5/29/2023 0 Comments Battle snakes epic mafia![]() ![]() Kids Praise: The eighth album is a typical 90s baseball story, except that the kids' first game has them lose to their rivals by over 40 points without scoring a single run themselves.Since this title refers to a dated 4chan meme from the early 2010s, it's unlikely to be used much anymore. If you're looking for the trope that used to have this name, it's now Offscreen Moment of Awesome. Not to be confused with Epic Flail (or Epic Frail for that matter), though you can certainly commit an Epic Fail with an Epic Flail if you're not careful. If the Fail is so Epic that reality itself breaks trying to process it, then you've managed to make a Reality-Breaking Paradox. This trope is the norm for Stupid Crooks, and a hallmark of the Disastrous Demonstration. Too Dumb to Live is for when a character dies (or nearly dies) because of their own stupidity. ![]() We're not talking " villain tries to shoot one of his mooks but misses." We're talking "villain tries to shoot one of his mooks, misses, ricochets the shot off two walls, smashes the control panel of his Doomsday Machine, causes said Doomsday Machine to topple into a structural support inches from the mook's head, breaks the structural support, brings down the whole base in a massive collapse that destroys the villain's lair entirely, and the mook that the villain shot at is the only survivor." It's a failure so ludicrously, unexpectedly bizarre that, despite its status as a failure, it manages also to be admirable for its uniqueness and irreproducibility.Ĭompare Critical Failure (a game mechanic meant to represent the normal ever-present danger in any action) and From Bad to Worse. It's when a character seems to be facing a pass-or-fail situation, a do-or-die type of test, and then fate hands them a third option: failing in a manner that's so bizarre, it's almost impressive. This is when a task that should be fairly straightforward and typical for a character goes HORRIBLY wrong in a manner that defies the laws of probability, and occasionally the laws of physics. When a normal, run-of-the-mill failure just isn't enough, you need an Epic Fail.
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