History Main / FailureHero

* ''Anime/OnePunchHero'': Mumen Rider is a reconstruction. He's not a good fighter and doesn't have any powers, but he unfailingly goes up against superior opponents while knowing he'll lose so he can [[HoldTheLine buy time for civilians to evacuate and stronger heroes to arrive.]] He's become beloved because of his sheer selflessness and willingness to put himself on the line every time.

* ''Anime/PrettyCure''

* The heroes of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' are [[HumansAreFlawed all too human]], and all too caught up in their own flaws and vices to really function as superheroes when it counts. One past iteration of the Minutemen gets disbanded before it even starts, thanks to the Comedian giving them all one long ReasonYouSuckSpeech about their ineffectiveness, [[spoiler: and by the time the present-day heroes show up to stop Ozymandias' plan, it's already gone off without a hitch, and everyone (except Rorschach) agrees to keep it a secret, despite the horrific devastation and lives lost as a result, because Ozymandias believes such a tragedy would unite nations and stave off an impending nuclear war. And it's implied that they fail to even do that, since Rorschach makes sure to leak the information in a journal where the press can find it]].
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers2023'' #2, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, in his [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall iconic usual style]], points out that [[ComicBook/{{XMen}} mutantkind]] are practically walking examples of this trope when telling them why they shouldn't kick out ComicBook/CaptainAmerica as leader. He points out both variations of the ComicBook/MutantMassacre and ComicBook/{{Inferno}} incidents where whenever the X-Men try to do something to save the day, things go down the crapper.

* ''Fanfic/{{Dominoes}}'' (''Manga/CaseClosed''): has a few examples, but as Yuusaku isn't a perspective character and his goals are still ambiguous, Hakuba ends up the most obvious. Despite being a lauded TeenGenius, detective, and superhero, Hakuba fails even at things he ''should'' be good at throughout the first and currently sole story arc. By the arc's climax Hakuba's [[spoiler:failed to even perceive the majority of the arc's criminal case until someone else explains it to him in the last chapter; failed to impede the arc's secondary villain from freely doing what he wants; failed to have ''any'' impact on the primary villains, who instigate the climactic Black Hole Crisis; failed to manage/control Shinichi, someone under his covert protective custody; failed to actually protect Shinichi; failed to protect the kidnapped children like he promised Shinichi; failed to have a meaningful impact in the protection of Tokyo during the Black Hole Crisis; and didn't even manage to obtain either nullifying agent (neither greater nor lesser), which he compromised several of his above goals for.]] About the only "successes" Hakuba leads his team to achieving are the death of the fireball "monster" in chapter 1 and assisting in the slew of minor incidents during the early gravity anomalies of the Black Hole Crisis, and even those are [[DeathOfAChild tinged with personal failure]] [[EmptyPromise in hindsight]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', Taran so wants to be a KnightInShiningArmour, but at almost no point in the film does he successfully do anything useful with his own skills: He loses Hen Wen almost immediately after being entrusted with her; when held captive by the Horned King he only escapes with the help of Eilonwy and the magic sword; and he unwittingly brings the Black Cauldron into the Horned King's hands by getting it from the witches with whom it probably would've been completely secure (as well as giving away the potentially [[StoryBreakerPower story breaking]] magic sword in the process). At the end of the film, Taran actually acknowledges that he's a failure as a warrior and forfeits his chance to become one in order to [[spoiler:resurrect Gurgi.]]

* In a variant of this trope, ''[[Literature/WorldsOfShadow Out of this World]]'' by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans is a rather vicious {{Deconstruction}} of both HighFantasy and the ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' style of sci-fi, so the hero fails because he's just an ordinary person in [[ThisIsReality the real world]] and the stuff he's trying to do is only possible by the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality. (At times the book swings towards DeusAngstMachina, particularly when [[spoiler:the villains rape and murder his wife ''and'' his daughter.]])

