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Failure Hero

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Failure Hero	comment	Heroes sometimes lose. It's the general rule of fiction to the point of being a near Omnipresent Trope, with a few exceptions. A loss provides the hero a chance to learn valuable lessons like humility and resilience, an opportunity for Character Development, and keeps the villains fresh and threatening. After all, losing in Acts 1 and 2 doesn't mean a hero won't beat the villain in Act 3. And then there are these heroes. These heroes never win. Ever. A Failure Hero might make some headway against a rival or villain in the first or second round, but the rival or villain neatly trounces them before the end credits, sometimes thanks to a Diabolus ex Machina. (The latter is especially common in potentially series-resolving situations.) Any "wins" he does pull off are ambiguous and open-ended, further the villain's plan, or blatantly make things that much worse for the unwitting hero. This, of course, tends to rob a given episode or movie franchise of dramatic punch when the viewer's reaction to a hero making steps to resolving their lifelong goal is "You're Just Yanking Our Chains!" And if the hero is too much of a failure, the audience may decide to abandon the story in frustration. Behind this is usually the idea that the hero sucks that much. Plus he's the hero; the side of good is in an eternal struggle with evil! This is especially common in comedies where the hero is a failure of some kind or where advancing his goals would end the show. The loser counterpart of Invincible Hero. Not as prevalent as its sibling, but still common enough to warrant its own trope. The Small Steps Hero will become this in a truly Crapsack World. Please note that being saddled with the pesky Status Quo Is God or Failure Is the Only Option tropes isn't enough to qualify someone as a Failure Hero; they must fail at not only the thing the shows says they can't succeed at but at nearly everything else due to continual plot contrivances. This trope is not for arcs where the hero(es) lose a lot, if they've won before or after. If the heroes lose for most of a series and then ultimately win or accomplish their goals at the end, it is ALSO not this trope. Compare Useless Protagonist, Heroic Wannabe, Super Loser, and Super Zeroes, the latter being the comedic version. Contrast Invincible Hero. Usually Not Badass Enough for Fans, and may lead to the utterance of the Eight Deadly Words or Too Bleak, Stopped Caring. Also see Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, the evil counterpart.
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Failure Hero / int_12300cc3	comment	The heroes of Watchmen are all too human, and all too caught up in their own flaws and vices to really function as superheroes when it counts. One past iteration of the Minutemen gets disbanded before it even starts, thanks to the Comedian giving them all one long "The Reason You Suck" Speech about their ineffectiveness, and by the time the present-day heroes show up to stop Ozymandias' plan, it's already gone off without a hitch, and everyone (except Rorschach) agrees to keep it a secret, despite the horrific devastation and lives lost as a result, because Ozymandias believes such a tragedy would unite nations and stave off an impending nuclear war. And it's implied that they fail to even do that, since Rorschach makes sure to leak the information in a journal where the press can find it.
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Failure Hero / int_1392ed02	comment	In TNA EV2.0 had been this since day one, whether if it was during their feud with Fortune (led by Ric Flair) or Immortal (led by Hulk Hogan). Whatever victory they managed to obtain was only short-term as they lost many of their key members, including the FBI, Sabu, Rhino, and Raven.
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Failure Hero / int_14504d82	comment	Collar 6 struck the protagonists with this for its second major arc. Any fight was either lost or interrupted, which lead to them getting captured twice. The first time, they would've spent the entire arc in captivity if their maids hadn't come to bail them out. Ultimately, they could have stayed home and the whole thing would have worked out for the best, if the bad guy's plan didn't require kidnapping Laura and a sudden Greater-Scope Villain that required stopping.
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Failure Hero / int_1af341a1	comment	Compared to the other Disgaea protagonists Mao of Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice comes off this way due to the game's unfocused plot. Most of the actions he takes throughout the game either end in failure or don't really move him closer to his goal of defeating his father. Multiple endings show him succeeding at something where he failed in the main plot, only to show that success doesn't work out for him either.
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Failure Hero / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero: This trope fits the three "Cardinal Heroes" that are Ren, Itsuki, and Motoyasu like a dirty, wet glove (Though the first two have some redeeming qualities, especially for Ren who is usually able to hear Naofumi out for what he has to say for most of the outrageous claims made against him, they don't have much going for them to solidify themselves as "True Heroes" like Naofumi does, even with the copious amounts of horseshit he receives from both snobbish Nobles and the Holy Church personnel). Throughout many, many events their stupidity is on full display for a fair number of people to see, including their own separate party members, showing incompetence after incompetence (and in one case effectively digging their graves of dignity big time after a certain Leeroy Jenkins-fueled event of their own doing no less!) of just how pathetically shallow they are, not even worthy of their "Cardinal Hero" titles; unlike Naofumi, who fittingly likes to call them by their MUCH more appropriate nickname of the "Three Cardinal Stooges" instead.
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Failure Hero / int_1d6f193a	comment	Tales of Berseria has a villainous example. Not in a Minion with an F in Evil way; Oscar Dragonia is the first non-Big Bad antagonist to get a name, being in charge of the Hellhole Prison where Velvet was being kept and brings her to a standstill when they clash using a variety of powerful artes while espousing his loyalty to the one person Velvet can't stand. In short, he has all the trappings of a classic Tales of... rival character, and then the rest of the game happens. His entire story is one failure after another. An unwanted spare of a noble family, he was made to join the Abbey to give them more influence, but his career has been unknowingly propped up by his beloved sister — who, despite being a baseborn bastard, has more clout in the Abbey than him. He passed over a prestigious assignment because he felt the other candidate deserved it more; instead of being rewarded, he ended up in charge of Titania, which is a dead-end shithole of a post. What looked like skillful use of powerful Artes during Velvet's escape was actually Oscar jumping straight to tactics of last resort just to slow her down, and the only clean hit he gets was a cheap shot. After being beaten and disfigured by Velvet, he's reassigned to the boonies and not heard from again for half the game, where his sister has petitioned for him to get a safe-but-important gubernatorial role in the sticks. He's not there a week before Velvet causes him to utterly fail at every aspect of his assignment, including not being fought because Velvet knocks him out mid-sentence with a single kick. This results in him being "asked" to act as a candidate for a powerful but completely untested new arte; despite finally putting up a boss fight with a prototype he was apparently compatible with, it ultimately goes completely haywire and he has to be killed in self-defense. It's not for no reason that his title in his final battle is "Failed Oscar".
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Failure Hero / int_1f2b93e7	comment	The title character of The Buzz on Maggie. Mostly everything she tries to accomplish fails or backfires in her face.
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Failure Hero / int_1ffa9e7	comment	Shuzo Matsutani from Now and Then, Here and There attempts plenty of heroic stuff, but doesn't accomplish anything at all. In the first episode, he fails to rescue Lala-Ru from the giant robot snakes, then he is captured and tortured. Ultimately, it's Lala-Ru who defeats the Big Bad, not Shu. And the final shot gives the impression that Shu should have just stayed home and not talked to Lala-Ru on the smokestack. Remove him from the series and very little would have changed.
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Failure Hero / int_24f409f0	comment	The Paranormal Activity horror film series has become notorious for this. Once a story behind the hauntings, the demon causing the hauntings, and the coven a witches that worship it was revealed, every film that has the protagonist try to stop them ends up failing miserably, starting with Paranormal Activity 3 which is the prequel to the whole series.
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Failure Hero / int_297bdfdf	comment	Tanz Der Vampire: Professor Abronsius and his assistant Alfred travel to Transylvania to rid the world of vampires. They never kill a single vampire and by the end, all but two of the characters have been turned into vampires.
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Failure Hero / int_2af19e5c	comment	No one is making successful rolls in the Cool Kids Table game Homeward Bound 4. Everyone is really stupefied about why science would engineer such terrible dinosaurs.
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Failure Hero / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Repeatedly applying The Worf Effect to secondary cast members without giving them any wins has this side effect. Sakura Haruno and Rock Lee arguably have it the worst, made all the more poignant by how very hard they try to avoid failure. For an In-Universe example, Jiraiya sees himself as this. Despite being (arguably) the strongest of the three Sannin, he sees his entire life as nothing but a string of failures: he was unable to prevent his best friend Orochimaru's Faceâ€“Heel Turn, never had Tsunade reciprocate his affection (even more tragically, their last meeting before his death at least hinted she might have been willing to give him a shot if he came back), wasn't there to save his teacher Hiruzen or his student Minato from dying, and his attempts to help the Ame orphans ultimately resulted in them going of the deep end and take extreme measures to achieve "peace" in the world. At the end of his life, he considers that the one good thing he did in his entire life was training Naruto himself.
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Failure Hero / int_337631b6	comment	Ash doesn't win a single Pokemon battle throughout the entirety of PokÃ©mon Live!. He's knocked out by Jigglypuff's song, and Giovanni soundly defeats Pikachu. The only reason he makes it to the end is Mewtwo's sudden appearance.
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Failure Hero / int_35097ab9	comment	Weight Off Your Shoulder: Marinette believes she was one of these, due to being constantly blamed for anything that went wrong and berated for any mistakes and moments of weakness. After Bunnyx accidentally revealed that Shadow Moth would eventually get his hands on the Miracle Box and enslave almost all the kwami, Marinette sets out to prevent that Bad Future by sacrificing her Guardianship and her memories, passing the Earrings on to a Superior Successor. Afterwards, she continues believing that all her past achievements were ultimately meaningless and that she failed to accomplish anything of note, while Luka and others try to reassure that she needs to give herself more credit.
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Failure Hero / int_35b937ef	comment	Walt Breslin, one of the main characters in Narcos: Mexico. After being the narrator of the first season, in Season 2 he and other DEA agents embark on Operation Leyenda to avenge the death of agent "Kiki" Camarena. While they do manage to capture and kill the Torture Technician who actually committed the deed, they continually fail to seriously impede Felix Gallardo's cartel and eventually are almost completely wiped out when they walk right into a trap. Breslin himself doesn't even seem to understand why he's embarking on this crusade, with the suggestion that he's mostly doing it to fill a void in his non-existent personal life and Kiki's death (who he didn't know personally) is nothing more than a half-hearted excuse. Felix is ultimately deposed simply because the Mexican government withdraws its protection, even giving Breslin a stinging "The Reason You Suck" Speech from his jail cell. This continues in season 3 as Breslin sacrifices his own happiness and personal honour to take down the cartels and achieves very little. In the end he is unable to to even save the live of an informer.
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Failure Hero / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Ironwood does want to do right, but his conviction that his way is the best way alienates him from his allies. This in turn hampers any contributions he can make to the cause of fighting Salem. It eventually culminates into a full turn to villainy in Volume 8, to the point that even his previously loyal subordinates turn against him. This is an Exploited Trope and Enforced Trope on the part of Salem's faction. A big part of why their plans work out in the later volumes is because they are counting on Ironwood's paranoia and refusal to be swayed from his path.
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Failure Hero / int_36cb251d	comment	Dragon Ball Z Elsewhere: What Yamcha realizes to be among the Z warriors. At some point, he clearly notes that, while he had his share of minor victories, when there was an important fight, he always lost it. More and more badly.
