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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62 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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64 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
65 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
66 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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