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{{quote|''"[[Roger Ebert]] felt [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark|Elvira]]'s appearance was worth mentioning in his review, but I suspect he had a minimum word count to meet before his review went to press, and if you’re going to break out the shovel to up the word count, you might as well talk about the chick with the great rack."''|'''[[
It could have had great humor, brilliant action sequences and diabolical villains. What everyone remembers, however, is the female lead's [[Striptease]] in the [[Sweeps]] one year. Or, in an even more extreme case, a [[Male Frontal Nudity|penis]] when it pops up on screen. This trope refers to the actions of characters rather than characterization.
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* Despite ''[[Divergence Eve]]'' delivering a serious plot, it's only remembered for the female characters' impressive chest.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is probably best known as that manga with huge amounts of nudity and gore, though most of the nudity is in the context of [[Mind Rape]] and abuse.
* [[Nisemonogatari]], the sequel to ''[[
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' only had one fanservice episode, very early in the series, but it's the reason most commonly cited (right before the [[Transformation Sequence]]) by people who [[Hype Aversion|don't want to watch it]].
* Mention ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' and most people will inevitably think of Fanservice or [[Clothing Damage]]. Yes, the manga has a lot of fanservice, but it also has a ton of [[Character Development]], an epic plot, and a ton of [[Cool Versus Awesome|awesome fights]]. Still doesn't keep the fanservice from overshadowing just about everything else in the popular perception of the series, even though the fanservice is just the frosting on the (very awesome) cake.
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* ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'' consists of [[Naughty Tentacles]] and... what else? (It's the [[Trope Maker]] and [[Trope Codifier|Codifier]] for a reason.)
* There's a scene in ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' where November 11 lounges around {{spoiler|Amber's headquarters}} buck-naked. Naturally, fan tributes kind of fixate on it.
* ''[[
* Ask the majority of the ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' fandom what they remember the most - chances are [[Panty Shot|panty shots]], [[Gainaxing|boobs]] and [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|the yuri (explicit or subtext)]] will be regular answers over anything remotely to do with The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.
* With ''[[Simoun]]'', everyone remembers the underaged lesbian powered airplanes.
* ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion]]'' is a near-''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva]]''-level deconstruction of [[Super Robot]] stories, particularly of the "[[Alien Invasion|aliens invade]], teenager's [[Mad Scientist|scientist grandfather]] gives him [[Humongous Mecha|a robot to fight them with]]" variety and has a lot to say about the nature of heroism and the truth. Ask people about it on the Internet, though, and all you'll hear is talk, often derisive, about certain scenes with [[Lolicon]] undertones (and, uh, one with possible ''over''tones, but still).
* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' prominently features the female lead stark naked in the first episode. (She's not human, but that can lead people to the wrong conclusions easily enough.)
* ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'' was a [[Cute Monster Girl]] version of ''[[Galaxy Angel (
** Other memorable incidents include Yuuma's occasional [[Marilyn Maneuver]] due to [[Chunky Updraft]] and a [[Furo Scene]] featuring [[Gag Boobs|overdeveloped]] [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|tanuki]] "[[Gender Bender|girls]]"
* Blatantly [[Enforced Trope|exploited]] in ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'': even once the quality of animation, illustration and story begins to decline in later episodes, loyal viewers keep watching just for that [[Just Here for Godzilla|breast-feeding scene]].
* ''[[Witchblade (
* ''[[Street Fighter II:
* ''[[Strike Witches]]'' is ostensibly about an elite flying unit battling an alien invasion with magic, but apparently the only people possessing the right kind of magical powers are pre-teen girls willing to fight aerial battles in their underwear.
* Parodied in [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
== Comic Books ==
* Psylocke of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]. Even leaving aside her years in [[Marvel UK]] (pilot, secret agent, dead fiance, killed her brother's [[Evil Twin]] when he tried to rape her...), remember those years she spent as the team's primary [[Telepathy|telepath]]? How about those two times she [[Badass|took on Sabretooth with nothing but her psychic powers and won?]] ... Nothing? Okay, how about that time she got turned into a generic Asian babe and spent years doing nothing but pose in a thong?
* [[In
* What are the [[Most Common Superpower|two things everyone remembers]] about [[Power Girl]]?
