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Failure Is the Only Option

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Failure Is the Only Option	comment	A series premise that allows the heroes or the villains to win minor battles along the way but prevents them from ever truly winning their overall "war" and achieving the Series Goal without ending or completely changing the series. They can't win, because then, of course, it would end the series. On shows with premises like these, there will be episodes in which the characters make an attempt to actually resolve the premise. The frequency of such eps can range from occasional (Star Trek: Voyager, "Timeless") to frequent (Gilligan's Island, Samurai Jack, Dungeons & Dragons (1983), PokÃ©mon: The Series). Conversely, a character may briefly rise above his Genre Blindness and try to take advantage of the permanent state of failure, consequently falling right into Springtime for Hitler. When a show's impending end is known ahead of time to the producers, however, they may choose to go out with a Grand Finale, in which Failure is no longer the Only Option. A related trope is Perpetual Poverty; the show's plot is the characters making a living doing something entertaining to audiences such as catching criminals for money (or maybe being criminals), and if they ever had a windfall they might actually choose to do something less troublesome and therefore less entertaining. Thus, if they ever do get their hands on a windfall they have to quickly lose it. Fission Mailed, Hopeless Boss Fight, and Stupidity Is the Only Option are when this trope is applied to video games, where the player must fail, be defeated, etc. in order to advance the story. This is usually done by making the hero extremely weak at that point in time, or making the boss unbeatable due to superior level or some outside force, especially if it's still early in the game. Mind you, it is almost guaranteed that somebody somewhere will come up with a hack or unorthodox strategy to get around this, resulting in either a complete failure of the plot to acknowledge the playerâ€™s victory, the game crashing, or some kind of Easter Egg. If the Big Bad of a given work appears at the prequel, you can be sure that he will not die at the end: he has to live on, to be the big bad of the main work. In fact, all the initial conditions of the main work are unavoidable, including but not limited to the presence of the villain. Consider for example the first Star Wars trilogy, and the prequel trilogy. It is a Foregone Conclusion that Anakin would live on, that he would fall to the dark side, but also that most Jedi would be killed, that the Republic would turn into the Empire, etc. Any attempt of the heroes in the prequel to change this is doomed to failure. In cases of game shows with recurring contestants who keep bumbling their chances at winning a game, they are usually defined by the trope Born Unlucky (and if it gets really out of hand, they might be branded a Memetic Loser), but once the streak of bad luck is lampshaded and starts to become an in-joke regarding when or if the contestant figures out how to finally win and is expected to lose (or they themselves expect to lose), it transitions into this. Related tropes: Death Is the Only Option Easy Come, Easy Go (similar to this trope but Played for Laughs) Foregone Conclusion Impossible Task Joker Immunity (when the goal is to kill, incarcerate or otherwise semi-permanently stop a recurring villain) Just Eat Gilligan (when there is one simple action the character could take to avert this) Morton's Fork (two or more choices lead to the same bad outcome) Ontological Mystery (when leaving a situation is mysteriously impossible) Road Runner vs. Coyote Status Quo Is God Yank the Dog's Chain (when victory seems right outside the hero's grasp) Yo Yo Plot Point (when the same issue is constantly resolved, and then screwed up again) You Can't Fight Fate (If it is prophesied, any attempt to avert this fate would only result in it being sealed) You Can't Thwart Stage One (any attempt to stop a villain's evil plan before its final stages is doomed to failure) noreallife
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Homura's goal to defeat Walpurgis Night and preventing Madoka from becoming a magical girl, and has been doing this for about a couple of times now (maybe even a thousand), but Madoka still becomes a Magical Girl, and rarely a Witch. In an odd subversion, Homura fails and Madoka becomes a magical girl in the finale, but because Madoka knew of the Awful Truth behind the magical girls, her wish in trade for becoming a magical girl is to rid the world of that truth, messing up time and space to the point where she gets a Cosmic Retcon and turns the world into a better place. All magical girls, prior to Madoka's wish in the "current" timeline, fall victim to this trope because they all eventually gave in to despair and became witches themselves. A more personal example is what Word of God says will happens if Sayaka Miki contracts and becomes a magical girl or not in a given timeline, If she doesn't, she lives; but if she does she will always fall into despair and become a witch, or if she's lucky enough to not witch out, she will wind up dead by some other means which is what happens in the post Cosmic Retcon universe.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm has Contessa, a parahuman with the superpower of precognition, specifically allowing her to see the precise path to victory in any given situation. Unfortunately, the world also has the Endbringers, a trio of monstrous creatures that regularly destroy cities and are slowly driving humanity to extinction. Contessa's organization, Cauldron, has primarily been seen organizing evacuations. Zig-zagged: Endbringers are immune to Contessa's power - and they were never the true threat anyway. But Contessa's power and the plans derived from it did turn out to be useless against the real enemy - Scion.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: You have to vote for Kaede as the killer in the first trial, even if you know Tsumugi is the one who actually killed Rantaro, because you're not supposed to know it before reaching Chapter 6. This also has to happen during the sixth trial. Once Shuichi rejects Danganronpa, he rejects both hope and despair as well. All the minigames during this part of the trial make you answer the question "What must you never give up?", and with the answer being "hope", you have to fail all of them on purpose to progress. The Death Road of Despair is technically possible to clear during Chapter 1 (although very hard), but to progress the story, you have to fail it. You'll get an opportunity to clear it in Chapter 5, where you can use the Electrohammers to disable traps.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Invoked from the villain's side. Mammoth Mogul can't defeat Sonic the Hedgehog? Fine. He'll just quit trying—he's immortal, after all, so he's easily going to outlast that annoying blue blur. And in the meantime he'll amuse himself making life difficult for Sonic in any way available short of outright attack.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_18c16684	comment	John Wick: Chapter 2: John's quest to permanently retire from his assassin profession, as well as anyone's attempt at John's life, which invariably ends up with the would-be killer getting a bullet in the head or a knife stab. If you are targeted by John, consider your life forfeit.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL was particularly bad about this. It was intended for Yuma to avert the usual Invincible Hero tendencies of the franchise by starting out sucking at the game and eventually becoming a master. However, because the show added the note that, if Yuma loses to a Numbers user (read: virtually every important person in the series), Astral will die, Yuma never loses a Duel if there's anything at stake, because otherwise the show would end. This turns his "growth" into a big-time Informed Flaw.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1b21bd20	comment	Terror Island - Goal: Convince the other roommate to buy groceries. Vaguely achieved with Bartleby, but the groceries were taken away by Aorist. When Stephen and Sid finally get groceries together, the comic immediately ends.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1b71921c	comment	Misfile - Goal: Reverse the misfile. If Ash and Emily were restored to their original bodies and lives, the main dramatic tension of the series would disperse.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1bb6d4b5	comment	Get Backers: Aim to earn money to clear debt.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1d42b351	comment	In Epic (2013) Mandrake complains that no matter how much they destroy, Queen Tara can regrow it all back with a wave of her hand. Of course, if she were gone and had no successor...
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: FÃ«anor, the mightiest elf that ever lived, made the Simarils, jewels so beautiful that Morgoth (Sauron's boss) himself stole the jewels. He led an entire army of high elves across the sea, slaughtering the elven shipwrights to get the needed ships. When he does get to Middle-Earth, he is killed by the Balrog Captain in the first battle. His oath to get the Simarils back kills five of his seven sons, and the oath forces his sons to attack friendly elven nations when LÃºthien manages to retrieve one of the Simarils from Morgoth. After the final battle, the two remaining sons of FÃ«anor steal the two remaining Simarils; only for their holy light to burn their hands which had been stained with elven blood, to the point that one kills himself and the other throws away the Simaril to wander Middle-Earth in penance. In short, FÃ«anor is directly responsible for all occasions of elf-on-elf bloodshed, and the destruction of his sons.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_1f5ee75a	comment	Brute Force: No one can escape from Westgate Penitentiary, no matter how hard they try.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_20028d77	comment	The Spectre: The Spectre is a Fallen Angel named Aztar who repented shortly after Lucifer's Rebellion. Recognizing that his heart was in the right place but his mind wasn't, God promised that Aztar would be let back into Heaven once he had punished every mortal sinner who escaped justice at mortal hands. Given human numbers, speed of reproduction, and rate of Karma Houdini, Aztar is still at it.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_24410f00	comment	Polandball: Called "cannot into [verb or noun]". A more exhaustive list can be found under "terminology" on the Polandball wiki. Most famously, Poland cannot into space. Greece cannot into monies. Turkey cannot into EU. Khazakhbrick cannot into BRICs.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_2477688c	comment	The Baby-Sitters Club were allowed to succeed most of the time, but once the problems got big, like trying to keep an autistic savant from being sent Off to Boarding School or reform a racist family, the Aesop was always along the lines of You Can't Make A Difference When You're Thirteen Years Old. Little Sister was even worse about this, with Karen failing at nearly everything she tried to do because You Really Can't Make A Difference When You're Seven Years Old. The only time Karen actually succeeded was during a Whole-Plot Reference to The Secret Garden, since you can't very well have your Mary Lennox surrogate not shake things up.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_260d57b3	comment	Excel♡Saga — Goal: Conquer Fukuoka/F City for the glory of ACROSS. Between Excel's energetic stupidity, Hyatt's penchant for dying and coming back to life (sometimes multiple times within an episode) and Il Palazzo's side hobbies, it doesn't look like the citizens will be subjugated any time soon. How far ACROSS progresses in this goal depends on the continuity. In the manga: Il Palazzo starts an electronics company and floods Fukuoka with cheap and effective products, earning him a lot of influence in Fukuoka. Il Palazzo doesn't progress from there though, and starts to feel like he has gotten sidetracked. In the anime: Il Palazzo gets rid of Excel near the end of the series and successfully conquers the city in the next episode. In both instances, Il Palazzo does a lot better once he gets rid of Excel.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_2a1f3560	comment	The Legacy, a 1978 horror film. The two main characters cannot leave the mansion, no matter what they try.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_2a842e3a	comment	The Doctor Who Expanded Universe BBC audio story arc Hornets' Nest has the Doctor researching the enemy Swarm through time, each encounter giving him enough information to travel further back and battle them earlier. Obviously, he's doomed not to actually defeat them until he returns to The Present Day, Because Destiny Says So; if he stopped them in 1832 then he couldn't have battled them 100 years later, which was where he learned about their actions in 1832. He is particularly annoyed when he realises he caused their earliest success, as the Stable Time Loop resolved itself through him.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_2b4ed8de	comment	While not the main goal, in several Yo-kai Watch episodes (of series featuring Nate as the main character), Nate tries to get his crush Katie to get a crush on him in return. Sadly for him, the Yokai of the segment and their michiefs think otherwise.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia - Goal: Survive. Failing that, see to it that one of your back-up replacement clones survives (this one is actually doable... sometimes). Failing that, at least get your enemies killed along the way. Secondary goal: Make it up to Ultraviolet clearance. This conflicts spectacularly with the GM's goal, which involves strapping targets to everyone's backs, and usually results in upwards of five hundred percent casualties, thanks to characters coming in six-packs. There are also plenty of other possible uses of this trope, such as requiring the players to test out a new form of grenade and provide accurate data on their explosive yield (with failure to do so being treason), but they have to return all grenades intact (with failure to do so being treason). And you can fail on both these fronts if an "ally" with Telekinesis activates them while they're still on your belt (which is also treason, but awesome treason).
