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4* In the flight sim ''A-10 Cuba!'', you can eject from your plane while ''[[https://twitter.com/CorwinB87/status/1158208731705856005 still in the hangar]]'', which launches you into the ceiling and kills you instantly.
5* In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', you manage to so utterly and completely prove a man to be the real murderer that Miles Edgeworth, the last person you'd expect to hear it from, says to him "I believe the correct term is 'you fail'!"
6* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':
7** If you talk to a peppy villager in their house, they may say that they are known to burn water, which is obviously impossible.
8** Sometimes, when a villager has a request to be at your house at a certain time, assuming that you don't put the game in sleep mode (automatic fail), if you are in your house at your meeting time, while they usually arrive, you may sometimes find that one minute had past your meeting time. If you talk to the villager who provided the request, they will realize their mistake about forgetting the meeting at your house. For example, a lazy villager may say he was so busy snacking that he forgot about the meeting at your house and apologizes.
9* In ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'', the "Ice Pillar Smash" bonus game involves tapping the Punch button to build up strength so your hero can [[BrickBreak break a stack of four huge blocks of ice in half]]. Normally, failure to do this results in smashing "only" one to three of these blocks. However, if your strength is low enough, your hero will ''break his wrist'' on the blocks, complete with an OhCrap face and LosingHorns. The only way to see this is to put in no effort at button mashing whatsoever.
10* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', the Joker is severely wounded from losing the boss fight of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. So he and Harley Quinn escape custody to avoid a transfer to the new prison, but in the ensuing chase, they wind up breaking '''in''' to Arkham City by accident.
11* Lampshaded in the "Cold, Cold Heart" expansion for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'':
12--> "Only you two morons could manage to start a ''fire'' with an ''ice gun!''"
13* Suicides in ''[[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Battlefield: Bad Company 2]]'' will have the game declare your death an "Epic Fail".
14* Many people consider the term/{{meme|ticMutation}} "Fail" (and by extension, "Epic Fail") to have been popularized by the game ''VideoGame/BlazingStar''. If you failed to beat a boss in time, the [[BlindIdiotTranslation Engrish]] words "You fail it! Your skill is not enough, see you next time, bye-bye!" appeared on screen, showing you how much you sucked at fighting the boss.
15* In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', the Alchemy Guild--with the sole exception of [[spoiler:[[OnlySaneMan Alfred]]]]--were TooDumbToLive and decided to unleash HellOnEarth by implanting children with shards receptive to demonic power and sacrificing them in a ritual, all for the purpose of [[EvilIsPetty proving the superiority of spiritualism over industrialism, and intimidating the world into continuing to give them financial support]]. Millions of innocent people were killed, and after the Church eventually succeeded in vanquishing the army of demons, the Alchemy Guild were found out, arrested and executed, rendering their attempt to gain more money and power AllForNothing. To firmly establish what an EpicFail this was, the criminal charges against the Alchemy Guild were led by Gebel, the one survivor of the very ritual they initiated to release the demonic army. And the ritual they performed was only at '''''half''''' strength, so this is all a consequence of them buggering the ritual up to begin with.
16** Even further accentuating how big a failure this was is the fact they summoned one demon in preparation for the ritual. This single demon wiped out ''most'' of the Alchemy Guild before they managed to subdue it and they '''still''' went through with the ritual. TooDumbToLive barely begins to cover it...
17* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'', one of the recurring Sidequests across the game is to find dead Claptrap units and salvage their parts, with the main Claptrap laughing at their expense. The best example is a Claptrap in the Droughts who died [[CarHoodSliding trying to slide over a car hood]].
18* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' has this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LPEbjisWI&t=3m52s Vivi's Salon.]] During the scene in which Fritz escapes from the spiked coffin, he puts on a spiked arm with a switch, but just as Fritz was charging at Lance, he '''trips over a skull.'''
19* In games that use the BUILD Engine such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997 Shadow Warrior]]'', the collision detection (in the game code, not the engine) is programmed such that any entity in the void outside the playing area or otherwise embedded in a spot it shouldn't be is destroyed. This means if you stand in the wrong place, then you, the heavily-armed, one-liner-spewing badass, can be instantly killed by a simple door swinging open. Averted in the UpdatedRerelease ''Blood: Fresh Supply'' which simply pushes you harmlessly out of the way.
20* In ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996 Crash Bandicoot]]'', when you beat a stage, you're beat over the head with the crates you missed. In the ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy N. Sane Trilogy]]'' UpdatedRerelease, Crash physically reacts to the crates, covering his head - after ten crates, he takes a knee; after twenty crates, he flops on the ground, covering his head. After 30 crates, he gives up and just lets them pummel him. The same happens to [[PromotedToPlayable his sister Coco.]]
21* In ''VideoGame/{{Curses}}'', you're supposed to be looking for a tourist map in the attic. If you [[PressStartToGameOver leave the attic on the first turn instead]], the game will say that *** '''You have missed the point entirely.''' ***
22* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has a boss named the Brigand Cannon. It's a massive cannon with several brigands manning it, one of which is the Brigand Lighter, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who lights it]]. Once lit, the cannon will fire, doing massive damage to the party... except for that rare occasion when it ''misfires''. This does massive damage to the cannon and its support units, and it ''reduces your party's stress'', as they take amusement (and relief) in being spared.
23* At the start of ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', Bernard has the group split up to cover more ground with himself searching the foyer and office, Hoagie going upstairs, and Laverne searching the conference room and the rooms beyond it. Somehow, Laverne gets so lost that she ends up on the second floor before Hoagie.
24* In ''VideoGame/DaytonaUSA'', on the Advanced course (Dinosaur Canyon), you can turn around at the starting bell and drive the wrong way down the track until you can go up a ramp to your right into a tunnel. Doing so takes you to a dead end with a sign that reads, "Congratulations! You just lost your sponsors!".
25* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Gilgamesh's]] [[LimitBreak EX Burst]] in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]''. Every character's EX Burst has a perfect and failed version, with the failed version doing less damage, but Gilgamesh takes failure to its extreme. A recurring joke in the series is Gilgamesh's continued search for the legendary Excalibur, but he always confuses it with the counterfeit Excalipoor, which only ever deals 1 point of damage when it hits the opponent. In his EX Burst, the player must pick the Excalibur out from several Excalipoors. If they fail, Gilgamesh takes up one of the Excalipoors and performs a series of epic, over-the-top attacks on them... then realizes his attacks aren't doing anything and [[BlindShoulderToss throws it away]], moaning that he picked the wrong one. Of course, [[GoodBadBugs thanks to a bug]] in the original Excalipoor, it did as much damage as the Excalibur ''when thrown''. So when Gilgamesh's opponent is inevitably hit by the sword that Gilgamesh threw away, it hits for ''[[CherryTapping just]]'' enough HP damage to kill them if they were, for instance, [[LastChanceHitPoint saved from the initial HP hit by an accessory.]]
