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!!Films -- Animation
* As Caesar's fleet approaches Britain in the opening of ''[[Franchise/{{Asterix}} Asterix in Britain]]'', a signalman gets mad at a very annoying seagull and starts waving his signal flags wildly trying to get rid of it. What follows is the accidental self-destruction of a large chunk of the fleet as well as a {{Facepalm}} from Caesar accompanied by an exasperated "I came, I saw, and ''I don't believe my eyes''."
* In ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown loses the spelling bee when he misspells "beagle", a word you'd think he'd be very familiar with. (''Snoopy'' is a beagle.) Even worse, he does it ''on live TV''. Even more worse, Charlie screams in frustration as soon as he spelled the word, meaning he ''knew'' the correct spelling and just plain screwed up.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJngUSbVHoI 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.
* ''Disney/BrotherBear'':
-->'''Rutt:''' I can't believe you totaled a mammoth.\\
'''Tuke:''' That mountain came out of nowhere. It was in my blind spot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', the animals set up an audition with studio head L.B. Mammoth that is sabotaged by the villainous Darla Dimple far beyond what should be probable or even possible. Flooding the stage? Well, maybe. Flooding ''the entire studio''? Pretty far-fetched. But wait, there's more: accidentally dragging L.B. himself behind you on your anchor as your prop boat floats through the streets, crashing into buildings? Ouch. Accidentally getting him tied to the mast when the boat sinks? Epic Fail.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheEasterBeagleCharlieBrown'', 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''.
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' Marcie, ''you've made egg SOUP!'' '''AAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!'''
** At the end of the special, Peppermint Patty tells Marcie "We put salt on the eggs and eat them." Since Marcie has a salt shaker already in her pocket, she salts the egg and bites it. The only problem? ''She forgot to take the shell off.''
-->'''Marcie:''' Tastes terrible, sir!
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' (drops her own egg, does a {{facepalm}} and drops her head down to her knees)
* ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'':
** At the beginning of the film, Timon's so bad at digging (or at least his way of digging) that he ends up causing the entire tunnel system to collapse. And we heard this is the fourth time he's done it in a week.
-->'''Random Meerkat:''' Who else can ''break'' a '''hole'''?!
** Later on, when trying to [[RelationshipSabotage break Simba and Nala up]] during the "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sequence, Timon throws a beehive at them... only for the hive to go ahead and the bees to stay right above his head and chase him instead. Why this happened... the world may never know.
* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': The circus's performance in Rome is a series of EpicFail. Examples include Stefano [[ItMakesSenseInContext choking on his balls]], knocking a dog unconscious by accident, or a horse kicking another dog off a pyramid of dogs, or the balls the elephants were standing on deflating, or even [[AssShove the elephant accidentally sitting on a heckler and exiting stage left with the boy in his rear end]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Skipper]]:''' Well, that was worth the price of admission.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': Mulan is getting ready for her first meeting with the matchmaker. It starts badly, then gets progressively worse. It involves [[NoodleImplements a renegade cricket, some badly placed ink, a teapot, and]] [[KillItWithFire fire.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Flash Sentry and Sweetie Drops enter a cake baking contest, but bake a loaf of bread instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'':
** Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
** Later, Rover valiantly saves the farm's turkey from a pack of hungry coyotes... and it dies anyway from shock!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': Homer, having alienated his family, and accidentally prevented the townspeople from escaping, angrily kicks the bomb...''and accidentally halves the countdown time''.
* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Kay loses a jousting match. Against a ''training dummy''.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel has a montage of epic fails trying to get Flynn Rider into a closet. It should be noted that he was unconscious, and it only ends when Rapunzel decides having the doors closed with his fingers poking out is close enough.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': It can't get much more epic than how the Mighty One-Eyes's attempt to destroy the Golden City is ultimately foiled. All it took was [[ButterflyOfDoom a very, very, very fortunately aimed little tack and a (big amount of) dumb luck]], and the One-Eye's improbable war machine of doom is destroyed by a hilarious chain reaction along with all the One-Eyes's army. ''All because of a tack''. And mind you, the progressive destruction of the war machine gets more than fifteen minutes of screen time.
** Though not as spectacular, the Thief's Wile E. Coyote-esque attempts at stealing the golden balls are crowned by some pretty epic fails too.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': At one point, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm play Battleships against each other, with Hamm winning. But [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] to see by how the game is going; Hamm has successfully hit every one of Potato Head's ships (All bunched together) without missing, while Potato Head's side is ''filled'' with white Miss pegs ''except the areas where Hamm's ships are.''
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': "Prepare to meet ''Mr. Angry Eyes!''" quoth Mr. Potato Head as he rushes to the attack in Al's apartment. After switching his regular eyes... for [[RummageFail an extra pair of shoes]]. So naturally he just runs into the furniture and looks like an idiot. Jessie's WTF facial expression makes it even better.
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'': Felix is caught by King Candy and put into a jail cell. He tries to get out with his [[HealingShiv hammer]] [[note]]which magically repairs whatever is struck with it[[/note]]... [[BlessedWithSuck and ends up making the bars on the cell twice as thick]].
-->'''Fix-It Felix Jr.:''' WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH?!
!!Films -- Live-Action
* This trope is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape. Given that Burke admits to Ripley that the real objective of the mission was to smuggle some eggs out inside infected Marines, the fact that the squad performed so poorly was probably intentional: the Weyland-Yutani Corp wouldn't want a group of ''competent'' soldiers sent in.
* The 1978 disaster film ''Film/{{Avalanche}}'' ''really'' takes the cake in utter incompetence. When the titular avalanche hits, rescue crews race to the rescue. One truck dumps their equipment, causing an ambulance to stop and the driver hopping out in annoyance. This causes a police car to swerve, fishtail and ''hit a pedestrian and send him through a storefront window as the car itself goes through.'' Then, there's a group of rescuers completely missing catching a man falling from the destroyed remains of a ski lift (granted, he was probably dead from electrocution, but his fate was sealed when the rescuers missed). For a hat trick, some rescuers are able to rescue the leading male's mother and get her to an ambulance and heading towards a hospital. However, on the way down, the driver decides to go really fast, causing him to throw the ambulance into a ravine below and blowing up.
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' series:
** The 1989 film: Batman programs the computer in his Batwing to fire two machine guns and several missiles at ComicBook/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.
*** The novelization lessens the fail by having Joker dance and prance around, essentially dodging the bullets and rockets.
** ''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 his own hideout, completely destroying it]].
* Early in ''Film/FallingDown'', a car full of Latino gangbangers do a fairly slow drive-by with [[MoreDakka at least three submachine guns]] on protagonist William Foster, who's on a payphone and has his back turned on them. They hit absolutely everything including several innocent bystanders, but completely miss Foster. Then the driver fails to notice the oncoming traffic and causes a massive crash that gets himself and most of his buddies killed. They also lose their weapons in the process, which Foster proceeds to take, [[KickTheSonOfABitch put a bullet in the sole survivor's leg for good measure]], and deploy later in his vigilante rampage through LA.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Oskari threatens to shoot Morris - who's standing about four metres from him - with an arrow. The problem is, he can't properly draw a bow, and the arrow ends up landing exactly in the middle of the way between them with an embarrassed ''thump''. To add to the insult, Morris looks like he's about to burst out laughing.
* In ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', three men decide to [[BankRobbery rob a bank]]. They walk into the bank in broad daylight with no masks, no gloves, and no floorplan, without checking if their information is up to date. The mastermind Sonny Wortzik doesn't even think of blacking out the security cameras until the unmasked robbers have been inside for almost five minutes, and he's too short to reach them without jumping. One robber [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits]] because he can't bring himself to pull a gun on someone. Then the remaining robbers make the tellers open the vault and find barely any money left to steal, because the latest shipment is already gone. All the while, the robbers use each others' real names, allowing the authorities to identify them easily--especially Sonny, who also announces that he is a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]] and a former bank teller.\\
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Then, while raiding the counters, Sonny decides to dispose of the traveler's check register by lighting it on fire. The thick smoke drifts through a vent and alerts everyone outside that something's going on in the bank. Before long, the robbers attract not only police and media attention but also a huge crowd of onlookers, ensuring that they are trapped inside a sweltering building with no means of escape, that their faces will be on national television, and that what began as a quick robbery is now a hostage situation with one robber [[SanitySlippage too mentally unstable]] to handle the ensuing standoff. To say that the robbers DidntThinkThisThrough [[StupidCrooks is an understatement]].
* In the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' 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''."
* In ''Film/GangsterSquad'', the squad's first operation as a unit devolves into equal parts slapstick and failure. They try to take down one of mobster Mickey Cohen's casinos by storming it at gunpoint, only to be met by a group of armed officers who assume they're robbers and try to arrest the group. On the squad's escape out of the casino, their car breaks down, and David and O'Mara get arrested after giving the car a running boost. The two men get beaten, arrested, and sent to jail, where Cohen sends men intending to pick them up and execute them. The squad arrives to save the two men, but Kennard's plan of tying a rope from his vehicle to the prison window bars fails (the bumper gets ripped off the car), Keeler's plan to cut the power results in chaos in the prison block, and the whole thing would have gone south if Wooters hadn't show up.
* In the ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' movie, there's a scene near the middle of the film where Garfield is upset over Odie. He proceeds to vent this frustration by smacking Odie's favorite ball. [[RubeGoldbergDevice The ball knocks an object over]], then that object knocks something else over, and this chain reaction continues until the entire wall-high shelf tips over and onto Garfield. When Jon comes back inside, he is not happy. Garfield lives, of course.
* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, Maxwell Smart is given a tiny grappling hook launcher, and while using it to free himself, manages to hit everything except what he was aiming for, including a secret button that drops him out of an airliner. In flight. Made slightly more epic by the fact that the grappling hook launcher was part of a Swiss Army Knife. You know, the thing ''with a blade on it! For cutting!''
* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is a collection of epic fails every ten minutes of the movie. [[VerbalTic Ay ay ay ay ay.]] What's worse, roughly half the [[HilarityEnsues wacky predicaments ensue]] simply because at the beginning of the movie, ''someone throws an empty Coca-Cola bottle from an airplane''. Seriously. We never even learn the litterbug's name.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** The entire US military does this in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. They miss the skyscraper-sized dinosaur with rockets and heat-seeking missiles from close range and destroy more of the city than the lizard does. Somehow, the monster was able to hide in a city of ''eight million.''
** The Navy trying to attack Godzilla just as he rises outside of San Francisco Bay in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. One of the ship rockets hit a supporting cable, prompting a soldier to tell them to stop firing due to civilians on the Golden Gate Bridge. They ''still'' keep firing at him, and a hole gets torn in the bridge in the chaos.
* 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.]]
