History Main / TheJinx

* ''Film/{{Dangerous}}'': Everybody in the theater world believes that Joyce the actress is this. Joyce believes that she is this, telling Don about the men she's accidentally ruined and the stage shows she's been in that failed. In the backstory, she ruined her husband, and when she meets him again in the movie, she causes a car wreck that cripples him. And Don is ruined when he backs Joyce in a play only to see it fail. Subverted, however, when Don tells Joyce that it's her selfishness and not any jinx that's the problem.

* ''Videogame/GenshinImpact'' has Bennett, a young adventurer with infectious bad luck and the leader of "Benny's Adventure Team". He's also coincidentally the only member of Benny's Adventure Team since everyone has ditched him due to how just being around him will cause all sorts of disasters ranging from getting struck by lightning to getting a single piece of Mora as loot. Bennett for his part takes everything in stride and doesn't let any of this break his spirit.

* The subplot of the ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' episode "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E17MedievalCrimes Medieval Crimes]]" has Trivette transporting a prisoner back to Dallas to testify in a murder trial, who turns out to be a living jinx that causes him all sorts of bad luck during the trip, from his car breaking down (add to that, a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill shockingly expensive repair bill]] for it), to food poisoning, to [[ScaryStingingSwarm tons of bee stings]].

* The subplot of the ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' episode "Medieval Crimes" has Trivette transporting a prisoner back to Dallas to testify in a trial, who turns out to be a living jinx that causes him all sorts of bad luck during the trip, from his car breaking down (add to that, a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill shockingly expensive repair bill]] for it), to food poisoning, to tons of bee stings.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had Larry Lynx, who caused harm to anyone near him - Sonic's attempt to rescue him from a tree ended with all of the Freedom Fighters injured. These injuries ended with them captured by Swatbots, all but Sonic and Larry. Sonic got the idea to weaponize Larry's bad luck and sent him out against the Swatbots, which ended up saving the day. Having used his jinx to do good for the first time apparently broke Larry's curse, and the end of the story shows him enjoying a streak of ''good'' luck. Although in his later appearances, he is still shown to have a bad luck effect but can control it somewhat.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[{{UsefulNotes/Greece}} Greek]] Prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis is anecdotally infamous in his home country for bringing bad luck with him wherever he goes. His name is practically a synonym for bad luck in Greek culture.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect Wolfgang Pauli]] struck fear into any experimental physicist. (The Wiki article contains a hilarious meta example of invoking the trope.)
* Music/MickJagger became known as this in Brazil during UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup in 2010. He was attending the United States knockout match alongside Kobe Bryant and Bill Clinton (US Team lost), then his own England ([[CurbStompBattle 0-4 defeat to Germany]]), and finally Brazil alongside his South American son (1-2 defeat, scoring first). In addition, his assessment of being impressed by Argentina led them to also lose 0-4 to the Germans, and a local network discovered Jagger was attending England's elimination in both the 1998 and 2006 Cups. As a consequence of this MemeticMutation, doctored images or cardboard cutouts of Jagger wearing the adversary's jersey became wildly common among football supporters. The next Cup in 2014 had [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-mocks-mick-jagger-as-world-cup-jinx/ him jinx England, Portugal, and Italy while on tour]] before attending in person Brazil's '''[[EpicFail 7-1]]''' trouncing by Germany. [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/10/mick-jagger-world-cup-curse-brazil Jagger took the blame off the last one.]] ("I can take responsibility for the first German goal but not the other six!") Even as England had a successful run in 2018, [[https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1017105856587059216 the fact Jagger went to Russia to attend the semifinal eventually lost]] kept his jinx fame alive. (90% of the "Retweets with comment" are Brazilians noting Jagger's "luck" striking again!) During [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship Euro]] 2021, seemed like things had turned as Jagger was in person as England won a semifinal, but only for the final to bring the jinx back as the English team lost in the penalty kicks.
* [[http://fortune.com/2015/03/25/uva-president-teresa-sullivan As this article states]], the presidency of Teresa Sullivan at the University of Virginia has been marred by major tragedies and scandals. The university had two high-profile murders of female students; namely, the 2010 murder of lacrosse player Yeardley Love shortly before Sullivan's presidency began and the fall 2014 kidnapping and murder of British-born Hannah Graham. Shortly after the Graham murder came the infamous Rolling Stone campus rape hoax, and a few months later, black student Martese Johnson was brutally beaten and arrested by an Alcoholic Beverage Control. In 2017, nearby Charlottesville was also the site of a deadly white supremacist rally. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she was nearly thrown out of office in 2012]].
* Virginia Tech hasn't done much better: in ten years, they've had to deal with killings of their own, including a 2016 killing of a teenage girl by two students, a 2014 strangulation case involving two lesbian students, a 2011 shooting of a police officer, the Morgan Harrington murder by future Hannah Graham killer Jesse Matthew, a summer 2009 murder of a couple in the forest, a decapitation of a Chinese woman in Au Bon Pain that January, and of course, the infamous massacre of April 16, 2007. It should also be noted that Nidal Hasan of the Fort Hood Massacre was a Tech graduate.
* Orlando suffered one in June 2016, with the murder of singer Music/ChristinaGrimmie, an alligator attack at Walt Disney World, and, most infamously, the ''Pulse'' nightclub massacre.
[[/folder]]

