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Failure Knight

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Failure Knight	comment	A character with an emphatic level of devotion to another character they may not have known very long. Such a character will often matter-of-factly explain it as chivalry, destiny or whatever. Everyone who knows the other character will envy the situation, or tolerate it with minimal embarrassment. So far they seem to be a simple Satellite Character. Then we find out the tragic Backstory about their greatest shames and failures. This isn't the first person they've pledged devotion to, and the former died, left or outright rejected them; it may have happened repeatedly. In some cases, this role was a job of some kind, which gives the added punch to the gut to make them feel useless. The Failure Knight keeps trying even harder now. Bodyguards, Battle Butlers and Samurai can fit the bill too. If the lost figure was the knight's beloved, compare Heartbroken Badass. Some (literal) Magical Girlfriends are Failure Knights but are perceived as a lot more cloying about it. Many knights will find promotion: their boss treats their failure as a Career-Building Blunder. In particularly grim cases, the new object of devotion may be a Replacement Goldfish for the lost one. For a more general effect of death on the knight's heroism, compare I Let Gwen Stacy Die. Examples
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Failure Knight / int_1331990c	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Akemi Homura is an unusual example in that the person she's going out of her way to protect is the same person she failed to save. It's revealed that in the original timeline, Madoka was a Magical Girl and died protecting Homura. Overcome with grief and guilt, Homura made a deal with Kyubey to be able to go back and protect Madoka in exchange for becoming a Magical Girl herself. Her wish was granted, and she became a Magical Girl with the power to control time which allowed her to repeat her attempt when Madoka died or turned into a witch. This has happened many times over. Nonetheless, she remains determined to save her.
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Failure Knight / int_13652756	comment	Marlin from Finding Nemo can be seen as this. In just the first 15 minutes of the film he loses his wife and almost all of the hundreds of their eggs to a vicious barracuda. In the end just one egg survives which he ends up naming the titular character Nemo and he becomes extremely overprotective of Nemo out of sheer deterimination to not lose him too.
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Failure Knight / int_1367cea0	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, we discover in Chapter 19.7 that Tattletale went to such great lengths for Skitter because her older brother committed suicide, and Skitter was on a path to do the same.
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Failure Knight / int_13b8ca79	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_13b8ca79	comment	Archimedes in Suika, who is depressed that he didn't come into existence to fulfill the wish of the little girl who made him until after she had already died. But he gets to make up for it by sacrificing himself for the local ill girl sister.
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Failure Knight / int_145d9b29	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_145d9b29	comment	Dias Flac, from Star Ocean: The Second Story. Though we can't really blame Dias for his family's deaths, being as he was a little kid at the time.
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Failure Knight / int_18b424d6	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_18b424d6	comment	Senel from Tales of Legendia goes through quite the Trauma Conga Line when it comes to protecting Shirley and Stella. He inadvertently gets the village they live in destroyed, gets Shirley kidnapped by Vaclav, fails to save Stella in time, and then breaks Shirley's heart to the point that she pulls a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and attempts to flood the world with water. On top of all that, his repeated "not my problem" attitude grates on the other party members' nerves to the point they go on without him, and the Quiet Nerifes doesn't give him sacred eres until he realizes what a complete Jerkass he's been to everyone. Tough break.
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Failure Knight / int_1cc09117	comment	In the Bleach fanfic Winter War, Kotetsu Isane becomes this. After her captain, Unohana, surrendered Seireitei and was taken captive- after ordering Isane to escape along with the critically wounded Captain Ukitake rather than try to fight- Isane focuses all her energies on keeping him alive, even as she becomes too apathetic and convinced of her own weakness to take an active role in organizing La RÃ©sistance (despite being one of the few surviving lieutenants). She manages to put her guilt aside and fight effectively when she has to- but she's still strongly focused on protecting Ukitake, to the point of refusing to let him try a Heroic Sacrifice at one point.
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Failure Knight / int_1d42b351	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_1d42b351	comment	In Epic (2013) Ronin is determined to protect MK and the pod because the pod is all the forest has left of Tara.
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Failure Knight / int_1de036cc	comment	Haruto Soma, in Kamen Rider Wizard, sees protecting Gates as his sole purpose in life. He blames himself for being the only survivor of dark magical ritual that started the plot and moved him from Failure Knight he became after losing his parents as a child to superpowered Failure Knight. He couldn't do anything in either case, but that doesn't particularly matter to him.
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Failure Knight / int_1ee8851d	comment	Jack van Burace from Wild ARMs was originally a Fenril Knight named Garrett Stampede, tasked with protecting the Kingdom of Arctica and the main offense of his unit (and potential Love Interest) Elmina. Unfortunately the demons completely destroyed Arctica, killed the king and most of the other Fenril Knights. Jack only escaped because Elmina locked him out of the castle to protect him while she undertook a Last Stand against Alhazad. Later on when Rudy has lost his left arm, Jack laments he can't seem to protect the people he truly cares about.
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Failure Knight / int_1ee88521	comment	Wild ARMs 5 Greg certainly qualifies. Dropping his entire war on Golems and becoming a ride-along babysitter/bodyguard, all for a kid he met twice that on one occasion was more than ready to shoot him in the back is a pretty far jump for a violent, outlaw drifter. Until you find out that Dean reminds him of his murdered son, whose death he blames himself for. The main villain is one as well, considering that his entire crusade was prompted by his own failure to tear down the wall between Veruni and Humans. The same goes for Nightburn, to a lesser degree.
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Failure Knight / int_20c55a0c	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_20c55a0c	comment	Kielnode Chrishi from Black Haze is a variant of one for his little brother Rood. While Rood doesn't end up dying, it's directly because of Kiel's negligence that he becomes an experiment in the Tower's ceremony. Kiel uses this second chance to make the now amnesiac Rood his top priority, ensuring that he's living safely and comfortably.
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Failure Knight / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Prince Shanan from Genealogy of the Holy War, as a child, failed to stop his leader's wife kidnapping and subsequent brainwashing by the enemy, who later killed almost everyone Shanan cared for. 17 years later, he's a badass and handsome swordsman who still feels horribly guilty after that mistake. Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Lady of War Fiora goes through this twice. First, she had a huge fight with her middle sister Farina that almost split up the family, and then her whole Pegasus Knight squad is slaughtered, so her youngest sister Florina must talk her out of going into a suicidal Foe-Tossing Charge. YIKES! There's also Harken, who obsesses over his failure to protect Lord Elbert from Nergal. In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones we have Gerik, who tells Innes in their supports that he's always felt like crap for not preventing the death of an old friend who motivated him to become a mercenary. And there's also the matter of him finding out that the killer... was another good friend of his: Saleh, the Badass Bookworm. Who killed the other guy by accident and also considered it his greatest regret. Fire Emblem: Awakening has a Pegasus Knight, Cordelia, go through a situation identical to Fiora's (a slaughtered squadron under her watch). Except in this case her fellow knights sacrificed their own lives willingly so she could escape. It haunts Cordelia deeply, especially in her supports with the Avatar, and in a conversation with Severa she mentions she "often dreamed of death" aka the slaughter of her wingmates!
