Gomez in the Addams Family movies is played by the Puerto Rican Raúl Juliá and is fluent in both Spanish and Italian, though his nationality is ambiguous.

One character in the first Police Academy movie deliberately invoked this trope by using a much thicker 'Latino' accent than he actually had in order to score with women.

Although he makes a living as 'the lover' in divorce cases, he's actually a devoted family man whose motto is 'Your wife is safe with Tonetti-he prefers spaghetti!'

Subverted with Rodolfo Tonetti in The Gay Divorcee (1934).

If his mate and/or children (assuming that he has any) are threatened, he may turn out to be a Dashing Hispanic Papa Wolf. A related trope to Everyone Looks Sexier if French.

See also Dashing Hispanic and Spicy Latina. In Russian pop culture, the 'Latin lovers' are generally Georgian. Mexicans are usually not considered exotic enough for Americans, but they can also fall under the trope if handsome and smooth-talking enough.Įven though they are not 'Latin' in any sense of the word, Greeks, and occasionally Lebanese, Persians and Sephardic Israelis can be pressed into service in a similar role. The Latin Lover was originally from Spain or Italy, but has expanded to include Puerto Rico (a colony of The United States), Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, and other Hispanic and Latin American countries-and, Once Upon a Time, men from the Philippines sometimes fit this description too note the result of over three centuries of Spanish colonization. The 'Poolboy' or 'New Gardener' character fits this role often. But that explanation isn't very romantic! Latin men are hotter than jalapeños and usually Tall, Dark, and Handsome, and Latin women melt butter at a five kilometer radius with their Femme Fatale aura. note Though the reason is more that they're derived primarily from Latin, the language of the Romans, than that they are inherently romantic. We don't call them 'Romance languages' for nothing.

In Hollywood, people have more sex appeal if, in their native language, the word for love is 'amor' or 'amore' (No, not a moray).

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