History EpicFail / FIlm

** From the same movie, thanks to the infamous TheDogShotFirst edit, the bounty hunter Greedo misses Han by more than a foot from about three feet away.

*** 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 ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!]]'', Marcie is told by Peppermint Patty to cook some eggs for egg coloring. First, she cracks them on a griddle. Second, she smooshes some with a waffle maker. Third, she tries placing one in a '''toaster'''. Fourth, she cooks the remains of the eggs in an oven. And finally, Peppermint Patty tells her to ''boil'' them. But Marcie even messes ''that'' up, because ''she cracks the eggs into the water''.

-->'''Moose #1:''' I can't believe you totaled a mammoth.\\
'''Moose #2:''' That mountain came out of nowhere. It was in my blind spot.

* 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''."

* ''Film/KangarooJack'': Charlie and Louis decide to try and tranquilize Jack from the air. He misses, and ends up ''[[OhCrap shooting the pilot]]''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Bl9dPS2ZE Flaming Death scene]] from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' was such an epic fail for the circus bugs that P.T Flea fired them all. Inverted when it turns out that the audience loved the act for the comedy.

* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'' series:

* ''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.

* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome 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.]]

** ''Film/ANewHope'': The destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare rebellious planets into submission to the Empire]] only angered the galaxy, and many planets [[DontCreateMartyrs either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed their support of the Empire]]. It doesn't help that the Death Star was a resource sink that the Empire subsequently lost with nearly all hands trying to take out ''one'' Rebel base, robbing them of an incredibly expensive intimidation tool, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

** ''Film/ANewHope'': The destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare rebellious planets into submission to the Empire]] only angered the galaxy, and many planets either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed their support of the Empire. It doesn't help that the Death Star was a resource sink that the Empire subsequently lost with nearly all hands trying to take out ''one'' Rebel base, robbing them of an incredibly expensive intimidation tool, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

** ''Film/ANewHope'': The destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare rebellious planets into submission to the Empire]] only angered the galaxy, and many planets either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed their support of the Empire. It doesn't help that the Death Star was a resource sink that the Empire subsequently lost with nearly all hands trying to take out ''one'' Rebel base, robbing them of an intimidation tool and most of its leadership. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Bl9dPS2ZE Flaming Death scene]] from ''Pixar/ABugsLife'' was such an epic fail for the circus bugs that P.T Flea fired them all. Inverted when it turns out that the audience loved the act for the comedy.

*** 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.

* ''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 Lancelot's answers to the same questions and didn't realize that wouldn't work for favorite color until it was too late.

** ''Film/ANewHope'': The destruction of Alderaan. What was meant [[ScareEmStraight to scare rebellious planets into submission to the Empire]] only angered the galaxy, and many planets either left the Empire, joined the Rebellion, or severed their support of the Empire. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

* 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]].

** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:when Bruce Banner [[GozillaThreshold realizes he needs to turn back into the Hulk]] to fight [[CanisMajor Fenris]], he tries to show off for Valkyrie (a friend of Hulk who's been confused by a sense of familiarity with Banner) by jumping out of their spaceship and transforming in mid-air. Instead he fails to transform and crashes into the Bifrost bridge while still human, which likely would've been fatal if he didn't finally transform a few seconds later.]]

** 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.

** ''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]]]].

** After Erik has just stopped a missile strike from the US Navy, Xavier tries to get Erik to call off his counterattack by saying that "they were JustFollowingOrders!" He said that to a ''Holocaust survivor''. Magneto's face and [[TranquilFury quiet voice]] show everyone just how ''utterly'' Xavier has failed to convince him, before he returns the missiles to sender.

* ''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.

** ''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]].