Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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