"But we're all here forConnery, let's face it." —The Nostalgia Chick, onDragonheart

An enclave of female fans within a traditionally male-dominated fandom. They tend to focus on a particular character or actor, rather than the entire series. Occasionally both sidesbutt heads over largely superficial reasons, with buckets of opposite-sex awkwardness, which can get defensive. It should also be noted thatnot all female fans within such a fandom are necessarily of the Estrogen Brigade.

Unfortunately, it is because of this phenomenon that female fans are sometimes regarded with suspicion—especially if she admits that she does, in fact, happen to find some of the male cast members to be physically pleasing to the eye. However, finding certain members of the cast to be pleasing to look at does not necessarily preclude a fan from liking other aspects of a particular work—and, thus, should not automatically invalidate her (or him) as being a "true fan".

An Estrogen Brigade is easily attracted by hints ofHo Yay, since most members of such brigades seem to beYaoi Fangirls at heart. See alsoMultiple Demographic Appeal.

Not to be confused withAmazon Brigade. ItsSpear Counterpart is theTestosterone Brigade.

Anime andManga

• Code Geass. Many female fans are there forHo Yay andbishies. And there's no shortage of either.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! has one of these, as do its later spinoffs.
• The enormous amounts of fangirls virtually every character inNaruto has, principally with the veryBishonen characters like Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji (but evenRock Lee isn't without his fans).
• Ramses fromAnatolia Story. As well as Kail,ZananzaHattusili,Urhi, Juda as a grown-up and arguably Kash andRusafa. Let's not forgetMattiwaza.
• Berserk is set in an ultra violent universe where being female is an even worse fate thenjust being born in it but the deep storyline and compelling characters have universal appeal. That and the fact thatGuts andGriffith get naked almost as often as the ladies and have a ratherintenserelationship.
• ToshiroHitsugaya ofBleach has such a huge one that he even got his own movie; it's probably a major reason why he ranked the highest in a recent character poll.
  • To aslightly lesser extent, Cuarta EspadaUlquiorraCifer made it to the top 10 of that poll.
  • IchigoKurosaki andGrimmjowJaegerjaquez, who scored 3rd and 4th in that poll respectively. Especially for theYaoi Fangirls.
  • Uryū Ishida ranked five despite beingOut of Focus.Itsayssomething.
  • ByakuyaKuchiki ranked7th in the latest popularity poll.
  • Before Grimmjow and Ulquiorra showed up,RenjiAbarai ranked as either 3rd or 4th in the polls he was in, whileGin Ichimaru consistently made it as the 5th.
  • ShuheiHisagi is exceedingly popular incertain all-female domains of the fandom.
  • KisukeUrahara isnear-universally beloved by the fandom as it is, but he'sespecially liked by female fans, enough that several even claim him to be themost interesting male for hisunpredictability. To put it into perspective, when a pervert is listed as aFetish Fuel Station Attendant,because headmits that he's a pervert, you know you're dealing with dedicated fangirls.
  • Shinji Hirako isn't necessarily the most attractive guy around the block, but he's certainly the one with the most class, style and wit.
  • Back in hisBishonen days,SosukeAizen qualified as aDraco in Leather Pants; he had a suave, Machiavellian vibe about him, with a charming voice and charming looks that can easily swoon a girl over in no time. He'sone of the reasonsBleach made it as far as it did, and he'sone ofthe reasonsBleach was considered to haveJumped the Shark for a while.
  • Just rivaling Grimmjow and Ulquiorra is Coyote Starrk, who gets points for beingThe Woobie and aNon-Malicious Monster, compared to the rest of his Espada colleagues.
  • Amongst all of the Fraccion, the one with the most fangirls happens to be the extremely effeminate, but ridiculously attractive-sounding Ggio Vega, a clear-cutBishonen thatwants to beThe Tease.
  • Swords can have their own fandoms; for every Hitsugaya, Byakuya and Hisagi fangirl, there's one forHyorinmaru (an older-looking Hitsugaya),Senbonzakura (gets a shot of his wet body on the mens' bath) andKazeshini (a demonic-lookingBadass withKissho Taniyama providing his voice), despite the latter looking like a demonic, black-skinnedXenomorph . Hell, there's even an Estrogen Brigade forMuramasa, anExpy of Ulquiorra, Shuren, an effeminateSmug Snake, andKokuto, aComplete Monster that really enjoyed pissing Ichigo off. Let's face it,Bleach is filled to the absolute brim withMr. Fanservice.
