History EpicFail / FIlm

* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': The knights are crossing the bridge of death and must answer the bridge keeper's three questions, and if they fail any one, they will automatically fall off the bridge to their death. The first two questions always ask one's name and quest, but the third is always random, ranging from something impossibly easy like "what is your favorite color" to a nigh-difficult "what is the capital of Assyria?" Galahad lucks out and manages to get the "favorite color" question... and ''still'' manages to screw up his answer, leading to him plummeting to his death. About as justified as this trope can get, since he was just fluidly and unthinkingly repeating the previous knight's answers to the same questions and didn't realize that wouldn't work for favorite color until it was too late.

!!Films -- Animated
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'': Felix is caught by King Candy and put into a jail cell. He tries to get out with his [[HealingShiv hammer]] [[note]]which magically repairs whatever is struck with it[[/note]]... [[BlessedWithSuck and ends up making the bars on the cell twice as thick]].
-->'''Fix-It Felix Jr.:''' WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH?!
* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': The circus's performance in Rome is a series of EpicFail. Examples include Stefano [[ItMakesSenseInContext choking on his balls]], knocking a dog unconscious by accident, or a horse kicking another dog off a pyramid of dogs, or the balls the elephants were standing on deflating, or even [[AssShove the elephant accidentally sitting on a heckler and exiting stage left with the boy in his rear end]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Skipper]]:''' Well, that was worth the price of admission.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': "Prepare to meet ''Mr. Angry Eyes!''" quoth Mr. Potato Head as he rushes to the attack in Al's apartment. After switching his regular eyes... for [[RummageFail an extra pair of shoes]]. So naturally he just runs into the furniture and looks like an idiot. Jessie's WTF facial expression makes it even better.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel has a montage of epic fails trying to get Flynn Rider into a closet. It should be noted that he was unconscious, and it only ends when Rapunzel decides having the doors closed with his fingers poking out is close enough.
* ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'': Trying to break Simba and Nala up, Timon throws a beehive at them... only for the hive to go ahead and the bees to stay right above his head. Why this happened... the world may never know.
* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Kay loses a jousting match. Against a ''training dummy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': The scene where the girls, not knowing that their magic doesn't work the way it did before, clasp hands and shout, "Friendship is Magic!" in an attempt to activate ThePowerOfFriendship and defeat the Dazzlings. Nothing happens.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Flash Sentry and Sweetie Drops enter a cake baking contest, but bake a loaf of bread instead.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': Mulan is getting ready for her first meeting with the matchmaker. It starts badly, then gets progressively worse. It involves [[NoodleImplements a renegade cricket, some badly placed ink, a teapot, and]] [[KillItWithFire fire.]]

* As Caesar's fleet approaches Britain in the opening of ''[[Franchise/{{Asterix}} Asterix in Britain]]'', a signalman gets mad at a very annoying seagull and starts waving his signal flags wildly trying to get rid of it. What follows is the accidental self-destruction of a large chunk of the fleet as well as a {{Facepalm}} from Caesar accompanied by an exasperated "I came, I saw, and ''I don't believe my eyes''."

!!Films -- Live-Action
* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is a collection of epic fails every ten minutes of the movie. [[VerbalTic Ay ay ay ay ay.]] What's worse, roughly half the [[HilarityEnsues wacky predicaments ensue]] simply because at the beginning of the movie, ''someone throws an empty Coca-Cola bottle from an airplane''. Seriously. We never even learn the litterbug's name.

