![]() ![]() However, since Clover’s seminal text, many horror films have shifted away from the sexism of the final girl trope. She also identified that many final girls end up dying in the sequel, such as Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th Part 2. In earlier examples of the final girl, Clover identified that she was often portrayed as a damsel in distress and saved by a male figure, such as a police officer. As the final girl fights for her life, her purity is corrupted, playing out as a male fantasy. ![]() The final girl walks away with heaps of trauma and injuries, having narrowly lost their life, watched all their friends die, and potentially committed murder out of self-defence. The ‘good ones’ are allowed to survive, but they must always be tortured first. The trope says a lot about patriarchal attitudes towards women. ![]()
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