Tropescilloscope: Fan Disservice

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

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