Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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