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* Peter Parker alias ComicBook/SpiderMan during ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'' where every writer (until Slott took over the book) has a favorite girl. Throwing a lot of girls around Peter — Carlie, Lilly, Norah, Michele, Black Cat, Mary Jane, Betty Brant — resulted in this, which led to people complaining that Spider-Man turned into a bad HaremAnime.
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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker alias ComicBook/SpiderMan during ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'' where every writer (until Slott took over the book) has a favorite girl. Throwing a lot of girls around Peter — Carlie, Lilly, Norah, Michele, Black Cat, Mary Jane, Betty Brant — resulted in this, which led to people complaining that Spider-Man turned into a bad HaremAnime.
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* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The sequel even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games. The closest this trope comes into play is one instance in Milfeulle's route in Moonlit Lovers, where the Angels start hugging Tact all at the same time [[spoiler:to try and jog Milfie's memories]], and he's visibly uncomfortable.
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* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The [[VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII sequel trilogy]] even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games. The closest this trope comes into play is one instance in Milfeulle's route in Moonlit Eternal Lovers, where the Angels start hugging Tact all at the same time [[spoiler:to try and jog Milfie's memories]], and he's visibly uncomfortable.
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->''"Well, I'm running down the road trying to loosen my load,''\\
''I've got seven women on my mind.''\\
''Four that wanna own me, two who wanna stone me,''\\
''One says she's a friend of mine."''
''I've got seven women on my mind.''\\
''Four that wanna own me, two who wanna stone me,''\\
''One says she's a friend of mine."''
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->''"Well, I'm running down the road trying to loosen my load,''\\
''I'veload,\\
I've got seven women on my mind.''\\
''Four\\
Four that wanna own me, two who wanna stoneme,''\\
''Oneme,\\
One says she's a friend of mine."''
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* The Spectacles of Eros is a running gag in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series. Whosoever wears them (like [[AntiHero Ragna]]) pretty much attracts every member of the opposite gender to them, and even some characters of their own gender, even if said characters would normally hate them. Shenanigans will ensue between the infatuated, ranging from Litchi shattering Kokonoe's drugged candy (potent enough to "knock the Black Beast out") to a stripping contest between Makoto and Bullet [[ThinkOfTheCensors that Noel interrupts before it goes too far]] to a cooking contest where Noel and Izanami's cooking wipes out some of the other contestants.
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* The Spectacles of Eros is a running gag in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' series. Whosoever wears them (like [[AntiHero Ragna]]) pretty much attracts every member of the opposite gender to them, and even some characters of their own gender, even if said characters would normally hate them. Shenanigans will ensue between the infatuated, ranging from Litchi shattering Kokonoe's drugged candy (potent enough to "knock the Black Beast out") to a stripping contest between Makoto and Bullet [[ThinkOfTheCensors that Noel interrupts before it goes too far]] to a cooking contest where Noel and Izanami's cooking wipes out some of the other contestants.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rick Potion #9", Morty's attempt to use a LovePotion on Jessica backfires, resulting in everyone on the planet that isn't biologically related to him falling in love with him. It gets worse when mantis DNA is added to the mix - the world's population mutates into monstrous mantis-people who want to kill Morty after they mate with him. [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding They're unable to fix it or reverse any of the damage; only causing the entire population to further mutate into disfigured, humanoid monsters that Rick dubs "Cronenbergs."]] The duo have to leap into another timeline in which they ''did'' fix the problem but got killed immediately afterward, enabling them to replace themselves (they even take the time to bury their deceased counterparts) in this alternate universe. They do revisit the one they came from occasionally, but everything has gone to complete hell in a handbasket by the time they come back.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rick "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9", Morty's #9]]", [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith's]] attempt to use a LovePotion on Jessica backfires, resulting in everyone on the planet that isn't biologically related to him falling in love with him. It gets worse when mantis DNA is added to the mix - the world's population mutates into monstrous mantis-people who want to kill Morty after they mate with him. [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding They're unable to fix it or reverse any of the damage; only causing the entire population to further mutate into disfigured, humanoid monsters that Rick dubs "Cronenbergs."]] The duo have to leap into another timeline in which they ''did'' fix the problem but got killed immediately afterward, enabling them to replace themselves (they even take the time to bury their deceased counterparts) in this alternate universe. They do revisit the one they came from occasionally, but everything has gone to complete hell in a handbasket by the time they come back.]]
