History EpicFail / Fanfiction

* In ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Marvin the Pimp and a couple of his gang invades the camp full of homeless mutants where Alex Harris and Louise Fulford are hiding out. They're all heavily armed and intent on punishing Alex and Louise for defying Marvin. The confrontation ends with Marvin missing a finger and being shoved into the trunk of his own car, which is then welded shut around him and dropped off at the nearest police station. (The trunk of the car, that is... the rest of the vehicle is torn away from the trunk and the trunk is sealed.)

* ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' has so many examples of Epic Fail that it can not be counted. There is just so much wrong here - the spelling and grammatical errors, the author's complete inability to form a functional plot, the [[OutOfCharacterMoment Out of Character Moments]] vastly outnumbering the ''in'' character moments, the obsession with goth/emo culture that the author doesn't really understand. One of the very best examples comes when the author, Tara, writes an Author's Note in response to reviewers calling main character Ebony a MarySue and her attempt at a comeback ended... well:

* ''FanFic/MyImmortal''. Just... ''My Immortal''.

** As opposed to her son Hurricane, Star Saber's life is just one failure after another: While her friends become high ranking military figures, she's still an non-commissioned officer, and when she decides to have children so she could live vicariously through them, she's too old for pregnancy to happen easy, and when she ''does'' get pregnant, it's a colt, and thus pretty much unlikely to advance very far. A few decades (and a demotion) later, she tries to go the RebelliousRebel route and not only fails spectacularly, but she's not seen worth the effort to kill. Later still, she's 92 and still in the military, and dies defending a single crate of food. ...That was empty. Her own son describes her as [[PrecisionFStrike an incompetent fuckwit]].

* In the SlashFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8236368/1/Seeing-Believing-Dreaming-Deceiving Seeing, Believing, Dreaming, Deceiving]]'' during a karaoke contest at Hogwarts Lucius Malfoy gets up on stage while drunk and attempts to woo Remus Lupin by serenading him with an off-key rendition of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London."

* ''FanFic/{{Scootamom}}'': Princess Celestia's first attempt at knitting her daughter a sweater. It's possibly the most literal example of the HomemadeSweaterFromHell in the history of fiction; it contains AlienGeometries that [[BrownNote cause headaches and nausea in anyone looking directly at it.]] ([[AWizardDidIt A Physical Goddess did it,]] and even she doesn't know quite how.)

** [[spoiler: It's inverted later on when these devices are used in an attack on the Guys in White base in order to rescue Danielle.]]
* ''FanFic/RWBYReckoning'' shows [[AuthorAvatar Darrel]]'s "landing strategy" to be this. In a nutshell, he accidentally ties himself to a tree several meters above the ground. He manages to free himself by cutting his bonds, but as GravityIsAHarshMistress, he ends up falling into branches, and getting nailed in [[GroinAttack the gonads]] in the process. Finally, he gets tangled in vines, and is freed by a conveniently timed Blake and Yang. A few moments later, he gets knocked unconscious by his own weapons.

* Only mentioned after the fact, but in ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Harry once had a [[CompanionCube pet rock]]. '''It died'''.

* Only mentioned after the fact, but in ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Harry once had a [[CompanionCube pet rock]]. ''It died''.

* ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/story-worst-bakers-in-equestria.html The Worst Bakers In Equestria]]'' is all about a contest entirely built around ponies who don't merely bake badly, but who bring forth inedible abominations in the most spectacular manners possible. The contest only uses one stage at a time, but has a backup in case one becomes too damaged (or toxic) to be used.

* Shining Armor from the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' is a ''terrible'' shot.

** As opposed to her son Hurricane, Star Saber's life is just one failure after another: While her friends become high ranking military figures, she's still an non-commissioned officer, and when she decides to have children so she could live vicariously through them, she's to old for pregnancy to happen easy, and when she ''does'' get pregnant, it's a colt, and thus pretty much unlikely to advance very far. A few decades (and a demotion) later, she tries to go the RebelliousRebel route and not only fails spectacularly, but she's not seen worth the effort to kill. Later still, she's 92 and still in the military, and dies defending a single crate of food. ...That was empty. Her own son describes her as [[PrecisionFStrike an incompetent fuckwit]].

* Germany and Italy's date in ''[[ Chasing an Empty Dream]], which makes the canon Valentine's Day date look like smooth sailing. The whole thing was orchestrated by Prussia. To keep Germany from panicking, Canada borrows spy gear from America so they can give tips. Unfortunately, this means America has to stay with them to keep an eye on the stuff, and acts obnoxious the whole time. Meanwhile, Romano uses a PaperThinDisguise to pretend to be their waiter, wanting to spy on them and verbally abusing Germany until the manager mistakes him for a real waiter and sends him to the kitchen ([[TheDitz Italy]], of course, fails to realize who "the waiter" is). Spain bursts into the restaurant with a battle axe [[ItMakesSenseInContext Romano asked him to bring]], leading the other diners to think he's a terrorist and causing America to try to blindly play the hero. At this point, England shows up [[ItMakesSenseInContext with his hair and eyebrows dyed pink]], to yell at America. Canada gets rid of America by stealing his glasses, England is gotten rid of by having France come in ([[NakedPeopleAreFunny completely naked]]) and carry him off, and Spain has to run off with Romano. [[spoiler:And it ends on a [[TearJerker very sad]] note, as Germany confesses to Italy that he used to be the Holy Roman Empire, only for Italy to become upset and reject him.]]

* In a direct shout out and to the page image and an inversion of the trope, ''Fanfic/{{Magnetism}}'' tells us "Rainbow Dash poured the milk into the bowl of cereal. Astonishingly, this time it did not catch on fire."

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