Indiana Jones Indy always seems to be finding his way out of tight scrapes, whether it’s a room of spikes in India or a room of snakes in Cairo. But the luckiest break by far for everyone’s favorite whip-cracking fedora enthusiast came right here in America. In what has become one of the most infamously overreaching moments in movie history, Indy climbed inside a fridge and rode out a nuclear explosion in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

R2-D2 The little droid that could has escaped, among many other things, memory wipes, space battles, bounty hunters and swamp creatures in the Dagobah system, and he's still chirping away. At the end of it all, he wound up being the only character to escape all six Star Wars films with both his memory and his sanity. Since there's no way of proving definitively that it was thanks to The Force, we're gonna have to call that damn good droid luck.

Bilbo Baggins Bilbo was just a hobbit content to smoke his pipe in a comfy chair before Gandalf showed up with Thorin and Company. He was reluctant to go on that little adventure, but he ended up stumbling into a mountain cave and finding the most powerful piece of jewelry ever created. He went home with a heap of gold and friendships with some of the most powerful beings in Middle-earth, and to top it all off he managed to live with the One Ring for decades without going crazy (well, mostly) before settling into a nice retirement among the Elves. Not bad for a Baggins of Bag End.

John Carter Carter was a down-on-his-luck prospector who stumbled into a cave in Arizona and suddenly found himself on Mars. That's cool in itself, but because of the difference in gravity it also turns out he's kind of a superhero there. Oh, and he marries a princess. What a difference relocation can make.

Gaius Baltar Gaius Baltar survived a Cylon occupation, captivity and persecution at the hands of his fellow humans, a trial he was almost certain to lose and a few battles to boot. He'd probably call it destiny, but we trace it all back to the moment when he got a seat on the last transport out of Caprica just because of who he was. And then the world blew up. With that kind of luck, it's actually not surprising he made it four seasons.

Rick Grimes No one on The Walking Dead is really big on happy fun things like luck, but if any one of those characters is charmed it's gotta be Rick. He was left all alone in a coma and somehow made it through without any zombies wandering through his room, then he was trapped in a tank with no way out until fellow survivors got in touch. Since then it's been one thing after another, including countless encounters with flesh-hungry walkers and attempts on his life by his own best friend, but still Rick presses on. Plus, he's still got his whole family.

The Doctor He's the champion of last-minute solutions to universe-ending problems. That's mostly because he's a 900-year-old alien genius, but there has to be a little luck mixed in there somewhere. Plus, we know from the 2011 episode "The Impossible Astronaut" that it's possible to stop that whole regeneration process from happening. Our Doctor's been through that process 10 times, and he's managed to make it through every one of them. Once, he even did it while crash landing the TARDIS.

Han Solo He won the fastest ship in the galaxy in a card game, he hooked up with a princess and he survived a carbonite freezing process that was never intended to support human life. Add in all the stormtroopers who've failed to shoot him over the years, and you have to believe that Han Solo is even luckier than Indiana Jones. Plus, there was that time he took out Boba Fett just by turning around and bumping into him.

Ron Weasley Ron grew into his role as Harry's best friend and partner in crime over time, but in the early years he needed a little luck to help him get by. Just happening to sit down on a train next to the most famous boy wizard in the world was lucky, sure, but there's another moment in the life of Ron Weasley that sticks out as even more fortuitous. It came in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when he narrowly escaped a memory wiping spell thanks to his own malfunctioning wand.

Peter Parker/Spider-Man You're walking along, minding your own business, and you get a spider bite. That's happened to a lot of us. You wake up the next morning with all the powers of a spider, and you're ... well, unique. It could have happened to anybody, but it happened to Peter Parker. Yeah, it got him great responsibility, but that lucky bite also got him GREAT POWER.

Tyrion Lannister The Imp is more than able to escape most of the tough situations he finds himself in with his legendary wit, but that doesn't mean he can't do with a little random help now and then. Like the time his father forced him to march into battle and an accidental bonk on the head saved him the trouble.

Barry Allen/The Flash What's luckier than getting superpowers from the bite of a radioactive spider? Getting superpowers from a lightning bolt. Barry Allen became the Fastest Man Alive after he was quite literally hit by a bolt from the blue. Batman probably wishes he'd caught that break. It would have been much easier than the whole dying parents thing.