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: No matter how many times you throw yourself at the big bad of the week, you will always fail. Only Goku is allowed to vanquish the monster once and for all. The only few times this did not happen was during the fight with Vegeta who was taken down by Yajirobe, Great Ape Gohan and Krillin with Goku's Spirit Bomb, while he did defeat Frieza, then with Gohan who defeated Cell, and even then Goku assisted from beyond the grave. The only two times that Goku wasn't involved was [a] when Garlic Jr. returned from the Dead Zone, only to be sucked back into it when Gohan destroyed his source of power and [b] when Frieza came to Earth for the first time and was killed by Trunks. This trope is lampshaded by Piccolo in the Saiyan Saga after he gets called out for berating Gohan for getting frightened while fighting Nappa. Piccolo silently admits that it doesn't matter how they do against Nappa, then realizes that if Vegeta is ordering Nappa around then Vegeta must be even stronger, so even if Nappa is defeated, the heroes would have to face an even stronger villain. He was right, as not even Goku was able to defeat Vegeta. Frieza obtaining his wish on the titular Dragon Balls for immortality during the Namek Saga turned out to be this. When Frieza did obtain all seven balls, he runs into a problem where he has no idea how to actually use them. Unlike Earth's Dragon Balls which could be used by anybody; Namek's Dragon Balls required a password which had to be spoken in Namekian, something he never anticipated as he killed every Namekian they came across. But on top of that the dragon the balls summoned, Porunga, only responds to wishes spoken in Namekian, something Frieza learned the hard way when he tried and failed to wish for immortality from Porunga, just for his wish to be ignored.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Big Bad Voldemort is a practically invincible Magnificent Bastard against everyone else, but against Harry Potter? Anything from Deus ex machina to playing the Villain Ball will happen to ensure he somehow fails. When he killed Lily Potter, he effectively signed a contract with this trope. It may be true that Anyone Can Die, but Harry inevitably has to survive to the next book. Prior to the end of the series, J. K. Rowling liked to tease fans about the possibility of this being subverted in the last book, suggesting that the series might end with Harry's death. For years, fans debated whether Harry would survive or if he would be forced to destroy Voldemort in some kind of Heroic Sacrifice. Both turned out to be true.There's also the fact that Laser-Guided Karma is in effect. Many of Voldemort's past crimes and choices are implied to have influenced events to cause his ultimate downfall. His drinking of unicorn's blood in the first book. The curse he placed on the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher position. His creation of seven Horcruxes also seem to have corrupted his body and possibly his mind, making him even more insane than he was as a kid. His killing of Myrtle and framing of Hagrid the first time he opened the Chamber of Secrets are the same circumstances that allowed Harry to find out and destroy the Basilisk and Voldemort's diary, which hinted Dumbledore at Voldemort's Horcruxes. His refusal to spare Lily not only set the prophecy in motion, but also made Snape turn against him completely. Voldemort is his own Spanner in the Works. Also, Hermione's attempts to shut down Fred and George during Order of the Phoenix. The closest she ever got was stopping them from testing the things on other students by threatening to write to their mother. While she got them to go along with that in an act of instant compliance (a reaction from the twins that had never been seen before or since), all it caused them to do was test their sickness sweets on themselves.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3ca84d57	comment	Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note: Wakatake never gets the spotlight he yearns. The rest of the team calls it "Wakatake Syndrome."
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom will end as soon as someone successfully assassinates Koro-sensei. Of course none of the assassination attempts shown in the first hundred chapters or so are going to work. Slightly Subverted with the revelation of Koro-sensei's real identity and his inevitable fate, since the class still has a slight chance of reversing it. And then it was subverted again in a heart-wrenching way.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: The 2011-05-08 strip sums up the possibility of success for those who work at Dilbert's ruinous company.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_3fc6395e	comment	The Tomb of Dracula: So you get to be the protagonist in an issue of a series named after the villain? Yeah, good luck trying to kill him.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_40852654	comment	Medaka Box: This is Kumagawa Misogi's whole existence. He is someone who has failed at everything he's ever attempted, to the point that his whole character is defined by the very concept of "defeat". He can't even imagine himself truly winning; every gamble he takes is with the assumption that he'll lose. Thus, he's become a "veteran at losing fights", manuevering things so that he's defeated in certain ways that further his own goals. However, it's gradually pointed out that the primary thing maintaining this unnatural losing streak isn't just bad luck. It's his own insanely defeatist attitude that ensures that he never feels like he's won at something.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_41352473	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_41352473	comment	In the anime: Il Palazzo gets rid of Excel near the end of the series and successfully conquers the city in the next episode.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_43a9c333	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: The crew of the BeBop: they're reasonably competent in fighting, killing, or catching bounty heads. But, some random technicality or accident always prevents them from actually getting the reward and escaping Perpetual Poverty — and worse, any money they DO get is usually bled away to nothing by the bills run up by Spike's destructive tendencies on the job. From the very beginning of the series: And they always pass on the opportunity to get rich by less ethical means. For example, once they stumbled onto a secret that could make them billionaires, but when they blackmail the Gate Corporation with it, all they demand is that they stop trying to find an old man their resident kid hacker has befriended in online chess games... who drops dead of old age a few minutes later anyway.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Humanity was doomed no matter what happened. In one corner, the Angels trying to bring about 3rd Impact, in the second corner, SEELE trying to bring about 3rd Impact and lastly NERV (Gendo) trying to bring about 3rd Impact. In the middle of the arena, we have Shinji who decides to settle it all quickly and initiates the Third Impact and kills humanity by himself, despite having fought to prevent this the whole time.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_4522fd1	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_4522fd1	comment	The Whateley Universe also falls under this with a few character arcs, generally intersecting with the First Law of Gender Bending. However, it is also subverted in at least one case. Jade gets to become closer to being a real girl...using plain old surgery!
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Whateley Universe	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_4522fd1
Failure Is the Only Option / int_45d098f8	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_45d098f8	comment	Get Medieval - Goal: Build a signal device to attract someone who could get Asher (and Neithe) off this backwater planet (Earth, specifically 14th century France). When people weren't eating Asher's power sources (citrus fruits), the signal served as a beacon to mob hitmen already looking for Asher's dad, and was picked up by an archeologist already on the planet (who ended up getting ship-jacked by the aforementioned hitmen). The comic has an actual ending where they succeed, but the Big Bad gets a Karma Houdini.
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Get Medieval (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_45d098f8
Failure Is the Only Option / int_46518682	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: When Mr. Snuffleuppagus was first introduced, all attempts by Big Bird to get anyone else to see him, or to believe in his existence were destined to fail. This drove Big Bird crazy, along with a number of young viewers. Eventually, the producers relented and allowed others to see and interact with him, starting with small children. The decision was mostly based on the realization that they were promoting Unfortunate Implications - "adults will never believe you". No matter where Mr. Johnson goes, he'll always get Grover to provide service for him. And the service is always terrible, even on rare occasions where his server is actually NOT Grover. No matter how long the shows runs, Oscar will never be left alone in peace. All Cookie ever wants is to prevent himself from eating the cookies with the letter of the day, but can't ever win.
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Sesame Street	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_46518682
Failure Is the Only Option / int_468bebb0	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: C.M.O.T. Dibbler is like a rat, firmly convinced that just around the corner, there will be cheese, even though every corner turned has so far been cheeseless. Some of his schemes worked, but were unfortunately tied to the near-destruction of the world. So he always reverts to selling sausages on the street.
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Discworld	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_468bebb0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_468c2a7a	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_468c2a7a	comment	The Judge Dee Fan Sequel "Medecine chinoise Ã l'usage des assassins" (Chinese medicine for murderers) has a woman ask an apothecary for help with her philandering husband, getting an aphrodisiac to put in his dinner. The husband comes home, eats, feels the effects of the aphrodisiac... and promptly goes to see his mistress. The wife tries again, getting a potion that will sap his libido. The husband comes home, eats, falls asleep... and when he wakes up feeling refreshed, goes to see his mistress. The third try has a more permanent effect.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_474d4d3f	comment	Nerima Daikon Brothers — Goal: Get enough money to buy a dome for the band to play in. Even after defeating the villain and getting enough money to buy the dome, something happens (The people usually come back for their money), and the band ends up just as penniless if not in debt by the end of the episode.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_48ed41c8	comment	Pocahontas: After Meeko breaks into his room and takes his food for absolutely no reason, Percy naturally wants revenge. As he receives a villain label merely because of association, he never gets it. Even after he disassociates himself with the villains, he still never wins.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_4c517588	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_4c517588	comment	The Evil Organization Florsheim from Tentai Senshi Sunred will never succeed at step one of their Evil Plan to defeat their Arch-Enemy Sunred and then Take Over the World (step one being to defeat Sunred), because Sunred is so ridiculously powerful nothing they throw in his path would ever stop him. Sunred, on his end, will never bother to defeat Florsheim or chase them out of the city. He's long since retired from the Sentai biz, Florsheim are about as dangerous as a girl scout troop, and they're the closest thing he has to friends since he retired.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_4d6ad22f	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_4d6ad22f	comment	A unique in-universe example in Virtue's Last Reward: In order for "true path" Sigma to learn information which he needs in the "true path", the only thing Sigma can do is experience the events of timelines in which him and others are murdered, blown up, and succumb to suicidal urges. Although he himself doesn't realize this is what he's doing, the other timeline versions of himself all are oblivious to the entire thing. In other words, he has to experience multiple failures and deaths in order to gain what he needs to survive.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_4ed65cc4	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_4ed65cc4	comment	Time Scout: Things are looking very good for Skeeter at the end of Wagers of Sin. At the start of Ripping Time, he's working several menial jobs. Given his past, there really wasn't any way he could just become a hero.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_50bcf7a6	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_50bcf7a6	comment	An in-universe example in Homestuck. In every successful session of Sburb, the White King is destined to lose his one-on-one battle with the Black King and have his staff taken from him (the White King may or may not die as part of this; it presumably depends on the session). Once the Black King has the staff he uses it to start the Reckoning, starting the final battle in which the players and their allies must defeat him and destroy the staff before everything is destroyed. The Black King being killed by Jack Noir before this happens is when the Kids session goes completely Off the Rails. As Skaia knows its own fate, it's always and indisputably set in stone from the start whether or not a session will succeed. If your fate is to be in an unsuccessful, or null, session, then everything in reality will conspire to make that session fail. Not even time travel will save you: Attempting to avert fate will create an offshoot timeline which will only end in far quicker and far more catastrophic failure. Karkat has a minor Heroic BSoD on the same theme when he reflects that there are numerous Karkats from the doomed timelines that got the tiger, but that he, the alpha-timeline Karkat, did not. Ergo, Karkat's failure is a necessary condition of the proper unfolding of fate.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_553816c7	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_553816c7	comment	Kana: Little Sister - Goal: save your most important person from succumbing to her illness and live happily ever after. There is actually no real way for the player to win in the end. In most endings the protagonist's (adopted) sister dies despite his efforts, whereas in the one ending in which she survives she decides to leave him after a while. The only difference is the measure of defeat.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Silmarillion: FÃ«anor, the mightiest elf that ever lived, made the Simarils, jewels so beautiful that Morgoth (Sauron's boss) himself stole the jewels. He led an entire army of high elves across the sea, slaughtering the elven shipwrights to get the needed ships. When he does get to Middle-Earth, he is killed by the Balrog Captain in the first battle. His oath to get the Simarils back kills five of his seven sons, and the oath forces his sons to attack friendly elven nations when LÃºthien manages to retrieve one of the Simarils from Morgoth. After the final battle, the two remaining sons of FÃ«anor steal the two remaining Simarils; only for their holy light to burn their hands which had been stained with elven blood, to the point that one kills himself and the other throws away the Simaril to wander Middle-Earth in penance. In short, FÃ«anor is directly responsible for all occasions of elf-on-elf bloodshed, and the destruction of his sons. The Children of HÃºrin: TÃºrin's sister died of sickness when he was young. His father was captured by Morgoth. His mother basically went insane. His other sister... that he didn't know he had... well, we'll get to her. He got sent away from home, and accidentally killed a noble (in self-defence, but he didn't think anyone would buy that, so he ran away before learning he had been pardoned). He lived as an outlaw for years, and eventually when he was recognized by yet another kingdom for his prowess in battle, he met a woman he fell in love with. Remember when we said "We'll get to her"? His sister had lost her memory, and was found by TÃºrin in that state; no one (including her) knew who she really was, so they got married. After a couple of years ... and having at least one child ... she recovered her memory and realized she was married to her brother, so she committed suicide. TÃºrin returned from battle to discover this, and then he committed suicide. After being captured by Morgoth, TÃºrin's father HÃºrin, was forced to watch what happened to his children and wife while powerless to do anything about it. He got out again just in time to find his insane wife the day before she died. The Fall of NÃºmenor: The last king of NÃºmenor Ar-PharazÃ´n, who in addition to be a power-hungry tyrant with an oversized ego is terrified of dying, decides to conquer the Undying Lands to prevent his own death. Ar-PharazÃ´n's attempt to invade the above of angelic beings goes as well as anybody (except him and his followers) would expect; but even if the king had impossibly won, he would have never reached immortality. The Undying Lands are called "undying" because their inhabitants are immortal Ainur and Elves; no mortal will become deathless if they move there, and in fact their lifespans will be shortened (a fact which the Ainur previously explained the NÃºmenoreans, but the King's Men preferred to believe Sauron's lies).
