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The Male Gaze is a term used to describe the way a (usually male) director/cameraman's interest in women informs his shots, leading to a focus on breasts, asses and other jiggly bits even when the film isn't necessarily supposed to be a T&A-fest.

For example, a sex scene between a man and a woman may show more of her body than it does of his, or focus more on her reactions than his (see RightThroughHisPants). Alternatively, it could appear in shows that aren't overtly sexual - for example, scenes of bikini-clad female characters talking that emphasise their bodies rather than showing just their heads.

The term also applies in other mediums, such as video games and comic books. During the DarkAge, comic books were often perfect examples of the male gaze, with scenes being framed to show off a female character's "assets" over everything else. The trend continues at a lower level today.

While this is not always intended as FanService, it generally has the effect of being so. JigglePhysics and {{Gainaxing}} are particularly notable forms of this.

This is by no means a new phenomenon - see [[http://www.lyons.co.uk/Titian/bigh1/Magda.htm this picture]] of Mary Magdalene, done in [[OlderThanSteam the 1500s]]. The story runs that towards the end of her life, she became a hermit, and grew her hair so long she didn't need clothes. Nevertheless, the painter has decided to paint her without the hair covering everything that [[GodivaHair it otherwise might]], and not as a particularly old woman. From a theoretical perspective, the male gaze refers to how females are depicted as passive subjects of an implicitly male audience.

If the female in question is aware of the FourthWall, she'll likely snap [[MyEyesAreUpHere "Ahem, eyes are up here!"]] at the camera/artist.

See FemaleGaze for its DistaffCounterpart. As the FemaleGaze is substantially less common at present in most media, and rarely ever done by accident, it tends not to be much of a lightning rod for UnfortunateImplications.

Not to be confused with [[IncrediblyLamePun Male Gays]], which is [[HoYay a different trope altogether]].
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[[folder: Advertising ]]

* A recent Coke commercial featured a trio of guys at a party with a trio of girls. The viewer does not see any of the girls' faces, and the camera focuses solely on their tight clothing.
* Evony's banner ads feature little more than a pair of [[MostCommonSuperpower gigantic boobs]] accompanied by the words "Play now, my lord!" or "Save your lover the Queen!" or "Play now secretly!". Bear in mind that Evony is a Civilisation-esque strategy game.
** Not to mention that the lack of any visible shine on her pupils, the rather copious amounts of makeup and somewhat obvious photoshopping of the face make it [[UncannyValley more creepy than it is hot]].
** It seems fairly clear to this troper that the artists used porn stars as their models in the ads.
* The banner ads for Claymore on this very wiki. The vertical one is well ok, showing a full body shot of one of the female characters decked out for battle. What does the horizontal view do? It starts out showing only her chest. It then moves further up her body as the ad continues, but the shot of her breasts does its job at catching your eye. [[http://img62.imageshack.us/i/claymore.png/ Feel free to make the comparison yourself.]]
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFu68oMmvtg&feature=related recently new commercial for Corona light beer]].
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCHKXICefFw new commercial for Reebok EasyTone shoes]], designed to "make your legs and butt look good".
*An advertisement for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia played with this trope, showing the male gaze until the camera pans up revealing the woman in question to be the hideous (under the makeup, the actress is rather attractive) Margaret McPoyle.

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[[folder: Anime ]]

