Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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