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Failure Hero / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): Although he's an Anti-Hero at the best of times, the Deep. Anytime he does try to do the right thing, it goes hilariously wrong. Take for instance his rescue of the dolphin and the lobster.
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Failure Hero / int_390729ff	comment	Ninja Warrior competitor Katsumi Yamada has not only never managed to obtain Total Victory, but from the 14th tournament on, he hasn't even managed to complete the first stage. The fact that he's focused his life completely on this (which cost him his job and his family) makes it all the more heartbreaking. Nevertheless, he is considered an All-Star, and fans (as well as the other All-Stars) continue to cheer him on for him to one day reach the top of Midoriyama.
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Failure Hero / int_39fe00f1	comment	Though if Hawke survives the events of Inquisition, the ending of the Trespasser DLC will reveal that he/she eventually returned to Kirkwall as its Champion and helped it rebuild with the help of his/her Best Friend Varric, who is now the Viscount of Kirkwall, and their fellow companion Aveline. Their efforts did amount to something, it just took a long time to get there.
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Failure Hero / int_3a6cee08	comment	Prince Bifalt in The Great God's War spends the first book managing to do the exact wrong thing at every turn. Feed some starving peasants? They were enemy spies. Set an ambush for his enemies? Their advance was a diversion from their real plans. Tell the truth about his goals to the caravan master who saved his life? He's actually working for the scheming sorcerers who disapprove of those goals. To make it worse, Bifalt is perfectly aware of how lousy his track record is, but that just makes him more angry and frantic, and thus prone to making even worse decisions.
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Failure Hero / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Yamcha suffers this way due to The Worf Effect. Early on, he was used in each Tenkaichi Budoukai to show off how amazing some new character was. This continued with successive new enemies killing or almost killing him first to prove their threat level. After Android #20 impaled him through the chest, Yamcha decided just to call it quits for the day and start rocking a yellow Miami Vice suit. He still ended up being murdered (again) by the Big Bad an arc later. Gotenks is hyped up to be the warrior destined to save the universe from Majin Buu, but he utterly fails at doing so, getting his ass handed to him by Fat Buu and losing to Super Buu because he was too busy showboating and trying to make himself look cool. This continues into Super, where he doesn't contribute anything useful whenever he appears; he gets literally spanked by Beerus, defuses before he can even throw an attack at Frieza because of his time-consuming posturing, and is curb-stomped by Copy-Vegeta's base form. It's to the extent that in the Tournament of Power, Goku and Vegeta decide right off the bat that after Gotenks screwed up so badly while fighting Super Buu, there's no way in Hell they're trusting him to try to save the world again.
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Failure Hero / int_3bfc220f	comment	Elektra Natchios in Daredevil (2003) ends up making things worse for Matt than she intended. She believes that Daredevil is responsible for killing her father, so she sets out to murder him. She attacks him under false pretenses and injures him, before learning that she was wrong. When she finds out who Bullseye is, she sets out to kill him instead of take Matt's advice to run or even help him. Because of her blind rage, Bullseye takes advantage of her, defeating her, gutting her and then giving her an unwanted kiss. She does improve in her own spinoff, but she never gets her rematch with Bullseye (and because film rights returned to Marvel years later, never will).
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Failure Hero / int_3dede5fe	comment	Johnny Gargano has fallen into this, as he never seems to be able to win a title match despite showing that he is capable of doing so. It didn't really reach this point until he lost two straight Takeovers to Evil Former Friend Tommaso Ciampa, the most recent for the NXT Championship (which Ciampa managed to win in the first place thanks to him, by the way), both due to his recklessness. It's quite telling that The Velveteen Dream, then a heel, was able to get the Full Sail crowd to go from chanting "Johnny Wrestling" to "Johnny Failure." While he's since won some singles titles, he has yet to successfully defend one. Then he randomly chose Leon Ruff to get a shot at his North American title, in an obvious bid to break the curse, and Ruff won the belt on a roll-up pin (helped by a distraction from previous champ Damian Priest).
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Failure Hero / int_3f44e3d7	comment	In the second season of Princess Tutu, Duck sees herself as this due to being locked out of the loop and thus not understanding what's going on, and feeling unable to help anyone or stop what's happening since she can only react to events already in motion. Fakir helping her out of this mindset is a key moment in both of their character developments.
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Failure Hero / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Often, the story would depict one of Calvin's many imaginative alter egos, such as the superhero Stupendous Man, the space explorer Spaceman Spiff, or a meat-eating dinosaur like Allosaurus. However, no matter what they would almost always lose, because the "foes" they faced were real people with much more power than Calvin, like his babysitter, his parents, or his teacher. For example, he tries to write a test using Stupendous Man's superior intelligence, but his Paper-Thin Disguise fools no one and Stupendous Man doesn't know anything Calvin doesn't so he fails the test anyway and gets in trouble for creating a commotion on top of that. This particular time, Hobbes asks Calvin about whether Stupendous Man has had any victories, and Calvin says they've all been moral victories.
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Failure Hero / int_40579124	comment	Tom the Dancing Bug sporadically features Sam Roland, the Detective Who Dies. Each appearance gives us another case of Sam dying before solving the crime. Sometimes before answering the phone to get a new case.
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Failure Hero / int_4403b7d5	comment	Roadkill's hosts, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan, qualify as this. Usually, not only will the zany car build fail as they're attempting to do whatever they had planned with it, it will usually fail in a spectacular manner. The on-the-spot makeshift repairs that they make to get the vehicle back on the road usually don't last too long, either.
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Failure Hero / int_44e0b783	comment	Averted in Garfield, where Garfield's owner Jon finally gets the girl of his dreams after 28 years. In these 28 years, however, all of Jon's plans to get a relationship fail horribly. Even when he scores a date, you can bet that either he, Garfield, or the environment would ruin it.
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Failure Hero / int_4a11fc06	comment	Reid in The Lone Ranger may have killed the bad guy, but he utterly failed to save the Commanches from being massacred, although given their historical fate, there's an overlap with Doomed by Canon here.
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Failure Hero / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Isaac and his son Matthew in Golden Sun and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Every single decision that they make unfortunately leads to world destruction and/or furthering Alex's plans. And there's nothing they can do about it. This combined with their Heroic Mime status and the Draco'ed villains makes them the least popular of all 16 Golden Sun protagonists within the fandom.
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Failure Hero / int_4c260e4	comment	Heimatfront: Maria Nitzschmann, (aka Miho Nishizumi. She's a BDM conscript who's tasked with delivering several tanks to the front, but things quickly get out of hand, and she's in charge of a mostly female group of combatants who do what they can to ensure that Germany gets more favorable terms in the post-war peace talks. Unfortunately, even apart from the Foregone Conclusion involved, Maria faces much steeper odds than Miho with all of Miho's weaknesses and none of her strengths. Since Maria's only qualification for commander is knowing more about tanks than is socially acceptable for a woman in Nazi Germany, she's lucky to even survive.
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Failure Hero / int_4d0a4499	comment	Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters: Haruo Sakaki fits this to a T. In the trilogy's first two movies, he genuinely wants to do what's best for the sake for his people, which comes along with his Fatal Flaw of wanting to destroy Godzilla and reclaim Earth for mankind, in order to rebuild civilization. Despite careful planning, most of his actions indirectly and directly lead to more deaths when he miscalculates the possibility that he killed the right Godzilla, disregarding the fact there could be another; and blows up Mechagodzilla City with people still in it. However, he'll still try to pursue his revenge, but due to lack of resources, manpower, and little to no strategic value aside from piloting the Vultures, it seems pretty nigh impossible or hopeless since the same strategy to use the EMP on the dorsal fins didn't work this time when Godzilla temperature rose and melted the EMP harpoon. By the end of the second movie he gives up his chance to Mutual Kill Godzilla Earth to save Yuko, but she is left in a coma — making his endeavor entirely fruitless and sending him into a Despair Event Horizon. By the end of the third, he's completely failed to meaningfully change the situation on Earth in any way, most of the survivors of humanity are dead, and Godzilla Earth still rules the planet.
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Failure Hero / int_4d397907	comment	Curse Quest: Implied with the Owl Hunter, he doesn't seem competent enough to actually take down the owl-bear he was wrestling, and is openly seen crying at the convention after failing to do so. Walrus also gives off similar vibes, considering he didn't do anything to hurt the owl-bear despite trying to fight it and getting launched at a tree.
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Failure Hero / int_4ef7866a	comment	Much of Willem's backstory in WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? revolves around this trope. In the past, he was one of humanity's chosen heroes who fought in a war against the godlike Visitors in order to protect his adopted family. After defeating one of the last Visitor's guardians, he was petrified due to the side effects of the forbidden spells he used. Upon being awoken 500 years later, he discovered that his Heroic Sacrifice meant absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. In spite of winning their war against the Visitors, humanity was wiped out by the 17 Beasts not long after he was frozen. Sadly, he continues to play this trope straight throughout the series, ultimately losing his love interest when she sacrifices her life to save him from the Beasts. Ironically, his most successful heroic act is a result of him intentionally taking on the role of a villain.
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Failure Hero / int_4efd20ba	comment	Freakazoid! has a Show Within a Show called Hero Boy, a parody of Astro Boy, where the eponymous hero always fails in comic fashion. In the one episode we see, he tried to beat the Kaiju attacking Tokyo by ineffectually beating its foot before it brushes him off with nary a second thought. It also happens to be Freakazoid's favorite show. The Huntsman is something of a downplayed example, as he'd probably be very competent... if he ever got to do anything.
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Failure Hero / int_4fce2184	comment	Both Nagisa and Honoka were reduced to this during the last stretch of the first half Futari wa Pretty Cure with the introduction of Illkubo. From here on, every episode consisted of the girls getting stomped by him who ended taking back all the Prism Stones, effectively undoing everything the duo of Magical Girls did during the entire season. Luckily, once Illkubo was killed by the Dark King, things quickly improved for them.
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Failure Hero / int_4fd1bffb	comment	Ted DiBiase Jr. slowly become a Failure Villain. Lampshaded by his girlfriend Maryse, who even accused him of causing her to lose matches by association and outright called him a loser. On the 1/26/11 edition of NXT, however, he did finally managed to score a win. Who? Daniel Bryan! Cleanly. And Maryse actually complemented him! And his rookie Brodus Clay won the Fatal Four Way elimination match! ...But wait! That match Brodus won? The winning rookie had the opportunity to switch Pros! Brodus then pointed out all of DiBiase's failings before ditching him for Alberto Del Rio. And to add insult to injury, he took him out with the Tongan Death Grip! After this DiBiase leaned more into Face territory and started to gain more actual victories. He never got out of the midcard, but still got clean wins every once in a while.
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Failure Hero / int_503d3d54	comment	Brad and Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At no point in the narrative do they even come close to stymieing Frank at anything he wants to do. In fact, if the credits didn't identify them as "a hero" and "a heroine," most people probably wouldn't even notice.
