Line #10 TheFool/Anime


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7	* Isaac and Miria from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}''. So much that the benefits of it seem to be ''contagious''. For example: ''accidentally'' stealing the [[ImmortalityInducer Elixir of Life]] and then, mistaking it for booze, cheerfully sharing it with twenty-odd [[LovableRogue affable]] [[TheMafia mafiosos]] that they've just met.
8	* Kaede Honjou/Maple of ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' turns a rookie error in stat distribution in a VRMMORPG into a GameBreaker that constantly stresses the developers out about how she breaks the game's balance ''by complete accident''. To start, she dumps all her points into Vitality, leaving all her other stats at zero (for reference, a zero in Agility leaves her walking slower than the average person). This makes every enemy in the starting area do absolutely no damage, and through messing around in the starting hunting area, she accidentally gains skills that quadruple her already insane Vitality and give her resistances and immunities to certain attacks thanks to the game having an AcquiredPoisonImmunity mechanic. Eventually, due to misinterpreting advice from another player, she wanders into encountering a hydra superboss, which she defeats by chugging healing potions until she gains poison immunity and then taking her sweet time eating at the hydra...[[EatingTheEnemy literally]] thanks to the hydra destroying her starting gear. Not only does this give her all of the hydra's powers, but by being the first person to beat it solo on their first try, she gets a unique equipment set that complements her build by pumping up her Vitality ''even more'', as well as being self-repairing and growth-capable. [[BeyondTheImpossible That's just the beginning]] and doesn't include things like the flight-capable combat pet and the ''form changes'' she gets later on.
9	* Shinichirou Tamaki from ''Anime/CodeGeass'', whose most noticeable traits consist of being a clueless Zero fanboy and avoiding certain death often. [[EnsembleDarkHorse And fandom didn't fail to appreciate it]].
10	** [[Characters/CodeGeassSuzakuKururugi Suzaku Kururugi]] is a deconstruction: He appears painfully naive to the true nature of TheEmpire he serves, and oblivious to the consequences of his actions, but it’s later revealed this is mostly deliberate denial on his part due to his many personal issues. He avoids death through a combination of [[TheAce his piloting skills,]] sheer luck, and the fact his enemy is also his best friend who doesn’t want him assassinated; only that he [[DeathSeeker actually wishes to die in battle]].
11	* Megumi Minami, Kintarou Tooyama, and especially Kyuu [[spoiler: Renjou]] from ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ''.
12	* Mister Satan from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has fought against Cell and Buu, but he never died. Actually, he is one of two Earthlings (the other is Uranai Baba) who never died in this series (excluding the people who were born after Kid Buu's death).
13	* Openly acknowledged as being the main (and besides cooking, perhaps ''only'') ability of Milfeulle in ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', perhaps related to her usually selfless behaviour. (See also: AllLovingHero) This ability is so powerful that, on the day her normally [[BornLucky good luck]] reverses, a black hole almost swallows the entire galaxy. She is also TheDitz.
14	* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Sakamoto Tatsuma pretty much epitomizes this trope. He appears clueless most of the time and reacts to everything with a cheerful disposition and his trademark laughter. Though this may be a case of ObfuscatingStupidity, [[spoiler: as he is also a successful businessman who owns a fleet of armed merchant spaceships, and in a flashback is shown to have been a serious, intelligent resistance fighter who gave up fighting for a lost cause and turned to commerce when he saw that the latter would be a more successful and less bloody way of bringing about better relations between the inhabitants of Japan and the Amanto aliens.]]
15	* The eponymous protagonist of ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'', unless he was just using ObfuscatingStupidity.
16	* TeamPet Iggy from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' acquires a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] "The Fool" which represents said tarot card. A cocky, sly and unpredictable dog, Iggy acts mainly as a SpannerInTheWorks despite [[KidnappedByTheCall being forced into a quest he doesn't want to partake]], [[spoiler:interrupting Anubis's sneak attack on Jotaro, finding DIO's mansion before anybody else, and saving Polnareff from a surekill attack from Vanilla Ice.]] Aside from his trickster's personality, "The Fool" is a flexible spirit made of sand, which can take any shape and is immune to all physical attacks.
17	** Pocoloco from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' counts as well. He's not the brightest of the bunch and his Stand, Hey Ya!, doesn't do much outside of give him words of encouragement. However, due to his supernaturally good luck, he was able to ''completely'' avoid fighting any other racer, some of whom are Stand users[[note]] [[YouCantFightFate And Stand users are predetermined to cross paths with one another, so that's saying something.]][[/note]], and even [[spoiler:win the Steel Ball Run]].
