"Go for the sexy beast, she told me. If you’re going to shell out the money, don’t settle."
Examples of Ms. Fanservice in literature.- Agent to the Stars: Tea Reader is a semi-popular singer, represented by Tom, and it's said that nearly half of the revenue from her albums comes from teenage boys buying them just for the cover picture of her doing a Sexy Surfacing Shot out of a pool.
- Bazil Broketail: Alsebra, In-Universe; it's mentioned that all the male dragons in her squad (sans Bazil) have a slight crush on her, and at one point, Purple-Green claims that sometimes he regrets she is a female while he's observing her athletic body. Too bad Alsebra, like other freemartin dragonesses, is infertile.
- The Change Room: Shar's very beautiful, with her breasts, buttocks and legs described at length. Further, she's the most open and unabashed of the characters about her sexuality. She and Eliza have several explicit sex scenes, which mostly focus on describing Shar since they're from Eliza's perspective.
- Bêlit from Conan the Barbarian is described as formed like a goddess, both lithe and voluptuous at once, and she performs a Mating Dance in front of Conan, which leads to them having sex right there in front of her crew no less.
- The Dresden Files has quite a few, usually of the "supernaturally beautiful" kind, such as Lara Raith, and Queen Mab. There's also his eventual apprentice Molly Carpenter, who grows into someone 'built like a brickhouse' or like a Valkyrie, curves and all. Part of the reason for this is that the POV is Harry Dresden himself and he's got a pretty awful track record for keeping his head around women. The focus on how attractive all the women around him are goes down noticeably during the books where he's in a relationship, and short stories from other characters perspectives mostly avoid all the Male Gaze usually going on in the main series.
- The Elenium has Elysoun, who plays this trope straight and for laughs too. Due to belonging to a free-love culture, she has no nudity taboo and tends to wanders around practically naked, which causes some amusing moments like in a banquet where all other guests can't take their eyes off her. She also hits on some knights a lot, but her husband has no issue with her offering herself to other men on the bed.
- The Hunger Games: In-Universe, this is Glimmer's entire gimmick for getting sponsors. There is a bit of Fridge Horror to this. Given what happens to the more attractive victors of the Hunger Games, and that Glimmer's prep team and mentor probably knew this, any of her sponsors could have an ulterior motive for helping Glimmer win the games.
- Amy Sedaris' book I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence; admit it, you bought it for the pictures.
- Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress #1): Cat calls Bones's spy Francesca "without a doubt the most gorgeous female I had ever seen. In person or on television." She spends a full paragraph describing Francesca's impossibly voluptuous figure and the extremely tight and minimalist dress she is wearing.
- Any female character Robert A. Heinlein ever wrote is the embodiment of this trope. In I Will Fear No Evil, he even creates a future fashion trend that involves high heels, translucent skirts, body paint, and nothing else.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars has Dejah Thoris, and any red-skinned Barsoomian woman who wear jewelry and not much else, and it usually doesn't conceal anything. In general, the Barsoomians of most races, male or female, wear the bare minimum of clothing necessary to hang weapons, tools, or ornaments from, and not a stitch more. The exceptions are the Therns (who at least sometimes wear ceremonial robes) and the Okar (who bundle up with heavy furs when traveling in their arctic domain, though they tend to strip down like everyone else when inside their climate-controlled cities). Basically, it's a whole planet of fanservice.
- Jurassic Park: Dr. Ellie Sattler is frequently decked out in short cut-offs and midriff-bearing tops. Lampshaded when Gennaro offers to stay with Ellie and Harding when they stop to investigate the sick Stegosaurus on the tour.Malcolm: Why would our dear lawyer stay behind?
Grant: Probably because of Dr. Sattler.
Malcolm: Hmm. The shorts, you think?
Grant: It's happened before. - The Kingkiller Chronicle: Fela has a Hot Librarian look and various characters comment on her curvaceous figure and buxom chest. In The Name of the Wind Kvothe also discovers she Sleeps in the Nude when he calls upon her in her dorm room late one night, only for her to drowsily answers the door while holding a Modesty Bedsheet that's barely covering her. He struggles with the urge to gawk openly.
- Mercy Thompson, has the titular protagonist herself. Granted, the covers may exaggerate her appearance a bit and she (and only herself) denies that she's beautiful; it's clear she fits this. She is frequently naked due to Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing and is often stripping off her clothes numerous times. It helps that she's fine being naked, as long as the people around her don't get the wrong idea. Mercy was even considered the pack's eye candy by a television crew trying to film her in Silver Bourne.
- Invoked in Poster Girl were the protagonist Sonya Kantor was deliberatley chosen by the regime as their titular Poster Girl because of her good looks.
- A Song of Ice and Fire has Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen and Arianne Martell who are all remarkedly beautiful women with numerous sex scenes and have their bodies and nudity described in great detail. Seriously, George, were all those sex scenes really necessary to the plot?
- Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Aside from being based on an actual lover of the writer's, she is described as having "curves like a racing yacht." Yow. Sail, ho!
- Tales of the Pack: Archer is lovingly described as an Amazonian Beauty while she and Lexie have sex.
- The Teresa Knight Trilogy: Teresa is described as beautiful, and constantly has explicit sex scenes.
- Time Scout: Margo loves tight clothes, has large breasts, and there are a couple of scattered moments that accentuate her sexiness with either comments or inner monologue from other people.
- Trapped on Draconica: Zarracka's first outfit is a low-cut dress. Her second is a Chainmail Bikini. This lampshaded by many people:
- Herself in the Eastern Alliance Arc where she notes that Taurok is the only man who doesn't want her to take her dress off due to the desert heat.
- Gothon in the final arc, who says that his empire is 'not a cat house'.
- Ben in the bonus art with a picture of Zarracka in said low-cut dress.
- Venus Prime: Sparta abandons her clothes and spends the rest of the fifth book swimming nude around the world-ship.
- We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Shirley the receptionist is a blonde and decently articulated woman who showcases her bare and ample breasts that bounce around at work.
- The Wheel of Time: Several Aielwomen have filled this role on occasion, from Aviendha messing with Rand by undressing in front of him at every opportunity to Sevanna habitually wearing her blouse undone enough that it would qualify her for Navel-Deep Neckline if she wore fewer necklaces.
- Xanadu (Storyverse): In-Universe, Hannah describes the news hosts who interview her after she returns to her hometown as "a perky blonde in a red dress with lots of cleavage [and] a perky brunette in a black dress with even more cleavage", implicitly as an example of the common news station ploy of hiring attractive women as anchors to entice people into watching.
- Xanth: The Demoness Metria is a shapeshifting Femme Fatale who enjoys using her powers to be the most beatiful woman in the room, as well as tempting others to get what she wants.
- Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: Design's body was made to specification by Hoid, combined with the fact that she doesn't really understand shame, so she doesn't know that she shouldn't let people stare at her.Design: Make me pretty so they'll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosign. And also because boobs look fun.
- Zero Sight: Rei Acerba Bathory is a Proud Beauty with Raven Hair, Ivory Skin that doesn't wear bras and is frequently out her clothes, without any regard for modesty, enjoying doing scandalous things such as going Skinny Dipping at the academy pool. Dieter experiences this side of her shortly after their meeting her and Fainting after a bloody fight; he wakes up to find himself in a shower, with Rei casually showering in a stall right beside him, having finished undressing and washing him herself. His mind short circuits between staring at her bare back and worrying about the fact she likely just gave him a sponge bath.
