Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

Sexy turned squicky and/or disturbing on purpose. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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The Power of Love Plucky Comic Relief Mexican Standoff Worthy Opponent The Reveal Smoking Is Cool Peek-a-Boo Corpse In Name Only Badass Longcoat Dirty Coward Action Girl Groin Attack Intrepid Reporter Card-Carrying Villain Ascended Extra Russian Films Cool Shades Mooks Anachronic Order Big-Bad Ensemble Diabolus ex Machina Light Is Not Good Lock and Load Montage Accidental Misnaming Spared by the Adaptation Composite Character In Medias Res Only in It for the Money Playing Gertrude Shirtless Scene Humiliation Conga Blood from the Mouth Genre Throwback Ship Tease Loads and Loads of Characters Disproportionate Retribution She Cleans Up Nicely Final Girl Adorkable Sexy Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Time Skip Gainax Ending For Want of a Nail The Ditz Wounded Gazelle Gambit Psycho for Hire Badass Normal '80s Hair Vomit Indiscretion Shot Auto Erotica Shown Their Work Wicked Cultured Redemption Equals Death Match Cut Stock Footage Fan Disservice What the Hell, Hero? Never Trust a Trailer Thriller Police Brutality You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Scenery Porn Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Retirony The Atoner An Axe to Grind Zombie Stories Imagine Spot Those Two Guys From Bad to Worse Hair-Trigger Temper Every Car Is a Pinto Serious Business The Cavalry Bald of Evil Title Drop Sci-Fi Horror Demoted to Extra Arch-Enemy Casting Gag Recycled IN SPACE! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Deus ex Machina Sports Stories Big Bad Duumvirate Not So Above It All Demonic Possession Informed Ability Spiteful Spit Double-Meaning Title Extreme Doormat Bullying a Dragon Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Redshirt Army Villain with Good Publicity Cat Fight Precision F-Strike Adaptation Expansion Dogged Nice Guy Male Frontal Nudity Freudian Excuse Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Cool Old Guy Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! B-Movie Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Captain Obvious Pimped-Out Dress Faux Affably Evil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Face Death with Dignity Fire-Forged Friends Fake Shemp Pretty in Mink Alliterative Name As You Know Ambiguous Ending Beard of Evil Protagonist Title Historical-Domain Character Evil Brit Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Badass Bookworm Kill 'em All Defrosting Ice Queen Superhero Love at First Sight Corpsing Oh, Crap! Happily Married Insistent Terminology Jump Scare Naïve Newcomer Fourth Date Marriage Well-Intentioned Extremist Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Artistic License – Law Retcon Disappeared Dad Famous Last Words I Have Your Wife Toplessness from the Back The Lancer Fish out of Water Hell Is That Noise Stealth Hi/Bye Fat Bastard Mind Screw Wretched Hive The Alleged Car War Is Hell Japanese Films Mr. Exposition Big Fancy House Developing Doomed Characters Hope Spot Taking You with Me Shipper on Deck The Smart Guy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cool Guns This Is Gonna Suck Off with His Head! Man on Fire Shell-Shocked Veteran Historical Villain Upgrade Large Ham Wham Shot Scare Chord Adapted Out 20 Minutes into the Future A.I. Is a Crapshoot Not So Different Artistic License – History World of Ham Bad "Bad Acting" Broken Pedestal Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Expository Hairstyle Change Blackmail Easily Forgiven The Musical Mercy Kill Evil Laugh Danny Peary Cult Movies List Obstructive Bureaucrat Eldritch Abomination The Load Show Within a Show Adult Fear Camp Gay Adaptation Dye-Job The Bad Guy Wins Batman Gambit Friend to All Children All There in the Manual Drill Sergeant Nasty Evil Sounds Deep Leave the Camera Running Asshole Victim Television Movie Index The Un-Reveal Heel–Face Turn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Alcoholic Horror Comedy Ironic Echo Novelization Take a Third Option Butt-Monkey Hero Antagonist Morality Pet Shower Scene Reality Is Unrealistic Neck Snap Woman in White Becoming the Mask Evil Counterpart Horror Films Laughing Mad Dwindling Party Room Full of Crazy Taking the Bullet A Date with Rosie