10 Horror Final Girls Who Didn't Survive Their Movie

10. Ellen Ripley - Alien 3

This is the only entry that stands as an already established Final Girl that was forced to take the L in a sequel, but certainly not an anomaly by any horror movie standard. In fact, it's something of a running joke to splatter your sole survivor all over the screen pretty sharpish when you get to a new instalment of a franchise, so Ripley was lucky to make it this far, really.

After being the most rational, resourceful, and radical member of the team in both Alien and Aliens, ensuring her survival through TWO xenomorph outbreaks, as well as doing her dang best to keep as many others alive as possible in the process, Ripley is forced to kill herself upon learning she is carrying a xenomorph embryo. It's not pretty, but it is logical, and another decision done for the greater good of humanity rather than for herself.

Ripley of course comes back in other forms, but not surviving a movie that exists purely on her own strength of character selling so well in the first place is a tough embr- sorry, pill, to swallow.