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12	->''"The human body is a beautiful thing. Most of the time. Ew."''
13	-->-- '''Guybrush Threepwood''', ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland''
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15	The EvilTwin of {{Fanservice}} from another dimension, possibly with a [[BeardOfEvil goatee]] (especially if [[GirlsWithMoustaches female]]). Fan Disservice looks like regular garden variety {{Fanservice}}, except that the creators intentionally use the circumstances around it to make the scene outright [[NightmareFuel creepy]], [[{{Squick}} disgusting]] and/or just plain ridiculous. Corpses in sexy poses, dialogue that adds MoodDissonance, seeing someone naked who you ''really'' wouldn't want to see naked... there's a hundred and one ways that titillation can transform into horror. Just think of how many {{Slasher Movie}}s have {{Fanservice Extra}}s meet their demise by way of SexSignalsDeath.
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17	Note that it often seems that film schools grind this into their students, as far too many movies intercut sex scenes with scenes of violence or {{squick}}, to truly rub in our faces the polarity of beauty and horror. Of course, the directors [[TrueArtIsAngsty just want to be artists]] (that, or they're puritanical types who are obsessed with portraying sex in the most negative light possible). But sometimes it's implemented in a funny way, so the director can just mess with you.
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19	Of course, Fan Disservice and {{Fanservice}} are not mutually exclusive. As [[RulesOfTheInternet Rule 36]] states: If it exists, there's a {{fetish}} for it. Therefore, all Fan Disservice is considered {{Fanservice}} by ''somebody'' out there. Also, due to TroperDemographics, there are ''many'' examples linked elsewhere on the wiki which are listed as disservice solely because they involve naked men. Male nudity by itself is ''not'' Fan Disservice; there ''are'' people attracted to men; MrFanservice as a trope wouldn't exist otherwise. Some {{Drag Queen}}s are often subject to this trope, though this at least has a chance of being intentional on the performer's part if mocking sexiness is part of their drag. (See also UnsettlingGenderReveal.)
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21	Also, it's pretty important to state that not ''all'' Fan Disservice is 100% tied into graphic squick. Context can also be vital into separating FanService from Fan Disservice; for example you can have a very gorgeous person in diverse states of undress and the visuals are technically pleasant to the eye, but the ''circumstances'' that led him or her to be like that can come from BreakTheCutie, BreakTheHaughty, a TraumaCongaLine, NoYay, a horrendously UnequalPairing, RapeAsDrama, etc. Therefore, neither the most artistic and perfect drawing style nor the most tasteful angle shots can make this particular scene/shot enjoyable — you're too busy [[TheWoobie feeling sorry for the protagonist]] and/or [[HateSink desiring the perpetrator's head on a pike]] instead. Alternately, the character is an AxCrazy psycho launching a bloody FullFrontalAssault. A gorgeous [[MrFanservice Mr.]]/MsFanservice with a particularly cruel personality is simultaneously Fan Disservice. Fan Disservice frequently overlaps with NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel.
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23	This trope can often overlap with NakedPeopleAreFunny — as often as not, naked people are funny precisely because of Fan Disservice. Can be paired with PsychosexualHorror.
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25	'''Note:''' This trope is for sexy things deliberately placed in disturbing contexts that make them intentionally unsexy. Examples that are ''un''intentional belong in FetishRetardant.
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28	!!Example subpages:
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30	[[index]]
31	* FanDisservice/AnimeAndManga
32	* FanDisservice/ComicBooks
33	* FanDisservice/FanWorks
34	* [[FanDisservice/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
35	* FanDisservice/{{Literature}}
36	* FanDisservice/LiveActionTV
37	** ''FanDisservice/OneThousandWaysToDie''
38	* {{FanDisservice/Music}}
39	* FanDisservice/VideoGames
40	* FanDisservice/VisualNovels
41	* FanDisservice/{{Webcomics}}
42	* FanDisservice/WebOriginal
43	* FanDisservice/WesternAnimation
44	[[/index]]
45
46	!!Other examples:
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48	[[foldercontrol]]
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50	[[folder:Advertising]]
51	* [[http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/05/stripping-fat-man-billboard-wins-gold.html This ad]] for billboard space is built on this trope. Buy this space, or else a rather frumpy-looking, obese, hairy man strips naked!
52	* A Finnish ad for Fixus car services. There's an old guy with two [[FanService beautiful daughters]], but the daughters talk with their father's voice.
