"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
— Jean Baudrillard
There's just something completely gorgeous about that other character. The character just can't help but stare and drool over their gleaming smile, sapphire eyes, or any other attractive features. Even if this character declares that she Does Not Like Men, expect them to be unable to stop themself from noticing how well-built that character over there is, and how compelling their eyes are... Sometimes their inner monologue will devolve into Purple Prose.
This trope is usually identified with Love at First Sight. Some cases may result in Distracted by the Sexy, eventually leading to Longing Looks once romance enters the picture.
Male Gaze and Female Gaze are related, but distinct, as they are concerned with how a work is presented to the audience (i.e., presuming the viewer will come from a male or female perspective, respectively). Eating The Eye Candy refers to a character's interest (which can, however, carry over into framing and presentation). Gender-inverted examples exist for both tropes. Subjected to Double Standard since Female Gaze doesn't carry the implications of Male Gaze: a woman who looks at a man sexually is more often than not written as "cute" (blushing and swooning), whereas a man looking at a woman sexually is commonly written as "vulgar" and "predatory" (making rude remarks and even hooting). Can be used quizzically in combination with Admiring the Poster, All Women Are Lustful, Bigger Is Better in Bed, Briefs Boasting, Chippendales Dancers, Covert Pervert, Female Gaze, Guy on Guy Is Hot, Long-Haired Pretty Boy, Lust Object, Reaction Shot, Male Frontal Nudity, Muscle Beach Bum, Shirtless Scene, Walking Shirtless Scene, Workout Fanservice, Yaoi Fangirl, Beautiful Dreamer and Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks.
A cross between Head-Turning Beauty, Ms. Fanservice or Mr. Fanservice and the Gaze tropes.
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Advertising
- The Housewife watching The Cleaning Hunk in this commercial for Xtra-Pine All Purpose Cleaner
(mildly NSFW)
- The Diet Coke 11:30 ads, like this one (from 1994), involved an office of women gathering each other round by just saying 11:30 and then "Diet Coke break"- not a single one of them getting a Diet Coke themselves but instead looking across to the building site across the road where a construction worker would be having his Coke break, peeling his shirt off, gulping down a can and letting the sweat pour down onto his chest while "I Just Want to Make Love to You" plays.
- Rory Bremner parodied this, substituting Bill Clinton for the builder, and making the first woman to arrive closely resemble Monica Lewinsky.
- A 1990 Diet Pepsi commercial had all the guys at a gas station stop and stare at Cindy Crawford in a tank top drinking Diet Pepsi. They'd reverse this in a 2003 Super Bowl commercial, where a hunky man with a Diet Pepsi draws in a gaggle of admirers, including Crawford and Carson Kressley.
- In a Diet Rite commercial. when the female reporter goes into the locker room to interview the football players, her eyes immediately fixate on the bare chest of the shirtless player and the naked body of the player with a towel wrapped around his neck.
- This Brazillian Havaianas ad has a bunch of girls at the pool eyeing a handsome guy just as he suffers a Slippery Swimsuit accident after diving. He uses the Havaianas flip-flops to cover himself, but one girl tricks him into lifting them, giving an eyeful to his delighted audience.
- Jordache Voyeur Girls
- The women watching the shirtless hunk who's washing the Forester in this Subaru Forester commercial
- The airport security guards in this Underdaks ad
- In a promo for The Muppets (2015), Miss Piggy keeps flubbing her lines before finally going over to Nathan Fillion standing in the corner and asks him to leave, saying she kept getting distracted by his butt. He apologizes then leaves. As he does, Miss Piggy just stares and says, "That's it... just keep walking. Mmmm-mmmmm-mmmm!"
Anime & Manga
- Ah! My Goddess: Episode 11 has Keiichi getting turned into a scooter by Marller. At the end of the episode Belldandy and Urd turn him back human, but without any clothes. Both goddesses eyes immediately wander down with Belldandy blushing bright red while Urd grins with an interested "Hmm..." before kneeling down to his crotch level to get a better look.
- In Basilisk, when Oboro and Gennosuke are crossing a very narrow bridge, we follow Oboro's gaze as she stares at Gennosuke's back.
- Beauty and the Feast: When Rui stumbles into Yamato's apartment while he's sleeping, she finds herself attracted to the sight of his abs and ends up rubbing oil all over them to admire them more. At least until he wakes up and wonders what the hell she's doing.
- Call of the Night:
- While accompanying Mahiru on a delivery, Yamori meets a woman with an Impossibly Low Neckline. Even though he claims to have no understanding of what it means to fall in love with someone, Yamori finds his gaze fixated on the woman's bosom. Subtlety is clearly not part of his dictionary, however.
- Midori can't help but stare at Akira's chest when they first meet.
- Anko oogles Susuki's assets quite a bit when they take a bath together, and even wonders if they're bigger than Akira's.
- In chapter 2 of Citrus, Yuzu eats Mei's candy when she and Mei go bathing together, fantasizing about her hair, skin and how soft it would be to touch her. Mei eventually notices her gaze... and advances onto her and asks if she wants to touch her as a tease.
- Done with tongue planted firmly in cheek in Darker than Black, where Mayu gets a little too fixated on Hei — particularly his "delicious collarbone" — after a late-night rescue.
- In Dengeki Daisy Teru steals glances at Kurosaki when he is walking around shirtless after a shower. Of course, when he tells her that if she wants to look then just look she denies it.
- In the anime version of Dragon Ball Z, Princess Snake first stares at Goku for his body; she keeps staring, though, because of his table manners.
- In the FAKE II, JJ does this to Dee and attempts to glomp him after a case when Dee is found shirtless. Dee is not pleased.
- Matsuoka Gou from Free! does this with every shirtless guy in swim trunks she sees. She's especially fond of Haruka's arm muscles. She tries to use their muscles to recruit new Swim Team members in the second season, it doesn't work.
- Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet has the Beach Episode, where Amy and her friends force Ledo out of his pilot suit. They then unabashedly stare at him while he's in his boxers, one of them even commenting out loud that he has a nice body. Ledo isn't immune to eye candy either, as he finds Amy's belly dance to really show off her curves, and so orders an encore just for himself. Amy is more than happy to oblige.
- In Gunsmith Cats, after Rally's first encounter with Bandit Bean, she decides to investigate him, including sneaking into his apartment to gather information. Not long afterwards, Bean enters the apartment and takes a shower. Rally hides in his closet, and when he enters his room completely naked, Rally gets a good look at his package with a big blush on her face.
- Hayate the Combat Butler:
- Despite being a Chaste Hero, Hayate pulls this on Hinagiku. After his gaze lingers too long she chastises him for it, but she definitely enjoys the feeling. It helps that he told her straight up that he got completely distracted because she looked so amazing in her dress that he couldn't help but stare.
- Notably, Hinagiku is the only one of his unwanted harem to get this from him. Even when seeing other girls nude, he turns away before they get their senses back enough to be chastised, he does blush after seeing (and then thinking back to) seeing Ayumu changing.
- In the pool OVA from Higurashi: When They Cry, Keiichi has his "lucky" swim trunks ripped from him and ends up naked in front of Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko who all blatantly stare. Rena even fawns over his "Cute Sea Bear" much to his distress.
- The iDOLM@STER: The audience of the Are We Live? show, particularly towards Azusa's outfit.
