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If the character gets a financial windfall, then it'll disappear or turn out to be [[Funny Money]]. If they get the supermodel's phone number, then they'll lose it. If they gain a seat of power, then they'll be forced to give it up.
As these plots repeatedly happen to characters over a long period of time, it creates a world in which some people seem to experience insane amounts of good fortune, only to squander it every single time.
In a variation of this trope, a handicapped character is temporarily cured, but is re-handicapped soon after. Usually used for comedy.
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Ren and Stimpy|Stimpy]] once won 47 million dollars and instant celehbritydom as part of a television contest. When Stimpy finds that his newfound fame and fortune are [[Celebrity Is Overrated|meaningless]] [[The Power of Friendship|without his best friend Ren]] he "gives away" all his money and returns home. Ren is less than joyous about this.
* In an early episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry discovers his savings account has ballooned to <s>millions</s> billions of dollars through 1000 years of compound interest, but loses them when Mom's sons trick him into revealing his PIN number. Like most characters who go through
** [[Running Gag|His pin number, by the way, is 1077 - the price of a large pizza and soda at the pizza place he used to work at.]]
** The amount of money in Fry's account after a thousand years of compound interest is accurate. They've [[Shown Their Work]].
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* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Joe Swanson falls down a hill and temporarily regains the use of his legs. He loses them again a second later when his son plows into him.
** Not to mention the episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walkin' on Air." He gets donor legs, {{spoiler|only for the episode to end in an inversion of [[We Want Our Jerk Back]], since before he was a nice and mostly relatable guy before he became a massive prick}}.
** An odd implementation of the trope in the episode "Peter Peter Caviar Eater." One of Lois' forebears dies and leaves her a luxurious home. Peter, attempting to fit in with upper-class society, bids $100 million for a vase at an
*** Although Lois never seems to mind the fact that she grew up incredibly rich only to marry someone with little money and live as middle class.
* May be an inversion: In ''[[American Dad]]'' Stan Smith is put in a wheelchair by a bullet only to be later be brought out of it - by a bullet.
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