* The attack on District 13 in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. Instead of collapsing the entire complex, [[spoiler:the Capitol only succeeds in damaging passages near the surface and possibly some surface-to-air emplacements. No casualties are reported]].
* In ''{{Film/Idiocracy}}'': In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination. Given that his IQ is stated to be 137, this goes far beyond normal failing.
* Eirik's attempt to rob Ray in ''Film/InBruges'' not only fails, but gets him [[EyeScream permanently blinded in one eye]]. By his own weapon. As a more experienced crook puts it:
-->'''Harry:''' I mean, basically, you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks. Then you allow your gun to be taken from you, and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you then. Yeah really it's all your fault for being such a poof. So why don't you stop wingeing and cheer the fuck up?
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is repeatedly shown to be a competent adventurer. His father, introduced in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is a completely different story:
** First, they're captured by the Nazis and tied up together in chairs. When they're alone, Indy gives his father a lighter to burn through the ropes. First, he burns himself and drops the lighter. Then when he tries to pick it up, he ends up setting the floor on fire. Within minutes, the entire room is ablaze (except, [[{{Irony}} ironically]], the fireplace).
** Then they try to escape from Germany on a zeppelin and are forced to steal a biplane when the zeppelin is rerouted. They come under attack by a pair of fighter planes and the senior Jones has to shoot them down with the biplane's guns. He succeeds in shooting down one plane: the one he and his son stole when he ends up blowing apart their own vertical stabilizer.
** To be fair, he's not the only example in the film:
-->'''Indiana:''' We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.\\
'''Henry:''' But you said he had a two day headstart. That he would blend in, disappear.\\
'''Indiana:''' Are you kidding? You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.
* ''Film/KangarooJack'': Louis decides to try and tranquilize Jack from the air. He misses, and ends up ''[[OhCrap shooting the pilot]]''.
* Nearly [[UpToEleven everything]] Creator/LaurelAndHardy get up to in their films. From [[Film/TheMusicBox delivering pianos]] to working at lumber mills, something is bound to go wrong.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': When the Ents (gigantic living trees) hold a council, they demonstrate just how mind-bogglingly slow they are at doing ''anything''.
-->'''Treebeard:''' We just finished saying... "Good morning."\\
'''Merry:''' BUT IT'S NIGHTTIME ALREADY!
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** This trope is arguably part of Nux's character arc - he screws up virtually every task he's given in glorious fashion until he joins the heroes midway through the film. After being personally trusted with boarding and taking down the hijacked War Rig, and even given a personal ''blessing'' from Immortan Joe ("You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"), Nux (who holds Joe in very high regard and would like nothing more than to finally impress him) goes forth, boards the War Rig with Immortan's revolver... and gets his chain caught on a ladder, immediately falling off the Rig, bouncing off the side and dangling helplessly, losing his beloved idol's revolver to boot.
-->'''Immortan Joe:''' Agh! ''MEDIOCRE!''
** In the bog, Joe reluctantly sends the AxCrazy Bullet Farmer after the War Rig, only telling him "not to hurt the Wives". The Farmer takes this to mean that he can fire off his guns indiscriminately, nearly hitting everyone around the Rig (who have all exited to see what's happening), and is only stopped when Furiosa shoots out the light on his vehicle and blinds him. Instead of going back to lick his wounds, he gets his driver to continue heading towards them, screaming like a lunatic and blindly firing off SMG rounds at them. The only thing he gets for his trouble is Max killing him ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]) and taking his weapons, ammo and steering wheel, which all comes in very handy when the group decides to drive back towards the Citadel near the end.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Hip and his nieces rescue Film/JamesBond from Hai Fat's dojo. The plan goes well, until Hip drives off without Bond, despite his nieces trying to tell him that the man they were sent to rescue has been left behind.
* In ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe'', the agents sneak into Richard's apartment and disassemble the plumbing in his bathroom to look for evidence. They hastily reassemble it when they find out he's coming home and do such a poor job of it, the controls for one fixture end up turning on another one. Notably, Richard has to push the toilet flush handle to turn on the sink and repeatedly using it leads the agents to assume he's flushing the evidence.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** The first movie gives us the Mk. II test flight:
--->'''Tony:''' We're going to see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one....\\
''[Gets thrown up and backwards into a wall, before being doused by an inept RobotBuddy with a fire extinguisher]''
*** Then after trying it again and ending up high in the air:
--->'''Tony:''' [''hovering above his house''] Kill power.\\
''[crashes through several stories, a piano, [[CarCushion lands on his]] CoolCar, and [[ChekhovsGag gets doused by the same]] [[TriggerHappy fire extinguisher]] RobotBuddy]''
** ''Film/IronMan2'':
*** The second gives us the Ex-Wife, a tiny yet massively explosive missile... that [[BeginWithAFinisher is fired at Vanko]] but does ''absolutely nothing''--not even explode. The disgust in Tony's and Rhodey's voices is palpable.
*** In some of the tie-in comics that led up to ''Film/IronMan3,'' it actually shows off a working Ex-Wife. Apparently, that particular one was a dud. The ''real'' Ex-Wife [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill in action...]] [[StuffBlowingUp well...]] Let's just say that [[TooDumbToLive using it in close quarters]] would have been a ''bad'' idea.
*** It also gives us footage of various foreign countries' (as well as Hammer Industries') hilariously botched attempts to replicate the Iron Man armor, which the artbook appropriately calls the Feebles. 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.
--->'''Tony Stark:''' Yeah, I'd say, uh, most countries? 5-10 years away... Hammer Industries? 20.\\
'''Justin Hammer:''' I'd like to point out that that test pilot ''survived''.
** The Mk. 42 in ''Film/IronMan3'' falls apart at the slightest jolt. Of course, it's ''designed'' to be able to come apart and fly towards Tony and assemble around him, but it falls apart ''too well''. An epic scene where Tony is facing off against the BigBad, JARVIS informs him that Mk. 42 is on the way. Heroic music plays, as Tony uses a gesture to get the armor to assemble on him... and the armor trips and falls apart.
---> '''Tony Stark:''' ''[eyeroll]'' Whatever.
** From ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', S.H.I.E.L.D's major CriticalResearchFailure when Steve Rogers has been thawed in a fake 1940's hospital room. Everything else in there was fine (a woman even entering in a suitable getup) - except for the radio broadcasting a "live" baseball game, from 1941. Rogers was frozen in 1945, and he was AT that game. ''They didn't even bother to check whether the game was from after he went MIA.''
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki, who is [[VillainousBreakdown having a very bad day]], [[spoiler:runs into the Hulk and tries to ''browbeat him into submission''. The Hulk responds by [[MetronomicManMashing using him as a club]], AKA The Droopy Moment. "You know what? That Makes Me Mad!"]].
--->[[spoiler:"Puny god."]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this trope is used to surprisingly serious effect. [[spoiler:After WWII, SHIELD recruited a number of HYDRA scientists to do science and engineering for them. This in and of itself isn't a bad idea; it happened in real life, with the U.S. recruiting Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to work on their space program. The difference is, von Braun and his cohorts had mainly been PunchClockVillains, cooperating with the Nazis out of fear and duress. But HYDRA was staffed by dyed-in-the-wool supervillains. Fast-forward to the present and Armin Zola has essentially converted SHIELD into a massive HYDRA operation working under deep cover. It's so bad that the heroes have to literally destroy SHIELD to save the world.]]
** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:when Bruce Banner [[GodzillaThreshold 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.]]
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Happy Hogan tries to take out a remote controlled drone by hurling a shield at it Captain America style. The shield only flies a few feet before falling to the floor.
* In ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'', Lyn crashes into a rock in the middle of the desert, the only such object for miles around. It was probably destiny.
* ''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.
** When the knights encounter the French castle, they try to conquer it somehow. One suggests a Trojan Horse ploy with a gigantic wooden rabbit. It fails because they missed the important part about being ''inside'' the rabbit when it's taken into the castle. The suggester doesn't reveal this part of the plan until after the rabbit is taken inside.
* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' has a scene where a hired killer kills his victim and then tries to fake suicide by putting his gun into the victim's hand. While trying to do so, he accidentally pulls the trigger and the bullet goes through the (fairly thin) wall into the neighboring flat, hitting a fat, ugly woman. He then goes into said flat and attacks the woman, who turns out to be stronger than he expected. He eventually overpowers her and tries to drag her into the flat where he killed the first guy in order to fake a suicide-with-murder scenario. While passing the floor, he is observed by a janitor who apparently doesn't speak English, but slowly follows him into the flat. Back there, the killer first kills the woman, then the janitor enters the room with his vacuum cleaner. He also shoots the janitor, but by accident, the vacuum cleaner is turned back on again. He then pulls the janitor into the room. Finally, he tries to turn off the vacuum cleaner... by shooting at it. The vacuum cleaner catches fire, which sets off the fire alarm.
* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and Tom head down to the Satellite of Love's basement to stop Crow, who is attempting to ''tunnel through space''. After stopping a hull breach, Crow admits to the two that [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite weighing the odds, he decided to do so anyway]]. There's also Mike crashing the Satellite of Love into the Hubble Telescope. He attempts to pull it off and release it, only to watch in horror as it instantly drops out of orbit and explodes in a fiery ball.
* Pretty much every single plan Jason conceives in ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Most notable is when a speech on how a certain character won't [[spoiler:shoot them]] gets him [[spoiler:shot]].
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He finds incriminating evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, AND the evidence that Ludwig is evil no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthBasedMission.
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' with the "Aim For The Bushes" scene. Two detectives are chasing some jewelry thieves to the roof of a 20-story building, and the thieves escape by zipline (which they, of course, cut after using). The detectives decide the best course of action would be to jump off the roof and land on the bushes... even though ''the pavement underneath doesn't even have bushes, or anything the duo can safely land on''. Three guesses what happens next, and the first two don't count.
* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'''s trademark. No matter how simple and easy a task might be, trust Paddington to mess it up it in a spectacular fashion.
* Near the end of the first ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', Fackler causes a city-wide riot by tossing an apple over his shoulder. The apple hits a tough guy in the back of the head. He turns around to see another man eating apples out of a bag and throws him through the window of a bar. The guy thrown through the window somehow shoves the entire crowd towards the back and sends a pinball machine down the back alley. The pinball machine crashes into a setup outside a store and the manager hands a television to a customer while he tries to sort out the mess. The customer thinks they're giving away televisions for free and everybody tries getting one. A group of pool players think this is an actual riot and decide to take part. Yup, all because of an apple.
* From ''Film/PulpFiction'', one of the guys at the apartment where Jules and Vincent go to retrieve Marsellus Wallace's briefcase ambushes them and shoots at the duo at very close range... and misses every shot. All three pause to stare in surprise. (Jules believes that this is a sign from God to change careers.)
