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"The human body is a beautiful thing. Most of the time. Ew."
The evil twin of Fan Service from another dimension, possibly with a goatee (especially if female.)
Fan Disservice looks like regular garden variety Fanservice, except that the creators intentionally use the circumstances around it to make the scene outright creepy or disgusting. Corpses in sexy poses, dialogue that adds Mood Dissonance, little details that lead to disturbing implications... there's a hundred and one ways that titillation can transform into horror.
Fan Disservice can still wind up being Fanservice, if you're into that sort of thing. Compare Fetish Retardant.
For the unintentional version, see Erection Rejection.
Examples:
Live Action TV
- Supernatural is known for often disturbing subtext and while the chemistry between Demon!John and Dean (who's been pinned to the wall) in that scene from Devil's Trap is sizzling, it's heavily marred by the fact that Dean ends up sobbing and begging for his life while his organs practically liquefy, not to mention;
Dean: "Daddy, please..."
- Another Dean example is "Skin". While it was lovely seeing Jensen Ackles shirtless, I really could have done without the skin being ripped off and the teeth falling out.
- While perhaps not as squicky as the Dean examples, the Meg/Sam scene in "Shadow" came pretty damn close. There's chemistry aplenty (and we all know what Sam likes when it comes to sex) but if you bear in mind that he's tied up with a gaping head wound and she's pretty much molesting him with a body that's not her own... then yeah, it becomes pretty nasty.
- Freaks And Geeks had an episode that began with a tight shot of some white cloth with a blue pattern....pull back to reveal it's Joe Flaherty's underwear-clad butt.
- One episode Murder She Wrote has Angela Lansbury flashing her cleavage and attempting some form of sexy walk in order to pump information from a bartender...it's used as comic relief (she looks as ridiculous as possible), but the Squick is there.
- Deep Space 9. Holosuite. Kira's body. We pan up, we pan up and . . . I can't go on.
- I can. Her head has been replaced with Quark's (The resident big-headed ugly (male) alien).
- This is actually in-universe fan disservice as well - a creepy guy paid Quark very well to have Kira's figure digitized into the holosuite for... unsavory purposes. Kira found out about it. It's her revenge.
- The boundary-pushing nudity of NYPD Blue cut both ways: For every shot of side-boob or shapely man-ass, there was a shot of Sipowicz with a proctologist forearm-deep up his bum, Medavoy rolling around in bed with a randy septuagenarian, or a naked, obese woman covered in flour.
- The 'Bad Sex' sketch from Jam uses this with a sleazy love scene interspersed with the couple's bizarre non-seqiturs and occasionally impossible requests, such as "Shit your leg off! Make it come out Green!" "Introduce me to Gladstone!" "Suck my little twin" "Fuss my Polly, fuss my fucking Polly". The original radio version (Blue Jam) also had the girl's dad coming in to the room and carrying on like nothing is happening.
- Another Jam sketch has the creepy doctor running a 'phone sex line while he's also talking to a patient. Said doctor being a middle aged man saying some quite graphic things to the caller.
- Come to think of it, Jam really liked this trope. Yet another sketch has a woman duping the neighbour into groping her to 'check' for breast cancer, then proceeding to really vocally enjoy it. Then calling the police and getting him arrested for assault.
- Or a female boss asking someone if,instead of the raise he asked for,he'll be satisfied if she farts on a girl's head. Eh?
- The aged Doctor crawling out of his tent like a dog in Last Of The Time Lords. If it had been David Tennant as he usually is, though...
- During the 5th Doctor era, the Doctor Who Magazine said in one issue they received loads of letter from people wanting a poster of Nyssa and Tegan together. So in one issue they finally dug one out of them-looking 100 years older (having been aged in the episode Mawdryn Undead). A recent issue commented that fans probably weren't happy about that.
- Ugh, any Buffy/Spike action in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Fans had been saying for years they wished the two would hook up. This became a major case of 'be careful what you wish for' as we were treated to ... invisible sex, sex behind a tree, sex in the Bronze, some of the most criminal kissing on record...
- Though this troper is not one of them, there are many fans who would disagree and found the Buffy/Spike scenes extremly sexy.
- Seinfeld had Jerry dating a nudist woman. Although at first he's thrilled by it, because she does everything naked, the novelty wears off very quickly and he's eventually disturbed by it. Apparently, there is "good naked" (like hair brushing) and "bad naked" (like coughing,) and the latter involves muscles springing into action that he'd rather not see.
