Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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