Womanisers in fiction

The archetypal of the womaniser (a male who is highly promiscuous with women), also known as the homme fatale, the serial seducer, the playboy or the ladykiller, is a common staple character in fiction. Among such characters are the following:
* The character of Don Juan from Lord Byron's poem of the same name is so well-known that his name has become a byword for womaniser.
* The similar character Don Giovanni is also well-known as a womaniser, though he is significantly more malign a character than Juan.
* Lothario is also a well-known character whose name is synonymous with womanising.
* Another renowned womaniser of classical fiction is Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
* Dorian's best friend Lord Henry Wotton also exhibits womanising tendencies.
* Count Dracula is a more sinister example of a womaniser, in the vein of predators such as Giovanni and Dorian Gray.
* Ian Fleming's famous fictional spy James Bond is widely regarded to be the archetypal womaniser.
* Many of Bond's enemies, including Elliot Carver, Gustav Graves and Le Chiffre are portrayed as womanisers.
* Patrick Bateman, the deranged protagonist of Brett Easton Ellis's horror novel American Psycho is a serial womaniser but unfortunately also a prolific rapist and murderer.
* Tom Ripley is a bisexual who is mostly promiscuous with women.
* Light Yagami from Death Note is depicted as popular among the females of his school.
* Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl is another example of a high-school womaniser.
* Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons.
* Pavi Largo and his brother Luigi from ' are comical, exaggerated, burlesqued depictions of the womaniser, as is the character of Graverobber.
* Britney Spears's hit single Womanizer is, as its name suggests, about a womaniser.
* Lord Barkis Bittern from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is depicted as a womaniser, in the vein of Giacomo Casanova.
* Sean Slater from EastEnders is portrayed as a sociopathic womaniser.
* Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, is a womaniser.
* Another example of a womanising superhero is Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.
* Heathcliffe from Wuthering Heights develops womanising tendencies as the story progresses.
* Charles Foster Kane is a womaniser.
* Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood is implied to be a serial seducer.

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