- At least twice during its run, CSI has indulged in female nudity on the grounds that a) the naked party is a corpse and b) it's on the coroner's table, where something undeniably Squicky is either being described or about to take place. The grand prize was taken when the dead body of an attractive S&M dominatrix was laid on the table, and the series' well-known "TMI Cam" dove inside her breast, by way of the nipple, to show the audience her saline implants.
- Mad Men: Nearly every sex scene (with a possible exception for some of the ones involving Don and one or another of his girlfriends), is perfunctory, uncomfortable-looking, passionless, or just plain depressing (or all of the above).
- Special mention to anything Roger Sterling gets involved in, because, while the guy himself is pretty good-looking for his age, there's something just plain ew about watching him get naked and cuddly with a girl his daughter's age.
- No Reservations: One ep has host Anthony Bourdain experiencing a Turkish bath: wearing nothing but a towel, an equally nude male attendant proceeds to straddle him from behind and make very, very uncomfortable adjustments to Bourdain's limbs. Not only are the visuals and sound effects quite uncomfortable, Bourdain remarks (via the narrative) that this would make an effective form of torture.
Anime/Manga
- Neon Genesis Evangelion contains many examples of the intentional kind. Along with the numerous nude scenes Rei has, perhaps the best example is the scene where Shinji confronts a comatose Asuka at the beginning of the movie.
- "Confronts"? Interesting choice of words, If You Know What I Mean.
- This troper thought that Shinji had some sort of medical jelly on his hands. Imagine his shock when he found out that this was not the case.
- And This troper now has a new euphemism to use, thanks to your innocence. Thanks.
- That scene eventually grew infamous enough that the manga quietly excised it for something not so icky.
- Speaking of the movie, Rei nearly spent the entire time naked. Of course every scene featuring her was paired up with her staring at the floating intestines of her clones or getting felt up by a forty-something year old man or going through some ugly Transformation Trauma to a giant, quasi-godlike being that sucked out everyone's soul, only to fall appart in the most disturbing ways. Needless to say...not sexy.
- Another intentional example in Revolutionary Girl Utena: Akio and Anthy's sex scenes are pretty standard stuff... if you forget that Anthy is his sister.
- Likewise, anything involving the Akio Car in the second half of the series tends to have the same effect. Take Our Word For It.
- Most of the sex in Blue Drop: Tenshi-tachi no Bokura.
- The infamous foot massage scene from the anime version of Death Note is either this or What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic (for straight guys). YaoiFangirls, on the other hand...
- Most of the "fanservice", of which there is a large amount, in Studio Gonzo's bizarre action series Speed Grapher. This is partly due to the fact that it's based around people who have become the Anthropomorphic Personification of disturbing sexual fetishes.
- Oh, jeez, yes. Compliments to the writers for balancing the Nightmare Fuel with an interesting story.
- Elfen Lied begins with the female main character walking around wearing nothing but a helmet — while slaughtering people left and right. Within the first six minutes of the first episode alone, she kills 23 people.
- On the other hand, the FullFrontalAssaults by Lucy and the masked mass-produced silpelit clones in the manga can partly be viewed as Fanservice too: they are uncanny and terrifying, but they have wonderful bodies that are often drawn with, errh, outrageously Fanservicey details such as erect nipples. Alas, these scenes also work as Fetish Fuel...
- This troper agrees. Seriously, Lucy = teh sexy.
- Haunted Junction loved this. Kazumi (and the audience) would think he was looking at (or buried in) a woman's breasts, only to find himself face-first in some male's butt.
- Hiromu Arawaka used this for comedy in an omake of a Fullmetal Alchemist volume - It showed us Winry's grandmother in a bikini, calling her the 'heroine of Fullmetal Alchemist', with the words 'anti-fanservice' underneath.
- Berserk may be the champion of fanservice that isn't. Volume 13, which is the point where the anime ends and which has Casca being stripped naked by demons complete with Naughty Tentacles prior to being raped by Griffith, who has become the demonic Femto, is by far the worst in this regard.
- However, one moment in the manga comes close to that: Slan decides to show up to taunt Guts in the Qlipoth. She decides to do this by appearing in front of him completely naked and acting as though they're having sex. This would be erotic, if it wasn't for the fact that the body she's in is made out of the internal organs of the hundreds of trolls Guts has just slaughtered, they are surrounded by blood and gore, and she's impaling him with her hair. Squick doesn't even begin to describe it.
