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Deadpool in Marvel Girl's outfit. Yes, that Deadpool.

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  • The Golden Age: Dynaman's bare butt is shown in one panel. However, he's babbling occult nonsense and staring blankly at a creepy shrine, so the scene isn't very sexy.
  • Green Lantern: For a while, at least. Arisia is an orange-skinned, pointy-eared elf babe from another planet who gets romantically involved with the thirty-ish Hal Jordan. All fine and dandy until it is realized that Arisia is thirteen years old. Retconned out later in that on her home planet, one year = about thirty Earth years. So she's hundreds of years old. Um... yeah. Originally, Arisia's planet went around its sun faster than Earth, not slower; so she was fourteen Earth years old but claimed that really she was twenty-eight. She generally acted like a Smitten Teenage Girl, though.
  • Preacher has at least two decrepit old women in low-cut outfits, and a dwarf having sex with a large, human-shaped pile of meat.
  • The Sandman (1989):
    • Despair (an Anthropomorphic Personification) is always naked. She is also rather obese, her body is sagging, she is haggard, and she has a habit of self-cutting with a hook.
    • Later scenes in the comic with the Corinthian. It's as if they realized the potential Mr. Fanservice in a gay supernatural-based and suave Pretty Boy now firmly on the side of good — and then had him still cut the eyes out of things at every given opportunity. To eat them.
    • Lucifer's Dragon, Mazikeen has half her face burned off. He makes out with her a lot. In the spin-off series, Lucifer, they have a long-lasting sexual relationship. Said spin-off also had many wonderful moments like a living tarot deck turning itself into what looked like Legion having an orgy and then forcibly impregnating a woman.
    • In the spin-off Thessaly: Witch for Hire, the titular witch has a nude scene... except that it's during a flashback to her cavewoman days, and she's sacrificing some poor sod in order to gain powers.
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Someone, somewhere must have said to Alan Moore "Please get Mina's kit off in Vol 2." What they probably didn't bargain for was who she'd get it off for... and quite how grotesque the resulting congress would look. Indeed sex only ever seems to be squicky in League land.
  • Thor: Reign of Blood. You have the Enchantress, wearing nothing but high boots and a loin cloth... getting ready to have sex with three gnarled, ugly dwarfs for a shiny necklace. Ew.
  • Erotic comic Druuna is mostly about the adventures of the self-confident and driven Druuna...ending up in sci-fi-ish sexual situations. Unfortunately, most of the time she's being raped by all sorts of disgusting mutants and monsters.
  • Assorted Argentinian comics:
    • La Mulatona in Clemente is a fanservice-providing... duck/bird/elf hybrid.
    • La Nelly has a tendency to either strip naked or wear fetish clothes. Did I mention that Nelly is a 65 year old obese housewife?
    • Most sex scenes in Boogie el Aceitoso are NOT sexy because the protagonist is a misogynist, machist, racist, idiotic and sadistic hitman/mercenary/bodyguard with poor hygiene (hence his name, "aceitoso" = "oily").
  • Sabretooth naturally has these now & again. There's one instance during Tierri's Weapon X run where he's shown in bed with a woman post sex. His body looks good, but the poor woman being dead ruins that a bit. Another instance being him making out with an old lady in a brothel -made worse by all the dead bodies & the dead cow on the table that he was just eating.
  • Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose contains copious amounts of Fanservice played straight, but there's also plenty of Squicky moments in there as well; such as the permanently naked and well-endowed Gingerbread Woman-Slash-Sex Doll who ends up eating her owner (and no, not like that, either).
  • In one incarnation of Marvel's X-Factor series, the character Siryn is kidnapped and held for ransom by a deranged former mutant who thinks Siryn's friends have the key to returning his powers. In a sick twist of the classic "Damsel in Distress" fetish, Siryn is shown tied to a chair and ball-gagged, but has also been severely beaten. She is bleeding from various parts of her body, has bruises all over her face, and sobs almost the entire time until she frees herself and defeats her captor.
  • Deadpool:
    • Deadpool's Panty Shot. No, not as in a panty shot found in the Deadpool series, but as in the heavily mutilated Deadpool himself giving the readers a panty shot. You see, he borrowed the original Marvel Girl costume. Which has a very short skirt. And yes, everyone present was as disturbed by that image as the readers.
    • Mention should also be made of when he was shown naked in the shower. Poor Wolverine, having to see that when he visited to ask Deadpool for help.
