History Main / LoveBeALady

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', when a new leader gains their nine lives, each is given by a different cat, and each life comes with a gift. One gift that nearly all receive is love, and it invariably always comes from a she-cat. Interestingly, the love represented--one that mimics the intensity of a mother's protective nature--is ''[[MamaBear painful]]'' when received, as opposed to the gentleness that usually characterizes motherly love.

-->''"Love is a woman''\\
''So treat her tenderly tonight''\\
''Love makes a woman''\\
''So give her all you love tonight"''

There are many ideals girls are used to represent in media, and none so prevalent as the idea of Love. The feeling of fighting for the sake of love; for an all-consuming lust for other people; for using love as a tool to get what one wants--all, at one point or another, have been associated with girls and the female form.

This universal association with women and love can be for many reasons. For one, many associate love with femininity because of a supposed "purity"--as women are characterized as nurturers and are seen as the emotional gender, it takes away from the "dirty" and physical biological urges of sex, which is commonly associated with men (and that dichotomy is a whole trope on its own). Feminine associations of Lust on the other hand are solely focused on the physical; whether it be tapping into the MaleGaze and showing women as an object of desire, examining the concept of female sexuality on both a macro and micro angle, or simply thinking feminine bodies are hot, Lust will always worm itself into the conversation. To add, girls are often considered the gender obsessed with love and romance, and will never miss a chance to talk about the love lives of themselves or others.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'':

* ''VideoGame/SuperMario'':

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', when a new leader gains their nine lives, each is given by a different cat, and each life comes with a gift. One gift that nearly all receive is love, and it invariably always comes from a she-cat.

* ''WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun'' features demons of all types of stripes, but the ones specifically dealing with love and seduction are women, and the seduction class at Babylls consists entirely of girls. Of the 13 Crowns, the highest authority of the demon world second only to the king, the aspect of lust is headed by a woman (Asmodeus Amuryllis).

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Heartful Punch -- civilian name Kokoro Aichi -- is a MagicalGirl themed, as her name would suggest, around hearts and love. Besides her [[StevenUlyssesPerhero name]], [[RoseHairedSweetie bright pink hair]] and the [[SymbolMotifClothing many hearts adorning her outfit]], she's an athletic GirlyBruiser whose punches are enhanced by [[HeartBeatDown pink heart-shaped energy blasts]], and she also serves as main character Undine's love interest [[spoiler:and later, her girlfriend]].

* ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': An offshoot Coluan sect focused their efforts on studying empathy and compassion rather than intelligence. Representing them in-story is Heartiac, a pink-skinned heroine adorned in a circlet made of hearts that defeats her enemies with kindness.

** The Changelings are a race of {{Emotion Eater}}s that feed on feelings of love. Initially representing them was their Queen, whom represents a more negative take on love: namely, the lying, manipulation, and heinous acts she commits in order to hoard that love for herself.

** The Changelings are a race of {{Emotion Eater}}s that feed on feelings of love. Initially epresenting them was their Queen, whom represents a more negative take on love: namely, the lying, manipulation, and heinous acts she commits in order to hoard that love for herself.

** The Changelings are a race of {{Emotion Eater}}s that feed on feelings of love. Representing them is their Queen, whom represents a more negative take on love: namely, the lying, manipulation, and heinous acts she commits in order to hoard that love for herself.

** The Changelings are a race of EmotionEaters that feed on feelings of love. Representing them is their Queen, whom represents a more negative take on love: namely, the lying, manipulation, and heinous acts she commits in order to hoard that love for herself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, or Princess Cadence as she prefers to be called, is the Alicorn of Love, and her role is to spread love throughout Equestria, though later she ends up becoming ruler of the Crystal Empire. Notably, Cadence is the only alicorn to be married, being the wife of Twilight Sparkle's brother Shining Armor.

* Nepeta Leijon from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a Sburb/Sgrub player that controls the aspect of Heart (a very emotion-based element), and is obsessed with shipping and romance in general. She's also one of the more girlish and feminine members of the Trolls. Her Beforus counterpart Meulin is an intentional exaggeration of Nepeta's romance-based traits.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers2017'': The director explains in a behind-the-scenes video that Talia's head was subtly shaped like a HeartSymbol to symbolize her love for Bob, which was meant to be the most important aspect of her character. Bob loves her equally, but neither he nor anyone else at Bob's circus is associated with love as much as Talia is.

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* Music/TheBeachBoys' 1977 album ''Love You'' features a song titled "Love is a Woman", which references the trope by name and why it's important to treat them gently as lovers.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Pico}}'': Nene, the only girl of the three main characters, is heavily associated with love and lust. ''Nene Interactive Suicide'' introduced her as she got herpes from kissing a boy the previous night, fan flashes often portray her either as boy-crazy or a love interest to Pico, and she wears bright pink hearts on her clothes.

