Fan Disservice - Television Tropes & Idioms

Perfect Blue. Full fucking stop.
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. 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 apart 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. It may look like porn from a distance, but it is in truth the stuff nightmares are made of.
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). Yaoi Fangirls, on the other hand...
- And not ALL of them found it fanservicy, mind you.
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.
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 Full Frontal Assaults 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...
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.
- It's also played for drama many times, like Roy's Shirtless Scene showing his bloody and wrecked side after he cauterized his own wounds, Riza toweling herself after a shower revealing her tattoo and her scars, Ling taking off his shirt to bandage Lan Fan's arm stump with it... but the undisputed champion must be the moment when Ed sees Al's terribly emaciated (and completely naked) body on the other side of the door.
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.
- It also has the lovely side shot of Triela, after being found at the scene of her rescue from her "accident" (being the starlet in a snuff film).
- And Claes in her underwear when she's having a medical test and it's revealed she has a heart condition. Gunslinger Girl is full to the brim of lolicon Fan Disservice.
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 masculine 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.
- 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.
  - Just the thought of Roberto having sex with anyone is Squick enough. In the final episodes, Roberto has sex with a a much younger and very naive lady from a small town. It doesn't help that he goes right back to killing people after the act.
- Also— pretty, shy, demure young woman? A-okay. Androgynously beautiful, seductive crossdressing bishonen? Just dandy. Androgynously beautiful, crossdressing Johan in full dog-kicking form? Nightmare Fuel.
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.
- To be more specific, her arm falls of during coitus. They keep going.
- This is preceded (at least in the manga) by two equally fitting sequences: the scenes of Fuyumi's tryst with the 13-year-old Shuji and Shuji's final sequence with Akemi. After a particularly devastating enemy attack and Chise counterattack, Shuji finds Akemi on her deathbed, bloodied and broken, where she confesses that she has loved Shuji for a long time, and asks him to look at her naked and to touch her breasts even as her injuries sap the last of her strength. It's a brutal mix of Squick and Tear Jerker.
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 peek at the girls, as well as one scene where the only visible naughty bits are Gimmy's.
- Probably 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.
- It gets far worse in the fifth Parallel Works music video, you finally see Yoko's boobs but the whole video is of Gimmy stealing everyone's 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 contributes to the horror of how the former friends are about to brutally murder one another over some silly misunderstanding.
- Umineko has another case of this at the very least in the second ending, where Beatrice demands that Battler undress and redress her for a banquet, given his new status as Beatrice's furniture. All the while, she lectures him about how pathetic he is and why she is not afraid of being undressed in front of him. She then strips him and puts him in chains... in order to show off to everyone at the banquet. Remember, this whole thing is told from Battler's point of view. It has a stomach-rotting effect.
- Of course, some of the fan-works provide a very different type of Fan Disservice...namely, Tomitake Princess. WARNING: You may go blind and be Driven To Suicide from watching this video.
- And then we get to the first episode of the Rei OVA series, where the loving close-ups of Keiichi's crotch and rear while he's in a speedo are not going to go away without industrial strength Brain Bleach.
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.
- Sexy Magical Girl / Mahou Shojou Ai. In episode 3, Touru wails his Naughty Tentacles on Ai. Standard hentai fare, right? Well, he goes on to describe that the white liquid in his tentacles is a poison that, when absorbed during orgasm, causes Ai to orgasm to her death. Then there's the next episode, in Touru penetrates Ai with a SUPPORT BEAM. TO THE POINT OF ALMOST GETTING KILLED.
- La Blue Girl. In episode 4 we are not only shown how a princess stabbed herself to death with a sword she used as a dildo (which should be a lesson to many fanfiction writers out there), but also the male love interest of the obligatory werewolfgirl is one of the ugliest guys ever seen in hentai.
- Almost every oral scene in Night Shift Nurses has the girl in question bearing a pube or two around her mouth. Gross.
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...
- And Nami getting pinned to the wall by an invisible Absolom when she was taking a bath. (again with the uncanny resemblance to a rape.) DO. NOT. WANT.
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 so constantly catatonic and lifeless after this episode, it practically counts as being Put On A Bus.
- On a note of unintended TV Tropes irony, Akane inadvertently reveals her HiME powers to Miyu whilst on a bus.
- Another pops up later in the series, when Shizuru undresses in front of Natsuki and lying down with her... except Natsuki's also asleep at the time, leading to a rather disturbing conclusion reached by Haruka.
