Final Girl: Difference between revisions

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* Lisa Pacifist from ''[[Final Fantasy Unlimited]]''.

* The comic book ''[[Hack Slash]]'' stars a former Final Girl who becomes a slasher-hunter.

* Pick a [[Slasher Flick]], any slasher flick.

** As does the [[Nightmare On Elm Street]] series. {{spoiler|Nancy, Lisa, Kristen, Alice, Alice again, Maggie/Tracy, Heather Langenkamp (the actual actress who played Nancy), and Laurie. Part 2 is a partial subversion, as Lisa doesn't so much kill Freddy as drive him out of his possessed victim Jessie, who also survives.}}

* In ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'', the main character {{spoiler|has sex (with the killer!), but still maintains her final girl status}}.

* In murder mystery ''[[Harper's Island]]'', protagonist Abby Mills is female, beautiful, clean living and is strongly implied to be a virgin. She has a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] and only picks up the [[Idiot Ball]] towards the last few episodes. Also, she {{spoiler|is the object of affection of one of the murderers}}. She survives along with {{spoiler|her love interest (and a little girl with [[Infant Immortality]] and by extension the girl's mother), and is the one to kill the murderer.}}

* [[Gender Inverted]] in ''[[Psychoville]]'' where at the end of Series Two, {{spoiler|Mr Jelly}} is the lone survivor who calls out {{spoiler|Grace}} for the murders. {{spoiler|David Sowerbutts also survives, but is not present at Andrews Nanotech.}}

* Claire Redfield in ''[[Resident Evil Code Veronica]].''

* Not to mention Rebecca Chambers who managed to be the sole official survivor of her team from ''[[Resident Evil 0]]''.

* A [[Journal Roleplay]] called ''[http://program68.livejournal.com/ Battle Experiment Program N]'' threw characters from various series into a ''[[Battle Royale]]''-style program. The first group included characters like [[Code Geass|Lelouch]], [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]], [[House (TV series)|House]], [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]], [[Street Fighter|Akuma]], [[Dexter]] and [[The Usual Suspects|Verbal Kint]]. The last one standing from the main group at the end of the plot? {{spoiler|Ichigo from ''[[Katamari Damacy]]''.}}

* As of the final page of ''[[Gyo]]'', {{spoiler|both the protagonist's girlfriend and his uncle's assistant both died (girlfriend) and are likely to die later on if not already dead (assistant)}}.

* The "survivor" of Cry Wolf (also provides the film's "twist" ending).

* The movie ''[[Shrooms (film)|Shrooms]]'' gleefully takes aim at the whole concept of the [[Final Girl]]. At the end {{spoiler|the Final Girl discovers that she herself is the killer, having been driven insane by the titular ''Shrooms''.}}

* Used as a theme in Jane Mendelsohn's [[Mind Screw]] novel ''Innocence,'' with the main character seeing herself as the Final Girl in her own horror story. {{spoiler|She does kill the villain - that is, her stepmother.}}

* The Final Girls of the ''Friday the 13th'' spin-off books ''Church of the Divine Psychopath'' and ''Carnival of Maniacs'' are also [[The Ladette]].

** Played straighter in a number of theatrical and film adaptations, although there's usually another survivor too.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', both the movie and TV show were created specifically as a subversion of the trope -- the "final girl" (who isn't particularly final, all things considered) is sexually active, conventionally attractive, and generally a lot more girly than the norm. Admittedly she does have superpowers (often explicitly superior to her foes) which makes it a bit debatable as to whether she belongs as a [[Final Girl]] proper, or is simply a straight up superheroine who borrows a fair bit of slasher flick imagery.

** According to the [[Word of God]], Buffy was actually a subversion of the girls who get killed in monster movies, not those who survive slashers (if memory serves).

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] ended up being the last one to confront Freddy in his ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' review after his clones died in various ways. Instead of having the usual Final Girl traits, the one thing he had that his clones didn't was a Power Glove!

* ''[[The white chamber]]'' seems to play with this... And it seems quite ironic. {{spoiler|Sarah may be the last survivor, but ''she was the killer''.}}

* Averted in [[Dino Crisis|''Dino Crisis 1'']], no matter what ending you get, Regina and [[Black Dude Dies First|Ri]][[Averted Trope|ck]] will always survive, but Gail and Doctor Kirk [[Multiple Endings|may or may not]]. But {{spoiler|played with but probably played straight in the sequel. Dylan and Paula make it to the gate room, but Regina is the only character that definitely survives the entire ordeal. Dylan and Paula might have if Regina did perfect a time gate and save them at the last moment.}}

* A parody in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' where ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' meets [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason Voorhees]]. Velma complains that she is the final girl due to the stereotype that the virgin is always the last to die.

{{quote|'''Velma''': The virgins are always the last to die. God my life sucks.}}

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