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A Curse that has run for so long that the cursed has forgotten what pre-cursed life was like is finally broken. A tidal wave of good fortune follows immediately after, implying that all the good luck had been bottled up by the presence of the curse and is now pouring out by the gallons to compensate for the hardships endured by the cursed for years (and sometimes generations). This is most likely to occur when the curse was clearly undeserved by its sufferers; in cases when the curse is deserved, the karmic aftermath is usually reduced to a simple return to pre-cursed status quo with an Aesop learned. Actually breaking the curse seems to be limited to film and one-shots: TV shows are extremely fond of making every attempt to break the curse a failure to preserve the status quo, especially if the character is Cursed with Awesome. Compare Karmic Jackpot. Contrast Karma Houdini Warranty. The title is a pun on a stock line uttered by the Dastardly Whiplash. |
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In The Legend of Rah and the Muggles the babies bringing light to the continent of Aura brings about the spontaneous blooming of flowers and trees to the once barren land... contradicted a few pages later when the people who have only ever lived in this supposedly barren land have elaborate ceremonies involving honeysuckle and the like. Also, Aura was never actually cursed. It just was blocked from sunlight thanks to a cloud of purple radiation that did let in moon and starlight in...wait. |
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An example of the second variation is Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Once the wicked prince redeems himself and wins Belle's love, he, his castle and all its enchanted residents are returned to normal. Which, considering the opulence of the place as well as getting a Happily Ever After with Belle, isn't too shabby. | |
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This trope is occasionally subverted in World of Warcraft. While most curses can simply be dispelled and cease to have an effect, dispelling some of the more powerful ones can cause a backlash as bad or worse than just leaving the curse on. For example, a particular curse note technically a magic debuff that causes substantial damage over time will, when dispelled, deal the dispeller that damage all at once, as well as silencing them. There's also another curse note technically poison used by a boss monster that, once the curse runs its course or is dispelled, a large cloud of noxious gas is released around the victim. Dispelling classes have to work against their instincts to dispel curses during that fight, so that the victims can run out of the group before the gas cloud is released. |
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The Bible: Older Than Feudalism: Job in the Old Testament has curses and misfortune heaped upon him and everyone close to him, due to a bet between God and Satan. After sucking it up and maintaining his faith and loyalty for long enough, he received double what he lost, and ten more children. | |
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Partial subversion in the third Deltora Quest book series by Emily Rodda. When each of the Four Sisters poisoning the land is destroyed, the region it affected heals up immediately (crops grow again, poisoned wells clear up, et cetera)... but once all four are destroyed, disgusting grey gunk starts rising from the ground to flood the land. Fortunately, the main characters manage to destroy that too. | |
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Subverted in Little Dorrit, wherein the Dorritt family has languished in debtors' prison for so long that the protagonist, Amy Dorritt, was born there and knows no other life. When Arthur Clennam in the role of a kind of Deus ex Machina discovers an unclaimed inheritance for them, the whole family is sprung from prison and restored to their high-society life. All is not well, however, partly because Amy hates Society with her whole soul, and partly because her family falls apart anyway, culminating in the death and financial ruin of her father and uncle. | |
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The 2006 film Just My Luck featured Lindsay Lohan as a girl who exuded good luck out of every pore. To "karmically balance things", there's a guy who can never succeed, played by Chris Pine. Both meet and kiss, switching their luck around. Afterwards, the guy uses his not inconsiderable talents coupled with her luck to rise astronomically, while she, being accustomed to utter luck, sputtered and flailed. Of course they eventually fall in love and their lucks "cancel out", but the guy was the better of the pair for giving her help when she was unlucky. | |
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A rather nasty version, but one that could still be described as played straight, occurs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel's curse of a soul is lifted, resulting in a really good time... for Angelus. | |
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