Final Girl: Difference between revisions

Line 43:

** It is however subverted in the alternate ending where instead of escaping or being killed {{spoiler|she is strapped to a bed with all her organs removed but still functioning to keep the doctor's ailing wife alive.}}

* In ''[[Turbulence]]'', a serial killer gets loose aboard a specially chartered 747, <s>killing</s> [[Executive Meddling|putting everyone in the cargo hold]] except for the cute, intrepid flight attendant who has to take him down. Slight variant on this trope in that, after she dispatches the serial killer, she still has to [[Crash-Course Landing|land the plane]].

* ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' was the Trope Codifier and introduced the [[Death by Sex]] trope (actually unintentional) which became a staple of the genre. [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] was typecast as a Final Girl early on in her career so if she was in a slasher film, she would definitely be surviving.

* ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' was the Trope Codifier and introduced the [[Death by Sex]] trope (actually unintentional) which became a staple of the genre. [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] was typecast as a Final Girl early on in her career so if she was in a slasher film, she would definitely be surviving. As of the events of [[Halloween Ends]], {{spoiler| she is now a rare case of a Final Girl who survives the entire franchise, managing to truly bring an end to Michael.}}

* The ''[[Evil Dead]]'' series subverts this, but not in spirit. The main character' name, "Ashley", is usually reserved for women.

** [[Older Than They Think|Yeah, now]]. Ashley started out as a male name. A lot of male names end up like that after a century or two. Still, Ashley had been a popularly female for so long, this is easily exactly what the filmmakers were going for.