Rich should invest a billion dollars in a new company, and whether a hobo or tramp ("I can't decide. In a Richie Rich story, the same coin ends up deciding whether Mr.
With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows. Just as they're about to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his death. In Marvel Comics Presents #53, Silver Sable and Black Widow chase a common target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but once they have him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody.Hilarity Ensues, of course, though the coin does show uncanny predictive power. In a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, "Flip Decision", Donald is conned by a charlatan into believing in Flipism : the idea that all of life's choices can be made on the flip of a coin.In most portrayals, he is completely unable to operate without the coin - when he flips it, he absolutely must act on whichever side came up he is literally unable to do otherwise. This lets him easily identify which side landed. Two-Face's signature item in Batman is a Two-Headed Coin, except one side is all scratched up.Note too that a coin toss is not exactly a 50/50 probability: barring the possibility of a trick flip (and yes, people can train themselves to make a coin land a certain way) and ignoring weight (typically the heads side is heavier resulting in a lopsided spin), a coin is more likely to land on the same side it was initially flipped from due to simple physics. In technical terms, such play is a Bernoulli trial, which describes any random experiment with exactly two outcomes. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose does not necessarily involve a coin flip but is derived from this terminology. Occasionally a character will pick a course of action with a coin flip because he wants to prevent his enemies from figuring out what he'll do (that is, to counter I Know You Know I Know)-they can't predict it if he doesn't know himself. A staple feature of The Gambler and The Trickster, who frequently settle their disputes this way.
A Born Lucky character will almost always get the result they want in this.
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