- In Interviews with Monster Girls, both Machi and Satou find Takahashi's muscular and imposing physique to be absolutely ravishing. All of the monster girls enjoy being hugged by him, since it offers an opportunity to feel his muscles.
- I Think Our Son Is Gay: Tomoko observes that her closeted son's interest in well-built men, whether on TV or walking down the street, is very obvious now that she knows he's gay and Has a Type.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Stardust Crusaders: When the heroes try to get to the cockpit of the soon-to-crash airliner they're on, they are stopped by a couple of flight attendants... only for said flight attendants to immediately get distracted by Kakyoin.
- Diamond is Unbreakable: Jotaro has trouble getting Tomoko to answer his questions, as she's too busy observing him to pay attention to what he's saying.
- Shiro in K when Kuroh rescues him in the first episode. He pulls Shiro into his arms and Shiro looks up and sees his handsome face, the focused look in his eyes, and his ponytail blowing in the wind. Shiro even blushes.
- In Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Kaguya tries to get her Love Interest to join the archery club so she can see him shirtless and sweaty.
- Most female characters can't help but stare at Aikuro Mikisugi from Kill la Kill, since he's a highly fetching nudist who tends to take his clothes off for no reason. In particular, during an otherwise completely serious and rather moving scene, Mrs Mankanshoku spends most of her screen-time staring intently at his crotch.
- In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), the normally abrasive Midna can't help but give Link a once over when she sees him in his new green tunic.
- In the first episode of Macross Frontier, it certainly looks like Ranka's subjecting Alto to some female gaze when they first meet (the Bishie Sparkle sets on so hard that you can hear it). Then she admits that she thought Alto was a very pretty girl until he opened his mouth. Alto is not amused.
- Monster (1994): Johann's handsome features are frequently commented on and checked out by a lot of people. Too bad he's the title character for a goddamn reason.
- Moriarty the Patriot:
- "The Tea Party" chapter, in which a bunch of a women are invited for a tea party at the Moriarty manor, and all of them drool over the Cast Full of Pretty Boys, even Silver Fox Jack. They're shocked that the rumors that everyone in the family, including the servants, is gorgeous are well-founded.
- Sherlock uses this intentionally in The Two Detectives to bewitch his and John's way into Milverton's manor to scope the place out, happy to have John to provide the buff, wholesome blond to his darker bad-boy type to cover more ground with the ladies. Hey, it works.
- One episode of Nagasarete Airantou has Ikuto taking a bath and being unknowingly watched by Chikage. She glances at his body, makes several comments about his attractive features and blushes while doing so.
- New UFO Baby: On Planet Play, a beach planet, Miu can't help but blush hard when she sees Ruu in his swim trunks, even thinking about his back. She gets so distracted at the sight that she almost gets eaten by a giant flower.
- Happens in the One Piece anime when Usopp sees Nami naked on Thriller Bark. Going by the camera's position, he essentially gives her an elevator look, from breasts to waist to crotch (though her breasts and crotch are mostly covered by Censor Steam).
- Ash of Pokémon the Series pulls this one on Misty when he meets up with her between the Advance and Battle Frontier arcs. Misty doesn't chastise him for it.
- Psycho-Pass has a few. In the 7th episode of the first season, Akane took a really good look at Kogami's abs. The same thing happened in the second season with Togane.
- Ranma ½:
- Akane occasionally sees Ranma this way — broad shoulders, cute face, kind smile. In true Belligerent Sexual Tension style, it often immediately precedes Ranma himself making some spectacularly jerkish remark to her.
- Ranma's other would-be love interests also do this; it's just much rarer that they get the chance to do so. Kodachi does this to Ranma the first time she sees him. Despite the fact he just, you know, knocked her out cold and almost caused her to fall off the roof.
- When Akane sees a naked, male Ranma in the first chapter/episode, she can't help but let her eyes wander down there...
- Rurouni Kenshin: In episode 19, the group is visiting a local hot spring. While Kenshin is bathing in the men's side he overhears the girls and their hostess talking about the plot and has an "Eureka!" Moment, jumping out of the water to go to the girls side to tell them about it, completely forgetting he's naked. A shocked Kaoru blushes while Megumi enjoys the view.
Megumi: You're certainly well-built, Sir Ken!
- The Seven Deadly Sins: While escaping from prison, Ban defeats Jericho and steals her clothes, leaving her in her underwear. When the other guards find her, she orders them to mobilize to find the prisoner as well as get her a new outfit. The guards spend several seconds blushing and staring at her before she gets pissed and yells at them to get moving.
- In Snow White with the Red Hair Obi and Shirayuki go to tell Mitsuhide something while he's changing and despite his initial glare at Obi he keeps his door open and finishes changing while talking to them, even Kiki gets an eyeful of him shirtless. They all three thank him for the view later and Obi and Kiki say he has a nice build which mortifies him since he somehow didn't realize that they were checking him out.
- Strike the Blood: In episode 21 Asagi gets possessed by Nina Adelard while showering. She steps out of the bathroom in the buff to ask Kojou for his help, but he's too busy staring to know what she's saying until he eventually gets a Nosebleed and tells her to Please Put Some Clothes On.
- Yoshika Miyafuji from Strike Witches can be seen frequently staring at the nearest available pair of breasts. Usually Lynette's.
- Studio BONES spoofs it once again in Star Driver: apparently, Midori Okamoto's Cybody has a fanservice mode. It backfires, though.
"...did you seriously lose because you were watching him flex?"
- Near the end of episode 7 the Hot Springs Episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, most of the gang beat up the beastmen who operated the Ganmen-disguised-as-hot-springs-resort. The camera pans across the cast... revealing that Yoko is peeking at the completely naked Kamina's butt from the corner of her eye. When he makes a move that would bring her into his sight, she blushes and quickly looks upwards. Shortly afterwards, her jumping up and down in victory celebration makes her top suffer a Wardrobe Malfunction... and Kamina immediately returns the favor.
- In the 14th episode of Tiger & Bunny, Karina mentions that lately she's been having trouble keeping her eyes off of Kotetsu.
- Tokyo Mew Mew: the minute 3:47 suggest that Minto probably was not hearing Zakuro's invitation to swim
- Saki, in the body of a child soldier, looking up at A-drei after he rescues her from drowning in episode 16 of Valvrave the Liberator.
- Vampire Hunter D can't walk into a single town without half the residents attempting to undress him with their eyes.
- Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik has a very... painful... take on this trope. Basically, during a divination class, Shchel's crystal ball shows the whole class a humiliating event in his childhood that ended with him pantsless in the school pool with a water scorpion pricking his delicate parts. Everyone comments on how big and swollen it became, the girls most of all.
- In Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest, Ms. Aoshika asks Inugami to strip in order to see if he has any wounds (and thus prove if he was the boy she met the night before). She doesn't find any injuries, but she's not exactly disappointed...
Comic Books
- In All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder #6, Jimmy Olsen visits Vicki Vale in the hospital, and can't take his eyes off her legs as she's only wearing a skimpy hospital gown. She asks him to fetch her clothes for her then begins taking off the gown right in front of him so she can change. The reader is repeatedly informed by the narration boxes that Jimmy doesn't stare, but he is clearly shown turning his head near the bottom of the page.
- Spider-Man: In issue 9 of The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott), Peter is sleeping naked on his bed when he's woken by Silk who begins enjoying the eye-candy, not helped by the the pheromones that make them attracted to each other.
