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Any sex worker (prostitute, stripper, adult film actor, etc.) who has some baseline goodness, often a woman who becomes a love interest for a main character. Underneath the sex kitten exterior lies a very kind and good-natured flower. If they don't get killed off by an angry pimp or another villain, you can typically expect their past to either be quickly forgotten or be mentioned/alluded to constantly. This is a common trait of characters in the "street-walker" category — they are generally poor and desperate, have gone through the most embittering experiences, and frequently have debilitating drug addictions that wreak havoc on their looks and their personalities. Not that you can tell, of course, as Hollywood hookers tend to be gorgeous and never suffer from meth bugs or malnutrition. This trope is Older Than Feudalism, dating all the way back to Aspasianote Who may or may not have been one in real life. with Pericles. Contrast with the Gold Digger and Predatory Prostitute; compare with the High-Class Call Girl and Ethical Slut. In The Wild West, this character is properly called a "Soiled Dove". In 1950s Westerns, due to Bowdlerization, whores may be depicted as dance hall girls and showgirls. If they're a mother, that child will be a Son of a Whore. If Asian, they may also be an Asian Hooker Stereotype. Is liable to become a Heroic Seductress under certain circumstances. And possibly a Miss Kitty. A Single Mom Stripper is often one of these. This trope is only about prostitutes and other professional sex workers. For people who have casual sex for the pleasure of it rather than for money, see instead Good Bad Girl and Ethical Slut. However, the tropes can overlap when it comes to the more benevolent forms of sex work or full-scale Unproblematic Prostitution. Both are liable to be against any form of sex work that is exploitative and/or emotionally damaging but might consider some forms relatively safe and thus approve of them. Alternately, if the description plays up their heart of gold but plays it coy about discussing their work-related activities, it may overlap with The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Occasionally, those who have actually been damaged by prostitution may still fit this trope. Expect a Broken Bird who needs to be shown true kindness to bring out their golden heart underneath bitter exteriors. This is a character type that shows up in a lot of Christian fiction. Can be done extremely well (a la Francine Rivers) or not. Some may take pity on a protagonist and offer them a place in This Bed of Rose's. Contrast this trope with Predatory Prostitute, which is the Opposite Trope of Hooker With a Heart of Gold, in which a sex worker is depicted as cruel or violent. |
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The World of Suzie Wong was notable for being a romance between a respectable white American man, and a poor Hong Kong prostitute. The titular Suzie is presented as an Iron Woobie who is constantly used and abused by those around her - having been orphaned since the age of ten and with an illegitimate child she has to provide for. | |
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While the narrative of GLOW never quite came out and admitted that Hollywood's character was a streetwalker, it was very strongly implied—even after Hollywood became one of the most popular wrestlers on the show, beloved by both little girls and grown-ups alike | |
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Played for laughs in Saxondale, when an old friend from Tommy's roadie days drags him along to a night on the town and ends up hiring a couple of prostitutes for them both. Tommy ends up sitting next to her on the girl's bed making embarrassed small-talk (he's in a steady relationship) and, much to his bemusement, she ends up giving him some well-meaning advice on how he can take better care of his eyes so that he doesn't need to rely on his glasses as much; turns out she's an optometry student in her day job. | |
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The Dating Guy has a young woman named Marie-Claire, who offered protagonist Mark the best sex of his life in exchange for a kidney to give to her little brother, Gene. Gene needs the transplant to live, and Marie-Claire fully lives up to her end of the bargain. | |
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He used it in Cannery Row and its sequel Sweet Thursday. | |
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Kim from Miss Saigon. To be fair, she isn't much of a sex kitten (she's a 17-year-old prostitute, an orphan and in desperate need of money); Chris seems to be more attracted to her innocence. | |
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Goldstone: Pinky runs a one-woman travelling brothel, and she is the first person to steer Jay towards what is going on in Goldstone. Her happy-go-lucky attitude stands in contrast to the indentured Sex Slaves at the mine. | |
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Robin from Desperate Housewives — a thoughtful and kind-hearted (reformed) stripper. | |
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Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow features the Red Light District of Nagasaki, Maruyama, and the prostitutes that work there (many of them, unwillingly) are portrayed as very sympathetic, sometimes even hiring the protagonists to eliminate those who mistreat them. Yuzuki's path reveals that his mother was one of these, and he cannot forgive her for having left him in the care of his paternal family when he was a kid. Yuzuki's friends Aoi and Souji from the Edo Vigilantes, who often work with the prostitutes of Yoshiwara (the Edo/Tokyo RLD), state that the most beautiful High-Class Call Girl in Yoshiwara still cries herself to sleep for having left her beloved son in Nagasaki years ago... |
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Ophelia in Trading Places. She explains that she might be a hooker, but she does not use drugs, she does not have a pimp, and at her current pace she will have enough money to retire in five years, which puts her far in advance of many other women, both in and out of her profession. She helps out Winthrope because she feels guilty that she accidentally ruined his relationship with his fiancée. | |
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Act of Violence: Running away from Joe leads Frank to end up on the wrong side of town where he meets kind, yet dumb, prostitute, Pat (Mary Astor). She tries to help him find a lawyer to see if he can deal with Joe, but the lawyer is extremely shady and is only out to make a quick buck and take advantage of Frank's desperate situation. | |
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Secret Six had Liana Kerzner, a stripper who works for a club called Superior's. At first, Liana appeared to simply be a minor one-shot character, hired to dress as Scandal Savage's dead girlfriend Knockout for Scandal's birthday. Some issues later, Liana runs into Scandal and asks her out on a date. From that point Liana became a prominent supporting character in the series, effortlessly demonstrating that being a stripper and a sex worker didn't make her or her friends as objects for gratification, one-shot jokes, or shameless deviants. Liana was responsible for bringing some warmth back into Scandal's life, and her interactions with the Six did nothing to dismay Liana's Plucky Girl personality, to the point that she sets up Bane with one of her coworkers. She later ends up being the third in a polygamous marriage between herself, Scandal, and a Back from the Dead Knockout. | |
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Alexandra from Bunraku fits this trope to a tee, as a kind-hearted middle-aged prostitute who realizes she is past her prime and will never have the happy and romantic life she desires. After a young Japanese woman is kidnapped by Alexandra's lover, Alexandra ends up sacrificing her life to save her. | |
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The Story of Saiunkoku has Kochou, the head courtesan of the capital's best brothel, who serves as a close friend and Cool Big Sis to the protagonist Shuurei. | |
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RENT has Mimi Marquez, a dancer at an S&M club. She still manages to get Roger's heart. | |
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Faye from East of Eden. Kate also pretends to be this, but is actually the complete inverse of this trope. | |
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X-Men: Stacy-X was a member of the X-Men after her brothel was destroyed, and had a rivalry with Husk for Archangel's affections. Sadly, she was Put on a Bus and wasn't mentioned again until House of M some 3 years later, where she lost her powers and was killed shortly after the Decimation. However, she returned in the limited series Vengeance with no explaination given as to how she was alive or regained her mutant abilities. | |
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Clara towards Eleanor in Byzantium. It is debatable whether she cares for Noel, or if she is just using him so she can take over the hotel, though she's noticeably upset when he falls to his death. | |
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Tipping the Velvet (2002): Nan becomes a kind prostitute, although she technically works as a rent boy. Regardless, she stays her sweet self. | |
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The most outward example in the Fire Emblem franchise is Tethys from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, who alludes to possible prostitution in addition to learning how to dance alone in some of her support conversations, due to having been abandoned by her parents with her baby brother Ewan. | |
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Big Sky: Jerrie starts out as a sex worker and is a very sweet, kind-hearted person. | |
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Kitty Duval in The Time of Your Life. She decidedly doesn't fit the stereotype, and won't let any friendly person call her a whore; her cover story is that she used to be a famous burlesque queen. | |
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In The Godson, not only is Goldy one of these, she has a short monologue where she identifies the trope itself. | |
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The title character of The Goddess (played by Ruan Lingyu, a Chinese movie star of the 1930s) is a woman who engages in prostitution in order to support her young son. | |
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In an episode of House, the patient of the week collapses in her home just as she was about to be pleased by a call girl. At first, the girl plans to just run off with the money, but after a stern look from the woman's cat, she calls an ambulance and ends up sticking by her through the whole ordeal. | |
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Jonah Hex (2010): Megan Fox plays Lilah, an archetypal soiled dove. | |
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The Talmud (Menachot 44a) describes a student of Rabbi Chiyya who paid an exorbinant sum and went on a long journey to visit a famous Gentile prostitute. While undressing, he accidentally hit himself in the face with his tzitzitnote a fringed garment observant Jewish men wear under their shirts, meant to remind them of God's commandments and couldn't go through with it. The prostitute was so amazed by the self-control that Judaism inculcates that she converted and married him. | |
