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* All most ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' 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]].
* All most ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' 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: The Gathering]]'' fan and prepare to hear about [http://magiccards.info/ai/en/67.html its art featuring an elf woman in a] [[Fur Bikini]]. Nobody seems to know that the card came with an alternate art version [http://magiccards.info/ai/en/68.html featuring a conservatively-dressed male elf.]
* Mention the card Elvish Ranger to any ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' fan and prepare to hear about [http://magiccards.info/ai/en/67.html its art featuring an elf woman in a] [[Fur Bikini]]. Nobody seems to know that the card came with an alternate art version [http://magiccards.info/ai/en/68.html featuring a conservatively-dressed male elf.]

== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':
** ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]''. The plot? The [[Guide Dang It]] [[100% Completion]]? The triumphant return of the [[Final Fantasy]] Job System last seen in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''? It's all overshadowed by the girls' [[Stripperific]] dresspheres.
** Even in the original ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who can remember the [[Corrupt Church]] plot, but can easily remember the fact that Lulu bends over during her [[Victory Pose]] and Rikku's first appearance as a proper party member consists of her stripping out of a wetsuit.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' - Have fun trying to remind a fanboy that Tifa was one of the most emotionally complex and morally interesting members of the main cast, or pointing out the surprisingly subtle foreshadowing of [[The Reveal]] concerning her past with Cloud - or, hell, that Aeris and Yuffie were also in the game. Despite her ''mountains'' of careful character development or her constant ''skirt''ing with suffering a breakdown herself, her interesting relations''hips'', or her ability to keep a ''leg'' up on most situations, there's just ''two'' facts you need to keep a''[[Hurricane of Puns|breast]]'' of where Tifa's concerned.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', the 33 cm shoe is on the other foot. Good luck explaining to a fangirl that Snow Villiers isn't the game's main character. Why is that? The ''length'' of time spent developing his personality doesn't seem to be a ''big'' part of ''it''.
** And moving beyond ''XIII'', even though we don't know much about ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]'' yet, most of the talk about it is fangirls swooning over Noctis. [[Even the Guys Want Him]], though... Others saw the trailer and remember it as [[Lonely Piano Piece|that]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|one]] [[Bishounen|trailer]] [[Battle in the Rain|that]] [[Supernatural Martial Arts|tries]] [[Opera|way]], [[Implausible Fencing Powers|way]] [[Camera Tricks|too]] [[Slouch of Villainy|hard]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|to be cool]].
** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' had [[Catgirl|bunny girl]] Fran, and some other people. And Princess Redbutt.
** And take it all the way to 1988 and ''[[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-2]] has a rather memorable scene of Lightning getting magically stripped nude of her regular outfit and then having it replaced by her new, more fanservicey armor.
* 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 [[Kill and Replace|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]]...[[Media Research Failure|that never actually happens]]. As a meta-example, it seems like the only thing the die-hard fans care about is the romances.
* There are some people who have never even played ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'', yet almost everyone knows about [[Furry Fandom|Krystal]].
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' is about a busty, drool-inducing, barely-clothed [[Horny Devils|succubus]] [[Memetic Sex God|who is sexier than sex]], wanders the earth looking for a good time, and appears in most of [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Capcom's crossover titles]], [[Sarcasm Mode|right]]?
** She's the sole Darkstalker in four games: ''[[Capcom vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000|Capcom vs. SNK]]'', ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium|Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes|Marvel vs. Capcom]]'', and ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]''. Demitri... the guy the whole franchise was built around, for crying out loud... has ''one'' such honor (''[[SNK vs. Capcom SVC Chaos|SVC Chaos]]''). This is not a coincidence.
** 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.
* ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' was the first ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' game to have multiple party members with distinctive personalities, rather than use a predetermined party or a team of [[Player Mooks]]. Of all the characters, [[Ms. Fanservice]] [[Stripperiffic|Maya]]'s artwork is leaps and bounds more voluminous than any other character in the series.
** [[Stripperiffic|Jessica]] of ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'', appearing as the only one who can change outfits on maps and ''puff-puff'' the enemies into various confusion with her sex appeal abilities.
* 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 (series)|House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL'' sometime. Apparently, the only noteworthy song in the game is the lyrical version of the "Carny" chapter's theme, the focus of which is [[Crosses the Line Twice|a guy making love to a decomposing mutant as it's trying to kill him]].
* Ask a Pokémon fan to think of a female character from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', and chances are they'll think of Skyla or Elesa first. Suffice to say that neither of them dress [[Stripperiffic|the way normal women would dress]].
** [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Dawn]] is quite recalled for her short skirt however [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Leaf's]] is barely longer.
*** And yet even they're overshadowed by [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|May,]] [[Buxom Is Better|for two obvious reasons.]]
** 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 "''[[Animal Crossing]]'' clone" and "an ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' clone where you can be gay". ''[[Harvest Moon]] Cute'' is also somewhat infamous within the fandom for the [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] [[Gay Option]] that was taken out of the international versions.
* [[Vanillaware]]'s latest title ''[[Dragon's Crown]]'' seems to be heading this way. Fans are less concerned about the quality of the title (which, granted, is nothing to worry about since Vanillaware's releases are consistently good) and more concerned about how much [[Fetish Fuel]] the [[Hot Witch|Sorceress]] and [[Amazonian Beauty]] provide.
* ''[[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.
* Ask most people about ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' and they'll say "Yeah, I know that game. Isn't it that fighting game with [[Never Live It Down|the boy who dresses up as a girl]]?" Yep. ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is a game with intense fast-paced combat, an interesting [[Animesque]] setting and [[Crowning Music of Awesome|a ridiculously awesome soundtrack]], yet it is doomed to be forever remembered as "The Game That Gave Us [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Brid]][[Unsettling Gender Reveal|get]]".
* ''[[Touhou]]'' is about a world of (seemingly-underaged) super-powered magical action girls. Who have interesting relationships with each others. Which gives way to tons of cute fanarts and awesome music. "Shoot em ups"? What's a "shoot em ups"? <ref>Unlike other examples on this page, the creator does lament that it's not best known as a shoot em up. Bummer.</ref>


