Lady luck
Some people were just born lucky. Chances are you know a few of those types: the ones who inherit millions of dollars from a long-lost uncle, or magically stumble across a $100 bill in the parking lot of a grocery store. How many times have you walked that same parking lot, only to find gum-stained cement? A lot, we'd wager.
7. Chansey
At first glance, Chansey doesn't look like much more than a fat, pink monster thing. But this normal-type Pokemon isn't quite as "normal" as she'd lead you to believe: She's actually the literal manifestation of luck--at least according to the translation of her Japanese name, which translates to "lucky."
6. Guybrush Threepwood
Long before Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood ever became a pirate, he was a scrawny, awkward teenager with naught going for him aside from some pretty sharp wit and the ability to hold his breath underwater for a substantial amount of time. It was odd, then, that his sole ambition was to become a pirate, considering he was woefully ill-equipped with the kind of traits one might associate with buccaneers. On paper, Guybrush was doomed to fail. But luck had other plans for him.
5. Nathan Drake
This half-tuck hero has a long history of surviving encounters with mercenaries, undead Nazis, and supernatural gorillas things--and his track record with vehicles isn't exactly spotless, either. He's survived car crashes, train wrecks, plane plummets, and even a loooooong fall from an aircraft to the soft, cushiony sands of the Rub 'al Khali desert, and is impervious to its blistering heat. Somehow, he always ends up miraculously unharmed.
4. Lara Croft
Where Nathan Drake manages to jump out of airplanes sans a parachute without getting hurt, the recently rebooted Lara Croft suffers a lot of punishment. Still, the shock of getting stabbed by a rebar is diminished pretty quickly when there are no consequences. It seems Lara's survival training paid off in dividends, as she learned that all you have to do to heal an impalement wound is to cover it with your hand for five minutes and grimace in pain for a while, hoping it will go away (which it does).
3. Earthworm Jim
Considering your typical earthworm has, like, a 50 percent chance of drowning, it's safe to say that earthworms are pretty unlucky creatures in general. Think about it: When it rains, they have to tunnel to the surface to escape a watery grave. Even if they're successful, they might still drown if they're unfortunate enough to surface in a water-filled ditch. It's also possible they'd get stepped on, or torn into pieces by bored children. The best case scenario for an earthworm involves safely tunneling around under the earth, munching on dirt all day. By comparison, Earthworm Jim might be the luckiest character on this list.
2. Master Chief
Anyone who manages to single-handedly save the universe is pretty lucky by default. But what makes Master Chief stand out as one of gaming's luckiest characters is the fact that his incredible luck isn't a one time thing--he's been referred to as the "luckiest Spartan" since he was the wee age of six.
1. Clayton Carmine
The demise of the Carmine brothers in Gears of War became something of an in-joke by the end of the second game in the series. First, there was Anthony Carmine, who took a bullet to the dome while trying to fix a jammed lancer on the battlefield. Next was his his older brother, Benjamin, who was mauled to death by some acid-spewing Nemacytes inside the guts of a Riftworm. But in Gears of War 3, Clayton Carmine miraculously escaped the doomed fate shared by his kin.
