Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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