Line #55 Main/LuckTropes


1	[[quoteright:205:[[UsefulNotes/TarotCards https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WheelFortune10_9087.jpg]]]][[caption-width-right:205:Not to be confused with [[Series/WheelOfFortune the game show]]]]
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4	An index of tropes dealing with luck and fortune.
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6	Compare with ProbabilityTropes, which are about the statistical side of things.
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8	!!Tropes
9	[[index]]
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11	'''Related indexes:'''
12	+ FateAndProphecyTropes
13	+ GamblingTropes
14	+ ProbabilityTropes
15	+ ThisIndexHasHadAHardLife
16	+ ThisIndexIsCursed
17	+ TheUniverseHatesThisIndex
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19	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The number thirteen associated with bad luck.
20	* BadLuckCharm: An item is deemed as being unlucky.
21	* BadLuckMitigationMechanic: A game overrides an unmerciful RandomNumberGod as a reward for persistence.
22	* BeginnersLuck: The new guy will do better than the experienced guy because of luck.
23	* BornLucky: Someone is naturally lucky.
24	* BornUnlucky: Someone is naturally unlucky.
25	* ButtMonkey: Bad things keep happening to this person for some reason, (usually) so that we can [[PlayedForLaughs laugh at their expense]].
26	* ChainLetter: Bad luck is attributed to a chain letter.
27	* ChanceActivation: Someone luckily (or unluckily) activates a plot device.
28	* CoincidentalDodge: Someone escapes being attacked or killed because they just happened to move out of the way without noticing.
29	* CosmicPlaything: Someone is so unlucky, it seems like some cosmic force is picking on him.
30	* DiceRollDeath: Bad luck or random chance means you die.
31	* DoomMagnet: Someone has bad luck follow him and those he meets.
32	* DrawingStraws: Picking straws out of a bundle, usually to decide who has to do something.
33	* FixingTheGame: It's not gambling if you cheat.
34	* TheFool: A TooDumbToLive character whose incredible luck prevents their stupid blunders from actually harming them.
35	* FourLeafClover: Four leaf clovers associated with good luck.
36	* TheGambler: He's got a gambling theme going, and is often very lucky because of it.
37	* GhostLegLottery: An East Asian lottery format for assigning things (such as chores or prizes) to entities (usually people).
38	* GoodLuckCharm: An item is deemed as being lucky.
39	* GoodLuckGesture: A hand gesture used to gain good luck or avoid bad luck.
40	* HeadsOrTails: Luck dictates what will happen through a flipping a coin.
41	* IdiotHero: When TheHero gets thing done by simply being lucky rather than smart or skilled.
42	* TheJinx: He's a walking bad luck charm.
43	* KarmicButtMonkey: A character whose constant bad luck is very much deserved.
44	* LadyLuck: Luck personified.
45	* LifesavingMisfortune: A case of bad luck preventing someone's possible death.
46	* LotteryOfDoom: Where to be lucky is to lose.
47	* LuckBasedMission: Victory depends on luck, not skill.
48	* LuckManipulationMechanic: Game mechanics that let you re-attempt chance based elements to get a better result.
49	* LuckStat: A measure of how lucky a character is... whatever that means.
50	* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Rabbit's feet or rabbits associated with luck.
51	* LuckySeven: The number 7 is associated with good fortune.
52	* TheMagicPokerEquation: The more skilled you are at cards, the luckier you are in what hands you get.
53	* MoralLuck: Praising or blaming a character for an action, the outcome of which depended primarily on random chance.
54	* MillionToOneChance: Luck will guarantee something unlikely happens, no matter the odds against it.
55	* MisfortuneCookie: A fortune cookie fortells doom or bad luck for the person who opens it.
56	* NotMyLuckyDay: A would-be lucky character misses the opportunity.
57	* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: "Making your own luck" in games of chance through either paranormally knowing the outcome or affecting it.
58	* PlagueOfGoodFortune: A character with so much good luck, they consider it BlessedWithSuck.
59	* ProfessionalGambler: Someone who regularly deals with luck and probabilities.
60	* RandomDropBooster: Improves your luck with getting RandomDrop items.
61	* RandomNumberGod: How do you try to influence your luck?
62	* RightForTheWrongReasons: When you reach the right answer only by sheer luck.
63	* RussianRoulette: A hard way to test one's luck.
64	* SavedByThePunishment: When a character receives a punishment that saves them from danger.
65	* SerendipitousSurvival: Luck keeps you from being where you would have died.
66	* SuperstitionEpisode: A character does something considered unlucky and has bad luck for the rest of the episode.
67	* TwoHeadedCoin: A way to make one's own luck.
68	* UnintentionallyKarmic: The NiceGuy didn't mean to bring bad luck upon someone, but it’s okay because the someone deserved to suffer anyway.
69	* UnluckilyLucky: Their luck saves them from constant misfortune.
70	* WalkingDisasterArea: So unlucky that disasters follow in his wake.
71	* WindsOfDestinyChange: Changing luck as a superpower.
72	[[/index]]

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