History PlayingWith / ThirteenIsUnlucky

* '''Exaggerated''': Thirteen-year-old Bob checks into hotel room 13, on the 13th floor, in the 13th hotel in the row of the 13th street on a Friday the 13th in 2013. Later, his entire family (of [[MassiveNumberedSiblings thirteen]]) gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies (or ''[[FateWorseThanDeath worse]]'') while trying to escape the room.

* '''Enforced''': The creator wanted to incorporate superstition in the work.

* '''Invoked''': The hotel does not have room number 13 for this exact reason, using this as an advertising point.

* '''Implied''': Bob's stay at the hotel happened offscreen, but he comes back and mentions that he had a horrible time there. "It all started when they put me in room thirteen..."

* '''Exaggerated''': A 13 year old Bob checks into hotel room 13, on the 13th floor, in the 13th hotel in the row of the 13th street on a Friday the 13th in 2013. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies (or ''[[FateWorseThanDeath worse]]'') while trying to escape the room.

** Bob checks into [[LuckySeven hotel room 7]]. Later, he falls down the stairs and becomes disabled.

* '''Double Subverted''': Then it falls down and the room number is revealed to be 13 all along.

** The hotel was specifically designed to host no more than twelve rooms for guests.

* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody wants to stay in room 13, costing the hotel business.
* '''Reconstructed''': NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity is not at all in effect, and it's always best to make sure no guest comes to harm.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room 13, on the 13th floor, in the 13th hotel in the row of the 13th street on a Friday the 13th. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies (or ''[[FateWorseThanDeath worse]]'') while trying to escape the room.

* '''Played for Drama''': [[GenreSavvy Bob has heard that thirteen is an unlucky number]], so the story is all about his angst over what will happen to him, how, and when.

* '''Parodied''': Bob checks into room 13. Later, a HockeyMaskAndChainsaw maniac chases Bob around before pieing him in the face at the end of the chase.

* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody wants to stay in room 13 at that hotel, costing it business.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room 13, on the 13th floor, in the 13th hotel in the row of the 13th street on a Friday the 13th. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies (or ''[[FateWorseThanDeath worse]]'' while trying to escape the room.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room 13, on the 13th floor, in the 13th hotel in the row of the 13th street on a Friday the 13th. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies while trying to escape the room.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room 13. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies while trying to escape the room.

* '''Parodied''': Bob checks into room 13. Later, a clown pies him in the face.

'''Basic Trope''': 13 is an unlucky number.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob checks into hotel room 13. Later, he receives a painful papercut.

* '''Inverted''': Bob checks into hotel room 13. Later, he wins the lottery and gets a billion dollars.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob checks into room 13; he gets injured. But, when Aaron enters room 13, he's perfectly normal.

* '''Discussed''': "Don't go into room 13, it's bad luck."
* '''Conversed''': "Why is 13 always bad luck in these stupid films?"

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* '''Defied''': Bob sees the room he checked into is room number 13. He decides to ask the receptionist to move him to another room.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Bob checks into hotel room number 13. Later, he falls down the stairs and becomes disabled, but the room number is revealed to be 12.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then the room number is revealed to be 13 all along.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room 13. Later, his entire family gets killed, he gets raped, a fire breaks out in his room, and Bob dies while trying to escape the hotel.

* '''Invoked''': The hotel does not have room number #13 for this exact reason, using this as an advertising point.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz, the BigBad, disguises room number #13 as another room, hoping to catch Bob.
* '''Defied''': Bob sees room 13 and walks right past it.

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* '''Straight''': Bob checks into hotel room #13, and gets injured later in the story.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob checks into hotel room #13, and gets killed later in the story.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob checks into hotel room #13, and gets a paper cut later in the story.
* '''Justified''':
** The number 13 has a curse cast upon it by a wizard.
** A serial killer killed things associated with the number 13.
* '''Inverted''':
** 13 is a lucky number.
** Every number except for 13 is unlucky.
* '''Subverted''': Bob checks into hotel room number #13, and gets injured later in the story, but the room number is revealed to be changed to something else.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then the room number is revealed to be #13 all along.
* '''Parodied''': Bob checks into room number #13. Cue "DUN DUN DUN" as the camera zooms into the number 13 on the door.

* '''Averted''': 13 is not an unlucky number.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': The BigBad disguises room number #13 as another room, hoping to catch Bob.
* '''Defied''': Bob sees room #13 and walks right past it.
* '''Discussed''': "Don't go into room #13, it's bad luck."

* '''Justified''': The number 13 has a curse cast upon it by a wizard.

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