Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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