we can see this in the evolution of slashers, where yes of a certainty the original Final Girls were virginal and pure and their friends weren't but modern horror eschews that, often very deliberately yet the story still plays on the same goddamn beats it was never essential.
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Ash Williams in Evil Dead is an interesting contrast to this, as the rare male (and eventually, hypermasculine) survivor in a horror series.
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In fact Friday the 13th started the tradition of what Final Girl theorists call the "decoy Final Girl", which is a question begging definition The first movie *starts* with a pure innocent, the sweet starry eyed girl hitchhiking to Crystal Lake whose dream job is helping kids
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She's the *first one killed* in the present day, to shock the audience and upset them, and is certainly much more innocent than Alice, without any of the needed savvy or ruthlessness to realize the lady she hitched a ride from is the killer
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