* ''Series/CobraKai'': Johnny Lawrence's personal life is a mess and over the course of the first four seasons he fails in almost every objective he has. Although he coaches Miguel to victory in the first season's All Valley tournament, this is a PyrrhicVictory as it comes at the cost of turning Cobra Kai into the exact kind of ThugDojo they were in the original films. In Season 2, he lets his rivalry with Daniel get completely out of control, which leads to Miguel being hospitalised and Kreese stealing his dojo. In Season 3, he does succeed in helping Miguel overcome his paralysis, but his relationship with Robby deteriorates to the point that he ends up making a FaceHeelTurn and joining Cobra Kai, and Johnny loses his climactic fight with Kreese and has to be rescued by Daniel. In Season 4, he fails to put aside his differences with Daniel until it's too late, gets the crap beaten out of him by Terry Silver, drives Miguel to run away from home, guides Eagle Fang to a distant third in the All Valley and [[spoiler:fails to coach Sam to victory in the final against Tory. However, he does get [[ThrowTheDogABone a bone thrown his way]] when he manages to reconcile with Robby at last.]]

* Walt Breslin, one of the main characters in ''Series/{{Narcos}}: Mexico''. After being the narrator of the first season, in Season 2 he and other DEA agents embark on Operation Leyenda to avenge the death of agent "Kiki" Camarena. While they do manage to capture and kill the TortureTechnician who actually committed the deed, they continually fail to seriously impede Felix Gallardo's cartel and eventually are almost completely wiped out when they walk right into a trap. Breslin himself doesn't even seem to understand why he's embarking on this crusade, with the suggestion that he's mostly doing it to fill a void in his non-existent personal life and Kiki's death (who he didn't know personally) is nothing more than a half-hearted excuse. Felix is ultimately deposed simply because the Mexican government [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness withdraws its protection]], even giving Breslin a stinging TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from his jail cell. This continues in season 3 as Breslin sacrifices his own happiness and personal honour to take down the cartels and achieves very little. In the end he is unable to to even [[spoiler: save the live of an informer.]]

* ''Series/TheShield'': While the Strike Team are at best NominalHero{{es}}, their mandated agenda is to lower crime rates and stop the drug trade in Farmington. They do manage to do the former for a while, but only because the Team's leader Vic is working with the most powerful drug gang and thus covering up their crimes. And for every new crime lord they take out, another one rises up to take their place. Though by the end of the series, their motives have shifted entirely to covering their own asses and getting away with their crimes.

** ''Series/IronFist2017'': Out of all the Defenders, [[Characters/MCUIronFist Iron Fist]]'s first season outing was the least impressive. All of his achievements were short-lived and most often manipulated into: [[spoiler:becoming the Iron Fist was for the wrong reason and he couldn't achieve full power; becoming Danny Rand was only possible because of Harold's manipulation; taking down Gao and Bakuto was entirely inconsequential because Gao got away unscathed and Bakuto can resurrect himself. The finale also implied that his leaving his post as the Gate Guardian led to a Hand invasion and the disappearance of K'un-Lun]]. That being said, he's able to enjoy '''some''' success come ''The Defenders'' [[spoiler:when most of the Hand is destroyed, although that doesn't explain what happened to K'un-Lun]].

** {{Exaggerated}} by [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary Admiral William Stenz]]. [[Film/Godzilla2014 Both]] [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 times]] he turns up to try and contain a Titan situation, the military's recourse goes completely awry and ends up [[EpicFail aiding the truly-hostile]] [[FromBadToWorse Titans' world-ending goals]]. The most that Stenz can do right is to help to clean up the catastrophic mess that the military have made, and even that consists of standing by and doing nothing (in the [[Film/Godzilla2014 2014 film]]), or creating a ginormous decoy on Godzilla's behalf (in ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 King of the Monsters]]''). ''And even in the latter case'', the film's {{novelization}} states that Stenz and the military fleet's assault meant to distract King Ghidorah was decimated much quicker and more spectacularly than Stenz or anyone else involved in the operation's planning had been expecting.

* ''No one'' is making successful rolls in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Homeward Bound 4''. Everyone is really stupefied about why [[spoiler: science would engineer such terrible dinosaurs.]]

