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Lale: There are 3 male examples on this page, and I can think of a fourth. The male Ms. Fanservice warrants his own page, but Mr. Fanservice... doesn't sound right to me. Mr. Fanservice?
whitetigah: Sorry about the multiple edits, but I couldn't figure out how to get the text to align to the right of the image...
StruckingFuggle: I guess this goes here? Regarding the 'tricks' mentioned to make Jessica fairly dangerous in Dragon Quest 8 - what's the trick
Guy Smiley: Recently subverted with Power Girl in Justice Society Of America: her body hasn't changed, but she's finally come into her own as a successful warrior and leader, to the point that she is now chairwoman of the JSA. Black Canary was simultaneously made chairwoman of the JLA, putting women in charge of the two major DC teams.
This is not a subversion. It would be if "flat character" was necessarily implied, but it isn't.
- You can thank "We Wanna Space Hooker" Fox for that one. Possibly the only bit of good Executive Meddling Fox ever forced on Firefly.
Air Of Mystery: Apart from cancelling it.
Fireand'chutes77: Ouch.
Silent Hunter: Regards
Kim Bauer, it's not actually the case for season 1. She's actually third. Mandy gets naked, Nina gets a lingerie scene.
As to who fits and who doesnt: Tasha Yar, Action Girl, not Ms. Fanservice. The point of
Ms. Fanservice is fanservice, not every attractive actress fits the bill: Troi was mostly just there to show cleavage and sense the extremely obvious, except for
that one time. Tasha got to kick ass (which
makes her even sexier IMO), but she wasn't just there to sex things up.
Charred Knight: What the hell is with the picture? Its a show for pre-school! Stop trying to fetishize a tv show made for preschoolers. Its disturbing
Guy Smiley: Whether it is or isn't disturbing, it's not this trope. It's this one: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EstrogenBrigadeBait
Charred Knight: How do you know that?
Sonic Panther: I removed the example, as well. It's for pre-schoolers, and the character they refered to is a purple kangaroo kid. No. Just... No.
Cliché: Removed, for Author Filibuster reasons, yet I'm going to indulge in my own.
- Sheena in Tales Of Symphonia, who thankfully, thanks to Character Development and a good Backstory, manages to be more than just fanservice.
- Yet some Game FAQS vets still call her the worst character, gameplay-wise. Hellooo, Miss Ninja/Summoner was not made to summon, like, say, Klarth from Phantasia.
Whether you find your liked character being described as Ms. Fanservice offensive or not is irrelevant to the article. We don't need justifying edits about how glorious said character is. Remember, Tropes Are Not Bad. This is merely one case, but I believe that there are more in this article.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: I edited the article to make it sound less negative. People see this one as bad to the point that someone recently made a "Ms. Fanservice, except good" YKTTW for fanservice-y character with actual personalities. (For some reason, though, being Mr. Fanservice is considered awesome, even though it's the exact same thing with the sexes swapped.)
Seriously, Ms. Fanservice does not automatically equal one-sided or badly written character.
Cliché: That's because there's no All Women Are Perverts clause. Oh yeah, and My Guy Is A Slut is seen as an honour in society, for some reason.
Vampire Buddha: I took out a huge pile of bad examples. This trope is about
one character who provides the majority of the fanservice. It is
by defintion impossible for every character in a work to be Ms Fanservice.
- Agreed, which is why the Joss Whedon section needs some cutting (perhaps even the whole thing, but I'm not going to be the one to do it).
Bad examples
- If the genre of the anime or manga is called "Ecchi", expect almost every female character to be Ms. Fanservice.
- See Mahou Sensei Negima. (At least the earlier volumes.)
- Asuna especially, mainly due to the fact that she's the main female lead and therefore gets the most screen time in which to suffer Clothing Damage. Setsuna also seems to get stripped naked with surprising frequency compared to the other characters.
- Don't forget that the Mahora festival arc had Takane D. Goodman. There was a running gag that her magically summoned clothes get destroyed in every one of her appearances. To the point that in one of her final appearances the joke is that she doesn't get stripped. Even the other characters, who, living in that world, are quite used to Clothing Damage as a daily occurrence, refer to her as a stripper.
- I think it's safe to say that Ken Akamatsu has built his entire bibliography around this trope.
- A lot of manga creators do that, for better or worse. Mr. Akamatsu stands out because he does it without sacrificing (too much of) the bits that actually make the comic good.
- Every single woman drawn by Divito.
- Every single woman drawn by Trillo or Meglia, to the point where Las Puertitas Del Señor Lopez featured a giant nude woman.
- Both female leads in Cazados.
- Pretty much every female character in Yenny, particularly the titular character... it's lampshaded on a fairly regular basis, too.
- Almost any woman drawn by Ian Gibson for 2000 AD, especially if the strip involved is Robo Hunter.
- How about every female character on Smallville? Particularly Lana Lang and Lois Lane. Not that Clark Kent disappoints, mind you...
- Damn near every single female character in the Soul Series, though as mentioned above, Ivy takes the cake.
- Hilde seems to be an exception (and the producer admitted as much). Much to the distress of many, Talim and Amy are not.
- Of course, when it comes to fanservice-laden web comics, we can't forget Girl Genius (which has Agatha, Zeetha, and pretty much every other female, not that they aren't strong characters in their own right), and anything else by Phil and Kaja Foglio.
- Then again, several of the important male characters (especially Gil) are full-blown Mr. Fanservice so it tends to balance out a little.
- This may have been influenced by the fact that some of Phil Foglio's earliest published work was a vaguely sci-fi hardcore porn Magazine called XXXenophile.
- As appropriate for a Big Brother parody, every character in Drawn Together is Mr./Ms. Fanservice. Given that half the cast isn't even human, this leads to an unbelievable amount of Squick and Fan Disservice.
- A lot of this is parody of Fanservice, however. If you want Fanservice played straight, Foxxy Love is your go-to girl.
- Pretty much any Steel Angel in Steel Angel Kurumi. Almost all of them have enormous breasts (Nakahito has his face unwillingly plowed into Kurumi's chest quite a lot), and the ones that don't have extra-revealing outfits. And most of the fight scenes have Dramatic Wind that give loads of panty shots. Saki essentially being a lesbian doesn't help, either.
- On Farscape, the Ms. Fanservice duties are, instead of being placed all on one person, alternately shared by the various female cast members; this prevents any of them from becoming a character solely defined as the Fanservice. For example, the early episodes mostly definitely had Zhaan as the fanservice; then Aeryn got into the act a couple times; then Chiana came along...
- Let's not forget Commandant Mele-On Grayza who appeared in the fan-labelled 'Season of Cleavage'. Though this was lampshaded by having Grayza specifically use seduction as a weapon.
- All the contestants, male and female from So You Think You Can Dance (at least all the ones that make it to the Top Twenty). Likewise all the pros and most of the celebs from Dancing With The Stars, usually with a sideorder of Stripperific
