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Lottery of Doom
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Hey, you just won the lottery! Sounds pretty good, right? After all, you just got a few million dollars, and are, unless you stupidly spend it all, probably set for life. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Well, you wouldn't want to, if it was one of these lotteries. The Lottery of Doom is a lottery where the prize is something really bad happening to the "winner," usually death. The reason for the Lottery of Doom varies, ranging from an attempt to keep the population down, appeasing a dragon, wrathful god or Monster of the Week, select a "volunteer" for some dangerous or outright lethal task that needs to be done or just to be creepy. Sometimes the lottery players know that it's a Lottery of Doom, sometimes they don't. On occasion, there's a pretty significant prize alongside the horrible doom, or at least you will get pleasant accommodations until the fatal moment, but you really shouldn't get too comfortable... So next time you buy a lottery ticket, be sure to Read the Fine Print. A variation is to invert the scenario: in these cases, you do want to win, because the prize is to be the only one who doesn't get horribly murdered. In a Town with a Dark Secret, expect this to overlap with A Fête Worse than Death. Compare Drawing Straws, Russian Roulette, Doom as Test Prize, and Cold Equation. |
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In the backstory of Tooth and Tail, a "Harvest Lottery" was implemented in the backstory once it became clear there weren't enough pigs for everyone to be able to eat meat. As can be implied by the name, losers of the lottery were eaten by the rest. When Bellafide lost his son to a Harvest, he decided to start a Civil War rather than accept it, setting the game's plot in motion. | |
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In Alexandra Quick, every seven years, a pureblood child is chosen from a lottery of those who are too young to have a wand to be sacrificed as part of an ancient treaty. This did not go down well and was the major cause of the most significant uprising in the Wizarding World. | |
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This is parodied in The Far Side where a man on a life raft is dismayed to find he drew the shortest straw of everyone on his life raft. Which includes a dog. | |
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In the graphic novel version of Thrilling Adventure Hour, Banjo Bindlestiff and his fellow hobos are made "citizens for a day" of Jacksonville just in time for one of these. Banjo manages to fast-talk the townsfolk into making stone soup instead; the police chief didn't like this idea until he learned that he would have been the lottery winner. | |
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Inverted in Shardlight, where "the Lottery" is the only way to get a sample of the rare vaccine against The Plague, known as "Green Lung". A citizen can only enter the Lottery, however, if they work for The Remnant government, which has a habit of sending its agents on very dangerous tasks if not outright Suicide Missions. | |
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In Taggerung, one of the Redwall books, Tagg and Nimbalo end up staying briefly with a tribe of pygmy shrews who regularly perform a variant of this. The whole tribe essentially dances a conga line underneath a dripping stalactite; whichever shrew the drop of water lands on is sacrificed to a giant eel. Tagg manages to kill the eel and the lottery is promptly abolished. | |
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In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. it is revealed that Hydra was initially founded to bring back to Earth the powerful Inhuman Hive, who survives by consuming normal humans, and for centuries members of at least one faction of it ceremonially drew stones out of a bag to decide on a "traveller" who goes through the portal to the planet Hive is on. This is considered an honor and it's hinted not all the people participating even know what's on the other side of the portal, but they do know that no one who goes through the portal ever returns. Although at one point one character rigs the stones to keep himself from ever being chosen (all the stones are supposed to be perfectly smooth, but by switching the deadly white stone with one that has a small but noticeable notch on it, one can ensure that he doesn't pick it so long as he doesn't draw last), and at another Hydra arranges for some astronauts to be sent through the portal instead. | |
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In Yo-kai Watch, The Grim Reaper-esque beings hold a lottery where someone dies randomly. Jibanyan's owner Amy 'won' the lottery and was almost hit by a truck, however Jibanyan shoved her out of the way. | |
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One of the episodes of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann featured a village that could only support fifty people, so when the population got too high they would select people by lottery and exile them. The end of the episode hints that the lottery was rigged and had always been rigged by the village elder, who chose lottery "winners" himself based on who the village could afford to lose. | |
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In Borderlands 2, Hyperion runs a monthly one in Overlook, where the "winner" is thrown into the Grinder. There's no reason or even attempted justification for this. | |
