Tropescilloscope: Darkest Hour

The point in the story when all hope seems lost. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Russian Films One-Man Army The '70s Abhorrent Admirer Earn Your Happy Ending Real Life Writes the Plot Slasher Movie Every Car Is a Pinto Shipper on Deck Cool Old Lady Translation Convention Anyone Can Die All Just a Dream Gilligan Cut Antagonist Title Darker and Edgier Killed Mid-Sentence Wretched Hive Dull Surprise Dropped a Bridge on Him "The Reason You Suck" Speech Empathic Environment Really Gets Around Pragmatic Villainy Belligerent Sexual Tension Ironic Echo Humans Are Bastards Dramatic Irony Gorn Early Installment Weirdness Epic Movie Henpecked Husband Race Lift Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Counterpart No Ending Stealth Pun Villain Song Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Big Guy Alliterative Name You Have Failed Me Children Are Innocent Villain Opening Scene Call-Back Bland-Name Product Chiaroscuro Cool Guns Light Is Not Good Eureka Moment Reckless Gun Usage Rule of Cool Death by Irony Not Using the "Z" Word Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Sequel Hook Biopic Bilingual Bonus Femme Fatale Costume Porn "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Foregone Conclusion The Un-Reveal Spell My Name with an "S" Early-Bird Cameo Chekhov's Gun Film Noir Index No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mistaken for Gay Air-Vent Passageway Intergenerational Friendship Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Sociopath Fanservice Extra Curb-Stomp Battle Leave the Camera Running Famous Last Words Redemption Equals Death Greater-Scope Villain Toplessness from the Back Meet Cute Stalker with a Crush Daddy's Girl Fingore The Remake Here We Go Again! Auto Erotica Hell Is That Noise Offscreen Teleportation Mystery and Detective Films Chekhov's Gunman The Bad Guy Wins Beauty Is Never Tarnished timeperiod Broken Bird Cruel and Unusual Death Put on a Bus Disney Villain Death Bare Your Midriff Asshole Victim Fate Worse than Death Break the Haughty Scenery Gorn Dramedy Redshirt Army Logo Joke Improvised Weapon B-Movie Expy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Book-Ends After the End The Atoner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits She's Got Legs Hooker with a Heart of Gold Big Fancy House Shell-Shocked Veteran An Axe to Grind Eiffel Tower Effect N-Word Privileges Adaptation Distillation Batman Gambit The '90s Your Cheating Heart Kick the Dog Adaptation Dye-Job Eagleland "Well Done, Son!" Guy Show Within a Show The Great Depression Fanservice Military and Warfare Films Pimped-Out Dress Police are Useless Insistent Terminology Irony Catch-Phrase Made of Iron Evil Brit Cassandra Truth Almost Kiss Heroic Sacrifice Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Back from the Dead Badass Normal Neck Lift Bloody Hilarious Those Wacky Nazis Faux Affably Evil Dark and Troubled Past Real Life Important Haircut Sequel Escalation Thriller Overly Long Gag Would Hit a Girl Determinator 20 Minutes into the Future Karmic Death Deconstruction Chase Scene Black and Gray Morality Extreme Doormat Aside Glance Artistic License – Military Soft Glass Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Quiet One Peek-a-Boo Corpse Adaptation Expansion Anachronism Stew Wrong Genre Savvy Drill Sergeant Nasty Pet the Dog Even Evil Has Loved Ones For Want of a Nail Bottomless Magazines Arch-Enemy Adaptational Heroism Romantic Comedy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big "NO!" Retcon Sir Swears-a-Lot Honor Before Reason Slashed Throat As Long as It Sounds Foreign Lighter and Softer Whole Plot Reference Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Recycled IN SPACE! Stepford Smiler The Ditz Papa Wolf The Film of the Book Race Against the Clock Dumb Blonde Big Brother Instinct Villain Protagonist Depraved Bisexual One Steve Limit Crucified Hero Shot Red Shirt Unwitting Instigator of Doom British Films Easily Forgiven The Smart Guy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Drowning My Sorrows Ungrateful Bastard Adaptational Attractiveness Spared by the Adaptation Fatal Flaw Mercy Kill Arranged Marriage Same Language Dub Developing Doomed Characters Sacrificial Lion Vampire Fiction Defrosting Ice Queen The Chick My God, What Have I Done? Room Full of Crazy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Not So Different The Stinger Evil Sounds Deep Neck Snap Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Smoking Is Cool Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Suspiciously Specific Denial Hero of Another