Distracted By The Sexy / Video Games

• This happens a lot in AI: The Somnium Files, to the point where it can be considered one of the game's many Running Gags. Most of the action sequences involve pornographic magazines, whether they be real ones used to distract Mooks, or made-up ones used to motivate Date, the game's Chivalrous Pervert protagonist (his AI companion Aiba notes that Date's reaction time briefly increases to Super-Speed levels when he hears the words "porno mag", to the point where he can dodge bullets, something which she often uses to their advantage). You'd think that a gang of mercenaries would know better than to stop in the middle of a firefight and bunch up around an explosive barrel just to look at a dirty magazine or a pair of panties, but it works.
• Castlevania:
  • Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin: Charlotte isn't, but Jonathan is susceptible to a certain female boss's attack using this trope.
  • Even better, there's also a demon that's distracted by Charlotte's sexy.
  • Castlevania: Harmony of Despair reverses this by having female characters be distracted by Dracula's sexy during his final form. However, this is due to a spell rather than true sexy.
  • Played straight again, courtesy of the female Chapter 7 DLC boss Astarte. Incidentally, this is the same boss that had this effect on Jonathan in Portrait of Ruin.
• In Skies of Arcadia, Vyse was having his eyes glued to the belly dancer, Bellena, until Aikia snapped him out of it.
• In Knights of the Old Republic 2, there is a dancer outfit (needed for some side quest), which is absolutely useless — except for giving some bonus to the Persuade skill.
• The characters can go to confessionals in Tales of Hearts. At one point, Hisui admits he missed a shot because he was staring at Innes' breasts.
• In Tales of the Abyss, Anise attempts to weaponize the trope by using her swimsuit in a plan called 'Operation Sexy Anise', hoping that the enemies get distracted by her and stunning. She ends up technically fulfilling the trope in the way that she didn't imagine: She distracted the enemies not by stunning them, but enticing the enemies to gang up on her.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, when Midna is in her true form, Link's eyes are glued to her. She lampshades that along with Heroic Mime.
• The Sexy Sleepwear apparel in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas gives a bonus to Charisma, which relates your Speech and Barter skills. Both games also have a unique leopard-print "Naughty Nightwear", which gives a Speech bonus and improves your character's luck.
• This is actually an ability of Jessica in Dragon Quest VIII. Put skill points in her Sex Appeal and monsters will start missing turns just to ogle her. Her own allies, Chivalrous Pervert Angelo included, are immune. Dragon Quest IX has a similar effect through the "Style" stat, but it affects all playable characters and isn't limited to only sexy outfits.
  • Both games also feature active abilities to affect opponents in this fashion (learnable by both your characters and foes) - the Puff-Puff attack in DQ 8 and the Sultry Dance in DQ 9. Entertainingly, a foe that tries to use the former move on Jessica will get demoralized because Jessica is more voluptuous, and they miss a turn instead.
• From Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty onwards, you can distracts male guards using Girly Magazine. Of course, it didn't work on ladies and unmanned units.
  • Averted by Major Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, who is implied to be homosexual and in a relationship with Big Bad Colonel Volgin.
• In Bayonetta, Luka wants revenge against the titular (huh huh) protagonist. However, every time he meets her, he alternates between swearing revenge, and making clumsy, awkward sexual overtures. Presumably, it's kinda hard to remember what you were doing when you have... well, freaking Bayonetta standing in front of you.
  • Doubly invoked in this case when you remember that Bayonetta is technically naked! Her "clothes" is basically just her hair covering up her entire body, so in essence, Bayonetta gets that much more points for this trope
• Exploited in Madou Monogatari II, where the sixteen-year old protagonist Arle is captured very early on in the game. She uses her sex appeal to snag the key to her cell from some demon guards and escape.
• An invoked trope in Team Fortress 2 - players, especially spies, may use sprays of sexy girls to distract opposing players, making for easy targets. (Yes, such items are unlockable.) Demonstrated beautifully here. Furthermore, a player who stays in one place is an easy target for the enemy Sniper (and this is true for other Snipers too).