* When Faye Valentine's top is cut open in the ''CowboyBebop'' [[TheMovie movie]], the camera shows nothing above or below her breasts. The TV series also has several lingering shots of Faye's legs and breasts.
* Parodied in (you guessed it) ''ExcelSaga'': When Misaki first appears, the camera begins to pan up her body. It then does a JumpCut to her rear before resuming the pan... and stopping at her chest. She then [[NoFourthWall asks why it stopped.]] When the camera attempts this again later, she grabs the camera and demands that it cease. Cut to a written apology from the director.
* When Gohan, Krillen and Bulma land on a strange spaceship in ''DragonBall Z,'' they want to go explore it. Bulma is apparently so excited to traverse the ship that she forgets to put on pants. She spends the next several episodes in her [[ThemeNaming eponymous]] underwear for no reason.
** This also seems to [[FemaleGaze happen in reverse]] in ''DragonBall Z''. There are far more long panning shots up spandex-clad male bodies than can possibly be justified by dramatic reasons.
*** Which could help to explain the large female fan following in the US.
** Then there's Maron, Krillin's ex-girlfriend. Might be PlayingWithATrope, since the camera leers along with the male characters... an explicitly "male gaze."
* In ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', Kyon is the cameraman for the Brigade's movie; with the buxom and beautiful Mikuru the main character of said movie, the camera's view...dips...on occasion. Also note that in chronology, the first thing we see of Haruhi is her chest.
** Also played less subtly for laughs. Itsuki jokes that Kyon and Haruhi are now [[AdamAndEvePlot Adam and Eve]]. Cut to a still camera shot of Haruhi walking down stairs... with the shot starting around her waist and eventually working up to her head. Less subtle indeed.
* In ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', used on Anzu/Tea while she was playing a Dance Dance Revolution-like game. Whether intentionally or not, it gives the impression this is where ''Yami's'' gaze is focused. Hmmm...
* The OP of ''BlackLagoon'' has a few random shots of Revy's butt, which is in line with how she mostly gets depicted the manga.
* The almost supernaturally endowed Rangiku Matsumoto on ''{{Bleach}}'' is constantly subjected to this.
** Interestingly, the similarly well-endowed Orihime is very rarely shown in a fanservicey way - unlike Matsumoto, she never even wears revealing clothes.
***That's true, but the camera frequently closes up on her MostCommonSuperpower set. Especially when Kon is talking nearby.
** This whole trope made her choices on the 'fashion show' episode, #128, that much more interesting. With one possible exception - all her outfit choices were surprisingly tasteful and classy. The sixth one, the exception? No more or less revealing than an outfit you might see being worn by say, your average woman wearing a tank top and pants.
* In ''PrincessTutu'' there's a scene where Autor is walking behind Rue. The camera switches to show her walking from behind, then slowly pans down to gaze at her rear end and legs. The camera then switches to show Autor looking downwards with a blush on his face, then quickly glancing up when Rue turns towards him as if trying to cover up where his attention had gone.
* In ''BusouRenkin'', Kazuki is walking behind Tokiku up some stairs. We get the expected shot from his point of view, followed by a shot of his blushing face. In light of what Tokiku's telling him at the time, the shot feels highly random.
* The third episode of ''CodeGeass'' had a blatant one of these during Kallen's shower scene. The shower curtain gets accidentally pulled aside, and we see her standing in the shower with a SexyBack shot. Then the camera drops about 3 feet, perfectly framing her behind.
** R2 did this constantly, especially during its first half, to just about every attractive female character. Some of the most egregious examples occurred whenever Kallen or C.C. piloted a Knightmare, including very unsubtle ass shots as seen above.
*** Perhaps it has something to do with the title and animators playing around. ''Code Ge-ASS''.
* ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' is comparably blatant. [[MsFanservice The Major]] wouldn't have it any other way.
** Witness for example the second episode of the first season. The Major is driving a Tachikoma, stops and opens the hatch to get out... [[http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/Rutilcaper/sacbooty-1.jpg and the camera gives us an ''extreme'' close-up butt shot from below.]] Oh my, yes.
*** Strangely enough, the audience got fewer and fewer of these as her character got defined. [[MostViewersAreMale She still kept most of them though.]]
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. [[MsFanservice The object of the gaze]] is later promoted to [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Major]]. Coincidence?!
** Can't forget Ritsuko, Rei, and Asuka who provide the other half of the {{Fanservice}} for the show.
* During Lalamon's [[TransformationSequence evolution sequence]] to Rosemon in ''DigimonSavers'', the camera makes sure to pan up her behind and directly into a cleavage shot. When the time came for ''Data Squad'', this part of the sequence was cut out.
* In ''StreetFighter Alpha'' TheMovie, the camera has so many random cuts to close ups of Chun Li's and, to a much lesser extent, Sakura's pelvic reason, that it makes make for a rather entertaining drinking game.
** And in Street Fighter 2, the Animated Movie, during Chun-Li's shower scene, there's a close up on her butt, and another, much more zoomed in, one in the Japanese version of the scene, complete with {{Gainaxing}} of the buttocks.
* Played with in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. In the eighth episode, Thymilph is seen watching the heroes on a WallOfMonitors. One of them has a close-up of Yoko's breasts. There are also instances of {{Gainaxing}} which the camera sometimes gives particular focus to. Simon's or Kamina's gaze does linger on early in the show, and getting a "good look" at the girls is even a plot point during the sixth episode.
* Two of these show up in ''AzumangaDaioh'', oddly enough. One is the series's sole PantyShot, tho done in such closeup that you can't really tell what it is until it's over and others are reacting. Both are primarily due to the subject (Sakaki, sadly) being the focus of the gaze in both cases--the shot is supposed to be that of the staring character. (Only one is an actual male, though.)
* Weird example from the ''GetBackers'' manga. Ban, Ginji, Kazuki and Juubei are taking a bath in a [[HotSpringsEpisode hot spring]]. Ban, Ginji, and Juubei generally stay submerged below the shoulders--but Kazuki, who only ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]]'' like a girl, gets some very obvious SexyBack and ass-shots, to the point where Ban is kind enough to cover up his guy-parts at one point for the [[{{Shonen}} intended audience]] and tell us all how hot a girl Kazuki would be.
* MahouSenseiNegima does this on a regular basis. The "camera" occasionally focuses on the girls' butts for [[FanService no reason in particular]], and anytime a girl does anything active, a PantyShot is inevitable. [[ClothingDamage Even if the girl is wearing something other than a skirt.]]
* GoNagai. Just... GoNagai. Not suprising giving that he invented {{Fanservice}} in the first place, and he's not very subtle about it.
* [[http://www.onemanga.com/School_Rumble/67/05/ This shot of Yakumo]] from ''SchoolRumble'' when she first meets Harima which was left out in the anime.
* ''StrikeWitches''. For a show about girls who doesn't wear any pants, ever, the camera is often focused on the part of the body that is exposed if the girls aren't wearing any pants.
* ''TrainingWithHinako'', an anime exercise DVD (they make those now) has the audience's trainer, Hinako, doing various parts of her workout with the camera knowing exactly where to aim itself.
* In FullmetalAlchemist, it's not unusual to focus shots on the Homunculi's ouroborus tattoos. Lust's tattoo, of course, is right above her cleavage.
** Maes Hughes [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this one for us.
** To be fair, Lust is supposed to be an extremely sexual character and objectifying her (or using Male Gaze extra lots) just means you (or the character) is falling for her trap (except in the first anime... but, then again [[AdaptationDecay a lot is different in the first anime...]]).
* One can't really blame people for [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper remembering the exploding panties]] in the first season of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. The first season's TransformationSequence had a lot of panning shots of the [[{{Lolicon}} underaged title character's]] naked body and it was used often. Though they were still present, these were toned down in later seasons.
* ''RosarioToVampire'' screams this trope the whole time. Especially when Kurumu appears, or when Moka transforms.
* In ''[[MegaManStarForce Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe]]'', it's pretty hard to keep the drama of HotShonenMom Akane being kidnapped by Phantom Black when the camera keeps framing her behind and chest in the middle of shots.
* Done often with Nodoka in ''{{Saki}}'', sometimes via an actual in-story camera man. Amusingly enough, the first occurence of this was done [[LesYay from the point-of-view of the female title character]].
* Done to a {{Narm}}ful extent in the first arc of the UminekoNoNakuKoroNi anime.
* Done at every possible moment in {{NEEDLESS}}. I challenge anyone to find me a single episode that does not do this at least a few times.
* In the first two seasons of MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, Arf's very round butt gets plenty of close-ups.