** Later, an epic failure to follow basic gun safety leads to the memetic "IJustShotMarvinInTheFace" scene.
* In ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'', Ernest and Fanny Weller, two corrupt televangelists (parodies of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker), decide to televise a real exorcism and take phone donations. All is going well until Fanny demands a chance to sing on television. The money donated swiftly starts to go ''down''.
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', there's pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookmaker's. They were to rob the bookie's place as well, so it wouldn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they stole the case from him. In the end, they'd get the cash from the bookie's, their employer would get the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it.\\
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Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, Sol and Vinnie enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the "pull" side of the door]]. The clincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.
* One scene of ''Film/SpeedZone'' has two of the Cannonball's entrants flying to the finish line in a commuter jet which is quickly hijacked. The hijacking is the Epic Fail in this case. First, the hijacker attempts to take over the plane ''before'' it takes off. Second, he fails to scare the passengers thoroughly since his announcement of their destination is met with requests for other places to be hijacked to. Third, the argument over a destination distracts him long enough for the crew to overpower him. Finally, the fight to subdue him distracts the crew long enough for the plane to roll out onto the highway and shear off its wings and tail by going under an overpass. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Kirk and his TrueCompanions steal the ''Enterprise''. The shiny new ''Excelsior'', in hot pursuit, powers up its revolutionary transwarp drive... which promptly conks out [[spoiler:due to Scotty sabotaging it beforehand]], complete with sputtering engine noises, leaving Starfleet's "Great Experiment" adrift and having to be towed back to Spacedock.
* Captain Picard is known to strictly adhere to Starfleet's [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]]. In fact, violating it is a bit of a BerserkButton for him. So when he, Data, and Worf have to visit a primitive, inhabited world in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', they do their best to avoid contact with the natives. Within ten minutes of landing, they find themselves in a high-speed gun battle with some locals, before giving them their first look at a spaceship while the away team makes its getaway. To make it even worse, eagle eyed natives might have noticed that the aliens who were shooting up the place were members of three different species[[note]]Human, Klingon, and Soong-type Android[[/note]]--not only do the primitive people now know that they're not alone in the universe, they know that there's a whole community among the stars, and [[ParanoiaFuel that it has better guns than they do]].
** Perhaps Picard was just going for RefugeInAudacity: "So you're telling me there were three aliens, all different species, and you had a shootout with them while dune buggy chasing until they ramped off a cliff into their spaceship?"
* Done deliberately in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Kirk, in violation of the Prime Directive, has elected to airdrop a cold fission device into the center of the volcano (ideally, using a shuttle), to save a pre-warp civilization – an act that constitutes interfering. Kirk and Bones beam onto the surface and begin a dangerous chase by stealing one of the tribe's sacred texts, nearly getting them killed multiple times over when the natives chase and hurl spears at them (and during which time Kirk phasers ''the animal they were going to ride away on''). The cable lowering the fission device into the volcano snaps, and Spock has to go in after it and manually activate it. Kirk and the crew have inexplicably parked the ''Enterprise'' underwater near the tribe, and when they are forced to break water in order to transport Spock out, the natives get a nice long view of the advanced technology and begin to worship it as their god. This botched mission results in Kirk being demoted and Pike taking over command of the ''Enterprise'' for a time.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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 that they'd apparently planned to exclusively rely on to maintain their regime, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military, putting them in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain
** From the same movie, thanks to the infamous AdaptationalSelfDefense edit, the bounty hunter Greedo misses Han by more than a foot from about three feet away.
** ''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 plan 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]]]].
* In ''Film/StVincent2014'', 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/{{Ted}}'', during Ted's fight with John, John attempts to hit Ted with a floor lamp. He neglects to unplug it, so when he swings it around he hits himself and the light bulb shatters against his head.
* ''Film/TinCup'': Roy could play it safe on the last hole of the U.S. Open, and tie the leader, forcing a playoff, but he goes for broke trying to score under par, and ends up in a water trap... he then repeats the same failed shot, over and over until he finally makes it with his last ball, scoring a 12. His love interest consoles him afterward by telling that in five years, no one will remember who won, but "''everyone'' will remember your 12."
* In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', Hiram Gummer mans a [[{{BFG}} massively-oversized punt gun]] to help fight off a Graboid. Having had a rather short time to learn to fire guns, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIj1rdyS5L4 he quickly moves to shoot it when it finally pops out of the ground]]... and misses. He misses the giant monster with a cannon-like gun designed for shooting entire flocks of ducks, when the tip of the barrel is ''mere feet away from it''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, not only does the shot scare it away, he succeeds in shooting it when it comes back.]]
--> '''Tecopa:''' You missed! ''With a cannon!''
* In the PaedoHunt[=/=]TooSmartForStrangers PSA ''Film/TrickyPeople'', [[BigBad Reginald Charming]] gives his NumberTwoForBrains [[TheDragon Dragon]] Wendell the task of not touching anything in his office while he's away. Wendell not only immediately disobeys the order the second Reginald has left, but he makes a complete mess of Reginald's desk in his attempt to play with a Newton's cradle.
* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
** Banshee's first flight... is ''not''.
** 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.
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* As Caesar's fleet approaches Britain in the opening of ''[[Franchise/{{Asterix}} Asterix in Britain]]'', a signalman gets mad at a very annoying seagull and starts waving his signal flags wildly trying to get rid of it. What follows is the accidental self-destruction of a large chunk of the fleet as well as a {{Facepalm}} from Caesar accompanied by an exasperated "I came, I saw, and ''I don't believe my eyes''."
* In ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown loses the spelling bee when he misspells "beagle", a word you'd think he'd be very familiar with. (''Snoopy'' is a beagle.) Even worse, he does it ''on live TV''. Even more worse, Charlie screams in frustration as soon as he spelled the word, meaning he ''knew'' the correct spelling and just plain screwed up.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJngUSbVHoI 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.
* ''Disney/BrotherBear'':
-->'''Rutt:''' I can't believe you totaled a mammoth.\\
'''Tuke:''' That mountain came out of nowhere. It was in my blind spot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', the animals set up an audition with studio head L.B. Mammoth that is sabotaged by the villainous Darla Dimple far beyond what should be probable or even possible. Flooding the stage? Well, maybe. Flooding ''the entire studio''? Pretty far-fetched. But wait, there's more: accidentally dragging L.B. himself behind you on your anchor as your prop boat floats through the streets, crashing into buildings? Ouch. Accidentally getting him tied to the mast when the boat sinks? Epic Fail.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheEasterBeagleCharlieBrown'', 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''.
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' Marcie, ''you've made egg SOUP!'' '''AAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!'''
** At the end of the special, Peppermint Patty tells Marcie "We put salt on the eggs and eat them." Since Marcie has a salt shaker already in her pocket, she salts the egg and bites it. The only problem? ''She forgot to take the shell off.''
-->'''Marcie:''' Tastes terrible, sir!
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' (drops her own egg, does a {{facepalm}} and drops her head down to her knees)
* ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'':
** At the beginning of the film, Timon's so bad at digging (or at least his way of digging) that he ends up causing the entire tunnel system to collapse. And we heard this is the fourth time he's done it in a week.
-->'''Random Meerkat:''' Who else can ''break'' a '''hole'''?!
** Later on, when trying to [[RelationshipSabotage break Simba and Nala up]] during the "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sequence, Timon throws a beehive at them... only for the hive to go ahead and the bees to stay right above his head and chase him instead. Why this happened... the world may never know.
* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': The circus's performance in Rome is a series of EpicFail. Examples include Stefano [[ItMakesSenseInContext choking on his balls]], knocking a dog unconscious by accident, or a horse kicking another dog off a pyramid of dogs, or the balls the elephants were standing on deflating, or even [[AssShove the elephant accidentally sitting on a heckler and exiting stage left with the boy in his rear end]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Skipper]]:''' Well, that was worth the price of admission.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': Mulan is getting ready for her first meeting with the matchmaker. It starts badly, then gets progressively worse. It involves [[NoodleImplements a renegade cricket, some badly placed ink, a teapot, and]] [[KillItWithFire fire.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Flash Sentry and Sweetie Drops enter a cake baking contest, but bake a loaf of bread instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'':
** Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
** Later, Rover valiantly saves the farm's turkey from a pack of hungry coyotes... and it dies anyway from shock!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': Homer, having alienated his family, and accidentally prevented the townspeople from escaping, angrily kicks the bomb...''and accidentally halves the countdown time''.
* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Kay loses a jousting match. Against a ''training dummy''.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel has a montage of epic fails trying to get Flynn Rider into a closet. It should be noted that he was unconscious, and it only ends when Rapunzel decides having the doors closed with his fingers poking out is close enough.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': It can't get much more epic than how the Mighty One-Eyes's attempt to destroy the Golden City is ultimately foiled. All it took was [[ButterflyOfDoom a very, very, very fortunately aimed little tack and a (big amount of) dumb luck]], and the One-Eye's improbable war machine of doom is destroyed by a hilarious chain reaction along with all the One-Eyes's army. ''All because of a tack''. And mind you, the progressive destruction of the war machine gets more than fifteen minutes of screen time.
** Though not as spectacular, the Thief's Wile E. Coyote-esque attempts at stealing the golden balls are crowned by some pretty epic fails too.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': At one point, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm play Battleships against each other, with Hamm winning. But [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] to see by how the game is going; Hamm has successfully hit every one of Potato Head's ships (All bunched together) without missing, while Potato Head's side is ''filled'' with white Miss pegs ''except the areas where Hamm's ships are.''
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': "Prepare to meet ''Mr. Angry Eyes!''" quoth Mr. Potato Head as he rushes to the attack in Al's apartment. After switching his regular eyes... for [[RummageFail an extra pair of shoes]]. So naturally he just runs into the furniture and looks like an idiot. Jessie's WTF facial expression makes it even better.
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'': Felix is caught by King Candy and put into a jail cell. He tries to get out with his [[HealingShiv hammer]] [[note]]which magically repairs whatever is struck with it[[/note]]... [[BlessedWithSuck and ends up making the bars on the cell twice as thick]].
-->'''Fix-It Felix Jr.:''' WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH?!
!!Films -- Live-Action
* This trope is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape. Given that Burke admits to Ripley that the real objective of the mission was to smuggle some eggs out inside infected Marines, the fact that the squad performed so poorly was probably intentional: the Weyland-Yutani Corp wouldn't want a group of ''competent'' soldiers sent in.
* The 1978 disaster film ''Film/{{Avalanche}}'' ''really'' takes the cake in utter incompetence. When the titular avalanche hits, rescue crews race to the rescue. One truck dumps their equipment, causing an ambulance to stop and the driver hopping out in annoyance. This causes a police car to swerve, fishtail and ''hit a pedestrian and send him through a storefront window as the car itself goes through.'' Then, there's a group of rescuers completely missing catching a man falling from the destroyed remains of a ski lift (granted, he was probably dead from electrocution, but his fate was sealed when the rescuers missed). For a hat trick, some rescuers are able to rescue the leading male's mother and get her to an ambulance and heading towards a hospital. However, on the way down, the driver decides to go really fast, causing him to throw the ambulance into a ravine below and blowing up.