• Final Fantasy VIII: Laguna seems to fall foul of this when faced with the Cloud of Darkness in Duodecim 012, with his leg cramps acting up, and all. This is complicated by the fact that CoD is actually sexless, and initially assumed that he was frozen with fear (which it supposedly represents).
• Final Fantasy IX:
  • Zidane's head will move toward any attractive female NPC walking past him in a town.
  • When the party is cornered by the scandalously-clad assassin, Lani in Fossil Roo, Zidane will attempt to flirt with her, ignoring her intentions to kill Garnet.
• Gwent: The Witcher Card Game: Nilfgaardian spy Cantarella's card has her leaning in for a kiss with a man, while reaching into his bag to pilfer some important document.
• In one of the endings of Chrono Trigger, Lucca gets distracted from the idea of bringing Chrono back to life by a now-human Frog, who she finds attractive. "Could that have been Frog? H-he's handsome! Let's catch up with him!"
• Star Fox. Fox McCloud's first meeting face-to-face with Krystal sends him into a shock for a minute before Peppy's calling knocks him out of it.
• Septerra Core. In the in-game mythology, Dogo the Trickster God convinces Gemma to give Kyra a mirror, so she could make herself more beautiful. Gemma does it, proving he forgot that she's his prisoner and can easily use the mirror to send messages to Marduk about her whereabouts, resulting in her rescue and Gemma's defeat. What part of the body this guy uses to thinks remains secret.
• The Inazuma Eleven games have a pair of passive skills which invoke this, namely "Sexiness UP!" for females and "Handsomeness UP!" for males. Both decrease the success rate of nearby^note A player trying to steal the ball and the player he/she is trying to steal it from can affect each other, and any player attempting to shoot and the opposite team's goalkeeper can also affect each other. opposite-sex opponents' moves.
• Mentioned by a guard in the intro to an early Perfect Dark Zero mission:
  "... it's like she had nothing on! Mai Hem's giving orders, but I don't know where to look!"
• One of the extra missions in Sonic Generations involves robots who block themselves with shields, and the only way to destroy them is to summon Rouge the Bat to distract them so that they can't block your attacks. That's right. Rouge is so sexy that not even robots are immune to her charms.
• Referenced in Mass Effect 3 when EDI takes over Dr Eva's body. When you talk to James after that, this exchange ensues:
  James: What the hell's up with EDI?
  Shepard: She's found a new home, I guess.
  James: A super-hot, sexy new home. You take her on a mission, I'm gonna be just a little distracted.
  • Additionally, if you're playing a female Shepard, the exchange becomes instead...
  James: What the hell's up with EDI?
  Shepard: She's found a new home, I guess.
  James: A super-hot, sexy new home. You take her on a mission, I'm gonna be just a little distracted.
  (beat)
  (James's eyes wander downward)
  (beat)
  James: Even more distracted.
  Shepard: Nice try.
  • This trope appears again in the final single player DLC, Citadel- after escaping an assassination attempt, Shepard (who was at the time dressed up for dinner at a fancy restaurant) is finally found by their romantic interest, who spends a little time Eating the Eye Candy instead of focusing on the "people are trying to kill me" part. If your romantic interest isn't a full teammate in 3 or you haven't locked in your romance yet, it will be Liara, and she'll get the same line.
• In Dragon Age II, Bethany will find Sebastian very distracting.
  • In a fun gender inversion of My Eyes Are Up Here, Isabela finds herself enraptured by Varric's chest hair.
  • In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Sera's train of thought visibly derails upon meeting a female Vashoth Inquisitor.
• Mega Man Star Force 2: late in the game, the Big Bad, Lady Vega, pulls the old Do Not Adjust Your Set routine to spread her demands for world domination. One NPC in Wilshire Hills has no idea what she actually said, because all his attention was dedicated to how hot she looked.
