Index Failure

""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.''

See also:
 * Artistic License Indexes
 * Index Backfire

Tropes:


 * 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)
 * It's 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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