Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

A sultry, highly attractive, but rather manipulative woman. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Crazy Jealous Guy Even Evil Has Standards Mr. Fanservice Adaptational Badass The X of Y Adaptational Heroism Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big Eater My Greatest Failure The Hero Shout-Out French Films Becoming the Mask Mind Screw Broken Bird Light Is Not Good Attempted Rape The Sociopath Pimped-Out Dress The Stoic The Alcoholic German Films Camp Gay Unreliable Narrator Kill It with Fire Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Artistic License – History O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hooker with a Heart of Gold Cool Guns Japanese Films Award-Bait Song Our Zombies Are Different Off-into-the-Distance Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Rousing Speech Off with His Head! Visual Pun Say My Name Wicked Cultured Older Than They Look Green-Eyed Monster Guile Hero Damsel in Distress Genre Savvy Decoy Protagonist Amoral Attorney Bloody Hilarious Jump Scare Foregone Conclusion Fingore Artistic License – Biology What You Are in the Dark Auto Erotica Motor Mouth Australian Movies Rape as Drama You Killed My Father Shirtless Scene Easily Forgiven Sacrificial Lion Very Loosely Based on a True Story Eyepatch of Power Credits Gag As the Good Book Says... 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Early-Bird Cameo Deal with the Devil Alpha Bitch The Ditz Brainless Beauty Reality Has No Subtitles Arch-Enemy Facial Horror Music Stories Tagline Driven to Suicide Not Quite Dead Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dark Is Not Evil Badass Grandpa Antagonist Title Major Injury Underreaction Intergenerational Friendship Not What It Looks Like Body Horror Trailers Always Spoil Creepy Child The Chick What Happened to the Mouse? Our Vampires Are Different Monumental Damage Eldritch Abomination For Want of a Nail Mama Bear Parental Substitute Author Appeal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness True Companions Kubrick Stare Those Wacky Nazis Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Boom, Headshot! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Christmas Movies Index Unresolved Sexual Tension Early Installment Weirdness Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bilingual Bonus Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fish out of Water Setting Update Coming-of-Age Story Interrupted Suicide No Name Given Psycho for Hire Here We Go Again! Disguised in Drag War Is Hell No Celebrities Were Harmed Face–Heel Turn And I Must Scream The Un-Reveal Stylistic Suck Instant Death Bullet Badass Normal Flipping the Bird Ambiguous Ending Worthy Opponent Covers Always Lie "Where Are They Now?" 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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Affectionate Parody The Great Depression Stock Footage Maybe Ever After Spell My Name with an "S" Bring My Brown Pants Didn't Think This Through Gratuitous English Air-Vent Passageway As You Know A Father to His Men Posthumous Character Villain Protagonist Black Best Friend Race Lift Rated M for Manly Lighter and Softer Anachronic Order Italian Films Scenery Gorn Punch-Clock Villain Together in Death Mugging the Monster Mighty Whitey Dropped a Bridge on Him I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Betty and Veronica Red Eyes, Take Warning "Awesome McCool" Name Alliterative Name Offscreen Moment of Awesome I Need a Freaking Drink Fat Bastard The Film of the Book Big Bad Rich Bitch Dwindling Party Dark and Troubled Past Rule of Three Bar Brawl Freudian Excuse Unwitting Instigator of Doom It's All About Me Storming the Castle The Smart Guy Big Damn Heroes Character Development Random Events Plot Jitter Cam Military and Warfare Films Big "NO!" Hong Kong Films Beard of Evil Sir Swears-a-Lot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Skewed Priorities Narrator Thriller Same Language Dub Oh, Crap! The End... Or Is It? The Mole Big Fancy House Exactly What It Says on the Tin Star-Crossed Lovers Cain and Abel Depraved Bisexual Retcon Serious Business Artistic License – Gun Safety Pretty in Mink Actually Pretty Funny Took a Level in Jerkass Brother–Sister Incest Take a Third Option Genre Throwback Yandere Neck Snap A Date with Rosie Palms It Will Never Catch On Precision F-Strike Cloudcuckoolander Knight Templar Faux Affably Evil Wham Line Shoot the Shaggy Dog Small Name, Big Ego One-Man Army Blood from the Mouth Disney Death British Films Drives Like Crazy Only Sane Man Bad "Bad Acting" 20 Minutes into the Future Armor-Piercing Question Call-Forward Extreme Doormat A.I. Is a Crapshoot Made of Explodium For the Evulz Canadian Movies Silence Is Golden Sealed Evil in a Can Idiot Ball Card-Carrying Villain Really Gets Around Evil Plan Meaningful Echo Due to the Dead Blatant Lies Combat Pragmatist Death by Irony Non-Indicative Name Poor Communication Kills Kick the Son of a Bitch Hell Is That Noise Improbable Weapon User Spiteful Spit Bare Your Midriff Chase Scene Psychological Thriller No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Slashed Throat Soundtrack Dissonance Death Glare Loads and Loads of Characters Actor Allusion Darkest Hour Those Two Bad Guys Would Hurt a Child Only in It for the Money Half the Man He Used to Be Freeze-Frame Bonus Vomit Discretion Shot Kick the Dog Hollywood Law Gone Horribly Right The Casanova Eureka Moment Bond Villain Stupidity Diabolus ex Machina Title Drop Aluminum Christmas Trees Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Villain Song The Ace Bury Your Gays The Faceless Flashback Intrepid Reporter Martial Arts Movie The Brute Hope Spot Epic Fail Suspiciously Specific Denial Male Gaze Heterosexual Life-Partners My God, What Have I Done? Slap-Slap-Kiss An Axe to Grind Femme Fatale Never Found the Body Ambiguously Gay A Minor Kidroduction Disproportionate Retribution Dumb Blonde Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Does This Remind You of Anything? Costume Porn She's Got Legs Department of Redundancy Department Humiliation Conga Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Evil Brit Reasonable Authority Figure Adorkable Anguished Declaration of Love Adult Fear Sassy Black Woman Heel–Face Turn Made of Iron Ambiguous Disorder Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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