* PlayedForDrama with Simon from ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride''. Due to circumstances around his birth, anyone who eats the sweets he makes is cursed to die a very short time later. His grandmother and mother were the first victims, and by the time he was 18 he'd accidentally killed his aunt, uncle, and cousin. Even the love of his life died because of it. The moment he finds out it really is his fault, he immediately tries to kill himself.

* Blitz T. "Lucky" Abrams from ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' is lucky in that he himself is immune to the disasters he brings with him wherever he goes, since he has been cursed so many times.
* Touma in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a rather unique case: his [[AntiMagic supernatural-dispelling right arm]] [[BlessedWithSuck also happens to dispel luck]]. Usually his own. It is mentioned that the reason he was sent to Academy City was because the people of his hometown labelled him a jinx, but Academy City, being such a center of science, is not likely to have anyone so superstitious as to do something similar.

* ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'' has Reika, whose [[BlessedWithSuck Element Power apparently consists of having minor bad things happen to and around her]] all the time. She also believes that anyone who gets close to her will also suffer misfortune, which leads her to push most people away. On the other hand, on several occasions she's been able to channel her misfortune into raw power while piloting Aquarion, and she kills a few Mythic Beasts and Cherubim with it.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': ''[[Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent Asterix and the Roman Agent]]'' has Tortuous Convolvulus who plays with it, as he most often utilises his unique talent for psychological warfare, strife and anger for his own Machiavellian enjoyment. However at times he seems to cause that naturally by his mere presence. Sort of an indirect jinx, as a lot of destruction comes in the wake of that.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had Larry Lynx, who caused harm to anyone near him - Sonic's attempt to rescue him from a tree ended with all of the Freedom Fighters injured. These injuries ended with them captured by Swatbots, all but Sonic and Larry. Sonic got the idea to weaponize Larry's bad luck and sent him out against the Swatbots, which ended up saving the day. Having used his jinx to do good for the first time apparently broke Larry's curse, and the end of the story shows him enjoying a streak of ''good'' luck. Although in his later appearances he is still shown to have a bad luck effect but can control it somewhat.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' views himself as a jinx, citing all of the horrible things that have happened to his friends, family, loved ones and associates -- attacks by supervillains, deaths, mutation, experiments by {{Mad Scientist}}s, etcetera. Whether he's ''actually'' this or he's simply hamming up the usual run of ill-luck that tends to befall any superhero in a more dramatic series is up to the reader.
* The ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' story arc "A Sorry Case" had Johnny deal with having to escort someone off-planet, a fellow by the name of Sorry Bobbs with whom bad luck follows wherever he goes. Naturally, that makes the simple escort a lot harder than it initially sounded. On several occasions Sorry Bobbs flat-out calls himself a jinx.

* ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'': In Chapter 12 of ''Sunshine Sidestories,'' it's shown that the Special Jounin Sasuke patrols with all see him as one of these. Each of the jounin have some kind of horror/traumatizing story from working with him, from impostors and contraband to Aburame giggling about flesh-eating beetles. This is expanded on in chapter 104 to include Shikako and possibly all of Team 7. Shikako herself is unaware, and thinks the desk ninja are just weird.
* In ''Fanfic/LostBoy'', many of Berk's villagers seem to believe this of Hiccup. His status as a former bed-slave leading many to believe him to be an ill omen, that any weapon he touches would be cursed and that ill-fortune would befall their children if he goes anywhere near them. This especially is not helped by the Jorgensons spreading rumors about him.

* ''Film/{{Dangerous}}'': Everybody in the theater world believes that Joyce the actress is this. Joyce believes that she is this, telling Don about the men she's accidentally ruined and the stage shows she's been in that failed. In the back story she ruined her husband, and when she meets him again in the movie, she causes a car wreck that cripples him. And Don is ruined when he backs Joyce in a play only to see it fail. Subverted, however, when Don tells Joyce that it's her selfishness and not any jinx that's the problem.

* Douglas Fackler in several ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' films. In the first film, an apple core casually thrown by him escalates into a city riot. Simply walking through an office is enough to start a localized disaster that results in dozens of people injured. He's completely oblivious to all this, of course.

** Luna has a hereditary curse that turns her into this in a very literal way, shunting her bad luck onto anyone and anything nearby (despite her desperate wishes to the contrary). And it clings to things. Any pet she owned would die within a month; likewise anyone sharing her house would wind up hospitalized or worse. Anyone who actually touches her is liable to wind up dead from a freak accident. As the series goes on she gets better and better at controlling it, to the point that it can be safely considered WindsOfDestinyChange.
** Even after gaining control, her curse still interferes with a couple of things. She has trouble using focuses to channel her power, because her curse tries to destroy them from the inside instead of flowing through them properly. [[spoiler:Arachne ends up making her a custom focus capable of playing nicely with her power.]]

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'': In "Literature/TheMule", the protagonists help the Mule's clown, Magnifico Giganticus, escape from Kalgan. However, it seems like he's a bad luck charm, because everywhere Toran and Bayta take him, the Mule's forces eventually arrive and [[CurbStompBattle conquer with ease]]. [[spoiler:Bayta eventually realizes that [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Magnifico is actually the Mule]] and has been [[EmotionControl emotionally manipulating the local populations]] to surrender.]]

* The main character "Mitchie" from the SF short story "Prone" - a patriotic youth who joined the army in the midst of an prolonged interplanetary war, and whose Jinx abilities [[OhCrap have been growing exponentially over time]]. [[spoiler: After his presence nearly destroys the military academy, he's secretly sent to live as a civilian on the enemy homeworld, which will probably win the war in a few years]].

* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "Grail", there is a character nicknamed "Jinxo" who believes himself to be one of these, after his departure from the previous four Babylon stations happened just before each one met some kind of ignominious fate. The final conclusion seems to be that it was just a temporary string of unfortunate coincidences. One character even suggests that he should have been called "[[BornLucky Lucky]]", since he'd left the first four Babylon stations just in time to avoid ''personal'' disaster.
* One episode of ''Series/BigTimeRush'' involves the boys trying to help a friend of theirs get a singing gig. But disaster follows her wherever she goes, costing her a lot of jobs. This includes hospitalizing a large number of international agents by triggering a large explosion trying to perform for them (at the Palm Woods, because the boys were afraid they'd endanger the city taking her out to meet them). Ultimately, they find a band who is looking for a super destructive lead singer, which her natural 'talent' made her perfect for.

