He's a bad boy Hunk, and she's a Fiery Redhead. Why shouldn't they have the hots for each other?
Characters are drawn to someone for some reason. The person has sex appeal and is called beautiful, sexy, hot, handsome, desirable, or plain attractive. Might be Love Interests or just lust interests.
Can lead to Kissing Tropes and Sex Tropes or Dating Tropes and Flirting and Courtship. More realistic than Rule of Sexy and more for the character than Fanservice, Fanservice Costumes or Nudity Tropes. Not related to the attractions found at Theme Parks, except for the Tunnel of Love.
Tropes:
Sub-categories:
- Attraction to Outliers
A character is attractive because they aren't socially ideal. - Delicate Is Beautiful
A character who's delicate and fragile is considered attractive. - These Tropes Are Evil and Sexy
Tropes related to sexualized villains.
- Accidental Declaration of Love: Because this attraction might go somewhere, even by accident.
- Admiring the Poster: Character lusting in front of a pin-up poster.
- Agents Dating: Secret agents are most attracted to other secret agents.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Tough women tend to be attracted to men who are just as strong as, if not stronger than them.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Moody, anti-social bad boys attract a lot of attention from girls.
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Cheerleaders tend to be considered desirable to guys.
- All Guys Want Sorority Women: A woman is likely to be considered desirable if she's in a sorority.
- Amazon Chaser: This guy is attracted to girls who kick ass.
- Amazonian Beauty: A girl with an athletic build who is also quite beautiful, often sought after by an Amazon Chaser.
- Aroused by Idiocy: A character who is attracted to people with low I.Q.
- Aroused by Their Voice: The sound of a character's voice is a turn on.
- Artists Are Attractive: A character is attractive due to their artistic talents
- Attractive Bent-Gender: A character looks attractive when disguised as a member of the opposite sex.
- Attractive Bent Species: A character changes into a highly attractive member of another species.
- Attractive Zombie: Undead corpses can even be found attractive.
- Attractiveness Discrimination: Attractive people tend to be treated better than unattractive people.
- Attractiveness Isolation: They're very attractive to the point that people are too intimidated to ask them out.
- Big Beautiful Man: A heavyset man who is considered attractive.
- Big Beautiful Woman: A heavyset woman who is considered attractive.
- Big Brother Attraction: Character feels attracted to their older brother.
- Bigot with a Crush: A character has romantic and/or sexual feelings for a member of a group whom they are prejudiced against.
- But I Would Really Enjoy It: A character isn't having sex for a (usually pretty respectful) reason—but damn, it would be fun to.
- Celeb Crush: Celebrities have many fans, some of which who are attracted to them.
- Charm Point: A character's In-Universe most appealing physical feature or personality trait.
- Chick Magnet: A guy who attracts a lot of ladies.
- Animal Chick Magnet: A pet-owning guy who attracts lots of ladies.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: A guy who attracts a lot of ladies but who is awkward when it comes to dating.
- Chubby Chaser: A character who is attracted to more heavyset people.
- Coquettish Lip Biting: Biting the lip to show attraction.
- Crush Filter: A person appears ethereally attractive through the viewpoint of someone who's crushing on them.
- Cupid's Arrow: Attraction to people is caused by the god of love, Cupid.
- Devoted to You: Being committed to the one you're attracted to.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: You find yourself attractive.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Someone is so beautiful it can be used to distract others.
- Eating the Eye Candy: A character is attracted to the characteristics of another character.
- Elegant Classical Musician: Characters who play music are very desirable.
- Endearingly Dorky: A character's dorkiness makes them highly desirable.
- Even the Girls Want Her: A girl is so attractive that other girls love her.
- Even the Guys Want Him: A guy who's so attractive that other guys love him.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Blondes tend to get the most attention from people.
- Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite: Since they have both genitals, intersex characters are found attractive by everyone regardless of gender.
- Eyelash Fluttering: Batting the eyes out of attraction, to catch someone's fancy.
- Fair Cop: An attractive police officer.
- Fairy Sexy: Attractive fairies.
- Favors for the Sexy: Someone volunteers to perform favors for an attractive person, because they're attractive.
- Firemen Are Hot: Male firefighters tend to be quite handsome.
- Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Being flexible makes someone more attractive.
- Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock: The star quarterback attracts the attention of a gay guy.
- Geeky Turn-On: Being turned on by how smart someone is.
- Girls Like Musicians: Girls are attracted to boys who can play music.
- Give Geeks a Chance: Someone is attracted to a nerd because Nerds Are Sexy.
- Good-Looking Privates: Men in uniform tend to be studs.
- Has a Type: Characters have specific kinds of people they're attracted to.
- Head-Turning Beauty: A girl is so hot, guys drool and throw themselves at her.
- Hello, Attorney!: Attractive lawyers.
- Historical Relationship Overhaul: Two historical domain characters are attracted to each other even though this wasn't the case in Real Life. The opposite may also be true.
- Hospital Hottie: An attractive doctor/nurse.
- Hot as Hell: Attractive infernal beings.
- Hot Consort: The attractive spouse of a royal.
- Hot God: A divine being who is very beautiful.
- Hot in Human Form: A non-human character becomes human and is seen as very attractive in-universe.
- Hot Librarian: Not all librarians are stuffy old hags.
