History Main / UnluckyEverydude

* Kouta from ''ElfenLied''. He is constantly found in [[AccidentalPervert compromising positions with female characters]] by... [[PrettyFreeloaders other female characters]], and is given a lot of flack for this by [[ClingyJealousGirl Yuka]]. Not to mention [[spoiler: his entire family ends up being killed]] because of one white lie.

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'': Karino ''is'' [[DoggedNiceGuy a nice guy]] and he's a reasonably good [[OccultDetective detective]]. The problem is, he's a bit of a bumbler, who's usually buried under a mountain of paperwork, due to the department he works for ([[ReassignedToAntarctica U Division]]) being severely understaffed[[note]]As in, only ''three people'' work there; including himself[[/note]]. To say nothing of his attempts to hook up with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Ayaka]] [[ChristmasCake Kisaragi]], who he assigns his extra cases to, as a personal favor. Which she appreciates and knows he's a good man... it just [[PlayingHardToGet she prefers to play hard to get.]]

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'': Karino ''is'' [[DoggedNiceGuy a nice guy]] and reasonably good [[OccultDetective detective]]. The problem is, he's a bit of a bumbler, who's usually buried under a mountain of paperwork, due to the department he works for ([[ReassignedToAntarctica U Division]]) being severely understaffed[[note]]As in, only ''three people'' work there; including himself[[/note]]. To say nothing of his attempts to hook up with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Ayaka]] [[ChristmasCake Kisaragi]], who he assigns his extra cases to, as a personal favor. Which she appreciates and knows he's a good man... it just [[PlayingHardToGet she prefers to play hard to get.]]

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Rock is introduced as a SalaryMan but he can be a stone cold {{Badass}} whenever he has to. If he had been a standard squeemish Unlucky Everydude, [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] would have gotten rid of him long ago.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Rock is introduced as a SalaryMan buthe can be a stone cold {{Badass}} whenever he has to. If he had been a standard squeemish Unlucky Everydude, [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] would have gotten rid of him long ago.

* Makoto from VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} presents himself as this, claiming his Super High School Level Good Luck is actually Bad Luck. [[spoiler: Until he gets re-titled as Super High School Level Hope, that is.]]

* Larry Butz in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series. He can't hold a girlfriend or a job and almost falls under ditz status. His friends mock his troubles by saying "When something smells, it's usually the Butz." Not to mention his annoying unlucky and dumb-witted personality gets some of the characters in the 3rd game to point out just how much of a menace he is to society. Still, he's pretty cute, and even though he gets in the way, he always has good intentions and does his best to help his friends out however he can.

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[[caption-width-right:350:When something smells, it's usually the Butz. Even if it isn't his own fault.]]

* Makoto from DanganRonpa presents himself as this, claiming his Super High School Level Good Luck is actually Bad Luck. [[spoiler: Until he gets retitled as Super High School Level Hope, that is.]]

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* Nate Tucker from ''[[Literature/PeterClinesFourteen 14]]'' by Peter Clines is more or less this in spades. That's before he goes to live at the [[EldritchLocation Kavach Building]]
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* Riiko in ''AbsoluteBoyfriend'' is an Unlucky Everydud''ette'', she has a string of rejections and doesn't seem to realize that her UnluckyChildhoodFriend has a crush on her (that or his teasing her simply puts her off).
* Keiichi Morisato in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' had trouble with girls due to his short height, which affected his self-confidence, but he is otherwise a moderate character; he has friends, went to a decent college, and has a knack for auto mechanics. His real problem is that he has absurdly terrible luck, to the point that even when things go his way, they do so via something else going horribly wrong.
* Similarly, Kaoru Hanabishi in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' had no real obvious issues (and was considered attractive) until his "unluckiness" was revealed as being the victim of orphanhood AND repeated [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] from his grandfather.
* Another RareFemaleExample is Minako Aino, better known as [[SailorMoon Sailor Venus]]. Especially in ''CodenameSailorV'' where her multiple crushes and rejections are a running joke [[spoiler:though not in the two cases where she has to kill said crushes, one of whom requited her affections.]]
** There is also an element of Irony with Minako. Her own series states early on she's an incarnation of Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Her senshi title is also the "Soldier of Love and Beauty" and she will play up the goddess of love angle when trying to get people together. And of course, since she's on this page, she is entirely unsuccessful herself in every pursuit. It's also stated at the end of her series that this is pretty much her fate as she's going to choose duty over love.

* Ryang Jegal of ''FaeriesLanding'' is actually cursed to suffer 108 doomed relationships. This is [[PlayedForLaughs played up for comedy]], of course.