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* Adrien Agreste has one in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug,'' by virtue of being a popular teen model. It's not really an exaggeration to say every girl in Paris (and possibly [[EvenTheGuysWantHim some of the boys]]) is in love with him, but as for named, recurring characters, we've got: protagonist Marinette (and of course, her alter ego Ladybug), [[AlphaBitch Chloe Bourgeois]], [[CompulsiveLiar Lila Rossi]], Kagami, and probably [[HoYay Wayem]]. When Chloe shows a group of girls an autographed poster claiming Adrien loves her and only her, some of them break down in ''tears.''
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* [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste Agreste]] has one in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug,'' by virtue of being a popular teen model. It's not really an exaggeration to say every girl in Paris (and possibly [[EvenTheGuysWantHim some of the boys]]) is in love with him, but as for named, recurring characters, we've got: protagonist Marinette (and of course, her alter ego Ladybug), [[AlphaBitch Chloe Bourgeois]], [[CompulsiveLiar Lila Rossi]], Kagami, and probably [[HoYay Wayem]]. When Chloe shows a group of girls an autographed poster claiming Adrien loves her and only her, some of them break down in ''tears.''
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* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The sequel even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games.
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* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The sequel even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games. The closest this trope comes into play is one instance in Milfeulle's route in Moonlit Lovers, where the Angels start hugging Tact all at the same time [[spoiler:to try and jog Milfie's memories]], and he's visibly uncomfortable.
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* Yuri from ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace''. Let's see, there's his [[spoiler:[[NotBloodSiblings unrelated]]]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]] Kira, [[TeacherStudentRomance Nia]], [[DistressedDamsel Katida]], [[WrenchWench Franny]], [[ActiveRoyalty Glorinda]], [[WorthyOpponent Cico]], and [[HoYay Dietrich]]. On the minor characters' side, there's Melania, and possibly Soneto and Mariana have a crush on him as well.
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* Yuri from ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace''. Let's see, there's his [[spoiler:[[NotBloodSiblings unrelated]]]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]] Kira, [[TeacherStudentRomance Nia]], [[DistressedDamsel [[DamselInDistress Katida]], [[WrenchWench Franny]], [[ActiveRoyalty Glorinda]], [[WorthyOpponent Cico]], and [[HoYay Dietrich]]. On the minor characters' side, there's Melania, and possibly Soneto and Mariana have a crush on him as well.
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' because Colette is the daughter of the Master of Paris and prime fodder for a marriage for power she has quite an unwanted following.
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* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'' starts with Shizuki already in love with Tamaryu. Ran falls in love with Tamaryu not longer after her introduction and agrees to form a threesome with Shizuki, ignoring Tamaryu's desperate protests. And then Tamaryu accidentally seduces Catherine (dog youkai) into becoming--as Catherine herself puts it--Tamaryu's bitch. ''No one'' is happy with ''that'' development.
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* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'' starts with Shizuki already in love with Tamaryu. Ran falls in love with Tamaryu not no longer after her introduction and agrees to form a threesome with Shizuki, ignoring Tamaryu's desperate protests. And then Tamaryu accidentally seduces Catherine (dog youkai) into becoming--as Catherine herself puts it--Tamaryu's bitch. ''No one'' is happy with ''that'' development.
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* ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'''s Haseo manages to round up a rather large group of potential love interests, including four [[GayOption males]], although three of them are essentially zombies. This gives him a grand total of twelve possible characters you can marry in the end of the third game (although the aforementioned zombie characters glomp him instead of marrying him). And that's just characters that you can [[FanPreferredCouple canonically marry]].
* Occurs in the HGame ''Artificial Girl'' 3, where you can have up to five girls in a single savefile.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' only has three options, although due to class and/or alignment you're pretty unlikely to keep them all in the same party...
* The Spectacles of Eros is a running gag in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series. Whosoever wears them (like [[AntiHero Ragna]]) pretty much attracts every member of the opposite gender to them, and even some characters of their own gender, even if said characters would normally hate them. Shenanigans will ensue between the infatuated, ranging from Litchi shattering Kokonoe's drugged candy (potent enough to "knock the Black Beast out") to a stripping contest between Makoto and Bullet [[ThinkOfTheCensors that Noel interrupts before it goes too far]] to a cooking contest where Noel and Izanami's cooking wipes out some of the other contestants.
