Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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