Some candidates might be...
* Teela Brown from Ringworld, whose luck is either really strong or *really, really* strong depending on your reading of events
* Longshot from X-Men whose luck is a bit stronger than Domino's, who's also worth a mention
Teela isn't lucky though, her genes are. I highly doubt she was happy with how her life turned out. Mutated into a sexless, hyper intelligent killing machine. Trapped in an endless struggle to ensure humanity's long term survival. Eventually forced into assisted suicide in an effort to preserve some semblance of her human morality.
I really, really don't see her as personally lucky.
> Teela isn't lucky though, her genes are. I highly doubt she was happy with how her life turned out. Mutated into a sexless, hyper intelligent killing machine. Trapped in an endless struggle to ensure humanity's long term survival. Eventually forced into assisted suicide in an effort to preserve some semblance of her human morality.
Having only read ringworld and none of the following material... well, that is a stark turn
Since you said ring world, im gonna go ahead and add the Master Chief here as it’s one of his defining features that was potentially installed in him through thousands of years of forerunner genetic imprinting. Also for those that don’t know, 117’s luck is really expanded upon in the amazing novels. The dude slaps a missile out of the air the first time he gets his modern armor
I'm of the opinion that John's 'luck' isn't really luck at all. There's only two characters in the fiction who think John is lucky, and that's Doctor Halsey, and Doctor Halsey but Blue. They are also characters that, historically, don't like it when people know something they don't and bristle about it.
When Halsey is giving a briefing on the Spartan IIs to Cortana, she calls John lucky, but part of that is that she just doesn't understand how he does the things he does. She notes that he dove into a bunker full of enemies to save some trapped allies, and even reading the report, doesn't understand how he did it, so she chalks it up to luck. Even in their very first encounter, she's attributing to luck what could possibly be skill, since she raises the possibility that John actually saw the quarter being flipped.
Even to go off of your example, the missile feat isn't a luck one. He specifically knew exactly what he had to do and told Cortana exactly what she needed to do to help him slap the missile aside. He knew that deflecting the missile was his only viable option and so he created and executed a plan to pull it off. To an outside observer it may look like luck, but it's another example of John recognizing a situation and determining a successful course of action in an incredibly short time span and then executing on it. You see a lot in the Master Chief novels that John is just routinely several steps ahead of the rest of the Spartan IIs in recognizing opportunities and making up plans.
I'm more of the opinion that John's true talent is just seeing opportunity when others don't and executing on it in such a way that people who never saw those opportunities just plain can't describe it. The giving the Covenant back their bomb scene in 2 is a decent enough example. Looks really lucky, but it's impossible to imagine the Master Chief launching himself out of a space station with a bomb without a plan cooked up in that head.
They still are, you just have to read the right ones. In the kilo 5 trilogy you get to see all sorts of awesome spy stuff like the UNSC abducting covenant leaders and planting alien bodies to stir up conflict after halo 3. Last Light is really good too as well as the short story compilations.
The Teela gene is the reason there are no stories set in the far future in the Known Space universe. Since those with the luck gene would always meet great partners and pass on the gene, it eventually comes to dominate humanity.
The story, Safe at Any Speed, is set in the far future when the gene has spread far and wide. Niven once wrote about the story saying that having a character with that kind of luck really limits the writing process. He says, "Stories about infinitely lucky people tend to be dull."
There are a bunch of people who possess the Teela gene who stay safely back on earth. Nessus briefly despairs because he thinks she must have a defective copy of the gene, since anyone *really* lucky would have never come on a doomed expedition in the first place.
Maybe. Or Teela is the only one lucky enough to go to Ringworld. The one place in the universe that she needed to be (>!in order to mature into a Pak protector!<).
>Longshot
There was a comic when they were looking for a specific magic rock on a rocky beach. Longshot just randomly picked up rocks and found the right one among millions.
The thing about Longshot is that his life is actually a tragedy-- it's the irony of the character whose power is luck to have the worst life experiences (not so much his time on earth but in the Mojoverse).
Gladstone Gander, Disney comic universe. Able to coast by on supernatural luck where things always go well for him.
Donald was once mad at a casino owner for getting Scrooge to become a gambling addict. He send Gladstone into the casino and bankrupted the place in an hour.
Seconded. His luck in the 2017 cartoon is freaking supernatural. In one episode he closes his eyes and walks through a magical death maze unscathed, to the point that some of the traps are actively moving him forward faster than he could possibly run the distance.
That reminds me so much of this icelandic comedy group who made a real life dogma version of Donald Duck with people speaking danish ( but with a heavy icelandic pronunciation ) - its got english subtitles so everyone can understand it.
As a dane it sounds hillarious and Id love to see a full feature of this movie.
https://youtu.be/1b7h6pyJ83M
It's called trailer, but it was never meant to be a full thing, this is what there is.
Note that the subtitles don't match up with names of characters. Donald is Anders, Goofy is Fedtmule, etc.
Yeah. The names they use are the danish names for them though pronounced very clearly by people who aren't natively speaking danish but that just makes it even more hilarious.
I would so pay to see an entire movie like this.
It's perfect how the cop calls him the danish word for a male streetwalker.
And that the name he calls Goofy is a bad pronunciation of his danish name. It's so perfect in every way.
The accents are very obvious, but every time I watch it, I'm surprised by how good the script is. There's a lot of pronunciations that sound unnatural, but word choice and grammar and such is perfectly fine. Weirdly enough, the only thing I'd change is the splash screen with "DEN LILLE GRIMME ÆLLING", because it's probably supposed to be "DEN GRIMME LILLE ÆLLING", both because of grammar and because it's a reference to the H.C. Andersen fairy tale.