    • In the same story, Wolverine has the "pleasure" of seeing Deadpool dressed as Phoenix.
    • Another story had him dressing as Marilyn Monroe in order to lure zombie JFK. The undead ex-president is suitably squicked out when he gets a closer look, especially when Deadpool jumps up to reveal that he isn't wearing any pants.
  • The comic Night of the Living Dead: New York features possibly one of the most blatant and graphic examples of Fanservice at the beginning, but to its credit balances it quite nicely towards the end with an equally graphic example of this trope, in a scene wherein a character hides from the Zombie Apocalypse in what appears to have been a porn shop. In one of the booths, a stripper still appears to be dancing... except she's been partially cannibalized and zombified, which kind of takes the appeal away.
  • The [PROTOTYPE] comic has naked pregnant cannibal women in a flashback to now-General Randall's time in Hope, Idaho.
  • The Killing Joke. Jim Gordon stripped by a bunch of evil midgets and then locked in a cage. And then there are the pictures of Barbara Gordon that the Joker takes of her, naked and bleeding from being shot in the spine. Is is any wonder that despite Word of God saying it's not the case, nearly every person who reads the story assumes that The Joker raped Barbara?
  • Artist Richard Corben does this all the time - sometimes intentionally with Body Horror and grotesquery, but quite often unintentionally with the stylistic idiosyncrasies of his figure drawing.
  • Black Canary was the first DC heroine to have her nipples exposed on panel, but the circumstances (being tortured) made it fall into this instead.
  • Spider-Woman:
    • Similarly, the first Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, shows rear nudity in an issue of New Thunderbolts... during a scene where she's the mind-controlled slave of the Purple Man.
    • Jessica is shown naked in a flashback in one scene from New Avengers... as she's being experimented on by Hydra agents to help her recover her powers. And then later on during Secret Invasion it turns out they were Skrull infiltrators who were taking her hostage so she could be replaced by a spy.
  • Rudi and Freddy take drawing lessons because they hope, they'll have to draw a sexy nude model. Unfortunately the teacher chooses an old guy instead as a model.
  • The 2011 Huntress mini-series has a human trafficking ring at the center of its story, so Deconstructions of fanservice abound. In issue #1 a mob boss is seen talking to some lackies while several women in low cut tops pour him wine, but the fanservice of this is mitigated by the fact that it's damn clear from and the women's expressions that they do not want to be there. This gets taken up a notch in the same scene when the mob boss shoots a guy in the head and the women are left to clean it up, and once again, despite the cleavage on display it's more to show just how these women are being exploited.
  • Megalex. When she spots Ram in the back of her ship, the evil and beautiful Sapient Ship holographic personality Shalise transforms into an absolutely terrifying monstrous version of herself. Her mouth fills with fangs, her ears become bat-like, she grows in size, and worst of all, her breasts become pendulous and rotten, tipped with corroded metal blades.
  • In the Justice League of America tie-in of Blackest Night, the Japanese Dr. Light ends up naked at the end of the story. The problem is her clothes were vaporized by the undead predecessor Dr. Light who tried to molest and kill her, along with her children.
  • Carol Danvers, AKA: Ms. Marvel, being completely naked while the Brood experimented on her (which in the process gave her the Binary powers).
    • in issue #32 of Ms. Marvel (vol. 2), before she gained her superpowers, Carol Danvers was stripped to her underwear when she was held captive and tortured by Ghazi Rashid in Afghanistan.
  • At the hands of French artist Edika note  even a certain well-established yet woefully redlinked trope involving amorous sea life makes you cringe. For the scientifically interested, it's the cover of U-Comix 118. (NSFW.)
  • Robert Crumb: Though Crumb can draw attractive women at times, he also has a tendency to make them anthropomorphic (devils, animal heads,...). Even his normal women can look too strong for some people's tastes, with large breasts, butts, thighs and thick legs.
  • The Fourth Doctor ends up naked in one of the Doctor Who Magazine comics. With a hideous tentacled surgeon cutting his stomach open. Yeah, we all wanted to see that badly.
  • In the Belgian comic Papyrus's "Tears of the Giant" issue, Papyrus is carrying a pretty girl in his arms and she has her midriff and legs exposed... but she has just died after having been subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture, and right before kicking it she gave Papyrus a Dying Declaration of Love so the poor guy is completely wrecked with guilt since he couldn't reach for her in time. And since this happens towards the end, it's also one HELL of a Downer Ending.
