Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

A failure so spectacular, it shouldn't even be possible. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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