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In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Dickisode", meals from a certain restaurant in town all come with peel-off lotteries much like the annual McDonald's Monopoly game that include free drinks, meals, coupons... and a one in ten chance to get your dick ripped off. That last part is even mentioned in the commercial, but it's said quickly and quietly. Several hours after Carl "wins" the lottery, the collectors show up... | |
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In the adventure game adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Benny's scenario involves a village of cavemen who have to sacrifice one of their own to AM. The key to the good ending involves Benny saving a mutant child from being sacrificed by offering to be killed in his place. | |
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Discussed in The Belko Experiment: When everyone is locked inside the office building and informed that there will be "repercussions" if they don't follow instructions and murder a certain number of their colleagues within the alloted time, several people argue that it would be best to let things unfold in this matter. Don't kill anyone, and simply wait to see who dies. | |
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In an early Dilbert strip: | |
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An Announcer response in Monday Night Combat makes an offhand reference to a "population control lottery". | |
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In the Discworld book Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, the ancient winter lottery comes up. A dried bean is put in one bowl, and the one who gets the bean is 'crowned king'. Until they need to slaughter the king to make the sun come up again and get spring to return. This is based on Real Life history, even though it's part of Discworld lore. And it's a plot point more than once. It's also mentioned that the lottery is rigged, the priests responsible for serving the beans are skilled at slipping the dried bean into the correct bowl. |
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BioShock Infinite features a version of it that isn't dangerous to the winner, but results in a terrible "prize" that marks the point where Columbia's idyllic image comes crashing apart: Booker wins a local draw that turns out to be for the stoning of an interracial couple, and is given the first baseball (the American way!). The game prompts you to either throw it at the couple, don't throw it at all, or throw it at the announcer (which you almost certainly might feel tempted to after his little "Do you like your coffee black these days?" remark), but whichever way, the coppers stop and notice that Booker has the brand of "The False Shepard" on his hand and attempt to execute him on the spot. Booker's retaliation is violent, and everything goes sideways from there. | |
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Final Fantasy VII, getting "Cait-Cait-Bar" for Cait Sith also kills the entire party. | |
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The Island (2005). The people apparently participate in a lottery, the winner of which is relocated to a paradise island. Only the people are clones, the lottery's a sham, there is no island, and the winner is harvested for body parts. If this sounds familiar, know that Clonus came first and yes, there was a lawsuit. | |
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This trope is also played in Golden Sun The Lost Age, and drives the scenario for Gaia Rock. One person would win the Lottery of Doom to feed the serpent within Gaia Rock. However, there is an effort being made to break this deadly cycle, which is finally broken by Felix's party. | |
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Storm of the Century: The islanders decide that, in order to figure out who will sacrifice their child, they will draw a lottery. | |
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Humane Tyranny: The government fears the ramifications of an overpopulated country and so they passed a law in which one person every night will be randomly selected to die through lethal injection. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: You come across the town of Nipton where Caesar's Legion has recently held a lottery. Roughly half the town are enslaved. Most of the other half get crucified. The "lucky losers" get a mercifully quick beheading. The second-prize winner gets his legs broken, with only one person getting the lucky ticket to walk away unharmed. Vulpes Inculta explains that it was all a test of character; he had paid the mayor to turn in both the NCR and Powder Ganger members that visited the town, and he was seeing if the townspeople had any redeeming value at all to the Legion by seeing if they'd rise up against him and his legionnaires after seeing what the prizes were as they worked their way up to the "Winner". Except inspecting the town even further shows Vulpes was lying; you can see several Nipton residents fought back, but were immediately killed and the lottery continued anyway. The Legion is apparently fond of this trope. One of Mr. New Vegas's news reports notes that Legate Lanius enacted the ritual of "decimation" (see Real Life below) on an underperforming squad he took over. Dialogue with Caesar confirms Lanius does this regularly. In Vault 11, the dwellers were told that if they did not perform a yearly sacrifice, the vault's mainframe would kill them all. The people decided that the overseer should be the one who should be the sacrifice. A voting bloc system started that gave way to corruption, bribery, drug trade, and sexual favors. Eventually, one overseer decided enough was enough and started a lottery system so that everyone had an equal opportunity of being sacrificed. Unfortunately, this did not sit well with some of the blocs and they started a revolution that resulted in all but five people dead. The twist is that when those five people decided not to send anyone to be sacrificed anymore, the computer's automated response told them that no one was going to die if there was no sacrifice and that they can leave the vault any time they wanted. Horrified and overcome with guilt, four of the five survivors committed suicide while the fifth left the vault alone. |