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* Comic artists who draw this way will often show a female character facing away from the camera, but twisting her back (sometimes improbably) towards the 'camera' so that the viewer can get a good look at [[TitAndAssPose her breasts as well as her behind]].
** Rob Liefeld is probably the most infamous artist here; see, for instance, [[http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/index.php?entry=entry061207-235832 here]] and [[http://bp0.blogger.com/_YUUAn5bgpwo/Rf_YLUTy9-I/AAAAAAAAAOg/wZqgWPLgjy4/s1600-h/badrockcover.jpg here]].
** Ed Benes has a reputation for this too, though his knowledge of human anatomy at least allows him to make them look ''human'' when they do such unlikely poses.
*** For example: Psylocke in [[http://edbenes.deviantart.com/art/Bene-s-heroes-101246409 this]] shot.
** Damn near anything by Frank Cho.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{Batman}} All-Star Batman & Robin]]'' features an issue in which Vicki Vale spends an entire scene standing around posing in lacy pink underwear for absolutely no reason. The script for the scene (included in the trade paperback) contains a blatant admission from Frank Miller as to what he was doing: "Okay, I'm shameless, let's go with an ASS SHOT."
* In TheLoners the team debate whether the villainess's getup is a costume or a tattoo.
*[[http://www.tgfa.org/comics/courier/images/Gambit_14_10.jpg Three]] [[http://www.tgfa.org/comics/courier/images/Gambit_24_06.jpg examples]] of [[http://www.tgfa.org/comics/courier/images/Gambit_Ann2000_02.jpg Courier]] from the ''Gambit'' ''[[XMen X-Men]]'' spinoff. Should I mention that Courier was a ''male'' shapeshifter who was [[ModeLock Mode Locked]] in this form by Dr. Sinister?
** That's "Mr." Sinister. He attended [[AustinPowers sinister medical school]], but didn't graduate.
* This Italian comic called "The Road to Red Houses". This page just says it all: [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ct05Mj0w4VM/SY2KqMsz-NI/AAAAAAAAASM/oUuzB9WSSY0/s1600-h/Vincenzo+Cucca.jpg]] Without all those arrows I don't think I'd know where to look.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''CharliesAngels'' (and the sequel too, naturally) featured numerous scenes which pointedly and gratuitously framed the lead actresses' rear ends. This is particularly noticeable in the numerous [[FanService fan-servicey]] scenes of various female characters dancing (though the scene with Cameron Diaz disco-dancing in the second flick was nice enough to feature her legs as much as her ass), stripping (don't ask) or in the slow-mo action shots where the Angels inexplicably always seem to wear tight pants or [[SpyCatsuit bodysuits]] of some sort, and high heels, regardless of whether or not they'd be convenient or comfortable or even ''safe'' to fight in. Considering it was based on a 1970s' jiggle show, though, is anybody really surprised at any of this?
* The first ''{{Hercules}}'' movie from the 1950s featured a scene in which the male characters are captured by a group of Amazons. Despite the obvious threat of the women's ''weapons'', the camera "inexplicably" focuses on a long line of long legs (bare, natch).
** Perhaps this was to balance out the fact that these were beefcake movies where Hercules ran around shirtless flexing his muscles.
* This editor recalls that the films ''The Sentinel'' and ''Harsh Times'' both released around the same time, and both featured Eva Longoria, and both had a shot where the camera focuses on her butt. In both cases it was to emphasise how the men in the scene see her. In both cases the director was also a male.
* Toward the end of ''Film/{{Alien}}'', there's a long scene where Ripley's in a shirt and panties. During the whole time, the camera's focus is clearly aimed rather lower than her face, and doesn't go back up to its usual height until after she gets some more clothes on.
* ''{{Batman}} Forever'', and especially ''Batman and Robin'', would provide the audience with loving close-ups of the dynamic duo's chest, crotch and rear every time they suited up. Hard to tell however if this is an example of the Female Gaze or merely a homosexual version of the Male Gaze, considering how {{Camp}} the Batman movies had become by this point.
**It's probably the [[AuthorAppeal latter]], considering that ''Batman Forever'' and ''Batman & Robin'' were directed by Joel Schumacher.
** The same close-ups were provided for Batgirl in ''Batman and Robin''. Make of this what you will.
* Spoofed hilariously in ''ScaryMovie'', which is pertinent since horror movies are perhaps the most guilty of this trope (often in [[{{Squick}} squicky]] ways as a woman contorts her body sensually and moans orgasmically as she is dying). The movie opens with a woman (played by Carmen Electra, if memory serves) running from a psycho killer, her clothes getting ripped off by anything she runs by, and stopping to pose and flick her hair as she runs (in SloMo, no less) through a sprinkler.
* A film of ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'' had a scene with Julia and Winston in the room on top of the antique shop. For some reason she gets up and walks around in the room for minutes completely naked and the camera shows her entire body. Every shot at Winston, though, shows only his head, or at best his upper body. That's ''[[FanDisservice not]]'' fanservice.
**Considering that John Hurt, while a fine actor, is quite possibly the most grisly-looking man in existence, I beg to disagree.
** It's [[AllThereInTheManual there for a reason]]. Julia and Winston's relationship was completely sexual in the book. So a scene like this isn't that unusual. [[AdaptationDecay Then again...]]
* Parodied in ''TheNakedGun 33 1/3'' when LeslieNielsen's character first sees Anna Nicole Smith. Watch as the camera goes slowly up the legs... and up the legs... and past the knees... and up the legs... and up the legs... and up the legs... and past the knees again...