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.
- Tsukuyomi went from a semi ditzy minor minion to a rather creepy psycho lesbian over the process of her second fight with Setsuna, which was actually closer to her almost raping Setsuna. Some people seem to have liked it but...
- The most recent chapter had the fake Asuna attack an enemy, who attempted to disarm her destroying her clothes as usual. When she continues to attack him, he slashes her across the back, injuring her badly and leaving her lying on the ground in pain. Fake or no, seeing the main heroine lying naked on the ground in a pool of her own blood is quite disturbing. (NSFW)
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.
- A good chunk of the last episode of the anime also counts. Especially the part where Excel gets stuck in Hyatt's body and decides to feel herself up while naked... and promptly starts coughing up enormous amounts of blood and shriveling up into a mummy. Then there's all the stuff that goes on in the love hotel...
  Cosette: I'm actually....A G-CUP!
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.
- For clarification, Baron Ashura is some kind of bizarre hermaphrodite. A woman (with a breast) on one side, and a hairy, dark skinned man on the other.
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.
Arrancar #3 Dark Action Girl Halibel from Bleach for the longest time is thought to be a hottie amongst the Arrancar (she is pretty well-endowed). Then she opened her lower-face-covering jacket to reveal her full cleavage, covered in bone armor... and her demonic skull-like jaw. EEWWW!! Needless to say, a lot of people were squicked.
- Not me!
  - She ditched it in the latest chapter. Now she is a full blown Evil Is Sexy.
- In an intentional comedic example, transvestite Charlotte Coolhorn generally either disgusts people to no end or makes them burst into laughter... or both◊.
While Ranma One Half had a lot of fanservice for both men and women, the occasional Genma in the shower scene probably appealed to neither.
Umisho is all about the swim team fanservice. Unfortunately, this includes the male team captain Ikamasa, who's an annoying, cartoonish blowhard.
Similarly, Onsokumaru of Ninja Nonsense frequently shapeshifts into a big muscle-man... without changing his colour (bright yellow) or his minimalist facial features. Gah!
- Also, any time one of the male ninjas ends up losing his clothes. Happens a lot more than it should...
In the Super Robot Wars OG OVA, we are given a lot of opportunities of Lamia Loveless being restrained with cables, butt naked... while her personality is being drained and had it not been due to her robotic nature, she'd be a pile of goo in a short moment (this happens to a nameless woman they encountered before). Then you see her riding another robot, still strapped and butt naked. Except... she's Brainwashed And Crazy and trying to KILL the protagonists.
Gankutsuou has a fair share of this. Héloïse's masturbation scene and Andrea's sex scene with Victoria, his mother. Major Squick indeed.
Claymore is practically made of this trope, even giving Berserk a run for its money. Aside from the so-far-unseen "horrible scar" on their bodies from their transformation, it has an attempted rape scene where the girl is like "whatever," much Naughty Tentacles coming from a female monster, and naked twin sisters merged together.
- And then they go on to introduce the Abyss Feeders. If you are turned on by them, there is probably something very wrong with you.
In Kuroshitsuji, Sebastian's sex scene with Beast was this for many. Especially considering that 99% of the readers are Yaoi Fangirls, and wanted him to be paired with Ciel...
Eyeshield 21 gives fans of the male physique a lot of fanservice (fabulously fit athletes, yay!). Unfortunately, it also gives us the Running Gag of Ootawara's bare-assed farts. There's also the beach football team called The Sexy Queens whose skin tight outfits show off all their bulging... bulges. The outfits are also very easily ripped apart.
Jungle De Ikou: Dirty Old Man Aham demonstrating the "sexy" Magic Dance that triggers Natsumi's Transformation Sequence.
How is it that nobody has mentioned Naruto yet? There is so much Fan Disservice surrounding Orochimaru that his actual evildoing doesn't compare to the amount of Squick he causes. For God's sakes, he has a Shower Scene, and if the guy simply naked isn't enough this is when his arm were suffering from severe necrosis because part of his soul was eaten by a shinigami.
The various openings for Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei contain a scene where Itoshiki-sensei and his stalker/student are falling through the sky, grasping for each other. They finally catch each other's hand and embrace in an intensely romantic fashion... at least, it seems romantic until you think about why they're falling - then it becomes not a little horrifying.
School Rumble. Harima alone in his room. Yeah...