- In Birds of Prey #79 Lady Blackhawk goes to Savant's house only to be greeted by his partner Creote who opens the door to her while completely naked, rendering her speechless for a moment while she stares.
- In Crimson #5, Alex and Joe break-in into Scarlet's apartment looking for her and end up catching her stepping out of the shower wearing only a Modesty Towel. Thinking they're hostile, she immediately attacks them and during the struggle, Alex accidentally snatches off her towel. She quickly aims her crossbow at his face, but by that point he lost the will to fight and it's just staring at her naked body in a daze.
- In The Darkness #23 after Jackie is mortally injured, his Darklings take him to an acquaintance Dr. Kim Fang's house to patch him up. They arrive while she was showering and lets them in while only wearing a Modesty Towel. But one of the Darklings is so worried about Jackie that he yanks off her towel to use it as a bandage, leaving her naked in front of the Darklings, who stop worrying about Jackie to enjoy the sight. In the next issue Jackie himself gets to do it when he steals her clothes while she's showering and she exits the bathroom naked... and gives him a kick in the crotch for all the humiliations she suffered.
- Die Kitty Die: When Rudy uses magic he learned from Kitty's books to make her clothes disappear at the beginning of the first miniseries, one panel shows Dippy the Dead Kid clearly enjoying the view he's getting of Kitty's nude body.
- Doom Patrol (2004): In issue 15, when the rapidly aging Life Drinker mutant Gregory Donovan wanders near a high school as a naked teenager, some teenage girls see him and make it clear their appreciation at seeing his bare bod.
- During Fall of the Hulks Savage She-Hulk Lyra gets her clothes burnt off in a fight with Human Torch who immediately starts enjoying the view.
Lyra: That was a mistake.
Johnny: Um... not from where I'm standing.
Lyra: [Rushing at him] They told me you had a weakness for women.
Johnny: And that's a bad thing... WHYYYYYYYGGHH! - Gen¹³:
- In the first issue of Vol 2, Sarah Rainmaker makes her entrance by going for a swim in the pool in La Jolla... while completely naked, leaving both her male teammates awestruck. Sarah being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, doesn't mind and even teases them about it. She has many similar moments of walking around in a state of undress around the house, which makes Bobby in particular very sexually frustrated as he has a massive crush of her but she's not into guys.
- Sarah herself ends up doing this to Kat many times, usually when she sees her in a swimsuit.
- In Heroes for Hire #8, while dealing with a demonica infestation Paladin calls Satana Hellstorm for assistance. She begins casting a spell to deal with them, but she has to do it while naked for some reason and both Paladin and Spider-Man sneak in some appreciative glances her way during it.
- In Justice League International Classified #6 after Beatriz da Costa/Fire turns on her fire powers while in her civvies she ends up destroying them in the process. She asks Ralph for his shirt before turning off her powers and when he questions why, she simply turns off her flames right in front of him to emphasize that she's naked (with her back to the reader) prompting him, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and even Etrigan to stop and stare.
- Medusa (1952): Jeff can't take his eyes off of Alfreda, a beautiful snake dancer at the circus who performs in a glittery bikini and sheer skirt. The reason he buys a circus ticket is because her promotional dance leaves him hot and bothered and he wants to see more.
- Red Hood and the Outlaws: After showing off a fancy new pair of Flight Wings Arsenal remarks on how cool Red Hood looks. Starfire thinks he's talking about Red Hood's "buns" and wholeheartedly agrees.
- Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil: The reporter that Captain Marvel goes to for help takes a very obvious look at his crotch while standing right in front of him.
- She-Hulk: She-Hulk is often the target or instigator of this trope.
- In The Sensational She-Hulk #16 she Hulks Out to a huge savage gray form, tearing her clothes in the process. When she returns to her normal She-Hulk form, she's topless, using an arm to cover her chest while using the other to hold the tattered remains of her pants. The onlookers greatly enjoy the sight.
- In She Hulk Vol 2 #32 Jazinda tries using her space ship's matter transporter to teleport Jen into the ship. However, the teleporter was designed for Skrulls, so it accidentally only teleported her clothes, leaving Jen naked trying to cover herself in front of a cheering crowd.
- She did this a lot with her Love Interest Wyatt Wingfoot, especially during her time in the Fantastic Four, since he's a Walking Shirtless Scene. Lampshaded in The Sensational She-Hulk #38, when after ogling him◊ shirtless for a bit she turns to the camera to say her female viewers deserve some eye candy too.
- Marvel Comics' character Starfox causes this as a side effect of his powers, besides also being a Flying Brick. And he can use the effect to overload your pleasure center and incapacitate you by feeling too good. Well, if you've gotta be attacked, that's the way to go...
- In Secret Six, when the Six are on a mission to Atlantis all the female (and genderfluid) characters stop what they're doing because Catman is fighting Aquaman.
- The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: After Zoidberg mutates into a human, Leela, Marge, and Amy are all drooling over his hot naked body.
- In Super Agent Jon Le Bon!, in the second book when Jon is briefly naked, Billy stares at him with a huge grin on his face. When he offers to lend Jon his clothes, Martha points out how he doesn't wear pants, which Billy is fully aware of the implications.
- Supergirl:
- In 2005 story arc Girl Power, Kara Zor-El gets so entranced when she sees Nightwing that she barely hears what he is saying.
- In Young Love, Linda Danvers and Dick Malverne spend the day at the beach and a while ogling at each other.
- In Thor Giant-Size Thor Finale #1, While fighting Doombots Volstagg suffers from Clothing Damage and ends up having to fight them naked. After he defeats them and rejoins the rest of the Warriors Three, he gets a stunned look from Lady Sif as she discovers why he's called "Volstagg the Mighty". He even gives her a fancy My Eyes Are Up Here.
Volstagg: Would it be your wish to pay for the view?
Sif: I—
Volstagg: Then work to overcome your awe, and find other places for your eyes to wander. Though it might take some time for them to get that far. - In Top Cow's Tomb Raider #9, Lara is taking a relaxing bubble bath which is interrupted by Chase who has information on the plot for her. She's covered by Censor Suds, so she's unconcerned with him in the bathroom until she has to leave tub and demands him to turn around, which he complies. But as she's toweling herself dry, she notices he's been staring at her through the mirror and angrily throws the towel at his face.
- Vampirella: Done by Sofia Murray in the 2010 Dynamite series when an unconscious Vampirella lies in bed with a blood bag hooked up to her vein to recover from her latest mishap, still wearing her classic costume. Sofia spends a good deal of time admiring her body.
- X-Men: In the early days, there was a Love Triangle subplot between Cyclops, Jean Grey and Psylocke. In X-Men #8, Scott stares intently at Betsy rising out of the water in her leotard and started stuttering, causing Jean to get extremely jealous. Later in X-Men #17 he walks in on her in the bathroom fresh out of the shower dressed in short a Modesty Towel. He gapes at her for a moment before stuttering an apology and bolting out of the bathroom, while an unperturbed Betsy smiles knowingly.
- Young Avengers: Kate Bishop spends a few panels staring at a half-naked Clint Barton and at her one night stand, Noh-Varr, as he dances in their room in his underwear.
Literature
- Anita Blake: The main character Anita often has problems with this trope, seeing as about 99% of the people surrounding her are gorgeous supernatural men who want to get into her pants.
