You Have Failed Me.../Web Comics

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Examples of You Have Failed Me... in Web Comics include:

• The Order of the Stick. Xykon refuses to allow Redcloak to regenerate his right eye, calling it an "idiot tax" for failing him. He tells him to resurrect his hobgoblin henchman because he at least shouted a warning before being cut down by a hero.
  • Averted earlier by Therkla. She fails in her mission, but is able to deflect the blame to another minion. Her master praises her for weaseling her way out of her responsibilities, but then informs her next time, he will accept no loopholes.
• Parodied in Eight Bit Theater, where Kary kills her minions for no reason at all, thinking that it's something villains just "do", with the eventual effect that she runs out of them.
• This Antihero for Hire strip. To the Wizard's defense, he is genuinely insane and the Big Bad corporation made him so.
• Parodied and lampshaded in this strip of The B Movie Comic, titled "What henchmen are good for". See also The Rant, quite instructive.
• In Concerned, Dr. Breen (in here made a Card-Carrying Villain) tends to try and pull off a faux Force Chokehold when he's angry at someone, wishing for his minions to at least play along.
• Khrima, from Adventurers!, doesn't normally do this, but this particular minion really had it coming.
• Subverted in The Wotch. This villain prefers minions with initiative.
• In Sluggy Freelance Lord Horribus kills a couple of demons for not doing their part in the hunt for Torg. It's actually somewhat more understandable in this case, since it was less a case of the demons failing to capture Torg and more that they hadn't even been trying.
• In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, two of Frans Rayner's mooks report that they were unable to capture the Doctor's father because he was on fire. Rayner insists that he could catch both of his mooks if they were on fire, and has his midget douse them with gasoline and light a match to prove it. He just sits there and watches them run around screaming.

Assistant: You're not trying to catch them, sir?
Rayner: (Sips his coffee) No. I guess they were right.

• The Speaker in Harkovast forces a Junlock minion who disrespects The Speaker's religion to drown himself. He also causes the Junlock's friends to think this was perfectly okay.
• Krystal in Kid Radd loves to subvert this trope. Every time one of her subordinates brings bad news, instead of executing them, she just inflicts horrific pain on them.
• In Soapbox Hill, a Demon-chick gets defeated and cast back into the netherworld. Her overlord whispers in her ear "this is the third time you've failed me..." The look on her face is one of utter terror...
• Bob and George Your apology is accepted
• Parodied in Darths and Droids, during Obi-Wan's and Anakin's climactic duel:

Obi-Wan: Now I see I was fooling myself. You've earned a failing grade in Jedi Ethics.
Anakin: That's it, Obi-Wan! You've failed me for the last time!

• • When Darth Vader shows up (not played by the same person as Anakin - yet) one of the first things he does is order an underling to fix his mistake and then execute himself. The force-choke scene then becomes Motti complaining about Vader's policies instead of just mouthing off. Vader doesn't quite get the point.
• Exploited in Girl Genius:

Drusus: Heh. But you still haven't got all of me. My true body is no longer in Paris—
Colette: The devil may take your true body, you nasty little traitor. [spoiler] What, I wonder, will they do to you, now that you have failed?
Drusus: (stops being smug) Oh... Ah.

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