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* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Mitsuri Konroji is the "Love Hashira", and employs her own special "Love Breathing" technique. She's an AllLovingHero who is ironically ObliviousToLove herself, but has immense SuperStrength that puts her right up at the top of the strength charts along with the other strongest Hashira.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Played with the Love-themed Chosen Children in the ''Adventure'' continuity. While both of them are female, they're also the most tomboyish of their group's girls at the time they recieved their crest:

* ''Manga/SpiritCircle'': Protagonist Fuuta Okeya's previous reincarnations each have a theme to their lives and recite it to them when they make their final goodbyes to him. His only female reincarnation, Fuuko, is meant to represent love, although in her own character arc she only had an understated love triangle with her two male friends while all of his male reincarnations had love as an underlying theme.

* ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'': Pretty Persuasions is a member of the villain team Psionex and a former stripper. She can psionically stimulate the pleasure centers of people's brains, allowing her to psychically seduce and control them. She can also [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation create weapons fueled by her won sexual urges]]. Her supervillain outfit is [[{{Stripperiffic}} fittingly revealing]] and the weapons she creates tend to bondage-themed such as whips and chains.

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* ''Series/You2018'': [[StalkerWithACrush Joe's]] SecondLove, after he [[spoiler:murders Beck]], is literally called...Love. She's also a fast-moving girlfriend (and later wife) to Joe, a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her needy twin brother Forty, a very young widow who yearns to have kids, and soon becomes the mother of her and Joe's son Henry. [[spoiler:It turns out she also exemplifies MadLove when the series reveals that she killed her first husband, James, because he wanted a divorce, killed Forty's rapist Sophia for molesting him, and also killed Delilah and Candace when both of them risked Joe's safety.]]

* Popular culture depictions of SevenDeadlySins have a near perfect chance of representing {{Lust}} as a beautiful woman, contrast to the varying depictions of the rest of the sins. As mentioned on its own trope page, Lust is usually drawn this way to ''invoke'' feelings of lust, while the other Sins just indulge in their own vices.

* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Flonne is a little angel girl who talks about love all them time and wishes for others to have some love in their hearts. She brings up love so much that she is often called a LoveFreak.

* Nepeta Leijon from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a Sburb/Sgrub player that controls the aspect of Heart (a very emotion-based element), and is obsessed with shipping and romance in general. She's also one of the more girlish and feminine members of the Trolls. Her Beforus counterpart Meulin is an intentional exaggeration of Nepeta's romance based traits.

* Many, many characters across the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise have had their time in this trope, with many of the team leaders carrying around heart accessories and being compassionate girls who value friendship and love. However, the most blatant of them would be ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure's'' Cure Lovely, who was already in a season that tried to explore the concept of love in many forms.
* In ''Manga/SpiritCircle'', protagonist Fuuta Okeya's previous reincarnations each have a theme to their lives and recite it to them when they make their final goodbyes to him. His only female reincarnation, Fuuko, is meant to represent love, although in her own character arc she only had an understated love triangle with her two male friends while all of his male reincarnations had love as an underlying theme.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Played with the Love-themed Chosen Children in the ''Adventure'' continuity. While both of them are female, they're also the most tomboyish of ther group's girls at the time they recieved their crest:

** Himiko Toga from the League of Villains uses a blood-based Quirk, but she explicitly ties it to her affection for her victims and the people she steals blood from. A major part of her arc is her desire to express her love for others by "becoming" them, which also includes the protagonist Izuku Midoriya.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Both Love-themed Chosen Children in the ''Adventure'' continuity are female. Their personalities do play with this, though:

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Yolei is also an inversion of this trope. She has the Digi-Egg of Love and is a tomboy just like Sora.

** According to Eorzean mythology, Menphina the Lover is the goddess of love and the divine lover of Oschon the Wanderer. Rather than solely representing carnal or romantic love, Menphina presides over love in all its forms. She's said to reward those who give as much love as they recieve and her followers beseech her for solace, shelter, and hope. [[spoiler:When she appears in the Euphyrosyne raid, she's overflowing with compassion for everyone, telling the heroes that the Twelve listen to each and every prayer even though they do not have the power to answer them all.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Helltaker}}'': Modeus, whose title is "The Lustful Demon", is obsessed with sex and pleasure and will try anything, no matter how depraved, to get it. She's also the demon who falls the hardest for the concept of human love, with her ending having her learn of it through romantic comedy novels and finding it [[TrueLoveIsKinky incredibly kinky]] as a result. Appropriately, hearts appear all over her hair and in [[OddlyShapedPupils her eyes]].

* The Homunculi from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' are all men with the sole exception of the one representing Lust. She specializes in manipulating the affections of men to her advantage with her good looks. This is played with in the "Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003", where Sloth is also a woman, but she is still one of the most love-attuned Homunculi (but strictly in the motherly aspect).

* Music/TheBeachBoys' 1977 album ''Love You'' features a song titled "Love is a Woman", which references the trope by name and why it's important to treat them gently as lovers. -->''"Love is a woman''
-->''So treat her tenderly tonight''
-->''Love makes a woman''
-->''So give her all you love tonight"''