Epic Fail / Fan Works

Epic Fails in fan works.

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Amphibia

• In this Sashannarcy Roommates AU Sasha and Anne realize in horror it’s Marcy’s turn to cook dinner. Cut to Marcy wondering why the stove isn’t getting hot while the rest of the kitchen is on fire.

A New Life Era

• Erik Masspunch can’t manage to land a single punch on one of the WEAKEST students at school, while getting beat up by the same student.

Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra

• Korra asks Asami to teach her to use make up. Asami is instructing her to use to a eyeliner. Korra ends up poking her eye out. Asami then gives her some lipstick as the easier and safer option. Korra ends up with bandages over her mouth.

Batman

• Retrograde Motion: Tim's first attempt to babysit a de-aged Jason ends with him losing the kid for twenty minutes and finding him having downed an entire bag of gummy worms and throwing up on Tim. Understandably, he's quickly booted to the bottom of the list for possible babysitters.

Bleach

• In The Snow Has Stopped The Rain, Ichigo thinks this of when he first attempted to cast a Bakudo Number 1 and managed to cause it to literally blow up in his face. The fact that it was a binding spell should have made a reaction like that impossible.

Bolt

• The Bolt Chronicles:
  • In "The Baseball Game," Mickey Cleary, the Edgartown Heath Hens' slugging designated hitter and the team's leader in home runs and runs batted in for the year, comes to the plate in the last of the ninth inning with two runners aboard and a chance to win the game and the Single-A World Series. He ends the game by hitting into a triple play to Bolt, who is playing second base despite lacking a glove and the ability to throw a baseball properly.
  • In "The Pilot," ten-year-old wannabe director James recreates movie scenes in his bedroom using improvised props and special effects. This goes fully awry when he decides to re-enact the "Burning of Atlanta" scene from Gone with the Wind and torches his room. It's described as a temporary setback, though.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• In Hunter, Willow played a prank on Larry by using magic to make him have dreams about having sex with the entire 49ers football team. Since Larry's gay, when he finds out Willow's responsible, he asks her to do it again.

Crossovers

• Dungeon Keeper Ami: After Ami defeats the Avatar, the dark god Crowned Death approaches her and requests that she worship him, then gets pushy when she refuses. However, every time he escalates, she finds countermeasures. By the time the dust has settled, Crowned Death's priesthood is dead, one of his Lesser Aspects has been eaten, his secret centuries-long plan to fully enter the material world is literally on fire, and his credibility with potential worshippers is in shambles due to the discovery of a spell that would allow anyone to take control of his undead servants and turn them against him. Oh, and the people he was going to sacrifice to himself are now working for Ami.
• Fates Collide: When Oda Nobunaga tries to fire an arrow, she uses improper technique, so the arrow only travels about a foot before falling.
• At one point in The Infinite Loops, Ichigo went to Hueco Mundo early to try and make things more challenging for himself later. Instead he conquered it in a single day and gained a loyal following as "Emperor Kurosaki I".
• Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: Momo and Itsuka, after infinite rock-paper-scissors rounds to decide who becomes the Class Vice-President, decide to do it on a coin toss. The coin promptly lands on its side.
• In Origin Story, 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.) No one but Marvin and his crew are injured in this attack.
• Faith in The Reality Theory Convergence once managed to kill a plastic fern in Xander's office.
• In an Omake series for Sekirei? Is that some new species of little sister? Naruto and Xanna decide to mess with the major religions of the world for kicks, Naruto getting Hinduism and Buddhism, Xanna getting Islam and Judaism, and both sharing Christianity. Unfortunately for Naruto, the Hindus easily accept that he's a god and name him the 10th avatar of Vishnu. When he tries to mess with the Buddhists by giving the Dalai Lama some meditation tips then using Sexy Jutsu and "putting on a show for them", the Dalai Lama thanks him for the tips and very politely asks Naruto not to do that. Naruto later admits to Takami that it wasn't any fun messing with them when they were so polite.
• Stargate Command tries to make Xander agree to being coddled and send his bodyguard Faith home in Teal'c's Wish by having them go through the same modified Navy Seal training course all members of SGC have to go through. Xander and Faith do so well, the instructors want them to stay on to teach various combat courses. Faith breaks several records and the most of the ones she doesn't break, Xander does. The instructor notes getting several offers for Xander from both Olympic sharp shooting teams and black ops groups.
• In Tougher Than Most, Naruto has recently gained a Healing Factor on par with Deadpool and needs to increase his pain tolerance so he can't pass out from pain. He tries to anger Anko by slapping her on the ass and kissing her; instead she decides he was so gutsy that she has sex with him instead. Naruto later mentions if that's the consolation prize, he doesn't mind losing.
• Hero Academia D×D:
  • Ibara's first (and only) attempt to help with the cooking ended with her burning the eggs and the juice (somehow).
  • Momo's chocolate is so horrible that Izuku faints when he attempts to put a piece in his mouth, and even after over an hour of Twilight Healing, he can't taste anything for a week.
• Boldores and Boomsticks: A Training Montage show's Lillie's complete lack of skill with every weapon she tries, such as when she does so poorly at reinforcing her foam sword with Aura that Blake is able to slice through it with her own. A shorter one shows that Casey is equally untalented with using Dust, such as when an attempt to use Rock Dust ends with her buried up to her neck in the ground.
• Glorious Shotgun Princess has Cerberus actually trying to create a dangerous AI. Said AI turns on its creators... by locking them in a briefing room and forcing them to watch workplace safety videos on why trying to create a killer AI intentionally is so stupid.