* ''Film/IronMan1'':
** The first movie gives us the Mk. II test flight:
-->'''Tony:''' We're going to see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one....
-->[''Gets thrown up and backwards into a wall, before being doused by an inept RobotBuddy with a fire extinguisher'']
** Then after trying it again and ending up high in the air:
-->'''Tony''': [''hovering above his house''] Kill power.
-->[''crashes through several stories, a piano, [[CarCushion lands on his]] CoolCar, and [[ChekhovsGag gets doused by the same]] [[TriggerHappy fire extinguisher]] RobotBuddy'']
* ''Film/IronMan2'':
** The second gives us the Ex-Wife, a tiny yet massively explosive missile... that gets shot at Vanko but does ''absolutely nothing''. Not even explode. The disgust in Tony's and Rhodey's voices is palpable.
** In some of the tie-in comics that led up to ''Film/IronMan3,'' it actually shows off a working Ex-Wife. Apparently, that particular one was a dud. The ''real'' Ex-Wife [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill in action...]] [[StuffBlowingUp well...]] Let's just say that [[TooDumbToLive using it in close quarters]] would have been a ''bad'' idea.
** It also gives us footage of various foreign countries' (as well as Hammer Industries') hilariously botched attempts to replicate the Iron Man armor. Turns out that without an actual set of the armor to reverse-engineer, trying to do this absolutely requires a Stark-level genius. Not too many of those around.
-->'''Tony Stark:''' Yeah, I'd say, uh, most countries? 5-10 years away... Hammer Industries? 20.\\

* The Mk. 42 in ''Film/IronMan3'' falls apart at the slightest jolt. Of course, it's ''designed'' to be able to come apart and fly towards Tony and assemble around him, but it falls apart ''too well''. An epic scene where Tony is facing off against the BigBad, JARVIS informs him that Mk. 42 is on the way. Heroic music plays, as Tony uses a gesture to get the armor to assemble on him... and the armor trips and falls apart.
--> '''Tony Stark:''' (''eyeroll'') Whatever.
* In the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movies, Ben mentions that Johnny "washed out of NASA for sneaking two Victoria's Secret wannabes into a flight simulator. They crashed it into a wall. A flight ''simulator''."

* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', the destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare the planets to obey the Empire]], it only angered the galaxy, and many planets either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed their support of the Empire. NiceJobFixingItVillain!
** ''Film/RogueOne'': Tarkin must have spread his [[SarcasmMode brilliant planning]] abilities to his fellow Imperials. Director Orson Krennic spends the entire film trying to [[spoiler: get the Death Star back into his possession]]. [[spoiler: At the end, not only have the Rebels successfully stolen the plans, but Krennic ends up [[KarmicDeath vaporized by the Death Star's own superlaser]]]].
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Oskari threatens to shoot Morris - who's standing about four metres from him - with an arrow. The problem is, he can't properly draw a bow, and the arrow ends up landing exactly in the middle of the way between them with an embarrassed ''thump''. To add to the insult, Morris looks like he's about to burst out laughing.
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', there's pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookmaker's. They were to rob the bookie's place as well, so it wouldn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they stole the case from him. In the end, they'd get the cash from the bookie's, their employer would get the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it.\\
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Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, Sol and Vinnie enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the "pull" side of the door]]. The clincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.

* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, Maxwell Smart is given a tiny grappling hook launcher, and while using it to free himself, manages to hit everything except what he was aiming for, including a secret button that drops him out of an airliner. In flight. Made slightly more epic by the fact that the grappling hook launcher was part of a Swiss Army Knife. You know, the thing ''with a blade on it! For cutting!''
* ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki, who is [[VillainousBreakdown having a very bad day]], [[spoiler:runs into the Hulk and tries to ''browbeat him into submission''. The Hulk responds by [[MetronomicManMashing using him as a club]], AKA The Droopy Moment. "You know what? That Makes Me Mad!"]].
-->[[spoiler:"Puny god."]]
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': The knights are crossing the bridge of death and must answer the bridge keeper's three questions, and if they fail any one, they will automatically fall off the bridge to their death. The first two questions always ask one's name and quest, but the third is always random, ranging from something impossibly easy like "what is your favorite color" to a ni-difficult "what is the capital of Assyria." Galahad lucks out and manages to get the "favorite color" question... and ''still'' manages to screw up his answer, leading to him plummeting to his death. About as justified as this trope can get, since he was just fluidly and unthinkingly repeating the previous knight's answers to the same questions and didn't realise that wouldn't work for favorite color until it was too late.
* From ''Film/PulpFiction'', one of the guys at the apartment where Jules and Vincent go to retrieve Marsellus Wallace's briefcase ambushes them and shoots at the duo at very close range... and misses every shot. All three pause to stare in surprise. (Jules believes that this is a sign from God to change careers.)
** Later, an epic failure to follow basic gun safety leads to the memetic "IJustShotMarvinInTheFace" scene.

