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** Quarters of the Felt has special coins with the symbols of the Felt. If the coin is flipped by its corresponding Felt member and lands on the opposite number, the two swap places. If the coin lands on the side corresponding to the member who flipped it, they die. Only Clover is trusted with his own coin because he's BornLucky.

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** Quarters of the Felt has special coins with the symbols numbers of the Felt. Felt engraved on them. If the coin is flipped by its corresponding Felt member and lands on the opposite number, the two they swap places.places with the opposite number member. If the coin lands on the side corresponding to the member who flipped it, they die. Only Clover is trusted with his own coin because he's BornLucky.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/DerryGirls''. While on holiday in the Republic, the titular girls go to make a coin toss. However, they have to do it using Irish Punts, as opposed to the Pound Sterling coins that they're used to, so nobody seems to know which side is heads and which side is tails. Incidentally, with Irish Punts, "Heads" was the side of the coin with the animal (Stag, Kingfisher, horse, fish, or bull) and "Tails" was the side with the harp.

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* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Terezi will sometimes make decisions with a coin flip. (The coin is two-headed, but one side is scratched) However, she more often than not ignores the result and just does what she wants. That's because -- more often than not -- [[YouCantFightFate the result doesn't make a difference.]]

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Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. this instance: Terezi will sometimes make decisions with a coin flip. (The coin is two-headed, but one side is scratched) However, she more often than not ignores the result and just does what she wants. That's because -- more often than not -- [[YouCantFightFate the result doesn't make a difference.]]]]
** Quarters of the Felt has special coins with the symbols of the Felt. If the coin is flipped by its corresponding Felt member and lands on the opposite number, the two swap places. If the coin lands on the side corresponding to the member who flipped it, they die. Only Clover is trusted with his own coin because he's BornLucky.
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* In ''Creator/MarvelComics Presents'' #53, Silver Sable and ComicBook/BlackWidow chase a common target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but once they have him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody. Just as they're about to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his death. With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows.

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* In ''Creator/MarvelComics Presents'' ''ComicBook/MarvelComicsPresents'' #53, Silver Sable and ComicBook/BlackWidow chase a common target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but once they have him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody. Just as they're about to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his death. With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows.
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* ComicBook/TwoFace's signature item in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' is a TwoHeadedCoin, except one side is all scratched up. This lets him easily identify which side landed. In most portrayals, he is completely unable to operate without the coin - when he flips it, he ''absolutely must'' act on whichever side came up; he is literally unable to do otherwise.
* In a [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]] story by Creator/CarlBarks, "Flip Decision", Donald is conned by a charlatan into believing in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipism Flipism]]: the idea that all of life's choices can be made on the flip of a coin. HilarityEnsues, of course, though the coin does show uncanny predictive power.
* In ''Marvel Comics Presents'' #53, ComicBook/SilverSable and ComicBook/BlackWidow chase a common target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but once they have him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody. Just as they're about to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his death. With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows.

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* ComicBook/TwoFace's Two-Face's signature item in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' is a TwoHeadedCoin, except one side is all scratched up. This lets him easily identify which side landed. In most portrayals, he is completely unable to operate without the coin - coin; when he flips it, he ''absolutely must'' act on whichever side came up; he up, and is literally unable to do otherwise.
* In a [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]] ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story by Creator/CarlBarks, "Flip Decision", Donald Duck is conned by a charlatan into believing in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipism Flipism]]: the idea that all of life's choices can be made on the flip of a coin. HilarityEnsues, of course, though Despite it being a con, the coin does show uncanny predictive power.
* In ''Marvel Comics ''Creator/MarvelComics Presents'' #53, ComicBook/SilverSable Silver Sable and ComicBook/BlackWidow chase a common target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but once they have him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody. Just as they're about to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his death. With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows.
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* ''Film/TheIronClaw'': When he needs to decide whether Kevin or Kerry will compete for the world title in David's place, Fritz opts to flip a coin, claiming it to be the only fair way to decide. The camera focuses on the coin in the air before cutting to Kevin patting Kerry on the back as the latter heads into the ring.
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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': At the end of a game of Chardee Macdennis, the gang breaks out the "black card" with great ceremony to read what the rules are for resolving a tie. Having forgotten what they wrote on the card when they invented the rules, they're all disappointed to learn that they're just supposed to flip a coin.

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* ''Film/GhostLab2021'': At one point, while searching for evidence of ghosts, Wee and Gla come to a fork in a hallway. They decide to flip a coin to determine which way they will go.