* Garlot of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. He has childhood friends [[GenkiGirl Siskier]] and [[TheSmartGuy Jenon]], along with friends and allies [[CoolBigSis Medoute]], [[TagTeamTwins Luciana and Aegina]], [[FilleFatale Iita]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Sleip]], [[OldMaid Eudy]], [[WorthyOpponent Leon]], and [[TricksterMentor Nessiah]] following him around. All of them have at least a little subtext towards him. As Garlot has other things on his mind--like winning the revolution--he views his party [[TrueCompanions rather innocently]] for the most part. [[spoiler:Three years later, in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', he will ''still'' have the same harem (with a few members missing), and will ''still'' have more important things on his mind than romance. Though Nessiah and the twins appear to be ahead of the rest by then.]]
** In the non-canonical endings to this game, the harem is also pared down thus: [[spoiler:Nessiah, Aegina, and Siskier]] in the good B ending, [[spoiler:Aegina winning]] in the bad B ending, and [[spoiler:Aegina, Luciana, and Siskier]] in the C ending.
* In ''VideoGame/ComeSeeMeTonight'', the main character's parents mysteriously disappear one day, so an old friend of the family offers to let him stay with her. When he arrives, he discovers her 3 beautiful daughters and a CuteClumsyGirl act as hostesses in the restaurant she owns. He slowly but surely becomes the target of their affections as he helps out in the restaurant.
** The sequel involves the son of a family that runs a shrine famous for its annual harvest festival and accompanying "Dance of the Shrine Maidens" taking over his grandfather's duties as chief priest - which involves helping 3 beautiful maidens-in-training learn the dance, as well as learning his own part, and picking which of the maidens will become his wife.
* In ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'', every male character who joins your party ([[HoYay and one female character]]) have at least some interest in the Princess.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'' has this if you get attractive enough. It will result in you being blocked into your house/shops. It is a ScrappyMechanic.
* In ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', Ren Hojo has several women interested in him romantically, including his assistant. What doesn't help is that he's [[CannotTalkToWomen terrified of women]], and two of his admirers are ''ghosts'' that have mistaken him for his [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor]]. The ghostly Matchmaker repeatedly summons him to the mountain in an effort to marry him to a VirginSacrifice, making them both sacrifices to appease the Night Spring. Which "bride" he ultimately chooses determines his ending in the game.
* ''VideoGame/GalGun'' is built around this trope not just narratively but mechanically. The main character accidentally gets hit with cupid-style magic that makes any girl who sees him instantly fall in love with him, and has to fend off the hordes of lovestruck schoolgirls (and a few female teachers) with a gun that briefly knocks them out ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything by making them experience "ecstasy"]]). The drama comes in when it's revealed that if any of the girls do manage to confess to him and become his girlfriend, he might [[RedStringOfFate get stuck with that girl forever, magically enforced through "destiny"]], even if the two of them don't actually love each other, which would not lead to a happy life down the line. The player character's goal, therefore, is to find a girl he actually ''does'' like and get into a relationship with her before the day is over.
* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The sequel even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games.
* In the "anti-dating sim" ''I Just Want To Be Single!'', the protagonist Aya is a socially awkward aromantic who has no interest in dating, but ends up attracting the attention of a small horde of (female) classmates on her first day at her new school. Her objective is to let all of the girls down easily and convince them they're BetterAsFriends.
* Yuri from ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace''. Let's see, there's his [[spoiler:[[NotBloodSiblings unrelated]]]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]] Kira, [[TeacherStudentRomance Nia]], [[DistressedDamsel Katida]], [[WrenchWench Franny]], [[ActiveRoyalty Glorinda]], [[WorthyOpponent Cico]], and [[HoYay Dietrich]]. On the minor characters' side, there's Melania, and possibly Soneto and Mariana have a crush on him as well.
* Link is a victim of this in just about every ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game. There are multiple stories, videos and pieces of fan art with Link and the most well-known female characters.
