Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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