Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

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

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