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Mario Party: Peach's Birthday Cake has the Flower Lottery, which determines whether players will visit Toad or Bowser whenever they reach the junction. Players are forced to pay ten coinsnote the fee is waived if the player doesn't have enough coins to partake in the Flower Lottery, where they must pick from a group of four seeds. As a Goomba is running the lottery, he'll claim that the three "loser" seeds are the ones that send players to Toad, while the "winner" sends a player to Bowser. It's completely random as to which seed will be the "winner". The Goomba will only refresh the seeds once all four have been sold, meaning that if the "winner" is not picked last, the other seeds will invariably be safe. Likewise, if only the "winner" is left, too bad for whoever's stuck with it. | |
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Day of the Choosing has an inverted example. Every ten years, people within the city are chosen at random during a ritual. Those who are chosen get to remain in the city for another ten years. Those who aren't get fed to a giant Eldritch Abomination. | |
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An inversion occurs in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. When S�suke accidentally releases a biowarfare agent in class, the students have to draw lots to find who'll get the only vaccine available. Then it seems to go from inversion to reconstruction: When S�suke wins the lottery, the outraged classmates promptly attack him en masse. | |
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Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos proposed a solution to his planet's Overpopulation Crisis - namely, killing a randomly-chosen half of the population. After the rest of his kind died out, Thanos began applying this logic to his conquests of other planets - randomly dividing the population into two halves, then having his mooks execute one of the two groups. | |
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has the Feast of Feasts, in which one female member from each family is offered up for a drawing. The winner is sacrificed to the Dark Lord and eaten by the rest of the coven. This is an inversion since the witches (except for Sabrina) consider being chosen a high honour. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Icewind Dale Rime Of The Frostmaiden: On every afternoon before a new moon, the towns of Bryn Shander, Easthaven, and Targos hold lotteries on which citizen of their respective towns is to be sacrificed to Auril by nightfall. The unlucky winner of the lottery is then stripped bare and either tied to a post or sent into the tundra to die. And although accusations of rigged lotteries are common in these towns, they're not usually acted upon. Once Auril has been dealt with and the Everlasting Rime ends, the town speakers are very eager to end the practice, since the whole point of these sacrifices was to appease the goddess so that summer can return to Icewind Dale. In the Ravenloft campaign, Barok Urik von Kharkov, the Darklord of Valachan, chooses his wives this way; every year, a lottery is held in one of Valachan's four towns. It doesn't seem so bad until you start to contemplate why he needs a replacement every year. (Kharkov is a vampire, and while he has made an honest attempt to keep at least some of them from dying from his feedings, they never last more than a month or so. The common excuse is that they died from white fever, a disease that Kharkov uses as a scapegoat to explain any deaths from him or his vampire servants, which his subjects are either too gullible to disbelieve or too afraid of him to deny.) |
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Alluded to in The Venture Brothers when Dean is stricken with acute testicular torsion - Billy tells him how rare it is and Pete chimes in "It's like you won the genetic freak lottery!" | |
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In the Sky Doll short story "White Cinderella", one lucky girl wins a lottery with the prize being the right to be "Papess for a Day", which entails taking the place of Agape, the local messianic figure, for a day. What they don't tell the poor girl is that part of the Papess' duties involves producing erotica to be sold to her followers. When the leader, Lodovica, finds her softcore images boring and unprofitable, she signs the poor girl up for more hardcore fare. | |
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Icewind Dale Rime Of The Frostmaiden: On every afternoon before a new moon, the towns of Bryn Shander, Easthaven, and Targos hold lotteries on which citizen of their respective towns is to be sacrificed to Auril by nightfall. The unlucky winner of the lottery is then stripped bare and either tied to a post or sent into the tundra to die. And although accusations of rigged lotteries are common in these towns, they're not usually acted upon. Once Auril has been dealt with and the Everlasting Rime ends, the town speakers are very eager to end the practice, since the whole point of these sacrifices was to appease the goddess so that summer can return to Icewind Dale. | |