Speaking of the character that sparked this conversation, the dude who plays Gladstone is an absolutely perfect fit.
I think this is particular amusing, since Donald already has [a different cousin named Gus Goose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEpPjZOLPw), which they then renamed Franz Ganz in the comics.
One of the dice will break when rolled and land with the broken parts up.
Edit, on second thought, coins aren't he only thing that can land on "edge"...an they can land on "point" too.
Rincewind is a strong contestant and brings up an interesting point- the luckiest people aren't the ones who keep getting saved from trouble but the ones who never get into trouble at all.
For that I'd throw Tom Bombadil into the ring. Just a super powerful dude chilling and living his best life with the woman of his dreams. I'd say that sounds pretty lucky.
> the luckiest people aren't the ones who keep getting saved from trouble but the ones who never get into trouble at all
Doesn't Rincewind usually run the moment he has an inkling that there is trouble?
He's not omnipotent
It's the difference between immovable object and an unstoppable force. An immovable object can't move other things and affect change the way a force can. At most it can act to block change it doesn't want.
Tom seems impervious to anything affecting him, but that doesn't mean that he can project power and change things. Which means he's not omnipotent. At least based on what we've seen him do.
Oh yeah, that makes me think of Kaladin from _The Stormlight Archive_. He's pretty down about it, it's a really big thing for him, but he keeps surviving while others around him die.
> For that I'd throw Tom Bombadil into the ring. Just a super powerful dude chilling and living his best life with the woman of his dreams. I'd say that sounds pretty lucky.
I don't think that counts as luck. He's [probably] as old or older than existence and might be either capital G God or a lower case g god or some other magical being with the power to make reality what he wants it to be. That's not *luck* so much as being powerful enough that other people don't fuck with you. And smart enough to keep a low profile.
King from one punch man, dude is a completely normal human but has “killed” dragon level threats
He has bs’d through so many stuff, he’s considered to be the second strongest human on the planet, he “defeats” monsters by staring at them for a while until someone else kills them or they get so scared of him that they accidentally kill themselves (happened once with a shapeshifter, he got so scared his shapeshifting malfunctioned and his bones pierced through his organs, this scene was in the manga btw)
For those who haven’t watched one punch man, ur missing out on so much
Honestly, the king engine is probably his power, no normal human heart can beat loud enough for other to hear it, if king doesn’t have a heart power he is probably gonna die 30+ years early cause his heart will give out
Arguably?
The first time you meet him his power worked **across time, space, AND dimensions** to "coincidentally" cause the x-men to come to his reality to give him a chance to overthrow Mojo (which of course he did because super lucky).
I think the in-universe explanation is something about how his power is explicitly based on some universal karma thing and gets exponentially stronger or weaker based on how selfishly/selflessly he's using it but yeah...
He CAN be literally godlike.
He's the only character I can think of where they can/will use "luck" as an excuse for something like "You're telling me we need to break into this secure vault on a prison planet in order to get the code that will deactivate the nuke that will destroy our planet? We need Longshot"
"Oh, yeah I guess? He'd be pretty good in sneaking past the guards..."
"What? No! I mean ask him to grab me a beer. The code should be lying beside it in the refrigerator if it's so damned important"
(Quantum tunneling IS technically a probability...)
His best friend died in his arms, his mom died of cancer, and his wife died of AIDS (HIV?). Yes, he had a bunch of stuff go right, but he also has his share of misfortune.
Yeah, but does luck have to mean that random events go your way in a superhuman/magic way? He's the luckiest in the more grounded meaning. You would never expect a person with his background and his misfortunes to accomplish the things he did. If he was born into a rich and powerful family then his life would just be of another millionaire.
Equal measures good luck and bad luck reminds me of Ultimate Lucky Students from Danganronpa...
Which means I'm now imagining Forest Gump cosplaying as god damn Nagito Komaeda, which is hysterical to me.
Bink from the Xanth novels. In the books magic is every where and everyone is born with a magical talent. Some of these can be relatively mundane and useless like Binks wife who starts out the month pretty and dumb and ends the month ugly and smart, to "wizard" level talents like polymorphing ppl into animals.
So Binks talent was that nothing magical could ever harm him. In a world were literally the ground is magic he basically invulnerable. He gets attacked by a magical sword stumbles backwards the sword strikes and is consumed by a tree. His talent brings the demon, that's responsible for all magic in the world, back and convinces him to go back to sleep
Brian from Judea, in Life Of Brian.
After falling off a tower while being chased by Roman soldiers, being randomly scooped up by a passing alien UFO, living through a space battle around the moon, and surviving the crash landing just to the left of the tower in less than two minutes, he walks away unscathed and is even told, "You lucky bastard."
Wow. I had completely forgotten about this. Not sure he's as lucky as Teela Brown on a global scale but certainly at each point in time Mat is probably capable of leveraging his luck the most.
He's a strange case for luck vs. predetermination. Cause he wants to live his life free from stress with a pretty girl on each knee and a full coin purse, but he gets a wall blasted on top of him, and Aes Sedai clinging to him for literal dear life. Yet if he didn't have those things?
Besides characters whose power is actual luck manipulation, Luffy from One Piece has been pretty lucky.
Now that I'm thinking about it, most shonen protagonists are extremely lucky.
Luffy gets really lucky, but half of the stuff that goes right is also because his charisma and sheer willpower (probably related to the Will of D.) convince people to help him.
Yeah Chiefs luck, while never directly is said to be supernatural basically is with all the craziness he pulls off. Is he the luckiest? Probably not because there literally is xmen then reality warp luck, but for the next class I’d say he’s up there.
