Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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