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The Simpsons: Although not true, Bart discusses it in "Sweets and Sour Marge" by referring to Erin Brockovich as "the prostitute with a heart of gold." | |
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Not a love interest, but Dominic Deegan has Danika the stripper, whose life is spared by Knight Templar Celesto when he finds out she's a single mother. | |
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V from the Melanie Griffith film Milk Money. It led one paper to ask, "Will Hollywood ever retire the Hooker With a Heart of Gold? The concept is so ancient, so hackneyed, so ready to be laid to rest, you'd think producers would laugh at any writer who dared to propose it." | |
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In a roundabout way, Peorth of Ah! My Goddess; She's a wish-granting goddess who specializes in romantic wishes (both literal and as a euphemism). | |
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The Kids in the Hall: One sketch showed a man falling in love with a prostitute and intends to take her away from all of this, but she shows no interest in it other than saying "Eh, it's your money". Years later, after they are married, and living together in the suburbs with children, the man runs out of cash, and the woman walks out and gets her Pimp (who is by now an old man in a wheelchair) to hassle him. The sketch ends on a Black Comedy note: the man is now asked by his kids when mommy was coming back. Another parody: a man walks up to the two recurring streetwalker characters in a sketch and tells them he's looking for "a hooker with a heart of gold." He laughs in their faces, but then they tell him: "Oh, you want Wendy. She's three blocks away in front of the donut shop. …and don't you let her give you a freebie!" Another sketch has a couple of prostitutes treating a schoolteacher on the condition that he teaches their pimp how to read. |
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In Lost Causes, Jessica Rabbit's Dark and Troubled Past involves her being forced into prostitution because the only "job" she's able to do is have sex. This leaves her social pariah even amongst other Toons. Still, Jessica is a sweet woman who was simply conditioned to deal with her traumatic life. | |
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The Girl Next Door, where Elisha Cuthbert's former-pornstar character actually ends up with the main character at the end, and they presumably live happily ever after. | |
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The Castle episode "Love Me Dead" has a character who seems to be a textbook example. She's actually the villain. | |
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Superman: Earth One: Clark's love interest, Lisa Lasalle, in volume #2, is revealed to have been working as a prostitute to earn extra money. Even before Clark knew about her, they had already developed feelings for one another. Superman even saves her from an angry client. However, they decide to remain Just Friends. In volume #3, she discovers his secret identity and they have a Relationship Upgrade. | |
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Tashka in He Lover of Death is a teenage prostitute who refuses to abandon her alcoholic mother and is absolutely devoted to her comrade Sen'ka. She ends up killed by Budochnik after excruciating Cold-Blooded Torture since she refuses to reveal Sen'ka's whereabouts. | |
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Ryuuji's mother Yasuko in Toradora! acts like this trope, but she technically isn't a hooker, just a late night bar hostess — which in some aspects is perceived as pretty much the same in Japan. Aside from that, she's a very kind-hearted person and loves her son a lot. | |
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When Otono-Tachibana Makie from Blade of the Immortal was no older than ten-years-old she bested her 5 years older brother, the Heir to the Dojo, in a sparring duel, the resulting disgrace leading him to being Driven to Suicide and both Makie and her mother to being cast out by Makie's father into the whorehouses. After this, Makie came to respect her mother for never letting their harsh circumstances get to her, instead dedicating herself to providing comfort to others. In probably one of the finest defenses of this trope, Makie, who is progressively being forced into walking down the path of the warrior, tells her friend, who in turn is being forced into prostitution, that she will be giving others comfort and happiness while all warriors do is kill. "So live with pride, O-Hatsu. With pride." | |
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves: Calista is a friendly young prostitute who Billy falls for. He doesn't hold her profession against her, wanting Calista to marry him (though she declines). | |
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Revival has Nikki the stripper: she's drug-free and has strong boundaries against actual sex work. Overall she is a decent match for her boyfriend and a stabilizing force for his son. The boy's mother can't see past Nikki's profession and blames her for the father's failure to improve himself. | |
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Pilar Ternera, Petra Cotes and Nigromanta from One Hundred Years of Solitude. The first woman is among the first Macondo inhabitants and shares deep bonds with the Buendia Big, Screwed-Up Family up to being the actual mother of two of its members, Arcadio (with José Arcadio Junior) and Aureliano José (with the soon to be Colonel Aureliano), the second is The Mistress of one of the Buendia descendants and his one true love, and the third is one of the girls working for a local Miss Kitty actually a more-than-100-years-old Pilar and the closest to a best friend Aureliano Babilonia has. | |
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In Community episode "The Politics Of Human Sexuality" Doreen seems to be a very pleasant, likable and wise woman who offers Jeff some valuable advice. She does dump Pierce and then make him pay to continue the date they'd arranged, but considering this is Pierce we're talking about that's hardly unjustifiable. | |
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American Nightmare (1983): Louise, one of Isabelle's fellow strippers at the club where she is employed, is portrayed as a well-meaning young woman who is simply trying to survive in the sordid environment that is the unnamed city. | |
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The RWBY fanfic Vale's Underground portrays Pyrrha Nikos as a sex worker. And she's still a total sweetheart, best exemplified by how she treats Jaune. She genuinely cares about his feelings and is rather patient with him. | |
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Hilariously subverted on the Canadian cartoon Kevin Spencer when Kevin's mother Anastasia leaves her family and is walking through the streets when she meets a wealthy man who thinks she is a prostitute, mostly because she typically works as one. He gives Anastasia this treatment, but she remains as much of a fat, disgusting, alcoholic, lowbrow slob as she ever was and the rich man kicks her out of the house at the end of the episode. | |
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Fantine in Les Misérables turns to prostitution as the only available way to support her daughter and herself, in that order. Neither the book nor the world-famous musical takes her occupation lightly: the musical devotes an upbeat musical number to the dehumanizing life of a seaside hooker. The book is still more detailed about it, but then again, the book details everything. | |
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Natsuki Mogi, Takumi Fujiwara's crush from Initial D. She's actually a quite sweet Girl Next Door aside of that detail, and later does her best to get out of teen prostitution (or "compensated dating" aka Enjo Kosai in the anime) when she decides Takumi is the right guy for her, but it's MUCH harder than she thought... And guess who gets bashed and called "heartless, stupid, vapid whore" by fans? | |
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Paranoia Agent has a twisted example of a woman who is a prostitute and has a heart of gold... and a split personality, each of which takes only one of these two features. | |
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The Shadowleague books give us Rochalla, who is only a prostitute because she needs to buy medicine for her younger brothers and sisters, all of whom are dying of the plague. | |
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Camilla from Zoophobia is a violence-prone stripper who is just a misunderstood girl with a passion for dance, limited by her unfortunate reputation. | |
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Rita (Maya Rudolph) in Idiocracy is a prostitute, though Luke Wilson's character never catches on. | |
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Yandere Simulator: Kokona Haruka is a friendly, cheerful girl who goes to school with Yan-chan. She's also involved in Compensated Dating, which can bring great shame to a girl and her family... except she only does it to help her father get out of debt. Technically compensated dating doesn't have to involve sex, but it often does, and it's implied that Kokona goes beyond kissing for the sake of getting more money. She doesn't want her friends to get mixed up in her troubles — should the player have Yan-chan offer to help her, Kokona pleads with her to not get involved. If Yan-chan does anyway, Kokona's so grateful to Yan-chan that she agrees to back off of the boy they both like out of gratitude. | |
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MARRIAGETOXIN: Somewhat; Kinosaki is not a sex worker, but his job is to seduce people into losing money to him. That said, he is shown to be nothing but kind to everyone but his targets. Even when he was on the verge of death at the hands of Gero, he still gives Gero solid dating advice and assures him he will meet someone proper for him if he just keeps opening himself up and meeting new people. | |
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La Nona: Martita's actual jobs have always been of a "doing sexual favors" nature, what with her taking night shifts and getting picked up at her home by a man in a luxurious car. The reason she does it, however, is to lend financial support to her family. She could have gone and rented her own place but has decided to stay and give up most of her pay to help buy food and other necessities. Her love for her parents and extended family is genuine too. | |
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Messed with in Raines, where the victim in the first episode turns out to be a prostitute. Raines' hallucination of her even uses the phrase "whore with a heart of gold", and mocks him for his insistence on seeing her as sympathetic. She ultimately is sympathetic, though. | |
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In an episode of Arrested Development, Justine Bateman plays a highly paid hooker who Michael (played by her brother, Jason Bateman) mistakes for his long lost sister. He hires her as an accountant due to this misunderstanding and puts her in charge of a huge amount of money. Michael suggests the fact she doesn't steal it means that she isn't his sister. | |
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Two of them in Cloud of Sparrows. Marianne married Stark in a flashback, and his Character Arc is about seeking revenge for her murder. Heiko is a geisha and assassin sent to kill Genji if he ever proves troublesome, but she later decides to let him live. | |
