Blow
To fail
Both terms in one sentence
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At one point Yuri threatens to blow up an entire testing area and murder the test director, and is only stopped when the director threatens to fail everyone involved if she doesn't back down.
Source: Superman Stays out of Gotham -
Doomed by Canon: Caesar and Malcolms attempts to establish a working peace between the two sides are destined to fail, as is Dreyfus last-ditch attempt to blow up the apes.
- He also caused the wish spell that created the Lost Age to fail catastrophically and blow the world back to the stone age, but only did so because that was a better outcome than if it succeeded, which would have resulted in a Time Crash.
Source: Destroyer Deity
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