Downfall
Downfall noun - Something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life.
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The Bad Guy Wins: Apparently, Alex is at large, a sociopath again and is made a propaganda icon/martyr by the increasingly totalitarian government in a move to avoid or even reverse its downfall.
Source: Film / A Clockwork Orange - In fact this ends up being his downfall; after his attempts to make metahuman weapons interferes in the Reverse-Flash's schemes once too often, he gets fed up with it and has Grodd effortlessly Mind Rape Eiling.
Source: Big Bad Wannabe
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