53	* The Creator/AdultSwim bumper "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMe1CdQhlg Love Party]]" spoofs fanservice-laden anime by showing a pair of unattractive male nerds in suggestive poses.
54	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDafnyaUfI 2016 Super Bowl ad for Snickers]] has Creator/WillemDafoe in a white dress doing a [[MarilynManeuver Marilyn Maneuver]].
55	[[/folder]]
56
57	[[folder:Arts]]
58	* Creator/HieronymusBosch, especially in his religious/cautionary works.
59	* Creator/GustaveDore, all too often.
60	* Henry Fuseli, best known for ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG The Nightmare]]''.
61	* Creator/FranciscoDeGoya, especially with the mental and physical health problems he experienced towards the end of his life.
62	* Carolee Schneemann's ''Interior Scroll'', a performance piece where she reads from a scroll literally pulled from her vagina.
63	* Luciano Garbati's sculpture ''Medusa With the Head of Perseus''. A woman with a very beautiful, fully nude body, holding the man's head she just cut off.
64	* While some of [[Creator/GabrielGrun Gabriel Grün's]] paintings fall prey to eroticism, there are others that purposefully subvert this through a mix of BodyHorror and general surrealness.
65	** ''La Pequeña Peluda'' features a [[AmbiguousGender vaguely androgynous]] figure with long red hair that drapes not unlike Creator/SandroBotticelli ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus\|Botticelli}}''. The hair on their head is cut fairly short, with the drapery flowing from their armpits and ''pubes.''
66	** ''La Pequeña Aracné'' features a woman with three sets of legs, the curvature of her buttocks molding into two other bottoms that connect with the four extra legs.
67	** ''Metamorphosis into Gruyere Cheese'' features a nude woman who's body is covered with holes that evoke swiss cheese.
68	** ''Tacto (Touch)'' features a bald, nude woman absolutely ''covered'' in spare nipples.
69	** ''Arache'' features a hairless woman with exposed breasts and genitals with four arms and four legs. If that doesn't turn you off, her disapproving gaze staring right at the viewer will.
70	[[/folder]]
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72	[[folder:Comedy]]
73	* Comedian Creator/JeffFoxworthy mentions this in his stand-up, overlapping with BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
74	--> "I figured it was God getting even with me for wanting to see women naked. 'Hey, you wanna see naked women, huh? Here's your grandma!' AAH!"
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76
77	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
78	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': The program "Santa's Summer Vacation" that Garfield is watching in [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2023/08/17 the August 17, 2023 strip]] has Santa Claus eliciting shock and displeasure from Garfield due to his outfit of choice.
79	-->'''Garfield''': That man should '''NOT''' wear a swimsuit!
80	* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One of the most horrifying sights in existence: [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/01/30 Stephan Pastis in the nude.]]
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83	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
84	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Jasmine is pretty sexy in her [[GoGoEnslavement red slave outfit]], but then there's the part where she kisses Jafar, which is met with disgust by the other characters due to the fact that she's his prisoner and she is SIGNIFICANTLY younger than him. Even Iago is disgusted.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' ''loves'' this:
86	** First there's the street play in the Other World. The main performers are two fat old ladies, who are completely naked save for some skimpy swimsuits... emphasis on ''skimpy''.
87	** When the [[spoiler:Other Mother transforms, much of her chest becomes clearly visible, but she's so hideous otherwise that you don't even ''want'' to see it.]]
88	** Even before then, when Coraline first meets the Other Mother. She's kind, kinda witty, and ''unbelievably hot'' for someone still wearing trousers and a turtleneck jumper. The HartmanHips help. What pushes it into Fan Disservice is that you can tell something is ''off'' about her. The button eyes are one thing, but she smiles ''too'' widely, seems ''too'' eager to be around Coraline. She's [[DissonantSerenity dissonantly calm and cheerful]] up until Coraline starts outright rejecting her. A great example of Fan Disservice not being from Body Horror but being more subtle and creepy.
89	* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. This trope applies to pretty much every moment that ancient villainess Yzma is on the screen, but in particular when she starts to hike up her dress, causing Pacha and Kuzco to scream in terror. They're relieved when it turns out she was just [[ChastityDagger going for the knife strapped to her thigh]].
90	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' is a noir film and, as with many, it has a sex scene in it. The problem is that they're completely non-anthropomorphic cats who make ''a lot'' of noise. It also doesn't help that, narrative-wise, this occurs not soon after [[spoiler:Francis finds his first love interest Felicity beheaded]].
