Basic Trope: The smart, virginal and responsible girl in the group of teenagers from a Slasher Movie is the one who confronts the killer and survives.
- Straight: Alice, a smart, brainy, Girl Next Door 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.
- Exaggerated: Alice is just an innocent little church girl, but she punches out the serial killer who wiped out just about every human but her.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is an average Hard-Drinking Party Girl like her friends, but still gets to live due to her Only Sane by Comparison.
- Alice survives by mere luck. Someone else takes the killer down, saving her.
- Alice isn't the only girl to survive, but she escapes mostly unscathed while everyone else is severely injured.
- Alice does take drugs and drink like her friends, and is even interested in having sex, but she's also the Only Sane Woman of the group.
- Most of Alice's friends were way too tomboyish or too girly in a Tomboy and Girly Girl spectrum, and becoming victims in a standoff, but Alice, being a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, survived with little injury marks.
- One of the other characters turns out to be Not Quite Dead.
- Justified:
- Alice shares history with the killer, leaving a reason for him to save her for last.
- Alice's innocence buys her favor with the killer to keep her alive, until she's last and fights back.
- Alice is a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass scientist, who uses her smart strategies as advantages.
- Inverted:
- Alice is the first to die.
- Alice is the only cast member to die while everyone else lives.
- 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 Bitch in Sheep's Clothing is left standing to face her at the end.
- Nice, virginal Girl Next Doors are killed one by one by a psycho killer. By the end of the film, Alice, a Hotblooded, Really Gets Around, Femme Fatale Hard-Drinking Party Girl, drug dealer, is the only one left to fight against the killer.
- Gender Flipped: Bob, an approachable, chaste nerd, is the most responsible member of the cast and ends up being the Final Boy.
- Subverted:
- Alice screams "Final Girl", personality and looks, but dies, while Brittany, the promiscuous blond of the group lives.
- Everything turn up to be a bad prank performed by Alice's friends for the Day of the Holly Innocents.
- Alice is not as innocent or pure as she would like you to think she is. (i.e. Alice is the killer or a bitch in disguise)
- Alice wasn't even a target to begin with.
- Genre Shift: The movie decides that it doesn't want to be a slasher anymore.
- Double Subverted:
- It was all a prank performed by Alice's friend, except that the actual killer of the movie attacks them and Alice stops him.
- Alice wasn't a target, but she got in the way, so the killer chases her as well.
- Except Alice isn't the same killer who targets the group.
- Parodied: Alice sleeps through all the other murders, waking up when it's her cue to confront the killer.
- Zig Zagged: See Downplayed.
- Averted:
- Everybody Lives
- Alice survives, but so does several others in a not-so Dwindling Party.
- There is no wholesome Alice in that no character seems particularly reserved, virginal, or responsible.
- Enforced: "How do I emphasize the savagery of the killer at the end? Of course, have the sweetest, most responsible character confront them!"
- Lampshaded: "Sweet, innocent, and virginal. Of course you'd be the one left to confront me."
- 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.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's high sense of morals makes her vulnerable and more susceptible to the killer, who may choose to murder her indiscriminately.
- Alice suffers from some really bad PTSD after watching her friends die in front of her.
- Alice is put in a mental asylum.
- Alice becomes as bad as the killer.
- Alice winds up mistaken for a mass murderer when the police arrive.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice becomes an Action Survivor.
- Alice suffers a mental breakdown, but then goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and defeats the killer.
- 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.
- Exploited:
- Brittany is a Genre Savvy Hard-Drinking Party Girl. 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.
- 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.
- Defied:
- 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.
- The group knows that girls like Alice are left for last, so they turn on her to lessen her chances of survival.
- Discussed: "You're like those good girls who survive horror movies."
- Conversed: "Say, ever notice how it's a specific kind of girl who lives 'til the end of the horror movie?"
- Implied: Alice is an Action Survivor who looks and acts more conservatively than the victims.
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