Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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