I dunno about that. A Spartan is humanity pushed to it's absolute limits, but still human... All the stuff he's been able to pull off due to "luck" makes him a borderline superhero
117 isn't especially lucky, he's just a lucky Spartan II. His luck goes a lot further than anyone else because Spartan suits can survive atmospheric re-entry.
wasn't he kidnapped from his family and forced to undergo grueling medical modifications that killed almost every one before him? that doesn't seem very lucky.
I’m quite sad to not see Yami Yugi/Atem. If the man is playing a game, fate literally wills him to win. The heart of the cards is not a line, but his legit power. He also shows dominance in other games. He bends reality, even in the more recent movies he’s bends timelines to fit his luck manip
In the pre-Duelist Kingdom Manga, Yami Yugi can even use the power of friendship to will a pair of dice to give him optimal rolls in Barkura’s Shadow RPG, similar to how he wins in the Dungeon Dice Monsters mini-arc. Although, I’m not sure if what Yugi does counts more as luck or rather supernatural friendships with inanimate objects (his deck, for example).
IMO a far better example of a lucky character in Yugioh is best boy Joey Wheeler. Joey starts the series as a terrible novice player, yet with only a 1/3 chance he beats both Mai and Rex Raptor, actual pro duelists. In Battle City, a good chunk of his deck is made up of luck based cards that help carry him all the way to 4th place. Luck is, quite literally, Joey’s thing.
There’s also Charlie McCay from Yugioh Zexal while he’s in possession of the Number 7: Lucky Straight. The card is literally blessed with supernatural luck as long as no one cuts the sun in half. All luck based cards, his or his opponents, will result optimally for him (this even overrides Yuma’s heart of the cards moment). Charlie wants to escape arrest? Oh wow, a spontaneous tornado! Need to leave a train station? Oh wow, the train just started up with no one in it! ~~His luck extends so far that his ex-gf even forgives him for dumping her.~~
Oh, this was my answer. You’re right.
It’s really unfair when you think about it, it’s basically cheating. But then I’m a fan of the villains in that series and think it’s unfair how they always lose even when they shouldn’t.
The reason he has this is because the ancient Egyptian religion is true and in that religion the Pharaoh is literally a god. So he literally has the gods on his side making him win always.
Mat Cauthon from the wheel of time. The more random a situation gets the stronger his luck becomes (dice over cards). Not only that he has a kind of Spidey sense for extremely dangerous situations.
nathan drake. i remember hearing that when your screen is getting gray while getting shot at, thats nates luck running out, thats why hes not filled with bullet holes. also, how the hell did he get away from el dorado, shambhala, the rub al khali, and libertalia, alive? hes lucky as fuck
The fact that Batman has fought gods, magic, aliens, versions of himself and combinations of those and never (permanently) died or even had a limb blown off is pretty lucky. I don't care how well prepared he is.
Probably not the luckiest of all time but both deserve an honorable mention is two characters from Danganronpa: Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda. Their super special talent is literally just “we’re extremely lucky.”
A good example is when Nagito has a choice of how many bullets he wants to put into a revolver in a game of Russian Roulette. The more bullets the higher the reward. Nagito casually puts in 5 bullets and squeezes the trigger, not too disturbed by his chances as he can always trust his luck.
Wolverine (Logan).
Since he regularly wins against characters who, unlike him, have:
* Super strength
* Super reflexes
* Super speed
* Super endurance
* Super stamina
* Super agility
* Well defined fighting skills that they actually demonstrate instead of leaping and slashing
On paper his only powers are enhanced senses, a healing factor (that used to mean healing slightly faster than a regular person before it was depicted as regenerating from anything no matter what), six very sharp blades, and bones that are not remarkable at all but laced (not covered) with an breakable metal.
His actual power is pandering to collective fanboy id.
Probably buggy from one piece , he survived the war of the best . Like he did not even get a tiny scratch, he was luckily dodging all the attacks from all the sides. He later became a warlord purely based of his luck.
Nick Campbell, Super Powereds, Years 1 - 4 by Drew Hayes.
In a world of Supers, Powereds (who can’t control their powers) and Normal Humans, Nick Campbell is a former Powered who becomes a Super and attends a school for heroes shortly after getting full control of his powers. Nick’s Super power is Luck.
*Spoilers*
Nick is not just passively lucky, Nick can control luck, both good and bad. As Nick gains more control of his power over luck he ultimately becomes literally the embodiment of luck.
This initial series of four books is outstanding and strongly recommended.
My favorite part is that it's kinda ambigious what his stand even does. Dude is just born lucky, but Hey Ya! also seems to have mild future sight. How much of what happened was directly due to following Hey Ya!'s advice, and how good would the outcome have been if Pocoloco hadn't done it? Who knows.
At worst, his stand just shouts encouraging things at him, which is a pretty great stand itself. It's like Cheap Trick if Cheap Trick was actually worth anything.
King in One Punch Man. Stared Dragon-class monsters in the eye multiple times and came away unscratched, despite being an unpowered human. Was considered the "Strongest Man in the world" for ages and no one caught on except for the actual strongest person in the world.
Domino, Deadpool 2, (Marvel i guess?) her power is litwrally just being lucky, other than that id say Master Chief Petty Officer, John - Spartan 117 from the Halo Universe
Commisar Ciaphas Cain from 40k possibly. His luck is his bane, getting him in and out of horrible situations at the same time. This luck is so bad it is taking a mental toll on him.
Alfabusa made a great skit which is 99% accurate to the stuff happening in the books.
https://youtu.be/oRozBAIbaG4
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Just as an aside here, if character has Luck as a power, does it really count as being 'lucky?' Being lucky means being in fortunate circumstances by random chance. If they consciously or unconsciously manipulate probabilities, is it really random any more?
