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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Roadrunner and Coyote short "To Beep or Not to Beep" ends with Wile E. Coyote getting a catapult with which he intends to flatten his nemesis...somehow, that is if he can get it to work right, since it keeps landing on him. No matter where he stands, the boulder (sometimes the catapult itself) lands on him, until he finally hides underground, at which point the thing doesn't do anything at all.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Roadrunner and Coyote short "To Beep or Not to Beep" ends with Wile E. the Coyote getting a catapult with which he intends to flatten his nemesis...nemesis... somehow, that is if he can get it to work right, since it keeps landing on him. No matter where he stands, the boulder (sometimes the catapult itself) (or another part) lands on him, until he finally hides underground, at which point the thing doesn't do anything at all.
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* ''WebAnimation/DumbWaysToDie'' has a series of people failing to live.
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* In ''Film/OctoberSky'' there's a long sequence of experimental rockets [[StuffBlowingUp exploding on the launchpad]] before the protagonists are shown figuring out what the problem is.
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* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' has the Avengers (except Natasha) try to lift Thor's hammer. Banner fakes HulkingOut, Rogers manages to budge it a little, and Stark... Stark tries it barehanded, with his gloves' retrorockets, and even has Rhodes join in.
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** There are a number of scenes in the show showing Homer industriously at work in his workshop, resulting in a sorry tangle of lumber and nails.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' there is a montage of Tiger training under Wiley Burp, bumbling through each exercise until he finally gets things right.
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* ''Film/ChickenRun'' starts with a montage of Ginger's plans to break out of the farm, each one ending with her being stuck in solitary confinement as punishment.
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Compare HumiliationConga, where the failures happen one after the other in real time. WritersBlockMontage and TerribleIntervieweesMontage are {{Sub Trope}}s. HilariousOuttakes are somewhere between this trope and the real world.
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Compare HumiliationConga, where the failures happen one after the other in real time. WritersBlockMontage WritersBlockMontage, TravellingSalesmanMontage, and TerribleIntervieweesMontage are {{Sub Trope}}s. HilariousOuttakes are somewhere between this trope and the real world.
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* In ''Anime/PlasticMemories'', Isla's attempts at retrieving Nina, a Giftia, or android, nearing the end of her service life. Chizu slams the door in each of her attempts for several days.
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* When the Admiral rearranges the fleets in ''Anime/KantaiCollection'', the newly-formed Mobile Unit Five is a RagtagBunchOfMisfits that can't get along and can't decide on a flagship. The girls decide to take turns as flagship on training missions. Each time, an enormous explosion at sea - followed by the dejected girls recuperating in the [[HealingSpring Repair Spa]] - tells us all we need to know about their degree of success.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something, finding a job, finding romance, or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something, finding a job, finding romance, or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, (in which case it will also probably include moments of EpicFail or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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* The first TrainingMontage in ''Film/CoolRunnings'' consists of shots of the team learning push starts. Nearly all of their attempts end in some combination of crashes, [[FacePlant face plants]], or people running after the sled.
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** The first TrainingMontagein ''Film/CoolRunnings'' consists of shots of the team learning push starts. Nearly all of their attempts end in some combination of crashes, [[FacePlant face plants]], or people running after the sled.sled.
** A variation occurs when they're trying to find someone to sponsor their team, which leads to a montage of various company representatives all laughing at them.
** The first TrainingMontage
** A variation occurs when they're trying to find someone to sponsor their team, which leads to a montage of various company representatives all laughing at them.
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* Seong-geun's {{Robinsonade}} in ''Film/CastawayOnTheMoon'' starts off as this, as he first attempts to hunt and catch food on the island. He tries to rig up a spear to catch fish, using a stick and a fork, but spears his own foot. Later he gets much better at it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Roadrunner and Coyote short "To Beep or Not to Beep" ends with Wile E. Coyote getting a catapult with which he intends to flatten his nemesis...somehow, that is if he can get it to work right, since it keeps landing on him. No matter where he stands, the boulder (sometimes the catapult itself) lands on him, until he finally hides underground, at which point the thing doesn't do anything at all.
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* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' has one of Rapunzel trying to shove the unconscious Flynn into her wardrobe. Even when she finally succeeds, his fingers are still sticking out.