- In The Belgariad, most of the story is told from 3rd-person limited perspective, from the point of view of the hero, Garion. Every so often it switches to his romantic interest, who often spends time watching him. There are some descriptions of his sandy hair (usually tousled) and how his face is "nice enough". Considering Ce'Nedra's Tsundere status, that says loads about how she feels about his looks.
- Beware of Chicken: Upon Meiling's first visit to Fa Ram with the Xong brothers, she sees Jin with his shirt off and just stares.
Gou Ren: Stop drooling, Meimei.
- Briar Girls: Lena can't help but look when Miranda takes off her pants while inspecting her leg wound early on, and wears only her undergarments for a time, finding seeing her shapely legs to be quite enticing.
- Jerin Whistler of A Brother's Price is among the most beautiful men alive. Thanks to the scarcity of men and the resulting broad inversion of gender roles, he's given predatory looks and unwanted touches by most women who aren't family.
- Captive Prince: Even before Damen starts to like the Pretty Boy Prince Laurent, he is attracted to him and prone to staring.
- The Case Files of Ibrahim Helsing: The Miskatonic Affair has Ibrahim and a bystander taking great interest in the physique of special agent Abba Kaatz while he's changing clothes in front of them.
- This actually saves the main character's life in one of the Ciaphas Cain novels, since pausing to admire the view as Colonel Regina Kasteen mounts a spiral staircase ahead of him allows him to spot lurking assassin skulls before they strike.
- Happens throughout "Clockpunk and the Vitalizer" as an effect of Dolores's huge crush on The Vitalizer.
- In Dead West, Gervas is on both end of this trope. He is usually not bothered by being the one eaten (he even thinks this is acceptable after he already refused the twins), but sometimes he feels mildly ashamed for ogling the Porcelain Doctor's scars (and his slim physique).
- The Dresden Files:
- This happens automatically whenever a White Court vampire is in line of sight. It's not voluntary, either; the White Court exudes a natural aura that draws everyone's attention to their physical beauty, both male and female. This helps them "hunt" their prey, drawing mortals to them so they can feed on their emotions (lust, fear, and despair being the big three). Its also deconstructed, however, when one of them, Thomas, tries to live a normal life without maliciously feeding on humans, as he can't hold down a job because his coworkers inevitably get drawn to him through his involuntary mojo and he gets fired when they jump his bones and his innate hunger for emotions takes over.
- However, it is used for humorous purposes as well. After a bad fight, Thomas is left shirtless and strolls into the bedroom to find one. Harry notes that Murphy watches him and after being caught, she simply shrugs and says it's a nice view. Cue Thomas from the other room, "I heard that."
- Fate/Zero plays around a bit with this. When Saber and Irisviel first encounter Lancer, the prose takes an immediate turn from standard to totally purple as it waxes rhapsodic about his beautiful eyes, his elegant features, the small beauty spot on his face that seems to add even more charac—Wait, beauty spot? Yep, it turns out that Lancer is the Heroic Spirit of Diarmund Ua Duibhne (who has a supernatural ability that makes all woman who see his face fall in love) and the prose snaps straight back to normal once Irisviel realizes the mind-trickery and overcomes it with her innate magical resistance.
- Sôsuke from Full Metal Panic! is subject to this a lot by all of his admirers. His looks are enough to get everyone (everyone) to stop in their tracks and check him out. Even small part bystanders that never show up again (which is made especially obvious in the novels). One lampshaded instance is with Nami (from the novels), when she pretends that she's only watching him change clothes because she wants to make sure that he's an AS pilot. Lemon teases her and notes that she was just checking him out. Kaname is hardly immune, either. On the very first day, when Kaname complains about the New Transfer Student's weird, restless scanning and pacing, Kyoko suggests that maybe it wouldn't bother her so much if she'd stop checking him out at every opportunity.
Kaname: Ugh, I hate watching nervous types like him. It so gets on my nerves.
Kyoko: Then... don't watch him, maybe? - The protagonist of Garrett, P.I. has a particular appreciation for (ahem) savoring the view when a young lady walks away from him. Even women he knows are pure poison, like Rose Tate, can spark his interest with a lovely (ahem hem) back.
- Her Spell That Binds Me: Ariaden and Iona can't help but stare at each other's naked bodies while they're at the nighttime ritual, due to their growing mutual attraction.
- Her Wolf in the Wild: Christiana stares raptly at Micah on first seeing her naked, thinking that she's gorgeous and can't find any excuse for doing so.
- The Hollows: Narrator Rachel Morgan tends to get kind of distracted around attractive men. It even happens when she converses with the demon Minias.
- Hurog: In Dragon Bones, Ward swoons over Tisala. He acknowledges that she's not what most men would call beautiful, describing at length that her hair is short, her face and hands scarred, and her nose is, strictly speaking, a bit too long... but he's smitten with her. Scars and all, she's so fascinating that he hardly looks at anyone else.
- In I Can Get It for You Wholesale, long paragraphs of Harry Bogen's first-person narration are devoted to his lecherous contemplation of Miss Marmelstein's figure.
"I'm going out, Miss Marmelstein," I said, staring hard at her. They looked like the money, all right, but the way they built brassieres nowadays, you never could tell. Still, this looked like it was worth the trouble of finding out.
- In The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence, Miyuki enjoys watching Tatsuya exercise shirtless. She feels embarrassed when he almost catches her doing this, although- being just a teenager- she doesn't quite understand why.
- In Katanagatari, Togame doesn't even bother with a pretense for ogling the perpetually shirtless Shichika — she just tells him to sit still so it's easier to do.
- Make Room for Love: Mira stares at Isabel as she's wearing only a tank top which shows her nipples under it and boxer shorts which show her legs. Not long after, Isabel also stares on seeing Mira wearing only a camisole and shorts. They do this later too in the hall and by Volume, a lesbian club.
- Mangoverse: Three examples of this in Climbing the Date Palm:
- Farzin watches his boyfriend Kaveh cook for him while shirtless raptly, and they have sex afterward (offpage) given this turns him on so much.
- Shulamit also gets quite aroused by three sultry belly dancers performing for her, really wanting to have sex with her girlfriend Aviva after this (but other things interfere).
- Shulamit also remembers staring at Princess Carolina raptly while visiting her, as she was so beautiful to her, even finding that her mouth hung open sometimes.
- In Marilyn: A Biography, this is how Norman Mailer tells us about Marilyn Monroe's fascination with the muscle boys while indulging in one of her favorite pastimes, which was to go to the muscle beach in Santa Monica "oppressively hot days" to watch them lift weights in speedos and look at their smooth and hairless beach bodies, muscles and sweat:
Such shamelessness at slaving openly for own beauty had to suggest possibilities for herself.
- Night Huntress has several scenes with Cat commenting on how attractive Bones is.
- Old Kingdom: When the teenage protagonist of Sabriel finds Touchstone transformed into wood, naked and comatose, she alternates between dispassionately preparing to rescue him, trying to be academic about examining the finer details of his body, and just plain staring.
- In Otherside Picnic, Sorawo constantly describes Toriko as extraordinarily beautiful, and gets lost in thought over her looks several times. The novels dedicate a lot of time to Sorawo's inner thoughts about Toriko's beauty.