Close Anime / Manga

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.
- Later scenes in the comic with the Corinthian. It's as if they realised the potential Estrogen Brigade Bait in a gay supernatural-based and suave White Haired 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.
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!
- I don't remember any of that happening in the movie...
- That's because the movie is an entirely unrelated work which coincidentally has the same name and some vaguely-similar characters. Or so Alan Moore would prefer to believe.
  - Granted, if the person Mina had sex with looked more like Sean Connery, this entry might have been on a different page.
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.
Erotic comic Druuna is mostly about the adventures of the self-confident and driven (and incidentally voluptous and barely-clad) Druuna...ending up in sci-fi-ish sexual situtions. Unfortunately, most of the time she's being raped by all sorts of disugusting mutants and monsters.
Every Milo Manara comic this troper's ever heard of qualifies, really.
Assorted Argentinian comics:
- La Mulatona in Clemente is a really hot, Fetish Fuel-riffic, fanservice-provinding... duck/bird/elf hybrid.
- La Nelly has a tendence 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 mysoginists, machist, racist, idiotic and sadistic hitman/mercenary/bodyguard with poor hygiene (hence his name, "aceitoso" = "oily").
- Ditto for any sex scene in Cazador.
Tarot Witch Of The Black Rose contains copious amounts of Fan Service 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 the most recent 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'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.
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 it's 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.

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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.
- Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is not an exception.
- But Stalags is.
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.
- "THEY ARE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!"
- 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.
The Devils 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.
- There are many other examples in this film.
- Remember, lust IS one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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 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, another example is the first sex scene with the above Nazi - 'is this Jewish?'. On the plus side, Carice is naked like crazy through most of the movie, often in non-disgusting contexts. Just compair that sceen with her Dye Or Die sceen from earlier in the movie[1] (definitely NSFW)
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.
- Or that he's enjoying it, and we are witnessing a BDSM scene.
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 afterwords. 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.
- According to Danny Boyle, while shooting the scene, he repeatedly told Cillian Murphy to keep his hands out of the shot for this very reason. Some good that did...
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.
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 50 kg, 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.
- Jack: Delicious open shirt is not delicious when he's playing a 10 year old boy in a 40 year old man's body who is suffering from angina.
- The outfit-changing scenes in Mrs Doubtfire also qualify.
- As does the shower scene in License to Wed. And yet it's still more watchable than the rest of the film.
- One Hour Photo: Will Yorkin and Maya Burson are nude and forced to pose sexually by Sy Parrish at knifepoint. Very disturbing. Also, Sy has a shower scene after his Eye Scream nightmare. No, it is not a fanservice-y Shower Of Angst.
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.
- Third Resident Evil movie: L.J (Mike Epps) is attacked by a female infected zombie, who had an exposed rotting breast.
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.
- This troper agrees, no less because it reminded her of a somewhat similar scene in American History X...
- Re: Hulk-related matters— Angry, grizzled, buff Tim Roth? Count me in. Angry, grizzled, buff Tim Roth who turns into... something not quite unlike the Hulk but uniquely freakishly creepy? Um... no thanks.
Pink Flamingos. Oh sweet lord, Pink Flamingos.
The Wall Slap scene from The Wicker Man is at once extremely sexy (Naked Brit Ekland and naked Brit Ekland body double!) and extremely creepy.
Coraline does this with the beginning of the stage play in the other-world, ESPECIALLY with the Other Forcible, but it just drags it out way too long.
- That's because "pleasant" nudity is NOT acceptable in a children's film.
The Lives Of Others has Christa-Maria, an actress, who is seen getting into someone's car for an assignation. But she's repulsed by the Stasi minister, and her wince - and the shot of his underpants momentarily threatens to be Narm.
There's Something About Mary includes a scene in which one of Mary's suitors is spying on her changing her clothes. He aims binoculars at her room to get a good look at her naked breasts. Unfortunately, the binoculars are aiming at the window next to Mary's, and he - and the audience! - see the very unattractive naked breasts of the elderly woman who lives with Mary. There's also a scene at the beginning involving a zipper...
The 1997 film of Lolita is a double dose. The sex scenes with the female lead are uncomfortable for obvious reasons... and then you discover how much worse it can get when Frank Langella, 60 years old and playing a pedophile, starts running around in an open bathrobe.
Big Fish. Danny DeVito's naked backside. There is not a Brain Bleach strong enough to erase the memory from this troper's mind.
