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A RunningGag is that Joshua will ''always'' lose any kjind of coin toss he attempts. So much that he even loses ''rigged'' coin tosses. (To be fair, that one was against [[BornLucky L'Arachel]].)
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A RunningGag is that Joshua will ''always'' lose any kjind kind of coin toss he attempts. So much that he even loses ''rigged'' coin tosses. (To be fair, that one was against [[BornLucky L'Arachel]].)
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* Knoll from FireEmblemTheSacredStones is so unlucky that when rescued from the dungeons, he assumes that his execution date was moved up. His Luck Stat is appropriately low... It starts at '''zero.'''
A RunningGag is that Joshua will ''always'' lose any kjind of coin toss he attempts. So much that he even loses ''rigged'' coin tosses. (To be fair, that one was against [[BornLucky L'Arachel]].)
A RunningGag is that Joshua will ''always'' lose any kjind of coin toss he attempts. So much that he even loses ''rigged'' coin tosses. (To be fair, that one was against [[BornLucky L'Arachel]].)
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* In ""Hee-Haw" the quote above was used in a skit which started out with a song:
--> Gloom, despair, and agony on me;
--> Deep, dark depression, excessive misery;
--> If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all;
--> Gloom, despair and agony on me.
Then they go on to tell a sad story in poetic meter matching the song.
--> Gloom, despair, and agony on me;
--> Deep, dark depression, excessive misery;
--> If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all;
--> Gloom, despair and agony on me.
Then they go on to tell a sad story in poetic meter matching the song.
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* ''PhineasAndFerb'''s [[MadScientist Heinz Doofenshmirtz]] fits this trope to a T. His birth was so unlucky [[BeyondTheImpossible his parents even refused to show up for it]]!
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* Maggey Byrd from ''AceAttorney''. She is accused of murder no less that 3 times and can't seem to hold down a job; she is called "goddess of bad luck" in-game.
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* Maggey Byrd from ''AceAttorney''. She is accused of murder no less that than 3 times and can't seem to hold down a job; she is called "goddess "Goddess of bad luck" in-game.
Misfortune" and "Lady Luckless" in-game. She's never even won or tied at a game of tic-tac-toe!
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* Hayate of {{Hayate no Gotoku}}, he was given his name to be able to escape debt collectors. Since he's the male lead in a harem manga though, it's mostly averted, and he just thinks it applies.
** It's still played straight on occasion however. Just often enough to remind us it's there.
** It's still played straight on occasion however. Just often enough to remind us it's there.
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* Louis from ''KangarooJack''. Even his "lucky" shirt is stolen ''by a kangaroo''. At the end of the movie, the shirt is considered to have actually been lucky for getting them out of trouble, but this is arguable, as it may have been Charlie's presence and actions which ultimately saved all of them.
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* Joe Btfsplk from Li'l Abner. Among other things, typically had a little thunderstorm right over his head.
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* The main character in ''{{Holes}}'' finds a pair of shoes and is on his way to return them, and gets arrested. His family actually is cursed, because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather."
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* The main character in ''{{Holes}}'' finds a pair of shoes and is on his way to return them, and gets arrested. His family actually is cursed, because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather."" We later get that ancestor's side of the story.
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* On ''AvatarTheLastAirbender,'' [[AbusiveParents Ozai]] often says that his daughter Azula was BornLucky, while his son Zuko was [[KickTheDog lucky to be born]]. Zuko isn't quite like a lot of these other examples, but he ''does'' have a lot of crud to deal with as the series goes on.
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* Lelouch from ''CodeGeass''.
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Some folks who are BornUnlucky may also be TheJinx. The difference between these two is who the bad luck affects-- someone who's Born Unlcuky will slip on a banana peel, but a Jinx will cause everyone else in the room to slip on banana peels. Heaven help the former if he ever meets the latter. (Or, well, no-- it probably won't.)
