Pop Culture Detective has a video on a trope he calls “born sexy yesterday” about female characters who are extremely naive (often because they’re newly-created, or somehow new to Earth/human society) and how this allows a thoroughly mediocre male character to impress her mightily by having very ordinary knowledge that she doesn’t. A couple of examples given are how the alien in My Stepmother Is An Alien is incredibly impressed by the idea of putting extra cheese on microwave mac & cheese, and how the lead in Alita: Battle Angel is similarly blown away by a guy introducing her to chocolate.
It’s a way to have the fantasy of an incredibly (physically) attractive woman fall head-over-heels in love with you without you actually having to do anything. Just having the same knowledge that everybody else does is enough, because you’re the first person she met.
The devoted love intrest who is mesmerized by the mc’s competence.
Pop Culture Detective has a video on a trope he calls “born sexy yesterday” about female characters who are extremely naive (often because they’re newly-created, or somehow new to Earth/human society) and how this allows a thoroughly mediocre male character to impress her mightily by having very ordinary knowledge that she doesn’t. A couple of examples given are how the alien in My Stepmother Is An Alien is incredibly impressed by the idea of putting extra cheese on microwave mac & cheese, and how the lead in Alita: Battle Angel is similarly blown away by a guy introducing her to chocolate.
It’s a way to have the fantasy of an incredibly (physically) attractive woman fall head-over-heels in love with you without you actually having to do anything. Just having the same knowledge that everybody else does is enough, because you’re the first person she met.