Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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