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* Interestingly in ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', the artist doesn't seem to be purposely trying to draw White as a fanservice-y character, but the way her [[WhoWearsShortShorts? daisy dukes]] naturally accentuate her butt has readers going "DAT ASS" every time we see her from the back.

* Happens from time to time on ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', with long, slow tracking shots of Cameron's well-formed behind as she slowly, deliberately walks along.

* The Webcomic/CiemWebcomicSeries has ''plenty'' of shots of Candi looking almost BadassAdorable, and she gets naked a lot more than anyone else. By contrast, her [[SatelliteLoveInterest male counterparts]] are almost never nude, and have flat personalities most of the time. Of the hundreds of pictures in the piece, only ''one'' of them that's even remotely {{Fanservice}}-oriented constitutes EatingTheEyeCandy.
** [[DontExplainTheJoke The one right before Candi and Denny have sex in chapter 18.]]
** Unless the AttemptedRape [[http://modthesims.info/article.php?p=2444591 scene]] turns you on, in which case you may have other issues.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-uqYk4iFG0 This]] footage of TheRunaways begins with a five-second close-up of Cherie Currie's backside.

* The male gaze is a moving thing, not static. So it is most closely echoed in film and TV by panning or tilting shots along a woman's body, rather than framing one part for any length of time. One of the more original 'reveals' of the female form is in Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''RearWindow'': In GraceKelly's first shot, only her hand is seen (switching on a light IIRC), then an arm, then a bit more, etc, with her face last.

* The majority of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' consisted of butt and cleavage-shots.

* Lara Croft suffers from this in many ways in the ''TombRaider'' games; not only does she possess somewhat... exaggerated attributes in the bosom and rear end departments, but the clothes she wears (particularly in the earlier games) are designed to enhance them even further. Coupled with this is the fact that she is mostly viewed from behind during the game (partly as a necessity of the game mechanics), and it's not hard to imagine what many gamers of the male persuasion would be thinking about when playing the game.

A subtle psychological effect of this is that audiences are primed to sympathise with, or at least respect, characters if the first prominent shot of them concentrates on their face. If it shows another body part the audience is more likely to see the character as a [[HandOfDeath threat]], or an [[{{Fanservice}} object of desire]]. It isn't difficult to override this later, but the audience will usually experience it at least subconsciously as a twist.

Viewers are also invited to fully identify with male characters, while treating female characters as objects.

* In ''Film/IronMan2'' we get a lovely shot of Natasha's rear when we see her in the catsuit for the first time. We also get another gratuitous shot of it again when she fighting the bad guys and pulls out the small mines from her belt.

* The Webcomic/CiemWebcomicSeries has ''plenty'' of shots of Candi looking almost BadassAdorable, and she gets naked a lot more than anyone else. By contrast, her [[SatelliteLoveInterest male counterparts]] are almost never nude, and have flat personalities most of the time. Of the hundreds of pictures in the piece, only ''one'' of them that's even remotely FanService-oriented constitutes EatingTheEyeCandy.
** [[DontExplainTheJoke The one right before Candi and Denny have sex in chapter 18]].

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant''. The [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311 Strong Female Characters]] are horrible people in outrageously {{Stripperific}} outfits and poses who insist that because they can [[ActionGirl inflict random violence]] [[BastardGirlfriend on men]] that "sexism is over". [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=295 Sexy Batman]] is just Franchise/{{Batman}} done like a stereotypical female comic book character, making cartoonishly seductive comments towards Catwoman, PlayingToTheFetishes and constantly posed to show his butt. It's stupid, the implication being that it looks just as stupid when done to girl characters.

* ''SinCity'', Frank Miller's love letter to the pulp/noir genre. Any female characters who aren't [[BandofBrothels gun-toting self-regulating prostitutes]] tend to fall at either extreme end of the Innocent Angel-Cold-Hearted Femme Fatale spectrum, and in [[DoubleStandard striking contrast]] to Miller's diverse, interesting and strikingly designed male characters, are virtually identical from the neck down and drawn with sex appeal a forethought

* ''CharliesAngels'' (and the sequel too, naturally) featured numerous scenes which pointedly and gratuitously framed the lead actresses' rear ends. This is particularly noticeable in the numerous [[FanService fan-servicey]] scenes of various female characters dancing, stripping (don't ask) or in the slow-mo action shots where the Angels inexplicably always seem to wear tight pants or [[SpyCatsuit bodysuits]] of some sort, and high heels, regardless of whether or not they'd be convenient or comfortable or even ''safe'' to fight in. Considering it was based on a 1970s' jiggle show, though, is anybody really surprised at any of this?

