Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

Audience-pleasing material (often sexual). (read more at tvtropes.org)

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