History Main / WeirdnessMagnet

* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', Ray and Egon go over the schematics of the apartment building where Dana lives and figure out that it was specifically built as a portal to another dimension.

* WeirdnessMagnet/WebOriginal

** In a side-story, his best friend Arihiko notes that Shiki gives off something of a "vibe" that repels normal people affected, but draws in people who are abnormal, which Arihiko (despite being a MuggleBestFriend) considers himself after having seen his grandmother kill herself in order to save his life.

** To be blunt, this is a {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} [[AuthorAppeal thing]] with the male lead. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] and [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners 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.

Often seen in comedy, especially when the writers get lazy and don't even bother to HandWave their plots anymore. Also used egregiously in SciFi and fantasy series, with the chain of weirdness catalyzing in the {{Pilot}}, and each specific occurrence [[ResetButton resolved at the end of the episode]]. Bonus points if, at some point, one of the characters [[LampshadeHanging brings it up]] and asks, "Why does this kind of stuff keep happening to me/us?" or notes that that "ever since [the events of the pilot happened], you've been a magnet for the freaky", often resulting in IJustWantToBeNormal.

For some reason, the character is always standing at the corner of [[AlliterativeName Strange Street and Bizarre Boulevard]], in the town of UncannyValley. They run into situations or creatures that most people don't even ''believe in'', much less have to deal with on a regular basis. Through no fault of their own, they constantly suffer through the effects of the [[ParanormalTropes paranormal and supernatural]]. Alternatively, the character may not think of the weirdness about them as particularly strange; after all, this sort of thing [[SeenItAll happens to them all the time]]. However, if something starts getting surreal on the show, chances are, they're at the center of it.

The original {{Trope Namer|s}} was the ''ComicBook/BlueDevil'' comic book published by [[Franchise/TheDCU DC]] in the 1980's, where the main character's status as a Weirdness Magnet is noticed (and explicitly named) within the series. It was later adopted and popularized by the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' {{R|olePlayingGame}}PG.

* The protagonist/{{narrator}} of Ookla the Mok's song "Stranger In The Mirror" (about a fellow who discovers someone else looking out at him from the other side of his bathroom mirror one morning) appears to be one, or at least thinks he is; he complains "things like this are always happening to me", and says "after that [[NoodleIncident Newcastle incident]] I thought I'd seen it all". In the bridge he lists some of the other things that's experienced:

And then my veterinarian turned to stone ...\\

[[caption-width-right:300: So now [[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen I'm]] being kidnapped by a bug-girl from outer space who's investigating the death of the ComicBook/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]].]]

