Tropescilloscope: Darkest Hour

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

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