1 | [[quoteright:205:[[UsefulNotes/TarotCards https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WheelFortune10_9087.jpg]]]][[caption-width-right:205:Not to be confused with [[Series/WheelOfFortune the game show]]]] |
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4 | An index of tropes dealing with luck and fortune. |
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6 | Compare with ProbabilityTropes, which are about the statistical side of things. |
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8 | !!Tropes |
9 | [[index]] |
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11 | '''Related indexes:''' |
12 | + FateAndProphecyTropes |
13 | + GamblingTropes |
14 | + ProbabilityTropes |
15 | + ThisIndexHasHadAHardLife |
16 | + ThisIndexIsCursed |
17 | + TheUniverseHatesThisIndex |
18 | ] |
19 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: The number thirteen associated with bad luck. |
20 | * BadLuckCharm: An item is deemed as being unlucky. |
21 | * BadLuckMitigationMechanic: A game overrides an unmerciful RandomNumberGod as a reward for persistence. |
22 | * BeginnersLuck: The new guy will do better than the experienced guy because of luck. |
23 | * BornLucky: Someone is naturally lucky. |
24 | * BornUnlucky: Someone is naturally unlucky. |
25 | * ButtMonkey: Bad things keep happening to this person for some reason, (usually) so that we can [[PlayedForLaughs laugh at their expense]]. |
26 | * ChainLetter: Bad luck is attributed to a chain letter. |
27 | * ChanceActivation: Someone luckily (or unluckily) activates a plot device. |
28 | * CoincidentalDodge: Someone escapes being attacked or killed because they just happened to move out of the way without noticing. |
29 | * CosmicPlaything: Someone is so unlucky, it seems like some cosmic force is picking on him. |
30 | * DiceRollDeath: Bad luck or random chance means you die. |
31 | * DoomMagnet: Someone has bad luck follow him and those he meets. |
32 | * DrawingStraws: Picking straws out of a bundle, usually to decide who has to do something. |
33 | * FixingTheGame: It's not gambling if you cheat. |
34 | * TheFool: A TooDumbToLive character whose incredible luck prevents their stupid blunders from actually harming them. |
35 | * FourLeafClover: Four leaf clovers associated with good luck. |
36 | * TheGambler: He's got a gambling theme going, and is often very lucky because of it. |
37 | * GhostLegLottery: An East Asian lottery format for assigning things (such as chores or prizes) to entities (usually people). |
38 | * GoodLuckCharm: An item is deemed as being lucky. |
39 | * GoodLuckGesture: A hand gesture used to gain good luck or avoid bad luck. |
40 | * HeadsOrTails: Luck dictates what will happen through a flipping a coin. |
41 | * IdiotHero: When TheHero gets thing done by simply being lucky rather than smart or skilled. |
42 | * TheJinx: He's a walking bad luck charm. |
43 | * KarmicButtMonkey: A character whose constant bad luck is very much deserved. |
44 | * LadyLuck: Luck personified. |
45 | * LifesavingMisfortune: A case of bad luck preventing someone's possible death. |
46 | * LotteryOfDoom: Where to be lucky is to lose. |
47 | * LuckBasedMission: Victory depends on luck, not skill. |
48 | * LuckManipulationMechanic: Game mechanics that let you re-attempt chance based elements to get a better result. |
49 | * LuckStat: A measure of how lucky a character is... whatever that means. |
50 | * LuckyRabbitsFoot: Rabbit's feet or rabbits associated with luck. |
51 | * LuckySeven: The number 7 is associated with good fortune. |
52 | * TheMagicPokerEquation: The more skilled you are at cards, the luckier you are in what hands you get. |
53 | * MoralLuck: Praising or blaming a character for an action, the outcome of which depended primarily on random chance. |
54 | * MillionToOneChance: Luck will guarantee something unlikely happens, no matter the odds against it. |
55 | * MisfortuneCookie: A fortune cookie fortells doom or bad luck for the person who opens it. |
56 | * NotMyLuckyDay: A would-be lucky character misses the opportunity. |
57 | * ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: "Making your own luck" in games of chance through either paranormally knowing the outcome or affecting it. |
58 | * PlagueOfGoodFortune: A character with so much good luck, they consider it BlessedWithSuck. |
59 | * ProfessionalGambler: Someone who regularly deals with luck and probabilities. |
60 | * RandomDropBooster: Improves your luck with getting RandomDrop items. |
61 | * RandomNumberGod: How do you try to influence your luck? |
62 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: When you reach the right answer only by sheer luck. |
63 | * RussianRoulette: A hard way to test one's luck. |
64 | * SavedByThePunishment: When a character receives a punishment that saves them from danger. |
65 | * SerendipitousSurvival: Luck keeps you from being where you would have died. |
66 | * SuperstitionEpisode: A character does something considered unlucky and has bad luck for the rest of the episode. |
67 | * TwoHeadedCoin: A way to make one's own luck. |
68 | * UnintentionallyKarmic: The NiceGuy didn't mean to bring bad luck upon someone, but it’s okay because the someone deserved to suffer anyway. |
69 | * UnluckilyLucky: Their luck saves them from constant misfortune. |
70 | * WalkingDisasterArea: So unlucky that disasters follow in his wake. |
71 | * WindsOfDestinyChange: Changing luck as a superpower. |
72 | [[/index]] |
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