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* The Sam Raimi ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' movies. Peter has a HowDoIShotWeb montage where he tries to figure out how to, well, shot web.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something, finding a job, finding romance, or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail, BeyondTheImpossible, or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something, finding a job, finding romance, or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail, BeyondTheImpossible, EpicFail or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail, BeyondTheImpossible, or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something something, finding a job, finding romance, or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail, BeyondTheImpossible, or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy, or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; see HowDoIShotWeb It is also frequent in a WhenYouSnatchThePebble situation.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; see HowDoIShotWeb It is also frequent in a WhenYouSnatchThePebble situation.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy, clumsy (usually went that happens, it will also include moments of EpicFail, BeyondTheImpossible, or HowIsThatEvenPossible), or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; seeHowDoIShotWeb HowDoIShotWeb. It is also frequent in a WhenYouSnatchThePebble situation.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; see
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* The Sam Raimi ''Film/{{SpiderMan}}'' movies. Peter has a HowDoIShotWeb montage where he tries to figure out how to, well, shot web.
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* The Sam Raymi ''Film/{{Spiderman}}'' movies. Peter has a HowDoIShotWeb montage where he tries to figure out how to, well, shot web.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'': After an encounter with [[ShockAndAwe Electro]] overloads his web shooters, Peter is shown trying to find a way to keep that from happening, resulting in him repeatedly making batteries explode and nearly starting a fire.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' has the ten-part montage "[=DiScOverIng thE meAninG oF=] '''THE ZEEKY WORDS!'''", a mission to Mars that fails at a different stage each time.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Blush" begins with several quick scenes of Dr. Drakken [[EvilGloating gloating]] at Kim that she is about to witness [[NothingCanStopUsNow his ultimate victory]], followed by Kim derailing his plan [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption as usual]].
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* Used frequently on ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' with some of the harder tasks. After establishing the difficulty the team or teams are having with the task, they will show said teams failing the task multiple times in quick succession, with a counter on screen to show the number of attempts the teams are taking to complete said task.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer is Mr Burns' assistant instead of Smithers who's on vacation, and Homer's making Burns breakfast. Every single meal he's trying to make ends up catching fire, even when he pours milk on cereals.
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* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': Cage is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop; when he dies the loop resets. He's a DirtyCoward sent to the front lines. Cue a montage of many deaths as he [[TookALevelInBadass levels up]].
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crippling injuries from the training robots, whereupon [[JerkAss she shoots him in the head]] to reset everything to start. Wake up, get trained, get injured, BoomHeadshot, wake up, get trained, make it to battlefield, YetAnotherStupidDeath, wake up, get trained, get injured, BoomHeadshot, wake up, BoomHeadshot, wake up...
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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' had a ClipShow involving the Action League standing before council to see whether they should retain their hero status or be declared a danger to the public for their incompetence. Each of the Leaguers' flashback to their past exploits don't really help their case, but the icing on the cake is Flesh's recollections which are presented in such a montage of how his clumsiness or carelessness only did more harm than good to the people he was trying to help.
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A type of {{Montage}}, and the approximate inverse of a HardWorkMontage, which shows a character or series of characters trying and failing to achieve some specific task such as building something or performing a skill. The intent is to show either that the characters are hopelessly inept or clumsy, or that the task is extremely difficult. If the attempters are protagonists, they'll usually succeed in the last shot; this may lead into a TrainingMontage, in which the attempter does gradually better each time, giving the whole scene a chiastic composition. Alternatively, the scene will cut out after the first success, the implication being that the character mastered the skill offscreen.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; see HowDoIShotWeb It is also frequent in a WhenYouSnatchThePebble situation.
Compare HumiliationConga, where the failures happen one after the other in real time. WritersBlockMontage and TerribleIntervieweesMontage are {{Sub Trope}}s. HilariousOuttakes are somewhere between this trope and the real world.
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* A [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episode]] of ''Anime/LastExile'' shows how the protagonists became messengers after being orphaned. Their biggest hurdle in doing the job was retrieving the messages, which were on a ring at the end of a long pole, which had to be grabbed via flyby in an aircraft, similar to a train seizing a mailbag. They miss many times and eventually have to practice on the ground, then at slow speed, before they can do it for real.
* Happens in the one-shot manga ''Section 459'', when the boss [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/194905/section-459_by_miammiam-team/30 tests Mugen]] to see if he is worthy to be a demon.
