Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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