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* ''ComicBook/BruceWayneNotSuper'': A montage of Bruce testing the original bat gadgets shows things like him tasering himself or almost being hit by the first batarang coming back at him.

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** After Bruce decides to make a costume based on a scary animal, the next couple pages show him in unthreatening and/or impractical animal costumes (like a cobra with no arm holes).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': In order to prove himself skilled though to go on a quest with Princess Peach, Mario is made to complete an obstacle course (which Peach easily gets through in one try just to demonstrate). Cue Mario failing, [[AmusingInjuries rather painfully]], dozens of times attempting the obstacle course all the way from sunset until sunrise. He never gets it, but his {{Determinator}} attitude impresses Peach enough to let him come along anyway.
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* ''ComicBook/BruceWayneNotSuper'': A montage of Bruce testing the original bat gadgets shows things like him tasering himself or almost being hit by the first batarang coming back at him.
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* ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': The strip shows [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Starscream]] trying to poison, shoot and VorpalPillow Megatron and comically missing every time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Po's many unsuccessful attempts to get into the audience that gathered to see the selection of the Dragon Warrior are compiled into a montage up until his fireworks idea.
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* ''The Founder of Diabolism Q'', the chibi SpinOff of the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', is a series of short gag episodes and so has multiple montages of characters comically failing even the most mundane tasks.
** Episode 11 has Wei Wuxian and the Jiang siblings attempting to resolve the Jiang parents' quarrel by giving gifts to the mother and pretending they're from the father. Cue montage of each gift backfiring in some way (such as a bouquet of flowers attracting a swarm of bees which gets everyone stung) -- by the time the father returns from his trip, the mother is ''angrier'' at him than before.
** A flashback in Episode 19 shows a montage of Jin Zixuan trying to court his crush and former fiance Jiang Yanli by growing a flower, carving a bell and cooking soup all for her. Thanks to his incompetence, however, each gift was ruined in some way, such as the soup being so bad he passed out from tasting it. Jiang Yanli appreciated the gestures and showed him her affection in the end, showing that his efforts weren't all for nought.
** Episode 21 mostly comprises a montage of Wei Wuxian's failed attempts to escape the Cloud Recesses. The first two attempts have him purposely breaking the rules in hopes of being kicked out, but Lan Wangji just stops him by casting a freezing spell on him. The last attempt has Wei Wuxian tricking him into drinking alcohol (which is against the rules) so that he can blackmail him into letting himself leave, however Lan Wangji just drunkenly ties him up.
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* ''Manga/DrStone'': Chapter 215 has one where the Kingdom of Science's [[spoiler:efforts to launch a rocket keep ending in either it flying off course or exploding. Though Senku and Xeno's smiles show they aren't too bothered by the streams of failed launches as they improve the rocket]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' episode "Kobayashi", Dal discovers the [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru simulation]] and decides to take it for a spin. In his attempts to win the simulation, we're constantly shown him getting blown up in various ways. One of those incidents has Dal and Jankom Pog huddled behind the tactical consoles and having forced the hologram simulations of Uhura, Spock, Dr. Crusher and Odo to hide with them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E06TheSpyHumongous The Spy Humongous]]": As they continue "Anomaly Consolidation Day", Mariner gets thorns shot into her face from a flower when she tries to smell it, accidentally electrocutes herself from holding an alien artifact improperly, and gets encased in slime on the ceiling from Tendi accidentally spilling a liquid substance out of its container.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'':
In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' episode "Kobayashi", "[[Recap/StarTrekProdigyS1E6Kobayashi Kobayashi]]", Dal discovers the [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru simulation]] and decides to take it for a spin. In his attempts to win the simulation, we're constantly shown him getting blown up in various ways. One of those incidents has Dal and Jankom Pog huddled behind the tactical consoles and having forced the hologram simulations of Uhura, Spock, Dr. Crusher and Odo to hide with them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E1ThanksToThem Thanks to Them]]", Willow, Gus, Amity, and Vee looking around Gravesfield to try to get more information about the mysterious map they found. They eventually find what they're looking for at the Gravesfield Historical Society, but before that, visit [[RuleOfThree three other places]] first with no success.
** At the costume shop, the shopkeeper runs them out of the store when Gus and Willow play around with the outfits and cause a scene, and she just looks at them in confusion when Willow tries to pay her with [[FictionalCurrency a gold coin from the Boiling Isles]].
** When they go to the library, Amity--who works in a library on the Boiling Isles with living filing cabinets that require bribery or gestures of respect to be persuaded to open--is confused when they don't respond to anything she does, and when a little girl just walks up and opens one, her shock and subsequent embarrassment causes everyone there to stare at her.
** They reluctantly try visiting the giraffes at the zoo, but it barely acknowledges their presence. They're about to leave, but Willow takes a picture of it first, prompting it to [[BrickJoke reveal its "freaky" insect-like insides and roar at them]] and making all four of them scream.
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* ''Webcomic/SailorRanko'': A TrainingMontage of Ranma training Akane to fight their way to the portal is followed by them [[http://sailorranko.com/comic/chapter-12-page-17 spending several weeks trying and failing to reach the portal.]]
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* ''FanFic/TheUltimateHope'' is a long conga line of every single murder motive Monokuma can think up either failing to have any effect or making the students even ''better'' friends than they were before.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the creation of Water 7's sea train is depicted in a montage including shots of the multiple failed prototypes that preceded the final Puffing Tom. This demonstrates just how difficult perfecting even one requirement for the final sea train was, let alone all of them.
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* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: Big Shot'': Greg's not excited about trying out for the basketball team, based on his previous experiences with school Field Days. Cue three consecutive illustrations of him on his 32nd strike in baseball, accidentally falling off the diving block on a swim team, and failing to block a puck in hockey. He says that he's been trying to block out these memories.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': in "Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!", [[spoiler: Donald and Penumbra stumble upon Lunaris' secret war room and view a tape of Lunaris testing out potential rockets for his planned invasion of Earth. His first two blew up when he tried to launch them (getting himself injured in the process), and the third rocket launched perfectly, but the robot dummy inside couldn't survive the trip, which was why he stole Della's ''Spear of Selene'' blueprints for his fleet.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E9SweaterLuckNextTime Sweater Luck Next Time]]", the Devil keeps appearing in every place where he intends to steal Cuphead's soul, only to get constantly zapped by the protective invisible sweater each time.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': in In "Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!", [[spoiler: Donald and Penumbra stumble upon Lunaris' secret war room and view a tape of Lunaris testing out potential rockets for his planned invasion of Earth. His first two blew up when he tried to launch them (getting himself injured in the process), and the third rocket launched perfectly, but the robot dummy inside couldn't survive the trip, which was why he stole Della's ''Spear of Selene'' blueprints for his fleet.]]



