Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

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Deliberate Values Dissonance Half the Man He Used to Be The Voiceless The Chessmaster Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adaptation Expansion Four-Temperament Ensemble Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Not Using the "Z" Word Horror Comedy Reality Ensues Manic Pixie Dream Girl Deal with the Devil Faux Affably Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroic Sacrifice Slashed Throat Throwing Your Sword Always Works Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Your Head A-Splode Parental Substitute Deus ex Machina Straight Gay Coming-of-Age Story Lampshade Hanging Double-Meaning Title Catch-Phrase Dark and Troubled Past Defiant to the End Domestic Abuse Russian Films Playing Gertrude Those Wacky Nazis Index of Film Westerns Dramatic Gun Cock No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Happily Married Insult Backfire Ambiguous Ending Character Development Yandere My God, What Have I Done? 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Is Serious Business Fatal Flaw Final Girl Evil vs. Evil Nothing Is Scarier Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Anachronic Order Parental Incest Jerkass Slasher Smile Captain Ersatz Almost Kiss Silent Movie Composite Character Crapsack World Face Death with Dignity Humiliation Conga La Résistance Evil-Detecting Dog Creator Cameo The Alleged Car Reality Has No Subtitles Empathic Environment Red Shirt 20 Minutes into the Future The Hero Dies He Who Fights Monsters Becoming the Mask In the Back Agony of the Feet Blood from the Mouth Getting Crap Past the Radar Red Oni, Blue Oni Superhero Posthumous Character Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Killed Mid-Sentence Spiteful Spit Daddy's Girl Music Stories Camera Abuse Alliterative Name Pretty in Mink Betty and Veronica Bolivian Army Ending Stuff Blowing Up Depraved Bisexual Defrosting Ice Queen timeperiod Villain with Good Publicity Hate Sink Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The '90s Dogged Nice Guy Gone Horribly Right Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Freeze-Frame Bonus Sir Swears-a-Lot Leitmotif It Can Think Rousing Speech Retirony Make It Look Like an Accident No Antagonist Annoying Younger Sibling Shower Scene Dies Wide Open Made of Explodium Wrong Genre Savvy Training Montage Laughing Mad Non-Indicative Name Sci-Fi Horror Dirty Old Man Evil Laugh Car Fu Moment Killer Mighty Whitey Villainous Breakdown Poor Communication Kills Sequel Escalation Card-Carrying Villain Mugging the Monster Adaptation Name Change The Smart Guy Rewatch Bonus Hong Kong Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds No-Sell Narrator Trailers Always Spoil Chekhov's Gun The Mole Pre-Mortem One-Liner Butt-Monkey Tagline The Power of Love You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Male Gaze Undying Loyalty Mistaken for Gay Spared by the Adaptation Karma Houdini Stalker with a Crush Pet the Dog Evil Brit Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The End... Or Is It? Death by Irony Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Big Bad Dirty Coward Stealth Pun Auto Erotica Suspiciously Similar Substitute Improbable Weapon User Rasputinian Death Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Mad Scientist Recycled IN SPACE! Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Really Gets Around Hero Antagonist I Did What I Had to Do Cowboy Cop Kill It with Fire Death by Sex Children Are Innocent Didn't Think This Through Aside Glance Police Brutality Bury Your Gays Sole Survivor Married to the Job Fat Bastard Crucified Hero Shot Canon Foreigner Large Ham Five-Man Band Badass Normal Suddenly SHOUTING! Video Credits Bound and Gagged The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Twist Ending Sanity Slippage Refuge in Audacity Flipping the Bird Vitriolic Best Buds Black and Gray Morality Adaptational Attractiveness Fantastic Racism Hair-Trigger Temper Pimped-Out Dress Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Star-Crossed Lovers Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Historical Villain Upgrade Bad Boss Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mundane Made Awesome Stepford Smiler Friend to All Children Last-Name Basis The '80s No Ending Accidental Murder Amusing Injuries Cat Fight Genre Throwback British Films Bottomless Magazines Heel Realization Beard of Evil Drowning My Sorrows Fanservice Black Comedy Rape Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Deliberately Monochrome The Smurfette Principle The Casanova Small Name, Big Ego Conspicuous CG Black Comedy The Lost Lenore Manipulative Bastard Funny Background Event Took a Level in Badass Logo Joke Honor Before Reason Humans Are Bastards Italian Films Psychological Thriller Cool Guns Title Drop Serious Business All There in the Script Manly Tears MacGuffin Ghost Fiction The '70s Eagleland Dark Action Girl Loads and Loads of Characters In Name Only Stylistic Suck Ambiguously Gay The Great Depression Plot Hole Belligerent Sexual Tension Eldritch Abomination Award-Bait Song Deconstruction Wicked Cultured Bring My Brown Pants Papa Wolf Girl-on-Girl Is Hot German Films Fire-Forged Friends Made of Iron Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! I Have Your Wife The Un-Reveal She Cleans Up Nicely The Quiet One Cruel and Unusual Death Downer Ending Dramedy Never My Fault Scary Black Man The Cavalry Attempted Rape Adaptational Heroism Ass Shove Creepy Child Film Series Television Movie Index Captain Obvious Country Matters Unspoken Plan Guarantee Blatant Lies Cool Old Lady Mooks No OSHA Compliance Pretty Little Headshots Reasonable Authority Figure Darker and Edgier One-Word Title Big Eater Action Prologue Badass Bookworm Drives Like Crazy Protagonist Title Destination Defenestration Costume Porn Bloody Hilarious Naked People Are Funny Alas, Poor Villain Eyepatch of Power Only Sane Man Romantic False Lead Fantasy Films Rule of Cool And the Adventure Continues Reality Is Unrealistic Driven to Suicide Bad "Bad Acting" Ms. Fanservice Double Entendre Not Even Bothering with the Accent Plucky Comic Relief Badass in a Nice Suit An Aesop The Dreaded Word of God I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Does Not Like Shoes All for Nothing Guile Hero Black Dude Dies First Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Disney Villain Death Noodle Incident It Will Never Catch On I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Funny Foreigner Arc Words Breaking the Fourth Wall Hero of Another Story Overprotective Dad Obviously Evil Skewed Priorities Corrupt Corporate Executive Hell Is That Noise Idiot Ball Tap on the Head Break the Cutie Bavarian Fire Drill Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Geography Film Noir Time Skip Anti-Villain Overly Long Gag Soft Glass Big "NO!" Laser-Guided Karma Death by Adaptation Big Brother Instinct Daylight Horror Famous Last Words Bi the Way Blood Knight Artistic License – Biology Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Anachronism Stew More Dakka Fainting Mama Bear Authority Equals Asskicking Names to Run Away from Really Fast Those Two Bad Guys Tranquil Fury Central Theme Not So Stoic Awesome, but Impractical "Shaggy Dog" Story The Oner Chekhov's Skill Book-Ends Evil Counterpart Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sexy Discretion Shot Distracted by the Sexy "Awesome McCool" Name One-Man Army My Beloved Smother Covers Always Lie Soundtrack Dissonance Re-Cut The Bully Our Zombies Are Different The Ghost Villain Opening Scene Off-into-the-Distance Ending Brother–Sister Incest Documentary Australian Movies Dark Is Not Evil Despair Event Horizon The Reveal Curse Cut Short Mystery and Detective Films Get Out! Random Events Plot Back from the Dead Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fan Disservice Boom, Headshot!