26* ''VideoGame/Dota2'' has enough ways for players to fail horribly that it warranted its own long-running "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE14F2057980335BE Fails of the Week]]" series. Heroes that are particularly prone to this include Pudge[[note]]whose hook snags the first unit it touches - friend or foe - and pulls them back to Pudge... that is, if he [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy doesn't just miss outright]][[/note]], Naga Siren[[note]]whose ultimate, Song of the Siren, puts nearby enemies to sleep but also makes them invulnerable, which can easily screw up allies' spell combos[[/note]], and (for some reason) Nature's Prophet.
27* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has this toward the end of the Orzammar plot arc. If you elect Lord Pyral Harrowmont to become King of Orzammar, Prince Bhelen Aeducan, his rival, attempts a coup right there in the meeting chamber with all the guards [[SuicidalOverconfidence and the heroes who just got through carving up a thousand Darkspawn]]. Needless to say, [[CurbStompBattle it doesn't go well for them]]. Afterwards, listen to the Town Crier who supports Harrowmont. He'll shout out about what happened and throw in his usual color commentary which goes like this, quoted word for word:
28-->'''Town Crier:''' News of the hour: Prince Bhelen attacks the Assembly and is ignominiously slain! [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments EPIC FAIL!]]
29** While that is the biggest example of Epic Fail; if Bhelen is chosen and he chooses to order Harrowmont's execution, the other town crier, who supports Bhelen, then adds Epic Fail, but it's not ''quite'' as epic.
30* In ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai 2 and 3'', it was quite possible to get a number of these failures by screwing up the QuickTimeEvent when using Ultimate Attacks or Fusions. For some of the more comical ones, failing Hercule's "Present For You" will have his opponent throw the game console at Hercule as he sets off its explosive, failing Great Saiyaman's "Justice Pose" will have his opponent unimpressed and Gohan throwing a tantrum, Gotenks or Super Buu failing the "Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack" has the ghost accidentally detonate on them and the OriginalGeneration Super Buu (Yamcha and Tien Absorbed) failing the "Spirit Ball" attack has the attack smack them in the face. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIJh_FQEUIw This video]] has a good idea of what to expect.
31* ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'' has a scene rather early on where Drake starts to get stronger from stolen souls, declares himself invincible...and then immediately ''jumps out of a penthouse window'' to his death.
32* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has a myriad of ways to fail (after all, Losing is Fun!) but there are a select few ways that you can Epically Fail.
33** Like say, [[http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-701-shortestfortever accidentally starting your fortress over a volcano]][[note]]Actually, it appears to be some weird hybrid of a volcano and a bottomless pit[[/note]].
34** For the fans, this is actually how you succeed -- since there's no actual victory in DF, the easiest win condition is to achieve a catastrophic failure that is notable in some entertaining way, then post it on the Bay 12 forums. What other games call Epic Fail, are considered [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome moments]] (with a heaping dose of SugarWiki/{{funny|Moments}}) in ''Dwarf Fortress''. Examples famous for the epic nature of their failures include the notorious "[[https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/ Boatmurdered]]".
35** The current TV Tropes succession game, "LetsPlay/{{Waterburned}}", has two examples within the first two years -- creating a drowning trap that flooded half the fortress thanks to a misplaced channel, and having the military boldly sally out to a humiliating defeat -- by ''kobolds''.
36** Which is nothing compared to "LetsPlay/DrunkFortress". It's a fortress played while [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy completely inebriated]]. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Do the math.]] Truly spectacular failures end in fortresses that are completely imploded in manners that would take sober players ''actual effort'' to achieve (such as a multi-level magma leak, reanimated severed limbs so deadly they get nicknames and dwarves teetering between life and death and unable to breathe for years), with the person responsible gazing upon a burning, wrecked landscape full of corpses and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight having no idea how it even happened]].
37* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
38** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the sorcerer Inwold was hired by some smugglers operating out of Palansour to summon Daedra to use as muscle. However, his Ogrim and Scamps got out of control, killed all of the smugglers, and left Inwold imprisoned in nothing but a skirt and a hat ([[AndYourRewardIsClothes which he offers you for freeing him]].) The series has had some really terrible users of magic, but Inwold might just take the cake.
39** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
40*** ''Skyrim'' has killcams, where landing a killing blow on an enemy can lead to a CoupDeGraceCutscene with a special FinishingMove. Originally, these only occurred if you were fighting in melee, but a patch introduced killcams (sans finisher) for ranged and magical attacks. Killcams are triggered when the attack you just let out will kill the enemy you're engaging with. Sounds good so far. However, it doesn't take into account whether or not your attack will actually ''hit''. This isn't a huge deal for melee finishers, since they're guaranteed to hit, but for ranged attacks, it's entirely possible for your opponent to move after the cutscene is triggered. If that happens, you're treated with a slow-mo view of your arrow/projectile whooshing past your opponent's head and hitting a wall.
41*** An even worse version occurs when a killcam activates and the game switches into third-person mode, which slightly changes arrow trajectory. It's a common sight for a hidden character to launch a sneak attack on their enemy, triggering the epic slow-mo killcam... only for the arrow to [[AntiClimax harmlessly clatter off the wall in front of them]], which was clearly not in the way while aiming in first person.
42* ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' has an example of this, where [[spoiler:the Bullet's uncle]] tried to "aim and fire" their ancestral weapon and nailed themselves in the head with it. [[spoiler:The weapon in question is a ''sword''.]]
43* Two of ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'''s greatest battles, the Battle of Asakai and the Battle of [=B-R5RB=], were caused by incredible blunders -- Asakai's because the person pushed the wrong button, jumping his ''Titan'' into a battlefield instead of jump bridging in his support fleet, and [=B-R5RB=] when a player forgot to pay the rent to his coalition's fortification, and it went up for grabs.
44* In early versions of ''F/A-18 Hornet'', [[PressStartToGameOver before even leaving the tarmac]], you could [[ExplosiveStupidity drop a bomb and blow your own plane up]], or worse, ''[[NukeEm nuke the whole airbase]]''.
45* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' or ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', when going into VATS mode you're given a chance to hit a target from range. You then open fire, and are treated to a cinematic view of your shots being fired. But if you're standing, say, just behind a boulder and your rifle ends up pointing at the boulder when you execute your VATS attack, you'll be treated to the sight of every single bullet you shot skipping off the rock right in front of you. Can get particularly hilarious if the enemy is standing behind some thin piece of cover like a signpost when you execute your 95% chance-to-hit shot, resulting in sending a hundred bullets downrange from your minigun, and every single shot hits the sign instead of the person standing just behind it. Or [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace if a bystander or companion is between you and the target]]. Even worse is when you throw a Nuka Grenade in VATS Mode, only for it to strike an overhead obstruction and bounce back to land at your feet -- [[ThisIsGonnaSuck VATS Mode won't end]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard until the grenade explodes]].
46* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', sometimes a CriticalFailure shot will ''pass right through'' the enemy.
47* ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' allows you to fail the [[VideoGameTutorial tutorial]]. Under normal circumstances this is impossible, as the demonstration enemy can't hurt you unless you turn off your shields. Other means of utter failure include opening all doors on the ship, including airlocks, or shutting off oxygen, asphyxiating the crew either way. All three of these actions are at no point necessary to complete the tutorial. Regardless of your method of suicide, the game gives you a NonstandardGameOver, pictured above. It's also very possible, due to the procedurally generated enemies, to die on the very first jump if you get unlucky.
48* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', if the party somehow gets defeated during the tutorial section on Besaid, Lulu may point out the party's ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall or the player's]]) failure.
49-->'''Lulu:''' (''if she was an active fighter upon defeat'') We haven't even left the island…
50* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' combines this with NoodleIncident. Sophie tells Hisame that she needs his help learning how to use chopsticks properly, because the last time she tried, this ''somehow'' led to her burning her house down.
51* ''VideoGame/GameAndWatch'': There are plenty of ways to get a miss and defy common sense in the process, given that the situations are rather bizarre. A good example is in ''Bomb Sweeper'': accidentally blocking the path to the bomb will make the player wait until the bomb goes off and kills him!
52* ''VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy'' has the Snake for this purpose, that being a twisting metal rail you can accidentally hook with the hammer near the end for a one-way journey back to start. The real epic fail is when you fall all the way down the icy slope and hook the snake.
53-->'''Foddy''': (v.o.) [[CaptainObvious Oof, you just lost a lot of progress]].
54* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'':
55** Failing a licensed test results in the display of the word FAIL in big white letters, sometimes with SoundtrackDissonance.
56** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg9LipFU6ek An entire grid of Fiat 500F's gets stuck on the Eiger Nordwand G Trail]].
57* ''Creator/RoosterTeeth'' has a weekly series called ''[[http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?sid=fails Fails of the Weak]]'', which is a compilation of the most epic fails ever captured on video for ''VideoGame/HaloReach''.
58** Special mention must go to PR Punk Skater, who was apparently [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] by ''God'' in volume 34.
59** Similarly, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/GameFails GameFails]] charts epic fails from all over the gaming world.
60* The ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' has a ton of these. In a series that actively ''encourages'' players to collect all the fails, the commentary on the failure screen is usually a good indication of which ones are ''epic'' fails:
61-->'''Fail Screen:''' (''after [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the "Distract" option]] in "Fleeing the Complex"'') I... Wh... I just... [[FlatWhat Whaat]].
62* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'': Among other things, the Platform/VirtualBoy conversation.
63-->'''Noire''': Hey, refresh my memory. What was that binocular thing you released that gave everyone migranes?\
64'''Blanc:''' Th-that was...!\
65'''Noire:''' Man, that was the most epic of flops! It's almost like you planned for it all along!
66* ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' has an example that isn't played for laughs at all. [[spoiler:Dylan Merchant's attempt at making a video game for Hypnospace was so badly programmed that it results in Hypnospace's BrainComputerInterface killing several users.]]
67* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': Oh, look, a sword to collect! '''YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD. YOU RETARD!'''
68* In ''VideoGame/InTheGroove 2'', if you fail the FinalBoss song, "Vertex^2", the failure screen says "[[NonstandardGameOver Round Failed^2]]".
69* In ''VideoGame/{{Karateka}}'', you can die around one second after starting the game by entering your fighting stance and backing off the cliff behind you. You have to go out of your way to do this, since there are no enemies on screen (thus no reason for the stance) and the only other direction is forward. You can also famously and hilariously mess up the ending if you defeat the final boss, and then forget to leave your fighting stance in the next room. [[spoiler:This means you fight all the way into the villain's sanctum to rescue the DamselInDistress, only to be met with a kick to the face that kills you instantly. Oops.]]
70* This is half the fun of ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''. Nothing says "epic fail" like watching your rocket's thrusters become deadly missiles as they separate from your rocket or, even worse, slam into your cockpit. And then an update made the Space Center buildings themselves, meaning a [[ExpospeakGag rapid unplanned disassembly]] can now result in a surviving kerbal standing forlornly in the smoldering ruins.
71* In ''VideoGame/Killzone3'', Chairman Stahl spends about half the game gloating about how Orlock is an incompetent who failed to execute Visari's killers after six months of chasing a stranded ISA guerilla force. While Stahl is correct, the fail part comes when he manages to capture the ISA, only to be attacked by Sev and Rico posing as Helghast soldiers and free the prisoners on a ''national broadcast''. Oh, and the Senate declares Orlock the new Autarch after this, to add salt to the wound.
72* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2002'', Orochi Shermie has a hidden move, [[DesperationAttack usable only at low health]], in which she stuns her opponent with an [[ShockAndAwe electric burst]] and then calls down a bolt of lightning. Problem is, not only is the location chosen at random, but Shermie herself is not immune to it. Cue the dramatic scene of Shermie calling to the heavens, complete with a distant shot of the thunder clouds as the lightning comes down... and the all-powerful wielder of lightning being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fatally struck by her own element]]. All while her opponent survives completely unscathed. [[SetSwordsToStun KO!]]
73* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': When Kirby gets the Bomb ability, he immediately pulls one out. [[ExplosiveStupidity Forget to throw it?]] Boom. (To add insult to injury, your bombs are normally FriendlyFireproof -- this is the ''only'' way they can hurt you. Also, you're given several seconds to throw the bomb, so you pretty much have to be doing this on purpose.)
74* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' when Atton and Bao-dur encounter what must be the dumbest gang of {{bounty hunter}}s in the galaxy while [[PlayerCharacter the Exile]] is occupied elsewhere. The cutscene doesn't even bother showing the ensuing firefight: you're just left to assume it was a CurbStompBattle.
