleasant characters tend to accumulate a fair number of love interests, one-off or otherwise.

* One time, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] attended a party with ''ComicBook/{{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 - not exactly his usual dapper, charming self. Sebastian Shaw calls him a kavorka man, assuming that Dazzler was taken in by his wallet.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': Terry Long, the one-time spouse of Donna Troy, is a bit infamous for this. He's a hairy-chested guy with a fro and a beard who looks about twenty years older than her, with a tendency towards cheap suits and come-ons pulled from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', but... well, he married Donna Troy, a superheroine who basically looks like, [[ContinuitySnarl and sometimes is]], a younger Wonder Woman - and her friends considered him to be quite a catch for her! The intended message was that he was such a charmer and she was a NiceGirl enough to notice him; more often, readers [[InformedAbility found him oddly slimy]] and noted [[AuthorAvatar his uncanny resemblance to his creator]].
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Despite weighing close to a metric tonne, Fred Dukes/The Blob seems to have a way with women - he fathered Firestar/Liz Allen and Fred Dukes Jr./Blob II while he was in the circus and implied he had other groupies in other parts of the country as he traveled.

* Det. Gamble from ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' - to the frustration of his partner: both for the trope's own sake and the fact that Gamble doesn't even notice how hot the women in his life actually are (He thinks his wife, played by Creator/EvaMendes, is "just okay.")

** Dresden himself is a borderline example. He is a HardboiledDetective (or likes to act the part - he is a PI, but he's an absolute dork) and while he gets laid surprisingly rarely, he has any number of women attracted to him, many supernaturally beautiful. However, there's caveats.
*** First, while he's not the most flattering describer of his own appearance, he's also [[UnreliableNarrator intensely self-critical]] with hot and cold running self-esteem issues - other characters' narration indicates that he's actually at least okay looking, and probably better than average.
*** Second, the supernaturally beautiful women are usually supernatural beings interested in him because power attracts and looking to get a handle on him - sex is an easy way to do that.
*** Third, he doesn't actually get laid very often at all due to realistic complications - most people find him shabbily dressed, an intimidating figure, and off-putting/possibly autistic thanks to his refusal to meet anyone's gaze (in this case, because it risks a Soulgaze) and perpetual sarcasm. He's also quite shy and very leery of romance considering how it tends to go horribly wrong. Given that he and his FirstLove were technically foster-siblings manipulated into it by their EvilMentor and foster-father, and he spent over a decade believing she'd willingly betrayed him, you can see why he's very shy in the first few books, until he gets closure with her.

* Viktor Krum from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. He's rather ugly, and pretty awkward socially. However, he is a great Quidditch player, and thus has lots of fangirls due to this. He even manages to successfully ask out Hermione, who had said earlier in the book that he wasn't good looking - though in that case, it was because he was a genuinely nice person and quite shy, and the two remained friends.

* Eremis in ''Literature/MordantsNeed'' is described as being balding and not at all conventionally handsome, but he's got enough presence and charisma to make that irrelevant. He doesn't even seem to need a [[PowerIsSexy strong social position]] to make it work - even when he's imprisoned and disgraced, it's mentioned that there's no end to how many gorgeous women turn up to visit him in his cell.

* Nick Tortelli from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' is probably the ur-example - causes Diane to swoon just by standing near her when she doubts his abilities. His ex-wife Carla has a similar power over men in spite of her [[{{Jerkass}} personality]]. Though the women Nick seduces are considerably more attractive than the men Carla seduces.

* This trope is deconstructed perfectly in this ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBcG5tOURuM sketch]]. The same man is featured [[https://youtu.be/ozSRafURI8k with a new wife]] played by Creator/JenniferLopez, and a new wrinkle is shown - they have an open relationship.
-->'''Becker''': [[ThisExplainsSoMuch That's it]]! That's why you two are together - he lets you step out.\\

** In order to get the option to marry someone, you first need to do something that impresses them - whether this is fetching some firewood, killing ten bears, besting them at fisticuffs or ''murdering their ex-lover'' depends on the person. This, however, seems to be true of every fourth or so townsperson by default.

** Downplayed with Moe Szyslak who isn't the handsomest of males in Springfield and has quite a number of abhorrent traits - on the rare occasions he does manage to get lucky with the ladies, those probably won't last too long. In "Dumbbell Indemnity", Moe falls for an attractive woman called Renee who returns his feelings, only for the latter to leave him after discovering his betrayal of Homer. In "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", he meets the petite Maya, who is 3-feet tall: his insensitivity goes too far when he starts making jokes about her small size, and she leaves him. In "Pygmoelian", Moe gets plastic surgery and auditions for the "It Never Ends" soap opera as Dr. Tad Winslow, being surrounded by attractive women, only for his surgically handsome face [[StatusQuoIsGod to revert back to being as homely and gonky as before]].

** Doctor Rusty Venture - a skinny, bald, hunched, pale JerkAss with enough neuroses to fill a few books - has managed to get a surprising amount of tail. Ironically, he has very little romantic luck when he's ''[[CasanovaWannabe trying]]''; whenever he decides to hold off on the terrible pickup lines and cheap suits and opens up a little about his problems, he can be quite the charmer. To wit, Doctor Quym, Sally Impossible, Myra, Nikki Fictel, and Doctor Mrs. The Monarch have all shown varying (and sometimes [[StalkerWithACrush impressive]]) degrees of interest.

* ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds'': Lotus Cloud, the so-called "most expensive woman in China" looks like exactly what she started out in life as - a broad-footed, flat-faced peasant, so plain as to make a mud fence look attractive. The hero/narrator looks at her and finds himself wondering why anyone wastes any time on her WhenSheSmiles directly at ''him''- he immediately throws himself to his knees at her feet and wraps his arms around her thighs, declaring his unending love and devotion to her. She nicknames him Boopsie.

* Big Boo from ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' - a self-professed diesel dyke that is neither beautiful nor [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a particularly endearing person]], she still ties the other skirt chaser Nicky in a contest for most women screwed. [[note]]Then again, they ''are'' in ''prison'' after all, what with prison life being ''the entire theme of the show''. [[/note]]

* Ainz Ooal Gown of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'' is a [[DemBones skeleton]] with glowing red eyes, a LackOfEmpathy for human life, and [[CantHaveSexEver no genitalia whatsoever]]. Despite this, he's never lacking for suitors. That being said, most of the women swooning over him are the various monstrous inhabitants of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, who have different beauty standards from humanity and are [[UndyingLoyalty fanatically devoted to him]]. Of his primary suitors, Albedo and Shalltear, the former is a [[HornyDevils succubus]] in love with him because he rewrote her backstory as a joke (literally minutes before [[TheGameComeToLife she went from a game NPC to a real sentient being]]), the latter is a [[VampiresAreSexGods vampire]] who, being undead herself, has no qualms with his skeletal nature and [[PowerIsSexy is attracted to his immense power and authority as the ruler of Nazarick]]. Some of his "conquests" instead swoon over his disguised persona as the BlackKnight Momon, who at the very least ''appears'' to be human, although under the helmet he's not particularly handsome either (it is strongly implied that the appearance of his Momon illusion is based on what he used to look like back when he was still a Japanese salaryman).

* Ainz Ooal Gown of ''Literature/Overlord2010'' is a gigantic demon-skeleton with glowing red eyes, not to mention that he has no genitalia whatsoever. Despite this, he's never lacking for suitors.