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The simplest definition of this is "the last character left alive to confront the killer" in a Slasher Movie. The character in question tends to follow a certain set of characteristics. The most obvious one is being (almost) Always Female. Especially in older works, she'll also almost certainly be a virgin, remain fully clothed, avoid sex (because Sex Signals Death), and probably won't drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or take drugs, either. Finally, she'll probably turn out to be more intelligent and resourceful than the other victims, occasionally even evolving into a type of Action Girl by the movie's end. Looking at the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality, you could say that the Final Girl is a combination of The Hero, The Cutie, and the Damsel in Distress — which obviously gives her a very low deadness score. The Final Girl is usually but not always brunette, often in contrast to a promiscuous blonde who traditionally gets killed off. The term was coined by Carol J. Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, And Chain Saws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film, a critical examination of slasher movies. The character is ultimately the last one left to tell the story. If the Final Girl appears in a sequel to the movie she survived, there is a very high chance that she will fall victim to Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome. It's also interesting to note how the Final Girl can be interpreted in film theory. On one hand, the character seems to be the living embodiment of stereotypical conservative attitudes of what women "should be". On the other, feminists have noticed that through this device, the males in the audience are forced to identify with a woman in the climax of the movie. In practical terms, the makers of a horror film want the victim to experience abject terror in the climax, and feel that viewers would reject a film that showed a man experiencing such abject terror. This trope has seen a growing number of subversions, aversions, and parodies in recent years, which suggests it may be slowly weakening. Then again, the Action Survivor's replacing the Action Hero points in an interesting direction. Thank God for Monster Threat Expiration. Often overlaps with Token Wholesome. Compare and contrast Kill the Cutie and Men Are the Expendable Gender. Has nothing to do with Last Girl Wins, which is about romantic pairings. A villainous (and usually male) variant might show up as part of a Mook Horror Show. As this is both a Death Trope and an Ending Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Chronologically, Soshun Murasame is a subversion. We see that he's the most plain-looking of the Student Council, the one who believes in his friends' ability to not cave in to murder, and he never kills anyone during the Tragedy, nor is he targeted. Perfect example of a Final Boy... until he gets extreme PTSD, fakes catatonia, and gets choked out by one of the Tragedy's perpetrators once they find out he still remembers in the very book he debuts in. | |
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Stacey from the Cool Kids Table game Creepy Town fits almost all of the usual Final Girl requirements: she's a pretty blonde, and while she does have a history of sleeping with a lot of people she doesn't get any action in the game itself. However, she ends up being the penultimate victim, which leaves spoiled rich kid Will as the last named character. And then Will dies at the end as well, leaving no cast members alive. | |
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The Final Girls of the Friday the 13th spin-off books Church of the Divine Psychopath and Carnival of Maniacs are also The Lad-ette. | |
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Clown in a Cornfield: Downplayed; Quinn is the main character and has all of the hallmarks including Gender-Blender Name. After she takes a level in badass, she manages to survive and kill multiple Frendos, but her father and both of the leading men surive. Though, Cole only survives because of her efforts. | |
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Little Red Riding Hood, who (at least in versions where she isn't rescued by a conveniently placed male) either ends up the killer's final victim or fights him off herself. | |
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"The Fallen Flower" Kikyo thought she would be the one to end Zack Monstar's reign as RPW Top Crown Champion because "the female always beats the monster in the movie" and she had challenged him for the belt on the final REAL Pro Wrestling show of 2017. Unfortunately for her, in RPW the towering Monstar was the baby face, Kikyo had not learned much from her loss to Women's Champion Roxy Rouge three months earlier and Chico Adams had all but ensured he would be Monstar's last challenger. | |
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Fully embraced by Final Girl, a horror-themed card game for one where the player take the role of the, um... final girl. She tries to survive by destroying the killer responsible for all of the mayhem while rescuing as many potential victims as possible. Each individual set is a tribute to classic slasher and horror films, with titles like Happy Trails Horror, Frightmare on Maple Lane, The Haunting of Creech Manor and others, and runs heavy with other Horror Tropes to boot. | |
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RedHook: "Low Budget Horror" has the singer compare herself to a Final Girl and an online bully to the villain of a bad horror movie. "Cure 4 Psycho" namedrops a famous Final Girl: And then, "Scream 2" is a Sequel Song to "Cure 4 Psycho", as the Youtube description states: |
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Kaori Tanaka, though not inherently a main character, ends up the most prominent female survivor of Shiki. She survives her final confrontation and subsequently safe from any danger, as she's shown to escape in the end. | |
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Gretel from Hansel and Gretel (which is likely the template for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), who not only survives but saves her brother from the killer as well. | |
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The Teen Titans (2003) episode "Fear Itself" had a similar premise, with a monster stalking Titan Tower and picking off the Titans one by one, using a method similar to killers used in slasher movies. Raven was the last one left because the "monster" was her own powers acting on her repressed fear - after the team had watched a scary movie, no less. Ironically, this would not only make her the Final Girl in this scenario, but technically, the antagonist as well. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd ended up being the last one to confront Freddy in his A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES) 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! | |
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CHVRCHES has the song “Final Girl,� in which singer Lauren Mayberry assumes the titular role. | |
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A parody in Robot Chicken where Scooby-Doo meets Jason Voorhees. Velma complains that she is the final girl due to the stereotype that the virgin is always the last to die. | |
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In the episode "Failsafe" of Young Justice (2010), M'gann is the last of all the heroes in their battle against the invading aliens. Turns out she had to be the last one, as she was the one subconsciously controlling the Your Mind Makes It Real simulation that Went Horribly Wrong. Once she is 'killed', everyone awakens. | |
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The comic book Hack/Slash stars a former Final Girl who becomes a slasher-hunter. She gradually meets up with other (mostly female) slasher survivors, ultimately assembled in the finale story arc as the All-Final Girl Team. | |
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A non-fatal example in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.". During a lockdown of the Sector V Treehouse, Numbuh Five is the only operative left when her teammates are transformed into Spank-Happy Vampires. She is about to be spanked by her vampirified teammates when she is caught using the Quadruple Emergency Bypass Code, but the sun comes out in time and stops the vampires. | |
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Devolution: The protagonist Kate Holland is one of only two survivors in the community of Greenloop, the other being the little girl Palomino. While she is initially naïve and conflict-averse, she takes a level in badass and is the most virtuous member of her group. She and Palomino may have died shortly afterwards, but it's left ambiguous. | |
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Played out in Anastasia (1997), in which the evil Rasputin curses the Romanov family whom he feels betrayed him and aids in a revolt that ultimately kills the entire family except Anastasia, who manages to escape with her life but is now an amnesiac who calls herself 'Anya'. Once he finds out that Anastasia is alive, Rasputin vows to kill the last Romanov to fulfill his dark purpose. | |
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As of the final page of Gyo, 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). | |
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Discussed and deconstructed in the novel Final Girls by Riley Sager. The main character, Quincy, and two other girls — the sole survivors of three separate slasher-film-style massacres — are dubbed "the Final Girls" by the media, and much of the book deals with Quincy struggling to cope with the physical and mental scars of being a sole survivor. | |
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