Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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