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"The random toss: the only truthful justice. Permit'southward see what justice has in shop... for you!"

Alice needs to make up one's mind between buying a strawberry cake or an apple cake, but she really can't make up her mind. So, she tries to make up one's mind by... flipping a coin. Heads, strawberry. Tails, apple.

Flipping coins to make up one's mind on an action has been a practice that, according to The Other Wiki, dates at to the lowest degree back to Ancient Rome. In fiction, information technology usually happens in the following situations:

• A character is unsure whether the option they are considering is the correct one, and then they get out it up to fate.
• The Powers That Be dictate what activity must be taken.
• A third party is trying to solve a dispute between two other people or factions. Often happens in contests when there is no clear winner.

Note that this trope tin exist used when deciding between two characters, things, or virtually annihilation. It tin can be a very common form of the Life-or-Death Question, due to that likewise being a very loftier-stakes binary pick.

A Built-in Lucky graphic symbol volition almost always become the result they want in this. A staple characteristic of The Gambler and The Trickster, who often settle their disputes this mode. Occasionally a character will selection a grade of activity with a coin flip because he wants to prevent his enemies from figuring out what he'll do (that is, to counter I Know You Know I Know)—they can't predict it if he doesn't know himself. Cheaters tend to use a Two-Headed Coin. Heads, Tails, Border is a subtrope. Heads I Win, Tails Y'all Lose does not necessarily involve a coin flip but is derived from this terminology.

In technical terms, such play is a Bernoulli trial, which describes any random experiment with exactly two outcomes. Notation besides that a money toss is non exactly a 50/50 probability: disallowment the possibility of a play a trick on flip (and yeah, people can railroad train themselves to make a coin land a certain way) and ignoring weight (typically the heads side is heavier resulting in a lopsided spin), a money is more likely to land on the same side it was initially flipped from due to simple physics.

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    Advertizing

• A 1990 PSA from the Canadian system Companies Committed to Kids "Moe Funky" encourages kids to not play games when making important decisions and to "use their heads" instead. Flipping a coin is one of the games depicted.
• 1 commercial from the Shaw Commitment Bots effort this trick, but it doesn't country considering there'due south no gravity in space.

    Anime & Manga

• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kanao Tsuyuri initially uses a coin flip to make all of her decisions. Tanjiro helps her interruption out of this afterward befriending her.
• In Hunter × Hunter, members of the Spiders (aka the Phantom Troupe) flip a money to settle disputes. This is because it'due south forbidden for Spiders to fight each other (they simply murder outsiders, after all) and thus a non-violent manner of settling internal disagreements is needed.
• In MOON – Subaru Solitude Continuing, Minmin uses a coin toss on deciding her time to come: if she gets 'the side with the design', she'll give up her whole life in Cathay and follow her dream of condign a professional dancer.
• In the Pokémon anime, Dawn has a Poketch app to flip a money which she sometimes uses to brand decisions, for instance the episode in which she got the Poketch she used it to decide whether to go left or correct at a forked road.

    Asian Animation

• In Flavour 7, Episode 19 of Happy Heroes, Careless S. is turned into a ditherer after an incident that left a girl mad with him after he couldn't fulfill her wish to sing her a birthday song due to the amount of problems occuring at the same time. Careless S. gets the idea from Ambassador Wang to flip a coin to finalize his decisions when he can't figure out whether to step with his left foot or right pes commencement in order to cross the street, and he relies on that coin for virtually of the episode until Headmaster Tele convinces him not to.

    Comedy

• Bill Cosby's "Toss of the Coin" sketch is about what might've taken place if they flipped a coin during the American Revolution and the Battle of Petty Bighorn.