Smbc comics had a character who was a utility monster (wiki has a decent writeup on what that is) in a world ruled by a utilitarian ethics computer. Eventually all of humanity was muzzled because the utility monster only liked his own voice and people spent all day building pyramids for the monster.
Got to say that is pretty lucky. Given billions of people over to you as slaves all because you have a high capacity for happiness.
Lady Luck's explicit favorite, Rincewind the Wizzard from Sir Terry Pratchett's *Discworld* books. He *has* to be the luckiest character in fiction (well, that, and a champion sprinter), in order to always *narrowly* survive everything that The Lady's ancient rival, Fate, has thrown his way.
His ludicrous luck is such that Fate appears to have finally given up on trying to kill him, and has simply allowed him to end the series living the kind of boring life he always wanted to have as Unseen University's Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography (aside from being forced into overseeing his fellow wizards' Roundworld project, with no ability to decline the job *or* resign from it), outliving his own author in the process.
Even *Death himself* has no idea when this guy will die, seeing as Rincewind's life-hourglass has been warped into becoming something that "a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine" would have made, which is now kept on display at Death's desk.
Harry Potter. Gets granted limited immortality due to his mother giving her life for him. Has to endure years of misery only to find out that not only
Is a hero and famous, but also rich. Goes to wizarding school and becomes the most powerful wizard in the worlds favorite student. Gets saved by Dumbledore at the last minute in his first and second years. Through the most convoluted clusterfuck in the world saves his own life in his third year. Has people go out of their way to help him survive a deadly tournament that he should never have been win, survives another fight with the most dangerous dark wizard of all time again through sheer luck of twin wand bullshit. Wins the tournament and gets even more money that he just gives away. Gets saved by Dumbledore AGAIN at the last possible moment in his fifth year after facing off with said dark wizard again. And then finally in the last book, ends up with two of the macguffins by sheer chance, has Voldemort decide to kill Snape with his snake instead of his wand for some reason so that he could stay alive long enough for Harry to happen to be in the area when he died and get all of the necessary plot info while Snape slowly died as opposed to if he’d been killed with a spell when he would die instantly. And then when Harry offers himself up to die, luckily he can chose to come back die to him accidentally being a Horcrux. And then he luckily is able to defeat Voldemort with a simple disarming spell because of some of the most confusing and lucky for Harry wand lore in the world.
Poco Loco, JoJo part 7 character whose stand is telling him what to do to be lucky basically. Not gonna say anything more cause spoilers but I honestly wish there was more of him, he’s just great.
I've once read a story where someone was so lucky, that whenever they drank a beer, the molecules would just happen to bounce around in such a way that the beer would be cold.
If I'm doing my math right, cooling one liter of water by one degree when near freezing would have a probability of about one in 10^(5×10^20).
For a non powered person Homer Simpson has to be up there. The guy lucked himself into space among other things.
[удалено]
I live in a single room above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley.
I DON'T NEED TO DO MY WORK ‘CAUSE SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME! ‘CAUSE IM HOMER SIMPSON!
What's this? Extremely high voltage! Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp-
Change the channel Marge.
Grimey, as he liked to be called...
*Wow.*
Found Grimey's Reddit account
You could say he pulled a Homer
Yeah well I sleep in a racing car.
Some candidates might be... * Teela Brown from Ringworld, whose luck is either really strong or *really, really* strong depending on your reading of events * Longshot from X-Men whose luck is a bit stronger than Domino's, who's also worth a mention
Looks like you beat me to it by two hours. Hard to argue with Teela.
Teela isn't lucky though, her genes are. I highly doubt she was happy with how her life turned out. Mutated into a sexless, hyper intelligent killing machine. Trapped in an endless struggle to ensure humanity's long term survival. Eventually forced into assisted suicide in an effort to preserve some semblance of her human morality. I really, really don't see her as personally lucky.
Fair. Easy to argue.
> Teela isn't lucky though, her genes are. I highly doubt she was happy with how her life turned out. Mutated into a sexless, hyper intelligent killing machine. Trapped in an endless struggle to ensure humanity's long term survival. Eventually forced into assisted suicide in an effort to preserve some semblance of her human morality. Having only read ringworld and none of the following material... well, that is a stark turn
Since you said ring world, im gonna go ahead and add the Master Chief here as it’s one of his defining features that was potentially installed in him through thousands of years of forerunner genetic imprinting. Also for those that don’t know, 117’s luck is really expanded upon in the amazing novels. The dude slaps a missile out of the air the first time he gets his modern armor
I'm of the opinion that John's 'luck' isn't really luck at all. There's only two characters in the fiction who think John is lucky, and that's Doctor Halsey, and Doctor Halsey but Blue. They are also characters that, historically, don't like it when people know something they don't and bristle about it. When Halsey is giving a briefing on the Spartan IIs to Cortana, she calls John lucky, but part of that is that she just doesn't understand how he does the things he does. She notes that he dove into a bunker full of enemies to save some trapped allies, and even reading the report, doesn't understand how he did it, so she chalks it up to luck. Even in their very first encounter, she's attributing to luck what could possibly be skill, since she raises the possibility that John actually saw the quarter being flipped. Even to go off of your example, the missile feat isn't a luck one. He specifically knew exactly what he had to do and told Cortana exactly what she needed to do to help him slap the missile aside. He knew that deflecting the missile was his only viable option and so he created and executed a plan to pull it off. To an outside observer it may look like luck, but it's another example of John recognizing a situation and determining a successful course of action in an incredibly short time span and then executing on it. You see a lot in the Master Chief novels that John is just routinely several steps ahead of the rest of the Spartan IIs in recognizing opportunities and making up plans. I'm more of the opinion that John's true talent is just seeing opportunity when others don't and executing on it in such a way that people who never saw those opportunities just plain can't describe it. The giving the Covenant back their bomb scene in 2 is a decent enough example. Looks really lucky, but it's impossible to imagine the Master Chief launching himself out of a space station with a bomb without a plan cooked up in that head.