* ''Videogame/GenshinImpact'' has Bennett, a young adventurer with infectious bad luck and the leader of "Benny's Adventure Team". He's also coincidentally the only member of Benny's Adventure Team since everyone has ditched him due to how just being around him will cause all sorts of disasters ranging from getting struck by lightning to getting a single piece of Mora as loot. Bennett for his part take everything in stride and doesn't let any of this break his spirit.
* Eizen, a party member in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', is afflicted with the Reaper's Curse, causing him [[BornUnlucky supernaturally bad luck]], which extends to those around him. It has, among other things, forced him to live apart from his beloved little sister, [[VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria Edna]], to [[BigBrotherInstinct protect her from the misfortune he spreads]]. It's implied that the only reason the party isn't hopelessly bogged down by the curse is because [[spoiler: Velvet's Therion powers are partially absorbing its effects]].
--> '''Bienfu:''' Miss Magilou, please stop making up things [about the curse] just to scare Madam Eleanor! Like when you said four navy warships tried to detain the [[CoolShip Van Eltia]] and disappeared without a trace? Or that Eizen made a stopover on an island, and all the men there caught [[ForcedTransformation daemonblight]]? Or that a man bumped into his shoulder and started laughing and [[DieLaughing died from suffocation]]?
--> '''Eleanor:''' Please, stop. That's even more frightening.
--> '''Eizen:''' That's a pack of lies. [[BaitAndSwitch It was seven warships. Everyone on the island, not just men, caught daemonblight. And the guy who bumped into me died from hiccups]].

* Kasandra, a unique Blade from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', is a cheerful and sunny character who seems to have no idea about the misfortune that seems to follow her. The fox mask she wears on the back of her head rattles whenever something bad is about to happen, which it frequently does. Her previous Driver was a Nopon (which is in itself a rarity) who was one of the most celebrated salvagers of Argentum, until he got eaten by a gigantic fish monster; presumably as a result of the bad luck that seems to plague Kasandra. After you learn about this and defeat that same monster, you obtain her core crystal, labelled as the "[[{{Irony}} Lucky Core Crystal]]." As if to highlight Kasandra's status as this, her heart-to-heart conversation just happens to be where a powerful {{Superboss}} [[spoiler:(Artifice Ophion)]] appears after Chapter 10, which can result in it photo-bombing the scene [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight while Kasandra and her Driver pay it no mind,]] or worse, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck ambushing the party as soon as gameplay resumes.]]

* Lorraine, ("Troubles"), in ''Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic'', who can bring calamity to a crowded room just by standing there.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', a high-school student named Annie is known as [[InUniverseNickname "the Blonde Widow"]] by her classmates because of the tendency of her dates ending in hospitals because of some accident. Undaunted and wanting to experience what a high school prom is like, goes out with her anyway. Just ''getting'' to prom has her cause Rex to fall from a cliff twice, get him put on fire (and while he leaves to briefly to recover from that, she somehow destroys a restaurant by sneezing), nearly strangle Rex when she tries fix his tie, shoot him with a missile, and open a door in his face. Thankfully, the other characters manage to succeed in weaponing her bad luck to deal with that episode's villain, so it wasn't all bad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', while Ladybug has the power of good luck, Cat Noir has the power of bad luck. These are mostly [[InformedAbility informed abilities]] and seem to only exist as a reference to the "miracle"/"lucky charm" theme of the Miraculous heroes. Perhaps the most bad luck that Cat Noir has is his [[TouchOfDeath Cataclysm]] power (he had more powers of destruction in [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original concepts]]), Ladybug can save the day without him whereas he can't (as he cannot purify akumas), his father is controlling and neglectful, his mother is missing, and Ladybug doesn't reciprocate his love because she loves someone else ([[TwoPersonLoveTriangle his civilian identity]]). Depending on how you look at it, however, it could be seen as {{irony}}, given that Ladybug's civilian identity frequently suffers from her own clumsiness and lack of confidence while Cat Noir's civilian identity seems to have it all.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'' episode, "Jinxed" has Boomer, an unlucky tugboat. Before he was renamed Boomer, his name was Captain Harry. Unfortunately, like the urban legend goes, renaming a ship gives bad luck... in this case, bad luck to Boomer himself.

