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Basic Trope: A person who inflicts unluckiness on anyone and anything around them.

  • Straight: Disaster follows anywhere Bobby goes.
  • Exaggerated:
    • If Bobby takes one wrong step, the world might explode.
    • Everything happens around Bobby. Absolutely everything. Good? Bad? Well, it all happens the same.
    • Bobby's bad luck aura is five miles wide on a good day and the members of the cast who have knowledge of the supernatural fear that it will persist after Bobby dies, turning any place he is buried in/his ashes are spread on into an unluck-based Mordor.
  • Justified: Bobby was Born Unlucky and just lives like this.
  • Inverted: Good things happen wherever Bobby goes. May also be Born Lucky.
  • Subverted: Everywhere Bobby goes, some accident occurs, but clearly not from his presence.
  • Double Subverted: Until it's revealed it's absolutely because of his presence.
  • Downplayed: Born Unlucky, but not to this extreme.
  • Played for Laughs: The area around Bobby is a permanent Slapstick comedy. Extra points if Bobby is Immune to Slapstick.
  • Lampshaded: "Speaking of which, Bobby is an absolute chaos zone."
  • Exploited: Winds of Destiny, Change!

As you return to The Jinx, please watch out for: banana peels, open manhole covers, anvils, speeding trucks, random falling bullets, floods of cereal, serial killers, cereal killers, and unlucky pennies.

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