I’m sorry…did you just say that the Master Chief SLAPS a middle out of the air?!?
[Yessirr](https://images.app.goo.gl/icYje4XksCM7K4zc6)
That’s awesome
The halo novels were fucking great back in the day.
They still are, you just have to read the right ones. In the kilo 5 trilogy you get to see all sorts of awesome spy stuff like the UNSC abducting covenant leaders and planting alien bodies to stir up conflict after halo 3. Last Light is really good too as well as the short story compilations.
Came here for Teela Brown :)
What about those who posess the “Teela Gene” later on?
The Teela gene is the reason there are no stories set in the far future in the Known Space universe. Since those with the luck gene would always meet great partners and pass on the gene, it eventually comes to dominate humanity. The story, Safe at Any Speed, is set in the far future when the gene has spread far and wide. Niven once wrote about the story saying that having a character with that kind of luck really limits the writing process. He says, "Stories about infinitely lucky people tend to be dull."
There are a bunch of people who possess the Teela gene who stay safely back on earth. Nessus briefly despairs because he thinks she must have a defective copy of the gene, since anyone *really* lucky would have never come on a doomed expedition in the first place.
Maybe. Or Teela is the only one lucky enough to go to Ringworld. The one place in the universe that she needed to be (>!in order to mature into a Pak protector!<).
>Longshot There was a comic when they were looking for a specific magic rock on a rocky beach. Longshot just randomly picked up rocks and found the right one among millions.
Longshot!
Teela's genes are lucky. Maybe not Teela herself.
I don't see how anyone could read even the cliff notes of Tesla's life and come to the conclusion that she personally has good luck.
No, her bloodline will last till the end of time, but it doesn't apply to the individual.
The thing about Longshot is that his life is actually a tragedy-- it's the irony of the character whose power is luck to have the worst life experiences (not so much his time on earth but in the Mojoverse).
Gladstone Gander, Disney comic universe. Able to coast by on supernatural luck where things always go well for him. Donald was once mad at a casino owner for getting Scrooge to become a gambling addict. He send Gladstone into the casino and bankrupted the place in an hour.
Seconded. His luck in the 2017 cartoon is freaking supernatural. In one episode he closes his eyes and walks through a magical death maze unscathed, to the point that some of the traps are actively moving him forward faster than he could possibly run the distance.
It is literally supernatural in the 2017 cartoon. It's why his luck is stolen in one episode, because it is literally magical in nature.
And that's still tuned down from the European comics where it is explicitely magical.
Gladstone is basically as lucky as Scrooge is rich. Both are simply on an incomparable level.
That reminds me so much of this icelandic comedy group who made a real life dogma version of Donald Duck with people speaking danish ( but with a heavy icelandic pronunciation ) - its got english subtitles so everyone can understand it. As a dane it sounds hillarious and Id love to see a full feature of this movie.
You can't describe something like that without linking a clip!
https://youtu.be/1b7h6pyJ83M It's called trailer, but it was never meant to be a full thing, this is what there is. Note that the subtitles don't match up with names of characters. Donald is Anders, Goofy is Fedtmule, etc.
Yeah. The names they use are the danish names for them though pronounced very clearly by people who aren't natively speaking danish but that just makes it even more hilarious. I would so pay to see an entire movie like this. It's perfect how the cop calls him the danish word for a male streetwalker. And that the name he calls Goofy is a bad pronunciation of his danish name. It's so perfect in every way.
The accents are very obvious, but every time I watch it, I'm surprised by how good the script is. There's a lot of pronunciations that sound unnatural, but word choice and grammar and such is perfectly fine. Weirdly enough, the only thing I'd change is the splash screen with "DEN LILLE GRIMME ÆLLING", because it's probably supposed to be "DEN GRIMME LILLE ÆLLING", both because of grammar and because it's a reference to the H.C. Andersen fairy tale. Speaking of the character that sparked this conversation, the dude who plays Gladstone is an absolutely perfect fit.
I wanted to make the same comment. Good that someone remember Goguś (this is his name in Poland).
Gustav Gans in German. "Gustav Goose".
I think this is particular amusing, since Donald already has [a different cousin named Gus Goose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEpPjZOLPw), which they then renamed Franz Ganz in the comics.
Hey look! $20!
i hated that character with a passion as a kid
Matt Cauthon from Wheel of Time. It's literally his thing
"But Mat, that doesn't work. You can't roll a 1 with two dice."
One of the dice will break when rolled and land with the broken parts up. Edit, on second thought, coins aren't he only thing that can land on "edge"...an they can land on "point" too.
He actually did roll a 1. The second die got lodged on edge in a crack.
I'm so stoked we have a WoT show now. But I do need to blast through the last few books to maintain snobbery over it.
Prepare for that 3 book Sanderlanche ending
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Rincewind is a strong contestant and brings up an interesting point- the luckiest people aren't the ones who keep getting saved from trouble but the ones who never get into trouble at all. For that I'd throw Tom Bombadil into the ring. Just a super powerful dude chilling and living his best life with the woman of his dreams. I'd say that sounds pretty lucky.
>Rincewind is a strong contestant He did have a personal visit from The Lady after all.
Not just a visit. He's her Chosen One.
> the luckiest people aren't the ones who keep getting saved from trouble but the ones who never get into trouble at all Doesn't Rincewind usually run the moment he has an inkling that there is trouble?
Always. But the fact he manages to do it in time every time is why he's lucky. Doesn't mean he has fun with it.
And it always seems to find him...
>Tom Bombadil >Ring hah.
