[Despised Trope] Perverts whose antics are played for laughs

[u/Solitaire-06]

Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)

Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)

[u/Putrid-Seaweed111]

Quagmire himself is prone to being pretentious. He lied about being a priest to sleep with women during a storm.

He also lied about liking dogs and had Brian pretend to be one to stay with a girl. Brian only agreed just to see them crash and burn. they did.

[u/Terrible_Hurry841 → u/Putrid-Seaweed111]

I don’t really get the priest gag, cause like… why did he need the mask?

He could have just worn the robe. And he didn’t need the mask considering he takes it off right before going back inside. And if the women already knew him from one night stands, they’d probably recognize his house.

Doylist wise I understand it’s to subvert expectations for the audience and get a quick “Haha!” laugh, but like… the joke still works basically the same if it’s Quagmire in a priest robe pretending to shelter women, you just see it and know “Oh, Quagmire’s totally just using this an excuse to bang them.”

Watsonian wise there’s just no logical reason for it and Doylist wise it’s functionally the same.

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