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_5b3356f8	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, the 4*Town concert and the red moon ritual involving Mei's family that she is obligated to undergo are on the same night meaning there was never a possibility to go to the concert without her family's knowledge even if she had enough money to buy tickets for herself and her friends.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_5c897f4a	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Maxim 70. Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_5cd1aa89	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_5cd1aa89	comment	In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the government says this to the rebels. Whether or not this is true is up to debate.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_5d0666f9	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_5d0666f9	comment	In The Red Tape War, this comes in two flavors: At the beginning, Millard Fillmore Pierce is dispatched to investigate an attack from one warring planet on a battleship temporarily dry-docked on a neutral world in the war zone. Before he can even start heading towards the planet in question, he stumbles on not one, but two interdimensional invasions. Guess what he hasn't even started on when the book ends? Each chapter presents at least one problem for the protagonists to solve. The most dire of these must be solved by the next chapter, but attempts to solve any of the others are doomed to fail until the book is near its conclusion, leading to a steadily amassing pile of increasingly bizarre problems.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_5fbedd18	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_5fbedd18	comment	Sigil: Tchlusarud is a Saurian warrior and the youngest of the Matriarch. His quests always end up in failure and humiliation. Since the Matriarch doesn't tolerate failure, she forces him to wear the armor of a commoner and later banishes him.
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Sigil (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_5fbedd18
Failure Is the Only Option / int_6059ad6b	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd strip #844 "Good Code" is a flowchart that explains how to write good code, or possibly not.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_66fa90fe	comment	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The main premise. Foolishly accepting the challenge of a Mysterious Stranger, the young Sir Gawain has to pay up and travel to the Green Knight to have his head chopped off. He either fails to make the journey, and is a failure as a warrior, chickens out and loses his honor, or makes it in time and gets killed. Even though he panics at the last moment and tries to escape and also failed some of the tests of his honor on the journey, the green knight still appreciates that he showed up at all and performed at most of the tasks very well and spares his life to allow him to return home.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_68ea0c85	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_68ea0c85	comment	In Bakuman。, the main characters are trying to get a manga published that will get an anime, so that Moritaka Mashiro's love interest Miho Azuki can star as the heroine, and they can marry after fulfilling their dreams. Not counting the many times they submitted one-shots or names that got rejected even before they could be considered for serialization, their first manga, Detective Trap, gets canceled and their second manga, Tanto, ends after they decide that they're unable to make it popular enough, and that it would likely be canceled before it got an anime. Their third manga, PCP, defies the Rule of Three when parental concerns that kids will imitate the "perfect crimes" prevents it from getting sponsors for an anime despite being popular. Eventually, though, they succeed in their goal with Reversi.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_692d0ad4	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_692d0ad4	comment	Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story: Conversion therapy. As every real medical professional, and most people on the street, knows, Cure Your Gays simply does not work, has never worked and can never work.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_6c70d88b	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_6c70d88b	comment	During the Attitude Era Vince McMahon was constantly trying to put "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in these situations. Arguably the most brilliant was putting Austin against Kane in a First Blood Match. The match stipulation is whoever bleeds first loses, however Kane wore a full body suit and a mask at the time, so he had no exposed skin to bleed from.
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Attitude Era (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_6c70d88b
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, this was deconstructed and then horribly, horribly reconstructed in the case of Griffith's dream of getting his own kingdom through winning the Kingdom of Midland's war against the Tudor Empire. All he had to do was wait around for the right moment to get Princess Charlotte's hand in marriage and the kingdom would be his. Of course, taking place in the Berserkerverse, you knew that this was too easy to accomplish. So after everything falls apart for Griffith (which was actually partially his doing, since he took Guts' departure AFTER winning the war a little over the top, which led to his erratic behavior with Princess Charlotte, which led to his horrible imprisonment and torture) and his dream looked all but destroyed... hey, whaddya know? Griffith has the chance to go after his dream again! ...By making the most vile and horrible of all decisions that he could possibly make! Hooray!
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Berserk (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_701f0ece
Failure Is the Only Option / int_705bb59a	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade refers to Cain (yes, THAT Cain) as the very first Vampire, and also the oldest "living" Vampire in existence. The older a Vampire gets, the more powerful they become. In one of the Splatbooks, you can find a stat list for Caine on the off chance the players should decide to battle the oldest Vampire on the planet. It contains two words:
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_73b4d4c1	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_73b4d4c1	comment	Call of Cthulhu. Defeating the Elder Gods. The only rules given for Cthulhu itself is that it consumes 1d6 investigators per round. Later editions give it a full stat workup, meaning that's it's not impossible to kill it, just desperately unlikely — and part of that stat block specifies that being dead isn't permanent for him. Call of Cthulhu is practically Failure Is The Only Option: The Game. Your characters will go insane. They might be killed by cultists, ritually sacrificed by cultists, devoured by cultists, devoured by monsters, devoured by ancient evils, or they might commit suicide to avoid those fates, but they will almost certainly die too. Being alive and sane by a campaign's end is a rather momentous achievement.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_740887d3	comment	Boyfriend To Death: No matter what you do in the first game, you'll always get a bad ending. At least this is averted for the sequel.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_78ec49bd	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_78ec49bd	comment	Young Wizards: The whole series and the point for the existence of wizards deal with this trope. The Lone Power invented entropy and while everyone acknowledges it will be the death of the universe, they also know that the point of wizards is to slow down entropy as much as possible. Exists on both sides of the wizards vs Lone Power battles. The Lone Power who exists outside of time, has already been redeemed, but its shadows still crop up. The wizards know that beating him in linear time won't make a knowable difference while the Lone Power knows it will ultimately lose and be redeemed.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_79776c32	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_79776c32	comment	No character in the Final Destination movies has ever succeeded in cheating Death (as in not a single one who was supposed to die didn't eventually die a violent death). In the second movie, it looked like there were two people who did succeed, but newspaper clippings showed they died violently afterwards anyway. A character from the fifth movie managed to have someone else die in his place, but that person was going to die in a few weeks anyway, so he dies a violent death too. A second character manages to have someone die in his place (it's hard to explain) but he dies violently too because he was on a flight that his girlfriend was destined to die on.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_797793b1	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: From the beginning, Yoh's goal was to become Shaman King. Later on, it gets to the point where Yoh admits that his brother Hao is going to win... period. There's only a matter of what to do next.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Mr. Freeze will never be reunited with his wife. Depending on the continuity, either her health will never recover to the point where he can thaw her out, or Batman and the police will keep foiling his attempts to help her, or she won't love him anymore because he's a supervillain, or she won't love him anymore because she herself has become a more villainous villain than he is. Any option is possible except the one Mr. Freeze wants, because then he has no motivation anymore. No matter how many times poor Harvey Dent tries to reform, undergoing surgeries to restore his damaged face... he rapidly snaps back to his Two-Face persona, scarring half of his own face again. This fate follows him even in some stories out of regular continuity.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_7dcc80c6	comment	Subverted in Chrono Crusade to earth-shattering effect, when Aion actually successfully goes through with the Atonement Ritual. And failure is the only option for the heroes.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_7ddbc888	comment	Eureka Seven: Renton's quest to sneak a kiss to Eureka. He succeeds beyond that: Eureka reveals she loves him and shares a real kiss with him.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_81341360	comment	In the Ice Age series, no matter how hard he tries, poor little Scrat is never going to get his hands on that acorn (or any acorn) for more than a few seconds.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_84c6fd45	comment	Iznogoud: Iznogoud's schemes to depose the Caliph are destined always to end in failure, usually with the vizier himself much worse off than before. It even gets lampshaded in the theme song for the animated adaptation.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_84e40670	comment	The Children of HÃºrin: TÃºrin's sister died of sickness when he was young. His father was captured by Morgoth. His mother basically went insane. His other sister... that he didn't know he had... well, we'll get to her. He got sent away from home, and accidentally killed a noble (in self-defence, but he didn't think anyone would buy that, so he ran away before learning he had been pardoned). He lived as an outlaw for years, and eventually when he was recognized by yet another kingdom for his prowess in battle, he met a woman he fell in love with. Remember when we said "We'll get to her"? His sister had lost her memory, and was found by TÃºrin in that state; no one (including her) knew who she really was, so they got married. After a couple of years ... and having at least one child ... she recovered her memory and realized she was married to her brother, so she committed suicide. TÃºrin returned from battle to discover this, and then he committed suicide. After being captured by Morgoth, TÃºrin's father HÃºrin, was forced to watch what happened to his children and wife while powerless to do anything about it. He got out again just in time to find his insane wife the day before she died.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_853e51bb	comment	Haruhi-chan - Nyoron Churuya-san : Ashakura will never get Kyon and Churuya will never get her smoked cheese, nyoro~n.