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Some folks who are BornUnlucky may also be TheJinx. The difference between these two is who the bad luck affects-- someone who's Born Unlcuky BornUnlucky will slip on a banana peel, but a Jinx will cause everyone else in the room to slip on banana peels. Heaven help the former if he ever meets the latter. (Or, well, no-- it probably won't.)
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When you're BornUnlucky, it's like the world is out to get you. You, personally. Lucky pennies crumble in your hands; rabbits feet run away in terror. Black cats won't cross ''your'' path, and mirrors shatter preemptively when you walk into the room. When you walk outside, it starts raining; when you walk inside, your house collapses. The only time you attract good luck is [[YankTheDogsChain as a set up for even worse luck]]: You find a winning lottery ticket, but the wind picks up and blows it out of your hands... and into your rival's. You are really unlucky-- [[IronicEcho so mind-bogglingly unlucky it defies all chance]].
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When you're BornUnlucky, it's like the world is out to get you. You, personally. Lucky pennies crumble in your hands; rabbits rabbits' feet run away in terror. Black cats won't cross ''your'' path, and mirrors shatter preemptively when you walk into the room. When you walk outside, it starts raining; when you walk inside, your house collapses. The only time you attract good luck is [[YankTheDogsChain as a set up for even worse luck]]: You find a winning lottery ticket, but the wind picks up and blows it out of your hands... and into your rival's. You are really unlucky-- [[IronicEcho so mind-bogglingly unlucky it defies all chance]].
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* Karl Van Buren, a ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v3 character, seems to have this problem, as he's notorious for having extremely bad luck. Some of the things noted in his backstory include, in no particular order, almost drowning, the plane he was on sucking in two people, an ax falling down and hurting people while he was reading about an ax murder, and a tranvestite commiting suicide and landing on his car, among other things. He doesn't last very long in-game, having had his neck snapped by Gabriel Theobaldt. He even gets posthumous bad luck, as Victor Kurchatov comes across his corpse and... [[{{Squick}} you don't want to know]].
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* Karl Van Buren, a ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v3 character, seems to have this problem, as he's notorious for having extremely bad luck. Some of the things noted in his backstory include, in no particular order, almost drowning, the plane he was on sucking in two people, an ax falling down and hurting people while he was reading about an ax murder, and a tranvestite transvestite commiting suicide and landing on his car, among other things. He doesn't last very long in-game, having had his neck snapped by Gabriel Theobaldt. He even gets posthumous bad luck, as Victor Kurchatov comes across his corpse and... [[{{Squick}} you don't want to know]].
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* Karl Van Buren, a ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v3 character, seems to have this problem, as he's notorious for having extremely bad luck. Some of the things noted in his backstory include, in no particular order, almost drowning, the plane he was on sucking in two people, an ax falling down and hurting people while he was reading about an ax murder, and a tranvestite commiting suicide and landing on his car, among other things. He doesn't last very long in-game, having had his neck snapped by Gabriel Theobaldt. He even gets posthumous bad luck, as Victor Kurchatov comes across his corpse and... [[{{Squick}} you don't want to know]].
* Karl Van Buren, a ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v3 character, seems to have this problem, as he's notorious for having extremely bad luck. Some of the things noted in his backstory include, in no particular order, almost drowning, the plane he was on sucking in two people, an ax falling down and hurting people while he was reading about an ax murder, and a tranvestite commiting suicide and landing on his car, among other things. He doesn't last very long in-game, having had his neck snapped by Gabriel Theobaldt. He even gets posthumous bad luck, as Victor Kurchatov comes across his corpse and... [[{{Squick}} you don't want to know]].
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* Lytol in the ''DragonridersOfPern'' novels was like this for a while. He was a dragonrider, and his dragon died. He left the Weyr to become a weaver, raised a family, and lost his wife and daughters when Fax took over the Hold. Only after becoming Warder of Ruatha after Fax's death did his life stop being an ongoing disaster.
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* One splatbook for ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' attempted to introduce this with the "Jupiter Descending" flaw - an extra die would be rolled every time, with said die capable of subtracting a success from the roll. The problem is that it was only a one-in-ten chance of taking place, and was worth enough points to become a MinmaxersDelight.
