Tropescilloscope: Final Girl

The last survivor of a Slasher Movie. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Hoist by His Own Petard Psycho for Hire Establishing Character Moment Token Minority Fanservice Pretty in Mink Nice Guy The Oner Setting Update Mythology Gag Men Are the Expendable Gender Contrived Coincidence Shirtless Scene Animal Title Index Knight Templar The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Overprotective Dad All There in the Script Jerkass Has a Point Dumb Blonde Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Serious Business Large Ham Those Wacky Nazis Bloodier and Gorier British Films Make It Look Like an Accident Kill 'em All Adaptation Name Change Vitriolic Best Buds She Cleans Up Nicely Bavarian Fire Drill Not So Stoic Hooker with a Heart of Gold Freudian Excuse There Is No Kill Like Overkill Hair-Trigger Temper Deal with the Devil Those Two Bad Guys Artistic License – Gun Safety Visual Pun Not Quite Dead Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Ditz Call-Forward Artistic License – Law Suddenly SHOUTING! Public Domain Feature Films Pragmatic Villainy Decoy Protagonist The Cavalry Wham Shot Pet the Dog Yandere Cruel and Unusual Death Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Stalker with a Crush Never Found the Body Action Survivor The Load And I Must Scream Brainless Beauty Police Brutality Four-Temperament Ensemble Attempted Rape Extremely Short Timespan Not Using the "Z" Word Canon Foreigner Police are Useless Famous Last Words Parental Abandonment One-Word Title Gorn Coming-of-Age Story Science Fiction Films Amusing Injuries Epic Fail Truth in Television Babies Ever After Reasonable Authority Figure Missing Mom Mighty Whitey Badass Boast Bring My Brown Pants Heroic Sacrifice Cassandra Truth Beware the Nice Ones Sexy Discretion Shot Covers Always Lie Happily Married Boom, Headshot! Retcon Naked People Are Funny One-Man Army As the Good Book Says... Mystery and Detective Films The Remake Anti-Hero Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Oh, Crap! 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Running Gag Rule of Symbolism Foil Never Trust a Trailer The Hero I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Slasher Movie Animal Motifs Badass Grandpa Darker and Edgier Groin Attack A Minor Kidroduction Last-Name Basis For Want of a Nail Hong Kong Films Bald of Evil Drill Sergeant Nasty Drugs Are Bad Even Evil Has Standards Put on a Bus Aluminum Christmas Trees Film Series Dark Is Not Evil Laser-Guided Karma Brick Joke Meet Cute Children Are Innocent Central Theme Title Drop Calling the Old Man Out Maybe Ever After Eureka Moment Take a Third Option Poor Communication Kills Anachronic Order Kick the Dog Cool Old Guy Actually Pretty Funny Sports Stories Fatal Flaw It's Personal Precision F-Strike Film Noir Index Bolivian Army Ending Only in It for the Money Conspicuous CG Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jump Scare Evil Laugh Eagleland Anti-Villain Would Hit a Girl Let's Get Dangerous! 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Gory Discretion Shot Slap-Slap-Kiss Leitmotif Call-Back Card-Carrying Villain Heel–Face Turn Tranquil Fury Bad Boss Sanity Slippage Drowning My Sorrows Fingore Brother–Sister Incest Disney Villain Death Mr. Fanservice Smug Snake Offscreen Teleportation '80s Hair Artistic License – History Race Against the Clock Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Affably Evil Disney Death Expository Hairstyle Change Badass in a Nice Suit Earn Your Happy Ending Foregone Conclusion The Chick Cat Fight The Lost Lenore Rated M for Manly Tagline Wounded Gazelle Gambit Villain Song Adaptational Heroism In Medias Res Suspiciously Similar Substitute Gilligan Cut Wham Line Informed Ability Hero Antagonist Meaningful Echo The Starscream Show Within a Show And Starring Reckless Gun Usage Pimped-Out Dress The X of Y The Great Depression No-Sell BFG I Did What I Had to Do Gainax Ending Pragmatic Adaptation "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Guns Akimbo Vomit Discretion Shot Abusive Parents Arch-Enemy Took a Level in Badass Not What It Looks Like O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hypocrite Cluster F-Bomb Unusually Uninteresting Sight Freeze-Frame Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies French Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee Creative Closing Credits Driven to Suicide Mugging the Monster Those Two Guys True Companions Big Eater Comically Missing the Point Distracted by the Sexy Television Movie Index Pyrrhic Victory Instant Death Bullet Took a Level in Jerkass Trailers Always Spoil Rewatch Bonus Dies Wide Open Narrator An Arm and a Leg Everyone Has Standards Race Lift Back from the Dead Bloody Hilarious Greater-Scope Villain Psychological Thriller Red Eyes, Take Warning Room Full of Crazy Historical Villain Upgrade Demoted to Extra Made of Explodium Mood Whiplash Fish out of Water Dual Wielding Exactly What It Says on the Tin Henpecked Husband Laughing Mad A.I. Is a Crapshoot Horror Films Genre Shift No Ending Deus ex Machina Never My Fault Match Cut Papa Wolf N-Word Privileges Martial