Unwanted Harem 

Not to be confused with Harem Genre, a genre of Japanese media that sometimes heavily relies on this trope. A common reaction from the man when a Harem plot begins and women start fighting for his attention. He might either think like a Celibate Hero, that the gratuitous quantity of boobs he is forced to see every day are just a bother, (comically missing the point that he is in an enviable situation) or see them as an obstacle between him and the girl he truly likes, or he may just find them annoying for one reason or another. A more likely reason, plot-wise, is the fact that the male lead cannot reciprocate all the girls' feelings without seeming to the audience to be cruel, manipulative, and misleading to the girls. So the far easier solution is to make him oblivious to their affection.

"Well, I'm running down the road trying to loosen my load,
I've got seven women on my mind.
Four that wanna own me, two who wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine."
-Eagles, "Take It Easy"
George:... Well, that's an Unwanted Harem if I've ever seen one.

Unwanted Harem by Happy tree times March 30, 2021