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* ''Literature/HowToSurviveCamping'': The campsite being "old land" means that it has become home to creatures of folklore, unnatural phenomenons, and even possibly a few deities. It becomes more apparent as the stories go on that [[spoiler:it ''literally'' acts as a weirdness magnet, and that while it is a refuge to some creatures, it is more akin to a prison for others]].
* ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'': It doesn't matter how peaceful, quiet, and isolated the place is. Once the Group comes in, the weirdness level ''skyrockets''.
* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'': The J-Team attracts the wrath of most every villain, not to mention whatever other weird happenings occur on their adventures.
* Adam Dodd of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest''. Doesn't only get put into the act, but after he wins, he gets put in one of the sequels ''too''. At one point in V1 he was attacked by various lunatics, including a sex-crazed schizophrenic and a sadistic (and gay) serial killer. Even early in the game, before most of the truly bizarre events have come to pass, he wonders if he's a "psycho magnet."
* Arguably, the members of the Wiki/SCPFoundation. For instance, [[spoiler: two of them try to go on a holiday, and wind up getting captured and having to rescue themselves and another agent who's been captured as well]].
* ''WebVideo/WarningReadersAdvisory'': Derek the Bard, partly because he's a MagicLibrarian at a [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything magic infinite library]].
* The main characters of ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'', at first. [[TookALevelInBadass They soon get used to it]]. The [[CityOfAdventure village of Questport]] itself is famed in-universe as an example.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'''s Johnny K. Gambino. Seriously. No matter what's going on in the world of Gaia, he's got his foot in it somewhere. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]]? He pissed them off twenty years ago. [[ZombieApocalypse Zombies]]? Oh, yeah, they're part of his science corporation's latest failed experiment. [[AlienInvasion Aliens]]? ''He is inexplicably on a first-name basis with their leader.'' The [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Animated]]? [[spoiler: Powered by a NegativeSpaceWedgie created when he came back to life, facilitated by a [[CloningBlues disillusioned clone]]... of him, natch.]]
** Possibly the only competition he has in this department is his son, Gino, whose accomplishments include (but are in no way limited to) a FusionDance with dear old dad, creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie and bringing his dead father back to life by ''exploding'' (which didn't harm him but did [[NakedPeopleAreFunny leave him without pants]]), and getting possessed by a demigod in the form of a large clam, who does this by eating his head. Lately he is being hunted by murderous vampires, [[RunningGag again]], though this time they're [[spoiler: carrying out a genocide plot by a dark-elf Mafia boss]], rather than just being the Von Helsons again. And he also has [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking girl problems]].
** Incidentally, there may be some justification due to the current plot revealing that [[spoiler: the Gambino family is part-god]].
* The various reviewers on ''Website/ChannelAwesome''. 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:
** [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl The first]] resulted in Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus fighting Super Mecha Death Christ.
** [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} The second]] had the appearance, [[spoiler:death, and rebirth of Santa Christ]].
** [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights The third]] involved the groups cased by murderous people in cloaks, a hippie summoned out of a book by magic, a bizarre witch, a dude with a living hand puppet, and magical artifacts . This all is justified in that the group was actively participating in a strange quest, but that doesn't explain how the map was sent to the ''Critic'' out of everyone in the world. Plus, there's the fact that the only reason he went for it was his greed.
** [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee The fourth]] centered around them being pursued by two evil aliens, [[spoiler:Ma-ti]] living in Spoony's head, and a huge hole in time and space causing random, unexplained events. In fact, the PlotHole, as it was named, ended up becoming an in-universe explanation not only for the strange things that happened to everyone in that event, but in ''the entirety of Channel Awesome history''.
* The youtube blogger WebVideo/AmazingPhil seems to fit into this trope, always meeting strange and sometimes even paranormal people on a regular basis, such as a woman who knocked on his door and asked if he wanted to meet The Holy Mother or a couple he sat next to on an airplane who called themselves Tea People and spent the entire journey drinking tea while making incredibly strange noises.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has something strange happening each episode despite the show being set in the middle of Nowhere. This kind of makes sense. If nothing weird happens here (somewhere), what's the only place left? There is in fact one episode that explicitly states the farm was built over a cemetery.
* Another contender for the king of this trope would be the flash animated series ''WesternAnimation/OGrady,'' which aired on The N network. This series, featuring quite a few of the same crew and cast members as the UPN/Adult Swim series ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', was centered on the lives of four teenagers living in the town of O'Grady which was constantly plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness was weird, unexplained occurrences that affected the citizenry in every single episode. The show was compared to ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' for this aspect of its premise. Examples of the Weirdness include the "Old Cold," a disease which caused sneezing-induced age shifts (the young turned old, the old turned young, and main character Abby went from about 15, to 30, to 60 something) and a a bizarre force-cord which caused two people to be inseparable for the duration of the Weirdness.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Poor Jackie. All he wants to be is a simple archeologist and he gets into a plot with criminal organizations, magic talismans, top-secret government organizations, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], curses, [[AncientConspiracy an order of]] [[AllMonksKnowKungFu fighting druids]] and [[RewritingReality magic reality books]]. Every day seems to be a "[[CatchPhrase bad day]]" for Jackie Chan.
* The Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles were often subject to this, with Michelangelo usually providing the LampshadeHanging.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''; be it the Big Apple or the Grand Canyon, no matter where Ben goes on his [[ComicBookTime four-season summer vacation]] road trip, he seems to have a knack for attracting weirdness in the form of various [[MonsterOfTheWeek aliens]] [[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences and]] [[ShoutOut monsters]]. If the weirdness isn't immediately obvious, expect Ben to go looking for it. He'll find it within two minutes. This is lampshaded early on by Gwen, almost by name:
-->'''Gwen''': You know, ever since you've had that watch, you're like a magnet for the weird.
** Apparently this wasn't just for him -- Azmuth lets him keep the Omnitrix partly because it's a "magnet for trouble". Apparently even though he is an alien, Azmuth had the same problem Ben does.
* Sokka, TheSmartGuy on Aang's team in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', known to [[GenreSavvy occasionally acknowledge tropes]], is the first to point out that "weird stuff happens to us" -- somewhat {{justified|Trope}} given that Aang is TheChosenOne.
* All the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' appear to be dogged by random events, though considering the stuff that goes on in a typical episode, they might just live in a world where that sort of mayhem is an everyday thing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The titular family falls somewhere between this trope and TheMainCharactersDoEverything. Most ''anything'' that happens in Springfield will invariably be linked back to a Simpson in some way, shape or form. Eventually, the show began to lampshade this, such as when Smithers once re-introduced Mr. Burns to Homer by reminding him, "All the recent events of [his] life have revolved around [Homer] in some way or another", or when an irate Superintendent Chalmers explained to Skinner that, "[He] oversees fourteen schools, and for some reason, [he] ''always'' finds himself talking to [Skinner] about one of the ''Simpson'' kids".
* The fundamental premise of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. Indeed, in the series' infancy the network execs [[ExecutiveMeddling made the creators of the show]] turn [[TheyFightCrime the characters into detectives]], because they couldn't conceive of a show where every single episode consists of something completely crazy happening to the protagonists, apropos of nothing.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' "Pandemic 2 -- The Startling," when GenreSavvy [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]] gets sucked into the boys' adventure because they were using his birthday money for their scheme.
-->'''Craig:''' That's a shock. I decided to follow you guys, and now I'm in the Land of the Giant Lost World.\\
'''Stan:''' Craig, it isn't our fault! You make it sound like we always wanna be in situations like this but we don't have any choice!\\
'''Kyle:''' Yeah! Stuff just happens!\\
'''Craig:''' "Stuff just happens."\\
'''Kyle:''' That's right!\\
'''Craig:''' You just wind up being sent by the government to take down the city of Lima only to wind up in the Land of the Giant Lost World.\\
'''Cartman:''' That's right.\\
'''Craig:''' You know what stuff happens to most kids? They fall off their bikes. They get in fights with their parents. ''They get swindled out of their birthday money.''
* Egon from ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' seems to attract more than his fair share of strangeness, even though he's already in a profession known for running into weird things.
* The "Life with Loopy" segments on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' had this as its main premise. Among other strange misadventures, Loopy has managed to build a robot out of old stereo parts (which later tried to lead the other appliances in a robot rebellion), faced Mother Nature in a bowling contest, talked with the actual Cupid about getting her big brother Larry a date for the school dance, and accidentally created a monster out of a jar of expired wart-removal cream.
* WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats cannot give a concert ''anywhere'' without bumping into a supervillain.
* Dan from ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' The targets of his vengeance include a werewolf jogger, a supervillain dentist, a ninja cookie-thief, and the ''ghost of George Washington''. 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 an army, think no one will miss him. [[UngratefulBastard And]] [[PsychopathicManchild they're]] [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist right.]]
* Mordecai and Rigby from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. These guys can't escape an episode with facing such odd situations as a black hole spawned by too many rock paper scissors ties, a half deer, half man trying to kill them, fighting off zombies spawned by a malfunctioning movie projector, and so on.
* Lots of TheEveryman characters in old theatrical cartoons were this--they existed to react to [[DerangedAnimation whatever bizarre, surreal situations and adventures the animators could come up with]]. Examples include:
** WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat (who continued to be this with his TV series in the 50s and ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' in the 90s).
** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse.
** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig: In his solo shorts he's been tormented by Leprechauns, homicidal mice have tried to kill him, ''twice'', and he's been abducted by aliens.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} Bimbo the Dog]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** Dipper, Mabel, and arguably Soos seem to be drawn to the strange things in town. While this can be justified in that [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] is trying to figure out the [[TownWithADarkSecret town's secrets]], there are times when the oddities just come to them. This is actually lampshaded by one side character in "Fight Fighters":
--->'''Robbie V:''' Why is it that whenever you're around, there's always monsters or ghosts or, ''whatever''!?\\
'''Dipper:''' I dunno, man.
** According to [[spoiler: The Author, the real Stanford Pines]], the entire town might be one big magnet. Millions of years ago, a UFO created the future site of Gravity Falls when it crash-landed, but it's unknown if the ship caused the weirdness, or if the town's inherent weirdness attracted the craft. Weird things are drawn to Gravity Falls, which is why occasionally we see creatures from outside it, like Mermando the merman from the sea, or Sev'ral Timez, the boy band of clones. [[spoiler: This magnetism is exactly what prevents [[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]] from leaving the city limits.]]
** He explains this even more directly to Dipper in the canon post-episode ''[[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]]'' book: he stands at the city limits, and holds a handful of jellybeans - with one defective oddly shaped jellybean among them - and drops it onto the ground. The weird, defective jellybean proceeds to ''roll towards'' the town. The best theory he came up with is that Gravity Falls is a thin point between parallel dimensions, allowing weirdness to seep in from other dimensions and act like a magnet for it, though the exact cause of this is unknown (it might just be a naturally occurring thin point).
* ''WesternAnimation/PackagesFromPlanetX'' has Dan Zembrosky, who seems to be able to attract and even activates the packages meant for the evil alien Copernicus.
* WesternAnimation/KimPossible is definitely one of these. Every day, she encounters robots, mutants, magical forces, doomsday machines, or even aliens.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Milo seems to attract all sorts of weirdness as a side effect of him literally being [[BornUnlucky a living embodiment of the adage "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."]] [[note]]It's a genetic trait [[ItRunsInTheFamily passed down through males in his family]].[[/note]] In the first episode alone, Milo and his new friend Zack are nearly crushed by a concrete pipe, almost burned alive in a oil fire, chased by a pack of wolves, lost in the sewers, caught in a flooded construction site, and ''abducted by aliens'' in their efforts to get to school on time.
* The setting for ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is already pretty weird, but whenever something especially weird happens, the Wattersons are always at the center of it, or more specifically, Gumball.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' is generally a mundane, SliceOfLife show, but there are the occasional fantastical elements. When these fantastical elements show up, they gravitate towards Patch for some reason, with her meeting the ghost of an ancient knight in the ''first episode'', later running into a UFO that turns out to be a trio of flying, glowing magical ponies, one of which is a WingedUnicorn, and finally finding out she might be the long lost princess of an island nation. [[spoiler:She's not. Her best friend from when she was at an orphanage ''was'', and the process of finding that out involved a magical crown that only glows when worn by the true princess.]]
* 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/Her2013 his cell phone falls in love with him]].
-->'''Todd''': You know, sometimes I feel like my whole life is just a series of loosely-related wacky misadventures.
* ''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. This gets lampshaded in the season 4 episode "Go Fish", where Panda is trying to call the authorities when their fishing boat is attacked by a giant goldfish, and he cries out "Why does this always happen?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': While the Griffin family as a whole has had it fair share of zany-ness (Peter running into Death multiple times, befriending Jesus Christ, and getting into a brief feud with Santa Claus), a good majority of it is mostly drawn to Brian and Stewie, who have-among other things-traveled in time, gone to alternate dimensions, and saved Christmas. Lampshaded by Brian, after learning that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stewie is being stalked by tiny!Tom Cruise]].
-->'''Brian:''' Y'know, it times like this that I think, if I didn't talk, and you were a normal baby, we wouldn't have any of these problems.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Pretty much everyone is aware of the Duck/[=McDuck=] family's tendency to attract weirdness wherever they go. A reporter even lampshades it in one episode while reporting on the [[ItMakesSenseInContext time hurricane]] that's ravaging Duckburg.
-->''"The storm has unsurprisingly centered above [=McDuck=] Manor."''
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The system force in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' tends to cause strange things to happen for no apparent reason whenever someone tries to pull Belldandy and Keiichi apart.
* Akari of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' tends to stumble into all sorts of supernatural phenomena -- many of them involving the king of cats, Cait Sith. These include, but are not limited to: traveling back in time, visiting TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, nearly taking a ride on the [[AfterlifeExpress soul train]], and an attempted abduction by a ghost.
* The 104 Trainee Squad in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have ridiculous luck, lampshaded by Jean, considering all the things that has happened to them. Among their numbers are: the last half-Asian (Mikasa), [[spoiler:five Titan shifters (Eren, Annie, Reiner, Bertlolt, Ymir)]] (and from that number, there is [[spoiler:Eren as the Coordinate and Ymir as a WildCard with knowledge of the Titan's secrets]]) and a HeroicBastard from a noble house [[spoiler:(Krista/Historia)]].
* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. ChildhoodFriend? AxCrazy 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...
* PlayedForDrama with Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler'', since it's implied all the weirdness he's been through [[SanitySlippage is slowly driving him off the deep end]].
* In the early chapters of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', characters with spiritual affinity were weirdness magnets. Ghosts appeared to such characters, and hollows hunted them. Ichigo's spiritual attunement spilled over to his classmates making them weirdness magnets as well.
** The entirety of Karakura Town, the hometown of the human protagonists, can be considered as one giant Weirdness Magnet, going back at least 15-20 years before it became relevant to the BigBad's plans.
* Kamijou Touma from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. This does not only include his streak of misfortune that is a side-effect of his [[AntiMagic powers]], but also he attracts weirdness in general because of other side-effects. When there's a girl holding the greatest secrets of magic hunted by her Coven, she will land on his balcony. When he takes vacation in Italy, the people keeping him will most definitely get attacked. When someone casts a spell that switches the body of every single human being, he is one of the select few unaffected. Considering how long the series and original novels went (not even counting the New Testament sequel where at one point, a giant flying fortress tracks him down because of the disturbance he causes in the earth's {{Ley Line}}s), this happens to him a lot. And then there are the moments when people are actively trying to recruit or use him in weird situations. It doesn't help that he lives in a city full of psychics and his roommate as well as his neighbor are mages.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Often lampshaded by Inspector Megure and other police officers who upon arriving at the crime scene always wonders why Kogoro and later Conan always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Bulma. The first story arc alone gets her a group composed by a boy with a monkey tail who can turn into a giant berserker ape and is actually an alien (Goku), a perverted anthropomorphic pig with VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities (Oolong), a desert bandit who freaks out at the sight of women (Yamcha) and a flying animal with ''better'' VoluntaryShapeshifting than the pig (Puar). {{Lampshaded}} in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when [[Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman Jaco]] (a weird-looking alien SuperCop) shows up and people wonder why all her friends are weirdos... And they don't even know that she first met Jaco ''before'' the others.
** Also, Bulma's older sister Tights. In the few days she spent in East City she met and befriended Jaco (indeed, it was her who made Bulma and Jaco meet) and Omori, a scientist who could stop time as a side effect of his research on TimeTravel, and later actually ''embraced'' it, getting Jaco to make her travel through space to meet weird people and things and write novels about them.
* Naota from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': A crazy woman riding a scooter hits him in the head with a guitar and then moves into his household as a live-in maid, and a horn grows out of his head that eventually turns out to be a robot with a TV for a head - which also moves in with his family. All that happens in the ''first episode'', and it only gets weirder from there. All the events of the first episode are underscored by Naota's constant comments about his town, how "everything is normal", "[[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing amazing happens here]]", etc. Then at the end of the first episode, Kanti the robot and Haruko are making bread while Naota says, "and everything's back to normal .. nothing amazing."
* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' (not that he isn't weird himself) has no less than six Whispereds personally connected to him -- including his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname, commanding officer Tessa, and arch-enemy Leonard. He and Tessa both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this at different points in the story, with Tessa suggesting that maybe it's a sign Sousuke is special in his own way.
