History Main / WeirdnessMagnet

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': The Bears seem to be a magnet for strange things that happen in the Bay Area. In the very first episode, they accidentally crack a crime ring run by ''pigeons''. They make friends with a super-genius pre-teen when she breaks into their house to study their habits for a college project. They find an old jean jacket in the dumpster that turns out to be a good luck charm. When they decide to rent out their cave on an [=AirBNB=]-like service, their first and only customer is [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a Sasquatch named Charlie]], who goes on to become a reoccurring character. And that's just the ''first'' season.

* Todd Chavez of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' has a bizarre tendency to go on wacky misadventures given the otherwise-serious nature of the show, including one episode where [[PrinceAndPauper he and the Prince of Cordovia swap places]], and a later episode in which [[{{Film/Her}} his cell phone falls in love with him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' lampshaded this when Smithers once re-introduced Mr Burns to Homer by reminding him;
--> '''Smithers''': That's Homer Simpson. All the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way or another.

* ''Monster In a Box''. Spalding Gray complains that it seems like weird people are ''always'' attracted to him.

-->-- '''"Weirdness Magnet" disadvantage''', ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''

* Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) in ''Anime/MaiHime'' 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]]...

* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. For the first sixty or so chapters he [[spoiler: meets: a baby in the mafia who shoots him in the head and causes him to come back to life in his underwear with a flame on his forehead, a high school student with a lot of dynamite, a five-year-old dressed as a cow who uses grenades trying to kill the mafia baby and can switch with his future self (by climbing into a bazooka pulled out of his large afro and firing), a person who is a klutz without anyone from his family near him, oh and he wakes up to find a corpse in his room, etc]].

* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose only special traits are a fondness for the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and [[ImprobableWeaponUser the ability to use forks as deadly weapons]]. Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appearing in his life and [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu declaring her undying love for him]] is just the ''start'' of his troubles, which includes dealings with time-traveling MoralGuardians, alien {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being kidnapped so he can be auctioned off as the star of a]] BoysLove TV show. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Nyarko remarks that something about Mahiro makes him "strangely attractive" to aliens.

* In ''[[FanFic/{{Bird}} Bird]]'' Taylor has the uncanny ability to run into the most interesting patients at Alchemilla. [[ReluctantPsycho Mimi]], [[TheOphelia Elle]], [[TheGadfly Heather]], [[ReiAyanamiExpy Charnel]]... All the while her power allows her to sense their [[ReluctantPsycho true natures]] is it any surprise that she comes to show compassion for them?

* Harry in ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', even more so than in canon (probably because he is much more curious in this version). Some of the girls at the school take the implications a bit too literally.

* FanFic/TheEmiyaClan attracts insanity like has its own gravitational pull. Each kid seems to find some way to get themselves into [[Manga/ToLoveRu interplanetary politics]], [[Manga/RosarioToVampire monster academies]], [[Myth/KingArthur stuck in medieval Camelot]], or [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles dumped on the front lines of a war in a parallel world]] to name a few. Whether this is LaserGuidedKarma due to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] having so many wives, the result of the family's CosmicPlaything status, or just [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Zelretch]] messing with everybody is up for contention. Most likely, it's a mixture of all three.
* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', Shining Armor becomes this in his own StoryArc. So far, he's attracted the attention of an insane GeneralRipper (and SuperSoldier [[spoiler:who turns out to be [[SpacetimeEater an existence eating]] [[HumanoidAbomination Equineoid Abomination]] escaped from [[SealedEvilInACan Pandora's Box]] and now seeks world domination]]) 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...

* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', Samantha Shepard repeatedly experiences this [[UpToEleven even more]] than in canon. Being in a crossover universe helps, as [[MileLongShip giant]] [[TheBattlestar ships]] appearing out of nowhere to apparently solve the [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]] [[AlienInvasion problem]] definitely counts as weird. Then, [[spoiler:the Flood]] shows up which may count as InUniverse SerialEscalation in the weirdness department. Unfortunately, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat some things]] go exactly as you'd expect, while others [[HeelFaceTurn surprise]].
* In ''[[FanFic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Star Wars: Paranormalities]]'', [[TheHero Zolph Vaelor]] has been dealing with weird stuff - especially by Franchise/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 [[Literature/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 {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that can possess people and defy the nature of the Force, and that's not even the end of it.
* In [[FanFic/MassFoundations Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars]], Ethan Sunderland, [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas the Courier]], possesses the Wild Wasteland trait, which increases the likelihood of weird scenes, such as an encounter with [[CaptainErsatz Ersatzes]] of [[Film/ANewHope Han Solo and Greedo]].

* The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' FanFic ''FanFic/OfLoveAndBunnies'' lampshades this. Repeatedly. If you are, were, or will be a Ranger, weird stuff ''will'' happen to you. Angel Grove is so used to the insanity that the Rangers bring that the citizens are almost blase about it, and Reefside is quickly following suit.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''FanFic/InsontisII'', [=McCoy=] reflects on the sheer amount of bizarre dilemmas that occur on the ''Enterprise'' after Kirk is almost electrocuted by a wire malfunction.

* ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast'': Ash Ketchum and co., and time travel has only made it worse, since he now actively seeks it out. Ash's former/future traveling companions, upon seeing his antics on the news, barely note it besides it being a little more "spectacular" than last time, while everyone else who knows about the time travel thing but lack the memory restoration are downright flabbergasted at what he gets up to. [[spoiler:Houndour]] at one point wonders why an Absol (a Pokémon known to appear right before disaster) doesn't follow him around, leading one reviewer to speculate that there's an agreement among all Absol not to follow him, otherwise ''all of them'' would (turns out they just escape whenever they see him).
* In ''FanFic/BattleFantasiaProject'', [[Anime/SailorMoon Naru Osaka]]'s status as one gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Minako, whose birthday gift to her is ''a Death Busters weapon for self defense''. She then demonstrates it when the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Sailor Animamates]] [[VillainsOutShopping show up to have a snack]] and she mistakes it for an attack (they ''were'' planning one, but after finding out how many times she had been attacked they realized she couldn't possibly be a target or she would have awakened as a Sailor Senshi already).
* Ditzy Doo flat out states she's a weirdness magnet in ''[[FanFic/OversaturatedWorld Sailor Orbital]]'' and backs up her claim with enough [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] to start a small buffet. It helps that her KidFromTheFuture is there to agree with her.

** To be blunt, this is a {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} [[AuthorAppeal thing]] with the male lead. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] and [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Mikiya]], ''[[{{Expy}} especially Mikiya]]'', tend to simply attract people with odd/fantastic powers and abilities. And like Shiki, most of the people Mikiya attracts tend to be [[ChickMagnet women]] -- including a girl who shares Shiki's name and has the same powers he does.

* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', Samantha Shepard repeatedly experiences this [[UpToEleven even more]] than in canon. Being in a crossover universe helps, as [[MileLongShip giant]] [[TheBattlestar ships]] appearing out of nowhere to apparently solve the [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]] [[AlienInvasion problem]] definitely counts as weird. Then, [[spoiler:the Flood]] shows up which may count as InUniverse SerialEscalation in the weirdness department. Unfortunately, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat some things]] go exactly as you'd expect, while others [[HeelFaceTurn surprise]].

* ''Webcomic/Sequential Art'' : Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].

Sequential Art: Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].

** Sequential Art: Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].

** While attending a diplomatic conference, Shlock derails a FalseFlag attempt to start a civil war just by being in an open plaza. (And, [[spoiler:Kowalski/"Mako"]] --who would otherwise work against them if actually given orders to--immediatly starts helping out the ''rest'' of the Toughs upon hearing that they're in town.)

** In Part 3 onwards, it's explicitly stated that Stand users tend to attract one another, resulting in this trope. This ends up sparking the main plot of part 4, as serial killer Yoshikage Kira acquiring a Stand gets him discovered by another Stand user by complete coincidence (involving stolen sandwiches), ending his years of staying virtually undetected and throwing him against a bunch of supernatural people who don't appreciate him or his "line of work" too much.

* ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://tmi-comic.com/comic/define-normal here]] - "Does anything normal ever happen to you, Ace?"

** ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' states that wizards, being naturally attuned to occult frequencies, are natural weirdness magnets, comparing them to mine canaries or lightning rods. 'If anything strange was happening, it would happen to the wizards first.' This is strengthened by that the senior faculty of Unseen University, minus Mustrum Ridcully, are the first ones sucked into the Music With Rocks In craze. In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', before Ankh-Morpork is hit with a rash of poltergeist activity when DeathTakesAHoliday, ancient wizard Windle Poons dies and comes back as a zombie. And in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', the excess belief caused by the Hogfather's disappearance allows the wizards to inadvertently call new personifications into existence, such as the Veruca Gnome and Oh God of Hangovers.
** Susan laments being prone to this in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', ruing the fact that she's riding the horse of death in the company of a talking raven and stranger beings, on a desperate and ill-conceived mission to avert supernatural misfortune... ''again!''
** By ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', one of the major reasons why Colon and Nobby remains on the otherwise fairly respectable now Watch is that {{Contrived Coincidence}}s that lead to the solution of cases keep happening to them. This has involved, for example, Colon finding a goblin soul pot in his cigar and Nobby having something try to lay eggs in his nose.

* ''FanFic/StarsAbove'': [[Manga/LuckyStar Kagami and Tsukasa]], as {{Barrier Maiden}}s for TheMultiverse, become irresistable targets for [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the Demons]].

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' brings us the Wild Wasteland Perk, which replaces several random encounters with much weirder versions. For example, a group of mercenaries being replaced with crashed aliens, raiders being replaced with rolling-pin-wielding grannies, and a shaman summing up a spiritual journey by shouting [[MemeticMutation "Take drugs! Kill a bear!"]].

If the events surrounding the character are ''possible'', just staggeringly ''unlikely'', then they're a CoincidenceMagnet. The title is reserved for those who draw the outright impossible--involving [[OurMonstersAreDifferent monsters]], [[AlienTropes aliens]], [[MagicAndPowers magic]], PsychicPowers, TimeTravel, etc. Weirdness Magnets are also more likely to be explicitly [[LampshadeHanging noted by characters]]. If a Weirdness Magnet is the focus of external forces that causes things to happen around them, then they're a CosmicPlaything. If there's ''something'' literally about the person that makes them attractive to the Supernatural, they're SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious. If the Weirdness Magnet is a location rather than a person, it is either a CityOfAdventure or a town where [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing exciting ever happens]]. In anime, {{Tokyo|IsTheCenterOfTheUniverse}} is particularly vulnerable. In the US, [[BigApplesauce New York]] is the place to go for excitement. In general, [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]] tends to get more than its fair share of craziness. In any case, it may be {{justified|Trope}} by a MagneticPlotDevice.

* It's explained in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' that TheHeartless are drawn to those who possess a [[CoolSword keyblade]] and attack them on sight. The Heartless fear the keyblade as one of the only things that can destroy them and seek to remove the threat at every turn.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] but [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''Literature/TrashOfTheCountsFamily''. Eruhaben thinks that the protagonist [[MagneticHero Cale]] is one, but Cale's just a Maniulative Bastard who gets himself into dangerous situations on purpose.

* The entire plot of ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''.