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Failure Knight / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: Vampire Hunter Holtz, to a certain degree.
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Failure Knight / int_28f21756	comment	Ruby in Nuzlocke Comics during season 2, after he loses his entire team in the Hoenn Champion battle at the conclusion of the first season.
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Failure Knight / int_291294ed	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_291294ed	comment	Toklo in Seeker Bears feels that he could have prevented his brother Tobi from dying. That's why he felt he had to protect his friends all the time.
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Failure Knight / int_2d11a6d8	comment	Sork from Treasure of the Rudra even though the Knight Captain says that he is the best Swordsman of Cryunne.
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Failure Knight / int_2d644371	comment	The Tales Series has a few different Failure Knights in its ranks of heroes. Asbel from Tales of Graces fails to protect his friends during a childhood incident that left them all inches from death. He joins the Knight Academy to attempt to become stronger so he never fails again, but then promptly fails over and over. To his credit, he keeps trying, but several characters call him out on this. Senel from Tales of Legendia goes through quite the Trauma Conga Line when it comes to protecting Shirley and Stella. He inadvertently gets the village they live in destroyed, gets Shirley kidnapped by Vaclav, fails to save Stella in time, and then breaks Shirley's heart to the point that she pulls a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and attempts to flood the world with water. On top of all that, his repeated "not my problem" attitude grates on the other party members' nerves to the point they go on without him, and the Quiet Nerifes doesn't give him sacred eres until he realizes what a complete Jerkass he's been to everyone. Tough break.
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Failure Knight / int_2dfb1427	comment	Baldur's Gate As his charge is killed during the opening of Baldur's Gate II, Minsc becomes unable to return to his homeland of Rashemen, as he would be utterly humiliated for his failure to protect hernote His ending slider reveals that he eventually returned anyway, hoping that his tales of his deeds would win him some respect regardless — at which point he finds out the rumours and stories that had spread to Rashemen were enough to get him accepted and even respected. Turns out tagging along with a semi-divine main character does have some perks.. This makes Minsc's devotion to the survivors of the first game's party (canonically, the PC, Jaheira and Imoen) all the stronger, as well as giving him a highly protective streak concerning Aerie, Nalia, Mazzy and Keldorn should they join you. A more literal Failure Knight in the same game can be found in the graveyard. Near the top of the screen, a Paladin mourns his deceased adopted son, while near the bottom of the screen a priest searches for a guardian for the orphaned little girl he's looking after...
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Failure Knight / int_2f1032e5	comment	Ein Dalton from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has lost his mentor Lieutenant Crank Zent in the hands of Mikazuki Augus, and he projects the image of his relationship between Crank and himself onto his new superior, Specialist Major Gaelio Bauduin because other than Crank, Gaelio was the only one who respected him despite him being a half-Martian. His repeated failures on protecting his superiors eventually lead to his Sanity Slippage.
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Failure Knight / int_2fa6ae81	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_2fa6ae81	comment	Manji is this in Blade of the Immortal. Although he has been hired as Rin's bodyguard, he repeatedly shows that protecting her is more than just his duty. It is later suggested that he cannot bear to let her die since she looks so much like his sister who had died under his protection.
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Failure Knight / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Haku. His father killed his mother and then turned on him afterward all due to both of them possessing a rare bloodline ability. Poor Haku's will to live saved him by killing his father and the rest, leaving the child a vagrant orphan in a village stuck in perpetual winter. When Zabuza offered him the opportunity to serve him and be useful, Haku accepted and became Zabuza's loyal servant. Jiraiya for Naruto when he returns to Konoha. Even in his dying moments, Jiraiya thinks of his entire life as nothing but a long string of failures: failing to win Tsunade's heart, failing to stop Orochimaru's descent into villainy, failing to save his student Minato and his teacher Sarutobi, and failing to stop his former student Nagato. Raising Naruto for the past few years to be a strong and capable young man was the only thing Jiraiya believes he did right.
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Failure Knight / int_3626dc6d	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_3626dc6d	comment	Zig-zagged in Nikita: after she fails to save Larissa, a woman she'd befriended during a brief period of captivity, Alex becomes invested in saving the people of Division, to the point of orchestrating a mutiny which she (irrationally) believes will allow everyone to live. However, it is eventually revealed that Larissa never existed, and that Alex had been brainwashed in order to exacerbate her existing survivor's guilt to the breaking point, with the expectation that she'd do what she eventually did. Subsequently, after the mutiny results in the actual, for real death of someone particularly close to her, Alex, still under the influence, attempts to pull off a second rescue, this time of a group of sex slaves.
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Failure Knight / int_37b56f7	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_37b56f7	comment	As his charge is killed during the opening of Baldur's Gate II, Minsc becomes unable to return to his homeland of Rashemen, as he would be utterly humiliated for his failure to protect hernote His ending slider reveals that he eventually returned anyway, hoping that his tales of his deeds would win him some respect regardless — at which point he finds out the rumours and stories that had spread to Rashemen were enough to get him accepted and even respected. Turns out tagging along with a semi-divine main character does have some perks.. This makes Minsc's devotion to the survivors of the first game's party (canonically, the PC, Jaheira and Imoen) all the stronger, as well as giving him a highly protective streak concerning Aerie, Nalia, Mazzy and Keldorn should they join you.
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Failure Knight / int_3a499752	comment	Balsa of Seirei no Moribito agrees to protect the prince despite the danger (and the attempted trickery) because she feels she has to atone for nine lives her Mentor took to keep her safe; furthermore Chagum is also a Replacement Goldfish for herself, as he is in pretty much the same situation she was in as a child.
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Failure Knight / int_3b34143f	comment	Severus Snape has a twisted version in the Harry Potter series. His failure and motive for his subsequent behavior don't become clear until late in the final book.
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Failure Knight / int_3c2b2d3d	comment	Sabretooth for his love interests, Monet, Bonnie, and Holly. He's controlled by an enemy to fatally wound Holly and fails to get her to a hospital. Bonnie was infected with a plague before they met & he has to kill her when the cure gets destroyed in the lab explosion. When Monet is cursed by Emplate, he helps hide it by covering for her & letting her feed on him. This allows Emplate to gain greater control over Monet, which leads to her Faceâ€“Monster Turn. He wanted to stay by her & help find a cure but due to the Resurr Xion relaunch dropping their relationship, it doesn't happen.
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Failure Knight / int_3d22c14b	comment	The death of her old boyfriend Emilio Ribisi is hinted to be what caused Leesa Kujo aka Sumeragi Lee Noriega's alcoholism in Gundam 00. She is more of The Strategist than of a knight, but it still fits well.
