Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

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

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