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor had a case where a number of factors combined to create a team of Failure Heroes. Early in 2007, longtime TagTeam partners Wrestling/AustinAries and Wrestling/RoderickStrong split, with Strong forming the No Remorse Corps alongside hot new talents Davey Richards and Rocky Romero. Aries, the {{Face}} in this feud, teamed up with the less established wrestlers Matt Cross and Erick Stevens. Unfortunately, Aries was soon forced to leave ROH for a few months due to contract obligations with Wrestling/{{TNA}} -- leaving Cross and Stevens woefully outmatched by the No Remorse Corps. Wrestling logic dictated that the NRC get the early advantage in the feud, but without Aries around, Cross & Stevens had ''no'' credibility to begin with. By the time Aries returned, Cross and Stevens had already lost to the NRC so many times that nobody could get excited about their comeback.
* In Wrestling/{{TNA}} [=EV2.0=] had been this since day one, whether if it was during their feud with Wrestling/{{Fortune}} (led by Wrestling/RicFlair) or Immortal (led by Wrestling/HulkHogan). Whatever victory they managed to obtain was only short-term as they lost many of their key members, including the FBI, Wrestling/{{Sabu}}, Wrestling/{{Rh|yno}}ino, and Wrestling/{{Raven}}.

* Depending on codex and writer, the [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Imperial Guard]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Conscripted by the billion, given laughably inadequate equipment, following moronic plans by incompetent (if not outright traitorous) generals and of course, executed whenever they complain, piss themselves at the horrors they're facing or think of a way to win that ''isn't'' the way the Imperium has been doing for the past few thousand years. All for nothing, as the Imperium steadily crumbles further.

* Sigurd of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' ends up making the situation worse wherever he goes. Although he's a strong, kind, and justice-minded Lord who starts almost as a CrutchCharacter, his first solution to every problem is to apply military force. His attempt to rescue an abducted friend spirals into conquering a neighboring country, which his increasingly-imperialistic homeland greedily snaps up. Then he does it ''again'', and this time the friend he's trying to save dies, no matter what choice is made. He and his LoveInterest ignore prognostications of doom; she gets kidnapped and they come true. He tries to get Silesse's rightful king on the throne, but the nation ends up subjugated a few years later anyway (and the king becomes despised by his own people). Sigurd only realizes he's been a useful idiot for his nation's imperial ambitions after he's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] and is declared a traitor--and when he returns in an effort to clear his name, [[spoiler:he ends up dead]]. The only thing he does that turns out well is have a son who can go on to fix all the problems he caused.

* [[PlayerCharacter Otus]] in ''VideoGame/{{Owlboy}}'', [[PlayedForDrama already considered a failure and constantly chewed out by his mentor Asio even before the game starts for real]], goes out of his way to do things right but it always happens to backfire or accomplish nothing: chasing a troublemaker while on watch duty in Vellie actually gives an opening to the Sky Pirates that assault the village, [[spoiler:he is then sent to re-activate an ancient device that happens to be worn out beyond repair and no one will believe it and still punish Otus for failing, he then infiltrates the Dreadnought during the siege of Advent to sabotage it from inside, only for Molstrom to nearly kill him and destroy Advent by himself... While he does fulfill the role of activating the Anti-Hex and thus saving the world, he only had to in the first place because he interrupted the one who was going to do it anyway due to a misunderstanding. His net effect on the plot is nil.]] There is [[ThrowTheDogABone one possible exception to this]] at the end of the game: [[spoiler:By delaying the Anti-Hex ritual, he gave [[BigBad Nostrom]] enough time to arrive into the scene and try to stop Otus from finishing said ritual...which gets him killed in the end. So Otus is indirectly responsible for getting rid of the main antagonist of the game and avenging Advent and countless others killed by the pirates over the course of the story]].