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The Escort from Town of Salem uses her distraction skills to protect the Town from The Mafia. | |
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Hedy LaRue from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Heck, she even has a song called "Love from a Heart of Gold". | |
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Furry Fight Chronicles shows Tasha, the boss of Monyan, to be the one who allowed Cookie to set her office in the janitor's room rent free for two years because one of her Combagals (Skully) saved her girls from an Attempted Rape two years ago. She and her friends also help Muko with her training in Chapter 25. | |
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In House of Leaves, we have Thumper, the stripper that Unreliable Narrator Johnny idolizes. | |
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Silver Lode: Dolly, the local saloon girl and an old flame of Ballard's, ends up the only person besides his wife-to-be who doesn't turn against him. | |
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The Phoenix Requiem has an interesting variation, in that the story begins several years after Petra left her former line of work, and she's just beginning to earn a degree of respect in her new hometown. | |
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Holidays: All of the cam girls shown in Halloween are nice to other people, except their abusive pimp Ian, whom they get bloody revenge on. | |
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Delilah in Unforgiven is the sweetest and most innocent of the working girls, whose ill treatment at the hands of a gang of bad cowboys is the kick-off point for the movie's plot. A case can also be made for Strawberry Alice fitting this trope, as she's the unofficial leader of the working girls and her prime motivation throughout the film is avenging Delilah and defending the other girls. | |
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The stripper Cassidy in The Wrestler. She represents Randy's second chance at living his life outside of the shadow of his former wrestling career. He ultimately spurns her love for a most likely suicidal wrestling match. | |
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King of the Hill: The Hills take in a woman that turns out to be a hooker, trying to earn her GED and lead a better life, but "fell back into" prostitution because of the money she wasn't making at Strickland Propane. She, after a series of events where Hank "bought" her from her old pimp, became somewhat of a family friend, eventually attending Luanne's wedding. | |
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Discworld: Reet, Carrot's acquaintance in the novel Guards! Guards!. Of course our innocent Chaste Hero never does work out what she does for a living because she gives her profession as "seamstress". Rosie Palm is shown as a regular seamstress in Night Watch and is depicted as a hard-as-nails woman who isn't exactly too sympathetic to "Keel's" plight. This partially stems from "Keel's" temporal confusion, giving her the honorific 'Mrs.' which only senior members of the profession adopt. In later books when she is Mrs. Palm, and the chairwoman of the Seamstresses' Guild, she's consistently shown as the most sympathetic of the guild leaders. The SoLid DoVEs in Monstrous Regiment are an aversion, as Polly expects the prostitutes to be this when they're exhausted, abrasive and take advantage of drunks. Ptraci in Pyramids is a helpful and sensible "handmaiden" who assists Teppic in trying to save his kingdom. Subverted in that, while she can recite the Disc equivalent of the Kama Sutra from memory, she's never actually had sex. This is probably because she was handmaiden to the late king ... as her mother was before her. |
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Daughter of Fortune Azucena agrees to help Tao with Eliza's care in exchange for Eliza's jeweled brooch. She ends up becoming fond of Eliza. When Captain Sommers bumps into her and recognizes the brooch, he demands to know what became of Eliza. Azucena lies on her behalf and says Eliza died at sea, figuring she is doing Eliza favor by misleading somebody looking for her. Joe Bonecrusher and her girls go out of their way to help out the sick at the village where they are at during an epidemic. |
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The White Lotus: Lucia's a kind, cheerful young woman who's also a prostitute. She also appears to develop genuine feelings for Albie. It's subverted in the end: she cons his family out of 50,000 euros by putting on a "wounded bird" act, knowing Albie would fall for it hook line and sinker. For Valentina, Mia's kind, forgiving and loyal, helping her embrace being a lesbian while having sex with her to get the singer position at the hotel. |
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Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, crashed at a stripper's apartment; afterwards the entire band ended up crashing at the stripper's apartment at the same time and destroying the place. The stripper even gave Izzy rides to rehab. | |
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Despite living in Hell, Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel is a good person, even if its not readily apparent. Angel Dust was a gay 1940s New York gangster, and is now a spider demon Drag Queen porn star turned prostitute/crime boss. He'll sleep with anyone for money, which funds his drug and alcohol addictions. He also loves violence, casually gunning down his enemies in a turf war. He's sarcastic, sassy, and crass, and will take every opportunity to mock and taunt friends and foes alike. However, he is the first demon to willingly give Charlie's hotel a chance, and clearly wants to comfort her after she bungles her TV interview. He also saves Cherri Bomb from an incoming attack, demonstrating that he is loyal to the people he cares about. | |
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In Babylon Berlin, Charlotte Ritter works as an unregistered prostitute at nights (as a result of Weimar Germany's crappy economic situation), but actually dreams of becoming a police homicide investigator, which is why she tries to get on with the protagonist (and vice squad officer) Gereon Rath. | |
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The Pecos Kid's 'girlfriend' Rainbow in Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, although exactly how much of a 'heart of gold' she has is up for debate. | |
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Nancy from Oliver Twist. It's only implied in the original, but in the foreword to a later edition, Dickens confirmed that she was, in fact, a prostitute. | |
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The Book of Hosea is a subversion. The prophet Hosea was told by God to marry the harlot Gomer (no, not that Gomer) as a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel. She wouldn't give up her whoring ways, her (possibly illegitimate) children ended up with depressing names referring to how God felt about Israel, and Hosea had to buy her back. | |
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It shows up in Gabriela, Clover and Cinnamon, Tenda dos Milagres and Tereza Batista, Cansada de Guerra, for example. | |
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In A Gunfight, Abe's girlfriend Jenny is a 'dance girl' who works at Marv's saloon, and she is one of the most thoroughly decent people in the movie. | |
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Subverted in X-Men: First Class. Angel's friendly with the rest of the group, but is the first to join Shaw (albeit for morally ambiguous reasons). | |
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In the second episode of the Knight Hunters series, Yohji Kudo meets and befriends the prostitute Maki, who betrays her pimp for him and ends up dead because of it. Yohji later kills the pimp both to avenge her and because the pimp was one of the targets of Weiss' original mission; meeting poor Maki just made the pimp seem that much more despicable, so he enjoys it more than he would have otherwise. | |
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Lolita, the saloon girl in Rimfire who is sweet on The Abilene Kid. She saves his life during the Gambling Brawl when she claps her derringer to Blazer's head when he draws a gun on the unarmed Kid, and later is one of the few citizens to cooperate with Tom in his quest to catch the killer. | |
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Miss Audrey in the Liaden Universe. She's a Space Soiled Dove and is one of the most moral and smart people around in her area. Heck, she even runs a school. | |
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The In Death series occasionally features sex workers (termed "licensed companions" in the setting, which has legalized and instated regulations upon the profession) as victims, witnesses, and/or suspects. They run a gamut of personalities and mostly aren't portrayed as especially good or bad, but there are some examples of the trope. The foremost is recurring character Charles Monroe, a high-class male LC who plays a supporting role in several books and becomes a friend to Eve (and eventually quits the business to become a sex therapist). | |
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Many supporting characters in Tales from Netheredge count — Rask, Joy, Charna and others — as well as two of the protagonists. | |
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Candice LeRae kicked off the Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli\BLKOUT feud of Pro Wrestling Guerilla by standing up to abusive pimp The Human Tornado. She also confronted and sort of reformed sleazy woman groping Joey Ryan. Though the sex work allusions gradually disappeared, suggesting she left it behind. | |
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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist: Madame Ovaree, to some extent. Possibly the rest of the ladies at the... errr... ladies' house. | |
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Cass and eventually Jeremy from A Cruel God Reigns fall into this troupe. Both boys resort to prostitution to help deal with troubled homes lives and drug addiction. (Cass due to his alcoholic, Abusive Parents and Jeremy due to the trauma of Greg's abuse as well as a result of being an orphaned teenager in Boston.) Both boys take care of another young boy, Bon Bon who is so dependent on drugs that he literally cannot function. Daisy also fits into this trope when she tells Jeremy about Greg's doings at the whore hotel and how he said he killed his previous wife. | |
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Xianne from Melody, who gives sexual massages and works in a strip club (though not as a stripper), is one of the most compassionate characters in the story, and tries to do her best (morally and otherwise) in everything she does. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas Joana is a Med-X addicted hooker enslaved by the Gomorrah Casino. In the quest "Bye Bye Love", you help her kick her addiction and escape from the casino to reunite with her lost lover, Carlitos. Old Ben is a rare male example (and indeed has a heart of gold, being one of the few characters marked with "Very Good" karma), though he's had various different occupations throughout his life and is retired by the time of the game. He was noted for his charismatic nature and can be recruited as a "Smooth Talker" for the Atomic Wrangler by convincing him that he offers comfort to those who need it. |