* The JamesBond movies have this from time to time with the Bond Girls, prominently when anyone's getting out of the water with a bathing suit- ostensibly as a tribute to Bond girl Honey Ryder. ''CasinoRoyale'' manages to make it both DarkerAndEdgier and StupidSexyFlanders. Daniel Craig looks very nice in blue... (To quote a livejournal icon, 'IM IN UR MUVIE APPROPRIATIN UR MALE GAZE'.)
* ''AustinPowers International Man of Mystery''. We first see Vanessa Kensington via a slow pan up her entire body.
* When Sue from is bending over in her (very) string'd bath suit, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is watching her from behind the bushes.
-->'''Sue Charlton:''' That croc was going to eat me alive.
-->'''Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee:''' Well, I wouldn't hold that against him. Same thought crossed my mind once or twice.
* In [[PitchBlack Pitch Black]], when Fry is crawling into the cavern with the first sighting of monsters. On the commentary the director even says "Young boys everywhere, you're welcome." :)
* In ''{{Serenity}}'', right after one of River's hallucinations, the camera cuts to showing her lying facedown on the deck grating, and the camera angle is conspiciously positioned to give the viewer a ''perfect'' shot straight down her cleavage.
**And, of course, we can' forget the countless shots of [[FootFocus River's feet.]]
* ''HighSchoolMusical 3'' had a shot of Sharpay's butt that filled pretty much the entire screen.
* ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father'' is about a widowed father and his son sizing up various candidates for second wife/stepmother.
* The recent final poster of ''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' features all of the main characters, including The Baroness...but she is the only one facing the viewer, along with her body twisted in a Rob Liefield-style pose so her ass is as well.
* Anyone who has seen the second ''Transformers'' movie will realise from [[MsFanservice Megan Fox]]'s very first scene that director Michael Bay has gone out of his way to not do anything to discourage this trope.
**He asked some people why they watched the first one; "For the hot chick." So he decided to get it out of the way before he started.
* In {{Die Hard}}, the camera pans down just slightly but very noticeably to show that Bonnie Bedelia's jacket/blouse thing had opened up a bit, showing her slip.
* ''The Lady in the Lake'' used the stylistic choice of filing every scene as it would be viewed by Philip Marlowe. In one instance, the woman he's talking to goes out of focus, because he's busy leering at her SexySecretary.
* In [[Film/LostInTranslation Lost In Translation]] the background of the opening credits is a shot of Scarlett Johansen's behind.
* In WoodyAllen's ''Bananas'', it's done to comic effect with a leather clad secretary who brags she and her friends are going to have a porno party.
* Troy Duffy got Julie Benz to be in his movie, [[TheBoondockSaints The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day]], and damn it all if he wasn't going to take full advantage of it for his male audience. But, to be fair, there is a hefty amount of FanService for the ladies as well, so we could just look at it as equal opportunity exploitation.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* In TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, when Esmeralda is being taken to the gallows, Victor Hugo spends an inordinate amount of page space describing her "long black hair... more lustrous than the raven's wing", her "half-naked shoulders" and "bare legs", and her desperate attempts to hold her garment closed with her teeth.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* The majority of ''{{Charmed}}'' consisted of butt and cleavage-shots.
* The ''StarTrek:DeepSpaceNine'' episode "Let He Who Is Without Sin" featured a pointless close-up of Vanessa Williams' rear as she walked past the camera.
** Pointless? It got plenty of ratings points.
* ''[[PowerRangersTurbo Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie]]'' (the second, inferior one) gives the camera a definite fixation on then Pink Ranger Kat, most notably a very blatant ass shot during a jungle scene. Tanya, the then Yellow, seems to escape this.
* ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' also featured a blatant ass shot as Rei, dressed as a pop star for a psuedo-concert, walked towards her dressing room. Of note is the fact that this show was a live-action one about five {{Magical Girl}}s in schoolgirl outfits; a large portion of the show featured significant MaleGaze on general principle.
* The ''PainkillerJane'' TV series used this a couple of times in the assassination plot/time loop episode: we get to see Jane put her pants on over that nice black pair of panties (from the front, showing off her nice legs), and see the barely-clad ass of the girl Connor was having sex with...
* On ''{{Seacht}}'', kisses between LipstickLesbian couples far outnumber any others.
* ''{{Supernatural}}'' seem to go out of their way to try and balance it out. To make up for the cleavage shots, we get a Sammy-In-A-Towel coming out of the shower. To make up for the demon sluttiness, we get two women in "The Kids Are Alright" ogling Dean's arse and obviously thinking that they would love to have him as a sex toy. And while they certainly have a hot woman every episode, they pay just as much loving attention to the male leads' attributes - even going as far to pan up a sleeping Dean's naked legs in an early Season One episode.