* More or less the entire premise of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's not that weirdness gravitates toward Haruhi, though, so much as that she generates it. Relating to the ''Monk'' example below, at one point two characters in the series have a conversation to the effect that fictional detectives cause bad things to happen by virtue of their very presence, and that Haruhi, at that point on a "detective" kick, might subconsciously will such a disaster into being. [[spoiler:Completely subverted when the expected murder actually happens -- Kyon immediately knows it's a hoax precisely because he trusts that Haruhi ''wouldn't'' really wish for someone to die just so she could play detective.]]
** The series doesn't portray this very well, but Kyon himself has some pretty weird acquaintances from middle school. There's Nakagawa, [[spoiler:who falls in love with Nagato at first sight because he just happens to be a semi-esper who can see her link to the Integrated Thought Entity]], and Sasaki, a very strange girl who's also [[spoiler:the center of attention for a collection of aliens, time travelers and espers who are rivals to the SOS Brigade's members' factions]].
*** Though there is some indication that the reason for this is that it is not Haruhi who is the weirdness magnet, but actually Kyon himself.
*** Whenever one of the goddesses gets Kyon to repeat their patterns (visual patterns for Haruhi, audio patterns for the other girl), strange things shall happen.
* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'', Saito High School was built at the center of a triangle formed by a Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple, and a Christian church. The resultant flow of energy makes it a ''weird'' place that seems to attract more weird. And as if to throw fuel to the fire, the Holy Student Council comprises the son of a Christian minister, the daughter of a Shinto priest, and the son of a Bhuddist monk. This is not helped by the Chairman's habit of actively bringing ''more'' weird items and creatures onto school grounds. He's a deliberate weirdness magnet, to the chagrin of inadvertent magnet Haruto Hokujo (the Christian member of said Council).
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
** Joseph Joestar from Part 2 is the biggest weirdness magnet so far. Imagine godlike super vampires who eat vampires to live, warrior monks who turned into vampires, mafia, Nazis, the power of the sun, and Stroheim. Then getting a futuristic prosthetic hand like Stroheim. Then [[spoiler:dying, having his spirit ascend, and then being brought back thanks to a blood transfusion from the body of his grandfather which had been kept alive by a vampire's head]]. Joseph Joestar is the only [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo]] to have battled vampires, Pillar Men, ''and'' Stands (which means he's also the only hero to have used both hamon and a Stand), not to mention encountering ghosts and being around when there's a guy claiming to be an alien. Also, he managed to accidentally find an abandoned invisible baby that he ended up raising in his old age.
** ''Stroheim,'' the ultra-hammy, Nazi captain who got blown up in a grenade incident, got rebuilt as a Terminator-esque cyborg and fires a machine gun built into his chest while making hilariously campy poses. He kills vampires with '''NAAAAAZI SCIIIIIIIIIIENCE!!!'' Also he's actually a good guy. Kinda. Don't even ask how that happened.
** 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 (he stole the second user's sandwich bag), 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.
* It was stated that early on in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' that Shirogane tended to attract girls who were unstable. Considering the three girls that are attracted to him are [[MoodSwinger Kaguya]], [[MsImagination Karen]] and [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Moeha]]]], this is pretty accurate.
* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', Mutsumi has some... bizarre people drawn to her, from her [[KnightTemplarBigBrother oldest brother]] to [[PsychoLesbian Kiri]][[{{Yandere}} sa]][[MadLove ki]] to [[StalkerWithACrush Hatoda]]. This is on top of being a constant target as a LivingMacguffin.
-->'''Taiyo''': [[LampshadeHanging You really attract a lot of weirdos...]]\\
'''Mutsumi''': Yes. [[DeadpanSnarker Sometimes, I feel sorry for myself.]]
* Mizuki in ''Manga/{{Mokke}}'' has the talent to get haunted by lots of different kinds of ghosts. Her older sister Shizuru can see them, but is lucky not to be influenced by them directly.
* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. In addition to being born with the power to see and communicate with microorganisms, he ends up hanging out with all sorts of weirdos, including a college professor seemingly obsessed with bio-remediation and [[ForeignQueasine weird fermented foods from around the world]], the professor's leather-wearing workaholic IceQueen grad assistant, a pair of slackers obsessed with sake brewing and insects, respectively, a girl who [[NeatFreak washes way too much]] and another girl who [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinks way too much]]. And to top it all off, his best friend since childhood [[spoiler: comes out as UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} and starts dressing up in ElegantGothicLolita outfits]].
* Being a magnet for mushi, the MetaOrigin for weirdness in ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' is apparently a common affliction for members of the title profession, including main character Ginko.
* Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) in ''Anime/MyHime'' 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]]...
* The titular character of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' has spirits (Youkai) coming at him from every direction. It's a genetic thing.
* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' 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.
* The Straw Hat Pirates from ''Manga/OnePiece'' always gets in trouble wherever they go and will surely continue do so in the future. Nami actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s a much more literal version of this trope when the eccentric [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot talking living musician fencing skeleton Brook]] joins the crew, by saying "Why do our crew always attract the weird ones?" - other weird members being the perverted cyborg Franky and the reindeer human Chopper. Plus there's Robin who can make body parts appear all over the place. And then there's Luffy: a ''living rubber band''. We later get an explanation when we see other pirate crews competing with the Straw Hat Pirates: It turns out that all of the other crews carefully choose their paths to avoid as much trouble as possible, whereas the Straw Hats' captain, Monkey D. Luffy, deliberately seeks out the most dangerous options because he finds them the most amusing. That is, Luffy makes himself a Weirdness Magnet on purpose and is fully aware of it.
* In ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', whenever C-ko is the DamselInDistress, it's usually because she's this.
* The title character of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has some of this going on. After she saves Kyubey from Homura, she starts coming across witch labyrinths on a regular basis, her friend Hitomi gets hypnotized by a witch and nearly commits suicide, and so on, and she isn't even a MagicalGirl yet. [[spoiler:Her insanely high potential magical power probably has something to do with it.]]
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', to the point that most fans suspect that Ranma's curse isn't [[GenderBender gender bending]] so much that it's his almost supernatural ability to attract weirdness wherever he goes.
** Others have theorized that it might actually be ''Akane Tendo'' who's the real weirdness magnet; Ranma, and the trouble associated with him, could be considered the weirdness that ''she'' attracts. Or perhaps they're both weirdness magnets, and their mutual presence is strengthening the effect, hence why more and more whacked out stuff happens as the anime/manga goes on.
** Though it's never outright stated that any character in ''Ranma ½'' is a weirdness magnet, it is a fairly easy conclusion to leap to. While the world itself clearly is full of weirdness -- the existence of the various MartialArtsAndCrafts practitioners, plus the cursed, easy-to-fall-into Jusenkyo ponds, prove it -- it does seem that Ranma, Akane and the other characters do have a particular knack for getting involved with the more bizarre parts of life. Kuno manages to be the 1 millionth customer to a "Pull the Wish-Granting Sword from the Stone" contest, which means he gets the three wishes. Shampoo brings back a supposedly haunted set of bells as a present for Ranma, and sure enough, out pops a ghost. In the first NonSerialMovie, a young woman who is the third generation of her family to have possession of a relic that will supposedly bring a prince or princess to marry the one who holds it has gone her entire life waiting to be swept off her feet. When she tracks down OldMaster [[DirtyOldMan Happosai]] to express her disgruntlement at its failure to work, guess who shows up the second the relic falls into Akane Tendo's hands? Ryoga just happens to stumble upon a creepy merchant selling [[LovePotion toy fishing rods that make the person you "catch" fall head-over-heels in love with you]] and, intending to use it on Akane, he winds up snagging Ranma instead. And these are just a ''few'' examples.
* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. 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]].
* Osaka Naru (or Molly, if you prefer) from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DesignatedVictim attracting almost every kind of supernatural creature in existence]] as the most frequent VictimOfTheWeek, earning the FanNickname "youma bait". Luna {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this early in the second season. However, her role in later seasons was downplayed until she was finally PutOnABus.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Fuyuki and Natsumi Hinata get entangled in all sorts of extraterrestrial weirdness as a result of the Keroro Platoon moving into their house. Fuyuki, a prodigy paranormalist, loves it while Natsumi, an average girl [[IJustWantToBeNormal who would rather have her average life back]], hates it.
* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
* The title character of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' is a serious weirdness magnet. Sena in the spinoff ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', who to begin bears an uncanny resemblance to the former, is even more so.
* Chiaki, the main character of ''Manga/TodaysCerberus'', attracts yokai to him because, as a child, a piece of his soul was accidentally stolen by the Cerberus head Roze. His magnet status is further enhanced by the fact he is a teenager, "neither child nor adult."
* The entire cast of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', but especially the lead character, [[PropheticNames Ataru Moroboshi]]. As a cultural note, the very first story has Ataru's mother reminiscing about all the bad omens that took place on the day that Ataru was born. It reads like a beginner's guide to superstitions with particular references to Japanese beliefs, starting with the fact that he was born on the anniversary of the Buddha's death. Also, his name can be translated to mean "Many stars will hit him on the head". And finally, the name of the series itself can be translated as "Those Annoying Aliens", suggesting that the galaxy and series' version of Earth is teeming with sentient species who are all irritating in their own ways. Ataru is therefore simply unlucky enough to catch the attention of ''all of them''.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'', as Watanuki is fully aware that he is a weirdness magnet, and starts the story by making a DealWithTheDevil (Yuuko, actually, but Watanuki seems to consider them one and the same) to get rid of his unwanted ability.
** The cause of his weirdness magnetism is actually explained later on -- suicidal thoughts and desires that have been magically amnesia'd away. He may not ''remember'' that he wants to die nor the reason for why he does, but he still smells like it to spirits and stuff.
** A second reason, seemingly taken directly from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', is that [[spoiler:as a time travel duplicate, he's doomed, as reality itself tries to exorcise him. He just manages to hang on regardless]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': In Season 4, Judai almost drops out of [[WizardingSchool the Academy]] under the assumption that, as TheChosenOne, he is attracting all the evil, psychotic villains to the place. Two former said psychos clarify that it's ''Duel Academia'' that is the MagneticPlotDevice (Sameshima actually revealed it was ''built for that specific purpose''), and Judai can best protect it by staying, not leaving.
** At this point, we can probably classify [[Franchise/YuGiOh the Duel Monsters card game itself]] as a Weirdness Magnet, considering how many mystical forces have used it as a conduit (like [[Anime/YuGiOh Egyptian gods]], [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Incan gods]], and [[Anime/YuGiOhGX some kind of outer space cosmic forces]], for starters).
* In ''LightNovel/TheZashikiWarashiOfIntellectualVillage'' each male member of the Jinnai family has a strange interaction with youkai.
** Shinobu naturally attracts youkai. Any that are capable of affection adore him and will happily become his friend, even those which are ordinarily deadly.
** Hayabusa is antagonized by youkai, who view him as something akin to a MetalSlime. It got so bad he moved to Tokyo as youkai can't stand urban areas.
** Shinobu's father terrifies youkai and can easily drive them off if angered.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] has spent most of his life as a weirdness magnet, as have many of his ancestors. It seems to run in the blood...
** Oh, it's worse than that. [[spoiler:Turns out John's unborn twin is using synchronicity (the ability to warp reality, making things work out for him, that comes with being the "Laughing Magican") to screw with John's life. The twin uses the power to attract all the bad stuff that happens to John whilst using the power to stop him dying from it (neatly explaining all the bad stuff that happens to everyone around him but John manages to escape). Why may you ask? So John will give up, commit mental suicide and allow the twin to take over.]]
* Devi D. from ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'', from dating a zombie and a serial killer/psychopath, being attacked by a cat with acid for blood, having her painting come to life and try to drive her insane, Devi can never escape her insanely bizarre life. Her friend Tena even lampshades her status as a weirdness magnet.
** Fellow [[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac JTHM]]-spinoff star Comicbook/{{Squee}} has it even worse. Aside from his [[PayEvilUntoEvil sentient]] [[CompanionCube teddy bear]] and [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Johnny]], Squee's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood has also contained aliens and their experimentation, giant evil dustmites, TheAntichrist and his [[{{Satan}} father]], zombie classmates, an evil cyborg grandpa, and [[FantasyKitchenSink far too much more]]. Oh, and this kid's probably only 7 years old.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging It's]] like my life is being done by an [[CrapsackWorld awful]], [[TraumaCongaLine awful]] [[Creator/JhonenVasquez cartoon guy]]..."
* ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan lived in Hotel Shade, which the Angels told him would "draw madness to it like a magnet." John Constantine visited there, as a matter of fact.
* The main character of the comic ''ComicBook/MajorBummer'' is this by design -- the [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum implants]] that give him and various other characters in the series powers are programmed to attract one another as well as other weirdness, like demons.
* Creator/PeterDavid played with the concept of a 'chaos river' for his ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' series. This partly explained why a superhero fought so much oddness while living in a small town.
* The protagonist of ''Blue Devil'', as noted above.
* Aardvarks in ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' act as magical amplifiers; one consequence of this is that strange things tend to happen around them without their conscious control.
* Ivy Town from ''[[ComicBook/TheAtom The All-New Atom]]'' was described as this by one of the series antagonists. Either [[Creator/GailSimone the writer]] or [[Creator/GrantMorrison the series creator]] are to blame. In universe, [[spoiler: Atom foe Chronos and his temporal manipulations]] are partly to blame.
* ''Comicbook/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.
* In one Franchise/{{Batman}} comic (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/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}''.
* Jeremy... well, the Feeple family in ''ComicBook/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.
* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** The titular hero once had this to some degree, but UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} ComicBook/{{Superboy}} was worse. He lived in a small town, yet was continually beset by space aliens and other strange things that found their way there by pure coincidence.
** [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] is well-known for this quality. There's a reason why Website/{{Superdickery}} has made a drinking game out of counting the times Jimmy gains superpowers through one way or another, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Being a newspaper photographer in [[CityOfAdventure Metropolis]] kind of [[SeenItAll justifies all the weirdness he gets subjected to]], but even then, Jimmy is to the city of Metropolis [[UpToEleven what the city of Metropolis is to the rest of the world:]] ''always'' the victim of whatever crazy catastrophe happens to be going down in Franchise/TheDCU on any given day or night.
** [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] was also one of these Pre-Crisis, but unlike Jimmy Olsen, who's continued being this since the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ([[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot including a full-blown, targeted, massive example in]] ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''), she's since become notable for actively ''chasing'' after weirdness with a frenzy.
* A few strips in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' have used this as a premise; namely ''Bec & Kawl'' and ''Caballistics, Inc.''
* ''[[Creator/MilestoneComics Xombi]]''. David Kim's status as an immortal, artificial zombie makes him the target of a lot of weird plots.
* Zayne Carrick from ''ComicBook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. The Force seems to have a very perverse sense of humor when it comes to him.
* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, especially in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages.]] Even when he had successfully eluded the military and anyone else who might be chasing him, he would inevitably just blunder into a landing alien spaceship, or try to take a nap in a cave and discover it's a supervillain's hideout, or try to find privacy on a desert island only to find it's full of monsters, etc... when all the poor lug really wants is some peace and quiet.
* Rick Jones, longtime ally/sidekick/mascot of Comicbook/TheAvengers, is such a big example that he's infamous for it in-universe and listing the number of utterly outlandish things that have happened to him almost purely by coincidence could fill up the entire page. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and taken UpToEleven in ''Avengers Forever''.
* Usagi from ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' has an amazing tendency to attract all the weird and dangerous things in any area he is passing through. He will accidentally bump into an ancient, mystic sword and get himself in the middle of an anti-shogun conspiracy or become number one on a local psychopath’s “to kill” list. No matter how much he tries to avoid it, he always ends up in a fight. If it's not {{Youkai}} he has to kill, then a village needs to be saved from a {{Yakuza}}. Most of his friends are not ordinary people, either. This happy bunch includes: a bounty hunter, a powerful daimyo, said daimyo’s ActionGirl bodyguard, the former head of a ninja clan who would love to get rid of Usagi, an OldMaster, a ClassyCatBurglar, and a professional demon hunter.
* Cal [=McDonald=] from ''Criminal Macabre'' has been attracted to weird things all his life since he encountered a decapitated corpse as a kid. As a grown up, he is a private detective that deals with vampires, werewolves, et cetera. Being a Weirdness Magnet has taken its toll though, since Cal also a drug addict.
* The Comicbook/FantasticFour are either looking for something beyond normal, or attract some out of this world creature or being. Or they attract it by accident, or stumble upon it by coincidence.
* Let's be honest -- if you're a superhero at all in any universe, you are this. If you go on holiday, you'll be abducted by aliens or transported to another dimension and if you stay home you'll find yourself under attack by gnomes. Also note that in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse 90% of superheroes live in or near to New York City; nobody in the Marvel Universe wants to go to New York City because this number of weirdness magnets causes some truly strange things to happen there. Chief among the New Yorker superheroes is a native denizen: Franchise/SpiderMan. One of his most vocal and infamous opposed out-criers, J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle, [[JerkassHasAPoint does have a point]] that while New York City had its fair share of crimes prior to the web-slinger, once Spidey showed up the weirdness cranked up in turn. Some of it was in direct relation (or retaliation) to Spider-Man, but most of it just seemed to coincidentally crop up after he hit it big. He takes it in stride usually, [[DeadpanSnarker if he's not loathing it openly with a quip.]]
* ComicBook/AchilleTalon is both this and a DoomMagnet, as the surreal nature of the comics leads to most doom causes being utterly weird. By the time of the last long episodes of the series (which eventually switched back to 2-pages gags instead of 44 pages adventures), all the other characters had became GenreSavvy enough to scream whenever something weird happens that they should have known it and that they were wrong to have taken Talon with them. This is justified by the anthropomorphic personification of Destiny for some reason finding Talon amusing, and having decided to use him as his personal Cosmic Plaything.