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* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'''s "I'll Make a Man Out of You" opens with a montage of all the soldiers trying and failing to [[WhenYouSnatchThePebble retrieve Shang's arrow from the top of a pole]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' there is a montage of Tiger training under Wiley Burp, bumbling through each exercise until he finally gets things right.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' has a montage of the appliances' failed attempts at finding ways of travelling out of the cabin.
* ''Film/ChickenRun'' starts with a montage of Ginger's plans to break out of the farm, each one ending with her being stuck in solitary confinement as punishment.
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* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' has several of these. There's one for Phil's failed attempts at wooing Rita (with repeated slaps in the face), another for his attempts to save the old hobo's life, and a particularly morbid one of him repeatedly committing suicide.
* ''Film/{{WarGames}}''. After David Lightman learns of the possibility of a back door into the system he wants to hack into, there's a long montage of him trying various means of discovering the password needed to open the back door. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFs5nX-cY1E#t=9m55s here]]. In a later scene, after he sees a video of Professor Falken and his deceased son, he realizes that the password is the son's name: Joshua. And it works.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'' demonstrates early on why the hero is the only one of his kind: repeated attempts to make another Robo Cop result in cyborgs that immediately self-destruct with the realization of [[WhatHaveIBecome what they have become]], [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters kill the scientists that made them]], or both. Eventually an executive figures out that they need someone with a very strong survival instinct who can be coerced into taking orders.
* The first TrainingMontage in ''Film/CoolRunnings'' consists of shots of the team learning push starts. Nearly all of their attempts end in some combination of crashes, [[FacePlant face plants]], or people running after the sled.
* In ''Film/AKnightsTale'', William's attempt to become a master jouster is at first fraught with failure, as he tries repeatedly to grab a ring with his lance or hit the shield of a practice dummy, to his friends' increasing dismay and frustration. After he finally succeeds at both, the film jumps to his first tournament, where he barely scrapes by with a win.
* ''Film/IronMan'' series
** The first film had a montage of Tony Stark working on parts to the Iron Man suit and having [[HilarityEnsues spectacular failure after spectacular failure.]]
** At the beginning of ''Film/IronMan2'', Tony Stark has to clear a Senate hearing, the U.S. government being nervous about his singular control of the Iron Man technology and the possibility that it might get into unscrupulous hands. To refute this fear, Tony takes control of their screens and shows what his competitors' attempts to make PoweredArmor have amounted to, all of which result in sheer property damage and/or severe injury to the test pilot.
* The Sam Raymi ''Film/{{Spiderman}}'' movies. Peter has a HowDoIShotWeb montage where he tries to figure out how to, well, shot web.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'': After an encounter with [[ShockAndAwe Electro]] overloads his web shooters, Peter is shown trying to find a way to keep that from happening, resulting in him repeatedly making batteries explode and nearly starting a fire.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': Cage is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop; when he dies the loop resets. He's a DirtyCoward sent to the front lines. Cue a montage of many deaths as he [[TookALevelInBadass levels up]].
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* One episode of ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople2013'' has Stephen attempting to access "Limbo" by trying to learn to stop time whilst teleporting. We get a nice montage of him and John trying to work that out, before concluding that they need a new approach.
* When the ''Series/MythBusters'' tested the claim that dental floss can cut through prison bars, Grant initially tried to build a floss-bot out of things a prisoner could plausibly get his hands on. Cue one Failure Montage, complete with bleeped-out swearing and frustrated throwing of robot parts.
* Played with in ''[[Series/TakeshisCastle Takeshi's Castle]]''. Common way of advancing the show past a straightforward non-group challenge is combining footage of several people failing it with one or two succeeding to pass.
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* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd regularly does this when a game is particularly difficult, showing clips of the increasingly frustrated Nerd repeatedly failing a section.
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':
** When Tex, York, and Maine are squaring off against the new Freelancer, their repeated failures as presented rapid-fire, showing just how comically outmatched they are by Tex.
** In season 12, the main cast is trying to get Felix as part of a training exercise. None of the attempts even come close.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to like this one a lot.
** "The Show Stoppers" has a montage early on featuring the Cutie Mark Crusaders trying and failing at various tasks in attempts to get their Cutie Marks.