* In ''VisualNovel/Lucid9'', Yama's harem consists of Rui (childhood friend who he's insure of whether he has feelings for), Misaki (other childhood friend he's just happy to have around again), Elizabeth (snarky classmate he barely tries to be civil towards for most of the game, and only ends up in his harem because he once blackmailed her to help him), Akira (quirky friend of Rui, who Yama is friendly with, but shows little beyond that [[spoiler:- in fact, it is hinted that she had feelings for Yama but did not tell anyone]] ), and Airi (strange girl who rarely speaks and is shockingly good at a number of things, and seems to be tied to the events of the game in some unseen way). It can be assumed that this harem is very unwanted, especially since Yama would rather keep the status quo for just about everything.
* Tomohiro of ''Magical Dears'' gets one, due to being the only boy in his WizardingSchool.
* From ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin [[CoolOldGuy of]] [[BadassBookworm all]] [[DeadlyDoctor people]] claims to have had one of these, or at the very least many come-ons from different species, and he is able to rationalize why each species would find him attractive.
** And the reason he even ''tells'' you all this is because ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Fwa-OQ1ao he thinks you're making a pass at him]].''
--->'''Mordin:''' Different species react differently to stress. Aware you have come by a great deal. Have had other species become attracted to me before. Awkward. Not interested.
--->'''Shepard:''' You've had members of other species make a pass at you?
--->'''Mordin:''' ''Constantly.'' Very awkward. Skin tone apparently attractive by turian standards. Subset of krogan deviants enjoys salarian flexibility. More cartilage than skeletal structure. Asari offers...intriguing, actually. Wonder why. Trans-species pheromones unlikely to work. ''[inhales]'' Must be neurochemical.
--->'''Shepard:''' ''[tongue-in-cheek]'' I appreciate you letting me down easy.
--->'''Mordin:''' No offense intended. Salarian reproduction different. [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} Very little sex drive. If intended to try human, would try you.]]
** Shepard also gets this. No matter what species you are, chances are you will want to bang Shepard.
** Best shown in Grunt's loyalty mission, where after defeating a Tresher Maw, ''on-foot'', the first to do so since Wrex over a thousand years previously, also no matter what Shepard's gender, EDI calls and informs you;
--> '''EDI''': There are also several breeding requests for Grunt. And one for ''Shepard.''
** In the Citadel DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if the genophage is cured and Wrex is alive, he will complain that ever since his people became fertile again, every female krogan has lined-up to have their firstborn from him. He even had to sneak out his own bathroom window, and still got cornered by interested females.
---> '''Wrex:''' And Bakara's no help at all. She ''encourages'' it!
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* The way the dialogue in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' is written, a male player expressing interest in Elanee is reacting to Neeshka as if this trope is in play.
** The dialogue in question is probably an artifact from when Neeshka was going to be a possible love interest for the male PC.
* In ''VisualNovel/OtometekiKoiKakumeiLoveRevo'', Kennosuke, Ren and Souta each have one.
* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] is also quite a ladies' man. This is more prominent in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series, especially with Flurrie, [[ClassyCatBurglar Ms. Mowz]], and [[BlackMagicianGirl Vivian]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' plays this trope straight with Akihiko: he has a harem, but he [[ObliviousToLove doesn't pay attention to it]]. He doesn't even know the names of the girls involved.
** In a meta sense, you can be this depending on how you feel about the fact that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness there isn’t an option to friendzone any of the potential love interests.]]
** A large amount of your male social links (and Aigis) show some interest in you if you play as the female protagonist. Humorously, the most notable exception is Junpei, who's social link involves him putting an to someone stalking you. If you try to initiate a romance with Junpei he'll be flattered but politely reject you. [[spoiler:He was initially planned to have a romance, but it was cut due to the developers finding the idea of two of Junpei's girlfriends dying within the span of a single year a bit too cruel.]]
* Ogami of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' gains one, and is one of the earliest originators of the "Harem Hero" archetype.
* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog has one of these, though most of the girls are never shown.
* In ''VideoGame/WhenYanderesCry'', Nishiki has to deal with a {{Yandere}} variety of this. [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies It goes about as well as you think it would]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', there's the [[{{Bishonen}} lovely]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality Roswell]]. [[OldMaid Mistel, Eudy]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pamela]], [[BlackComedyRape Ortega]], [[CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem Ros]][[{{Tsundere}} ary]], [[MeetCute Ygg]][[RescueRomance dra]], and [[LoveRedeems Nessiah]] all seem to want to get into his pants, but the poor guy isn't interested in ''any'' of them. [[ShipTease ...except maybe Yggdra]]. ''Maybe.''