Pyramid Head in the Silent Hill movie (also mentioned in the video games section). Incredibly muscular shirtless man wearing nothing but a robe? Hot. Incredibly muscular shirtless man wearing a torture helmet and covered in blood? Not so much. Incredibly muscular shirtless man covered in blood and ripping off a woman's skin with one hand? Do Not Want.
Mulholland Drive. Near the end, Naomi Watts is seen masturbating. Is it arousing? Not really, unless you're turned on by a miserable, frustrated, crying woman trying furiously to climax.
If this one is allowed here. The Crying Game. Fergus is about to make love to Dil. As the camera slowly pans down Dil's body, Fergus (and the audience) is greeted to a penis.
Blade Trinity had a Shower Scene for Jessica Biel. She's washing off the blood of her best friend whom she was forced to kill after said best friend was in the middle of becoming a vampire.
The Movie of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) (and, presumably, the original book as well). Oh, god. There's so many cases of this that there's no point in listing them all, but if you've seen it, you'll likely think of THAT SCENE, and then THAT SCENE, immediately.
Videodrome. Both the titular TV show (for most viewers, anyway) and the film itself. While James Woods is a handsome enough man, we don't want to see his enormous Rick Baker-provided vagina.
Let The Right One In. Normally, I'd question the judgement of anyone who wants to get a peek at Badass Lolita Eli (who is twelve, even if she's been so for a long time) in the altogether, but Oskar peeps through the door at her while she's changing into one of his mother's dresses. And gets an eyeful. Of unpleasantly mutilated groin, because Eli was a castrated little boy in life. The Mood Dissonance in some of the film's other scenes (between "aww, how strangely sweet!" and Nightmare Fuel Unleaded) might qualify as romantic fan disservice as well.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday has what is probably the most graphic sex scene in the series, with a chick riding her boyfriend cowgirl style in a tent. In the middle of sex she gets impaled and ripped in half with a tent spike, vomiting blood on to her boyfriend, whose just screaming his ass off before getting his skull crushed.
Eastern Promises. Naked Vigo, eewww....
- I beg to differ...
Red Beard was the only film from director Akira Kurosawa that featured nudity. A naked young woman is undergoing surgery, and though it isn't graphicly shown, the fact that she's thrashing around and screaming in agony (no anaesthetic when the movie takes place) makes one eager for it to end.

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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.
The whole Damane concept was supposed to be this in The Wheel Of Time; it failed for some.
In Anansi Boys at one point, a bony and less than attractive fifty-something woman drops her pants and waggles her arse as a distraction for the man who's locked her and her daughter in the basement. It's pretty clearly meant for laughs. It wouldn't be so funny if we had to actually look at it, though.
The first book of the Otherland series by Tad Williams has a scene in Mr. Jingo's, a sort of virtual-reality nightclub that's marketed towards teenagers and highly exclusive; it's actually a front the villain uses to collect the teens he's putting into comas to keep Otherland running. Williams apparently wanted to make it clear that this place is evil, and wanted to do so in a way that would not be Fetish Fuel to many, so he describes a virtual stripper removing her outer layers of skin and flesh and leaving the stage trailing body parts like the train of a wedding dress. Brain Bleach needed yet? Also worth mentioning is the way he portrays Dread's serial murders—Dread himself compares them to sex, and the narrative tone reflects that, but it's also fairly clear that we're supposed to be repulsed and consider him a monster.
And then, of course, there's the episode in the latest book in The Dresden Files, Turn Coat, in which Lara Raith, a White Court vampire (a gorgeous species which a) feeds on emotions and souls and b) enslaves the victim while doing so) feeds on her cousin Madeline Raith. Since Raiths feed by having sex with their victims, this should be an opportunity for hot girl-on-girl action, right? Wrong. Lara is nearly burned to death in a battle. Being a vampire, she survives, but it takes all of her energy to do so, and she's ravenous afterwards. This is what ends up having sex with, feeding on and mutilating Madeline:
Half the body was blacker than a hamburger that had fallen through the bars of a charcoal grill. The rest was red and purple and swollen with bruises and bloody blisters, with very, very occasional strips of pale white skin. A few wisps of dark hair were attached to her skull. I say her because technically the corpse was female, though that hardly mattered amongst all the burned and pulverized meat that smelled slightly of tequila.
