Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

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