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...

And her efforts to seduce the guy fall completely flat.

 

 

[[Sorry, I'm Gay]] is a subtrope. May result in a request to [[Please Put Some Clothes On]], depending on the nudity level of Ms. Fanservice at the time. Compare to [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]], where people aren't intentionally ignoring the fanservice so much as they don't seem to notice it in the first place. Can play a part in a character's decision to [[Defector From Decadence|Defect From Decadence]]. Often used in tandem with [[Ready for Lovemaking]], to better subvert it.

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* A Coors Light commercial features a guy coming home to find lit candles all over the apartment, a trail of rose petals, and a note on the refrigerator written in lipstick saying "Come and get me". As he opens the fridge door, his girlfriend appears in the doorway wearing lingerie. He doesn't even notice her; he's too interested in the Coors Light "Cold Activated Window" beer in the fridge.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlReZgHy08 This] is the trope [[Recycled in Space|IN AN ELEVATOR!]]

* An ad for the Windows phone shows a lady standing in front of her bed in a sexy nightie, trying in vain to distract her husband from his phone.

* A Levi's Jeans commercial has a woman (after being unable to go into a women's bathroom to change her pants) go into the men's washroom and see a (seemingly) blind young man twirling his cane. She proceeds to change in front of him, then walks up to his face and zips up her jeans in front of his face (to no reaction whatsoever). She walks out of the washroom, and another man comes out of an adjoining stall. The "blind" kid hands the cane back to the older man (who is actually the blind one), and tells him he wouldn't believe what just happened.

 

* ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' does this with Suwabara Kai and Monica. She tries to wreck his concentration by stripping to a bikini; he counters by stripping to his loincloth and the [[Cooking Duel]] continues.

* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'': Mimi tries to seduce Lavi in an attempt to do some spy work for Lulu Bell. He ends up ignoring her and paying more attention to Lenalee. He probably wouldn't have ignored her if she had been his type...

** During the Cupid's Day episode, one of Milly's plans to stop Lelouch involves putting a bunch of scantily-clad girls in suggestive poses in his way. However, "Lelouch" is actually Sayoko in disguise, and she just jumps over them. For extra comedy points, Sayoko says "Those bodies have no effect on me!", causing the appropriate confused reaction from the girls, and Lelouch asking her to "please quit making me say such things".

** And in the first season, Suzaku manages to tackle a completely nude Kallen to the ground after catching her bathing on a deserted island. He proceeds to... arrest her, looking only at her face. Would be a case of [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]] but he starts out the conversation by apologizing, presumably very much aware of the fact that she is naked, and then quickly forgets the "naked" part in favor of "charging me with a knife" part.

** Older fans point out the irony of ''Negima!'' being described as "an escape from ''[[Love Hina]]''", considering the lead of ''that'' series had no ability to Ignore the Fanservice.

* In the ''[[Battle Royale]]'' manga, Mitsuko Souma strips naked in order to try to seduce Kazuo Kiriyama, and later kill him. Kiriyama can feel no emotions, and Mitsuko's unoriginal plan not only fails miserably, but backfires spectacularly when she is tortured and then shot in the face. Disturbingly enough, it does seem to have worked a little. This is the first (and almost only) time we ever see Kiriyama display clear emotion, [[Nightmare Fuel|smirking as he intentionally and repeatedly shoots to wound rather than kill]].

** Misa Amane goes to various lengths to entice her fiancé Light Yagami into bed. These include parading around in a [[Ms. Fanservice|corset and panties or a sexy nightdress]]. She also becomes quite frustrated when Light doesn't want to interact with her. Which is pretty much all the time, unless he needs her to do his dirty work.

** We also have Halle Lidner, who gets her kit off in front of Mello, a man she hardly knows, without hesitation. She then has a very suggestive shower, and offers Mello a place to stay, in a very seductive manner which as we all know can only mean one thing. Mello is completely unaffected by Halle's behaviour, and instead points a gun at her.

** 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]]''

* Maeda from ''[[Ai Kora]]'', who is only attracted to his "[[Fetish|Ideal Parts]]". Even if a girl is trying to get his attention through normal sexual attractiveness, if it has nothing to do with his Ideal Parts he shows no interest.

* Sylvie Lumiere from ''[[Baccano!]]'' is sexy enough to [[Even the Girls Want Her|attract the attention of women as well as men.]] Maiza, however, is completely immune.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* When Ava Lord of ''[[Sin City]]: A Dame to Kill For'' allies with Wallenquist, he tells her, "I'll warn you once and only once, Mrs. Lord -- do not flirt with me. I have no use for your charms."

