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Reformed Rakes
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"Reformed rakes make the best husbands," was a Stock Phrase in Regency England, commonly found in period romances. A Reformed Rake is what happens when the heroine of a romance story wants to eat her cake and matrimonially have it too. She ends up with a former womanizer with a penchant for criminal activity who doesn't just accept monogamy but thrives in it. Rakes—men famous for cutting a swathe through the wives and mistresses of the town—not only know how to please a lady and protect her from harm, but they are only waiting for that one special woman who will cause them to reform and turn into the perfect husband and family man. The converse is that any man who didn't sleep around as a bachelor is bad in bed and will be a boring wimp as a husband. An Undead Horse Trope, it has been mocked and deconstructed since the 1700s and 1800s, is still mocked and deconstructed today, but the played straight version has never fallen out of favor either. Sub-trope to I Can Change My Beloved and Not Like Other Girls, it's actually often the result of the combination of these two tropes. A very common Relationship Sue plotline. Compare to All Girls Want Bad Boys, but here the trope is not just that the bad boy is attractive, but that the heroine's love fixes his worst traits, so you can have both that trope and Single Woman Seeks Good Man simultaneously. Also compare Ladykiller in Love, a more realistic take on this issue, and Female Angel, Male Demon for a metaphor of this trope when the two aforementioned characters are in love. |
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Naveen from The Princess and the Frog is a rich prince who claims to have dated thousands of women (and is indeed seen flirting with three in his introductory scene). One Road Trip Romance culminating in marriage with Tiana later, he's a loving husband who helps her start her new restaurant. | |
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Tramp from Lady and the Tramp. Falling in love, being adopted into a family, and becoming a father will do that to a dog. | |
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Howl of Howl's Moving Castle, sort of. His heart was literally missing and Sophie had to reform him by finding it. He's still a snarky, cowardly, overdramatic peacock of a wizard, he just doesn't chase every girl in Ingary anymore. | |
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Parker Pyne Investigates: Pyne recommends that one milquetoast man play this role towards his wife as the only way he'll be interesting to her (he was being blackmailed by a Honey Trap like a chump and stole her jewels to pay them off, Pyne tells him to confess the whole story minus the chump part). | |
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Crazy, Stupid, Love: Dating Hannah causes Jacob to grow from a cad who sleeps with a different woman every night to a devoted partner. | |
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Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: A story in the universe, as said in "Beauty and the Werewolf": "The Rake's Reward.": | |
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Rod of Out There offers this. And Wally does it...after being married a while. |
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Bridgerton: Simon is a rake by reputation. His potential for this trope is lampshaded in the very first episode. It's shown to be true as he becomes taken with Daphne through their fake courtship. Anthony is also something of a rake. His mistress Siena is an open secret. In season 2, he interviews nearly every eligible young woman in town while in search of a wife, but once he sets his eyes on Kate, there's only her. |
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Marcus Flutie from the Jessica Darling series is this, which Jessica notes but isn't too happy about — being the first girl who he was willing to change for puts altogether too much pressure on her for her taste, and his extensive sexual history partly skeeves her out, partly makes her feel insecure about her own inexperience. | |
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Seth from Wicked Lovely. He has piercings, lives in a train, and has a reputation for getting around... Yet he truly loves Aislinn to the point of sacrificing his mortality to be with her for eternity. | |
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In The Berserkers Bride, Dagur is so devoted to his wife that she is the only person he actually listens to, her influence having prevented various acts of murder, violence, and war. | |
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In Youth in Sexual Ecstasy, the protagonist after being an expert womanizer, ends up settling down with a more prudish and conservative girl. It is stated that his past sexual experiences still do some harm to the sex with his wife, however, despite this with The Power of Love they are able to overcome them and become Happily Married. | |
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