Tropescilloscope: Mr. Fanservice

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