75-->'''Anzanti Zhug:''' ''(in Duros)'' I am Anzanti Zhug, leader of Zhugs, very powerful, very skilled hunters. It would be very smart of you to tell me where the criminal Jedi has gone. And do speak very quick, my patience is very low.\
76'''Atton Rand:''' Anybody here catch that? All I understood was 'very'.\
77'''Bao-Dur:''' I think he wanted us to give up the General to his poorly-trained collection of bounty hunters.\
78'''Atton Rand:''' [[DangerDeadpan Ah. Well, that would explain it. Which one do you want?]]\
79'''Bao-Dur:''' I'll take the stupid one who decided to threaten us rather than shoot us when he had the chance.
80* ''[[VideoGame/{{LISA}} LISA: The Painful RPG]]'': One of the dojos present in the game puts you against the master’s cousin, piloting a ramshackle machine on roller blades. It doesn’t even make it to you before falling over and you subsequently attack the helpless cousin, [[OhCrap to the disappointment of the master]].
81* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1'', Luigi gets a special house depending on how much money he collects during his adventure. It is entirely possible to beat the game with very little money, leaving you with Rank H - which gives Luigi a tent and a message stating that the haunted mansion vanished without a trace.
82* In ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', Spiny Shells target the current race leader. If you use a Spiny Shell in first place, '''you will hit yourself.'''
83* The Easy AI in every ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' is so [[ArtificialStupidity stupid]] that players (read: [[MemeticMutation Luigi]]) can sometimes be a part of a game where the player WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fVeBXXifdg Check out some of the lowlights here]].
84* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': You would think missing at point-blank range with a shotgun would be hard. You would be reckoning without any of your allies who don't naturally have a shotgun specialisation.
85* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'':
86** Apparently one krogan on Elaaden trying to woo a gal managed to get himself struck by lightning... somehow. Note that Elaaden is a tidally locked moon, with no actual weather, so how he managed that is anyone's guess.
87** Meanwhile, some other krogan tried giving their sweethearts bouquets of local flowers. Turns out they didn't check with the local botanist, since the flowers were poisonous. The female krogan respond "merely" by breaking several of their bones as a warning.
88** Whatever went down at the Nakmor Morda dance that resulted in several krogan dying can only have been this, since it was meant to be based on a typical human-style dance. ... you may notice [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy a certain trend emerging here]].
89** Moving away from the krogan, it's said that when the {{Player Character}}'s [[HowDadMetMom parents met]], their father, Alec Ryder, attempted woo Ellen Harlow by [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys playing up his spec-op bad boy image]], and utterly failed to get a word out. Fortunately, Ellen thought Alec's fumbling was [[EndearinglyDorky adorable]]. While Ellen readily shared this detail with their daughter, Alec [[NotSoAboveItAll omitted it]] when he shared the story with their son.
90** Vetra's attempt to play an exotic dancer on an undercover scheme. She tripped over her own two feet, ripped out a volus's breather attempting to stop her fall, and [[DisasterDominoes and sent said volus tumbling into a group of batarian mercenaries]]. The resulting BarBrawl took two days to clear up.
91* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{MDK}}'', Dr. Fluke Hawkins [[TheyCalledMeMad was ridiculed by the scientific establishment]] for his theory of "flange orbits". Determined to prove his theory, he built a SpaceStation, the ''Jim Dandy'', and moved onto it, vowing not to return to Earth until he had proof of flange orbits. ''One week later'', Dr. Hawkins realized that flange orbits didn't actually exist. He opted to continue living on the station rather than face the public humiliation of returning to Earth.
92* ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'': [[PlayingWithFire Torch Man]] tried MeditatingUnderAWaterfall to control his powers. It took three months of repairs for him to recover.
93* In ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'', Uruk overlords will sometimes make a public spectacle of executing a captured spy before you launch a raid on their fortress. On occasion, however, the overlord may not execute a spy, but one of his warchiefs mistakenly believed to be a spy. Your own orcs will even lampshade this.
94--> "We had no spy in this fortress. He just killed a defender for us!"
95* Miis in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' will regularly request money to buy upgraded gear. There's a small chance that, instead of whatever gear they were thinking of, they'll come back with a healing snack instead. Judging by the startled expression on their face when they do this, even they don't quite know how it happened...
96* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Snapshot 19w38a - for update 1.15 - was released on September 18, 2019. A few hours later, Snapshot 19w38b was released. Why? 19w38a revamped the block-breaking animation, but there was a mistake in the code, resulting in the only change for 19w38b being the glorious '''"Fixed bug: Game crashes when breaking a block."'''
97** Setting a cube of cactus down onto desert sand, not realizing that right about there the sand is a single layer suspended over lava. Hope you have backup items back at base, because everything not made of netherite that was on your person at the time is now part of the lava.
98* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'':
99** During one section of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush can attempt to "audition" to be the 4th member of Edward Van Helgen's barbershop quartet by singing for him. Every attempt Guybrush makes is especially bad, and is chided by Van Helgen as such, until make a fifth attempt...
100--->'''Van Helgen:''' ...that's odd.\
101'''Guybrush:''' What? You like it??\
102'''Van Helgen:''' No, no, no. It was dreadful. It's just that my queasiness has subsided... ...but now I'm beginning to taste metal and see spots before my eyes. I'm afraid that your singing is so bad that it has caused me to have a stroke.
103** Parodied in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan'': at one time when Guybrush guesses the answer to one of De Cava's three-out-of-six questions wrong, Morgan rolls her eyes and says, "Fail," in a ShoutOut to the "FAIL" meme. (Even De Cava says "Failure!" when the question is guessed wrong.) However, this trope (and imminent death) is averted as many times as possible, when De Cava will always repeat the same first series of the three questions thanks to the repeated pleadings from Guybrush.
104* ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate]]'' introduces Hunters for Hire, in which you can hire 1-4 CPU-controlled versions of hunters you've met (e.g. via [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS StreetPass]]) to do a quest for you, with varying odds of success. Occasionally, hired hunters will fail quests that should be trivial given their equipment, Hunter Rank, and party size, such as failing a simple "Hunt a [[WarmUpBoss Great Jaggi]]" quest (one hunter apparently [[https://twitter.com/MonHunProblems/status/456504182602596353 hired a team of G-Rank hunters]] to do this, which '''failed anyway''') or, even worse, failing a low-rank quest in which the objective is to deliver items that can be easily gathered.
105* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has the proud tradition of [=YASD=], or YetAnotherStupidDeath, for when you find a new and exciting way of getting yourself killed.