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' series:
** The 1989 film: Batman programs the computer in his Batwing to fire two machine guns and several missiles at ComicBook/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.
*** The novelization lessens the fail by having Joker dance and prance around, essentially dodging the bullets and rockets.
** ''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 his own hideout, completely destroying it]].
* Early in ''Film/FallingDown'', a car full of Latino gangbangers do a fairly slow drive-by with [[MoreDakka at least three submachine guns]] on protagonist William Foster, who's on a payphone and has his back turned on them. They hit absolutely everything including several innocent bystanders, but completely miss Foster. Then the driver fails to notice the oncoming traffic and causes a massive crash that gets himself and most of his buddies killed. They also lose their weapons in the process, which Foster proceeds to take, [[KickTheSonOfABitch put a bullet in the sole survivor's leg for good measure]], and deploy later in his vigilante rampage through LA.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Oskari threatens to shoot Morris - who's standing about four metres from him - with an arrow. The problem is, he can't properly draw a bow, and the arrow ends up landing exactly in the middle of the way between them with an embarrassed ''thump''. To add to the insult, Morris looks like he's about to burst out laughing.
* In ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', three men decide to [[BankRobbery rob a bank]]. They walk into the bank in broad daylight with no masks, no gloves, and no floorplan, without checking if their information is up to date. The mastermind Sonny Wortzik doesn't even think of blacking out the security cameras until the unmasked robbers have been inside for almost five minutes, and he's too short to reach them without jumping. One robber [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits]] because he can't bring himself to pull a gun on someone. Then the remaining robbers make the tellers open the vault and find barely any money left to steal, because the latest shipment is already gone. All the while, the robbers use each others' real names, allowing the authorities to identify them easily--especially Sonny, who also announces that he is a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]] and a former bank teller.\\
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Then, while raiding the counters, Sonny decides to dispose of the traveler's check register by lighting it on fire. The thick smoke drifts through a vent and alerts everyone outside that something's going on in the bank. Before long, the robbers attract not only police and media attention but also a huge crowd of onlookers, ensuring that they are trapped inside a sweltering building with no means of escape, that their faces will be on national television, and that what began as a quick robbery is now a hostage situation with one robber [[SanitySlippage too mentally unstable]] to handle the ensuing standoff. To say that the robbers DidntThinkThisThrough [[StupidCrooks is an understatement]].
* In the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' 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''."
* In ''Film/GangsterSquad'', the squad's first operation as a unit devolves into equal parts slapstick and failure. They try to take down one of mobster Mickey Cohen's casinos by storming it at gunpoint, only to be met by a group of armed officers who assume they're robbers and try to arrest the group. On the squad's escape out of the casino, their car breaks down, and David and O'Mara get arrested after giving the car a running boost. The two men get beaten, arrested, and sent to jail, where Cohen sends men intending to pick them up and execute them. The squad arrives to save the two men, but Kennard's plan of tying a rope from his vehicle to the prison window bars fails (the bumper gets ripped off the car), Keeler's plan to cut the power results in chaos in the prison block, and the whole thing would have gone south if Wooters hadn't show up.
* In the ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' movie, there's a scene near the middle of the film where Garfield is upset over Odie. He proceeds to vent this frustration by smacking Odie's favorite ball. [[RubeGoldbergDevice The ball knocks an object over]], then that object knocks something else over, and this chain reaction continues until the entire wall-high shelf tips over and onto Garfield. When Jon comes back inside, he is not happy. Garfield lives, of course.
* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, Maxwell Smart is given a tiny grappling hook launcher, and while using it to free himself, manages to hit everything except what he was aiming for, including a secret button that drops him out of an airliner. In flight. Made slightly more epic by the fact that the grappling hook launcher was part of a Swiss Army Knife. You know, the thing ''with a blade on it! For cutting!''
* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is a collection of epic fails every ten minutes of the movie. [[VerbalTic Ay ay ay ay ay.]] What's worse, roughly half the [[HilarityEnsues wacky predicaments ensue]] simply because at the beginning of the movie, ''someone throws an empty Coca-Cola bottle from an airplane''. Seriously. We never even learn the litterbug's name.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** The entire US military does this in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. They miss the skyscraper-sized dinosaur with rockets and heat-seeking missiles from close range and destroy more of the city than the lizard does. Somehow, the monster was able to hide in a city of ''eight million.''
** The Navy trying to attack Godzilla just as he rises outside of San Francisco Bay in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. One of the ship rockets hit a supporting cable, prompting a soldier to tell them to stop firing due to civilians on the Golden Gate Bridge. They ''still'' keep firing at him, and a hole gets torn in the bridge in the chaos.
* 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.]]
* The attack on District 13 in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. Instead of collapsing the entire complex, [[spoiler:the Capitol only succeeds in damaging passages near the surface and possibly some surface-to-air emplacements. No casualties are reported]].
* In ''{{Film/Idiocracy}}'': In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination. Given that his IQ is stated to be 137, this goes far beyond normal failing.
* Eirik's attempt to rob Ray in ''Film/InBruges'' not only fails, but gets him [[EyeScream permanently blinded in one eye]]. By his own weapon. As a more experienced crook puts it:
-->'''Harry:''' I mean, basically, you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks. Then you allow your gun to be taken from you, and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you then. Yeah really it's all your fault for being such a poof. So why don't you stop wingeing and cheer the fuck up?
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is repeatedly shown to be a competent adventurer. His father, introduced in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is a completely different story:
** First, they're captured by the Nazis and tied up together in chairs. When they're alone, Indy gives his father a lighter to burn through the ropes. First, he burns himself and drops the lighter. Then when he tries to pick it up, he ends up setting the floor on fire. Within minutes, the entire room is ablaze (except, [[{{Irony}} ironically]], the fireplace).
** Then they try to escape from Germany on a zeppelin and are forced to steal a biplane when the zeppelin is rerouted. They come under attack by a pair of fighter planes and the senior Jones has to shoot them down with the biplane's guns. He succeeds in shooting down one plane: the one he and his son stole when he ends up blowing apart their own vertical stabilizer.
** To be fair, he's not the only example in the film:
-->'''Indiana:''' We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.\\
'''Henry:''' But you said he had a two day headstart. That he would blend in, disappear.\\
'''Indiana:''' Are you kidding? You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.
* ''Film/KangarooJack'': Louis decides to try and tranquilize Jack from the air. He misses, and ends up ''[[OhCrap shooting the pilot]]''.
* Nearly [[UpToEleven everything]] Creator/LaurelAndHardy get up to in their films. From [[Film/TheMusicBox delivering pianos]] to working at lumber mills, something is bound to go wrong.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': When the Ents (gigantic living trees) hold a council, they demonstrate just how mind-bogglingly slow they are at doing ''anything''.
-->'''Treebeard:''' We just finished saying... "Good morning."\\
'''Merry:''' BUT IT'S NIGHTTIME ALREADY!
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** This trope is arguably part of Nux's character arc - he screws up virtually every task he's given in glorious fashion until he joins the heroes midway through the film. After being personally trusted with boarding and taking down the hijacked War Rig, and even given a personal ''blessing'' from Immortan Joe ("You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"), Nux (who holds Joe in very high regard and would like nothing more than to finally impress him) goes forth, boards the War Rig with Immortan's revolver... and gets his chain caught on a ladder, immediately falling off the Rig, bouncing off the side and dangling helplessly, losing his beloved idol's revolver to boot.
-->'''Immortan Joe:''' Agh! ''MEDIOCRE!''
** In the bog, Joe reluctantly sends the AxCrazy Bullet Farmer after the War Rig, only telling him "not to hurt the Wives". The Farmer takes this to mean that he can fire off his guns indiscriminately, nearly hitting everyone around the Rig (who have all exited to see what's happening), and is only stopped when Furiosa shoots out the light on his vehicle and blinds him. Instead of going back to lick his wounds, he gets his driver to continue heading towards them, screaming like a lunatic and blindly firing off SMG rounds at them. The only thing he gets for his trouble is Max killing him ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]) and taking his weapons, ammo and steering wheel, which all comes in very handy when the group decides to drive back towards the Citadel near the end.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Hip and his nieces rescue Film/JamesBond from Hai Fat's dojo. The plan goes well, until Hip drives off without Bond, despite his nieces trying to tell him that the man they were sent to rescue has been left behind.
* In ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe'', the agents sneak into Richard's apartment and disassemble the plumbing in his bathroom to look for evidence. They hastily reassemble it when they find out he's coming home and do such a poor job of it, the controls for one fixture end up turning on another one. Notably, Richard has to push the toilet flush handle to turn on the sink and repeatedly using it leads the agents to assume he's flushing the evidence.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** The first movie gives us the Mk. II test flight:
--->'''Tony:''' We're going to see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one....\\
''[Gets thrown up and backwards into a wall, before being doused by an inept RobotBuddy with a fire extinguisher]''
*** Then after trying it again and ending up high in the air:
--->'''Tony:''' [''hovering above his house''] Kill power.\\
''[crashes through several stories, a piano, [[CarCushion lands on his]] CoolCar, and [[ChekhovsGag gets doused by the same]] [[TriggerHappy fire extinguisher]] RobotBuddy]''
** ''Film/IronMan2'':
*** The second gives us the Ex-Wife, a tiny yet massively explosive missile... that [[BeginWithAFinisher is fired at Vanko]] but does ''absolutely nothing''--not even explode. The disgust in Tony's and Rhodey's voices is palpable.
*** In some of the tie-in comics that led up to ''Film/IronMan3,'' it actually shows off a working Ex-Wife. Apparently, that particular one was a dud. The ''real'' Ex-Wife [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill in action...]] [[StuffBlowingUp well...]] Let's just say that [[TooDumbToLive using it in close quarters]] would have been a ''bad'' idea.
*** It also gives us footage of various foreign countries' (as well as Hammer Industries') hilariously botched attempts to replicate the Iron Man armor, which the artbook appropriately calls the Feebles. 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.
--->'''Tony Stark:''' Yeah, I'd say, uh, most countries? 5-10 years away... Hammer Industries? 20.\\
'''Justin Hammer:''' I'd like to point out that that test pilot ''survived''.
** The Mk. 42 in ''Film/IronMan3'' falls apart at the slightest jolt. Of course, it's ''designed'' to be able to come apart and fly towards Tony and assemble around him, but it falls apart ''too well''. An epic scene where Tony is facing off against the BigBad, JARVIS informs him that Mk. 42 is on the way. Heroic music plays, as Tony uses a gesture to get the armor to assemble on him... and the armor trips and falls apart.
