Basic Trope: A character's lust causes them to do stupid or outright dangerous/life-ruining stunts for the sake of their sexual desire.
- Straight: Richard wants to get into Franny's pants, and has in his lustful quest gotten himself in trouble with her several times.
- Exaggerated:
- Richard has been known to get into fist-fights, shoot-outs and war zones and even a nuclear apocalypse just to have sex.
- Richard risks his life by convincing the Sexy Secretary at his workplace to have sex with him on top of a nuclear bomb while it's being launched towards a foreign city.
- Richard has sex with Fanny's boyfriend Lu Wang to assert his dominance over him and deliberately lets Fanny walk in on this, believing that she will want to have sex with him after showcasing his homosexual prowess and convincing her that he's turned Lu Wang gay with his dick.
- Richard is the leader of a gang called the Friends of Dorothy who have engaged in all sorts of dangerous antics just to get laid. Despite being put in hospital on occasion and nearly dying once, he still keeps trying to get laid.
- Extreme Omnisexual
- Really Gets Around
- Downplayed: Richard has been known to lose some sense when feeling lustful, but otherwise he's not willing to do anything that could get him in legal trouble.
- Inverted:
- Richard becomes far more intelligent whenever he is overcome by lust.
- Richard is an average man normally but his lust for Franny draws out his Magnificent Bastard tendencies, orchestrating an elaborate Xanatos Gambit that will ensure that he gets into Franny's pants no matter how his plan folds out.
- The Power of Lust
- Richard is an antisexual and part of his intelligence comes from the mental clarity that comes pre-packaged with his abstinent lifestyle and rejection of all things sexual.
- Averted: Richard leaves the room and decides that Franny isn't worth the trouble.
- Invoked:
- Richard is actually an incubus and he has the power to weaken the sexual inhibitions of anyone in his path, causing them to become easier to manipulate.
- Mamma Rhyse knows that Richard is weak to lust and uses her feminine wiles to make him act more recklessly.
- Jonathon Johnson uses his sexual guile to amass an army of loyal followers who will do anything he wants. He's even managed to get several politicians in bed with him, allowing him to sleep his way to the top because their lust has blinded them to Johnson's true nature.
- Exploited:
- Mamma Rhyse knows all about Richard's escapades and decides to seduce him, knowing that he'll be stupid enough to devote himself to the hilt for an attractive woman. If he rejects her offers, she'll simply throw a False Rape Accusation his way and let him deal with the fallout of his actions.
- Lu Wang and Franny deliberately set Richard up by playing on his lustful nature, ensuring he'll be on the receiving end of a Curbstomp Battle when they later rob him blind.
- The local police deliberately set up a sting operation to bait Richard, ensuring that he'll be arrested if he's gormless enough to take their bait.
- Jonathon Johnson uses the lust of his followers and the various politicians he's met to manipulate them into carrying out his agendas, both political and non-political.
- Deconstructed:
- Richard's multiple attempts to get laid have gotten him arrested for sexual harassment, assault and various other felonies, putting him on a sex offenders list.
- Richard has gotten multiple STDs from all the sex he's had, ensuring that he's the town pariah and someone to be avoided. Anyone who does have sex with him winds up infected because he refuses to be upfront about his STDs out of fear that they'll decline his sexual propositions if he does.
- Richard has been accused of being a bugchaser due to him having sex with people with HIV, AIDs and a litany of other STDs, causing potential partners who know of his reputation to become repulsed by him.
- At least once or twice, Richard has been Mistaken for Pedophile and has been on the receiving end of a False Rape Accusation due to being in the wrong places at the wrong times and is lucky that he wasn't killed for these incidents.
- Richard often ends up being manipulated by others for their own ends which either leaves him worse off or ends up getting him hospitalized.
- Richard is a miserable man who is addicted to sex and uses it as a means to cope with his problems, despite his sexual addiction being the cause of his problems in the first place.
- Richard is deeply lonely and his lust driven escapades are the only thing in life that gives his life meaning, and convinces him to overcome his limitations.
- Richard's reputation ensures that his Evil Counterpart Jonathan Johnson will try to frame Richard by going on a raping spree and making sure that the media see Richard as a Depraved Bisexual who will rape anyone unfortunate enough to be in his path.
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