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Failure Hero / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: anything that Karkat Vantas wasn't guaranteed to fail at due to You Can't Fight Fate, he managed to bungle on his own, with the exception of calming Gamzee down and a few other things. When tasked with creating a universe-frog, he wasn't patient enough to do the job right and ended up giving the poor thing cancer (although waiting any longer may have made the game unwinnable, due to the black king becoming exponentially harder to beat the longer the game goes on). When he tried to lead his group to victory, he managed to keep at most five of them alive from a group of twelve. His efforts to prevent the creation of a Hero Killer God of Evil were kicked in the head by destiny, and his dating life has been kind of consistently disastrous. Even his childhood dream of joining the Threshecutioners was doomed from the start due to a) his mutant blood colour and b) the destruction of the universe, and his efforts to learn programming ended up killing his lusus. It's no wonder the guy hates himself so much and is so consistently pissed. Ironically enough, many of his failures seem have side effects that turn them into successes, for example, the robotic Aradia clones that came from doomed timelines that were attributed to his failures were essential to win, and Aradia also states that the Mobius Double Reacharound virus was essential to winning as well. Similarly, many of his successes turn into horrific failures — the ectobiology that he was initially successful with later making the game unwinnable, for example. Other examples include Calming Gamzee prevented the other trolls from offing him, and considering Gamzee is one of the main sources of problems for every group of protagonists... this... isn't a good thing. Not only that, Vriska speculates that if attaining Godhood is related to attaining your species equivalent of maturity, then Karkat's efforts to keep his murderous race of friends together may have kept most of them alive for as long as it did, but had he been a BAD leader, half of them would have killed the other half but the survivors may have gotten FAR more power as a result.
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Failure Hero / int_50cfb3ae	comment	Leon Belmont from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. Considering this is an origin story for the Belmont clan and Dracula, his failure is a well Justified Foregone Conclusion. Even before starting a new save file, the narration has no qualms pointing out that Leon renounces his title in the Crusades, and all the benefits that would come with that title, just for a chance to save his beloved, Sara Trantoul, who had been kidnapped. Long story short, the quest does not end well. Even after Leon defeats the game's primary antagonist, Walter Bernhard, his best friend and fellow crusader, Mathias Cronqvist, appears and reveals that he basically masterminded the events of the game, just to spite the very god that the two men had fought in the name of during the Crusades. Killing his own betrothed at her own request to stop her from turning into a vampire, being betrayed by his best friend, and sworn revenge turning empty since the act empowered his traitorous best friend to become Dracula. Yes, the signature Dracula of the Castlevania franchise? That's Mathias. Leon just can't catch a break, can he? Poor guy.
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Failure Hero / int_5436b1a9	comment	Canonically, the Hanzo Shinobi in Senran Kagura do spend an awful lot of time on the back foot and dealing with opponents who "Weren't really trying", but this is presented as a series of hardships leading to a well-earned victory. Then you play as a different faction, and the "heroes" of the setting come across as utterly incompetent — they never pull the same "not trying" trick, and are the only team to lose clean every time.
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Failure Hero / int_588a4c4a	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): A case that happened by the adaptation. The VFD's role is expanded, meaning that the organization is present and its existence is made known from the very start. What happened is that the series went on to follow the same idea as the books and the VFD's attempts at helping the Baudelaire Orphans constantly fail. As of the end of Season 2 about 10 members of the organization were killed by Olaf and EsmÃ©. Out of the 4 members left, none of them have scored a meaningful victory against Olaf, and Lemony is believed to be dead by the organization.
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Failure Hero / int_5908ee91	comment	The Vigilants of Stendar in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are an order dedicated to routing out daedra worshipers and whatever monsters threaten the innocent. Unfortunately, their choices of in-game armaments make them fairly ineffective, and they will usually end up being killed by whatever it is they're fighting. In the base game, one member investigates a house, with the help of the Dragonborn, where he thinks daedra worshippers are hiding. Only too late does he discover that said house is being watched over by Molag Bal, one of the Daedric Princes (essentially gods among the daedra), and Molag Bal forces both him and the Dragonborn to fight each other to the death. In Dawnguard they try to take on the Volkihar clan of vampires off screen. Not realizing that they are far, far stronger than any of those they've dealt with before. Resulting in the headquarters and leaders of the Skyrim branch of the order being wiped out. In a quest if you side with the Dawnguard, another of their members gets enthralled by a sorceress and brainwashes the rest of his party into doing her bidding.
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Failure Hero / int_5a81d733	comment	What else would you expect from a series with a title like Timmy Failure? However, Timmy's Defective Detective nature and inability to solve a crime are always Played for Laughs.
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Failure Hero / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: In Skyfall, Bond fails at every objective he has during the movie: he leaves the MI6 agent to die; loses the MI6 hard drive; allows an assassin to kill a politician; fails to get information from said assassin; fails to protect the mole; falls into Silva's trap; fails to stop Silva escaping; fails to stop several deaths in Parliament; loses Skyfall Manor; kills Silva instead of letting him rot in prison; and finally fails to protect M. The only positive thing that can be said is that he survives. In a sense this is exactly the way Ian Fleming first conceived of Bond.
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Failure Hero / int_5ae06982	comment	Ayako Hamada was this in 2017 when she won AAA's Reina de Reinas only to lose every match she had as champion and lose the belt after being choked out by a pipe wielding Taya Valkyries.
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Failure Hero / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: The Avengers, the Guardians and their allies spend the entire movie repeatedly failing to stop Thanos from acquiring each of the Infinity Stones, carrying out his promised Badass Fingersnap, and exterminating half of the sentient life in the universe. They do, however, get a Curb Stomp Cushion in the form of defeating the Children of Thanos and the Outriders. Further, it is implied by Doctor Strange that this series of events is the only conceivable way they have any chance of ultimately defeating Thanos. This was later confirmed to be true in the followup.
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Failure Hero / int_6272adf3	comment	The Shield: While the Strike Team are at best Nominal Heroes, their mandated agenda is to lower crime rates and stop the drug trade in Farmington. They do manage to do the former for a while, but only because the Team's leader Vic is working with the most powerful drug gang and thus covering up their crimes. And for every new crime lord they take out, another one rises up to take their place. Though by the end of the series, their motives have shifted entirely to covering their own asses and getting away with their crimes.
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Failure Hero / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic very rarely gets what he wants or wins anything. The "hero" part is downplayed, as he's not a particularly good person.
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Failure Hero / int_629cd094	comment	Unlike the Warden and the Inquisitor, Hawke in Dragon Age II is this. Sure, the Warden and the Inquisitor face some setbacks in their journey, but it seems that Hawke faced the worst of this trope throughout the second game. Fails to save his/her sibling in the beginning. Fails to keep his/her remaining sibling safe. Fails to save his/her mother from a serial killer. Fails to stop the Qunari attack on Kirkwall. Fails to prevent the Mage-Templar War. Fails to properly kill Corypheus. Essentially, Hawke tries to stand against massive wave after massive wave and most of what they achieve is getting soaked to the bone. Even their one unambiguous success (the Deep Roads expedition which makes them rich) turns out to have disastrous effects in the long run thanks to their discovery of red lyrium, and potentially gets their remaining sibling infected with the Blight. The best that can be said for Hawke is that their actions at least prevented bad situations from becoming many times worse. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Nightmare demon taunts Hawke with the fact that nothing s/he did made a big difference and that s/he couldn't even succeed in saving Kirkwall. And depending on the player's choice, he/she may die there by remaining at the Fade, with the entire Hawke family being wiped out for good or their living sibling being the last Hawke. Though if Hawke survives the events of Inquisition, the ending of the Trespasser DLC will reveal that he/she eventually returned to Kirkwall as its Champion and helped it rebuild with the help of his/her Best Friend Varric, who is now the Viscount of Kirkwall, and their fellow companion Aveline. Their efforts did amount to something, it just took a long time to get there.
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Failure Hero / int_69a51847	comment	Cosmic Ghost Rider is one of the most powerful beings around with the powers of a Herald of Galactus and Spirit of Vengeance combined with the Punisher's combat skills. Unfortunately millions of years of having hellfire cook his brain has made pretty dumb. So he keeps screwing up or getting killed, it gets to a point where he tries to get revenge against Johnny Blaze, who's the king of Hell at that time. Johnny just teleports away from him and tells Frank Castle that the only thing he's ever been good at was getting his family killed. Frank is so frustrated at that he just leaves Earth.
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Failure Hero / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor starts to fall into this from Thor: Ragnarok on. Thor struggles mightily and gains a host of new allies against superior foes and unfavorable odds, but consistently comes up short, first against Hela and then twice against Thanos. His meager victories are either overturned immediately or rendered meaningless. By the time of Avengers: Endgame the defeats have worn him down to a shell of his former self. Avengers: Infinity War: The Avengers, the Guardians and their allies spend the entire movie repeatedly failing to stop Thanos from acquiring each of the Infinity Stones, carrying out his promised Badass Fingersnap, and exterminating half of the sentient life in the universe. They do, however, get a Curb Stomp Cushion in the form of defeating the Children of Thanos and the Outriders. Further, it is implied by Doctor Strange that this series of events is the only conceivable way they have any chance of ultimately defeating Thanos. This was later confirmed to be true in the followup. Iron Fist (2017): Out of all the Defenders, Iron Fist's first season outing was the least impressive. All of his achievements were short-lived and most often manipulated into: becoming the Iron Fist was for the wrong reason and he couldn't achieve full power; becoming Danny Rand was only possible because of Harold's manipulation; taking down Gao and Bakuto was entirely inconsequential because Gao got away unscathed and Bakuto can resurrect himself. The finale also implied that his leaving his post as the Gate Guardian led to a Hand invasion and the disappearance of K'un-Lun. That being said, he's able to enjoy some success come The Defenders when most of the Hand is destroyed, although that doesn't explain what happened to K'un-Lun. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Most of John Walker's attempts to be a hero end up failing spectacularly. He fails to stop the Flag-Smashers' theft of two 18-wheelers filled with supplies, failed to interrogate one of their associates (who spits on his face too), and both of his attempts to bring in Karli Morgenthau end up making things worse for everyone and got Lemar killed. He finally stops being one when he stops trying to be Captain America and starts being himself.
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Failure Hero / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: A good number of the Hero Association members fall into this trope. It's very rare for anyone other than Saitama to defeat a major villain. Especially notable are Genos, Sneck, Mumen Rider, and Darkness Blade. Mumen Rider at least has the excuse that he's a muggle who's punching way above his weight class — and he knows it. His Chronic Hero Syndrome just won't let him stand aside. He's not even an example of The Worf Effect because he's just a regular joe riding a bicycle. Without a license. That being said, there's one thing he did succeed at: if he hadn't pulled a You Shall Not Pass! against the Sea King to protect a shelter full of civilians, the Sea King would've slaughtered them before Saitama could arrive.
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Failure Hero / int_6a8aff51	comment	In The Stormlight Archive, King Elhokar is one of these, and he eventually comes to realize it. No matter how much he tries, he always seems to make bad decisions and alienate his allies or family, to the point that he gets quietly sidelined by his much more competent and well-meaning uncle, Dalinar, who effectively turns Elhokar into a Puppet King. He eventually asks Kaladin, who is a Failure Knight himself, how he manages to be such a good hero. Elhokar does eventually shake off this, however, when he manages to get out from under his uncle's shadow and lead a mission of his own under his own authority. It ends up getting him killed, though not through any fault of his own.
