Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

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

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