Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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