* And how about the slow, ''slow'' pan up from 80's-hookerwear-clad Alex Drake's feet in the ''AshesToAshes'' pilot? (Not to mention that she went for a ''really'' unlikely length of time without changing clothes.)
* ''DoctorWho''- Romana I is introduced via a pan up her entire body, "The Girl in the Fireplace" has a pan across BilliePiper's tight T-shirt and jeans-clad body, and despite the fact that she is generally considered asexual, [[MostCommonSuperpower Catherine Tate's cleavage]] has a special place in Who fandom. Much like {{Supernatural}}, they do attempt to balance this - Naked Jack, anybody?
**Peri was introduced with a pan up her bikini-clad body. In one of the few episodes directed by a woman, oddly. Since the producer insisted on Peri revealing as much flesh as possible, the director may not have had a say in the matter.
***Peri was brought back in the awful "Dimensions in Time" Who[=/=]Eastenders {{crossover}} short. One of the scenes was of her boinging across the square in a low-cut top... towards the camera.
***Who can forget the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGd20z6lLdo#t=5m17 Wardrobe Malfunction]]? (There was an interview with Nicola Bryant who was surprised they left that in)
* ''The X-Files'' [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751071/ episode directed by Gillian Anderson]] starts with the MaleGaze (camera just below armpit level, directed past Scully's bosom) and turns to FemaleGaze (Mulder asleep in bed).
* ''SlingsAndArrows'' does an appropriately meta version of this: the husband of the Minister of Culture comes to several performances, and brings binoculars. There's always a brief shot through the binoculars, in which we see that he's focusing on the lead actress's cleavage.
* ''{{Baywatch}}''.
* Every episode of the 2008 {{Knight Rider}} series has one of the lead females run around in a bikini or underwear for some obscure reason.
*Happens from time to time on ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', with long, slow tracking shots of Cameron's well-formed behind as she slowly, deliberately walks along.
* ''{{Smallville}}'': Camera focusing mostly on Lana Lang's body (her body-double's, actually) doing cartwheels in a tiny red bathing suit in episode "Nicodemus". Pretty much half of the episode "Exposed", which features plenty of gorgeous, mostly naked strippers, including Lois Lane. Half of the scenes with Lois Lane in general, e.g. "Aqua": Lois getting out of the water, wearing the tiniest bikini that could be found while the camera crawls lovingly over her body in (what else) slow motion.
* Kelly Hu spent a fair proportion of the pilot episode of ''Martial Law'' hanging around in a bikini.
** For that matter, pick a scene in ''The Scorpion King'' with her in it.
* In an episode of ''{{NCIS}}'', Tony decides to snap a picture of Ziva's tightly-clad backside when she bends over at a crime scene. Result: [[GibbsSlap Insta Gibbs]].
** Not to mention the pictures Tony takes of Ziva sunbathing... which [=McGee=] later finds... while Gibbs is looking over his shoulder. Poor [=McGee=].
* BurnNotice, an otherwise excellent show, ''adores'' this trope. Their idea of an "establishing shot" seems to be an aerial view of Miami, and then a rather longer shot of random bikini-clad T&A jiggling by. Faces are optional. They also use these shots as the occasional bumper between scenes.
** A natural result of ShootTheMoney.
* Spoofed in ''Cybill'', when the title character starred in an [[TheXFiles X-Files]] rip-off called ''Lifeforms''. The pilot episode featured countless shots of her legs and cleavage and very few of her face. This annoys her at first, but Cybill soon uses the fact that her legs are the most popular thing in the show to bully the male star and showrunner into rehiring the original creator.
* Lampshaded on ''TopGear'', when May is at a Southern California beach talking about the Honda FCX. The cameraman turns to focus on a trio of convenient volleyball-playing girls, and May has to clear his throat to get his attention back.
* The first episode of ''That70sShow'' features a POV shot as Eric goes into Donna's house. When Donna's mom appears, the camera goes straight to her cleavage.
* Both present and averted in ''True Blood'' lots of lingering shots of sexy women dancing, breasts, butts, and legs, but also shots of naked men's bottoms, chests, clothed crotches, and the like. Mostly uses Jason Stackhouse, but Sam and Lafayette get shown that way too.
* Really strong in the introduction to ''Xena'' - the camera pans up her legs as she fastens her boots, up her body, lingers on her breasts as she fastens the straps of her armor, etc. Occurred pretty frequently in the show as well, especially any that involved Xena dancing.
* Applied rather literally in the Comedy Central series ''SecretGirlfriend'', as the camera is at all times the POV of the main (male) character, a HeroicMime who is "played" by the (presumably male) viewer, in a form of second-person television.
* The first episode of ''{{UFO}}'' opens with a hemline-level view of a mini-skirted dolly bird sashaying away from the camera. It might have been [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in The Eighties]], but the mentality was strictly that of TheSeventies!
* ''BattlestarGalactica''. In "Sacrifice" Starbuck has been called on to handle a hostage situation while on leave on Cloud Nine, so she's briefing the marines in a cocktail dress. When her eyes go off them for a second the camera quickly dips down to her cleavage, mimicing what the marines are undoubtedly looking at in that moment.