---> '''Tony Stark:''' ''[eyeroll]'' Whatever.
** From ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', S.H.I.E.L.D's major CriticalResearchFailure when Steve Rogers has been thawed in a fake 1940's hospital room. Everything else in there was fine (a woman even entering in a suitable getup) - except for the radio broadcasting a "live" baseball game, from 1941. Rogers was frozen in 1945, and he was AT that game. ''They didn't even bother to check whether the game was from after he went MIA.''
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki, who is [[VillainousBreakdown having a very bad day]], [[spoiler:runs into the Hulk and tries to ''browbeat him into submission''. The Hulk responds by [[MetronomicManMashing using him as a club]], AKA The Droopy Moment. "You know what? That Makes Me Mad!"]].
--->[[spoiler:"Puny god."]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this trope is used to surprisingly serious effect. [[spoiler:After WWII, SHIELD recruited a number of HYDRA scientists to do science and engineering for them. This in and of itself isn't a bad idea; it happened in real life, with the U.S. recruiting Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to work on their space program. The difference is, von Braun and his cohorts had mainly been PunchClockVillains, cooperating with the Nazis out of fear and duress. But HYDRA was staffed by dyed-in-the-wool supervillains. Fast-forward to the present and Armin Zola has essentially converted SHIELD into a massive HYDRA operation working under deep cover. It's so bad that the heroes have to literally destroy SHIELD to save the world.]]
** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:when Bruce Banner [[GodzillaThreshold 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.]]
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Happy Hogan tries to take out a remote controlled drone by hurling a shield at it Captain America style. The shield only flies a few feet before falling to the floor.
* In ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'', Lyn crashes into a rock in the middle of the desert, the only such object for miles around. It was probably destiny.
* ''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.
** When the knights encounter the French castle, they try to conquer it somehow. One suggests a Trojan Horse ploy with a gigantic wooden rabbit. It fails because they missed the important part about being ''inside'' the rabbit when it's taken into the castle. The suggester doesn't reveal this part of the plan until after the rabbit is taken inside.
* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' has a scene where a hired killer kills his victim and then tries to fake suicide by putting his gun into the victim's hand. While trying to do so, he accidentally pulls the trigger and the bullet goes through the (fairly thin) wall into the neighboring flat, hitting a fat, ugly woman. He then goes into said flat and attacks the woman, who turns out to be stronger than he expected. He eventually overpowers her and tries to drag her into the flat where he killed the first guy in order to fake a suicide-with-murder scenario. While passing the floor, he is observed by a janitor who apparently doesn't speak English, but slowly follows him into the flat. Back there, the killer first kills the woman, then the janitor enters the room with his vacuum cleaner. He also shoots the janitor, but by accident, the vacuum cleaner is turned back on again. He then pulls the janitor into the room. Finally, he tries to turn off the vacuum cleaner... by shooting at it. The vacuum cleaner catches fire, which sets off the fire alarm.
* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and Tom head down to the Satellite of Love's basement to stop Crow, who is attempting to ''tunnel through space''. After stopping a hull breach, Crow admits to the two that [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite weighing the odds, he decided to do so anyway]]. There's also Mike crashing the Satellite of Love into the Hubble Telescope. He attempts to pull it off and release it, only to watch in horror as it instantly drops out of orbit and explodes in a fiery ball.
* Pretty much every single plan Jason conceives in ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Most notable is when a speech on how a certain character won't [[spoiler:shoot them]] gets him [[spoiler:shot]].
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He finds incriminating evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, AND the evidence that Ludwig is evil no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthBasedMission.
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' with the "Aim For The Bushes" scene. Two detectives are chasing some jewelry thieves to the roof of a 20-story building, and the thieves escape by zipline (which they, of course, cut after using). The detectives decide the best course of action would be to jump off the roof and land on the bushes... even though ''the pavement underneath doesn't even have bushes, or anything the duo can safely land on''. Three guesses what happens next, and the first two don't count.
* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'''s trademark. No matter how simple and easy a task might be, trust Paddington to mess it up it in a spectacular fashion.
* Near the end of the first ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', Fackler causes a city-wide riot by tossing an apple over his shoulder. The apple hits a tough guy in the back of the head. He turns around to see another man eating apples out of a bag and throws him through the window of a bar. The guy thrown through the window somehow shoves the entire crowd towards the back and sends a pinball machine down the back alley. The pinball machine crashes into a setup outside a store and the manager hands a television to a customer while he tries to sort out the mess. The customer thinks they're giving away televisions for free and everybody tries getting one. A group of pool players think this is an actual riot and decide to take part. Yup, all because of an apple.
* From ''Film/PulpFiction'', one of the guys at the apartment where Jules and Vincent go to retrieve Marsellus Wallace's briefcase ambushes them and shoots at the duo at very close range... and misses every shot. All three pause to stare in surprise. (Jules believes that this is a sign from God to change careers.)
** Later, an epic failure to follow basic gun safety leads to the memetic "IJustShotMarvinInTheFace" scene.
* In ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'', Ernest and Fanny Weller, two corrupt televangelists (parodies of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker), decide to televise a real exorcism and take phone donations. All is going well until Fanny demands a chance to sing on television. The money donated swiftly starts to go ''down''.
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', there's pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookmaker's. They were to rob the bookie's place as well, so it wouldn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they stole the case from him. In the end, they'd get the cash from the bookie's, their employer would get the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it.\\
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Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, Sol and Vinnie enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the "pull" side of the door]]. The clincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.
* One scene of ''Film/SpeedZone'' has two of the Cannonball's entrants flying to the finish line in a commuter jet which is quickly hijacked. The hijacking is the Epic Fail in this case. First, the hijacker attempts to take over the plane ''before'' it takes off. Second, he fails to scare the passengers thoroughly since his announcement of their destination is met with requests for other places to be hijacked to. Third, the argument over a destination distracts him long enough for the crew to overpower him. Finally, the fight to subdue him distracts the crew long enough for the plane to roll out onto the highway and shear off its wings and tail by going under an overpass. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Kirk and his TrueCompanions steal the ''Enterprise''. The shiny new ''Excelsior'', in hot pursuit, powers up its revolutionary transwarp drive... which promptly conks out [[spoiler:due to Scotty sabotaging it beforehand]], complete with sputtering engine noises, leaving Starfleet's "Great Experiment" adrift and having to be towed back to Spacedock.
* Captain Picard is known to strictly adhere to Starfleet's [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]]. In fact, violating it is a bit of a BerserkButton for him. So when he, Data, and Worf have to visit a primitive, inhabited world in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', they do their best to avoid contact with the natives. Within ten minutes of landing, they find themselves in a high-speed gun battle with some locals, before giving them their first look at a spaceship while the away team makes its getaway. To make it even worse, eagle eyed natives might have noticed that the aliens who were shooting up the place were members of three different species[[note]]Human, Klingon, and Soong-type Android[[/note]]--not only do the primitive people now know that they're not alone in the universe, they know that there's a whole community among the stars, and [[ParanoiaFuel that it has better guns than they do]].
** Perhaps Picard was just going for RefugeInAudacity: "So you're telling me there were three aliens, all different species, and you had a shootout with them while dune buggy chasing until they ramped off a cliff into their spaceship?"
* Done deliberately in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Kirk, in violation of the Prime Directive, has elected to airdrop a cold fission device into the center of the volcano (ideally, using a shuttle), to save a pre-warp civilization – an act that constitutes interfering. Kirk and Bones beam onto the surface and begin a dangerous chase by stealing one of the tribe's sacred texts, nearly getting them killed multiple times over when the natives chase and hurl spears at them (and during which time Kirk phasers ''the animal they were going to ride away on''). The cable lowering the fission device into the volcano snaps, and Spock has to go in after it and manually activate it. Kirk and the crew have inexplicably parked the ''Enterprise'' underwater near the tribe, and when they are forced to break water in order to transport Spock out, the natives get a nice long view of the advanced technology and begin to worship it as their god. This botched mission results in Kirk being demoted and Pike taking over command of the ''Enterprise'' for a time.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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 that they'd apparently planned to exclusively rely on to maintain their regime, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military, putting them in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain
** From the same movie, thanks to the infamous AdaptationalSelfDefense edit, the bounty hunter Greedo misses Han by more than a foot from about three feet away.
** ''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 plan 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]]]].
* In ''Film/StVincent2014'', 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/{{Ted}}'', during Ted's fight with John, John attempts to hit Ted with a floor lamp. He neglects to unplug it, so when he swings it around he hits himself and the light bulb shatters against his head.
* ''Film/TinCup'': Roy could play it safe on the last hole of the U.S. Open, and tie the leader, forcing a playoff, but he goes for broke trying to score under par, and ends up in a water trap... he then repeats the same failed shot, over and over until he finally makes it with his last ball, scoring a 12. His love interest consoles him afterward by telling that in five years, no one will remember who won, but "''everyone'' will remember your 12."
* In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', Hiram Gummer mans a [[{{BFG}} massively-oversized punt gun]] to help fight off a Graboid. Having had a rather short time to learn to fire guns, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIj1rdyS5L4 he quickly moves to shoot it when it finally pops out of the ground]]... and misses. He misses the giant monster with a cannon-like gun designed for shooting entire flocks of ducks, when the tip of the barrel is ''mere feet away from it''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, not only does the shot scare it away, he succeeds in shooting it when it comes back.]]
--> '''Tecopa:''' You missed! ''With a cannon!''
* In the PaedoHunt[=/=]TooSmartForStrangers PSA ''Film/TrickyPeople'', [[BigBad Reginald Charming]] gives his NumberTwoForBrains [[TheDragon Dragon]] Wendell the task of not touching anything in his office while he's away. Wendell not only immediately disobeys the order the second Reginald has left, but he makes a complete mess of Reginald's desk in his attempt to play with a Newton's cradle.
* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
** Banshee's first flight... is ''not''.
** 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.
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* As Caesar's fleet approaches Britain in the opening of ''[[Franchise/{{Asterix}} Asterix in Britain]]'', a signalman gets mad at a very annoying seagull and starts waving his signal flags wildly trying to get rid of it. What follows is the accidental self-destruction of a large chunk of the fleet as well as a {{Facepalm}} from Caesar accompanied by an exasperated "I came, I saw, and ''I don't believe my eyes''."
* In ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown loses the spelling bee when he misspells "beagle", a word you'd think he'd be very familiar with. (''Snoopy'' is a beagle.) Even worse, he does it ''on live TV''. Even more worse, Charlie screams in frustration as soon as he spelled the word, meaning he ''knew'' the correct spelling and just plain screwed up.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJngUSbVHoI 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.