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* ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'''s Haseo manages to round up a rather large group of potential love interests, including four [[GayOption males]], although three of them are essentially zombies. This gives him a grand total of twelve possible characters you can marry in the end of the third game (although the aforementioned zombie characters glomp him instead of marrying him). And that's just characters that you can [[FanPreferredCouple canonically marry]].
* Occurs in the HGame ''Artificial Girl'' 3, where you can have up to five girls in a single savefile.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' only has three options, although due to class and/or alignment you're pretty unlikely to keep them all in the same party...
* The Spectacles of Eros is a running gag in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series. Whosoever wears them (like [[AntiHero Ragna]]) pretty much attracts every member of the opposite gender to them, and even some characters of their own gender, even if said characters would normally hate them. Shenanigans will ensue between the infatuated, ranging from Litchi shattering Kokonoe's drugged candy (potent enough to "knock the Black Beast out") to a stripping contest between Makoto and Bullet [[ThinkOfTheCensors that Noel interrupts before it goes too far]] to a cooking contest where Noel and Izanami's cooking wipes out some of the other contestants.
* Garlot of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. He has childhood friends [[GenkiGirl Siskier]] and [[TheSmartGuy Jenon]], along with friends and allies [[CoolBigSis Medoute]], [[TagTeamTwins Luciana and Aegina]], [[FilleFatale Iita]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Sleip]], [[OldMaid Eudy]], [[WorthyOpponent Leon]], and [[TricksterMentor Nessiah]] following him around. All of them have at least a little subtext towards him. As Garlot has other things on his mind--like winning the revolution--he views his party [[TrueCompanions rather innocently]] for the most part. [[spoiler:Three years later, in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', he will ''still'' have the same harem (with a few members missing), and will ''still'' have more important things on his mind than romance. Though Nessiah and the twins appear to be ahead of the rest by then.]]
** In the non-canonical endings to this game, the harem is also pared down thus: [[spoiler:Nessiah, Aegina, and Siskier]] in the good B ending, [[spoiler:Aegina winning]] in the bad B ending, and [[spoiler:Aegina, Luciana, and Siskier]] in the C ending.
* In ''VideoGame/ComeSeeMeTonight'', the main character's parents mysteriously disappear one day, so an old friend of the family offers to let him stay with her. When he arrives, he discovers her 3 beautiful daughters and a CuteClumsyGirl act as hostesses in the restaurant she owns. He slowly but surely becomes the target of their affections as he helps out in the restaurant.
** The sequel involves the son of a family that runs a shrine famous for its annual harvest festival and accompanying "Dance of the Shrine Maidens" taking over his grandfather's duties as chief priest - which involves helping 3 beautiful maidens-in-training learn the dance, as well as learning his own part, and picking which of the maidens will become his wife.
* In ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'', every male character who joins your party ([[HoYay and one female character]]) have at least some interest in the Princess.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'' has this if you get attractive enough. It will result in you being blocked into your house/shops. It is a ScrappyMechanic.
* In ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', Ren Hojo has several women interested in him romantically, including his assistant. What doesn't help is that he's [[CannotTalkToWomen terrified of women]], and two of his admirers are ''ghosts'' that have mistaken him for his [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor]]. The ghostly Matchmaker repeatedly summons him to the mountain in an effort to marry him to a VirginSacrifice, making them both sacrifices to appease the Night Spring. Which "bride" he ultimately chooses determines his ending in the game.
* ''VideoGame/GalGun'' is built around this trope not just narratively but mechanically. The main character accidentally gets hit with cupid-style magic that makes any girl who sees him instantly fall in love with him, and has to fend off the hordes of lovestruck schoolgirls (and a few female teachers) with a gun that briefly knocks them out ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything by making them experience "ecstasy"]]). The drama comes in when it's revealed that if any of the girls do manage to confess to him and become his girlfriend, he might [[RedStringOfFate get stuck with that girl forever, magically enforced through "destiny"]], even if the two of them don't actually love each other, which would not lead to a happy life down the line. The player character's goal, therefore, is to find a girl he actually ''does'' like and get into a relationship with her before the day is over.