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* Turn on any WWE show ever. Chances are, if a woman is onscreen, her name isn't Linda [=McMahon=], and she's wrestling, the camera is focusing on her breasts falling out of her top, jiggling as she moves, or competing for who can get the most ass shots.
*"Extreme Expose": The segment being the part in the show where three scantily clad women - one just ''barely'' over the age of 18 - dance to club music in the ring. It started as the 18-year-old's way to show off how much of an "exhibitionist" she was.

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* Many DatingSim games (especially [[{{H-Games}} eroge]]) in which the player is male and the haremettes are female go as far as to obscure the male PlayerCharacter in every CG, usually not even drawing his ''face''. In this instance, however, the effect is largely to help the player step into the shoes of the player character and so is more akin to HeroicMime.
** Some sex scenes even go so far as to make the player character ''invisible'', leading to unintended {{squick}}.
* ''{{Bayonetta}}''. Shaping up to be the champion of Male Gaze. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/58319.html Literally]].
* ''MetalGearSolid'': after the scene where Solid Snake first meets Meryl, there is an extended shot (in slow motion) of her buttocks as she is leaving. It was intended to draw attention to her unique walk so she could be identified in disguise, but it was so pronounced and out of place that even lovers of FanService found it creepy.
**The third game had a first person 'Snake Cam' at certain points during cutscenes, and when the female character EVA was around pressing the button would often greet the viewer with an extended shot focused on her breasts, either intentionally (Snake looking) or unintentionally (EVA showing him).
*** Hideo Kojima even managed to turn this into a narrative device; later in the game after falling in love with EVA, the Snake Cam focuses solely on her face.
** The director even went so far as to include some bonus '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc0obMnmiGg Peep Show]]' segments on the Director's Cut edition, which involved the scenes with EVA recut in various interesting ways, with her dressed in an interesting alternate outfit.
** He also did a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vgI9MA2-M recut scene]] of a segment where Snake undressed an attractive male, which raises some [[HoYay awkward questions]] about the director. Especially when it's taken into account the way the games are notorious for dressing men in {{Spy Catsuit}}s and having long, lingering shots on ''their'' buttocks too, and also that the lead character ''always'' ends up [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] at some point in his adventure. Hell, MetalGearSolid's penultimate battle is a shirtless fistfight on top of a HumongousMecha.
*** Shirtless? Hell, [=MGS2=]'s Raiden had a segment where he ran around stark staring naked, hands over his junk. (During this segment, he could run and dodge, but could not do anything that would require his hands to be elsewhere than covering himself up.)
** Outside of the recut sections, notice too that holding the button around {{Bishonen}} Raikov reveals Snake's eyes to be permanently fixed on Raikov's junk.
** This editor is convinced that a good deal of MetalGearSolid is geared towards the ''Female'' Gaze, given [[EstrogenBrigadeBait how taut and firm Snake's ass is]].
** In ''MetalGearSolid 4'', the cutscenes before each Beauty boss fight spend a lot of time behind the ladies as they are on all fours. Snake gets quite a bit of this treatment in cutscenes involving him as well.
*** Hide for a few minutes and every Beauty fight becomes a fashion show. You have a camera. You are now free to use it.
** Parodied in ''MetalGearSolid 4'', when Otacon and Naomi are using the computer together. His webcam feed is displayed on his laptop, as they work, and while Otacon isn't looking at the video, he's clearly angled it specifically to video Naomi's [[JigglePhysics cleavage]]. When Naomi tries to look at what's on the screen, he panics and tries to point the camera away so that she doesn't notice. She does, but she [[FemmeFatale actually seems quite pleased]].
*** And then, later, he's spying on her and her comrades by positioning a tiny invisible robot [[BetweenMyLegs between her legs]]. The target displaying what Otacon is most focused on at any one time flips back and forth from whoever's talking to Naomi's feet, buttocks, or thighs. He does go in for a PantyShot, but she notices the robot a fraction of a second beforehand and one of her coworkers destroys it.
* In FirstPersonShooter ''[=SiN Episodes=]'' (i.e. a game in which the camera angles are almost entirely up to the player), the character of Jessica Cannon wears a SpyCatsuit that, when viewed from behind, is apparently designed to draw attention to her rear end.
** And the opening sequence, with the player waking up, features the tremendously endowed villain Alexis Sinclair standing beside his stretcher and leaning over.
* Several in ''FinalFantasy''.
** ''FinalFantasyVII'' - Tifa's victory pose.
** ''FinalFantasyIX'' - FMV with Daggar atop Lindblum castle playing with the pigeons.
** ''FinalFantasyX'' - Lulu's victory pose.
*** Played with in an early scene in the same game where Tidus snatches a person's binoculars and looks around with them, lingering at one point over Lulu's breasts. A similar joke occurs in ''FinalFantasyX2'', in which Logos is supposed to be showing a sphere of the events they just encountered in Bevelle but the video opens with a long shot of the camera pointed at Yuna's butt. He attempts to pawn off the blame on Ormi, which is quickly deflected when Ormi appears in the same shot.
** ''FinalFantasyXII'' - There's a scene early on where Penelo is trying to talk Vaan out of doing the heist he's about to attempt, and one shot inexplicably centers around her torso. Her chest and crotch are in the shot. Her face isn't.
* Lara Croft suffers from this in many ways in the ''TombRaider'' games; not only does she possess [[MostCommonSuperPower somewhat... exaggerated attributes]] in the bosom and rear end departments, but the clothes she wears (particularly in the earlier games) are designed to enhance them even further. Coupled with this is the fact that she is mostly viewed from behind during the game (partly as a necessity of the game mechanics), and it's not hard to imagine what many gamers of the male persuasion would be thinking about when playing the game.
** A very, VERY common mod for the early Tomb Raider PC games was called ''Nude Raider'', which made a very... ''subtle''... change to Lara's outfit. (It removed it, and in some versions of the mod, changed her player model to give more detail to her anatomy). There was a print advertisement for a video game cheat device (Gameshark) based on this mod. In it, a (insinuated to be) nude Lara is seen walking off "screen", a bikini flying away from her, with the caption "'''Want the code?'''"
** This got even worse in ''Tomb Raider Anniversary'', where the updated graphics and animation allowed the developer to do the same game except with more fanservice--as [[ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] notes in his review, when she comes out of the water she's realistically wet and glistening, and if you leave the game idle for a while she does these shamelessly erotic stretches.
** Any leftover modesty leaves in Underworld, where Lara dons a swimsuit-thong for significant portions of the game.
* Zero Suit [[{{Metroid}} Samus]] is introduced in The Subspace Emissary, the Adventure Mode of ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'', with her dropping to the ground from an air vent followed by a slow pan from her legs to her face, with particular attention paid to her rear. Clad in a SpyCatsuit as she is, this is hardly surprising.
** The Smash Bros Brawl website plays Equal Opportunity with this, related to MetalGear above. When describing Snake's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], one of the stills is of Snake (also in a SpyCatsuit, of course) as he's climbing down the ladder, and his ass pretty much fills the screen.
** This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGq90yUttzs Japanese ad]] ''{{Metroid}}: Zero Mission'' has a Japanese glamour model as Samus, and takes great advantage of it, complete with a butt shot.
* ''MassEffect'' introduces Sha'ira, the Asari Consort, with a lingering shot of her behind as she walks upstairs.
** And later, during a heterosexual sex scene, the camera lingers much more on the female partner in the relationship... even if you're playing her.
* Used in ''DragonQuestVIII'' when [[HandsomeLech Angelo]] introduces himself to [[MostCommonSuperpower Jessica]].
** And again when [[PrinceCharmless Prince Charmles]]'s father tries to convince him that marrying a princess isn't so bad... by using Jessica as a visual illustration of "Va-va-VOOM".
* Lampshaded in ''ShadowHearts 3'', where the end of the scene where Johnny and Shania meet has an actual, on-screen arrow pointing from Johnny's eyes to Shania's chest. Also the TransformationSequence. Dear God, the TransformationSequence.
* As always, trailers are often the worst offenders. Anyone catch that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45c4C97xqFk new Final Fantasy trailer?]]
* In ''DevilMayCry 4'': As Nero approaches the drawbridge, he witnesses [[spoiler:disguised Trish]] as she engages several mooks in badass combat. During the fight, she spams split-related attacks, and the camera never misses an opportunity to pan across the area between her legs.
* In ''{{Halo}}'', whenever [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Cortana's]] visible, the camera does it's best to show off her translucent assets. Taken to the max during Halo 3's campaign, when occasionally Cortana would flash up on screen, say something cryptic, and then disappear.
* Sheva's introduction in ''{{Resident Evil}} 5'' starts with a long closeup of her buttocks.
* ''RumbleRoses'' has lots but the one that really stands out is when a character is ready to be finished off with a "humiliation move".
* In the PS2 survival horror game ''Michigan: Report From Hell'', you are a cameraman whose job is to keep the camera rolling and keep on shooting a number of various sexy female reporters (if one dies another replaces them, though there is a set number) delivering their news reports. Even as Michigan City goes to hell (imagine this as the ''BlairWitchProject'' meets ''TheMist)''. You can take pictures of anything, for which you score points, with "erotic" shots getting "erotic" points. If you score enough "erotic" points, you get the BestEnding where whatever sexy female reporter with enough points will pose, parade, and pole dance for you in sexy lingerie ''whether she actually lived or died'' by the game end.
** One wonders if the male reporter can be made to... nevermind.
** The "points for erotic photos" gimmick was replicated in ''{{Dead Rising}}'', with the added {{Squick}} bonus that the women are zombies.
* Wanna try something fun? Next time you're playing [[TheElderScrolls Oblivion]], choose a female character, turn the camera around until it's facing the character's front, then zoom in. Guess where it ends up.