106** It's not unusual for a beginning knight to die on their very first action:
107--->Salutations Lancealot, welcome to ''[=NetHack=]''! You are a lawful male human Knight. \
108 # ride\
109You slip while trying to get on the saddled pony. --More--\
110You die... Do not pass Go. [[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Do not collect 200]] VideoGame/{{zork}}mids.--More--\
111Lancealot, slipped while mounting a saddled pony.
112** Speedrunner ais523 demonstrated that it's possible to die [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9oMSPzChgk before taking one's first turn]] if the RandomNumberGod is hostile enough. [[spoiler:Grayswandir was generated on the upstairs, he picked it up due to autopickup, and it blasted him.]] He estimated the chance of this occurring at roughly one in three million.
113* Most deaths in ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' are from pretty obvious causes, thanks to the titular unending Player vs Player war. However, in addition to being shot/stabbed/beaten by other player characters, there are lots of things in the game that do tiny amounts of damage and it's possible (if sometimes spectacularly unlikely) to ignominiously die of any of them. One player [[http://wiki.nexuscla.sh/wiki/index.php?title=User:WikiMallich/Exotic_Deaths keeps a running tally]] of every one of these documented fails.
114* In [[PlayedForDrama a more dramatic example than most]], the [[ApocalypseHow apocalyptic scenario]] in ''VideoGame/OneChance'' is caused by the protagonist and his science team trying to create a cure for cancer designed to only kill cancer cells, and instead creating a virus that will kill ''every living cell on the planet'' within a week. How they managed a blunder of this magnitude is not explained.
115* ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'':
116** There's one moment in particular that is pretty pathetic and humorous. When Mario and his friends are in the Ice Palace, Mario encounters Duplighosts, which imitate Mario and whichever member he has out. It's pretty clear which the fake is, but the most obvious moment is when multiple Duplighosts take on the wrong personages at the same time. For some reason, they are unaware of their own stupidity, especially since they were capable of doing this successfully last time.
117** In the segment where you have to bake a cake for Gourmet Guy, it's possible for you to actually put in '''Cleanser''' as part of your ingredients, which has no effect other than completely and utterly ruining said cake.
118* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'':
119** Recurring entrant Jorji is first turned away from Arstotzka for not having the correct documents (or any documents at all). The second time, he tries to provide a fake passport, but the forgery is rather blatant for two reasons: the passport was drawn in crayon (quite crudely too) and it's for "Cobrastan", a country that doesn't ''exist'' in the game's universe. A few more missing documents later, he finally shows up with all of his papers in order. The only problem is that now he's attempting to smuggle drugs across the border. Wouldn't be so bad, except that he attempts the ''exact same thing'' again a couple days later.
120** One entrant attempts to enter Arstotzka with two passports that don't match. Not surprisingly, he immediately asks for both of them back. Normally you have to find a discrepancy to enable the option to detain someone, but with this guy, you can detain him without saying a word.
121** A female entrant provides, instead of correct papers, a poem expressing her unquenching love for the inspector. Allowing her access because of this results in her asking for the poem back, [[OpenMouthInsertFoot so she can use it on the next inspector.]] The "detain" option immediately pops up in response.
122* In ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'', [=MeatSims=], which are the easiest CPU opponents during Combat Simulation, have no problems with gunning down their own teammates or even blowing themselves up. It's possible for [=MeatSims=] to have a double digit negative score at the end of the match!
123* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', your character and the girls have a cook-off to make omelettes for young Nanako, but the girls prove [[LethalChef incompetent at cooking]]. However, Yukiko in particular stands out. While the other girls' dishes come out [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce dangerously spicy]] or just plain awful, Yukiko manages to cook an omelette that has ''no taste at all.'' How she accomplished this, we may never know. But hey, better than the [[strike:curry]] "Mystery Food X" that ''knocks out'' whoever eats it!
124-->'''Kanji:''' It's pretty impressive that you put so many ingredients into a dish and it came out tasting like nothing.\
125'''Yukiko:''' Y-Your palate just isn't refined enough!
126* In ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'', Kaneshiro gains an attack called "Make It Rain", where coins rain from the sky onto the party. If he uses the attack a second time... nothing happens, because he ''emptied his vault'' using it the first time. Not only does it have no effect on the party, his bodyguards ''leave'' because they realize he can no longer afford to pay them.
127* It is possible to commit suicide in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' by standing in any Zanverse field, then using the Photon Art "Maron Strike" or "Melon Strike" while standing in point blank range. This is an ActionRPG where self-inflicted damage almost never happens.
128* In ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'', getting a D-Rank has Peppino telling you "[[SarcasmMode Good job! That was...]]" '''D AWFUL''' with the stage completion music suddenly sounding like a deflating balloon.
129* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
130** Every time an AI trainer uses a move that your Pokemon is immune to completely of their own volition.
131** Annoying trainers in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (and the remakes) will call you every once in a while...and some call to say that they failed to catch a ''Pidgey''. Yes, a ''[[ComMons Pidgey]]''. You have about a 33% chance of catching Pidgey that's at full strength with no status conditions and a plain old Poké Ball, yet they were ''trying'' and couldn't catch it!
132** ''"Hitmonlee used High Jump Kick! Hitmonlee kept going and crashed! Hitmonlee fainted!"'' [[note]]High Jump Kick has a 10% chance of missing, and when it does it takes off half of the user's max HP. Using this move can easily result in knocking your own Pokemon out. The move used to give back half the damage it would have inflicted on the target, so failing to hit a target with a large pool of HP or low defense, like a Blissey, would definitely have killed the user.[[/note]]
133** ''"Foe Geodude used Selfdestruct! It doesn't affect Gengar... Geodude fainted!"'' [[note]]Selfdestruct is a move that deals massive damage to the opponent(s), but also knocks out the user. As a [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Normal-type move, it does not affect Ghost-types]] such as Gengar. Similarly embarrassing is using Selfdestruct against an opponent using Dig, Fly, or Dive - moves which make the user (mostly) invulnerable for one turn.[[/note]]
134** The moments when a Pokemon (wild or AI-controlled) uses a move that drags out a Pokemon which is immune to most, if not all of their moves is good for a chuckle too.
135** ''"Enemy Weezing used Explosion! Enemy Weezing's attack missed! Enemy Weezing fainted!"'' [[note]]In the first generation, every move except Swift had at least a [[OneInAMillionChance 1/256]] chance of missing. This can be increased with moves such as Sand-Attack or Double Team.[[/note]]
136** ''"Deoxys is confused! It hurt itself in its confusion! Deoxys fainted!"'' [[note]]Confusion is a status condition in which a Pokemon may attack itself with a 30 base power typeless attack. Some Pokemon, such as Deoxys' Attack Forme, are such [[GlassCannon that they effectively commit suicide when confused]].[[/note]]
137** ''"Shedinja used Final Gambit!"'' [[note]]Final Gambit sacrifices the user to deal damage equal to the user's current HP. Shedinja is a OneHitPointWonder, in a game where literally every other Pokémon can achieve over 100 HP if its level is high enough.[[/note]]
138** ''Electrode used [[TakingYouWithMe Explosion]]! Electrode fainted! [[YetAnotherStupidDeath Red is out of usable Pokémon! Red blacked out!]]''
