Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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