* In the PaedoHunt[=/=]TooSmartForStrangers PSA ''Film/TrickyPeople'', [[BigBad Reginald Charming]] gives his NumberTwoForBrains [[TheDragon Dragon]] Wendell the task of not touching anything in his office while he's away. Wendell not only immediately disobeys the order the second Reginald has left, but he makes a complete mess of Reginald's desk in his attempt to play with a Newton's cradle.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** The entire US military does this in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. First, they miss the skyscraper-sized dinosaur with rockets and heat-seeking missiles from close range and destroy more of the city than the lizard does. Somehow, the monster was able to hide in a city of ''eight million.''
** The Navy trying to attack Godzilla just as he rises outside of San Francisco Bay in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. One of the ship rockets hit a supporting cable, prompting a soldier to tell them to stop firing due to civilians on the Golden Gate Bridge. They ''still'' keep firing at him, and a hole gets torn in the bridge in the chaos.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': When the Ents (gigantic living trees) hold a council, they demonstrate just how mind-bogglingly slow they are at doing ''anything''.
-->'''Treebeard:''' We just finished saying... "Good morning."
-->'''Merry:''' BUT IT'S NIGHTTIME ALREADY!
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'' series:
** The 1989 film: Batman programs the computer in his Batwing to fire two machine guns and several missiles at SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. ''Every'' missile and bullet [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy completely misses]]. Even more humiliating when the Joker causes the Batwing to crash to the street below with a single shot from his (admittedly very long) gun.
*** The novelization lessens the fail by having Joker dance and prance around, essentially dodging the bullets and rockets.
** ''Film/BatmanReturns'': The Penguin snatches up an instrument panel from the wreckage of the Batboat and tries to use it against Batman, assuming it's some kind of weapon. It turns out to actually be the device that overrides the frequency jam on the Penguin's radio signal to his pet penguins to launch their missiles at Gotham City, and as a result the penguins [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fire their missiles at Penguin's own hideout, completely destroying it]].

* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Hip and his nieces rescue Film/JamesBond from Hai Fat's dojo. The plan goes well, until Hip drives off without Bond, despite his nieces trying to tell him that the man they were sent to rescue has been left behind.
* In ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'', Lyn crashes into a rock in the middle of the desert, the only such object for miles around. It was probably destiny.
* Nearly [[UpToEleven everything]] Creator/LaurelAndHardy get up to in their films. From [[Film/TheMusicBox delivering pianos]] to working at lumber mills, something is bound to go wrong.
* From ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', S.H.I.E.L.D's major CriticalResearchFailure when Steve Rogers has been thawed in a fake 1940's hospital room. Everything else in there was fine (a woman even entering in a suitable getup) - except for the radio broadcasting a "live" baseball game, from 1941. Rogers was frozen in 1945, and he was AT that game. ''They didn't even bother to check whether the game was from after he went MIA.''
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this trope is used to surprisingly serious effect. [[spoiler:After WWII, SHIELD recruited a number of HYDRA scientists to do science and engineering for them. This in and of itself isn't a bad idea; it happened in real life, with the U.S. recruiting Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to work on their space program. The difference is, von Braun and his cohorts had mainly been PunchClockVillains, cooperating with the Nazis out of fear and duress. But HYDRA was staffed by dyed-in-the-wool supervillains. Fast-forward to the present and Armin Zola has essentially converted SHIELD into a massive HYDRA operation working under deep cover. It's so bad that the heroes have to literally destroy SHIELD to save the world.]]
* Eirik's attempt to rob Ray in ''Film/InBruges'' not only fails, but gets him [[EyeScream permanently blinded in one eye]]. By his own weapon. As a more experienced crook puts it:
-->'''Harry:''' I mean, basically, you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks. Then you allow your gun to be taken from you, and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you then. Yeah really it's all your fault for being such a poof. So why don't you stop wingeing and cheer the fuck up?
* This trope is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape. Given that Burke admits to Ripley that the real objective of the mission was to smuggle some eggs out inside infected Marines, the fact that the squad performed so poorly was probably intentional: the Weyland-Yutani Corp wouldn't want a group of ''competent'' soldiers sent in.
* In ''Film/GangsterSquad'', the squad's first operation as a unit devolves into equal parts slapstick and failure. They try to take down one of mobster Mickey Cohen's casinos by storming it at gunpoint, only to be met by a group of armed officers who assume they're robbers and try to arrest the group. On the squad's escape out of the casino, their car breaks down, and David and O'Mara get arrested after giving the car a running boost. The two men get beaten, arrested, and sent to jail, where Cohen sends men intending to pick them up and execute them. The squad arrives to save the two men, but Kennard's plan of tying a rope from his vehicle to the prison window bars fails (the bumper gets ripped off the car), Keeler's plan to cut the power results in chaos in the prison block, and the whole thing would have gone south if Wooters hadn't show up.
* The attack on District 13 in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. Instead of collapsing the entire complex, [[spoiler:the Capitol only succeeds in damaging passages near the surface and possibly some surface-to-air emplacements. No casualties are reported]].
* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'''s trademark. No matter how simple and easy a task might be, trust Paddington to mess it up it in a spectacular fashion.
* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and Tom head down to the Satellite of Love's basement to stop Crow, who is attempting to ''tunnel through space''. After stopping a hull breach, Crow admits to the two that [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite weighing the odds, he decided to do so anyway]]. There's also Mike crashing the Satellite of Love into the Hubble Telescope. He attempts to pull it off and release it, only to watch in horror as it instantly drops out of orbit and explodes in a fiery ball.
* ''Film/TinCup:'' Roy could play it safe on the last hole of the U.S. Open, and tie the leader, forcing a playoff, but he goes for broke trying to score under par, and ends up in a water trap... he then repeats the same failed shot, over and over until he finally makes it with his last ball, scoring a 12. His love interest consoles him afterward by telling that in five years, no one will remember who won, but "''everyone'' will remember your 12."
* In ''Film/StVincent'', in an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** This trope is arguably part of Nux's character arc - he screws up virtually every task he's given in glorious fashion until he joins the heroes midway through the film. After being personally trusted with boarding and taking down the hijacked War Rig, and even given a personal ''blessing'' from Immortan Joe ("You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"), Nux (who holds Joe in very high regard and would like nothing more than to finally impress him) goes forth, boards the War Rig with Immortan's revolver... and gets his chain caught on a ladder, immediately falling off the Rig, bouncing off the side and dangling helplessly, losing his beloved idol's revolver to boot.
-->'''Immortan Joe:''' Agh! ''MEDIOCRE!''
** In the bog, Joe reluctantly sends the AxCrazy Bullet Farmer after the War Rig, only telling him "not to hurt the Wives". The Farmer takes this to mean that he can fire off his guns indiscriminately, nearly hitting everyone around the Rig (who have all exited to see what's happening), and is only stopped when Furiosa shoots out the light on his vehicle and blinds him. Instead of going back to lick his wounds, he gets his driver to continue heading towards them, screaming like a lunatic and blindly firing off SMG rounds at them. The only thing he gets for his trouble is Max killing him ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]) and taking his weapons, ammo and steering wheel, which all comes in very handy when the group decides to drive back towards the Citadel near the end.
* In ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', three men decide to [[BankRobbery rob a bank]]. They walk into the bank in broad daylight with no masks, no gloves, and no floorplan, without checking if their information is up to date. The mastermind Sonny Wortzik doesn't even think of blacking out the security cameras until the unmasked robbers have been inside for almost five minutes, and he's too short to reach them without jumping. One robber [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits]] because he can't bring himself to pull a gun on someone. Then the remaining robbers make the tellers open the vault and find barely any money left to steal, because the latest shipment is already gone. All the while, the robbers use each others' real names, allowing the authorities to identify them easily--especially Sonny, who also announces that he is a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]] and a former bank teller.\\
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Then, while raiding the counters, Sonny decides to dispose of the traveler's check register by lighting it on fire. The thick smoke drifts through a vent and alerts everyone outside that something's going on in the bank. Before long, the robbers attract not only police and media attention but also a huge crowd of onlookers, ensuring that they are trapped inside a sweltering building with no means of escape, that their faces will be on national television, and that what began as a quick robbery is now a hostage situation with one robber [[SanitySlippage too mentally unstable]] to handle the ensuing standoff. To say that the robbers DidntThinkThisThrough [[StupidCrooks is an understatement]].
* ''Film/KangarooJack'': Charlie and Louis decide to try and tranquilize Jack from the air. He misses, and ends up ''[[OhCrap shooting the pilot]]''.
* In ''{{Film/Idiocracy}}'': In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination. Given that his IQ is stated to be 137, this goes far beyond normal failing.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is repeatedly shown to be a competent adventurer. His father, introduced in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is a completely different story:
** First, they're captured by the Nazis and tied up together in chairs. When they're alone, Indy gives his father a lighter to burn through the ropes. First, he burns himself and drops the lighter. Then when he tries to pick it up, he ends up setting the floor on fire. Within minutes, the entire room is ablaze (except, [[{{Irony}} ironically]], the fireplace).
** Then they try to escape from Germany on a zeppelin and are forced to steal a biplane when the zeppelin is rerouted. They come under attack by a pair of fighter planes and the senior Jones has to shoot them down with the biplane's guns. He succeeds in shooting down one plane: the one he and his son stole when he ends up blowing apart their own vertical stabilizer.
** To be fair, he's not the only example in the film:
-->'''Indiana''': We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.\\
'''Henry''': But you said he had a two day headstart. That he would blend in, disappear.\\
'''Indiana''': Are you kidding? You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.