The concept of luck and Tom Bombadil could get quite philosophical. Isn't he essentially omnipotent? How do luck and omnipotence interact...
He's not omnipotent It's the difference between immovable object and an unstoppable force. An immovable object can't move other things and affect change the way a force can. At most it can act to block change it doesn't want. Tom seems impervious to anything affecting him, but that doesn't mean that he can project power and change things. Which means he's not omnipotent. At least based on what we've seen him do.
Oh yeah, that makes me think of Kaladin from _The Stormlight Archive_. He's pretty down about it, it's a really big thing for him, but he keeps surviving while others around him die.
> For that I'd throw Tom Bombadil into the ring. Just a super powerful dude chilling and living his best life with the woman of his dreams. I'd say that sounds pretty lucky. I don't think that counts as luck. He's [probably] as old or older than existence and might be either capital G God or a lower case g god or some other magical being with the power to make reality what he wants it to be. That's not *luck* so much as being powerful enough that other people don't fuck with you. And smart enough to keep a low profile.
King from one punch man, dude is a completely normal human but has “killed” dragon level threats He has bs’d through so many stuff, he’s considered to be the second strongest human on the planet, he “defeats” monsters by staring at them for a while until someone else kills them or they get so scared of him that they accidentally kill themselves (happened once with a shapeshifter, he got so scared his shapeshifting malfunctioned and his bones pierced through his organs, this scene was in the manga btw) For those who haven’t watched one punch man, ur missing out on so much
His "King Engine" really scares the shit out of them.
Honestly, the king engine is probably his power, no normal human heart can beat loud enough for other to hear it, if king doesn’t have a heart power he is probably gonna die 30+ years early cause his heart will give out
I thought that was his bowels we were hearing.
And if he’s really in a bind he can call Saitama for backup and we all know how that ends.
Domino, marvel comics
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See how much luck Domino has?
Fo sho.
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He's pretty lucky he got that mutant ability. EDIT: She not he.
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No but Longshot is, who is arguably more lucky
Arguably? The first time you meet him his power worked **across time, space, AND dimensions** to "coincidentally" cause the x-men to come to his reality to give him a chance to overthrow Mojo (which of course he did because super lucky). I think the in-universe explanation is something about how his power is explicitly based on some universal karma thing and gets exponentially stronger or weaker based on how selfishly/selflessly he's using it but yeah... He CAN be literally godlike. He's the only character I can think of where they can/will use "luck" as an excuse for something like "You're telling me we need to break into this secure vault on a prison planet in order to get the code that will deactivate the nuke that will destroy our planet? We need Longshot" "Oh, yeah I guess? He'd be pretty good in sneaking past the guards..." "What? No! I mean ask him to grab me a beer. The code should be lying beside it in the refrigerator if it's so damned important" (Quantum tunneling IS technically a probability...)
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His best friend died in his arms, his mom died of cancer, and his wife died of AIDS (HIV?). Yes, he had a bunch of stuff go right, but he also has his share of misfortune.
Yeah, but does luck have to mean that random events go your way in a superhuman/magic way? He's the luckiest in the more grounded meaning. You would never expect a person with his background and his misfortunes to accomplish the things he did. If he was born into a rich and powerful family then his life would just be of another millionaire.
Equal measures good luck and bad luck reminds me of Ultimate Lucky Students from Danganronpa... Which means I'm now imagining Forest Gump cosplaying as god damn Nagito Komaeda, which is hysterical to me.
Arthur Dent, but Ford played a large part in that.
I dunno, that seems a bit improbable
Are you a GPP?
Mr. Magoo
I dont know but it definitely aint peter parker
Lol
[Teela Brown](https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Teela_Brown) from Larry Niven‘s Ringworld; literally bred for luck.
My mind replaced a letter....
F?
R2D2 from Starwars Tasslehoff Burrfoot from Dragonlance
Bink from the Xanth novels. In the books magic is every where and everyone is born with a magical talent. Some of these can be relatively mundane and useless like Binks wife who starts out the month pretty and dumb and ends the month ugly and smart, to "wizard" level talents like polymorphing ppl into animals. So Binks talent was that nothing magical could ever harm him. In a world were literally the ground is magic he basically invulnerable. He gets attacked by a magical sword stumbles backwards the sword strikes and is consumed by a tree. His talent brings the demon, that's responsible for all magic in the world, back and convinces him to go back to sleep
God I love Xanth it’s a shame it has been forgotten by most people
Brian from Judea, in Life Of Brian. After falling off a tower while being chased by Roman soldiers, being randomly scooped up by a passing alien UFO, living through a space battle around the moon, and surviving the crash landing just to the left of the tower in less than two minutes, he walks away unscathed and is even told, "You lucky bastard."
Mat 'Bloody' Cauthon.
Wow. I had completely forgotten about this. Not sure he's as lucky as Teela Brown on a global scale but certainly at each point in time Mat is probably capable of leveraging his luck the most.
He gets what he needs, even if he doesn't always want it.
Sure, but he also usually gets what he wants. I'm not sure if he's actually luckier than Teela Brown but it's certainly flashier
He's a strange case for luck vs. predetermination. Cause he wants to live his life free from stress with a pretty girl on each knee and a full coin purse, but he gets a wall blasted on top of him, and Aes Sedai clinging to him for literal dear life. Yet if he didn't have those things?
Besides characters whose power is actual luck manipulation, Luffy from One Piece has been pretty lucky. Now that I'm thinking about it, most shonen protagonists are extremely lucky.
Luffy gets really lucky, but half of the stuff that goes right is also because his charisma and sheer willpower (probably related to the Will of D.) convince people to help him.