- Hot Men at Work: When attractive men go to work, expect lots of Fanservice out of it
- Hot Teacher: Attractive school teachers.
- Hot Witch: A witch who is a bombshell rather than an ugly, old hag.
- Hunk: A tall muscular man who is very handsome, often comes with a Lantern Jaw of Justice.
- If It's You, It's Okay: A character finds themself attracted to someone outside of their preferred gender.
- Inconvenient Attraction: A character is attracted to somebody and they hate it.
- Informed Attractiveness: They are considered attractive in-universe despite what the audience might think.
- Inherently Attractive Profession: When a job itself is part of someone's appeal.
- In Love with Looks: A character only wants to be in a relationship with someone because of their looks.
- Kavorka Man: A seemingly unappealing male who nonetheless gets all the female action he can handle, and more.
- Lady in Red: A sexy seductress wearing red.
- Lascivious Beauty Mark: A facial beauty mark is used to characterize someone as flirtatious, seductive, generally sexually forward, and/or highly desired In-Universe.
- Like Goes with Like: Characters are only attracted to those of the same ethnicity as them.
- Likes Older Men: A female character is attracted to guys who are much older than her.
- Likes Older Women: A male character is attracted to girls who are much older than him.
- Like Parent, Like Spouse: A character is attracted to people similar to their parents.
- Living Aphrodisiac: A character that can manipulate pheromones to make people be attracted to them.
- Love Interest vs. Lust Interest: Two people are interested in the same person, with one being genuinely in love and the other having only superficial feelings.
- Love Is in the Air: A Love Potion causes a bunch of people to feel attraction towards each other.
- Love Potion: A magical potion that causes a person to feel romantic attraction for another.
- Lustful Melt: Characters are so attracted to somebody they literally melt.
- Mixed Ancestry Is Attractive: Mixed race people are seen as inherently more attractive.
- Mixtape of Love: Mixtapes are a way to show your affection for someone.
- Moe: They're cute and huggable, so naturally they get lots of attention.
- More Experienced Chases the Innocent: A more sexually and/or romantically experienced person pursues someone who has very little to no romantic or sexual experience.
- Mrs. Robinson: An older woman who is attracted to much younger men.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Nerds are considered attractive rather than repulsive.
- Only Has Same-Sex Admirers: This character attracts people of the same sex but never anyone of the opposite sex.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Attraction to a fictional character.
- Pink Is Erotic: The color pink is used to indicate arousal, attraction, eroticism, and scenes of a sexual nature
- Power Dynamics Kink: A character is drawn to someone whom they can control and punish (or who can control and punish them).
- Power is Sexy: Having loads of power makes a character desirable.
- Pretty Boy: A guy who is attractive in a delicate and feminine way.
- Psychosexual Horror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities.
- Race Fetish: A character is attracted to people of a different ethnicity than them.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Jet black hair and pale skin make a character very attractive.
- Redheads Are Ravishing: Red hair is associated with attractiveness.
- Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: A character is only attracted to people who meet a narrow set of criteria.
- Right-Hand Hottie: A character's attractive assistant.
- Rivalry as Courtship: Attraction that starts with two people competing against each other.
- Romantic Fusion: Attraction that results in the lovers performing a Fusion Dance.
- Seductive Mummy: An attractive, undead mummy.
- Sexiness Score: Ranking, rating or scoring a character's attractiveness and sexual desirability.
- Sexy Flaw: Various imperfections (physical deformities, speech impediments, etc.) serving as a romantic and/or sexual "turn-on".
- Sexy Priest: A man of God who's considered attractive, often has a Vow of Celibacy for an extra Forbidden Fruit angle.
- Sexy Secretary: Attractive assistants.
- Sexy Stewardess: Attractive flight attendants.
- Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes: Villainous characters are very attractive, while heroic characters are more modest.
- Silver Fox: An attractive and visibly old character.
- Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: The shy, unpopular girl is attracted to the most handsome and most popular guy in school.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: A woman is attracted to sweet and compassionate men.
- Smells Sexy: Attraction based on how someone smells.
- Speech-Impeded Love Interest: Attraction towards a character with a speech disability.
- Stacy's Mom: A middle-aged man/woman that is crushed on by someone much younger than them.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Being heterosexual doesn't stop you from admiring an attractive person of the same sex.
- Stupid Sexy Friend: Feeling attraction towards someone who's supposed to be only a good friend.
- Sultry Bangs: The use of eye-covering bangs to denote sensuality or seductiveness.
- Sweet on Polly Oliver: A guy is attracted to a girl who is disguised as a guy.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Tall stature + dark hair and dark eyes = very desirable.
- Teamwork Seduction: Two characters team up to attract someone's attention.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Being turned on at the thought of having sex with two people at the same time.
- Troubled, but Cute: Despite being anti-social and possibly a criminal, they're considered desirable.
- Turned Off By The Jerkass: A character stops being attracted to someone for being a jerk.
- Unwanted Harem: A bunch of people are attracted to this character, much to their chagrin.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: Evil women tend to be attracted to heroic men.
- Weakness Turns Her On: Guys with softer, weaker (by typical masculine standards) dispositions attract this girl's attention.
- Where da White Women At?: Black men tend to be most attracted to white women.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: This woman is truly the fairest in all the land and has many admirers likewise.
- You're Not My Type: A character turns down someone for not fitting their ideal type.