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* Discussed in the context of {{Satan}} playing video games in [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=859 this strip]] of ''DinosaurComics''.
* Shown in [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=259 this]] ''{{Loserz}}'' strip.
* In ''SluggyFreelance'' Oasis seems to get more chest/butt closeups than anyone else during the big "Dangerous Days Ahead" battle. Like, for example, [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020623 this]] strip.
* There is a huge amount of ass shots in BetterDays.

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* Controversial ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Girl Tied Up" features a pan over Emma as she lies tied up on a bed. Suspiciously, the thumbnail for this video on [=YouTube=] is of the moment where it passes her cleavage; consequently this is the most watched ''[=LG15=]'' video on that site, but one of the lowest rated. Particularly disturbing since the film is supposed to be being shot by the adult Dr. Hart, and Emma is 15.
** Surprisingly enough, the Creator responsible for this video was Amanda Goodfried. When fans asked her about the episode, she simply replied, "I know what sells."
* Parodied in the ''{{KateModern}}'' episodes "Birdwatching" and "Much, Much Worse". In both cases it is implied that the cameramen - Gavin and Toe respectively - are perhaps enjoying their camerawork a little too much.
* Parodied in the web show 'The Guild'. The opening theme features a close-up of each character in turn, and when it gets to Clara (a character with considerable 'assets'), the camera stops on her breasts, then just gets a very quick shot of her face before moving on.