* ''{{Baywatch}}''.

* When Gohan, Krillen and Bulma land on a strange spaceship in ''DragonBall Z,'' they want to go explore it. Bulma is apparently so excited to traverse the ship that she forgets to put on pants. She spends the next several episodes in her [[ThemeNaming eponymous]] underwear for no reason.

*** That's because her outfit was changed in the original dub. In the Japanese version and redub, the trope applies

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's not unusual to focus shots on the Homunculi's ouroborus tattoos. Lust's tattoo is right above her cleavage. Maes Hughes [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this one for us.

-->-- ''Franchise/MetalGear [[WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries Awesome]]''

See also FanService, JigglePhysics, {{Gainaxing}}. Not to be confused with [[QueerAsTropes Male Gays]]. Contrast LongingLook and FemaleGaze.

** Also [[PlayedForLaughs played less subtly for laughs]]. Itsuki jokes that Kyon and Haruhi are now [[AdamAndEvePlot Adam and Eve]]. Cut to a still camera shot of Haruhi walking down stairs... with the shot starting around her waist and eventually working up to her head. Less subtle indeed.

* Weird example from the ''GetBackers'' manga. Ban, Ginji, Kazuki and Juubei are taking a bath in a [[HotSpringsEpisode hot spring]]. Ban, Ginji, and Juubei generally stay submerged below the shoulders--but Kazuki, who only ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]]'' like a girl, gets some very obvious ToplessnessFromTheBack and ass-shots, to the point where Ban is kind enough to cover up his guy-parts at one point for the [[{{Shonen}} intended audience]] and tell us all how hot a girl Kazuki would be.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' does this on a regular basis. The "camera" occasionally focuses on the girls' butts for [[FanService no reason in particular]], and anytime a girl does anything active, a PantyShot is inevitable. [[ClothingDamage Even if the girl is wearing something other than a skirt]].

* Spoofed hilariously in ''ScaryMovie'', which is pertinent since horror movies are perhaps the most guilty of this trope (often in [[{{Squick}} squicky]] ways as a woman contorts her body sensually and moans orgasmically as she is dying). The movie opens with a woman (played by Carmen Electra, if memory serves) running from a psycho killer, her clothes getting ripped off by anything she runs by, and stopping to pose and flick her hair as she runs (in SloMo, no less) through a sprinkler.

* In ''[[AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'', we first see Vanessa Kensington via a slow pan up her entire body.

* The first shot of Ann-Margret in the ElvisPresley vehicle ''Viva Las Vegas'' is of her legs only, walking into a garage where Elvis and another man are under a car. The camera then tracks up her body as the men get out from under the car, and cuts to an extreme close-up of her rear end as she walks away from them.

* Milton's frequent descriptions of the beautiful, graceful Eve in ''ParadiseLost''.

* Spoofed in ''Cybill'', when the title character starred in an [[TheXFiles X-Files]] rip-off called ''Lifeforms''. The pilot episode featured countless shots of her legs and cleavage and very few of her face. This annoys her at first, but Cybill soon uses the fact that her legs are the most popular thing in the show to bully the male star and showrunner into rehiring the original creator.

** In "iSaved Your Life", Carly actually slapped Sam's butt. [[{{HeterosexualLifePartners}} Sam doesn't seem to mind though,]] and she leaves the room with a smile on her face.

* Really strong in the introduction to ''{{Xena}}'' - the camera pans up her legs as she fastens her boots, up her body, lingers on her breasts as she fastens the straps of her armor, etc. Occurred pretty frequently in the show as well, especially any that involved Xena dancing.

* In the "{{Series/Person of Interest}}": episode 'Booked Solid' Pennsylvania's secretary, Ms. May (Root, actually) enters his office wearing a tight dress. Before we see her face, the camera only shows her rather large behind.
* In the second episode of the first season of"{{Series/The Walking Dead}}", there is a shot that follows Amy while she is walking to Lori with a bucket of mushrooms. You are able to see her butt while she is walking for about 20 seconds in this scene.