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Samantha in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'', while not so strange herself, keeps meeting and befriending bizarre characters. During the cast's middle and high school days, they were part of the "other" clique, which was basically designed to be this, to give people who didn't fit into or was too weird for any of the 'cooler' cliques to join. Predictably, Samantha was one of the more normal members.
* The entire plot of ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}'', but being who he is, [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Liō embraces weirdness]].
* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' (and ''Outland ''and Opus and, well, anything by Berke Breathed).
* Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is this... at least in Calvin's imagination... we think.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/{{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?
* Mainiac97 of the ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' fanfiction ''The Adventure Through [=RuneScape=]'' certainly qualifies. He is attacked by vampires and powerful monsters on a regular basis, and all of it happens whenever he tries to go mining, questing, completing tutorial island, or does anything mundane.
* Harry in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', as in the below example, is even more of this than in canon. [[GenreSavvy He even]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]] to Hank [=McCoy=]:
--> The more powerful I get, actually or just potentially - [[TheCallPutMeOnHold and mostly just potentially]] - the more people try and kill me in new and interesting ways. Don't get me wrong, I love having a family and the Avengers. I love being a wizard too. But I could do without the near-death experience every few months.
** It gets even worse in the sequel, with [=McGonagall=] at one point despairingly asking if they could go ''even one term'' without Harry getting involved in some grand scale plot, nightmarish incident, or death-defying adventure. Dumbledore, who is more realistic, replies that it would probably be better to hope for a month. Or perhaps a fortnight.
* 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.
-->It said something, Hermione Granger thought, and it was something rather sad — as the eight of them strolled back through the maze of twisty little passages that was Hogwarts, their time before the next class having run out without finding any bullies — that she genuinely didn't know whether Harry Potter had been led around by the ghost of Salazar Slytherin or a phoenix or what. And whatever Harry had done, she hoped it didn't work for them. And most of all she hoped that the others didn't vote for Tracey's idea of stunning Harry Potter and carting his unconscious body around with them to attract Adventures. That couldn't possibly work in real life, or, if it did, she was giving up.
** In several other fics Harry stated that if it was unlikely or impossible, chances were that whatever it was would happen to him. Sometimes on multiple occasions.
* The protagonists in ''Fanfic/Swing123AndGarfieldodiesCalvinverse'' attract all kinds of strange stuff. Calvin really enjoys it.
* 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/RosarioPlusVampire 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...
-->'''Shining Armor''': (after finding out about the aforementioned meeting with a spy) [[LampshadeHanging ...When did I become a Weirdness Magnet?]]
** It only gets [[SarcasmMode better]], as it eventually turns out that [[spoiler: he's ImmuneToFate, living in SanDimasTime compared to the rest of the series, and is the only one who can circumnavigate said GeneralRipper's [[RealityWarper powers]] and destroy him because of this]]; by the climax, he's shrugging off anything weird that comes his way, and even his squadmates don't let it get to them anymore. For bonus points, at one point he meets [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]], who's also one of these, and they compare notes.
** Even after [[spoiler:Makarov's been [[RetGone erased]]]] Shining is ''still'' one of these. The ''biggest'' example being [[spoiler:he's ''literally'' [[ForWantOfANail the nail between the main timeline and]] [[BadFuture Dark World]]]]. And that [[spoiler:the Interviewers are technically his ''sisters'' (though he never finds that out.)]]
** And now the Wedding happened. Not only did it turn out [[spoiler:Chrysalis is actually a demi-goddess, Cadence's EnemyWithout, and a PeggySue]], the Wedding Arc ends with [[spoiler:Cadence overthrowing Chrysalis, becoming Queen of the Changelings, and thus making Shining Armor the ''King'']]. Also, [[spoiler:they adopted Chrysalis' after she was rebooted into an innocent Zebra Alicorn filly]]. Yep, his life is STILL weird as ever.
** He decides to make sure his honeymoon doesn't happen at any place with a history of weird events or such. [[spoiler:And still ends up unknowingly kidnapped by the Dark World Nightmares to be used in a sacrifice to resurrect Amicitia, sleeps through a gigantic battle, has part of his essence used by the Goddess of Wishes to harmlessly reincarnate as Half-Light Midnight, and is returned to his room where]] he wakes up with a bandage he doesn't remember getting on his stomach.
--> '''Shining Armor''': I think I'm either a victim of a prank, or I got abducted by aliens in my sleep...And I'm not doubting either at this point.
* 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]].
* ''Fanfic/StarsAbove'': [[Manga/LuckyStar Kagami and Tsukasa]], as {{Barrier Maiden}}s for TheMultiverse, become irresistible targets for [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the Demons]].
* One ''Literature/HarryPotter'' ficlet pokes fun at this. When two separate but related accidents turn Hermione into a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]] and Harry into a [[Series/DoctorWho Tardis]], Hermione steals Harry who simply remarks, "It's because it's Wednesday isn't it? On Tuesday I turned into a magic blue box so on Wednesday my best friend carjacks me."
* 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.
* ''Sailor Moon: Legends of Lightstorm'': Tokyo is inside a bizarre region of space-time called the Tokyo Anomaly. No one knows where it came from or how it works, but it generates unique conditions that enable the Negaverse to harvest energy from the people of Tokyo, among other things. This is why the Negaverse cannot harvest energy from elsewhere in the universe, or even elsewhere on Earth.
* ''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.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fic "Bless the Children"- both the [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3070319/1/Bless-the-Children-Gen-Version Gen]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3070316/1/Bless-the-Children-Ship-Version Ship]] versions (the ship version includes Daniel and Sam getting into a relationship)- it is observed that Jack and Daniel are the ones who tend to get the really weird stuff happening to them, with this idea being explicitly acknowledged by Jon, the teenage clone of Jack O'Neill, when he first meets Danny, Daniel's eight-year-old clone (Jon retaining all of Jack's adult knowledge while Danny only remembers what Daniel did when he was Danny's age).
* According to Cologne and [[OriginalCharacter Parvati]] in ''Fanfic/RanmaSaotomeChiMaster'', Jusenkyo has a secondary curse that attracts chaos to the cursed, though usually just in the form of getting hit by water at inopportune times. Ranma somehow got a supercharged version of the secondary curse.
* In the [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series, Lady Delphine describes her foster son Hugo as being more or less this, noting that spirits are drawn to him and he's drawn to them right back. She theorizes that Lydia is something similar.
* ''Fanfic/TheDragonKingsTemple'' shows a Jack O'Neil so jaded by his team's various mishaps that when Sam and Janet don't come back in time, he's ready to consider the possibility of them being abducted by ''Santa Claus''.
** The Gaang proves itself similar when Sokka talks about how they thought Toph and Zuko had been carried away by flying mutant were-lemurs and Suki sheepishly admits it would be more than possible for their group, it would be ''probable''.
* In ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'', Team 7's C-rank level missions routinely end up A-rank or worse, S-Rank. This why the [[AscendedFanon Mission Desk Ninja]] fear assigning them missions, and [[DrawingStraws Special Jonin do not want to go on patrol with one.]]
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonShadowOfTime'', all of Ash's Pokémon are relatively blasé about finding themselves in an altered version of the past as they're aware that their trainer gets into interesting situations.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', being an alien apparently isn't weird enough for Izuku. He gets attacked by the Sludge Villain while walking home from school, subsequently meeting All Might in the process. After this, his quest to find his spaceship pits him against an army of robots inside of Mt. Fuji. Then he's taken hostage by [[spoiler:a legendary MadScientist in the body of an albino gorilla]]. He doesn't even have time to make breakfast on his second day at U.A. without running into [[GreatGazoo Mister Mxyzptlk]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13633428/3/Falling-Stars Falling Stars]]'' has Benjamin Sisko bemoaning Deep Space Nine's canonical insane regular hijinks right as they're about to fall into ''yet'' another one:
-->"''One'' day. I would simply like one day where we are not under attack, being infiltrated by Dominion spies, accidentally activating Cardassian purging systems, or, apparently, rewriting human history."