** [[Completely Missing the Point|Her cynical sense of humor and tragic backstory about trying to find her true past]]?
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** "You'll like it now. I mean, the later volumes are far more [[Cerebus Syndrome|serious]] and respectful. Ninjette, Thugboy and Sistah Spooky are all fleshed out, Emp barely gets tied up at all, and even uses her status as a stripping-magnet tactical- No?"
* ''[[Battle Chasers]]'' is remembered for three things, and two of them were on Red Monika's chest. (The other, even more unfortunately, was the book's chronic lateness.)
* ''[[Novas Aventuras
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* ''1 Million Years BC'' is mostly remembered for [[Nubile Savage|the poster]] showing Raquel Welch in a [[Fur Bikini]].
* Sigourney Weaver's earlier thriller movie, ''[[Half Moon Street]]'' (about an academic who takes to escort work to pay for her [[PHD]]) is generally remembered for the fact she spends a great deal of it in the nude. One scene of a topless Sigourney on an exercise bike, tends to lodge in the mind.
* ''[[
* ''[[Angel Heart]]'' was a twisted horror-noir movie staring [[Robert De Niro]], Mickey Rourke, and directed by the guy who did [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]''. Not ringing any bells? How about the sex scene involving the daughter from ''[[The Cosby Show]]''? Ok, now you remember.
* ''[[Basic Instinct]]'': Interrogation scene. Sharon Stone's leg moves. Basically that brief flash of flesh is the only thing most people remember from this film. There's a reason it's described as the film that ruined a million VCRs.
* ''[[
* ''Blame it on Rio'': Demi Moore was topless in it (yawn) and then Michelle Johnson . . . GOOD LORD SHE WAS FIFTEEN!!!
* ''Blood On Satan's Claw'' is an extremely well-made and chilling British horror film from 1971. It is mostly remembered for two scenes, featuring future and past ''[[Doctor Who]]'' actors respectively.
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** Don't forget Anne Hathaway's boobies! (Which by the way was predated by a few years with a similar scene (also with Hathaway) in ''Havoc.'')
* ''[[The Brown Bunny]]'' probably had a plot, but mainly remembered as the film where [[Chloe Sevigny]] performs un-simulated fellatio on the writer/director/star.
* ''[[Catwoman (
* ''[[Closer]]''; [[Natalie Portman]] works in a strip club. That's pretty much all most people can remember.
* ''[[Coraline (
* It's difficult to think that ANYONE would have heard of ''Cruel Intentions 2'' had it not been for the shower scene... but even that is pushing it, as those few people are very few and far between. The original ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'' is remembered for the lesbian kiss scene between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair... which, interestingly enough, was in [[Dangerous Liaisons|the novel]] the movie was based on. A novel written in the ''Eighteenth Century''.
* ''[[
* Jacqueline Bisset. ''The Deep''. Wet T-shirt.
** That scene made "wet T-shirt" a household phrase, even among people who never saw the movie.
* ''[[
* The biggest selling point of ''[[Entrapment]]'' is the scene where [[Classy Cat Burglar]] Catherine Zeta-Jones squirms her ass [[Laser Hallway|under a laser tripwire.]]
* ''[[Fast Times
** During the VHS era, many video rental stores reported tracking issues during Phoebe Cates' topless scene because people would rewind it and watch it over and over again.
* ''[[
* ''[[From Dusk
* Although the sequels are known for a high degree of [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]] and ass-kicking, the original ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' is best known for the bit where Ash's sister gets raped [[When Trees Attack|by a tree]].
** Including director Sam Raimi, who ''still'' regrets leaving that scene in the final cut.
* ''[[Fight Club]]''. Known by diehard fans as a funny, compelling and provocative dramedy about psychology, technology and consumerism. Remembered by most viewers for the [[Fight Scene|fight scenes]]: male viewers for the thrill of [[Good Old Fisticuffs|guys beating the crap out of each other]], female viewers for the sight of a shirtless, sweating [[Brad Pitt]].
* While ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'' is still memorable for a variety of merits, it's rare for someone to have a conversation about it without mentioning [[Male Frontal Nudity|Jason Segel's penis.]]
