Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

The point where a character loses all hope. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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