History YouHaveFailedMe / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Ivan Ooze disintegrates his Tengu {{Mooks}} after they fail to stop the Power Rangers from going towards the Great Power and report back to him about this.

* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'', ComicBook/TheJoker immediately executes his top henchman after his master plan is foiled:
-->'''The Joker:''' My balloons. Those are my balloons. He stole my balloons! Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things? Bob? Gun.\\
'''Bob the Henchman:''' ''[hands the Joker a gun, who promptly shoots him]''
** It bears mentioning that Bob ''didn't fail at all'' here, so the trope is actually averted. It was just [[BadBoss The Joker]] being [[KickTheDog petulant]] over what just happened.
** Honestly, Joker does this ''all the time'', but it's less about failure and more about the fact that he's [[AxCrazy the Joker]].

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' ComicBook/{{Bane}} does this to two of his goons when they bring Commissioner Gordon into his lair, revealing the entire operation to him. He crushes the throat of one and then orders the other to search Gordon "And then I will kill you."

* Played straight in the ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' movie. When [[BigBad Parallax]] arrives on Earth, his first action is to kill his human minion for failing to kill Hal Jordan before Parallax arrived.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** Red Skull, after the Howling Commandos led by Captain America managed to destroy one of HYDRA's bases in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', has an officer brought to him, to which the officer stated that they fought to the last man. Red Skull, not in a forgiving mood, states "Evidently not!" (the officer himself still being alive and thus not having fought to the ''last'' man) and then uses his [[MagiTek Tesseract/Cosmic Cube-powered]] handgun to vaporize the officer.
** Loki has the threat of this hanging over him throughout ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' -- either he retrieves the Tesseract, or Thanos will hunt him down and make him pay. Come ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Thanos finally catches up with him... [[spoiler:and ''slowly and painfully'' crushes the life out of him, right in front of Thor.]]
** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': After having enough of Shocker's repeated disregard for his instructions and lack of respect Toomes kicks him off the crew, and vaporizes him with a ray gun. Partly Subverted, as it's revealed immediately afterwards that Toomes mistook the gun for a harmless anti-grav device and didn't intend to kill him.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'': Davian kills his head of security after he gets abducted while she is standing right next to him. [[spoiler:Musgrave]] even lampshades this by stating "Remember [Davian's head of security]? At the Vatican she failed him." [[spoiler:Davian disguised her as Ethan's wife with LatexPerfection before executing her in order to manipulate Ethan into answering truthfully.]]

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'': Davian kills his head of security after he gets abducted while she is standing right next to him. [[spoiler:He disguises her as Ethan's wife before executing her in order to manipulate Ethan into answering truthfully.]]

* Drucker, the BigBad in ''Film/The6thDay'', does this to his henchman Wiley. A fairly justified version of this trope. Not only has Wiley been screwing up the most, but he also accidentally ''shot'' Drucker just before, which apparently was the last straw.
** He even tells his mooks ''not'' to clone Wiley again, so he wouldn't have another chance to fail him.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' provides a double subversion: The scientist in charge of the Academy is terrified when the Operative comes to call, since he assumes he is going to be killed for allowing River Tam to escape. However, his bosses are surprisingly understanding about that, realizing that with the time and effort River's brother went to, there was really no way to stop him. What they ''are'' unhappy about is that key members of Parliament were brought in to personally observe [[{{Telepathy}} River]], and ''that'' is why they sent [[CorporateSamurai the Operative]] to execute him. The Operative then offers the scientist a chance to die by throwing himself on a sword, and when he tries to run, the Operative paralyzes the man and lets his body fall onto the blade.

* Upon awakening in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Megatron reunites with Starscream, who reveals to him that the Allspark, the very reason they are on Earth and the ultimate power source of Megatron's obsession, is in the possession of the Human soldiers who are attempting to keep it away from him. His response is a quite ticked-off "You fail me yet again, Starscream. GET THEM!"

** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': After having enough of Shocker's repeated disregard for his instructions and lack of respect Toomes kicks him off the crew, and vaporizes him with a ray gun. Partly Subverted, as it's revealed immediately afterwards that Toomes mistook the gun for a harmless anti-grav device and didn't intend to kill him.

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': After having enough of Shocker's repeated disregard for his instructions and lack of respect Toomes kicks him off the crew, and vaporizes him with a ray gun. Partly Subverted, as it's revealed immediately afterwards that Toomes mistook the gun for a harmless anti-grav device and didn't intend to kill him.

* Henry Carver, the BigBad in ''Film/{{Push}}'', {{Mind Rape}}s an agent to shoot himself for letting a girl escape, who also {{Mind Rape}}d the agent to shoot his own partner.
** Unusual for this trope, Carver is willing to let the guy go back to the States with a reprimand. Unfortunately for the agent, he decides to claim that he can't be {{Mind Rape}}d again. Carver proves him wrong. So this is more like "You have failed me and don't know when to shut up".

* Subverted in the 2004 ''Film/KingArthur''. Cynric fails his mission to capture the patrician Roman family that Arthur is transporting back to the south. His father King Cerdic notes that they have lost the enemy's respect and Cynric offers his life in return. Cerdic instead demotes his son and gives him a MarkOfShame by giving him a small scar on his cheek.

* In the [[MayTheFarceBeWithYou ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'']], Dark Helmet looks like he's about to pull this via PsychicStrangle, but actually aims [[GroinAttack about two feet lower]].

* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', [[DarthVaderClone Dark Helmet]] looks like he's about to pull this via PsychicStrangle, but actually aims [[GroinAttack about two feet lower]].

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' Bane does this to two of his goons when they bring Commissioner Gordon into his lair, revealing the entire operation to him. He crushes the throat of one and then orders the other to search Gordon "And then I will kill you."

** This is echoed later in the film. Pieter meets Rudd in his office after a failure. He looks down at his feet during the conversation and comments, "[[GenreSavvy I am just checking to make sure I am not standing on plastic]]." The earlier henchman was standing on plastic over the floor, ostensibly for remodeling. The plastic was used to dispose of his body and any other incriminating evidence.

* ''Film/ThePrinceOfThieves'': When the bowman returns and tells Sir Fitz-Alwin and reports that the assassination failed and Sir Allan is still alive, Fitz-Alwin orders him taken outside and hanged as a warning to others.