  Tali: You took a murderous AI, plugged it into parts from a more murderous AI, and made it non violent. Then tried to make it violent anyway, and succeeded at failing. Are you sure you're not quarian?

• In The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout, one of Bruno's plays — a dictation of the life of Hernando — ended with a machine malfunction and him getting launched halfway across the village.
• Tales of My Lantera Academia: Emerald Dawn: Eraserhead believes that he'll be able to teach Izuku and Momo humility by pairing them up against him. Instead, he is the teacher who loses the fastest, with Recovery Girl telling Izuku and Momo they actually broke the record for the fastest final exam completion.

Danny Phantom

• In the Facing the Future Series story "Stolen Years", Jack designed two devices. One was supposed to incapacitate ghosts with a high frequency sound, the other was supposed to absorb ecto-energy, rendering a ghost a powerless husk. The former unleashed a sound that was painful to everyone in town, but ghosts. The latter unleashed an energy field that disabled electrical energy, causing a blackout across town.
  • It's inverted later on when these devices are used in an attack on the Guys in White base in order to rescue Danielle.
• Just One More: Maddie tries to create ghost sedative. Instead, she created ghost vodka.

The Familiar of Zero

• In Soldier of Zero Wardes tries to make Saito feel jealous of his relationship with Louise and inadequate in battle via an ambush. Both fail miserably; the former because Saito and Louise have agreed that any relationship between them would be doomed to failure and the latter because Saito is a far better combatant than Wardes expected.

Fire Emblem

• In Lucina Reacts, by the same author as Weiss Reacts, the Shepherds find a laptop, and find that the previous owner had installed a 3DS emulator, with Fire Emblem: Awakening already loaded. Cue Maribelle playing the game, and having Frederick die on the first mission (This is pretty much impossible outside of Lunatic/Lunatic+ modes, unless you actively seek to kill him by stripping him of any weapons and hoping the enemy units get lucky and crit him a lot)