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_8645d677	comment	In Spellsinger the hero Jon-Tom's main goal is to get back to our world, while forced into adventures in the meanwhile. Mudge the Otter on the other hand just wants a simple life of gambling, drinking and sex but is also forced into going on these quests. Both are subverted as Jon-Tom finds a gateway in which he can go between worlds whenever he wants but ultimately decides to stay in the fantasy world as it has grown on him. While Mudge willingly gives up his sleazy lifestyle once he realizes true love, as he doesn't want to risk offending his girlfriend, and wants to be a role-model to his future kids.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_88363fe	comment	In Subnormality, there's a game show called "Not Worth It", which features quiz questions so absolutely depressing to know the answer to that even when you win, you lose.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_88383ee7	comment	The goal in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) is to create the Philosopher's Stone, and once it's actually created, the only way for the brothers to accomplish their goal is to have Al die (don't worry, he gets better). Failure IS the only option, even until the end.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_88fcaa31	comment	Sleepwalker: The titular alien hero is always trying to find a way to return to his home dimension. Several opportunities come up throughout the series, but Sleepwalker is forced to repeatedly give up his chance at returning home for reasons ranging from the need to protect civilians in danger, to defeat a group of supervillains, to retrieving Spider-Man from another alien dimension.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue. Most of the Blue's and Red's plans end horribly. The only time they really win is when they work together. When they are trying to kill each other, for obvious reasons, they can't. In Revelation it's revealed that Alpha was tormented by being placed in scenarios where it could never succeed. Also, because Tex was based on the Director's memory of a woman he loved, but her death was the thing he remembered most clearly, she also can never succeed; this is the reason why she never really accomplished her goals in Blood Gulch. She was designed to fail at the last moment.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_90e2f673	comment	There have been a few times it looked like peace would break out at last in BattleTech. Of course, the game is called BattleTech, so something will inevitably plunge the Inner Sphere into war again. The two largest Successor States form an alliance that looks like it will finally conquer the other States once and for all? Throw in a Clan invasion! New Star League formed to combat Clan invasion? FedCom Civil War! Civil war over? Blakists launch a Jihad! Republic of the Sphere rises from the ashes and peace ensues? HPG blackout! It really never ends.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_93a07966	comment	Speaking of the Einzbern family, it seems that no matter what they do in the Third Grail Warnote Fate/Stay Night is focused around the Fifth, they'll manage to lose said war. In the timeline of Stay Night, they summon the Avenger-class servant Angra Mainyu, who despite having the same name as the Zoroastrian god of evil, is actually one of the weakest servants that can be summoned, and gets killed very quickly; however, he corrupts the grail, leading to the events of Fate/Zero and Stay Night. In the Third Grail War in the back story of Fate/Apocrypha, which is in an Alternate Timeline to Stay Night, they instead summon the Ruler-class servant Shirou Amasuka, yet despite having a servant who can Command Seal the other servants into killing themselves, they still manage to lose the war.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_94b6b60a	comment	Buildingverse runs on this, to the extent that there is a literal fail-field hanging around apartment 42.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_988629da	comment	Introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the Kobayashi Maru scenario Starfleet Academy students undertake. In this scenario, students are confronted with a situation where the eponymous civilian freighter is crippled in the Klingon Neutral Zone and are presented with two choices; either abide by Federation rules and leave the ship to its fate, or attempt to rescue it, which causes them to be confronted by Klingon warships. There is no way to rescue the freighter or win against the Klingons, nor are the recruits expected to do either; the purpose of this test is, instead, to assess how the students act in a no-win situation. note You can technically "win" by following Federation rules and not going after the ship, but that requires leaving the stranded crew to die which is hardly a resounding triumph.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: The captain seems like this (though it's worded more "Success is not an option") towards an EVE coming back positive.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9aab7b0a	comment	Swamp Thing: The original premise was that Alex Holland had been changed into a swamp monster in a freak accident, and was trying to find a cure. The original series, once the book's original creative team left and were replaced, did end with Swamp Thing cured but the condition was quickly overturned in haphazard fashion during a guest-spot in Challengers of the Unknown. His series was relaunched in 1980 and the focus once again became on Swamp Thing wanting to become human, which writer Alan Moore (who took over the book with #20) felt had to go and go for good since it left the series stuck in an endless loop of failure. He promptly spent his second issue of his legendary run on the series revealing that Swamp Thing was a plant elemental creature with Alex Holland's personality/memories and sealed the deal by producing the remains of Holland, having Swamp Thing meet Alex in heaven and having Swamp Thing pretty much not care about his life being a lie after a brief Heroic BSoD.This is ironic, given that in spite of the popularity of Moore's run on Swamp Thing and his retcon, DC pretty much refuses to market Moore's version of the character in other media. Pretty much every Swamp Thing show, movie, cartoon uses the original "man to monster" origin for Swamp Thing and the Failure is the Only Option trope to drive the plot.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: Despite the occasional teaser to the contrary, Archie will never make a final choice between Betty and Veronica.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9bb5aad4	comment	On the less meta side of this, Jaden's duel against Brron in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is discovered to be this mid-duel. In a nutshell, the loser of the duel dies. However, each time Jaden damages Brron, one of his captive friends are sacrificed. Meaning either Jaden surrenders and gets himself killed, or all of his friends die. Even worse, Brron's deck has several cards that force Jaden to damage him. By the end of the duel, most of Jaden's captive friends have been sacrificed, and although Jaden wins, he becomes his Superpowered Evil Side in the process.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9cde7dfb	comment	Played for laughs in one of the shorts in Akame ga Kill!. The short is a parody of dating sims while Tatsumi and Esdeath are trapped on a desert island. No matter what he clicks on the menu, the choice automatically goes to the one that makes Esdeath advance on him. At one point, Esdeath is slowly coming at him and all of the menu choices read 'Take Me Now'. Not even him clicking the option button works.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei. All of Nozomu Itoshiki's attempts at suicide fail. He even survived having his name written in the Death Note!
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: The goal of the JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Force) in nearly every film is to destroy Godzilla himself. Needless to say, they never do. And, this is even when they build weaponry specifically designed to kill Godzilla. IE: Mechagodzilla, M.O.G.U.E.R.A, Kiryu, the Dimension Tide satellite, etc. No matter what they try some twist comes along that repowers Godzilla and lets him destroy the weapon or they are forced to use that machine to help Godzilla against a bigger threat and the machine ends up being destroyed in the process. Or if he is seemingly destroyed, the final shot of the film reveals that he may have survived after all. Averted in, ironically, the very first film of the franchise, in which Godzilla was decisively killed at the end. The Godzilla who appeared in Godzilla Raids Again was explicitly called a "second Godzilla," a separate member of the same species. Later Continuity Reboot sequels often claim that the original Godzilla regenerated after all.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a03824e8	comment	The entire DC & Marvel superhero universe is built around this. The popular villains; The Joker, Magneto, Lex Luthor, etc. have too much of the appeal of the comics to ever be dispatched for good. Decades of excuses as to why they can always come back have ultimately formed the basis of what these worlds are. Heroes have codes against killing, even though this invariably results in an endless series of deaths of innocents when the villains strike again. This makes such codes look foolish and hypocritical. When villains are arrested, they either escape prison with ease, or are released by a corrupt and foolish justice system — making the hero's commitment to law and justice look equally foolish. The result: While good wins at the end of most comics, the good seem to suffer far more and accomplish little in the greater scheme of things. This also applies to any hero or villain whose motivation is I Just Want to Be Normal, including The Thing, The Scorpion, and the aforementioned Hulk and Swamp Thing. In Marvel 1602, Reed Richards actually tells Thing that the universe will never let him become human again for very long because that would make his story less interesting.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a19a1ec9	comment	WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!~ is about the introvert main character, Tomoko, seeing that her years of playing Dating Sim games haven't helped her to become popular, tries to become popular though various means. Naturally she either screws them up or is unwilling to learn from her mistakes to try again. Later on in the series, this is averted: Tomoko slowly grows out of her problems, matures, and starts developing a social circle.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a33d799a	comment	Paradoxus: Eudora vastly overpowers every one of the heroines regardless of which franchise they are from or whether they are original characters. Any attempt to beat her, either idiotically solo or in a group, would end in a humiliating defeat. Exemplified by Altalune when she decided to stay in the past for a chance of beating Eudora in exchange for her own continued existence (pesky self-correcting timelines) — she promptly gets curb-stomped so badly she would have died if not for Daphne and Galadwen's intervention. This trope is made even more glaring when it's revealed not even Bloom, the bearer of the magic that created the Magix dimension, ever had a possibility against Eudora. Later, is revealed Marion could defeat Eudora, but has been gathering power to fight an even more powerful evil.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a4b1b4dc	comment	The Fall of NÃºmenor: The last king of NÃºmenor Ar-PharazÃ´n, who in addition to be a power-hungry tyrant with an oversized ego is terrified of dying, decides to conquer the Undying Lands to prevent his own death. Ar-PharazÃ´n's attempt to invade the above of angelic beings goes as well as anybody (except him and his followers) would expect; but even if the king had impossibly won, he would have never reached immortality. The Undying Lands are called "undying" because their inhabitants are immortal Ainur and Elves; no mortal will become deathless if they move there, and in fact their lifespans will be shortened (a fact which the Ainur previously explained the NÃºmenoreans, but the King's Men preferred to believe Sauron's lies).