18	* Katarina Claes from ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' was all set to be a RichBitch and petty villainess in the [[RomanceGame Otome Game setting of "Fortune Lover"]] and then when she was eight years old she fell on her head and remembered her [[{{Reincarnation}} past life]]. Getting the genre devastating memories of having played said Otome Game combined with a personality of a (friendly) {{Cloudcuckoolander}} leads her to avoid her scripted doom with sheer obliviousness.
19	* Monkey D. Luffy of ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has drifted to this now and again. In the second chapter, he gets pulled into a giant whirlpool and survives because he hid in a barrel. In Skypiea, he gets trapped into the belly of a giant snake and avoids detection from Eneru's ESP. And in Impel Down, he falls from Level 3 Starvation Hell to Level 4 Inferno Hell by...falling into the Hell's giant, burning cauldron. However, in doing so, he managed to bypass the normal entrance, where the prison's entire staff was waiting for him, including the nigh-unstoppable Warden Magellan. Luffy tends to avoid danger by bungling towards slightly lesser-danger.
20	* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures:'' Gold, in contrast to his precursor Red, who is merely BookDumb. Gold is a lazy idiot. A RunningGag is Gold claiming after doing something that it was entirely his plan all along, and everyone around him thinking "liar".
21	* [[OneSceneWonder Femio]] from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' is almost an over-the-top parody of the trope. When the DarkMagicalGirl, Princess Kraehe, casts a spell on him so he'll literally and figuratively give his heart to her (so she can [[HeartTrauma feed it to her father]]), he ''almost'' falls for it... until he declares he can't, because his narcissism makes him believe he should be available for ''all'' women to love him. Both Kraehe and the eponymous MagicalGirl are left speechless by it.
22	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' has the eponymous Moon/Usagi, who found out she was Sailor Moon after rescuing a cat (Luna) from a bunch of bullies, and survived her first battles out of sheer luck and the support of her MysteriousProtector. CharacterDevelopment improves her as the series continues and she matures as a person and fighter, however, she never would have survived the first season if it wasn't for her fool's luck.
23	* Agent Daybreak from ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' is a clumsy, incompetent spy who only manages to complete his missions by sheer dumb luck (and making sure he succeeded was the quickest way for actually competent spy Twilight to make sure he left so ''he'' could complete ''his'' mission). He actually ''[[LethallyStupid leaves a signature]]'' once he completes the assignment.
24	* Matsuri gets promoted from a CuteClumsyGirl to TheFool in the second ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' {{OVA}}, in which she is pressured into shooting Miu with a rubber band which knocks Miu across the room, and then accidentally blocks Miu's kick in such a way as to send Miu writhing in pain on the ground.
25	* Mihoshi from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''.
26	** In fact, that's [[PlanetOfHats the hat]] of the whole Kuramitsu clan, who are legendary for [[BornLucky their luck]] and, often, for being [[TooDumbToLive dumb as a brick]]. However, two most prominent examples, Mihoshi and, in [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP GXP]], her mother Mitoto, aren't really stupid but are both more of a GeniusDitz. Just don't bring Mitoto's father Minami or her son Misao to the picture...
27	* In ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'', the sweet tattletale Yoriko Nikaido was actually the higher-ranking graduate from the police academy... through several strokes of luck (in the shooting range she aced by shooting in with her eyes closed, in the martial arts stage she slipped and this let her pin her rival to the tatami mat, etc.), much to the fury of her friendly rival, RichBitch Chie Sagamioono.
28	* Judai (Jaden) Yuki in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. Saiou (Sartorius) even designates him to the tarot card. However, in the third season, this is {{Deconstructed}} as his back story is revealed.
29	** It is possible that season four's events insinuate that Saiou himself is The Fool (in an inverse connotation, Tarot-wise), allowing himself to have been manipulated by fate and demonstrating no control over the outcome of events he put into motion.
30	** Regardless, the insinuation is that no matter whether [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil The Light or The Darkness]], Judai (The Fool) [[SpannerInTheWorks will always somehow prevail]]. (Keep in mind also that the [[LightIsNotGood Light]][=/=][[DarkIsNotEvil Darkness]] in Yu-Gi-Oh! has never been seen as Good[=/=]Evil, but instead extremes of ideology.)
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Context TheFool / Anime