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Basic Trope: A conventionally attractive Casanova Wannabe.

  • Straight: Bob, a handsome but crass man, tries his hardest to get girls, but fails miserably.
  • Exaggerated: Bob is the World's Most Beautiful Man, who women run away from, screaming, the second they see him.
  • Downplayed: Bob is quite attractive, but due to having No Social Skills and a general lack of self-care, he has some considerable difficulties in his love life.
  • Justified:
    • His excessive vanity in his looks combined with his sexist tendencies tend to turn away women fast.
    • He focuses too much time in the gym and not enough on his social skills.
    • Cause of his good looks, women tend to assume he's a player so he tends not to get very far often.
    • Bob is just not that good with speaking. Even with a handsome man like him, he just can't speak very well and often embarrasses himself in front of ladies that they just walk away from second hand embarrassment.
    • Bob is rubbish in bed.
  • Inverted: Kavorka Man
  • Gender-Inverted: Alice, a beautiful woman, tries her hardest to date guys, but fails miserably.
  • Subverted:
    • The women that Bob hits on are only initially put off by him, but because of his good looks he ends up winning them over anyway.
    • Bob is actually looking for a relationship not a fling.
  • Parodied: Every interaction Bob has with a girl consists of him flubbing up his pickup lines, before desperately begging on his hands and knees, and that's if the begging is possibly coherent through his Inelegant Blubbering.
  • Zigzagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob is handsome and The Casanova.
  • Enforced:
    • "We can't ever show sex on this show so we need a guy who really wants it but will also pull in the viewers.".
    • The story is trying to teach that looks aren't everything.
  • Lampshaded:
    • "For someone as handsome as you, you sure have a hard time getting a woman."
    • "I guess inner beauty matters after all."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Someone notices his good looks but otherwise shallow game and sees him as an easy target for a Honey Trap.
  • Defied: Seeing that he's always unable to be sucessful with women despite his good looks, Bob tries to improve his personality and social status.
  • Discussed:
    • " He's hot until he opens his mouth.""
  • Conversed: ???

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