• The Prince of Tennis has a huge Estrogen Brigade following.
  • That's more or less its only following. The show is a convoluted mess used to displayBishonens toinvoke this trope.
• Zoro and Sanji fromOne Piece, being manly and the most conventionally attractive males, tend to be the biggest fangirl-bait inOne Piece, which has a significantly-sized female fandom.It's no surprising that those two are also the most commonly paired together in fanfic.
  • It's often suspected that Ace was introduced to show what Luffy will look like once he's aged up a bit.
    • As mentioned above, there is no shortage of AceLuffy fanfiction either.
• Alucard fromHellsing. Probably more than 90 percent of female fans watches the show for him.Some males have the same reason.
  • Other reasons may include Anderson, Seras, Integra or Heinkel.The last three are female.
• These have been known to crop up in the fandoms of various supposedlySeinen series that feature attractive, completelyBadass male leads; evenOnizuka-sensei isn't without a cluster of devoted fangirls.
• Death Note:LightYagami. JustLightYagami. And L fangirls.And Mello. And Near. And maybe Matt, but he only had a brief appearance before being"lighted". Matsuda and Aizawa too. So, really,not "just Light Yagami" at all.
  • L certainly isn't lacking in female fans himself.
• Back when the show was airing onToonami,Dragonball Z gathered up an Estrogen Brigade larger than the rest of the North American fanbase.
• ThoughKatekyo Hitman Reborn is aShonen, it's safe to say that many of its fans are actuallyYaoi Fangirls. Surprisingly there is actually a lot less headbutting, since any male fans tend to avoid most of the online forums or have their voices drowned out amongst theSquee.
  • Not necessarily true, it has quite a lot of male fans too if you know where to look (hint: NOT livejournal and fanfiction.net).
  • Over onFanfiction.net, there seems to be an interesting amount of OC stories that either pair upthe slew of existing characters with theirsoulmates or decide togo into the future with the Vongola whatever. However,those attempting to invert the trope, oftentimesend up failing hard.
• Though the article says it is rare,Ouran High School Host Club has a substantial male following for two main reasons --it's very funny, andHaruhi iscute.
  • There's also an in-show Estrogen Brigade for each and every male character, as well as an IRL one.
• D.Gray-man is technically shonen, but with the sheer quantity ofBishonen andMr. Fanservice like Allen, Kanda, Tyki, and Lavi, it's no wonder it tends to have alot of female fans. But then, itis written by a woman, so maybe it's justAuthor Appeal lining up with the wishes of the fangirl masses.
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni's fandom is mostly made out of females despite being far from a cute anime.Eachmain character has a following, even the ones outside of theTrue Companions.
• Gundam Wing introduced the Estrogen Brigade toReal Robot anime.
  • According toYoshiyuki Tomino,Gundam hasn't been a stranger to female fans ever since theoriginal series.Wing was theWestern entry point.
• WhileDurarara!! istargeted to young males, the series is infamous for the the huge Estrogen Brigade that congregates aroundShizuo andIzaya.
  • How could you forgetMikado andKida?
• Similarly, withBaccano! it's probably easier to count the female fans who aren't into eitherClaire, Firo, or Luck.
  • Or Ladd, or Graham, or Czeslaw.
• TheAxis Powers Hetalia fandom is basically one huge estrogen brigade. Believe it or not, Hetalia was originally aSeinen.
• Most of theCLAMP fandom. It helps that CLAMP is basically one themselves.
• Saint Seiya maybe is the manga and anime which Clamp drew the doujin as their debut, this series being created by Kurumada guaranteed many bishonen to satisfy fangirls' eyes especiallyYaoi Fangirl with it's infamous Libra Temple's scene betweenShun andHyoga. Added that most of the male characters are more attractive than the females. And in sanctuary arcSaga was taking a loooooooong bath time, no wonder there is so many bath scene fanart of him. All of these make one think if this series really created for boys, because there is only oneShower Scene for girl which not all fans even the male one even remember it.
• Thanks to estrogen-brigade drawing efforts ofKotetsu,Barnaby, andKeith, many fans ofTiger and Bunny started to suspect that it was specifically geared towards women andYaoi Fangirls despite statements to the contrary.^[1]