Cissie in Montmorency is very pretty from the back with a hat on, but the front is slightly less pleasing. She is also a nasty lady. Later on, she makes herself pretty, but is nastier for it.
Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings, a thousand-page "historical novel" about magic, sex and death in ancient Egypt, contains "more than enough bumbuggery and humbuggery" (in Howard Bloom's words) to "satisfy" anyone, and was described as difficult and unpleasant by William S. Burroughs.
The Anno Dracula books are set in an alternate universe where vampirism in Europe is a social reality, even fashionable. Naturally, a segment of society pops up to fill the needs of the new vampire population— so you get warm prostitutes selling their blood. It's played as utterly un-sensual, compared to more traditional vampire relations— streetwalkers with their throats and breasts covered in scabs, and mothers whoring out their children to vampiric pedophiles. Later, in Judgement Of Tears, you start to get waiters and waitresses being bled through tap-like devices stuck in their arms. Squicky? You bet. (Also in Judgement of Tears, a zaftig vampire, Malenka, gets... larger, very fast, shortly after splashing in the Trevi Fountain. So far, so good. Her dress rips off. Then her skin.)

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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.
- And on a female side of things, Ruby's torture in Heaven and Hell. It was a Wall Banger of an episode anyway but even the fangirls who hated her would agree that the scene was going too far. Nobody really wants to see her actress tied down, naked except for the straps over her womanly parts and bleeding everywhere, no matter how much they might dislike her acting skills.
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.
  - Then there's the episode "Profit and Lace" where Quark undergoes an Easy Sex Change to seal a business deal instead of his mother. So Yeah.
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?
Cameron. Topless. Lying on a bed. Under John Connor. With a hunting knife...
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.
- A certain Shirtless Scene in "The Stolen Earth". The character receiving the scene alone would have been bad enough, but then there's what they've done to themselves... pure Nausea Fuel.
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 extremely sexy.
- Considering the sex scene between them in Smashed was recently voted the sexiest scene in television history by the readers of TV Guide, I think a lot of people would disagree with you. This troper, despite being one of three people in the universe who actually liked Buffy season six, would agree with you that the Squick is definitely there- and it was supposed to be. Joss presented the Buffy/Spike ship as the total antithesis to the Buffy/Angel ship- Buffy and Angel were the archetypal romantic, sweet, caring couple, whilst Buffy and Spike had a mutually destructive, denigrating, entirely sexual relationship that was Slap Slap Kiss on Buffy's side and Stalker With A Crush on Spike's. The show deliberately used the unhealthiness of the sexual situations they found themselves in (Dead Things, anyone?) to show just how bad the relationship was. Although I personally found the invisible sex scene in Gone hilarious.
- Buffy/Spike had nothing on the scene in "Doppelgangland" between Willow and her Lesbian Vampire counterpart, which culminates in VampWillow licking Willow's neck. All it really took was the Squicked-out expression on Willow's face.
- Then there's the episode where Warren and his buddies use a mind-control device on Warren's ex-girlfriend. The scenario (including having the ex dress up in a French maid outfit and copious use of the word "Master") could have come from any number of fetish fics (I just know, okay?)...up until the point she snaps out of it and declares in no uncertain terms that what they've been doing basically amounts to rape. And then Warren attacks and (accidentally) kills her...
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. (Or riding her like a pony).
- Another special mention has to go Joan and her fiance on Don Draper's office floor. Seeing the normally sexually confident Joan reduced to barely holding back tears while her fiance shoves her face to the side so he doesn't have to look at her, followed by them going to dinner as if the rape never happened is absolutely heartbreaking.
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.
Dora Mae's striptease in the fifth episode of Carnivale could be considered fairly hot, depending on your taste in women. Things get bad when her encore is interrupted by a roomful of creepy miners rushing the stage en masse. Near the episode's end, one of the carnies finds her recently lynched corpse. So Yeah.
- Almost all of the nudity in Carnivale is like this. The show loved screwing with its audience, which, as it turned out, probably wasn't the best strategy.
Blackadder: Back and Forth features a 'maid' wearing just an apron (well, an apron patterned like a maid outfit) near the beginning. It's Baldrick.
- Also, this troper really didn't need to see Rowan Atkinson in Elizabethan underwear in the Blackadder II episode "Money." I'm still figuring out how I feel about Percy's pink bondage gear at the very end of the same episode.