    Comic Books

• 2-Face up'due south signature item in Batman is a Two-Headed Coin, except i side is all scratched up. This lets him easily identify which side landed.
• In a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, "Flip Decision", Donald is bamboozled by a charlatan into believing in Flipism: the idea that all of life'southward choices tin be fabricated on the flip of a coin. Hilarity Ensues, of grade, though the coin does prove uncanny predictive ability.
• In Marvel Comics Presents #53, Silvery Sable and Blackness Widow hunt a mutual target to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but in one case they accept him cornered, they clash over who gets to take him into custody. Merely as they're almost to flip a coin for it, he stumbles over the side and falls to his decease. With a mutual win and loss behind them, the two heroines opt to flip again over which restaurant to go to celebrate/drown their sorrows.
• In a Richie Rich story, the aforementioned coin ends upwardly deciding whether Mr. Rich should invest a billion dollars in a new company, and whether a hobo or tramp ("I can't decide... allow'south toss a coin!") should purchase a soda or a candy bar. (The bodily tosses' results are unknown, only they each read the result of it flying out from under the moped seat and into the window of the mansion.)
• Ane decides the fate of an entire world in The Trigan Empire. The Lokan dictator is wondering who to crush next; the nomadic warrior Vorgs or the cultured Tharvs? Expecting to conquer both in good time, he tosses a coin to settle the matter. It's the Tharvs, and their refugees alluvion into Vorg territory where they grade an brotherhood with the Proud Warrior Race that defeats the Lokans and establishes the Trigan Empire.

    Fan Works

• This is how Gladion and Lillie decide who'll join the Ultra Rangers in Infinity Train: Crown of Thorns. Whatever they picked, Lillie wound upward beingness the ane to join.
• In Mega Homo Reawakened, Gemini Man uses money flips to make decisions at times.
• In A Shadow of the Titans, this is how the Chaotic Neutral Gadjo makes up his listen on the decision of either pledging loyalty to the Oni and their programme to Have Over the World, or fighting against them, since both ideas entreatment to him.
• In Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin Padma Patil mentions that her father flipped a coin when he was trying to decide whether her or her twin sister Parvati would get betrothed to the son of a wealthy Indian magician when they were three.

    Films — Alive-Action

• Battle For Sevastopol. Lyudmila Pavlichenko'due south friends are divided over whether to become to the shooting range or the movies, then they tell her to toss a money. Lyudmila lies about the result because she wants to go to the range. Her shooting impresses the range officer and she'south selected for a marksmanship course, causing her to be sent to the front line as a sniper when the war breaks out before long afterwards.
• Circus: Throughout the film, Leo makes several important decisions past tossing a money. This includes whether he is going to shoot his wife Lily.
• In Coming to America, Prince Akeem flips a coin to choose between traveling to New York or Los Angeles to find himself a helpmate.
• In Crooked Firm, Roger admits that he had not read Philip'due south screenplay earlier deciding not to fund it; instead opting to toss a coin. When asked why he tossed a coin, he replies that he couldn't find a die.
• In The Gay Divorcee, when Guy arrives at Mimi's hotel suite, he flips a coin, apparently deciding whether to leave or stay. He doesn't similar the reply, so he flips it again and stays.
• Mr. Tako habitually does this in King Kong vs. Godzilla to make decisions. He even does information technology when the ii monsters first confront each other in an endeavour to predict the winner.
• At the get-go of Final Human Standing, John Smith chooses to take the road to Jericho by spinning a flask of whiskey, then going in the direction it points. As a result, a lot of people get killed.
• In a timeline explored in Mr. Nobody, the protagonist is utterly unsatisfied with his wealthy life, to the bespeak he decides to leave everything and determine his fate past taking this trope to the extreme.
• Baby, in No Human of Her Ain, always flips a coin to make a decision that he tin can't decide on. He mentions that he never goes back on a coin, either.
• Rat Race: Owen Templeton, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., is a disgraced NFL referee who fumbled the money toss at a crucial game. He insists that the coin he was given was a commemorative one which made it hard to tell which side was heads and which tails. The public don't intendance and mock him whenever they recognize him. During the race he gets into a taxi driven past a guy who lost a lot of coin on the game he screwed up. When the driver works out who Owen is he dumps him on the side of the road.
• In Scarface, Guino Rinaldo was the ane to popularize this trait as a quirk of gangster and gangster movies in full general.
• Averted in Screamers. When we're introduced to the protagonist, he's examining an ancient Roman money. In the climax he and his Beloved Involvement have got to an escape rocket, but there's only room for one. Both insist the other should go, then he says they'll toss the coin. Only as the coin is spinning on the basis, he just tosses his glove on information technology and says information technology's meaningless because she'southward going anyway.
• In The Sentry (2006), the Hole-and-corner Service, aware that an assassination attempt on the President is imminent and that at that place is someone in the Secret Service helping, are trying to have every precaution possible. The President's personal bodyguard Montrose suggests a coin toss. That is they create ii plans for how the President travels, and right earlier they get out he tosses a coin to determine which one they practise. That way, no one has advanced noesis.
• Parodied in the film Some Like It Hot where a character played by the same actor who played Guino in Scarface (1932) asks a fellow gangster (who is flipping a nickel) "Where did you pick up THAT cheap trick?"