** He also did a recut scene of a segment where Snake undressed an attractive male, which raises some [[HoYay awkward questions]] about the director. Especially when it's taken into account the way the games are notorious for dressing men in {{Spy Catsuit}}s and having long, lingering shots on ''their'' buttocks too, and also that the lead character ''always'' ends up [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] at some point in his adventure. VideoGame/MetalGearSolid's penultimate battle is a shirtless fistfight on top of a HumongousMecha.

* The robes for a female mage Warden in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' and the way the PC runs seem designed to draw attention to her [[HartmanHips hips]]. A romanced Alistair certainly notices: "[[DiggingYourselfDeeper No no no! I wasn't looking at... you know, her... hind-quarters.]]"

* ''{{Lineage 2}}'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsL1PjY4bhI Here's]] a gravity-defying fight scene between two BadAss female characters and also the camera likes to linger to positively lick their busts and hips for some reason.

* There is a huge amount of ass shots in ''Webcomic/BetterDays''. This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2003/06/post-19.html fairly early on]].

* Parodied and subverted in the ''{{Matrix}} Reloaded'' episode of {{Rifftrax}} where the camera settles on a clear and long shot of a woman's cleavage at a dinner table. The guys say nothing apart from Kevin going "hmm" and chuckling quietly to himself. When the shot goes to another person Mike comments "that water looked good" (referring to the woman's drink).

* Constantly spoofed and played straight with Foxxy on ''DrawnTogether'', especially when she's been soaked with liquid.

* In an episode of ''InspectorGadget'' Gadget meets his favorite actress Lana Lamore he begins to examine her with gadget goggles he noticeably stops on her breasts at one point and shouts his catchphrase "Wowzers!", even though this was a kid's show.
* ''TotalDramaIsland'' has a lot of this, but the most noticeable of these are Leshawna and Courtney. [[{{BigBeautifulWoman}} Leshawna]] gloats about her body on a somewhat regular basis, but Courtney gets a bunch of butt shots for no other reason besides {{Fanservice}}. It's especially noticeable when she does her [[TheCheerleader Cheerleader]] bit.

* ([[LesYay Probably]]) Not in a sexual manner, but Razzaroo's had many pictures involving shots of her friends asses in the first ''MyLittlePony'' special.

* In ''PrincessTutu'' there's a scene where Autor is walking behind Rue. The camera switches to show her walking from behind, then slowly pans down to gaze at her rear end and legs. The camera then switches to show Autor looking downwards with a blush on his face, then quickly glancing up when Rue turns towards him as if trying to cover up where his attention had gone.

* Also in the New52, the first issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' solo title was criticised for opening with an action scene that spent two full pages on close-up images of different parts of Selena's anatomy before bothering to show her face.

* ''{{Bayonetta}}'', though the game is rather campy already and ''very'' overt about its fanservice in the first place.

* Ty Lee in the BeachEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Plus a scene where Azula leaps right over Sokka's head as they're going through opposite ends of a crevice; it's pretty obvious what his eyes travel over. Just a coincidence? Then why does it happen in ''slow motion''?
** [[BroughtDownToBadass Because a depowered Azula just avoided a fully powered Aang and Toph]]. And being a non-bender, Sokka had to manually climb up and through a giant rock wall, so seeing Azula fly past him just as he was getting to the battle, his eyes only looked her over because she jumping over him to the other side, and his reaction, like the audience's, is suitably 'Did she just do that? Are you serious?!'

* While all pervs, the ladies and gentlemen of ThatGuyWithTheGlasses will always point this out in a disparaging way when they review something. Regarding their own {{fanservice}}, the FemaleGaze is ''much'' more common.

See also FanService, JigglePhysics, {{Gainaxing}}. Not to be confused with [[QueerAsTropes Male Gays]]. Contrast LongingLook and FemaleGaze. [[http://blip.tv/needsmoregay/needs-more-gaze-a-critical-analysis-of-hot-babes-6503949 Some analysis]] have concluced that the latter is not so different after all, however, as it is frequently more empowering to the male than actually objectifying.

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. [[MsFanservice The object of the gaze]] is later promoted to [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Major]]. Coincidence?!