Final girl

The final girl, also called the survivor girl, is the horror-film convention, most associated with the slasher subgenre, of the last surviving female character who confronts the killer and lives to tell the story. Film scholar Carol J. Clover coined the term in her 1987 article Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film, later expanded in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Clover argued that slasher films shift audience identification partway through from the killer to the final girl, whom she described as typically intelligent, watchful and morally set apart from the other victims, often bearing a unisex name and serving as the story's investigating consciousness. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/