Comic Books

• TheGreen Lantern Corps has a surprisingly strong following in the Feminist Comics Blogosphere, only in part because of the franchise's 50-year tradition ofspandex-clad butt shots. Hal is "endearingly sexist", John is "the serious one", Guy is the "gruff den mother", Kyle isThe Woobie, and Alan isthe sexy older guy, and, Great Galaxies, I think I'm about to make aFive-Man Band entry about the GLC.
• Deadpool has had an estrogen brigade of fun, quirky, female geeks for a few years now, mostly because they get a kick out of hisBlack Comedy sense of humor. Now he's getting a more traditional estrogen brigade, since he's being portrayed byRyan Reynolds.
• The femaleBatman fandom is still very small, but type any combination of male characters into the search bar onDeviant ART some time, if you dare. With all theFoe Yay, the fact Bruce Wayne is generally depicted as a rather handsome fellow, ass-kicking female characters,Nightwing, and a huge cast of interesting villains, many of whom are just begging forDraco in Leather Pants treatment... it's sort of a wonder the Estrogen Brigade forBatman isn't bigger.
• Nightcrawler and Gambit are probably the two most popular Marvel characters for fangirls.
• AnotherTestosterone Brigade example can be found in the fandom ofWitchblade, a comic whose main character is aDude Magnet who also hasLes Yay moments with herLancer.

Film - Animation

• The Lorax made the Once-ler a human. A very cute human. A very cute human with asympatheticPOV. Cue the fangirls.

Film - Live Acton

• Darth Maul has an estrogen brigade.
  • At least one "estrogen brigade" site for Darth Maul that was done mostly tongue-in-cheek, and it wasbrilliant.
  • Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke, and Anakin can also be considered this
    • Let's just say all males except Palpatine and Dooku.Wedge has one in theStar Wars Expanded Universe; in one of the comics it's mentioned that he gets marriage proposals in the mail.
    • Canonically, Luke has about six Zeltron fangirls, and oneZeltron fanboy inMarvel Star Wars.
      • Then again, Zeltrons areAnything That Moves basically.
• Pick a male fromThe Dark Knight Saga.Any male fromThe Dark Knight Saga. They will have fangirls.Especially the Joker.
• Rumor has it that the only reason those of the female persuasion agreed to sit through300 with their boyfriends was the highly buff, almost entirely-male cast who seemedunaquainted with the concept of a shirt.
• Pictured is the cover to aFoxTrot collection, showing how a good portion ofLord of the Rings viewers were fangirls ooglingOrlando Bloom (many others differed chiefly in that they preferred Viggo Mortensen).
  • Then there was the embarrassing fawning over an extra that female fans christened "Figwit."
• The "mud wrestling" fight inThor does a lot for the ladies in the audience, I'm told.
  • Thor has fans, but Loki's (and by extension, Tom Hiddleston's) Estrogen Brigade is incredibly vocal and devoted. They call themselves "Hiddlestoners." You can read a (very profane)Affectionate Parody of their behaviorhere.
  • Tom Hiddleston's fanbase justexploded into existence after Thor, even though the film mostlypresented Chris Hemsworth as the defaulthunk totty. However, thanks to Loki's characterisation and hisBishonen looks (and Hiddleston'sMean Character, Nice Actor personality), Hiddleston became theEnsemble Darkhorse at least where the ladies were concerned. To the point where it took Marvel and the rest of the world by surprise. At the NYCComic Con 2011, with plenty of stars and producers from the Avengers attending a panel, 99% of the audience questions were directed at Hiddleston, with audible gushing from the lady fans. And with plenty of awkwardness for the hosts and the rest of the panel members. It's notable because the hosts and the co-stars were clearly not expecting it, and even Hiddleston himself seems to have been overwhelmed by it. See it yourself,here.