* Music/MickJagger became known as this in Brazil during UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup in 2010. He was attending the United States knockout match alongside Kobe Bryant and Bill Clinton (US Team lost), then his own England ([[CurbStompBattle 0-4 defeat to Germany]]), and finally Brazil alongside his South American son (1-2 defeat, scoring first). In addition, his assessment of being impressed by Argentina led them to also lose 0-4 to the Germans, and a local network discovered Jagger was attending England's elimination in both the 1998 and 2006 Cups. As a consequence of this MemeticMutation, doctored images or cardboard cutouts of Jagger wearing the adversary's jersey became wildly common among football supporters. The next Cup in 2014 had [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-mocks-mick-jagger-as-world-cup-jinx/ him jinx England, Portugal and Italy while on tour]] before attending in person Brazil's '''[[EpicFail 7-1]]''' trouncing by Germany. [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/10/mick-jagger-world-cup-curse-brazil Jagger took the blame off the last one.]] ("I can take responsibility for the first German goal but not the other six!") Even as England had a successful run in 2018, [[https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1017105856587059216 the fact Jagger went to Russia to attend the semifinal eventually lost]] kept his jinx fame alive. (90% of the "Retweets with comment" are Brazilians noting Jagger's "luck" striking again!) During [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship Euro]] 2021, seemed like things had turned as Jagger was in person as England won a semifinal, but only for the final to bring the jinx back as the English team lost in the penalty kicks.
* [[http://fortune.com/2015/03/25/uva-president-teresa-sullivan As this article states,]] the presidency of Teresa Sullivan at the University of Virginia has been marred by major tragedies and scandals. The university had two high profile murders of female students; namely, the 2010 murder of lacrosse player Yeardley Love shortly before Sullivan's presidency began and the fall 2014 kidnapping and murder of British-born Hannah Graham. Shortly after the Graham murder came the infamous Rolling Stone campus rape hoax, and a few months later, black student Martese Johnson was brutally beaten and arrested by an Alcoholic Beverage Control. In 2017, nearby Charlottesville was also the site of a deadly white supremacist rally. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she was nearly thrown out of office in 2012]].
* Virginia Tech hasn't done much better: in ten years, they've had to deal with killings of their own, including a 2016 killing of a teenage girl by two students, a 2014 strangulation case involving two Lesbian students, a 2011 shooting of a police officer, the Morgan Harrington murder by future Hannah Graham killer Jesse Matthew, a summer 2009 murder of a couple in the forest, a decapitation of a Chinese woman in Au Bon Pain that January, and of course, the infamous massacre of April 16, 2007. It should also be noted that Nidal Hasan of the Fort Hood Massacre was a Tech graduate.

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', everytime Ford Brody is with a group of people, he tends to be the sole or one of the few survivors.

* Barney on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' was convinced someone was a jinx in one episode.

* CousinOliver considered himself a Jinx on ''Series/TheBradyBunch''.

* Asebi Inoue of ''LightNovel/BenTo'' is this to nearly '''everyone''' around her.

* Touma in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a rather unique case: his [[AntiMagic supernatural-dispelling right arm]] [[BlessedWithSuck also happens to dispel luck]]. Usually his own. It is mentioned that the reason he was sent to Academy City was because the people of his hometown labelled him a jinx, but Academy City, being such a center of science, is not likely to have anyone so superstitious as to do something similar.

