Tropescilloscope: Darkest Hour

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

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