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a6a7f785	comment	Hell Girl: Hajime's goal: Stop people from using Hell Correspondence to send people to Hell, and thus damning themselves in the process. No matter how close he gets to stopping somebody from pulling the red thread on the Curse Doll, they'll always do it. Probably the worst example is in episode 18, where a Fat Bastard Rich Bitch has been holding a little girl's dogs hostage and killing them whenever she suspects the little girl might be telling somebody about what she's doing. Both Hajime, the little girl's teacher AND two police officers manage to break into her house when they hear the little girl over the intercom begging the Rich Bitch not to kill the puppies one of the dogs had, and subdue her, uncovering the fact that she'd not only murdered her parents to get her inheritance, but also her infant son to keep him from potentially trying to steal her money. At first it seems that Hajime finally stopped somebody from pulling the thread, and was just moments away from taking the doll from her, when she discovers that the Rich Bitch had already drowned the puppies in the bathtub... There's one exception to the rule, and even then the show leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not the victim will simply try again.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Ravenloft: This trope applies to most of the Darklords, who have been stuck in an Ironic Hell for their sins. Generally, they have something they think will end their suffering, which they will periodically go after, and which will without fail screw them over. Count Strahd will never be able to successfully romance Tatyana's latest reincarnation. Ivana Boritsi will never have a happy relationship since her kisses are lethally toxic. Kas's dreams of conquest will never achieve anything but disaster and the list goes on. Unbeknownst to most of them, their actual win condition is to admit that they reaped what they sowed, but most will never achieve this state since if they were humble enough to actually do that, they would never have become Darklords to begin with - the requirement for that post is literally crossing the Moral Event Horizon. The sole exception was Lord Soth, who couldn't be used anymore due to license issues. In-universe, a magic mirror that kept replaying his crimes helped him overcome his chronic tendency to blame everyone but himself and acknowledge that he was responsible for all of his pain and suffering. He then just stopped caring about anything. Eventually the Dark Powers released him since they saw that nothing they could do to Soth could possibly be worse than actually being Soth.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_ad622d64	comment	Thanks to a curse, this is literally true for Kallor of Malazan Book of the Fallen. No matter how high he climbs, he inevitably goes down in flames, and takes everyone else with him.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_aea5814c	comment	The entire premise of Dropkick on My Devil focuses on Jashin-chan's quest to kill Yurine Hanazono, which always ends in failure.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star has Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking's desire to make it rich. Instead, partially due to the fact they are Blessed with Suck in the form of having a Grappler ship (a very rare and large ship that consequently costs a fortune in docking fees, ammo and basic maintenance) that is sought after by the Kei Pirates (which means they're constantly getting shot up and thusly needing to spend more money on ammo and repairs), they're constantly on the edge of bankruptcy. The one time it looks like they might succeed, heading after an ancient sunken Outlaw ship containing a stolen shipment of Unobtanium, they succeed... and discover at the episode's end that, because the treasure comes from a time when the Unobtanium was harder to find and consequently it's purity level isn't up to current standards, it's actually worth less now than it was when first stolen, so their net gain is $0 — what money they did make from selling it was just enough to pay the bills and fix the damage the ship took getting it in the first place!In the very end, Gene manages to survive the whole Galactic Leyline incident and gets just enough notoriety to get the honor of a nickname in the Outlaw's hangout Blue Heaven: "I'll Pay You When I Make It Big". Yup, he's still at it, his nickname is a joke. At least it's not all thorns for him, though; he's used to space now and he's even got a girlfriend.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b27fdd6d	comment	Catch-22 — Goal: Leave the army alive. Yossarian does eventually succeed at the book's conclusion, but by deserting rather than being discharged.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts: Charlie Brown. Lucy Van Pelt. Football. At the end of the comic, Charlie Brown may have succeeded. Lucy was called inside when Charlie Brown was about to kick the football, so she asked Rerun to hold it. In the strip itself, when she later asked Rerun what happened, he said: "You'll never know!" However, Schulz said, after drawing the last strip, that he'd just realized "that little round-headed kid is never going to kick that football", we can presume the ball remains unbooted. In 1983, there was a strip that featured him choosing to walk away from Lucy and the ball, which certainly represents a kind of victory in itself. In the last panel of the strip Charlie Brown, having walked away from Lucy, sees a number of other kids holding footballs for him. There was one comic story where Snoopy took up magic tricks and turned Charlie Brown invisible. While in this state, he does manage to sneak up on Lucy and kick the football. It would be used in the animated special It's Magic, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown and baseball-playing, kite-flying, writing with an ink pen, talking to the Little Red Haired Girl, etc. To elaborate, on one occasion he won a game, but had to revoke it because Rerun bet a nickel on it. On two occasions, he legitimately won games... only to later find out a girl on the team let him win. Though his team has won several times, except only when he is not able to make it. Or the time when a bug hit every team in the local league except his. Linus and seeing the Great Pumpkin Lucy and getting Schroeder's attention (same story with Sally and Linus) Snoopy shooting down the Red Baron or getting one of his novels published.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Bruce Banner will never get rid of The Hulk. Heck, one time Bruce lost the ability to turn into the Hulk, he was savvy enough to observe he would be back. Sure enough. One story has Doc Samson and the army capture Bruce and place him in a chamber filled with NOX. General Ross (IIRC) says that they will lobotomize Banner to stop Hulk and Samson is shocked. Bruce says that he accepts this, since his only wish is to die. Samson says that it's both the wish of him and the Hulk and shuts off the oxygen valve, making Banner breathe pure nitrogen. The last screens of the comic show Banner's heartbeat slowing down, until he dies. The last panel shows one, big, green, powerful heartbeat. The best case scenario Banner will ever achieve is his Merged Hulk/The Professor incarnation, the Strength of Hulk but the Mind of Banner and when he goes berserk he transforms into Savage Banner, Savage Hulk in Banner's puny body. He's not rid of Hulk but at least he can't hurt anybody as much as before.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b67b702b	comment	Baki the Grappler: Baki, and just about every other fighter in the series, dreams of beating Yujiro. Not. Gonna. Happen. The only fighter who's ever come within a thousand miles of beginning to give Yujiro a decent fight is Kaku Kaioh, and that all went south as soon as Yujiro figured out the secret to his Xiao-Lee technique. Now the manga has ended and Yujiro's still undefeated. Seems like someone's the Creator's Pet.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	In Disco Elysium, it is possible to frequently save both the bacon of the Player Character and other characters the right skills are up to snuff. But alas, one of the Central Themes of the story is failure, so there are a few important story events where everything inevitably goes sideways, and no ammount of skills can charge it. It is not possible to solve the case before the mercenaries hold their "tribunal" and attempt to gun down the Hardie Boys. The most you can do is downplaying the trope by finding ways to mitigate the number of deaths. Confronting Ruby is the Point of No Return, and the fight always breaks out upon your return to the Whirling-In-Rags. At the climax of the Tribunal shootout, your skill check to dodge Kortenaer's Last Breath Bullet will always fail. In the final dream sequence, your skills throw everything they have into winning back Dora/Dolores' heart. They're beaten and humiliated, one after another.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b94db3a2	comment	Dog Day Afternoon: The whole bank robbery was one big blunder, just like the protagonist personal life. There was hardly any money to steal, and the protagonist whole goal to leave the country with most of the hostages, scot-free, was nothing but wishful thinking.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night the Holy Grail War is fought between seven Master-Servant pairs over the Holy Grail with six Servants needing to die before the Grail appears. The Servant Assassin can't possibly win because a) his Master is also a Servant, so the Grail wouldn't be formed until she died and if that happened he'd fade away too and b) he's bound to the Ryudou Temple gate so even if he did survive until the Grail appeared he couldn't go claim it. One of the Masters, Illyasviel von Einzbern is in a similar situation. She can't claim the Grail because she is the Grail. Kirei Kotomine can't enjoy good things like being married and his job in the Church but also has a fully functional moral compass that fills him with self loathing for doing what he really likes, making people suffer. He's stuck never being happy one way or the other. Speaking of the Einzbern family, it seems that no matter what they do in the Third Grail Warnote Fate/Stay Night is focused around the Fifth, they'll manage to lose said war. In the timeline of Stay Night, they summon the Avenger-class servant Angra Mainyu, who despite having the same name as the Zoroastrian god of evil, is actually one of the weakest servants that can be summoned, and gets killed very quickly; however, he corrupts the grail, leading to the events of Fate/Zero and Stay Night. In the Third Grail War in the back story of Fate/Apocrypha, which is in an Alternate Timeline to Stay Night, they instead summon the Ruler-class servant Shirou Amasuka, yet despite having a servant who can Command Seal the other servants into killing themselves, they still manage to lose the war. Assassin of Black and her Master Reika Rikudo from the aforementioned Apocrypha cannot hope to win the Great Holy Grail War either. Unlike the other Servants of Red or Black, they were a rogue pair that decided to win the Grail by killing the weakened Black Faction before defeating the Red Faction. Even ignoring how the Assassin class is the weakest in a Grail War, Assassin of Black can only operate at her best under a strict set of conditions. She simply doesn't have the power to defeat many of the Servants one on one. Even assuming Reika and her Servant defeated the Black Faction, they'd have no way to claim the Grail since it's on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a mobile flying air fortress guarded with extremely powerful magic.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_bd184166	comment	The Neverending Story: If a human who comes to Fantastica fails to find their way back to the human world, without exception they all eventually attempt to supplant the Childlike Empress as supreme ruler of Fantastica, losing their memories all the while through wishing. The fate of all who stay on this course is to wind up in the City of Old Emperors as nearly mindless creatures without memory or ability to speak, performing ridiculous meaningless activities forever.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Pandora's Goal: To make magic available too all mortals so that her half-immortal son can safely use his powers to the fullest without breaking Immortal laws. The reason it will fail: 1) Magic itself has a sentient will of its own. 2) Magic wants to be known only by a select few individuals. 3) Should it ever become as widespread as Pandora wants, it would alter its own fundamental nature so as to cut humanity off from it completely, potentially for millennia. She does not take learning this well.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_be03a5ee	comment	It isn't just that Failure is The Only Option when it comes to trying to assassinate the Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia in the Left Behind book series; it's also that only Jesus Christ is able to defeat him, as the Word of God dictates.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_bff01809	comment	In the official Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 worldwide campaigns, the bad guys (okay, the worse guys) will lose. No matter what. Honestly, you might not even bother. It's like the creators have already thought up an ending in advance! True, they always lose. But as it is said in the Horus Heresy books they are destined to win. Well, Chaos at least. It is said that they will whittle away at the Imperium until eventually all of humanity is destroyed. Considering most every daemon or Chaos Space Marine can't die, this is easily understood. In a particularly silly example, the Storm of Chaos Fantasy campaign: One small backwater village, intended merely as a speedbump for the bad guys, was held for somewhat like five weeks, finally forcing the Chaos players to find a way around it. In the fluff summary after the campaign, the village got merely a passing mention - as being easily overrun. The guys who'd spent the past weeks successfully defending it were somewhat annoyed, to say the least. Abbadon the Despoiler in background, Justified in that the only way out of the Eye of Terror is to attack a heavily fortified sector of space that has entire planets populated by Badass Normals plus with twenty Space Marine chapters on hand. (Note this is all before the Imperium starts to send reinforcements), then throw in the fact that Chaos is inherently self-destructive and it's no wonder Chaos always peeters out and fails in every Black Crusade... Even when he does win the Cadian Gate in Gathering Storm, Necron and Eldar interference means the Warp rift he hoped would consume Terra went way off target, Chaos being Chaos meant his army fragmented soon after the battle, and Guilliman's revival meant the Imperium was far better prepared and armed for when he prepared for Round 2. Played quite blatantly with the Medusa V campaign. The Space Marines did, in fact, fail to achieve all their goals; leaving the Imperial Guard and Eldar roughly tied for first place, with the Eldar being the ones to kill the Big Bad Ygethmor. Since the Space Marines are Games Workshop's major cash cow, allowing a Xeno race the victory simply would not stand; so they were declared to have achieved enough of their goals in both the planetary and space campaign to be granted the "moral victory"; thus keeping the Imperium in the first two slots, and pushing the Eldar to third. Though in a larger context, even the forces of Chaos are doomed to failure, because the stalemate of eternal war has to be maintained to keep the game marketable. The World Is Always Doomed can't be maintained if the world actually meets a definitive doom. Tzeentch actually invokes the trope on himself and his forces. If his forces were ever to definitively win, then he would have no one to plot against, which would range from being boring for him to him literally wiping himself from existence. So, if his forces ever started to win, he would be just as likely to be the source of their downfall as his enemies. He is the only Chaos god this truly applies to. Khorne doesn't care who is dying, just as long as someone is. Slannesh and Nurgle just don't really require an antagonist for their worship. Despite the issues with Games Workshop having to maintain a stalemate at least for the Imperium, if you focus on the setting itself, pieces of fluff from the Codexes and all the supplementary material, you realize this might as well be the motto of the Imperial Forces. They are faced with half a dozen threats which could single-handedly destroy them. In fact the only reason for the Imperium still existing is the fact said threats are fighting each other. If the creators of the game weren't forced to keep the cash flowing in by keeping the Spaces Marines as the victors, humans would be dead already. The Orks actually invert this trope with their Insane Troll Logic. Being a race of Blood Knights, they believe there are only three outcomes to a fight: they win, they die fighting, or they retreat (which isn't failure because they can just come back for another go). In truth, it's more anyone who attempts to change the Status Quo who loses. But since Villains Act, Heroes React, most of the time the evillest side loses. Interestingly played in Graham McNeill's book Iron Warriors, where the titular Iron Warriors and thus Chaos actually win; but this keeps in spirit with the bad guys losing because in this book the Adeptus Mechanicus are even WORSE. To give an idea of how unusual this is, when he announced internally about the victory of Chaos in the story, the entire team assembled was shocked that he'd even consider to, much less actually, have the Iron Warriors win..
