Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

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

More Tropes Badass Normal Not Even Bothering with the Accent Breaking the Fourth Wall Wrong Genre Savvy Neck Snap The Hero Dies Amusing Injuries Documentary Beta Couple Death of a Child Spanner in the Works Dying Moment of Awesome Dirty Coward Darkest Hour What Happened to the Mouse? Enemy Mine And I Must Scream Apocalypse How Face–Heel Turn Real Life The Mole Fire-Forged Friends Rule of Three Blood Knight Horror Films Unresolved Sexual Tension Mind Screw Translation Convention Early Installment Weirdness Country Matters Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Love Triangle Death Glare Call-Back Double-Meaning Title Cat Fight An Aesop Psychopathic Manchild "Shaggy Dog" Story Didn't Think This Through La Résistance Establishing Character Moment One Steve Limit The Dreaded No Celebrities Were Harmed Historical Villain Upgrade Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Slasher Smile Pretty in Mink Composite Character Cold-Blooded Torture Shown Their Work Brainless Beauty Genre Shift Soft Glass Taking You with Me Jerk with a Heart of Gold Shut Up, Hannibal! Knife Nut Leaning on the Fourth Wall Hero Antagonist Abusive Parents Chewing the Scenery Badass Boast My Beloved Smother How We Got Here I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Evil Plan Black Comedy Rape Catapult Nightmare Easily Forgiven Defiant to the End Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Protagonist Title Captain Obvious Mistaken for Gay Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptation Name Change The Chessmaster Riddle for the Ages Cool Guns Unusual Euphemism Those Two Guys All Men Are Perverts Sadistic Choice Worthy Opponent Foregone Conclusion Good Is Not Nice The Remake Training Montage Dirty Old Man Determinator aka: The Determinator Fanservice Extra Science Fiction Films Famous Last Words All There in the Script Spiritual Successor The Lost Lenore Dogged Nice Guy Large Ham Even Evil Has Loved Ones Artistic License – Physics Same Language Dub Male Frontal Nudity Bavarian Fire Drill Ass Shove Sealed Evil in a Can Toplessness from the Back Gory Discretion Shot Setting Update Department of Redundancy Department Redshirt Army Final Girl Ironic Echo All for Nothing Retired Badass Four-Temperament Ensemble Cat Scare A.I. Is a Crapshoot Villain Protagonist Paper-Thin Disguise Big Fancy House The End... Or Is It? Bi the Way Casting Gag The '50s Last-Name Basis Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Eureka Moment Scare Chord Martial Arts Movie Reckless Gun Usage Race Against the Clock Does This Remind You of Anything? The Un-Reveal Early-Bird Cameo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead As Long as It Sounds Foreign Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Heroes Want Redheads Fat Bastard The Smurfette Principle Plot Hole Alpha Bitch Anachronism Stew Never Trust a Trailer Vitriolic Best Buds Small Name, Big Ego Badass Bookworm Cruel and Unusual Death Our Zombies Are Different Antagonist Title Epic Fail Hair-Trigger Temper Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Mundane Made Awesome Stealth Pun Affably Evil Totally Radical The Hero Bloodier and Gorier What the Hell, Hero? Crazy Jealous Guy Animated Credits Opening Humans Are Bastards Kill 'em All Character Development Stepford Smiler Dark Action Girl No Antagonist The Atoner French Films More Dakka Fingore Big Eater Obfuscating Stupidity Sinister Minister Lock and Load Montage Combat Pragmatist No-Sell Dual Wielding Bilingual Bonus The Faceless Bound and Gagged Big Applesauce Bland-Name Product Bottomless Magazines Death by Irony Informed Ability Really Gets Around Celebrity Paradox Naked People Are Funny Evil Is Hammy An Axe to Grind Wham Shot Unspoken Plan Guarantee What You Are in the Dark Product Placement Gratuitous English Flashback Improvised Weapon Pyrrhic Victory Rousing Speech Lighter and Softer Idiot Ball Double Entendre Nice Hat Hope Spot Friend to All Children Bring My Brown Pants Re-Cut Mood Whiplash Cool Shades Serious Business Bare Your Midriff Bait-and-Switch Distracted by the Sexy Guns Akimbo The '60s Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Demoted to Extra Black Comedy The '80s The '90s Contrived Coincidence Fake Shemp Batman Gambit Red Shirt Victoria's Secret Compartment Villain Ball Retcon Ghost Fiction I Need a Freaking Drink Annoying Younger Sibling Romantic False Lead Broken Pedestal The Bully Take That! Motor Mouth Canon Foreigner Insane Troll Logic Eye Scream Mad Scientist Reasonable Authority Figure Call-Forward Suddenly SHOUTING! Mercy Kill In Name Only Recycled IN SPACE! 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Thriller Dies Wide Open Fan Disservice Jump Scare Failed a Spot Check Tempting Fate Arc Words It Can Think Anti-Villain Market-Based Title Comically Missing the Point Took a Level in Jerkass Conspicuous CG Dirty Cop Guile Hero Evil Brit Intrepid Reporter Gone Horribly Right Properly Paranoid The Smart Guy Pretty Little Headshots Take a Third Option Only a Flesh Wound Bolivian Army Ending Here We Go Again! Truth in Television Dramedy Alliterative Name Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Stock Footage The Casanova Pet the Dog Fantasy Films Bowdlerise As Himself Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Posthumous Character Be Careful What You Wish For Heroic Sacrifice Naïve Newcomer Ripped from the Headlines Manchild Rich Bitch Token Minority Mugging the Monster True Companions The Ghost Smug Snake Curb-Stomp Battle Eiffel Tower Effect Leave the Camera Running Spell My Name with an "S" Covers Always Lie Based on a True Story Improbable Aiming Skills Creator Cameo Homage Expy Karma Houdini Broken Bird Narrator Would