Mia thought of the woman on screen who’d survived because she had learned to be precise, not lucky. She thought of the nights she’d sat awake cataloguing lessons she wished someone had told her before. “Because someone told me once,” she said simply. “And it changed everything.”

Answer: The author uses dramatic irony and situational irony. The narrator knows she is in a movie and comments on the clichés (like the "tits and ass" shots), breaking the fourth wall. The irony lies in the fact that while she "wins" by surviving, she feels no joy; she is simply condemned to survive for the sake of the sequel/audience.

The final girl trope has its roots in the 1970s and 1980s, when horror movies began to feature resourceful and determined female protagonists who outsmarted their male killers. One of the earliest examples of this trope is the 1974 film "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," which introduced audiences to Laurie Strode, a character who would become a template for future final girls.

The man beside her watched her profile. “You think it’s something to practice?”

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Mia’s answer surprised even her. She did not reel off a list of escape plans. Instead she said, “I’d check the locks, listen for patterns, and don’t split up.”

: She is typically the last surviving protagonist who confronts and survives the antagonist. Specific Archetypes