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher: Averted, as the Punisher knows full well that all the criminals he kills won't change a thing in regards to actual crime rates, or bring back his family, or ever bring him peace- he has simply made it his life's work to kill as many criminals as he can until he inevitably dies. This is something neither the criminals nor the heroes (especially Daredevil, who often ends up defending said criminals in court because he believes in due process, often ending up looking like a fool in the process) understand. Depending on the Writer, Frank Castle may even be punishing himself for failing to protect his family.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_c97b59d9	comment	Secret Wars (2015): The "natural" inhabitants of Battleworld will never truly triumph over God-Emperor Doom and this goes double if you are one of the Barons. If you're not struck down by Doom himself, it's either his Thors or one of the heroes unwittingly putting a stop to their mad plans.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_ca8b9578	comment	The main goal of Bash in Orc Eroica is finding a wife. Each volume has Bash encounter a woman he has some chemistry with, only for them to not get together for various reasons. If he ever did get married, the series would end.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_cabd5510	comment	Escapist Dream tells the story of a virtual reality world where geeks can live a life similar to a comic book, anime or video game, and the attempts of a few individuals to fix its many problems. All of their hardwork, from removing the computer bugs thatâ€™s been affecting the place, to waging war against a mad geek who tried to take it over, were all in vain in the end. Throughout the course of the book, they have to realize that the deaths of many people inside (including young teenagers), would inevitably lead to the government closing the virtual reality world. Its destruction is further cemented upon when two of the main protagonists ended up fighting each other and causing its destruction. These endings pretty much ties the theme of the book: that no matter how much the geeks try to escape the real world into a place made solely for them, the problems of the real world would continue to hound them and force them to face it.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_cb6abea3	comment	All of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series are pretty bad about this. Even though they're playing a card game, of which the consequence of losing would normally only be a hit to the loser's ego (if that), Yu-Gi-Oh! animes tend to have the heroes facing challenges where losing = death for various reasons (be they shadow duels or other), meaning that it's essentially a Foregone Conclusion that the heroes will win before they ever start their duel and failure is the only option for the villains. Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL was particularly bad about this. It was intended for Yuma to avert the usual Invincible Hero tendencies of the franchise by starting out sucking at the game and eventually becoming a master. However, because the show added the note that, if Yuma loses to a Numbers user (read: virtually every important person in the series), Astral will die, Yuma never loses a Duel if there's anything at stake, because otherwise the show would end. This turns his "growth" into a big-time Informed Flaw. On the less meta side of this, Jaden's duel against Brron in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is discovered to be this mid-duel. In a nutshell, the loser of the duel dies. However, each time Jaden damages Brron, one of his captive friends are sacrificed. Meaning either Jaden surrenders and gets himself killed, or all of his friends die. Even worse, Brron's deck has several cards that force Jaden to damage him. By the end of the duel, most of Jaden's captive friends have been sacrificed, and although Jaden wins, he becomes his Superpowered Evil Side in the process.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_cf6f9a97	comment	In City Hunter, this is Played for Laughs regarding Ryo's numerous attempts at scoring with the ladies, which always end up failing, whether due to circumstances, the ladies themselves managing to weasel their way out of it (Saeko is especially notorious for this, much to Ryo's irritation), and/or someone else's intervention (usually Kaori's).
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d09e0200	comment	Girls Go Around Goal: Get out of the Time Loops. Overall works, until the final chapter reveals the true goal of the time loop! Goal: Have everyone manage to graduate from high school without one of them dying. Result: They can't. Initially, Kyousuke died. If Kyousuke is saved, Chihiro dies. When Kyousuke saves Chihiro, Shiina ends up getting run over by a car. If Shiina is saved, the Class Rep ends up dying. Class Rep survives, Izumi dies. And if Izumi is saved, Ootsuka dies... so Kyousuke decides to commit suicide since he can't save all the girls and won't abandon one... which results in Chihiro creating a time loop to prevent his death, beginning the cycle again.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Doki Doki Literature Club!: Sayori and Yuri's suicides. On your third day in the club, your childhood friend Sayori confesses two things to you, a) that she has had lifelong depression and b) that she is in love with you. You're then given an option to reciprocate or to turn her down, but keep her as your dearest friend. The next day, if you picked the former option, you'll walk into Sayori's room to see her corpse hanging from the ceiling, and blame yourself because you didn't realize that, before everything else, she wanted things to stay the way they used to be. If you pick the latter, the same will happen, but this time you'll blame yourself because you didn't give her the relationship that she wanted. After the above happens, the game restarts, but the whole thing's wrong. It's acting like Sayori never existed, everything and everyone except for Monika starts glitching in horrific ways, and your friend (or girlfriend, depending on which route you take) Yuri undergoes severe Sanity Slippage, later revealed to be due to Monika Mind-Raping her by messing with her code. She hands you a poem heavily implied to have been both written in her blood and covered in her cum, violently cuts herself out of the ecstasy of being in your presence, and begins loosing her grip on reality. She's somewhat aware that she's going insane, and hates it. It all culminates in a very obsessive, disturbing love confession, and you being given a choice to accept or reject. No matter what you choose, the next thing she'll do is take out a knife and stab herself thrice: the first two times in the gut, the last time in the heart. If you rejected her, it's because she was too heartbroken to take it. It's unclear why she'd do it if you accepted her, but consensus is that either a) she wanted protect you from what she was becoming, or b) Monika was right about her having a fetish for knives.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d43be22a	comment	The Halloween series. Michael Myers is an indestructible psychopath who's apparently destined to wipe out his family's bloodline. No matter how much terror he wreaks or people he kills, he always gets blown away or shot down before he can accomplish this, and the only time he ever succeeded was in Halloween: Resurrection. Ditto for poor old Doc Loomis, who's never able to put Myers down permanently.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: For nearly 25 years, Ash Ketchum has never been able to win a regional PokÃ©mon League Conference in spite of winning the required 8 badges and training his team to be at the top of their game. Due to the cyclical nature of the show, the general assumption from fans is that if he wins a PokÃ©mon League, he becomes PokÃ©mon Master and the show will then end in spite of the fact the regional League Conference is not an indication of being the best of the best in the world. However, despite the loss record, Ash has been noticeably climbing up the ranks with each League participation, culminating him into winning the Alola League and then later, the World Coronation Tournament which leads him being crowned as the World Monarch and officially the strongest PokÃ©mon trainer in the world. Ironically, this is immediately followed up with Ash being retired as the main character, despite admitting to himself that he isn't a PokÃ©mon Master yet and setting off on another journey with Pikachu. Team Rocket. Since their goal is usually to capture Ash's Pikachu, they simply can't win. Ironically, several episodes make it appear that if they tried going after someone else's PokÃ©mon (or tried a non-criminal path) they'd be successful. Unfortunately for them, the plot dictates that they must follow Ash and co. around the planet, so some outside circumstance will see them fall back to their old ways. Unlike Ash, who ends his tenure as the world's best trainer, Team Rocket still remain as losers chasing after Ash and Pikachu when the final episode draws to a close.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d63b0286	comment	Pain & Gain: The protagonists' various attempts to kill Kershaw by car crashing, explosion, running him over via a car and crushing his head with a car wheel all ended in failure. Not to mention the subsequent attempts to reach Kershaw in the hospital and hotel.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d67b8fb8	comment	In Little Busters! you cannot get Rin's proper ending before getting her bad ending. Trouble is, Rin's ending is also a huge failure and leads into the real final route.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d73a0be6	comment	In Teasing Master Takagi-san the protagonist has an adorable "war" going with his cute classmate, with each of them trying to get the other to blush and react to their antics. It's very obvious she is always going to win every single one of these contests, although "failure" is a relative term when you have the cutest girl in the class paying this much attention to you.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Dr. Strangelove, in which an insane US Air Force General sends his nuclear bombers to attack the Soviet Union, without orders to do so, in the belief that a lightning strike will successfully defeat the Soviets. The President and his war cabinet overcome repeated crises in order to prevent the attack from going ahead, and are almost successful, but it is all for naught. A combination of systemic and personal failures on both sides leads to the end of the world. The theme of failure is subverted in a series of vignettes in which the last remaining bomber crew go to their deaths believing that their mission was a complete success.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_da73d28d	comment	The goal of the JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Force) in nearly every film is to destroy Godzilla himself. Needless to say, they never do. And, this is even when they build weaponry specifically designed to kill Godzilla. IE: Mechagodzilla, M.O.G.U.E.R.A, Kiryu, the Dimension Tide satellite, etc. No matter what they try some twist comes along that repowers Godzilla and lets him destroy the weapon or they are forced to use that machine to help Godzilla against a bigger threat and the machine ends up being destroyed in the process. Or if he is seemingly destroyed, the final shot of the film reveals that he may have survived after all.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_dcc4fa1d	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	Everybody from all races, even God himself, is incapable of breaking Sora and Shiro's undefeated streak in No Game No Life. Even the siblings couldn't best each other over 500 matches of poker games and ended up no contest.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_dcc4fa1d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_dd9f7e5f	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_dd9f7e5f	comment	2666: The critics eventually admit that theyâ€™ll never find Archimboldi, but know he's somewhere in Santa Teresa.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_de4fe77e	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_de4fe77e	comment	Hammer's Slammers is a special case: The Slammers almost always "win" in the sense that they accomplish the specified military goals they were hired for, but no one who hires them ever comes out ahead for having done so.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_de4fe77e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_de8f6a97	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_de8f6a97	comment	Averted in, ironically, the very first film of the franchise, in which Godzilla was decisively killed at the end. The Godzilla who appeared in Godzilla Raids Again was explicitly called a "second Godzilla," a separate member of the same species. Later Continuity Reboot sequels often claim that the original Godzilla regenerated after all.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_de8f6a97	featureApplicability	-1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_de8f6a97	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e21a2bbf	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e21a2bbf	comment	In Green Worldz, Iwatobi always falls short of killing Acacia in both the original and new timeline.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e21a2bbf	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e21a2bbf	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e31a4abd	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e31a4abd	comment	Megatokyo - Goal (for Piro and Largo): Find a way to afford plane tickets back to the U.S., abandoning most of the plot. Yeah, that's gonna happen. They only really attempt this once—Largo gets the money through blackmail, but they waste it all on video games and anime merchandise (which is how they got stuck in Japan in the first place). They eventually get jobs, all the money from which is funneled into Largo's booze and computer parts; several chapters in, they've mostly forgotten about trying to go home.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e31a4abd	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e31a4abd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5964cdb	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5964cdb	comment	In chess, it is not uncommon to end up in a situation where you would be at a great advantage... if only it weren't your turn. Instead, making any move at all (as you are forced to) would cause the enemy to gain an advantage or cause you to lose yours. This specific scenario is called zugzwang, German for "compulsion to move".
