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1	'''Basic Trope''': The [[TokenWholesome smart, virginal and responsible girl]] in the group of teenagers from a Slasher Movie is the one who confronts the killer and survives.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice, a smart, {{brainy\|Brunette}}, GirlNextDoor and her friends are killed one by one by a psycho killer. By the end of the film, she's the only one left to fight against the killer and beats him, at least until the sequel.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is just an innocent little church girl, but [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu she punches out the serial killer]] [[ApocalypseHow who wiped out just about every human but her]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice is an average HardDrinkingPartyGirl like her friends, but still gets to live due to her OnlySaneByComparison.
6	** Alice survives by mere luck. Someone else takes the killer down, saving her.
7	** Alice isn't the only girl to survive, but she escapes mostly unscathed while everyone else is severely injured.
8	** Alice does take drugs and drink like her friends, and is even interested in having sex, but she's also the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] of the group.
9	** Most of Alice's friends were way too tomboyish or too girly in a TomboyAndGirlyGirl spectrum, and becoming victims in a standoff, but Alice, being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, survived with little injury marks.
10	** One of the other characters turns out to be NotQuiteDead.
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** Alice shares history with the killer, leaving a reason for him to save her for last.
13	** Alice's innocence buys her favor with the killer to keep her alive, until she's last and fights back.
14	** Alice is a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass scientist, who [[GuileHero uses her smart strategies as advantages]].
15	* '''Inverted''':
16	** [[KillTheCutie Alice is the first to die.]]
17	** Alice is the only cast member to die while everyone else lives.
18	** Alice ends up being more capable and skillful in committing murder than a group of killers, murdering them one-by-one until only the main BitchInSheepsClothing is left standing to face her at the end.
19	** {{Nice\|Girl}}, [[MyGirlIsNotASlut virginal]] {{Girl Next Door}}s are [[KillTheCutie killed]] one by one by a psycho killer. By the end of the film, Alice, a {{Hotblooded}}, ReallyGetsAround, FemmeFatale HardDrinkingPartyGirl, [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug dealer]], is the only one left to fight against the killer.
20	* '''Gender Flipped''': Bob, an [[EndearinglyDorky approachable]], [[NerdsAreVirgins chaste nerd]], is the most responsible member of the cast and ends up being the Final Boy.
21	* '''Subverted''':
22	** Alice screams "Final Girl", personality and looks, but dies, while Brittany, the [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuous]] blond of the group lives.
23	** Everything turn up to be a bad prank performed by Alice's friends for the Day of the Holly Innocents.
24	** Alice is not as innocent or pure as she would like you to think she is. (i.e. Alice [[TheKillerInMe is the killer]] or [[AlphaBitch a bitch in disguise]])
25	** Alice wasn't even a target to begin with.
26	** GenreShift: The movie decides that it doesn't want to be a slasher anymore.
27	* '''Double Subverted''':
28	** It was all a prank performed by Alice's friend, except that the actual killer of the movie attacks them and Alice stops him.
29	** Alice wasn't a target, but she got in the way, so the killer chases her as well.
30	** Except Alice isn't the same killer who targets the group.
31	* '''Parodied''': Alice [[SleptThroughTheApocalypse sleeps through all the other murders]], waking up when it's her cue to confront the killer.
32	* '''Zig Zagged''': See Downplayed.
33	* '''Averted''':
34	** EverybodyLives
35	** Alice survives, but so does several others in a not-so DwindlingParty.
36	** There is no wholesome Alice in that no character seems particularly reserved, virginal, or responsible.
37	* '''Enforced''': "How do I emphasize the savagery of the killer at the end? Of course, have the sweetest, most responsible character confront them!"
38	* '''Lampshaded''': "Sweet, innocent, and virginal. Of course you'd be the one left to confront me."
39	* '''Invoked''': The killer scopes out his group of targets beforehand and picks the one he thinks is the most innocent and virginal, deliberately leaving her for last.
40	* '''Deconstructed''':
41	** Alice's high sense of morals makes her vulnerable and more susceptible to the killer, who may choose to murder her indiscriminately.
42	** Alice suffers from some really bad PTSD after watching her friends die in front of her.
43	** Alice is put in a mental asylum.
44	** Alice becomes [[FallenHero as bad]] as the killer.
45	** Alice winds up mistaken for a mass murderer when the police arrive.
46	* '''Reconstructed''':
47	** Alice [[TookALevelinBadass becomes]] an ActionSurvivor.
48	** Alice suffers a mental breakdown, but then goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and defeats the killer.
49	** Alice avoids the trappings of the classic final girl (i.e. does drugs, has sex, ect), but she is still the last one to face the killer at the end.
50	* '''Exploited''':
51	** Brittany is a GenreSavvy HardDrinkingPartyGirl. She knows girls like her don't last too long in horror, so she dyes her hair dark, buys conservative clothing, and becomes the group's mother.
52	** Alice's friends know that girls like Alice make it to the end, so they hang around her and protect her in order to lengthen their own lifespans.
53	* '''Defied''':
54	** The killer knows that slashers usually leave girls like Alice last, so he targets her first on purpose. The rest of the party is rattled by this.
55	** The group knows that girls like Alice are left for last, so they turn on her to lessen her chances of survival.
56	* '''Discussed''': "You're like those good girls who survive horror movies."
57	* '''Conversed''': "Say, ever notice how it's a specific kind of girl who lives 'til the end of the horror movie?"
58	* '''Implied''': Alice is an ActionSurvivor who looks and acts more conservatively than the victims.
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64	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
65	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
66	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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