* Whenever the [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter lead character]] in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' takes his examination for his boating license, Spongebob will almost inevitably either fail the examination, or manage to get his license... until some technicality comes up and Spongebob's license is rescinded and he has to take the course over again, much to the anguish of Mrs. Puff, who is stuck with once again teaching Spongebob.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[Characters/WakfuBrotherhoodOfTheTofu Yugo]] never seems to able get a total victory over the arc villains. With Nox, [[spoiler: Yugo actually DID beat him, at least after he successfully tapped into the power of the Eliacube, but before he could finish Nox off, he was distracted by Ogrest's roar (they had been teleported to Ogrest's mountain) and that gave Nox enough time to warp behind Yugo and finish HIM off]]. The only reason Yugo "won" was because [[spoiler: Nox's plan would never have worked, and he only had enough Wakfu to travel back 20 minutes in time]]. With Qilby, Yugo puts up a rather good fight with his newly found powers courtesy of Phaeris and the support of the Eliatrope children, but it simply isn't enough. The only reason he wins is because [[spoiler: Qilby's twin sister, still inside their Dofus, turns on Qilby and and separates him from the Eliacube while trying to dissuade him from his actions. While Qilby remains unrepetant, Yugo uses this opportunity to steal back the Eliacube and ultimately seal Qilby back into the White Dimension]]. With Ogrest, the opponent is simply too strong for even the combined power of Yugo (empowered by the six Eliatrope Dofus) and Sadlygrove (awakened as the god Iop), especially after he summons the six dragons connected to his Primordial Dofus. [[spoiler: They only win the day because Otomai, Ogrest's creator/father, manages to remove the six Primordial Dofus within Ogrest's stomach and convince him to let go of his anger]]. With Oropo, he remains completely outmatched despite absorbing power from the Eliacube and the six Eliatrope Dofus [[spoiler:which Oropo claims is due to how he knows all of Yugo's moves and abilities, but with centuries of retained experience to hone them, alongside having all the wakfu of the Eliotrope race on top of having the power of the Eliacube and six Eliatrope Dofus himself]], and barely manages to stall him for a few moments. In the end, it's Lady Echo who [[TakeAThirdOption finds a]] [[HeroicSacrifice solution]]. Although it should be taken into account that Yugo is still a child by the standards of his own biology and still put up a huge fight before going down. There’s also the fact that every villain had the Eliacube in their possession, which give them an even bigger boost in power that they’ve already had over Yugo. It's very likely that his enemies are only winning because he's trying to punch WAY above his current weight class. If Adamai's abilities in season 3 are any indicator, by the time Yugo reaches biological adulthood, he'll possess something close to Superman levels of power. In that case, odds are no one short of Ogrest or a fully-powered Oropo would have been able to lay a finger on him before he stomped them into the ground.

** ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''' Dick Dastardly, despite being as lukewarm a VillainProtagonist as you can possibly get, definitely falls into this trope. Even in the rare instances he conquers [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat his obsession to cheat]], he still manages to become a Boring Failure Hero. He actually managed to win ''once'', even to the narrator's surprise.

* The main theme of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', where all the characters are failures, both heroes and villains. It really says something when even the most badass character on the show, Brock Sampson, is a failure. Brock was a promising college football player who had to quit school because he accidentally killed a man on the field. Then he goes off to OSI, where he gets paired with a guy tagged as a crazy conspiracy theorist by the department. Despite being as awesome as he is, he gets assigned guard/babysitter duty to Dr. Venture, a washed-up, sociopathic OmnidisciplinaryScientist, and his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} kids. He's viewed as just about as much a waste of great potential in his field as Dr. Venture in his own. On top of everything, he can get any woman on the planet, except the one woman he actually loves.

** In ''Dawnguard'' they try to take on the Volkihar clan of vampires of screen. Not realizing that they are far, far stronger than any of those they've dealt with before. Resulting in the headquarters and leaders of the Skyrim branch of the order being wiped out. In a quest if you side with the Dawnguard, another of their members gets enthralled by a sorceress and brainwashes the rest of his party into doing her bidding.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''. His luck/skill during missions is almost always ''just'' enough to ensure that he lives to screw up another one. It gets to the point where villains will sometimes hire him to foil their own plots because they're so sure he'll fail.

