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2[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ThematicThemeTune Hold tight. This could be a wild ride. It could be a late night. Who'll end up as the underdog and who's gonna be the lucky one?"]]]]
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4''Stan Lee's Lucky Man'' is a 2016 British supernatural police procedural/cop show created by Creator/StanLee & Neil Biswas. It airs on [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky1]] in the United Kingdom, produced by Carnival Films and is scheduled to air for 10 episodes with the first episode airing on January 22, 2016. The show stars James Nesbitt, Eva Best, Sienna Guillory and Amara Karan.
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6Taking place in the Greater London area, Metropolitan Police Service officer Detective Inspector Harry Clayton comes across a woman named Eve, who gives him a Tang Dynasty bronze bracelet after a one night stand. While DI Clayton gets to investigating the murder of Triad boss Freddie Lau, he gets luck and more headway than the other CLP officers thanks to the bracelet's powers to grant him luck in finding significant clues to the case. He's later warned by Eve that while he gets good luck, others will have some misfortune happen to them as a means of balancing the yin and yang.
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8Due to the good reception, the show has aired three seasons.
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11!!The show provides examples of the following tropes:
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13* AllMythsAreTrue: According to research done, the bracelet was used by the former Empress of the Tang Dynasty to gain influence over the Emperor. Many people began to fear her because of her influence and thus, made arrangements to have her killed.
14* AmbiguouslyEvil: where to begin.
15* ArcWords: "Sooner or later your/Harry's luck is gonna run out".
16* BadassLongcoat: After [[spoiler: faking his death and leaving the morgue, Blake wears a longcoat for the rest of the series.]]
17* BigBad:
18** Golding for season 1
19** Isabella for season 2
20** Blake for season 3
21* BigBrotherInstinct: Harry lost a brother as a child and is now very protective over Rich. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Harry's enemies use this to get him thrown in jail.
22* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Justified. The show entirely takes place in London.
23** DoublingForLondon: Averted entirely for the show's setting.
24* BrokenPedestal: Harry becomes one to Suri over the coarse of season 1.
25* CallBack: Early on, Harry and his brother try to remove the bracelet using a power saw. The saw breaks and chunks of it almost kill the brother's assistant. In a later episode, some bad guys try to cut the bracelet off using a power saw and Harry does not fight them because he knows that the exact same thing will happen.
26* ICannotSelfTerminate: Isabella's bracelet causes all her suicide attempts to fail.
27* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The main reason Eve is still alive.
28* CasualHighDrop: Harry is trying to escape from the bad guys but to do so he must jump off a roof of a building. The jump is guaranteed to break some bones unless you are very lucky and land just right. Fortunately for Harry, he has an ancient bracelet that makes its wearer extremely lucky. He lands on the ground with no injuries.
29** Later, in Series 3, Harry [[spoiler: leaps off a tall building to keep Blake from shooting him. Harry walks away the next morning, only saying that he's "tired", and has a few cuts. He's not wearing the bracelet when this occurs.]]
30* ClingyMacGuffin: The bracelet can't be removed.
31* CowboyCop: Harry.
32* CreatorCameo: Creator/StanLee is seen briefly in the pilot episode signing autographs at a comic book store.
33** He also shows up in "Trojan Horse", thinking that Harry's going to kill himself by jumping on the Tube's rails.
34** In "Facing Your Demons", he shows up as a bar visitor in Central when he says to Harry "For the record, I liked it."
35* CureYourGays: Deconstructed in "Playing with Fire" when the killer turns to be [[spoiler:a man who after realizing he's still gay kills the man who "cured" him, then [[TheBeard his wife]], and was caught trying to kill [[TheFundamentalist the priest who]] [[AssholeVictim started it all]] so it could never happen to anybody ever again.]]
36* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Harry is seemingly [[HighVoltageDeath electrocuted]] near the end of season two but is back by the next episode.]]
37** In the third season, Harry [[spoiler: leaps off a building to escape Blake. He is seemingly killed in the fall, but stands up the next morning and is only tired. He isn't wearing the bracelet.]]
38* DrivenToSuicide: Since the bracelet can only be removed by the owner's death, this is the fate of most previous owners.
39* DroppedABridgeOnHim: {{Justified}}; abusing the bracelet will often lead to the abrupt death of someone around you.
40* Frameup: In the 3rd season, one of the plot points is that Harry's being accused of murdering Isabella during the confrontation at Metropolitan Police Service HQ as TheScapegoat.
41* TheGamblingAddict: Harry has a serious gambling problem. It destroyed his marriage and he owes Freddie Lau. Once he gets the bracelet, he stops gambling because it's not really gambling if you always win.
42* GoodLuckCharm: The bracelet DI Clayton acquired. However, Eve warns him [[PowerAtAPrice bad luck will happen to others every time he gets good luck.]]
43** In Series 3, [[spoiler: Daisy gives her father Harry a braided wrist bracelet for luck after he loses the good-luck bracelet.]]
44* HypocriticalHumor: [[DeadpanSnarker "You'd be a smartarse if you were smart."]]
45* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Anyone trying to shoot at Harry becomes an honorary member for the duration. However, it is implied that a highly trained sniper could kill Harry on the third shot because even the bracelet has limits.
46* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: At the start of season two Isabella helps Harry and Eve take down Golding.
47* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The murder of Freddie Lau has DI Clayton investigate the case with DS Chohan. However, [[FromBadtoWorse Harry realizes that parts of the case were tied to the power of the bronze bracelet and to those who wore it before]].
48* MoneyToBurn: Harry burns all of his casino winnings in order to neutralize any backlash that might happen due to his lucky streak. The next time he wins a lot of money at poker, he leaves the money on the table and tells the other players to burn it.
49* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Episode 5 of season 1; A suspect supposedly had no idea who Liliane Lau is, even though Clayton never said her last name aloud.
50* NudityTropes: When [[spoiler: Blake fakes his death and leaves the morgue]], there's an extended shot of Rupert Penry-Jones' bum as he walks out.
51* PoliceAreUseless:
52** Played with a bit. The MPS is on top of the case, starting with the murder of Lau. But with the help of Clayton's bracelet, he's able to get a major headstart on the murder case and the others that soon follow. While the others are stumped, his luck leads him straight to major clues.
53** Averted at the end of the first season. Once the other cops realize that Harry was right, they quickly follow the evidence and track down the bad guys as fast as Harry.
54** Played in the third season where the MPS and the Hong Kong Police Force hunt Harry down because he murdered Isabella when a shot of it was seen in surveillance footage, which was obviously forged.
55* PowerAtAPrice: The bracelet basically gives the wearer good luck by "taking" the luck from others, with the result that every time Harry does something ''really'' unlikely something bad is likely to happen to at least one of his friends or family.
56* ThouShaltNotKill: As much as a CowboyCop Harry can be he refuses to commit the worst crime of all.
57* WarForFunAndProfit: Vincent Lermentov made his fortune by buying large quantities of gold right before a major war or disaster caused the price of gold to rise. It is unclear if the bracelet caused these calamities so Lermentov could profit from them or if it simply predicted these events and caused him to buy the gold beforehand.
58* WhamEpisode:
59** "Facing Your Demons": [[spoiler:Blake successfully frames Harry for killing Isabela.]]
60** "Run Rabbit Run": [[spoiler:Blake uses the cover of a MI-6 agent to prove his frameup of Harry is legit.]]
61** "The Art of War": [[spoiler:Eve takes out Suri in public.]]

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