* ''Disney/BrotherBear'':
-->'''Rutt:''' I can't believe you totaled a mammoth.\\
'''Tuke:''' That mountain came out of nowhere. It was in my blind spot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', the animals set up an audition with studio head L.B. Mammoth that is sabotaged by the villainous Darla Dimple far beyond what should be probable or even possible. Flooding the stage? Well, maybe. Flooding ''the entire studio''? Pretty far-fetched. But wait, there's more: accidentally dragging L.B. himself behind you on your anchor as your prop boat floats through the streets, crashing into buildings? Ouch. Accidentally getting him tied to the mast when the boat sinks? Epic Fail.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheEasterBeagleCharlieBrown'', 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''.
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' Marcie, ''you've made egg SOUP!'' '''AAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!'''
** At the end of the special, Peppermint Patty tells Marcie "We put salt on the eggs and eat them." Since Marcie has a salt shaker already in her pocket, she salts the egg and bites it. The only problem? ''She forgot to take the shell off.''
-->'''Marcie:''' Tastes terrible, sir!
-->'''Peppermint Patty:''' (drops her own egg, does a {{facepalm}} and drops her head down to her knees)
* ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'':
** At the beginning of the film, Timon's so bad at digging (or at least his way of digging) that he ends up causing the entire tunnel system to collapse. And we heard this is the fourth time he's done it in a week.
-->'''Random Meerkat:''' Who else can ''break'' a '''hole'''?!
** Later on, when trying to [[RelationshipSabotage break Simba and Nala up]] during the "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sequence, Timon throws a beehive at them... only for the hive to go ahead and the bees to stay right above his head and chase him instead. Why this happened... the world may never know.
* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': The circus's performance in Rome is a series of EpicFail. Examples include Stefano [[ItMakesSenseInContext choking on his balls]], knocking a dog unconscious by accident, or a horse kicking another dog off a pyramid of dogs, or the balls the elephants were standing on deflating, or even [[AssShove the elephant accidentally sitting on a heckler and exiting stage left with the boy in his rear end]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Skipper]]:''' Well, that was worth the price of admission.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': Mulan is getting ready for her first meeting with the matchmaker. It starts badly, then gets progressively worse. It involves [[NoodleImplements a renegade cricket, some badly placed ink, a teapot, and]] [[KillItWithFire fire.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Flash Sentry and Sweetie Drops enter a cake baking contest, but bake a loaf of bread instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'':
** Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
** Later, Rover valiantly saves the farm's turkey from a pack of hungry coyotes... and it dies anyway from shock!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': Homer, having alienated his family, and accidentally prevented the townspeople from escaping, angrily kicks the bomb...''and accidentally halves the countdown time''.
* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Kay loses a jousting match. Against a ''training dummy''.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel has a montage of epic fails trying to get Flynn Rider into a closet. It should be noted that he was unconscious, and it only ends when Rapunzel decides having the doors closed with his fingers poking out is close enough.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': It can't get much more epic than how the Mighty One-Eyes's attempt to destroy the Golden City is ultimately foiled. All it took was [[ButterflyOfDoom a very, very, very fortunately aimed little tack and a (big amount of) dumb luck]], and the One-Eye's improbable war machine of doom is destroyed by a hilarious chain reaction along with all the One-Eyes's army. ''All because of a tack''. And mind you, the progressive destruction of the war machine gets more than fifteen minutes of screen time.
** Though not as spectacular, the Thief's Wile E. Coyote-esque attempts at stealing the golden balls are crowned by some pretty epic fails too.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': At one point, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm play Battleships against each other, with Hamm winning. But [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] to see by how the game is going; Hamm has successfully hit every one of Potato Head's ships (All bunched together) without missing, while Potato Head's side is ''filled'' with white Miss pegs ''except the areas where Hamm's ships are.''
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': "Prepare to meet ''Mr. Angry Eyes!''" quoth Mr. Potato Head as he rushes to the attack in Al's apartment. After switching his regular eyes... for [[RummageFail an extra pair of shoes]]. So naturally he just runs into the furniture and looks like an idiot. Jessie's WTF facial expression makes it even better.
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'': Felix is caught by King Candy and put into a jail cell. He tries to get out with his [[HealingShiv hammer]] [[note]]which magically repairs whatever is struck with it[[/note]]... [[BlessedWithSuck and ends up making the bars on the cell twice as thick]].
-->'''Fix-It Felix Jr.:''' WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH?!
!!Films -- Live-Action
* This trope is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to emphasize how drastically unprepared the Colonial Marines are against the xenomorphs. The unit is sent into a highly critical part of the Hadley's Hope colony (the atmosphere processor), after reviewing its schematics. They are knee-deep in the xenomorph hive when Ripley points out to them that the machinery can be pierced by conventional weaponry, which leads a frantic and inexperienced Gorman to tell the Marines to give up all their ammunition (except for flamethrowers) to one man, [[PoorCommunicationKills without explaining why]]. When the xenomorphs inevitably crawl out of the walls, said soldier is the first casualty, causing everything to descend into anarchy. Apone stands in one spot trying to hear Gorman's orders just before he's abducted by a xeno, the only soldiers who survive are the ones who kept spare magazines and/or backup weapons, Drake and Vasquez stage a tactical retreat by shooting wildly with smartguns (which causes the damage that would eventually overload and destroy the colony), and Gorman is knocked out by unsecured cargo in the APC during the escape. Given that Burke admits to Ripley that the real objective of the mission was to smuggle some eggs out inside infected Marines, the fact that the squad performed so poorly was probably intentional: the Weyland-Yutani Corp wouldn't want a group of ''competent'' soldiers sent in.
* The 1978 disaster film ''Film/{{Avalanche}}'' ''really'' takes the cake in utter incompetence. When the titular avalanche hits, rescue crews race to the rescue. One truck dumps their equipment, causing an ambulance to stop and the driver hopping out in annoyance. This causes a police car to swerve, fishtail and ''hit a pedestrian and send him through a storefront window as the car itself goes through.'' Then, there's a group of rescuers completely missing catching a man falling from the destroyed remains of a ski lift (granted, he was probably dead from electrocution, but his fate was sealed when the rescuers missed). For a hat trick, some rescuers are able to rescue the leading male's mother and get her to an ambulance and heading towards a hospital. However, on the way down, the driver decides to go really fast, causing him to throw the ambulance into a ravine below and blowing up.
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' series:
** The 1989 film: Batman programs the computer in his Batwing to fire two machine guns and several missiles at ComicBook/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.
*** The novelization lessens the fail by having Joker dance and prance around, essentially dodging the bullets and rockets.
** ''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 his own hideout, completely destroying it]].
* Early in ''Film/FallingDown'', a car full of Latino gangbangers do a fairly slow drive-by with [[MoreDakka at least three submachine guns]] on protagonist William Foster, who's on a payphone and has his back turned on them. They hit absolutely everything including several innocent bystanders, but completely miss Foster. Then the driver fails to notice the oncoming traffic and causes a massive crash that gets himself and most of his buddies killed. They also lose their weapons in the process, which Foster proceeds to take, [[KickTheSonOfABitch put a bullet in the sole survivor's leg for good measure]], and deploy later in his vigilante rampage through LA.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Oskari threatens to shoot Morris - who's standing about four metres from him - with an arrow. The problem is, he can't properly draw a bow, and the arrow ends up landing exactly in the middle of the way between them with an embarrassed ''thump''. To add to the insult, Morris looks like he's about to burst out laughing.
* In ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', three men decide to [[BankRobbery rob a bank]]. They walk into the bank in broad daylight with no masks, no gloves, and no floorplan, without checking if their information is up to date. The mastermind Sonny Wortzik doesn't even think of blacking out the security cameras until the unmasked robbers have been inside for almost five minutes, and he's too short to reach them without jumping. One robber [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits]] because he can't bring himself to pull a gun on someone. Then the remaining robbers make the tellers open the vault and find barely any money left to steal, because the latest shipment is already gone. All the while, the robbers use each others' real names, allowing the authorities to identify them easily--especially Sonny, who also announces that he is a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]] and a former bank teller.\\
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Then, while raiding the counters, Sonny decides to dispose of the traveler's check register by lighting it on fire. The thick smoke drifts through a vent and alerts everyone outside that something's going on in the bank. Before long, the robbers attract not only police and media attention but also a huge crowd of onlookers, ensuring that they are trapped inside a sweltering building with no means of escape, that their faces will be on national television, and that what began as a quick robbery is now a hostage situation with one robber [[SanitySlippage too mentally unstable]] to handle the ensuing standoff. To say that the robbers DidntThinkThisThrough [[StupidCrooks is an understatement]].
* In the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' 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''."
* In ''Film/GangsterSquad'', the squad's first operation as a unit devolves into equal parts slapstick and failure. They try to take down one of mobster Mickey Cohen's casinos by storming it at gunpoint, only to be met by a group of armed officers who assume they're robbers and try to arrest the group. On the squad's escape out of the casino, their car breaks down, and David and O'Mara get arrested after giving the car a running boost. The two men get beaten, arrested, and sent to jail, where Cohen sends men intending to pick them up and execute them. The squad arrives to save the two men, but Kennard's plan of tying a rope from his vehicle to the prison window bars fails (the bumper gets ripped off the car), Keeler's plan to cut the power results in chaos in the prison block, and the whole thing would have gone south if Wooters hadn't show up.
* In the ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' movie, there's a scene near the middle of the film where Garfield is upset over Odie. He proceeds to vent this frustration by smacking Odie's favorite ball. [[RubeGoldbergDevice The ball knocks an object over]], then that object knocks something else over, and this chain reaction continues until the entire wall-high shelf tips over and onto Garfield. When Jon comes back inside, he is not happy. Garfield lives, of course.
* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, Maxwell Smart is given a tiny grappling hook launcher, and while using it to free himself, manages to hit everything except what he was aiming for, including a secret button that drops him out of an airliner. In flight. Made slightly more epic by the fact that the grappling hook launcher was part of a Swiss Army Knife. You know, the thing ''with a blade on it! For cutting!''
* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is a collection of epic fails every ten minutes of the movie. [[VerbalTic Ay ay ay ay ay.]] What's worse, roughly half the [[HilarityEnsues wacky predicaments ensue]] simply because at the beginning of the movie, ''someone throws an empty Coca-Cola bottle from an airplane''. Seriously. We never even learn the litterbug's name.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** The entire US military does this in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. They miss the skyscraper-sized dinosaur with rockets and heat-seeking missiles from close range and destroy more of the city than the lizard does. Somehow, the monster was able to hide in a city of ''eight million.''
** The Navy trying to attack Godzilla just as he rises outside of San Francisco Bay in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. One of the ship rockets hit a supporting cable, prompting a soldier to tell them to stop firing due to civilians on the Golden Gate Bridge. They ''still'' keep firing at him, and a hole gets torn in the bridge in the chaos.