- When Anne visits Lyme Regis in Persuasion, a male guest at the inn pauses and checks her out. For Anne, who's spent the last seven years as a spinster who's "lost her bloom," the attention is rather flattering. The guest turns out to be her ambitious cousin Mr Elliot, who begins courting her as soon as he knows who she is. (It being the Regency, Kissing Cousins is not an objection.)
- In A Practical Guide to Evil, Catherine Foundling isn't shy about this, especially when someone is particularly strong and fit, though she does try to restrain herself when it's someone she has power over. After Callow joins the Grand Alliance, it quickly becomes known among Alliance higher-ups that "the Black Queen has a roving eye," though fortunately most of them are either indifferent or flattered.
- In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy takes the breath away from every female in Hertfordshire just by walking into the room: "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien..."
- Raybearer: At one point in the book, Tarisai watches Sanjeet spar topless and is obviously pleased by what she's seeing.
- Rebuild World: Due to Akira growing taller, and more muscular (from training) over the series, he gets a few scenes of this.
- When the tailor Celene is taking Akira's measurements for a custom outfit he ordered, she gets so distracted with this that she keeps sounding more and more like a pervert, but it goes over his head.
- In one of Sheryl's Bathtub Bonding scenes with Akira, it's noted that seeing him undressed is too much for her and she reddens. Sheryl proceeds to use all of her Guile Hero talent to persuade him into bathing with her regularly, talking up the health benefits of the luxury bath she had installed at their Home Base.
- Running With Lions sees main character Sebastian fawning over his Love Interest Emir, and the narrative makes every effort to pour over Emir’s looks from Sebastian's point of view. One scene has Sebastian wake Emir up to go for a run, and as he gets dressed, he gets lines and lines of description about his sepia skin looking gold in the sunlight, his skinny but defined frame, tousled black hair and his "morning wood" tenting his briefs. Sebastian then later hopes that his bunkmate Willie is out of their cabin so he can have some alone time.
- Sabina Kane: Red-Headed Stepchild has Sabina walk in on the nymph Vinca while the latter's watching The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. Vinca's a little embarrassed to be caught watching a silly mortal movie, but Sabina tells her not to be: "That elf is hot."
- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong: In the donghua, during the Skinner Arc, Luo Binghe is noticeably eyeing Shen Qingqiu's exposed shoulder. Similarly, in the novel, the sight of a shirtless Shen Qingqiu bound in immortal-binding cable is a vision that "[strikes] Luo Binghe to his core". Later in the "Honeymoon" extra, it's confirmed that this event had even been the teenage Luo Binghe's sexual awakening.
- The Ship Who...: In The City Who Fought, Amos's handsomeness turns a lot of heads. Even Simeon comments on his attractiveness, though with considerable resentment. Amos draws the line when preteen Joat compliments his ass — what kind of perverse place is this Space Station that children are lustful? He enters a relationship with Channa, Simeon's brawn, but it seems being so watched has got to him. After Simeon interrupts to tell them he's watching, Amos thinks any of Simeon's further attempts to get them together are Simeon using him as a kind of toy.
- Sorry, Bro: Nareh can't help but check out Erebuni and Raffi, since both are quite attractive to her.
- Spellster: Dylan can't help but look at Tracker's nude, muscular body repeatedly when he's washing nearby in the same pool. Tracker notices this and flirts about it, to Dylan's dismay. Even when he accepts that he's attracted to Tracker and has sex with him, Dylan is still drawn by his naked body.
- To Be with You: Victoria can't help but stare multiple times Leah is wearing an outfit she finds particularly appealing.
- Take a sip for every mention Bella from The Twilight Saga makes of Edward's Supernatural Gold Eyes, marble skin that sparkles in the sunlight, or his overall beauty being comparable to an angel's or a Greek god's. You'll be blacked out under the table in no time.
- Jennelle's MO and introduction in Uncommon Animals. She's all but take a spoon to Rick.
- Unnamed Memory: In volume 2, when Tinasha brings Oscar to a secret underwater cave for his birthday, she takes a good, long look at his shirtless body while he dries himself after swimming, all with a smile on her face. A significant moment, as for the first time she expresses desire for him instead of the other way round.
Tinasha: So pretty...
Oscar: What is?
Tinasha: You. - Villains Don't Date Heroes!: Night Terror looks over Fialux's figure enraptured for a long time after first seeing her, noting all of her attractive attributes.
- Void Domain: Juliana unashamedly ogles anyone with a decent muscle structure. Most of those she ogles tend to be demons.
- Wear Your Soul Round Your Neck: The otherwise-stoic Merryway is often flustered looking at Thyssa's ample figure.
- Whateley Universe: given the prevalence of the Exemplar trait (about 20% of mutants), this happens quite a bit.
- Fey gets this on a daily basis, from just about everyone - male, female, straight, gay, it doesn't matter.
- In "The Case of the Poisonous Patent", some of the Lit Chix are shown swooning over a passing group of Good-Looking Privates in an airport, to the point where the servicemen end up passing them a photograph of their squad.
- World of the Five Gods: Impecunious lordling Penric is a very pretty young man, to the extent that almost everyone he meets notices this first. It gets a bit weird when the one checking him out is Desdemona, the female demon that shares his body, who can only look by borrowing his eyesight.
Music
- The lyrics of "Amy Amy Amy" by Amy Winehouse are four minutes of this.
Music Videos
- K.T. Oslin does a lot of this during the cougar song "Younger Men". She drops everything just to look at young men's asses and she is panting with lust throughout the song (especially during the live version and after singing this verse):
"Woah, look over here
We got a cute little ol' runner to the right
Blue shorts, no shirt
Whoo! You're lookin' good darlingThat's right, stay in shape"note - During The Lonely Island's "The Creep", Nicki Minaj is "oogling and ogling" a bunch of jocks from where she's hiding in a locker.
- Olivia Newton-John in the video for her hit single "Physical" Especially in the radioactiva remix.
- Tanya Tucker and her friends do a lot of this in the video for "Hangin' In".
Podcasts
- Bleeker Trails:
- Moni is smitten the moment she sets eyes on Patience, and spends most of Episode 2 frequently giving them "'Fuck Me!' eyes".
- Pinky the compère has to fan himself when Moni performs an "El Paso Sunrise" — effectively a lap-dance / striptease — for Patience in episode 2, and is very impressed by Julius' muscular physique — blatantly flirting with him in Episode 3.
Print Media
- Photographer Christie Jenkins' book A Woman Looks at Men's Buns which is a collection of pictures of men's butts, Jenkins calls herself a "connoisseur" of men's butts.
- Playgirl magazine
- Teen fashion magazines do (and induce) this all the time.
Pro Wrestling
- WWE SmackDown:
- On 02/06/2003, Sean O'Haire convinces Brian Kendrick to go Streaking who does it while being chased by the referees. He eventually bumps into Stephanie McMahon who clearly appreciates the view before he's dragged away by security.
Brian: I am really excited to meet you!
Stephanie: [glancing at his crotch and grinning] I can see that. - On 04/10/2003, Sable invades Torrie Wilson's bathroom while she's showering to brag that about her Playboy is selling better than Torrie's. Sable then takes Torrie's towel and holds it open, forcing Torrie to walk naked across the bathroom to get it while Sable eyes her up. In a later segment, Sable tells her that while Torrie looked good in Playboy it doesn't compare to the real thing.