Harry Potter

• In the Slash Fic 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." This goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Only mentioned after the fact, but in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry once had a pet rock. It died. Though we later learn that Dumbledore killed it because he listened to all the prophecies and apparently this was important somehow (Dumbledore didn't understand either).
• The Rigel Black Chronicles: Tom Riddle organises the "True Triwizard Tournament" in order to prove that purebloods are superior and gain public support for his anti-miscegenation laws. His chosen champion is the powerful and talented pureblood Rigel Black, whom Riddle both bribes and threatens into competing (intending to ensure that Rigel wins). When it's over, "Rigel" (actually Harriet Potter in disguise) has won convincingly, but been exposed as a half-blood, throwing public support in the opposite direction and defeating the anti-miscegenation laws. Furthermore, her victory ties Riddle to an Unbreakable Vow preventing him from ever introducing or supporting such laws again, which in turn removes most of Riddle's leverage over Severus Snape. And senior members of Riddle's political party have been given reason to suspect that Riddle is connected to the terrorist Voldemort — who, for good measure, has also been revealed to be half-blood. (It's really no surprise that Riddle would like to strangle Rigel with his bare hands at this point.)

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• A rather frightening one. In Human Curiosity, while the HCS's attempt to kidnap and kill off as many Nations as possible seems like it's successful, it starts to go to pieces when a massive prison break is attempted and a number of Nations escape. One of whom was the only Nation to memorize the location of every HCS base in the world (England). From there, the remaining free Nations find the escapees and use England's knowledge to storm every HCS base, freeing all the prisoners and stealing what research remains. The HCS is forced to abandon everything they've worked for and disband to survive. One of the former leaders tries to make more progress by unfreezing the Nations in stasis (they've been turned mortal and loaded with poison, in the hopes this would make it impossible to revive them). Not only does this not work at all, since the Nations just die and come back to life exactly as they were, but he dies in the process and the newly-revived Nations set about killing off the rest of the HCS.
• 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 Paper-Thin Disguise 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 (Italy, of course, fails to realize who "the waiter" is). Spain bursts into the restaurant with a battle axe 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 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 (completely naked) and carry him off, and Spain has to run off with Romano. And it ends on a 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.

Invader Zim

• In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, the first fight that Team Save Earth (Dib and his new friends Steve and Viera) get involved in is a total failure on their part, with them not even getting any hits in, since the twins are too distracted by their ongoing Magic Versus Science argument. They would have died if Norlock hadn't swooped in and saved them (he then unfavorably compares their efforts to the Charge of the Light Brigade).
• Ruby Pair: All of Zim's attempts to use magic attacks while stuck playing the role of a mage in "Gaols & Ghouls" literally blow up in his face — a lightning attack fries him, a fireball turns around in midair to hit him, and an attempted ice attack just freezes him solid.
• The Smeet Series has Ilk's attempt at a simple driver's test at the DMV in Vindictive. She's supposed to drive around a few cones in a parking lot, but somehow ends up hitting an ice cream truck on the other side of the lot.

Kill la Kill

• According to Ragyou, in this blog, Nui somehow burned a whole town to the ground the last time she cooked and that she used white phosphorus as an ingredient (going by that, she might have used a lot) and, in an earlier post, that, apparently, when her and Ryuuko's cooking abilities are combined, the result were brownies which are described to be "something worse than napalm made with household ingredients". One would have to take the assumption that Nui and Ryuuko are Lethal Chefs, although, the former seems to be border on being Lethally Stupid.

Marvel Universe

• This comic sees Hank Pym accidentally turn an oven into a giant killer robot while trying to bake muffins for his son's preschool; not even he has any idea how it happened (and the only explanation given is "baking is a science, and Hank's science experiments have an alarming tendency to go horribly wrong").

Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)

• Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has Vick-Tek's early attempt at making robots, particularly the one recycled from a nannybot and condiment dispenser.

Miraculous Ladybug

• In canon, when Lila Rossi starts lying about her achievements and connections, such as falsely claiming to be Ladybug's best friend, most of the class believes her. Plenty of fanfics, reacting to this, have her lies being exposed, her reputation ruined, sometimes even jail time, which would be a relatively simple Fail. In Spellbound (Lilafly), however, Lila manages to offend the Unseelie Court of Paris — first because The Fair Folk are masters of Exact Words who hate outright liars, and second by how she slanders both Ladybug and Chat Noir, whom they consider to be gods. When Chat Noir decides not to stick his neck out for her, the local fae promptly kidnap Lila away to a Cruel and Unusual Death or possibly worse. In summary: fibbing to make herself look good resulted in her being kidnapped and murdered by Eldritch Abominations.
  Chat Noir: Your castle falls when you build it on sand, Lila Rossi.

