Every sufficiently decadentCasanova, criminal and villain will have at least one scantily clad floozy to serve as eye candy, fetch drinks, and slink around seductively. If the villain is sufficiently well funded, they may have an entire harem. This applies to female villains too, with bare chested malemooks at her beck and call.

As the picture illustrates, the "sultan" in this harem also has a habit of dressing the floozies in a thematically appropriate manner that coincides with their job or evencriminal theme. Not surprisingly, their employerdoesn't have any real affection or attachment to the harem, and willdisrespect or mistreat them; sometimes dumping them on the ground whenhearing bad news, ordering the floozy out when he talks shop, or outright using them ashuman shields/distractions in a firefight.

And of course, the paid for harem will haveonly nominal loyalty to their "sultan", being either extremely frisky with the hero ordisappearing at the drop of a hat. It's a rare floozy that "stands by her man." The exception is if their employer specifically hires opposite genderbodyguards ordomestic servants who just happen to be gorgeous and has them pose as eye candy.

Might be found in theDen of Iniquity during off-duty hours.

CompareGambler Groupies, whomight be paid, but if so not by the guy they're hanging on.

Truth in Television, this is probably aReal Life trope that has been stylized in TV.

Anime andManga

• Greed inFullmetal Alchemist is seen with two random women in one chapter of the Manga and in one episode of the Anime.
• The Rival Gary fromPokémon was alwayssurrounded by cheerleaders in the first seasons of the Anime. Until he lost a battle in the firstTournament Arc and decided to continue his travels alone.
• Parodied inBobobo-Bo Bo-bobo, butnot with filthy-rich Halekulani; rather, it'sGiga who has this. Which for some reason, includesDengakuman.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lordgenome is usually seen sitting on a throne surrounded by concubines. They're absorbed by hisHumongous Mecha for the big showdown.
• InOne Piece, the male World Nobles are seen with many women around them. Though it is quite clear they are not there out of choice.

Comic Books

• The Riddler inBatman hadQuery And Echo, two "gun bunnies" he was somehow able to talk into working for him as muscle and arm candy after they tried robbing him -after he robbed a convenience store.
• The Penguin often surrounds himself with a bevy of beautiful babes.
• Spider-Man villainthe Chameleon had a group of likely-paid mistresses during his short campaign to replace the Kingpin as New York's crimelord. They were clearly afraid of him, and with good reason - one scene has Chameleon hitting one of the mistresses fornot peeling his grapes before bringing them to him.

Film

• Biff's buxom blondes from the alternate 1985, inBack to The Future Part 2.
• Two-Face inBatman Forever had Sugar and Spice, a pair of attractive women who represented either fluffy goodness^[1] or harsh evil^[2] in very sexy ways. Although technically they were both evil.
  • And Bane could be called this for Poison Ivy inBatman and Robin.Poor Bane...
• With a female villain, Kronk is a borderline example of this to Yzma inThe Emperors New Groove
• SeveralJames Bond villains have them. Valentin Zukovsky fromGoldenEye had aBikini Bar with several floozies.
  • One of whom washilariouslytone-deafMinnie Driver.
• InRepo! The Genetic Opera Rotti Largo has two floozies who double as bodyguards.
  • Amber Sweet also has two male bodyguards in bondage gear.
• Dr. Frank N Furter inRocky Horror Picture Show has Magenta and Columbia.
  • Neither really act for the part, and Frank mainly has eyes for his creation Rocky, anyway. Columbia apparently was Frank's lover for some time, but by the time of the movie she's just a groupie more interested in another of Frank's ex-flames, Eddie.
    • Magenta was just his maid/lab assistant. She was more interested inRiff Raff.
  • At first impression, they do play the part, even willingly. It's not until halfway into the movie that the household troubles reveal themselves.
• Jabba The Hutt inStar Wars has a harem ofhumanoid extraterrestrials around his side.Try not to think about it too hard.
  • As far asI can recall, theExpanded Universe mentions that the other Hutts consider this to be very weird, perverted, sexually deviant behavior, but don't say anything to him about it because he's politically powerful on Nal Hutta.
  • Another theory is that he likes humanoids because they aremuch more lithe than huts are.
• Lex Luthor inSuperman IV.
  • As well as inSuperman itself. Miss Teschmacher clearly didn't stay with him out of love...
• The stewardesses in Tony Stark's private jet double as pole dancers/strippers inIron Man.
• Bruce Wayne in bothBatman Begins andThe Dark Knight does this with glee to keep up his playboy image.
• Dr. Loveless in the film version ofWild Wild West.
• InJesus Christ Superstar (1973 version) Pilate always seems to have a few beautiful women in nice dresses hanging around him, not doing much of anything.
  • King Herod is also surrounded by scantily dressed women...and men.
• The Octopus hasSilken Floss inThe Spirit. Despite the implications, she's more of aPunch Clock Villain, who only works for him to pay for her PhD tuition.