* In the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', Soontir Fel, the best Imperial pilot alive, is assigned to a corrupt admiral who pushes a scantily-clad woman at him, telling him to "enjoy her" rather than keep going over the defenses of the world. Fel says his [[Happily Married|wife]] would not approve, the admiral says that neither would ''his'' wife, [[What You Are in the Dark|but no-one would know]]. But Fel would, and he's much more interested in plans for defending the planet from Rebels. This is basically a sort of [[Pet the Dog]] for him. Most fans would also note that Fel's wife is much hotter than the woman the corrupt admiral was offering.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* The East Clock Town Guard in ''[[The Blue Blur of Termina]]'', who not only didn't buy Tatl's halfhearted attempt at flirting with him, but actually threatened her with imprisonment if she persisted.

 

* Jonathan and Rosalie do this in ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad''. Not only does he turn her down, but he ends up strangling her.

* In the (musical) film adaptation of ''[[Hairspray]]'', Velma attempts to seduce Wilbur, meeting with utter failure, so she resorts to physical force to put them in a compromising position for his wife Edna to see.

* In ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'', Sebastian sucessfully seduces Cecile, the woman that Kathryn originally bet he would be able to sleep with. Kathryn later tells Cecile how to learn the art of sex from Sebastian. Cecile, in turn, tries to seduce Sebastian by climbing on top of him half-dressed while he's working. Sebastian literally shoves Cecile off the bed like a toy and keeps typing.

 

* In Aldous Huxley's ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', the Savage is totally uninterested in what Lenina is offering. (Well, actually he ''is'' interested, but he doesn't want to ruin his "purity.")

* In Plato's ''[[Symposium]]'', Alcibiades attempts to seduce Socrates, even going so far to literally sleep with him, but fails because Socrates is above such things. This makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].

* Likewise with [[Mike Hammer]] in ''The Twisted Thing''. He mentions afterwards that she went about it the wrong way, as he likes to be teased a little.

* Many Jedi in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. Most notably Corran in ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]''—the [[Big Bad]] tempted him, and he thought about it, but he didn't bite—and Luke's son Ben in ''[[Legacy of the Force|Invincible]]''. In the prequel era, Anakin, of course, manages to Ignore the Fanservice [[Single-Target Sexuality|from anyone but Padmé]].

** Dunno what the contraband in question was, but if it's food or something like that, some things take priority over nekkid chicks. Food, ammo, medical supplies, things of that kidney.

** 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 [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', this is how Zeb and Deety clue to the fact that the "park ranger" accosting them is an alien; Deety's abrupt strip tease does not distract him or even engage his interest.

* Also in ''[[The Puppet Masters (novel)|The Puppet Masters]]'', book and film. Heinlein's standard litmus test for identifying non-humans usually involves boobs. Fair enough.

* In ''[[The Demon Princes]]'' final volume ''The Book of Dreams'', Alice Wroke is under orders from the villain to seduce Kirth Gersen, who has had four books worth of experience in situations like this already. He spends several chapters either ignoring her [[Sexy Secretary]] outfits, or telling her to cover up.

 

* In ''[[Rome]]'', Cleopatra, the woman who succeeded to keep her kingdom by seducing both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, tried to use her wiles on Octavius, Caesar's successor and the new Emperor of Rome. In response, he is polite, understanding, charming, and ''not fazed for even a second by her come-ons''. [[Driven to Suicide|Cleopatra's response to this]] [[It Was His Sled|is well known]].

* An episode of ''[[Spin City]]'' had the team trying to get a new chair for the office, but the guy in charge wouldn't give it to them because they had broken it by racing in the corridor. When the girls tried to seduce him, he didn't even look up. They decide that he is gay and send Carter after him, but he quit in disgust before they could confirm it.

* When Irene Adler, sexy dominatrix extraordinaire, tries to seduce Sherlock Holmes in the BBC's [[Sherlock]], his response is to {{spoiler|check her pulse and look to see if her pupils are dilated, so he'll know if she's actually attracted to him.}}

 

* In the video for ''Call Me Maybe'' by Carly Rae Jepsen, she tries to get the attention of a hunky guy she likes by washing a car sexily (and hilariously). It does not work as [[Sorry, I'm Gay|he is gay,]] as she later finds out when he gives his number to the (male) guitarist of her band.