* ''LightNovel/TheFruitOfEvolution'': Altaria Grem, the second of Seiichi's girlfriends, was born with a curse that gives her a -2,000,000 of Luck (that's right, in the ''negative''), which causes misfortune to everyone around her, and she keeps away from people because any adventurers she teams up with end up dead. Thankfully, Seiichi manages to reverse it by giving her a ring that multiplies her luck by -2,[[note]]Double negatives equate to a positive[[/note]] for which she's really grateful.

* ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'': In Chapter 12 of ''Sunshine Sidestories,'' it's shown that the Special Jounin Sasuke patrols with all see him as one of these. Each of the jounin have some kind of horror/traumatizing story from working with him, from impostors and contraband to Aburame giggling about flesh-eating beetles.
** This is expanded on in chapter 104 to include Shikako and possibly all of Team 7. Shikako herself is unaware, and thinks the desk ninja are just weird.

* Luna from the ''Literature/AlexVerus'' series has a hereditary curse that turns her into this in a very literal way, shunting her bad luck onto anyone and anything nearby (despite her desperate wishes to the contrary). And it clings to things. Any pet she owned would die within a month; likewise anyone sharing her house would wind up hospitalized or worse. Anyone who actually touches her is liable to wind up dead from a freak accident. As the series goes on she gets better and better at controlling it, to the point that it can be safely considered WindsOfDestinyChange.

* Carson Clinkscales in ''[[Litearture/HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]''. His extreme clumsiness is legendary, although he gets better by the end of the novel. During one incident, he manages to trip over his own feet during a staff meeting, knocks a cap off another crewmember's head while falling, which hits a pitcher of water standing on the conference table, which falls and breaks open, soaking the captain's pants in water. Honor then asks him to help out with setting up a format dinner, shuddering at the thought of letting him anywhere near a table with food.

* The title character in the book ''Jinx'' by Creator/MegCabot.

* The main character "Mitchie" from the SF short story "Prone" - a patriotic youth who joined the army in the midst of an prolonged interplanetary war, and whose Jinx abilities [[OhCrap have been growing exponentially over time]]. [[spoiler: after his presence nearly destroys the military academy, he's secretly sent to live as a civilian on the enemy homeworld, which will probably win the war in a few years]].

* Menander from "[[Literature/GeorgeAndAzazel Saving Humanity]]" starts as one. The most common expression is bad weather wherever he goes, but it's far from the only or the worst.

[[folder: Music]]

* The third edition of ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' also had Jinx as a character disadvantage. It was removed in the fourth edition, possibly because for a typical PC, it was more of an [[CursedWithAwesome advantage than a disadvantage]], especially since the ability was irresistible. For those wanting to keep it, the denizens of the Steve Jackson Games forums have worked out [[http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=18972&page=2 a method based on the Visualization ability.]]

* The subplot of the ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' episode "Medieval Crimes" has Trivette transporting a prisoner back to Dallas to testify in a trial, who turns out to be a living jinx that causes him all sorts of bad luck during the trip, from his car breaking down (add to that, a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill shockingly expensive repair bill]] for it), food poisoning, and tons of bee stings.

* The Italian film ''Film/AmicheDaMorire'' has Crocetta, one of the protagonists, as the official jinx in town. Every guy she has ever dated has been cursed with utter misfortune, and that's why she's a ChristmasCake in her late thirties. [[spoiler: Turns out it wasn't true: it was her [[MyBelovedSmother beloved (s)mother]] who keeps arranging incidents for her suitors, so she wouldn't ever leave home.]]

