I think I have discovered my very favourite comic male character type, he must have these criteria:
Extremely vain
Mainly focused on female-coded aspects of appearance (hair, skin, clothes, not body-building)
Objectively attractive
So Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, who focuses on male aspects of beauty, is out, as are many male characters who believe they are hot stuff but aren't (like John Thorpe and Robert Ferrars). Some examples are Sir Walter Elliot from Persuasion and Rogelio de la Vega from Jane the Virgin:
(Both of these men are older, that's not important, they are just the ones who came to mind)
It's also important if the vanity is extremely fragile, as in if they see a single blemish in their appearance it is a full on CRISIS and must be addressed IMMEDIATELY.
Anyway, anyone know more of these characters? I am told Howl from Howl's Moving Castle is like this, so I'm planning to watch/read that one.
