Ms. Fanservice/Playing With
Basic trope: A character, usually female, whose main purpose is to appeal to male viewers.
- Straight: Alice, who wields the large breasts, is always seen in very skimpy clothing.
- Exaggerated: Alice is one Shirtless Scene away from turning the entire franchise into porn.
- Every woman in the series is heavily sexualized.
- Justified: Alice was bio-engineered to appeal to the sexual tastes of all the men around her.
- Alice is a stripper.
- Inverted: Mr. Fanservice.
- Subverted: Everybody is describing Alice as the sexiest thing alive, but when we see her, she's only average-looking.
- Double Subverted: ...turns out that they confused Alice with her beautician. The real Alice walks in the room and she's absolutely stunning.
- Parodied: The male characters will do anything in order to get Alice to show off her Jiggle Physics.
- Deconstructed: Alice eventually gets sick of all the men hitting on her, so she starts covering up more skin and lashes out at every man who so much at ogles at her. This eventually leads to her not finding a true soulmate and she goes into depression.
- Reconstructed: Bob comes along and shows her that not all men are sexist pigs, which gets Alice out of her funk.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice provides a lot of fanservice for the viewers, sometimes she doesn't.
- Averted: Alice provides absolutely no fanservice for the viewers.
- Enforced: "C'mon, what's an anime without a buxom chick?"
- Lampshaded: Alice is often told to Please Put Some Clothes On.
- Defied: "Oh no, I am NOT dressing like a stripper for you sick, sick people!"
- Conversed: "Have you ever noticed that Alice is always wearing what appears to amount to lingerie?"
- Played for Drama: Even though Alice, a shapely young woman, always wears a sexy outfit which reveals and enhances much of her figure, she's forced to wear it by her sexist father Charlie, who unfairly wants her to show her body. It is a constant source of angst for Alice, partly because of her constant body issues, but mostly because she hates being sexualized. She lives in constant fear of sexual harassment, which actually does happen a lot due to the heavy temptations. Eventually, she starts wearing more conservative clothing, against what Bob tells her to wear, and lashes out at every man who ogles at her.
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- ↑ You know, she is probably the only reason you watch the show.