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Failure Knight / int_3f44e3d7	comment	Fakir from Princess Tutu fits this trope so well that villains actively mock him for it. He fiercely tries to protect Mytho from danger—partially for fear that he'll repeat the mistakes of the Knight from the original fairytale, whom he's the reincarnation of. In the story, the knight had tried to protect the Prince from the evil Raven, but was torn in two before he could strike a single blow on his enemy. As if that's not bad enough, it turns out that his desperate need to protect Mytho is compounded by suppressed guilt for his parent's deaths, who were killed trying to protect him when an attempt to use his powers to make stories come true went horribly wrong.
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Failure Knight / int_4033f8e8	comment	Guardian, being about Lulu from Final Fantasy X, has a thorough exploration of this attitude and how Lulu came by it. From the beginning, her narration describes Ginnem as "the first summoner I failed."
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Failure Knight / int_40438f71	comment	Sir Knolte of Marlborough in Black Knight (2001) (the one with Martin Lawrence), who used to be a respected knight in the service of the Queen, until King Leo usurped her throne. His greatest failure is preventing this. When Jamal finds him, Knolte is living in the woods and spends much of his time drunk. He is later convinced to lead La RÃ©sistance against the false king and kills The Dragon.
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Failure Knight / int_44fe781e	comment	Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion devoted herself to piloting from a very young age. The reason for that is later revealed to be very tragic: on the day she was accepted as a trainee, she ran to tell her mentally unstable mother Kyoko the news only to be the first to find Kyoko's body after she hung herself. To add insult to injury, Kyoko, even while alive, rejected Asuka for a doll and Asuka's father openly cheated on Kyoko with the woman's nurse and neglected Asuka as well. The real reason she wants to be the best pilot is that she feels it as a justification of her existence, essentially adopting her Eva as a Replacement Goldfish. Once it becomes painfully clear that Shinji is better, Asuka feels she has no reason left to live. When she realizes that her Eva isn't a Replacement Goldfish but the real deal, she instantly recovers... only to lose again due to circumstances out of her control. This time she crosses the Despair Event Horizon and stays that way.
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Failure Knight / int_482ba098	comment	Xerxes Break, formerly Kevin Regnard has this as a somewhat complicated backstory in PandoraHearts.
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Failure Knight / int_495f277f	comment	It has been revealed that Hayate the Combat Butler's title character's strength and devotion comes from having failed childhood friend Athena when he himself was a child.
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Failure Knight / int_49a87cb3	comment	Cloud and Aeris in Final Fantasy VII. It's because she is killed by Sephiroth and Cloud was unable to do anything.
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Failure Knight / int_4a2f06f1	comment	Yunita from Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is determined to protect Aire and save Horne, but Aire berates her for being late, they're separated early on, then the two boys she travels with ditch her one after the other and leave her with a severe inferiority complex, and she's conned out of all her possessions. It's probably a good thing she didn't find out until after meeting her again that Aire spent the good chunk of the game cursed into being a cat, otherwise her Heroic BSoD in Urbeth might have gotten even worse.
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Failure Knight / int_4a617228	comment	In Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield, Sensei Billingsley lost his son to a monster attack because he and his friends didn't know how to protect themselves well enough. He's since made it his mission in life to make sure all the kids in town are trained in self-defense.
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Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_4a617228
Failure Knight / int_4ddcf970	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_4ddcf970	comment	The hero of Flame of Recca immediately pledges his eternal loyalty as a ninja to his "Princess" Yanagi (a sweet healer) despite the fact that he had sworn only to do so for someone who's proven themselves stronger than him. This, of course, pisses off two characters who have a long history of trying to defeat him in order to make him their subordinate. And the whole reason why he does this? Because of a dream that was eventually revealed as his father's failure to protect HIS master, Sakura-hime.
Failure Knight / int_4ddcf970	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Knight / int_4ddcf970	featureConfidence	1.0
Flame of Recca (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_4ddcf970
Failure Knight / int_4f435544	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_4f435544	comment	The Anchors of Bliss Stage are pledged to love and protect the very, very fragile ANIMapilots: it's always safe to assume that they've seen more than one of their charges die. "Repeat (falling for a pilot who dies) until you get used to it. THAT'S what it's like to be an Anchor."
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Bliss Stage (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_4f435544
Failure Knight / int_50cb8af5	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_50cb8af5	comment	In The Vision of Escaflowne, we have two of these on opposite sides of the war. Allen Schezar, Knight of Astoria, feels guilty for not being able to protect his deceased Missing Mom and his long-lost sister Selena, kidnapped as a young girl. In the Zaibach empire, Jajuka the Beastman feels guilty because he also was unable to save Selena... from forcibly becoming Dilandau, thanks to the Mad Scientists of the group.
Failure Knight / int_50cb8af5	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Knight / int_50cb8af5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Vision of Escaflowne	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_50cb8af5
Failure Knight / int_526d4c5c	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_526d4c5c	comment	Occurs frequently in Knights of the Old Republic. Depending upon your character interpretation, Carth, Jolee, and Juhani in the first game and Atton, the Disciple, Mandalore, and Visas in the second all qualify.
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Failure Knight / int_526d4c5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_526d4c5c
Failure Knight / int_5293b208	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_5293b208	comment	Nico Saiba invoked this reaction in Taiga Hanaya when she called him her doctor in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. She meant it as a joke, but he failed to save someone once already and so was obligated to take care of her no matter how much he didn't want to. Her habit of trolling him and spoiling his attempts to be Mr. Tough Guy didn't make anything easier either.
Failure Knight / int_5293b208	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_5293b208
Failure Knight / int_56702e60	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_56702e60	comment	Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon: It's right there in the title. The first thing that ever happened to the skeleton soldier was he failed to protect the necromancer who raised him; apparently the next twenty years weren't much better, and he died failing to protect his succubus queen.
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Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_56702e60
Failure Knight / int_5921531b	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_5921531b	comment	In a way, Persona 4 has Yosuke, who loved Saki Konishi only to subsequently have her die. This is more subtle in that he didn't really have the power to protect anyone until after she died, but her death definitely drives him. The game kind of slaps him in the face by revealing that Saki hated his guts - she worked at the department store run by Yosuke's father, which was putting Saki's family's liquour store out of business, and despite her claims to the contrary, she secretly resented him for it.
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Persona 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_5921531b
Failure Knight / int_5dacc1e0	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_5dacc1e0	comment	Ellis McGaren from the Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever OVA channels her failure not only into protecting Fiasse but also into trying to show up Kyouya and Miyuki so they'll stop protecting her and leave them alone. Since Katanas Are Just Better, the opposite happens, and Ellis has to face her past as their Forgotten Childhood Friend.
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Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_5dacc1e0
Failure Knight / int_5eff4a2f	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_5eff4a2f	comment	Jake Gittes of Chinatown is haunted by the memory of a time when he tried to help someone and ended up hurting her instead. He's doomed to repeat the same experience by the movie's end.