* The only thing anyone seems to remember about the ''[[Friday the 13th (
* ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''. The prostitute to the tune of ''These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.''
{{quote| '''Hooker:''' Got a girlfriend? Me love you, long time.}}
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* Goths and hippies may love ''Gypsy 83'' for it's story and characters, but most everyone else just remembers Sara Rue's giant rack.
* Hours after the film of ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'' was released, all anyone talked about was the ghost images of Harry and Hermione getting naked and making out.
* ''The Hidden'' with [[Babylon
* Anyone remember ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]''? Heard of the short tie-in film ''[[Hotel Chevalier]]''? No? It's the one where [[Natalie Portman]] gets naked onscreen for the first time. Now do you remember?
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Howling|Howling II]]'', Sybil Danning rips her bodice open to expose her breasts, and this shot is shown repeatedly in the end credits montage. [[Roger Ebert]]'s review nominated the repetitions of the shot as the movie's second and third interesting moments, though other viewers have counted more (repetitions, that is).
* ''[[Irreversible]]'' likewise consists solely of a face being smashed in with a fire hydrant and a ten minute rape scene.
* Even among those who haven't seen it, the horror film ''[[Jack Frost (1997
* ''[[James Bond (
** ''[[
** ''[[
** And ''[[
** Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush in ''[[
** ''[[
*** Probably because his creator only had a limited amount of inches of muscle and skin. So he put them to good use elsewhere.
*** And the torture scene. "Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!"
*** ''[[Love Is The Devil]]'' was about [[Daniel Craig]] without those trunks... and some painter.
** ''[[
** And every credit sequence in the ''entire series''. Hmm, what's that you say? The Supervising Art Director for ''[[
* ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'': That's the movie where [[Megan Fox]] makes out with a Meganekko}} cute, nerdy]] [[Amanda Seyfried|chick]], right? And... bites people?
* A somewhat literal behind-the-scenes example with ''[[Juno]]'' screenwriter [[Diablo Cody]]. What detail about her never fails to get brought up by interviewers?
** [[Completely Missing the Point|She can't write dialogue for shit]]?
* ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'' is that movie with "''[[Catholic School Girls Rule|Catholic High School Girls in Trouble]]''" and that sketch where the guys on the news watch a couple having sex (which starts when her bra comes off). There may've been other things too.
* ''[[
** Don't knock it, [[The Nostalgia Chick
** It's also about [[Jennifer Connelly]] dressed up [[Everything's Better
* ''The Last Picture Show'' was acclaimed by critics upon release. Today, it's remembered mainly for Cybill Shepherd's nude scenes.
* ''[[
* ''[[Lost Highway]]'': If you can't get past the labyrinthine plot, you'll probably only remember Patricia Arquette's controversial forced-striptease scene at Mr. Eddy's house.
* Lad magazines say that it's worth watching the [[True Art Is Angsty|angsty]] and [[Tear Jerker|depressing]] ''[[Melancholia]]'' just to see [[Kirsten Dunst]] naked.
* The scene in ''Mischief'' where Kelly Preston goes full frontal to the strains of The Platters' "My Prayer". We dare anyone to come up with anything else about this movie (without Googling).
* ''[[Moscow
* ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'' apparently consists entirely of random weird stuff surrounding a hot lesbian make-out between [[Naomi Watts]] and [[Laura Harring]]. Except that really ''is'' all that happened.
* "The Betsy" has a wonderful scene where Kathleen Beller slips off her clothes and takes a nude swim. I think there was a car in the movie but who remembers, or cares.
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== Film N-Z ==
* ''[[
* The brutal and almost legendary death scene of Christina 'Tina' Grey from the original ''[[A Nightmare
* ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''? Isn't that the movie where some dude comes out wearing only whipped cream, two cherries and a banana? No that's the one with the constantly naked foreign exchange student whose actress happened to be the same who played [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|a Yellow Power Ranger]].
* ''Original Sin'' had a steamy sex scene between [[Angelina Jolie]] and [[Antonio Banderas]] near the beginning of the movie. Nobody really cares about what happened after that.