- On 01/06/2005, Kurt Angle was tricked into walking on Joy Giovanni in the shower. They both freak out and while trying to explain himself Kurt accidentally snatches off her Modesty Towel. Joy has a Naked Freak-Out offscreen while the camera remains on Kurt who is struck speechless by the view.
- And speaking of Angle, there's also that Freeze-Frame Bonus of him looking at Sensational Sherri during the infamous "Sexy Kurt" skit.
- On 02/06/2003, Sean O'Haire convinces Brian Kendrick to go Streaking who does it while being chased by the referees. He eventually bumps into Stephanie McMahon who clearly appreciates the view before he's dragged away by security.
- WWE Raw:
- On 11/21/2005, there's a spot where John Cena ends up in the Divas' locker room. Candice Michelle drops her towel causing him to ogle her until he gets kicked out of there by the other Divas.
- On 01/02/2006, Mickie James does this to Trish Stratus when she sees her naked stepping out of the shower.
Mickie: Wow, Trish! Nice boobs!
Trish: Get out!
Radio
- Dead Ringers: Talk about Gladiator 2 mainly revolves around two women hosts talking about how Paul Mescal has gone from "that kid from Normal People" to "insanely hot". One of the host's attempts to claim they would never objectify him is undermined by her co-host doing just that ("I'd climb him like a tree!").
Roleplay
- In Fellowship of the Raven, Ireena finds herself totally distracted by Ezalor, a Sun Monk who never wears a shirt. Only one member of her party managed to notice that during their first conversation her gaze was locked fully on his bare chest and abs.
- In Survival of the Fittest Version 5, Paulo Abbate is constantly drooling over Becca Everett's physique and body, leaving his narrative distinctly preoccupied with his ally's looks. His one-track mind makes up a large part of why he agrees to team up with her, and he falls behind because he's spending so much time admiring her backside.
Theatre
- The Mrs. Hawking play series: Justin indulges in this multiple times throughout Base Instruments, first with Mary, then with Yulia Sherba.
- In Gilded Cages, Mrs. Frost does this very briefly to Nathaniel.
- Legally Blonde:
- Enid unpauses Brooke's promotional video with a very eager expression in order to watch her dance in her workout outfit.
- Nikos rather blatantly ogles at Emmett's butt when he walks past him on the witness stand. It actually distracts him so much that he genuinely answers Emmett's question about his boyfriend's name, therefore revealing that his story about having an affair with Brooke was a total lie.
- Shucked: Maizy stops by to talk to Beau, who proceeds to pull up his shirt, flex, and thrust his pelvis. All she can do is stare.
Video Games
- In the epilogue of ANNO: Mutationem, as Ann is mildly chastising Ayane for not contacting her when she was safe, Ayane gleefully looks towards Ann's breasts before suddenly jumping onto Ann and grabbing her chest with joy.
- Cyberpunk 2077:
- If the player romanced Kerry Eurodyne and went with the "Path of Glory" ending, Kerry will check out V when the two take a shower together.
- During "Pyramid Song", Judy Alvarez will ask the player to swim around her to calibrate their gear. If the player stays behind her for a few seconds, Judy will acknowledge that they're staring at her butt. She will be flirty with a female V, and decidedly more annoyed with a male V.
- In Dragon Age: Inquisition:
- Sera eats it the moment she first meets a female Qunari Inquisitor.
Sera: So, followed the notes well enough. Glad to see you—You're well-fit...
- Josephine reacts similarly after walking in on the Inquisitor and a naked Iron Bull.
Josephine: I cannot move my legs. [...] Who wouldn't be a little curious?
- Also, when Inquisition was nominated for Game of the Year, the devs made a thank-you video... which includes Cullen walking shirtless through the scene explicitly so Cassandra can do this.
- Sera eats it the moment she first meets a female Qunari Inquisitor.
- Dream Daddy: In Brian's second date, he takes off his shirt when he and the Player Character fall in the water. For the rest of that period as they prepare the fish, the PC is distracted "staring at Brian's pecs", in his words.
- In Fallout 4, should the player fast-travel while in naught but their skivvies, companions Cait and Hancock will both gain affinity and have several comments to voice their appreciation, whereas most of the rest of the companions just awkwardly suggest you to Please Put Some Clothes On, even if you've romanced them. (Pragmatic and mission-focused X6-88 will outright lose affinity.)
Hancock: That's a good look for you.
Cait: Don't mind me, just admirin' the view. - In Fear Effect, Hana begins the fishing village level wearing only a Modesty Towel since the group was attacked while she was showering. Near the end of her section, she's held up at gunpoint by a soldier and the player has to use the towel in her inventory, which causes her to drop it. The soldier immediately starts checking her out and is too Distracted by the Sexy to notice her partner Deke sneaking up behind him to snap his neck. Soon after Deke himself enjoys the sight, which Hana doesn't appreciate.
Hana: [Covering herself with her hands] Not too long, Deke. I've killed men for much less.
- Final Fantasy:
- In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, while relaxing in Costa Del Sol, the camera temporarily switches to Cloud's view during a cutscene, who just so happens to be staring straight at Tifa's bikini-clad chest. Once she amusedly calls him out by ducking her head down to establish eye contact, he makes it a point to stare off in the opposite direction instead, clearly being embarrassed.
- Subverted in Final Fantasy XIV. Zero's looks Estinien up and down while he's sweating from doing pushups in his room, making it appear as if she's checking him out. However, she's actually doing it because she's unfamiliar with customs on the Source, and asks if everyone else should disrobe as well. The Warrior of Light is taken aback by this, and Varshann has to quickly explain to Zero that they just caught Estinien unprepared.
- God of War Ragnarök: The dwarf Lunda happily admires the physiques of both Kratos and Freya.
- In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Marz spends one shift as depot clerk ogling at other people's butts, and Sol can join her, tell her to cut it out, or even compliment her butt. If Sol joins in on the ogling, they also can't help but notice Seeq "sashaying" away, their hips "swinging like a pendulum".
- In the PC adventure game Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra, the main character Laura and many of the other female characters spend a lot of time talking about how attractive Steve is, starting from the moment you meet him.
- Mass Effect:
- In Mass Effect 2 Kasumi Goto's Shadow Broker dossier reveals that she's written haikus about Jacob, the resident beefcake.
Breathless, glinting skin
Muscles working in rhythm
Cloaked desire watches - Mass Effect 3:
- There's a blink-and-you-miss-it Funny Background Event in the prologue where an Alliance servicewoman turns her head and checks out Ashley's/Kaiden's ass when they meet Shepard.
- When a romanced Kaidan returns to the Normandy, Shepard's gaze goes to Kaidan's butt. Shepard gives a smirk for good measure.
- In the Citadel DLC, your love interest will turn up to give you a hand while you're still in civilian clothes, and will take a moment to study your backside and comment on your outfit. If your romantic interest isn't part of your regular team (Jack, Miranda, Traynor, Cortez, Kelly), it'll be Liara, and she'll still study your backside and comment on your outfit. This can happen even if you're wearing the same costume you've had on since you first got access to the armour control panel.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda:
- "Is this show for my benefit? Because I'm benefiting." Sara Ryder walking in on Jaal and Liam working out shirtless on the Tempest (with Jaal being totally naked).
- Happened once more if you romanced Jaal and got to the waterfall scene. When he stripped naked to get into the water, you can clearly see Sara staring appreciatively at his butt.
