Tropescilloscope: Epic Fail

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

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