Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

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

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