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Patti the Daytime Hooker from My Name Is Earl. She is always kind, willing to help Earl, never overcharges for her "services," (quite the opposite, in fact), always goes above and beyond for her "clients," is mentioned as having a son that she's putting through hairdressing school, and never eats peanuts or tree-nuts (in case her clients are allergic to those things). Even though she implies that life hasn't gone as she planned (which is why she's a Streetwalker despite holding a master's degree when most other characters barely have a high school diploma), and she's gotten some diseases from her "work," she never complains, either. | |
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Abby from Hobo With a Shotgun is one of the only characters in the film that could be called "good". She apparently got into prostitution because it was her only option in the Crapsack World in which the movie takes place. | |
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Lula from the Stephanie Plum novels… sort of. When she first meets Stephanie, she is, indeed, a ho'; after she's maimed lightly and tied up on Stephanie's fire escape, she opts to leave the sexing life to become a bounty hunter herself. She routinely brings up "back when I was a ho'" as it relates to the current situation. She has kind of a stereotypical "sassy black woman" attitude about her that would conflict less with the trope if she were smarter in general. She's incredibly gung-ho about the idea of being a bounty hunter, but, as a consequence of aforementioned not-that-brightness, she has a tendency to make things worse. | |
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System of a Down's song "She's Like Heroin" from Mezmerize/Hypnotize sort of plays with this. It describes a prostitute who is more than willing to indulge her client's strange fetishes but also describes how she's toxic and addictive. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: The second Ofglen was a former prostitute who views (or rationalizes) her current station in life as an improvement from her previous life and chides Offred for straying from acceptable behavior by speaking with the former Ofglen/now-Ofsteven for self-preservationist reasons. That said, she ushers Offred her away from the scene of Ofsteven's joyride for her safety and gives her some assuring words before they part for the day. | |
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Amakusa 1637 gives us Kichou aka Kikuhime, the gorgeous mistress of a cruel daimyo who befriends The Heroine Natsuki. She's very much a Nice Girl with some shades of Broken Bird and falls in love with Natsuki's childhood friend Eiji. | |
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Prostitute Jessica Kamen from the Jet Li film Kiss of the Dragon, who's forcibly given drugs when she refuses to take them and does at least look and act somewhat trashier than most examples. | |
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Fasalina from GUN×SWORD plays this trope straight and subverts it. She is Affably Evil because of her genuinely kind, calm, soft-spoken, and polite nature, but she also works for the Big Bad to atone for her past as a prostitute by bringing his Assimilation Plot to fruition, making her a rare villainous example/spin on this trope. | |
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Referenced in American Dad!, with a newspaper headline reading "Hooker Killed for Heart of Gold". | |
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In Batman: Year One, Frank Miller's reboot of Batman, Selina Kyle (Catwoman) is a prostitute who becomes a costumed criminal. In The Long Halloween, set shortly after Year One, she has given up that lifestyle and used the money she stole to become anti-heroine, member of society, and friend/love interest from Bruce Wayne. | |
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Diana and Paul in College Roomies from Hell!!! are in some ways both examples of this, and subversions of it; while they are both kind and sweet people, they are also enthusiastically sex-positive even when not working (indeed, it sometimes seems they are so sweet because of their lack of hangups), and have no real desire to 'escape' from streetwalking. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: The Dwarf Commoner's half-sister Rica is a noble hunter (essentially a Fantastic Caste System Gold Digger) forced into it by a crime boss. She's a genuinely sweet person and if the PC is female, she implies that she's doing it because it isn't her, it'd be the PC prostituting herself. | |
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Grushenka from The Brothers Karamazov is depicted as this for most of the book. It doesn't help that her beauty is such that a man can't really take his eyes off her. But later on, we learn that she's a nice person at heart, not the manipulative slut we'd imagined. Some people would be disappointed by that. | |
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Leaving Las Vegas: Sera, a classic Broken Bird variant. | |
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Molly from Neuromancer: Although it's rare, she does show some emotion toward a select few people, and she becomes a love interest for Case. | |
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Macho Dancer: Both Noel and Bambi are good-hearted and practical sex workers. | |
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Corbie in Doctrine of Labyrinths is a prostitute when Felix Harrowgate meets her. She helps him find a cheap hotel, helps him learn a strange city... and he takes her as his apprentice. | |
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In Princess Mononoke, Toki and many (if not all) of the other women in Irontown used to work in brothels. They are very kind, if sarcastic, and all bravely take up arms and defend their town from the invading samurai. | |
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Sin City: Averted with the prostitutes of Old Town, who are armed to the teeth and are willing to mow down anyone who gets in their way. Which still makes them better than the ones they do mow down. Played straight with Nancy Callahan, who is a stripper with a heart of gold. She was saved from a sadistic pedophiliac serial killer by honest cop John Hartigan when she was a kid. She's friends with at least Marv as well, the violent Conan in a trenchcoat. She's also studying law when she's not working in the bar. |
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A big part of Spectra's characterization in Vow of Nudity, as her endlessly traumatic life and cosmic bad luck wound her up in the circus as a freakshow/prostitute who's universally shunned and distrusted due to her changeling race. But despite this, she endlessly strives to be a good person even as the universe ensures every choice she makes blows up in her face for reasons largely out of her control. | |
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Nova in Fallout 3 is the town prostitute in Megaton. Moriarty forces her to do this, and if you kill him, then she will abandon prostitution and co-own his bar with Moriarty's other worker that he enslaved via debt. | |
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LISA has a play on this with recruitable party member Queen Roger. Roger hits all the marks for the trope, including drug addiction and a troubled past. | |
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While the term is not stated outright, it becomes obvious in your conversations with her that Astis from Piss is a sex worker. She also has a very sweet personality and sunny disposition and is one of only three people in the game who seem to genuinely care about and be concerned for Moira (the protagonist), and she is clearly trying to look out for her and wants to help her as best she can. | |
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In Origin Story, one of the nicest characters is Louise Fulford, who was trapped in prostitution by her kidnapper/pimp, and took the first opportunity to escape the life that was given to her. | |
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Luca, a prostitute in the Conviction arc of Berserk, is one of the few genuinely good characters in its Crapsack World, and gets props for being one of the VERY few good people who doesn't end up being maimed or raped or killed off for being good, since, in the Berserkerverse, being good automatically enlists you in the Red Shirt Army. | |
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Heavily implied with Luca Trulywaath in Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica works as a Dive Therapist. While not outright stated, it's shown that Dive Therapy can involve sexual acts to fulfill certain client's fantasy in the Dive Therapy and Luca might practice it to improve her reputation, especially in her Lv. 5 Cosmosphere wherein one scenario she does use sex appeal seduces Croix and almost escalates from going further and in others allude to other sexual fetishes and practices. Despite being implicated as a high-in-demand prostitute who only does it earn, Luca is still a caring girl who does want to use her job make others happy even if she doesn't fully enjoy it. | |
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Gangsta. features a fair few of these, in particular, our main characters Alex and Rare Male Example Worick, both of some of the nicest people in the series. | |
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In Grenadier, Touko Kurenai opens a brothel-complex after retiring as a member of the Ten Heavenly Enlightened. Said red-light-district is a neutral zone which serves as a sanctuary for war-weary warriors and a refuge for survivors of violence, as well as offering redemption for perpetrators of violence who wish to reform themselves. | |
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Alma Schmidt (aka "Lorene"), Prewitt's girlfriend in James Jones' From Here to Eternity. (In the film version, this was sanitized by making the character a "hostess" at a nightclub.) | |
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Yan from the Love, Death & Robots episode "Good Hunting" follows this. Though she was forced into sexual slavery, she nonetheless maintains her morals. Most notably, she only goes on a killing spree in order to avenge women who were sexually assaulted by the Englishman. | |
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Arcane: The old prostitute yordle Babette which Claggor was scared of turns out to be one. In Act 2, she's become a Madame and is willing to update Vi about what's happened since Silco's rise despite the risk. Notably she doesn't sell Vi out unlike another old friend of Vander. | |
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The SoLid DoVEs in Monstrous Regiment are an aversion, as Polly expects the prostitutes to be this when they're exhausted, abrasive and take advantage of drunks. | |
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The Cowboy from The Boys in the Band is a Rare Male Example: a sweet-natured Brainless Beauty of a young man who notes that he always tries to show his partners real affection. | |
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Inami from Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, who was a brothel madam before joining Takiko and her group. | |