Failure Knight / int_5eff4a2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Knight / int_5eff4a2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Chinatown	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_5eff4a2f
Failure Knight / int_5fa33285	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_5fa33285	comment	Sir Didymus of Labyrinth.
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Failure Knight / int_5fa33285	featureConfidence	1.0
Labyrinth	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_5fa33285
Failure Knight / int_630755ab	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_630755ab	comment	Araris Valerian in Codex Alera has a lot of this going on thanks to his failure to protect Septimus. He gets a second chance with his son, Octavian.
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Failure Knight / int_630755ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Codex Alera	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_630755ab
Failure Knight / int_63487daf	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_63487daf	comment	Also, Hegemon Claus Ingvalt from ViVid flashbacks, who has failed to save the Saint King Olivie.
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Failure Knight / int_63487daf	featureConfidence	1.0
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_63487daf
Failure Knight / int_65f49106	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_65f49106	comment	In Phantom Brave, Ash protects Marona to make up for failing to protect her parents. Nevermind that he died right along with them. This is also quite likely the source of his power as a Phantom. Most of the main cast of Marona's army release their power to get ready for a big fight by reciting a small incantation, unique to each character. Ash's incantation? Word for word the last thing he said before the battle where he failed to protect Marona's mother and died in the process.
Failure Knight / int_65f49106	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Knight / int_65f49106	featureConfidence	1.0
Phantom Brave (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_65f49106
Failure Knight / int_6a2e8d39	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_6a2e8d39	comment	Hayate's rather complicated attitude toward Himeno in Prétear - including his harshly critical behavior toward her but also more particularly his almost stalkerish protectiveness (especially in the anime) - is the result of his guilt over the previous Pretear, Takako, becoming the Princess of Destruction because of her unrequited love for him. Sasame has elements of this, too, particularly in the manga version—because of HIS unrequited love for Takako. At one point when Himeno is in danger, he panics, saying "I failed to protect the Pretear again!"
Failure Knight / int_6a2e8d39	featureApplicability	1.0
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Prétear (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_6a2e8d39
Failure Knight / int_6a8aff51	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin. He fails to protect his little brother, which drives him to try to protect anyone else he ever deems to be his responsibility (his spear squad, Bridge Four). His reaction is generally not pretty.
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The Stormlight Archive	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_6a8aff51
Failure Knight / int_6ae1d164	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_6ae1d164	comment	Tash Arranda in Galaxy of Fear has a mild version of this. She's thirteen and lost her homeworld Alderaan, and everyone she knew and loved except her little brother with it - and she's determined not to lose him or, as they get to know and care for each other, her uncle. Zak loves her and wants to protect her too, but the element of "Never again" isn't as clearly outlined with him. Their uncle Hoole takes them in and protects them initially for reasons similar to this trope - he unwittingly contributed to an Apocalypse How, and caring for kids whose homeworld is lost eases the guilt a little - but as he gets to know them better and care about them, after it was revealed that he wasn't as responsible for it as he'd thought he becomes more of a Papa Wolf.
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Galaxy of Fear	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_6ae1d164
Failure Knight / int_6bcd58c7	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Sin City invokes this trope quite a bit. The heroes have the Dulcinea Effect. They know they will probably get killed in their quests but they can't help but protect those around them (or at least avenge their deaths).
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Sin City (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_6bcd58c7
Failure Knight / int_6c2d5381	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_6c2d5381	comment	Takao, the heroine of Bokura no Kiseki, is extremely devoted to protecting the protagonist Harusumi, because in her past life, she failed to protect her sworn master, Veronica (who Harusumi happens to be the reincarnation of), and let her die. This is rather embarrassing to Harusumi because previously to Takao regaining her Past-Life Memories, the two of them had just started going out.
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Bokura no Kiseki (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_6c2d5381
Failure Knight / int_76e539c2	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_76e539c2	comment	Knight Zest of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. The constant guardian of Lutecia and Agito, who before the events of the season had lost his entire squad in a failed attack on one of Jail's research facilities. A squad that included the mother of Lutecia, Megane, as well as the mother of Subaru and Ginga.. Vita seemed to take on some of this trope after Nanoha is almost fatally wounded between seasons. Also, Hegemon Claus Ingvalt from ViVid flashbacks, who has failed to save the Saint King Olivie. There's the possibility that Signum becomes one of this after failing miserably in stopping Cypha of Huckebein from kidnapping two kids at the beginning of Force. Confirmed as of chapter 20, Signum apologizes twice to Tohma and Lily for not being able to save them and also talk about the unavoidable guilt she feels about it.
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_76e539c2
Failure Knight / int_78e27fa7	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_78e27fa7	comment	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Lady of War Fiora goes through this twice. First, she had a huge fight with her middle sister Farina that almost split up the family, and then her whole Pegasus Knight squad is slaughtered, so her youngest sister Florina must talk her out of going into a suicidal Foe-Tossing Charge. YIKES! There's also Harken, who obsesses over his failure to protect Lord Elbert from Nergal.
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_78e27fa7
Failure Knight / int_7c48915b	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_7c48915b	comment	Kat suggests this as a possible motivation for the mysterious bird robots in Gunnerkrigg Court. Specifically, that their creator lost his lover on the bridge so he built the birds to defend court students trying to cross the bridge. It now looks unlikely that this is the case, however.
Failure Knight / int_7c48915b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_7c48915b
Failure Knight / int_7dcc80c6	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_7dcc80c6	comment	In Chrono Crusade, Chrono's fierce devotion to Rosette and saving Joshua is due in part to the guilt he feels for killing Mary Magdalene through their contract in a misguided attempt to protect her.
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Chrono Crusade (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_7dcc80c6
Failure Knight / int_7ea098dd	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_7ea098dd	comment	Rachel Pidgley from "The Glass Scientists" deconstructs this. When she was a girl, her little brother went out one night looking for her and was stopped by police. When he tried to run, he fell off a fire escape and died. In the series proper this is given as the explanation for why she dotes on Mr. Edward Hyde, who bears a striking resemblance to him. This makes her treat him like her brother, which is a bit of an issue considering that Hyde is thirty-five, an uncaring jerkass and a wanted arsonist. He demonstrably doesn't give a shit about her and she knows it, but she feels too guilty over her brother's death to stop, enabling Hyde just for the fantasy that he's is still with her.
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The Glass Scientists (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_7ea098dd
Failure Knight / int_8125b468	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_8125b468	comment	Batman is Gotham's Failure Knight. Other characters who don't know his backstory find him insufferable, until they realize he feels everything.
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Batman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_8125b468
Failure Knight / int_819853fe	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_819853fe	comment	Noel from Final Fantasy XIII-2 feels he failed to protect Yeul and everyone else in his world. He also fails to protect Serah, who dies in his arms right after they beat Caius. And then it turns out that he didn't even succeed in protecting the future, as killing Caius allows the world to be destroyed. Damn...
