Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

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

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Not Quite Dead Kick the Dog Fiery Redhead Every Car Is a Pinto Insane Troll Logic Red Right Hand Male Frontal Nudity Animated Credits Opening Villainous Breakdown Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chase Scene Bloodier and Gorier Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Would Hurt a Child Pre-Mortem One-Liner Deliberate Values Dissonance The '70s In Medias Res Product Placement Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Implacable Man I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Eye Scream Bloodless Carnage Heel Realization Eiffel Tower Effect Alpha Bitch Up to Eleven Pragmatic Villainy Abhorrent Admirer Rule of Three Ascended Extra Aluminum Christmas Trees Vomit Discretion Shot Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Broken Pedestal Kubrick Stare Biopic The '90s Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Roaring Rampage of Revenge Needs Wiki Magic Love Double Entendre Friend to All Children Retcon Blood from the Mouth Visual Pun Evil vs. Evil The Vamp Stepford Smiler Downer Ending Psycho for Hire Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Morality Pet "Awesome McCool" Name Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Evil Sounds Deep Captain Obvious Auto Erotica Death by Irony Combat Pragmatist The Chick Fatal Family Photo Amusing Injuries The Quiet One Together in Death Bolivian Army Ending Stalker with a Crush Older Than They Look Dirty Cop Humiliation Conga Took a Level in Badass All Men Are Perverts She's Got Legs A God Am I Composite Character Love Triangle Big Fancy House Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Place Contrived Coincidence Actually Pretty Funny Dies Wide Open Adults Are Useless How We Got Here Evil Counterpart Stealth Pun Genre Shift Intergenerational Friendship Does Not Like Shoes Catch-Phrase Disney Death Dumb Blonde Enemy Mine Race Lift Suspiciously Similar Substitute Martial Arts Movie Dropped a Bridge on Him Dirty Coward Half the Man He Used to Be All Girls Want Bad Boys The Smart Guy Hero of Another Story "Where Are They Now?" 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Is Serious Business Badass in a Nice Suit Psychopathic Manchild Slap-Slap-Kiss Brother–Sister Incest It Can Think Badass Normal Plucky Comic Relief Love at First Sight Manly Tears Take a Third Option Despair Event Horizon Bring My Brown Pants Romantic False Lead Break the Cutie German Films Brainless Beauty Woman in White Hell Is That Noise Femme Fatale Adaptation Expansion All There in the Manual Sassy Black Woman Vitriolic Best Buds Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Rule of Symbolism Authority Equals Asskicking Important Haircut Stealth Hi/Bye Laser-Guided Karma Major Injury Underreaction Gone Horribly Right The Ghost Horror Comedy The Power of Love 20 Minutes into the Future Fingore Sacrificial Lion Genre Throwback Credits Gag Drowning My Sorrows Fake Shemp Black Best Friend Reality Ensues Stock Footage Dramatic Gun Cock Antagonist Title Damsel in Distress Gold Digger Sadistic Choice No OSHA Compliance folderlabel Bunny-Ears Lawyer