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The Equalizer: Alina is a kind girl who's a sex worker and abused by her pimp, a ruthless Russian mobster. Robert intervening to help her is what kickstarts the film's plot, and it's later shown he helped her get into better things (she's an aspiring singer) with a generous gift. | |
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Former call girl Dr. Brooke Magnanti arguably fits this trope as she now works as a scientist who does research into child health. | |
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Lucky Luke: While never referred to as prostitutes (it being a children's comic), the saloon dancing girls are usually friendly to Luke, one even knocking him out and wearing his clothes to take his place in a duel so he wouldn't risk getting hurt. | |
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Rose Guns Days has Meryl and Stella, who like many women in the setting are in this "job" because they don't really have much choice, but hold their head high and take pride in their role in the end. They can also kick some ass when the need arises. | |
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Daylight (2013): Ray was convicted years ago of the murder of the prostitute Rosita, but he says that she was nothing but kind to him, and he has nothing but fond memories of her. | |
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Trope is very common in novels which deal with adventurous characters, where most prostitutes are treated with uncanny sympathy. James Clavell's Asian Saga springs to mind. Part justified as the usual environment where the characters live (sailors, adventurer merchants, military men on and around the battlefield) has few opportunities to allow people make friends and build relationships outside - if Character X's nearest woman in many miles is a hooker, after some time they will become good friends, for sheer necessity if anything. | |
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Six of Tripping the Rift is a former sex slave, until a programming upgrade made her too smart and sensible to suit that line of work. | |
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Trish from Knights of the Dinner Table. It's very easy to understand why Tank is crushing on her. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: In Shoes to Die For, it's revealed that instead of a nurse, Becky's roommate Nina is a stripper and a prostitute. Hooker? Yes. Heart of Gold? HELL no. | |
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Jeremy on Sports Night briefly dates a porn star during his break up with Natalie. Naturally, the porn star was also a Romantic False Lead. | |
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In The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, saloon gal Katie appears to be this at first, having befriended the Baltimore Kid when he was down-and-out drunk, and then entering into a romance after he is cleaned up and becomes town marshal. However, it is all an act and she actually befriended the Kid to pump him for information so her boyfriend could pose as the Kid when he robbed the Wells-Fargo office. | |
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In One Foot in Hell, one of the crooks Mitch recruits for his scheme is Julie Reynolds, a prostitute who hopes for enough money to go East and make a respectable life for herself. Over the course of events, she falls in love with fellow conspirator Dan Keats, and the two of them plan to go straight and buy back Dan's farm in Virginia. | |
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In Dreamless, the male lead Takashi's friends hire him a prostitute. He is not amused. The woman is very accepting of his explanation that he's not interested in getting his money's worth, and proves herself to be quite pleasant. | |
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In Murdoch Mysteries, it's eventually revealed that the large number of kindly "aunts" that raised Constable Crabtree were actually a Band of Brothels. | |
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Betty, the prostitute near the Mermaids' Tavern in 2Dark | |
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Abigail Marston (nee Roberts) from Red Dead Redemption and its Prequel Red Dead Redemption 2 was a prostitute before the events of either game. She's kind, loving, and one of the more decent people in a series full of crooks, liars, and murderers. | |
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Of all things, the musical Starlight Express, notable for all of its cast being locomotives or railroad cars, has Belle, the sleeping car with a heart of gold. | |
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An episode of NCIS featured a killer who was going after the clients of a prostitute. The team called in a reformed, high-profile call girl, named Holly Snow, to help with the case. | |
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Averted with Angel in Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love — she’s so embittered by the constant objectification she’s received during her life as a “soiled doveâ€� that she has become very cold and manipulative. Played straight with a couple of other prostitutes in the same novel, such as Lucky, who, while rather sad and lonely, is also quite compassionate and maternal. | |
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A French Village: Natacha, a prostitute who Henri meets, not only is a very nice woman, but also risks her life to aid a resistance group by gathering information on the Germans. | |
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In Eva Luna, the main character refers to the girls who work under La Señora as basically this. They're normal, kind-hearted, good-looking, hard-working young women who dote on her via taking her out to the movies and have cake afterwards — it's just that they happen work as High Class Call Girls, and the then-pre-teen Eva doesn't judge them for their occupation. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Robin's Reckoning", in a flashback, a young Dick Grayson saves a woman from being harassed. She later thanks him by giving him some food in a diner. It is heavily implied that the man was her pimp. | |
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In DC Showcase: Jonah Hex, the bargirl who provides Jonah information about the murders in exchange for enough money to leave the life. After Jonah rewards her, she thanks him by kissing his cheek. His scarred cheek. | |
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Killing Zoe, by former Tarantino writing partner Roger Avary, can best be described as what happens when a hooker with a heart of gold is caught in the middle of a drug induced bank robbery in Paris. | |
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In the Masters of Horror episode "Imprint", the prostitute Komomo is explicitly described as this. She lingers on to the promise Christopher made to take her away from her hard life. Which makes it all the more tragic that he murdered her in his insanity. | |
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Dungeon Crawler Carl: "Juice Box" is a changeling, which she uses extensively in her profession, but she also cares very deeply about the other changelings, and helps Carl out (even though he's not a client) in exchange for helping her to protect them. | |
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Marida Cruz from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn also fits this trope perfectly: while initially your usual, stoic character, she turns out to be one of the most fleshed out characters in the story, and offers Banagher insight, advice, and even encouragement. In addition, she also cares greatly for her "princess", and her "Master", Suberoa. And when you remember that she's one of the "discarded" Puru clones, she becomes even more tragic. | |
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Once Upon a Time in the West provides the page-quote, and Jill is also one of these (formerly). | |
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Brutally deconstructed in the Vietnamese epic poem The Tale of Kiều. The protagonist Kiá»�u is tricked into the profession by a pimp, and is raped repeatedly. Any attempts she made to escape from the brothel or preserve her "dignity" (i.e. virginity) is anticipated by her head madame Tú who concocts plans to crush her spirit, make Kiá»�u thinks she is no longer worthy of love and has no "dignity" left, so that she would give in and serve clients. Even after she has escaped the brothel, she remains traumatized. In the end, she is reunited with her first love, but only enters a Sexless Marriage with him as she no longer thinks she is worthy. | |
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The prologue to Born To Be Alive features a polar bear prostitute named Katya. She offers to share her income with a vixen friend named Nadja, but the clients want nothing to do with foxes. Nadja calmly accepts the rejection, so she may have a glimmer of gold too. Spoiler—click to revealShe has a daughter to take care of. | |
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The victim of the very first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Cindy Stone, who was dating the resident Butt-Monkey, Larry Butz, at the time of her murder, was revealed to have numerous "sugar daddies". One of Larry's gifts to her was a clock in the shape of The Thinker statue, which says the time out loud when it's head is tilted. Despite being pretty heavy for a clock, in no small part due to its complex mechanisms, Stone still took it with her on a trip to France. | |
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Subverted in The Boondocks episode "Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner", when Granddad dates Cristal, who is obviously a prostitute and Gold Digger, but Granddad refuses to believe it. He is eventually forced to confront it when her pimp shows up. Despite an awesome/heartwarming moment where he defends Cristal's (supposed) honor to the pimp, she ultimately chooses to go back with him rather than stay with Granddad, even though he's clearly fallen for her quite hard by this point. | |
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Bob's Burgers has Marbles, Cha-Cha, Glitter, and fan-favorite Marshmallow, four hookers who are all friendly. The first three are recurring clients of Bob's when he took a second job as a cab driver, and they listen to Bob's problems, compliment his mustache, offer to share with him some beers and some crack, and give Tina some solid advice and a reminder of what a good father she has. As for Marshmallow, she's a semi-regular customer of Bob's and is willing to help him out with problems like the new stools making fart noises and needing to be sat on over and over until they stop. | |
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Lou Dem Five in Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire is a madame with a heart of gold. No, really, she's quite nice and basically founded what eventually became a franchise for the purpose of making sure the girls got an even break. Her best worker, Sizzlin' Sue is also an example of this. | |
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Kelly Ball, a character from Shameless (UK) fits this trope. She is a better parental figure to Liam Gallagher than any other character. | |
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In the Irish movie The Guard, Brendan Gleeson's cop protagonist is the regular client of a pair of sex workers who come down from Dublin once a month for a threesome with him. They're not Broken Birds, and seem perfectly happy in their job and his company. It's the rare fictional portrayal of a healthy relationship between sex worker and john. | |