* 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.]]
* The attack on District 13 in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. Instead of collapsing the entire complex, [[spoiler:the Capitol only succeeds in damaging passages near the surface and possibly some surface-to-air emplacements. No casualties are reported]].
* In ''{{Film/Idiocracy}}'': In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination. Given that his IQ is stated to be 137, this goes far beyond normal failing.
* Eirik's attempt to rob Ray in ''Film/InBruges'' not only fails, but gets him [[EyeScream permanently blinded in one eye]]. By his own weapon. As a more experienced crook puts it:
-->'''Harry:''' I mean, basically, you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks. Then you allow your gun to be taken from you, and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you then. Yeah really it's all your fault for being such a poof. So why don't you stop wingeing and cheer the fuck up?
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is repeatedly shown to be a competent adventurer. His father, introduced in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is a completely different story:
** First, they're captured by the Nazis and tied up together in chairs. When they're alone, Indy gives his father a lighter to burn through the ropes. First, he burns himself and drops the lighter. Then when he tries to pick it up, he ends up setting the floor on fire. Within minutes, the entire room is ablaze (except, [[{{Irony}} ironically]], the fireplace).
** Then they try to escape from Germany on a zeppelin and are forced to steal a biplane when the zeppelin is rerouted. They come under attack by a pair of fighter planes and the senior Jones has to shoot them down with the biplane's guns. He succeeds in shooting down one plane: the one he and his son stole when he ends up blowing apart their own vertical stabilizer.
** To be fair, he's not the only example in the film:
-->'''Indiana:''' We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.\\
'''Henry:''' But you said he had a two day headstart. That he would blend in, disappear.\\
'''Indiana:''' Are you kidding? You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.
* ''Film/KangarooJack'': Louis decides to try and tranquilize Jack from the air. He misses, and ends up ''[[OhCrap shooting the pilot]]''.
* Nearly [[UpToEleven everything]] Creator/LaurelAndHardy get up to in their films. From [[Film/TheMusicBox delivering pianos]] to working at lumber mills, something is bound to go wrong.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': When the Ents (gigantic living trees) hold a council, they demonstrate just how mind-bogglingly slow they are at doing ''anything''.
-->'''Treebeard:''' We just finished saying... "Good morning."\\
'''Merry:''' BUT IT'S NIGHTTIME ALREADY!
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'':
** This trope is arguably part of Nux's character arc - he screws up virtually every task he's given in glorious fashion until he joins the heroes midway through the film. After being personally trusted with boarding and taking down the hijacked War Rig, and even given a personal ''blessing'' from Immortan Joe ("You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"), Nux (who holds Joe in very high regard and would like nothing more than to finally impress him) goes forth, boards the War Rig with Immortan's revolver... and gets his chain caught on a ladder, immediately falling off the Rig, bouncing off the side and dangling helplessly, losing his beloved idol's revolver to boot.
-->'''Immortan Joe:''' Agh! ''MEDIOCRE!''
** In the bog, Joe reluctantly sends the AxCrazy Bullet Farmer after the War Rig, only telling him "not to hurt the Wives". The Farmer takes this to mean that he can fire off his guns indiscriminately, nearly hitting everyone around the Rig (who have all exited to see what's happening), and is only stopped when Furiosa shoots out the light on his vehicle and blinds him. Instead of going back to lick his wounds, he gets his driver to continue heading towards them, screaming like a lunatic and blindly firing off SMG rounds at them. The only thing he gets for his trouble is Max killing him ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]) and taking his weapons, ammo and steering wheel, which all comes in very handy when the group decides to drive back towards the Citadel near the end.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Hip and his nieces rescue Film/JamesBond from Hai Fat's dojo. The plan goes well, until Hip drives off without Bond, despite his nieces trying to tell him that the man they were sent to rescue has been left behind.
* In ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe'', the agents sneak into Richard's apartment and disassemble the plumbing in his bathroom to look for evidence. They hastily reassemble it when they find out he's coming home and do such a poor job of it, the controls for one fixture end up turning on another one. Notably, Richard has to push the toilet flush handle to turn on the sink and repeatedly using it leads the agents to assume he's flushing the evidence.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'':
*** The first movie gives us the Mk. II test flight:
--->'''Tony:''' We're going to see if ten percent thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one....\\
''[Gets thrown up and backwards into a wall, before being doused by an inept RobotBuddy with a fire extinguisher]''
*** Then after trying it again and ending up high in the air:
--->'''Tony:''' [''hovering above his house''] Kill power.\\
''[crashes through several stories, a piano, [[CarCushion lands on his]] CoolCar, and [[ChekhovsGag gets doused by the same]] [[TriggerHappy fire extinguisher]] RobotBuddy]''
** ''Film/IronMan2'':
*** The second gives us the Ex-Wife, a tiny yet massively explosive missile... that [[BeginWithAFinisher is fired at Vanko]] but does ''absolutely nothing''--not even explode. The disgust in Tony's and Rhodey's voices is palpable.
*** In some of the tie-in comics that led up to ''Film/IronMan3,'' it actually shows off a working Ex-Wife. Apparently, that particular one was a dud. The ''real'' Ex-Wife [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill in action...]] [[StuffBlowingUp well...]] Let's just say that [[TooDumbToLive using it in close quarters]] would have been a ''bad'' idea.
*** It also gives us footage of various foreign countries' (as well as Hammer Industries') hilariously botched attempts to replicate the Iron Man armor, which the artbook appropriately calls the Feebles. 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.
--->'''Tony Stark:''' Yeah, I'd say, uh, most countries? 5-10 years away... Hammer Industries? 20.\\
'''Justin Hammer:''' I'd like to point out that that test pilot ''survived''.
** The Mk. 42 in ''Film/IronMan3'' falls apart at the slightest jolt. Of course, it's ''designed'' to be able to come apart and fly towards Tony and assemble around him, but it falls apart ''too well''. An epic scene where Tony is facing off against the BigBad, JARVIS informs him that Mk. 42 is on the way. Heroic music plays, as Tony uses a gesture to get the armor to assemble on him... and the armor trips and falls apart.
---> '''Tony Stark:''' ''[eyeroll]'' Whatever.
** From ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', S.H.I.E.L.D's major CriticalResearchFailure when Steve Rogers has been thawed in a fake 1940's hospital room. Everything else in there was fine (a woman even entering in a suitable getup) - except for the radio broadcasting a "live" baseball game, from 1941. Rogers was frozen in 1945, and he was AT that game. ''They didn't even bother to check whether the game was from after he went MIA.''
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki, who is [[VillainousBreakdown having a very bad day]], [[spoiler:runs into the Hulk and tries to ''browbeat him into submission''. The Hulk responds by [[MetronomicManMashing using him as a club]], AKA The Droopy Moment. "You know what? That Makes Me Mad!"]].
--->[[spoiler:"Puny god."]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this trope is used to surprisingly serious effect. [[spoiler:After WWII, SHIELD recruited a number of HYDRA scientists to do science and engineering for them. This in and of itself isn't a bad idea; it happened in real life, with the U.S. recruiting Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to work on their space program. The difference is, von Braun and his cohorts had mainly been PunchClockVillains, cooperating with the Nazis out of fear and duress. But HYDRA was staffed by dyed-in-the-wool supervillains. Fast-forward to the present and Armin Zola has essentially converted SHIELD into a massive HYDRA operation working under deep cover. It's so bad that the heroes have to literally destroy SHIELD to save the world.]]
** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:when Bruce Banner [[GodzillaThreshold 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.]]
** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Happy Hogan tries to take out a remote controlled drone by hurling a shield at it Captain America style. The shield only flies a few feet before falling to the floor.
* In ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'', Lyn crashes into a rock in the middle of the desert, the only such object for miles around. It was probably destiny.
* ''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.
** When the knights encounter the French castle, they try to conquer it somehow. One suggests a Trojan Horse ploy with a gigantic wooden rabbit. It fails because they missed the important part about being ''inside'' the rabbit when it's taken into the castle. The suggester doesn't reveal this part of the plan until after the rabbit is taken inside.
* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' has a scene where a hired killer kills his victim and then tries to fake suicide by putting his gun into the victim's hand. While trying to do so, he accidentally pulls the trigger and the bullet goes through the (fairly thin) wall into the neighboring flat, hitting a fat, ugly woman. He then goes into said flat and attacks the woman, who turns out to be stronger than he expected. He eventually overpowers her and tries to drag her into the flat where he killed the first guy in order to fake a suicide-with-murder scenario. While passing the floor, he is observed by a janitor who apparently doesn't speak English, but slowly follows him into the flat. Back there, the killer first kills the woman, then the janitor enters the room with his vacuum cleaner. He also shoots the janitor, but by accident, the vacuum cleaner is turned back on again. He then pulls the janitor into the room. Finally, he tries to turn off the vacuum cleaner... by shooting at it. The vacuum cleaner catches fire, which sets off the fire alarm.
* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and Tom head down to the Satellite of Love's basement to stop Crow, who is attempting to ''tunnel through space''. After stopping a hull breach, Crow admits to the two that [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite weighing the odds, he decided to do so anyway]]. There's also Mike crashing the Satellite of Love into the Hubble Telescope. He attempts to pull it off and release it, only to watch in horror as it instantly drops out of orbit and explodes in a fiery ball.
* Pretty much every single plan Jason conceives in ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Most notable is when a speech on how a certain character won't [[spoiler:shoot them]] gets him [[spoiler:shot]].
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He finds incriminating evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, AND the evidence that Ludwig is evil no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthBasedMission.
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' with the "Aim For The Bushes" scene. Two detectives are chasing some jewelry thieves to the roof of a 20-story building, and the thieves escape by zipline (which they, of course, cut after using). The detectives decide the best course of action would be to jump off the roof and land on the bushes... even though ''the pavement underneath doesn't even have bushes, or anything the duo can safely land on''. Three guesses what happens next, and the first two don't count.
* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'''s trademark. No matter how simple and easy a task might be, trust Paddington to mess it up it in a spectacular fashion.
* Near the end of the first ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', Fackler causes a city-wide riot by tossing an apple over his shoulder. The apple hits a tough guy in the back of the head. He turns around to see another man eating apples out of a bag and throws him through the window of a bar. The guy thrown through the window somehow shoves the entire crowd towards the back and sends a pinball machine down the back alley. The pinball machine crashes into a setup outside a store and the manager hands a television to a customer while he tries to sort out the mess. The customer thinks they're giving away televisions for free and everybody tries getting one. A group of pool players think this is an actual riot and decide to take part. Yup, all because of an apple.