• In Grandia, one boss is a giant angler-type fish with a lure that looks like an attractive female. The lure's only attack is Attract, which seductively draws Justin up towards it... then turns into a giant mouth and takes a bite out of him. The "distracted" part comes from the fact that this can cancel Justin's action if he's charging up a special attack or spell.
• In Brain Dead 13, Fritz falls victim to this when he gets picked up by Vivi the sexy vampiress while Lance looks in confusion on what will happen to him... just seconds before she tosses Fritz into the spiked coffin! Ouch!
  • Not long after that, Vivi approaches and seduces Lance when he starts saying he wants to leave, and she starts turning him on for a bit... right before she stuffs his cap into his mouth!
• This is actually a game mechanic in the Assassin's Creed series: hiring a group of courtesans/Romanies to either act as a mobile hiding spot or distract a targeted group of guards is an effective way of completing most of the stealth sequences.
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, a mission in Chapter 1 has Murray disguising himself as "Madame Geisha" and managing to distract some guards. A much later mission in Chapter 5 sees Carmelita Fox performing a belly dance (with great reluctance) to distract some guards while the rest of the team unlocks a gate.
• In the second bonus mission from Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, Lian disguises as a concubine to fool Yang and the outdoor guards, then dons a bikini to distract the guards at Saydahmat's suite.
• One geisha assassination attempt in Total War: Shogun 2 utilizes this to give the geisha time to bring her murder weapon to bear.
• One Uldum quest in World of Warcraft requires distracting several infected Gnomes using holograms. One of them is a dancing female Eredar.
• This is used to solve a puzzle at one point in Fear Effect. Hana is caught by a guard and held at gunpoint. However, she's wearing only a towel, and the towel is a useable item. Use it, and she drops it. Deke proceeds to deal with the distracted guard. (Nice ass, Hana.)
• In Pokémon, Pokémon can use the move Attract to make the opponent of the opposite gender fall in love with them; there is 50% chance the opponent will be "immobilized by love".
• In Freudbot, a parody of card battle games, one of the cards the main character's girlfriend can play during an encounter with her is "Be distractingly sexy."
• In Papers, Please, some would-be immigrants would give the inspector a card that says "Pink Vice" on it. Because these people have all their papers intact, players can immediately just let them in, saving the players time to deal with the line.
• The final boss of Persona 5 weaponizes the Seven Deadly Sins against the Phantom Thieves. Those who are affected by lust waste a turn because they’re too busy indulging in a lewd fantasy.
• In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, if you choose the nighttime bonding event with Emma in chapter 3, Rean spends some time studying with her. However, he doesn't get much done because he finds himself distracted by her... large chest. He finally shakes himself out of it, makes an excuse, and they go back to studying.
  "However, because he suddenly found his mind...otherwise occupied, he wasn't able to retain much of what he learned."
• Town of Salem has both the Escort and the Consort roles who employ this trope to distract another player from performing his role. The difference between the two is character alignments-the Escort is on the Town's side, the Consort is on the Mafia's.
• WarioWare Gold: This happens to Lulu when she sees Young Cricket.
  Lulu: (clinging to his arm) Yeah, nice horsey! (giggles smittenly)
  Master Mantis: Cricket! You've picked up a passenger.
  Young Cricket: Whuh? Oh, I didn't notice. Little girl? ...Get off. (Lulu undergoes a Color Failure in response)
• In Tweety and the Magic Gems for the Game Boy Advance, one of the items the player can use is a Mechanical Rabbit, who distracts another player into following her for several turns.
• In Dofus, the flavor text lore referring to the Cra Goddess mentions that she's so beautiful that anyone who sees her can fall in love with her, and yet her own disciples, the Cra, are able to resist this effect to develop a pure and unfailing devotion... which isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when she's demonstrating how to use bows as effectively as possible.
• In Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle, the main character Brian can't help being distracted by the sexy bar girl Lokelani's looks when she converses with him. When he later has to pose as a French Professor, he asks Lokelani to distract the real Professor, and she does it in the most effective way she could cook off.

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