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Madame Tracy from Good Omens is mostly a Phony Psychic, but maintains sex work as a side business—though she's semi-retired these days, since both she and her clients are getting up there in years, and many of the men who hire her now are more interested in having a nice cup of tea and enjoying her company. She's also a sweet and gentle-hearted woman who takes Shadwell's insults about her profession in stride. (Her response to him standing in her hallway, yelling that she's a whore? "Free advertisement!") | |
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When Ban Daur visits an exclusive gambling den in Blood Pact, the hostess who welcomes him feels genuinely sorry for the young, gentle man who is about to waste his life and fortune. She doesn't realize yet that her establishment will be soon scammed by Rawne and his cronies. | |
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Shadows of the Empire: Mayli Weng, a representative of the Exotic Entertainers Union, constantly advocates for better working conditions for exotic dancers and impresses Xizor with her good manners. | |
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Ptraci in Pyramids is a helpful and sensible "handmaiden" who assists Teppic in trying to save his kingdom. Subverted in that, while she can recite the Disc equivalent of the Kama Sutra from memory, she's never actually had sex. This is probably because she was handmaiden to the late king ... as her mother was before her. | |
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Parodied in the Futurama episode "Hell is Other Robots", there is Hooker-bot 5000, programmed with a heart of solid gold. | |
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Yvette, Maria and Mimi from 'Allo 'Allo!. Some nights they entertain the Germans with "the wet celery and the flying helmet", other nights they are brave champions fighting to free France from the Nazis. | |
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Laurie, Sam's friend on The West Wing, is putting herself through law school by working as a High-Class Call Girl. She's perfectly nice to Sam and makes it clear to him she doesn't need to be "saved" from her side gig. When Sam and Josh try to ask her for dirt on any Republicans she may have worked with she angrily throws them out rather than give them anything. | |
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Manila in the Claws of Light: Bobby, a friendly call boy who offers food and shelter to Julio at a low point. He offers to recruit Julio into prostitution not predatorily, but as a solution to his economic situation. | |
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La Vie en Rose: All the women in the brothel in the childhood of Édith Piaf, and Titine (Emmanuelle Seigner) in particular. She's a young troubled redhead prostitute who becomes emotionally attached to little Edith. She sings to, plays with, and tenderly cares for Edith through her job including an episode of keratitis-induced blindness that is healed through their prayers to St. Thérèse. Which makes the scene of Edith's father's returning to take her away with Titine screaming hopelessly one big invokedTear Jerker. | |
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Rahab, a supposed harlot who lived in Jericho and kept two Hebrew scouts from being discovered by the city guards. This allowed them to return and relay their information to Joshua, which led to the capture of the city. Rahab, for her kindness, was spared by the conquerors. The city of Jericho was pretty much doomed anyway since Joshua and his army had strict orders to level it. Rahab saved herself — and her entire extended family — the only way she could. The New Testament implies that she became an ancestor of Jesus, while Judaism traditionally says that she married Joshua. The Talmud (Menachot 44a) describes a student of Rabbi Chiyya who paid an exorbinant sum and went on a long journey to visit a famous Gentile prostitute. While undressing, he accidentally hit himself in the face with his tzitzitnote a fringed garment observant Jewish men wear under their shirts, meant to remind them of God's commandments and couldn't go through with it. The prostitute was so amazed by the self-control that Judaism inculcates that she converted and married him. |
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Lucifer (2016): Variant. Lucifer mentions that porn stars are exceptionally rare in Hell, which he attributes to all the "good work" they do on Earth. | |
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In Heileen, Lora is a prostitute who is also the mistress of Otto. While she flirts with every man around her, she loves Heileen like a daughter (and, possibly, much more). | |
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The Nostalgia Chick's BFF Nella has a "schoolteacher who is also a whore with a heart of gold" in her My Little Pony melodrama | |
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Not a main character, but a side-quest in The Witcher involves a "streetwise cop, whore with a heart of gold, true love". The chief of the Watch falls in love with a high-class prostitute and through their love and the help of Geralt, they break his curse of lycanthropy. It's about the only point of light in the Crapsack World that is The Witcher. Unless of course, you kill him. | |
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Tegan of Plume, who helps Vesper and Corrick track down Dom and then joins Vesper, supporting the girl as she's left alone. | |
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From Magi: Labyrinth of Magic Anise, a prostitute from the slums of Baldadd is Alibaba's mother, and a very caring and sweet one too. She even adopted her son's best friends after their father disappeared. | |
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Lauren from Heavy Rain forces her way into Scott Shelby's investigation of the Origami Killer, despite the danger, to bring her son's killer to justice. If she survives and your other characters don't catch the killer, she succeeds. | |
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Implied but never fully confirmed in regards to Terry's first girlfriend Lily from the Fatal Fury first movie. She's very beautiful, curvy, nicknamed the "Queen of South Town", first wears a white dress with a generous cleavage, is a part of Geese Howard's entourage, and throws a rose in the air with the promise of spending a whole night with the man who catches it — but any word similar to this trope or "High-Class Call Girl" is never directly uttered. And a big part of Lily's characterization goes more for her being a Broken Bird with a Dark and Troubled Past who's murdered by her sponsor Geese for pulling a High-Heel–Face Turn for The Hero, Terry, who was a part of said Dark and Troubled Past as well. | |
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Yuri in Nana. A giggly, giddy AV idol (porn star) who shares a boarding house with Blast and Miu and tends to speak crudely. | |
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A tragic example; Petra in Caliphate is a poor Christian girl forced into prostitution because she was raped by her master's son. She is still delicate because of the abuse she endures. Her "trainer" Ling arguably counts herself, even though she puts Petra through a lot of suffering, she still feels bad about the poor girl and secretly plans to smuggle her out of safety to China. | |
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Saturday Night Live did a skit called "Lolene" about a hooker who's only nine inches tall played by Tina Fey. She's saving up her earnings to go to Paris, France but she gives it all away to an orphanage that will close down without any money. | |
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Yuki, one of the main characters of Acid Town fits neatly into this trope; at age eleven, the death of Yuki's mother forced him to resort to prostitution to feed himself and his baby brother. | |
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The Obsidian Chronicles: Sweet, Rose and others in the House of Carnal Society brothel. They aid Arlian by providing him with food, shelter, clothing and advice, even when it risks them if it's discovered. Rose is murdered along with several others for it. | |
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Game of Thrones: Shae, in sharp contrast to the novels, where she's Only in It for the Money and has no particular loyalty or feelings to anyone. By the second season, she has very little in common with her page-bound counterpart. Ultimately completely subverted in "The Children", in which she's found in Tywin's bed, calling him "My Lion", the same nickname she gave Tyrion. She then tries to kill him. She was ultimately only a whore in the end. Initially Doreah appeared to be this; she was friendly with Dany and even taught her the art of seduction that would win over Khal Drogo. However, she eventually revealed her true colours as an opportunist. |
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In Eyes Wide Open All the Time, Aki Yazaki is a homeless streetwalker and the resident Team Mom of the Freebird gang. | |
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Starsky & Hutch: Hutch unknowingly falls for one of these in the episode "Gillian". She tries to get out of the job, but doesn't make it. | |
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Emily's best friend Martha from David Copperfield is explicitly said to be this. The people of Yarmouth except for the Peggotty family hated her to death because of this, so Emily helped her to leave for London so she won't carry the stigma anymore. Martha later becomes a Chekhov's Gunwoman, helping Daniel and David find the missing Emily.. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Reynard's love interest, Hermeline, plays it straight. | |
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In !HERO: The Rock Opera, Maggie is a former prostitute who became one of Hero's disciples. | |
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Helena Montoya from the manga Eden: It's an Endless World! is a complex example. Her relationship with main character Elijah Ballard is part lover, part big sister and despite having a bit of a mean streak at times genuinely cares about him. Notable in that she chooses to be a prostitute of her own free will and continues this during her relationship with Elijah, sometimes literally doing it in front of him, causing Elijah quite some mental anguish. | |
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Sanjouno Haruhime of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? was disowned by her clan and ended up being sold as a prostitute. Despite this, she's extremely sweet and gentle, always radiating an aura of innocence. In fact, she's so terrible as a prostitute, she's not aware that she's still a virgin, due to always fainting before her customer even touched her. | |
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You Me Her: Jack refers to Izzy, who's an escort, with this exact phrase early on, and she is indeed a kind, friendly young woman (though imperfect). Her best friend Nina is one too, with a more obnoxious exterior. | |
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Marion Lavorre from Critical Role, known by her moniker "The Ruby of the Sea" is a High-Class Call Girl known far and wide across the continent of Wildemount. She is also the mother of Jester, one of the party members who thinks the world of her. When the rest of the party finally meet her, she is shown to be kind, courteous, and very accepting of Jester's new friends; they all agree that she's probably the nicest person they've ever met. | |