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/MonsterInABox''. Spalding Gray complains that it seems like weird people are ''always'' attracted to him.
* Acknowledged by Max Bialystock in ''Film/TheProducers''.
-->"They come here, they all come here. How do they find me?"
* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', Ray and Egon go over the schematics of the apartment building where Dana lives and figure out that it was specifically built as a portal to another dimension.
* Acknowledged by Peter Parker in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' after encountering Sandman for the first time.
-->"Where do all these guys come from?"

[[folder:Literature]]
%%* OlderThanRadio: The namesake character in ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' (1759).
* [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Kyle Griffin]] the protagonist of ''Literature/TheImpairment'', is described in the book's own synopsis as "just another ordinary freshman college student with an ordinary life and problems". That is of course when one particular night of heavy drinking, he returns to his dorm and finds his roommate murdered by an extra-terrestrial. From there, [[FromBadToWorse all hell breaks loose]].
* Once Ida from ''Literature/ShamanOfTheUndead'' leaves her family house's magic wards, her Inner Eye starts working like a ghost lighthouse, bringing to her ghosts, demons, curious spirits and, by extensions, annoyed magical police officers.
* Creator/DouglasAdams:
** [[UnfazedEveryman Arthur Dent]], in all incarnations of ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', is perhaps the quintessential example.
** 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. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, one gets the impression he wouldn't have it any other way.
* Rincewind in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books was one of these, and it bothered him; he didn't [[IJustWantToBeNormal just want to be normal]], he wanted to be actively ''boring''. It's no coincidence that one of the books with him is titled ''Literature/InterestingTimes''.
** He's a favorite of the Lady, and Fate hates him personally. Death actually ''gave up'' on trying to collect him, as he can no longer tell when Rincewind's due to die (due to massive deformation of his life hourglass -- which Death now keeps on his desk as a curio), and treats him rather like an amusing show he drops in on occasionally to see what's happening this episode.
** Tiffany Aching could also be said to be one, and before Agnes Nitt was an official witch she could sing harmony with herself and had [[PrehensileHair hair that would occasionally eat combs]]. This trope seems to come with the territory for Discworld witches.
** ''Literature/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 ''Literature/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 ''Literature/{{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 ''Literature/{{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 ''Literature/{{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.
* In ''Blood Debt'', the last of Creator/TanyaHuff's ''Literature/BloodBooks'', Henry Fitzroy wants to know why he is being haunted by ghosts that he does not know, and his lover/regular snack, Tony Foster, points out that "like attracts like", and as a vampire, Henry should expect ghosts and things like that to show up on his doorstep.
** 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. The events in the subsequent ''Literature/SmokeAndShadows'' novels suggest that Tony is, in fact, the actual weirdness magnet.
* The Armitage children from the various Armitage stories in JoanAiken's collections have this peculiarity, but it has its genesis in a wish their mother made with a genuine wishing stone, that she would have two children and they would have interesting magical things happen to them one day a week, usually but not always on the same day. She got her oddly specific wish...
* The whole premise of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
* The protagonist of Creator/WarrenEllis' ''Literature/CrookedLittleVein'', described as a "shit magnet", is never more than a few pages away from coincidentally bumping into something extraordinarily weird or disturbing.
* The title character of Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy''; though that seems to be more Johnny being the only one who notices the weirdness (due to his chronic lack of imagination, he lacks the mental filters "normal" people have that tell them "This can't be real").
* Callahan's Place in the ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series at least begins as a magnificent but otherwise ordinary bar that just happens to draw alien observers, talking animals and darts masters who cheat with telekinesis.
* ''Literature/GilsAllFrightDiner'':
-->''"That happen a lot?"''
-->''"More often that it should. When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.' Figure it's gotta be true. Ever since I killed that guy, I keep runnin' across cults and monsters and fallen gods."''
* There is a series of young adult books about a place called Eerie, Indiana. It involved these two kids named Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes who were in a small town in Indiana where lots of weird and crazy stuff happened (like running into kids from the future, or a TV cable salesman ripping holes in reality). It turns out the town was a weirdness magnet, for two reasons. One, a meteorite filled with a material called "[[AppliedPhlebotinum eerieum]]" had landed, and it soaked into the local landscape. This material causes weirdness. Two, the Roswell aliens are being stored there, attracting even more weirdness. Guess you could call them [[Music/DavidBowie space oddities]]. Preceded by the TV series ''Series/EerieIndiana'', as noted below; after FOX rebroadcast the former NBC episodes for Saturday morning, the series became much more popular. The books were then written to take advantage of the resulting new demand for young adult [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Fiction Weird Fiction]].
* Literature/KittyNorville. Arguably justified in that most of her problems are the result of being a werewolf and public celebrity. Some, though, really have no possible explanation other than the bad luck and/or destiny of being a Weirdness Magnet.
* A great deal of Creator/TomHolt's characters. For example, Paul Carpenter from the ''Literature/JWWellsAndCo'' series. He gets a job with a major firm of unknown purpose, despite confusing [[ChekhovsGun Anton Chekhov]] with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Pavel Chekov]]. The building seems to reshape itself more or less at random, the stapler will disappear across the building if you put it down for two seconds (even if you're the only one in the room and the door is locked), new employees are left to sort graph printouts that have been scrambled and draw circles around anything on an aerial photograph that looks like a bauxite deposit, and claw marks and sinister glowing eyes appear to pop up occasionally. Paul's misadventures last for ''three'' books, all of them introducing new elements of the FantasyKitchenSink any of Holt's characters find themselves stuck in...and ''all'' of them seem to need Paul for some purpose in their great (ten-sided) game of XanatosSpeedChess. It turns out [[spoiler: he's been developed as a living weapon by a couple of blood relatives, one of whom is a) God and b) his real father, and as an additional bonus he's the reincarnation of a Norse warlord]].
%%* Jasper Fforde's character Literature/ThursdayNext.
* In L. J. Smith's ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'', the town of Fell's Church was a weirdness magnet, because of all the souls buried there.
* One of the (many) drawbacks to being a demi-god in the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series is this; monsters are drawn to their presence.
* Literature/HarryPotter and his friends Ron and Hermione, as well as Hogwarts School in general, are a definite magnet for weirdness. Lampshaded in the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince sixth film]], where Professor [=McGonagall=] wonders aloud why "you three" are always around whenever something bad happens. Ron responds that he's been wondering the same thing for six years.
* Justified with Harry Dresden of Literature/TheDresdenFiles, since he's the only openly practicing wizard in the country. Name's in the phonebook. Conjure by it at your own risk.
** Also, Chicago is Harry's area of operations, and it happens to be both a hub of leylines and a financial and travel hub in the United States. As a result, a lot of weirdness naturally converges on Chicago.
** Thirdly, Johnny Marcone is a mob boss (and later [[spoiler: member of the magical United Nations]]) who deals in magical artifacts, and whose enemies are more than willing to use black magic against him.
* In the ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series, even after Sparrowhawk [[spoiler:loses his magic in the third book]], he retains his ability to turn up precisely where and when he's needed. Tenar comments on this pointedly.
* The Anti-Zombie Squad, a group created to put an end to the AfterTheEnd scenario of a ZombieApocalypse in Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse features no less than a pizza-loving, BFS-in-the-shape-of-a-giant-pencil-wielding IdiotHero, a ComedicSociopath Hippie-wannabe with an AmbiguousDisorder, a GenkiGirl who dresses as a reaper, an EmoTeen afraid of black things who can't look at himself in a mirror for obvious reasons, a pesudo-geek popular guy wannabe who tells deafening jokes and sings like a walrus and last but not least a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] who may seem scary as hell but writes ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' fanfiction. And each member thinks of themselves as the most normal one.
* Bella Swan of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fame. Her first love and boyfriend turns out to be a vampire, her best friend turns out to be a werewolf. A vicious vampire sets a whole army to kill her, and the leader of the vampire royalty Aro, places his eyes on her.
* In the ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books by P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins is clearly a weirdness magnet. Although by all measures she is a typical British nanny in appearance and behavior (commutation via wind and fireworks notwithstanding), eight books' worth of weirdness occurs around her (and, just as tellingly, ''stops'' whenever she leaves, a fact the Banks children notice and bemoan).
* Eragon in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''
-->'''Saphira''': Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as though they were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.
** This from his [[LastOfHisKind supposedly extinct]] ''dragon'' just to emphasise the point. When the fantastical beast is calling you out on being this, you have no grounds to deny it.
* Literature/JakubWedrowycz attracts all kinds of weird happenings, supernatural or otherwise. At one point, after he finds a nuclear warhead (and tries to break it open for scrap), [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist the local police officer]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes insane]] when trying to comprehend just how come that all the bizarre things in the world are happening to that one guy.
* Clan Korval in Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Literature/LiadenUniverse series is either this or a CoincidenceMagnet, depending on your point of view—the strange series of coincidences Clan Korval is susceptible to are not particularly supernatural to ''them'', but to the mundanes who get caught up in events it could be a different story.
* Jame, in P.C. Hodgell's Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath series, seems to attract weirdness and catastrophe, enough that it's lampshaded by other characters. This may be because she's pretty weird herself.
* Three of the primary protagonists in the ''[[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Wheel of Time]]'' series are known to be ''ta'veren'', which means that the Wheel reshapes destiny around them. This causes very odd and improbable things to happen to them and to those around them. Lampshaded on at least one occasion by having characters track [[PowerTrio Rand, Mat or Perrin]] by following the trail of unlikely occurrences.
* At the end of [[Literature/MythAdventures Another Fine Myth]], Aahz tells Skeeve point-blank that neither of them will have to go looking for adventure;
-->'''Aahz:''' In our profession, it usually comes looking for us.
-->'''Narration!Skeeve:''' I had an ugly feeling he was right.
* The protagonist of the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series is so used to getting into weird things by this point, he takes things like [[spoiler: dogs transformed into pretty teenage girls]] completely in stride. As early as ''Red Iron Nights'', thugs at Morley's BadGuyBar leave the premises when Garrett shows up, not because they're scared of the guy, but because they know that weird trouble is sure to follow him.
* Creator/JRRTolkien:
** Bilbo Baggins in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' was minding his own business, as all hobbits do, when a prototypical wizard and his posse of fallen dwarf-lords [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive showed up out of nowhere and dragged him off on an epic dragon-hunting adventure]]. Among the many bizarre things he encounters on his unwanted quest is a deranged cave-dweller, who happens to have an ancient demon prince's long-lost SoulJar. Bilbo waltzes off with it, not having a clue how important it is. It takes [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings three more books]] to deal with the ''aftermath'' of his magnetism.
** ''Literature/FarmerGilesOfHam.'' A fat red-headed farmer who doesn't like trespassers. Including giants and dragons. Especially dragons.
* The entire town of Golgotha in ''Literature/SixGunTarot'' is one. Half the people in town have some supernatural trait or possession of some sort, and the town attracts such people. Also mentioned in passing are the grave that must be surrounded with a circle of salt lest a presence in the night drain the blood from livestock and people, a bat-winged creature that snatched people off the street, a plague of rat-people…
* ''Literature/AFantasyAttraction'' has Alice, a young girl who has the literal ability to attract magical beings. She, in just the one day the story covers, pulls in : A genie, hobgoblin, horde of goblins, gnome, fairy, manticore, griffins, pixie, troll, dragon, sphinx, kobold, tribe of ogres, wyverns, salamander, harpy, hippogriff, gargoyle, and phoenix.
* [[NoNameGiven Our Hero]] in ''Literature/MrBlank'' never thought he was, but in [[Literature/GetBlank the sequel]] when he tried to retire he found out that wouldn't stop everyone within a ten mile radius approaching him with various noir plots, dealing with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or various magical artifacts.
* The town Gusliar from ''[[Literature/GreatGusliar Gusliar Wonders]]'' by Creator/KirBulychev, with new aliens, fairy tale creatures or social experiments in every story. Recurring character Udalov is a prominent magnet even by the town's standards, usually as ButtMonkey, CosmicPlaything or ActionSurvivor.
* Literature/NancyDrew is ''always'' followed by weirdness no matter where she goes.
* In the ''Literature/StrangeMatter'' series, Fairfield is a hotspot of ghosts, aliens, monsters, and other weirdness.
* Literature/TheAffix is a jewel that abuses probability. Its [[ClingyMacGuffin chosen keeper]] is a target for whatever bizarre crap it throws their way. This is worse when it's "awake" and goes beyond mere low-level coincidences into car-crashing, casino-breaking mayhem.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] but [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''Literature/TrashOfTheCountsFamily''. Eruhaben thinks that the protagonist [[MagneticHero Cale]] is one, but Cale's just a {{Manipulative Bastard}} who gets himself into dangerous situations on purpose.
* ''Literature/EstherDiamond'': Actress Esther Diamond gets involved with vampires, a voodoo prestress, evil sorcerers trying to summon demons, vampires, and mystical curses over the course of seven books (so far) that take up less than a year.
* In ''Literature/InCryptid'', the Price family seems to always be in the right place at the right time to be involved in major supernatural events, but since they often seek that out, they don't really notice anything unusual. They ''also'' have some degree of natural immunity to [[BackstoryInvader Johrlac]], and both of these traits are revealed to be because [[spoiler:they're partially descended from the Kairos species, whose hat is being UnluckilyLucky]].

[[folder:Music]]
* The protagonist/{{narrator}} of Ookla the Mok's song "Stranger In The Mirror" (about a fellow who discovers someone else looking out at him from the other side of his bathroom mirror one morning) appears to be one, or at least thinks he is; he complains "things like this are always happening to me", and says "after that [[NoodleIncident Newcastle incident]] I thought I'd seen it all". In the bridge he lists some of the other things that's experienced:
-->''There was that time that shopping mall devoured my Aunt Sue,\\
And then my veterinarian turned to stone ...\\
That was the same week [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Adrian Veidt removed my intrinsic field]]...''
* Jim White's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqPjL-1ZyA Still Waters]]" describes such a man; he loses a girlfriend due to a late-night ghostly visitation; after a fight with sailors he curses their ship, which sinks the next day; he first feels compelled to keep silent when he hears a lonely old man singing a hymn, but later finds the man's hanged himself and now feels compelled to sing for him.
-->''Still waters run deep in me, and I've got this crazy way...\\
crazy way I'm swimming in still waters.''

[[folder:Print Media]]
* ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' is a repository of stories and accounts of alleged Weirdness Magnets (both places and people) around the world.

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' provides the page quote with its disadvantage that turns you into this. Named Weirdness Magnet, of course.
** Illuminated also tends to cause this.
** Depending on the setting, the weirdness can reach absolutely ''batshit'' levels of bizarre. Illuminati University, for example, is weird on its own. Taking Weirdness Magnet there means that you stand a good chance of having [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Shub-Niggurath invite you to tea]], and then reveal that it (she?) is your character's ''great aunt''.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', every single character has a "Fateful Aura" that turns them into this. No matter where they go or what they do, their own Legend draws things to them, forcing them to respond and thus increase their Legend. It ''is'' possible to tone down this aura and shed Legend dots, but characters can never be entirely free of it, and since Legend determines how powerful a character's Boons and Epic Attributes can get, shedding Legend may leave them ill-equipped to deal with the weirdness when (not if) it arrives.
* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' has a similar effect. [[FrankensteinsMonster Prometheans']] own Azoth (part of the divine fire of creation which sustains their existence) can be felt by other Prometheans as a call, and will also awaken any Pandorans they go near.
* The Anchors of the [[PlayerCharacter Nobles]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' suffer from this. However, they also have immunity from the {{Reality Warp|er}}ing magical powers of Nobles themselves.
** Nobles themselves tend to attract oddness, especially in the form of [[AssimilationPlot Actuals]] and [[OmnicidalManiac Excrucians]], but it's less emphasised, especially since the average Noble responds to a day ''without'' weirdness by going out and either finding some, or ''making'' some.
* The Gifted in ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'' have an innate tendency to be drawn into supernatural events. Since the setting is unabashed FantasyKitchenSink UrbanFantasy this technically makes them [[CoincidenceMagnet Coincidence Magnets]], but it looks more like this trope. And they're ''also'' SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious.
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' has a flaw you can take called Chimerical Magnet. Three guesses what this does. Given that your character can die of boredom in this game if not enough weird stuff happens to you, it's uncertain how much of a flaw this really is.
* ''[[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Geist: The Sin-Eaters]]'' gives this to one of the five character types. All of the types are sensitive to ghosts who died by particular means, but the "Forgotten" (victims of what might be considered death by Weirdness Magnet) find such ghosts are actually ''drawn'' to them.