Literature

• Deconstructed in theMyth Adventures series with Bunny, a character initially foisted off on Skeeve as a moll by the Mob. Turns out she'sObfuscating Stupidity and hiding a phenomenal financial genius, and had thought quite a bit about the costs and benefits of embracing this trope beforehand.
• Subverted in the firstDeathlands novel "Pilgrimage to Hell". The Baron of Mocsin, Jordan Teague, has two girls by his side who don't change their bored expressions even when he uses them; not that Teague can do much as he'stoo fat and doped out to care.

Live-Action TV

• In theStargate SG-1 episode "Seth" (Season 3, Episode 2), the heroes go undercover in a brainwashed cult to a Earth-bound Goa'uld. Major Samantha Carter becomes part of Seth's harem.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Harry Mudd's female androids in "I, Mudd".
• Deep Space Nine. Used in the traditional fashion in theMirror Universe episodes, and Quark's D'Abo girls probably count too. Played more seriously in "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", when Gul Dukat is seen using Bajoran "comfort girls" for this purpose, including Kira's mother whom hemanipulates into thinking he's one of the more nicer Cardassian occupiers.
• Star Trek: Voyager. Mentioned though not seen in theholodeck programThe Adventures of Captain Proton!, whereMad Scientist Dr Chaotica has a harem of slave girls which the players are meant to liberate.
• In the Adam WestBatman show, if the villain of the week was male, he would invariably have an attractive female henchman serving alongside the mooks. On rare occasions, they actually served some purpose other than scenery.

Music

• This is basically the everyday mansion life of every rapper as portrayed in their songs, with throngs of gorgeous women in bikinis doing little more than strutting sexily in slow motion, dancing, swimming, or making out.

Theatre

• InStarlight Express, the electric locomotiveElectra enjoys an equal-opportunity entourage. Although they never explicitly refer to themselves as his (or her, depending on the production) harem, their actions tend to imply it.

Web Comics

• In theWeb ComicStrange Candy theEvil Overlord has a harem which goes on strike because themetallic bikinis he requires them to wear arereally uncomfortable. All of his subsequent actions are attempts to get a replacement harem.
• Parodied in the earlyMS Paint Adventures seriesBard Quest, in which the king keeps a pair of attractive scantily-clad servants by his throne...But the king is gay, so they're two shirtless muscularmen.

Western Animation

• The Penguin inThe Batman has two women dressed as kabuki styled geishas following him around in his debut episode... who also happen to be ninjas with razor sharp claws.
  • They may also berobots. It's not exactly clear.
  • Judging by their bizarre neck movements, beingThe Voiceless, never seeing an inch of exposed flesh, along with the Penguin being an expert bird-trainer, they may well begiant trained birds. Perhaps evenmutant or genetically-engineered giant birds, really, it's one of the series more amusingEpileptic Trees.
• Batman: The Animated Series, particularly theNew Adventures, did this a few times as well, including a villainess with Chippendale-esque henchmen, and disturbingly, Mr. Freeze with women inStripperifficparkas.
  • Note also that in live action film,Batman and Robin, Dr. Freeze has a eye-candy woman in what is essentially aFur Bikini slumming around his lair. However, when she asks him if he'sfeeling warm he rebukes her and points out that his heart only beats for his wife.So why keep her around then?
    • Or could it be that women going into the henchperson career look for a boss who won't be demanding sexual favors, so he gets a disproportionate number of the available female mooks?
    • This makes sense and even ties into the comics. Apparently The Riddler used to get a large number of female, and generally more intelligent, mooks because he was known for treating them better and not being so quick to sacrifice them. Conversely, the Joker usually got bottom of the rung guys who were desperate for money

Real Life

• The lateHugh Hefner's bunnies, but given hispersonality, they did actually seem to like him.

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