- In Mass Effect 2 Kasumi Goto's Shadow Broker dossier reveals that she's written haikus about Jacob, the resident beefcake.
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: One of Paz's tapes has her discussing whether or not Strangelove is attracted to her because she stares at her in a bikini and helps her put on sun lotion.
- There's a moment in Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy where this happens off-camera. When Nancy calls her girlfriends Bess and George for hints, they pause in talking to her, to savor the sight of a perfect poolside set of washboard abs.
- In Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, at one point a Mimic steals your character's armor. If your character is male and Aribeth is in the party, some humorous dialogue ensues.
- In Persona 5 Strikers, the Okinawa Beach Episode cutscene starts with Ann emerging from the sea while throwing her head and hair backwards following by a close-up shot of her cleavage. Cut to Joker and Ryuji in the sand clearly Eating the Eye Candy.
- In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Penny gets distracted when she finally sees Atticus without his mask on. She stares at him for several seconds and even calls him attractive before quickly reminding herself to focus.
- In Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong, "Kindly" Cheng will have this reaction when she first sees Duncan Wu. She immediately lampshades this by proclaming that 'the gun show has come to town', and thus the Embarrassing Nickname "Gun Show" gets stuck to Duncan for the rest of the game.
- Star Fox Adventures: When Fox first sees Krystal, he starts gawking at her beauty. As his mind slowly comes back, he briefly talks to himself about what an idiot he's being for being so distracted, then he is snapped out of it by Peppy, who reminds him he still has a job to do.
- Text implications suggest that the Handmaiden is doing this to a male player character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords. Atton will do it to the female player character when she arrives to rescue him in her underwear.
- Tales of Berseria:
- There are a few skits where Rokurou swings a wooden sword for practice while topless. One instance has Velvet just staring in his direction, with merely a musical note as her line. Rokurou asks if she wants to train with him. Velvet denies that's what her looking meant and continues to stare.
- During the Hot Springs Episode, as a result of a special effect of the baths, the girls and guys of the party end up switching bodies. Hilarity Ensues. After the scene is almost over, they realize that the Katz on the female side and Bienfu on the male side have also switched, so Bienfu has been staring at the girls' bodies for a while now with his eyes wide open. Velvet promptly asks that he receives a good smacking, which Rokurou complies. The following skit reveals that Velvet of all people was also checking out the guys while in Laphicet's body.
Velvet: I heard you kept your eyes covered the entire time.
Laphicet: Yeah, I did.
Velvet: Hah. That's so you.
Laphicet: What's the problem? I was just trying to be polite!
Velvet: It's fine, there's no problem. But I didn't cover mine.
Laphicet: Ah... Augh! Velvet! Why would you even tell me that?!
- Team Fortress 2: In one of the comics, Soldier and his new girlfriend Zhanna fight some robots while naked and smeared with honey. Miss Pauling can't resist getting a good look; while the scene isn't 100% clear on who, between Word of Gay and the sheer frequency with which Soldier gets naked in the comics storyline, she was most likely getting an eyeful of Zhanna.
Scout: Why, uh...why don't we go fight somewhere less...naked.
Miss Pauling: You go ahead. I'll catch up. - In Undertale the player fights a duo of Royal Guards in the Hotlands. If they convince 01 to be honest with his feelings and make 02 remove his armour, the player can take advantage of 01 doing this to 02 by either sparing them - which will result in 02 awkwardly asking 01 out on a date - or killing one, which will cause the other to become hopeless.
- In The Anime of the Game of Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception during a bath scene, Kuon senses someone is peeping. She hoists herself out of the bath and tries to chase after the intruder, but fails to do so. Hearing her annoyed shriek, Haku comes out and asks what happened. Kuon, seemingly forgetting that she still has no clothes on, asks if Haku saw something to which he gives her a once over and flatly replies, "I see it now" before casually walking away leaving Kuon beginning to have a full-body blush as she has a belated Naked Freak-Out reaction.
- In War: 13th Day, Wildfire makes no effort to hide the fact that she's lusting after Arsenik.
Wildfire: It's not that I was particularly interested in him. I just wanted to bang him, plain and simple.
- In the "Incinerator" segment of Zero Time Dilemma, the developers anticipated that players would try to click on Sigma's chest, and wrote dialogue for just that possibility.
Web Animation
- Red vs. Blue: Shortly after meeting Crunchbite the alien, Tucker has a hard time pulling Tex's attention away from his... alien... muscle structure.
Tex: Well that's just a matter of penis— I mean uh, opinion, opinion, that's, that's it.
[beat]
Church: [her boyfriend] Smooth. - RWBY: After meeting the Rusted Knight, Weiss pulls off a sultry purr over how "mature" he is. She then promptly blushes and panics as she realizes what she said out loud and tries to regain her lady-like decorum. However, Ruby is left confused while Blake and Yang give Weiss and each other knowing smirks about what just happened. Because the Rusted Knight is a time-displaced Jaune, someone who had a massive one-sided crush on Weiss in Vol. 1-2 before he moved on from it. Only for now Weiss to be the one crushing on him. It also ultimately doesn't last the Volume when Jaune's very deep traumas pop up later and reveals that he is not okay.
Ruby: How did you find us?
Blake: How are you the Rusted Knight?
Yang: And when did you get so?..
Weiss: Mature? - Epithet Erased: Indus flexing with his shirt off in the first episode is one of the few things Mera doesn't have any complaints about.
Mera: Well, you got my attention.
Webcomics
- A low-key example from Catana Comics: Catana interrupts her boyfriend getting undressed by leaning around the door facing and saying "Mooooore", implying that she's been watching him the entire time.
- Cyanide and Happiness: In this comic, one guy can't stop staring at the other's chest and isn't listening to anything he says.
- Eerie Cuties: In this strip Layla loses her bikini top to a treacherous wave. Blair bemoans being too dark to see anything, but Kade enjoys the view thanks to his Innate Night Vision.
- El Goonish Shive:
- While somewhat jealous of how muscular the other girls were, Sarah ends up reminding herself to avoid this trope during the Party arc when staring at herself.
- At the end of the Painted Black arc, Ellen and unnamed operative are in full agreement about Human!Guineas's shirtless appearance.
- While somewhat jealous of how muscular the other girls were, Sarah ends up reminding herself to avoid this trope during the Party arc
- Girl Genius:
- When Gil was treated at Mamma Gkika' bar after being wounded while stopping war clanks alone, he's stripped naked to be patched up. When he wakes up, he starts arguing with Zeetha and leaves the bed before realizing his state of undress, the bar wenches all give him appreciating looks. Cue Naked Freak-Out.
- While Gil gets Othar back up to speed after the Time Tunnelers extract him from the Take-Five Bomb field, several Wulfenbach minions ogle the shirtless Othar... and then all express disappointment at Gil's issuance of Othar's turtleneck.
- Rakethorn bares his chest to snap Agatha out of the madness place and remind her to put on some work clothes.
- When Gil was treated at Mamma Gkika' bar after being wounded while stopping war clanks alone, he's stripped naked to be patched up. When he wakes up, he starts arguing with Zeetha and leaves the bed before realizing his state of undress, the bar wenches all give him appreciating looks
- Girls of the Wild's: A group of schoolgirls ogle a sweaty Jae Gu after a Workout Fanservice session in chapter 36 and 38.