    Literature

• In Barefoot Boy With Cheek by Max Shulman, the protagonist decides to flip a money to respond the question vexing him: "Yetta or Noblesse?" The coin disappears in a snowbank.
• In Battle Royale, Kiriyama flips a money to decide whether he'll participate in the Program or not. Nosotros after learn that he has no emotions and but "chooses" what to do. It turns out he couldn't care less what it lands on, and simply decides to kill his classmates mercilessly, because it lands on tails.
• In Bud, Not Buddy, Bugs and Bud go far at a Hooverville and can't concur on who should get in to ask for help. Bugs says, "Heads I Win, Tails Y'all Lose," flips a coin, gets tails, and sends Bud in.
• At the end of Cry Wolf by Wilbur Smith, at that place'south an aircraft that can be used to escape the advancing army of Fascist Italy, only it can merely have one passenger due to weight limitations. The ii male protagonists flip a money to make up one's mind who gets to stay behind for a Last Stand. The Loveable Rogue pretends to lose only to exist exposed, so he but knocks out his friend and shoves him on the airplane.
• Halo: The Fall of Reach opens with Halsey first coming together John, the boy who would eventually grow into the Master Chief. She tests his reflexes by telling him to guess which side a money is going to land on after she flips it. John makes his guess, snatches the coin out of the air, and opens his manus to reveal his guessed side. Halsey speculates that John is either very lucky or good enough to actually grab the coin at the right time so information technology would country with the correct side upwardly; either way, she decides to keep an centre on him.
• Isaac Asimov's "The Auto That Won The War": After winning the war, a agglomeration of politicians and scientists gather around MULTIVAC, to celebrate the titular machine for calculating their army's strategy. Merely Henderson, the developer who took in the raw information from the field and fed it into MULTIVAC, explains that he knew how unreliable that data was (people roofing their mistakes, telling their supervisors what they wanted to hear, making their own guesses nearly other work, etc.) and so he began adjusting and manipulating the data co-ordinate to his own theories. This prompts Jablonksy, who was Chief Interpreter of MULTIVAC's output, to reveal that the machine itself was non reliable anymore due to inadequate parts and operators, then information technology did not matter what kind of data was fed into information technology and he changed the terminal output himself based on his ain theories. Then Lamar Swift, Executive Managing director of the Solar Federation, the man who had to really make the decisions in the war, reveals that he never trusted MULTIVAC's final output at all. Non completely, not when at that place were lives on the line. At the end of the story he reveals the method he used every time he had a particularly difficult decision to make. "Heads or tails, gentlemen?"
• This happens twice in The Mote in God'southward Eye, in both cases to avoid having ane'south deportment predictable by superintelligent aliens:
  • While the midshipmen are trying not to exist captured, Horst Staley proposes flipping a coin when deciding what to do so his Mediator Fyunch(click) tin can't predict his decisions.
  • When the homo expedition prepares to go out the Mote system, the Moties send them a gift send full of conflicting technology. The man leadership decides to randomly cut up the engineering science into pieces in example the Moties designed any of it for nefarious purposes. While Lady Sally is directing the procedure she flips a coin to make up one's mind how many times to cut.
• No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh flips a money to determine whether to kill a potential victim. Those that choose non to accept the chance are killed anyway, because they turn down to submit to the Powers That Be. One victim calls him out on it, proverb information technology's merely a way for Chigurh to pretend he's not responsible for his actions.
• In the book Q & A Ram flips a 'lucky coin' to make of import decisions throughout his life. As it turns out, Ram's coin was a fob money and he was fully aware of what life-changing choices he made throughout the story.
• A Piece in the Game of Gods: From Function 44:

  There was a French maid costume that had been tossed on the floor, and which had actually looked really dainty on Cassandra. Nosotros'd flipped a coin over who would wear information technology, and fortunately, I'd won the toss, though next time, I might not.

