The Luckiest Characters In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ranked

Who He Is: Scott Lang is a gifted programmer with some solid parkour skills and a bleeding heart.

Why Is He So Lucky? Everything in the MCU that happens to Scott is based on how lucky he is, from getting the Ant-Man suit to beating Yellowjacket and surviving the Quantum Realm to avoiding Thanos's snap. He spends an entire film with a malfunctioning suit and still survives. Almost every move he makes is a gamble and he somehow always wins (though he often looks like a fool in the process).

Luckiest Moment: When a rat just happens to trigger his return from the Quantum Realm, enabling him to help the Avengers save the universe.

Who He Is: Technically a distinct being from the first Groot we meet in the MCU, Baby Groot is the adolescent form of the current Groot.

Why Is He So Lucky? From the moment we meet Baby Groot, it's clear he lives on luck. As he dances around the outskirts of a fight with a giant monster, he continually avoids getting trampled while remaining completely unaware of his surroundings. This continues for the rest of his existence, including the moment he almost wipes out himself and his friends because he's incapable of paying attention to Rocket's instructions.

Luckiest Moment: When he randomly pushes the right button on Rocket's device, thus helping to defeat Ego.

Who He Is: Despite some dormant Celestial DNA, Peter Quill is just an average kid from Earth when he's picked up by space pirates. Luckily, they're hired by his dad to pick him up (or perhaps unluckily, as Ego is a maniacal monster). However, head pirate Yondu has a heart of gold and trains young Quill to be decent at... barely making it out alive most of the time.

Why Is He So Lucky? Star-Lord is one of the most irrational, emotional, and incompetent heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he's lucky enough to have a number of more capable friends. He has some dirtbag charm that wins over fighters and thinkers more skilled than he, and it's their support that makes him seem as if he should be involved in the hero game - even in the face of so much evidence to the contrary.

Luckiest Moment: When the universe is saved despite his stupidity.

Who He Is: Roger Harrington is the sad sack teacher of Peter Parker and his friends.

Why Is He So Lucky? Given Mr. Harrington's frequent (and hilarious) tales of his miserable life, you'd think he actually has terrible luck. But given all the times that he should have perished, it's actually a miracle he's still alive at all. He even gets to chaperone the field trip of a lifetime when S.H.I.E.L.D. upgrades his itinerary. 

Luckiest Moment: When he isn't fired after a child seems to perish under his watch.

Who She Is: We don't know much about Mantis, other than the fact that she has some sort of empathic/telepathic mood-altering abilities.

Why Is She So Lucky? Unlike her far more powerful comic book counterpart, MCU Mantis is essentially a tool to help Ego go to sleep at night. And once she joins the Guardians, she doesn't do much more than quiver in the corner. Mantis manages to get into some fights far above her abilities, but somehow hasn't yet been squashed in the process.

Luckiest Moment: When she rides the shoulders of one of the universe's most powerful beings, messes with his mind, and is merely tossed aside as payback.

Who She Is: Natasha Romanoff was trained in the Red Room to become one of the deadliest spies in the entire world. She eventually defects from her home country to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and, ultimately, the Avengers.

Why Is She So Lucky? Unlike the majority of the other Black Widow agents, Romanoff is able to escape the clutches of General Dreykov. She finds a group of people that treated her like family in the Earth's Mightiest Heroes and manages to escape death in the face of apocalyptic threats more times than any normal human should be able to do.

Luckiest Moment: In the middle of the chaos of the crashing Red Room aerial base at the end of Black Widow, Natasha decides to recover the names of all the Black Widow agents placed throughout the world in need of help to rid them of their mind control. After doing so, she just pulls an Assassin's Creed-style leap of faith and jumps out of the window of an flying base that is in the process of falling out of the sky. She then proceeds to get in a fistth fight with the Taskmaster while plummeting between pieces of debris before slowing her descent just enough to land — and then keep fighting for her life. There is absolutely no way she should've survived any of that.