** Hayate is a subversion: despite being BornUnlucky, his [[spoiler: [[ToyShip first love, Athena,]]]] cast a spell on him to unleash his true potential, which lets him [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower survive being hit by a car after riding a bike fast enough to catch up with it.]]
* Kazuya Hasukawa of ''HereIsGreenwood'' is prone to nosebleeds whenever he's stressed (like around his first crush, who ended up marrying his brother), attracts the kind of people who pick on him, is prone to illness, and has such bad luck that he was hit by a car on his way to his new school, delaying his entry by a month. That said, he's extremely fast, reasonably athletic, and at least decent in his studies.
* Jean Havoc from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is relatively attractive, an army officer, and generally a nice guy. Despite this, his bad luck with women is notorious among his friends and colleagues, who often add insult to injury by making fun of him for it. Not only that, but let's not forget the time his new girlfriend turned out to be [[spoiler:Lust]], who proceeded to [[spoiler:''stab him'' in the abdomen, effectively [[HandicappedBadass paralyzing him]] from the waist down]]. Poor, poor Havoc... [[spoiler: but he gets his leg mobility back in the end.]]
* Rock from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is a bit of a subversion since he has proven to be a stone cold {{Badass}} whenever he has to. If he had been a standard squeemish Unlucky Everydude, [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] would have gotten rid of him long ago. With a bullet.
* Sawada Tsunayoshi aka "Dame Tsuna" (useless Tsuna) from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' before he TookALevelInBadass. Unfortunately ([[HoYay or not]]), the family setup for him by his SidekickExMachina consists of more Bishonen than girls.
* At the other extreme, Keitaro Urashima in ''LoveHina'' was a victim of low self-esteem, bad grades and terrible luck with girls, and was initially only kept afloat by [[PollyAnna a near-irrational optimism]].
** Also, [[DistaffCounterpart Ema Maeda]] from the epilogue. Low self-esteem, [[BookDumb bad grades,]] [[{{Meganekko}} wears glasses,]] small breasts, [[CuteClumsyGirl klutzy?]] All check.
* Akito Tenkawa of ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' is traumatized (and continues to be so) to the point of actual Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But, for whatever reason, he still attracts a sizable UnwantedHarem.
* [[TenchiMuyo Tenchi...Tenchi...Tenchi.]]
** ... has ''nothing'' on Seina Yamada from ''[[TenchiMuyoGXP GXP]]'', who is so unlucky, it actually bleeds into the people around him. The first episode contains a scene of him walking to school, and bad things start happening to the people around him just as he walks by. He meets up with a friend carrying an umbrella (on a clear day), who says he brought the umbrella because he had a feeling he would run into Seina that day. Sure enough, he opens it just in time to shield himself as a car comes by and splashes mud on them. He puts it away, feeling good about himself... just in time for ''another'' car to get him. Seina puts the "UN" in Unlucky.
*** His bad luck is so bad, it's the reason why Fuku has that name instead of "Kou." Even though both can mean luck, "Kou" is also used in "fukou," which means "unlucky."
*** [[spoiler: Seina got '''raped''' on his wedding day.]] Whether this is good or bad entirely depends on the viewers opinion on such things but [[spoiler:Seina did appear to be relatively alright after the fact even though he just got another 4 wives due to the ordeal.]]
** [[SarcasmMode Yeah, Seina is so unlucky.]] Gets to be a space cop with multiple women inexplicably interested in him despite being TheKlutz, and a SociallyAwkwardHero, and gets to [[spoiler: marry them all in the end.]] [[InformedFlaw Yeah, he's unlucky.]]
*** I suppose that depends on how lucky you consider having multiple wives to be.

* Touma from ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'''s power is that his right hand actually ''generates bad luck''. Or to specify, his luck is sometimes implied to be a disposable resource, meaning it will eventually run out. A manga called 'Luck Stealer' demonstrates just how fatal this will be.
** Well, as Index puts it, by his right hand coming in contact with the air, it eliminates things like good luck and blessings from God (and of course, as seen in the series, it stops pretty much anything supernatural), so it's not so much that he has bad luck but rather that his right hand eliminates his good luck - the result being that he has no good luck (which could be considered bad luck, so it's arguably a case of semantics). However, as the preceding troper pointed out, there are times when Touma has referred to a good event using up what good luck he had.