• In Protector, a superintelligent alien (sort of...) needs to fight a space boxing with similarly intelligent aliens. He knows what the ideal weapon is for the circumstances—only likewise knows that the enemies would know what that ideal weapon is, and could use countermeasures. So instead, he comes up with four pretty-skilful weapons which would each crave different countermeasures, and rolls a die to option which 1 to utilise. (The enemies would be able to predict that he'd practise that, too, merely they wouldn't know which fashion the dice came upward.)
• In the offset Soldiers of Barrabas novel, Billy Two walks in on Alex Nanos while he'due south having sex and announces he's going to re-enlist with the Marine Corps. Alex starts to debate, and eventually they decide to settle the affair with a coin toss. Unfortunately they don't have a coin every bit they're both naked, so they make up one's mind to flip the woman Alex was having sex with ('boobs or butt' instead of 'heads or tails'). She is non amused.
• From The Stainless Steel Rat:

  I flipped a coin to decide, and of course won since I had palmed the coin earlier the toss. It was going to be action.

• In Andre Norton'south Tempest Over Warlock, Shan and Thorvald are trapped in mists, with no sense of management. They have an artifact rather like a os coin, which has shown strange powers before, and decide to flip it equally they have really no other alternative — heads this fashion, tails that way. Information technology flies off through the air, and they hunt it instead.
• In The Wheel of Time books, Mat, and sometimes Rand, uses this method to make decisions. Since they both have luck-bending reality powers, this has extra significance. Mat in particular has a tendency to go coins landing on their border.

    Live-Action Tv

• Oftentimes used to settle haggling debates on Deal Hunt when the squad'due south expert and the seller cannot agree a price.
• Doctor Who.
  • In "The Three Doctors", Ii and Three flip a money to see which one is going to go exterior the TARDIS to confront the Gell Creature and purchase time for the other to do the whole Physician-y thing to thwart Omega. Three loses, and the animal zaps him and Jo to Omega'south antimatter domain, with 2, the TARDIS, the Brigadier and Sgt. Benton post-obit soon after anyway.
  • In "The Pirate Planet", the Doctor flips a coin to make a decision, and then reveals that the money is from a planet with two monarchs, and then both sides are heads.
  • In "Warriors' Gate" there is a lot of money flipping, which is tied in with the story's themes almost predestination.
  • At the cease of "Thin Ice", Nardole gets annoyed at the Dr. for nicking off to have some other adventure in fourth dimension and space instead of staying on Earth similar he promised. The Physician promises to stay if Nardole wins a coin toss. However earlier in the episode he got the surreptitious of winning a coin toss out of a conman who was using this trick, so Nardole loses.
• At the start of Dragnet episode "The Subscription Noise", Pecker attempts this to decide whether he or Joe goes to speak on The Jerry Dexter Bear witness. The primary ends upward catching the coin and deciding himself that it will be Joe.
• Farscape: In the third season finale Aeryn wants to go off on her own to deal with her grief over watching one version of Crichton die in her arms. The surviving Crichton wants to go with her and doesn't want to have no for an answer. He somewhen suggests they leave it upward to fate and toss a coin. If Crichton wins they leave together and if Aeryn wins he stays behind. The scene cuts away with the coin all the same in the air but Crichton evidently lost as Aeryn leaves without him.
• Frasier is trying to decide which of the two women he'due south currently seeing he should suspension upwardly with. Niles pulls out a coin but, due to existence The Klutz, turns it over on his hand instead of throwing it in the air. He looks at the effect and and so asks which one Frasier wants to hear considering that's clearly who he wants to be with. Niles then decides to try a proper toss to help Martin decide which flavor of jelly to put on his toast and ends up hit himself in the face with the money.
• Friends:
  • Chandler and Joey accidentally leave Ross' infant son on a bus. When they go to collect him from the depot there's 2 babies and they tin't tell which is Ben. Joey suggests they flip for information technology based on the kids' shirts, ducks vs clowns.

    Joey: Ducks is heads because ducks have heads!
    Chandler: What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your altogether?

  • Rachel suggests she and Phoebe flip a money to decide which of them gets to be Monica's Maid of Honor. Phoebe refuses and claims that "coins hate me". Somewhen Rachel gets fed upwardly with Ross and Joey's attempts to assist them choose and pulls out a coin. Phoebe ends up winning and joyously declares that the coins must have forgiven her.
  • Ross attempts to start the Guys vs Girls trivia game with a coin toss. Cue all four players silently watching the coin fall and then looking up at Ross expectantly.

    Ross: (picking upwards the money to try again) Okay, somebody call it this time!