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**Remade starring Danny Glover and Martin Short.
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* The main character of the film ''TheCloser'' seems to be this way. Simply standing in a casino causes everyone to start losing. It's cured when he gets a girlfriend, though.
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* The main character of the film ''TheCloser'' "The Cooler" seems to be this way. Simply standing in a casino causes everyone to start losing. It's cured when he gets a girlfriend, though.
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* An European fairy tale told the story of a man whose attempts to become wealthy never worked, while his brother's always did. While traveling, the man found the castle where [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Destiny himself]] lived. Destiny explains to the man that he was born on an unlucky day and that will be his luck forever. When the man asked what he could do about it, Destiny told him to tell everyone that all his properties actually belong to his niece, who was born on a lucky day. It worked- soon he was a prosperous man. But when at one point he couldn't help boasting about his riches, all of them disappeared instantly! (until he retracted and admitted they were his niece's.) Talk about CosmicPlaything...
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* The LindsayLohan movie "Just My Luck" was about a girl who was BornLucky but ends up trading luck with a guy who was BornUnlucky after they kiss.
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* Miranda from ''DGrayMan'', who was known in her hometown for this.
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Contrast BornLucky. Compare TheKlutz, TheJinx. See also CosmicPlaything, ButtMonkey, CosmicPlaything (destiny has fun messing with them), ButtMonkey (the butt of everyone's jokes), or ChewToy.ChewToy (someone whose constant pain is intended to amuse). If the bad luck is meant to be funny, it's because of ComedicSociopathy.
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* Donald Duck in the Disney Comic. Several stories revolve around his practically supernatural levels of misfortune.
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* Donald Duck DonaldDuck in the Disney Comic.comics. Several stories revolve around his practically supernatural levels of misfortune.
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** Even worse for people with Cursed: "Any time the GM feels like hosing you, he can, and you have no complaint coming, because you are Cursed." One thread in the [=SJGames=] forums reveal that the disadvantage frightened players so much that it was ''never'' taken at character creation.
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* The entire Bundy family in ''MarriedWithChildren'', but Al gets the worst of it.
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There may be significant overlap with CosmicPlaything, ButtMonkey, and ChewToy (especially the last one), but the key about being BornUnlucky is that it really IS "luck" that is bringing them down. A ButtMonkey can be a ButtMonkey because other characters tease him, but someone suffering this trope is always tormented by plum bad luck. Also, this can be PlayedForDrama.
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There may be significant overlap with CosmicPlaything, ButtMonkey, and ChewToy (especially the last one), ChewToy, but the key about being BornUnlucky is that it really IS "luck" that is bringing them down. A ButtMonkey Butt Monkey can be a ButtMonkey Butt Monkey because other characters tease him, but someone suffering this trope is always tormented by plum bad luck. Also, this can be PlayedForDrama.
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I wouldn't have no luck at all.
-->--"''Born Under a Bad Sign''"
[[BornLucky Some people have all the
When you're BornUnlucky, it's like the world is out to get you. You, personally. Lucky pennies crumble in your hands; rabbits feet run away in terror. Black cats won't cross ''your'' path, and mirrors shatter preemptively when you walk into the room. When you walk outside, it starts raining; when you walk inside, your house collapses. The only time you attract good luck is [[YankTheDogsChain as a set up for even worse luck]]: You find a winning lottery ticket, but the wind picks up and blows it out of your hands... and into your rival's. You are really unlucky-- [[IronicEcho so mind-bogglingly unlucky it defies all chance]].
Look for terms like "cursed" or "born under a bad sign", although they aren't required-- just so long as we know Lady Luck (or Fate, or the world, or God) doesn't like them very much. At all.
There may be significant overlap with CosmicPlaything, ButtMonkey, and ChewToy (especially the last one), but the key about being BornUnlucky is that it really IS "luck" that is bringing them down. A ButtMonkey can be a ButtMonkey because other characters tease him, but someone suffering this trope is always tormented by plum bad luck. Also, this can be PlayedForDrama.