- Gunslinger Girl contains an example in the sixth volume, with a page of Alessandro "checking out" his new cyborg's body that would only be sexy to either a very, very twisted reader or one who found the page out of context.
- Gantz does this a lot, but it peaks in the recent manga, where a giant alien monster turns into a giant naked woman made up of smaller naked women. Women fingers, a fully expressive face made up of female bodies... and then one of the Gantz team tries to have sex with it in the mouth.
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Large amounts of female nudity. Almost entirely from corpses. When one of the living female characters appears naked in the second volume the shock of genuine Fan Service is palpable.
- Welcome To The NHK features several nude scenes, but almost all of them are rather distressing borderline-Loli rape-fantasies from the mentally disturbed hero.
- As well as the original ending, in which the scenes are played out by the physical manifestation of his insanity- a grey demon-imp-creature with an excessively masculaine voice wearing a pointy nightcap.
- A lot of the nudity in Mnemosyne is this. From Rin being chased while half-naked before being blown away in a messy and disturbing manner, to her being tortured to death by a cheerfully sadistic research scientist who happily cut her clothes away before piercing every inch of her body and then bashing her brains in with a large club. Immortality has its downsides.
- Monster has plenty of scenes taking place in various red-light districts, often featuring startlingly bold frontal nudity and scenes of sexual content. These couldn't possibly be any less erotic, because they're all drawn with unflattering details intact — and the actual prostitutes and strippers we see make it clear just how degrading and sleazy this is.
- This Troper considers it merely a version of non-erotic nudity.
- Also, there's the flashback sex scene between Eva and Roberto. To make it even more squicky, it's entirely from Eva's POV, meaning the entirety of it is spent focusing on Roberto. It's not pretty, trust us.
- The nudity scenes in the Black Jack OVAs tend to be of this sort. For example, when Michelle goes full frontal, it's not for the sake of a sexy shower scene so much as it's to show how much her body has deteriorated from a few weeks ago. In fact, the sight of herself in the mirror this way is enough for her to reach for the razor blade...
- There are similar examples in Say Hello to Black Jack. When a person is shown naked, it's often an elderly person or a cancer patient drawn with icky details...
- Ping Pong Club is another example of this; ostensibly an ecchi series, the unattractiveness of both the art and the teenage male characters' personalities turn multiple fetish cameos into "ugh" moments.
- Late in Saikano, Chise spends a lot of time naked, and near the end there's a remarkably graphic sex scene between her and Shuji. It's in such a context that you may have trouble even seeing it through your tears.
- The second half of episode 6 of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is arguably this trope gone Beyond The Impossible and come back completely insane. No amount of Fan Service provided by Yoko and the three Black sisters (which there isn't that much of) can cover for Simon and Kamina spending the entire time running around buck naked, with Simon's privates covered by his drill of all things, and Kamina being kept something that could only vaguely be described as "decent" by Team Pet Boota (who manages to look even more grotesquely phallic than Simon's drill). The uncut version is even worse, and features Gimmy mistaking a request to "look for a hole" and shoving his finger up Simon's anus, Kamina smacking his own ass
 (link with Ievan Polka playing as BGM, not safe for work... or sanity) and telling Gimmy to stick his finger up his so by the same bizarre Toon Physics that sent Simon flying, it'll send him high enough to see over the onsen wall and peak at the girls as well as well as one scene where the only visible naughty bits are Gimmy's.
- Probaby the most Squicky thing about this scene is that Kamina acts like he's a sex offender, or about to become one. We love him as a Refuge In Audacity delinquent, but not as... that... kind of delinquent. (also, is this troper the only one to think Simon looks like he's eight years old? It's almost too shocking to learn he's reached puberty.)
- It gets far worse in The fifth Paralell Works music video, you finally see Yoko's boobs but the whole video is of Gimmy stealing everyones clothes while stark naked. You see his, erm, drill close up several times.
- Chances are good that someone was aroused by fan-favorite Fate being bound in chains while wearing tattered clothing in the first season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Most viewers, however, were too busy being horrified by the scene of a thoroughly evil mother sadistically whipping a daughter who only wished to make her smile.
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni has scenes with characters locked up in dungeons, chained to tables, and even bound to crosses. It all just contribute to the horror of how the former friends are about to brutally murder one another over some silly misunderstanding.
- And of course, Hentai series have a tendency to enter Fan Disservice mode at times, particularly when the bad guys of a given series use sex as a way to show how evil they are.