• Subverted in an episode of Gilligan's Isle. Gilligan was slated to duel with a native by throwing spears. Skipper had a coin to toss to determine who went beginning. He kept trying to get Gilligan to pick heads (it was a 2-headed coin) simply Gilligan kept insisting on tails. In the cease, the native (translated by the Professor) told Gilligan he could go commencement.
• Although jokes involving such a show have come up earlier on sitcoms, there actually was a real Heads or Tails? Game Show.
  • Speaking of game shows, they tend to do coin tosses backstage before a prove to determine who goes first in a game, nearly oft when there's no returning champion- due to either the format not using them, or because a champion retired the previous episode- or when it's the first episode.
• On Human being Target Gurerro solves a Wire Dilemma over the phone by flipping a coin.
• The serial finale of JAG ends with Harm and Mac (who finally tied the knot) flipping a Challenge Coin to determine which of them volition leave the armed services and live with the other and then they don't have to exist stationed apart from each other.
• The Mentalist: An episode of Season 2 features the protagonist winning a bet this style. It landed heads 20 times in a row. No wonder they idea he was cheating.
• Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs would flip a money to decide who would conduct out certain tasks, either when multiple things needed to be done simultaneously, or only when neither officer wanted to carry out the chore at hand. Information technology is worth noting that Tubbs always seemed to end up losing — both in terms of betting on the result of the flip, and also in terms of the outcome of losing that bet.
  • "Milk Run" — to decide who would question Angela and who would distract her young man Zeke in the concurrently; Crockett won and pumped Angela for data while Tubbs talked to (and was all simply assaulted by) an angry Zeke.
  • "Red Tape" — to decide who went to serve a warrant with Detectives Eddie Trumbull and Bobby Cruz; Crockett won and sent Tubbs into the edifice. The apartment was booby-trapped, and the resultant explosion killed Trumbull and wounded Diaz and Tubbs.
  • "Freefall" — to decide who would see Johnny Miranda and who would see the accountant Max Flynn; Tubbs defenseless the coin in mid-air and decided to go see Miranda, just ended up losing anyway every bit the decision led to his capture past Caesar Montoya.
• Nighttime Court, in its very beginning episode, had newly appointed judge Harry Stone pull out a coin and declare it the "Coin of Justice". Commencement he says that if it's Heads, he stays a approximate, and if it's Tails, he'll resign. Information technology'due south Heads. Then he tells a prostitute involved in his first case that if it's heads, he'll merely fine her with time served, but if it'south tails, he'll ship her up the river. It's heads. Afterwards a series of decisions that were all Heads, the defence force attorney calls out "The defense force wants Heads, Your Honor!". Information technology'south later revealed that it was a Two-Headed Money, and that Harry was deliberately setting the more lenient penalties to heads for that reason.
• Invoked very dramatically by Tommy in Peaky Blinders.

  Earlier the war, when I had an of import decision to make, I used to flip a coin. Perhaps that is what I will do over again.

• The Professionals. Bodie and Doyle toss a coin to make up one's mind which of them gets punched in the face up (in "The Untouchables") or goes to investigate a house where a couple of hitmen might be lurking (in "A Stirring of Dust"). In both cases Doyle loses.
• In an episode of Scrubs, J.D. and Kim tin't decide if they want to proceed their baby, so they leave information technology up to a money toss. It lands on its border.
• Squid Game: A coin toss is used in the final round to decide which of the two finalists gets the choice between playing offense and defense in the titular Squid Game. Seong Gi-hun wins and picks offense.
• On one episode of Star Trek: The Side by side Generation, two dissimilar groups of scientists wanted to utilize the send's detector array at the same time, and Information couldn't decide which group should utilize it offset. Geordi suggested flipping a coin.

    Music

• Rolf Harris' rendition of "Botany Bay":

  At present my crime confronting the whole British nation
  Was to accept some dry bread one fine day,
  T'was death, or it was transportation,
  So they tossed up a money and sent me abroad.

• "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream":

  I decided to flip a coin, similar, either heads or tails
  Would permit me know if I should back to ship or back to jail
  So I hocked my crewman's suit and I got a coin to flip
  It came up tails, that rhymes with... sails, so I made it back to send

• Jo Dee Messina'southward "Heads Carolina, Tails California," a Wanderlust Song about needing to get away to anywhere but here so badly that the destination tin can be decided past a money-flip.