Ah! My Goddess

• The Lord of Terror in This Time Around tries to make Urd doubt Keiichi by revealing all the perverted thoughts Keiichi has about her. Urd laughs at him and says that as Keiichi's girlfriend, if he didn't have perverted thoughts about her, she wasn't doing her job properly.

My Hero Academia

• Personality Swap AU:
  • In the AU's first story, Assignment: Personality Swap, Aizawa assigned Class 1-A another one of their classmates to imitate. Some of them were flat-out terrible at it, such as Koda acting like himself but throwing glitter around (to imitate Aoyama) or Iida's complete inability to speak in memes.
  • After seeing how many students were attracted to Izuku-as-Midnight in Nemurizuku, Aizawa tries to give him the least sexy assignment possible (Recovery Girl) in Recovery (for the Hell We've Been Through). He ends up realising too late that what makes Recovery Girl unattractive to most (her advanced age) doesn't apply to Izuku and many still want him.
• In One for All and Eight for the Ninth All for One decides to make an early attempt at stealing One for All. He was expecting it to fail and he just wanted to soften Izuku up for later. What he did not expect was for Izuku stealing numerous Quirks from him, including important ones such as various copies of Hyper Regeneration, Quirk Understanding (the latter being the one that helps him understand Quirks on the spot), his recent acquisition Search, and even Overhaul, leaving All for One softened up for All Might and Izuku even stronger.
• In When Reason Fails, Katsuki's one attempt to draw a warding glyph results in something that, according to Izuku, had no resemblance at all with the glyph.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• A Blessing in Disguise: A changeling is sent to Ponyville to infiltrate the ponies under the name "Lemony Cutewhistle." Every pony he meets is a little awkward at first, and it's clear he's doing something wrong, but it's not explained exactly what until the end of the fic: He forgot to put a disguise on. He was a completely undisguised changeling just walking around insisting he was a normal pony.
  Twilight: We figured you knew?
• A Brief History of Equestria:
  • Star-Swirl the Bearded's Winter Emergency Summit between the tribes was planned to last a week, with preparations to go on longer if necessary. The Shouting Congress, as it became known to history, lasted twenty minutes.
  • 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 a 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 Rebellious Rebel route and not only fails spectacularly, but she's not seen as 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 an incompetent fuckwit.
  • Played for drama in the first movements against Talonhoof. A glory-seeking Pegasus mare ignores the warnings of Hurricane's son Starburst because obviously some silly Unicorn couldn't possibly know more about military strategy than a proper Pegasus. End result of her actions? Her whole unit being wiped out and a Pegasus settlement being utterly destroyed.
• The whole focus of The Conversion Bureau: Worlds Where It Wouldn't Work is Xlestia (A representation of The Conversion Bureau's version of Celestia) trying to bring about a Conversion Bureau style scheme on a different fictional universes (and the planet Neptune), only to fail miserably.
• In one Dashverse story, during a game of Truth or Dare, Twilight is dared to hogtie Rarity. Somehow, she ends up tying them both together.
• A Diplomatic Visit: In chapter 7 of the sequel Diplomat at Large, the Storm King tries to use "Aroint ye!" (literally, "Begone!") to trigger his Staff's magic. It doesn't work.
• In the My Little Pony fan animation Elements of Cringe, The Mane Six end up stuck in a clear box after walking into a trap, which Twilight tries to get them out of with a blast of magic... only for it to bounce back and knock her out.
• Hello, This is Not a Scammer, I Promise: "Legit Collector" is one of Equestria's first phone scammers, but has absolutely zero success. It starts with him failing his tax scam on normal but smart ponies like Applejack, but then he accidentally calls the Physical Gods who rule his nation, the real head of the tax services, a redeemed villain who recently conquered Equestria, an un-redeemed villain who recently conquered Equestria, two con artists (who actually did commit tax fraud, but still manage to turn the scam around and con him out of everything he's got), and an actual baby. It ends with him trying to scam Discord, the God of Chaos, who decides to teleport him in a room with everyone he's tried to scam. Legit Collector is especially embarrassed to discover that even Flurry Heart, the baby, saw right through his scam.
  Legit: The baby didn't even fall for it?! [groans] Oh, oh that one hurts.
