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* Captain America in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. He's quite intimidated by women, even after taking the Super Soldier Serum which made ladies throw themselves at him, and is noted by Bucky to not have much luck with them. Peggy Carter may as well have been the closest he's ever had to a real first girlfriend. Same in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' where the Black Widow asks if their FakeOutMakeOut was Cap's first kiss since 1945. He denies it ("I'm 95, I'm not ''dead''."), but also claims that it's not something you need to practice, which leaves it somewhat ambiguous. He goes on to say that it's hard for him to find someone with shared life experience.

** Quentin is a socially awkward nerd with [[AmbiguousDisorder some flavor of serious mental disorder]], but inverted when Margo jokingly drags him out of his bed in the middle of the night for a VirginSacrifice.

''Manga/PeterGrillAndThePhilosophersTime'': Antonio Spartokos challenges Peter Grill to a duel for Lisa Alpacas's hand. As they prepare to fight, Antonio declares that he loves Lisa so much that he'll only ever sleep with her once he's proven himself worthy. Everyone is surprised that such a handsome and buff man is a virgin.

''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
* Naruto Uzumaki. After all his time with Jiraiya the Perverted Sage and maker of his own Sexy Jutsu, he ''still'' hadn't even kissed a girl by the time he was 17.

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* ''Manga/PeterGrillAndThePhilosophersTime'': Antonio Spartokos challenges Peter Grill to a duel for Lisa Alpacas's hand. As they prepare to fight, Antonio declares that he loves Lisa so much that he'll only ever sleep with her once he's proven himself worthy. Everyone is surprised that such a handsome and buff man is a virgin.

Any character who is expected to be sexually experienced, but turns out to be a virgin.

Due to a long-standing DoubleStandard, men are the most common examples of this trope. In fiction, men past puberty are often expected to have had sex. However, this is not a male-only trope; females (especially older ones) can surprise other characters in this way as well.

** There's also the fact that he has spent most of his life after getting out of jail taking care of Haruka. Dating in Japan is difficult enough when you aren't a single parent with a rap sheet.

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' When Albedo, Aura, and Shalltear go on a girls-day-out, Albedo summons her steed, a bicorn, but it doesn't let her ride it. So Shalltear looks the creature up in her encyclopedia, and it turns out, it's the opposite of a unicorn, and as such prefers promiscuous women. The implication that Albedo is a virgin shocks both her and Aura because Albedo is a ''succubus''. However this is a result of her originally being a video game NPC, and before she became real in the new world, Ainz (thinking that the game is about to shut down) was messing with her settings as a final joke, making her fall madly in love with him. Her original settings said she was actually a [[HornyDevils Horny Devil]].

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/WhiteNight'', the young and talented Carlos Ramirez, who behaves like a self-styled [[TheCasanova Casanova]], is identified as a virgin by sex vampire Lara Raith, who seems to think it positively ''adorable''. Harry spends the entire climactic fight scene teasing him about it. Also true of the Raiths' youngest sister (biologically a teenager), whom Harry theorizes during the denouement could kill her succubus and become human by having her first time within a loving relationship.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' the characters come across a unicorn and need to get its horn. When told only a "pure maiden" can approach the unicorn, the adults of the party immediately assumes that Sheena, with her AbsoluteCleavage outfit, would be "unqualified." She gets offended and is allowed to approach, and the unicorn allows it. This is opposed to party member Raine who refuses to approach under the rationale [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin "I'm an adult"]].

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Hinted at since the beginning and confirmed in recent years, Judges (of both sexes) are trained from the outset to be celibate. The "Wally Squad", i.e. the undercover division, are allowed to get it on, but only when "in character", and even then they're not supposed to enjoy it. The penalty for infraction is usually dismissal; if they haven't yet infracted, they are expected to resign. Many dismissed in this way, for example * ''ComicBook/SinCity'': It is implied that Marv -- the big, tough, near-invincible badass -- was having "the night of his life" with Goldie, and lost his virginity to her. Marv specifically says that not even any of the city's numerous prostitutes would come near him due to his enormous stature, tough looks, and violent reputation, the implication being that certainly no non-prostitute would come within a mile of him.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': About half the cast, though not for lack of trying by some. Justifications range from crippling anxiety (yes, he's [[BewareTheNiceOnes still badass]]) to waiting for a certain girl to massive social ineptitude.