- Thank you for reminding this troper of a scene in Sexy Magical Girl / Mahou Shojou Ai in which the titular girl is penetrated by a SUPPORT BEAM. TO THE POINT OF ALMOST GETTING KILLED. It was quite a nerve-wracking scene for him.
- Not even One Piece is immune from this. Robin spending two long arcs wearing lots of leather and a cleavage-baring blouse? Cool. Cuffed? Even better. Getting beaten bloody and quite literally "biting the curb" as the Big Bad tries to drag her away in a scene that strongly resembles (at least in the anime) a rape? Uh...
- This Troper had nothing against Miss Mune-Mune's... special appearances on Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai... Until it was revealed that she was Sasshi's grandmother. Not even Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have or the gratuitous, flawless use of Really Seven Hundred Years Old got me over that.
- After the Post Episode Trailer in each episode of Mai-HiME, there is a short, generally fanservice-y omake for a character who featured prominently. The one for Akane features a voiceover in which she's talking to her boyfriend Kazuya, who died in that episode, and the last shot fades from a picture showing her in her underwear to black, with her HiME mark glowing red in the dark, after she lost it, and her powers, in the same incident that took Kazuya's life. Akane is never seen after this episode.
- Actually she is, but she's so cationic and lifeless it practically counts as a Put On A Bus anyway. On a note of unintended Tv Tvropes irony, Akane inadvertantly reveals her HiME powers to Miyu whilst on a bus.
- Mahou Sensei Negima once gave Jack Rakan a shower scene. Given the entire rest of the manga, this was almost certainly a supposed to be a joke on the people who read it for the Fan Service from the girls in Negi's class. Thank goodness for Pixelation.
- One of the last volumes of Lone Wolf And Cub has three scenes of Retsudo bathing. For several pages at a time.
- There is an issue of the Excel Saga manga that has Kabapu at a hot spring. Rendered in painful wrinkly disturbing detail.
- Franken Fran is a Mad Scientist so if you see a person naked in her lab, it will usually be someone she is working on...
- Mazinkaiser. Naked Baron Ashura. AGGGGGHHHHHH
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Right after that famous "naked Chun-Li scene", the fans are treated to a fight between her and Vega/Balrog, where he slices at her chest, so recently uncovered for prying eyes, with his claws.
- On Bleach, when Arrancar #3 (Dark Action Girl Halibel) opened her tops, showing her full cleavage, covered in bone armor... and her jaw, who practically a skull jaw.
Comic Books
- Green Lantern: For a while, at least. Arissia 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 Arissia is THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. Retconned out later in that on her alien planet, one year = about thirty Earth years. So she's hundreds of years old. Um...yeah.
- 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,: 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.
- 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. School girl rapes, invisible rapes, lascivious teddy bear men ... yuk!
- Thor: Reign in blood. You have the enchantress, wearing nothing but high boots and a loin cloth ...getting ready to have sex with three gnarled, ugly midgets for a shiny necklace. Ew.
Film
- Schindlers List: Helen Hirsch, a Jewish woman, is hiding from the SS man who's sleeping with her. He enters the room. She's standing there while he talks to her, with her nightgown being clingy enough to show her nipples. The fact that she's scared out of her wits and that he then beats her up removes any possible fan service this might have had. As a rule, you cannot get fan service in a film about The Holocaust.
- Walk Hard offers us a dangling male member. Judd Apatow was so tickled by this that he used it in every movie since.
- Candyman: Virginia Madsen's character is arrested and stripped by the police. The fact that the beautiful Virginia Madsen is naked is quite overshadowed by the fact that she is crying and covered in blood.
- Ten minutes after this scene, however, there's a scene of her taking a bath that is so blatantly Fan Service that it seems like an apology.
- Devil's Advocate has Charlize Theron whip off the blanket covering her to expose her complete nudity... and the massive amount of scratches over her body... as she screams over and over, "He did this to me!" "He" being Satan, who spent the afternoon raping her. The fanservice is sucked right out of the scene.
- And earlier in that movie, Charlize is trying on clothes with two other women whose faces briefly turn into some sort of weird demon-thing.
- Black Book: Carice Van Houten is put through a Humiliation Conga by the Dutch resistance as punishment for sleeping with a Nazi, which involves her being stripped naked, forced to sing Happy Days are Here Again, gets hits with a night stick to get her in position, has a bucket of crap dumped on her(apparently placed there just for that reason), and they finaly finish her off by "cleaning" her with a high pressure fire hose. On the plus side, Carice is naked like crazy through most of the movie, often in non-disgusting contexts.