- In The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Amal taking off his shirt to shower causes TJ's eyes to follow him all the way out of the room and him to accidentally spill the soda he was drinking.
- Magick Chicks :
- Sandi does this to Faith here when she takes off her shirt, even though all she sees is Faith's Toplessness from the Back.
- In this strip, when Sandi points out Skye's wearing "rags," Skye suddenly realizes Sandi's right and decides to takes off her tattered clothing right then and there, putting Sandi and the rest of the girls in the room into a Stunned Silence as they stare. Faith later admits once Skye's changed to another outfit, "...you seem to have been a good source of entertainment for the girls."
- Sandi does this to Faith here
- Motherlover: Jonathan's reaction to meeting Alex while she's dressed for running (in a sports bra and leggings) is to ogle her and make flirtatious comments.
- The Noordegraaf Files: Theo, upon meeting Akila, stares at her chest. As Akila is a Nereid, which are known to be attractive (and have no nudity taboo), she's just dressed in a strapless armor that bares her midriff and a pair of tight shorts.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Therkla demonstrates.
- In this strip the guys do this to Haley when she suffers a Wardrobe Malfunction. A notable case of Early-Installment Weirdness as it's an out of character moment for most of the cast.
- When Elan goes Streaking in this strip he draws the attention of a lot of appreciative Azurite girls.
- Therkla demonstrates.
- Outsider:
- Subverted; Talon believes Jardin will look good in the skin-tight inner liner of the Loroi emergency pressure suit he's given and seems a little upset when Beryl says that she's seen him naked (since she was there when he was cut out of his original EVA suit after being rescued), but when he gets irritated at their reluctance to let him change in private, Beryl pushes Talon out of the cargo hold as she leaves.
- Both invoked and subverted when Talon sees Jardin frozen up while watching Fireblade removing her outer pressure suit. She thinks he's checking her out and asks "See something you like?" with a sly look, but he's actually shocked at noticing the plug in the side of her head that connects to her amplifier.
- Though only a joke picture, Kieri in her Snow Bunny form Slightly Damned gets an eyeful◊ of her boyfriend, Buwaro.
- Sticky Dilly Buns: When the naive and virginal Ruby has her libido kick-started by the persistent proximity of assorted attractive men, she finds herself being repeatedly distracted by them — especially as various gay guys keep making out in front of her. At first, she's outraged and tells herself they should be stopped, but it soon becomes clear, even to her, that she just can't keep herself from looking.
- Tripping Over You: Matt has no complaints about his office overlooking a gym with plenty of picture windows.
"[My view] is— well, it's pretty picturesque too. In its own way."
- Uncommon Animals: Jennelle gobbles for three straight pages.
- In The Weave, Tally is kind of smitten with Emil who has come to pick her up for the ball, wearing traditional fairy garb which includes a sort of half-long skirt and Roman-style sandals. Tally falters seemingly when presented with his rather nice legs.
Web Videos
- Gameboys: Cairo. In nearly every time it's served to him. You can visibly see him struggle to appear otherwise.
- The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: In episode 13, Mr Rochester was visibly smitten with Jane. He got mysteriously injured at night and she treated his wound. He was absolutely checking her out at the end of the episode before he left the room. Though, she looked really cute in her nice pyjamas.
- Flexonline.com: Stacy Thompson is in full fantasizing mode in this interview with James "Flex" Lewis.
- The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Lydia Bennet invokes Sexy Soaked Shirt by spilling a cup over George Wickham's T-shirt and convinces him to take it off. Mr. Fanservice gladly obliges, and both Lydia and Lizzie enjoy his abs. He's a swimmer and is well-built.
- Shipwrecked Comedy:
- "American Whoopee" starts with pals Teddy and Gil watching popular girl Millie walk down the street.
- When Vivian and Ford first meet in The Case of the Gilded Lily it inspires Ford to launch into a long voiceover about how beautiful she is.
- Dream Machine: Leah’s favorite past time, with all the handsome actors and other guys at the studio. Most prominently with Devon, Jeremy, and Tom.
Western Animation
- Arcane:
- In Episode 5, Vi takes a good long look at Caitlyn's body before telling her outright that "You're hot, Cupcake" and pinning her to a nearby wall, which shows that Vi already starts to like Caitlyn.
- In Season 2, Episode 8, when Caitlyn removes her sweater, Vi looks at her and lets out a silent gasp, as she was taken aback that Caitlyn was willing to do such a thing in front of her and wasn't afraid of it. It's even funnier since their roles were reversed.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Happens in the Beach Episode, "The Beach", with a bunch of girls cooing at Zuko taking his top off. Ty Lee in a bikini also gets many admirers.
- Tina's habit of staring at guy's butts in Bob's Burgers is a Running Gag.
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: At one point in "The Beasts of Karn", if you look closely, you'll see that Buzz and XR are ogling at Dr. Ozma Furbanna's backside.
- Code Lyoko: In the opening of Season 4 episode "Bad Connection", Ulrich is stuck in the hallway wearing just a Modesty Towel. When Aelita and Yumi walk in with Jérémie, the girls at first (weakly) pretend to be looking away, but spend the rest of the scene ogling.
- Dragons: Riders of Berk: In "Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Young Man", Astrid and Ruffnut do this with Hiccup's buff portrait.
- Family Guy:
- When Peter gets plastic surgery to make himself extremely handsome, Lois loses the ability to form complete sentences.
- Lois drills a hole in Stewie's room to watch Tom Brady shower (then fights with Meg over who gets to look through it). Then after they leave Stewie gets a look.
- Fangbone!: Ms. Gillian has a rather enthusiastic reaction to the Barbarian Heroes she meets in Skullbania in "The End of the Beginning".
- Hailey's On It!: Kristine introduces her friend Logan, who models belts for a living. Hailey appreciatively comments "Yeah, he does...", much to Scott's confusion.
- The Owl House: Luz spends most of "Witches Before Wizards" ogling her companion Nevareth, especially once he takes off his shirt and reveals his abs.
- ReBoot: "The Great Brain Robbery": Megabyte and his minions both rather conspicuously turn to admire the (noticeably well-rendered) posterior of the mercenary Mouse when she enters his lair.
- A lot of female customers at the Krusty Krab are seen admiring SpongeBob's long pants in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SpongeBob LongPants".
- Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Temporal Edict", late in the Trial by Combat, Ensign Mariner is lustfully staring at a shirtless Commander Ransom.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
- In "Running with Scissors", when Marco gets aged up getting his own pair of Dimensional Scissors, Star ignores almost every word he says while she is staring at his abs, until he mentions that he has been gone for sixteen years.
- In "Ransomgram", her main reason for accompanying Marco when he has to go back to that dimension to rescue his kidnapped dragon-cycle is getting to see his adult form. And while they're there, he introduces an Amazonian Beauty who he got to know during his sixteen years there, and Star reacts the same way to her as she did to him.
- Young Justice (2010): M'gann is easily distracted by Superboy, especially if he takes off his shirt.
Real Life
- Parodied in ''Carbolic Smoke Ball'': Rosacea Swayne comments that girls are being deprived of seeing lithe, muscular boys with their shirts off in person during the summer months due to the obesity epidemic.
- Jörg Haider would not only have made an excellent Bond villain but also caused a couple French female reporters to be reprimanded when they got waaay off track starting from the point one referred to him as a "Silver Fox". Unfortunately this clip no longer seems to be online, possibly due to his passing.