Luck Tropes

"Luck...protects fools, small children and ships named Enterprise."

— William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

An index of tropes dealing with luck and fortune.

Compare with Probability Tropes, that are about the statistic side of things.

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Tropes

• Acceptable Hard Luck Targets
  Less fortunate people as a subject of mockery.
• Bad Luck Charm
  An item is deemed as being unlucky.
• Beginner's Luck
  The new guy will do better than the experienced guy because of luck.
• Born Lucky
  Someone is naturally lucky.
• Born Unlucky
  Someone is naturally unlucky.
• Butt-Monkey
  Bad things keep happening to this person for some reason, (usually) so that we can laugh at their expense.
• Chain Letter
  Bad luck is attributed to a chain letter.
• Cosmic Plaything
  Someone is so unlucky, it seems like some cosmic force is picking on him.
• Dice Roll Death
  Bad luck or random chance means you die.
• Doom Magnet
  Someone has bad luck follow him and those he meets.
• Fixing the Game
  It's not gambling if you cheat.
• The Fool
  He's incredibly lucky.
• Four-Leaf Clover
  Four leaf clovers associated with good luck.
• The Gambler
  He's got a gambling theme going, and is often very lucky because of it.
• Good Luck Charm
  An item is deemed as being lucky.
• "Good Luck" Gesture
  A hand gesture used to gain good luck or avoid bad luck.
• Heads or Tails?
  Luck dictates what will happen through a flipping a coin.
• Idiot Hero
  When The Hero gets thing done by simply being lucky rather than smart or skilled.
• The Jinx
  He's a walking bad luck charm.
• Lifesaving Misfortune
  A case of bad luck prevented someone's possible death.
• Lottery of Doom
  Where to be lucky is to lose.
• Luck-Based Mission
  Victory depends on luck, not skill.
• Luck Manipulation Mechanic
  Game mechanics that let you re-attempt chance based elements to get a better result.
• Luck Stat
  A measure of how lucky a character is... whatever that means.
• Lucky Rabbit's Foot
  Rabbit's feet or rabbits associated with luck.
• The Magic Poker Equation
  The more skilled you are at cards, the luckier you are in what hands you get.
• Moral Luck
  Praising or blaming a character for an action, the outcome of which depended primarily on random chance.
• Million-to-One Chance
  Luck will guarantee something unlikely happens, no matter the odds against it.
• Not My Lucky Day
  A would-be lucky character misses the opportunity.
• Professional Gambler
  Someone who regularly deals with luck and probabilities.
• Random Drop Booster
  Improves your luck with getting Random Drop items.
• Random Number God
  How do you try to influence your luck?
• Russian Roulette
  A hard way to test one's luck.
• Serendipitous Survival
  Luck keeps you from being where you would have died.
• Superstition Episode
  A character does something considered unlucky and has bad luck for the rest of the episode.
• 13 Is Unlucky
  The number thirteen associated with bad luck.
• Two-Headed Coin
  A way to make one's own luck.
• Unluckily Lucky
  Their luck saves them from constant unluck.
• Walking Disaster Area
  So unlucky that disasters follow in his wake.
• Winds of Destiny, Change
  Changing luck as a superpower.

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