* Ataru from ''UruseiYatsura'' takes unlucky to new levels, having been born on Friday [[FourIsDeath April]] 13th, during an earthquake, under a full moon, after his mother walked under a ladder and a black cat crossed her path, etc. He's so unlucky that the sole attempt to exorcise his bad luck backfired on him while simultaneously accidentally helping the {{Miko}} who attempted the exorcism.
** He somewhat falls behind in the "Everydude" part, though, seeing as how he's a {{Determinator}} and LoveableSexManiac of such intense perversion he's outright stated to be ''the'' most concentrated source of lust in the known universe. He comes off as average mainly because everyone else he hangs out with is even more bizarre... including a {{Tsundere}} with SuperStrength... his [[AccidentalMarriage "wife"]], an AncientAstronauts CuteMonsterGirl... a RoyalBrat[=/=]KidSamurai who routinely carries live steel and owns practically the entire country... said {{Royal Brat}}'s arch-rival, who is just as rich but spends most of his life dressed in rags and practising baseball... an unwilling {{Bifauxnen}} who is so good at being a WholesomeCrossdresser that she's more popular with the girls than the actual guys are, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer despite them knowing she's a woman]]... and Cherry.

* [[Manga/{{Beelzebub}} Furuichi]]. Full stop.

* [[{{Spiderman}} Peter Parker's]] first incarnation counts. A normal, if nerdy and weak high school student, who just happened be at the right place at the right time. Of course, SteveDitko forgot this and turned it into an Objectivist AuthorTract. And he turned college age Peter into a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Badboy]]. It continues to fluctuate DependingOnTheWriter.

* James is established as this from the beginning of ''Pervert!'', though he seems to become a ChickMagnet for any of his father's lovers. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that it turns out voodoo powers have made him sexually irresistible to women, DoubleSubverted in that [[spoiler: the voodoo curse has given his penis a life, and monstrous personality, of its own]].
* Although not with women, Louis in ''Film/KangarooJack'' is a cross between this, TheDitz and BornUnlucky.

* [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]] is this mixed with ButtMonkey.

* Joe in {{Wishbone}}

* The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series has Desmond Miles.

* [[{{Doug}} Doug Funnie]]
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Gus Griswald]]
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Philip J. Fry]]. "I've run over black cats who were luckier than me."
* [[WesternAnimation/{{KimPossible}} Ron Stoppable]]

The Unlucky Everydude is more often than not a MartyStu; because of [[DoubleStandard Double Standards]] they are very prolific without complaint, especially within the ShonenDemographic. Like TheEveryman, the Unlucky Everydude [[WishFulfillment has the tendency of becoming impossibly lucky and successful from the offset of the story despite the audience being told that his life prior was either average or dismal]]. They often are also [[SympatheticSue Sympathetic Sues]] and tend to suffer from DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome. Expect him to show his [[MartyStu MartyStuness]] through minimal to non-existent character development, [[FixerSue the tendency to fix other characters' (especially female characters) problems and personality flaws]], and a general lack of flaws entirely.

* Larry Butz in the ''PhoenixWright'' series. He can't hold a girlfriend or a job and almost falls under ditz status. His friends mock his troubles by saying "When something smells, it's usually the Butz." Not to mention his annoying unlucky and dumb-witted personality gets some of the characters in the 3rd game to point out just how much of a menace he is to society. Still, he's pretty cute, and even though he gets in the way, he always has good intentions and does his best to help his friends out however he can.

* Lithuania from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' is as close to this as a personified country can be.

* Rock from ''BlackLagoon'' is a bit of a subversion since he has proven to be a stone cold {{Badass}} whenever he has to. If he had been a standard squeemish Unlucky Everydude, [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] would have gotten rid of him long ago. With a bullet.

* Almaz from ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' is pretty normal except for low courage (gets better in chapter 4) and his [[{{ChewToy}} extremely awful luck]].

* KamenRider has three unlucky everydudes, and they are all from shows written by the [[YasukoKobayashi same writer]]. [[KamenRiderRyuki Shinji Kido]] ([[NamesTheSame who shares the same first name as the]] the well-known Anime ButtMonkey) [[KamenRiderDenO Ryotaro Nogami]] (who is so unlucky it makes DonaldDuck look like Lady Fortune's favorite boy) and [[KamenRiderOOO Eiji Hino]] ([[HiddenDepths who hides a]] DarkAndTroubledPast).

* Keiichi Morisato in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' had trouble with girls due to his short height, which affected his self-confidence, but he is otherwise a moderate character; he has friends, went to a decent college, and has a knack for auto mechanics.

* Jean Havoc from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is relatively attractive, an army officer, and generally a nice guy. Despite this, his bad luck with women is notorious among his friends and colleagues, who often add insult to injury by making fun of him for it. Not only that, but let's not forget the time his new girlfriend turned out to be [[spoiler:Lust]], who proceeded to [[spoiler:''stab him'' in the abdomen, effectively [[HandicappedBadass paralyzing him]] from the waist down]]. Poor, poor Havoc...