Ignore the Fanservice: Difference between revisions

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[[File:IgnoreFanservice 7249.jpg|link=The Batman Adventures|frame|[[Foe Yay|He'd much rather be thinking about Batman.]]]]

 

[[Ms. Fanservice]] approaches her target. Wearing her [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe|tightest blouse]], she [[Sexy Walk|sidles up to him]], runs her hand down his arm, smiles at him sweetly, does the "push-up" thing to [[Male Gaze|accentuate her]] cleavage...

** In the very first episode/chapter, Bulma offers to let Goku feel up her butt in exchange for his Dragon Ball. Goku's response? "I don't wanna touch your dirty butt."

** Again, in the 21st Tenka'ichi Budokai, Ranfan whose entire fighting style relies on [[Fan Service]] to let the guard down of the predominantly male fighters, tries this on Nam, an ascetic monk. Nam, thinking about his villagers in the drought in his homeland, closes his eyes and quickly defeats Ranfan (although he was flustered during the match when she started stripping).

* When Killer Bee refuses to teach [[Naruto]] how he learned to control his tailed-beast, Naruto tries to use the Harem Jutsu to persuade him... and literally gets the door slammed in his face for it, much to his surprise.

* In an very early episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', A battle comes down to Ash's Metapod (coccons capable only of hardening themselves to defend from attacks) and his opponent's. In the middle of this stalemate, the camera cuts to [[Fan Service|Misty in a bathing suit getting some sun]]. Those must have been some really dedicated trainers to not notice ''a girl changing clothes right next to them''.

* One episode of ''Goku [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' subverts this, with a group of men not interested on [[Ms. Fanservice|Kaere]]'s [[Panty Shot|pantyshots]]... because they're more interested on [[Perverse Sexual Lust|anime girls' panties]]. [[Refuge in Audacity|Japan's government hires them to keep State secrets because they're immune to]] [[Honey Trap]]s.

* ''[[One Piece]]''

** Liquor, smokes and porn, in that order. Unsurprisingly, during the pay off, things go awry.

* In ''[[Shadow of the Lion]]'', Lucretia resents that Eneko and Marco spurned her advances despite magical aphrodisiacs. This is just another reason for her to kill them as painfully as possible.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' novel ''Camera Obscura'', the first chapter concerns [[Noble Demon]] Sabbath meeting his [[Morality Pet]] ''du jour''. She's a [[Cute and Psycho|violent]], [[Broken Bird|troubled]], [[The Ophelia|crazy teenage girl]]. Being used to men sexually harassing her, she decides to [[Show Some Leg]] to get him interested, as she's in a [[Bedlam House]] and would like to leave. He ignores what she's doing until she gets bored of it. When she suggests that he might have prurient motives for hiring her, he's neither startled nor interested by it. By the end of the book, it's implied that they're having some sort of chaste love affair.

* In ''[[Agatha H and the Airship City]]'', Princess Zulena declares that "There's no male guard on this ship that can resist a beautiful and oh-so-lonely princess." She's wrong; one of two scenes where the princess gets her comeuppance.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* According to comedian Eddie Griffin, a theater was showing two movies once when he was a kid. One was Porn, the other was a [[Bruce Lee]] movie. Guess which one was completely empty?

* [[J. Michael Straczynski]] said that Shari Shattuck was disappointed in him for not being on set when her nude scene in the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Voices of Authority" was filmed. He explained that Craft Services was serving ribs for lunch that day, and after a man gets past the age of forty he'll think "Nude woman... ribs... nude woman... ribs... RIBS!" (Come to think of it, Captain Sheridan's reaction to the nude scene in-universe is an example of this trope too.)

* This can even be the reaction of the audience, the very people for whom the Fanservice is intended in the first place, if it's taken too far. If it's too gratuitous, too [[Squick]]y or otherwise detracts from the story, the audience may be more irritated or creeped out than turned on.

 

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[[Category:Goodness Tropes]]

[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]

[[Category:Morality Tropes]]

[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]