Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

More Tropes More Dakka Getting Crap Past the Radar Tempting Fate Jerk with a Heart of Gold Madness Mantra Crazy-Prepared Cat Scare Smoking Is Cool Mama Bear Dirty Coward The Dragon Faux Affably Evil Fat Bastard Unreliable Narrator Country Matters It's Personal Martial Arts Movie Sealed Evil in a Can Adaptation Distillation Dogged Nice Guy Super Strength Anguished Declaration of Love Big Brother Instinct Distracted by the Sexy German Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Early Installment Weirdness Hero Antagonist Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hollywood Law Continuity Nod Irony Morality Pet Fanservice Extra Pimped-Out Dress Star-Crossed Lovers Disappeared Dad Bland-Name Product Unresolved Sexual Tension Woman in White Pragmatic Villainy Easily Forgiven Death by Sex Nothing Is Scarier Skewed Priorities Laughing Mad Twist Ending Wicked Cultured The Chessmaster Dissonant Serenity Protagonist Title Gold Digger Important Haircut Bavarian Fire Drill Never Found the Body Attempted Rape Badass Boast BFG Your Head A-Splode Sequel Escalation Broken Aesop Abusive Parents Brother–Sister Incest Aside Glance Bloody Hilarious Costume Porn Every Car Is a Pinto Badass Longcoat Eldritch Abomination Composite Character Eiffel Tower Effect The Film of the Book Suspiciously Similar Substitute Unusual Euphemism Psychological Thriller Science Fiction Films Closed Circle Re-Cut Crapsack World Red Herring Deconstruction Creative Closing Credits Rated M for Manly And I Must Scream You Killed My Father Bare Your Midriff La Résistance Animal Motifs Punch-Clock Villain Leave the Camera Running Becoming the Mask Off-into-the-Distance Ending Pre-Mortem One-Liner Celebrity Paradox Precision F-Strike In Name Only The Dog Bites Back Amusing Injuries Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Not Quite Dead Meaningful Echo Black Best Friend Obviously Evil Chekhov's Gunman Bring My Brown Pants Ripped from the Headlines Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Parental Neglect War Is Hell It's All About Me Leaning on the Fourth Wall I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Parental Abandonment Maybe Ever After Kill It with Fire Does This Remind You of Anything? Disney Death Worthy Opponent Ominous Latin Chanting '80s Hair Arch-Enemy Apocalypse How Mythology Gag Training Montage Hollywood Darkness Fire-Forged Friends Creepy Child Not Even Bothering with the Accent Heterosexual Life-Partners Serious Business Evil Brit Names to Run Away from Really Fast Calling the Old Man Out Bar Brawl Sir Swears-a-Lot Left the Background Music On Belligerent Sexual Tension Scenery Porn Those Two Guys Badass in a Nice Suit Action Girl Villain Protagonist Sinister Minister NO INDOOR VOICE All There in the Manual Drill Sergeant Nasty Gone Horribly Right Shown Their Work Adaptational Heroism One-Man Army She's Got Legs Death Glare As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Ditz Eureka Moment Fainting The Oner Crucified Hero Shot Tranquil Fury Dull Surprise Redemption Equals Death Sacrificial Lion From Nobody to Nightmare Last-Name Basis No Celebrities Were Harmed Final Girl Dutch Angle Word of God Homage Bolivian Army Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Death of a Child Have a Gay Old Time Half the Man He Used to Be Biopic "Awesome McCool" Name An Axe to Grind Bilingual Bonus Mr. Exposition Gratuitous English The Alcoholic Affectionate Parody Hope Spot The Dreaded Cool Old Lady Blood Knight No-Sell Comically Missing the Point Crazy Jealous Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Loophole Abuse Never My Fault Improbable Weapon User Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Double Entendre Trailers Always Spoil Historical-Domain Character Gory Discretion Shot Reality Ensues Evil Plan Alas, Poor Villain The Starscream Beta Couple Rule of Funny Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Animal Title Index Christmas Movies Index Here We Go Again! B-Movie MacGuffin Evil Is Petty Corrupt Corporate Executive Reality Is Unrealistic Beard of Evil Failed a Spot Check The Un-Reveal Let's Get Dangerous! Jerk Jock Hoist by His Own Petard Bad Boss Film Series Translation Convention Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chekhov's Skill Meaningful Background Event Improbable Aiming Skills Villainous Breakdown Action Survivor Red Oni, Blue Oni Documentary In Medias Res Nice Hat Mooks Badass Grandpa Scenery Gorn The Casanova Manly Tears Artistic License – Military Fanservice Make It Look Like an Accident The Cameo There Is No Kill Like Overkill