Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

The last survivor of a Slasher Movie. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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