Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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