Tropescilloscope: She's Got Legs

The use of a woman's legs as an object of sexual attraction. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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