Bad Luck Charm: Difference between revisions

==[[Comic Books]]==

* ''[[Iznogoud]]'': one story revolves around the vizier obtaining a cursed diamond that brings very bad luck (your chair collapses, the doorknob snaps off in your hand, rooftiles fall on you in the middle of the desert) to the holder as a gift to the caliph. Of course, it's a [[Clingy MacGuffin]], and things only get worse.

 

==[[Literature]]==

* [[Jack Vance]]'s ''[[Lyonesse]]: The Green Pearl'' features the eponymous item which will turn anyone who owns it to evil, until somebody else murders them to possess it. At one point the chain is broken when the owner is [[And I Must Scream|rendered helpless]] by somebody who's only interested in punishing him, and the pearl is temporarily forgotten.

 

* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Bad Day at Black Rock" had the Winchester brothers find a [[lucky Rabbit's Foot Talisman]] that gave the holder good luck until it left their person, at which point their luck would turn [[Necro Non Sequitur]]-inducingly bad. The only way to avoid certain death was to destroy the amulet in a specific ritual.

* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' episodes "Hawaii Bound", "Pass the Tabu" and "The Tiki Caves". Bobby finds an ancient tiki idol which appears to bring the family bad luck. The curse can only be lifted by leaving the idol in an old burial ground.

* A first season episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has a character nicknamed Jinxo, who is believed by many to be a walking Bad Luck Charm. He worked on the construction of all five Babylon stations. The first three stations were blown up in terrorist attacks, and the fourth vanished mysteriously. He refuses to leave Babylon Five because he thinks that if he does, something bad will happen to it. Another character tells Jinxo that he's got it backwards: he should be called "Lucky" because he managed to escape unharmed from four separate dangerous incidents. Jinxo says that he never thought about it that way before, the other guy comments that no one ever does.

* "The Clover", in ''[[The Middle]]'''s third season, inverts the trope by having a four-leaf clover, usually considered to be a good luck charm, bring Brick nothing but bad luck.

 

==[[Music]]==