• In the previews forCaptain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans is acquiring an estrogen brigade.
• Prince Nuada, from Hellboy II, also has an estrogen brigade. There's even a community to bring him back in a prequel movie.

Literature

• Harry Potter. Have youseen thefangirl hordes? Mere death is noobstacle toRemus/Sirius.
• TheAubrey-Maturin book series is about the adventures of a naval ship captain during the Napoleonic Wars. Readers come for the history; they stay for the massiveHo Yay between Captain Aubrey and hisbest friend, theship's surgeon and residentBadass Bookworm, Stephen Maturin. (Even without the slash,Stephen's pack of loyal fangirls would still give the Aubreyad a decently sized Estrogen Brigade.) It doesn't help that they call each other things like "my joy", "my heart", "my soul"...
  • The movie also comes with Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, and a scene with a half-naked injured!Stephen moaning in a way that sounds a tad erotic. While Jack's hands press down on his naked abdomen.
  • Stephen's LOVE INTEREST even says to him that "anyone would think you were married to that man"!
• While perhaps falling short of this trope,Terry Pratchett says inThe Art ofDiscworld that Greebo (yep,that Greebo) garnered a lot of female fans after his first appearance in human form.
  • He also says of Vetinari "I hear he has his own, all-female, fan club." (The "Sisters of Vetinari").
• Les Misérables' Amis de l'ABC: A group of 9 young revolutionaries, some of whom are very close, results in a pretty much all-female fandom. While there is a preference for Enjolras, fangirls often write slash involving any pairings of these.
  • Hell, an almost entirely male cast of charecters pretty much guaruntees fangirls will find someone to Squee about!
• In the first volume ofIvanhoe, the narrator spends a lot of time repeatedly pointing out how much the ladies enjoy tournaments and matches between knights even more enthusiastically than many men.Lampshade Hanging or justGenre Savvy?

