Tropescilloscope: Ms. Fanservice

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