Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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