Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

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