Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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