Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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