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* The TropeNamer is Romeo Montague from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', who is himself something of a Serial Romeo. At the beginning of the play he is desperately in love with a girl named Rosaline, who has rejected him. Soon after, he meets Juliet, and promptly forgets his feelings for Rosaline, which he now sees as a passing infatuation. Though this only happens once in the story that we know about, goodness only knows how many more times he would have gone through this had Juliet also rejected him.

* [[CasanovaWannabe Larry Butz]] from the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is constantly either trying to get together with a woman with whom he's fallen madly in love, or just been dumped. We rarely see him actually ''in'' a relationship. This is a big part of his character, though: He also has a different job every time we see him.

** In later episodes, Ash's Oshawott seems to be becoming this.

* [[spoiler: Subaki's daughter]] [[RedHeadedHeroine Caeldori]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is said to be [[SmittenTeenageGirl "the one who falls in love the easiest in the army"]], and in her own words, after having her first LoveConfession rejected, she's crushed on guys who were unavaliable to her for one reason or another. Naturally, when she actually falls in love in-story, she drops this attitude.

* [[TheAce Caeldori]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is said to be [[SmittenTeenageGirl "the one who falls in love the easiest in the army", and in her own words, after having her first LoveConfession rejected, she's crushed on guys who were unavaliable to her for one reason or another. Naturally, when she actually falls in love in-story, she drops this attitude.

* The TropeNamer is Romeo from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', who is himself something of a Serial Romeo. At the beginning of the play he is desperately in love with a girl named Rosaline, who has rejected him. Soon after, he meets Juliet, and promptly forgets his feelings for Rosaline, which he now sees as a passing infatuation. Though this only happens once in the story that we know about, goodness only knows how many more times he would have gone through this had Juliet also rejected him.

* Panini from ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' has all the Sailors relatively boy-crazy but Makoto/Lita is easily the one who has definitely had the most relationships. A RunningGag when she was first introduced was to say that a random guy reminds her of one of her old boyfriends.

* [[CasanovaWannabe Larry Butz]] from the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is constantly either trying to get together with a woman with whom he's fallen madly in love, or just been dumped. We rarely see him actually ''in'' a relationship. This is a big part of his character, though: [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs He also has a different job every time we see him]].

* Adolin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is this in spades. Frequently lampshaded by his brother, and several other characters. In the second book he's fine with the prospect of an ArrangedMarriage to a woman from an insignificant house he's never met partially because by this point he's offended ''literally'' every other eligible woman, and the idea of letting someone else make the arrangements sounds good. Oddly enough, the ArrangedMarriage seems likely to become a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, as he and the girl in question fit together quite well.
** There's a bit of a RunningGag throughout the second book where Adolin will be in the same scene with a random woman and she'll glare at him (or in one case throw stones at him).

* ''WesternAnimation/PepeLePew'' from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. At least until the tables are turned on him.

* Rosethorn, of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, whose first name really ''is'' Romeo. He's strikingly handsome, and has mutant powers. He tends to find Miss Right, make her over, improve her self-esteem, etc., until she dumps him. She always dumps him. Either she hates being the dumpy one in the relationship, or she becomes 'pretty' enough for other guys to see her as desirable, or the whole 'my mother is a dangerous supervillain' thing comes up and torpedoes the relationship, or...

* Adolin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is this in spades. Frequently lampshaded by his brother, and several other characters. In the second book he's fine with the prospect of an ArrangedMarriage to a woman from an insignificant house he's never met partially because by this point he's offended basically every other eligible woman, and the idea of letting someone else make the arrangements sounds good.

* Adolin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is this in spades. Frequently lampshaded by his brother, and several other characters.

* In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' fanfic ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' Klavier has a habit of falling in love with people he randomly meets, although unlike other Serial Romeos he prefers to keep his feelings a secret and one-sided.

* [[CasanovaWannabe Larry Butz]] from the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series is constantly either trying to get together with a woman with whom he's fallen madly in love, or just been dumped. We rarely see him actually ''in'' a relationship. This is a big part of his character, though: [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs He also has a different job every time we see him]].

* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Very much the case with Neal from Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Protector of the Small'' quartet, although he eventually gets over it and gets married.

* Howl from ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' pretty much defines this trope. He goes out, falls in love with a girl, spends an inordinate amount of time and effort wooing her, and then...drops her once she falls in love with him. Repeat on infinite. The first one he fails to do this to is Sophie, who turned him into a LadyKillerInLove and who he eventually married.

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* Sameer from the Bollywood movie ''[[NoteworthyBollywoodMovies Dil Chahta Hai]]''. Unlike his friend Akash, who is TheCasanova, Sameer believes that he is truly in love which each new pretty girl he meets, and is heartbroken when they reject him. His despairing parents eventually try to set him up in an arranged marriage with a girl named Pooja. Fortunately, Sameer ends up falling in love with her, too!

* Very much the case with Neal from TamoraPierce's ''[[TortallUniverse Protector of the Small]]'' quartet, although he eventually gets over it and gets married.