Palms Not What It Looks Like All There in the Script Call-Back Rasputinian Death Defiant to the End Eiffel Tower Effect Irony Lampshade Hanging There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mistaken for Gay Does This Remind You of Anything? The Smurfette Principle Implacable Man Rich Bitch Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stealth Pun Australian Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender Martial Arts Movie Authority Equals Asskicking The Faceless Heroic BSoD Stalker with a Crush Karma Houdini Pre-Mortem One-Liner Sassy Black Woman Damsel in Distress Insane Troll Logic How We Got Here Break the Haughty Crazy Jealous Guy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bait-and-Switch Vitriolic Best Buds Curb-Stomp Battle Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Motor Mouth Small Name, Big Ego Destination Defenestration Cassandra Truth Undying Loyalty Kick the Dog Trailers Always Spoil After the End Creepy Child Non-Indicative Name Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Our Vampires Are Different Would Hit a Girl Rated M for Manly Hong Kong Films Conspicuous CG Index of Film Westerns Greater-Scope Villain Death Glare Femme Fatale Hidden Depths Deliberately Monochrome Sadistic Choice Missing Mom Heroic Sacrifice Did Not Get the Girl And the Adventure Continues Aluminum Christmas Trees You Killed My Father Darkest Hour Dutch Angle Real Life Department of Redundancy Department Rewatch Bonus Black and Gray Morality The Dragon Self-Deprecation Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stepford Smiler "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mugging the Monster Manchild Empathic Environment Central Theme Rule of Three Gratuitous English Ominous Latin Chanting Anti-Hero Humans Are Bastards Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Creative Closing Credits Boom, Headshot! Arranged Marriage Knife Nut Roaring Rampage of Revenge I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Line-of-Sight Name Epic Movie Black Comedy Rape Real Life Writes the Plot Daddy's Girl Half the Man He Used to Be Evil Is Petty Nothing Is Scarier Annoying Younger Sibling Woman Scorned Heroes Want Redheads Canadian Movies Off-into-the-Distance Ending Monumental Damage Fiery Redhead The Great Depression Maybe Ever After Due to the Dead Overly Long Gag Funny Background Event Knight Templar Gorn Dark Is Not Evil Arc Words Manly Tears Eagleland Deal with the Devil Neck Lift Token Minority The Oner Dies Wide Open Villainous Breakdown Make It Look Like an Accident Driven to Suicide Bottomless Magazines Early Installment Weirdness Villain Song Getting Crap Past the Radar The '90s One-Man Army Artistic License – Geography Big "NO!" Hypocritical Humor "Well Done, Son!" Guy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness I'm a Humanitarian Corrupt Corporate Executive It Can Think Unresolved Sexual Tension Adaptational Villainy Fatal Family Photo Bland-Name Product Dual Wielding Brainless Beauty Hollywood Darkness Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Interrupted Suicide Apocalypse How Chekhov's Gun Foil Abusive Parents Names to Run Away from Really Fast Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dropped a Bridge on Him Product Placement Blatant Lies Fun with Acronyms Insult Backfire The Voiceless Smug Snake The Bully Framing Device All Girls Want Bad Boys Fate Worse than Death Logo Joke Sequel Hook It's Personal Put on a Bus La Résistance Even Evil Has Standards Chiaroscuro Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Action Prologue Better to Die than Be Killed Crapsack World Bilingual Bonus Anyone Can Die Dark Reprise Badass Boast Anti-Villain "Awesome McCool" Name An Arm and a Leg Moment Killer Cool Old Lady Gender Flip Intergenerational Friendship Red Shirt Totally Radical Visual Pun No Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Action Survivor Cool Car Male Gaze Disney Death Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dark and Troubled Past Decoy Protagonist Reality Ensues Kubrick Stare Dramedy Big Applesauce Papa Wolf Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Babies Ever After Adaptation Distillation Fingore Pyrrhic Victory Immune to Bullets Extremely Short Timespan Breaking the Fourth Wall Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Mythology Gag Guile Hero Suspiciously Specific Denial