Tropescilloscope: Hope Spot

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

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