Tropescilloscope: The Vamp

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

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