Tropescilloscope: Despair Event Horizon

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

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