Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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