Live Action TV

• The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade (The X-Files) and thePeter Davison, Paul McGann, andDavid Tennant Estrogen Brigades (Doctor Who) are two (four?) of the most famous examples. The episode "The Shakespeare Code" even had the eponymous playwright joining the Tennant Brigade.
  • It got to the point where there was a one-hit wonder by Bree Sharp called "David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me?"
  • There was aSylvester McCoy Estrogen Brigade on rec.arts.drwho.
    • Christopher Eccleston still has his own, slightly more mature, college-age, following. This might seem odd, considering he only got one season, but consider that Paul McGann only had one TV movie, yet still got a Brigade.
• The John Crichton Estrogen Brigate was very vocal during the run ofFarscape.
• For an example of this phenomenon at its peak, go visit aSupernatural convention. Guaranteed at least 90% women. One notable convention, Wincon (formerly known as WinchesterCon) used to have a women-only policy—male fans were only admitted if they were accompanied by a female fan. They've relaxed that restriction, but still maintain a strict anti-harrassment policy to create a "safe space" for female fans to express themselves.
  • Female fansandqueer fans too. For a sample ofSupernatural's appeal to the GBTQ community,check the recaps on onTelevision Without Pity, where longtime recapper Demian (a gay man) provides strong story analysis while calling Jensen Ackles "Ducky Lips."
• TheSliders fandom came to be referred to as JODSers, short for "JerryO'ConnellDroolersSociety".
• TheStar Trek franchise has had one from the beginning—in fact, Chekov was added to the show specifically for just such appeal.
  • ComeStar Trek: The Next Generation, there was a web sitenamed the "Johnathan Frakes Estrogen Brigade." (WesleyCrusher also has one. No, really.)
  • And theSpiner Femmes.
• Jamie Bamber, most recently ofBattlestar Galactica fame, has a posse of girl fans known in the community as "The Bamber Bunnies", and yet people still misspell his name as "Barber".
  • Not mentioning, of course, "Baltar's Nymph Brigade." Note that by the final season, he had gained anin-show, religiously fanatical Estrogen Brigade derided as a "nymph-squad" by the President.
  • And "Trucco's Troops".
• The Colbert Report, being primarily political satire, has more or less equal gender appeal—but Colbert's personal Estrogen Brigade has to be seen to be believed. There are threads on the show's official forum dedicated solely to collecting pictures of hisfingers.
  • Jon Stewart gets some too, usually in response to the latest episode where he rips some douchebag a new one.
• The Marcus Cole Estrogen Brigade, honouring the Ranger fromBabylon 5, is still in existence. It doesn't talk about Marcus very much any more, but it has a distinctive voice and staying power.
• Vincent D'Onofrio has acquired a brigade based on his work inLaw and Order: Criminal Intent, though his recent weight gain seems to have caused a lot of internal friction among them.
  • The beard has also led to raised eyebrows.
• One of the earliest Estrogen Brigades was David McCallum's, which sprang to life when the 60s spy seriesThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. introduced us to minor character Illya Kuryakin. Kuryakin almost immediatelycaught the attention of (mostly) female fans, and McCallum went from mereRecurring Character to series regular to second billing (behind series lead Robert Vaughn) in the first season alone. By the second season, McCallum shared equal billing with Vaughn.
• All three presenters onTop Gear (Clarkson sometimes jokes about Hammond being on the show solely toattract female viewers). And The Stig. And producer Andy Wilman. And James May's blue-patterned flowery shirt...
• The Magnificent Seven has seven of these, one for each character. They are: Larabee's Ladies, Buck's Babes, Vin's Vixens, Josiah's Jezebels, Nathan's Nightingales, Dunne's Darlins, and (the only non-alliterative one) Ezra's Brigadears.
• Angel and Wesley have the biggest Brigades fromAngel.
• The men fromMystery Science Theater 3000 all seem to have their own little pockets of fangirls if one puts enough effort into finding them (i.e.: head ontoDeviant ART orLiveJournal, for starters). Joel, Mike, Forrester, Frank... even Torgo has his fangirls.
  • And if you look on youtube, you will find that Crow and Tom both have their fair share of fangirls too. Despite (or because?) being robots.
• Iron Chef, particularly in the later years. Sakai, Chen, Kobe, and Morimoto all have their fangirls. Kaga's got some as well, naturally, but surprisingly there are quite a few for the announcer, Kenji Fukui.
  • Its successor,Iron Chef America is the same way.
• Methos ofHighlander the Series had/has aBoxer Brigade, due to his appearing in his underwear in an episode.
• During the run ofBeauty and The Beast, Ron Perlman acquired one.
  • On account of Perlman rarely giving interviews and being a virtual nobody at the time. Most viewers didn't even know what he looked like out of makeup and the Brigade was therefore based on sheer romanticism.
• Peter Capaldi ofThe Thick of It has a sizeable Estrogen Brigade, including plenty of women whowant to be bollocked by Malcolm Tucker. Most of them seem to be aroundhalf his age, and many are also fans ofJamie.Angry Scots seem to be very attractivefor some reason.
• Sherlock'sBenedict Cumberbatch and his loyalCumberbitches. After all,dirty, dirty girls love Benedict Cumberbatch.
  • WARNING:You will never get that song out of your head.
• "The Giddies", a group of femaleThe Goodies fans, described inTheClue Bible as having a shared interest in the shortness of Graeme's shorts in "Scoutrageous".
• Conan's HCPN (Hot Coco Picture Night) Wenches. Go to the Team Coco Facebook page on a Sunday night to witness lots of R-rated drooling over photos of him.
• KTLA News:This interview with Ryan Lochte andthis interview with an "Aussie hunk" named James.
• This postgame interview with asweaty, barechested and heavy breathing soccer player Bojan Krkic.

