Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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