There was one House scene in Top Secret that creeped this troper out. Now, Hugh Laurie half-naked would usually be a cause for a celebration. But not this time. You want to know why? Let's see; he's on the toilet, the scar is visible and as ugly as ever, he's in tons of pain and hearing him stick the catheter tube up his, um, manly place is really quite humiliating. Did I mention that we also have to see the bag fill up with piss? Ew.
- Let's not forget the scene where Cameron practically rapes Chase while high on meth. A bit undercut by the fact that she MIGHT HAVE HIV.
Heroes - Most guys would give their right arm to see Hayden Panetierre completely naked twice in one season, so that's what we got. Except once she was dead in a morgue with her torso cut open, and another time she was horribly scarred and mutilated from radiation burns.
This troper was a bit disturbed to see Boyd shirtless in Dollhouse as his bandaged stomach only caused us to focus on his "man-boobs".
Chuck had an episode where Lester, Morgan, and Jeff are playing Wii Tennis in very short white shorts. Disturbing enough. Then Jeff takes off his shirt. Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww. Although if fat hairy forty-year-old guys are your style it might not be bad.

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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.
In the full version of Robbie Williams' "Rock DJ," Robbie takes it all off. By "all off," that includes his skin and muscle tissue.
There are plenty of bikini-clad chicks in Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker." The catch: all of them have Richard D. James' face.

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Pictured above: Rinnosuke is one of the fewer than a handful of males in the entire Touhou verse, 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 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 bound is destroyed by the brutal torture to which he's being subjected. 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.
  - Says you.
- 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.
- How about Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid 1? He's dressed in very, very sexual bondage gear, and psychically forces the main female character to seduce Snake (in The Twin Snakes, she actually tenderly strokes his crotch while doing this). He's also incredibly emaciated, and, when his mask is taken off, horribly facially mutilated.
- The Metal Gear Solid artbook contains gorgeously drawn artistic nudes of Sniper Wolf, and Solid Snake, and Psycho Mantis. It's worth observing that Mantis is the only one whose genitals are visible, and he appears to be pierced.
- Metal Gear Solid 2 - Hooray, Vamp! Hooray, glorious naked Vamp chest! Hooray, oh god do those cuts mean what I think they mean oh god Raiden get out of the way.
- Handled quite subtly in Metal Gear Solid 3, where sexy beautiful EVA is walking around in her underwear, revealing her scarred back from being sexually abused by Volgin. Probably the only time Snake actually reaches out to her instead of the other way around is when he runs two fingers along an ugly one on the small of her back, looking very guilty about what she's having to go through.
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. (Though Your Mileage May Vary. Fucking furries, etc.)
- 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, while the Abstract Daddy monsters were representative of someone else's...
- 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 (although a lot of females wouldn't be displeased at the idea of a foot long tongue).
  - This troper never got to witness the tongue, but the infamous Pyramid Head Playtime scene, and the obviously phallic choice of weaponry (A "Great Knife", then two spears, I believe) left none in doubt as to who commanded the bedroom in Silent Hill.
  - "None in doubt"? You wish. Considering that Maria is the Big Bad in at least three of the game's four non-joke endings (and possibly the fourth), and thus presumably in command of Pyramid Head, the scene near the end in which two Pyramid Heads have her strapped to a metal frame, hanging upside-down, and screaming for help while one of them impales her from behind with a giant spear was presumably her idea. And that's not even getting into Pyramid Head/Maria fanfic. Yes, it exists. WHERE IS YOUR RULE THIRTY-SIX NOW?
- The nurses were in fact so successful at this trope that they have become almost as emblematic of the series as its Dark World. They make reappearances in the fifth game and The Movie, improved graphics and incredible makeup and acting respectively increasing the disturbing factor by at least a magnitude, while an altered version in the third game replace the deformed head with blood-splattered mouths (which also happen to scream horribly when hit).
  - On the subject of Homecoming, the monster Asphyxia took this trope to over 9000 levels.
- Needless to say, in Silent Hill, anything remotely sexy will be anything but. Such as the revealing dress that Eileen wears, which exposes the numerous injuries she suffered when Walter almost beat her to death. Or the vampish Maria splayed out on a bed, dead and covered in blood. Or anything related to the obscene levels of Freud Was Right in all of the games.
Clive Barkers 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.
Clive Barkers Undying has Lizbeth walk around in a shredded white dress, which would look sexy if she wasn't a cursed undead and the sheer amount of blood staining down the front from her previous meal.
