Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

A character finds hope, but it doesn't last long. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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