Basic Trope: A character who couldn't be more hopeless with the ladies.
- Straight: Bob, an average looking man tries his hardest to get girls, but always fails miserably.
- Exaggerated: Women run away screaming as soon as Bob opens his mouth.
- Downplayed:
- Bob has a few laughable attempts at courting the World's Most Beautiful Woman, but is shown dating a more ordinary woman once in a while.
- Bob's attempts to be flirtatious are occasionally humored, but rarely taken serious.
- Bob's a good looking man who gets a few girls interested but otherwise has no game whatsoever.
- Justified:
- Bob is really lame, crass and repulsively ugly - would you want to date him?
- Bob has No Social Skills.
- Bob has a Small Name, Big Ego and merely wants girls to flex said ego. Girls are turned away by this.
- Inverted:
- Kavorka Man
- Bob is an Accidental Pornomancer, a (Clueless) Chick Magnet, or some other archetype who gets women without trying or may not even want to.
- Bob actively avoids women, but they’re glued to him.
- Subverted: Bob finally scores...
- Double Subverted:
- ...then it turns out Bob was making it up.
- the girl was a Crossdresser.
- His "girlfriend" is in Canada.
- Parodied:
- Alice uses Imagine Spotting or telepathy to read his inflated self image, and uses an Armor-Piercing Question in response.
- Bob can't even score women in his dreams.
- Zig Zagged: He's about to score, then screws it up at the last minute. Then Bob rights himself and is in bed with the girl...then Bob screws up again. And so forth.
- Averted:
- Bob is either willfully celibate or sexually active.
- Bob is in a monogamous relationship and never attempts to cheat.
- Enforced: "So we can't show sex on this show, but we need a guy who really, really wants it so we can still push the envelope!"
- Lampshaded: "Well, it's another lonely night in."
- Invoked:
- His friend Charlie, teaching him how to dress up for a date, gives him a polyester suit and a gold chain, telling him it's the latest style.
- Bob is intentionally bad with chicks because he's in the closet and wants to look straight without sleeping with them.
- Exploited: Alice wants to get Veronica to leave the party, so she puts the Casanova Wannabe near her, knowing she'll be so disgusted she'll leave.
- Defied: He learns from his more charismatic friends how to talk to women.
- Discussed: "Wow, look at his polyester suit and gold medallion...oh, damn, I made eye contact. Now he's coming this way."
- Conversed: "When will Bob realize that no one wants to be with him?"
- Deconstructed:
- His inability to get a girlfriend, coupled with his intense desire to do so, takes a heavy psychological toll on him and causes him to be unhappy for the rest of his life.
- His constant attempts at hitting on women end up angering his targets, and results in him getting smacked, or worse, usually by pissing off her boyfriend, husband, Dogged Nice Guy friend, overprotective dad and/or brother. Eventually Bob gets beaten up to a pulp, or hit by a restraining order.
- Reconstructed: Bob finds a girl who actually finds his relative lameness charming, and they hit it off.
- Played For Laughs:
- The camera and dramatic music play him up to seem really sexy as Bob approaches a hot girl. But then one of the following happens:
- Bob opens his mouth and what he says is ridiculous; horrible pick-up line, stammer, impossibly high voice...
- The camera angle/special FX and music shut off, and we see just how tacky his outfit and style is.
- Alice blows him off. The dramatic music crashes to a halt, and we cut away to a humorous metaphor for his crushed ego.
- The camera and dramatic music play him up to seem really sexy as Bob approaches a hot girl. But then one of the following happens:
Hey hotcakes, how about you and I go back to Casanova Wannabe and have some fun? ...What do you mean "no"? Why are you laughing?
