Tropescilloscope: Darkest Hour

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

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