* ''AnAbundanceOfKatherines'': Maybe not every week, but Colin has dated more girls named Katherine than he's had years in his life.
* ''GossipGirl'' has two. Nate Archibald and Serena van der Woodsen.
* In some of the Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Novels detailing the early lives of the Heroes of the Lance, Caramon is described this way. His brother makes some snarky remarks about his tendency to be in love with a new girl every week, though eventually he settles down with his true love Tika.
* Adolin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is this in spades. Frequently lampshaded by his brother, and several other characters.
* Claire Stanfield from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a history of this, literally falling in love and proposing marriage to complete strangers, almost at random. He has a hard time convincing his brothers that his relationship with [[spoiler:Chane]] is any different other than that she didn't immediately say no.
* In ''WillGraysonWillGrayson'' Tiny Cooper is constantly swooning after and being heart-broken over guy after guy (after guy after guy). Apart from his gay-ness and large-ness, this is practically his defining feature.

* ''TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/BloodRites'' features Arturo, who has been married (and divorced) thrice and currently has a new beau. People who know him claims that he is capable of intense love towards whoever he's got his eye on at the moment, but has a problem when the magic dies -- it is notable that in a universe where ThePowerOfLove is real, Arturo is capable of showing it towards anyone he's interested in. [[spoiler: It is revealed at the end that for the first time, he married a ''plain'' woman. Perhaps this one would last.]]

* Sansa from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has shades of this. She falls quite hard for [[EvilPrince Prince]] [[RoyalBrat Joffrey]] at the first hint that their parents are considering [[ArrangedMarriage bethrothing]] them. She fantasizes about marrying [[BadassGay Ser Loras]] both before and after Joffrey's [[TheCaligula true nature]] is revealed and she falls out of "love" with him, then transfers her affections wholly to [[ReplacementGoldfish Loras' brother Willas]] on being offered a secret marriage pact to him, without even [[TheUnseen meeting him.]] Seemingly the only male she DOESN'T fall in instant love with the moment a possible romantic relationship is suggested is [[spoiler: her eventual husband, Tyrion.]] Not without a certain amount of justification.

* Bingo Little from ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'', in the show's first three episodes alone, is "in love" with ''four'' different girls!

* Every woman Mark from ''PeepShow'' meets might be The One. Even Jez has streaks of this, though he's just as likely to use a women for sex with plans to dump her ASAP.
* SClub7 had one as a landlady in ''LA 7'' by the name of Joannie. She has pictures of all her old boyfriends in her living room and her first episode has her describing many of the relationships in great detail to a concussed Bradley. Poor Paul actually has to pretend to be one of her boyfriends in a later episode.
* Phoebe from ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' starts out as one but eventually evolves into a Deconstruction. The endless stream of failed relationships leaves her emotionally damaged and terrified of heartbreak again. After she gets a vision of having a baby in the future, she misuses her powers to see if her relationships will go anywhere on the first date. The final season Reconstructs it when she decides to get a sperm donor and she then realises that she doesn't just want a baby, she does want love as well and a Cupid gets sent to help her overcome her relationship issues.

* Lowell from TheLastStory. [[spoiler:He actually became this way from seeing every woman he fell in love with die violently, thus resolving to never have a serious relationship ever again.]]

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* Martina of ''[[Anime/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]'' falls madly in love with just about every male member of the cast she meets. The fixation on Zangulus at the end of the season lasts long enough to get her married off.
* Claire Stanfield from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a habit of falling in LoveAtFirstSight with basically every girl ever, proposing to them in all seriousness at their first meeting. [[spoiler:Chane was the first to say yes.]]
* Nana "Hachi" Komatsu from ''{{Nana}}'' was hopelessly in love with every boy she met on a serial basis, especially at the beginning of the manga.
* ''SailorMoon'' has all the Sailors relatively boy-crazy but Makoto/Lita is easily the one who has definitely had the most relationships. A RunningGag when she was first introduced was to say that a random guy reminds her of one of her old boyfriends.

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-->''Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight;''
-->''For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night!''

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* Rosethorn, of the WhateleyUniverse, whose first name really ''is'' Romeo. He's strikingly handsome, and has mutant powers. He tends to find Miss Right, make her over, improve her self-esteem, etc., until she dumps him. She always dumps him. Either she hates being the dumpy one in the relationship, or she becomes 'pretty' enough for other guys to see her as desirable, or the whole 'my mother is a dangerous supervillain' thing comes up and torpedoes the relationship, or...
* Although the Lord of Angels and Demons (of ''TheQuestportChronicles'') is treated as TheCasanova in-universe, he's actually more this trope, especially with regards to the Secret Keeper and the Queen of Rogues and Robbers.

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* Panini from ''{{Chowder}}''.
* JohnnyBravo.
* PepeLePew. At least until the tables are turned on him.

* Phoebe from ''{{Charmed}}'' starts out as one but eventually evolves into a Deconstruction. The endless stream of failed relationships leaves her emotionally damaged and terrified of heartbreak again. After she gets a vision of having a baby in the future, she misuses her powers to see if her relationships will go anywhere on the first date. The final season Reconstructs it when she decides to get a sperm donor and she then realises that she doesn't just want a baby, she does want love as well and a Cupid gets sent to help her overcome her relationship issues.

* Jenon of ''BlazeUnion'', at least from the way Garlot immediately groans and goes "well, here we go again" when he falls for Medoute.