* In Narita's other series, ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Ikebukuro's resident God of Destruction in a Bartender Suit, Shizuo Heiwajima is not only a virgin but hasn't even so much as ''kissed'' a girl thanks to his SuperStrength and [[HairTriggerTemper rage disorder getting in the way]]. By the time of the series proper, [[HeartBrokenBadass he's simply resigned himself to the fact that no one could possibly love him.]]

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Issei Hyodou. Although he really wants to lose his virginity, somehow he can't. It's then revealed that the reason why he can't just lose his virginity to his harem (who are ''[[IfItsYouItsOkay totally willing]]'') is because [[spoiler: of trauma when he was killed by Raynare all the way back when the plot starts.]]
* Sanjouno Haruhime in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' was disowned by her family and sold as a prostitute, and part of the reason she didn't think she was worthy of being saved was that she thought she had been DefiledForever. [[spoiler:As it turns out, she would always get so nervous when she got a customer, she'd end up fainting and foaming from the mouth, so she hasn't lost her virginity at all.]]

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' When Albedo, Aura, and Shalltear go on a girls-day-out, Albedo summons her steed, a bicorn, but it doesn't let her ride it. So Shalltear looks the creature up in her encyclopedia, and it turns out, it's the opposite of a unicorn, and as such prefers promiscuous women. The implication that Albedo is a virgin shocks both her and Aura because Albedo is a ''succubus''. However this is a result of her originally being a video game NPC, and before she became real in the new world, Ainz (thinking that the game is about to shut down) was messing with her settings as a final joke, making her fall madly in love with him. Her original settings said she was actually a [[HornyDevils Horny Devil]].

* ''LightNovel/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'':
** A JerkJock trying to ask out Tomoe catches her in [[NotWhatItLooksLike what looks like foreplay]] with Sakuta, and starts spreading rumors [[SlutShaming branding her as a slut]] who's screwing Sakuta like a rabbit. Sakuta confronts the JerkJock, humiliates him by fighting dirty, then defuses the rumor by announcing to the jock and anybody within earshot that not only are he and Tomoe not sleeping together, he's a virgin. Tomoe is a virgin as well and never had a boyfriend.
** Mai qualifies as well. Despite her popularity, her [[TheTease teasing]] attitude [[SingleTargetSexuality targets only]] [[UndyingLoyalty her loved one, Sakuta]], and she never had a boyfriend before him, neither has she kissed anyone.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Let's just say Italy had ''not'' expected [[RatedMForManly Germany]] and [[{{Bishounen}} Japan]] to be virgins as well.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8185560/1/Iron-Fist-The-Movie Iron Fist: The Movie,]]'' it is revealed that since Danny lived in K'un L'un from the time he was a boy until adulthood, he had never had a girlfriend with the implication that he did not have certain other experiences, either. He is still capable of kicking ass.

* ''Fill the Moon'' plays with this. Xaldin is twenty-nine and has never had sex (up to chapter 50, anyway). He is still as canonically badass as he is in the game, but the others occasionally tease him for it.

* The reveal of the French movie ''Lila Says'' is that the female protagonist was a virgin while pretending the whole movie to be extremely sexually active.

* The Disney coming-of-age film ''Tex'' (based on the novel by S.E. Hinton) deconstructs this. Tex is asking his older brother Mace for advice about girls, and Mace reveals he's never gone all the way, and neither has their friend Bobby. (In a humanizing moment, Mace asks Tex not to tell anyone.) Mace tells Tex not to believe everything he hears in the locker room; most of it is just talk. Tex is surprised to hear this, thinking that Mace, a basketball star, has had plenty of opportunities. But Mace has seen another friend of theirs get his girlfriend pregnant, seriously screwing up both their lives, and he doesn't want to have the same fate.

* In ''Darkly Dreaming Literature/{{Dexter}}'', the titular SerialKillerKiller has avoided sex until that point, mostly because he finds the very idea of intercourse to be undignified. Only when his girlfriend presses the issue does he lose his virginity, and even then, his sociopathic mindset initially goes through with it merely to preserve his facade as a regular guy.

* In ''Mr Warrens Profession'', Lindsey Althorp is a virgin, much to his lover Aubrey's shock. His virginity vanishes soon after the reveal.