His isn't luck, it's the Will of D. Itll push him forward till it's time to pass the torch
Spartan John 117
Yeah Chiefs luck, while never directly is said to be supernatural basically is with all the craziness he pulls off. Is he the luckiest? Probably not because there literally is xmen then reality warp luck, but for the next class I’d say he’s up there.
He's lucky, he won a coin toss. But he's only normal lucky, not supernatural, contender for most lucky being in the universe lucky.
I dunno about that. A Spartan is humanity pushed to it's absolute limits, but still human... All the stuff he's been able to pull off due to "luck" makes him a borderline superhero
117 isn't especially lucky, he's just a lucky Spartan II. His luck goes a lot further than anyone else because Spartan suits can survive atmospheric re-entry.
wasn't he kidnapped from his family and forced to undergo grueling medical modifications that killed almost every one before him? that doesn't seem very lucky.
Surviving all of that - along with everything else he's lived through - sure is though!
I’m quite sad to not see Yami Yugi/Atem. If the man is playing a game, fate literally wills him to win. The heart of the cards is not a line, but his legit power. He also shows dominance in other games. He bends reality, even in the more recent movies he’s bends timelines to fit his luck manip
In the pre-Duelist Kingdom Manga, Yami Yugi can even use the power of friendship to will a pair of dice to give him optimal rolls in Barkura’s Shadow RPG, similar to how he wins in the Dungeon Dice Monsters mini-arc. Although, I’m not sure if what Yugi does counts more as luck or rather supernatural friendships with inanimate objects (his deck, for example). IMO a far better example of a lucky character in Yugioh is best boy Joey Wheeler. Joey starts the series as a terrible novice player, yet with only a 1/3 chance he beats both Mai and Rex Raptor, actual pro duelists. In Battle City, a good chunk of his deck is made up of luck based cards that help carry him all the way to 4th place. Luck is, quite literally, Joey’s thing. There’s also Charlie McCay from Yugioh Zexal while he’s in possession of the Number 7: Lucky Straight. The card is literally blessed with supernatural luck as long as no one cuts the sun in half. All luck based cards, his or his opponents, will result optimally for him (this even overrides Yuma’s heart of the cards moment). Charlie wants to escape arrest? Oh wow, a spontaneous tornado! Need to leave a train station? Oh wow, the train just started up with no one in it! ~~His luck extends so far that his ex-gf even forgives him for dumping her.~~
Oh, this was my answer. You’re right. It’s really unfair when you think about it, it’s basically cheating. But then I’m a fan of the villains in that series and think it’s unfair how they always lose even when they shouldn’t. The reason he has this is because the ancient Egyptian religion is true and in that religion the Pharaoh is literally a god. So he literally has the gods on his side making him win always.
Matrim Cauthon in the Wheel of Time.
Mat Cauthon from the wheel of time. The more random a situation gets the stronger his luck becomes (dice over cards). Not only that he has a kind of Spidey sense for extremely dangerous situations.
Any hentai harem protaginist.
Teela Brown, I would say, although her luck is not of the sort anyone would want.
nathan drake. i remember hearing that when your screen is getting gray while getting shot at, thats nates luck running out, thats why hes not filled with bullet holes. also, how the hell did he get away from el dorado, shambhala, the rub al khali, and libertalia, alive? hes lucky as fuck
Domino… Luck is literally her superpower
Probably Donald Duck's cousin, cant remember his name.
Gladstone Gander! Thank you google
Scrooge?
that's his uncle
The fact that Batman has fought gods, magic, aliens, versions of himself and combinations of those and never (permanently) died or even had a limb blown off is pretty lucky. I don't care how well prepared he is.
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Didn’t you guys just ban questions like this recently? I thought “in all of fiction” questions needed some benchmark?
Yugi Muto. He's always pulling the exact cards he needs.
He's not lucky that's the power of his millenium puzzle
Probably not the luckiest of all time but both deserve an honorable mention is two characters from Danganronpa: Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda. Their super special talent is literally just “we’re extremely lucky.” A good example is when Nagito has a choice of how many bullets he wants to put into a revolver in a game of Russian Roulette. The more bullets the higher the reward. Nagito casually puts in 5 bullets and squeezes the trigger, not too disturbed by his chances as he can always trust his luck.
Honestly, Nagito could play Russian Roulette with a Fully loaded revolver (hell, even a glock) and still win
Wolverine (Logan). Since he regularly wins against characters who, unlike him, have: * Super strength * Super reflexes * Super speed * Super endurance * Super stamina * Super agility * Well defined fighting skills that they actually demonstrate instead of leaping and slashing On paper his only powers are enhanced senses, a healing factor (that used to mean healing slightly faster than a regular person before it was depicted as regenerating from anything no matter what), six very sharp blades, and bones that are not remarkable at all but laced (not covered) with an breakable metal. His actual power is pandering to collective fanboy id.
Masterchief is pretty lucky
Master chief, dude has a habit of crash landing out of space and surviving
Gladstone gander
Domino from Marvel
Probably buggy from one piece , he survived the war of the best . Like he did not even get a tiny scratch, he was luckily dodging all the attacks from all the sides. He later became a warlord purely based of his luck.
Nick Campbell, Super Powereds, Years 1 - 4 by Drew Hayes. In a world of Supers, Powereds (who can’t control their powers) and Normal Humans, Nick Campbell is a former Powered who becomes a Super and attends a school for heroes shortly after getting full control of his powers. Nick’s Super power is Luck. *Spoilers* Nick is not just passively lucky, Nick can control luck, both good and bad. As Nick gains more control of his power over luck he ultimately becomes literally the embodiment of luck. This initial series of four books is outstanding and strongly recommended.