  Heads Carolina, tails California
  Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
  Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
  Where, it don't matter, long as we're going
  Somewhere together
  I've got a quarter
  Heads Carolina, tails California
  

    Myths & Organized religion

• From The Bible: "Flipping a coin ends quarrels and settles bug between powerful people." (Proverbs 18:18, God'south Word translation)
• Several characters in The Bible make a decision by "casting lots", basically the aboriginal version of this. For example, in the first chapter of Acts, Jesus'due south disciples pick two nominees to fill Judas'southward recently-vacated spot among the twelve apostles, then they pray and bandage lots to determine the winner.

    Pinballs

• Earth Cup Soccer simulates its parent sport's money toss every time you launch a new ball.

    Radio

• In The Men from the Ministry the "old and traditional way" to brand difficult decisions at the General Aid Department is to toss a coin over it.

    Sports

• In international soccer/football, the referee does a coin toss with the captains of both teams before the game. The winning captain decides which one-half of the field his squad will defend, and the other team kicks off to showtime the showtime half.
• Euro 1968. Italy, against the Soviet Union, won by this after none having scored in the semi-final match. It was the offset and merely time that this method was used.
• In American Football in general and the Super Bowl in particular, a coin flip decides who gets to choose 1 of the post-obit first: which goal to defend and whether to kickoff or receive. The winner commonly decides to receive and the other team gets to choose which goal to defend; but sometimes the winner volition decide which goal, leaving the choice to receive or kick to the loser. At the get-go of the 2d, 3rd & 4th quarters the direction of play reverses, and at the top of the 3rd quarter whoever received at the commencement of the game now kicks off. If there'south overtime they have some other money toss.
  • The league has a long list of tiebreaks for two (or more) teams with equal records attempting to secure a playoff spot (or, in some cases, a specific playoff spot). In the unlikely case the teams make it all the fashion to the end of a tiebreaker listing, the final tiebreaker is a literal coin toss.

    Tabletop Games

• Nightmare has a plastic money to flip when attempting to collect a primal for cartoon the "Hazard" carte du jour bearing the player'south character and number, or steal another actor's cards per certain keys' powers.
• Magic: The Gathering has a few cards that require you to flip a coin.
• This is very mutual in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Each player has a coin of his or her own. Players flip to come across who goes first. And then at that place are several cards where the actor flips his or her coin to decide the number of cards they draw from their deck or the amount of damage a move volition practice etc.
• A few Tabletop RPGs call for the fairly rare d2 coil, which can exist faux by a coin toss.

    Theatre

• In Albert Herring, Albert takes a sovereign out of his prize purse and flips information technology to decide whether or non to have a wild nighttime on the boondocks. When information technology comes upwardly heads for yes, he well-nigh has second thoughts about it.
• Played With in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. They periodically flip a money to make a decision, but information technology is established early that the coin e'er lands heads upward, every bit a symptom of You Tin can't Fight Fate. Until the one time it'southward tails.

    Video Games

• In BioShock Infinite, Booker DeWitt runs into Robert and Rosalind Lutece for an obligatory "heads or tails" coin flip, in which Booker chooses randomly and flips the coin, just for it to come up heads. Rosalind records on the sandwich board Robert carries, showing that all previous (127) attempts take always come up as heads.
• Dante picks up this quirk in Devil May Cry two for unexplained reasons, using his coin to determine whether or not he'll help Lucia and Matier, almost notably when deciding who betwixt him and Lucia will become into Demon Earth and slay the recently-revived devil king Argosax and most probable be trapped at that place for eternity. Lucia notices in the epilogue that it's a trick coin and the coin itself afterwards comes in handy when Dante switches his own lucky coin with the Arcana Medaglia to fool Arius about the end of the game. Dante retains this trait during his invitee appearance in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. Savvy players can really recruit Dante for but one Macca if they know most the trick coin.
• In Fright & Hunger coin-flipping is an of import mechanic of the game which determines the outcome of encounters, loot discoveries and enemy attacks. Successful outcomes are when the coin lands on the position that the player selects. Unsuccessful outcomes can range from finding nothing of interest in crates and to an assault leading to an instant Game Over.
• Terminal Fantasy Half dozen:
  • Edgar and Sabin flip a coin to determine who will be king of Figaro — or, more specifically, the winner would choose their own path. Edgar flipped a Two-Headed Coin, simply called "heads" for Sabin; Sabin chose to leave the castle. Later on, Celes borrows the same coin against Setzer. He falls for it. If you bring both Figaro brothers to that cutscene, Sabin is rather appalled to acquire the truth about the money (and it is that coin, because Celes borrows information technology from Edgar before she makes the offer).