- The Shining. You know, the scene one involving the woman in room 237?...
- Casino Royale: James Bond is naked, tied to a wicker chair with the bottom cut out, and struck repeatedly in the groin with a rope by means of torture. The fact that Bond is utterly broken with pain and the occasional screams of Vesper in the other room ruin any fetish material this may have had; even though Bond is laughing through the whole thing, he does it in a horrible, half-hysteric fashion. But on the other hand, Bond laughing and mocking his torturer through it may count as a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
- 28 Days Later has a prime example of pseudo-romantic Fan Disservice. As a Zombie Apocalypse film (well, Rage Virus Apocalypse film), there's plenty of violence and non-erotic zombie nudity, but some very sweet moments between the leading male and leading female. At the end of the film, the two share in a passionate, chick flick style hands-on-face kiss, after a badass rescue sequence. There's even a moment of brief comic relief afterwards. What's wrong? Well, this is right after Jim beat the head of Selena's would-be soldier rapist repeatedly and violently against the wall and proceeding in gouging his eyes out with his thumbs. Literally, seconds after. He and Selena are both covered in the blood of their captors, Jim in particular has it all over his face and mouth — and visibly all over his thumbs, up to the last joint and under the nails. Mmm, Rage-blood.
- Requiem For a Dream: The ass-to-ass scene in Marion's portion of the climax of the film graphically illustrates the abuse she is willing to endure for a bag of heroin.
- Now, one would think that Jodie Foster in a knotted shirt with no bra would be highly attractive, but not when she's 14. This one was clearly intentionally not meant to be sexy and more to reflect the abuse she was suffering as a child prostitute.
- One commentator on VH 1's I Love the 70s: Volume 2 found her attractive, only to then say "She was 12? Oops.". He was probably kidding... hopefully.
- This example did prove to be attractive for at least one person. Of course, that one person was Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin, so...
- Pretty much everything even remotely sexual in the Bob Guccione film Caligula. This being Caligula, that's about 95% of the movie.
- The Evil Dead's famous "tree-rape" scene.
- Salo: 120 Days of Sodom, which was based on a story by the Marquis de Sade (who gave us the word "sadism" and who really needs no introduction), takes "disservice" to a whole new level and beyond. Possibly the most perverse and disturbing film ever made.
- Angel Heart was notorious for Lisa Bonét's nude scene. The aforemention nude scene was accompanied by bordering-on-violent rough sex, Mickey Rourke at his greasy sleaziest, and blood streaming down the walls half way through. Not to mention the later revelation that she's his daughter.
- Ang Lee's film version of Lust, Caution was rated NC-17 in the States for containing around ten minutes of sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Depressing, tragic full frontal nudity.
- If you can stomach the nudity in the film Cannibal Holocaust, then you need to have your stomach replaced.
- One Word: Nekromantik
- Strange Days, a not-quite-cyberpunk film from the late '90s, had a plot which centered around a the increasing use of recorded memories turned into a full-sensory virtual-reality experience. While the main character primarily deals in the obvious pornographic applications of this wondrous technology, things go bad when he receives a disc that was recorded by a rapist/killer who, in turn, was jacked into the victim directly — so that both the user of the disc and the victim get a taste of the sensations of the rapist. Main character immediately threw up.
- The Machinist has Christian Bale shirtless a lot, and even completely naked at times. Unfortunately, this is Christian Bale weighing all of 120 pounds, and he looks disturbingly cadaverous- most likely intentionally. Though the man is quite handsome, the fact that when he kneels you can count his vertebrae and clearly see the outlines of his ribcage and shoulder blades cuts the squee factor considerably. Though some most likely consider it a trait suitable of The Woobie...
- The Fisher King. Robin Williams. There are circumstances where he could be considered Fanservice material (stop laughing)... but not when he's playing a mentally ill homeless man all covered in dirt. And he's jumping around for god's sake. That would be a turn off in the case of any full-frontal scene.
- Die Another Day The opening credits are done in the same style as every James Bond credits sequence: pop music, flashy edits, and writhing female silhouettes. But it's intercut with a plot-advancing torture scene, and there's a strong suggestion that the sexy images are Bond's hallucinations as the suffering ravages his mind. (Who says the series had lost its edge?)
