Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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