Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

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

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