Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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