• In a direct Shout-Out to The Simpsons example and an inversion of the trope, Magnetism tells us "Rainbow Dash poured the milk into the bowl of cereal. Astonishingly, this time it did not catch on fire."
• Shining Armor from the Pony POV Series is a terrible shot. While he's otherwise competent, any time he tries to shoot, his efforts can only be described as this.
  Shining Armor: This wasn't to say I can't hit the broad side of a barn. The problem was, I can and I did. And our archery range was three miles from the farm I hit.
• RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: The entire reason Cadence became involved in the Stairs Coup, as detailed in "An Awkward Day". See, Princess Luna's majordomo wanted to make a point about her being difficult to get in contact with, and staged a coup while she was asleep, instructing the army to take up defensive positions on several countries. And he misspelled Caballeria (Pony Spain) as Cavallia (Pony Italy) and never noticed. When Cadence realises this, she has a hysterical breakdown.
• Scootamom: Princess Celestia's first attempt at knitting her daughter a sweater. It's possibly the most literal example of the Homemade Sweater from Hell in the history of fiction; it contains Alien Geometries that cause headaches and nausea in anyone looking directly at it. (A Physical Goddess did it, and even she doesn't know quite how.)
• The MLP fanfic series beginning with A Teacher With No Class combines this trope with Trauma Conga Line. First, Prince Blueblood agrees to give a talk to Miss Cheerilee's class about his role in the Equestrian government, but thanks to one Armour-Piercing Question too many the guy ends up passing over the Despair Event Horizon at how utterly pointless his existence is and ends up walking into the Everfree Forest hoping that something eats him. Not only does he fail to die, he ends up becoming the Unwitting Pawn of the villain of the sequel and ends up causing a horde of zombies to rampage through Ponyville, which everyone is led to believe he did on purpose. It sounds funny, but it really isn't.
• 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.
• XCOM: Enemy Unthreatening: Dr. Moira Vahlen finds herself on Equestria, trying to warn them that aliens might be coming to invade. Turns out the invasion happened six months ago. It did not go well for them.
  • First, they tried to invade Cloudsdale with a battalion of elite, armed, and extremely dangerous ground troops. They immediately fell through the clouds to their deaths. The second UFO tried a corrosive gas attack. The pegasi assumed it was an accidental discharge from the weather factory and blew it back the way it had come, damaging the UFO and causing it to flee. The third UFO sent flight-capable units to attack what appeared to be a power plant. It was the lightning factory. Once they broke open a bottle, the lightning took out all the aliens.
    Celestia: ...and the aftermath of their invasion was simply atrocious, so much paperwork, and the spat over who should pay for the cleanup of the remains that landed below the city went on for weeks.
  • The two surviving UFOs fled to a nearby mountain range. Turns out a dragon had recently taken roost there, and he destroyed both easily.
    Luna: Glad we found out he was there when we did, actually. Tia ended up having to go run him out of his new lair herself.
    Celestia: I didn't mind. It was a fun jaunt, and I always enjoy a chance to get out of the city for a few days. Make a vacation of it, you know?
  • They tried to assassinate Celestia with a Berserker. She casually immobilized it with telekinesis, and was quite pleased to discover that all her most annoying petitioners were suddenly a lot more willing to give up their ridiculous requests while there was an angry alien floating over their heads.
    Celestia: We made a great team, Mister Screamy and I. Cleared out eight months of terrible proposals in three hours.
  • Before the cloaked alien temple ship could review its tactics and find another approach, Luna calculated its location by her naked eye, then threw the moon at it.
    Dr. Vahlen: Did that work? Was it destroyed?
    Luna: Luckily, no, although it did acquire a few additional craters around... Oh! You must mean the ship. Yes, it exploded rather spectacularly. A magnificent display if I do say so myself.
  • The end result is that when Dr. Vahlen tries to warn them of the impending apocalypse, Celestia and Luna can't hold straight faces before collapsing in fits of giggles.
    Dr. Vahlen: You defeated the alien fleet? But you seem, and forgive me for saying so, rather blasé about the damage they must have done. Did they not do harm to your subjects?
    Luna: Well, we did have to cancel the Royal Midsummer Pool Party. That was a nuisance.

