The Fanservice Topic

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The Fanservice Topic

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And by fanservice I explictely mean the non sexual version of it.

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So it isn't this (For Jeff: Picture of Lucoa from Dragon Maid)

Something like this, something a fan of a series can appreciate if it makes a reference to an older work of it. I don't explicitely mean video games, so let's talk about anything that has a nice call back to an earlier piece.

Edit: Thanks to fox's edit the image is now even more fitting than it was before.
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I think a discussion including, or even specifically about, the sexual kind of fanservice would probably generate more conversation.

It's really hard to determine what's fanservice and what's just a nod to a previous series, or even a coincidence. I can't really think of anything besides the example you gave that made me go "Wow, that's clever and not at all on the nose and living in the past". I guess Green Hill Zone in SA2/SA2B would be the only other notable example?
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@Nova
I agree, but I really regret the last time I made a topic in that nature.
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Eboy why'd you have to link to TV Tropes. I have like fifty tabs opened now.
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Assuming I'm understanding the exact qualifications for this...

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Marv is great at this.
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You probably aren't. i don't see how this "Marv" character makes references to other series or past entries in the Custom Robo series at all.
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He's in every game, one way or another.
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MOTHER 3 SPOILERS (eh it's been over a decade but whatever): The 100th Floor of the Empire Porky Building
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chaoadventures wrote:He's in every game, one way or another.
That's still not fanservice.
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The fact he also mentioned they don't make "Giant Can" Robos anymore, and consistently uses the same general type of Robo?

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You see, "Giant Cans" don't exist in the slightest in Custom Robo Battle Revolution. The guy doesn't show up saying like "they don't make these anymore, prepare
to be destroyed, nyah". He doesn't even use them. (They also don't appear to be called that in the US games, but that's another story)
At the time of release, one would have to play through a previous game to understand this.

Would this be considered a Call Back? Apparently, yes. Would everything else in this topic be considered such? By the logic I've been given, also yes.

The inclusion of Cut Man and Green Hill could be swapped out with anything really, and just be considered a regular old extra.

Is Green Hill what only the series fans would enjoy? No, not really.

Cut Man? The fact he's a sprite is weird, but other than that... what does he have?

(can't say anything about mother 3, haven't played it and don't intend to for multiple reasons, but i assume so)

What merges the 3 of these together is the fact that they all are very important to understanding what's happening, but are EASILY replaced by others.

Basically I'm saying, this topic isn't talking about anything in the slightest. Am I wrong? Perhaps. But the first post has "call back" in it and I've personally found the
other posts in this topic to be just as off as mine.

Just remember kids, a quote pyramid can be stopped by a mod, but a (technically on-topic) reply column is forever.

Feel free to destroy this post edit, as you most likely wish to burn it in a fire, as you do with everything I make, either by picking at the small parts or the big ones, I'd lose the argument whether
or not I'm correct, why bother?
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Fan service is servicing fans. Making references to things only older fans will get. Joking about previously removed and notorious bugs/exploits/glitches.

Not just mentioning old game things.
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well sorry for not specifying "joke"

That and a new player literally won't know what a Giant Can is.
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New players being uninformed doesn't determine whether or not something is fanservice.
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that is literally all you specified
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Sorry I even bothered trying to correct you then. And sorry to Triert that this whole """"thing"""" took up most of the first page of the topic.
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Basically this whole portion of persona 4
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I'm sorry Ivo, I know we are both two fish in a bowl about huge honkers, two kindered souls about badonkers, enthusiasts of large dobonhonkeros. Lovers of
dohoonkabhankoloos, appreciators of tonhongerekoogers, priests of the pairs of bonkhonagahoogs the world of 2d has to offer, dare I say the most vocal here of our dedication to the hungolomghnonoloughongous's.

But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping to disappoint you in this exact way.

Also Adventures, what you mention would be more akin to say, Cid from final fantasy showing up a lot in games. It's only fair you made a mistake since the exact purpose of this topic is narrow and one I expected people to have trouble with and hoped my explanation would suffice. Eboy definitely helped with the tvtrope link!

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