Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

An irredeemably evil and completely exploitative seductress. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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