Naruto

• In Vapors the Original Character Aiko Uzumaki ends up captured by Akatsuki and held in their base under the supervision of at least one member at all times. Her chakra is drained to almost nothing, she has no tools or weapons, no idea of where the other two prisoners brought in with her are, and a several day old cranial hemorrhage. She boasts to her captor's face that she intends to escape (although she lies about the method), taking the other two prisoners with her, and warns him right before she does. She then proceeds to escape her captor, break the other two away from their captors, and get out of the country.

Odd Squad

• In Opalescent, Otto decides to make some dark chocolate cherry scones, gnocchi alfredo, and snow ice cream for Opal on a holiday date, and from there, his hopes take a hard plummet towards the ground. The ice cream maker he has ends up malfunctioning due to a Gretchen infestation in its generator. He ends up overcooking the scones because he forgot to put them on parchment paper. The spatula that he left sitting in his skillet of alfredo sauce while it was cooking melts on its bottom half and renders it unusable. The gnocchi he rolled and cut fuses together and becomes what is essentially liquid mashed potatoes. And to top it all off, before he can even try and fix anything, Opal rings his doorbell. The most hilarious thing about all this is that he's not even a bad cook — he's a Supreme Chef with impeccable cooking skills, just as he is in canon, and yet he manages to ruin an entire three-course meal. The duo eventually have to resort to the first option Otto was presented with, of going around town and seeing Christmas light displays.

One Piece

• This Bites!:
  • While stalling Wapol, Cross attempts to kick him away in the garbage-can like form he takes midway through his Slim-Up Wapol technique. It might have worked if that form didn't compress Wapol's mass into a singular point, but as it is, it only results in a lot of pain in his foot.
  • When Ace and Luffy battle the Billions, one of them fires a cannon at Ace. Instead of dodging in his fire state, Ace tries to pull a Garp and catch the cannonball. It doesn't kill him, but neither does it work.
  • During the Enies Lobby Arc, we have Spandam and his constantly Tempting Fate (much to Sengoku's rage). But the biggest moment would have to be accidentally triggering the Buster Call and broadcasting that fact to the entirety of Enies Lobby, and the rest of the world. Worse, Spandam in canon did this as well.
  • Another fail of epic proportions from Spandam. Immediately after his above Epic Fail, he goes into a Motive Rant wherein he outlines his plan to destroy Enies Lobby with the Buster Call, use Nico Robin to revive the ancient weapon Pluton and eventually Take Over the World by replacing his superiors, the Five Elder Stars, via use of said ancient weapon. Thing is, he's still broadcasting. So the entire world, including the Elder Stars, can hear it. The result is Sengoku himself delivering an epic rant that can be found here.
  • One from CP9 themselves. One of their missions was to create a political alliance between families by arranging a wedding. Then Fukuro spilled the beans at the last moment, and the ensuing chaos led to the This Bites recreation of the Red Wedding.
  • The Summit War is a total disaster for the Five Elder Stars, who wanted to use to wipe out the Whitebeard and Straw Hat pirates, and end both Roger and Dragon's bloodlines. Except not only do the Straw Hats other than Luffy not show up (as they've been scattered for the Time Skip training period), and not only does Cross warn the Whitebeards about all the tricks and traps that the Marines have prepared for them, but in the middle of the fighting 8000 Marines who are part of the New World Masons openly mutiny and turn on their loyalist counterparts, eventually defecting and escaping with the pirates. Oh, and both the Revolutionaries and Supernovas intervene for their own reasons during all this. So, end result? Thousands of loyalist Marines and Devil Dog mercenaries are killed or injured, a quarter of the battleships assembled for the battle are sunk, Dragon manages to capture several Aegis 0 agents for interrogation, Boa Hancock defects from the Warlords, Akainu loses an arm, all of the BioMEGAS and Pacifistas (except Kuma) are destroyed, Sengoku and Garp quit (the latter before the fighting's even done) and most importantly, Ace survives. The World Government's only victory is Whitebeard's death... and that was caused by Blackbeard for his own reasons. Needless to say, the Elder Stars aren't pleased, especially when Imu summons them to explain their failures.