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5964cdb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5feb1e	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5feb1e	comment	In the Ace Attorney series, any true culprit will fail to get away with their crimes if Phoenix Wright is involved as the defense attorney in court. Lampshaded further in the third game's final case by Mia and Wright who told Dahlia Hawthorne that all the crimes that she has ever involved in has ended in failure. This also happens to the heroes on a few occasions by virtue of But Thou Must!. You wonâ€™t be able to continue a story until youâ€™ve failed a certain case or investigation, even if you know you shouldnâ€™t do certain stuff. Two noticeable examples from Apollo Justice are leaving a crime scene despite being told not to so no one will tamper with it in Case 4-3 and Phoenixâ€™s last trial in Case 4-4.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5feb1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e5feb1e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e8d13e52	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e8d13e52	comment	Most of the cast of Urusei Yatsura had differing and often conflicting goals which would never be achieved: Lum, to get Ataru to settle down; Ataru, to be free of Lum without actually losing her; Shutaru and the Stormtroopers, to get rid of Ataru; Ataru's mother, to be a respected member of the community; and so on.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e8d13e52	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e8d13e52	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_e9e2b5e9	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Starslip - Goal: Find a timeline or universe in which Jovia is alive. Subverted when, after failing to steal a time machine so he can save Jovia, Vanderbeam's future self travels back and gives him the time machine, which he received from his future self twenty years earlier. Then double subverted when Vanderbeam fails to put the time machine to any use.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e9e2b5e9	featureApplicability	-0.3
Failure Is the Only Option / int_e9e2b5e9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_ea1a786f	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ea1a786f	comment	Monica's Gang: Jimmy Five — Originally Cebolinha — with his ironically named "Infallible Plans". Goal: take over the street and/or a plush bunny from Monica. And it brings another example of this trope, by his friend CascÃ£o/Smudge - Goal: not joining the scheme... and then the beatings after they fail (usually because Smudge screws up) For CascÃ£o, there's also the goal of getting him to take a bath.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ea1a786f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_eab7a2f7	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_eab7a2f7	comment	Marie Kagura in the Tona-Gura! manga has the goal of restoring her "perverted" brother to his pre-puberty status as her friend and playmate. She does not understand that, even if he behaves himself, that boy is never coming back.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_eab7a2f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_eab7a2f7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_ec522504	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ec522504	comment	Groo the Wanderer: Groo's goal is to stop wandering. Since Groo causes chaos everywhere he goes, this will never happen.
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_f1ed22c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_f1ed22c3	comment	This is how most of the characters in My Name Is Red see the world. Things can only decay and get worse. The viewpoint is culturally informed.
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My Name Is Red	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_f1ed22c3
Failure Is the Only Option / int_f6da9a18	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog: The successful invasion of Pekopon (i.e. earth) would pretty much end the series...
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_fb873b86	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fb873b86	comment	Saw: While some characters do escape the traps, that's only the minority that are important enough to make it to the end of the film. The rest are sweet out of luck. Not only will they fail to escape whatever trap they are in, but they will experience the maximum amount of pain possible in trying to do so.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fb873b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fb873b86	featureConfidence	1.0
Saw (Franchise)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_fb873b86
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fd96c2bc	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fd96c2bc	comment	Judge Dredd: From 2020's "Carry the Nine" to 2024's "A Better World", a recurring plotline involved the radical plans of Accounts Judge Maitland, who had almost by accident discovered that moving money from putting Judges on the streets to educating citizens would actually reduce crime. But even though the story is clearly on her side, if her proposed reforms were actually adopted throughout Mega-City One, the strip would stop being Judge Dredd. She ends up assassinated, possibly with the collusion of Head of Street Judge Hernandez, and her project is discredited, definitely with the collusion of Hernandez.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fd96c2bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Is the Only Option / int_fd96c2bc	featureConfidence	1.0
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Failure Is the Only Option / int_ff9ab17f	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Subverted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation board game A Klingon Challenge; if the game isn't beaten in the allotted time, the accompanying VCR tape will show the Enterprise being destroyed. However, a text scroll then informs the players that the Enterprise went into a time-loop at the start of the game, and that it can only be broken via stopping the villain.
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	-0.3
Failure Is the Only Option / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_ff9ab17f

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Failure Is the Only Option	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
Failure Is the Only Option	processingCategory2	This Index Is Not an Example
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pucca (Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Heros Legacy	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
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Cowboy Bebop / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DEVILMAN crybaby / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gregory Horror Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Heroic Age / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Isekai Quartet / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Love Live! Superstar!! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My-HiME / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nanaka 6/17 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nerima Daikon Brothers / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pecola / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
PokÃ©mon 3 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
PokÃ©mon: The Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pretty Sammy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sailor Moon / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Space☆Dandy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ulysses 31 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Anarky (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Asterix (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Avengers Standoff (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dark Nights: Metal (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dice Man (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gaston Lagaffe (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Groo the Wanderer (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hellblazer (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Inferno (2021) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Iznogoud (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
JLA: Earth-2 (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Les LÃ©gendaires (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Monica's Gang (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Little Pony Micro Series (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nemesis the Warlock (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Old Man Logan (2016) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Secret Wars (2015) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shadowhawk (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shadowpact (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Silver Surfer (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sins of Sinister (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sleepwalker (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thanos (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Beano (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Punisher (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Viz (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dilbert (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dogs of C-Kennel (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Funky Winkerbean (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Little Nemo (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Peanuts (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Retail (Comic Strip) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Civil War / Comicbook / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gods of This New World (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Invader Zim: The Series (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
No Chance For Fate / Fan Fic / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Ultimate Hope (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Very Scary Thought (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Apotheosis (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Arc Royale (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Cain (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fae Is Foul (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fairy Without Wings (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Friendship is Failure (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Game Over (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gameplay (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Girl Days (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hands (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
In Flight (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
InvaderZimTheSeries	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Izuku Doofenschmirtz (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Letters From A Disgruntled Friendship Student (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Magica Madoka Veneficus Puella (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Null (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
100 Percent Hero (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Paradoxus (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pedestal (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Playthings Series (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ponies and Dragons (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SV Wishes (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shinobi The RPG (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Six Brides For Two Sisters (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Step Right In and Start Again (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Loud Sim Date (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Lucidity of the Descent (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Turn (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Three Hundred And Fifty (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ultimate Sleepwalker (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Under Cover of Darkness (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
What if Nappa Turned Good? (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
When One Domino Falls (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Night at the Roxbury / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Apollo 13 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blade Runner / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Brute Force (1947) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Curse of the Golden Flower / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
8-Bit Christmas / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
French Fried Vacation / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Groundhog Day / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hell or High Water / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Heneral Luna / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ladies They Talk About / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Monty Python's Life of Brian / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Paths of Glory / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phantasm / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SpaceCamp / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Supervolcano / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Adventures of Captain Marvel / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Decalogue / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Happiness of the Katakuris / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Incredible Hulk (2008) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Legacy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The War Game / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thor / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
What Dreams May Come / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ace Attorney (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fatal Frame (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
God Eater (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Peanuts (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
RoboCop (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Silent Hill (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Terminator (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Smurfs (Franchise) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
StarTrekStarfleetAcademy	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Chuggaaconroy (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DeliciousCinnamon (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Drunk Fortress (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Markiplier (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SuperLPHeroes (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Creatures (Lets Play) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Mental Choices Are... / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Orc Hero Story / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Certain Magical Index / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Deadly Game of Magic / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Andy Griffiths' Just Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DIVE!! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dark Harvest / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Deathmoor / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Deep in the Jungle of Doom / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Delirium Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Demons Due	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Dice Man	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Eighth Doctor Adventures / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Escape from the Carnival of Horrors / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Escapist Dream / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Every Thing On It / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fighting Fantasy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Give Yourself Goosebumps / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Howl of the Werewolf / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Into the Jaws of Doom / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jack Ryan / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kaiketsu Zorori / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
La Saga du Prêtre Jean / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Left Behind / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Legacy of the Force / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Mental Choices Are... / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Name Is Red / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Necromancer (End Master) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Night of a Thousand Cats / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nobody Gets the Girl / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Orc Eroica / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Out of the Dark / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Please Don't Feed the Vampire! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Prisoners of Pax Tharkas / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Qualia the Purple / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Revenge of the Vampire / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Scorpion Swamp / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Snow Crash / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Spellbreaker / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Anglo/American â€“ Nazi War / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Crippled God / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Curse of the Creeping Coffin / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Fall of NÃºmenor / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Great Brain / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Lightbringer Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The NeverEnding Story / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Port of Peril / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Quintessential Mary-Sue / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The School for Good and Evil / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Silmarillion / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Star Diaries / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tick Tock, You're Dead! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Trapped in Bat Wing Hall / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Trial of Champions / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
2666 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ukridge / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Under the Magician's Spell / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Young Wizards / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Machinima) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Broken Streak	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Console RPG Clichés 25 to 48 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
CostumeQuest	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Creepypasta / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
EastEnders	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
FCDeKampioenen	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
FaceTime	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
FailureIstheOnlyOption	sameAs	Failure Is the Only Option
FailureistheOnlyOption	sameAs	Failure Is the Only Option
LaCaravana	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
MinecraftTvtropesServer	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Ptitledz0z4hgscrlv	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Ptitleg1xlz79n	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Ptitleh1ltpj3ph282	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Refpink	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Romanovs And Revolutions	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
RussoJapaneseWar	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
SantiagoALegendOfTheFarFuture	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
SantiagoAMythOfTheFarFuture	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
"Shaggy Dog" Story / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thanos	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
TheKidsFromRoom402	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
TruCalling	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
ZeroSumGame	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Zoroastrianism	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
ptitleulm4hcsh	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Assassination Classroom (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
B Gata H Kei (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bakuman。 (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bloom Into You (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bokurano (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Case Closed (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
City Hunter (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dropkick on My Devil (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Girls Bravo (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Haruhi-chan (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Haunted Junction (Manga)	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Haunted Junction (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)! (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Itsuwaribito (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lolita Complex Phoenix (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lucky Star (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Magi: Labyrinth of Magic (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mermaid Saga (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Murasakiiro no Qualia (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Monster Secret (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Neighbor Seki (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nanaka 6/17 (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nichijou (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ouran High School Host Club (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Outlaw Star (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phoenix (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phoenix (1954) (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pop Team Epic (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Puella Magi Oriko Magica (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
RIN-NE (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Risky☆Safety (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
School Rumble (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shamo (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Teasing Master Takagi-san (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tentai Senshi Sunred (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Flowers of Evil (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tona-Gura! (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Urusei Yatsura (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Waratte! Sotomura-san (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Yureka (Manhwa) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Pharcyde (Music) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Stuart And Stephanie (Podcast) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wooden Overcoats (Podcast) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Get This (Radio) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nine And Zero 2 (Roleplay) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A World Without America (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Airlocked Round Four (Roleplay) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fifteen Strangers (Roleplay) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
NineAndZero2	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Rules Of Nature (Roleplay) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ace Lightning / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Adam Ruins Everything / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Airwolf / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Alias / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Alice (1976) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
All of Us Are Dead / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
All That / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Arrested Development / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Asfour / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Between the Lions / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Big Wolf on Campus / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blake's 7 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blue Mountain State / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Caméra Café / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Chopped / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Cloak & Dagger (2018) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Come Back Mrs. Noah / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Conan the Adventurer / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Crusade / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Cutthroat Kitchen / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Danger 5 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Drifters / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dwight in Shining Armor / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Episodes / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Eureeka's Castle / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Father Ted / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gambit / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Game Shakers / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
General Hospital / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gilligan's Island / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Golden Balls / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Good Times / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
H₂O: Just Add Water / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
H.R. Pufnstuf / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Homicide: Life on the Street / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hotel Impossible / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hounded / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
How I Met Your Mother / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
I Dream of Jeannie / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
I Love Money / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
I'm in the Band / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Impractical Jokers / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
It's a Living / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jersey Shore / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jessie / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Judge Joe Brown / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kamen Rider BLACK / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kolchak: The Night Stalker / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
La Femme Nikita / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Land of the Giants / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Land of the Lost (1974) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