Properly Paranoid Lighter and Softer Bloody Hilarious Crucified Hero Shot The Brute Kids Are Cruel Chewing the Scenery The Hero Meaningful Echo One Steve Limit Re-Cut Gone Horribly Right Chekhov's Gunman An Aesop Action Genre Rule of Cool Facial Horror Eureka Moment Children Are Innocent Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Amusing Injuries The Mafia Psychopathic Manchild Berserk Button Cruel and Unusual Death My Beloved Smother The Dog Bites Back All for Nothing German Films Double Entendre Reality Has No Subtitles Vacation Films A Minor Kidroduction Sealed Evil in a Can Deconstruction Death of a Child Brutal Honesty Ghost Fiction Freeze-Frame Bonus The Vamp Failed a Spot Check Cain and Abel Your Cheating Heart Have a Gay Old Time My God, What Have I Done? Only Sane Man Plot Hole The Big Guy The Ace Manic Pixie Dream Girl Early-Bird Cameo Back from the Dead Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Stuff Blowing Up Does Not Like Shoes Author Avatar Death Seeker Obviously Evil The Stoic Contrived Coincidence Adaptational Attractiveness Canon Foreigner Agony of the Feet Parental Substitute Beauty Is Never Tarnished Genre Savvy Star-Crossed Lovers Leaning on the Fourth Wall Four-Temperament Ensemble Noodle Incident Outrun the Fireball Riddle for the Ages Creator Cameo folderlabel I Did What I Had to Do Belligerent Sexual Tension Only Known by Their Nickname Cluster F-Bomb Not So Stoic Evil-Detecting Dog Anachronism Stew Cold-Blooded Torture Ripped from the Headlines Blood Knight Retired Badass Guns Akimbo Married to the Job Silence Is Golden The '70s Slashed Throat Combat Pragmatist Didn't Think This Through Twist Ending Too Dumb to Live Evil vs. Evil Five-Man Band Fanservice Extra Translation Convention Running Gag Parental Neglect Storming the Castle Break the Cutie Ambiguous Disorder Distracted by the Sexy Badass Grandpa Psychological Thriller Whole Plot Reference Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sir Swears-a-Lot Improvised Weapon Villain Ball Let's Get Dangerous! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Coming-of-Age Story Grievous Bottley Harm Green-Eyed Monster Body Horror Left the Background Music On Scary Black Man Skewed Priorities Broken Aesop The Starscream Depraved Bisexual Dramatic Gun Cock Not Even Bothering with the Accent Animated Credits Opening Kick the Son of a Bitch Everyone Has Standards Police are Useless Mood Whiplash Antagonist Title Beta Couple Punny Name Character Development Bloodless Carnage Punch-Clock Villain Improbable Aiming Skills Even Evil Has Loved Ones Manipulative Bastard Black Comedy Actor Allusion MacGuffin As Long as It Sounds Foreign Eyepatch of Power Hero of Another Story The Lost Lenore From Nobody to Nightmare Deadpan Snarker Tap on the Head Video Credits The Stoner Faking the Dead The '60s Dull Surprise It Will Never Catch On Instant Death Bullet Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Romantic False Lead Vomit Discretion Shot The X of Y Dumb Blonde Fantasy Films Shout-Out The Film of the Book Closed Circle Advertised Extra Calling the Old Man Out "The Reason You Suck" Speech Badass in a Nice Suit Adults Are Useless Those Two Bad Guys Older Than They Look Shut Up, Hannibal! Bond Villain Stupidity Rule of Funny The Quiet One All Just a Dream Credits Gag Gory Discretion Shot Bavarian Fire Drill Last-Name Basis "Shaggy Dog" Story Mighty Whitey Daylight Horror Pay Evil unto Evil Reckless Gun Usage You Have Failed Me Film Noir Index Very Loosely Based on a True Story N-Word Privileges The Chessmaster Documentary Gold Digger Good Is Not Nice Jerk Jock He Who Fights Monsters timeperiod Affectionate Parody May–December Romance Big Brother Instinct The Dreaded Jerkass Malevolent Masked Men Idiot Ball Made of Iron And I Must Scream Race Lift Alas, Poor Villain The '50s Bring My Brown Pants Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Age Lift Nice Guy Unusual Euphemism Foreshadowing Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Tranquil Fury All Men Are Perverts The Sociopath Bond One-Liner Armor-Piercing Question Killed Mid-Sentence Heel Realization Up to Eleven Air-Vent Passageway The Ghost Hooker with a Heart of Gold Hate Sink Biopic Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rape as Drama Suddenly SHOUTING! Take That! Continuity Nod Slap-Slap-Kiss Unreliable Narrator Abhorrent Admirer Posthumous