Tropescilloscope: Darkest Hour

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

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