Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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