Break up
Break up verb - To cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization.
Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Tycho and Gabe briefly break up and try to do their own comic strips, but both fail miserably.
Source: Putting the Band Back Together - Parodied in Gaia Online's Famestar Hero RIG: the fail scenario in the Pascal route has the band break up over a girl... that looks like◊ Yoko Littner.
Source: Yoko Oh No - Downer Ending: If you fail the Press X to Not Die sequence at the end, Ben and Norah break up and their helicopter pilot becomes infected with the same mushroom that made the wildlife aggressive.
Source: Video Game / Let's Go Jungle!
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