Boring Failure Hero/Playing With

Basic Trope: A hero who fails all of the time.
 * Straight: Bob tries to save Alice, but fails.
 * Exaggerated: Bob can't even get out of the house, much less save Alice.
 * Downplayed: ???
 * Justified: He's a victim of the The Worf Effect.
 * Inverted: Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Subverted: Bob saves Alice, but fails at disarming the bomb...
 * Double Subverted: But he manages to stop it with a second to spare! Then, he realizes that it was the wrong wire.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Bob doesn't fail. Bob is not the hero.
 * Enforced: "Everybody feels sorry for themselves. If I make a Boring Failure Hero, they'll feel better about themselves! Genius!"
 * Lampshaded: "Third failure today..."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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