Music

• The Beatles, especially compared to their indie years.
• A rather unconventional Estrogen Brigade, butRammstein has one as well.
• Most men inHeavy Metal bands tend to have rugged looks and long-flowing hair. Do the math.
• Some historians creditElvis Presley with advancing the feminist movement because his concerts were places that female fans could go crazy and it was totally okay.

Professional Wrestling

• Tends to be rather obvious inProfessional Wrestling, and tend to have their own favorites apart from the rest of the crowd. Ever notice how the cheers for a Jeff Hardy, or a Randy Orton, or especially John Cena are much higher-pitched than the cheers for any other wrestler? Especially when Jeff takes off his shirt...
  • Randy, to be fair, makes all his matches overflow withHo Yay. He has a rather... "intense" battle stare, no?
  • This can certainly be traced back to Ricky Morton of the Rock 'n' Roll Express, who was one of the first wrestlers to be continually beat up to appeal to the mothering instincts of female fans.
  • "Clique"-era Shawn Michaels was blatantly marketed at female fans, to the point of doing a spread in Playgirl. Of course, the result was the male fans turning against him in a way that makes the current reaction to John Cena seem positively tame, culminating in Madison Square Garden rabidly cheering Sid of all wrestlers at Survivor Series 1996. In the pre-Attitude era, that type of fan revolt was shocking.
    • Many male fans take great pleasure in the stunned reaction of a female fan in the front row of that match when Sid pins Michaels clean in the middle as MSG erupts in cheers.
    • This seems to happen to any wrestler that has tha many fangirls. They usually get a lot of hate from the male fans.

Sports

• Formula One. No, seriously. Ask a girl why she's watching it, most likely she'll say for the pretty boys.
• Rugby—the most commonly cited reason from female fans as to why they like rugby is "Johnny Wilkinson's legs! Phwoar".
  • The Vicar of Dibley uses Geraldine as an example of this.
• A fewsoccer players. Helps that the players on the winning team usually follow the tradition oftaking their shirts off at the end of a game. In the 70s and 80s, the size of the shorts was also primeMr. Fanservice.
• Most femaleSt. Louis Cardinals fansdo follow the game, but may end up crushing on a player that they like. It's not usually enough to be called an Estrogen Brigade, but now David Freese is developing one since hesaved the Cardinals from losing the 2011 World Series at the very last minute of Game 6and he's cute as a button.

Theater

• Roger fromRent definitely has one! As does Mark to a lesser extent.
• The title character ofThe Phantom of the Opera has a pretty large one, resulting in an almost all-female fandom. And if you don't like Erik, there's always Raoul...
• Les Misérables probably got its initial female fanbase almost entirely from Michael Ball (the West End's original Marius), Michael Maguire (Broadway's original Enjolras), and/or Colm Wilkinson (the original Jean Valjean).