Failure Knight / int_819853fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Failure Knight / int_819853fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_819853fe
Failure Knight / int_81e8cf0c	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_81e8cf0c	comment	Shao the Moon Spirit from Mamotte Shugogetten was shown to suffer from this in a flashback episode. Her masters who were actually good all eventually die anyway and most of her powers are seen as rather useless in the modern world.
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Mamotte Shugogetten (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_81e8cf0c
Failure Knight / int_86814cd2	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_86814cd2	comment	Steiner from Final Fantasy IX is a literal failure knight. Despite his personal skills, his platoon (The Knights of Pluto) is the laughingstock of the Alexandrian military, his attempts to help or protect the Princess are undermined by everyone else in the cast (including the Princess herself), and he eventually watches his own beloved Queen die, hoist by her own power-hungry petard. Fortunately, once he's hit rock bottom, things start to get better. When Bahamut attacks Alexandria, his men start to redeem themselves when they perform specialized duties like readying the cannons, gathering information, protecting the citizens, and sending for reinforcements. You learn about which knights specialize in each area when one of the Knights of Pluto gives information (in the first Disk) that this knight is a great fighter, these knights are great cannoneers, that this knight knows all the women in town, and things along that line.
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Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_86814cd2
Failure Knight / int_86814e56	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_86814e56	comment	Locke in Final Fantasy VI. He acts the knight-errant protector to Terra, especially when he finds out she has amnesia, and drops hints about a difficult past. Shortly thereafter he meets Celes and becomes utterly devoted. Locke swears to protect her, mentions a promise he had made to someone, other characters ask if he's "thinking of... her," and eventually we get the story: Locke was reminded, by both women, of his girlfriend Rachel. She was injured and lost her memories trying to save him. She later died, just after regaining them. Eventually, he revives her — only for a minute. That is long enough for her to forgive him, give her blessing to Celes and Locke's burgeoning romance, and die for good. Cyan also falls under this when Kefka poisons the water surrounding Doma castle, killing everyone inside, including Cyan's wife and son. Later on, after beating the Phantom Train boss, Cyan sees his wife and son depart to the afterlife, telling him that they love him and they thank him for all he has done for them. Though he tries to put it behind him, Cyan still blames himself for not being able to prevent the tragedy. In fact, during the World of Ruin, those negative emotions haunt him and cause a spirit fiend named Wrexsoul to appear in Cyan's dreams and feed off Cyan's soul. After the party defeats the monster, the spirit of Cyan's wife and son appear and they tell him to be strong and to keep living. This finally gives Cyan the strength to carry on, which causes him to fully master all of his Bushido techniques.
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Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_86814e56
Failure Knight / int_869bf533	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_869bf533	comment	Frank Horrigan of In the Line of Fire holds himself responsible for not stopping the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Someone taunts him with the possibility of history repeating itself.
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In the Line of Fire	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_869bf533
Failure Knight / int_86c3beca	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_86c3beca	comment	Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, of Girl Genius, could be considered a variation; instead of having lost his Great Love, he just thought he did. The second time drives him insane. Well, more insane.
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Girl Genius (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_86c3beca
Failure Knight / int_8d81bb26	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, it's implied that Gibbs's devotion to his team is at least partly due to the murder of his wife and daughter several years earlier. This may be especially true of Abby, who serves as something of a surrogate daughter.
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NCIS	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_8d81bb26
Failure Knight / int_90d45233	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_90d45233	comment	The Underland Chronicles: Poor Hamnet. He shouldn't have listened to his mother and let the flood gates open so that everyone would drown. Later we discover that Ripred is this for his dead mate and pups.
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The Underland Chronicles	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_90d45233
Failure Knight / int_90f42a9b	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time series, Bonded Warders can go a little crazy if their charges die - they are typically Driven to Suicide, Walking the Earth in an Unstoppable Rage against evil forces until they get defeated.
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The Wheel of Time	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_90f42a9b
Failure Knight / int_959e84f	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_959e84f	comment	In Dragon Quest VI, the Real World version of The Hero went off to fight Murdaw, but got banished immediately by Murdaw's magic. He wound up in Weaver's Peak, where everyone viewed him as a weakling and a coward. The only person who cared for him was Tania, hence why his Dream World counterpart is Tania's actual brother. Only once Weaver's Peak is attacked does the Real World hero become willing to face his fear and merge with his Dream World counterpart.
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Dragon Quest VI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_959e84f
Failure Knight / int_9819631f	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_9819631f	comment	Arguably, much the same thing happens to Silverbolt in Beast Machines, when Megatron turns him evil, removes his code of honor, and he likes it. Afterwards, he splits his time between brooding over his fall, seeking revenge and spurning the affections of his former lover, Blackarachnia
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Beast Machines	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_9819631f
Failure Knight / int_9bc018f7	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_9bc018f7	comment	Ex-private detective, now Hitman with a Heart Youji Kudoh from Knight Hunters is permanently haunted by his failure to protect his girlfriend and former partner, Asuka Murase, from being shot down during a job that went horribly wrong.
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Hitman with a Heart	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_9bc018f7
Failure Knight / int_9d47a2a2	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire is rife with these. To name a few: Jorah Mormont's wife Lynesse left him; now he is massively overprotective of Daenerys, who looks like her Sandor Clegane's past failure is unspecified, but may have something to do with Gregor killing their younger sister; now he protects Sansa Erstwhile Lord Commander of the Kingsguard Ser Barristan Selmy carries the guilt of being too cowardly to stop Mad King Aerys from starting a civil war... and equally guilty about failing to protect him from said war, not to mention failing to protect Prince Rhaegar at the Trident, and failing to protect King Robert from a Hunting "Accident". After getting forcibly retired by Joffrey, he threw his lot in with Daenerys Targaryen, and is absolutely set on protecting her whatever happens. Brienne of Tarth was in love with Renly Baratheon, who was the first man to pretend to treat her with something other than scorn, and swore to guard his life with her own; when he was killed by his brother, she was devastated. While she doesn't seem to be in love with Jaime Lannister, the fact that he was the first man to actually treat her with something other than scorn plus her single-minded devotion to fulfilling the oath she made to him smacks of this trope. Subverted with Ser Dontos, who is saved from execution by young Sansa Stark and helps her escape the Lannisters in return, but is really a greedy drunk spying on her for Littlefinger, who has him killed. Lord Jon Connington was close friends with Prince Rhaegar, and the way he thinks about him hints towards having felt more than friendship. Haunted by Rhaegar's death in the war that saw Jon exiled, he is now determined to restore Rhaegar's son Aegon to the throne.
