A situation takes shape that will lead to a problem or an opportunity

Buck sustains a loss

Bucks expectations or plans fail to deliver

Bucks behavior, ability, or nature lead him into a problem or opportunity

Buck performs a significant act

Buck is fed up with the state of his life

Buck has a significant emotional reaction to someone

Something happens to the world so Buck cant keep functioning as he did before

Buck has completed one stage of life and is now expected to transition to another

many of these would alternately be a complication

a complication against proceeding with his life as usual.

Buck witnesses an event.

Something makes Buck look like a transgressor to Sam, an enforcer.

Buck learns information that demands action.

Buck is mistaken for someone else- framed, misinterpreted evidence, accident

Buck is abducted

Buck is lost

Buck receives information (true or not) or a call for help that acts upon his motivations.

Buck winds up in possession of an object, information or power

betrayed-by society, by himself or by a villain.

Bucks parent or guardian dies

Bucks guardian must go away to do something, leaving Buck to fend for himself

Buck winds up in possession of an object, information or power

Buck is caught between warring parties

Buck is at the wrong place at the wrong time

Buck is a passenger on a ship or a plane that something is about to happen to

Buck is involved in an accident.

Buck accidentally discovers Bert in hiding

Buck recognizes someone who doesn't wish to be recognized.

In the wrong place

Buck gets stranded in an unfamiliar place.

Buck is forced to spend the night in a dangerous place.

abandoned

Buck is accidentally or intentionally abandoned by his friends in a dangerous place.

Buck is accidentally or intentionally abandoned by his parents or guardian.

Buck is thrown out and must find his place

his place in society is taken over by another and he must find a new place

Buck is shipwrecked

Buck is wrongfully accused.

Buck gets on the wrong boat, bus or train.

Buck is forced to fulfill an idle boast.

Buck has been coping with an old problem- now the coping strategy breaks down.

Buck forced to take up sam's enterprise when he is unwilling or unable to carry it out.

Buck gets involved with someone who is not what he or she pretends to be