Failures
Gain
Gain noun - Something added (as by growth).
Both words in one sentence
- Rather than doing it to gain an advantage, though, she's already beaten him and is just throwing his failures in his face before she kills him.
Source: Shapeshifter Guilt Trip - Reconstruction: As noted above, this is Captain Planet if it was done realistically, with the five teenagers feeling like failures, being real people and going against villains who are only out for their personal gain, and we see how tough it is for them.
Source: Fan Fic / Heroes For Earth -
In the Catherine Zeta Jones movie, it's explicitly an Invoked Trope; she says that not having an awesome coronation was one of her husband's many failures, and a coronation will serve to gain the respect of advisors and the people.
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