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At one point, while searching for evidence of ghosts, Wee and Gla come to a fork in a hallway. They decide to flip a coin to determine which way they will go.



* Averted in ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. When we're introduced to the protagonist, he's examining an ancient Roman coin. In the climax he and his LoveInterest have got to an escape rocket, [[ColdEquation but there's only room for one]]. Both insist the other should go, so he says they'll toss the coin. But as the coin is spinning on the ground, he just tosses his glove on it and says it's meaningless [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl because she's going anyway.]]

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* Averted in ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. When we're introduced to the protagonist, he's examining an ancient Roman coin. In the climax climax, he and his LoveInterest have got to an escape rocket, [[ColdEquation but there's only room for one]]. Both insist the other should go, so he says they'll toss the coin. But as the coin is spinning on the ground, he just tosses his glove on it and says it's meaningless [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl because she's going anyway.]]
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** The B-plot of Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E17MedievalCrimes Medieval Crimes]]" had the Rangers having to go to Buell to bring a witness named Morris Dobbs (who claims he is [[TheJinx a jinx]]) back to Dallas to testify in a murder trial. Gage, Sydney and Trivette decide to flip a coin to see if one, two or all three of them would do it: whoever got heads got to stay behind in Dallas, while whoever got tails had to pick up Dobbs. Sydney and Gage get heads, while poor Trivette, as expected, ends up with tails.

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** The B-plot of Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E17MedievalCrimes Medieval Crimes]]" had the Rangers having to go to Buell to bring a witness named Morris Dobbs (who claims he is [[TheJinx a jinx]]) back to Dallas to testify in a murder trial. Gage, Sydney and Trivette decide to flip a coin to see if one, two or all three of them would do it: whoever got heads got to stay behind in Dallas, while whoever got tails had to pick up Dobbs. Sydney and Gage get heads, while [[ButtMonkey poor Trivette, as expected, expected]], ends up with tails.

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* In the short story "Literature/TheGoldenJudge" by Nathaniel Gordon, a man sitting in on a negotiation between Israel and Jordan makes the flippant remark "Why don't they toss a coin for it?", and to his surprise both sides agree. He has a special golden coin made for the flip, and the "Golden Judge", as it becomes known, soon becomes an official method of resolving international disputes.
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* In Melbourne, Australian on March 27, 1986, two police officers flipped a coin to decide who would get lunch. Constable Angela Taylor lost, so she went to the police canteen and was killed by a carbomb that had been parked outside the police station.

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* In Melbourne, Australian Australia, on March 27, 1986, two police officers flipped a coin to decide who would get lunch. Constable Angela Taylor lost, so she went to the police canteen canteen... and was killed by a carbomb that had been parked outside the police station.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveandtheBold'' Batman faces down Two-Face whose henchmen have Batman dead to rights. But when Two-Face flips his coin to determine whether Batman will live or die, the coin comes up "live." When his henchmen protest, Two-Face ends up teaming up with Batman against them. After they're defeated, Two-Face flips the coin again to see if ''he'' can kill Batman. But Batman just punches him out while the coin's spinning in the air.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveandtheBold'' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' Batman faces down Two-Face whose henchmen have Batman dead to rights. But when Two-Face flips his coin to determine whether Batman will live or die, the coin comes up "live." When his henchmen protest, Two-Face ends up teaming up with Batman against them. After they're defeated, Two-Face flips the coin again to see if ''he'' can kill Batman. But Batman just punches him out while the coin's spinning in the air.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveandtheBold'' Batman faces down Two-Face whose henchmen have Batman dead to rights. But when Two-Face flips his coin to determine whether Batman will live or die, the coin comes up "live." When his henchmen protest, Two-Face ends up teaming up with Batman against them. After they're defeated, Two-Face flips the coin again to see if ''he'' can kill Batman. But Batman just punches him out while the coin's spinning in the air.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9805958/2/Family-is-Everything Family is Everything]]'' Harry flips a knut to decide whether he or Annabeth will tell their story first.



* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8913390/14/The-Memory The Memory]]'' Harry and Ron flip a knut to see who goes to check whether the basilisk is dead after they made it look at its reflection.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8913390/14/The-Memory The Memory]]'' Harry and Ron flip a knut to see who goes to check whether the basilisk is dead after they made it look at seeing its reflection.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8913390/14/The-Memory The Memory]]'' Harry and Ron flip a knut to see who goes to check whether the basilisk is dead after they made it look at its reflection.

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