Editing Charlie Harper (section)

== Personality ==
For much of the series, Charlie retains his womanizing "player" persona, but at times he shows he can be dedicated to one woman. The longest relationship he maintained was with [[Chelsea Melini|Chelsea]], to whom he was more committed than to anyone else. He also fell head-over-heels for [[Mia (Two and a Half Men)|Mia]], and they planned to marry in Vegas, but he got cold feet and called it off. His longest and most peculiar relationship, however, is with his one-night stand turned stalker, [[Rose (Two and a Half Men)|Rose]]. Despite Rose's obsessive and often vengeful behavior—like breaking into his house or gluing his testicles to his thigh—Charlie develops genuine feelings for her. Near the end of Season 8, he confesses his love for her, and they become engaged in Paris. However, he cheats on her with a French maid and a goat, which leads Rose to push him under a train.

Charlie is confident, persuasive, and charming, often using trickery or manipulation to get women into bed. For example, in "Just Like Buffalo," he scatters toys he "bought" for [[Jake Harper|Jake]] around his house to portray himself as a loving uncle, then successfully charms [[Judith Harper-Melnick|Judith]]'s support group despite his sexist behavior. Charlie often views his sexual conquests as a challenge or a game, aiming to top his previous exploits. For instance, he once boasts about having slept with all thirteen members of his satanic girlfriend Isabel's coven ("Hi, Mr. Horned One") and later claims a "personal best" of five women at once ("Working for Caligula"). When [[Alan Harper|Alan]] asks which of the attractive volleyball players he wants, Charlie responds that his goal is to sleep with nine of them that night ("Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab"). However, beneath his rough exterior, Charlie does have a caring side and deeply loves his family. An example of this is when he decides not to marry his fiancée so that Alan and Jake wouldn't have to worry about finding a new place to live.

Charlie has few, if any, boundaries when it comes to who he will sleep with, even at the risk of his own safety. He has a history of sleeping with mentally unstable women, such as when he encourages Alan to sleep with his own unstable girlfriend, Sandy, saying it was "great" but that it's best to pick "a position where you can see their hands." The best example of this is Rose, although she may not have revealed her craziness while they were dating. Despite his hypochondriac tendencies, Charlie once slept with a woman who was sick, later becoming ill himself as a result—another trap set up by Rose. Even after discovering that Linda, his girlfriend, was almost identical to his mother [[Evelyn Harper|Evelyn]] in both characteristics and dress style, he still slept with her, claiming he was "already going to hell" ("Apologies for the Frivolity"). The one time Charlie refused sex was with Gloria, who Evelyn revealed might be his half-sister, which surprised both [[Berta (Two and a Half Men)|Berta]] and Rose as they finally found his boundary ("Walnuts and Demerol").

One notable aspect of Charlie's character is that despite his life of selfish womanizing, he often avoids any "karmic justice" for his actions, while the women he sleeps with or his own family suffer. For instance, he had a purely physical relationship with Alan's expensive lawyer but later dumped her for her assistant. This caused the lawyer to retaliate by ensuring Alan received virtually nothing in his divorce, a situation that became the catalyst for many episode plots ("No Sniffing, No Wowing"). Another example is his relationship with Miss Pasternak, Jake's teacher. After sleeping with her ("A Bag Full of Jawea"), she gives Jake perfect scores on his tests. When Charlie ends things with her, she suffers a breakdown, assigns excessive work to all her students, bites the PE teacher, loses her job, becomes estranged from her parents, and eventually becomes a stripper. Charlie, feeling remorseful for "ruining her life," tries to make amends by having her tutor Jake. This leads her to "see the light" and become a Christian, after which she plans to live with Charlie forever. In response, Charlie abandons her again, causing her to have yet another breakdown ("A Jock Strap in Hell").

