Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

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Broken Aesop Belligerent Sexual Tension From Nobody to Nightmare Affably Evil Flashback Blood from the Mouth Hair-Trigger Temper Badass Bookworm Arranged Marriage Beta Couple Ambiguous Disorder Intrepid Reporter Dirty Old Man No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Plan Television Movie Index There Is No Kill Like Overkill Damsel in Distress Almost Kiss Depraved Bisexual Married to the Job Important Haircut Last-Name Basis Random Events Plot Historical In-Joke Ripped from the Headlines Humans Are Bastards Agony of the Feet Historical Villain Upgrade Abhorrent Admirer Domestic Abuse Dark Is Not Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Camp Gay Defrosting Ice Queen Spared by the Adaptation Cool Old Lady Spanner in the Works Film Noir Index Slap-Slap-Kiss Based on a True Story Our Vampires Are Different Obstructive Bureaucrat Mighty Whitey Take That! 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Epilogue Bullying a Dragon Big-Bad Ensemble Better to Die than Be Killed Manipulative Bastard Rousing Speech No Antagonist The End... Or Is It? Animal Motifs The Un-Reveal Pay Evil unto Evil Beware the Nice Ones Christmas Movies Index Big Damn Heroes Casting Gag Honor Before Reason Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bi the Way Up to Eleven Hell Is That Noise Disappeared Dad Ghost Fiction Authority Equals Asskicking Awesome, but Impractical Contrived Coincidence Smug Snake Martial Arts Movie Villainous Breakdown The Oner Captain Ersatz Costume Porn Drugs Are Bad Ungrateful Bastard Darkest Hour Fingore Russian Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome After the End Nothing Is Scarier Gender Flip Pet the Dog Anti-Villain One-Word Title Mooks Insistent Terminology Setting Update Defiant to the End The Great Depression Male Frontal Nudity Nice Guy Refuge in Audacity Biopic Villain Opening Scene Zombie Stories Babies Ever After Worthy Opponent Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Composite Character Armor-Piercing Question Red Right Hand folderlabel Chewing the Scenery Hero Antagonist Smoking Is Cool Berserk Button Exactly What It Says on the Tin Butt-Monkey Reckless Gun Usage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Demonic Possession Laughing Mad Retcon Love Triangle Large Ham Double-Meaning Title The Reveal Kill It with Fire Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hoist by His Own Petard Calling the Old Man Out Imagine Spot Lampshade Hanging Tap on the Head Big Bad Scenery Gorn Black Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Affectionate Parody Even Evil Has Loved Ones Police Brutality Easily Forgiven Bland-Name Product Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Attempted Rape Annoying Younger Sibling The '90s Femme Fatale Monumental Damage Grey and Gray Morality Scenery Porn Humiliation Conga Sequel Escalation Title Drop Alas, Poor Villain Epic Movie Laser-Guided Karma Face Death with Dignity Framing Device Mercy Kill Romantic Comedy Shipper on Deck Call-Forward Reasonable Authority Figure Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Heel Realization Character Development Death Glare Anti-Hero Kick the Dog Only Sane Man Despair Event Horizon Bring My Brown Pants The Load Dressing as the Enemy Mugging the Monster Meaningful Background Event Blatant Lies Exact Words Heel–Face Turn Antagonist Title Fiery Redhead Big Applesauce Not So Stoic All Girls Want Bad Boys Chase Scene Break the Cutie Cloudcuckoolander Badass Grandpa Suspiciously Similar Substitute Shirtless Scene Dramedy Evil-Detecting Dog Cool Car A Date with Rosie Palms World of Ham Pretty Little Headshots Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Lock and Load Montage Stuff Blowing Up Adaptation Distillation Idiot Ball Aluminum Christmas Trees Make It Look Like an Accident Shoot the Shaggy Dog Dramatic Irony Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Break the Haughty Meet Cute Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sacrificial Lion She's Got Legs Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Mythology Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Didn't Think This Through Handicapped Badass How We Got Here Bowdlerise Eyepatch of Power Establishing Character Moment Riddle for the Ages Captain Obvious Downer Ending Pragmatic Adaptation Girl-on-Girl Is Hot An Arm and a Leg Totally Radical Nice Hat Gratuitous English Eldritch Abomination Alliterative Name Mistaken for Gay Wham Line Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Slasher Movie Horror Comedy The Cavalry Vacation Films Naïve Newcomer Plot Hole From Bad to Worse Chiaroscuro The Hero Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Crapsack World Visual Pun Central Theme Badass Boast It Will Never Catch On Catapult Nightmare Badass Normal Distracted by the Sexy Fake Shemp Mexican Standoff Loophole Abuse Irony Death by Adaptation Evil Sounds Deep Heterosexual Life-Partners Cruel and Unusual Death Poor Communication Kills Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Funny Foreigner Immune to Bullets Rated M for Manly Dual Wielding Rule of Funny Sequel Hook Genre Throwback Five-Man Band Ambiguously Gay Serial Killer For the Evulz Narrator Kubrick Stare The Mole '80s Hair Curse Cut Short The Chessmaster Undying Loyalty Room Full of Crazy Real Life Creative Closing Credits Adaptational Badass No Name Given Shown Their Work Non-Indicative Name Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Starscream Film Series Parental Abandonment Arc Words Canadian Movies Breaking the Fourth Wall Black Comedy Rape Death by Sex Overprotective Dad Missing Mom Male Gaze Psychopathic Manchild Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Improvised Weapon Hypocritical Humor One Steve Limit Slasher Smile Crazy Jealous Guy Blackmail Serious Business Dramatic Gun Cock Papa Wolf As You Know Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Red Shirt Woman Scorned Works Set in World War II Be Careful What You Wish For Spiritual Successor Deliberate Values Dissonance Lighter and Softer Expy Fantasy Films Bunny-Ears Lawyer Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Same Language Dub Interrupted Suicide Deal with the Devil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Vampire Fiction Unusually Uninteresting Sight Put on a Bus Final Girl Would Hurt a Child timeperiod Unusual Euphemism Even Evil Has Standards Hooker with a Heart of Gold Beauty Is Never Tarnished Villain Ball Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shut Up, Hannibal! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Rule of Symbolism Film Noir Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Scare Chord Horror Films Award-Bait Song Gainax Ending The Smurfette Principle And Starring Disney Villain Death Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Daylight Horror Hollywood Darkness Gorn Historical Hero Upgrade Dark Reprise My Greatest Failure Demoted to Extra Unspoken Plan Guarantee Reality Ensues Super Strength Outrun the Fireball It Can Think The '50s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Race Lift Abusive Parents Madness Mantra Developing Doomed Characters Informed Ability The Chick Sci-Fi Horror Our Zombies Are Different Amusing Injuries Say My Name Double Entendre Good Is Not Nice Trailers Always Spoil Rich Bitch Alpha Bitch Empathic Environment Star-Crossed Lovers The Place Those Two Bad Guys Neck Lift The '80s Gone Horribly Right Light Is Not Good You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The '70s The Voiceless Artistic License – History Major Injury Underreaction My God, What Have I Done? 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Corpsing Freudian Excuse Superhero Instant Death Bullet Men Are the Expendable Gender Curb-Stomp Battle Politically Incorrect Villain The Smart Guy Ms. Fanservice Auto Erotica German Films Posthumous Character Adorkable Get Out! 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