Tropescilloscope: Fanservice

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

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