Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

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

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