    Celes: Heads, you take united states to the Empire's capital. Tails, I agree to ally you.
    Setzer: [later on the flip] Interesting coin, this... it has 2 heads... how low can you stoop? I dear information technology!

  • Subverted in the ending of the game. When faced with two paths, Setzer flips a coin, and the group starts downward the path it bounced. Setzer stops them and decides to go the other way, which turns out to be correct.

    Setzer: Sometimes you just have to experience your way through life.

• A Running Gag for the character Joshua in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. In fact, his recruitment chat has him propose to Natasha that he'll bring together her if she wins on a coin flip. Support conversations with other characters reveal that he cheats on this on a regular basis, and might have used it equally an excuse because he didn't want to impale her.
• In the Dynamix game Middle of Cathay, later narrowly avoiding a disasterous landing in Kathmandu, "Lucky" Jake Masters and Zhao Chi demand to decide who will become to discover help and who will remain with the ill Nurse Kate. 1 of the ways this can be resolved is with a coin flip. This can exist subverted besides.
• Religious Idle: The concluding battle of your organized religion and Christianity is a money toss. You lot pick heads and you win, securing world domination by doing and then.
• Eizen in Tales of Berseria caries a rare gilt coin which he is frequently seen flipping. He never really uses it to assistance make a decision since his Reaper's Curse ensures the coin volition always state on tails. When he tries to flip some 2-Headed Coins they are prevented from landing in increasingly dramatic fashion.

    Visual Novels

• One of the first parts of the Decision Game of Zilch Time Dilemma is Naught challenging Carlos to Heads or Tails with a multi-colored coin. If Carlos gets information technology right so he and Nada's other captives volition exist let go while losing causes them to play the full Determination Game with humanity'south lives on the line. Carlos can actually win and Zero honors his side of the understanding.

    Web Comics

• In Freefall, Florence tries this more than once. Once Sam catches the money in midair, and another time she thinks as she throws that if she really wanted it to be fair, she wouldn't use one of Sam's coins.
• Played with in Homestuck. Terezi will sometimes make decisions with a coin flip. (The coin is two-headed, merely ane side is scratched) However, she generally ignores the result and simply does what she wants. That's because — by and large — the upshot doesn't make a divergence.
• Subverted by Rhea Snaketail in Slightly Damned. She flips a coin to decide if she will help Kieri, but lies about the outcome and decides to help anyway.

    Web Videos

• Episode 18 of Globe'southward Greatest Adventures begins with Rufus trying to use this method to determine where to go next on an exploring venture. (He keeps losing the money in the leaf, and ends upwardly landing information technology in a bush of nettle.)

