An index of tropes dealing with luck and fortune.
Compare with Probability Tropes, which are about the statistical side of things.
Tropes
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- 13 Is Unlucky: The number thirteen associated with bad luck.
- Bad Luck Charm: An item is deemed as being unlucky.
- Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic: A game overrides an unmerciful Random Number God as a reward for persistence.
- Beginner's Luck: The new guy will do better than the experienced guy because of luck.
- Born Lucky: Someone is naturally lucky.
- Born Unlucky: Someone is naturally unlucky.
- Butt-Monkey: Bad things keep happening to this person for some reason, (usually) so that we can laugh at their expense.
- Chain Letter: Bad luck is attributed to a chain letter.
- Chance Activation: Someone luckily (or unluckily) activates a plot device.
- Coincidental Dodge: Someone escapes being attacked or killed because they just happened to move out of the way without noticing.
- Cosmic Plaything: Someone is so unlucky, it seems like some cosmic force is picking on him.
- Dice Roll Death: Bad luck or random chance means you die.
- Doom Magnet: Someone has bad luck follow him and those he meets.
- Drawing Straws: Picking straws out of a bundle, usually to decide who has to do something.
- Fixing the Game: It's not gambling if you cheat.
- The Fool: A Too Dumb to Live character whose incredible luck prevents their stupid blunders from actually harming them.
- Four-Leaf Clover: Four leaf clovers associated with good luck.
- The Gambler: He's got a gambling theme going, and is often very lucky because of it.
- Ghost Leg Lottery: An East Asian lottery format for assigning things (such as chores or prizes) to entities (usually people).
- Good Luck Charm: An item is deemed as being lucky.
- "Good Luck" Gesture: A hand gesture used to gain good luck or avoid bad luck.
- Heads or Tails?: Luck dictates what will happen through a flipping a coin.
- Idiot Hero: When The Hero gets thing done by simply being lucky rather than smart or skilled.
- The Jinx: He's a walking bad luck charm.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: A character whose constant bad luck is very much deserved.
- Lady Luck: Luck personified.
- Lifesaving Misfortune: A case of bad luck preventing someone's possible death.
- Lottery of Doom: Where to be lucky is to lose.
- Luck-Based Mission: Victory depends on luck, not skill.
- Luck Manipulation Mechanic: Game mechanics that let you re-attempt chance based elements to get a better result.
- Luck Stat: A measure of how lucky a character is... whatever that means.
- Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Rabbit's feet or rabbits associated with luck.
- Lucky Seven: The number 7 is associated with good fortune.
- The Magic Poker Equation: The more skilled you are at cards, the luckier you are in what hands you get.
- Moral Luck: Praising or blaming a character for an action, the outcome of which depended primarily on random chance.
- Million to One Chance: Luck will guarantee something unlikely happens, no matter the odds against it.
- Misfortune Cookie: A fortune cookie fortells doom or bad luck for the person who opens it.
- Not My Lucky Day: A would-be lucky character misses the opportunity.
- Paranormal Gambling Advantage: "Making your own luck" in games of chance through either paranormally knowing the outcome or affecting it.
- Plague of Good Fortune: A character with so much good luck, they consider it Blessed with Suck.
- Professional Gambler: Someone who regularly deals with luck and probabilities.
- Random Drop Booster: Improves your luck with getting Random Drop items.
- Random Number God: How do you try to influence your luck?
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: When you reach the right answer only by sheer luck.
- Russian Roulette: A hard way to test one's luck.
- Saved by the Punishment: When a character receives a punishment that saves them from danger.
- Serendipitous Survival: Luck keeps you from being where you would have died.
- Superstition Episode: A character does something considered unlucky and has bad luck for the rest of the episode.
- Two-Headed Coin: A way to make one's own luck.
- Unintentionally Karmic: The Nice Guy didn't mean to bring bad luck upon someone, but it’s okay because the someone deserved to suffer anyway.
- Unluckily Lucky: Their luck saves them from constant misfortune.
- Walking Disaster Area: So unlucky that disasters follow in his wake.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Changing luck as a superpower.