Character Mama Bear Pragmatic Villainy Training Montage Really Gets Around Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Villain Protagonist Sinister Minister Sacrificial Lion Bare Your Midriff Poor Communication Kills Actually Pretty Funny Parental Incest Sole Survivor Homage Dramatic Irony Grey and Gray Morality A God Am I Karmic Death Works Set in World War II Henpecked Husband Hypocrite Serial Killer Improbable Weapon User Italian Films Brick Joke Red Herring Never Found the Body My Greatest Failure Call-Forward Broken Bird Bar Brawl Disney Villain Death The Mole Amoral Attorney Together in Death Award-Bait Song Tagline Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Cameo Historical In-Joke Adaptation Name Change Determinator aka: The Determinator Dark Action Girl Market-Based Title No OSHA Compliance Curse Cut Short Cloudcuckoolander The Chick Fainting Ungrateful Bastard Made of Explodium Bolivian Army Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ambiguously Gay Wrong Genre Savvy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Madness Mantra Slasher Smile Brother–Sister Incest Paper-Thin Disguise Based on a True Story Bowdlerise Naked People Are Funny No Name Given Tempting Fate Bound and Gagged Despair Event Horizon Covers Always Lie Adaptational Heroism Enemy Mine Only a Flesh Wound Black Best Friend Celebrity Paradox Dissonant Serenity Affably Evil Film Series Obfuscating Stupidity Darker and Edgier Red Oni, Blue Oni Meaningful Name Refuge in Audacity Mr. Fanservice Would Hurt a Child Here We Go Again! 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Super Strength Important Haircut Adaptational Badass Comically Missing the Point Big Bad And Starring For the Evulz Sanity Slippage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dying Moment of Awesome BFG Soundtrack Dissonance Downer Ending Genre Shift Chekhov's Skill Drives Like Crazy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Artistic License – Gun Safety Meaningful Background Event No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Silent Movie He Knows Too Much Yandere O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death by Irony Mystery and Detective Films Nice Hat NO INDOOR VOICE Straight Gay The Stinger Establishing Character Moment Evil Is Hammy Rule of Symbolism No-Sell Bad Boss Pragmatic Adaptation Vampire Fiction Funny Foreigner Determinator Not Quite Dead Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Laser-Guided Karma Dressing as the Enemy Heterosexual Life-Partners The Remake Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Never My Fault A Father to His Men Only One Name Animal Title Index Politically Incorrect Villain French Films Big Eater Almost Kiss Honor Before Reason Chase Scene Crazy-Prepared Music Stories She's Got Legs Flashback Meet Cute No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The '80s Word of God Camera Abuse Accidental Murder Dirty Old Man Deliberate Values Dissonance Historical Hero Upgrade Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cat Scare Major Injury Underreaction Love Triangle Book-Ends Kill It with Fire Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Artistic License – Physics Ms. Fanservice Animal Motifs Awesome, but Impractical Drowning My Sorrows Revenge Spiritual Successor Jerkass Has a Point Fatal Flaw Author Appeal Narrator Leitmotif Stylistic Suck More Dakka Rousing Speech Wham Line Dirty Cop Jerk with a Heart of Gold Domestic Abuse Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Ax-Crazy Handicapped Badass Random Events Plot Not Using the "Z" Word Truth in Television Car Fu Hoist by His Own Petard Fanservice Drugs Are Bad Military and Warfare Films Public Domain Feature Films Setting Update Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Those Wacky Nazis Scenery Gorn Attempted Rape Bury Your Gays Country Matters Death by Sex Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Captain Ersatz As Himself Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bi the Way Spell My Name with an "S" Be Careful What You Wish For Costume Porn Took a Level in Badass Soft Glass What You Are in the Dark Race Against the Clock It's All About Me Hollywood Law Flipping the Bird Sequel Escalation Say My Name Beware the Nice Ones Unspoken Plan Guarantee Loophole Abuse Science Fiction Films Aside Glance Bloodier and Gorier No Celebrities Were Harmed