  • Superman, roughed up and with lots of Clothing Damage? Yay. Superman, roughed up and with lots of Clothing Damage as he and Doomsday beat each other to death? N A Y.
  • Interestingly subverted in Swamp Thing. While in theory Swampy and Abigail's relationship would be this, seeing as she is a very attractive young woman and he is a Swamp Monster Botanical Abomination, their relationship is largely non-sexual (And when they do have sex is through a sort of weird psychic variety) and their love is geniune and lovely.
  • In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Madame Satan first appears Naked on Arrival and has Godiva Hair. It's considerably less attractive sounding as she has no face and has to murder a random girl to get one.
  • In one issue of Batwoman, she arrives back at her apartment after a patrol, immediately begins stripping off her uniform as she heads for a shower... and she's covered in bruises (in addition to sporting a bloody nose and black eye) as a result of getting beaten up in the previous installment.
  • American Vampire opened with with main character Pearl Jones naked... As her body is being dumped in the desert, along with the corpses of other girls that have been drained by vampires.
  • Requiem Vampire Knight has plenty of Fanservice and also no short supply of this trope too:
    • Having a wretched and disgusting appearance will not prevent characters of being heavily sexualized, such as Mother Mitra, an female ghoul introduced wearing a very transparent gown. She also loses her top during a decisive battle leaving her massive saggy breasts in display.
    • The biggest example is Claudia Demona having sex with a transformed werewolf while using a mind-control device on him. All while he is clearly not into it, which opens a whole can of worms on itself...
    • Heinrich is a very good-looking fellow, but the first time we see him naked, he is strapped on operating table, being experimented on and stitched open. Brrr...
  • In Immortal Iron Fist, fellow Immortal Weapon the Bride of Nine Spiders is a pretty Perky Goth in BDSM-inspired Stripperiffic clothing. In battle she seductively removes her top... to reveal that her ribcage is a hollow mass of mummified flesh and cobwebs, inhabited by a horde of spiders that Zerg Rush her opponent.
  • Clean Room is a horror series; male and female nudity are frequently presented in context of Body Horror or Cold-Blooded Torture.
  • In the Marvel 1602 spinoff miniseries focusing on Spider-Man, Janet Le Pym is always naked, but the sexiness is offset by how she spends most of her appearances being tortured by Baron Octavius.
  • Scott Pilgrim: In one chapter of "Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour", Scott and Knives have a long, rather gross, and incredibly awkward make-out session.
    It was horrible. For everyone. And that inclues YOU.
  • One Superman story sees Clark Kent returning to his apartment, just in time to see 5th Dimensional imp Mister Mxyzptlk using the shower, and currently stark naked except for his derby and gloves.
  • In Billy Majestic's Humpty Dumpty, the titular Humpty Dumpty is the Half-Human Hybrid offspring of an alien woman. The female alien is naked for most of the comic, but she is under the non-arousing circumstance of being held prisoner and raped by a redneck whose brother murdered the other aliens that were with her when she came to Earth.
  • Vampirella
    • Vampirella Lives features a sex scene between the villains Nyx and Hemorrhage. After they are done, Hemorrhage says he is hungry and Nyx vomits on him.
    • A variant cover for Issue #30 of Brandon Jerwa's run has Vampirella with hooks in her skin.
    • Lilith (Vampirella's mother) has good looks on par with her vampire daughter, in the Nancy Collins run there are panels featuring Lilith having sex with some really disgusting demons (including one with no skin) which leads to her getting pregnant and birthing the first members of individual vampire types such as the Penanngalan.
    • From the 2019 run:
      • There's a sex scene between villains Von Kreist and the Blood Red Queen of Hearts, the former of whom is a rotting corpse, and the latter of whom is possessing a very fat woman.
      • One of the alternative covers for issue 16 shows Vampirella in her classic outfit, except without her eternal youth. It's not a pretty sight.
  • Rat Queens shows Sawyer full frontal - while he's being tortured both physically and mentally.
  • Halloween: Nightdance: Lisa spends a good chunk of the third issue naked during and immediately after a Shower Scene, but the Fanservice of it is removed due to Michael stalking her during the shower and her being in panic even after he runs off. She also ends the series naked, having been Buried Alive that way.

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