History HopeSpot / AnimeAndManga

** Later on in the Sinnoh League, Tobias's [[TheJuggernaut infamous]] [[OlympusMons Darkrai]] has swept through three of Ash's Pokemon without breaking a sweat. After a lucky break, Ash finally takes down Darkrai, becoming [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable the only known Trainer in the entire region to do so]]. Things are looking just the slightest bit up for Ash... until Tobias proceeds to send out a Latios and takes down the rest of Ash's team with that alone.

** Triple-subverted in the final episode of FINAL when each of the Yuushabots are fighting their respective EvilCounterpart. Initially, it seems as though the heroes have won, blasting straight through their enemies with the power of awesome without breaking a sweat... Then the bad guys ''regenerate'' and proceed to beat the stuffing out of our heroes, seemingly killing each one. THEN Mamoru kicks Cain's ass, prompting the Yuushabots into unleashing their [[HeroicSacrifice true ultimate attacks]] and blow the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol into oblivion. Then resubverted when Pisa Sol resurrects the Planetary Masters...And duplicates them, forming armies of clones, each more powerful than the original. This is all the worse since the good guys are practically dead from the effort of defeating a single original. Finally re-resubverted when it's revealed that this situation is EXACTLY what the heroes wanted, since Pisa Sol, and thus by extension everything made by Pisa Sol, is now vulnerable since it has to re-charge. '''[[DropTheHammer LET'S BREAK STUFF!]]'''

* In the ''Anime/{{Blame}}'' movie version, the Electro-Fishers were on the brink of being wiped out with their village falling from 450 to 150 inhabitants and their food sources have all run out. But then MysteriousStranger Killygives them a single ration bar which generates enough food to feed the village and then they learn from resuscitated scientist Cibo that there's an automated factory which can make as much food as they want. It seems all their problems are solved when they find thousands of ration bars there. Unfortunately Cibo triggers an army of Safeguard robots which forces the party to flee and never return. But at least they did recover enough food to last half a year.

** To prove its DarkerAndEdgier[=/=]BloodierAndGorier cred, the first major assault in the Thousand Year Blood War arc opens with a rapid-fire series of Hope Spots... [[spoiler:and ends with the Seireitei a pile of bloody rubble, in the GrayRainOfDepression.]]

** Ichigo is pushed to the wall in a clash with Yhwach, who appears to have the advantage with his sight of the near future. The enemy urges his "son" to not give in to despair quite yet, not because he thinks Ichigo has a chance, but because seeing him jump from one possible future to another made it more interesting. Ichigo responds by citing all the other times he's fought despair and come out on top, sometimes alone and sometimes with a friend's help, and busts out the Bankai of his re-forged Tensa Zangetsu... [[spoiler:only for Yhwach to completely and utterly shut that down by finding a "Tensa Zangetsu is broken" future and pulling that into the present, then proceeding to beat both him and Orihime to a pulp, ending the HumiliationConga by draining all of Ichigo's strength. That clash ends with Ichigo broken, powerless, and convinced that there is absolutely no way to win this. Worst of all, Yhwach twists the knife by telling him that NOW'S the time to despair.]]