Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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