    Western Blitheness

• In the prologue to the Arthur episode, "The World of Tomorrow", Arthur wants to become to the thou opening of the new Bionic Bunny store, while D.West. wants to see Mary Moo Cow'due south Ice-cow-pades. Their male parent decides to settle their dispute with a coin toss. Arthur calls heads and D.W. calls tails. The money lands on the tails side and Arthur is forced to go to Mary'southward Ice-cow-pades. Arthur uses this example to explain to the viewers what could happen if they got stuck in a really bad day.
• The Beatles cartoon "Devil In Her Heart" had Ringo losing his mode to the picnic grounds and approaches a fork in the road. He flips a money to make up one's mind which route to take, and the coin sprouts vampire wings (he and George are in Transylvania) and flies away.
• The Code Lyoko episode "A Fine Mess" opens with Ulrich tossing a Euro coin to guess whether Odd or Yumi will come up out of the scanners first. He calls Odd as coming out and at offset, appears to have lost when Yumi is in the kickoff scanner open... except it'south Odd in her torso. At the end of the episode, Ulrich flips the Euro coin at the vending machine to guess whether Odd or Yumi will appear first. He calls Odd coming out, and he wins.
• In an episode of Futurama , the principal characters enter an alternating universe where coin flips take contrary results causing decisions to exist different. For instance, that universe'southward Bender chose a gold paintjob instead of our Bough's gray, the Professor underwent an experiment to remove his own brain, and Fry and Leela are married.
• Kaeloo: When Stumpy and Pretty get into an statement, Stumpy pulls out a coin so they can toss it and run into who wins. He so says "Heads I win, tails you lose." He wins, obviously, and Pretty tries to attack him.
• The Scooby-Doo, Where Are Y'all! episode "Haunted Business firm Hang-Up" had Shaggy flip a slice of distortion with one side covered in mustard to determine which side of a forked road the gang should take. Scooby promptly ate information technology earlier it landed.
  • "Which Witch Is Which?" zig-zagged this with Shaggy flipping a coin to decide who would enter a chilling shack. Shaggy'due south options were "heads I win, tails yous lose."
  • In "Ghastly Ghost Town," Shaggy flips a coin equally to whether or non to enter an abandoned saloon (heads for no, tails for yeah. "The fact that it'southward a 2-headed coin is abreast the betoken!").
  • The "heads I win, tails you lose" trope also appeared in an episode of Speed Buggy betwixt Speed Buggy and Tinker. Tinker lost when the money came upwardly tails.
• The Sonic Smash episode, "Unlucky Knuckles" begins with Sonic and Knuckles playing Gopher Ball. To decide who goes first, Sonic flips a money and Knuckles calls, "Tails!" ...to flip the coin, since he doesn't trust Sonic to exist fair.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • At the beginning of the episode, "Thirteensomething", Plucky does this to aid Buster and Babs determine what to watch on Telly subsequently school, equally Buster would rather watch a football game, while Babs would rather lookout man the titular teen soap opera. Buster chooses the heads side, and Babs chooses the tails side. The coin lands on the tails side, and Buster is forced to watch Thirteensomething, much to his disdain. It is and then revealed that Plucky's coin was double-sided, simply he forgot which side was doubled.
  • Played direct in the opening wraparound to the episode, "Weekday Afternoon Live", when Buster and Babs contend over who gets to host the episode. Buster chooses the heads side, and Babs chooses the tails side. This time, the money lands on the head side, meaning Buster gets to host the show.
• Total Drama:
  • In "The Chefshank Redemption", Lindsay suggests that the team flips a money over the argument whether or not they should selection Gwen equally their prisoner for the challenge. However, due to her short attention span, she assigns "we win" to heads and "victory is ours" to tails. The Killer Grips are not amused.
  • In "Lies, Cries, and One Big Prize", Chris makes it seem that the one who start gets to pick a helper will be decided with a coin toss. However, he doesn't assign heads or tails to either Shawn or Heaven, but rather flicks the coin at them. Information technology hits Shawn in the eye, making him the first to option.

    Real Life

• At to the lowest degree one U.S. country has it written into its constitution that, in the event of a perfect tie during an election, the outcome may be decided past a money flip if other alternatives (run-off, voting by state legislators) are unfeasible or as well deadlocked.
• In the UK, if an election is tied, the consequence can be legally decided by either flipping a coin or drawing straws. An example of this was for Bassetlaw District Council in 2000 when tie was cleaved by flipping a money.
• In 1845, pioneers Asa Lovejoy (of Boston, Massachusetts) and Francis Pettygrove (of Portland, Maine) both wanted to name a new city afterwards their hometown. They flipped a coin and the city has been known as Portland, Oregon ever since. The coin they used, now known every bit the "Portland Penny", is on display in the Oregon Historical Club Museum.
• Vitriolic Best Buds Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel often used a coin toss to resolve disputes. Notably, this explains why their Television set show was titled Siskel & Ebert: despite having the more prestigious credentials of the pair, Ebert lost the coin toss to decide whose name should go commencement.
• It is actually a good way to find out if you accept whatsoever unconscious preferences when y'all flip a money to help you make up one's mind between ii things. If you experience unsatisfied with the result the coin tells you lot, you lot know that you lot actually want the other.
• In some provinces of Canada, a money is flipped to determine between two candidates who poll equal number of votes in an election, or two companies tendering equal prices for a project. The latter occurred on 2003 in Toronto when, for painting lines of city streets, two companies ended upwardly with equal bids.
• In Melbourne, Australian on March 27, 1986, two law officers flipped a coin to decide who would get lunch. Constable Angela Taylor lost, and so she went to the police force canteen and was killed past a carbomb that had been parked outside the constabulary station.

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