139** In ''Pokemon Art Academy'', every single one of your rival's drawings is this. They improve as time goes on, but only marginally.
140** In ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'', after you pick your starter Pokémon, your rival challenges you to a battle immediately. It's supposed to a pushover fight, since elemental weaknesses are not yet a factor[[note]]even though your rival chooses a Pokémon that your starter is naturally weak against, both Pokémon only have Tackle (or Scratch for Charmander) and a status-affecting attack[[/note]], and your rival is almost guaranteed to use Tail Whip or Growl as a wasted turn thanks to AIRoulette. However, Tackle has a 5% chance to miss, and if you're incredibly unlucky, you can miss your attacks enough that you lose the battle, as demonstrated on the playthrough on [=SuperBeardBros=].
141** In the Trading Card Game for Game Boy, it's entirely possible for a match to end very suddenly because one player had only a single weak Mon in his starting hand, and the match ending as soon as that card is taken out (can be quite a surprise to the human player, as the opponent's playing area isn't on the main screen).
142*** One of the final bosses has a card that deals damage to a random card when placed on the field. Which, if there are more cards on his bench than yours, means he zaps his own cards.
143** Iron Valiant from ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' is a Pokémon from the future created by a MadScientist who decided to combine Gardevoir and Gallade in order to create the ultimate Psychic-type Pokémon. While Iron Valiant ''is'' an extremely powerful Pokémon, it's also ''not a Psychic-type'', instead inheriting both the ''secondary'' types of its components (Fairy and Fighting, respectively), leaving it with a type combination that, ironically, makes it ''weak'' to Psychic.
144* In the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' universe, it is revealed that the attempts of the Aperture Science researchers to put {{Restraining Bolt}}s on their {{AI|IsACrapshoot}} MasterComputer [=GLaDOS=] approaches the level of this trope:
145** When they first attempted to wake her up, she went [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters homicidally]] [[KillAllHumans berserk]] within 1/14 of a picosecond. Their solution to this was to attach all sorts of personality cores to her to modify her behavior, including one that fed her a cake recipe; another that was, if anything, even more murderous than she was; and one that fed her stupid ideas to counter her intelligence. Yet after all this, they were easily suckered into giving her access to a [[DeadlyGas deadly neurotoxin]], with which she killed them.
146** Their epic failure comes full circle when the aforementioned "Intelligence Dampening Sphere" ends up [[spoiler:taking over the Enrichment Center from [=GLaDOS=] and nearly destroying it]], thanks to the same built-in imperatives designed to control her. It's best to say that Aperture Science only succeeds through epic failure. The portal gun was originally intended as a shower curtain. The acceleration and repulsion gels were intended as dietary aids, and some supplementary materials indicate that [=GLaDOS=] was originally intended to de-ice fuel lines. Nothing Aperture Science ever built functioned as intended, and they were too poorly managed to turn lemons into lemonade with what they did have. [[CrazyIsCool They instead took the lemons and turned them into incendiary grenades]].
147* In the Wii version of ''VideoGame/QuantumOfSolace,'' it is all too possible, should you forget how to throw a grenade, to essentially pull the pin out of said grenade and ''[[ExplosiveStupidity stick it in your pocket]]''. Not even kidding here.
148* ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}''. Apparently, your country's Olympic training program is so underfunded that athletes in training don't even know how to ''walk'' and even just "running" ten meters by hopping and doing the splits is considered an achievement. Which leads to these things happening far more than they should:
149** Walking backwards far enough to not only achieve a negative distance, but also hit the concrete wall behind you.
150** Flipping 720 degrees before hitting your head on the ground.
151** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGoIpP0ulg Falling through the ground!]]
152* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'', SnakeOilSalesman Nigel West Dickens tries to create and market a zombie repellent. He somehow creates zombie ''bait.''
153* ''VideoGame/RedFaction Guerilla'' is a game where WreakingHavok and EverythingBreaks are par for the course. Protagonist Alec Mason is MadeOfIron and is a OneManArmy when it comes to StuffBlowingUp and wielding a hammer. This is a person who is expected to walk into an enemy installation and come out the other side effectively having traversed a straight line. However, as noted by [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], it is possible to kill yourself by chopping away at a building's supports, with the [[TheRuntAtTheEnd very last sliver of plumbing]] holding out far longer than is proper, and having the stupid thing drop on you. It is possible for Alec Mason to kill himself with a ''hollow dome house'' this way, when three dozen infantry squads and their vehicles are so much hammer fodder.
154* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
155** From ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NysMwcSG648 this attempt]] to retrieve a treasure from a high place by gunshot. [[spoiler:It fails because the player uses a ''rocket launcher'', which causes a boulder to collapse on top of him.]]
156** In the backstory of the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' [[VideoGameRemake remake]], it was revealed through [[ApocalypticLog documents]] that George Trevor, the architect who built Spencer Mansion and was then left trapped in it to [[ShootTheBuilder die]], got lost in the building that he ''personally designed'' as he tried to escape.
157* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'': Failing to cook a dish that you have a 90% success rate for will result in a Super Fail. The game plays with the trope in that not only are Super Fails a favored gift for Sofia (one of your [[DatingSim potential brides]]) but they're a powerful poison that can take chunks of life off even bosses.
158* ''VideoGame/SakuraDungeon'': In an attempt to teach Ceri archery, Yomi takes her to the archery range to learn from the Fox Archer. By the time Yomi returns to check on them, it turns out that not only does Ceri have terrible aim (or is terribly cursed), her arrows ''always'' ricochet and somehow ''almost always'' hit the Fox Archer, whose clothes were left in tatters. Not even using blunt arrows helped, and Ceri's strength was so great the arrows hurt. The two then decided it was best she never holds a bow again.
159* Entering "Epic Fail" in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' creates a nuclear explosion that kills everything on screen, including the player.
160* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
161** In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', after defeating the boss of Chemical Plant Zone, it's very possible for a player who has let their guard down to fall through one of the tiles.