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A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_9d47a2a2
Failure Knight / int_9e2f90f4	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In the Skypiea arc of One Piece, former ruler Gan Fall, after being unable to make peace with the Shandians or stop Enel from turning his kingdom into an Orwellian Dystopia, he puts on a suit of armor and dedicates himself to saving as many people as possible as the Knight of the Sky. In the Dressrosa arc, we have the Toy Soldier, who was unable to save Rebecca's mother Scarlett, and therefore devoted himself to Rebecca herself. Eventually, however, Rebecca was caught and forced to fight in the colosseum for her freedom as a gladiator. The reasoning for this devotion is because the Toy Soldier was not originally a toy; he was the legendary gladiator Kyros, who was forgotten thanks to the abilities of Sugar's devil fruit. He was also the son-in-law of King Riku by virtue of being Scarlett's husband; his inability to protect the mother of his child made him determined to protect Rebecca, his daughter.
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One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_9e2f90f4
Failure Knight / int_a037ae41	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_a037ae41	comment	Fate/Zero Lancer (a.k.a. Diarmuid Ua Duibhne) lost the trust of his lord Finn mac Cumhaill when he (accidentally) stole Finn's fiancÃ©. He joins the Holy Grail War for one reason: to successfully serve his Master through the War, thus atoning for his past failure. Unfortunately, his new Master's fiancÃ© falls for him much like Grainne did, poisoning the attempt right from the start. Berserker AKA Lancelot thinks he is this and was trying to atone for banging his kingÂ´s wife (who forgave him because they would be happier together). He completely snapped and killed several of his comrades. Not like he knows now that he is a Berserker.
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Fate/Zero	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_a037ae41
Failure Knight / int_a34863aa	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_a34863aa	comment	In a sense, Leonardo, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and particularly from the 2003 version) sometimes fall into this or feels like this. He hasn't always been able to protect his family from danger, and this has always tormented him.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise)	hasFeature	Failure Knight / int_a34863aa
Failure Knight / int_a4a6b86a	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_a4a6b86a	comment	From Code Geass: Sir Jeremiah "Orange-kun" Gottwald was the guard in charge of the imperial palace the day when Empress Marianne was murdered and never could forgive himself for such a terrible failure. The chance to atone by serving her son Lelouch is the basis for his Heelâ€“Face Turn. From the same show there is General Bartley who blames himself for the death of Prince Clovis, he spends the rest of the series trying to atone for it, finish their research and avenge the prince's death. His last words are even him calling out to his slain master. Suzaku Kururugi is also a fairly textbook example of this trope even before he actually becomes Princess Euphemia's knight. Her tragic death only exacerbates things, and by the time he gets to Nunnally's (apparent) death, Suzaku has hit the Despair Event Horizon.
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Failure Knight / int_a68c19b8	comment	Prince Shanan from Genealogy of the Holy War, as a child, failed to stop his leader's wife kidnapping and subsequent brainwashing by the enemy, who later killed almost everyone Shanan cared for. 17 years later, he's a badass and handsome swordsman who still feels horribly guilty after that mistake.
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Failure Knight / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy games are fond of this trope: Locke in Final Fantasy VI. He acts the knight-errant protector to Terra, especially when he finds out she has amnesia, and drops hints about a difficult past. Shortly thereafter he meets Celes and becomes utterly devoted. Locke swears to protect her, mentions a promise he had made to someone, other characters ask if he's "thinking of... her," and eventually we get the story: Locke was reminded, by both women, of his girlfriend Rachel. She was injured and lost her memories trying to save him. She later died, just after regaining them. Eventually, he revives her — only for a minute. That is long enough for her to forgive him, give her blessing to Celes and Locke's burgeoning romance, and die for good. Cyan also falls under this when Kefka poisons the water surrounding Doma castle, killing everyone inside, including Cyan's wife and son. Later on, after beating the Phantom Train boss, Cyan sees his wife and son depart to the afterlife, telling him that they love him and they thank him for all he has done for them. Though he tries to put it behind him, Cyan still blames himself for not being able to prevent the tragedy. In fact, during the World of Ruin, those negative emotions haunt him and cause a spirit fiend named Wrexsoul to appear in Cyan's dreams and feed off Cyan's soul. After the party defeats the monster, the spirit of Cyan's wife and son appear and they tell him to be strong and to keep living. This finally gives Cyan the strength to carry on, which causes him to fully master all of his Bushido techniques. Cloud and Aeris in Final Fantasy VII. It's because she is killed by Sephiroth and Cloud was unable to do anything. Steiner from Final Fantasy IX is a literal failure knight. Despite his personal skills, his platoon (The Knights of Pluto) is the laughingstock of the Alexandrian military, his attempts to help or protect the Princess are undermined by everyone else in the cast (including the Princess herself), and he eventually watches his own beloved Queen die, hoist by her own power-hungry petard. Fortunately, once he's hit rock bottom, things start to get better. When Bahamut attacks Alexandria, his men start to redeem themselves when they perform specialized duties like readying the cannons, gathering information, protecting the citizens, and sending for reinforcements. You learn about which knights specialize in each area when one of the Knights of Pluto gives information (in the first Disk) that this knight is a great fighter, these knights are great cannoneers, that this knight knows all the women in town, and things along that line. Lulu from Final Fantasy X went on two pilgrimages before going with Yuna. Both failed, but for differing reasons. The first journey was a summoner Lulu was unable to protect when they went to see an off-the-beaten-path Aeon, something she never forgave herself for. The second was a man who, upon reaching the Calm Lands, decided to abandon his journey — something many summoners end up doing once they reach that stage. Auron from the same game, however, is a Failure Knight because he succeeded in protecting his summoner (since the Final Summoning results in the summoner's death anyway). Being a guardian just kind of sucks all the way around. Noel from Final Fantasy XIII-2 feels he failed to protect Yeul and everyone else in his world. He also fails to protect Serah, who dies in his arms right after they beat Caius. And then it turns out that he didn't even succeed in protecting the future, as killing Caius allows the world to be destroyed. Damn... Yunita from Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is determined to protect Aire and save Horne, but Aire berates her for being late, they're separated early on, then the two boys she travels with ditch her one after the other and leave her with a severe inferiority complex, and she's conned out of all her possessions. It's probably a good thing she didn't find out until after meeting her again that Aire spent the good chunk of the game cursed into being a cat, otherwise her Heroic BSoD in Urbeth might have gotten even worse.
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Failure Knight / int_af583f46	comment	In the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All, Adrian Andrews is stubborn and very matter-of-fact due to her former mentor, Celeste, committing suicide. Doesn't help that the guilty party AND the victim of the case were directly responsible, and Adrian Andrews suffers from severe self-esteem issues. In the first game, you could make the case that Phoenix himself is Edgeworth's failure knight. Think about it: he allowed his entire career choice to be determined by his desire to help a guy he'd known for about a year when they were both nine years old.
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Failure Knight / int_b0c48482	comment	Jason to Kelly in Mystery Team.