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In The Hidden Almanac, there's a recurring bit involving the Sacred Order of Bull Moose Men's annual New Year Fun Run, in which the initiate who drew the short straw gets hunted down and sacrificed to the moose gods by the other initiates. | |
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In the Book of Joshua, this is used to find out Achan's theft of stuff from Jericho. | |
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Squidbillies had the Tricky Two Jackpot. The winner gets torn in half by monster trucks. Granny wins, but the Monster Trucks are incapable of tearing her in half, Granny stretching for hours as the trucks try. Before this, Dan Halen mentions The Lottery and even reads it to the Cuyler family. | |
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The Goodies: When the Goodies are sealed inside a block of concrete in "The End", they draw straws to see which one of them will be eaten by the other two. Tim and Graeme don't tell Bill that this is what they are drawing for. | |
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Clonus: The people apparently participate in a lottery, the winner of which is relocated to America. Only the people are clones, the lottery's a sham, they don't go to America, and the winner is harvested for body parts. | |
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In Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), Pinkie Pie chooses her victims by lot. Then she kills them and bakes them into the eponymous cupcakes. The Fan Sequel Le Petit Four expands the scope of said lottery, with her assigning a number to every single pony in Ponyville and mixing them all up in a hat. Ditto with Fluttershy in Pattycakes. Granted, they probably get off easier by ONLY having to pretend to be Fluttershy's baby, but given the Mind Rape she put Rainbow Dash through, and considering the foalmula... |
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Final Fantasy VI, getting "Doom-Doom-7" on Setzer's slot kills the entire party. | |
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The Onion gives us this horrifying gem. | |
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The Waste Lands by Stephen King. The ruined town of Lud has speaker towers that play mind-searing music at random (actually a vocals-less rendition of ZZ Top's Velcro Fly) and whenever it does, its residents hold a lottery to decide who to sacrifice to the 'ghosts' that are putting forth the horrible sound. Several times a day, somebody's name comes out of the hat and is set to dancing the jig at the end of a hangman's rope. Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is directly referenced. | |
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Population 436 does it to keep the town's population at the exact same number. They draw names out of a box, then have a harvest festival, during which the "winner" is hanged. Winning is a great honor, and both the winner and her husband are absolutely delighted about the whole thing. | |
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If you get three skulls & crossbones on the aptly named "Slots of Death" slot machine in Space Quest, it kills you with a Disintegrator Ray. | |
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On Lost Hurley wins the lottery. While he doesn't die, everything that happens afterward is terribly unlucky. And his grandfather DOES die. And he gets stranded on the island...maybe death for the other examples wasn't so bad after all... | |
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Dragonslayer: To appease a dragon, all of the virginal women in a small kingdom must take part in a twice-yearly lottery: the "winner" is chained up outside the dragon's lair as its next meal. Wealthy families are able to bribe the king to leave out their daughter's names. Virginity is a requirement, but in those times, being unmarried and not a virgin was terribly shameful, so... | |
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In the Kim Possible fanfic Dead Man Switch, something called a "Dragon's Lottery" was used to chose 15 teenage girls to be taken to Lorwardia to be beheaded, as part of their annual tribute to the Lorwardian Empire. | |
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Midsommar: Near the climax of the movie, Siv (the Hårgan elder) declares that the ninth and last human sacrifice must be picked by the May Queen between a visitor from the outside and a separately chosen Hårgan. The Hårgan death candidate is then selected by way of a sophisticated hand-driven lottery wheel containing small wooden balls marked with runes, in which presumably each individual ball represents a person from Hårga. The Hårgan whose ball comes up, a certain Torbjörn, remains remarkably calm. Ultimately he is not the sacrifice chosen by the May Queen. | |
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In Centurii Chan, this strip shows an Aztec priestess telling a villager they won the grand prize in the lottery. The villager asks what they won before the priestess points to a bloody sacrificial altar. | |
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Bokurano: The kid who gets to pilot the giant robot gets selected at random. Unfortunately, the robot runs on life force and the pilot dies after the battle's over. Kinda moot point with the lottery, since all the pilots will get their turn. It's not a matter of who so much as when they will bite it. In the manga, Koyemshi says that when his Earth went through the game, there was a larger pool of pilots, and thus, any given pilot had a reasonable chance that their turn would not come up, which resulted in a fair amount of discord in the group. | |
