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: Bob fails at everything.
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: ???