- Resident Evil: Towards the end of the first movie, Matt finally loses his shirt (yay!). He has a vest on underneath (boo!) but still looks damn good in it (SQUEEEEEEEEE! PHWOAR! etc.). Immediately afterwards, however, he is mauled by the Licker and the resulting wounds... would've looked much less gross if he'd kept the shirt on.
- Saw 3 features a trap involving a completely naked woman in a meat locker who, after the protagonist enters the room, starts getting periodically sprayed with cold water, while he decides whether or not to save her before she freezes to death. Word Of God says that they were going to have her in a t-shirt to preserve her modesty - but decided that erect nipples through a t-shirt, regardless of context, would tantalize too much. As it stands, the scene is completely unsexy.
- The Incredible Hulk. This troper is not one to normally reject the idea of naked Edward Norton, but when Bruce Banner is huddled in the fetal position on the bathroom floor, clearly suffering from the after-effects of his Transformation Trauma... it's not very sexy.
Literature
- Crops up in the book River God, set in Ancient Egypt: at the beginning of the novel, the thirty-five year old Taita admits in his narration that he's somewhat taken with the 14-year-old Lostris, his mistress. She's in love with 20-year-old Tanus. Despite this being fairly routine for Ancient Egypt, the book goes into numerous descriptions of Lostris' "red moon rising", and the fact that she spends much of the first part of the book half-naked does little to improve matters. After she's married to the Pharaoh, Taita, hoping to make her first night of sex with the king go without pain, is forced to rub ointment into the particularly important areas... Then there's the most disturbing part; Taita is a eunuch, and the castration is graphically described. Not to mention in one of the sequels Lostris is delighted to be pregnant, but her followers are dubious because it should not be possible, and unfortunately they are right; it turns out to be a tumor. And then in yet another of the sequels, Taita (now an old, old man) comes across an orphaned girl who had been raised by a village of tribal natives and who turns out to be the reincarnation of Lostris. He raises her, then they fall in love, but it only really works out after Taita regrows his missing member and gets the body of a young man after the finale.
- Pretty much everything by Clive Barker of Hellraiser fame.
- Neil Gaiman has a good one in one of his stories about a character Mr. Smith who at first glance comes across as a Heroic Sociopath (with an emphasis on the sociopath) but nevertheless a cool and stylish sociopath. At one point he goes to visit a prostitute with whom he has a friendly relationship, and it's only revealed at the end that she is a young child.
Western Animation
Video Games
- Pictured above: Rinnosuke is one of the fewer than a handful of males in the entire Touhouverse, and some smart-aleck decided that he deserved a truly EPIC ability. All this troper has to say is this: Thank you, we did NOT need that.
- In the second case of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, the beautiful, sexy Obi Wan Mia Fey is murdered. Phoenix finds her propped up against a wall, her cleavage on display and her long legs apart and very, very dead.
- The infamous Bathtub Scare from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem had Alexandra Roivas getting a vision of her dead, naked body in a bathtub full of blood.
- Rule Of Rose is made with this in mind. The horror is caused by graphic scenes of small children causing Fetish Fuel — the trailer alone shows a very, very deep nine-year-old curtsy, followed immediately by a scene with legs kicking ambiguously which is revealed to be three children excitedly drawing a picture. The game itself involves scenes of children binding up, beating, doing water torture, and sucking on the fingertips on the heroine, an adult woman. The effect is every inch disturbing.
- Diana is particular is the master of this. The source of a good half of the above material, her obvious attractiveness, mixture of vulnerability and sadism, charisma and mastery of her own sexuality have made her extremely popular with both male and female fans... which is somewhat spoiled by the fact that she’s almost certainly a sexual abuse victim and about fourteen years old. Her abusive Schoolgirl Lesbians relationship with her Dragon Meg doesn't help.
- An unlockable story scene in Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter has a scene of Nina clones floating naked in tanks. And if the uncanny valley lolicon isn't enough, the camera pans up to reveal that none of them have heads.
- Metal Gear Solid 2 (its previous game being notable for forcing you to ogle a female soldier from behind, in order to identify her by her hip-swaying walk) gets the most explicitly beautiful character in the entire canon completely naked, and covering themselves poorly with their hands. After the beauty gets redressed, they cartwheel and swing their hips around an environment reproduced from the previous game; in that, it was a bonus area where the player (as Snake) photographed a selection of beautiful women as a bonus for doing well in VR Missions. Unfortunately for the game's intended audience, and quite deliberately invoked for the Squick effect, the character is a man.