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Failure Hero / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Taven in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon is sent on a quest to halt the titular event that will destroy all of existence. Not only does he find out that his brother went crazy with power and murdered their parents with Taven unable to do a thing to prevent it, his quest turns into a failure since the elemental being he was supposed to defeat in order to gain godhood and stave off Armageddon turned out to have been long tainted and the canon victor of that game turned out to be Shao Kahn. That ended up leading to the whole timeline being rebooted. Raiden becomes this in Mortal Kombat 9. His actions to change the future only makes things worse; he loses the trust of Liu Kang, gets many heroes killed through his indirect actions to change the past, and only barely wins the battle because the Elder Gods arrive to help him at the last moment. Played for Drama in Mortal Kombat 11 when he sees a vision of other timelines and realizes this has happened in all of them, giving him a massive Heroic BSoD.
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Failure Hero / int_6bbde1c8	comment	A big part of the backstory of Overwatch was the downfall of Overwatch itself, once a proud international peacekeeping group that fell apart due to internal strife, with the in-story reputation in the wake of its fall being one of futility and misguided leadership. Several Overwatch veterans remain operational, either continuing to fight the good fight on their own terms (such as Wilhelm Reinhardt or Angela Ziegler/"Mercy"), devolving into morally ambiguous vigilantism (such as Jack Morrison/"Soldier: 76"), or falling entirely into evil (such as Gabriel Reyes/"Reaper"), with their failure to keep the world safe weighing on their consciousness. The overarching plot of Overwatch involves the organization getting back together with heroes of new and old, with the veterans returning for one last second chance to save the world.
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Failure Hero / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Raiden becomes this in Mortal Kombat 9. His actions to change the future only makes things worse; he loses the trust of Liu Kang, gets many heroes killed through his indirect actions to change the past, and only barely wins the battle because the Elder Gods arrive to help him at the last moment. Played for Drama in Mortal Kombat 11 when he sees a vision of other timelines and realizes this has happened in all of them, giving him a massive Heroic BSoD.
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Failure Hero / int_6f9cf03	comment	Loof and Gin in Genma Wars have a hard time saving or protect anyone. Over the course of the series, they lose their respective loved ones, their attempts at heroism backfire spectacularly, and Gin's attempt to liberate his village from an tyrannical ape leads to the Genma retaliating without mercy. When they decide to join forces with their half-siblings to destroy the Maoh King, all of them except the two perish in the fighting and they can't even defeat the Maoh King themselves; it's his own wife Parome who kills him. Finally, when they travel back in time in order to undo the future they came from, they discover the Genma have already controlled the past (roughly modern times) and are completely powerless to stop them from causing a nuclear war that destroyed civilization. All their efforts are rendered null as they return to their native timeline only to discover nothing was changed.
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Failure Hero / int_7460586f	comment	Archer. Sterling Archer luck/skill during missions is almost always just enough to ensure that he lives to screw up another one. It gets to the point where villains will sometimes hire him to foil their own plots because they're so sure he'll fail.
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Failure Hero / int_756153b6	comment	This is Darth Vader's perspective on himself at the start of Dark Lordâ€”The Rise of Darth Vader, set just after Revenge of the Sith. He turned to The Dark Side to save PadmÃ©, and what does he have to show for it? PadmÃ© is dead by his own hand, as are most of his former colleagues, he himself has undergone an Emergency Transformation into a Cyborg trapped in a walking iron lung, and his Master is also disfigured. Vader sinks into a depression that Palpatine finds irritating and counterproductive, and the Emperor spends most of the book telling Vader to get over himself — the galaxy is theirs, they won.
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Failure Hero / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): Out of all the Defenders, Iron Fist's first season outing was the least impressive. All of his achievements were short-lived and most often manipulated into: becoming the Iron Fist was for the wrong reason and he couldn't achieve full power; becoming Danny Rand was only possible because of Harold's manipulation; taking down Gao and Bakuto was entirely inconsequential because Gao got away unscathed and Bakuto can resurrect himself. The finale also implied that his leaving his post as the Gate Guardian led to a Hand invasion and the disappearance of K'un-Lun. That being said, he's able to enjoy some success come The Defenders when most of the Hand is destroyed, although that doesn't explain what happened to K'un-Lun.
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Failure Hero / int_770a7f90	comment	Taven in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon is sent on a quest to halt the titular event that will destroy all of existence. Not only does he find out that his brother went crazy with power and murdered their parents with Taven unable to do a thing to prevent it, his quest turns into a failure since the elemental being he was supposed to defeat in order to gain godhood and stave off Armageddon turned out to have been long tainted and the canon victor of that game turned out to be Shao Kahn. That ended up leading to the whole timeline being rebooted.
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Failure Hero / int_77dd9e4a	comment	Princess Hime/Cure Princess of HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! is this, especially at the beginning. Her first appearance has her being knocked into a transition transformed stage by a Monster of the Week, who ends up being destroyed by another Cure, who promptly lays her ass out for being The Load. Three episodes later, she's still this as the Rookie Pretty Cure Megumi/Cure Lovely is racking up some pretty impressive kills while Hime's on her back. It seems that Chypre was a little premature in "Weakest Pretty Cure in History" calling.
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Failure Hero / int_78506e75	comment	On paper, Daffney's All-Star Squad seemed capable of reigning in the heels running roughshod over SHINE by the twelfth show. In practice, the three core members often act without Kimberly and Amazing Kong, leaving them outmatched and or outnumbered by the heel stables, who aren't above teaming up against them. Their luck hasn't been much better in SHIMMER, where Daffney was lucky to simply escape Sweet Saraya's pseudo faction.
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Failure Hero / int_79328e7	comment	Wacky Races' Dick Dastardly, despite being as lukewarm a Villain Protagonist as you can possibly get, definitely falls into this trope. Even in the rare instances he conquers his obsession to cheat, he still manages to become a Boring Failure Hero.
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Failure Hero / int_7ae78fc7	comment	Whenever Koyomi Araragi of Bakemonogatari attempts to solve a problem with his fists, expect him to lose, and pretty badly as well. While he is often helpful, he rarely resolves the problems of the girls he attempts to help out, and sometimes his Chronic Hero Syndrome decisions exacerbate the problem, as seen in the case of Nadeko Sengoku. This is mainly because he doesn't want to be heroic at all; what he really wants is to make a Heroic Sacrifice, so he is subject to many problematic moments over the story.
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Failure Hero / int_7db93b65	comment	In a variant of this trope, Out of this World by Lawrence Watt-Evans is a rather vicious Deconstruction of both High Fantasy and the Flash Gordon style of sci-fi, so the hero fails because he's just an ordinary person in the real world and the stuff he's trying to do is only possible by the Theory of Narrative Causality. (At times the book swings towards Deus Angst Machina, particularly when the villains rape and murder his wife and his daughter.)
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Failure Hero / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen (2013): Not only does Elsa accidentally freeze Arendelle over, but she also ends up accidentally turning her sister into a solid block of ice despite everything she did to avoid it. She nearly wins her fight against the Duke of Weselton's soldiers, but at the last minute, Hans stops her.
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Failure Hero / int_7ec0ae8d	comment	This is the fate of Troy from Struggling. He seems to be making decent headway in the game but ends up in a Mushroom Samba situation, allowing him to be recaptured by the scientists he escaped from and put right back to square one by the end of the game. Not only that, but the gods he helped along the way were captured as well, making his whole journey a "Shaggy Dog" Story.
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Failure Hero / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	The Deputy in Far Cry 5: despite undoing most of Josephâ€™s plans and schemes, none of the endings see them actually defeat him. Even worse, in the canonical ending, Joseph brainwashes them — the results of which can be seen in Far Cry: New Dawn as the Judge.
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Failure Hero / int_80e85df4	comment	The newspaper comic version of Spider-Man has always been this. He's utterly incompetent and completely ineffective. It's not at all unusual to have a street thug get the drop on him and knock him out with a piece of debris they found nearby — despite the fact that his Spider-Sense should make this virtually impossible. He's often shown more likely to just sit around and watch TV and many of his storylines have been resolved despite Spider-Man's involvement.
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Failure Hero / int_893a8106	comment	Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons: Nothing ever goes right for Iron Woobie Blackjack: everyone in the Equestian Wasteland she helps or saves winds up mutilated, raped, or killed anyway, every wrong she rights turns out to be a mistake, and to top it off she's painfully aware of her inadequacies and despises herself for them.
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Failure Hero / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Exaggerated by Admiral William Stenz. Both times he turns up to try and contain a Titan situation, the military's recourse goes completely awry and ends up aiding the truly-hostile Titans' world-ending goals. The most that Stenz can do right is to help to clean up the catastrophic mess that the military have made, and even that consists of standing by and doing nothing (in the 2014 film), or creating a ginormous decoy on Godzilla's behalf (in King of the Monsters). And even in the latter case, the film's novelization states that Stenz and the military fleet's assault meant to distract King Ghidorah was decimated much quicker and more spectacularly than Stenz or anyone else involved in the operation's planning had been expecting. Aaron Brooks in the Kong: Skull Island sequel graphic novel Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. From the moment he leads his team to touch down on Skull Island, things go totally south for them. He can't save any of them from being killed one by one until he's the expedition's Sole Survivor. He really does try to save the Iwi from the Mother Longlegs, but his firearms don't make much if any difference and it's only Kong's intervention that saves the day.
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Failure Hero / int_8beaa94b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory: Kou Uraki only manages to fight his main antagonist to a draw two times, and ultimately fails to avert the Colony Drop at the end. Then again, can't derail what comes after it, can we?
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Failure Hero / int_8c264362	comment	In Skyfall, Bond fails at every objective he has during the movie: he leaves the MI6 agent to die; loses the MI6 hard drive; allows an assassin to kill a politician; fails to get information from said assassin; fails to protect the mole; falls into Silva's trap; fails to stop Silva escaping; fails to stop several deaths in Parliament; loses Skyfall Manor; kills Silva instead of letting him rot in prison; and finally fails to protect M. The only positive thing that can be said is that he survives. In a sense this is exactly the way Ian Fleming first conceived of Bond.
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Failure Hero / int_8cb4a772	comment	In Ultraman Mebius, the Ultramen make it clear that they are there to protect the Earth, but really want to fight alongside humanity as equals. Mebius usually gets to kill the Monster of the Week at the end of the episode, but his allies in defense team GUYS often help to pull his butt out of the fire during the battle and are usually the ones to neutralize the monster's special abilities.
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Failure Hero / int_8d423328	comment	No matter who wins in Yogi's Space Race, something happens to make the prize undesirable. One wonders why the racers keep coming back.
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Failure Hero / int_8d8157e0	comment	Stanley H. Tweedle of Lexx. He's a cynical Dirty Coward whose every action seems destined to ultimately blow up in his face, and if not for Zev/Xev and Kai he probably would have ended up dead many times over. The best argument he can make to defend himself when the fate of his soul was on the line was that he tried, but even that is not enough to convince even himself he deserved to go to heaven.