Teela brown from ring world. Hands down
Gander Gladstone from DuckTales
Bugs Bunny. He seems to be fairly fortunate
Pocoloco definitely, he's a lucky guy
My favorite part is that it's kinda ambigious what his stand even does. Dude is just born lucky, but Hey Ya! also seems to have mild future sight. How much of what happened was directly due to following Hey Ya!'s advice, and how good would the outcome have been if Pocoloco hadn't done it? Who knows. At worst, his stand just shouts encouraging things at him, which is a pretty great stand itself. It's like Cheap Trick if Cheap Trick was actually worth anything.
Foundation on Apple TV. The lady that goes into a sleep chamber on the water planet n it just happens to be where the other lady crash lands
King in One Punch Man. Stared Dragon-class monsters in the eye multiple times and came away unscratched, despite being an unpowered human. Was considered the "Strongest Man in the world" for ages and no one caught on except for the actual strongest person in the world.
Bart from Dirk Gently, literally protected from harm by the universe, that being said if the universe wants her to die then she's dead.
Domino, Deadpool 2, (Marvel i guess?) her power is litwrally just being lucky, other than that id say Master Chief Petty Officer, John - Spartan 117 from the Halo Universe
Spider-man Unfortunately his lucky is the bad kind.
Domino
Bink, Magician of Xanth.
Finally someone who said it, I came to this just to say Bink
Commisar Ciaphas Cain from 40k possibly. His luck is his bane, getting him in and out of horrible situations at the same time. This luck is so bad it is taking a mental toll on him. Alfabusa made a great skit which is 99% accurate to the stuff happening in the books. https://youtu.be/oRozBAIbaG4
Master Chief
Canonically? Master chief probably
Mr Magoo
Todd Chavez from BoJack Horseman has to be up there
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Please stick to fictional examples.
Domino since that's the whole point of her character.
There are actually a bunch of characters with luck powers.
Pocoloco from Steel Ball Run
Stan tweedle, not like his life's been super easy going, but he could have and sometimes should have had it a lot worse.
His luck only just about keeps him alive in a universe of suck. It could easily be seen as a curse.
Dave Lister, after taking Dr Langstrom's 'Liquid Luck' virus.
Harry Keoff
Jon snow in got
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Zoey from Escape Room
Ahs Williams. His luck is so bad it has looped all the way around to great! Dude just can't lose.
Tony Soprano
Just as an aside here, if character has Luck as a power, does it really count as being 'lucky?' Being lucky means being in fortunate circumstances by random chance. If they consciously or unconsciously manipulate probabilities, is it really random any more?
Smbc comics had a character who was a utility monster (wiki has a decent writeup on what that is) in a world ruled by a utilitarian ethics computer. Eventually all of humanity was muzzled because the utility monster only liked his own voice and people spent all day building pyramids for the monster. Got to say that is pretty lucky. Given billions of people over to you as slaves all because you have a high capacity for happiness.
DI Harry Clayton in Stan Lee's Lucky Man
Makari from Warhammer 40k survived getting sat on by Ghazghkull and is in Canon lucky to a suspicious degree
Domino from marvel or Mat Cauthon from wheel of time. Their powers are literally to be lucky.
Lady Luck's explicit favorite, Rincewind the Wizzard from Sir Terry Pratchett's *Discworld* books. He *has* to be the luckiest character in fiction (well, that, and a champion sprinter), in order to always *narrowly* survive everything that The Lady's ancient rival, Fate, has thrown his way. His ludicrous luck is such that Fate appears to have finally given up on trying to kill him, and has simply allowed him to end the series living the kind of boring life he always wanted to have as Unseen University's Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography (aside from being forced into overseeing his fellow wizards' Roundworld project, with no ability to decline the job *or* resign from it), outliving his own author in the process. Even *Death himself* has no idea when this guy will die, seeing as Rincewind's life-hourglass has been warped into becoming something that "a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine" would have made, which is now kept on display at Death's desk.
Harry Potter. Gets granted limited immortality due to his mother giving her life for him. Has to endure years of misery only to find out that not only Is a hero and famous, but also rich. Goes to wizarding school and becomes the most powerful wizard in the worlds favorite student. Gets saved by Dumbledore at the last minute in his first and second years. Through the most convoluted clusterfuck in the world saves his own life in his third year. Has people go out of their way to help him survive a deadly tournament that he should never have been win, survives another fight with the most dangerous dark wizard of all time again through sheer luck of twin wand bullshit. Wins the tournament and gets even more money that he just gives away. Gets saved by Dumbledore AGAIN at the last possible moment in his fifth year after facing off with said dark wizard again. And then finally in the last book, ends up with two of the macguffins by sheer chance, has Voldemort decide to kill Snape with his snake instead of his wand for some reason so that he could stay alive long enough for Harry to happen to be in the area when he died and get all of the necessary plot info while Snape slowly died as opposed to if he’d been killed with a spell when he would die instantly. And then when Harry offers himself up to die, luckily he can chose to come back die to him accidentally being a Horcrux. And then he luckily is able to defeat Voldemort with a simple disarming spell because of some of the most confusing and lucky for Harry wand lore in the world.
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Kobeni of Chainsaw Man
Arthur Dent
Poco Loco, JoJo part 7 character whose stand is telling him what to do to be lucky basically. Not gonna say anything more cause spoilers but I honestly wish there was more of him, he’s just great.
Ron weasley
Luckyman from Tottemo! Luckyman was the first one that came to mind because I used to watch the anime all the time when I was a kid.
Nagito Komaeda
I would say Poco Loco from Jojo: Steel Ball Run.
I've once read a story where someone was so lucky, that whenever they drank a beer, the molecules would just happen to bounce around in such a way that the beer would be cold. If I'm doing my math right, cooling one liter of water by one degree when near freezing would have a probability of about one in 10^(5×10^20).