We all know the stinkers. The character in a stat rolled game that comes up with all 8-10's and has to play it anyway. The villain the novice GM makes that seems powerful but fights alone and doesn't account for the PCs # of action advantage. The fun player in a group who insists on playing a novel concept even if it's mechanically crap in the game your GM has decided to go min-max on your group and shoot for a TPW.
Normally such bad luck, inexperience, or decisions pay a price. Those are the times we groan and try to forget.
What about the times they DON'T though. When the character with crap stats rolls hilariously high. When the rookie GM suddenly pulls a brilliant move and uses just the right power at the right time to balance out a mistake and make the groups jaw drop from a fight they thought they/probably should have won. The time that RP'd players odd concept ended up with just the right trick that actually saved the day, that made the GM's jaw drop at how THAT character undid his plot/encounter since it wasn't him intending to feed the character concept but just a stroke of player genius from left field.
Anybody got any odd ball stories like that to share?