[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'', Evan. He ends up involved in a BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle between the BrainlessBeauty Kendra, the JerkJock Brett, and the AlphaBitch Lucy, is forced to arrange a date between Archie and Kendra, or else Archie will [[ManipulativeBastard Ruin his Bar Mitzvah.]]
* The idols of ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'' have gotten used to all the random supernatural things that happen to them - usually, but not always, because of Shun, the Demon Lord of the group. By the fourth stage play, Lunatic Party, they react to being TrappedInAnotherWorld like it's nothing.
* From a series of ''Creator/TeamStarKid'' productions, the town of Hatchetfield.
** In ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', Hatchetfield is ground zero for a zombie apocalypse triggered by a meteorite containing an alien substance that assimilates it's victims and forces them to sing.
** In ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', Hatchetfield mall is the location of a riot of shoppers trying to get an extremely marketable doll of an EldritchAbomination, and while there are other riots at other malls all across America to the point the President has to get involved, Hatchetfield is where [[spoiler: Wiggly, the extradimensional evil behind the dolls, intends to be born onto Earth]].
** And if a musical zombie apocalypse and the shopping event from hell wasn't enough, there's a third production set in Hatchetfield in the making. ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die''.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* Kazuma Kiryu, protagonist of the ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' series. Diaper-clad regression-fetishist gangsters are one of the ''least'' weird things he gets exposed to during the course of the games.
* Lampshaded by Adell in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'', quoted on the quote page.
* Vayne from ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis''. He has "attracted" a ''ghost'' and an ''alien invader'' to be members of his workshop. And then there are the quirks of the ''rest of his friends'' (a boy-crazy {{catgirl}}, a {{superhero}}[=-=][[FaceHeelTurn turned]][=-=]EvilOverlord, to name a few). In the end, though, they will ''always'' [[TrueCompanions remain his friends]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg yes, even]] TheRival), regardless of what happens to him in the game.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' brings us the Wild Wasteland trait, 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!"]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the [[PlayerCharacter Warrior of Light]] get into world saving plots on a regular basis along with the more wackier adventures like those with [[GentlemanDetective Hildibrand]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer Manderville]].
* Madison from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Including the DLC, she is attacked by ''two'' serial killers and a rapist before she even meets the Origami Killer.
* The PlayerCharacter from ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', ''oh so much''. Checking on a friend's friend who's been acting strangely? You end up in a plot involving the Goddess of Destruction trying to take out the small kingdom of Al-Kharid. Try to help a boy through his rites of manhood? That thing you helped him find was actually a member of an ancient, nigh-extinct race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers, and finding him is the first step down a long rabbit hole. Helping a retired sculptor create one last statue? End up releasing two ArchEnemy members of the same race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. Investigate a thief in the castle basement? That questline ends with you fighting ''the avatar of the god of war''. Help a cook bake a cake for the Duke's birthday? A chain of events causes you to release the Culinaromancer, an evil sorcerer who uses [[{{Whatevermancy}} food magic]].
* ''VideoGame/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]]]].
* Much like her [[Franchise/IndianaJones spiritual predecessor]], Lara Croft in ''Franchise/TombRaider'' is an AdventurerArchaeologist who somehow manages to land right in the middle of conspiracies by [[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider obscure secret societies, megalomaniacal arms dealers]], [[VideoGame/TombRaider ancient]] [[VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary Atlantean]] [[VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend dictators]], mafia bosses obsessed with ancient Chinese magic, mad scientists, and [[VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness demons and fallen angels]].
* The Sith Inquisitor from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' is heavily immersed in the more mystical elements of the Force and has a bizarre affinity for running into Force-Ghosts on a regular basis. Lampshaded by the ghost of their ancestor, who explains that this is actually a rare gift, allowing them to draw out restless spirits and draw forth their emotions. He even describes their mere presence as being akin to an overwhelming pull.
** On Voss, at one point the Inquisitor explains to another Imperial their plan to enter a region steeped in the Dark Side that causes most who venture inside to go mad, simply to find the Gormak they'd met whilst Dreamwalking, in the hopes it will help them find a way to cure their HeroicRROD from having too many Force Ghosts [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne currently bound within them]]. Rather tellingly the Imperial's response is to be more worried by the utterly ''blasé'' manner in which the Inquisitor treats the entire situation as if it were ''[[SeenItAll routine]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2nd OG'', it is revealed that the weirdness magnet is an actual object. [[spoiler: The core of Shuu's Granzon was designed by the Guests to cause probability alterations, attracting all kinds of invaders from other worlds.]] It's pointed out that this explains [[MonsterOfTheWeek why Earth has been attacked by lots of aliens in a relatively short time period.]]
* The Hero from Sierra's ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series. While a certain amount is to be expected considering he's an adventurer and hero, so is likely to be intentionally walking into the weirdness, some of the bizarre situations he finds himself in go ''way'' beyond what would be reasonably expected.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': Poor old Conker had a bit of a Bad Fur Day. All he wanted to do in the first place was go home, yet anything that could go wrong went [[CrossesTheLineTwice HORRIBLY wrong]], and the game consisted of him being thrown into bizarre non-sequitur after bizarre non-sequitur.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', Varric will at one point outright say that ''everything'' that happens to [[PlayerCharacter the Inquisitor]] is weird. He later notes this as the reason he believes the Inquisitor is the Herald of Andraste. Either s/he is the Maker's chosen, or s/he has the absolute worst luck. Most likely both.
* It's explained in ''Franchise/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.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', what starts out as a simple task of bringing Faye's ashes to the highest peak leads Kratos and Atreus to battling against the Norse pantheon. Even Mimir had a hard time believing that [[spoiler: Baldur]] happened to find them and start a fight.
-->'''Mimir:''' Why don't you tell me how all this began with [[spoiler: Baldur]]?\\
'''Atreus:''' He just knocked on our door!\\
'''Mimir:''' [[spoiler: Baldur of Asgard]] just knocked on your door?\\
'''Atreus:''' Yeah, he just showed up and started a fight.
* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'': [[AxCrazy Vlad's]] jobs started out as petty revenge plots, before broadening into out-and-out bizarre. He's had the crew recover safes, a herd of goats[[labelnote:*]]They were being used as drug mules to smuggle cocaine. DontAsk.[[/labelnote]], Christmas presents, and most disturbingly, ''[[spoiler:[[NuclearWeaponsTaboo live nuclear warheads]]]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', in a skit, both Karol and Raven accuse Yuri for being this. He counters that at least he always comes out fine, no matter how dire the situation is.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Noted in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' to affect Shiki quite drastically. His [[MagicalEye 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, [[VideoGame/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 {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} [[AuthorAppeal thing]] with the male lead. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] and [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners 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.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The whole crux of ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'' revolves around the two titular characters dealing with this trope in one way or another. As a result, this is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d to the point of becoming a RunningGag.
* Charlie of ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' fame. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus Enough]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4&feature=fvw Freaking]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o&feature=channel Said]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/011004c Proto Man justly blames the Author for weirdness]]
* Jenn from ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy.'' The author has said that when strange things happen, they happen to Jenn. Notably, when someone confronted her about it, she got TrappedInAnotherWorld ''mid-conversation'', has a presumably lengthy adventure, arrives back a second or two after she left, and merely asks, "anyway, you were saying?"
* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' Victor inherited his ability to see supernatural creatures even when they're hidden by glamors, this means said supernatural creatures have been making attempts on his life since he was quite young. He also managed to get the attention of an evil cult by the time he was 13 and the attention of a council of day walking vampires in his late teens. It's no wonder he grew up to be a Hunter even if his eventual best friend is a vampire.
* Roger Pepitone from ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'', who at times seems to be weirdness personified.
* Dominic Deegan, from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan Oracle for Hire''. Fortunately, he can usually see it coming. Arguably a reversal; he sees that weird stuff will be happening, so he goes there. Weirdness is a Dominic Deegan magnet.
* Fox in ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'' is continually getting into bizarre situations, whether they're due to the demands of his job as newspaper reporter or some random person on the street who recognizes him from a long time ago and proceeds to greet/glomp/kidnap him. His boyfriend Collin [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with the remark that he makes a great reporter as weird things keep on happening to him.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Jiminez's brother Aldin laments that Jiminez is one of these, though Jiminez himself seems to love it. This seems to go UpTo11 when Aldin tries to make him avoid adventure.
-->'''Aldin:''' Lady Heterodyne, if we take him back now, he will complain for ''months''. He will actively seek me out, follow me around, and tell me at ''excruciating length'' why we shouldn't have "run away-" And while he is doing so, he will drag me into six "adventures" worse than this death crawl can ''ever'' be.
* Many, ''many'' characters from ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'', but especially Otra and Winter; the effect is multiplied exponentially when they're together, to the point of occasionally being so strong it pulls in ''another''' weirdness magnet from the supporting cast, such as Officer Policeguy, and so on until either the magnets are pulled apart by the plot or the weirdness reaches critical mass.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** The city of Moperville, the main setting of the story, is described as the kind of place where [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=974 weird stuff happens,]] and neighboring towns treat the Moperville newspaper like a tabloid. While it's eventually revealed that the town has [[BackgroundMagicField elevated levels of ambient magic]] that [[MagneticPlotDevice draw all kinds of strangeness to it,]] it's implied that the place was weird even before the ambient magic became a problem.
** Elliot seems to get more than his fair share of strangeness even by Moperville's already elevated standards. To start off, he is [[GenderBender gender-bent]] against his will in a series of events resulting in an OppositeSexClone. Later, a simple walk in the park results in him getting kidnapped by a hedgehog person. He's [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=950 attacked by a gremlin-like monster]] at school, and by a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1229 dragon]] at the martial arts dojo. He apparently thinks nothing of a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1732 griffin asking him for directions.]] He eventually wises up to his status enough to correctly predict that [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2052 his date would be interrupted]] by [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2088 something weird happening.]] Basically, weird things happen to everyone in the comic. Things happen to the rest of the cast due to some personal reason or another. Things happen to Elliot just because.
** When something weird has to happen to someone outside of the main cast, it usually chooses Rhoda. When an Immortal makes a brief appearance on live TV, [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1035 guess who's getting interviewed.]] When a giant boar finds its way into Moperville, [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1337 guess who it encounters first.]] When she and Elliot happen to be at the mall at the same time, the resulting griffin attack is almost expected.
* Antimony from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', partly because of curiosity, [[spoiler:partly [[MagneticMedium because she's a medium]].]]
-->'''Headmaster:''' Tell me, do you find strange things seem to happen around you?
-->'''Antimony:''' ... On occasion.
* Hanna of ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' is a paranormal investigator, so this stands to reason, and has attracted a zombie looking for a job, and was the first person to be assaulted by the Lee!Ghost in the second job arc. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Toni in Chapter 3 when she says, "There's something about you that draws out all the paranormal oddities. I ''am'' one, and I have never seen so many until you."
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', the title character apparently has this in the [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060509.html roof]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061005.html of]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070421.html his]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080812.html house]]. Yes, it is a RunningGag -- see panel 4 of [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061028.html this strip]].
* Fiona Fennec has been one for ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' in late 1990s-early 2000s, but the trait has subsided since then.
* Jamie Kingston from ''Kismetropolis'' has had the weirdness since day one, but its intensity is increasing.
* ''Webcomic/AMagicalRoommate'' has established [[TheChosenOne Children of Prophecy]] to be natural weirdness magnets. [[spoiler:The main character rooms with one unknowingly at the beginning of the strip, and is now shacked up with TWO!]]
* Ash Upton from ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' has, to date, been one of only two people on the whole damn planet to be [[RetGone "misfiled"]] by a [[TheStoner stoned angel]] (who then moved in with [[GenderBender him]] and is [[TheBeard posing]] as [[PronounTrouble her]] boyfriend), been forced to race against a woman possessed by a vengeful ghost, been [[PsychoExGirlfriend stalked by Lucifer's niece]], and raced against a guy who can hold conversations with cars and is haunted by his [[ClingyJealousGirl girlfriend's]] psychically manifested Id. Oh, and apparently his car growls at people.
* Dave Davenport from ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', due to [[spoiler:his latent madness]].
* David of ''Webcomic/OwMySanity'' seems to have become one. Then again, it is rather hard to build an UnwantedHarem of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s if you aren't one.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is longer on weirdness than its first-glance SliceOfLife appearance would suggest, and a couple of characters are particularly prone to weird experiences:
** Marten seems to be a strange girl magnet: Faye is wildly bipolar, Dora has control issues, Hannelore is severely obsessive-compulsive and germophobic, and Marigold is a shut-in. Claire, on the other hand, is rational and focused.
** Emily, another of Marten's acquaintances, is ... [[CloudCuckooLander at present, without explanation]]. However, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2853 she seems to be something of a weirdness magnet in her own right]].
--->'''Marten:''' *Regarding Emily* Oh, great. I've adopted another one.
* Lauri Salmi from ''Webcomic/{{Route148}}'' but he seems to find it amusing.
* [[Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy Sam]] is a weirdness magnet for everything from fridge possession to ninja mafias. Fuzzy even [[http://samandfuzzy.com/1281 lampshades it.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheSanityCircus'': When Nimbus Owens tells the main characters that his reason for fleeing the Directorship is kind of weird, Attley points that she's currently being accompanied by a boy with feathers for hair and a man who was once a flute before being brought to life, and that they've been chased by fear-eating monsters all day.
-->'''Attley:''' ''"Weird" is a bit lost on us, now.''
* ''Webcomic/ScaledUp'': This is how Patricia ends up getting involved in Adrien's time travel adventures in the first place.
* Shelley Winters certainly, and maybe just the whole cast of ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' in general. Shelley seems to get the worst of it though: recently she was unable to report on a summer fete without her and two others regressing to primal states through various forms of intoxication and having to fight a bee the size of a cow.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Tagon' Toughs try to operate by two general rules: Get paid, and live long enough to enjoy their pay. Things just tend to unintentionally spiral out of control from there. Some examples:
** An early contract gas them "guarding" a restaurant ship. They end up repelling an invasion of diamond-carapaced bugs.
** Kevyn (re)invents the "Teraport", thereby cracking open a conspiracy by the Gatekeepers to spy on the galactic inhabitants.
** In need of a new ship, they buy one 'on the cheap'. The ship's AI ends up as the semi-official ruler of the Galaxy.
** While attending a diplomatic conference, Shlock derails a FalseFlagOperation 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--immediately starts helping out the ''rest'' of the Toughs upon hearing that they're in town.)
** The Toughs are contracted to deliver one shipment of food to Credomar. Net result: [[spoiler:setting up LOTA as king, and the re-introduction of the "Long Gun" to the public knowledge]].
* ''WebComic/SequentialArt'': Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'':
