Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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