 

* Another [[Older Than Feudalism]] example: Joseph, in [[The Bible]], was repeatedly approached by the wife of his master Potiphar. Since sleeping with her would've betrayed his master, he refused her over and over. Finally she attempted to rape him outright, [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|then accused him of same when he ran off to escape her]].

* Possibly the [[Ur Example]] would be [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh completely rejecting the Goddess of Love Inanna/Ishtar]], because he's heard her lovers tend to go through some hell once she's done with them. Of course, spurning her doesn't [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|get him into her good graces either]]....

 

== Pro Wrestling ==

* The Jeff Jarrett/Owen Hart team was managed by Debra, who used her looks to distract their opponents and help them gain wins. So, Jarret/Hart won a Tag Team Title shot against Big Bossman and Ken Shamrock of The Corporation. Pat Patterson forced Bossman and Shamrock to drink saltpeter, which, as he put it, "makes you keep the right head up and the other one down.". It worked, but Jarrett/Hart still found a way to win the titles.

 

* ''[[Damn Yankees]]''

** Lola declares in song that she's irresistible and has an accompanying strip-tease routine. Only this time with Joe, what Lola wants, she doesn't get.

* [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''[[Hotter and Sexier|Zumanity]]'' had a segment where a (world-class - [[Serious Business|seriously]]) pole-dancer tried to get her husband's attention away from a football game, to no avail.

* Quickly forgotten [[Covered Up|in the ten million cover versions]], but this is the basic plot behind the song [[Chess (theatre)|One Night in Bangkok]].

 

** ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations'' has Dahlia Hawthorne, who leaves every male character she meets lovestruck... except for [[The Stoic|Miles Edgeworth]]. Although she doesn't so much do fanservice as cuteservice.

** In the first game, Edgeworth and Phoenix are both immune to the charms of April May. Though Phoenix was originally intended to get "heart eyes" when she turned up on the stand.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'': In a cutscene, Snake launches into [[Description Porn]] upon being handed a custom-made 1911 pistol—completely disregarding the woman who gave it to him, who just moments ago stripped half-naked, expressly for his benefit.

 

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': The Reds find an [[Big Brother Is Watching|underground camera system]] that happens to show Sister's physical examination. Sarge and Simmons are quite interested, Grif screams at them to stop looking at his sister and [[Camp Gay|Donut]] complains about the blue base having much nicer lighting than theirs. And Doc, who's ''administering'' the physical, is too busy trying to work around Sister's gratuitous posing.

 

** For a long time, Elan's typical attempt to distract enemies with illusions meant an illusory sexy female of the enemy's race. It has never worked quite as planned. The chimera explains that he's in a relationship. A prison guard replies "Sorry, happily married" while the other says "[[Sorry, I'm Gay]]". Thog rejects pretty girls for fear of [[Girls Have Cooties|cooties]]. Ironically, this ends up working quite well on Thog once they stop trying to entice him with sex appeal and start trying to scare him with cooties.

** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0352.html This strip] has Roy's attention-seeking little sister completely failing to distract Durkon from his spell with her "attributes".

** Later, [[Chivalrous Pervert|Tedd]] himself does this. He is so caught up in trying to find the solution to a problem for Eliot that he [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-08-01 ignores Grace's attempts to get his attention.]

* Fa'Lina in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'', will occasionally flaunt her [[Gag Boobs]], often when she's trying to lighten the mood; she gets frustrated when [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_024.php no one seems to notice].

 

== Web Original ==

{{quote|'''Light''': [[Camp Gay|Misa, stop that!]] [[Friendly Tickle Torture|That tickles!]] }}

 

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''

{{quote|'''Harley:''' C'mon Mistah J! Don'cha wanna [[Double Entendre|rev up your Harley?]] VROOM! VROOM!}}

** There's also the scene where she celebrates their anniversary by rising up out of a giant pie covered in banana filling, and it's ambiguous whether she's wearing anything underneath. She's also singing "Happy Anniversary" like [[Marilyn Monroe]] and asking him to try some of her pie. The Joker promptly throws her out. Then [[Unfortunate Implications|hyenas]] start licking her, [[But You Screw One Goat!|while she's on all fours.]]

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'': [[Expository Theme Tune|He's Randy the oblivious]] [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Oblivious_Pizza_Delivery_Guy pizza delivery guy!]

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry goes crazy in the "Insane in the mainframe" episode, thinking that he is a robot. Leela tries to restore Fry's humanity by giving him a passionate kiss... but i did not work. Even worst, when he got normal again, it seems he did not remember that.

 

* 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.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Goodness Tropes]]

[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]

[[Category:Morality Tropes]]

[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]