In Mega Man 9 after 5 boss battles, Roll trips and has a Panty Shot. Mega Man 9's graphics are entirely 8 bit.
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).
You would think a game where the main villain is an attractive young woman who walks around completely naked for the majority of her appearances would be pretty sweet, right? F.E.A.R. teaches you to think otherwise.
- The final battle of Project Origin involves Becket shooting it out with Keegan interspersed with the disturbing and extremly unerotic images and sounds of Alma raping Becket's body.
This is implemented on purpose in the "N Faux Mercial" cutscene of Crash: Mind over Mutant. I'd rather not stare into the dancing lights, thank you very much.
In Twilight Princess there is a shirtless scene of Link. The catch: Link is wrestling with a morbidly obese, geriatric man.
- And he's wearing another shirt underneath.
- Link-versus-Goron sumo match.
Odin Sphere has Odette, the Queen of the Underworld. Here big, bouncy set and face are pretty much the only scraps of flesh that haven't completely rotted away. And she lifts up her skirt several times...to reveal her crotch is a giant spider. Not a turn-on.
Resident Evil 5 featured Jill walking around in a black and purple spy suit. In a battle with her, she unzips the suit to reveal a strange device above her cleavage. Pulling it off leaves the flesh mangled and scarred... and rather than zip the suit back up, she leaves it all exposed for the rest of the game. Thankfully we get some regular Fan Service for her Mercenaries costume, which lowers the zipper and fixes the skin.
Subverted in The House Of The Dead EX; Zobiko, the player 2 character, is a girl dressed only in bandages and a miniskirt. She's also a zombie. A cute, friendly zombie.
Taokaka of Blazblue is a curvy, Dark Skinned Blonde catgirl wearing nothing but hooded jacket, panties, and boots. She also has a face that looks like the result of a Black Mage and Black Isz getting really drunk one night and deciding to do something they'd never speak of again. Not that this stopped everyone.

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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 squeal over those socks?
  - A normal one.
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.
Sluggy Freelance had a bikini art week that, inbetween scantily-clad beach babe Zoe and hunky Riff, has a picture of sixty-year-old, decrepit, and speedo clad Dr. Schlock.
- And later there's Kusari doing an homage to the Coppertone baby ad. It would be just plain old Fanservice, except that the dog who pulled down her pants ... well, let's just say Kusari has an itchy scythe-finger.
Whenever there is nudity in Flipside, there is about a fifty percent probability it will occur in a not at all erotic context, for example Maytag being stripped and forced into a collar by a magically-enhanced psychopath intending to rape and kill her.
Terinu has a lengthy sequence with Gwen dressed in an "Exotic Dancer Barbie" outfit. Great fun, until the very last panel where we're looking behind her and she's standing half-naked in front of two ancient aliens literally twice her size, making her appear twelve years old instead of fifteen (which would be bad enough).

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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..."in America!" 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.
AMV Hell 0 and its sequel, AMV Hell Divided by Zero, both described by their creators as "the most sick, depraved and perverted things we have ever created".

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Drawn Together does this a lot.
Raven's clothes tearing scene with Slade in the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark," which carried some seriously ugly overtones.
- A well known flash hentai artist did an H version of this scene, with the same voice acting and just new art. It works perfectly.
Batman: The Animated Series villain Baby Doll is constantly flashing her panties — in her second appearance, they even fill the screen for a moment. This would be fine—if suspect in a show aimed at under-thirteens—if she didn't have the body of a six-year-old girl.
Avatar's Lo and Li — they're twins, posing in a fanservice shot, wearing bikinis... and they're Azula's very aged advisors. Dingle-dangle-EURGH.
Superjail. Subverted slightly because the characters actually seem to like what they're looking at.
Cachorra in Isidoro becomes this to fans of the original comic strip when Adaptation Decay sets in and you realize that she is NOT supposed to be fanservice.
In AOSTH, there's many shirtless shots of Robotnik. The epitome of this trope, however, is that bikini shot in "Hero of the Year". Brain Bleach, please.
In The Oblongs Helga who is a fat ugly toad girl is always flashing her underwear.
The first episode The Boondocks features Robert 'Grandad' Freeman exercising naked to a Tae Bo commerical. It's mosaiced in the broadcast version, but not in the DVD version. Thanks, Aaron McGruder.
Futurama. Professor Farnsworth is much too fond of taking off his clothes. Bonus Squick points when he's with Mom.

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