162*** In Wing Fortress Zone, to collect a 1-up monitor, you must ride an elevator to the top and hit the monitor from underneath. Fail to move out of the way as it lands, congratulations! You got crushed to death by an extra life.
163** In the Last Story of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', when Perfect Chaos starts rampaging, Dr. Eggman flies in with his Egg Carrier 2, a new version of the huge ship he piloted for most of the game. Eggman made it specifically for if Chaos went out of control like he was doing at that moment. Chaos took it down in one blast.
164** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', if you played so poorly that you end up with an E Ranking, you get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODLkaF8F-Y this masterpiece]] playing.
165** In what is considered one of the most embarrassing cases of BadassDecay, Tails in ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' couldn't even handle Chaos 0 and cried out for Sonic's help, and Classic Sonic took out Chaos 0. Keep in mind, this is the same Tails who defeated Chaos 4 in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', and Tails' story arc in that game was about him learning that '''he can't always rely on Sonic to deal with danger'''.
166** In the FinalBoss battle in ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', it's actually possible to fail the final QuickTimeEvent, leading to [[spoiler:''Super Sonic slamming into the ultimate embodiment of evil like he just ran into a brick wall'']].
167* In the ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' series, likely half of TheManyDeathsOfYou are Epic Fails of some kind for protagonist Roger Wilco. Probably the biggest is right at the start of ''Space Quest III'', where attempting to pick up a piece of scrap metal lying on a ship one room away would result in Wilco cutting himself. Most people would just get a gash on their palm or finger, albeit one needing to be disinfected and bandaged. Wilco, on the other hand, manages to ''sever an artery'' and promptly dies of blood loss. Approximate playing time from start to death: 20 seconds. A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade is hung]] in the second game, where you can follow the linear plot and avoid the stupid deaths enough to land on the surface of Labion, walk one screen easy to an [[RedHerring otherwise useless screen]], and get eaten by a giant mushroom. After you die, the narrator will point out that he made a bet that you, as the player, would last longer than that, and implore you not to make him look like an idiot, too.
168* ''{{VideoGame/Spelunky}}'s'' pseudo-random level generator coupled with its extremely {{roguelike}} style of platforming often leads to [[RuleOfCool over-the-top]], [[HilarityEnsues awesomely funny]], [[YetAnotherStupidDeath accidental deaths]] caused by [[LeeroyJenkins careless]] or [[RandomNumberGod unlucky]] players. For example, in the first major area of the caves, it is possible to misjudge a fall and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou stun yourself on impact with the ground]], triggering an [[RagnarokProofing ancient arrow trap]] and alerting a [[GoddamnedBats bat]] in the process. As you lay there stunned, the arrow bounces off a nearby wall and hits you, the force of the impact [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flinging you to a nearby overhang]]. [[LedgeBats The bat then hits you, the impact pushing you off]]...onto a [[SpikesOfDoom bed of spikes]]. Granted, the bat is what actually kills you in this example; [[HumiliationConga the spikes just add insult to injury]].
169* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' introduces a new weapon class called the Dualies, which has the player shoot ink out the "magazine" in order to dodge roll; the ink mechanics in the game make it so there is no such thing as friendly fire. Despite all of this, Pearl still manages to ''[[BeyondTheImpossible splat herself]]'' in this exact fashion.
170* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' has its "Duty Officer System", which allows you to send RedShirts to do boring jobs around the ship and elsewhere. It's not uncommon to see them come back injured or killed, though you have to question their competence when they get injured doing something harmless like scanning particles. It's probably why one of the options for the Klingon characters is listed as "Execute Officers for Incompetence".
171* ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'': the game tracks Nemesis, for who killed you the most, and Bait, for who you killed the most. Also, there is no FriendlyFireproof here, meaning that you can occasionally kill yourself with a bad grenade toss. The awesome failure comes when a unit is listed as ''its own'' Nemesis ''and'' Bait. Meaning he committed grenade-related [[ArtificialStupidity suicide]] more often than he killed ''anyone else''.
172* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'': Not with the game itself but for a piece of hardware designed specifically for the game, Steel Series released a [[http://gamingweapons.com/starcraft-2-zboard-keyset/ StarCraft II-themed keyboard]], only they misspelt "protoss".
173* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'':
174** Ryu's attacks can be used to cancel and punish anyone and anything from Raging Demons to Shinryukens... unless your name is Hugo (from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'') and you plow through those punishing attacks.
175** Akuma's Raging Demon is a fearsome attack, able to kill a man [[EvilVersusEvil with his own sins.]] What can stop such an unstoppable attack? ''Dan Hibiki's [[VideoGame/CapcomVs Otoko Michi]] and [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Shisso Buraiken]] attacks, the first of which '''being a knockoff of Raging Demon itself.'''''
176** Dan Hibiki in general takes epic failure to such an art form that he becomes a LethalJokeCharacter.
177* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', during [[BrutalBonusLevel The Perfect Run]], it is entirely possible to fall off the edge of the planet where the Star is. Yes, really. Not the area where the Star appeared in The Ultimate Test, but a completely separate planet with no real hazards whatsoever. There is no possible reasonable explanation for why you'd do this.
178* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
179** The infamous ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' video wherein Fox jumps up in the air, then comes down in a Landmaster, which promptly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbvVe4YHCA falls through the tiny hole in the center of the Yoshi's Island (Melee) stage.]]
180** Sometimes when fighting the Ice Climbers, killing Popo but leaving Nana alive results in Nana smashing you off the stage by herself. Especially funny when it happens on the last stock, netting Ice Climbers the victory.
181** When demonstrating how Lucario's aura was buffed for ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Wii U/3DS]]'' compared to ''Brawl'', Sakurai demonstrates a potential downside to it by having Lucario use his Up-Special and flying away from the lower blast zone on one side of the stage, over the platform, and landing in the lower blast zone on the ''other'' side of the stage.
182** A fully charged [[{{Fartillery}} Wario Waft]] is one of the strongest moves in the game. However, it also possesses a unique property in that Wario is able to KO himself with it if he flies off the top of screen as a result of its upwards propulsion. It's all too possible to [[DoubleKnockout land a decisive blow and simultaneously KO yourself in the process]] if you aren't careful with it.
183* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has the cooking mechanic. Every recipe has a chance of failing. The first recipe in the game is for a Sandwich. Which leads to a wonderful post-battle message that reads ''Failed at making a Sandwich''.
184** This is especially heinous/hilarious with Raine, who only uses the most basic ingredients to cook anything. All that Sandwiches require in this game is bread. Raine can fail at ''serving bread.''
185* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Lose an Arena round without killing a single opponent, and you get the message "[[FlawlessVictory FLAWLESS]] [[InvertedTrope DEFEAT]]!"