Story Politically Incorrect Villain Bullying a Dragon Stock Footage Line-of-Sight Name The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Blood from the Mouth Older Than They Look Death by Sex Film Series Double-Meaning Title Sanity Slippage Historical Hero Upgrade Ms. Fanservice Knight Templar Didn't Think This Through "Shaggy Dog" Story Cool Old Guy Get Out! Mr. Exposition Kids Are Cruel In Name Only Visual Pun Scare Chord Mind Screw Dirty Coward Brother–Sister Incest Composite Character Psychopathic Manchild Humiliation Conga Cloudcuckoolander Drugs Are Bad Wicked Cultured Match Cut Handicapped Badass Science Fiction Films Decoy Protagonist Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking I Need a Freaking Drink Unreliable Narrator Parental Substitute Genre Savvy Shower Scene Abusive Parents Mooks Chekhov's Skill Trailers Always Spoil Well-Intentioned Extremist In the Back Green-Eyed Monster Spiteful Spit All Men Are Perverts Obstructive Bureaucrat Chewing the Scenery Oh, Crap! Reality Ensues Kubrick Stare Dying Moment of Awesome Bound and Gagged Improbable Weapon User Taking the Bullet Dogged Nice Guy Shut Up, Hannibal! Monumental Damage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Horror Films Mythology Gag Evil Is Petty Overprotective Dad Heel Realization Homage Missing Mom The Vamp Stylistic Suck Naked People Are Funny Final Girl Adaptational Villainy Made of Explodium He Who Fights Monsters Training Montage Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – History Action Genre Manly Tears Punny Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Villain with Good Publicity Evil Plan Accidental Misnaming Rule of Three Grey and Gray Morality Hero Antagonist The Power of Love Jerkass You Killed My Father Offscreen Moment of Awesome Australian Movies Hypocrite And I Must Scream French Films Noodle Incident O.O.C. Is Serious Business Manipulative Bastard Heroes Want Redheads Off-into-the-Distance Ending Framing Device Off with His Head! Freeze-Frame Bonus Parental Abandonment Rated M for Manly Informed Ability Drives Like Crazy Male Frontal Nudity Outrun the Fireball Be Careful What You Wish For Failed a Spot Check Bi the Way Ass Shove Only One Name All There in the Manual Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Bully The Stoner Artistic License – Law Our Zombies Are Different Danny Peary Cult Movies List Title Drop Mexican Standoff A God Am I Exact Words Animated Credits Opening Never My Fault Awesome, but Impractical Even Evil Has Standards Mighty Whitey Creepy Child Fainting Contrived Coincidence Better to Die than Be Killed It Will Never Catch On You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sci-Fi Horror Call-Forward The Chessmaster Amusing Injuries Bittersweet Ending Armor-Piercing Question My Greatest Failure Double Entendre Determinator aka: The Determinator Spanner in the Works Broken Pedestal I Did What I Had to Do Riddle for the Ages Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Gone Horribly Right Public Domain Feature Films Meaningful Background Event Actually Pretty Funny Faking the Dead Disproportionate Retribution Big Damn Heroes Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Punch-Clock Villain As Himself Our Vampires Are Different Kick the Son of a Bitch Alas, Poor Villain Beta Couple Canon Foreigner Deus ex Machina Paper-Thin Disguise The Load Unusual Euphemism Captain Obvious Foil Improbable Aiming Skills Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Author Appeal Married to the Job Straight Gay Took a Level in Badass Gold Digger Guns Akimbo Documentary Everyone Has Standards Fatal Family Photo Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Christmas Movies Index Re-Cut Vacation Films Intrepid Reporter Ax-Crazy Storming the Castle Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hypocritical Humor Bad "Bad Acting" Laser-Guided Karma Red Eyes, Take Warning Black Comedy Vitriolic Best Buds Very Loosely Based on a True Story Once More, with Clarity! Bloodier and Gorier Getting Crap Past the Radar The Faceless Suspiciously Similar Substitute Boom, Headshot! Diabolus ex Machina Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Happily Married Anti-Villain Not So Above It All Spiritual Successor As You Know Fan Disservice Market-Based Title Death Glare Dark Reprise Apocalypse How Cat Scare Implacable Man Psycho for Hire Groin Attack Bavarian Fire Drill Bloodless Carnage Rasputinian Death Product Placement Wham Line True Companions Hong Kong Films Nice Guy Insane Troll Logic Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Skewed Priorities Television Movie Index Dies Wide