Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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