* Kasandra, a unique Blade from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', is a cheerful and sunny character who seems to have no idea about the misfortune that seems to follow her. The fox mask she wears on the back of her head rattles whenever something bad is about to happen, which it frequently does. Her previous Driver was a Nopon (which is in itself a rarity) who was one of the most celebrated salvagers of Argentum, until he got eaten by a gigantic fish monster; presumably as a result of the bad luck that seems to plague Kasandra. After you learn about this and defeat that same monster, you obtain her core crystal, labelled as the "[[{{Irony}} Lucky Core Crystal]]."
** As if to highlight Kasandra's status as this, her heart-to-heart conversation just happens to be where a powerful BonusBoss [[spoiler:(Artifice Ophion)]] appears after Chapter 10, which can result in it photo-bombing the scene [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight while Kasandra and her Driver pay it no mind,]] or worse, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck ambushing the party as soon as gameplay resumes.]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

--> '''Bienfu:''' Miss Magilou, please stop making up things [about the curse] just to scare Madam Eleanor! Like when you said four navy warships tried to detain the [[CoolShip Van Eltia]] and disappeared without a trace? Or that Eizen made a stopover on an island, and all the men there caught [[BalefulPolymorph daemonblight]]? Or that a man bumped into his shoulder and started laughing and [[DieLaughing died from suffocation]]?

* Joe Btfsplk from ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' (who has his own article on Wiki/TheOtherWiki).

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had Larry Lynx, who caused harm to anyone near him - Sonic's attempt to rescue him from a tree ended with all of the Freedom Fighters injured. These injuries ended with them captured by Swatbots, all but Sonic and Larry. Sonic got the idea to weaponize Larry's bad luck and sent him out against the Swatbots, which ended up saving the day. Having used his jinx to do good for the first time apparently broke Larry's curse, and the end of the story shows him enjoying a streak of ''good'' luck.

* Nagito Komaeda from ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' is normally BornLucky, but in his fantasy world in the ''Super Danganronpa 2.5'' {{OVA}}, he's an inversion of this trope, being [[BornUnlucky tremendously unlucky]] himself while bringing good fortune to everyone else.

* Wonder of U, the Stand of Tooru from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'', [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this by inflicting "Calamity" onto anybody pursuing it or its user, completely out of its own hand. Cranked UpToEleven in that when somebody pursues the Stand or the user more and more, the more likely they are to have this sense of bad luck kill them.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440 SCP-1440, "The Old Man from Nowhere"]] takes it UpToEleven. Ever since he won a game of cards against Death, every manmade object close to him gets destroyed, but only in ways that can reasonably be justified as an accident. It wasn't so much losing that bothered Death, but the fact that the man decided to gloat.

* ''LightNovel/TheFruitOfEvolution'': Altaria Grem, the second of Seiichi's girlfriends, was born with a curse that gives her a -2,000,000 of Luck (that's right, in the ''negative''), which causes misfortune to everyone around her, and she keeps away from people because any adventurers she teams up with end up dead. Thankfully, Seiichi manages to reverse it by giving her a ring that multiplies her luck by -2[[note]]Double negatives equate to a positive[[/note]], for which she's really grateful.

* [[http://www.comicvine.com/jinx-malloy/29-60759/all-images/108-216083/jinx_malloy1/105-746050/ Jinx Malloy]], a recurring character in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' (of the "causes bad luck in others" variety). He's so infamous in Riverdale that when he goes out, he wears disguises [[TheWoobie so no one will run away in terror at his approach]].

* A "bad luck for others" example in the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' "Accidents sketch" where a man goes to a house and disaster ensues, with multiple people being killed. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeLs4yFGTg here]].

* Kasandra, a unique Blade from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', is a cheerful and sunny character who seems to have no idea about the misfortune that seems to follow her. The fox mask she wears on the back of her head rattles whenever something bad is about to happen, which it frequently does. Her previous Driver was a Nopon (which is in itself a rarity) who was one of the most celebrated salvagers of Argentum, until he got eaten by a gigantic fish monster; presumably as a result of the bad luck that seems to plague Kasandra. After you learn about this and defeat that same monster, you obtain her core crystal, labelled as the '[[{{Irony}} Lucky Core Crystal]]'.