** The Mane Cast during the "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me" song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]." All of them save Twilight Sparkle are shown trying, and failing, to do one another's jobs.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders, yet again, in the "Hearts as Strong as Horses" song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E5FlightToTheFinish Flight to the Finish]]." In this case the Failure Montage leads up to eventual success through teamwork.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]" has Pinkie Pie, feeling overshadowed as resident Party Planner Pony, trying out other jobs including operating room nurse, mailmare, and construction worker.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' had several failure montages for Mordecai and Rigby in different characters, some prominent examples being:
** Their training montage with the God of Basketball, so full of failures he declares them to be the worst Basketball players in history.
** Trying to clean up the park's abandoned ballroom, while ghosts undo everything they do.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' where the title characters are attempting to build a rocket, we are treated to several failed attempts, involving an equation on a chalkboard, old test launch footage, and the resulting ash-covered boys going back and modifying their equations.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Pickles", [=SpongeBob=] has trouble doing things right, and there's a montage of him trying to figure out how to get into bed.
** In "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] tries to retrace his steps to find his missing name tag by repeating everything he did that morning, from tripping down the stairs to tasting Gary's food to saying hi to Patrick. Unfortunately, Patrick keeps flubbing his lines, meaning that they have to go through the whole thing over and over.
* Combined with TravelMontage in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', as Team Avatar travels the Earth Kingdom trying to recruit the newly-awakened Airbenders, and showing Tenzin's utter lack of salesmanship as he unsuccessfully tries to convince each one to come learn the Air Nomads ways.
* ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' had a ClipShow involving the Action League standing before council to see whether they should retain their hero status or be declared a danger to the public for their incompetence. Each of the Leaguers' flashback to their past exploits don't really help their case, but the icing on the cake is Flesh's recollections which are presented in such a montage of how his clumsiness or carelessness only did more harm than good to the people he was trying to help.
This often occurs when someone gains a new superpower; see HowDoIShotWeb It is also frequent in a WhenYouSnatchThePebble situation.
Compare HumiliationConga, where the failures happen one after the other in real time. WritersBlockMontage and TerribleIntervieweesMontage are {{Sub Trope}}s. HilariousOuttakes are somewhere between this trope and the real world.
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* A [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episode]] of ''Anime/LastExile'' shows how the protagonists became messengers after being orphaned. Their biggest hurdle in doing the job was retrieving the messages, which were on a ring at the end of a long pole, which had to be grabbed via flyby in an aircraft, similar to a train seizing a mailbag. They miss many times and eventually have to practice on the ground, then at slow speed, before they can do it for real.
* Happens in the one-shot manga ''Section 459'', when the boss [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/194905/section-459_by_miammiam-team/30 tests Mugen]] to see if he is worthy to be a demon.
[[AC:[[AnimatedFilm Film - Animated]]]]
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'''s "I'll Make a Man Out of You" opens with a montage of all the soldiers trying and failing to [[WhenYouSnatchThePebble retrieve Shang's arrow from the top of a pole]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' there is a montage of Tiger training under Wiley Burp, bumbling through each exercise until he finally gets things right.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' has a montage of the appliances' failed attempts at finding ways of travelling out of the cabin.
* ''Film/ChickenRun'' starts with a montage of Ginger's plans to break out of the farm, each one ending with her being stuck in solitary confinement as punishment.
[[AC: [[LiveActionFilm Film - Live Action]]]]
* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' has several of these. There's one for Phil's failed attempts at wooing Rita (with repeated slaps in the face), another for his attempts to save the old hobo's life, and a particularly morbid one of him repeatedly committing suicide.
* ''Film/{{WarGames}}''. After David Lightman learns of the possibility of a back door into the system he wants to hack into, there's a long montage of him trying various means of discovering the password needed to open the back door. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFs5nX-cY1E#t=9m55s here]]. In a later scene, after he sees a video of Professor Falken and his deceased son, he realizes that the password is the son's name: Joshua. And it works.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'' demonstrates early on why the hero is the only one of his kind: repeated attempts to make another Robo Cop result in cyborgs that immediately self-destruct with the realization of [[WhatHaveIBecome what they have become]], [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters kill the scientists that made them]], or both. Eventually an executive figures out that they need someone with a very strong survival instinct who can be coerced into taking orders.
* The first TrainingMontage in ''Film/CoolRunnings'' consists of shots of the team learning push starts. Nearly all of their attempts end in some combination of crashes, [[FacePlant face plants]], or people running after the sled.
* In ''Film/AKnightsTale'', William's attempt to become a master jouster is at first fraught with failure, as he tries repeatedly to grab a ring with his lance or hit the shield of a practice dummy, to his friends' increasing dismay and frustration. After he finally succeeds at both, the film jumps to his first tournament, where he barely scrapes by with a win.