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Yuko from My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness fits the bill, complimenting and accommodating the neurotic protagonist in a life-changing event. Her agency seems friendly too. | |
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Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox gives us minor character Kohada, who was forced into prostitution by a friend's boyfriend. While she's a Broken Bird who covers up her brokenness by being a Stepford Snarker, the narrative notes that in her time as a sex slave, she's had a few genuine moments where she willingly indulges and "tutors" johns who admit to being virgins out to silence their friends' Virgin-Shaming. | |
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Unsounded: Dawn worries that Stockyard might be hurting Sette, even though the other employees tell her it's none of their buisness, tries to save everyone rather than looking out for herself when the Nevergreen turns into a hellish deathtrap, helps Sette open the locks to get rid of the silver rather than flee with her friends, tries to stop Starfish from going after Sette and still mourns her stillborn son years after the fact. | |
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Red Sonja seeks out the world's greatest prostitute Aneva in The Art of Blood and Fire. Aneva is hoping to create a Band of Brothels to protect herself and her fellows but is persuaded to join Sonja when she learns that if Sonja is successful one thousand slaves will be freed. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic-BioShock crossover, Vision, we know that Zephyr is one of the few nice ponies in the city from her first chapter. In the next chapter, we also learn that she's the other half of this trope when Siren walks in on her and Soft-Spoken Sadist Echo. | |
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Doctor Who: Rosita from "The Next Doctor", the title character's companion, is implied to be this. She's a very brave woman and a good friend who met him when he rescued her from a Cyberman while she was out alone, at night, at the docks. | |
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I Really Hate My Job: One of the characters is a down-and-out waitress trying to become an actress, someone offers her to star in a porno and she's so desperate that she contemplates becoming this. | |
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Anger Management has Sasha; her pimp is both a Jerkass and risk for violent behavior, but there's actually no sign whatsoever that he's a Bad Boss to Sasha or the other escorts working for him. She seems like a nice woman, and this characterization isn't subverted—however, it does subvert the trope's (and Charlie's) fantasy that a hooker will always want to quit for the sake of a special client. She does quit working for the pimp, and thereby makes him angry, but her intention is not to quit prostitution, but to found her own escort service, and get three of the pimp's other employees to quit and join her new escort service. | |
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Averted in Man of La Mancha, where Aldonza knows full well her status in the world and hates it (and spends most of her time singing about it). | |
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Subverted in one episode when Nick develops feelings for a prostitute. She told him that she was planning on leaving the life and going back to college. Then she is found dead in her home after Nick spent the night there. Nick is nearly charged on suspicion of being her murderer, but Catherine finds the real killer in time. The subversion comes at the very end when Nick confronts her killer. The killer claims that she wasn't going back to college for an education. Instead, she was planning to recruit more girls as prostitutes to start a new career as a pimp. He was her former pimp and he killed her to preemptively remove the competition. He mocks Nick, saying "this isn't Pretty Woman, she's not Julia Roberts, and you're not Richard Gere." | |
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They turn up in CSI from time to time (well, it is set in Las Vegas). Notably, the one who, to her obvious great sorrow, found a dead 11-year-old on a city bench and the one who helped Catherine and DB when they were running from hitmen. Subverted in one episode when Nick develops feelings for a prostitute. She told him that she was planning on leaving the life and going back to college. Then she is found dead in her home after Nick spent the night there. Nick is nearly charged on suspicion of being her murderer, but Catherine finds the real killer in time. The subversion comes at the very end when Nick confronts her killer. The killer claims that she wasn't going back to college for an education. Instead, she was planning to recruit more girls as prostitutes to start a new career as a pimp. He was her former pimp and he killed her to preemptively remove the competition. He mocks Nick, saying "this isn't Pretty Woman, she's not Julia Roberts, and you're not Richard Gere." |
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Most characters in the Hooker!verse, to various extents. The Nostalgia Chick gets this status through her Pet the Dog moments towards the Critic; The Nostalgia Critic because of the sheer terribleness of his situation making him The Woobie by default; Liz for comforting the other characters and being able to not only stay a genuinely nice person but also hold on to a religion despite it all, etc... | |
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Geilen from fantasy comic Garanos is not a love interest for anyone, though it's implied later that she slept with Senberan to get information, and possibly had a relationship with the captive Ethreden, but admitted her profession openly soon after being introduced and doesn't seem especially ashamed of it. Possibly subverted later when she's revealed to be The Mole for Gharsena, but it seems she was only doing it to get the cure for the disease she has, and once she finds out that Gharsena made the disease she turns on her, but sadly suffers Redemption Equals Death. | |
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Daka from St. Vincent (2014) cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change, so she seems to at least care about his health. She also seems like she truly cares for their child. | |
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Finnick Odair from The Hunger Games is a rare male example, since he was forced into prostitution by the Capitol. | |
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Cassiopeia on Battlestar Galactica (1978). She may have been called a "Socialator" in the pilot due to Executive Meddling, but we all knew what that meant while it was stated that it was considered a perfectly respectable profession in Colonial High Society. Later episodes show her hanging out with the Galactica's medical staff, and the Novelization of the pilot suggested she retrained as a Nurse, that being more useful than her old profession, which had some first aid knowledge. | |
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Good Luck To You, Leo Grande: Leo is a sex worker who genuinely loves his job, and is a kind, eloquent, friendly person who goes the extra mile to make his clients happy. When he sees how nervous Nancy is before their first session, he talks with her at great length to help her calm down, and gradually brings her out of her shell. | |
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The pornstar/director/producer Zig Zag from Sabrina Online is another subversion; she has the required Dark and Troubled Past and heart of gold, but loves her job and takes great pride in the quality of what she produces. Later on, she pretty much takes up the role of spiritual mentor to the (comparatively) prudish main character and proves a shameless mothering figure to the other members of her studio. She also guest-stars in a number of other Web Comics. | |
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The character KC Koloski on China Beach might at times seem to be a subversion or aversion of this trope, but with the way she constantly helps the others (even when she seemingly doesn't want to, she does it anyhow), she's actually an embodiment of it. | |
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Karen Kasumi from X/1999. She never becomes a love interest for any of the main characters, though it's strongly hinted that Karen does have feelings for Aoki, but doesn't act on them because he's married (or in the TV series, recently divorced). She has a tragic past involving cults and parental abuse, and then she's a motherly figure for the younger Seals and in the manga, for one of the Angels - driving him to pull an Heroic Sacrifice for her sake. | |
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South Park: Liane Cartman is the nicest parent in the town (though she spoils her son far too much), but ends up in German porn and on the cover of Crack Whore magazine. Classi, who is noble, but far more aggressive than the usual portrayal. She initially became Nathan's girlfriend, but turns on the little snot after he slaps her and wails on him, and helps Jimmy take down the Ads. |
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Satine in Moulin Rouge! is a High-Class Call Girl who gives every sign that she's just a shallow materialist but secretly longs for freedom and respectability... and love. | |
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In The Debbie and Carrie Show, Rose Dawson is a young woman who became a prostitute to support herself after an abusive upbringing by her stepfather. Her lifestyle made her despised by most in the town, but she was actually a good person. | |
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A third-season ep of Veronica Mars involves a client who wants to find a girl he met at a sci-fi con (which he didn't even indulge in) …who turns out to have been a call girl hired by his friends to provide him with a "date" experience and sex… who when she's found claims to have fallen for him in turn… and then it gets complicated. | |
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In at least the anime version of Samurai Gun, there's Ohana. Forced to work in the local brothel due to a debt racked up by her now-dead parents, she's otherwise a very sweet girl and the girl that Celibate Hero Ichimatsu visits — primarily because she has no qualms about the fact he doesn't want sex from their time together. She also has a crush on him, and he is implied to have a crush on her. Towards the end of the series, the brothel is burned down and she is given work as a waitress at the same restaurant that Ichimatsu does. | |
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In David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series, a Madam cares very much for her girls. Especially in the lawless world below the Net, she is a rare example of a truly good person in the series. | |
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Mike in Magic Mike. All he wants to do is make furniture on a beach somewhere. He also bails out his coworker with his life savings. | |
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Veronica Franco is portrayed as this in Dangerous Beauty; she is also a High-Class Call Girl, since she was, after all, a Venetian courtesan and poetess, although it must be pointed out that she seems to have no sympathy at all for Giulia de Lezze, whose only crime seems to be to have married Marco Venier, Veronica's lover, and to resent it when her husband openly keeps Veronica as his mistress. | |
