Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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