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Basic Trope: A female character who provides the male viewers with eye candy.

  • Straight: Alice, who has large breasts and shapely legs, is almost always seen wearing sexy clothing.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Alice is always seen naked, even in public scenes.
    • Alice is one Shirtless Scene away from turning the entire franchise into porn.
    • Every woman in the series is heavily sexualized.
  • Downplayed: Despite being an obviously attractive woman, Alice wears clothes that only show a mild amount of skin.
  • Justified:
    • Alice is a Good Bad Girl and a Proud Beauty who sees nothing wrong with flaunting her looks.
    • Alice is either a lingerie model, performance artist, go-go dancer, nudity body double, stripper, porn actress, or prostitute.
    • Alice is a succubus who uses her appearance and sex-appeal to lure in and kill her victims.
  • Inverted:
  • Gender Inverted: Mr. Fanservice.
  • Subverted:
    • Everybody is describing Alice as the sexiest thing alive, but when we see her, she's only average-looking.
    • Alice does have a very hot body, but rarely ever wears anything revealing.
    • Alice has a very attractive body, but she's also extremely cruel and manipulative, disgusting former admirers.
  • Double Subverted: ...turns out that they confused Alice with her beautician. The real Alice walks in the room and she's absolutely stunning.
  • Parodied:
  • Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice provides a lot of fanservice for the viewers, sometimes she doesn't.
  • Averted: Alice provides no outright fanservice for the viewers.
  • Enforced: "C'mon, what's an anime without a buxom chick?"
  • Lampshaded:
  • Invoked: Alice says, "Hey, I'm the hot chick here, I'm supposed to do this."
  • Exploited: Alice utilizes her hot bod to distract the pervy Big Bad so her teammates can progress their plans forward.
  • Defied: "Oh no, I am NOT dressing like a stripper for you sick, sick people!"
  • Discussed: "If this was all fiction, Alice would be Ms. Fanservice."
  • Conversed: "Have you guys ever noticed that Alice is always wearing nothing but lingerie in public places?"
  • Deconstructed:
    • Reluctant Fanservice Girl
    • Alice eventually gets sick of all the men hitting on her, so she starts covering up more skin and lashes out at every man who so much at ogles at her. This eventually leads to her not finding a true soulmate and she goes into depression.
  • Reconstructed: Bob comes along and makes it clear that while he cannot avoid being attracted to Alice and Eating the Eye Candy, it doesn't prevent him from respecting her boundaries and seeing her as a person. This gets Alice out of her funk, who proceeds to embrace her sex appeal and uses it to her own ends on her own accord, benevolent or not, with the knowledge that not all men are sexist pigs who only see women as objects.
  • Played for Drama:
    • Even though Alice, a shapely young woman, always wears a sexy outfit which reveals and enhances much of her figure, she's forced to wear it by her sexist father Charlie, who unfairly wants her to show-off her body. It is a constant source of angst for Alice, partly because of her constant body issues, but mostly because she hates being sexualized. She lives in constant fear of sexual harassment, which actually does happen a lot due to the heavy temptations. Eventually, she starts wearing more conservative clothing, against what Charlie tells her to wear, and lashes out at every man who ogles at her.
    • Alice is immensely attractive and has a great body. However, her personality is harsh, aloof, and...just a bit odd making it difficult for many men to take the chance to flirt with her.

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