Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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