- In Metal Gear Solid 3, the boss unzips her Spy Catsuit, showing plenty of skin, in order to show Snake a large, ugly scar.
- In the same game, any enjoyment that could be had from Big Boss shirtless and tied up is destroyed by the brutal torture he's being subjected to. If that wasn't bad enough, he even, quite literally, pisses himself in terror during the scene, and the dark stain remains for the whole sequence. And then The Boss takes out her knife and heads straight for his eyes...
- Metal Gear Solid 4 has some partly-Twincestuous Ho Yay kisses, dialogue and touching, which would have been much hotter had both characters looked roughly thirty years younger. Not Safe For Dignity.
- It also has the shameless fanservice of the BB Unit; beautiful women who, when removed from their suits, basically rub themselves all over Snake in the most sexual possible way. However, they're all extremely, extremely crazy; deliberately hit the Uncanny Valley coming in from the human side because of their unusual design process; Snake is injured by their touches; Snake responds in confused horror to their advances, as if he was the victim of a rape; and, most obviously, Snake looks about seventy-five years old.
- Then there's the "sexy photoshoot" Easter Egg. Many fanboys seem to see it as regular Fan Service, but this troper can't be the only one who thinks it's just plain creepy (probably intentionally, this being MGS).
- In fact, if you consider non-sexual Fan Service, Metal Gear Solid 4 is pure distilled Fan Disservice from beginning to end. It gives the fans everything they were baying for, but in the most completely hateful way Hideo Kojima could do it. Bringing back the wise, awesome, Bad Ass Solid Snake as a sad old man is just the beginning. This troper felt that there were points where you could practically hear Kojima cackling "Be Careful What You Wish For!", such as The Scrappy finally getting horribly injured - in a meaningless Heroic Sacrifice, with the very conversation from Metal Gear Solid 2 that people cite as the exact moment they started to hate him playing in the background'', and the insanely popular Ensemble Darkhorse's surprise appearance, which consists of him doing absolutely nothing awesome at all and then being passively killed, even going so far as to say, "This is good, isn't it?" to rub it in further. Dear god Kojima, you hate us, we get it.
- In Snatcher, Gillian junks a beautiful female Snatcher. In the original Japanese version, her dress tears as she falls, and her corpse lies on the floor with its large breasts on display and its head exploded in a mess of artificial blood, matted hair and broken mechanics.
- In Quest For Glory IV there is a character known as Rusalka, who is a naked woman with great assets and Godiva Hair that invites you to swim with her. Of course, if you do she drags you under the water and drowns you. If you're a paladin, you're allowed to save her. The final step is hugging her. By the time you get to that step she has become a rotting corpse, who's in the exact same pose.
- Final Fantasy X has Yunalesca, who is covering probably about 5-10% of her body. When you fight her and defeat her first form, she summons a series of Naughty Tentacles as part of her second form. After that, she summons the rest of that part—a giant Medusa head (not related to Castlevania 's Goddamn Medusa Heads), which may terrify you if you don't expect it.
- In what has got to be the cruelest joke ever played by the producers of a video game, your final reward for completing the Hell Temple of La Mulana, a Platform Hell level in an already Nintendo Hard game, is a skimpy swimsuit. The Fan Disservice comes when you then see Professor Lemeza, the very male main character, wearing the thing! MY EYES! The game itself tells you, twice, that you don't want it.
- In Parasite Eve, the titular villain transforms in increasingly Squicky ways, losing more and more of her humanity (not to say dress) every time. By the end, she's completely naked, with several dozen breasts and a mass of pulsating flesh in which the Ultimate Being is gestating.
- Some of the official World Of Warcraft wallpapers on the official site get this way. It's a wee bit hard to... ahem, get off... to the Stripperiffically-clad main subject of the artwork when there's a hulking Tauren behind.
- The way Sylvanas Windrunner dresses is kind of disturbing when you think about it. While she's got the classic appealing elven form, she is undead, her skin blue from discoloration.
- In Final Fantasy VII, Jenova, in her tank, has a curvacious woman's body. She also has no head and an eyeball for a nipple. Oh, and her skin is blue. Afterwards, it gets worse.
- The Bubble Head Nurses and Mannequins in Silent Hill 2, representative of the protagonist's severe issues with women and sex.
- And for the female (and surely some male) fans, there's also Pyramid-Head. Who has a hot body and wears nothing but a long apron, and then, y'know, the pyramid torture helmet and a gallon or so of blood. And has a tongue that's black and about a foot long.