Arts Movie Noodle Incident Rape as Drama Hidden Depths Cat Scare Camera Abuse Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Index of Film Westerns Fat Bastard Cain and Abel Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Overly Long Gag Italian Films Disproportionate Retribution Gratuitous English Corpsing No Celebrities Were Harmed Bittersweet Ending You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Parental Incest Paper-Thin Disguise Break the Cutie Animated Credits Opening I'm a Humanitarian Off-into-the-Distance Ending Five-Man Band "Shaggy Dog" Story Agony of the Feet Too Dumb to Live Abhorrent Admirer Femme Fatale Only Sane Man Mexican Standoff Arc Words Amoral Attorney Deliberately Monochrome Scenery Porn Music Stories Russian Films Adorkable The Hero Dies Humiliation Conga Half the Man He Used to Be Double Entendre Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Retirony Zombie Stories Here We Go Again! 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Extreme Doormat All Just a Dream Epic Movie Facial Horror Word of God After the End Depraved Bisexual Serial Killer Cool Car She's Got Legs Dogged Nice Guy Recycled IN SPACE! Insult Backfire My Beloved Smother Artistic License – Military Works Set in World War II Framing Device Fanservice Extra The '70s Only One Name Imagine Spot The Smart Guy Bond Villain Stupidity Ax-Crazy The End... Or Is It? Rule of Funny Car Fu Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? It Can Think Man on Fire Cowboy Cop Redemption Equals Death Dwindling Party Big Damn Heroes Only a Flesh Wound All for Nothing Meaningful Name You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Eyepatch of Power Protagonist Title Closed Circle Spiteful Spit Grievous Bottley Harm Despair Event Horizon Arranged Marriage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Face Death with Dignity Improvised Weapon I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Early Installment Weirdness Super Strength In Name Only Asshole Victim Vacation Films Fantasy Films Blatant Lies Credits Gag Shut Up, Hannibal! Blood Knight Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Your Head A-Splode Crapsack World Broken Pedestal Does Not Like Shoes Death by Irony Dressing as the Enemy Christmas Movies Index Ambiguously Gay Evil Sounds Deep Deconstruction The Stoner Bottomless Magazines Captain Ersatz Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Reality Has No Subtitles Fate Worse than Death Evil Is Hammy Ghost Fiction Spared by the Adaptation Crazy-Prepared Flipping the Bird The '80s Straight Gay Faux Affably Evil The Film of the Book Homage Outrun the Fireball Bowdlerise Dutch Angle Dark and Troubled Past Red Herring Air-Vent Passageway Flashback Drives Like Crazy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Vomit Indiscretion Shot I Need a Freaking Drink Alpha Bitch Author Avatar Action Prologue All Men Are Perverts Blackmail Early-Bird Cameo Ragtag Bunch of Misfits You Have Failed Me Market-Based Title Fainting Developing Doomed Characters The Dreaded Catch-Phrase Needs Wiki Magic Love Shell-Shocked Veteran No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Determinator Obfuscating Stupidity Black and Gray Morality Badass Bookworm Take That! 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Irony German Films Green-Eyed Monster Romantic Comedy The '60s Dramedy Black Comedy Rape Evil Plan The Stoic Darkest Hour Heel Realization Camp Gay Ship Tease Bare Your Midriff Jitter Cam Say My Name La Résistance Sequel Hook Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Faceless Fourth Date Marriage Big "NO!" Adaptation Expansion Catapult Nightmare Self-Deprecation Fan Disservice Black Comedy Villain Opening Scene Creator Cameo Fantastic Racism What the Hell, Hero? 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Thriller Wicked Cultured Ascended Extra Black Dude Dies First Death by Sex The Un-Reveal Translation Convention Adaptational Attractiveness Hope Spot World of Ham Hollywood Law Together in Death Big Fancy House Cool Old Lady "The Reason You Suck" Speech Lock and Load Montage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Every Car Is a Pinto Older Than They Look Pre-Mortem One-Liner Rule of Three Taking the Bullet Combat Pragmatist Grey and Gray Morality Love Triangle And the Adventure Continues Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mad Scientist Hate Sink Fatal Family Photo Fire-Forged Friends Daylight Horror Country Matters Frame-Up Friend to All Children Improbable Aiming Skills Handicapped Badass Break the Haughty The Stinger Adaptation Dye-Job Mistaken for Gay Ironic Echo Face–Heel Turn Heroes Want Redheads B-Movie Unreliable Narrator Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Moment Killer No Name Given Genre Savvy Insane Troll Logic Intrepid Reporter Horror Comedy Actor Allusion Cloudcuckoolander Australian Movies Betty and Veronica Time Skip Manic Pixie Dream Girl Damsel in Distress Adaptation Distillation Belligerent Sexual Tension Neck Lift The Sociopath Manchild Butt-Monkey Unusual Euphemism Death Glare He Who Fights Monsters Evil Is Petty Loophole Abuse Enemy Mine Shown Their Work