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Failure Hero / int_9068877a	comment	In Red vs. Blue we get Tex who was created from the Director's memory of his dead girlfriend. Since said girlfriend died in battle, the memory and thus Tex herself have that failure deep-seated within them. As a result, despite being perhaps the most badass character in the entire series, she fails just about any mission that has actual importance no matter how hard she tries.
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Failure Hero / int_91bd02e2	comment	In Uncanny Avengers (2023) #2, Deadpool, in his iconic usual style, points out that mutantkind are practically walking examples of this trope when telling them why they shouldn't kick out Captain America as leader. He points out both variations of the Mutant Massacre and Inferno incidents where whenever the X-Men try to do something to save the day, things go down the crapper.
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Failure Hero / int_92a546c7	comment	Bubbles in Bubbles in Space is actually terrible at her job as a detecetive, screws up all of her relationships, and succeeds primarily by sheer accident. That and her enemies greatly overestimate her and overplay their hands. Any successes she has are on the Bittersweet Ending side of things and frequently just make more problems too.
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Failure Hero / int_94bfa327	comment	Season 2 of The Dreamstone flanderized Rufus and Amberley into Invincible Incompetent variations, making it apparent that most of their victories against the Urpneys in Season 1 were because the latter were too ineffectual to even put up a fight against two children. Just by slightly upping their game, the two Noops became useless or outright made the situation worse, always relying on their far more powerful comrades or dumb luck saving them after they screwed up. Season 3 had them gradually become competent again, though some episodes make it apparent they got an easy target.
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Failure Hero / int_99949d04	comment	Wakfu: Yugo never seems to able get a total victory over the arc villains. With Nox, Yugo actually DID beat him, at least after he successfully tapped into the power of the Eliacube, but before he could finish Nox off, he was distracted by Ogrest's roar (they had been teleported to Ogrest's mountain) and that gave Nox enough time to warp behind Yugo and finish HIM off. The only reason Yugo "won" was because Nox's plan would never have worked, and he only had enough Wakfu to travel back 20 minutes in time. With Qilby, Yugo puts up a rather good fight with his newly found powers courtesy of Phaeris and the support of the Eliatrope children, but it simply isn't enough. The only reason he wins is because Qilby's twin sister, still inside their Dofus, turns on Qilby and and separates him from the Eliacube while trying to dissuade him from his actions. While Qilby remains unrepentant, Yugo uses this opportunity to steal back the Eliacube and ultimately seal Qilby back into the White Dimension. With Ogrest, the opponent is simply too strong for even the combined power of Yugo (empowered by the six Eliatrope Dofus) and Sadlygrove (awakened as the god Iop), especially after he summons the six dragons connected to his Primordial Dofus. They only win the day because Otomai, Ogrest's creator/father, manages to remove the six Primordial Dofus within Ogrest's stomach and convince him to let go of his anger. With Oropo, he remains completely outmatched despite absorbing power from the Eliacube and the six Eliatrope Dofus which Oropo claims is due to how he knows all of Yugo's moves and abilities, but with centuries of retained experience to hone them, alongside having all the wakfu of the Eliotrope race on top of having the power of the Eliacube and six Eliatrope Dofus himself, and barely manages to stall him for a few moments. In the end, it's Lady Echo who finds a solution. Although it should be taken into account that Yugo is still a child by the standards of his own biology and still put up a huge fight before going down. Thereâ€™s also the fact that every villain had the Eliacube in their possession, which give them an even bigger boost in power that theyâ€™ve already had over Yugo. It's very likely that his enemies are only winning because he's trying to punch WAY above his current weight class. If Adamai's abilities in season 3 are any indicator, by the time Yugo reaches biological adulthood, he'll possess something close to Superman levels of power. In that case, odds are no one short of Ogrest or a fully-powered Oropo would have been able to lay a finger on him before he stomped them into the ground.
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Failure Hero / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks: Huey was this in "The Passion of Reverend Ruckus" and "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman". The reason? Cause he couldn't get a ride. Riley in "Shinin" because he couldn't get his chain back from Butch Magnus. All of his plans to get the chain back failed and when he had help from Flonominal, Butch overpowered him too. He did get the chain back, but only because it was worthless and Butch couldn't get any money off it.
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Failure Hero / int_9ab42577	comment	Leonard in White Knight Chronicles, the actual main character of the duology. Despite possessing the power to transform into an indestructible 20-foot tall walking tank whenever he feels like it, he frequently fails to achieve his goals or take any action that isn't a direct response to the words or actions of another character. Although he succeeds at rescuing Princess Cisna, ending the civil war in Faria, helping Caesar end the plague in Greede, and repelling a few invasions from The Empire, he fails to save Lena, he only succeeds at saving the princess after multiple failed attempts (including one where she was successfully rescued, only to be re-kidnapped five minutes later), fails to notice that every time his friend Kara disappears the evil Black Knight shows up (though to be fair, only Eldore ever noticed this, out of everyone in the party), obtains two different special mythical knight-slaying swords but fails to ever actually use either of them for any knight-slaying.... Yeah, it's safe to say Leo probably has more fails than wins to his name. But the worst comes in the latter half of the second game. Long, spoiler-filled explanation Leonard winds up falling into a coma, theorized by the characters to be from overuse of the White Knight, and Caesar temporarily leaves the party to Hold the Line against the invading Empire, leading to a hellish stretch of gameplay where the player has access to no knights(and one character who obtains a knight during this segment immediately leaves the party to join Ceaser in holding off the invasion) and is stuck using characters they may or may not have ever bothered with before. Although this section culminates in Leonard waking up, obtaining the second of the two aforementioned special mythical swords, and pulling a Big Damn Heroes, his body is still in poor condition from his coma and he's ordered to stay on the sidelines and refrain from using his knight anymore for fear of worsening his condition. He later decides to ignore this order and joins the counter-invasion of the Empire's headquarters to help his friends, and although the story tries to paint this as Leonard's grand return, he drops from the sky into a boss battle already in progress, having gained not a single point of EXP during his long absence, and forces himself into the active party, turning what was a rough but managable battle into a desperate struggle to survive. Worse, he attracts the attention of the Black Knight during his descent and drags him into the battle, turning the formerly 3-on-1 fight against the Empire's pet Kaiju into a Dual Boss. Even if the player had the foresight to prepare Leonard for this fight well in advance, it'll still be rough. But that's not the end of it. Leonard's final moment of failure comes in the climax, where he leads the party's heroic knights into battle against the Empire's evil knights, despite having been told well beforehand that having all five knights in one place has been prophesized to cause The End of the World as We Know It. (Though, everyone knew about the prophecy and no one objected to the notion of using all of their knights against all of the bad guys' knights, so this was kind of a fail for everyone involved.) Sure enough, the Greater-Scope Villain shows up, hijacks Leonard's body, steals the power of the five knights, unceremoniously offs the Big Bad and The Dragon, and transforms into a corrupted version of the White Knight to engage the once-again-knightless (unless the player did a sidequest to get a plot-unrelated knight for their plot-unrelated avatar character) party as the Final Boss. The villain is destroyed and Leonard is saved, but he is once again unconcious and has to be carried out of the Collapsing Lair by his friends. The end credits scenes show him him having woken up again, having a Maybe Ever After with Cisna, and returning the White Knight's ark to where he originally found it, but the sad look on his face during the latter scene suggests that he's aware of how badly he screwed up the whole "hero" thing.
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Failure Hero / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Macross Delta: The Chaos mercenary group has done nothing but lose in some way. None of their long-term strategies work against the Windemere Kingdom and more than once they are forced on the defensive or just run away. All the heroes tend to get is motivation to do better next time... and they're lucky to even achieve that! It does make their victory at the end of the series a lot more cathartic, though.
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Failure Hero / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has Brienne of Tarth, no matter what her task is she either fails or circumstances make things impossible for her to fulfill them. She was tasked with protecting Renly, but he was killed by a shadow assassin that she couldn't stop . She was then tasked with exchanging Jaime Lannister for Sansa Stark on behalf of Catelyn Stark. But Jaime loses his sword hand, and the Starks are all killed. Now she has to find Arya Stark and keep her safe, but Arya has now left Westeros for Braavos, and things go downhill for her when she meets Lady Stoneheart AKA the resurrected Catelyn Stark.
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Failure Hero / int_9d7b457e	comment	Fantasy Powers League The War of Drekis: Everyone not affiliated with the Drekis Legion basically gets hit hard with this trope. Sentinels, Marauders and Fallen alike, even with a three-way Enemy Mine alliance going on, fail to impede the advancement of the Drekis Legions' goals in any meaningful ways.
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Failure Hero / int_a0217367	comment	Dominoes (Case Closed): has a few examples, but as Yuusaku isn't a perspective character and his goals are still ambiguous, Hakuba ends up the most obvious. Despite being a lauded Teen Genius, detective, and superhero, Hakuba fails even at things he should be good at throughout the first and currently sole story arc. By the arc's climax Hakuba's failed to even perceive the majority of the arc's criminal case until someone else explains it to him in the last chapter; failed to impede the arc's secondary villain from freely doing what he wants; failed to have any impact on the primary villains, who instigate the climactic Black Hole Crisis; failed to manage/control Shinichi, someone under his covert protective custody; failed to actually protect Shinichi; failed to protect the kidnapped children like he promised Shinichi; failed to have a meaningful impact in the protection of Tokyo during the Black Hole Crisis; and didn't even manage to obtain either nullifying agent (neither greater nor lesser), which he compromised several of his above goals for. About the only "successes" Hakuba leads his team to achieving are the death of the fireball "monster" in chapter 1 and assisting in the slew of minor incidents during the early gravity anomalies of the Black Hole Crisis, and even those are tinged with personal failure in hindsight.
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Failure Hero / int_a1b9a8bb	comment	Spider-Man: Homecoming: Peter Parker/Spider-Man spends most of the movie trying and failing to prove himself as a hero, getting in over his head with villains beyond his abilities and creating more problems than he solves. He nearly gets all of his friends killed by mishandling a dangerous Chitauri weapon in Washington, and causes the destruction of the Staten Island ferry by trying to handle Vulture on his own, after which he is rescued and harshly reprimanded by Iron Man. Even in the climax, he loses his Final Battle with the Vulture, and only proves his worth by saving the latter's life after his suit malfunctions and nearly kills him.
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Failure Hero / int_a281512d	comment	Jon/Skeleton Man from Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose is this in spades. Besides the fact that he's in a world full of dragons, witches, The Fair Folk and worse, his ineptitude is legendary. The most notorious example is probably when he's forced to stop pursuing a cadre of homicidal ghosts because they refuse to tell him the address of their next victim. His only consistent victories are over grave robbers and vandals (which are surprisingly common in Salem). Tarot has shades of this. Over the course of the series, her effectiveness in battle is heavily degraded to the point where she can be stripped naked in a duel with her Evil Counterpart, a random fish minion in her own home, and animated snowmen. She'd have died several issues ago if not for the fact that her opponents need her for something, taunt her, or are Too Dumb to Live.