Portal

• In Blue Sky (Waffles), Wheatley attempts to make bread. What results is most emphatically not bread, in every possible way something can be not bread, and violates several laws of geometry, thermodynamics, and physics in the process.

Psychonauts

• In her attempt at learning pyrokinesis, Frazie in Later, Traitor accidentally sets her hair on fire, followed by a near-drowning via the Hand of Galochio when Lili tries putting it out.

Ranma ½

• In Ranma: Happenstance Gone Right, Gosunkugi tests out a magic talisman by using it to make Ryoga get lost while giving him directions. The talisman combines with Ryoga's No Sense of Direction to allow him to arrive at his destination in less than an hour.

RWBY

• A Rabbit Among Wolves: Team RWBY's attempt to foil the Dust robbery at the docks quickly go pear shaped. Blake's asking why the White Fang are working with a human gets her Mistaken for Racist, leading to a long argument that allows Torchwick to escape with the Dust. Then Bane goes into an Unstoppable Rage at the sight of Weiss which leads to a long fight that results in the docks getting wrecked. End result is Torchwick getting away with the dust, a large amount of property damage, and a PR nightmare for Beacon with Team RWBY looking incompetent and Ozpin as their enabler.
  Ozpin: I shall spare you the comments below but rest assured that people are currently fighting about whether you are racist, violent, or merely incompetent. You may pick which you like the sound of more.
• RWBY: Reckoning shows 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 Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress, he ends up falling into branches, and getting nailed in 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.
• Team LVDR has a lot of build up for Blaze to confront Lila...only for him and his men to get absolutely trounced due to them not accounting for Penny’s abilities.
• As a Shout-Out to The Simpsons example, Weiss Reacts' companion fic, A Melodic Comedy, has Melodia set cereal on fire by dropping milk on it. Obviously lampshaded.
  • The Civilization V chapter in the main fic is full of it, but the main incidents are Yang having Failed a Spot Check and failing to realise that while backstabbing Ren Weiss captured her capital, Lucina attempting a Big Damn Heroes only to get stomped in two turns by the combined armies of Ren and Yang, and Fionn only getting one city founded before Yang conquers him.
• White Sheep (RWBY): Cinder and Tyrian get stranded after the Battle of Haven because Tyrian, despite being the last person on their ship, jumped out to join the fray. The ship, of course, immediately crashed. Cinder is not amused.
  Tyrian: But you jumped out too...
  Cinder: I WAS NOT THE PILOT!

A Song of Ice and Fire

• The King Nobody Wanted:
  • Mace Tyrell leading the battle of Storm's End and deciding to storm a fortress notorious mainly for its impregnability. Rather than winning glory for the Dragons, this becomes a major Stag victory that results in Stannis being freed and Mace being killed. Dragons and Stags alike agree Mace will most likely be remembered for this military blunder.
  • House Velaryon has an unfortunate knack for such fiascos.
    • At some point in the past, the current Lord Velaryon's great-grandfather somehow managed to sink a dozen of his own ships while they were still in port.
    • His son and successor died during the war of the Ninepenny Kings having managed to get his ship wrecked, boarded and set on fire all at the same time. Rys Chelsted declares it was a "novel death".
    • A couple of years before the story, the current Lord Velaryon's father sailed to Essos, vowing to bring back a mercenary fleet that would crush the Baratheon rebels. Instead, he was stabbed in the back during a fight in a Lyseni brothel and most of his fleet sank in a storm while sailing home.

