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 is the object of affection of one of the murderers. She survives along with her Love Interest (and a little girl with Improbable Infant Survival 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, Mr. Jelly is the lone survivor who calls out Grace for the murders. David Sowerbutts also survives, but is not present at Andrews Nanotech.
Emma Duval in Scream: The TV Series. While Sidney Prescott, her counterpart from the films, is listed below as a deconstruction, Emma is a straighter example, though not perfectly so. In the first season, she's one of several characters who survives, and most of the credit for defeating the killer goes to Audrey, a bicurious punk chick who seems to have been working with the killer all along, though the end of season two reveals that she was innocent. Season two also shows that Emma has been traumatized by the experience, her mental state not at all helped by a new killer running around.
The third season, Scream: Resurrection, plays with this. A boy named Deion Elliot is actually Ghostface's primary target, with his girlfriend Liv Reynolds being a supporting role. Ironically, she and Deion are not the ones who defeats the killer despite Ghostface outright invoking Liv as the Final Girl, as another supporting girl, Kym, is the one who finishes the job.
Stranger Things, while not exactly a slasher movie (although elements of the genre are there), has its own take on the Final Girl with Nancy Wheeler, named after the Nightmare on Elm Street character. She subverts Sex Signals Death mainly due to her first time indirectly making it happen to someone else (Barb), has more sex, and also drinks. She ends up as a full Action Girl as the series progresses and despite some close calls, is still alive as of the end of Season 4.
Subversions, aversions, and parodies
Charmed had an episode called "Chick Flick" featuring psycho killers being released from horror movies. Prue becomes the Final Girl when her sisters get trapped in the movie, but she saves them. The In-Universe "Kill It Before It Dies" features a teen couple surviving.
The second season introduces Nadine, a Lovable Rogue who is a much straighter example than Lexy, and they are both sent to reform school along with Jake and Devon after the latter three are framed by Chucky for his crimes. Nadine quickly becomes an ally to the three, only to unexpectedly die in the end of the antepenultimate episode. Meanwhile, Lexy is revealed to have developed a drug addiction as a result of the aforementioned deaths of Junior and her father. She manages to survive yet again and beat her addiction, only for Chucky to kill her mother and her sister revealed to be in league with him all along.
Dead of Summer has Amy Hughes, who initially seems to be this trope incarnate: Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold, a Dark and Troubled Past that (at first glance) only serves to make her more sympathetic and being the token "good girl" on the show. She's actually the Big Bad, and her wholesome image is nothing but lies. She was responsible for all of the murders on the show and was behind the ritual to raise the demon Malphas, having actually welcomed her Demonic Possession because Malphas was the only one who "understood her". Instead of Amy, it's the Lovable Alpha Bitch Jessie who becomes the final girl instead, together with Blair and Drew — a gay guy and a trans boy, respectively, in another blow at the archetype.
The Final Girls was a series proposed to ABC Family (now Freeform) in 2013 in which Jamie Lee Curtis would play the Charlie to a team of Angels consisting of girls who were Final Girls and use that experience to become monster hunters.
In the Murdoch Mysteries slasher pastiche "I Know What You Did Last Autumn", Andrea Porter is the Final Girl (although it's Dr Ogden who actually stops the slasher), but an intentionally unsympathetic one; rather than being the Token Wholesome, her distaste for the activities of the other "teeners" mark her as a judgmental prude by Edwardian standards.
Scream Queens, a show that did wind up starring Jamie Lee Curtis, had two possible candidates for the Final Girl in the first season. Grace Gardner is the traditional kind, the blonde, virginal ingenue with a hint of Nancy Drew to her. Chanel Oberlin is... not. While she fought off the Red Devil twice, she's also an elitist and bigotedAlpha Bitch who is guilty of the murder of Ms. Bean and later tries to kill Hester, along with all manner of lesser crimes, to the point where she can be considered a Villain Protagonist even though she's not the Red Devil killer. To be fair, though, she didn't mean to kill Ms. Bean. Her trying to kill Hester, though, is an entirely different matter. Even though Hester is later revealed to be one of the Red Devil killers, Chanel didn't know this when she pushed Hester down a flight of stairs. Both Grace and Chanel survive, but neither of them is fully alright at the end of the season; Grace is revealed in the second season to have been institutionalized due to the trauma of what she went through,note In Real Life, this was because her actress Skyler Samuels had returned to college, forcing the writers to write out her character. while Chanel and her Girl Posse get served a major dose of Laser-Guided Karma when they are framed for the murders. The real killers remain The Unfought, with their last surviving member, Hester, getting away with everything, and the other two Red Devils, Gigi and Boone, both dying at Hester's hands.
Slasher has at least one Final Girl in every season but subverts the classic survivor character of the trope.
The Executioner: Sarah Bennet, despite being the star from the beginning of the season, is actually made to be less than the typical archetype and more Nancy Drew like. However, despite still being the one to defeat the Executioner, she becomes a Damsel in Distress to the killer for her sin of Pride in the penultimate episode and is only spared when the original Executionersacrifices himself to save her.
Guilty Party: Dawn Duguin and Keira. Dawn is guilty of helping the camp counselors kill her best friend and framed another counselor to get away with it. She barely survives her fatal encounter with the killer and decides to own up to her actions, turning herself in to the police. Keira is guilty of accidentally killing a patient during her time as a nurse and becomes a Damsel in Distress in the Season Finale, only spared when Peter sacrifices himself to save her. Ironically, Judith Berry also survives, but revealed to be the killer with sympathetic motives, taking revenge on the counselors for what they did to her son, who was the counselor they framed.
Solstice: Saadia Jalalzai. She subverts her reputation of goodness, because she is directly responsible for the Druid'sStart of Darkness. She's still invoked as the Final Girl by the killer to become The Alibi, and after the Druid dies, she saves herself and Dan from the accomplice, another girl named Jen Rijkers, who became the Druid along with her brother Connor out of revenge against their neighbors for their mother's suicide. Saadia tearfully confesses what she did to Jen as the latter dies.
