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The belief that God or some other deity provides wealth to humans. When one is given an unexpected blessing, usually a sudden windfall of money or property, how it was received is left unexplained. In not revealing the actual source, credit is given to faith in a deity, a divine being, or some other higher power. How it was given is never explicitly stated, literally or metaphorically. The being or power is considered to be the source of unexpected prosperity. In case there is any doubt about God-Given good grace being indeed God-given, proponents may cite scripture to make their point. Beliefs in Good Fortune from God are ancient in origin and have been featured in fictional works. Because the source of the fortune remains a mystery, the self-described recipient may really be a Mock Millionaire, even if Conspicuous Consumption is part of the testimony. Whether by quoting words or showing off, the idea is to make a show without revealing the source of the new-found wealth. Good Fortune from God, as seen typically in Real Life, occurs with or without a deity. The higher power can be vague (as in the "name it, claim it" advice given in self-help works) or very specific (God or Jesus in churches that follow the Prosperity Theology movement) . In the latter, it can be a tool for Easy Evangelism, and such a notion has been criticized for treating divinity like a Benevolent Genie and often being promoted by Greedy Televangelists. Therefore, a reader or a listener is not certain if the windfall was literally given by such a divine being, or if in fact could have been something truly unexpected, say, finding an envelope of cash on the ground. However, giving credit to an unseen power can have much impact emotionally. While no deaths are reported, this is similar for its non-explanation to Unexplained Recovery. This is a subtrope of Deus ex Machina, which is credited for the material gain. Also compare with Religion is Magic and Logical Fallacies. See also The Almighty Dollar, where the God really does have control over money. |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: The followers of Lyria tend to believe that, since everything is fated, anything good or bad is the direct will of the gods and you deserve it. Particularly notable in the town of Tirin's Rest, which turns away starving refugees because they obviously deserve their fate. | |
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The Secret is perhaps the best-known non-theistic example, given its Daydream Believer approach toward seeking what is desired. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer gets a (one-episode) boost on his faith when he discovers that every time he prays, his luck changes for the better. This makes him win bets, find lost pennies, get discounts and late in the episode get Springfield Church as settlement for accidentally falling on a hole in its terrain that he was convinced by an Ambulance Chaser to sue for. | |
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Gotham: When Maroni survives a staged hit job from a rival family he comments "Won't you believe it? You both jammed! If that ain't a sign from God I don't know what is!" He then proceeds to start a war with his rival Don Falcone. In reality both of the guns used in the "hit" had been disabled by Penguin and were never intended to go off in the first place. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: In "Multiple Trick Pony," Robin convinces himself that this is how he can beat Kid Flash at running. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The first After the End Encyclopedia Exposita page has Iceland, the largest and safest bastion of survivors, calling its people "protected by the gods". The Just Before the End prologue showed it had more to do with finding an excuse for closing its borders to keep The Plague from spreading despite a standing Apocalyptic Gag Order, and later gunning down refugee boats. Ninety years later, they have an under 10% rate of The Immune people in their large population to show for it, versus the 48% of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark taken together. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Parodied and Lampshaded to hell and back in "Gee Wiz." When Meatwad believes he is pregnant through, um, divine intervention, the gang throws him a baby shower. Carl, naturally, is skeptical and readily tells them so: | |
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Attack on Titan: Supplementary materials reveal that the Wall Around The World was apparently conveniently there when humanity was fleeing the Titans; people privy to conspiracy secrets jumped on this and called it a gift from god. This is a flat-out lie, but the Titans themselves were some kind of gift from an eldritch deity - a gift that was utterly squandered, as the tyrant in charge used them for conquest and genocide. Centuries later, after all their exploitation of the world bit them in the ass and reduced them to persecuted refugees, they used the Titans to build the wall before losing control. | |
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Discussed in Turning Red. As part of Ming's speech for tourists of her family temple, she claims this about red pandas as a result of her ancestor Sun Yee's connection to them. | |
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc: Jeanne (AKA Joan of Arc) claims the sword she found in a field was a gift from God. Later, when she's in prison, her conscience reminds her that there are many mundane ways a sword could have gotten in that field. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Played for Laughs in the spin-off, We Want to Talk About Kaguya. Karen is a rabid Shirogane/Kaguya shipper, so she claims that things such as seeing Kaguya and Shirogane riding on a bike together or sharing an umbrella are a gift from the heavens. | |
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Going Postal: Moist von Lipwig invokes this. After Reacher Gilt has the Post Office burned down, Moist fakes receiving a divine vision, runs off with a spade, and returns with an enormous pile of money (all of the money he'd stolen and stashed away before being caught). This being Ankh-Morpork, he is soon confronted by just about every priest in the city who claims that their god requires an expensive sacrifice as thanks for the windfall (he eventually settles on the minor goddess Anoia, catapulting her to major prominence due to the way the gods work), while the savvier people note how convenient it is that the gods provided Moist with currently-accepted coins. | |
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Divine Misfortune: Luka, or "Lucky" as he prefers, is a Raccoon God of Good Fortune, and is the one who Teri and Phil make a pact with. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: This is a plot point in the Thieves' Guild storyline. It turns out that the reason the Thieves Guild has been failing is due to them upsetting Nocturnal, Daedric Prince of Night and Darkness, who has cursed the guild with bad luck due to guildmaster Mercer Frey stealing her artifact, the Skeleton Key. By the end of the plotline, things are resolved and Nocturnal has blessed the guild with luck. | |
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In the Genesis song "Jesus He Loves Me," there is illustration of what often gives rise to this trope, and it's not always in the religious sense: | |
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Goblins: The Viper Clan consists of goblin supremacists who believe that they are divinely ordained to rule over all goblins, and eventually all other races, and take the fact that they are one of the most powerful clans as proof that they are the chosen ones of Maglubiyet, the goblin deity. Dies Horribly turns this logic against them by arguing that if they're only successful because Maglubiyet favors them, they can't take credit for, or pride in anything they do. | |
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