The Third Try

One Piece had Luffy confronting Crocodile a total of three times, doing better but still getting defeated upon the first two, before finally pulling a victory the last time in the ruins.

The first time Kira effortlessly disables him in one slash, the second Shinn freaks him out by dodging a few of his attacks Kira had up until that point flawlessly one shotted everyone who crossed his path thus far before Athrun takes over, although it was clear Shinn would have still lost, and finally in their third battle Shinn has prepared extensively and exploiting a flaw in Kira's fighting style, takes him down although Kira survives. They actually fight a few more times after this but always to a draw as Shinn's new machine is unable to exploit the earlier flaw but he's still grown in skill to the point where Kira can't get a hit on him.

Their first series gets canceled and they quit their second under the condition that if they can't get something serialized by the time their contract ends, they can no longer write for Jump. They have three chances to do so, and fail the first two, but their final manga, Perfect Crime Party , manages to get serialized but this gets subverted when it turns out that PCP won't be able to get a sponsor for an anime.

Muhyo has three separate encounters with Enchu. In the second at the Arcanum , he escapes with Rio, before her traitor's mark can be removed. In the third, Muhyo is able to bring Enchu to his senses and convince him to drive out Teeki from his body. The first two end with no clear winner, but Arika is victorious in the third.

Diamond and Pearl , Dawn wants to catch a Buneary from the very beginning. Two Buneary foil her battles.

The third one just happened to fall madly in love with Ash's Pikachu. Notably, this was the only one of these tournaments where the world was at stake. Lelouch had to defeat Aizen three times before it was safe to say that he was not going to be leaving the ninth circle of hell any time soon. Even then, the first two times he had to rely on other methods to get rid of him: It was only the third time, after absorbing the Hogyoku , that Lelouch was able to defeat Aizen in one-on-one combat.

The Connors encounter the T three times over the course of Terminator 2: Judgment Day shopping mall, hospital, foundry but only defeat him the third time. Within the foundry, the T fights the T three times. The first time, the T crushes his arm in some gears. The second time, the T impales him with a metal pole, briefly "killing" him. The third time, the T shoots the T with a grenade launcher and causes him to fall into a vat of molten steel, destroying him.

Combining Star Wars Episode V: The two never get close enough in A New Hope for it to count. In the Star Wars prequels it goes the other way around: Darth Sidious goes through three apprentices before he's able to defeat the Jedi: Subverted in the Fritz Lang film Destiny: She fails the first and second times, and the third time as well, even though she's better equipped and gets a headstart.

Third Time's the Charm

Notable in that it specifically invokes this trope as an allusion to European fairy tales. In Pact , this is an actual rule of magic, which holds power because of the numerous times that it has repeated- the belief of practitioners that it will work allows it to work. A third victory out of a set of three battles will reverse any losses taken in the previous two, and if you can defeat someone three times in a particular field the victory is guaranteed to be both meaningful and lasting. This leads to practitioner duels usually taking the form of attempts to either conserve strength for the third fight or prevent the third fight from happening, with the first two battles being irrelevant except as preparation for the third.

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It is common for bosses in video games to take three hits to kill. One of the G. Kratos in Tales of Symphonia is fought three times. The first two times, winning is optional, but Lloyd suspects he was holding back in those fights. The third is a Duel Boss , which Lloyd must win. You also fight Yggdrasil three times.

First it's a Hopeless Boss Fight , second time it's a fight that you have to survive but can't win, and finally it's a regular fight you have to win. The first time, Kreia holds him off and loses a hand. The belief that the third time something is attempted is more likely to succeed than the previous two attempts.

It is also used as a good luck charm - spoken just before trying something for the third time. The first time we come across what appears to be a precursor to this phrase is in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters addressed to R.

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It is listed explicitly in Alexander Hislop's The proverbs of Scotland , The 'proverbial' description from the mid 19th century suggest it dates from earlier, although how much earlier we can't really tell. Why is the third time lucky? Again, we don't know. There are a few suggestions. The most common is that it alludes to the belief that, under English law, anyone who survived three attempts at hanging would be set free. This is probably from the story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee.

He was sentenced to hang at Exeter prison and three attempts to execute him all failed. The Home Secretary of the time, Sir William Harcourt, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and Lee was later freed. He was known thereafter as 'the man they couldn't hang' and went on to live a long life, dying sometime in the s. Fascinating story though it is, the use of 'third time lucky' pre-dates it and thus it can't be the origin.

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Nor is any earlier reference to the supposed English law on freeing those who survived three hanging attempts. This legal ruling never existed in any general sense and is restricted to isolated cases like Lee's.

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Another suggestion is that it refers to the Christian Trinity.