* ''Film/IronMan'' series
** The first film had a montage of Tony Stark working on parts to the Iron Man suit and having [[HilarityEnsues spectacular failure after spectacular failure.]]
** At the beginning of ''Film/IronMan2'', Tony Stark has to clear a Senate hearing, the U.S. government being nervous about his singular control of the Iron Man technology and the possibility that it might get into unscrupulous hands. To refute this fear, Tony takes control of their screens and shows what his competitors' attempts to make PoweredArmor have amounted to, all of which result in sheer property damage and/or severe injury to the test pilot.
* The Sam Raymi ''Film/{{Spiderman}}'' movies. Peter has a HowDoIShotWeb montage where he tries to figure out how to, well, shot web.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'': After an encounter with [[ShockAndAwe Electro]] overloads his web shooters, Peter is shown trying to find a way to keep that from happening, resulting in him repeatedly making batteries explode and nearly starting a fire.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': Cage is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop; when he dies the loop resets. He's a DirtyCoward sent to the front lines. Cue a montage of many deaths as he [[TookALevelInBadass levels up]].
[[AC: LiveActionTV]]
* One episode of ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople2013'' has Stephen attempting to access "Limbo" by trying to learn to stop time whilst teleporting. We get a nice montage of him and John trying to work that out, before concluding that they need a new approach.
* When the ''Series/MythBusters'' tested the claim that dental floss can cut through prison bars, Grant initially tried to build a floss-bot out of things a prisoner could plausibly get his hands on. Cue one Failure Montage, complete with bleeped-out swearing and frustrated throwing of robot parts.
* Played with in ''[[Series/TakeshisCastle Takeshi's Castle]]''. Common way of advancing the show past a straightforward non-group challenge is combining footage of several people failing it with one or two succeeding to pass.
[[AC: WebOriginal]]
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd regularly does this when a game is particularly difficult, showing clips of the increasingly frustrated Nerd repeatedly failing a section.
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':
** When Tex, York, and Maine are squaring off against the new Freelancer, their repeated failures as presented rapid-fire, showing just how comically outmatched they are by Tex.
** In season 12, the main cast is trying to get Felix as part of a training exercise. None of the attempts even come close.
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to like this one a lot.
** "The Show Stoppers" has a montage early on featuring the Cutie Mark Crusaders trying and failing at various tasks in attempts to get their Cutie Marks.
** The Mane Cast during the "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me" song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]." All of them save Twilight Sparkle are shown trying, and failing, to do one another's jobs.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders, yet again, in the "Hearts as Strong as Horses" song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E5FlightToTheFinish Flight to the Finish]]." In this case the Failure Montage leads up to eventual success through teamwork.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]" has Pinkie Pie, feeling overshadowed as resident Party Planner Pony, trying out other jobs including operating room nurse, mailmare, and construction worker.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' had several failure montages for Mordecai and Rigby in different characters, some prominent examples being:
** Their training montage with the God of Basketball, so full of failures he declares them to be the worst Basketball players in history.
** Trying to clean up the park's abandoned ballroom, while ghosts undo everything they do.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' where the title characters are attempting to build a rocket, we are treated to several failed attempts, involving an equation on a chalkboard, old test launch footage, and the resulting ash-covered boys going back and modifying their equations.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Pickles", [=SpongeBob=] has trouble doing things right, and there's a montage of him trying to figure out how to get into bed.
** In "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] tries to retrace his steps to find his missing name tag by repeating everything he did that morning, from tripping down the stairs to tasting Gary's food to saying hi to Patrick. Unfortunately, Patrick keeps flubbing his lines, meaning that they have to go through the whole thing over and over.
* Combined with TravelMontage in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', as Team Avatar travels the Earth Kingdom trying to recruit the newly-awakened Airbenders, and showing Tenzin's utter lack of salesmanship as he unsuccessfully tries to convince each one to come learn the Air Nomads ways.
* ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' had a ClipShow involving the Action League standing before council to see whether they should retain their hero status or be declared a danger to the public for their incompetence. Each of the Leaguers' flashback to their past exploits don't really help their case, but the icing on the cake is Flesh's recollections which are presented in such a montage of how his clumsiness or carelessness only did more harm than good to the people he was trying to help.