== Web Original ==
== Web Original ==

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"Roger Ebert felt 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."
—The Agony Booth recap of Stoker Ace

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 penis when it pops up on screen. This trope refers to the actions of characters rather than characterization.

This is the common tendency for Fan Service to overshadow everything else about a work, regardless of the amount that actually occurs in it (sometimes the most remembered bit of Fan Service actually comes from promotional materials, which don't accurately depict what actually happens in the show). At the extreme end, it becomes All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"... with boobs. This can be so powerful and effective in Hollywood that the Hollywood Hype Machine will go into overdrive and make an actress who bared all (or most) of herself an instant, overnight household name. Don't laugh- Shannon Elizabeth and Denise Richards got years of movie roles because of this trope.

For the more romantic equivalent, see Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls. See also Freud Was Right. When a viewer looks at a work specifically to see the stripper, they're Just Here for Godzilla. See also Fanservice Extra and Dancing Bear. One-Scene Wonder is a similar phenomenon, but mostly unrelated.

Examples of Best Known for the Fanservice are listed on these subpages:
Other examples of Best Known for the Fanservice include:


Live Action TV

  • Merlin has shirtless Arthur. Starting with season 2, that happens on average at least once an episode. Oh, and also, Leon, Gwaine, and Percival. Gwen's cleavage and harem-girl outfit. And Morgana's black lace dress. Not to mention shirtless Lancelot in Lancelot du Lac coming dripping wet out of the middle of the Lake.
  • Oz: That's the show where Christopher Meloni and his co-mates get naked and show off their penises before raping other naked guys in the shower, right? Was there also great dialogue, realistic characters, great acting, and amazing storylines, or was that just a rumor?
  • Doctor Who has a lot of cases:
    • The Mind Robber is a surreal story set in a world of fairy tales, mythology, classical literature...and a newspaper comic serial from the year 2000 and what's the first image that comes to mind? Zoe's bum.
    • City of Death has sparkling Douglas Adams wit, a man aging to death and the villain being defeated by a punch. Main popular memory - Lalla Ward in a Sexy Schoolwoman outfit.
    • Terminus has a leprosy-like disease, a man going back in time and creating the universe, and Turlough with the Black Guardian. What does everyone remember? Nyssa taking off her skirt.
    • The Caves of Androzani features the regeneration from Fifth to Sixth and actually has the Fifth Doctor being Badass. The memory? Peri's cleavage while she's holding the regenerating Doctor.
    • The Curse of Fenric completes the epic storyline of the struggle against the dark gods and cosmic forces the Doctor has been playing The Chessmaster against. The memory? Half a second of Sophie Aldred's knickers.
    • Pretty much the entirety of Louise Jameson's (Leela) time as companion to the 4th Doctor. Tight leather minidresses split to the hip, prominent cleavage, and plenty of poses emphasizing both.
    • "Bad Wolf", where everybody is fighting for their lives in gameshows that try to kill you, and what does everyone remember? Jack Harkness, naked in front of millions of viewers. Their viewing figures just went up.
    • Planet of Fire has two examples of this trope, one for the boys and one for the girls. What do the boys remember? Peri in a Bikini. What do the the girls remember? Turlough taking off his tight short shorts.
    • 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 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 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 Mork and Mindy first kissed? No? Remember the one where Mork befriended a caterpillar and then thought it died when really it was just becoming a butterfly? No? Remember the one where Mork was captured by the sexy Nectrotons, whose leader was played by Raquel Welch?
  • 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, heartbreaking, Emmy-winning House episode "House's Head" featured its scene of Cuddy doing a strip tease for House. (The episode itself did, too, for a wonder.)
  • In the Firefly episode "Trash" the crew stole something and then there was Mal, in the desert, naked.
  • Brookside, the soap opera set in Liverpool where Anna Friel kissed another girl. One of the first acknowledgements on British TV that lesbians existed, and avant-garde for its time.
  • Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show caused a shitstorm of controversy which is still occasionally joked about, and the NFL has only brought in "safe" classic rock bands ever since. Now do you remember who was actually playing in the championship game that year? Which is sad, because it was one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever.
    • To be fair, a sizable portion of people watching the Super Bowl weren't watching it for the game.
    • 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 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, less so in Sheena and The Beast Master, each for the guys and girls respectively. Then came the to a lesser extent for both Andromeda.
  • Most people only remember the series Xena: Warrior Princess as Xena: Lesbian Princess because no one can remember anything else other than Gabrielle and Xena kissing and bathing together. The writters admitted to keeping the UST all along.
  • The Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" is often remembered for being "The One With... the green chick." SF Debris puts it best:

