Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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