* ''Paradise'' is a 1982 movie/shameless ripoff of ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]''. There are only two reasons anyone remembers it: For the minority - its Phoebe Cates' film debut (predating ''[[Fast Times
* ''Perdita Durango'' is a barely-remembered 1997 film about a criminal couple who kidnap two people in an attempt to sacrifice them before they go on a mission. The only thing memorable about the film is a sequence where female supporting character Estelle (Aimee Graham) is tied up and raped by Romeo (Javier Bardem), and whether or not she enjoyed the experience.
* ''[[The Piano]]'' is about [[Harvey Keitel]] showing off his hairy naughty parts. And [[Holly Hunter]] playing the piano on a beach.
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* ''[[Shock Corridor]]'': Constance Towers's extended striptease isn't the only thing that sticks in your head, but it certainly is unforgettable.
* ''Sirens''. Full frontal nudity from many famous ladies (Elle MacPherson and Portia de Rossi, to name two). The dream scene in the lake is the one most folks remember.
* ''[[
** And Roseanna Arquette takes off her top.
* ''[[Species]]'' was a pretty forgettable sci-fi horror film. The only reason anybody still remembers it is because the hot blonde in it spent a lot of time walking around naked.
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** In a PG-rated movie? In a [[Disney]] PG-rated movie?<ref>All right, it was Touchstone - the very first Touchstone movie, in fact.</ref>
** [[Tom Hanks]] was in it (somewhere)?
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** And the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green chick]] and Uhura in their underwear.
* Everyone remembers ''[[Straw Dogs]]'' for three reasons:
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** Her film ''[[Monsters Ball]]'' is largely remembered the same way because of her steamy sex scene, but it was good enough on its own merits to win her an Oscar.
* ''The [[Terminator]]'' 's [[Action Film Quiet Drama Scene]]: Linda Hamilton having hot sex with Michael Biehn, to a lovely piano version of the Terminator theme.
** ''Terminator Salvation'' homaged this with [[Rhymes
** Terminator? Oh yeah! That's the film series where, in the third one, there's a hot female who has no clothes on at the start of the movie, then gets into tight leathers for the rest, and can [[Gag Boobs|INFLATE HER OWN BOOBS]].
* ''[[Titanic]]'' has a number of scenes and lines that endure in the popular memory, but none moreso than [[Kate Winslet]]'s taking off her clothes for a nude portrait (which, mind you, [[Hello, Nurse!|is very impressive]]). Equaled by the (literally) steamy in-car sex between Jack and Rose. Impressive, considering all you really see is a hand pressed against a window.
* The common consensus is that the best scene from the ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' movie is when [[Action Girl|Lara]] is showering, then gets out of shower and briefly uses a [[Modesty Towel]] before casting it aside for a [[Toplessness From the Back]] shot and side boob.
* What makes ''[[Total Recall]]'' different from all the other [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] movies? Two -- no, in this movie it's ''[http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/04-25-08-movies/KillerFuzzball.jpg three]'' [[Multi Boobage|things]].
* ''[[The Tourist]]'' showcases a rather odd case of this happening to a movie ''before it even began filming''! The press went kind of like this: Spy thriller set in Italy directed by [[Children of Men|Alfonso Cuaron]] and starring Sam Worthington and Charlize Theron? Not exciting enough. Cuaron replaced with [[The Lives of Others
** And then the shower scene was cut during filming, allegedly upon request of Johnny Depp's girlfriend. Serves us all right.
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] in ''[[True Lies]]''. Screw the Harrier chases, the many, many explosions or Arnie at his [[Large Ham]] best. Everyone remembers Curtis' shadowy striptease first and foremost.
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* Never mind Tim Roth doing a [[Money, Dear Boy]] role, ''[[Virgin Territory]]'' is all about Hayden Christensen making whoopee with naughty nuns-and Mischa Barton baring her boobs.
** Then people are remembering things that didn't even happen -- Barton's done some nudity, but not in that movie.
* From what is said on the message boards on the IMDB you'd think that ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[Whiteout]]'' had a scene where Kate Beckinsale was [[Fan Service|taking off her clothes]] before [[Shower Scene|taking a shower]] even though "Hollywood showers" are not allowed at the South Pole due to water restrictions.. What's the plot of the movie? Nobody seems to remember.
