Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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