* An amusing cavalcade of failures is demonstrated in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' after [[spoiler:Megatron returns from his supposed death in the pilot three-parter, whereupon he promptly executes Starscream. Starscream turn gets an Allspark fragment stuck in his head and is brought back to life as well as an immortal zombie of sorts]]. Starscream being Starscream, he subsequently attempts to assassinate Megatron and fails repeatedly over the course of several minutes (implied to be several hours). Each time Megatron thinks he's rid of Starscream, Starscream returns unfazed to try again, much to Megatron's obvious and increasing annoyance. Starscream can't actually overthrow or assassinate Megatron, and Megatron can't actually get rid of Starscream despite his best efforts and firepower, making this a two-fer montage.

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* An amusing cavalcade of failures is demonstrated in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' after [[spoiler:Megatron returns from his supposed death in the pilot three-parter, whereupon he promptly executes Starscream. Starscream in turn gets an Allspark fragment stuck in his head and is brought back to life as well as an immortal zombie of sorts]]. Starscream being Starscream, he subsequently attempts to assassinate Megatron and fails repeatedly over the course of several minutes (implied to be several hours). Each time Megatron thinks he's rid of Starscream, Starscream returns unfazed to try again, much to Megatron's obvious and increasing annoyance. Starscream can't actually overthrow or assassinate Megatron, and Megatron can't actually get rid of Starscream despite his best efforts and firepower, making this a two-fer montage.
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* ''Film/{{WarGames}}''. After David Lightman learns of the possibility of a back door into the system he wants to hack into, [[HardWordMontage there's a long montage of him trying various means of discovering the password needed to open the back door]]. In a later scene, after he sees a video of Professor Falken and his deceased son, [[EurekaMoment he realizes that the password is the son's name]]: [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Joshua]]. And it works.