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Failure Knight / int_b1694548	comment	Nigel Dantalian of Fey Winds is a war golem who failed to protect his master, the Alchemist, from the comic's resident Big Bad. The last order that the Alchemist gave Nigel was to find Sylphe and help her. He devotes himself to Kit because of the echoes of Sylphe's magic in her body.
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Failure Knight / int_b1df22ec	comment	Asbel from Tales of Graces fails to protect his friends during a childhood incident that left them all inches from death. He joins the Knight Academy to attempt to become stronger so he never fails again, but then promptly fails over and over. To his credit, he keeps trying, but several characters call him out on this.
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Failure Knight / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: How Brienne feels about herself after the deaths of Renly Baratheon and later, Catelyn Stark, neither of whom she was in a position to protect. Littlefinger even points out her inability to protect either of them in "The House of Black and White." This changes by the middle of Season 6, where Jaime praises her for succeeding in fulfilling her oath.
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Failure Knight / int_b7296d31	comment	In My-HiME, part of Mai's reason for being protective of her younger brother Takumi stems from her belief that her negligence led both him and their mother to almost drown in a raging river when they were young, leading to his current heart problems and their mother's death.
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Failure Knight / int_b9b796cf	comment	Saber of Fate/stay night has shades of this, which become more evident as the story progresses. As King Arthur, she failed to save the country she lived to serve, and perhaps even led to the civil war which tore it apart. Her sole wish is to erase her own existence, in the hopes that a different king will wield Excalibur, and succeed where she failed. And as Fate/Zero makes clear, this isn't the first Holy Grail War she's taken part in.
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Failure Knight / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Skarbrand is one of the most feared Bloodthirsters despite having been effectively abandoned by his patron god Khorne. After taking a swing at his boss (due to a Tzeentchian spell), Khorne picked him up and threw him so hard he didn't land for eight days and eight nights, destroying his wings on landing. Now a being of pure rage, he slaughters his way across the galaxy in the hopes of getting back into Khorne's good graces... fat chance of that: he's actually killed more people since than when he worked for Khorne.
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Failure Knight / int_bd310eaa	comment	Grace of El Goonish Shive, becomes one after failing to stop Damien when he killed everyone at the lab she grew up in. Grace also blames herself for not being able to help Nanase stop Abraham. Abraham himself is one because he failed his mentor in creating the Dewitchery Diamond which compounded his already serious problems and resulted in the deaths of at least five people.
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Failure Knight / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, Glenn is this way around Cyrus during Frog's backstory. In fact, getting over this event was the major point of a sidequest at the end of the game. This upgrades your Masamune to 200 Attack Power, making it Frog's best weapon. Lucca is also something of a Failure Knight. Having witnessed a horrific accident involving machines in her childhood, when we meet her as a teenager she is fanatical about technology and science, and shows particular compassion towards Robo. If you do a certain sidequest, she gets the opportunity to go back in time and prevent the tragedy where her mother lost her legs—turning it into a scary "near miss" which still has the same effect on the younger Lucca.
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Failure Knight / int_c154d9b6	comment	In the Basilisk TV series, Gyoubu Kasumi, from the Koga ninjas gets his backstory expanded so he's shown as a tragic, sad anti-hero who, as a child, was traumatised after seeing his beloved father Renbu die as a result of an Iga ninja attack.
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Failure Knight / int_c2463c55	comment	Lulu from Final Fantasy X went on two pilgrimages before going with Yuna. Both failed, but for differing reasons. The first journey was a summoner Lulu was unable to protect when they went to see an off-the-beaten-path Aeon, something she never forgave herself for. The second was a man who, upon reaching the Calm Lands, decided to abandon his journey — something many summoners end up doing once they reach that stage. Auron from the same game, however, is a Failure Knight because he succeeded in protecting his summoner (since the Final Summoning results in the summoner's death anyway). Being a guardian just kind of sucks all the way around.
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Failure Knight / int_c686bb8	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones we have Gerik, who tells Innes in their supports that he's always felt like crap for not preventing the death of an old friend who motivated him to become a mercenary. And there's also the matter of him finding out that the killer... was another good friend of his: Saleh, the Badass Bookworm. Who killed the other guy by accident and also considered it his greatest regret.
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Failure Knight / int_c75d67d	comment	Finch to Reese in Person of Interest. He holds himself responsible for the people whose lives were endangered but he did not, or could not, save, including Reese's love. Reese returns this to a degree, seeing Finch as the man who gave him a purpose in life and a way to save people.
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Failure Knight / int_c8bfc4b7	comment	Katia of Prequel is this to everyone who is nice enough to be her friend, aside from random guards.
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Failure Knight / int_cc0da260	comment	Ingrid in Freezing, having lost her friend Marine, becomes a Blood Knight version of the trope.
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Failure Knight / int_cc96802c	comment	In Kure-nai, Yayoi seems to be stalking Shinkurou and Murasaki to the point of obsession. At first, this is put down as just her being jealous that Shinkurou got assigned the job to protect Murasaki. However, it is later revealed that Yayoi once failed in her duty as a bodyguard to protect another client from murder, so this time she's extremely protective of Murasaki.
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Failure Knight / int_cddb86b2	comment	Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time's Alistair Azimuth is this until he goes a bit crazy and tries to reverse his failure.
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Failure Knight / int_cdedd56a	comment	Sean Napier from Exo Squad reversed this trope; his goal is to "fix his mistake": saving the life of Phaeton. Interestingly, there are indications that Phaeton is a variant of this. He must bring about Neosapien domination of the Solar System because he helped the Exofleet crush the first Neo revolt, albeit under duress; not to mention that the Neos were losing anyway.
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Failure Knight / int_ce9c80bf	type	Failure Knight
Failure Knight / int_ce9c80bf	comment	Hanamichi Sakuragi from Slam Dunk was badly traumatised by the death of his father. What makes it worse is that he was prevented of saving his dad's life by a bunch of bullies, who ambushed him when he was running towards the hospital, searching for help, in retaliation for him having beaten them up earlier.
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Failure Knight / int_d7e4cb80	comment	Tachibana of Gate 7. His Big Brother Instinct towards Hana is justified once it's discovered that he fails in protecting his own twin sister and she ended kipnapped by Iemitsu.
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Failure Knight / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the fact a legendary demon slayer failed to kill Muzan, with the added insult of he only escaping because Yoriichiâ€™s kindness distracted him by noticing Tamayoâ€™s sad nature by the sidelines. That weighted him down immensely since Yoriichi came to realize he was pretty much the strongest demon slayer to ever live, thus knowing very well Muzan would be responsible for many deaths to come without anyone at the time being able to put a stop to that terror.
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Failure Knight / int_e00d09c1	comment	Lateline had one of these, a snarky sassy secretary type who idolized the jerky lead anchor character.