Touhou Project

• "Water + Veggies + Meats + Soy(a) sauce + Yukari Yakumo = nuclear bombs".

Touken Ranbu

• Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: Of all the sweets Konotegashiwa could have used to lure Hōchō into converting to veganism, he chooses gummies. It leads to a hilarious meltdown when Yagen points it out to him.

Warhammer

• In An ISOT in Grimdark, the Skaven attempt to terrorize Germany by introducing diseases into the food supply. However, it turns out that modern food safety standards work.
  • The first batch of the Plague Monk's best is spread in a granary... and promptly killed off by baking. The pathogen's creator had assumed that the infected grain would be primarily used for porridge, rather than bread, and not engineered it to survive 175C for half an hour.
  • The second batch was introduced into a holding tank in a dairy... and promptly caught by a middle-aged lab tech who was in charge of contamination tests. She handed off a nice big sample of Skaven bio-engineering to Army intelligence, and in return got the new bacterium named after herself (she would have preferred roses, but you can't win 'em all...).
  • Third Time's The Charm! In their final attempt, the Skaven succeed in introducing a minor outbreak into a German town... just as peace negotiations between the Skaven and Germany open. The rats get the door slammed in their faces and operations begin to wipe them out.

Worm

• In Great Grand-Uncle Schimmelhorn's Toolbox, Sophia tries to frame Taylor for possessing drugs only for Taylor to use her Hammerspace powers to pass the drugs back onto Sophia. On top of running her chances of legal freedom, Emily also brutally mocks Sophia for (apparently) being so stupid as to try and frame Taylor for drugs while forgetting to plant them in the locker.
  Emily Piggot: Then, as the latest little entertainment in this sick operation, you decide that it would be a fantastic idea to plant enough drugs on the girl to get the cops to arrest her for possession and probably dealing, exactly as happened to you. But you can’t even do that properly and get caught in your own trap. Which on one level is about the funniest thing I’ve heard in years, but on every other level has opened a can of worms that makes me wonder if I should simply arrange to have you shot while trying to escape and say ‘whoops.’

Young Justice (2010)

• With This Ring:
  • Psimon, working for the dictatorial Queen Bee of Bialya, notices the team snooping around his campsite and erases their recent memories, confusing and scattering them. Since that includes all of Paul's memories of universe 16, however, Paul is initially convinced that the power ring on his finger means he's dreaming, and he proceeds to have fun with whatever ideas pop into his head. It later turns out that he took the opportunity to build a half-mile-high, naked, indestructible statue of himself in the Bialyan desert. Queen Bee's troops are unable to remove the statue, and have to settle for throwing a tarp over it.
    Paul: Do you think that if I put another one up near the Quraci Presidential Palace they'll call the whole thing off?
    Kid Flash: Might be worth trying.
    Superboy: Every time Queen Bee does something to Qurac, she gets a statue.
  • Nearly a year in, months of planning by the Light comes to fruition when they release Oceanus, titan of the seas, from his prison. Their intention was that he would go on an unstoppable rampage, proving the ineffectiveness of the Justice League and demonstrating the need for the rest of humanity to step up, until the nations gave up and went for the Nuclear Option, at which point the Light would arrange for the Justice League to be too close and get caught in the blast. Instead, the League wins, cementing more firmly than ever the importance of their role in defending the Earth from supernatural threats, and they take one of the members of the Light out of circulation, and the one piece of human-developed technology that really got a PR boost from it was the weather control drones produced by KordTech — which is one of Lex Luthor's competitors, had nothing to do with the Light, and was arranged by Paul.

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