Video Games

• Tomb Raider has the "Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade". Larson's getting pretty popular as well.
• Raziel fromLegacy of Kain has this, despite lacking a lower jaw.
  • well,every single male character in Legacy of Kain.
• The vast majority ofStar Control II fans are male, but theFrungyLoversLiveJournal community is almost 100 percent female, andwas 100 percent female until recently. Several of them are Admiral ZEX fangirls (unsurprising if you've played the games, but if you think it's only because of theHo Yay,you have no idea). They like to call themselvesDeviant Schoolgirls On Speed, thanks to acolorful description of them ^{[dead link]} made by a poster on a more... 'conservative' forum.
• Final Fantasy games tend to have a large estrogen brigade, and, naturally, so doesKingdom Hearts, to the point that theyseem to have female-dominated fandoms with a Testosterone Brigade.
  • Final Fantasy VII deserves a special mention.
• Zelda has had a pretty damn big one ever sinceThe Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. The reason whyshouldbeobvious.
  • This is even referenced inThe Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. If the player finishes the STAR minigame in Hyrule Castle Town, a group of girls will squee and run away every time Link goes by. You get a couple of free hearts from the pure power of estrogen left in their wake.
• Metal Gear's Solid Snake and Big Boss have very devoted fangirls. Snake's ass and Big Boss's crotch and chest are all very well rendered. Coincidence?
  • A subgroup could take or leave the Snakes themselves, as long as they can keephis English voice-actor.
  • Otacon also has a devoted fangirl base.
  • As does Raiden. And Raikov.Though that is hardly a surprise.
    • Hell, even Volgin gets this. Some people just seem tobe intothat sort of thing.
  • After the players were introduced to their younger selves, both Ocelot and Roy Campbell have been gathering fangirls rapidly.
• TheAce Attorney fandom is extremely... vocal about prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. The "Edgey Fan Base" on the biggest fansite's forum takes up literally more than half the posts in the section about Edgeworth's game in the series.
  • Apollo gathers fangirls too, especially from themore disturbing fan sections.
  • Godot/Diego Armando has a smaller but vehemently loyal fangirlbase. Even though (and sometimes because of)his relationship with Mia Fey.
• Devil May Cry. Sexy Sparda Syndrome. Discuss.
  • To say nothing of Dante, Vergil and Nero, who stack RIDICCULOUS amounts of of fangirls. On their own andin any combination.
• Knights of the Old Republic fan fic writers have a lot of discussion (and drooling) overCarth ^{[dead link]},Atton ^{[dead link]},Mical ^{[dead link]}, Canderous, and evenBao-Dur ^{[dead link]}.
• Also fromBioWare,Dragon Age'sAlistair has an Estrogen Brigade to the point ofMemetic Sex God status - not bad for a character who's canonically a virgin.
• Team Fortress 2 sure has alot ofslashy fanart and fanfics for a gratuitously violent first person shooter with (seemingly) no plot, doesn't it?
• Shadow the Hedgehog is disturbingly popular amongSonic the Hedgehog fans.
• The Arbiter and possiblySangheili/Elitesas a whole, have their own Estrogen Brigade. Not to mention of course, theMasterChief. Despite how hard it is to find aHalo fangirl (not just a casual player, but a straight-upfangirl) they are out there.
• Sengoku Basara all the way. If the hot, predominantly male cast isn't enough to satisfy you, then the ridiculous amounts ofHo Yay and/orFoe Yay will.
• Professor Layton's Future Luke/Clive is definitely the character that generates the most fangirls out of the series.
  • Also, Luke Triton is incredibly popular amongst theShotacon fangirls.
• Inazuma Eleven despite being aShonen series for children has admittedly made many a girl swoon over middle schoolers.
• Not evenBackyard Sports is immune to this. There are actually some girls onDeviant ART who actually say thatAchmed is hot.

Web Original

• Let's see,The Nostalgia Critic is a pretty, pale, weepyJerkass Woobie withPuppy Dog Eyes. Oh male fans, it's so cute of you to think that we fangirls give a damn about what he's reviewing.
  • This applies to nearly every man onThat Guy With The Glasses.
• TheFit Media Channel onYouTube gets a lot of female viewers because the segments like theAlan Valdez Fat-Burning Super Sweat Workout just towatch guys lift weightswith their shirts off and look at their muscles and sweat.
• ThisYouTube slideshow of photos of men's butts.
• YouTube bloggerConnor Murphy, because henever wears a shirt.