* You'd think ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' is like this. [[SubvertedTrope Nope]], the game enforces a strict RoadCone early on in the game. The sequel even makes the fact about which girl Tact married very obscure until the last minute to keep it in line with your own choice in the previous games.
* In the "anti-dating sim" ''I Just Want To Be Single!'', the protagonist Aya is a socially awkward aromantic who has no interest in dating, but ends up attracting the attention of a small horde of (female) classmates on her first day at her new school. Her objective is to let all of the girls down easily and convince them they're BetterAsFriends.
* Yuri from ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace''. Let's see, there's his [[spoiler:[[NotBloodSiblings unrelated]]]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]] Kira, [[TeacherStudentRomance Nia]], [[DistressedDamsel Katida]], [[WrenchWench Franny]], [[ActiveRoyalty Glorinda]], [[WorthyOpponent Cico]], and [[HoYay Dietrich]]. On the minor characters' side, there's Melania, and possibly Soneto and Mariana have a crush on him as well.
* Link is a victim of this in just about every ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game. There are multiple stories, videos and pieces of fan art with Link and the most well-known female characters.
* In ''VisualNovel/Lucid9'', Yama's harem consists of Rui (childhood friend who he's insure of whether he has feelings for), Misaki (other childhood friend he's just happy to have around again), Elizabeth (snarky classmate he barely tries to be civil towards for most of the game, and only ends up in his harem because he once blackmailed her to help him), Akira (quirky friend of Rui, who Yama is friendly with, but shows little beyond that [[spoiler:- in fact, it is hinted that she had feelings for Yama but did not tell anyone]] ), and Airi (strange girl who rarely speaks and is shockingly good at a number of things, and seems to be tied to the events of the game in some unseen way). It can be assumed that this harem is very unwanted, especially since Yama would rather keep the status quo for just about everything.
* Tomohiro of ''Magical Dears'' gets one, due to being the only boy in his WizardingSchool.
* From ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin [[CoolOldGuy of]] [[BadassBookworm all]] [[DeadlyDoctor people]] claims to have had one of these, or at the very least many come-ons from different species, and he is able to rationalize why each species would find him attractive.
** And the reason he even ''tells'' you all this is because ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Fwa-OQ1ao he thinks you're making a pass at him]].''
--->'''Mordin:''' Different species react differently to stress. Aware you have come by a great deal. Have had other species become attracted to me before. Awkward. Not interested.
--->'''Shepard:''' You've had members of other species make a pass at you?
--->'''Mordin:''' ''Constantly.'' Very awkward. Skin tone apparently attractive by turian standards. Subset of krogan deviants enjoys salarian flexibility. More cartilage than skeletal structure. Asari offers...intriguing, actually. Wonder why. Trans-species pheromones unlikely to work. ''[inhales]'' Must be neurochemical.
--->'''Shepard:''' ''[tongue-in-cheek]'' I appreciate you letting me down easy.
--->'''Mordin:''' No offense intended. Salarian reproduction different. [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} Very little sex drive. If intended to try human, would try you.]]
** Shepard also gets this. No matter what species you are, chances are you will want to bang Shepard.
** Best shown in Grunt's loyalty mission, where after defeating a Tresher Maw, ''on-foot'', the first to do so since Wrex over a thousand years previously, also no matter what Shepard's gender, EDI calls and informs you;
--> '''EDI''': There are also several breeding requests for Grunt. And one for ''Shepard.''
** In the Citadel DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if the genophage is cured and Wrex is alive, he will complain that ever since his people became fertile again, every female krogan has lined-up to have their firstborn from him. He even had to sneak out his own bathroom window, and still got cornered by interested females.
---> '''Wrex:''' And Bakara's no help at all. She ''encourages'' it!
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* The way the dialogue in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' is written, a male player expressing interest in Elanee is reacting to Neeshka as if this trope is in play.
** The dialogue in question is probably an artifact from when Neeshka was going to be a possible love interest for the male PC.
* In ''VisualNovel/OtometekiKoiKakumeiLoveRevo'', Kennosuke, Ren and Souta each have one.
* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] is also quite a ladies' man. This is more prominent in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series, especially with Flurrie, [[ClassyCatBurglar Ms. Mowz]], and [[BlackMagicianGirl Vivian]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' plays this trope straight with Akihiko: he has a harem, but he [[ObliviousToLove doesn't pay attention to it]]. He doesn't even know the names of the girls involved.