* Eloisa James' Regency Romance novel ''Your Wicked Ways'' has the estranged Earl Rees Godwin and Countess Helene Godwin trying to repair their marriage, which went bad pretty much from the get-go after they eloped to Gretna Green ten years ago and their consummation didn't turn out well. Rees had blamed it on "frigidity" on her part, but he finally confesses to her during the book that he didn't have a damn clue what he was doing at the time because he was a virgin, too. (This is a departure from the stock tropes of the genre where the man is sexually experienced and the woman is a virgin.)

* Deputy Enos Strate on ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' was identified as "the oldest virgin in Hazzard County". In one * Subtly in ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' where the vampy sister Bridget is still a virgin at eighteen, and her younger more bookish sister Kerry loses hers. It's surprising because Bridget had been implied to be ReallyGetsAround (though she only flirted with boys). After TheReveal, Bridget occasionally taunts Kerry with "at least ''I'm'' [[SlutShaming still a virgin]]."

* Touched upon in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' where Gordito asks the Doctor after [[spoiler:the motorcycle Sparkle Lord was a Unicorn and apparently [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73/ Unicorns only approach virgins.]]]]

[=GalenDeMarco=], become private investigators.

-->'''Prince Siegfried''': ...every single female I met was [[IncestIsRelative my aunt!]] My aunt, Leopold! Even at twelve, I knew better than that!

* Ran, the protagonist of ''Manga/SuperGALS'' proudly declares herself as "pure" when a guy asks for her "price" since a ko-gal is typically known for being promiscuous.

See also VirginShaming, when a character is then derided for being a virgin, and TechnicalVirgin, when someone claims to be a virgin because they haven't had sex under particular conditions. Contrast OfCourseImNotAVirgin.

* Sanjouno Haruhime in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' was disowned by her family and sold as a prostitute, and part of the reason she didn't think she was worthy of being saved was because she thought she had been DefiledForever. [[spoiler:As it turns out, she would always get so nervous when she got a customer, she'd end up fainting and foaming from the mouth, so she hasn't lost her virginity at all.]]

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' When Albedo, Aura, and Shalltear go on a girls-day-out, Albedo summons her steed, a bicorn, but it doesn't let her ride it. So Shalltear looks the creature up in her encyclopedia, and it turns out, it's the opposite of a unicorn, and as such prefers promiscuous women. The implication that Albedo is a virgin shocks both her and Aura because Albedo is a ''succubus''. However this is a result of her originally being a video game NPC, and before she became real in the new world, Ainz (thinking that the game is about to shut-down) was messing with her settings as a final joke, making her fall madly in love with him. Her original settings said she was actually a [[HornyDevils Horny Devil]].

** A JerkJock trying to ask out Tomoe catches her in [[NotWhatItLooksLike what looks like foreplay]] with Sakuta, and starts spreading rumors [[SlutShaming branding her as a slut]] who's screwing Sakuta like a rabbit. Sakuta confronts the JerkJock, humiliates him by fighting dirty, then defuses the rumor by announcing to the jock and anybody within earshot that not only are he and Tomoe not sleeping together, he's a virgin. Tomoe is a virgin as well, and never had a boyfriend.

** In the sequel, no one is surprised that Applejack is a virgin. Everyone is ''very'' surprised that Adagio, the thousand year-old hedonist, is also a virgin.

* ''Film/NaomiAndElysNoKissList'': Naomi, who acts very sexy, confident and like she's had experience, turns out to be a virgin, surprising her friend Robin.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series producer Masayoshi Yokoyama considers series protagonist Kiryu Kazuma to be this. His belief is that Kiryu loved Yumi, but never made a move because of his pal Nishikiyama's feelings towards her and never felt the desire to be with any other woman. Despite this, women throw themselves at Kiryu in just about every one of his appearnces.

** Kiryu has also spent large portions of his adult life in jail, and has never shown any overt romantic or sexual interest in men.

* Zapp Brannigan from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' was a virgin [[spoiler: until he slept with Leela]]. Before that, he was the CasanovaWannabe.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': The [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] scene where [[TheHero Firion]] is seduced by a [[CuteMonsterGirl lamia queen]] masquerading as the rebel princess practically cements it, given Firion's hilarious reactions during. Even more interestingly, fandom has embraced this (unusual, considering what most fans are most interested in), Firion's FanNickname in Japanese is, quite literally, "virgin." [[note]]It's ''doutei'', and was probably also chosen because it rhymes with ''koutei'', a Japanese word for "emperor" and the title of the game's {{Bishonen}} BigBad.[[/note]]

* ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'': Magnus Bane, being a [[TheAgeless minimum hundreds-of-years-old]] pansexual warlock, is well aware he has considerably more experience than Alec Lightwood but is still surprised when they go on their first date in "Iron Sisters" that, never mind sex, Alec has never even been in a serious relationship before. {{Justified}} in that Alec grew up relatively cloistered in Idris and the Institute, and is gay in a fairly heteronormative culture.