Although he excels at getting women into bed with him, there are occasions when Charlie is dominated and manipulated by the opposite sex. The best example of this is Berta, his housekeeper, who he is actually afraid of because he claims that "what Berta lacks in cleaning skills, she makes up for in upper body strength" ("Santa's Village of the Damned"), which is the main reason he makes her do as little work as possible. However, when Charlie gets into personal trouble, it's usually because of Rose. She constantly manipulates him and controls his life by, for example, taping his testicles to his thigh, handcuffing him to a refrigerator, repeatedly breaking into his house without Charlie's consent, taping his closets shut ("Pilot"), messing with his mind by repeatedly flying from London and wearing different wigs ("City of Great Racks"), scaring away his fiancée Mia by carrying a wedding dress to her house and hoping they will not "get married on the aisle she deliberately makes Charlie sick by sending a girl with the flu to see him, tricks him into taking care of her for two weeks by drugging him constantly, stages a fake wedding with a mannequin to make him jealous ("The Crazy Bitch Gazette"), and locks him in a pit for four years ("Of Course He's Dead").

Charlie constantly "whoremongers", but shows interest in more sophisticated types of women in later seasons. For example, when he tries to talk to his girlfriend Dee-Dee after sex, he is irritated by her and asks Alan to set him up with Lydia, a judge ("Dum Diddy Dum Diddy Doo"). He is even prepared to get rid of his own dates if he has absolutely no interest in them. This is shown when he ditches a date on the sidewalk when he realises he'd rather be with [[Herb Melnick|Herb]]'s sister, Myra, after having an interesting conversation the night before ("Smooth as a Ken Doll").

He is also known to let his age get the better of him. He through out his back out during sex with an actress, ("Woo-Hoo, a Hernia Exam!") and became insecure about his age when he lost his girlfriend to an attractive Latino handyman, ignoring that he didn't like her in the first place and actually bought her affection with diamonds, ("Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-Lookin'").

Charlie's Malibu Beach house is the main driven story for multiple episode plots. He is also incorrigible to any least significant change and perceives himself as "king of the castle" where he is actually ignorant to what goes on in his own home. When Alan bought a ceramic dish and used it for a key bowl in his living room he went berserk and actually destroyed it in his fireplace in a fit of rage. He also states that everything in his living room decor is there for a reason which Alan compared to looking like TGI Friday's, ("The Leather Gear Is in the Guest Room"). Charlie has had multiple sexual relationships with women in his bedroom something that is emphasised where after Teddy Leopald died and police searched for semen in Charlie's room with a black-light, it actually covered all the walls (and the ceiling fan which he calls a "funny story"), ("Fish in a Drawer"). He sleeps using Egyptian cotton and has a self-heating toilet seat. It's also revealed he has two TV's in his room, one over-looking his bed that records him and channels to his living room television (presumably to review his sexual encounters), ("The Immortal Mr. Billy Joel") and overlooking his bathroom, ("Pinocchio's Mouth").

Many episode plots revolve around Charlie's constant efforts to get Alan out of his house. He nearly succeeds after a heated argument over a ceramic dish prompts Alan and Jake to move in with Evelyn and Teddy. However, Charlie chooses to apologize to Alan to avoid the possibility of his mother moving in with him. On another occasion, Charlie kicks Alan out after he repeatedly pesters him for the $38 he lent him, leading Alan to move in with Judith and Herb. This arrangement is short-lived after Alan accidentally kisses Judith, and he practically begs Charlie to let him return ("Pie Hole, Herb"). In another attempt, Charlie tries to convince Alan to move in with [[Lyndsey McElroy|Lyndsey]], going to great lengths like making him care for his girlfriend's cockatoo, which ends up biting Alan's penis, or having him share a shower with him ("A Bottle of Wine and a Jackhammer"). Alan eventually moves in with Lyndsey for a brief time, but they are forced to return to Charlie's house when Alan accidentally burns down Lyndsey's home ("Hookers, Hookers, Hookers").

Despite his frequent attempts to get rid of Alan, Charlie does care about his brother. For instance, he advises Frankie to break up with Alan, believing she's not right for him, and subtly acknowledges his care for Alan when Frankie asks about it ("That Was Saliva, Alan"). Charlie's caring side is also evident when he genuinely wishes Alan a happy birthday after [[Melissa (Two and a Half Men)|Melissa]] kicks him out ("David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie"). He often advises Alan against making poor decisions and, despite frequently kicking him out, always allows him back into his home. In "I Found Your Moustache," Charlie admits that he does love Alan and enjoys having him around, even though he takes pleasure in making him suffer, as he openly admits multiple times.