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Detective Rogo's wife Linda in the 1970s version of The Poseidon Adventure in which basically he kept arresting her to get her off the street until she agreed to marry him. | |
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In The Man Who Came Back, Jennifer O'Dell plays a prostitute who allows the protagonist Reese Paxton to hide in her room at the cathouse and keeps him hidden when the bad guys are searching for him: refusing to give him up even when Billy Duke tortures her with a cigar. | |
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Parodied/lampshaded in the trope-attacking movie Rustlers' Rhapsody, when the cowboy breezes into town and the drunk offers to show him how it is, he points out a prostitute. "But I bet she has a heart of gold." "How did you know?" | |
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Shoot 'Em Up: DQ who, to protect baby Oliver, will give a John a blowjob to buy him a bulletproof vest. Smith quips, "I hate to think what you'd do to get him into the right school." | |
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Diane in RPG World. Subverted by the eventual discovery that although her class is officially "Harlot," she's never actually done the deed and is in fact rather naive when it comes to sex. | |
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Nokaze of Jin is a High-Class Call Girl working in Edo Red Lights district and kind of a jerkass, but she's honestly caring for her friends and once she finds out how good a doctor Jin is, she's always there to help him. | |
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Isabelle from Pandora's Tale is a sex worker and resistance member who ends up as Pandora's de facto guardian when the escaped Helper imprints on her. She's kindhearted and patient, and takes her new role very seriously, teaching Pandora about consent and fending off clients who think she's available based purely on the fact that she's a Helper. | |
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Rod Stewart's "Little Miss Understood." | |
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Édith Piaf's song "Milord" is about a gentle lower-class "girl of the port" (perhaps a prostitute) who develops a crush on an elegantly attired apparent upper-class British traveller (or "milord"), whom she has seen walking the streets of the town several times (with a beautiful young woman on his arm), but who has not even noticed her. The singer feels that she is nothing more than a "shadow of the street" (ombre de la rue). | |
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Isabella from Hollow Places works as a stripper on the weekends, but that doesn’t stop Austin from admiring her for being honest, unselfish, and overall plain human, traits he finds lacking in most of the other characters. | |
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Firefly: Nandi, and most of her staff (women and men) in the episode appropriately titled "Heart of Gold." While Inara was a Companion, one of the highest regarded members of the society, Nandi, who found that life too restrictive, was a "common whore," as Inara mentions, someone who is looked down on by the same society. Because of this, Nandi couldn't expect help from the Alliance and called Inara, an old friend from her Companion days. Inara convinced Mal and company to come to their aid, Jayne especially so when he found out what the "payment" was. Inara herself is a subversion. She does have a heart of gold, but she doesn't actually want to be rescued from her career. Mal and Kaylee seem to think that she's better than what she does and should want to be rescued. |
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According to her backstory, Lalah Sune from Mobile Suit Gundam was a teen prostitute before Char recruited her. | |
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Savannah Sumner of Key West, to the point that she monitored (and cared for) the health of the island's other inhabitants, went out of her way to not embarrass the professionals and politicians who were her most regular customers, and would reschedule her date book if one of her friends needed her. | |
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Shanghai Express's main protagonist is a High-Class Call Girl nicknamed 'Shanghai Lily'. A part of the movie's plot is her reconciling with an old flame from before she became a prostitute. She at one point offers to become the villain's sex slave to save the man's life. Another character is a doctor of divinity who learns the Aesop that prostitutes can have souls too. | |
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Clarice from Girls with Slingshots, who is an S&M dominatrix for hire and a porn store clerk; especially in the last issues of the webcomic, where we see her as extremely lonely and longing for affection, and ends up pairing up with the book nerd Joshua. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Yumi Komagata, loyal to her lover Makoto Shishio until the very end, as well as a Broken Bird and Soujiro's Cool Big Sis. Yahiko's ill mother was this before she died, and when an enemy tries to use his mother's profession as a slur against Yahiko he replies that he's proud to be her son since she did everything she could to take care of him. |
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In Girl House Kylie is working at a cam girl house to pay her tuition and help her mum after the death of her father. | |
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One of the early TV prototypes: Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty. Yeah, the show never mentioned what she and the other girls did at the Long Branch. But who couldn't guess? This was a lot more obvious in the original radio version of the show. | |
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Antonina in the Belisarius Series is an former high-class courtesan, but that didn't stop Belisarius from falling in love and marrying her. | |
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Stevie in The Machinist comforts the struggling protagonist who is also a good customer of hers. | |
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My Own Private Idaho: Mike Waters is a prostitute because he is from a disadvantaged background and has narcolepsy, thus ensuring that he can't really have any normal job, as he falls asleep at the most inconvenient times. Many of the other prostitutes are shown to be in the profession by circumstance rather than thinking it's a great job. His friend Scott starts out like this, caring for Mike and making sure he stays safe but then turns into a jerkass and abandons him. | |
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Yuka Otowa from Crescendo (JP); her reasons for her descent into this lifestyle are tragic and sad, linked to her parents' suicides and the abuse she suffered in foster homes and an orphanage. The player can get the bad ending by making the Player Character a total bastard and having him sleep with Yuka solely for sex,note Via failing her Secret Test of Character where she leads the protagonist to a love hotel to see if he can see beyond her carefree facade. they can get the good ending by not taking advantage of her (and her and the PC can lay together of their own free will in much happier circumstances) and redeem her. (Ryo aka the protagonist is NOT that kind of guy anyway, so treating Yuka like that makes the player the bastard/bitch). | |
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Invoked in 1634: The Baltic War: as a group of mercenary officers are fleeing from probable execution, they decide to see if the intended spouse of one of them, a former prostitute, will hide them. | |
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Belle Watling, the madam with a heart of gold, in Gone with the Wind, who always has clear moral insight, strangely enough, and donates generously to the cause. (Other characters of this type named Belle are probably allusions to her.) The authorized sequel Rhett Butler's People makes her even more sympathetic by revealing that she fell in love with Rhett and had his child. | |
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In the 1988 Only Fools and Horses Christmas special "Dates", Raquel Turner was introduced as one of these. She wanted to be an actress, but could only get not-real-acting jobs like stripogram or (in her second appearance) magician's assistant. After meeting Del, she gave up this profession after a Stripper/Cop Confusion at Albert's birthday party. | |
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Primrose Azelhart in Octopath Traveler is a tavern dancer who is heavily implied to have done more than just dancing at her job and is all but stated to have "entertained" the clientele, as well as her master Helgenish. With that said, she is still a fundamentally kind and sweet young woman who acts as Cool Big Sister to other female members of the party. By extension, Prim's fellow dancer Yusufa also qualifies. | |
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Succession: Willa is an escort hired by the much older Connor to be his live-in girlfriend. She's a generally friendly and sweet person, and while she's not in love with Connor, she does like him, and displays genuine concern for his overall well-being. She's one of the few characters to be completely uninterested in the corporate scheming and backstabbing that defines the series; Willa simply wants to enjoy the wealth Connor provides her and try to become a playwright. | |
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Jane Greathouse in Young Guns II is a loyal companion to Billy the Kid and his gang, who runs the town brothel. | |
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Velvet Velour from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is an exotic dancer and Ethical Slut working at the strip club Vesuvius. She has a gentle demeanor, and whenever she asks you to do her a favor, it's always to help preserve the vampire Masquerade. One of your missions is to visit a regular of hers and destroy the manuscript of the play that he's writing because it comes a little too close for comfort in all of the ways that it seems to know legitimate vampire secrets. She implores you to be as gentle with him as you can and to destroy the piece without him noticing, because he's so sweet and optimistic that it would break her heart to see him crestfallen when his work is destroyed. | |
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The Sunne in Splendour: Jane Shore, King Edward's favorite mistress, isn't as beautiful as his wife, but unlike the queen, she's kind and generous and fun-loving. After Edward dies, she winds up marrying the barrister sent to defend her on a morals charge. This actually happened, much to the stern Richard III's chagrin (and in the book begrudging amusement). | |
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Reet, Carrot's acquaintance in the novel Guards! Guards!. Of course our innocent Chaste Hero never does work out what she does for a living because she gives her profession as "seamstress". | |
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More than a few of these would show up on Night Court. Most notable was Carla B., who developed an attraction to Harry Stone, the only man to be nice to her without expecting some sort of "favors" in return. | |
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