Initially a heroine, Victoria first appears in Terrifier (2016) as a college student who is left facially disfigured and driven insane after narrowly escaping the serial killer Art the Clown on Halloween night.

Damien Leone conceptualized her as a subversion of the final girl trope, having the false protagonist Tara Heyes killed off halfway through the film and depicting Victoria as a heroine who becomes a villain.

Despite being referred to as being docile by her nurse, her stomach begins to swell, and she bleeds profusely, writing obscenities on the wall with blood along with the words Vicky + Art in a heart.

The hospital staff walks in to see her with a glowing yellow eye, revealing she had become possessed by the Little Pale Girl, with Art's living head in her lap, having just given birth to it.

As Victoria's body disintegrates, her blood opens a portal to a realm with a striking resemblance to Hell, into which Sienna's cousin, Gabbie, ends up falling.

After Art flees the house to recover from his battle with Sienna, the latter is confident that her cousin is still alive and begins to prepare for her mission to rescue her.

[18] Victoria acts as the bookending character and as a subversion of the final girl trope after the false protagonist, Tara Heyes, is killed off halfway through the film.

[18] While Leone was searching for the lead actors, a friend of his, Gino Cafarelli, who portrays an employee at a pizza restaurant, suggested Samantha Scaffidi for a role.

[20] Her original scene set up her demise, as she would have been in the psychiatric hospital, and instead of becoming pregnant, Art would have emerged from the back of her head; however, Leone found this ending to be too similar to the concept of the horror film Malignant (2021).

[20] Following a suggestion from production designer Olga Turka, Leone rewrote it to the birthing scene and her becoming possessed by the Little Pale Girl.

Writing for Comic Book Resources (CBR), Jon Mendelsohn describes Victoria as exhibiting traits of the slasher film "final girl" trope.

Most final girls appear in the sequel or following situation as a capable guide for the next group of cannon fodder to demonstrate the villain's return.

"[27] Collider's Raquel Hollman states, "Victoria (Samantha Scaffidi) is introduced as our accidental final girl who is barely allowed to survive.

[29] Rocco T. Thompson of Slant Magazine wrote that she is the more effective villain in the third film, stating that Samantha Scaffidi "exudes a chilling sense of evil from beneath pounds of prosthetics.