"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 Smallville is Superman's future wife and star journalist of the Daily Planet. In the opening credits, her background scene is still her stepping out of the water in a bikini.
  • 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 constantly naked people frolicking and Eliza Dushku in dominatrix outfits.
  • The Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone" is the one where Mrs. Peel wears the leather bustier.
  • Friends has many, many memorable moments: but arguably none more memorable than Jennifer Aniston in the Slave Leia outfit.
  • 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.
    • And a tall, blonde vampire having sex at warp speed with a hot Estonian dancer... who also has sex with Pam.
  • The makers of Californication know that everyone remembers the stripper, and consequently there are a lot of babes getting naked throughout the course of the show.
  • Audiences can't seem to agree what they like more about Dexter: the sex, or the violence.
    • 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.
  • The Daily Show had a bit of fun when George Takei got married and out of all the Star Trek stills available, the news put up a picture of Sulu fencing shirtless. "Oh my" indeed.
  • Arrested Development keeps it off camera, but has an amusing in universe example in the season one episode "Missing Kitty".

Cop: Well, we have a restaurant full of people saying that you threatened Kitty the last time she was seen.
Michael: How does anybody even remember this?
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 dives into a pond.
  • It appears the Discovery Channel website attempted to invoke this one on those who browsed the MythBusters photo galleries, inviting us to see the "Bathtub Test" album by saying "See production stills -- including pictures of a half-naked Adam -- from episode 19".
  • For some reason, Game of Thrones has the rather bad habit of laying down important exposition while sex is happening in the scene. Episode 7 had Petyr Baelish delivering a rather important, character-defining monologue in the midst of making two whores "play" with each other.

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 Irene Adler and the great detective himself are naked at some point, right?
  • Stargate SG-1 has the episode where everyone is infected with an anti-Goa'uld device, but that's sort of secondary to Dr. Fraiser opening up her shirt (and revealing her bra) because she's infected and hot.
    • 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 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 Torchwood, and the the reaction is most likely to be "gay sex". While it's true that the show mentioned gay sex at least once an episode, and the straight main character was briefly turned gay in only the second episode, and there was at least one episode mostly focused on a character having gay sex with an alien, it barely ever actually showed the sex.
  • 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 extremely close relationship with his sister. Admittedly, the incest thing is kind of a big part of the Borgia legend.

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Tabletop Games

Web Original

  • A YouTube video on a channel known as Vlogvetica featured a naked guy walking in the background, for maybe one second, and was never pointed out in the actual video. Guess what every single comment was about.
  • The trope "But You Screw One Goat!", is the punchline of a joke that owes its humor as much if not more to the trope under discussion here than the one that actually bears its name.
  • From This Wiki on the Body Paint page:

Troper: I saw an Israeli war movie (forget the name, sorry) that began and ended with a scene showing the protagonist and his girlfriend rubbing paint all over each other while making love. Not sure what this had to do with the rest of the movie.
Other troper: 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 Nostalgia Critic gets kidnapped. Fangirls completely failed to notice what they were selling, being distracted by the pretty boy getting manhandled and a gun being put to his head.
    • 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? "GEEEEEEENIUS!"


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