* The most memorable things about ''The Warrior and the Sorceress'', aside from the fact that it stars a sword-wielding David Carradine, are the fact that the titular (heh...) Sorceress is topless the entire time, and a [[Multi Boobage|woman with four breasts]] who has an erotic dance scene and then [[Squick|tries to kill Carradine with a tentacle that comes out of her vagina.]] She's even [http://www.impawards.com/1984/warrior_and_the_sorceress.html on the poster for the movie] (unless it's meant to be some ''other'' chick with four boobs), with the Sorceress nowhere to be seen.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' might as well have been named ''Jessica Rabbit Makes It Okay To Think An Animated Character Is Hot''. (For those of you who haven't seen it: She got her last name by marriage. Also, she's not bad - she's just drawn that way.)
* ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]''. There was the toplessness of Amanda Peet, and something about money...
* The original version of ''[[The Wicker Man]]'', in which:
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== Literature ==
* There's a very graphic and deeply disturbing female-on-male rape scene early in the first book of ''[[
* D.H. Lawrence is widely known for ''[[Lady
* ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'' offers three examples for the 'list of ingredients' method of descriptions gone wrong: the living room, the zoo, and the porn studio. Which one does everyone remember? The porn studio.
* Stephen King's ''[[IT]]'' Yeah, that one scene in the sewer, which wasn't in the TV miniseries for obvious reasons.
** And that other similar scene which also wasn't included in the TV miniseries for even more obvious reasons.
* Terry Pratchett's ''[[
* In the [[Sword of Truth]], there are a few examples that stand out above all the others, though there's [[Author Appeal|enough material]] that most of them don't even stand out.
** The "spirit house" becomes a running gag between Richard and Kahlan.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldw74aKWaZ1qd1awpo1_500.jpg shirtless Arthur.] Starting with season 2, that happens on average at least once an episode. Oh, and also, [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFIeAmK8nkQ/ToDigxVbABI/AAAAAAAAEs4/PzlWwbhgX2Y/s1600/id_10477.jpg Leon, Gwaine, and Percival.] [http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25500000/Season-4-Cast-Photos-merlin-on-bbc-25523059-1707-2560.jpg Gwen's cleavage] [http://www.google.com/imgres?q=gwen+the+hunter%27s+heart&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=Em-NJMZQywmTEM:&imgrefurl=http://merlin.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gwen_in_the_hunter%27s_heart_2.jpg&docid=yd3eM8K62O8MuM&itg=1&imgurl=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120221203318/merlin1/images/e/eb/Gwen_in_the_hunter%2527s_heart_2.jpg&w=400&h=225&ei=TWaDT-afMYvUgAfElY34Bw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=503&vpy=364&dur=1195&hovh=168&hovw=300&tx=175&ty=102&sig=100602016818766572958&page=1&tbnh=102&tbnw=181&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0,i:97 and harem-girl outfit.] And [http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25200000/Morgana-Merlin-season-4-katie-mcgrath-25207796-1707-2560.jpg Morgana's black lace dress.] Not to mention shirtless Lancelot in ''Lancelot du Lac'' coming ''dripping wet'' out of the middle of the Lake.
* ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a lot of cases:
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E2 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]'' is a surreal story set in a world of fairy tales, mythology, classical literature...and [[Zeerust|a newspaper comic serial from the year 2000]] and what's the first image that comes to mind? Zoe's bum.
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** ''The End of Time'', part 1 features the return of the Master and Donna's father Wilf and the Doctor coming to terms with his impending regeneration, as well as {{spoiler|the return of the Time Lords themselves while the Master turns almost every human into clones of himself}}. What do people remember? [[The Master]] a) emerging naked from a swirl of blue energy b) tied up to a chair with several straps, with his legs spread c) the Master wearing ''a red leather collar with a leash'' d) the Master in ''a straitjacket'' and finally, e) ''the Master in a pink dress''.
** In [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E01 The Eleventh Hour|Eleven's very first episode]], we have a gambit involving a computer virus that draws the authorities to the [[Monster of the Week]], as well as an undertone of abandonment as Amy Pond waits for 14 years for her Doctor. What do people recall? The Doctor of stripping down in front of his companion Amy and her friend Rory. Naturally, Rory looks away, but Amy doesn't -- and neither do the fangirls. Of course, what any guy who watched the episode will remember is Amy in the police uniform.