* In the ''[[ShowWithinTheShow Lucky Bunny Bounty Show]]'', in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Unusagi appears to [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-22 be this]]. (The commentaries have suggested the show was designed to be the other way around: Travis is permanently jinxed, and the "bunny goddess of luck" brings his luck back to normal... ''most of the time''. But it's never been pinned down.)

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440]] "The Old Man from Nowhere" takes it UpToEleven. Ever since he won a game of cards against Death, they have followed him around destroying anything manmade nearby, but only in ways that can reasonably be justified as an accident. It wasn't so much losing that bothered Death, but the fact that the man decided to gloat.

* Music/MickJagger became known as this in Brazil during UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup in 2010. He was attending the United States knockout match alongside Kobe Bryant and Bill Clinton (US Team lost), then his own England ([[CurbStompBattle 0-4 defeat to Germany]]), and finally Brazil alongside his South American son (1-2 defeat, scoring first). In addition, his assessment of being impressed by Argentina led them to also lose 0-4 to the Germans, and a local network discovered Jagger was attending England's elimination in both the 1998 and 2006 Cups. As a consequence of this MemeticMutation, doctored images or cardboard cutouts of Jagger wearing the adversary's jersey became wildly common among football supporters. The next Cup in 2014 had [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-mocks-mick-jagger-as-world-cup-jinx/ him jinx England, Portugal and Italy while on tour]] before attending in person Brazil's '''[[EpicFail 7-1]]''' trouncing by Germany. [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/10/mick-jagger-world-cup-curse-brazil Jagger took the blame off the last one]] ("I can take responsibility for the first German goal but not the other six!"). Even as England had a successful run in 2018, [[https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1017105856587059216 the fact Jagger went to Russia to attend the semifinal eventually lost]] kept his jinx fame alive (90% of the "Retweets with comment" are Brazilians noting Jagger's "luck" striking again!). During [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship Euro]] 2021, seemed like things had turned as Jagger was in person as England won a semifinal, but only for the final to bring the jinx back as the English team lost in the penalty kicks.
* [[http://fortune.com/2015/03/25/uva-president-teresa-sullivan/ As this article states]], the presidency of Teresa Sullivan at the University of Virginia has been marred by major tragedies and scandals. The university had two high profile murders of female students; namely, the 2010 murder of lacrosse player Yeardley Love shortly before Sullivan's presidency began and the fall 2014 kidnapping and murder of British-born Hannah Graham. Shortly after the Graham murder came the infamous Rolling Stone campus rape hoax, and a few months later, black student Martese Johnson was brutally beaten and arrested by an Alcoholic Beverage Control. In 2017, nearby Charlottesville was also the site of a deadly white supremacist rally. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she was nearly thrown out of office in 2012]].

** The player can pick the Jinxed trait in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' to increase enemy's CriticalFailure rate, but it affects them just as badly as the other characters--however, a [[BornLucky maxed out Luck stat]] will protect you from it.

* Shion Yorigami from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' spinoff ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' is a goddess of poverty that stores misfortune inside her body and brings it to people around her. Unfortunately for her, almost everyone avoids her like the plague and her powers extend to ''herself'', leaving her in a depressed state. Her only real friend is Tenshi Hinanawi, whose [[BornLucky absurdly good luck]] means that she is unaffected by her powers.

* Jinx from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is so named because she [[WindsOfDestinyChange can bestow bad luck at will]]. Mostly she uses it on inanimate objects to make them collapse.

* ''LightNovel/TheFruitOfEvolution'': Altaria Grem, the second of Seiichi's girlfriends, was born with a curse that gives her a -2,000,000 of Luck (that's right, in the ''negative''), which causes misfortune to everyone around her, and she keeps away from people because any adventurers she teams up with end up dead. Thankfully, Seiichi manages to reverse it by giving her a ring that multiplies her luck by -2, for which she's really grateful.

* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': Anyone Kel interacts with (namely [[ButtMonkey Roger and Chris]]) will get the short end of the stick no thanks to his severe clumsiness and stupidity.