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{{quote|''"If at first you don't succeed, you fail."''|'''GLaDOS''', '''''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'''''}} |
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''There are a lot of tropes about failing. That should probably tell you something.''<ref>i.e., [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|you fail at life]]</ref> |
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See also: |
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* [[Artistic License Indexes]] |
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* [[Index Backfire]] |
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'''Tropes:''' |
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* [[Assassin Outclassin']] (You fail at assassination) |
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* [[Audience Participation Failure]] (You fail to get audience backup in your show or song) |
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* [[Author Existence Failure]] (You fail at finishing your series before you die) |
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* [[Bonus Feature Failure]] (You fail at providing good bonus content) |
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* [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin]] (You fail at staying out of trouble) |
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** [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin]] (You fail at getting into trouble) |
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* [[Color Failure]] (You fail at keeping your colour when you lose your cool) |
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* [[Critical Existence Failure]] (You fail at being alive, even though you were fine one hitpoint ago...) |
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* [[Critical Failure]] (You fail at rolling a 2 or higher, thus leading to more fail) |
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* [[Critical Psychoanalysis Failure]] (You fail at psychoanalysing a guy) |
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* [[Critical Research Failure]] (You fail at knowing the first thing about a topic) |
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* [[Defensive Failure]] (You fail at remembering you have a weapon in your hand) |
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* [[Designated Hero]] (You fail at making a good guy) |
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* [[Designated Villain]] (You fail at making a bad guy) |
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* [[DIY Disaster]] (You fail at renovating your house) |
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* [[Dude Not Funny]] (You fail at keeping your comedy in good taste) |
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* [[Entendre Failure]] (You fail at making a double entendre) |
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* [[Epic Fail]] (When you fail so hard, you break reality) |
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* [[Exact Time to Failure]] (Initiating failure in 3...2...1...) |
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* [[F Minus Minus]] (You fail so hard at schoolwork) |
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* [[Facial Composite Failure]] (You fail at drawing an accurate wanted poster) |
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* [[Failed a Spot Check]] (You fail at spotting something two inches away from your face) |
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* [[Failed Audition Plot]] (You fail an audition for your dream career, but find a reason to keep trying) |
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* [[Failing a Taxi]] (You fail at hailing a taxi) |
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* [[Failsafe Failure]] (You fail at making a failsafe. Winner for having ''two'' fails in it) |
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* [[Failure Hero]] (You fail at saving the day) |
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* [[Failure Knight]] (You failed something in your backstory, which is why you're so pathetic today) |
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* [[Failure Is the Only Option]] (You have no choice but to fail because succeeding would end the story) |
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* [[Fake Balance]] (You fail at balancing your video game characters) |
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* [[Femininity Failure]] (You fail at being ladylike) |
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* [[Fight Scene Failure]] (You fail at directing an awesome fight scene) |
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* [[Floorboard Failure]] (The floorboards have failed to support your weight) |
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* [[General Failure]] (Your plans fail at proving you earned your rank as General) |
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* [[Glamour Failure]] (You fail at hiding who you really are) |
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* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] (something doesn't just not work, it works in ways that are disastrous) |
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* [[Hero Tracking Failure]] (You fail at shooting a moving target with [[Plot Armour]]) |
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* [[Its a Wonderful Failure]] (Let me show you the repercussions of your failure before you get a game over) |
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* [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]] (You fail at realising your own ignorance) |
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* [[Imposter Forgot One Detail]] (You fail at convincing others you are someone else) |
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** [[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) |
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* [[I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure]] (Alice has failed, so Bob's gonna feel the pain) |
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* [[My Greatest Failure]] (You fail at failing harder than this) |
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* [[Necessary Fail]] (You failed, but if you won, the following events would have been worse) |
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* [[No Dead Body Poops]] (You fail to remember to brown your pants when you die) |
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* [[Of Course I Smoke]] (You failed at pretending to be a smoker.) |
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* [[Parody Failure]] (You fail at making a good parody) |
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* [[Pass Fail]] (You fail at being recognised as a white guy, even if you're not) |
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* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]] (You fail at recognising another generation's pop culture references) |
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* [[Potty Failure]] (You fail at keeping your pants clean) |
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* [[Redemption Failure]] (You fail to stay a good guy) |
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* [[Rummage Fail]] (You fail at finding something in a bag of random items) |
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* [[Sarcasm Failure]] (You fail at sarcasm) |
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* [[The Show Must Go Wrong]] (You fail at preventing every disaster ever during your performance) |
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* [[Skepticism Failure]] (You fail at proving that the supernatural doesn't exist) |
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* [[Special Effect Failure]] (You failed to fund the SFX department) |
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* [[Springtime for Hitler]] (Invoking a failure, might not work) |
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* [[Status Quo Game Show]] (You failed at winning a gameshow because [[Status Quo Is God]]) |
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* [[Stock Footage Failure]] (You fail at realising that was a bad time to use stock footage) |
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* [[Strange Pond Woman]] (You fail to get the respect you deserve, or thought you deserve) |
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* [[Straw Man Has a Point]] (You fail at making your opponents look irrational) |
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* [[Suspect Existence Failure]] (You fail at finding suspects for a crime) |
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* [[Symbology Research Failure]] (You fail at remembering that cool logo you saw the other day and put into your work actually has religious meanings) |
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* [[Tutorial Failure]] (You fail to properly teach how to play a game) |
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* [[Unwinnable]] (When the game can only end in failure, no matter how much you win) |
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** [[Unwinnable By Design]] (When the programmer does this on purpose) |
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** [[Unwinnable By Insanity]] (When the player does this by trying really hard) |
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** [[Unwinnable By Mistake]] (When this was because the programmer failed) |
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* [[Voodoo Shark]] (You fail to cover your plot holes) |
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* [[World Limited to The Plot]] (You fail to build a context for your story.) |
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* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] (You fail at martial arts) |
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* [[Where's the Kaboom?]] (you fail at blowing stuff up) |
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* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]] (You fail at stopping a villain's plan even when you ''should'' have succeeded) |
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* [[You Have Failed Me]] (You have failed at pleasing your superior) |
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''Index shutting down...'' |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Topical Tropes]] |
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[[Category:Index Index/Sandbox]] |
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[[Category:Index Index]] |
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[[Category:Tropes]] |
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[[Category:index]] |
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Latest revision as of 02:42, 23 March 2014
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