* Remember the episode where ''[[
* ''[[Chuck]]''. Yvonne Strahovski regularly strapping weaponry on whilst wearing underwear. Also, the constant presence of the [[Cat Fight]].
* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' is primarily remembered for a pair of short shorts. They are even commonly called "Daisy Dukes" after the character that wears them.
* The promo for the shocking, [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]], Emmy-winning ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "House's Head" featured its scene of Cuddy doing a strip tease for House. (The episode itself did, too, [[Never Trust a Trailer|for a wonder]].)
* In the ''[[
** It is also the series where ''one of the main characters'' is a prostitute. Oh, sorry, [[Insistent Terminology|"Companion"]].
** Uh, guys? Topless [[Christina Hendricks]] anyone?
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** Even more so because most people do not actually remember the scene as it happened, since it was over far too quickly to notice unless you were paying complete attention. Most people know the event [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|only from its media coverage]].
** This was also subverted in the same Super Bowl. Everybody remembers Janet Jackson. Decidedly fewer remember the guy dancing in the end zone with a football over his wedding tackle.
* Successfully done in ''[[Xena]]'' and ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
* Most people only remember the series ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' as ''Xena: Lesbian Princess'' because no one can remember anything else other than [[Les Yay|Gabrielle and Xena kissing and bathing together]]. The writters admitted to keeping the [[UST]] all along.
* The ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote| "The late Susan Oliver. She's a talented actress, author, director, a pioneer of women's aviation... and if you go to her [[Wikipedia]] page, ''this'' is the image of her they put up: her dancing as the green woman!" }}
* Lois Lane of ''[[
** Laura Vandervoot as Supergirl likes to wear very skimpy outfits, and wanders around the house in only her underwear.
*** [[Justified Trope|Consider her ensemble in every other appearance.]]
* ''[[Top Gear]]'', Series 13 -- few people remember where the presenters went to do a classic rally (Majorca), but everyone remembers James May's co-driver: buxom glamor model Madison Welch.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' features lots of beautiful [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|constantly naked people]] frolicking and [[Eliza Dushku]] in dominatrix outfits.
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone" is the one where Mrs. Peel wears the [[Fan Service|leather bustier]].
* ''[[
* ''[[True Blood]]'' is that show where [[Anna Paquin]] gets naked. A lot.
** And has lots of sex with her vampire boyfriend who has a weird way of pronouncing her name.
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** Or the creepy intro.
* ''[[Terminator]]: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' is mostly about [[Summer Glau]] in her underwear and various other abbreviated outfits. The marketing people played this up with the famous promotional image of Summer Glau's partially-disassembled robot character, wearing nothing but [[Godiva Hair]]. The show is notable in that two groups of people will remember it for different things: the first for Summer Glau, and the second for Lena Headey.
* ''[[
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' keeps it off camera, but has an amusing in universe example in the season one episode "Missing Kitty".
{{quote| '''Cop''': Well, we have a restaurant full of people saying that you threatened Kitty the last time she was seen.<br />
'''Michael''': How does anybody even remember this?<br />
'''Cop''': She showed her knobs in a Steakhouse, sir. }}
* The [[BBC]] miniseries of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' is remembered by many female viewers for the part in which [[Colin Firth]] [[Wet Sari Scene|dives into a pond]].
* It appears the [[Discovery Channel]] website attempted to invoke this one on those who browsed the ''[[
* For some reason, ''[[
{{quote| '''[[Television Without Pity]] Recap:''' I really can't emphasize enough how distracting it is that he's delivering this monologue while two naked ladies are theatrically pleasuring each other.}}
* ''[[Sherlock]]'''s ''A Scandal in Belgravia''... That's the one where both [[Naked First Impression|Irene Adler]] and the [[Modesty Bedsheet|great detective himself]] are naked at some point, right?
* ''[[Stargate SG
** The pilot episode "Children of the Gods", had full-frontal nudity in its original airing on Showtime. It was edited out in later airings on regular cable (replaced by a couple long closeups of Teal'c's face), but is retained in the DVD release.
