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This kind of happens in You're Next (2011) with the final girl Erin. She grew up in a survivalist compound so she is able to fight off all of the killers.
Slasher movie where the final girl is scarier than the killer 6Garbanzobeans 2025
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The term “final girl” is now as ubiquitous in horror culture as “slasher” and “jump scare.”
The 13 Best Final Girls in Horror Movie History David Crow 2023
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“These films are designed to align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the female victim — the ‘final girl’ — who finally defeats her oppressor,” Clover writes.
The “Final Girl,” a key part of every great slasher movie, explained Alex Abad-Santos 2015
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A final girl is a trope born with the slasher genre. The final girl is one of the last survivors standing in a massacre and the one who confronts the killer.
not every female protagonist is a final girl varg_sant 2025
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TV trope. The last character left alive to confront the killer. The character is almost ALWAYS female, a virgin, fully clothed, avoids death by sex, doesn't drink, smoke or take drugs.
The term was coined by Carol J. Colver in her 1992 book, Men, Women, And Chain Saws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FinalGirl
September 25, 2018