"If at first you don't succeed, you fail."
There are a lot of tropes about failing. That should probably tell you something.
Tropes:
- Assassin Outclassin (You fail at assassination)
- Audience Participation Failure (You fail to get audience backup in your show or song)
- Artistic License (You fail at researching on something)
- Author Existence Failure (You fail at finishing your series before you die)
- Bonus Feature Failure (You fail at providing good bonus content)
- Bungled Suicide (You fail at suicide)
- Cant Get Away With Nuthin (You fail at staying out of trouble)
- Captain Obvious Reveal (You fail at making your reveal a surprise.)
- Color Failure (You fail at keeping your color when you lose your cool)
- Correction Bait (You fail at not correcting the mistake you've found)
- Critical Existence Failure (You fail at being alive, even though you were fine one hitpoint ago)
- Critical Failure (You fail at rolling a 2 or higher, thus leading to more fail)
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure (You fail at psychoanalyzing a guy)
- Critical Research Failure (You fail at knowing the first thing about a topic)
- Defensive Failure (You fail at remembering you have a weapon in your hand)
- Designated Hero (You fail at making a good guy)
- Designated Villain (You fail at making a bad guy)
- D.I.Y. Disaster (You fail at renovating your house)
- Dude, Not Funny! (You fail at keeping your comedy in good taste)
- Entendre Failure (You fail at making a double entendre)
- Epic Fail (When you fail spectacularly)
- Exact Time to Failure (Initiating failure in 3...2...1...)
- F Minus Minus (You epically fail at schoolwork)
- Facial Composite Failure (You fail at drawing an accurate wanted poster)
- Failed a Spot Check (You fail at spotting something two inches away from your face)
- Failed Audition Plot (You fail an audition for your dream career, but find a reason to keep trying)
- Failing A Taxi (You fail at hailing a taxi)
- Failsafe Failure (You fail at making a failsafe)
- Failure Hero (You fail at saving the day)
- Failure Knight (You failed something in your backstory)
- Failure Is the Only Option (You have no choice but to fail because succeeding would end the story)
- Failures On Ice (You fail at skating, especially on the ice)
- Fake Balance (You fail at balancing your video game characters)
- Femininity Failure (You fail at being ladylike)
- Fight Scene Failure (You fail at directing an awesome fight scene)
- Floorboard Failure (The floorboards have failed to support your weight)
- General Failure (Your plans fail at proving you earned your rank as General)
- Glamour Failure (You fail at hiding who you really are)
- Gone Horribly Right (Your plan worked, but you didn't consider the consequences)
- Gone Horribly Wrong (Something doesn't just not work, it works in ways that are disastrous)
- Hero Tracking Failure (You fail at shooting a moving target with Plot Armor)
- Hoist by His Own Petard (You are the direct cause of your own failure)
- It's a Wonderful Failure (You see the repercussions of your failure before you get a game over)
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance (You fail at realizing your own ignorance)
- Imposter Forgot One Detail (You fail at convincing others you are someone else)
- I Never Told You My Name/I Never Said It Was Poison (You fail because you give away knowledge of things you aren't supposed to know)
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure (You failed, so your buddy's gonna feel the pain)
- Made Out To Be A Jerkass (Standing up for yourself results in you losing face)
- The Mountains of Illinois (You fail at providing the proper geography when filming your movie)
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels (You fail at speaking a foreign language)
- My Greatest Failure (You fail at failing harder than this)
- Narm (You fail at making a scene serious)
- Necessary Fail (You failed, but if you won, the following events would have been worse)
- No Dead Body Poops (You fail to remember to brown your pants when you die)
- Of Course I Smoke (You failed at pretending to be a smoker.)
- Out-Gambitted (You fail at anticipating someone else's plan)
- Pass Fail (You fail at being recognized as a white guy, even if you're not)
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure (You fail at recognizing another generation's pop culture references)
- Potty Failure (You fail at keeping your pants clean)
- The Presents Were Never From Santa (You fail to get the respect you deserve, or thought you deserve)
- Recognition Failure (You fail to recognize someone)
- Redemption Failure (You fail to stay a good guy)
- Rummage Fail (You fail at finding something in a bag of random items)
- Sarcasm Failure (You fail at sarcasm)
- The Scrappy (You fail at making a likable character)
- The Show Must Go Wrong (You fail at preventing disaster from happening during your performance)
- Skepticism Failure (You fail at proving that the supernatural doesn't exist)
- Special Effect Failure (You failed to fund the SFX department)
- Springtime for Hitler (You fail at failing)
- Status Quo Game Show (You failed at winning a gameshow because Status Quo Is God)
- Stock Footage Failure (You fail at realizing that was a bad time to use stock footage)
- Strawman Has a Point (You fail at making your opponents look irrational)
- Suspect Existence Failure (You fail at finding suspects for a crime)
- Symbology Research Failure (You fail at remembering that cool logo you saw the other day and put into your work actually has religious meanings)
- Time for Plan B (Your first plan failed, on to the next)
- Translation By Volume (You fail at talking to foreigners)
- Tutorial Failure (You fail to properly teach how to play a game)
- Unfortunate Implications (You fail at catching an accidental stereotype, Family Unfriendly Aesop, or other offensive aspect in your work before making it public)
- Unfortunate Item Swap (You fail at telling those two important objects apart)
- Unwinnable (When the game can only end in failure, no matter how much you win)
- Voodoo Shark (You fail to cover your plot holes)
- Wimp Fight (You and your opponent fail at fighting)
- World Limited to the Plot (You fail to build a context for your story.)
- What the Fu Are You Doing? (You fail at martial arts)
- Wheres The Kaboom (You fail at blowing stuff up)
- You Can't Thwart Stage One (You fail at stopping a villain's plan even when you should have succeeded)
- You Have Failed Me (You fail at pleasing your superior)
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