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* Constantly spoofed and played straight with Foxxy on ''DrawnTogether'', especially when she's been soaked with liquid.
* Used on the various {{Stripperiffic}} female villainesses and superheroines in ''JusticeLeague''. When the The Royal Flush members were being introduced one by one, Joker gave a "Hmm..." when the camera panned to Queen's legs before rising to display her face.
* Spoofed in ''PowerPuffGirls'' - we never see Ms. Bellum's face, so when she speaks, the camera cuts to her chest.
* ''LoonaticsUnleashed'' - we come back from a commercial to a shot of Lexi Bunny's tail and her backside as she {{Sexy Walk}}s away from the camera toward Ace.
* ''A.T.O.M'' - The SuitingUp shots of the team show the guys putting on helmets and gloves, buckling seatbelts. Lioness? We get a worm's eye view shot from behind of her straddling her motorcycle, or a close shot of her zipping her battle outfit over her breasts.
* An episode of the early '90s ''XMen'' animated series, in which Rogue is blasted by Apocalypse so hard her normally-indestructible bomber jacket is burned away (though her even-more-indestructible tights, hair, and flesh are not), she collapses to the ground, the camera positioned behind her...and you are suddenly ''very aware'' that she is wearing [[{{Phlebotinum}} indestructible spandex]].
* An episode of ''Animaniacs'' the Warner siblings annoy an airline passenger who calls for the stewardess, the original HelloNurse, to escort them away. She bends over to talk to Yakko and Wakko, who howl and drool over her. Their eyes are obviously focused on her breasts, even though this is (arguably) a kid's cartoon.
*In ''TotallySpies'' about half the camera shots are focused on the girl's breasts as they are about to speak or when they crash into each other the camera is often focused their butts as they are lying on the floor.
**[[http://www.shoujoai.com/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=28027/ Relentlessly spoofed in these captions]]
*''KimPossible'' has her fair amount of close up butt shots.
* In one episode of ''WinxClub'', one scene cuts from a close up of a supporting character to ''a shot of Stella's rear'' as she is trying out a skirt.
** The transformations are full of these, especially the newest ones.
* In an episode of ''InspectorGadget'' Gadget meets his favorite actress Lana Lamore he begins to examine her with gadget goggles he noticeably stops on her breasts at one point and shouts his catchphrase "Wowzers!", even though this was a kid's show.
* TexAvery often played this for laughs (same as everything else). In ''Who Dood It'', a flashlight spot scans a wall full of hanging pictures, including one of [[GoingFurASwim a scantily clad woman with a fur coat]], but when the spot returns to the picture, the woman is covered up. Similarly, in ''Wild And Wolfy'', the camera follows a mug of beer past a nude painting covered up by the bartender, who, when the camera comes back, states that he doesn't move for the rest of the picture. (When he does, however, [[spoiler:the covered portion only has a sign saying "I ain't got no body."]])
* Used UpToEleven on Ty Lee in the BeachEpisode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''...
** ...not to mention a scene where Azula leaps right over Sokka's head as they're going through opposite ends of a crevice; it's pretty obvious what his eyes travel over. Just a coincidence? Then why does it happen in ''slow motion''?

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* According to Sarah Palin [[http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/17/official-statement-on-newsweek-s-sarah-palin-cover.aspx Newsweek's cover is this in context]] [[http://www.theinsider.com/news/2381450_Sarah_Palin_in_Runner_s_World_Magazine that they used a cover from Runner's World]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean and added a new caption!]]
* A ''New York'' magazine article discussing flash mobs and other public pranks showed a picture of one of them, where a group of people all simultaneously took the Subway wearing no pants. Despite the fact that there are at least a half-dozen men in the picture, the camera is looking up the subway stairs at the one woman in lacy lingerie, naturally centered and in-focus.
* Taken to the extreme in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWL89fjfUU this]] music video.
** I see your music video and raise it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp7zXjpAE50 this one]]. Warning, {{Fanservice}} and [[{{Gainaxing}} jiggling]] abound.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140mcWQPGcA Two]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtj3EvhfWA more]]
* Professional women's beach volleyball. Giggity.
* According to http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue12/welker2.html, Inoue Meimy says she has a MaleGaze! I guess the gender of the gaze, isnt based one the gender of the viewer but their orientation. So, MaleGaze covers (males and lesbians) FemaleGaze (females and gays)! She WordOfGod says she likes females, but specifically through a MaleGaze and not a FemaleGaze despite being female!
** Besed on the above pic, and others, I would have to say the members of {{CLAMP}} have one!
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