History Main / WeirdnessMagnet

* In one {{Batman}} comic (I think maybe during ''Broken City'') a cop remarks that the answer to the issue someone has posed to them of what would make for a good Gotham City "reality show" would be Series/TheOuterLimits.

* Jeremy... well, the ''entire'' Feeple family in ''NinjaHighSchool'' have all sorts of strange and odd thing happening to them throughout their lives. The town they live in, ''Quagmire'', just seems to like these kinds of people.

** In the second book, Henry swears that he used to live a quiet life; while this is not ''entirely'' true, his attraction to the supernatural does seem to have gotten much stronger once Vicki and Tony came along. Maybe it's their fault. Given the events in the subsequent ''Literature/SmokeAndShadows'' novels it seems pretty clear that Tony is, in fact, the actual weirdness magnet.

** It seems that ''all'' starships ''Enterprise'' share this. In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', the ''Enterpries''-B had been commissioned for roughly four minutes before running afoul of her very first NegativeSpaceWedgie.

* The various reviewers on [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]] seem to be this. They've been attacked by aliens, cursed by evil DVDs, haunted, interacted with their past and future selves to save the world, and many, ''many'' other things (some of this all is justified by the bizarre company they keep, including at least two mad scientists). The crossover anniversary events seem to be a result of so many magnets coming together:

** Mildly justified by the characters living in a CrapsackWorld. Dan gets the brunt force of all the chaos because his antisocial tendencies and his obsession with revenge mean that the psychos hoping to steal his identity, or the robots that want to use his body to build and army, think no one will miss him. [[UngratefulBastard And]] [[PsychopathicManchild they're]] [[UnsympathicComedyProtagonist right.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300: So now [[JimmyOlsen I'm]] being kidnapped by a bug-girl from outer space who's investigating the death of the NewGods, which has something to do with the fact that I just started [[SuperpowerSillyPutty inexplicably acquiring random superpowers for the 147th time.]] Must be [[InJoke Wednesday.]]]]

* The various reviewers on [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]] seem to be this. They've been attacked by aliens, cursed by evil DVDs, haunted, interacted with their past and future selves to save the world, and many, ''many'' other things (some of this all is justified by the bizarre company they keep, including at least two mad scientists). The crossover anniversary events seem to be a result of so many magnets coming together:

*** Acting on this assumption, if I recall correctly, caused his conscience to go on strike.

*** I've always theorized that Xander is simply attracted to power -- whether it's supernatural (Mrs. French being one of the first, also Buffy herself); social (Cordelia); or both (he wasn't attracted to Willow until she dated a guitarist / became a witch).
** The hellmouth Sunnydale is built on is the main driver for the show's plot. Everything in the show happens because of the hellmouth or something that happened because of the hellmouth

** From the same author, ''Literature/DirkGently'' -- in two and a fragment books, he encountered a ghost, a time machine, Thor, God of Thunder, had an eagle turn into a jet and fly out the front of his house, and narrowly avoided employment to track down the rear half of a cat named Gusty Winds. This isn't counting the minor difficulties with probability during his education.

* Much like her [[IndianaJones spiritual predecessor]], [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] is an AdventurerArchaeologist who somehow manages to land right in the middle of conspiracies by [[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider obscure secret societies, megalomaniacal arms dealers]], [[TombRaider ancient]] [[VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary Atlantean]] [[VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend dictators]], mafia bosses obsessed with ancient Chinese magic, mad scientists, and [[VideoGame/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness demons and fallen angels]].

* In ''[[FanFic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Star Wars: Paranormalities]]'', [[TheHero Zolph Vaelor]] has been dealing with weird stuff - especially by StarWars standards - ever since he joined the Jedi Academy. In the five years between Episode I's prologue and first chapter, he's had to deal with [[NewJediOrder masochistic, dogmatic aliens with organic technology]] at a few points in time. In the story itself, he's had encounters with an undying soldier, a pseudo-Sith Lord prone to BodyHorror, an eccentric BountyHunter [[FourthWallObserver in touch with the fourth wall]], and an army of EldritchAbominations that can possess people and defy the nature of the Force, and that's not even the end of it.