Wham Line folderlabel Psycho for Hire Historical In-Joke One-Word Title And the Adventure Continues The '60s Neck Lift Leitmotif Badass Bookworm Missing Mom Parental Substitute Totally Radical Sole Survivor Deal with the Devil Take That! Amoral Attorney Stealth Hi/Bye Jerkass Has a Point Babies Ever After Sassy Black Woman Malevolent Masked Men The Smurfette Principle It Will Never Catch On Driven to Suicide Only One Name Fingore Ms. Fanservice Red Right Hand Manchild Faking the Dead A Minor Kidroduction Call-Forward Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Guns Akimbo Fourth Date Marriage Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Artistic License – Geography Pretty in Mink Dirty Cop Accidental Murder Beware the Nice Ones Posthumous Character Cool Old Guy Retirony Bowdlerise All Men Are Perverts Really Gets Around Drugs Are Bad Butt-Monkey Overprotective Dad I Did What I Had to Do Anachronism Stew Needs Wiki Magic Love Ax-Crazy Actually Pretty Funny Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Manipulative Bastard A Date with Rosie Palms Disproportionate Retribution Friend to All Children Not So Stoic Spanner in the Works Spiteful Spit Politically Incorrect Villain Naked People Are Funny The Remake Psychopathic Manchild I Have Your Wife Brutal Honesty The Vamp Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Faceless Historical Villain Upgrade Bunny-Ears Lawyer Camp Gay Asshole Victim Cassandra Truth Narrator Card-Carrying Villain Bait-and-Switch The Quiet One My Greatest Failure Brick Joke Award-Bait Song All Just a Dream She Cleans Up Nicely Darker and Edgier Affably Evil Spiritual Successor Older Than They Look Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Epic Fail Dirty Old Man Small Name, Big Ego Determinator aka: The Determinator Revenge Fake Shemp The Big Guy Black and Gray Morality Would Hit a Girl What Happened to the Mouse? In the Back Hooker with a Heart of Gold Rule of Cool Rule of Symbolism Market-Based Title Motor Mouth The Stinger Lock and Load Montage Paper-Thin Disguise Take a Third Option Lampshade Hanging Knight Templar Stepford Smiler The '90s Implacable Man Contrived Coincidence Pretty Little Headshots Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Knife Nut Curb-Stomp Battle No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Bully Token Minority Imagine Spot Informed Ability Plucky Comic Relief Only Known by Their Nickname French Films Eyepatch of Power Alliterative Name Big-Bad Ensemble Instant Death Bullet Eagleland Animated Credits Opening Femme Fatale Abhorrent Admirer Russian Films Deliberate Values Dissonance Retired Badass Fatal Flaw Broken Bird The Alleged Car Adorkable Wounded Gazelle Gambit Monumental Damage Scary Black Man Did Not Get the Girl Foil Ambiguous Disorder Artistic License – Law Running Gag Dramatic Gun Cock Historical Hero Upgrade Adults Are Useless Canon Foreigner Our Zombies Are Different Drives Like Crazy Bottomless Magazines Cool Guns Horror Comedy Mystery and Detective Films Offscreen Teleportation Stealth Pun My God, What Have I Done? Defiant to the End Slashed Throat Expy Air-Vent Passageway Dark Reprise 20 Minutes into the Future Foregone Conclusion O.O.C. Is Serious Business Victoria's Secret Compartment Off with His Head! Novelization Visual Pun Handicapped Badass Straight Gay Vampire Fiction Reasonable Authority Figure Dumb Blonde Flipping the Bird Artistic License – Biology The Sociopath Even Evil Has Loved Ones Aluminum Christmas Trees He Knows Too Much For Want of a Nail Gilligan Cut The Hero Dies Cluster F-Bomb Interrupted Suicide Silence Is Golden Rousing Speech Extreme Doormat Expository Hairstyle Change Destination Defenestration Only a Flesh Wound The Lost Lenore Bound and Gagged Silent Movie Up to Eleven Get Out! I Need a Freaking Drink Storming the Castle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Bad Guy Wins Hypocrite Cruel and Unusual Death Jitter Cam Grievous Bottley Harm Our Vampires Are Different Mundane Made Awesome Big Eater Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mercy Kill Mr. Fanservice Hypocritical Humor Shirtless Scene Face Death with Dignity Brainless Beauty Male Gaze Jump Scare Peek-a-Boo Corpse Cat Fight "Shaggy Dog" Story Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies What You Are in the Dark Bury Your Gays Dramatic Irony Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Author Avatar Thriller Pyrrhic Victory No Ending Made of Iron The Lancer Obstructive Bureaucrat Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Musical Love at First Sight The Reveal Fate Worse than Death Only in It for the