Tropescilloscope: Femme Fatale

A sultry, highly attractive, but rather manipulative woman. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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