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Failure Hero / int_a3bebc95	comment	Saya Kisaragi of Blood-C takes Failure Hero to a whole new level. She has an innate talent for killing the Monster of the Week... after said monster has managed to viciously slaughter everyone she was intended to protect. She does manage to save a girl from the Eyeball Elder Bairn in the park but scares her to death when she tries to help her while covered in blood. Considering the ultimate fate of the town, however, this probably didn't amount to much. She does become perfectly competent in the movie. Her incompetence from the TV series is brought by Fumito having drugged her to hinder her abilities.
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Failure Hero / int_a3d4d27	comment	Of the three heroes of Pathologic, the Bachelor, Daniil Dankovsky, comes off the worst. A wealthy thanatologist from the Capital who is harried by his political enemies, Daniil is placed in charge of the outbreak by The-Powers-That-Be, while a second letter from his home lab shows that they are planning to destroy it. His every attempt to solve the outbreak is opposed, even by his own allies. His attempts at quarantine are sidestepped, local taboo prevents him from gaining a sample of the disease, and the disease itself is truly undefeatable... by him. His fellow healers, the Haruspex and the Changeling, are each able to come up with a solution to the plague that doesn't involve reducing the town to ruins, although neither is perfect.
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Failure Hero / int_a4420d22	comment	The main theme of The Venture Bros., where all the characters are failures, both heroes and villains. It really says something when even the most badass character on the show, Brock Sampson, is a failure. Brock was a promising college football player who had to quit school because he accidentally killed a man on the field. Then he goes off to OSI, where he gets paired with a guy tagged as a crazy conspiracy theorist by the department. Despite being as awesome as he is, he gets assigned guard/babysitter duty to Dr. Venture, a washed-up, sociopathic Omnidisciplinary Scientist, and his Cloudcuckoolander kids. He's viewed as just about as much a waste of great potential in his field as Dr. Venture in his own. On top of everything, he can get any woman on the planet, except the one woman he actually loves. Much like Brock, Dr. Orpheus initially seems like anything but this trope, being genuinely a highly skilled sorcerer with a multitude of arcane powers. However, it eventually gets pointed out that he's had to spend his whole life studying to acquire his mystic abilities, neglecting every other aspect of his life, and with them he's ultimately accomplished... absolutely nothing.
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Failure Hero / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross's Serge unfortunately became this trope after his third Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. There's a reason that why that trope was named after him in The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game ClichÃ©s.
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Failure Hero / int_a68c19b8	comment	Sigurd of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War ends up making the situation worse wherever he goes. Although he's a strong, kind, and justice-minded Lord who starts almost as a Crutch Character, his first solution to every problem is to apply military force. His attempt to rescue an abducted friend spirals into conquering a neighboring country, which his increasingly-imperialistic homeland greedily snaps up. Then he does it again, and this time the friend he's trying to save dies, no matter what choice is made. He and his Love Interest ignore prognostications of doom; she gets kidnapped and they come true. He tries to get Silesse's rightful king on the throne, but the nation ends up subjugated a few years later anyway (and the king becomes despised by his own people). Sigurd only realizes he's been a useful idiot for his nation's imperial ambitions after he's outlived his usefulness and is declared a traitor—and when he returns in an effort to clear his name, he ends up dead. The only thing he does that turns out well is have a son who can go on to fix all the problems he caused.
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Failure Hero / int_a6a7f785	comment	The first season of Hell Girl tries to shake up its formula of every Victim of the Week using the Hell Correspondence to damn both their tormentor and themselves to hell by introducing Hajime, a tabloid reporter who discovers the Hell Correspondence and starts trying to prevent people from using it. Except that nothing really changes, because he fails every single time. The only person that he manages to stop from using it is his own daughter.
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Failure Hero / int_aba7ffb9	comment	Rean Schwarzer in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel probably beats almost everyone in this list where he ends up losing in his games three times despite being the protagonist of the series for four of them. From the first game alone, he doesn't stop the leader of the terrorist group from assassinating the chancellor and occupy his school because it turns out that said leader is one of his dear classmates who has a Humongous Mecha of his own (Rean does have one as well at this point) but is clearly trounced by his years of experience compared to Rean's day one inside the Divine Knight. Then in Cold Steel II, he fails to bring Crow back to the academy because Crow, who was the leader of the terrorists in the first game, sacrifices his life to save the crown prince who is being used as a battery for an Eldritch Abomination. Oh and the chancellor that Crow tried assassinating faked his death throughout the Civil War so he ends up on top despite not showing up for most of the game. And finally in Cold Steel III, he fails to stop putting the giant turtle back to sleep as he was overpowered by it and his sword is useless against the might of a beast sent by the goddess to guard her treasures which forces his friend, a young girl, to sacrifice her life to become the Sword of Plot Advancement for him. He then gives in to his Superpowered Evil Side and kills the beast instead of putting it to sleep, causing the Erebonia country and maybe its neighboring countries to be affected by the curse that was kept at bay by the beast. In the fourth game he succeeds in destroying the curse, allowing others to stop the war, but in one of the two possible endings he has to commit suicide to do it, and in both endings he was only able to pull it off because Chancellor Osborne was deliberately trying to lose, as he had ended up positions where he could have crushed Rean's faction at multiple earlier points and chose to let them go so that Rean could end up in a position to stop him.
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Failure Hero / int_b2ac2311	comment	The first full-length movie with the Peanuts gang, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, specifically revolves around Charlie Brown's role as an eternal failure, demonstrating that even when he wins, he ultimately loses.
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Failure Hero / int_b2fba3e0	comment	It's often conceived that in the Ultra Series this is effectively the lot of the defense team in any given series — to spend the first twenty minutes of every episode throwing everything they've got at the Monster of the Week to absolutely no effect until Ultraman shows up and saves the day in the last five minutes. How true this is varies from series to series, as defense teams can range from utterly incompetent (such as ZAT from Ultraman Taro) to being a Badass Crew (like the Night Raiders from Ultraman Nexus). This was lampshaded in one of the last episodes of the original Ultraman, in which Ide feels Science Patrol is useless because Ultraman is always the one who saves the day in the end. It leads him to not trying at all during the episode's monster climax and just deciding to wait until Ultraman arrives to kill the kaiju (which results in the pointless death of one of their allies). Earlier in the episode, Hayata (Ultraman's human host) had stated that Ultraman only appears if nothing else can be done and that there were many times that Science Patrol were critical in helping Ultraman save the day. In Ultraman Mebius, the Ultramen make it clear that they are there to protect the Earth, but really want to fight alongside humanity as equals. Mebius usually gets to kill the Monster of the Week at the end of the episode, but his allies in defense team GUYS often help to pull his butt out of the fire during the battle and are usually the ones to neutralize the monster's special abilities.
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Failure Hero / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: How the Lannisters see Jaime after he returns; King Joffrey and Cersei both note that they survived a siege without him and the war was won without him playing a major role and he for his part, sat out of it as a captive and returned as a cripple. This is amplified furthermore when Joffrey gets poisoned at his own wedding in full view of everyone, with Jaime unable to do anything but watch. It's worse in the TV show because his book counterpart wasn't even present at King's Landing at the time. And then his actions directly lead to Tywin's death. Harshly, but accurately summed up by Cersei: Jon Snow increasingly sees himself as this as the story goes on. Every battle he leads is a complete disaster where he gets saved at the last minute by something he didn't know about, but then he gets credit for the victory anyway. The result is that he keeps failing upwards through a series of ever more disastrous "victories". His arc in the last two seasons consists mainly of trying to get rid of all the power he keeps accumulating since in his own view he's not in any way qualified to lead.
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Failure Hero / int_b3b76008	comment	Land of the Lustrous: Phosphophyllite is a relatively weak gem that wants to fight on the front lines with their fellow Lustrous. Despite Phos' attempts to be of use, they near almost always fail in the tasks they are assigned. Even with the augmentations they get later on to strengthen their body (legs at first, then arms, eye, and head), Phos is never strong enough to save the one person that needs help most; every mentor Phos has learned under was taken to the Moon under their watch, and they're gradually losing their original self despite their protests to the contrary.
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Failure Hero / int_b4994ed3	comment	One of the back-up strips in Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham featured a scathing parody of Alpha Flight called Awful Flight. The heroes were depicted as incompetent and useless in the story, being distracted from solving Canada's acid rain crisis because they find an American dollar bill and use it to buy root beer, the ending narration snarkily implying that they'll never get around to solving the acid rain problem.
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Failure Hero / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium is themed around the idea of failure. Your player character is a Defective Detective with Impossibly Tacky Clothes and a life-ruining alcohol addiction who is usually funny (and sometimes heartbreaking) to watch screw up, and the game's system gives you the ability to fail at most tasks and yet continue finishing the plot. (The tagline of the game is 'Become any kind of detective you want — even a bad one!'). However, a lot of your character's failures end up being happy accidents that turn out better than the successes would have done; in a way, the game plays with this trope by making the player character's failure-themed nature allow him to grow and succeed in ways more typically competent cops never would.
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Failure Hero / int_bb5be2d4	comment	Montel Vontavious Porter went through a similar situation during a heel run, losing every match he had for a very long period of time (albeit for different reasons ranging from legitimate failures to outside interference and flukes). Story actually implied he was becoming bankrupt as a result of this, leading him to gradually gain audience sympathy and eventually get cheered with great enthusiasm as he finally started to gain wins as a face.
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Failure Hero / int_bd0c7dd4	comment	Statless and Tactless: Kyle is styled like an archetypal pulp-era adventure hero, very much the group's most obvious good guy. He's also spread so thin on skill points that he's pretty much incapable of succeeding in any task he attempts.
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Failure Hero / int_bd310eaa	comment	A minor case that the character eventually grew out of: Susan in El Goonish Shive was a resounding failure at accomplishing anything she set out to do for most of her first few arcs. To name one, her attempt to get the school to rescind its dress code fell flat on its face, with the code only being lifted because parents complained about the extra laundry loads it would cause. To name another, her "Feminist Club" at school consists of exactly two members, her and Catalina... and Catalina's only there because she has a crush on Susan.
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Failure Hero / int_bd67c74c	comment	This is enforced for PCs in CthulhuTech. Published adventures advise the GM to never let the players win because this would clash with the Cosmic Horror Story mood the game wants to create.
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Failure Hero / int_bf5bceaf	comment	Huff in Stone Cold. All his plans to stop the Brotherhood with proper police procedures fail, and while he shoots all the bad guys by the end, their big plan succeeded.
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Failure Hero / int_bf68d849	comment	Eyes Without a Face(My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): The main character Rose attempts to right her wrongs after her meeting with Twilight Sparkle. Unfortunately for her, her earlier mistakes sneak up on her: the other ponies she's hurt are out for her blood, she's gained the attention of the mob and the police...