91	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': The bonus video "Incredi-blunders!" features technical goofs and short scenes that were made simply because the animators were goofing around. This includes things like Mr. Incredible walking around naked (with {{Pixellation}} to censor his behind) and Syndrome licking Mirage, who smiles in return.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': As noted elsewhere on this very wiki, Ursula is probably the first Franchise/{{Disney\|AnimatedCanon}} villain to shake her moneymakers for the camera. Given that Ursula is a [[FatBastard fat]] and ''incredibly'' skanky octopus woman, the proper reaction is some horrible mixture of yuck and laughter.
93	-->''"And don't underestimate the importance of... '''[[LargeHam BODY LANGUAGE]]!'''"''
94	* Ruber's [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] minions from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot''.
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97	[[folder:Game Shows]]
98	* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'':
99	** Rhod Gilbert got his hands on a "sexy" photo of [[https://i.redd.it/ow53cw5llwda1.jpg Greg Davies in a budgie-smuggler]], which he [[TheGadfly delighted in showing as much as humanly possible]].
100	** Not to be outdone, Liza Tarbuck infamously forced Alex to drop his pants and sit, bare-ass, in a cake, as part of a task to "tell the Taskmaster you love him." Despite Alex's outright ''pained'' moan while doing so, he does recommend trying it at least once... but suggests you get the right kind of chair so you [[{{Squick}} won't be "open" like he was]].
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103	[[folder:Jokes]]
104	* A woman is talking to her husband:
105	-->'''Wife''': Chaim, don't you think we should buy some curtains for our windows?
106	-->'''Husband''': No; what for, Sarah?
107	-->'''Wife''': Chaim, do you really want the neighbor on the opposite side to see me showering?
108	-->'''Husband''': Sarah, if he ever sees you showering, he'll be the one buying curtains.
109	** A variant after the husband takes up nude bodybuilding:
110	-->'''Wife:''' Dear, close the curtains when you do that, I don't want the neighbors thinking I only married you for your money!
111	* Two men who own a nightclub are wondering why business has been steadily declining through the years. Is it the food? No, the food's still good. Is it the music? No, we have a great band. Is it the drinks? No, the drinks are fine. Finally one of them wonders if it might be the topless waitresses. The second man says, "Nah, it couldn't be them. They're the same gals who have worked for us since we opened in 1950."
112	** There is a Soviet variant which has girls who are all party members since 1930[[note]]In USSR, political reliability ''was'' often the defining factor at the expense of everything else[[/note]].
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115	[[folder:Manhwa]]
116	* ''Manhwa/KillingStalking'' hits the readers with this trope almost from the beginning:
117	** The first chapter has a half-naked Bum masturbating over Sangwoo. This isn't shown to titillate, but to showcase his obsession; plus, it happens in the middle of a flashback that explains how he became a StalkerWithACrush [[spoiler: and includes an AttemptedRape situation that he was subjected to when in the army]].
118	** In the same chapter, Bum gets inside Sangwoo's house... then finds his basement... [[spoiler: and an almost naked, BoundAndGagged, blindfolded and bruised young woman.]] Few later, he wakes up after being beaten [[spoiler: and sees the poor woman...'s corpse. It gets even worse when Sangwoo ''gropes the corpse's bare breast.'']]
119	** The story has quite a few instances where the handsome Sangwoo is down to his skivvies, [[ShirtlessScene walking around in his underwear]] and [[MrFanservice showing off his chiseled physique]]. Most these scenes are accompanied by [[spoiler:his victims being tortured in his CreepyBasement, him splattered with blood, or him psychologically scaring the crap out of Bum]].
120	* From ''Manhwa/{{Rebirth}}'', Deshwitat has a sparring match with an ancient, bearded {{Wicked Cultured}} vampire. During the battle, said ancient vampire (in a bout of humor) transforms himself into a hot young half-dressed woman to throw him off. Deshwitat, baffled and enraged, orders him to change back. He certainly does, but only his head, leaving the rest of it the same.
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123	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
124	* Two words that strike fear and terror into even the most jaded Pro Wrestling fan's gonads: Wrestling/MaeYoung.
125	** The 2000 Royal Rumble "Miss Rumble" bikini contest. Hot women in bikinis, often getting skimpier per woman. The last bonus entrant... Mae Young. A woman in her 80s. She then promptly attempts to kiss Jerry Lawler and ends up baring her breasts. DVD version of this was unfortunately very poorly censored.
