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| rdfs:label | - All Amazons Want Hercules
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| rdfs:comment | - It's often said that No Guy Wants an Amazon, and most Amazon-type female societies tend to shun the male sex. However, a certain manly type of hero is often capable of winning over these tribes of women, even their leaders. It packs a double whammy: a strong woman must have a stronger man to dominate her, and no woman is happy with a man who isn't better than she is at everything. Of course, there's also the Unfortunate Implication that real men need their women to be inferior. Examples of All Amazons Want Hercules include:
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| abstract | - It's often said that No Guy Wants an Amazon, and most Amazon-type female societies tend to shun the male sex. However, a certain manly type of hero is often capable of winning over these tribes of women, even their leaders. It packs a double whammy: a strong woman must have a stronger man to dominate her, and no woman is happy with a man who isn't better than she is at everything. Of course, there's also the Unfortunate Implication that real men need their women to be inferior. Ironically, this trope may occur out of a misplaced if well-intentioned desire to make a beloved character's intended just as good as they are rather than the significant other being 'useless'. Interestingly, a twist on this trope may be used to invert it completely, where a female character conveniently never runs into a situation where this scenario is fulfilled, thus technically pleasing anyone still using this cliché and also those who hate it. This trope is Older Than Feudalism: in Greek Mythology, Hercules is sent on a quest to the land of the Amazons in order to steal the golden girdle of Hippolyta. The Library of Apollodorus first tells the version in which the two of them battle to a stalemate and the queen is so impressed with him she gives it up freely. Also see Best Her to Bed Her. Related to The Worf Effect or Faux Action Girl (depending on how powerful the women really are). See Never a Self-Made Woman for how a couple like this would be treated. The evil version of this is sometimes Villainesses Want Heroes. Essentially the polar opposite of Weakness Turns Her On. Related to Love At First Punch, when the amazon first meets her Hercules. This trope is not universal enough for aversions to be meaningful; examples saying "averted in..." will be mowed down like wheat. Examples of All Amazons Want Hercules include:
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