Money Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Italian Films Bittersweet Ending Sci-Fi Horror Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Put on a Bus Breaking the Fourth Wall Smug Snake Reckless Gun Usage A God Am I The Place Cool Car World of Ham Those Two Bad Guys Adaptational Attractiveness Captain Obvious Sports Stories Whole Plot Reference Enemy Mine Blackmail Television Movie Index Room Full of Crazy Villain Song Blood from the Mouth Extremely Short Timespan Four-Temperament Ensemble Title Drop N-Word Privileges Unspoken Plan Guarantee Good Is Not Nice Time Skip Immune to Bullets Say My Name Pay Evil unto Evil Dark and Troubled Past Evil Counterpart No OSHA Compliance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Wrong Genre Savvy The Stoner Hong Kong Films Overly Long Gag What the Hell, Hero? Henpecked Husband Shower Scene Establishing Character Moment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Be Careful What You Wish For Chekhov's Gun Bond One-Liner Serial Killer Fantasy Films Playing Gertrude Horror Films Empathic Environment Rich Bitch Mind Screw Evil Sounds Deep Big Damn Heroes Deliberately Monochrome Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Poor Communication Kills Adapted Out Depraved Bisexual Bullying a Dragon Those Wacky Nazis Recycled IN SPACE! Riddle for the Ages Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Due to the Dead Moment Killer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Chase Scene Film Noir Bloodless Carnage Shoot the Shaggy Dog Downer Ending Man on Fire Parental Incest Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking He Who Fights Monsters Hair-Trigger Temper Obfuscating Stupidity Artistic License – Gun Safety Your Cheating Heart Armor-Piercing Question Five-Man Band Rewatch Bonus Dwindling Party Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Roaring Rampage of Revenge Children Are Innocent Major Injury Underreaction Drowning My Sorrows Cain and Abel Adult Fear Even Evil Has Standards Bald of Evil Insult Backfire Male Frontal Nudity Disguised in Drag All for Nothing For the Evulz Batman Gambit Badass Normal Chiaroscuro Police are Useless Ass Shove Index of Film Westerns Evil vs. Evil Black Dude Dies First Refuge in Audacity Took a Level in Jerkass Black Comedy Villain Ball Properly Paranoid Kick the Dog Grey and Gray Morality Ambiguous Ending Gender Flip Frame-Up Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adaptation Expansion Body Horror Death by Adaptation The Ace Adaptational Badass Action Genre Villain Opening Scene Shipper on Deck Red Shirt Blatant Lies Hero of Another Story Alpha Bitch Damsel in Distress Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Setting Update Covers Always Lie The '80s Vomit Indiscretion Shot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Actor Allusion True Companions Mistaken for Gay Laser-Guided Karma Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Character Development Mood Whiplash Evil-Detecting Dog Defrosting Ice Queen Ascended Extra Spared by the Adaptation Advertised Extra Intrepid Reporter Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Vacation Films Soft Glass Romantic Comedy Almost Kiss Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Power of Love Dies Wide Open Agony of the Feet Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Department of Redundancy Department Death Seeker Logo Joke Fatal Family Photo Boom, Headshot! Non-Indicative Name Berserk Button Suddenly SHOUTING! All There in the Script Reality Has No Subtitles After the End Mighty Whitey Age Lift Anti-Villain As Himself An Aesop Kill 'em All Despair Event Horizon Too Dumb to Live Fiery Redhead Shut Up, Hannibal! Ship Tease Big Fancy House Fantastic Racism Slap-Slap-Kiss Military and Warfare Films Police Brutality Beauty Is Never Tarnished Central Theme Cloudcuckoolander The Hero Broken Pedestal Humiliation Conga Heel Realization Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – Physics Conspicuous CG Canadian Movies Evil Laugh Guile Hero Captain Ersatz The End... Or Is It? Slasher Movie Hell Is That Noise Ironic Echo Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Stock Footage Shell-Shocked Veteran Sanity Slippage Show Within a Show Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Break the Haughty Big Bad Race Against the Clock Idiot Ball I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Tagline Plot Hole Demonic Possession As the Good Book Says... British Films Domestic Abuse No Name Given Exactly What It Says on the Tin And Starring Green-Eyed Monster Famous Last Words Curse Cut Short Coming-of-Age Story Back from