Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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