History Main / MysteryMagnet

* PlayedWith vigorously in the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' (see above) fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6402346/1/Its_Raining_Men_Hallelujah It's Raining Men Hallelujah]].

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan.'' Poor kid can't go ''anywhere'' without a murder happening.

** Exaggerated in "The Labours Of Hercules", where not only does a crime occur in the vicinity of wherever he is, it's a crime that just so happens to fit the theme of his SelfImposedChallenge.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'', Kujo seems to have quickly earned an in-story reputation for being cursed given how often he ends up being a witness to a murder in a short space of time.

* InvokedTrope with ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. The main character is a RealityWarper who unconsciously causes fictional plots to happen. Koizumi warns Kyon that if Haruhi were to want to be a detective, people would start dying around her. [[spoiler:Koizumi solves this problem by ''faking'' a murder]].

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* James Qwilleren from ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'' encounters murders and other various crimes with alarming frequency, even as the newspaper he works for often sends him out to do innocuous fluff pieces on things like a food expo, art exhibits, and the like.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' - the entire gang, collectively. Even if they weren't investigating a mystery, they would often [[ClosedCircle be forced to]]. As a line from one of the songs in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' puts it:

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' - the entire gang, collectively. Even if they weren't investigating a mystery, they would often [[ClosedCircle be forced to]].

* Discussed in ''Literature/TheConditionsOfGreatDetectives'' when Banzo mentions that at certain types outside of work murders will happen around either himself, Fujii or Tenkaichi. The moment Banzo and Tenkaichi realise Fujii has taken time off to visit a hot springs, they rush over to her knowing somebody was going to die -- the one woman Fujii had been talking to while she was there.

** Occasionally {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, at least in the Manga. The police inspector, Megure, upon realizing that Detective Moore/Mori just ''happened'' to be near when the crime occurred, has a tendency to raise his eyebrow and vocalize his incredulity. Sadly, he never seems to follow up on this. In fact, he later lampshades the LampshadeHanging.

-->-- '''Natalie Teeger''', ''Mr. Series/{{Monk}} Goes to Hawaii''

* Not only has Literature/NancyDrew been a [[KidDetective Teen Detective]] MysteryMagnet for decades, but the PC game-series Lampshades that fact in the denoument of ''The Final Scene'', where a tabloid newspaper article ponders the odds that her endless cases are just a coincidence. Luckily for River Heights' population-figures, most of them aren't murders.

* Phryne of ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' runs across so many [[AlwaysMurder suspicious deaths]] that she's often at the crime scene before the police. Occasionally lampshaded:
-->'''Hugh:''' Miss Fisher's gone on holiday, sir.\\
'''Jack:''' Anyone dead yet?\\
'''Hugh:''' ...Only one [[TemptingFate so far]], sir.

* How many parties has [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] attended that ''haven't'' been relevant to the case or plot he's working on?
** About as many as he's attended that a supervillain [[BruceWayneHeldHostage just happen to rob that night]].

** It is a real thing that when Heiji's around, there is a tendency toward the bodies ''falling''. This fic proceeds to {{Flanderize}} the hell out of this.

This only covers cases where there is an actual mystery, with a mundane solution. If there is [[SpeculativeFictionTropes weirdness]] involved, or no detective work is required to identify the criminals, the character is some other type of PlotMagnet.

* Brought up a few times in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series -- every time Vimes goes somewhere, a crime is committed. Sybill is especially exasperated with this tendency in ''Snuff''. The trope is also played with a little; Vimes might find a crime wherever he goes, but when he's somewhere else, ''less'' crime is being committed ''in'' Ankh-Morpork because of how frightened everyone is of what will happen when Vimes gets back. So he's a Mystery Magnet that actually takes the mysteries ''with'' him...

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' is ''sometimes'' approached out of the blue with a defense request, but a lot of the time, he ends up at the crime scene before the crime is even committed. The second game is especially bad about this - the first case begins with his already having agreed to defend someone, but the second has him going up to a remote location in the mountains where someone is killed, (which turns out to be somewhat justified because [[spoiler: the murder was intended to target his friend Maya]]), the third has him go to the circus the day before the ringmaster is killed, and in the final case, he attends an event at a hotel and a guest is murdered.
** This happens to Apollo Justice as well, in case 3 of his game.
** This is the case in ''every'' case of ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', because the game doesn't use court cases, instead simply letting Edgeworth investigate the scene and interview people. Poor guy can't even go on vacation without someone getting killed on the plane. There is one trial, but it's only a backdrop and Edgeworth doesn't even get to prosecute.
** Lampshaded by Gumshoe in the third game, where he says he's starting to wonder if Phoenix is directly responsible for everything he gets caught up in. Edgeworth [[FirstPersonSmartass notes to himself]] that Gumshoe is involved just as often.
** Wendy Oldbag is a ''self-proclaimed'' version of this. [[RefugeInAudacity Proudly so]]. In case 2-4, she describes herself as a "devilish woman" saying that wherever she goes, blood starts pouring down and corpses appear. Phoenix kindly suggests that she should stop working as a bodyguard, at least for the sake of everyone else, only for the old bat to reply in her [[{{Jerkass}} usual way]] ("Whippersnapper!").

--->--'''Natalie Teeger''', ''Mr. Series/{{Monk}} Goes to Hawaii''

--'''Megure:''' I should just let it drop. It's becoming silly.