* In the [[FanFic/MassFoundations Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars]] [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Courier]] Ethan Sunderland possesses a Wild Wasteland trait, which increases the likelyhood of weird scenes, such as encounter with [[CaptainErsatz Ersatzes]] of [[StarWars Han Solo and Greedo]].

* The entire cast of ''DeadLast'' ended up as {{Weirdness Magnet}}s after finding a medallion that let them see ghosts.

* The namesake character in ''{{Candide}}'' makes this trope OlderThanRadio.

* TheClueFinders. 4 supposedly ordinary kids who can't even go out in their backyards without [[spoiler: finding an underground civilization of [[GaiasRevenge plant-people who want to take over because humans polluted their water supply]].]]

* ''AstroCity''. It's mentioned that there are superheroes in other cities and countries, but most other places with heroes seem to only have one major one (Silversmith in Boston, Iron Cross in Stuttgart, etc), whereas Astro City seems to have ridiculous amounts. One character compares the city's abundance as the equivalent to LA's earthquakes.

* Fi (and later, Annie) always seems to stumble onto something strange no matter where the family music tour takes her in the aptly named show, SoWeird.

* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. Childhood friend? AxeCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]]. First love? [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Mad Scientist's Beautiful]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculus Daughter]]. Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Friend went missing? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help find them...

* Noted in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' to affect Shiki quite drastically. His [[EvilEye Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] are a bizarre anomaly and tend to attract others. So far, he's run across the last remaining True Ancestor, the most powerful seat of the Burial Squad in the Church, his sister is a super powerful half demon, Nero Chaos incident, Roa, SHIKI, [[MeltyBlood Sion, Walachia]] (who showed up precisely ''because'' Shiki has these kinds of incidents), Len and the Kagetsu Tohya events. Almost all of the above females are also in love with him for some reason. Aozaki Aoko is not, but she showed up simply because his eyes are so weird without even knowing that herself. This is ''clearly'' the real reason that Shiki will not live long, not the eyes themselves.
** Aoko explicitly tells Shiki, as part of her warning for him to exercise good judgement in using his Mystic Eyes, that [[LampshadeHanging "Special powers attract other special powers."]]
** To be blunt, this is a {{Nasuverse}} [[AuthorAppeal thing]] with the male lead. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] and [[KaraNoKyoukai Mikiya]], ''[[{{Expy}} especially Mikiya]]'', tend to simply attract people with odd/fantastic powers and abilities. And like Shiki most of them tend to be [[ChickMagnet women.]]

** PorkyPig.

* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', Shining Armor becomes this in his own StoryArc. So far, he's attracted the attention of an insane GeneralRipper (and possible SuperSoldier) who takes a ''tiny'' offense and [[DisproportionateRetribution tries to murder him for it]] with ''tripods powered by unicorn horns'', been chased by a wolf-like entity trying to {{Retgone}} him, and has to meet with a spy to get intell in a supposed haunted AbandonedHospital built on a convergence of leylines where magically sensitive individuals can supposedly see into other worlds. And that's not taking into account the craziness that is going to happen at the wedding...

* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. Childhood friend? AxeCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]]. First love? [[TheMadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Mad Scientist's Beautiful]] [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculus]] [[TheMadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Daughter]]. Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Friend went missing? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help find them...

* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. Childhood friend? AxeCrazy solipsist InsufferableGenius. Join a gang? It just happens to have a 250-year-old alchemist and an EldritchAbomination in the ranks. Promoted? Two loony thieves crash the party, spike the booze with the [[ImmortalityInducer Grand Panacea]], and indirectly introduce you to the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter (and homunculi servant). Picking up said loony thief friends at the train station? They brought you a 230-year-old child to be your new flatmate. Looking for one of your friends? Well, that guy over there with the crazy blood eyes and shark teeth seems to want to help...

* As the ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' quote above attests, Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) appears to be a magnet for the surreal. Nagi specifically mentions in one episode that the Orphans are drawn to girls like her. However, it later turns out there are [[AncientConspiracy more sinister forces at work]]...