* Whenever the lead character in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' takes his examination for his boating license, Spongebob will almost inevitably either fail the examination, or manage to get his license... until some technicality comes up and Spongebob's license is rescinded and he has to take the course over again, much to the anguish of Mrs. Puff, who is stuck with once again teaching Spongebob.

* Comicbook/{{Empowered}} frequently crosses into this trope. Especially in her earliest stories. She is a perennial loser who is constantly getting [[BoundAndGagged captured and tied up]] by supervillains, even bush leaguers like Glue Gun Gil and regular old non-super thugs. In fact it isn't until about the middle of the Vol. 1 that the reader actually sees Emp succeed at anything. Even when she does succeed it often backfires on her or her victory goes unnoticed by her fellow capes. Like when she defeated a supervillain that had taken out most of the Superhomeys by ramming him with a Humvee she ended up [[BoundAndGagged tangled in the seatbelt]] and [[JerkAss Major Havok]], despite being unconscious at the time, took credit for Emp's victory. Then again when the Capey's were besieged by Fleshmaster [[spoiler:aka [=dWARf=]!]] Emp single-handedly defeated him and saved the day!...And then her teammates promptly accused her of being the real mastermind behind the whole thing. [[spoiler:All that being said, in one volume Emp went up against Deathmonger and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome totally mopped the floor with him]]. Major Havoc doesn't believe her and calls BS on the whole affair, while Captain Rivet is skeptical, but the Superdead defended her and named her as their liaison with the superhero community, so that has to count for something.]]

* One of the major problems most fans have with ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' is that no matter what the heroes do, it almost never matters. They usually end up soundly defeated, and on the rare occasions that they ''do'' win, it still just furthers the villains' goals somehow.

* A problem in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series after ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', which applied via {{retcon}}. Anything the main characters do advances the AncientConspiracy's goals ''[[GambitRoulette somehow]]''. If the series didn't get a sequel after 3 it would have been a TheBadGuyWins DownerEnding to the series. Used in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. The main character Raiden [[spoiler:is told before the ending that all his actions have been scripted and defeating the BigBad would just help the group that has been forcing people to against their will. As a result, before the final fight against Solidus Snake, Raiden tells the Patriots {{A|rtificialIntelligence}}Is he prefers not to fight and is threatened with the death of his girlfriend and an infant if he is murdered. In the end, Raiden has to defeat Solidus, leaving the other conflict open for the next games]].

** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. Other than [[spoiler:killing Scaramanga]], Bond doesn't accomplish all that much.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' can't seem to write a good guy who ''isn't'' one of these, with Peter and Mohinder getting the worst of it (and Hiro beginning to catch up). On the rare occasions they aren't carrying the IdiotBall or VillainBall or doing a NiceJobBreakingItHero, they're up against opponents heavily favored by DiabolusExMachina. It's no coincidence that characters like Angela Petrelli, Noah Bennet, and Sylar -- ranging from morally ambiguous to downright evil -- tend to be extremely popular, given that they have been shown actually succeeding at their goals on a fairly regular basis.
** It feels like the writers constantly throw the idiot balls at Peter because, let's face it-- if he actually knew how to use his powers correctly he would be a GodModeSue, while the others... the writers just don't know how to write dramatic tension.
*** Oddly enough, when Peter [[DiscardAndDraw got a new power]] [[RePower after losing his original one]], he became a ''lot'' more effective.

* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris''. The title of the show alone should already give you a clue what the title character is.

A Failure Hero might make some headway against a rival or villain in the first or second round, but the rival or villain neatly trounces them before the end credits, sometimes thanks to a DiabolusExMachina. (The latter is especially common in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption potentially series-resolving situations]].) Any "wins" he does pull off are ambiguous and open-ended, [[UnwittingPawn further the]] [[EvilPlan villain's plan]], or blatantly make things [[NiceJobBreakingItHero that much worse for the unwitting hero]]. This, of course, tends to rob a given episode or movie franchise of dramatic punch when the viewer's reaction to a hero making steps to resolving their lifelong goal is "[[YankTheDogsChain You're Just Yanking Our Chains!]]" And if the hero is too much of a failure, the audience may decide to [[TheChrisCarterEffect abandon the story in frustration]].