- A lot of females wouldn't be displeased at the idea of a foot long tongue.
- Clive Barker's Jericho has Hanne Lichthammer, a once-human-turned-demon, after she was assimilated by the Firstborn. She wears a very, VERY tight-fitting, S&M-style SS uniform which just barely manages to contain her (rather tight) breasts. This is made considerably less sexy when you consider that she is skinned from her lower jaw down to her torso, has her lips torn open (exposing her teeth in a ghastly permanent grin), the skin on the back of her head has been slashed into little strips, and she is absolutely covered with blood (some of which is pouring out of her eyes, nose and mouth). Oh, and she can vomit acid.
- The demonic Sumerian priestesses also count, particularly Inanna, who, while sporting gratuitous sideboob, also has a skeletal, flayed face, and is covered in blood.
- In Mega Man 9 after 5 boss battles, Roll trips and has a Panty Shot. Mega Man 9's graphics are entirely 8 bit.
- Halibel from Bleach for the longest time is thought to be a hottie amongst the Arrancar... well who can blame them? She has a nice set of racks. Then she reveals her mouth to be a monstrous mouth. Needless to say, a lot of people are scared at her design, except some who ignores that monstrous mouth and focuses on her huge tracts of land.
- The Lunar games have Bromides of the female characters hidden around the world for the player to collect. These are usually either Fan Service, cute, or sorta related to their personalities. The second game has a Bromide of Brogan, an obscenely obese male villain, in the tub. Some clever git has uploaded it to this wiki; search at your own peril.
- in Super Metroid you can see a clear animation of Samus in her sports bra/shorts combo before the 100% Completion ending. Of course, it's also Samus' death animation (as her armor disintegrates around her).
Music Videos
- The music video for "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails has this in spades. There are naked women (and naked bondage-Trent) but the other images and the music itself prevent it from being anywhere near Fan Service.
- Meanwhile, the music video for "Happiness In Slavery" makes "Closer" look tame. A man walks into a room, gets naked, lies down... and then a machine rips off his penis and grinds him into meat. And he enjoys it. If it weren't in black and white, it would be completely unwatchable. And this is just the most widely seen portion of the semi-unreleased Broken Movie, which is apparently over a half hour of stuff like this. Thanks, Trent, but no thanks.
Web Comics
- The Grim Tales From Down Below comic has a disturbing picture of an adult Mandy, and an even more disturbing dialogue, in this strip.
- Dominic Deegan dips into this on occasion. While ass shots of a woman who is freezing to death are fairly tame compared to the rest of this page, they're still kind of disturbing. Not to mention the ass shots of a woman after her death. Why is her ass raised like that? Is this supposed to be regular fanservice? May have been intended as a Karmic Death.
- This Questionable Content starts off Fan Service-y...and then...
- In this◊ episode of Looking For Group, we get to see under the dress of one of the main characters... It's the rotting undead male warlock.
- The disturbing thing is, some female fans considered it fanservice.
- Well, come on, the socks are awesome! What girl wouldn't sqeal over those socks?
- Gnoph has occasional strips where Abbey appears topless. Since Abbey is horribly malnourished, this is very disservice-y. The worst is definitely the first time, when Abbey is downright skeletal and her chest is rotting from the inside due to a bad case of Phlebotinum Breakdown. On later occasions she looks slightly better, but never enough to qualify for actual Fan Service.
- Not to mention later strips with the hideous growth of insectile wings protruding from her back.
- Um, how about every single Sexy Losers comic? NSFW, no matter where you work. Seriously, Dirty Sanchez Magazine blocks this site.
- Parodied by Sluggy Freelance, which has a bikini art week that first shows scantily-clad beach babe Gwen, then hunky Riff, and finally sixty-year-old decrepit Dr. Schlock.
Web Original
- In the Homestar Runner short Somber Vacation, Strong Sad ends up with an embarrassing tanline that looks like he's wearing a bra. To top it off, he even shows a postcard of himself lying on the beach smiling, and yes, he is sporting the tanline.
- 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.
- Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series Episode 16: Fanservice. The episode will occasionally cut to Mai Valentine, who isn't wearing her usual jacket, and yells "FANSERVICE!" Then later on it cuts to Bandit Keith, who decides it's time to show some of his own fanservice. Combined with the "Oh Yeah" song from Ferris Bueller and a caption of "Ladies, he's single!" makes it the most disturbing scene of that episode if not the entire series.
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