Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

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

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