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Failure Hero / int_c41c3b5b	comment	Invincible: Closer inspection of his actions and their consequences in the story reveal Invincible to be this. He often makes reckless decisions and ends up paying for them later, costing the lives of millions of innocent people and making himself more disliked than he already was. Examples include his interference with Levy Angstrom's experiment which turned the man to supervillainy and eventual genocide via alternate reality Invincible clones, blindly making deals with Cecil Stedman, rescuing Dinosaurus in attempt to use his evil intellect for good which caused millions to drown from melted ice caps after it didn't work it, frequently changing his kill and no-kill stances, and eventually deciding to not even try to stop his hero-turned-tyrant comrade Robot from taking over the Earth. Even when he tries to leave Earth for a quiet life with his family, his bad decisions once again catch up with him when Thragg tries to have him and his family killed. Ultimately, however, he averts this once he becomes Older and Wiser, as new Emperor of the Viltrumite Empire.
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Failure Hero / int_c4282b71	comment	Poor Shining Armor from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Since Militaries Are Useless and The Worf Effect are constantly in play so Twilight Sparkle and her friends can save the day via The Power of Friendship, every conflict ever where he attempts to fight ends with him swiftly and effortlessly defeated. It doesn't help either that his two strengths, creating shields and leading, are soundly outdone by his wife and sister, leaving him no real area to shine with his expertise. Similarly, his wife Princess Cadance spends most of her time as a Damsel in Distress defeated by whatever threat appears and needing to be saved by Twilight. In fact, across eight seasons the closest the two of them ever get to genuine victory are situations where they combine their talents. In the final battle, Twilight Sparkle effectively tells them to stay home so she and the other heroes can deal with it instead.
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Failure Hero / int_c4cdc0b4	comment	In Epiphany City, Lily initially fails at everything she tries to do, mainly due to circumstances beyond her control. The prophecy lampshades this, calling her a failure but also a diamond in the rough.
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Failure Hero / int_c6b738c4	comment	Ring of Honor had a case where a number of factors combined to create a team of Failure Heroes. Early in 2007, longtime Tag Team partners Austin Aries and Roderick Strong split, with Strong forming the No Remorse Corps alongside hot new talents Davey Richards and Rocky Romero. Aries, the Face in this feud, teamed up with the less established wrestlers Matt Cross and Erick Stevens. Unfortunately, Aries was soon forced to leave ROH for a few months due to contract obligations with TNA — leaving Cross and Stevens woefully outmatched by the No Remorse Corps. Wrestling logic dictated that the NRC get the early advantage in the feud, but without Aries around, Cross & Stevens had no credibility to begin with. By the time Aries returned, Cross and Stevens had already lost to the NRC so many times that nobody could get excited about their comeback.
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Failure Hero / int_c9f2ddbb	comment	When the bird apocalypse happens again in Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, Bill gathers together his survivor friends and decides that he needs to rescue as many people as possible, before demonstrating that he's absolutely horrible at it and should've just holed up somewhere. Despite traveling around to numerous locations, his group only manages to save one person, who just dies later (hell, at one point he goes into a silent film theater to see the audience under attack by birds...and then just leaves without even trying to save anyone.) Near the end of the movie, his group finally reaches a zoo that the birds aren't attacking (apparently because the zookeeper understands that they're attacking because of global warming...or something.) Rather than camp out and wait for things to die down, Bill ignores his complete failure of a track record and decides that he has to find more survivors, before leaving and getting two more of his group killed before the end of the movie (one of which dies within seconds of them leaving the zoo.)
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Failure Hero / int_ce42027c	comment	One of the sample comics in WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase features the titular "Failure Man", who attempts to stop an asteroid from crashing into Earth. It goes as well as you'd expect.
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Failure Hero / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Johnny Bravo's titular protagonist may as well be the paradigm of this trope. Despite being the Hunk, he is rebuffed by almost every woman he flirts with and instantly receives a smackdown from them. On top of that, he also fails at even the most mundane tasks and is even beaten up by people about half his size. The fact that he doesn't even get a happy ending in the series finale says a lot about his constant failures.
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Failure Hero / int_d25ddfc	comment	In The Black Cauldron, Taran so wants to be a Knight in Shining Armor, but at almost no point in the film does he successfully do anything useful with his own skills: He loses Hen Wen almost immediately after being entrusted with her; when held captive by the Horned King he only escapes with the help of Eilonwy and the magic sword; and he unwittingly brings the Black Cauldron into the Horned King's hands by getting it from the witches with whom it probably would've been completely secure (as well as giving away the potentially story breaking magic sword in the process). At the end of the film, Taran actually acknowledges that he's a failure as a warrior and forfeits his chance to become one in order to resurrect Gurgi.
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Failure Hero / int_d37193a6	comment	How the Light Gets In: This is Dean's assessment of Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow, feeling that they have a tendency to attract various supervillains to the city, but consistently fail to stop them before they launch a terrorist attack and get a lot of people killed. Hanna even goes on a rant about it (see Quotes page).
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Failure Hero / int_d3a377b2	comment	Big In USA in Pro Wrestling NOAH. Beloved by the crowds, consistently awarded by the promotion's staff, respected by most of their opponents but they keep finishing at the bottom of the annual Global Tag league.
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Failure Hero / int_d46cc708	comment	The protagonists of Ed, Edd n Eddy. Not only do Eddy and his crew fail at their attempts to scam kids, they also completely fail at legitimate ventures or even completely innocent goals like gaining a little respect from their friends. The constant teasing and harassing of their Jerkass neighbors only rubs salt into the wound. In the movie this is subverted. The other kids finally accept the Eds into their group after seasons of turmoil.
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Failure Hero / int_d4fe0152	comment	Oz: Beecher's efforts to do the right thing generally blow up in his face and make things worse. His attempt to comfort Hill after his mom dies just pushes him back into drugs, his advice to SaÃ¯d to embrace his rage leads him to a mental breakdown, and his efforts to bury the hatchet with Schillinger by reuniting him with his long-lost son results in a paranoid Schillinger having Beecher's young son killed. McManus's efforts to help the prisoners reform almost always fail, either due to Devlin's influence or his own pettiness.
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Failure Hero / int_d9c602eb	comment	One of the most notable examples in South Park was Wendy Testaburger in "The Hobbit". She first tried standing up for Lisa Berger after Butters called her fat and later tried to tell Butters the truth about Kim Kardashian using photoshop. Naturally, it makes things worse and the tables are turned on Wendy, who is unable to fight back against the issue. In the end after some convincing from Kanye West, she tearfully makes a photoshop photo of herself. Long story short, the photoshop trend got the best of her.
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Failure Hero / int_da25a6a8	comment	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Most of John Walker's attempts to be a hero end up failing spectacularly. He fails to stop the Flag-Smashers' theft of two 18-wheelers filled with supplies, failed to interrogate one of their associates (who spits on his face too), and both of his attempts to bring in Karli Morgenthau end up making things worse for everyone and got Lemar killed. He finally stops being one when he stops trying to be Captain America and starts being himself.
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Failure Hero / int_de48ce05	comment	Splendid from Happy Tree Friends. Without exception, he kills every single person that he tries to save. Lumpy is another example, though he at least has occasional bursts of competence.
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Failure Hero / int_e02d5288	comment	Invincible (2021): Compared to the original Guardians, Robot's New Team is a bit of a disaster from the get-go, with them barely tolerating each other to be a proper team. So far their track record hasn't been kind to them even when they "win." Episode 5 goes into this when Black Samson and Robot chew the team out for celebrating defeating the Lizard League, but ignoring the fact there were SIGNIFICANT civilian casualties in this fight, the two going into detail (with holographic reference) on the numerous ways they could have minimized civilian casualties. It's telling that neither Cecil nor Omni-Man have much faith in the team. The team sort of gets their act together when coming to Invincible and Titan's rescue, eventually defeating Machine Head's hired supervillains. However, they do end up being severally brutalized in the fight, with Monster Girl and Black Samson being maimed and in critical condition. However, despite this being a victory, in the grand scheme of things this makes the team appear even more incompetent, as they almost died to what was (in essence) a "street-level" threat, and only survived because the most dangerous member of Machine Head's thugs simply got bored and left, and the Guardians are literally supposed to be the first and last defense against world ending threats.
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Failure Hero / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: Both Nagisa and Honoka were reduced to this during the last stretch of the first half Futari wa Pretty Cure with the introduction of Illkubo. From here on, every episode consisted of the girls getting stomped by him who ended taking back all the Prism Stones, effectively undoing everything the duo of Magical Girls did during the entire season. Luckily, once Illkubo was killed by the Dark King, things quickly improved for them. Princess Hime/Cure Princess of HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! is this, especially at the beginning. Her first appearance has her being knocked into a transition transformed stage by a Monster of the Week, who ends up being destroyed by another Cure, who promptly lays her ass out for being The Load. Three episodes later, she's still this as the Rookie Pretty Cure Megumi/Cure Lovely is racking up some pretty impressive kills while Hime's on her back. It seems that Chypre was a little premature in "Weakest Pretty Cure in History" calling.
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Failure Hero / int_e3ed54c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Pretty Cure	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e3ed54c7
Failure Hero / int_e4ac23f3	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_e4ac23f3	comment	Wallander seems to be this, especially in the Kenneth Branagh version. He's basically a Swedish Shinji Ikari. The moment something goes right for him in his personal or professional life, it is certain to ultimately end in tears. Usually Wallander's, who cries in literally five out of six episodes of the six-episode series. Because he fails. All the time.
Failure Hero / int_e4ac23f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_e4ac23f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Wallander	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e4ac23f3
Failure Hero / int_e5c6748d	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges in spades; no matter what kind of situation you place them in, they will always find a way to completely botch up the given task in their own indomitable style. Nobody can fail as epically as they can.
Failure Hero / int_e5c6748d	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_e5c6748d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Three Stooges	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e5c6748d
Failure Hero / int_e89eba75	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_e89eba75	comment	In Inferno (1980), the main character Mark does absolutely nothing that contributes to the villain's death. The villain dies in a fire that she unintentionally set through one of her murders. All that Mark does is explore the building and escape it while it's burning down.
Failure Hero / int_e89eba75	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_e89eba75	featureConfidence	1.0
Inferno (1980)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e89eba75
Failure Hero / int_e92b62ba	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_e92b62ba	comment	The titular protagonist of Rat-Man. He rarely wins, most of his victories are ridiculous (he defeated the Mud Man by getting him to clean his shoes before entering) or are made meaningless by his own idiocy (an early story shows him inflicting a Curb-Stomp Battle on a gang that had kidnapped an orphan for ransom, only for him to pay the ransom. The gang's boss can't move due to the sheer idiocy of what has just happened), the few that aren't end up getting him worse than before, and when he finally has defeated both The Shadow and the Greater-Scope Villain Mr. Mouse, the Sequel Hook reveals that he's about to become the new host of the Shadow.