* In ''{{Film/Idiocracy}}'': In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away while '''masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination'''. Given that his IQ is stated to be 137, this goes far beyond normal failing.

* This trope is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape.

** ''Film/RogueOne'': Tarkin must have spread his [[SarcasmMode brilliant planning]] abilities to his fellow Imperials. Director Orson Krennic spends the entire film trying to [[spoiler: get the Death Star back into his possession]]. [[spoiler: At the end, not only have the Rebels successfully stolen the plans, but Krennic ends up [[KarmicDeath vapourized by the Death Star's own superlaser]]]].

** ''Film/RogueOne'': Tarkin must have spread his [[SarcasmMode brilliant planning]] abilities to his fellow Imperials. Director Orson Krennic spends the entire film trying to [[spoiler: get the Death Star back into his posession]]. [[spoiler: At the end, not only have the Rebels successfully stolen the plans, but Krennic ends up vapourized by the Death Star's own superlaser]].

-->'''Tony:''' We're going to see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one...

* ''Film/TinCup:'' Roy could play it safe on the last hole of the U.S. Open, and tie the leader, forcing a playoff, but he goes for broke trying to score under par, and ends up in a water trap...he then repeats the same failed shot, over and over until he finally makes it with his last ball, scoring a 12. His love interest consoles him afterward by telling that in five years, no one will remember who won, but "''everyone'' will remember your 12."

--> '''[[DeadpanSnarker Skipper]]:''' Well, that was worth the price of admission.

* Done deliberately in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Kirk, in violation of the Prime Directive, has elected to airdrop a cold fission device into the center of the volcano (ideally, using a shuttle), to save a pre-warp civilization - an act that constitutes interfering. Kirk and Bones beam onto the surface and begin a dangerous chase by stealing one of the tribe's sacred texts, nearly getting them killed multiple times over when the natives chase and hurl spears at them (and during which time Kirk phasers ''the animal they were going to ride away on''). The cable lowering the fission device into the volcano snaps, and Spock has to go in after it and manually activate it. Kirk and the crew have inexplicably parked the Enterprise underwater near the tribe, and when they are forced to break water in order to transport Spock out, the natives get a nice long view of the advanced technology and begin to worship it as their god. This botched mission results in Kirk being demoted and Pike taking over command of the Enterprise for a time.

* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and Tom head down to the Satellite of Love's basement to stop Crow, who is attempting to ''tunnel through space''. After stopping a hull breach, Crow admits to the two that [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite weighing the odds, he decided to do so anyway.]] There's also Mike crashing the Satellite of Love into the Hubble Telescope. He attempts to pull it off and release it, only to watch in horror as it instantly drops out of orbit and explodes in a fiery ball.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', the destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare the planets to obey the Empire]], it only angered the galaxy, and many planets either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed the support of it. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

* In ''Film/ANewHope'' from Franchise/StarWars, destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare the planets to obey the Empire]], it only angered the galaxy, and many people planets either left the Empire joined the Rebellion or severed the support of it. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'': Felix is caught [[spoiler:by King Candy]] and put into a jail cell. He tries to get out with his [[HealingShiv hammer]] [[note]]which magically repairs whatever is struck with it[[/note]]... [[BlessedWithSuck and ends up making the bars on the cell twice as thick]].

* The film ''Film/HotFuzz'' gives us a great fail moment when Nicholas Angel leads Danny Butterman through a shortcut which involves leaping a series of fences. Nicholas not only flawlessly leaps over each fence, but does a high jump-flip over the final fence, giving Danny a sense of badassery. Danny runs at the fence, only to crash right through it in a way that makes you wonder if he even tried. His second attempt is no better as he just kinda stumbles over the second fence. [[MusicalGag Even the music cue knew he screwed up.]]

* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}''... pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookie's. They are to rob the bookie's place as well, so it doesn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they steal the case from him. In the end, they'll get the cash from the bookie's, their employer gets the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it.\\

Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, they enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the 'pull' side of the door]]. The pincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.

* In ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', three men decide to [[BankRobbery rob a bank]]. They walk into the bank in broad daylight with no masks, no gloves, and no floorplan, without checking if their information is up to date. The mastermind Sonny Wortzik doesn't even think of blacking out the security cameras until the unmasked robbers have been inside for almost five minutes, and he's too short to reach them without jumping. One robber quits because he can't bring himself to pull a gun on someone. Then the remaining robbers make the tellers open the vault and find barely any money to steal, because the latest shipment has already left. All the while, the robbers openly use each others' real names, allowing the authorities to identify them easily--especially Sonny, who also announces that he is a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]] and a former bank teller.\\

Then, while raiding the counters, Sonny decides to dispose of the traveler's check register by setting it on fire. The smoke drifts through a vent and alerts everyone outside that something's going on in the bank. Before long, the robbers attract not only police and media attention but also a huge crowd of onlookers, ensuring that they are trapped inside a sweltering building with no means of escape, that their faces will be on national television, and that what began as a quick robbery is now a hostage situation with one robber [[SanitySlippage too mentally unstable]] to handle the ensuing standoff. To say that the robbers DidntThinkThisThrough [[StupidCrooks is an understatement]].

* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}''... pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookie's. They are to rob the bookie's place as well, so it doesn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they steal the case from him. In the end, they'll get the cash from the bookie's, their employer gets the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it. Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, they enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the 'pull' side of the door]]. The pincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.

* ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' with the "Aim For The Bushes" scene. Two detectives are chasing some jewelry thieves to the roof of a 20-story building, and the thieves escape by zipline (which they, of course, cut after using). The detectives decide the best course of action would be to jump off the roof and land on the bushes...''despite the fact that the pavement underneath doesn't even have bushes, or anything that can be used to safely land on''. Three guesses what happens next, and the first two don't count.

* Done deliberately in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', as a way to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'':
** Flash Sentry and Sweetie Drops enter a cake baking contest, but bake a loaf of bread instead.
** Sandalwood and Micro Chips enter a birdhouse making contest, but make a very shoddy one that falls apart when touched.
** The human Twilight Sparkle is completely unathletic and can barely run or jump.

* From ''Film/PulpFiction'', one of the guys at the apartment where Jules and Vincent go to retrieve Marsellus Wallace's briefcase ambushes them and shoots at the duo at very close range... and misses every shot. All three pause to stare in surprise.

** In some of the tie-in comics that led up to ''Film/IronMan3,'' it actually shows off a working Ex-Wife. Apparently, that particular one was a dud. The ''real'' Ex-Wife [[NoKillLikeOverkill in action...]] [[StuffBlowingUp well...]] Let's just say that [[TooDumbToLive using it in close quarters]] would have been a ''bad'' idea.

--->'''Tony Stark:''' Yeah, I'd say, uh, most countries? 5-10 years away... Hammer Industries? 20.\\