Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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