Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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