126	** WWE had a thing called "Divas Undressed" in which the Divas paraded around in skimpy outfits. It was aired at 1 in the morning and they decided the event needed WWE style "comedy". So we got Mae Young again. And for good measure, Wrestling/{{Rico\|Constantino}} in a pineapple bra.
127	** The Bra and Panties Gauntlet match at "New Year's Revolution 2006" had her come out and perform a full striptease in front of the crowd.
128	* Whenever Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} was setting up to deliver a stinkface to his opponent, the camera would always zoom in on his gigantic, cottage cheese butt cheeks.
129	* The Katie Vick angle. Wrestling/TripleH brings up Katie Vick during a feud with Wrestling/{{Kane}}, a supposed incident where Kane was in love with a cheerleader named Katie Vick, but then she died, and he promptly had sex with her corpse. The low point of this angle was a supposed "video" Triple H produced of Kane committing the act---it was Triple H in a Kane mask, climbing into a coffin with a cheerleader mannequin, pretending to have sex. Ended with Triple H reaching over towards her head, grabbing a handful of spaghetti with sauce and throwing it at the camera, proclaiming that he "screwed her [brains] out".
130	* "Big" Dick Johnson. Or, as he was known before he was named on-screen (and his counterpart in Wrestling/{{TNA}} was actually named), Big Fat Naked Oily Guy. Yes, it's as bad it sounds.
131	* Tha Weedman of Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling smokes as much as his name implies and blows his smoke into the crowd. This usually counts as a [[CheapHeat Cheap Pop]], as many ICP fans do happen to be stoners but for non-smokers, it's this trope.
132	* Big Daddy V (aka Mabel, aka King Mabel, aka Viscera)'s standard attire consisted of a singlet. This doesn't sound too out of the ordinary, but remember that he was billed at 500 lbs. The singlet did a job of showing off his '''huge''' [[{{Squick}} man boobs]]. This didn't go unnoticed by, and grossed out, a lot of smarks.
133	* If you are dipping into Japanese pro wrestling, don't forget watching matches of [[Wrestling/AlexanderOtsuka Otoko Sakari]] and W-1's Ryota Hama. They have a... bizarre beauty.
134	* ''Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam'': Suguru Miyatake and Takayuki Ueki bra and panty from bubble match, unless two hairy guys in that situation is your thing.
135	* Wrestling/DaffneyUnger was once involved in a match where she opened a lockbox that said she had to perform a striptease in the middle of the ring. While she's not unattractive, there is something inherently skeevy about someone being forced to strip or be fired. This is presumably the reason Lacey Wrestling/{{Von Erich\|Family}} interrupted and tried to do it herself.
136	* Is Wrestling/MickieJames sexy? Hell yeah. Is she sexy when she's [[SexySoakedShirt all wet]]? Most definitely. How about when she's wet from having punch dumped on her, right after being assaulted and humiliated by Wrestling/LayCool? TearJerker instead.
137	* A straight example turned into a subversion in Wrestling/ChristyHemme's first night on ''Raw''. Wrestling/TrishStratus announced that she would have her first match: a bra and panties handicap match. She, Wrestling/GailKim and Wrestling/MollyHolly proceeded to restrain Christy and strip her to her underwear. Christy was left terrified in the ring afterwards...until she realised she had no problem showing off her body and turned it into an InsultBackfire.
138	* In a {{c\|rowdchant}}hant of "Fix Your Wedgie" broke out among the female fans during one of Queen Aminata's Premier Championship Wrestling matches. Aminata's response was to pull her trunks up further and sit on the barricade right in front of a woman's face...
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141	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
142	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
143	** Slaanesh, the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Chaos]] god of desire, excess, decadence, beauty, pleasure, love, lust, and this trope. Its lesser demons, Daemonettes, exemplify this trope as well as the inverse and many of its servants eventually become both through the "blessings" of Chaos mutations.
144	** The spin-off ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' has this too. All races have cheerleaders. Now, for their own race, this is no problem at all. When it comes to Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, Humans, Mutants, Orcs, Ogres, and the Undead, all intermingling, however... Pass the BrainBleach. {{Averted\|Trope}} (perhaps thankfully) by the PC game; the Orcs have drummers, the Lizardmen have Skinks with football rattles, and the Nurgle devotees actually just look like they have a full coat of green body paint and small horns on their heads.
145	** The Bloodwrack Medusa model in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has exposed breasts... and sculpted blood pouring from every orifice. If you read its background, it gets even more disturbing: this is the fate it suffers, but also what it is doing to anyone who happens to look at it.
