The opposite of the usual sitcom plot of everything going wrong, the plague of good fortune is when a character has an amazing series of good things happen to them, despite the fact that they don't want it to. There are several reasons for them to fear their good luck: A common way for one of these plots to end is for the good luck to end in a parade of bad luck, which has the ironic effect of making the character much happier unless the bad luck happens too late to matter. The polar opposite of Kafka Komedy. Examples of Plague of Good Fortune include: