Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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