Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

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

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