A Failure Hero might make some headway against a rival or villain in the first or second round, but the rival or villain neatly trounces them before the end credits, sometimes thanks to a DiabolusExMachina. (The latter is especially common in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption potentially series-resolving situations]].) Any "wins" he does pull off are ambiguous and open-ended, [[UnwittingPawn further the]] [[EvilPlan villain's plan]], or blatantly make things [[NiceJobBreakingItHero that much worse for the unwitting hero]]. This, of course, tends to rob a given episode or movie franchise of dramatic punch when the viewer's reaction to a hero making steps to resolving their lifelong goal is "[[YankTheDogsChain You're Just Yanking Our Chains!]]"

** Both Nagisa and Honoka were reduced to this during the last stretch of first half ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' with the introduction of [[InvincibleVillain Illkubo]]. From here on, every episode consisted of the girls getting stomped by him who ended taking back all the Prism Stones, effectively undoing everything the duo of {{Magical Girl}}s did during the entire season. Luckily, once Illkubo was killed by the Dark King, things quickly improved for them.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Repeatedly applying TheWorfEffect to secondary cast members without giving them any wins has this side effect. [[FauxActionGirl Sakura Haruno]] and [[ButtMonkey Rock Lee]] arguably have it the worst, made all the more poignant by [[HardWorkHardlyWorks how very hard they try to avoid failure]].
** For an InUniverse example, Jiraiya sees himself as this. Despite being (arguably) the strongest of the three Sannin, he sees his entire life as nothing but a string of failures: he was unable to prevent [[WeUsedToBeFriends his best friend Orochimaru's]] FaceHeelTurn, [[DidNotGetTheGirl never had Tsunade]] [[UnrequitedLoveLastsForever reciprocate his affection]], wasn't there to save Minato from dying, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and his attempts to help the Ame orphans]] ultimately resulted in them going of the deep end and [[WellIntentionedExtremist take extreme measures to achieve "peace" in the world]]. At the end of his life, he considers that the ''one'' good thing he did in his entire life was training [[TheHero Naruto]] himself.

* Wrestling/JohnnyGargano has fallen into this, as he never seems to be able to win a title match despite showing that he is capable of doing so. It didn't really reach this point until he lost two straight takeovers to EvilFormerFriend Wrestling/TommasoCiampa, the most recent for the NXT Championship ([[NiceJobBreakingItHero which Ciampa managed to win in the first place thanks to him, by the way)]], both due to his recklessness. It's quite telling that Wrestling/TheVelveteenDream, then a heel, was able to get the Full Sail crowd to go from chanting "Johnny Wrestling" to "Johnny Failure."

* ''Series/NinjaWarrior'' competitor Katsumi Yamada has not only never managed to obtain Total Victory but from the 14th tournament on he hasn't even manage to complete ''the first stage''. The fact that he's focused his life completely on this (which cost him his job and his family) makes it all the more heartbreaking. Nevertheless, he is considered an All-Star, and fans (as well as the other All-Stars) continue to cheer him on for him to one day reach on top of Midoriyama.

** It feels like the Writers constantly throw the idiot balls at Peter because, let's face it -- if he actually knew how to use his powers correctly he would be a GodModeSue, while the others... the writers just don't know how to write dramatic tension.

* One of the sample comics in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase]]'' features the titular "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Failure Man]]", who attempts to stop an asteroid from crashing into Earth. It goes as well as you'd expect.

** Both Nagisa and Honoka were reduced to this during the last stretch of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' with the introduction of [[InvincibleVillain Illkubo]]. From here on, every episode consisted of the girls getting stomped by him who ended taking back all the Prism Stones, effectively undoing everything the duo of {{Magical Girl}}s did during the entire season.