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In Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, future Japan has rebuilt its economy and education system around this one: every person is injected at childhood with nanomachines that have significant health benefits. However, for 1 in a 1000, the nanomachines are programmed to destroy the heart at a random time between before the age of 25... And you only get 24 hours of notice before that. The intention was to make every Japanese person live his life to the fullest knowing that every day really could be his last. Handily enough, the lottery is also rigged so that people who annoy the government are more likely to end up with the killer nanomachines... | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series season one episode "A Taste of Armageddon" revolves around The Most Dangerous Video Game in which two neighboring planets, Eminiar and Vendikar, are fighting an entirely simulated Forever War to preserve their infrastructure. However, they have no regard for the actual lives involved and have mutually agreed to kill everyone who dies in simulated attacks, with casualties chosen semi-randomly via this trope. Everyone on both worlds is so fanatically devoted to this plan that they'll happily march to their own deaths. | |
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The Sliders episode "Luck of the Draw" involves a lottery in a seemingly-Utopian world. Players claim some money from special ATM machines, and a random winner (it's implied bigger withdrawals increase the odds) gets the big payout. What the heroes don't know is that the winners are killed by the government in order to keep the population down to preserve the Utopia. It isn't actually a secret, they just didn't ask any questions until it was too late. | |
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Yellowjackets: Happens in the past AND the present in "It Chooses": In the past, the survivors draw cards out of a deck. Whoever picks the queen of hearts card with crossed out-eyes is deemed to be the Wilderness's chosen one to be ritually sacrificed and eaten. At the compound, Lottie Matthews proposes one (whoever picks the one poisoned cup from a tray) in order to give "it" what it wants. |
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Played for laughs in One Piece whenever Luffy wants to venture to an ominous-looking island. The crew draw straws to pick who'll go with him. Usopp, Chopper, and Nami, being the weaker and less brave members, always dread this. This was particularly driven home when they first met Brook on his broken ghost ship. They drew lots for two to follow Luffy onto the ship. To her dismay, Nami was one of the "winners" (Sanji was the other), and she immediately complained, even though just minutes ago, she, Usopp, and Chopper begged Zoro to use the straws when they learned that the alternative was being left alone aboard the Thousand Sunny while everyone else went with Luffy to the ghost ship. Also in the Whole Cake Island Arc where one of the Four Emperors Charlotte Linlin aka Big Mom uses this as her means for anyone, whether a citizen of her country or a resourceful ally, that requests to leave her country. It is later revealed that not only the spinner would lose something (a limb or high-portions or their life span) but it would extend to anyone the spinner was close to, their crew or their country. | |
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In Peter Milligan's relaunched X-Force/X-Statix, Orphan, Anarchist, and U-Go Girl are trapped in a spacecraft with only a two-person escape pod. They roll dice to determine who gets to use the pod. | |
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Shadows of the Empire: Darth Vader's men draw lots to see who's stuck bringing him bad news, as Lord Darth was known for strangling people who did nothing but deliver news to his quarters when he was in a bad mood. (The practice itself does not irk him; being a Sith Lord, it pleases him that his subordinates have a healthy amount of fear of him). | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VI, getting "Doom-Doom-7" on Setzer's slot kills the entire party. Final Fantasy VII, getting "Cait-Cait-Bar" for Cait Sith also kills the entire party. |
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In the Ravenloft campaign, Barok Urik von Kharkov, the Darklord of Valachan, chooses his wives this way; every year, a lottery is held in one of Valachan's four towns. It doesn't seem so bad until you start to contemplate why he needs a replacement every year. (Kharkov is a vampire, and while he has made an honest attempt to keep at least some of them from dying from his feedings, they never last more than a month or so. The common excuse is that they died from white fever, a disease that Kharkov uses as a scapegoat to explain any deaths from him or his vampire servants, which his subjects are either too gullible to disbelieve or too afraid of him to deny.) | |
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In the Eerie, Indiana episode "Mr. Chaney", the town uses a lottery to pick a "harvest king" every few years: Supposedly all that happens is that they're sent into the woods with Mr. Chaney as a guide, and if they see the "Eerie wolf", the town will have plentiful crops. Of course, every harvest king seems to mysteriously disappear (it's a running gag that they're all allegedly "in Spain"). It turns out that Chaney unknowingly is the "Eerie wolf" - the town regularly sacrifices one of its own to Chaney in werewolf form, presumably so he won't run rampant. The lottery is apparently always fixed, and you can be picked to "win" whether you actually entered or not: In this case, the mayor had it rigged so Dash X would win, but Dash X in turn rigged it for Marshall. | |
