Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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