Western Animation

• Ben 10 and itssequel are both aimed at preteen boys, but the shows have garnered a fair amount of teenage-and-up female fans. Some of them enjoy the show as an entity, but others just watch it for one of the male characters (or for theShipping...). Kevin is the most popular (particularly when he grows up), but some girls preferGrandpa Max.
  • This seems to be a recurring theme forMan of Action, with similar fanbase forGenerator Rex and one already developing forUltimate Spider-Man.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender's target demographic is 6-11 year old boys, so how do they explainthis?
  • Perhaps to answer this question one should partake in a bit of a drinking game. Whenever yousee a male character on Avatar lack a shirt take one shot. If you can see their chest but they still have their clothes on, take half a shot. There is your answer.
    • Don't go through with this drinking game. Your liver will die before you're halfway through the episode.
  • Although, itisLiveJournal andMost Fanfic Writers Are Girls.
• Transformers has always been aimed at boys, with female characters in the franchise few and far-between. Despite this, the series has a female fanbase—which is commonlyportrayed in the fandom as being full of fangirls who shipMegatron/Starscream.
  • Starscream in general seems to be fangirl bait, no matter thecontinuity. Nobody's really surewhy.
• Dragon Booster was also aimed at boys, with only a smattering of female characters. The message board which provided the nexus point for most of the fandom, however, has a substantial female population.
  • The same is true forStorm Hawks,
• The Warden fromSuperjail, and by extension,David Wain inWainy Days.
  • David Wain recentlyjoined deviantART. He spends his time there adding sexy fanart of his character to his favourites. It's... unsettling.
• Fan Art ofSouth Park tells a lot!
  • Parodied in the episode "The Ring", where they point out that most girls for the Jonas Brothers (or any boy band for that matter) just go to their concerts to look at them rather than listening to their music.
• InKing Arthur's Disasters, Lancelot has his own little cult of ladies following him around in "The Yodeling Dolphin of Kirkwall" and "Mission: Implausible." Hell, some gaurds were hired in one episode to drive 'em away.

Random girl takes a lock of Lancelot's hair Random Girl: I'VE GOT SOME OF HIS HAIR!!!!!!

• Similiarly toAvatar: The Last Airbender,Teen Titans, despite being originally aimed at boys aged below 12, has attracted many older female fans, mainly due to a crapload of characters serving the role of Estrogen Brigade Baits.
• Danny Phantom apparently has a huge college age female following. A lot of that has to do with Vlad and Dark Danny.

Real Life

• Robespierre isSOOOOOOO hot!
  • Saint-Just fans. Enough said. Show up for theKnight Templar, stay for theBishonen.
  • Camille Desmoulins also qualifies in a slightly cuter, revolutionary-next-door way. Shouting love letters to his wife while he was being led to the guillotine? Awwwwwwww!
• Vic Mignogna, arguably. Originally famous for his English voice-acting ofEdward Elric, not something originally aimed at preteen girls, Mignogna had an enormous fandom (until 2019) that may or may not be for anything other than his looks (he's wasn't bad-looking for a guy born in the 1960s, which may add to toSquick factor of twelve-year-olds loving him) and voice.
  • Arguably nothing. It definitely helped that the majority of characters he voiced were Bishonen. His fans call themselves the Resembol Rangers, btw.
• Barack Obama, his chief of staff, and for that matter most of his administration. Yes, it'strue.
  • At least two entries inCracked.com's 2008 Photoplasty contestThe Campaigns Candidates Wish They Could Run.
• The Founding Fathers, anyone?
  • The musical1776 probably helped cement this!
    • Damn you, Mister Adams.
• Johnny's Jimusho. A whole company full of pretty boys who sing, dance and act just for the sake of this trope
• Vladimir Putin, what with him being aMagnificent Bastard,hunting tigers, andposing shirtless.
• Dr. Oz's fans. The audience is alwaysat least 80% female; some days it's hard to spot a guy at all.
• Pita Taufaofua,Tonga'sshirtless and covered with coconut oil flag-bearer at the opening ceremonies at the2016 Summer Olympicsas demonstrated by Jenna Bush and Hoda Kotb onToday.
• The "Odagiri effect", whichThe Other Wiki says is "a television phenomenon in which a program attracts a larger than expected number of female viewers because the program stars attractive male actors or characters". It's named for actorJoe Odagiri, whose casting inKamen Rider Kuuga codified theOdagiri effect.

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