* The 2005 series of UK ''[[Big Brother]]''. Kinga, on her first night found a novel place to put an empty wine bottle. Anyone remember who won the competition?
* A later season of ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' had two female competitors strip naked and forfeit an immunity challenge in exchange for a plate of Oreos.
* It's actually surprisingly hard to find ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' clips that don't contain Cara or Kahlan, though mostly Cara. Why does this count as this trope? Tight red leather. Low neckline. Tabrett Bethell. On second thought, this might not be such a bad thing.
** Bath house scene.
** Everyone remembers that Richard's first scene was shirtless.
** Pretty much the only main character who ''hasn't'' had this treatment is Zedd.
* Say ''[[
* [[Kamen Rider OOO|That Kamen Rider series]] where the main character is constantly seen in nothing but his boxers.
* Francois Arnaud of [[The Borgias]] mentioned in an interview that everyone wants to talk about his character's leather pants and [[Incest Yay Shipping|extremely]] [[Incest Subtext|close]] relationship with his sister. Admittedly, the incest thing is kind of a big part of the [[Truth in Television|Borgia legend]].
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* Neo-Soul singer D'angelo, got this hard after his "Untitled" music video....
* There's also the Benny Benassi videos.
* The Dandy Warhols gained a lot of notoriety for keyboardist Zia McCabe playing topless. The number of guys showing up just for that caused her to pretty much stop. And their most famous song? "Bohemian Like You," due to the video with a few seconds each of full frontal nudity from a [[Wrench Wench]] and a [[Fan Service
* MTV Brazil has stated that in their country, before Dave Grohl recorded an album with [[Queens of the Stone Age]], they were just the band of that guy who played naked during Rock in Rio.
* Inverted in [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Telephone". The video is so full of [[Fan Service]] and [[Fetish Fuel]] that [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Everybody Remembers]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|the Sandwich]].
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== Religion and Mythology ==
* Mary Magdalene's status as "Prostitute" is [[Popular History|firmly ingrained in descriptions of her]], although not in [[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* All most ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' fans seem to remember about [[Church Militant|the Sisters of Battle]] is that they're an [[Amazon Brigade]] in a ''very'' male-dominated setting, and that one of their troop options literally wear nothing but three scraps of paper (and a [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaw Sword]]). Also, apparently the Dark Eldar do nothing but rape everything to death. As do [[The Hedonist|Slaaneesh worshippers]].
* Mention the card Elvish Ranger to any ''[[Magic:
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* [[Equus|That play]] where [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Harry Potter]] is naked.
* [[Hair|That musical]] where everyone gets naked.
** ''[[Oh! Calcutta!]]'' as well.
* [[The Full Monty|That other musical based on a film]] where some guys get naked.
** Which, to be fair, [[Justified Trope|is what it is mostly about anyway]]...
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':
** ''[[
** Even in the original ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[
** And moving beyond ''XIII'', even though we don't know much about ''[[
** ''[[
** And take it all the way to 1988 and ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]''. [[The Hero|Firion]] gets seduced by a [[Cute Monster Girl|lamia queen]] disguised as the princess. Prior to ''Dissidia'', if you remembered just one thing about ''II'', it was that. Considering that [[Square Enix]] themselves play it up, though, you can't really be blamed for it.
** [[Final Fantasy XIII
* Why should you play ''[[Snatcher]]''? You get to flirt with all the women! It even caters to all the ephebophiles out there! And there's nudity! And something about Communist robots taking over the world with [[Replicant Snatching]], probably.
* The way some people talk about ''[[Mass Effect]]'', you'd think the game is nothing but [[Rated "M" for Money|full-on]] [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|alien lesbian sex]]...[[Cowboy Bebop
* There are some people who have never even played ''[[
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'': Lara Croft is best remembered for the programmer goof that gave her a larger bust than she should have had and that's all most remember about her. The fact her series has a plot that revolves around tomb raiding isn't mentioned nearly as much.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV the Lost And Damned]]'': Congressman Stubbs' penis. That's it.
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'': Three words - [[wikipedia:Hot Coffee mod|"Hot Coffee" Mod.]]
* ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within''. Shahdee is a minor character who gets dispatched not far into the game, yet thanks to her [[Thong of Shielding|outfit]] and [[Male Gaze|introduction sequence]], many remember her like she was the focus of the game.
* ''[[
** She's the sole Darkstalker in four games: ''[[Capcom vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000
** Hey, that's not fair! It's [[Betty and Veronica|also got]] a [[Catgirl]], who's motivation is to... um... er... uh... huh.
** And we also vaguely remember some kind of Chinese undead thingy who has blue cleavage and attacks with... um... dunno.
* ''[[
** [[Stripperiffic|Jessica]] of ''[[
* In ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR]] 2'', Alma rapes you. That's right, YOU! Oh yeah and some other stuff happens.
* ''[[King of Fighters]]'' is that fighting game featuring Mai's Gainaxing boobs and ... oh, the rest of the fighters. It's about fighting.
* In ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', Pyramid Head rapes things. Some say that other things happen.
* Look up the soundtrack to ''[[The House of the Dead (
* Ask a Pokémon fan to think of a female character from ''[[
** [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
*** And yet even they're overshadowed by [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
** Leaf actually has the same size chest as May, but she's often ignored because she has yet to have a canon appearance within the games and has no anime appearances.
* ''[[Summon Night]]'' is most well-known in the west for its [[Gay Option]]'s and its other fanservices, mostly in the Swordscraft Story series though. It doesn't help that the box of one of the games displays a screen of Pratty saying she [[It Makes Sense in Context|kisses girls all the time.]]
** Likewise, ''[[Magicians Quest Mysterious Times]]'' is known for being both an "''[[
* [[Vanillaware]]'s latest title ''[[
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is that game where you can have a foursome, and there's something about licking a lamppost in winter.
** Ditto for ''[[Jade Empire]]'' where you can have a threesome. Oh, and something about a big guy with two axes.
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== Web Comics ==
* The eighth issue of ''[[
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'''Other troper:''' [[Fetish Fuel|Who cares]]? }}
* Any sex scene in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' quite often eclipses the character. Case in point, there's a reason that She Bop (girl on girl rape) is the most infamous thread of V3. So far as characters go, Rosa Fiametta of V4 often gets this treatment, to the point where her characterisation is simplified to just being a sex maniac due to the frequency with which she gets it on.
* The Game Heroes ad where [[
** The ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'' review is a [[Dying Dream]] episode, with lots of clever [[Sarcasm Mode]], a nice scene where The Other Guy and friends are looking after Critic, and Optimus Prime bringing him back to life by dying for his sins. And what do people remember? "[[Shirtless Scene|GEEEEEEENIUS!]]"
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Mask (
** [[Completely Missing the Point|I totally remember there being a pizza stand!]]
* It's possible the only scene most guys remember from the "girly" Disney film ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' is when Ariel is first transformed into a human, and is naked for the next 6 minutes of the movie. The rest of us remember the musical at the beginning. So many half-naked beauties in sea shell bikinis...
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** Similarly, Kim Kardashian became a ''lot'' more famous after a sex tape was leaked in which rapper Ray J urinates on her.
* More than a few studies have found that while sexual content makes an ad memorable it only helps them remember they saw a sexy ad, they're often no better at remembering what it was trying to sell.
* [[Elizabeth Hurley]] was an unknown actress until she showed up with then-boyfriend [[Hugh Grant]] at the Los Angeles premier of [[Four Weddings and
* [[wikipedia:Channing Tatum|Channing Tatum]] seems to be heading down this road. While a good actor in his own right, once news leaked that he worked as a male stripper for a year before finding success as an actor, it's all anyone wants to talk about, and although he's capitalizing on it with the movie ''Magic Mike,'' it tends to bleed over into his promotion of other movies, like ''The Vow.'' Not even the episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' he hosted was immune to exploiting this: he admitted it in the monologue, was shirtless in a couple of sketches, and even played a male stripper in the final sketch of the night.
* Montagnard Politician Marat was a major actor in French Revolution, teaming up with Danton and Robespierre to overthrow the Girondin and being at least as responsible, if not more than Robespierre, for the violent mesures taken by Robespierre later. Yet, the only thing that is remembered by everyone about him is that he ''got assassinated in his bathroom by a woman''
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