Characters / Luck (2022)

Sam Greenfield

Samantha "Sam" Greenfield

"I found an actual, lucky penny! And what did I do? I flushed it down the toilet."

Voiced by: Eva Noblezada

• Big Sister Instinct: Sam has this for Hazel, even though they aren't sisters.
• Born Unlucky: Sam has grown up with the worst luck in the world, causing her to lose numerous items, face constant obstacles, and stay in the foster care system long enough to age out of it.
• Cool Big Sis: Despite her extreme misfortune, Hazel views Sam as this.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Sam is a child in foster care whose bad luck has extended to her finding a foster family. The film begins on the same day that she ages out of the system.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Sam is a fairly attractive young woman with a set of Hartman Hips. She's also quite the klutz due to her bad luck.
• Determinator: Sam's motivated to help her friend Hazel get adopted. Even if it means going through a lot of obstacles (including her own bad luck) to do it.
• Didn't Think This Through: Sam's idea to turn off the bad luck pump and have Bob turn it on again after an hour or two. It seems to work at first, but Sam didn't consider that the bad luck dust would continue to enter the pump at a pretty quick rate. This causes the pump to clog, explode, and shut the Randomizer down.
• A Girl and Her X: Sam (a human) teams up with Bob (a cat), and both go on an adventure in the Land of Luck. Near the end the movie Bob decides to live with Sam in the human world, which Sam more than happily accepts.
• Hartman Hips: Sam has these.
• Hates Being Alone: Sam ages out of foster care, and is sad when she has to live in her new home by herself.
• Heroic BSoD: She goes through one when her efforts to help Hazel get adopted cause the Randomizer to shut down and take away Hazel's chance of adoption, cause her to find out that Bob's actually an unlucky English cat and accidentally reveal to Babe and the rest of the Good Luck creatures (except for Bob and Gerry) that she's actually a human. Bob manages to get her out of it.
• Nice Girl: Despite her bad luck, she's very caring, loving, compassionate, curious and brave.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Samantha, but she's always referred to as Sam.
• Statuesque Stunner: Downplayed in her world. In the Land of Luck, though, Sam is complimented for her height, as the only other humanoids are dimunitive leprechauns.

Bob

Bob/Robert

"Good luck to us both."

Voiced by: Simon Pegg

• Accent Slip-Up: After being outed as a bad luck English cat rather than a good luck Scottish cat, Bob drops his faked Scottish accent and spends the rest of the movie using his natural British speech pattern.
• Cats Are Magic: He's a talking cat from the magical Land of Luck.
• Cats Are Snarkers: He has his moments. Particularly this line when he was talking to himself:
  Bob: How was my day? Oh, it was lovely! Thank you. Just brilliant. Lost my travel penny and was chased across the city by an unrelenting human zombie.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: When it's revealed he had a lucky penny taped under his collar to pose as a lucky cat, he says he lived eight lives in Bad Luck before he got that penny.
• Expressive Ears: His ears will either be pinned back or pointed straight up depending on what emotion he's feeling.
• Mr. Exposition: In the teaser trailer, he talks to the audience about luck. In the movie, he's this to Sam. He tells her about the Land of Luck, talks about how things work there, and answers her questions about it.
• The Reveal: Bob's actually an unlucky English cat.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Paninis. Or as he calls them "tasty meat bread".

Land of Luck Characters

Captain

Voiced by: Whoopi Goldberg

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• Black Boss Lady: She is a dark-skinned leprechaun voiced by an African-American actress who is the head of security in the Land of Luck.

Gerry

Voiced by: Colin O'Donoghue

• Only Friend: To Bob, though Bob denies it.

Babe

Voiced by: Jane Fonda

• Our Dragons Are Different: She has four arms and, a rarity for dragons portrayed in media.

Jeff

Voiced by: Flula Borg

• Our Unicorns Are Different: He's basically a unicorn/human hybrid.

Rootie

Voiced by: John Ratzenberger

• Actor Allusion: Ratzenberger is well known for playing an eccentric barfly.
• Treants: He's a living root.

Secondary Characters

Hazel

"You sure have bad luck, Sam Greenfield. "

Voiced by: Adelynn Spoon

• Cheerful Child: She's usually very happy and peppy. Especially when she's with Sam.
• Happily Adopted: The end of the movie shows that Hazel has been successfully adopted and her adoptive parents are friendly towards Sam and Bob.

Marv

Voiced by: Lil Rel Howery

• Benevolent Boss: He's friendly and affable, and even after Sam's luck causes numerous disasters on her first day, he simply finds her a less obstructive job (gathering carts in the parking lot) and welcomes her back the next day. At the end, after a whole year of Sam's bad luck, he's still kind and friendly to her, and has even promoted her to manager.

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