Bad luck
Bad luck noun - An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.
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To be fair, Bean ruining the painting was clearly an accident (beginning from him sneezing while trying to get dust of the painting and bad luck) and he covers this up to stop David losing his job.
Source: Film / Bean - The Scrappy: Invoked, Egoraptor was pretty much disliked by the judges from day 1 and was kicked out in the third episode on basically having the bad luck to be on three losing teams in a row.
Source: Series / The Tester -
A large part of the plot involves the protagonist losing his lucky coin (stolen by the Big Bad), with his family suffering bad luck since then.
Source: Magic Feather
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