Failure Hero / int_e92b62ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_e92b62ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Rat-Man (1989) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e92b62ba
Failure Hero / int_e9ec19e1	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Walker from Spec Ops: The Line. His attempts to be a hero, save Dubai and thwart Konrad all end in failure, and despite his protests to the contrary it's 100% his own fault (and yours.) By the end, he's accidentally killed Dubai citizens with white phosphorus mortars, destroyed Dubai's only source of water, dooming the surviving inhabitants to die in the harsh desert sandstorm, gotten his squadmates killed, and in the end Konrad was Dead All Along and the voice in the radio taunting him for most of the game was in his own head. Konrad himself turns out to be one as well. He defies his orders in order to help the people of Dubai, and after six months of draconian military occupation he realizes that his efforts only made the situation worse and and takes his own life.
Failure Hero / int_e9ec19e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_e9ec19e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_e9ec19e1
Failure Hero / int_ea505892	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_ea505892	comment	Osamu from World Trigger is what happens when you take a regular, normal character and put him in a superpower infested hellhole. Quite practically everyone is stronger than Osamu, even the girl he swore to protect, and he has to consistently be helped and saved during fights. This very barely get better through the series, as Osamu's power progression is painfully slow, taking several dozen episodes to be able to beat even the weakest of his enemies. The saving grace he has is that he's willing to work hard...But that can only take you so far.
Failure Hero / int_ea505892	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_ea505892	featureConfidence	1.0
World Trigger (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_ea505892
Failure Hero / int_ec2a1c9e	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_ec2a1c9e	comment	The title character of 9. 9 first turns on a literal killing machine despite all evidence at the time saying his actions would be a bad idea. The machine kills 2, whom they were trying to rescue in the first place. Later, when 7 and 8 are kidnapped, he orchestrates a plan to both rescue them and destroy the machine. 8 ends up dead while the machine still works, which proceeds to kill 5 and 6. He comes up with yet another plan which involves sacrificing himself. But this changes when 1 shoves him out of the way and gets the ax instead. Despite that, he did finally achieve success when he used the talisman to defeat the machine.
Failure Hero / int_ec2a1c9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_ec2a1c9e	featureConfidence	1.0
9	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_ec2a1c9e
Failure Hero / int_f02ba81a	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_f02ba81a	comment	Both Professor Anbronsius and his assistant Alfred from The Fearless Vampire Killers are so terrible at their jobs of vampire hunting, they fail in killing a single vampire, but they end up spreading vampirism to the rest of the world by bringing a vampirized Sarah along with them.
Failure Hero / int_f02ba81a	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_f02ba81a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fearless Vampire Killers	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_f02ba81a
Failure Hero / int_f4559fd1	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_f4559fd1	comment	Kinnikuman in his early appearances was so pathetic that monsters wouldn't even bother attacking Tokyo if he was the only hero they'd get to fight. Fortunately for him, things start improving for him in the first Choujin Olympics arc.
Failure Hero / int_f4559fd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_f4559fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Kinnikuman (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_f4559fd1
Failure Hero / int_f47d7226	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_f47d7226	comment	Re:CREATORS: Despite their intelligence and familiarity with stories, the Creators and the good-aligned Creations constantly come up short in everything they do and when they do succeed at something, it's often at a great sacrifice. Mamika, Aliceteria and Sirius all fail to kill Altair, Selesia only stops Charon at the cost of her life and the whole Elimination Chamber Festival ends up being hijacked by Altair to increase her power. The only reason the series even has a happy ending is because the Creators bring Altair's Creator, Setsuna, Back from the Dead, which convinces Altair to give up her plan to destroy the world and instead go with Setsuna into another dimension where they can be together for all eternity.
Failure Hero / int_f47d7226	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_f47d7226	featureConfidence	1.0
Re:CREATORS	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_f47d7226
Failure Hero / int_f554e011	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_f554e011	comment	In Katawa Shoujo, in Hanako's route, Hisao's attempts to help Hanako consistently make her psychological problems worse, a fact truly driven home after playing Lilly's path, where Hanako's complexes are much less severe and she opens up to Hisao a lot more. Ultimately, both Hisao and Hanako come out of it as stronger people, but it's one hell of an Earn Your Happy Ending. Notably, the player has to realize this is the case and that trying any harder is little more than white-knighting or the path runs straight into a bad ending.
Failure Hero / int_f554e011	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_f554e011	featureConfidence	1.0
Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_f554e011
Failure Hero / int_fa201eba	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_fa201eba	comment	Mike Dawson in Dark Seed II. While he was competent and knew what he was doing in the first game (even if it was only because the player used a walkthrough), in the sequel he seems to struggle with things that shouldn't really be too problematic and gets himself into situations that could be easily avoided. His attempt to stop the Dark World invasion, something he achieved handily in the first game, is implied to be badly botched. The ending is left ambiguous, but it doesn't end well for him, either way.
Failure Hero / int_fa201eba	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_fa201eba	featureConfidence	1.0
Dark Seed II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_fa201eba
Failure Hero / int_fa97a266	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_fa97a266	comment	Frank Thomas in Death Machines is not exactly Charles Bronson. His whole sub-plot revolves around him angsting about being the Sole Survivor of his dojo's massacre, even getting his ass kicked by a random drunkard in a Bar Brawl, then seeing the Death Machines driving by and following them to Madame Lee's house, where Madame Lee almost kills him before Lt. Forrester, the cop investigating the massacre, saves him. And the Death Machines get away scot-free.
Failure Hero / int_fa97a266	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_fa97a266	featureConfidence	1.0
Death Machines	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_fa97a266
Failure Hero / int_fcbc9066	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_fcbc9066	comment	The titular character of Captain Alcohol fights several villains and only defeats one of them. In fact when he attempted to save a Damsel in Distress, he had to be saved by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Failure Hero / int_fcbc9066	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_fcbc9066	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Alcohol (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_fcbc9066
Failure Hero / int_ffb43795	type	Failure Hero
Failure Hero / int_ffb43795	comment	Cobra Kai: Johnny Lawrence's personal life is a mess and over the course of the first four seasons he fails in almost every objective he has. Although he coaches Miguel to victory in the first season's All Valley tournament, this is a Pyrrhic Victory as it comes at the cost of turning Cobra Kai into the exact kind of Thug Dojo they were in the original films. In Season 2, he lets his rivalry with Daniel get completely out of control, which leads to Miguel being hospitalised and Kreese stealing his dojo. In Season 3, he does succeed in helping Miguel overcome his paralysis, but his relationship with Robby deteriorates to the point that he ends up making a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and joining Cobra Kai, and Johnny loses his climactic fight with Kreese and has to be rescued by Daniel. In Season 4, he fails to put aside his differences with Daniel until it's too late, gets the crap beaten out of him by Terry Silver, drives Miguel to run away from home, guides Eagle Fang to a distant third in the All Valley and fails to coach Sam to victory in the final against Tory. However, he does get a bone thrown his way when he manages to reconcile with Robby at last.
Failure Hero / int_ffb43795	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Hero / int_ffb43795	featureConfidence	1.0
Cobra Kai	hasFeature	Failure Hero / int_ffb43795

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Failure Hero	processingCategory2	Cynicism Tropes
Failure Hero	processingCategory2	Hero Tropes
Failure Hero	processingCategory2	Index Failure
Failure Hero	processingCategory2	Loser Archetype
Failure Hero	processingCategory2	Unexpected Reactions to This Index
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Blood-C: The Last Dark / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Bright: Samurai Soul / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Macross Delta / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Princess Tutu / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Cult of Carnage: Misery (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Dan Slott's Spider-Man (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Freedom Fighters (DC Comics) (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Invincible (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Runaways (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Spider-Ham (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Star Wars: Tag & Bink (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Superior Spider-Man (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Superior Spider-Man (2013) (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott) (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Killing Joke (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Maxx (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Ogre Gods (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Transformers (2019) (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Uncanny Avengers (2023) (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (Comic Book) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Man-Thing / Comicbook / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Black Cauldron / Disney / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
How the Light Gets In (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
A Devil Amongst Worms (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
A Second Chance (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Brave New World (Pokémon) (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Ennea Series (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
For His Own Sake (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Little Kitty on a Roof (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Mysteries Of The Heart (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Sailor Moon: Between the Lines (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Shattering Lies (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Silent Partner, Unfinished Business (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Snuggles the Symbiote (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Sunshine and Fire (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Alternity Paradox (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Unprecedented Catastrophe (Fanfic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
ABCs of Death 2 / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Batman and Robin (Serial) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Blow Out / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Boyz n the Hood / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Captain America (1990) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Code Name: Diamond Head / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Daredevil / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Daredevil (2003) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Deadpool: No Good Deed / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Final Justice / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Garuda Superhero / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Goldfinger / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Immortals / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Inferno (1980) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Legends of the Fall / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Lord of War / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Mystery Men / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Psycho II / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Skyfall / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Small Time Crooks / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Spider-Man: Homecoming / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Stone Cold / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Fearless Vampire Killers / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Great Locomotive Chase / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Lone Ranger (2013) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Magic Sword / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Utøya: July 22 / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
When Evil Lurks / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Chuggaaconroy (Lets Play) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Black Summoner / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Casino Royale / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Consider Phlebas / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Dark Lordâ€”The Rise of Darth Vader / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Half Upon a Time / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Here Lies Arthur / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Mordant's Need / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Ringing Bell / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Boys from Brazil / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Children of HÃºrin / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Elder Scrolls / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Great God's War / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The House With a Clock in Its Walls / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Kingkiller Chronicle / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Legend of Drizzt / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Neverwinter Saga / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Southern Reach Trilogy / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Wise Man's Fear / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Tide Lords / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Why Literature Is Bad for You / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
YouTube Poop / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Elden Ring: The Road To The Erdtree (Manga) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree (Manga) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Oishinbo (Manga) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Bates Motel / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Big Fat Quiz of the Year / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Eurovision Song Contest / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
I Spy / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Iron Fist (2017) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Legends of Tomorrow / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Narcos / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Knick / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Muppet Show / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Ultraman Mebius / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Worst Jobs In History / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Pokémon Live! (Theatre) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Puffs the Play (Theatre) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Tanz der Vampire (Theatre) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Crucible (Theatre) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Assassin's Creed: Unity (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Dead of the Brain (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Epiphany City (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Haze (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Metal Wolf Chaos (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Metroid: Other M (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Nightshade (1992) (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Tales of the World (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Ultimate Custom Night (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
WarioWare: D.I.Y. (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
BAD END THEATER (Visual Novel) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Super Mario Bros. Z (Web Animation) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Underverse (Web Animation) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Best of the Worst (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Game Care Network (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Phelous (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Roadkill (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
SomecallmeJohnny (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Sonic The Abridgehog (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever (Web Video) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Aware (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Boxdog (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Dragon Ball Z Elsewhere (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Semi-Auto Semla (Webcomic) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
A Boy Named Charlie Brown / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Æon Flux / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Captain Sturdy / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Daffy Duck / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Dofus / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Freakazoid! / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
My Father's Dragon / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Rankin Bass' Jack Frost / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Stressed Eric / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Black Cauldron / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Tom Goes to the Mayor / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
What's with Andy? / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Enzo and Cass (Wrestling) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Johnny Gargano (Wrestling) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Sting (Wrestling) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
failurehero	sameAs	Failure Hero
White Knight Chronicles (Video Game) / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero

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