** In a meta sense, you can be this depending on how you feel about the fact that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness there isn’t an option to friendzone any of the potential love interests.]]
** A large amount of your male social links (and Aigis) show some interest in you if you play as the female protagonist. Humorously, the most notable exception is Junpei, who's social link involves him putting an to someone stalking you. If you try to initiate a romance with Junpei he'll be flattered but politely reject you. [[spoiler:He was initially planned to have a romance, but it was cut due to the developers finding the idea of two of Junpei's girlfriends dying within the span of a single year a bit too cruel.]]
* Ogami of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' gains one, and is one of the earliest originators of the "Harem Hero" archetype.
* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog has one of these, though most of the girls are never shown.
* In ''VideoGame/WhenYanderesCry'', Nishiki has to deal with a {{Yandere}} variety of this. [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies It goes about as well as you think it would]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', there's the [[{{Bishonen}} lovely]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality Roswell]]. [[OldMaid Mistel, Eudy]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pamela]], [[BlackComedyRape Ortega]], [[CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem Ros]][[{{Tsundere}} ary]], [[MeetCute Ygg]][[RescueRomance dra]], and [[LoveRedeems Nessiah]] all seem to want to get into his pants, but the poor guy isn't interested in ''any'' of them. [[ShipTease ...except maybe Yggdra]]. ''Maybe.''
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'', it appears that every kid in the school with a compatible sexual orientation gets a crush on the titular character. The attention terrifies her especially since she's UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}'', it appears that every kid in the school with a compatible sexual orientation gets a crush on the titular character. The attention terrifies her especially since she's UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.
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Even if he does like one or more of the girls, the man won't or can't admit it. Besides, until the point comes where one of the girls is in danger, the man would [[IJustWantToBeNormal rather have his nice quiet life back]]. The trope may or may not involve InnocentCohabitation.
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Even if he does like one or more of the girls, the man won't or can't admit it. Besides, until the point comes where one of the girls is in danger, the man would [[IJustWantToBeNormal rather have his nice quiet life back]]. The trope may or may not involve InnocentCohabitation.\n
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** Unless you count Beth, [[NamesTheSame Other Beth]], [[PirateGirl Captain Kilina]], [[WrenchWench PJ]] and [[spoiler:355, for all of five minutes]].
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** TheHeroDies[=/=]AnyoneCanDie[=/=]KillEmAll (it did say till '''[[KilledOffForReal death]]''' do us part)
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* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LegionRomanceSplash.jpg This]] ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic panel. Though it's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as the girls actually trying to make Comicbook/JimmyOlsen's girlfriend [[OperationJealousy jealous]].
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* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LegionRomanceSplash.jpg This]] ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic panel. Though it's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as the girls are actually trying to make Comicbook/JimmyOlsen's girlfriend [[OperationJealousy jealous]].
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* Thunderbird of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has a harem of five girls (at a minimum), and he's been utterly oblivious that four of them have been pursuing him (in their own quirky ways) for almost a year. Since he's a {{Superman}} {{Expy}} down to the 'boy scout' behavior and astonishing good looks, it's easy to see why girls want him. Things have come to a head now that Chaka has claimed him as her boyfriend.
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* Thunderbird of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has a harem of five girls (at a minimum), and he's been utterly oblivious that four of them have been pursuing him (in their own quirky ways) for almost a year. Since he's a {{Superman}} {{Expy}} SupermanSubstitute down to the 'boy scout' behavior and astonishing good looks, it's easy to see why girls want him. Things have come to a head now that Chaka has claimed him as her boyfriend.
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* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LegionRomanceSplash.jpg This]] ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic panel. Though it's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as the girls actually trying to make [[{{Superman}} Jimmy Olsen's]] girlfriend jealous.
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* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Chelsea's supposed to be a textbook nerd, yet somehow has a whole hoard of guys chasing her around. Tucker has it even worse, given that not only does he have a new girl chasing after him almost every season, but one of them even went as far as to stalk and kidnap him and his family... twice.
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* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Chelsea's supposed to be a textbook nerd, yet somehow has a whole hoard of guys chasing her around. Tucker has it even worse, given that not only does he have a new girl chasing after him almost every season, but one of them even went as far as to stalk and kidnap him and his family... twice.
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