Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 7: The Final Girl

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Yesterday's Results:
The Illusive Man - 4
The Pale Man - 3
The Slender Man - 2
The Man in Black (Westworld) - 2
The Man in Black (The Dark Tower) - 2
The Man in Black (LOST) - 2
The G-Men - 2
The Laughing Man - 2
The Man With No Name - 2
Florida Man - 2
The Faceless Men - 1
The Deadman - 1
The Gingerbread Man - 1
The Purple Man - 1
The One-Armed Man - 1
REPAIR MAN MAN MAN MAN - 1
The Smoking Man - 1
The Invisible Man - 1
The Trashcan Man - 1
The Batman - 1
The Third Man - 1
The Mystery Man - 1
The Rubberband Man - 1

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)

Nominations
The Fool
Monster Clown
Human Punching Bag
Tomboy & Girly Girl
Gentle Giant
Invincible Hero
Messianic Archetype (Christ Figure)
Bare-Fisted Monk
Ensemble Dark Horse
Your Size May Vary
Older Than They Look
Iconic Sequel Character
Unexpected Character
Superpowered Evil Side
Mix and Match Critters
Mad Bomber

Today's trope is the Final Girl
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FinalGirl

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 Death by Sex, 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.
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Ripley (Alien)
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It has to be Laurie Strode, right?

Edit: Shaduln posted...

Ripley (Alien)

Oooh, good one.
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Oh damn. Ripley wins for sure.
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Erin (You're Next)
Thomasin (The Witch)
Amanda Young (Saw)

HM:
Dana (Cabin in the Woods)
Taylor (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Grace (Scream Queens)
Sam (Until Dawn)
Casey Cooke (Split)
yeah ok Ripley
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Ripley
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Ripley (Alien)
Erin (You're Next)
Sam (Until Dawn)

Nominate Adaptational Heroism and Adaptational Villainy.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationalHeroism
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationalVillainy
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Ahhh I love this trope so much. There's a ton of great ones to pick from but I really think Ripley's gotta take it.
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I heard someone argue that Ripley isn't this, simply by being competent and self-sufficient from the beginning. If anything she becomes more vulnerable at the end of the movie because she's in a corner.
Anyway, screw the gender guidelines,
Emporio Alnio (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
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paperwarior posted...

I heard someone argue that Ripley isn't this, simply by being competent and self-sufficient from the beginning. If anything she becomes more vulnerable at the end of the movie because she's in a corner.

Final Girls definitely don't have to be weak or vulnerable, it's just common. Erin's pretty easily my #1 final girl for that exact reason; she's plenty strong from the beginning, the killers just don't realize it going in
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Ripley
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Erin (You're Next)
Suzy Bannion (Suspiria)
Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Got a lot of HMs for this one:
Lila Crane (Psycho)
Sidney Prescott (Scream)
Jesse Walsh (Elm Street 2)
Jess (Black Christmas)
Sally Hardesty (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Sam (Until Dawn)
Jennifer Simpson (Clock Tower)
Jenny Greengrass (Eden Lake)
Taylor (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
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Katniss Everdeen
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Looking at the examples on the site, I'll also throw a nod to Dutch even though he's not female.
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Erin (You're Next)
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Miss Justineau (The Girl With All the Gifts)
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up
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Johnbobb posted...

up

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Current Results
Ripley - 7
Erin - 4
Laurie Strode - 1
Thomasin - 1
Amanda Young - 1
Sam - 1
Emporio Alnio - 1
Suzy Bannion -1
Nancy Thompson - 1
Katniss Everdeen - 1
Dutch - 1
Miss Justineau - 1

Seems like Ripley just about has it on lock, but Erin's striving for it!
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