the Dead This Is Gonna Suck Betty and Veronica Karma Houdini The '70s Evil Is Hammy A Father to His Men Book-Ends Chewing the Scenery Undying Loyalty Zombie Stories Genre Throwback The Stoic May–December Romance Real Life Writes the Plot Bad "Bad Acting" Superhero Genre Shift Didn't Think This Through Shout-Out Video Credits Rape as Drama Dying Moment of Awesome Dramedy Punny Name Double-Meaning Title Oh, Crap! Insistent Terminology Kubrick Stare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Same Language Dub Not Using the "Z" Word Credits Gag Sexy Discretion Shot Adaptational Villainy Car Fu Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Better to Die than Be Killed Greater-Scope Villain "The Reason You Suck" Speech Catapult Nightmare Rule of Three Daylight Horror The Mafia Bloodier and Gorier Honor Before Reason Funny Foreigner Married to the Job The Ghost Dressing as the Enemy Fun with Acronyms Based on a True Story Everyone Has Standards Japanese Films The Great Depression The Mole Darkest Hour Wretched Hive As You Know Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Diabolus ex Machina Face–Heel Turn Catch-Phrase "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Determinator Australian Movies The Smart Guy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Casting Gag Authority Equals Asskicking No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Epic Movie Took a Level in Badass Demoted to Extra Never Trust a Trailer Daddy's Girl Not So Above It All Line-of-Sight Name Tap on the Head Vomit Discretion Shot Accidental Misnaming Cool Shades Music Stories Bi the Way Cowboy Cop Humans Are Bastards Exact Words Creator Cameo How We Got Here Neck Snap Public Domain Feature Films Woman Scorned Wham Shot Karmic Death Big Applesauce Vitriolic Best Buds Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fish out of Water Corpsing Black Comedy Rape Groin Attack Manic Pixie Dream Girl Villain with Good Publicity Not So Different Danny Peary Cult Movies List Match Cut Does Not Like Shoes Spell My Name with an "S" Redshirt Army The Brute Heroic Sacrifice Flashback Dual Wielding Ungrateful Bastard Improvised Weapon Outrun the Fireball Self-Deprecation Arranged Marriage "Well Done, Son!" Guy Killed Mid-Sentence Break the Cutie Happily Married Nice Guy Works Set in World War II Eye Scream From Bad to Worse Once More, with Clarity! Heroic BSoD One Steve Limit Only Sane Man Kick the Son of a Bitch Big "NO!" Fan Disservice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Intergenerational Friendship Stylistic Suck Truth in Television Unusually Uninteresting Sight All Girls Want Bad Boys Gorn Freeze-Frame Bonus timeperiod The '50s Dark Is Not Evil Mugging the Monster Yandere Anti-Hero Ambiguously Gay Author Appeal Funny Background Event Annoying Younger Sibling Framing Device Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Hate Sink Unwitting Instigator of Doom An Arm and a Leg The Load Love Triangle Red Eyes, Take Warning Big Bad Duumvirate Earn Your Happy Ending Jerkass Ghost Fiction You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Disney Villain Death Developing Doomed Characters Insane Troll Logic Not What It Looks Like Lighter and Softer Mexican Standoff You Have Failed Me No Antagonist Arc Words Decoy Protagonist Call-Back Antagonist Title It Can Think Gainax Ending Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anyone Can Die Dropped a Bridge on Him Early-Bird Cameo Combat Pragmatist Pet the Dog Suspiciously Specific Denial The Atoner My Beloved Smother Cold-Blooded Torture Action Prologue Adaptation Dye-Job Heroes Want Redheads Naïve Newcomer Adaptation Name Change Foreshadowing Awesome, but Impractical Kids Are Cruel The Cavalry The Voiceless Scare Chord Mad Scientist Together in Death Heel–Face Turn Facial Horror Artistic License – History Rasputinian Death Genre Savvy Meaningful Name Pragmatic Adaptation Made of Explodium Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Soundtrack Dissonance Meet Cute Deus ex Machina Anachronic Order Bond Villain Stupidity I'm a Humanitarian Retcon Large Ham Stuff Blowing Up Men Are the Expendable Gender Camera Abuse Random Events Plot Romantic False Lead Dark Action Girl Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Taking You with Me Papa Wolf Slasher Smile Sequel Hook Very Loosely Based on a True Story Would Hurt a Child Film Noir Index Toplessness from the Back Hidden Depths Deadpan Snarker Race Lift Freudian Excuse Light Is Not Good Stalker with a Crush Noodle Incident Death by Irony Product Placement Auto Erotica The Chick Sadistic Choice The X of Y Taking the Bullet Real Life