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* ''Film/GeminiMan''. When 51 year-old Henry Brogan is first confronted by his younger clone Clay Junior, Dani's natural assumption is that he's a long-lost son, but Henry curtly dismisses the idea. At first it seems that this is because Henry is MarriedToTheJob and so has avoided long-term relationships, but he later accurately guesses that Junior is a virgin despite being in his twenties, because he considers himself a freak and is worried that others will see it, implying that Henry has avoided relationships also for this reason.

* In ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'', Bernadette is assumed to [[ReallyGetsAround really get around]] because she's seen flirting with boys in the schoolyard - and gets sent to the titular laundries because of it. But she confesses to the Sister Superior that she's still a virgin. Nonetheless, she is kept there because the nuns feel her beauty may tempt the boys too much. Bernadette is notably the only one of the protagonists who is still a virgin.

* Played with in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', where the elderly mentor-figure insists that only a virgin can recite the spell that'll banish the monsters. When the big sister admits she doesn't qualify, she asks why the mentor can't do it and is told by the Squad boys that he's not qualified either. Irate, she questions whether the boys had actually ''asked'' him. [[spoiler:They wind up having a five-year-old girl recite the words.]]

* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. Taylor and James are trapped together after an earthquake. Fearing that they were not going to make it, the 30-something James revealed to Taylor that he was a virgin--and begged Taylor not to let him die that way. She complied.

* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Teacher's Pet": A shape-shifting praying mantis only preys on virgin boys, and captures Xander and another boy who we had previously seen boasting about his sexual exploits. Neither he, nor Xander, is pleased when they learn that they were chosen for their virginity, and the guy threatens to sue if they tell anyone. Xander spent two and a half seasons proving his BadassNormal credentials while hanging onto his virginity (his relationship with Cordelia was unconsummated). When he helps out [[ActionGirl Faith]] in season 3, she thanks him (and burns off extra aggression) by seducing him. Xander has sex, but it's not the most remarkable or manly thing he does even that night, making it a bit of a subversion of this trope. The trope is completely PlayedStraight when it comes to Liam/Angel, Giles, Spike, and Oz, though.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': The series portrays high school students' sex lives very accurately--or at least, more accurately than most shows. Kurt and Artie (unpopular) are both virgins at their introductions, as are Finn and Blaine (popular). Over the course of three seasons [[spoiler: all four of them]] lose their virginity, as do most of the virginal female characters. Special mention goes to Kurt, who explicitly states on two separate occasions that either he isn't ready for sex (to the point of ''literally'' sticking his fingers in his ears and going "la la la" in order to avoid talking about it), or that he wants his first time to be meaningful. On a smaller scale, however, played straight in "The Power of Madonna", when Finn is the only one who sleeps with his intended (in his case, Santana) during the "Like a Virgin" number (Emma and Rachel [[MyGirlIsNotASlut do not]]). It becomes SexAsRiteOfPassage, and he "doesn't feel any different." In fact, he later heavily regrets it because it didn't mean anything and it wasn't with Rachel, the girl he loves.

* At the start of ''Series/IronFist2017'', 26 years old Danny Rand is a virgin since his training in K'un-Lun required a chastity vow. He later breaks the vow with Colleen Wing.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Pandect}}'', Noah is told his true love will be a male "mature lizard Ace who is also a virgin." Since Aces are animals with human souls and bodies, a virgin Ace has never had sex as an animal or a human, and a mature Ace is at least 100 years old, it genuinely shocks Noah when he finally meets one.

* Season Two's premiere of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' had ISIS guarding a German dignitary's 15-year-old daughter who is ''very'' forward about wanting to have sex with [[TheCasanova Archer]], [[EveryoneHasStandards who's having none of it]]. He eventually figures out that she's using this trope as a way [[DesperatelyCravesAffection to get attention]].