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* In ''[[My Balls]]'', each person has three peaks of luck in romantic endeavours. The protagonist has all three peaks combined into a period of extreme "luck" during the same month that his having sex would cause the destruction of the world.
* The ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' episode "Happy Family Planning" has an odd version of this; its central characters repeatedly attempt suicide, only to fail every time. They eventually {{spoiler|discover they actually ''did'' die in one of their attempts and just didn't realize it.}}
* The protagonist of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' (or ''Goodbye, Mister Despair'') keeps trying to kill himself, only to have
* Whenever Tsunade in ''[[Naruto]]'' gets lucky at gambling, it's a bad omen. And she's quite aware of this.
** Needless to say, the ONE time she tries to use this to her advantage, by betting everything she had that one of her allies would die... [[Tear Jerker|She wins.]]
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*** Of course, he had forty years or so of bad luck to make up for by the time things started to go his way.
*** Well, let's face it- some people just don't know the difference between Karma setting them up for a fall and Karma balancing the scales.
* This is [[Older Than Feudalism]]: [[The Histories|Herodotus]] tells the story of the Greek king Polycrates who had such good luck that he threw a cherished ring in the ocean to try and balance things out, hoping to dodge whatever doom the gods had in store for him. The ring was eaten by a fish, the fish captured by a fisherman, and the ring returned to the king. This sealed his
* This actually does happen to [[The Deptford Mice|The Deptford Histories]] star Thomas Stubbs a.k.a. Thomas Triton. In the words of the fortune teller Simoon;
{{quote|"Fortune may indeed be shining upon you, yet so bright does her glory gleam that those about you are lost in shadow and she is blind to them. Though you may survive great peril it does not mean your companions shall. Almost, the charm you bask in is the very beacon that leads them to disaster."}}
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