* From ''Film/PulpFiction'', one of the guys at the apartment where Jules and Vincent go to retrieve Marsellus Wallace's briefcase ambushes them and shoots at the duo at very close range... and misses every shot. All three pause to stare in surprise. (Jules believes that this is a sign from God to change careers.)
** Later, an epic failure to follow basic gun safety leads to the memetic "IJustShotMarvinInTheFace" scene.
* In ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'', Ernest and Fanny Weller, two corrupt televangelists (parodies of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker), decide to televise a real exorcism and take phone donations. All is going well until Fanny demands a chance to sing on television. The money donated swiftly starts to go ''down''.
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', there's pretty much ''anything'' [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinnie]] put their minds to. In their defining moment, they were hired to take a briefcase from a man who had been sent to place a bet at a bookmaker's. They were to rob the bookie's place as well, so it wouldn't look too suspicious to the guy with the briefcase when they stole the case from him. In the end, they'd get the cash from the bookie's, their employer would get the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, DrivesLikeCrazy and backed into the van their victim had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it.\\
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Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, Sol and Vinnie enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady turns out to be a BadassBystander who deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them... it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because [[DoorDumb they tried to push the "pull" side of the door]]. The clincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed.
* One scene of ''Film/SpeedZone'' has two of the Cannonball's entrants flying to the finish line in a commuter jet which is quickly hijacked. The hijacking is the Epic Fail in this case. First, the hijacker attempts to take over the plane ''before'' it takes off. Second, he fails to scare the passengers thoroughly since his announcement of their destination is met with requests for other places to be hijacked to. Third, the argument over a destination distracts him long enough for the crew to overpower him. Finally, the fight to subdue him distracts the crew long enough for the plane to roll out onto the highway and shear off its wings and tail by going under an overpass. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Kirk and his TrueCompanions steal the ''Enterprise''. The shiny new ''Excelsior'', in hot pursuit, powers up its revolutionary transwarp drive... which promptly conks out [[spoiler:due to Scotty sabotaging it beforehand]], complete with sputtering engine noises, leaving Starfleet's "Great Experiment" adrift and having to be towed back to Spacedock.
* Captain Picard is known to strictly adhere to Starfleet's [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]]. In fact, violating it is a bit of a BerserkButton for him. So when he, Data, and Worf have to visit a primitive, inhabited world in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', they do their best to avoid contact with the natives. Within ten minutes of landing, they find themselves in a high-speed gun battle with some locals, before giving them their first look at a spaceship while the away team makes its getaway. To make it even worse, eagle eyed natives might have noticed that the aliens who were shooting up the place were members of three different species[[note]]Human, Klingon, and Soong-type Android[[/note]]--not only do the primitive people now know that they're not alone in the universe, they know that there's a whole community among the stars, and [[ParanoiaFuel that it has better guns than they do]].
** Perhaps Picard was just going for RefugeInAudacity: "So you're telling me there were three aliens, all different species, and you had a shootout with them while dune buggy chasing until they ramped off a cliff into their spaceship?"
* Done deliberately in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Kirk, in violation of the Prime Directive, has elected to airdrop a cold fission device into the center of the volcano (ideally, using a shuttle), to save a pre-warp civilization – an act that constitutes interfering. Kirk and Bones beam onto the surface and begin a dangerous chase by stealing one of the tribe's sacred texts, nearly getting them killed multiple times over when the natives chase and hurl spears at them (and during which time Kirk phasers ''the animal they were going to ride away on''). The cable lowering the fission device into the volcano snaps, and Spock has to go in after it and manually activate it. Kirk and the crew have inexplicably parked the ''Enterprise'' underwater near the tribe, and when they are forced to break water in order to transport Spock out, the natives get a nice long view of the advanced technology and begin to worship it as their god. This botched mission results in Kirk being demoted and Pike taking over command of the ''Enterprise'' for a time.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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 that they'd apparently planned to exclusively rely on to maintain their regime, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military, putting them in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain
** From the same movie, thanks to the infamous AdaptationalSelfDefense edit, the bounty hunter Greedo misses Han by more than a foot from about three feet away.
** ''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 plan 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]]]].
* In ''Film/StVincent2014'', 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/{{Ted}}'', during Ted's fight with John, John attempts to hit Ted with a floor lamp. He neglects to unplug it, so when he swings it around he hits himself and the light bulb shatters against his head.
* ''Film/TinCup'': Roy could play it safe on the last hole of the U.S. Open, and tie the leader, forcing a playoff, but he goes for broke trying to score under par, and ends up in a water trap... he then repeats the same failed shot, over and over until he finally makes it with his last ball, scoring a 12. His love interest consoles him afterward by telling that in five years, no one will remember who won, but "''everyone'' will remember your 12."
* In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', Hiram Gummer mans a [[{{BFG}} massively-oversized punt gun]] to help fight off a Graboid. Having had a rather short time to learn to fire guns, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIj1rdyS5L4 he quickly moves to shoot it when it finally pops out of the ground]]... and misses. He misses the giant monster with a cannon-like gun designed for shooting entire flocks of ducks, when the tip of the barrel is ''mere feet away from it''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, not only does the shot scare it away, he succeeds in shooting it when it comes back.]]
--> '''Tecopa:''' You missed! ''With a cannon!''
* In the PaedoHunt[=/=]TooSmartForStrangers PSA ''Film/TrickyPeople'', [[BigBad Reginald Charming]] gives his NumberTwoForBrains [[TheDragon Dragon]] Wendell the task of not touching anything in his office while he's away. Wendell not only immediately disobeys the order the second Reginald has left, but he makes a complete mess of Reginald's desk in his attempt to play with a Newton's cradle.
* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
** Banshee's first flight... is ''not''.
** 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.
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** The entire US military does this in ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. First, they miss the skyscraper-sized dinosaur with rockets and heat-seeking missiles from close range and destroy more of the city than the lizard does. Somehow, the monster was able to hide in a city of ''eight million.''
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* In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', Hiram Gummer mans a [[{{BFG}} massively-oversized punt gun]] to help fight off a Graboid. Having had a rather short time to learn to fire guns, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIj1rdyS5L4 he quickly moves to shoot it when it finally pops out of the ground]]... and misses. He misses the monster with a cannon-like gun designed for shooting entire flocks of ducks, when the tip of the barrel is ''mere feet away from it''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, not only does the shot scare it away, he succeeds in shooting it when it comes back.]]
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He finds incriminating evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, AND the evidence itself no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthBasedMission.
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He finds incriminating evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, AND the evidence itself that Ludwig is evil no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthBasedMission.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1995'': At one point, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm play Battleships against each other, with Hamm winning. But [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] to see by how the game is going; Hamm has successfully hit every one of Potato Head's ships (All bunched together) without missing, while Potato Head's side is ''filled'' with white Miss pegs ''except the areas where Hamm's ships are.''
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* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1995'': ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': At one point, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm play Battleships against each other, with Hamm winning. But [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] to see by how the game is going; Hamm has successfully hit every one of Potato Head's ships (All bunched together) without missing, while Potato Head's side is ''filled'' with white Miss pegs ''except the areas where Hamm's ships are.''
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil.]] He uses a lit match for a source of light in the dark room as he tries to read the piece of paper with the incriminating evidence, holding it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, and the evidence itself no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthMission.
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil.]] evil,]] by means of breaking into his apartment. He uses a lit match for a source of light in the dark room as he tries to read the piece of paper with the finds incriminating evidence, holding evidence on a piece of paper, but using a lit match as his source of light, he holds it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, and AND the evidence itself no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthMission.StealthBasedMission.
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' basically runs on this. Nearly every single thing [[IdiotHero Frank Drebin]] does [[UpToEleven falls into this territory]]. His biggest EpicFail, however, is his attempt to find evidence that [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is actually evil.]] He uses a lit match for a source of light in the dark room as he tries to read the piece of paper with the incriminating evidence, holding it closer and closer for a better look... until he sets it on fire. His attempt to put out the fire, in summary, leads to a series of DisasterDominoes that end in Ludwig’s entire apartment room burning down and Frank [[AccidentalPervert stumbling into the neighbor’s room with a very inappropriate-looking object]], leading to a charge of sexual assault on top of the extremely obvious evidence that someone had broken into Ludwig’s room, and the evidence itself no longer existing either due to Frank’s idiocy. It is actually impossible to achieve worse results on a StealthMission.
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* The 1978 disaster film ''Avalanche'' ''really'' takes the cake in utter incompetence. When the titular avalanche hits, rescue crews race to the rescue. One truck dumps their equipment, causing an ambulance to stop and the driver hopping out in annoyance. This causes a police car to swerve, fishtail and ''hit a pedestrian and send him through a storefront window as the car itself goes through.'' Then, there's a group of rescuers completely missing catching a man falling from the destroyed remains of a ski lift (granted, he was probably dead from electrocution, but his fate was sealed when the rescuers missed). For a hat trick, some rescuers are able to rescue the leading male's mother and get her to an ambulance and heading towards a hospital. However, on the way down, the driver decides to go really fast, causing him to throw the ambulance into a ravine below and blowing up.
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* The 1978 disaster film ''Avalanche'' ''Film/{{Avalanche}}'' ''really'' takes the cake in utter incompetence. When the titular avalanche hits, rescue crews race to the rescue. One truck dumps their equipment, causing an ambulance to stop and the driver hopping out in annoyance. This causes a police car to swerve, fishtail and ''hit a pedestrian and send him through a storefront window as the car itself goes through.'' Then, there's a group of rescuers completely missing catching a man falling from the destroyed remains of a ski lift (granted, he was probably dead from electrocution, but his fate was sealed when the rescuers missed). For a hat trick, some rescuers are able to rescue the leading male's mother and get her to an ambulance and heading towards a hospital. However, on the way down, the driver decides to go really fast, causing him to throw the ambulance into a ravine below and blowing up.
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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, putting them in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain!
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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, tool that they'd apparently planned to exclusively rely on to maintain their regime, most of their leadership, and a significant chunk of their military, putting them in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain!NiceJobFixingItVillain
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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, putting them into a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain!
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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, putting them into in a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain!
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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!
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** ''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 [[DontCreateAMartyr 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.military, putting them into a particularly awkward position since they now needed military force more than ever thanks to this atrocity. NiceJobFixingItVillain!
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** Later on, when trying to [[RelationshipSabotage break Simba and Nala up]] during the "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sequence, 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.
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** Later on, when trying to [[RelationshipSabotage break Simba and Nala up]] during the "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sequence, Timon throws a beehive at them... only for the hive to go ahead and the bees to stay right above his head.head and chase him instead. Why this happened... the world may never know.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'':
** Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
** Later, Rover valiantly saves the farm's turkey from a pack of hungry coyotes... and it dies anyway from shock!
** Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
** Later, Rover valiantly saves the farm's turkey from a pack of hungry coyotes... and it dies anyway from shock!