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Failure Knight / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II has Aveline, who meets the Hawke family while defending her husband from Darkspawn, declaring "They will not have you, not while I stand." A matter of minutes later, it's revealed he's infected with the Blight, forcing either her or Hawke to Mercy Kill him. She spends the game's seven-year timespan juggling her roles as Captain of the Guard and Hawke's adventuring companion and is an equally fierce Team Parent in both. To put this in perspective, she's still in the running for the most well-adjusted character in Kirkwall.
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Failure Knight / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Setsuna is ashamed of her failure to save her ojou-sama, Konoka, from almost drowning when they were kids. Mana evidently failed to protect her partner, but continues to carry around his now inert pactio card. The circumstances regarding it are still unexplained, however, so exactly what happened is anyone's guess. Negi never got over failing to save his village. He was 4 years old, of course, but that didn't stop him from trying.
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Failure Knight / int_e7040124	comment	The basis behind Sakato in PokÃ©umans trying to become the fastest Pokeuman pretty much ever is because he wasn't good enough to save his friend Connor from Pokextinction.
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Failure Knight / int_e75c6d45	comment	Chief of Goblins seems to feel this at times. At birth, he was chosen as chief in order to prevent a civil war that would have destroyed his clan, but it cost the clan their glory and honor. As a result, he has shown a strong loyalty towards his warriors and when Kore found them, he chose to stay behind so the others could escape.
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Failure Knight / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening has a Pegasus Knight, Cordelia, go through a situation identical to Fiora's (a slaughtered squadron under her watch). Except in this case her fellow knights sacrificed their own lives willingly so she could escape. It haunts Cordelia deeply, especially in her supports with the Avatar, and in a conversation with Severa she mentions she "often dreamed of death" aka the slaughter of her wingmates!
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Failure Knight / int_edaffe15	comment	The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Bartimaeus in a way projects this onto Nathaniel (especially at the end of the third book) because of his failure to protect Ptolemy.
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Failure Knight / int_ee985816	comment	Mahoro from Mahoromatic not only was unable to protect Misato Suguru's father but had to kill him in the line of duty. When allowed to spend the rest of her (shortened) lifetime as she wants, she chooses to become the Misato family's maid and goes to serve and protect Suguru.
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Failure Knight / int_eeaaec28	comment	Akito from Martian Successor Nadesico was traumatized by being unable to protect the people he was in a shelter with from a Jovian attack at the beginning of the series — especially the little girl named "Ai" he befriended. who, as it happens, ended up being fine.
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Failure Knight / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist: Patrick Jane, while not helpful in the traditional sense, always saves his beloved Lisbon and her team after the death of his wife and daughter.
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Failure Knight / int_f06707a7	comment	The Bloodguard in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant probably fit this trope.
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Failure Knight / int_f1360d68	comment	G Gundam has George De Sand and the "Versailles Tragedy", where his opponent, Mirabeau, fired at the audience and killed several people
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Failure Knight / int_f6a54e75	comment	Mickey Mouse, of all people, is like this in Kingdom Hearts. In the first games, he prefers to work behind the scenes on his own and doesn't seem to want to get Sora and company too involved with what he's doing, only directly helping out when he has no choice. That's because in the prequel game, he does the opposite, running off to heroically join Terra, Aqua and Ven in battle and fight on the frontlines with them. However, he winds up accomplishing nothing and can only watch as Ven is rendered comatose, Terra and Aqua "disappear" and the Darkness starts to destroy worlds a year or so later just like they feared. Apparently he doesn't want Sora and co to end up like their predecessors.
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Failure Knight / int_fb9c177d	comment	Twist: Depth Charge from Transformers: Beast Wars isn't a Failure Knight... He's more of a Failure Vampire Hunter. He used to be a loyal, good-natured, reliable Maximal, an all-around good guy. What happened? Protoform X happened. The sadistic, violent experiment gone wrong pretty much literally ripped Depth Charge's life to shreds, and bringing the monster to justice is all Depth Charge has left. He has a way of showing up when he's needed and then telling whoever he just saved where to stick it which stems from him being more of a loner than most Failure Knights... but considering what happened to his last group of pals, maybe that's understandable. Arguably, much the same thing happens to Silverbolt in Beast Machines, when Megatron turns him evil, removes his code of honor, and he likes it. Afterwards, he splits his time between brooding over his fall, seeking revenge and spurning the affections of his former lover, Blackarachnia
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Failure Knight / int_fdc66d32	comment	Shoutaro Hidari, in Kamen Rider Double, is intensely devoted towards protecting his clients no matter what. He got too ahead of himself once while still working under his mentor. It caused the client (parent and child) to get hurt. With his mentor's teaching and his own guilt, Shotaro decided to never be so rash again. The sentiment is shared by Akiko in her more heroic moments as she indeed is a daughter of her father.
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Space Runaway Ideon / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Afterlife with Archie (Comic Book) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Death of the Venomverse (Comic Book) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Ex Machina (Comic Book) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Yoko Tsuno (Comic Book) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
A Fool Named Fortune / Fan Fic / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Manhattan Project II / Fan Fic / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Winter War / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Failure Knight
Fail to the King! (Fanfic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Multiversal Constants (Fanfic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Pokéumans (Fanfic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Shattered Dimensions (Fanfic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Ultimate Sleepwalker (Fanfic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Darth Maul: Apprentice / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Snow White & the Huntsman / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Hannibal Lecter (Franchise) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Record of Grancrest War / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Ashes and Dust / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Black Blood Brothers / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Bloodlines / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Kure-nai / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Labyrinths of Echo / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Lincoln in the Bardo / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Of Cinder and Bone / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Qualia the Purple / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Record of Grancrest War / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Star Wars: Master and Apprentice / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Bartimaeus Trilogy / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Silence of the Lambs / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Underland Chronicles / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Twelve Houses / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
DeadLittleSister	seeAlso	Failure Knight
Griffinhart	seeAlso	Failure Knight
Notdryad	seeAlso	Failure Knight
ROFLightning	seeAlso	Failure Knight
TwelveHouses	seeAlso	Failure Knight
Bokura no Kiseki (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Dawn of the Arcana (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Freezing (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Mahoromatic (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Murasakiiro no Qualia (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Slam Dunk (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Sora Log (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Voice Over! Seiyu Academy (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Rocher Hotel (Podcast) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
We Could Be Round One (Roleplay) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Jonathan Creek / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Revenge (2011) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Office (US) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Vampire Prosecutor / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Van Helsing (2016) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Bliss Stage (Tabletop Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Legend of Mana (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
MadMaze (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Saints Row IV (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Vampire Night (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Cucumber Quest (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Fey Winds (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Guardian (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
MS Paint Masterpieces (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
The Super Fogeys (Webcomic) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Infinite Ryvius / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Towa no Quon / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Spider-Girl (Comic Book) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
A Growing Affection / Fan Fic / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Vampire Princess Miyu (Manga) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
White Knight Chronicles (Video Game) / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight

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