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{{quote|''"If at first you don't succeed, you fail."''|'''GLaDOS''', '''''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'''''}}


''There are a lot of tropes about failing. That should probably tell you something.''<ref>i.e., [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|you fail at life]]</ref>


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* [[Assassin Outclassin']] (You fail at assassination)
* [[Audience Participation Failure]] (You fail to get audience backup in your show or song)
* [[Author Existence Failure]] (You fail at finishing your series before you die)
* [[Bonus Feature Failure]] (You fail at providing good bonus content)
* [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin]] (You fail at staying out of trouble)
** [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin]] (You fail at getting into trouble)
* [[Color Failure]] (You fail at keeping your colour when you lose your cool)
* [[Critical Existence Failure]] (You fail at being alive, even though you were fine one hitpoint ago...)
* [[Critical Failure]] (You fail at rolling a 2 or higher, thus leading to more fail)
* [[Critical Psychoanalysis Failure]] (You fail at psychoanalysing a guy)
* [[Critical Research Failure]] (You fail at knowing the first thing about a topic)
* [[Defensive Failure]] (You fail at remembering you have a weapon in your hand)
* [[Designated Hero]] (You fail at making a good guy)
* [[Designated Villain]] (You fail at making a bad guy)
* [[DIY Disaster]] (You fail at renovating your house)
* [[Dude Not Funny]] (You fail at keeping your comedy in good taste)
* [[Entendre Failure]] (You fail at making a double entendre)
* [[Epic Fail]] (When you fail so hard, you break reality)
* [[Exact Time to Failure]] (Initiating failure in 3...2...1...)
* [[F Minus Minus]] (You fail so hard at schoolwork)
* [[Facial Composite Failure]] (You fail at drawing an accurate wanted poster)
* [[Failed a Spot Check]] (You fail at spotting something two inches away from your face)
* [[Failed Audition Plot]] (You fail an audition for your dream career, but find a reason to keep trying)
* [[Failing a Taxi]] (You fail at hailing a taxi)
* [[Failsafe Failure]] (You fail at making a failsafe. Winner for having ''two'' fails in it)
* [[Failure Hero]] (You fail at saving the day)
* [[Failure Knight]] (You failed something in your backstory, which is why you're so pathetic today)
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]] (You have no choice but to fail because succeeding would end the story)
* [[Fake Balance]] (You fail at balancing your video game characters)
* [[Femininity Failure]] (You fail at being ladylike)
* [[Fight Scene Failure]] (You fail at directing an awesome fight scene)
* [[Floorboard Failure]] (The floorboards have failed to support your weight)
* [[General Failure]] (Your plans fail at proving you earned your rank as General)
* [[Glamour Failure]] (You fail at hiding who you really are)
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] (something doesn't just not work, it works in ways that are disastrous)
* [[Hero Tracking Failure]] (You fail at shooting a moving target with [[Plot Armour]])
* [[Its a Wonderful Failure]] (Let me show you the repercussions of your failure before you get a game over)
* [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]] (You fail at realising your own ignorance)
* [[Imposter Forgot One Detail]] (You fail at convincing others you are someone else)
** [[I Never Told You My Name]] / [[I Never Said It Was Poison]] (Your act fails because you give away knowledge of things you aren't supposed to know)
* [[I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure]] (Alice has failed, so Bob's gonna feel the pain)
* [[My Greatest Failure]] (You fail at failing harder than this)
* [[Necessary Fail]] (You failed, but if you won, the following events would have been worse)
* [[No Dead Body Poops]] (You fail to remember to brown your pants when you die)
* [[Of Course I Smoke]] (You failed at pretending to be a smoker.)
* [[Parody Failure]] (You fail at making a good parody)
* [[Pass Fail]] (You fail at being recognised as a white guy, even if you're not)
* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]] (You fail at recognising another generation's pop culture references)
* [[Potty Failure]] (You fail at keeping your pants clean)
* [[Redemption Failure]] (You fail to stay a good guy)
* [[Rummage Fail]] (You fail at finding something in a bag of random items)
* [[Sarcasm Failure]] (You fail at sarcasm)
* [[The Show Must Go Wrong]] (You fail at preventing every disaster ever during your performance)
* [[Skepticism Failure]] (You fail at proving that the supernatural doesn't exist)
* [[Special Effect Failure]] (You failed to fund the SFX department)
* [[Springtime for Hitler]] (Invoking a failure, might not work)
* [[Status Quo Game Show]] (You failed at winning a gameshow because [[Status Quo Is God]])
* [[Stock Footage Failure]] (You fail at realising that was a bad time to use stock footage)
* [[Strange Pond Woman]] (You fail to get the respect you deserve, or thought you deserve)
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]] (You fail at making your opponents look irrational)
* [[Suspect Existence Failure]] (You fail at finding suspects for a crime)
* [[Symbology Research Failure]] (You fail at remembering that cool logo you saw the other day and put into your work actually has religious meanings)
* [[Tutorial Failure]] (You fail to properly teach how to play a game)
* [[Unwinnable]] (When the game can only end in failure, no matter how much you win)
** [[Unwinnable By Design]] (When the programmer does this on purpose)
** [[Unwinnable By Insanity]] (When the player does this by trying really hard)
** [[Unwinnable By Mistake]] (When this was because the programmer failed)
* [[Voodoo Shark]] (You fail to cover your plot holes)
* [[World Limited to The Plot]] (You fail to build a context for your story.)
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] (You fail at martial arts)
* [[Where's the Kaboom?]] (you fail at blowing stuff up)
* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]] (You fail at stopping a villain's plan even when you ''should'' have succeeded)
* [[You Have Failed Me]] (You have failed at pleasing your superior)
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Topical Tropes]]
[[Category:Index Index/Sandbox]]
[[Category:Index Index]]
[[Category:Index Index]]
[[Category:Tropes]]
[[Category:index]]
[[Category:Index Failure]]

Revision as of 02:42, 23 March 2014


"If at first you don't succeed, you fail."
GLaDOS, Portal

There are a lot of tropes about failing. That should probably tell you something.[1]

* Assassin Outclassin' (You fail at assassination)


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