146	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Sulumor, aka Hellnun, is the most heavily sexualised Infernal Exalted, being a gorgeous woman in a sort of stripper-nun outfit. How could her being topless be anything other than sexy? Simple. The picture of Sulumor topless in the Infernals book is demonstrating a Malfeas Charm that allows you to render yourself immune to disease for a while by self-inducing horrible supernatural radiation sickness, complete with tumoriffic skin. It's really, really, ''really'' not sexy.
147	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has Urgathoa, the goddess of Undeath, as one of the core deities. From the waist up she is a beautiful, buxom, and raven-haired (though also [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]]) woman. But [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/pathfinder/images/7/7d/Urgathoa.jpg once you get below that...]]
148	* PlayedForLaughs in ''TabletopGame/{{Pokethulhu}}''. Thulhu have four moves: Injure, Dodge, Trap and Frighten. Series mascot Pikathulhu's Trap ability is "Adorable Pose"; its Frighten ability is "Adorable CHEESECAKE Pose" (and it's actually reasonably effective, particularly against enemies weak to Fungous moves).
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151	[[folder:Web Animation]]
152	* [[DirtyOldWoman Lunch Lady Belinda]] is a walking example of this trope in ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', In-Universe and Out. She's caused numerous people to puke their guts out at the sight of her in a cheerleading uniform that ''[[{{Squick}} exposes her lower parts]]''.
153	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Just about all instances where Disco Bear is shirtless or wears nothing but a ''leopard-skin thong''. This is even shown as disservice to other Tree Friends, as seen in "Sea What I Found", where even Pop is mortified by the sight of Disco Bear showing more skin than usual.
154	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
155	** In the short ''Somber Vacation'', Strong Sad ends up with an embarrassing tan line that looks like he's wearing a bikini top. To top it off, he even shows a postcard of himself lying on the beach ''smiling'', and yes, he is sporting the tan line.
156	** Then, there's Coach Z imagining his butt in "Decemberween Short Shorts". Matt Chapman noted in the DVD commentary that he originally made Coach Z's buttcheeks big, round and pulsating, to his friends' disgust.
157	** Plus, for more of Coach Z you wish you hadn't seen, there's an easter egg for the Costume Commercial short of him wearing the Authentic "Marzipan" Costume (a purple bikini complete with cat ears and a devil tail).
158	** The Poopsmith's costume for the 2015 HalloweenEpisode "The House That Gave Sucky Tricks" is Sting as Feyd-Rautha in ''Film/Dune1984'', which means the Poopsmith goes around wearing nothing but a skimpy blue codpiece for the whole cartoon
159	--->'''Strong Bad:''' I ''WILL'' KILL HIM! ...If he doesn't put on some more clothes. Eugh, molded plastic panties...
160	* In ''WebAnimation/DaAmazinOTAdvenchr'' episode 22, a FreezeFrameBonus shows Lite wearing [[{{VideoGame/CaveStory}} Curly Brace's panties]].
161	* In ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers'' episode four, the titular character appears shirtless and appears to have an orgasm. However, he's green, emaciated, hairy, and creepy as hell.
162	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf6CklP996A Who Needs Science?]]'' is a TakeThat to fundies who criticize science while unwittingly benefiting from scientific advances. It does so with a CaptainErsatz Becky Fischer answering trivia questions about the Bible and losing any possessions that were improved by a particular scientific discovery. At 2:52, she loses all her possessions with polyurethane in them... which includes her spandex pants.
163	* ''WebAnimation/NyanNekoSugarGirls'' is full of this. From PrettyBoy Hitoshi to Raku and her huge chest and scenes such as the girls going underwear shopping, this would make for a very fanservice bait series... If it wasn't for the ''incredibly'' ugly, poorly done {{animesque}} [=MS Paint=] art-style. If the lack of [[OffModel any sort of model]] doesn't kill it then the ear-piercing voices will. [[spoiler:Luckily the series is an ironic StealthParody so at least all of this is intentional.]]
164	* ''WebAnimation/SugoiQuestForKokoro'' has a lot of bouncing breasts and panty shots, but the art is so intentionally terrible that the fanservice is meant to be funny rather than titillating.
165	* ''WebAnimation/SonicShorts'', possibly inspired by ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', makes a RunningGag out of Eggman [[SuckinessIsPainful weaponizing]] his Fan Disservice against Sonic. The most popular version of this is a [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] Eggman working out like a Chippendale dancer, prominently showing his undulating belly. This is often captioned with "YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT!"
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