Basic Trope: An unattractive man who gets far more play with the ladies than you would expect him to.
- Straight: Bob is plain, unattractive, and doesn't even drive a Mercedes. He also scores a string of disproportionately attractive women.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is hideous, drinks constantly, beats women, and insults every woman he meets to her face. He gets more tail than you can imagine.
- Bob is an amoral sadist whose mere appearance is Nausea Fuel. Women have sex with him all the time.
- Bob merely smiles at Alice, a total stranger. She strips nude on the spot and jumps into his arms.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who looks rather plain in comparison to people he knows, but he quickly gets people liking him if he drops the aggression.
- Bob is somewhat unattractive and known for being a rude asshole but he only looks for women who are just as unattractive and unpleasant as he is. And he likes it that way.
- Bob is unattractive, but a quick wit and good nature gives him obvious charm and charisma despite his appearance. Many women like him but some still remain somewhat impervious to his sex appeal.
- Bob is somewhat conventionally attractive, but is a complete dork.
- Bob's girlfriends are either one-night stands or end their relationships with him in less than a week.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife.
- Bob has a Face of a Thug, and sometimes has the demeanor of one too, but he could still get people liking him if he showed them his nicer side.
- Justified:
- Bob is insanely smart and very good at reading people and knowing what does and doesn't work.
- Bob is mostly a Casanova Wannabe who gets rejected but asks enough women out that one out of 10 will say yes to him.
- Alternatively, the women are all part of Bob's Paid Harem.
- What Bob lacks in powerful seductive charm and looks he makes up for by being just an incredibly well-mannered, polite, and chivalrous gentleman and a good listener.
- Bob has a chunky child's arm between his legs to compensate for his otherwise unsexy appearance and lack of manners.
- Bob is in a position of power. It doesn't matter what he looks like.
- Bob uses magic spells to make women fall in love with him.
- Bob only looks ugly, what with his out-of-shape build, his overgrown facial hair, and his tacky clothing. But he can charm anyone into bed within seconds.
- Bob seeks plain-looking, insecure and/or dimwitted women as his girlfriends.
- All Women Are Lustful in this setting, so they smitten with Bob no matter how unpleasant he is. Especially if Bob is The One Guy or even the Gendercide survivor, and/or women around him fear of Virgin-Shaming.
- Bob only looks ugly according to typical standards nowadays, but he is considered attractive in his hometown or his era.
- Inverted:
- Handsome Lech
- Bob is very attractive and has his life in order and is quite ready for a committed relationship but women aren't interested in him.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice is ugly or plain-looking and is a complete and utter bitch. But men flock to her like moths to a flame.
- Subverted:
- Alice actually turns down Bob's advance.
- Bob isn't physically attractive, but he makes up for it by being a Chivalrous Pervert.
- Bob was Beautiful All Along, he just tends to be sloppy with his appearance sometimes.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice actually turns down Bob's advance. However, a few seconds later, she caves.
- Bob recognizes that not everyone will fall for him. He takes Alice's declination with grace, then promptly hits off with Claire.
- Bob gets women even though he isn't that chivalrous compared to other perverted men.
- Bob projected a hologram of a handsomer man onto himself. Even after it wears off, women still flock to him.
- Parodied:
- Bob keeps a stopwatch that tells exactly how long it takes him to get in a girl's pants.
- Bob attracts women so easily because he's ugly and a shady character.
- Alice the Head-Turning Beauty reacts to Bob how everyone else reacts to her in-universe.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Bob's level of success varies from day to day, possibly Depending on the Writer.
- Bob lived in an era before cameras, and since his enemies exaggerated his flaws and his supporters downplayed them, it's impossible to tell what he actually looked like.
- Averted:
- Bob's attractiveness is proportional to how many girls he gets.
- All the women Bob tries to win over are lesbian or female-preferring bisexual.
- Enforced: Bob's part was written for a good-looking guy; however, a worse-than-average-looking guy ended up in the role, and the part was never rewritten to suit him. The writers intend to alter it at first, but later decide to simply play up the discrepancy for laughs.
- Lampshaded:
- "For someone as ugly as you, you sure do get a lot of women."
- "I guess inner beauty matters after all."
- Invoked: Bob dresses badly and insults women as a deliberate strategy to throw them off guard.
- Exploited: Knowing how easily he seems to attract women, Bob sets his sights on the richest heiress in town.
- Defied:
- Bob tries to hit on Grace, who sees through every one of his tricks and calls him out on it.
- Bob is ashamed of his own promiscuity, so he makes it difficult as possible for women to be able to sleep with him.
- Discussed: "How can a pretty girl like you date this unattractive slob?" "You obviously never got in his pants."
- Conversed: "If a guy as repellent as Bob can get such hot babes, there's no reason I can't!"
- Deconstructed:
- The only women Bob can land are incredibly damaged psychologically or just as ugly as he is.
- Bob, despite his incredible prowess, is really sad on the inside.
- He's really a Manipulative Bastard and coerces the women while making it seem like everything is consensual.
- Bob can get so many females only because he's rich. They just want his money.
- Bob can pull the females, but he's an Extreme Doormat throughout all of his relationships and is never truly happy in the end.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob is a worse-than-average-looking guy who compensated by learning how to read people, which helps him attract women.
- Bob knows that there's more to life than sex and finds other aspects of life that he finds enjoyable, but continues his promiscuous ways.
- Bob has the social skills that he can use to trick women into having sex with him or force them to while making it seem like nothing happened. Instead, however, he uses them to seduce women into having consensual sex with him.
- Implied: Everyone tells Bob that he'll never make it with Alice. Nine months later, she's giving birth to their child.
Hey, baby, why don't you come back to Kavorka Man and we can have some fun? ...All right.
