Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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