LazyTown / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Les Guignols de l'Info / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Les Minikeums / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lidsville / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Line of Duty / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Logan's Run / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Man v. Food / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mystery Science Theater 3000 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
NCIS: Los Angeles / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nailed It! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nathan Barley / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
New Girl / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nowhere Man / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Only Fools and Horses / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Open All Hours / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Oz / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Party Down / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Peep Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phil of the Future / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sliders / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Space: 1999 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Square One TV / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Star Trek: Voyager / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Stargate Universe / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Steptoe and Son / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Taxi / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thank God You're Here / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Amanda Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Bob Newhart Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Challenge / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Fugitive / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Greatest American Hero / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Inbetweeners / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Incredible Hulk / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Invaders (1967) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Invaders / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Invisible Man / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Joe Schmo Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Monkees / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Muppet Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The New WKRP in Cincinnati / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Newlywed Game / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Old Guys / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Phil Silvers Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Pretender / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Prisoner (1967) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Rat Patrol / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Red Green Show / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Shield / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Sopranos / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Time Tunnel / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Walking Dead: Dead City / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The X-Files / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Young Offenders / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
30 Rock / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Titus / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Trailer Park Boys / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Twin Peaks / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Two / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Two and a Half Men / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Uhu / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ultraman Taro / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Under the Dome / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
V (2009) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
WKRP in Cincinnati / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
War of the Worlds (1988) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wonder Woman (1975) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sweeten That Aesop / Sugar Wiki / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Klingon Challenge (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dark Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hunchback: The Lurching (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kingdom Death (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mekton (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Life with Master (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Oko Yrrhedesa (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Root (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom (Tabletop Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Brand (Theatre) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Theatre) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Abigail Fortune (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Adventures of Lolo (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Age of Empires IV (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Alien: Isolation (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Alone in the Dark (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Armed With Wings (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Atom RPG (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Attack on Titan (2016) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Baldur's Gate (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Baroque (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Batman: The Telltale Series (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blaster Master Zero III (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
BlueLacuna	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Boyfriend Dungeon (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bravium (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Breath of Death VII (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Choice of Robots (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Civilization (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
ClaDun (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Crush, Crumble, and Chomp! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DIDNapper (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Daemon Summoner (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dark Seed II (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dead Rising (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dead Rising 3 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Demon's Souls (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dicey Dungeons (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Down in the Dumps (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dragon's Lair (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Drakengard (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DreadOut (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dreamfall Chapters (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dynasty Warriors (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Elsword (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
EquestriaBound (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Evil Genius 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Evil Genome (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Exmortis (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Falling Fred (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fallout 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fallout: Dust (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Far Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fatal Frame (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Fear Effect (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy Chronicles Of Eno (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy Chronicles Of Eno II (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy II (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy IV (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Galaxy on Fire (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Game of Thrones (Telltale) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gardens Inc (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gigastructural Engineering And More (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
God Eater (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Goosebumps: Night of Scares (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Granny Simulator (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hades (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hades Vanquish (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Halo: Combat Evolved (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hearts and Heroes (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hitman 3 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hunt Down the Freeman (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Icewind Dale (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Infernax (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jazzpunk (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
KSB's RPG Parodies (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kane & Lynch (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kohate (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kya: Dark Lineage (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
LISA: The Pointless (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Laura Bow (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Legacy of Kain (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Let It Die (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lethal Company (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Life Is Strange 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lifeline (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Loved (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Luna Game (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Magic Rampage (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mario Party (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
MegaMan	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Mega Man: Rock N Roll (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mental Omega (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Metal Marines (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Miitopia (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Missile Command (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mission Critical (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Moshi Monsters (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
MouseHunt (2008) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mystic Warriors (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
NEO: The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nazo Puyo (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Need for Speed: Underground (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nifty (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nuclear Throne (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Octodad (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Oiligarchy (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Oink! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
One Chance (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
One Finger Death Punch (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
100% Orange Juice! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
POPGOES (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Path of the Midnight Sun (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Peasant's Quest (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pikmin 4 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pilotwings (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
PokÃ©mon CafÃ© Mix (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pokémon: Magikarp Jump (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pony Island (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Prey (2006) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Princess Maker 3 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Punch-Out!! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Purple Moon (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Quest for Glory V (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Radiant Historia (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rainbow Six (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rakenzarn Tales (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Resident Evil (Remake) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Resident Evil Village (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rival Schools (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Riviera: The Promised Land (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
RoBeats (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Road 96 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rune Factory Oceans (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sara is Missing (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Saurian (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sdorica (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shin Megami Tensei I (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SIMULACRA (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sinistar (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Skies of Arcadia (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Soda Dungeon (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Somari (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic Colors (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic Dash (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic Generations (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic Rivals (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Steambirds (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Streets of Rage Remake (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Subway Surfers (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Super Mario Bros. 35 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Superhot (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
TOME (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Temple Run (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thayer's Quest (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Bard's Tale Trilogy (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Blueballs Incident (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Devil in Me (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The End Is Nigh (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Kings League (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Last Spell (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Lords of Midnight (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Path (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Sagittarian (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Sims 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Walking Dead: Season Four (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Walking Dead (Telltale) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Wolf Among Us (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
There Is No Game (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Thing-Thing (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Titanfall (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tomodachi Life (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Torment: Tides of Numenera (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Total War (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Touken Ranbu (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Toy Story (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Trauma Center (Atlus) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tsugu No Hi (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
TurboCharged ARCADE! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Twelve Minutes (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
WWE Video Games (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wadanohara (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wandersong (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wasteland 2 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Which Way Adventure (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
World of Horror (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wuppo (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
X-Wing Alliance (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Yandere Simulator (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Yanderella (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
You Only Live Once (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Your amazing T-Gotchi! (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
NieR: Automata / Videogame / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Saiko No Sutoka (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Animamundi Dark Alchemist (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Atlach=Nacha (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dangan Ronpa (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Date Warp (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Little Busters! (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Lucky Dog 1 (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
9-nine- Series (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Penthos (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Snatcher (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Snow Sakura (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Pirate's Fate (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bravest Warriors (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Chimney Chickens (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
PokÃ©mon Red (Fanmade) (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Red vs. Blue: The Recollection (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Siblings (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic vs. MLP (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Adventures of 10ACraft (Web Animation) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Granitoons / Web Comic	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Grim Tales from Down Below (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
BuzzFeed Unsolved (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Cream Heroes (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Henry's Kitchen (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
K Popp (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kittisaurus (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Leeroy Jenkins Video (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mario Party DS Anti Piracy (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Markiplier (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Rainbow Dash's Precious Book (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Random Encounters (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SomeOrdinaryGamers (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Stuart Ashen (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SuperMarioLogan (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Park Bench (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Vinesauce (Web Video) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Awkward Zombie (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Buildingverse (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
ConfiscatedTwins	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Demon Candy: Parallel (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Evil FTW (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Get Medieval (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Inverted Fate (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Joe vs. Elan School (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
PHD (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Polandball (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Prequel (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Roommates (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SMGPMD (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Search For The Truth (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Subnormality (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tails Gets Trolled (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Rock Cocks (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wyliman	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Minecraft Tvtropes Server (Website)	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
TV Tropes (Website) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Fantasy Novelist's Exam (Website) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The War Hawks / Webvideo / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Adventures from the Book of Virtues / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Albert the Fifth Musketeer / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Angel's Friends / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Back at the Barnyard / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Beavis and Butt-Head / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Beverly Hills Teens / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blaze and the Monster Machines / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Blazing Dragons / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Bonkers / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Brady's Beasts / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
BravestWarriors	seeAlso	Failure Is the Only Option
Butterbean's Cafe / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Carmen Sandiego / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Cartoon Network Groovies / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Crash Canyon / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
DC Super Hero Girls (2019) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dogs in Space / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dungeons & Dragons / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Dungeons & Dragons (1983) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Epic (2013) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Funpak / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
G.I. Joe: Renegades / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Grojband / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Gulliver's Travels / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hammer and Bolter / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
High Diving Hare / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jake and the Never Land Pirates / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Johnny Bravo / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Josie and the Pussycats / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jumanji: The Animated Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
KaBlam! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kidd Video / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
League of Super Evil / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Legend of the Dragon / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Legends of Chamberlain Heights / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Life's a Zoo / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Mad Jack the Pirate / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Making Fiends / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Megas XLR / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nacho Bear / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nate Is Late / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Neighbors from Hell / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Nerds and Monsters / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
101 Dalmatians / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pet Alien / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Peter Pan / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pinky and the Brain / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Pocahontas / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ready Jet Go! Space Camp / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Robin Hood Daffy / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Science Court / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Shaun the Sheep / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
She-Ra: Princess of Power / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sheep in the Big City / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sidekick / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Silver Surfer: The Animated Series / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Skyland / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sofia the First / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sonic Underground / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Space Ghost Coast to Coast / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Space Goofs / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
SpacePOP / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Star Wars Rebels / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Star Wars Resistance / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Stōked / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
TaleSpin / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Teen Titans Go! / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ten Year Old Tom / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Daltons / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Dreamstone / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Kids from Room 402 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Legend of Zelda (1989) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Lion Guard / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Owl House / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Space Kidettes / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Swan Princess / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Venture Bros. / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Timon & Pumbaa / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Tom Goes to the Mayor / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Transformers: BotBots / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Treehouse of Horror / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
22 vs. Earth / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Viva PiÃ±ata / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wacky Races / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wacky Races (2017) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
What It's Like Being Alone / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wunschpunsch / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Xiaolin Showdown / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Yellow Submarine / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
YooHoo & Friends / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Christopher Daniels (Wrestling) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Daizee Haze (Wrestling) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
John Cena (Wrestling) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Jumbo Tsuruta (Wrestling) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Vickie Guerrero (Wrestling) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Hell Girl / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Spectre (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Reflections Lost on a Dark Road (Fanfic) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Red Tape War / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Smallville / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Prince of Persia (2008) (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Ys (Video Game) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option

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