Some folks who are BornUnlucky may also be TheJinx. The difference between these two is who the bad luck affects-- someone who's Born Unlcuky will slip on a banana peel, but a Jinx will cause everyone else in the room to slip on banana peels. Heaven help the former if he ever meets the latter. (Or, well, no-- it probably won't.)
Contrast BornLucky. Compare TheKlutz, The Jinx. See also CosmicPlaything, ButtMonkey, or ChewToy. If the bad luck is meant to be funny, it's because of ComedicSociopathy.
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!!Examples (if possible, elaborate on how their bad luck works):
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* Touma from ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' is a character with a supernatural ability to negate all other magical or psychic power or influence (ie., AntiMagic). As it turns out this is also the reason that he's cursed with bad luck - this being a magical universe, it also cancels out his "good fate".
* Himawari from XXXHolic, whose bad luck crosses over into TheJinx and DoomMagnet.
* ''UruseiYatsura'' - this is believed of Ataru Moroboshi.
* Seina Yamada from ''TenchiMuyoGXP'', who has luck so bad it is more or less successfully weaponized.
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* Sonya Rosencrantz from ''TankVixens''. Her designation is 'Unit Jinx' and her function is to deflect bad luck from the rest of the unit by attracting it to herself.
* Snake from the Australian newspaper comic ''SnakeTales''.
* Calamity James from ''TheBeano'' has this as his gimmck. It's sufficently bad to sabotage any attempt to make his luck better.
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* The French movie ''La Chevre'' (English title: "Knock on Wood"). A rich businessman's daughter goes missing. Since the girl is known to be extremely accident-prone, one of his advisers comes up with a crazy plan: send a person just as unlucky after her and maybe he'll attract the same trouble and so lead them to her. The characters go through a number of crazy adventures and coincidences that indeed leads them to the girl in the end. (A memorable scene is the businessman testing the hero after they first meet - even in a room full of chairs he will always sit on the chair that is broken.)
* The main character of the film ''TheCloser'' seems to be this way. Simply standing in a casino causes everyone to start losing. It's cured when he gets a girlfriend, though.
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* The main character in ''{{Holes}}'' finds a pair of shoes and is on his way to return them, and gets arrested. His family actually is cursed, because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather."
* ErastFandorin is BornLucky, but it has been established that luck alternates every generation in his family: both his father and his son were BornUnlucky (while his grandson Nicholas was extremely lucky again). The unlucky Fandorins, however, don't get mentioned much.
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* The protagonist of the song "Born Under a Bad Sign" of course.
-->Born under a bad sign
-->I been down since I begin to crawl
-->If it wasn't for bad luck,
-->I wouldn't have no luck at all.
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* ''{{Champions}}'' - Any character with 3 dice of Unluck.
* ''{{GURPS}}'' - Any character with the Unluckiness disadvantage.
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* In the ''TokimekiMemorial'' series, [[PluckyGirl Kyoko]] [[JusticeWillPrevail Izumi]] from ''Pocket'' and [[GenkiGirl Miyuki]] [[{{Dojikko}} Kotobuki]] from ''2'' (the latter even having as a CatchPhrase : "Tsuitenai no ka na~...", "I really have bad luck~...") : if anything bad happens, you can be sure it'll happen to them. Of course, this
* Maggey Byrd from ''AceAttorney''. She is accused of murder no less that 3 times and can't seem to hold down a job; she is called "goddess of bad luck" in-game.
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* Misery from ''RubyGloom'', whose entire family had the most outrageous bad luck. (In particular for Misery, she attracts [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning bolts]]. Even indoors.)
* Eugene from ''HeyArnold''. His birthday was on Friday the 13th.
* Bad Luck Schlepprock from the Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm AnimatedSeries.
* "Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one, but DonaldDuck!" Also probably the biggest example of TheChewToy.
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