186-->'''The Administrator:''' "You didn't kill ''any'' of them!" "...next time, try killing ''one'' of them."
187** It's also possible to total party wipe in Mann vs. Machine mode, at which point the Administrator is also most displeased.
188--->'''The Administrator''': "Do ''not'' all die at once!"
189** In the Replay Update of ''Team Fortress 2'', a contest called the Saxxy Awards was created to share with people their most awesome kills, biggest dominations, and of course, most epic fails. [[http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards/winners.php?category=16 All the lovely fails can be found here.]]
190*** The winner was a Soldier who wanted to show off and destroy an enemy dispenser using a taunt kill, but the Engineer moves the dispenser before he can finish the taunt. What makes this an Epic Fail is that said taunt kills the Soldier as well as whoever's standing by, and unfortunately, no one's standing by. You can probably guess what happened.
191* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'' games, Sims have been known to fail in spectular fashion. For example, if their Cooking skill isn't high enough, there's a chance that they may end up causing a house fire from something as simple as cooking mac and cheese, one of the first things they can cook.
192* In the ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' games:
193** When an assassin, spy, gentleman, or ninja fails in a mission, the video of their attempt shows them attempting and then failing in some hilarious fashion. Sometimes it's an amusing or unfortunate error, like stabbing the shadow of a kneeling samurai but just hitting his armor stand, or getting caught trying to set a house on fire. Other times, the failure will be something hilariously epic. For example, a gentleman engaging in a duel, but his weapon misfires, and while investigating the faulty pistol, he ends up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8JSH-brgBg shooting himself in the face]]. Or an assassin waiting behind a door to stab a target, only to end up stabbing himself when the target slams the door into his face.
194** ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'' has a failure animation for a Ninja assassination. Ninja sneaks inside a castle perched high up on a cliff. Ninja finds a target looking out over a balcony over said cliff. Ninja takes a run up to attempt a flying kick at the target's head to force him over the balcony. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Target ducks]].
195* ''VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil'' has Cirno's "Icicle Fall" spellcard on Easy, which has a blatant blind spot ''directly in front of her''. Even the Stage 1 boss, Rumia, doesn't bear the same kind of stupidity.
196* Reportedly, it is possible in the ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' SpiritualSuccessor games ''[[VideoGame/UFOAfterBlank UFO: After* ]]'' to throw a grenade so poorly that it lands yards behind your thrower. Without bouncing. Hell, that's not too far a stretch from the [[RedShirt abysmal soldier stats]] of ''X-COM'' proper.
197* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', [[LethalChef Undyne's]] cooking attempts often turn into this. The one time the player sees her cook, Undyne gets ''so'' HotBlooded about making spaghetti that she burns her house down. It's exaggerated in a possible phone call with her and Papyrus: not only has Undyne burning her house down from cooking happened before, she once managed to do this while cooking ''popsicles''.
198* In ''VideoGame/WanganMidnight Maximum Tune'', if you're playing Story Mode or Versus Mode your opponent is less than 700 meters from the goal and is so far ahead of you, the "Keep Going!" alert that shows up at this point doesn't even show up. In other words, you've screwed up so badly that the game implicity tells you that you should just give up all hope of winning.[[note]]This doesn't apply in Ghost Battle mode; when your opponent crosses the finish line, the race will continue and the game will encourage you to [[{{Determinator}} "Run to the very end!"]] so you can record your ghost data; unlike in other modes, Ghost Battle only ends when you cross the finish line or time out (which you'd have to ''try'' to do, as the timer is extremely lenient).[[/note]]
199* ''VideoGame/{{Warhawk}}'' features this as a HaveANiceDeath GameOver screen, wherein the BigBad, Kreel, laughs at your deaths while eating a meal, only to choke on a chicken bone and die. In a roundabout way, you saved the world from Kreel, even if you lost the game.
200* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'':
201** It takes a fair bit of effort for a fairly zippy Hellcat to get encircled and outflanked in a pincer movement by a slow-as-dirt TOG II, [[https://youtu.be/DzC_Ryr3Zvc?t=21m31s but it is both possible and hilarious]].
202** Anytime someone doesn't know the map very well or doesn't watch where they're driving, incompetence will make itself known. Most notably, players accidentally driving into deep lakes or along roads that lead them off cliffs at full speed, leading to the amusing spectacle of a (briefly) airborne light tank.
203** Some vehicles specialize in firing high explosive rounds, mostly anything that packs a howitzer. It's possible to fire the weapon at an enemy that's next to you and kill ''yourself'' because of SplashDamage and the GlassCannon nature of many howitzer-packing machines.
204** Players who forget the relative weights of tanks and try to ram something bigger than themselves will often end up suiciding on the heavier hull of an opponent while merely dealing ScratchDamage to their victim. Incredibly hilarious when a string of light vehicles do this on a single hugely heavy target.
205** The Erlenberg map provides numerous opportunities for players on both sides to screw up in amazing ways (mostly involving stupidity near water) and has become known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFaPhSEUNRY Derpenberg]].
206* Posted on the old ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' forums in a 'what was your most epic death' thread:
207-->I am a warlock. \
208I am ''undead''. \
209I drowned. [[note]] Warlocks have a water breathing spell, and at the time, Forsaken (undead) characters had a breath meter three times longer than anyone else.[[/note]]
210* A relative of ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' is ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships'', and it should come as no surprise that some embarrassing failures have come out of this game as well. Inherently foolish mistakes like ramming larger craft with smaller ones happen, but the kicker probably has to be [[https://youtu.be/djemtzmh3tI?t=15m21s this battle]] between an intact tier 4 aircraft carrier versus a sub-optimal, badly battered tier 3 destroyer. The carrier manages to lose the encounter... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by torpedoing himself with his own bombers]] while trying to sink the destroyer.
211* ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' gives players the chance to mess up so spectacularly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?Wev=AP_0PDUEnVE they can compile their most hilarious fails into a conga of comical chew-ups]].
212* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', when dueling Bandit Keith, he can and will tribute three monsters to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra... in Sphere Mode. A Divine Monster with 0 Attack and Defense. Even worse, a Divine Monster cannot defeat any other monster using the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Attribute advantage house rules]], making it ''completely'' worthless. This is even funnier if beforehand, his monsters had been defeating you.
213* This is the mainstay of every fail moment video in ''VideoGame/Dota2'', ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'', and practically any multiplayer games out there. ''Especially'' Hearthstone, as the RandomNumberGod there can utterly screw you, with ''Doomsayer'' as its favored harbinger.

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