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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about a town that has a yearly lottery. The Twist Ending is that whoever wins the lottery gets stoned to death as a sacrifice for the next harvest. Some have claimed it's allegorical of the draft. Word of God says, "It's just a story." | |
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Welcome to Night Vale mentions one of these in episode 8. The winners will be ceremonially disembowelled and eaten by the wolves at the Night Vale Petting Zoo and Makeshift Carnival. | |
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Inverted in Stargate Universe: the winners of the lottery get to live — more precisely, they get to go on the shuttle fleeing the ship on a collision course with a nearby star. Turns out that the ship was designed to survive going through stars — in fact, this is how it recharges its power reserves. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch "Ypres 1914". Five WW1 British Army soldiers face a dilemma: they must make a break through enemy lines, but there are only rations for four. One of the methods they use to decide who will take "the other way out" is drawing straws. The joke is the Major keeps drawing the short straw no matter how many times he tries to manipulate it so he doesn't. Likeiwse, the Major fails at a session of "Stone Paper Scissors", when he draws scissors and the others draw stone: | |
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Dragon Ball: When King Piccolo takes over the world (for a short time anyway), he declares that the day of his victory will become a holiday, where every year he'll draw a city from a lottery to be destroyed. He draws West City as the lucky first "winner," but is defeated by Goku before he has a chance to make good on his decree. | |
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The Hunger Games is a lottery to be put into a Deadly Game. Children between the ages of twelve and eighteen must put in a ticket each year, with each year adding to the number of times entered; poorer children can also provide for themselves and their families by getting more tickets. These are cumulative, so a poor teenager trying to help feed a large starving family can end up with a truly staggering number of tickets. Gale Hawthorne, who has a mother and three younger siblings to take care of, is mentioned as having put 42 tickets by the time of the 74th Hunger Games. It's somewhat downplayed by the rule that another person of age can volunteer to take the lottery winner's place, and that in the wealthier districts, getting to compete in the Hunger Games is treated as an honor worth training for. The only time the lottery was not used was for the 25th Hunger Games (the First Quarter Quell), where the tributes were selected by voting. | |
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A variation of this happens in the original Battlestar Galactica. On a visit to a planet with a wild west motif, Starbuck is involved in a card game that is rigged for him to win. One of the items he wins is a badge, which forces him to become the town sheriff, a responsibility he can't shrug off easily. | |
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Two or three Speedy Gonzales cartoons start with this trope, particularly if Sylvester is involved. Desperate mice draw straws, and the "winner" attempts to outrun Sylvester. The mouse invariably loses, we see this isn't the first time the mice have lost, and this is what drives them to call for Speedy Gonzales. | |
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In Soul Rider: Spirits of Flux and Anchor, the areas of normal land called Anchors have limited supplies of food, living space, and jobs, so they also have to limit their population. Every year the government counts how many people are "coming of age" that year and determines how many they need to get rid of, then holds a random drawing called the Paring Rite to see who stays in Anchor and who gets sold into Flux (which is considered a death sentence). The main protagonist, Cassie, discovers early in Book 1 that the Paring Rite is actually fixed beforehand, so that people with connections and people with needed skills are never chosen. It's the first sign of just how corrupt the government is. | |
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Star Wars Legends Shadows of the Empire: Darth Vader's men draw lots to see who's stuck bringing him bad news, as Lord Darth was known for strangling people who did nothing but deliver news to his quarters when he was in a bad mood. (The practice itself does not irk him; being a Sith Lord, it pleases him that his subordinates have a healthy amount of fear of him). |
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Battle Royale's "Program" ostensibly works this way, with classes of ninth-graders being volunteered, and one of the many volunteered classes being selected at random. All 9th grade classes are entered, even if someone in the class is the son/daughter of someone important or the teacher is against it. | |
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There is actually a maths puzzle similar to this (Josephus' Permutation; featured in Professor Layton). A given number of people get in a circle and starting at a specified person and for a given N, every Nth person is killed and removed from the circle until only 1 remains. The puzzle is to figure out who the survivor is. Whoever the count starts on will be the survivor. | |
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