Hurt a Child Jitter Cam Scenery Porn No Name Given '80s Hair Belligerent Sexual Tension B-Movie Gender Flip Closed Circle Ship Tease Groin Attack Tagline Historical Hero Upgrade Throwing Your Sword Always Works Time Skip Author Appeal Biopic Morality Pet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Pragmatic Adaptation Fantastic Racism The Stoic Offscreen Moment of Awesome Extremely Short Timespan Together in Death Neck Lift Outrun the Fireball Cowboy Cop Self-Deprecation Bad "Bad Acting" My God, What Have I Done? Historical In-Joke Meaningful Name Adaptational Heroism Spared by the Adaptation Anguished Declaration of Love Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Line-of-Sight Name Plucky Comic Relief Red Eyes, Take Warning Downer Ending Face Death with Dignity Break the Cutie Moment Killer Canadian Movies Action Prologue Faux Affably Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Creepy Child Sassy Black Woman Stealth Hi/Bye I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mexican Standoff Actor Allusion Oh, Crap! Deus ex Machina Red Oni, Blue Oni You Have Failed Me Heterosexual Life-Partners I Did What I Had to Do The Bad Guy Wins 20 Minutes into the Future There Is No Kill Like Overkill Fish out of Water Rape as Drama Body Horror Tranquil Fury From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptational Villainy Adaptation Dye-Job Adapted Out MacGuffin Wounded Gazelle Gambit A God Am I Deconstruction Framing Device Drowning My Sorrows Betty and Veronica Dark and Troubled Past Madness Mantra Obviously Evil Earn Your Happy Ending Not What It Looks Like Star-Crossed Lovers Disappeared Dad Alas, Poor Villain Implacable Man Award-Bait Song For the Evulz The Quiet One Parental Incest Fiery Redhead Dumb Blonde Obstructive Bureaucrat Curse Cut Short Meaningful Background Event Overprotective Dad Peek-a-Boo Corpse Animal Motifs Adaptation Expansion Driven to Suicide Historical-Domain Character You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Military and Warfare Films Jerkass Captain Ersatz Taking the Bullet Fanservice Crazy-Prepared A Father to His Men Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Spiteful Spit Bad Boss All Just a Dream Action Girl Ax-Crazy He Who Fights Monsters Expository Hairstyle Change Everyone Has Standards Camera Abuse Gainax Ending Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fatal Flaw Exactly What It Says on the Tin Berserk Button Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Disproportionate Retribution Big "NO!" "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bond One-Liner Dwindling Party Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Big-Bad Ensemble Aside Glance Sci-Fi Horror Funny Foreigner Artistic License – Military Developing Doomed Characters Adults Are Useless Badass Grandpa Better to Die than Be Killed Say My Name Made of Iron Fatal Family Photo Police are Useless Damsel in Distress Villain Song Well-Intentioned Extremist Villainous Breakdown Visual Pun Sports Stories Parental Neglect Romantic Comedy Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptational Badass Demonic Possession Credits Gag Kids Are Cruel Italian Films Knight Templar Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Ambiguously Gay Agony of the Feet Hong Kong Films Shipper on Deck Artistic License – Biology Kick the Dog Chase Scene Punny Name Sequel Escalation Dull Surprise He Knows Too Much And the Adventure Continues Almost Kiss Evil Laugh Gold Digger Mama Bear N-Word Privileges Hypocrite Took a Level in Badass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Film Noir Heel–Face Turn Badass in a Nice Suit Gilligan Cut Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dramatic Irony Pay Evil unto Evil Left the Background Music On Anachronic Order Nothing Is Scarier Blackmail Actually Pretty Funny Rule of Symbolism Shower Scene Make It Look Like an Accident German Films Heroic BSoD Meaningful Echo Get Out! Henpecked Husband Becoming the Mask The Stinger Depraved Bisexual Rule of Cool Jerkass Has a Point I Have Your Wife You Killed My Father Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wretched Hive Slashed Throat Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Freudian Excuse Camp Gay Faking the Dead Gorn May–December Romance Film Noir Index Crapsack World Major Injury Underreaction Reality Ensues The Great Depression Drives Like Crazy Butt-Monkey Ominous Latin Chanting Honor Before Reason Deliberately Monochrome Brother–Sister Incest Eyepatch of Power O.O.C. Is Serious Business Title Drop Frame-Up Man on Fire Fate Worse than Death Hoist by His Own Petard Rule of Funny Happily Married Dressing as the Enemy Adult Fear Broken Aesop Trailers Always Spoil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Arranged Marriage Despair Event Horizon Deal with the Devil Laser-Guided Karma Mighty Whitey War Is Hell Dissonant Serenity Japanese Films Killed Mid-Sentence The Oner Bury Your Gays Evil Is Petty Artistic License – Gun Safety In the Back No OSHA Compliance Daddy's Girl Diabolus ex Machina Important Haircut Sole Survivor Have a Gay Old Time Artistic License – Law Mooks Continuity Nod Show Within a Show Super Strength Your Cheating Heart Foil Off with His Head! This Is Gonna Suck Playing Gertrude Death Seeker Genre Throwback Running Gag Evil Counterpart Silence Is Golden Leitmotif Suspiciously Specific Denial Those Two Bad Guys Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Suspiciously Similar Substitute Noodle Incident Meet Cute Fourth Date Marriage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big Bad Duumvirate Once More, with Clarity! Precision F-Strike Ambiguous Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Drill Sergeant Nasty Action Survivor Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Reveal