Open Fish out of Water Black Best Friend Deal with the Devil Love at First Sight Based on a True Story Psychological Thriller Up to Eleven An Aesop Sealed Evil in a Can Would Hurt a Child Becoming the Mask Sports Stories The Alcoholic Laughing Mad Motor Mouth Stuff Blowing Up What You Are in the Dark Big Bad Damsel in Distress Adult Fear Deliberate Values Dissonance I Have Your Wife Dirty Old Man Black Comedy Rape One-Word Title Soundtrack Dissonance Parental Neglect As the Good Book Says... Action Prologue Amoral Attorney Ripped from the Headlines Time Skip Combat Pragmatist The Ace The '50s Shown Their Work Suddenly SHOUTING! Disguised in Drag Four-Temperament Ensemble Vomit Discretion Shot NO INDOOR VOICE Eyepatch of Power Mood Whiplash Only a Flesh Wound Coming-of-Age Story You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Accidental Murder Ambiguously Gay Five-Man Band Your Head A-Splode Bar Brawl Authority Equals Asskicking An Arm and a Leg Badass Boast Scenery Porn Historical-Domain Character Age Lift From Nobody to Nightmare Fiery Redhead Stealth Hi/Bye This Is Gonna Suck Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Ghost The Musical Pyrrhic Victory Jerk Jock No OSHA Compliance Closed Circle Animal Title Index Serial Killer Together in Death Hope Spot Disappeared Dad Badass Longcoat Villain Ball Romantic False Lead Arc Words Comically Missing the Point Flipping the Bird Reality Is Unrealistic Canadian Movies Woman in White Corpsing Woman Scorned Beware the Nice Ones Central Theme Catapult Nightmare Crazy Jealous Guy Large Ham Meaningful Name Fantastic Racism Artistic License – Geography Kill 'em All Mr. Fanservice The Voiceless Historical In-Joke Ominous Latin Chanting Beard of Evil Cold-Blooded Torture '80s Hair Silence Is Golden Let's Get Dangerous! Bring My Brown Pants Adorkable Posthumous Character Protagonist Title Gory Discretion Shot Gender Flip Evil Laugh She Cleans Up Nicely Instant Death Bullet Precision F-Strike And the Adventure Continues Reality Has No Subtitles The End... Or Is It? The '60s Madness Mantra For the Evulz No Celebrities Were Harmed Adapted Out Manchild Nice Hat Love Triangle Driven to Suicide Obviously Evil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Undying Loyalty The Dreaded Black Dude Dies First Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Red Herring In Medias Res Not What It Looks Like Worthy Opponent "Awesome McCool" Name Running Gag Artistic License – Physics Last-Name Basis Pragmatic Adaptation And Starring Establishing Character Moment Meaningful Echo Bowdlerise Taking You with Me Hidden Depths Wham Shot Celebrity Paradox Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rousing Speech Half the Man He Used to Be Creator Cameo Rape as Drama Truth in Television Refuge in Audacity Martial Arts Movie Disney Death Genre Shift Pretty in Mink Extremely Short Timespan Left the Background Music On Big Bad Duumvirate Deadpan Snarker Too Dumb to Live Anti-Hero Small Name, Big Ego Manic Pixie Dream Girl It's All About Me Fantasy Films Reasonable Authority Figure Take That! Japanese Films The Hero Historical Villain Upgrade Annoying Younger Sibling Properly Paranoid Slap-Slap-Kiss Dark Action Girl Hoist by His Own Petard Break the Cutie Sole Survivor It Can Think Credits Gag The Starscream Freudian Excuse Evil Is Hammy Dramatic Gun Cock Anguished Declaration of Love Distracted by the Sexy Malevolent Masked Men Never Trust a Trailer The Oner The Mafia May–December Romance The X of Y I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Award-Bait Song Rule of Symbolism Does Not Like Shoes Setting Update Bury Your Gays Index of Film Westerns Good Is Not Nice Heterosexual Life-Partners Agony of the Feet Those Two Bad Guys Heroic BSoD Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane What Happened to the Mouse? Affectionate Parody Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie More Dakka Bolivian Army Ending Death by Adaptation Playing Gertrude Rich Bitch The Lost Lenore Sadistic Choice Animal Motifs Exactly What It Says on the Tin Foreshadowing Throwing Your Sword Always Works Revenge Friend to All Children The Mole Non-Indicative Name Face–Heel Turn Star-Crossed Lovers Advertised Extra Does This Remind You of Anything? Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Demonic Possession A Father to His Men Corrupt Corporate Executive Author Avatar Take a Third Option Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism MacGuffin Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Cameo Rewatch Bonus Death of a Child Badass Bookworm Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Italian Films Casting Gag Maybe Ever After Captain Ersatz Butt-Monkey Super Strength Expository Hairstyle Change Enemy Mine Tap on the Head Anachronic Order Totally Radical Dissonant Serenity Tranquil Fury Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Yandere Due to the Dead Leitmotif Cain and Abel Fat Bastard Fun with Acronyms La Résistance I'm a Humanitarian Demoted to Extra Bait-and-Switch Breaking the Fourth Wall Idiot Ball Never Found the Body Adaptation Name Change Action Survivor Zombie Stories Betty and Veronica Frame-Up Mama Bear Bald of Evil Sexy Discretion Shot Have a Gay Old Time Defiant to the End Nothing Is Scarier The Reveal Police Brutality No Name Given The Smurfette Principle Those Two Guys No-Sell Hollywood Law The Cavalry Mundane Made Awesome All for Nothing Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dark Is Not Evil Moment Killer Broken Aesop Ascended Extra Big Eater Facial Horror The Hero Dies Pay Evil unto Evil Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Morality Pet Cowboy Cop No Antagonist folderlabel A.I. Is a Crapshoot Male Gaze Crazy-Prepared Victoria's Secret Compartment My Beloved Smother Downer Ending Berserk Button Self-Deprecation Works Set in World War II Domestic Abuse The Alleged Car Wounded Gazelle Gambit Took a Level in Jerkass From Bad to Worse Red Right Hand Ghost Fiction Curse Cut Short How We Got Here Pretty Little Headshots Adults Are Useless Body Horror Say My Name Jump Scare Jerkass Has a Point Cat Fight The Lancer Horror Comedy Deliberately Monochrome Big-Bad Ensemble Plucky Comic Relief Darkest Hour Sinister Minister Gainax Ending Bond One-Liner Brutal Honesty Lampshade Hanging Covers Always Lie Kill It with Fire Camp Gay Dutch Angle Naïve Newcomer Babies Ever After I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cluster F-Bomb Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dressing as the Enemy Major Injury Underreaction Creative Closing Credits Continuity Nod Adaptational Badass Loophole Abuse Plot Hole A Date with Rosie Palms Car Fu The Dog Bites Back Poor Communication Kills Only Known by Their Nickname Camera Abuse BFG Grievous Bottley Harm Blood Knight Lock and Load Montage Epic Fail Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Place Jitter Cam Cool Shades Fire-Forged Friends Not Quite Dead Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bad Boss Smug Snake German Films Blatant Lies Big Applesauce Ambiguous Disorder Ship Tease Funny Background Event Villainous Breakdown Only Sane Man What the Hell, Hero? Red Oni, Blue Oni Evil-Detecting Dog Aluminum Christmas Trees Unusually Uninteresting Sight The '80s Dwindling Party Rule of Funny Genre Throwback Gratuitous English Token Minority Country Matters Man on Fire Fourth Date Marriage War Is Hell Knife Nut Only in It for the Money Crapsack World Unresolved Sexual Tension Brick Joke Immune to Bullets Character Development Shout-Out Slasher Smile Daylight Horror Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Action Girl Parental Incest Twist Ending Names to Run Away from Really Fast Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome World of Ham Dirty Cop Attempted Rape Cool Car Guile Hero Narrator Fake Shemp Actor Allusion Face Death with Dignity Interrupted Suicide Make It Look Like an Accident The Dragon Hate Sink Sassy Black Woman Novelization The Casanova Dual Wielding Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Obfuscating Stupidity Hollywood Darkness Serious Business Word of God Not So Stoic Destination Defenestration Imagine Spot Music Stories Tempting Fate Alpha Bitch Brainless Beauty Artistic License – Biology Leaning on the Fourth Wall Conspicuous CG All There in the Script Evil vs. Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Card-Carrying Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Department of Redundancy Department Artistic License – Gun Safety Despair Event Horizon Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Brute Random Events Plot A Minor Kidroduction Calling the Old Man Out He Knows Too Much Retirony Badass Grandpa Eye Scream Karma Houdini Badass in a Nice Suit Needs Wiki Magic Love Did Not Get the Girl Affably Evil Death Seeker Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Mad Scientist Eldritch Abomination Blackmail Scary Black Man Film Noir All Girls Want Bad Boys Men Are the Expendable Gender Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ambiguous Ending Flashback Heel–Face Turn Mugging the Monster It's Personal The Stoic Insult Backfire There Is No Kill Like Overkill Tagline Funny Foreigner Shirtless Scene Video Credits Retired Badass Silent Movie Superhero