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* ''Film/{{WarGames}}''. After David Lightman learns of the possibility of a back door into the system he wants to hack into, [[HardWordMontage [[HardWorkMontage there's a long montage of him trying various means of discovering the password needed to open the back door]]. In a later scene, after he sees a video of Professor Falken and his deceased son, [[EurekaMoment he realizes that the password is the son's name]]: [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Joshua]]. And it works.
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* ''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. 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.

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* ''Film/{{WarGames}}''. After David Lightman learns of the possibility of a back door into the system he wants to hack into, [[HardWordMontage there's a long montage of him trying various means of discovering the password needed to open the back door. door]]. In a later scene, after he sees a video of Professor Falken and his deceased son, [[EurekaMoment he realizes that the password is the son's name: Joshua.name]]: [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Joshua]]. And it works.
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* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Episode 3 begins with a montage of Wolffy's attempts to use a vaulting pole to get past the Goat Village gate, with his three attempts falling flat - first, he crashes offscreen; then, he hits a beehive and gets chased by bees; and finally, he flies into the gate rather than above it.
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* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': In the episode with Ruly Ernando, Ruly challenges Adi to a pingpong match. Once Ruly decides to stop holding back, we get a montage of Adi failing to return Ruly's smashes.

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* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': ''Series/TetanggaMasaGitu'': In the episode with Ruly Ernando, Ruly challenges Adi to a pingpong match. Once Ruly decides to stop holding back, we get a montage of Adi failing to return Ruly's smashes.
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* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': In the episode with Ruly Ernando, Ruly challenges Adi to a pingpong match. Once Ruly decides to stop holding back, we get a montage of Adi failing to return Ruly's smashes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CatBurglar'': After you lose your first life, Rowdy will [[YouBastard chastise you for being careless with his lives]] before showing you why you’re only getting three lives instead of a cartoon cat's usual nine. His previous lives were lost, respectively, by being blown up by a TNT detonator, having a wall collapse on him, throwing a brick at a store window only for it to bounce back at him, be subjected to a BackwardsFiringGun gag while holding up a bank, get attacked by a KillerGorilla in an old lady's purse, and being executed via electric chair.
--> '''Rowdy:''' "Well, there's a reason they don't call me '''lucky'' cat'..."
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* PlayedForDrama in ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland''; the opening scene is a montage of almost everyone in Jasper's life demanding an explanation for his various failures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Soos and the Real Girl", there's a montage of Soos trying (and failing) to flirt with women (and [[AmbiguousGender an androgynous goth hanging around outside "Edgy on Purpose"]]) at the Gravity Falls Mall.
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* In '''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''' '''Journeys''', after a disastrous first battle against Gym Leader Bea, Ash submits his Riolu to fight foes with tentacles in order to better counter her Grapploct. Cue loss after loss that only drives Ash further into the CornerOfWoe (though he gets better by the end of the episode).

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* In '''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''' '''Journeys''', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Journeys'', after a disastrous first battle against Gym Leader Bea, Ash submits his Riolu to fight foes with tentacles in order to better counter her Grapploct. Cue loss after loss that only drives Ash further into the CornerOfWoe (though he gets better by the end of the episode).
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* In '''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''' '''Journeys''', after a disastrous first battle against Gym Leader Bea, Ash submits his Riolu to fight foes with tentacles in order to better counter her Grapploct. Cue loss after loss that only drives Ash further into the CornerOfWoe (though he gets better by the end of the episode).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' episode "Kobayashi", Dal discovers the [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru simulation]] and decides to take it for a spin. In his attempts to win the simulation, we're constantly shown him getting blown up in various ways. One of those incidents has Dal and Jankom Pog huddled behind the tactical consoles and having forced the hologram simulations of Uhura, Spock, Dr. Crusher and Odo to hide with them.
-->'''Spock:''' It appears he's lost the capacity for rational decision.
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** "The Cutie Pox" has one where the CMC try to cheer up Apple Bloom after another failed cutie mark venture. Her response for each is "No, it ''won't!''".

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