** The titular toy store seems to be one. The owner is an EvilOverlord wannabe who can't tell genders apart, a former government super-soldier shows up looking for a job only to randomly find ''another'' former government super-soldier already working there (one who is ''supposed to be dead''), UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} are likewise resurrected solely to work retail, one employee is obsessed with ninjas to the point of stabbing people and hallucinating the world around him as a manga, a sentient talking car now works in the stock room, a disgruntled former employee plots for years (even getting elected to congress and recruiting Walter Mondale and UsefulNotes/SarahPalin in the process) to get revenge for being fired, a religion is founded around one employee, another briefly achieves world peace through the consumption of Cadbury Creme Eggs, and the whole place seems to have a "good twin" in the form of another store across the street with suspiciously similar workers where everything is perfect.
** Not exactly weirdness, but Shortpacked! has also been described as a "[[EveryoneIsBi Gay Nexus]]" by one employee. Totally straight people seem to be in the minority among the cast.
* Michelle Jocasta of ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' seems to be this. She starts off the show by turning into a creature that was supposed to be extinct, and then is promptly chased down by a number of creatures that are either very rare, or are also supposed to be extinct. Every one of her newly-found friends aren't human, and they even think she's weird. This was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Michelle in [[http://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/homecoming-13-weirdness-magnet/ one comic.]]
%%* Any member of the cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
* ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation2005'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://tmi-comic.com/comic/define-normal here]] - "Does anything normal ever happen to you, Ace?"
* Detective Franklin Clarke from ''Webcomic/TRULifeAdventures'' has a reputation among his fellow police for getting stuck with unusual cases. [[spoiler: Enough of them turn out to be related to TimeTravel that the [[TimePolice Time-Line Authority]] eventually recruit him as an agent.]]
* Monica Villareal from ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', though she appears to actually be a CosmicPlaything for Aztec gods. [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/dump-the-tiara/ She's not thrilled about it.]]
** [[spoiler: Though her weirdness magnet status may actually be because she herself is one of the most incredibly powerful supernatural beings in the world.]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1173.html according to Jake]] Doc's shop qualifies.
* Annashi from ''Webcomic/WTFComics''. Around her, impossible things occur on a regular basis, from encounters with Gnome Monks to visitors from another dimension.
* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Jack, who states that "magic attracts magic", and by Gregory, who explained that Sandra's very nature has this effect.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Literature/HowToSurviveCamping'': The campsite being "old land" means that it has become home to creatures of folklore, unnatural phenomenons, and even possibly a few deities. It becomes more apparent as the stories go on that [[spoiler:it ''literally'' acts as a weirdness magnet, and that while it is a refuge to some creatures, it is more akin to a prison for others]].
* ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'': It doesn't matter how peaceful, quiet, and isolated the place is. Once the Group comes in, the weirdness level ''skyrockets''.
* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'': The J-Team attracts the wrath of most every villain, not to mention whatever other weird happenings occur on their adventures.
* Adam Dodd of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest''. Doesn't only get put into the act, but after he wins, he gets put in one of the sequels ''too''. At one point in V1 he was attacked by various lunatics, including a sex-crazed schizophrenic and a sadistic (and gay) serial killer. Even early in the game, before most of the truly bizarre events have come to pass, he wonders if he's a "psycho magnet."
* Arguably, the members of the Wiki/SCPFoundation. For instance, [[spoiler: two of them try to go on a holiday, and wind up getting captured and having to rescue themselves and another agent who's been captured as well]].
* ''WebVideo/WarningReadersAdvisory'': Derek the Bard, partly because he's a MagicLibrarian at a [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything magic infinite library]].
* The main characters of ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'', at first. [[TookALevelInBadass They soon get used to it]]. The [[CityOfAdventure village of Questport]] itself is famed in-universe as an example.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'''s Johnny K. Gambino. Seriously. No matter what's going on in the world of Gaia, he's got his foot in it somewhere. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]]? He pissed them off twenty years ago. [[ZombieApocalypse Zombies]]? Oh, yeah, they're part of his science corporation's latest failed experiment. [[AlienInvasion Aliens]]? ''He is inexplicably on a first-name basis with their leader.'' The [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Animated]]? [[spoiler: Powered by a NegativeSpaceWedgie created when he came back to life, facilitated by a [[CloningBlues disillusioned clone]]... of him, natch.]]
** Possibly the only competition he has in this department is his son, Gino, whose accomplishments include (but are in no way limited to) a FusionDance with dear old dad, creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie and bringing his dead father back to life by ''exploding'' (which didn't harm him but did [[NakedPeopleAreFunny leave him without pants]]), and getting possessed by a demigod in the form of a large clam, who does this by eating his head. Lately he is being hunted by murderous vampires, [[RunningGag again]], though this time they're [[spoiler: carrying out a genocide plot by a dark-elf Mafia boss]], rather than just being the Von Helsons again. And he also has [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking girl problems]].
** Incidentally, there may be some justification due to the current plot revealing that [[spoiler: the Gambino family is part-god]].
* The various reviewers on ''Website/ChannelAwesome''. 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:
** [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl The first]] resulted in Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus fighting Super Mecha Death Christ.
** [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} The second]] had the appearance, [[spoiler:death, and rebirth of Santa Christ]].
** [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights The third]] involved the groups cased by murderous people in cloaks, a hippie summoned out of a book by magic, a bizarre witch, a dude with a living hand puppet, and magical artifacts . This all is justified in that the group was actively participating in a strange quest, but that doesn't explain how the map was sent to the ''Critic'' out of everyone in the world. Plus, there's the fact that the only reason he went for it was his greed.
** [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee The fourth]] centered around them being pursued by two evil aliens, [[spoiler:Ma-ti]] living in Spoony's head, and a huge hole in time and space causing random, unexplained events. In fact, the PlotHole, as it was named, ended up becoming an in-universe explanation not only for the strange things that happened to everyone in that event, but in ''the entirety of Channel Awesome history''.
* The youtube blogger WebVideo/AmazingPhil seems to fit into this trope, always meeting strange and sometimes even paranormal people on a regular basis, such as a woman who knocked on his door and asked if he wanted to meet The Holy Mother or a couple he sat next to on an airplane who called themselves Tea People and spent the entire journey drinking tea while making incredibly strange noises.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has something strange happening each episode despite the show being set in the middle of Nowhere. This kind of makes sense. If nothing weird happens here (somewhere), what's the only place left? There is in fact one episode that explicitly states the farm was built over a cemetery.
* Another contender for the king of this trope would be the flash animated series ''WesternAnimation/OGrady,'' which aired on The N network. This series, featuring quite a few of the same crew and cast members as the UPN/Adult Swim series ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', was centered on the lives of four teenagers living in the town of O'Grady which was constantly plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness was weird, unexplained occurrences that affected the citizenry in every single episode. The show was compared to ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' for this aspect of its premise. Examples of the Weirdness include the "Old Cold," a disease which caused sneezing-induced age shifts (the young turned old, the old turned young, and main character Abby went from about 15, to 30, to 60 something) and a a bizarre force-cord which caused two people to be inseparable for the duration of the Weirdness.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Poor Jackie. All he wants to be is a simple archeologist and he gets into a plot with criminal organizations, magic talismans, top-secret government organizations, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], curses, [[AncientConspiracy an order of]] [[AllMonksKnowKungFu fighting druids]] and [[RewritingReality magic reality books]]. Every day seems to be a "[[CatchPhrase bad day]]" for Jackie Chan.
* The Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles were often subject to this, with Michelangelo usually providing the LampshadeHanging.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''; be it the Big Apple or the Grand Canyon, no matter where Ben goes on his [[ComicBookTime four-season summer vacation]] road trip, he seems to have a knack for attracting weirdness in the form of various [[MonsterOfTheWeek aliens]] [[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences and]] [[ShoutOut monsters]]. If the weirdness isn't immediately obvious, expect Ben to go looking for it. He'll find it within two minutes. This is lampshaded early on by Gwen, almost by name:
-->'''Gwen''': You know, ever since you've had that watch, you're like a magnet for the weird.
** Apparently this wasn't just for him -- Azmuth lets him keep the Omnitrix partly because it's a "magnet for trouble". Apparently even though he is an alien, Azmuth had the same problem Ben does.
* Sokka, TheSmartGuy on Aang's team in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', known to [[GenreSavvy occasionally acknowledge tropes]], is the first to point out that "weird stuff happens to us" -- somewhat {{justified|Trope}} given that Aang is TheChosenOne.
* All the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' appear to be dogged by random events, though considering the stuff that goes on in a typical episode, they might just live in a world where that sort of mayhem is an everyday thing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The titular family falls somewhere between this trope and TheMainCharactersDoEverything. Most ''anything'' that happens in Springfield will invariably be linked back to a Simpson in some way, shape or form. Eventually, the show began to lampshade this, such as when Smithers once re-introduced Mr. Burns to Homer by reminding him, "All the recent events of [his] life have revolved around [Homer] in some way or another", or when an irate Superintendent Chalmers explained to Skinner that, "[He] oversees fourteen schools, and for some reason, [he] ''always'' finds himself talking to [Skinner] about one of the ''Simpson'' kids".
* The fundamental premise of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. Indeed, in the series' infancy the network execs [[ExecutiveMeddling made the creators of the show]] turn [[TheyFightCrime the characters into detectives]], because they couldn't conceive of a show where every single episode consists of something completely crazy happening to the protagonists, apropos of nothing.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' "Pandemic 2 -- The Startling," when GenreSavvy [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]] gets sucked into the boys' adventure because they were using his birthday money for their scheme.
-->'''Craig:''' That's a shock. I decided to follow you guys, and now I'm in the Land of the Giant Lost World.\\
'''Stan:''' Craig, it isn't our fault! You make it sound like we always wanna be in situations like this but we don't have any choice!\\
'''Kyle:''' Yeah! Stuff just happens!\\
'''Craig:''' "Stuff just happens."\\
'''Kyle:''' That's right!\\
'''Craig:''' You just wind up being sent by the government to take down the city of Lima only to wind up in the Land of the Giant Lost World.\\
'''Cartman:''' That's right.\\
'''Craig:''' You know what stuff happens to most kids? They fall off their bikes. They get in fights with their parents. ''They get swindled out of their birthday money.''
* Egon from ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' seems to attract more than his fair share of strangeness, even though he's already in a profession known for running into weird things.
* The "Life with Loopy" segments on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' had this as its main premise. Among other strange misadventures, Loopy has managed to build a robot out of old stereo parts (which later tried to lead the other appliances in a robot rebellion), faced Mother Nature in a bowling contest, talked with the actual Cupid about getting her big brother Larry a date for the school dance, and accidentally created a monster out of a jar of expired wart-removal cream.
* WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats cannot give a concert ''anywhere'' without bumping into a supervillain.
* Dan from ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' The targets of his vengeance include a werewolf jogger, a supervillain dentist, a ninja cookie-thief, and the ''ghost of George Washington''. 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 an army, think no one will miss him. [[UngratefulBastard And]] [[PsychopathicManchild they're]] [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist right.]]
* Mordecai and Rigby from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. These guys can't escape an episode with facing such odd situations as a black hole spawned by too many rock paper scissors ties, a half deer, half man trying to kill them, fighting off zombies spawned by a malfunctioning movie projector, and so on.
* Lots of TheEveryman characters in old theatrical cartoons were this--they existed to react to [[DerangedAnimation whatever bizarre, surreal situations and adventures the animators could come up with]]. Examples include:
** WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat (who continued to be this with his TV series in the 50s and ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' in the 90s).
** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse.
** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig: In his solo shorts he's been tormented by Leprechauns, homicidal mice have tried to kill him, ''twice'', and he's been abducted by aliens.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} Bimbo the Dog]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** Dipper, Mabel, and arguably Soos seem to be drawn to the strange things in town. While this can be justified in that [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] is trying to figure out the [[TownWithADarkSecret town's secrets]], there are times when the oddities just come to them. This is actually lampshaded by one side character in "Fight Fighters":
--->'''Robbie V:''' Why is it that whenever you're around, there's always monsters or ghosts or, ''whatever''!?\\
'''Dipper:''' I dunno, man.
** According to [[spoiler: The Author, the real Stanford Pines]], the entire town might be one big magnet. Millions of years ago, a UFO created the future site of Gravity Falls when it crash-landed, but it's unknown if the ship caused the weirdness, or if the town's inherent weirdness attracted the craft. Weird things are drawn to Gravity Falls, which is why occasionally we see creatures from outside it, like Mermando the merman from the sea, or Sev'ral Timez, the boy band of clones. [[spoiler: This magnetism is exactly what prevents [[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]] from leaving the city limits.]]
** He explains this even more directly to Dipper in the canon post-episode ''[[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]]'' book: he stands at the city limits, and holds a handful of jellybeans - with one defective oddly shaped jellybean among them - and drops it onto the ground. The weird, defective jellybean proceeds to ''roll towards'' the town. The best theory he came up with is that Gravity Falls is a thin point between parallel dimensions, allowing weirdness to seep in from other dimensions and act like a magnet for it, though the exact cause of this is unknown (it might just be a naturally occurring thin point).
* ''WesternAnimation/PackagesFromPlanetX'' has Dan Zembrosky, who seems to be able to attract and even activates the packages meant for the evil alien Copernicus.
* WesternAnimation/KimPossible is definitely one of these. Every day, she encounters robots, mutants, magical forces, doomsday machines, or even aliens.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Milo seems to attract all sorts of weirdness as a side effect of him literally being [[BornUnlucky a living embodiment of the adage "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."]] [[note]]It's a genetic trait [[ItRunsInTheFamily passed down through males in his family]].[[/note]] In the first episode alone, Milo and his new friend Zack are nearly crushed by a concrete pipe, almost burned alive in a oil fire, chased by a pack of wolves, lost in the sewers, caught in a flooded construction site, and ''abducted by aliens'' in their efforts to get to school on time.
* The setting for ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is already pretty weird, but whenever something especially weird happens, the Wattersons are always at the center of it, or more specifically, Gumball.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' is generally a mundane, SliceOfLife show, but there are the occasional fantastical elements. When these fantastical elements show up, they gravitate towards Patch for some reason, with her meeting the ghost of an ancient knight in the ''first episode'', later running into a UFO that turns out to be a trio of flying, glowing magical ponies, one of which is a WingedUnicorn, and finally finding out she might be the long lost princess of an island nation. [[spoiler:She's not. Her best friend from when she was at an orphanage ''was'', and the process of finding that out involved a magical crown that only glows when worn by the true princess.]]
* 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/Her2013 his cell phone falls in love with him]].
-->'''Todd''': You know, sometimes I feel like my whole life is just a series of loosely-related wacky misadventures.
* ''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. This gets lampshaded in the season 4 episode "Go Fish", where Panda is trying to call the authorities when their fishing boat is attacked by a giant goldfish, and he cries out "Why does this always happen?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': While the Griffin family as a whole has had it fair share of zany-ness (Peter running into Death multiple times, befriending Jesus Christ, and getting into a brief feud with Santa Claus), a good majority of it is mostly drawn to Brian and Stewie, who have-among other things-traveled in time, gone to alternate dimensions, and saved Christmas. Lampshaded by Brian, after learning that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stewie is being stalked by tiny!Tom Cruise]].
-->'''Brian:''' Y'know, it times like this that I think, if I didn't talk, and you were a normal baby, we wouldn't have any of these problems.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Pretty much everyone is aware of the Duck/[=McDuck=] family's tendency to attract weirdness wherever they go. A reporter even lampshades it in one episode while reporting on the [[ItMakesSenseInContext time hurricane]] that's ravaging Duckburg.
-->''"The storm has unsurprisingly centered above [=McDuck=] Manor."''
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** The Gaang proves itself NotSoDifferent when Sokka talks about how they thought Toph and Zuko had been carried away by flying mutant were-lemurs and Suki sheepishly admits it would be more than possible for their group, it would be ''probable''.

* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. In addition to being born with the power to see and communicate with microorganisms, he ends up hanging out with all sorts of weirdos, including a college professor seemingly obsessed with bio-remediation and [[ForeignQueasine weird fermented foods from around the world]], the professor's leather-wearing workaholic IceQueen grad assistant, a pair of slackers obsessed with sake brewing and insects, respectively, a girl who [[NeatFreak washes way too much]] and another girl who [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinks way too much]]. And to top it all off, his best friend since childhood [[spoiler: comes out as {{Transgender}} and starts dressing up in ElegantGothicLolita outfits]].

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

* Kamijou Touma from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. This does not only include his streak of misfortune that is a side-effect of his [[AntiMagic powers]], but also he attracts weirdness in general because of other side-effects. When there's a girl holding the greatest secrets of magic hunted by her Coven, she will land on his balcony. When he takes vacation in Italy, the people keeping him will most definitely get attacked. When someone casts a spell that switches the body of every single human being, he is one of the select few unaffected. Considering how long the series and original novels went (not even counting the New Testament sequel where at one point, a giant flying fortress tracks him down because of the disturbance he causes in the earth's {{Ley Line}}s), this happens to him a lot. And then there are the moments when people are actively trying to recruit or use him in weird situations. It doesn't help that he lives in a city full of psychics and his roommate as well as his neighbor are mages.

* Played with in ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'', as Watanuki is fully aware that he is a weirdness magnet, and starts the story by making a DealWithTheDevil (Yuuko, actually, but Watanuki seems to consider them one and the same) to get rid of his unwanted ability.

* Akari of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' tends to stumble into all sorts of supernatural phenomena -- many of them involving the king of cats, Cait Sith. These include, but are not limited to: traveling back in time, visiting TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, nearly taking a ride on the [[AfterlifeExpress soul train]], and an attempted abduction by a ghost.
* Mizuki in ''Manga/{{Mokke}}'' has the talent to get haunted by lots of different kinds of ghosts. Her older sister Shizuru can see them, but is lucky not to be influenced by them directly.
* Mai (and possibly the rest of Fuuka Academy) in ''Anime/MyHime'' 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]]...
* Lina seems to be this in the first third of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'', as she inexplicably keeps tripping on one Mazoku plot after the other. [[spoiler: As it turns out there's nothing accidental about this, as Xellos was leading her into these situations by order of the Hellmaster.]]
** Anytime Lina is around she'll have to gather up her TrueCompanions and defeat some sort of BigBad -- not just in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''.
* Being a magnet for mushi, the MetaOrigin for weirdness in ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' is apparently a common affliction for members of the title profession, including main character Ginko.
* The titular character of ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' has spirits (Youkai) coming at him from every direction. It's a genetic thing.
* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' (not that he isn't weird himself) has no less than six Whispereds personally connected to him -- including his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname, commanding officer Tessa, and arch-enemy Leonard. He and Tessa both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this at different points in the story, with Tessa suggesting that maybe it's a sign Sousuke is special in his own way.
* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', it seems that almost all of the main characters in high school get pulled into something related to the Crimson Realm.
* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'', Saito High School was built at the center of a triangle formed by a Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple, and a Christian church. The resultant flow of energy makes it a ''weird'' place that seems to attract more weird. And as if to throw fuel to the fire, the Holy Student Council comprises the son of a Christian minister, the daughter of a Shinto priest, and the son of a Bhuddist monk.
** This is not helped by the Chairman's habit of actively bringing ''more'' weird items and creatures onto school grounds. He's a deliberate weirdness magnet, to the chagrin of inadvertent magnet Haruto Hokujo (the Christian member of said Council).
* In ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', whenever C-ko is the DamselInDistress, it's usually because she's this.
* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. In addition to being born with the power to see and communicate with microorganisms, he ends up hanging out with all sorts of weirdos, including a college professor seemingly obsessed with bio-remediation and [[ForeignQueasine weird fermented foods from around the world]], the professor's leather-wearing workaholic IceQueen grad assistant, a pair of slackers obsessed with sake brewing and insects, respectively, a girl who [[NeatFreak washes way too much]] and another girl who [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinks way too much]]. And to top it all off, his best friend since childhood [[spoiler: comes out as {{Transgender}} and starts dressing up in ElegantGothicLolita outfits]].
* Naota from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': A crazy woman riding a scooter hits him in the head with a guitar and then moves into his household as a live-in maid, and a horn grows out of his head that eventually turns out to be a robot with a TV for a head - which also moves in with his family. All that happens in the ''first episode'', and it only gets weirder from there.
** All the events of the first episode are underscored by Naota's constant comments about his town, how "everything is normal", "[[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing amazing happens here]]", etc. Then at the end of the first episode, Kanti the robot and Haruko are making bread while Naota says, "and everything's back to normal .. nothing amazing."
* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. 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]].
* PlayedForDrama with Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler'', since it's implied all the weirdness he's been through [[SanitySlippage is slowly driving him off the deep end]].
* The Straw Hat Pirates from ''Manga/OnePiece'' always gets in trouble wherever they go and will surely continue do so in the future. Nami actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s a much more literal version of this trope when the eccentric [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot talking living musician fencing skeleton Brook]] joins the crew, by saying "Why do our crew always attract the weird ones?" - other weird members being the perverted cyborg Franky and the reindeer human Chopper. Plus there's Robin who can make body parts appear all over the place. And then there's Luffy: a ''living rubber band''. We later get an explanation when we see other pirate crews competing with the Straw Hat Pirates: It turns out that all of the other crews carefully choose their paths to avoid as much trouble as possible, whereas the Straw Hats' captain, Monkey D. Luffy, deliberately seeks out the most dangerous options because he finds them the most amusing. That is, Luffy makes himself a Weirdness Magnet on purpose and is fully aware of it.
* The system force in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' tends to cause strange things to happen for no apparent reason whenever someone tries to pull Belldandy and Keiichi apart.
* The title character of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' is a serious weirdness magnet.
** Sena in the spinoff ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', who to begin bears an uncanny resemblance to the former, is even more so.
* The title character of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has some of this going on. After she saves Kyubey from Homura, she starts coming across witch labyrinths on a regular basis, her friend Hitomi gets hypnotized by a witch and nearly commits suicide, and so on, and she isn't even a MagicalGirl yet. [[spoiler:Her insanely high potential magical power probably has something to do with it.]]
* While nobody in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' can escape the chaos entirely, crazy tends to gravitate towards Firo the most. ChildhoodFriend? AxCrazy 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...
* The 104 Trainee Squad in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' have ridiculous luck, lampshaded by Jean, considering all the things that has happened to them. Among their numbers are: the last half-Asian (Mikasa), [[spoiler:five Titan shifters (Eren, Annie, Reiner, Bertlolt, Ymir)]] (and from that number, there is [[spoiler:Eren as the Coordinate and Ymir as a WildCard with knowledge of the Titan's secrets]]) and a HeroicBastard from a noble house [[spoiler:(Krista/Historia)]].
* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' 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.
* Chiaki, the main character of ''Manga/TodaysCerberus'', attracts yokai to him because, as a child, a piece of his soul was accidentally stolen by the Cerberus head Roze. His magnet status is further enhanced by the fact he is a teenager, "neither child nor adult."
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Fuyuki and Natsumi Hinata get entangled in all sorts of extraterrestrial weirdness as a result of the Keroro Platoon moving into their house. Fuyuki, a prodigy paranormalist, loves it while Natsumi, an average girl [[IJustWantToBeNormal who would rather have her average life back]], hates it.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Bulma. The first story arc alone gets her a group composed by a boy with a monkey tail who can turn into a giant berserker ape and is actually an alien (Goku), a perverted antropomorphic pig with VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities (Oolong), a desert bandit who freaks out at the sight of women (Yamcha) and a flying animal with ''better'' VoluntaryShapeshifting than the pig (Puar). {{Lampshaded}} in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when [[Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman Jaco]] (a weird-looking alien SuperCop) shows up and people wonder why all her friends are weirdos... And they don't even know that she first met Jaco ''before'' the others.
** Also, Bulma's older sister Tights. In the few days she spent in East City she met and befriended Jaco (indeed, it was her who made Bulma and Jaco meet) and Omori, a scientist who could stop time as a side effect of his research on TimeTravel, and later actually ''embraced'' it, getting Jaco to make her travel through space to meet weird people and things and write novels about them.
* It was stated that early on in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' that Shirogane tended to attract girls who were unstable. Considering the three girls that are attracted to him are [[MoodSwinger Kaguya]], [[MsImagination Karen]] and [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Moeha]]]], this is pretty accurate.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} once had this to some degree, but UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} ComicBook/{{Superboy}} was worse. He lived in a small town, yet was continually beset by space aliens and other strange things that found their way there by pure coincidence.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk is this, especially in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages.]] Even when he had successfully eluded the military and anyone else who might be chasing him, he would inevitably just blunder into a landing alien spaceship, or try to take a nap in a cave and discover it's a supervillain's hideout, or try to find privacy on a desert island only to find it's full of monsters, etc... when all the poor lug really wants is some peace and quiet.
* ComicBook/JimmyOlsen is well-known for this quality. There's a reason why Website/{{Superdickery}} has made a drinking game out of counting the times Jimmy gains superpowers through one way or another, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Being a newspaper photographer in [[CityOfAdventure Metropolis]] kind of [[SeenItAll justifies all the weirdness he gets subjected to]], but even then, Jimmy is to the city of Metropolis [[UpToEleven what the city of Metropolis is to the rest of the world:]] ''always'' the victim of whatever crazy catastrophe happens to be going down in Franchise/TheDCU on any given day or night.
** ComicBook/LoisLane was also one of these Pre-Crisis, but unlike Jimmy Olsen, who's continued being this since the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ([[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot including a full-blown, targeted, massive example in]] ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''), she's since become notable for actively ''chasing'' after weirdness with a frenzy.

* Usagi from ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' has an amazing tendency to attract all the weird and dangerous things in any area he is passing through. He will accidentally bump into an ancient, mystic sword and get himself in the middle of an anti-shogun conspiracy or become number one on a local psychopath’s “to kill” list. No matter how much he tries to avoid it, he always ends up in a fight. If it's not {{Youkai}} he has to kill, then a village needs to be saved from a {{Yakuza}}. Most of his friends are not ordinary people, either. This happy bunch includes: a bounty hunter, a powerful daimyo, said daimyo’s ActionGirl bodyguard, the former head of a ninja clan who would love to get rid of Usagi, a OldMaster, a ClassyCatBurglar, and a professional demon hunter.

* Let's be honest -- if you're a superhero at all in any universe, you are this. If you go on holiday, you'll be abducted by aliens or transported to another dimension and if you stay home you'll find yourself under attack by gnomes. Also note that in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse 90% of superheroes live in or near to New York City; nobody in the Marvel Universe wants to go to New York City because this number of weirdness magnets causes some truly strange things to happen there.
** Chief among the New Yorker superheroes is a native denizen: Franchise/SpiderMan. One of his most vocal and infamous opposed out-criers, J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle, [[JerkassHasAPoint does have a point]] that while New York City had its fair share of crimes prior to the web-slinger, once Spidey showed up the weirdness cranked up in turn. Some of it was in direct relation (or retaliation) to Spider-Man, but most of it just seemed to coincidentally crop up after he hit it big. He takes it in stride usually, [[DeadpanSnarker if he's not loathing it openly with a quip.]]

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

* OlderThanRadio: The namesake character in ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' (1759).

* Creator/DouglasAdams

* Jasper Fforde's character Literature/ThursdayNext.

* Creator/JRRTolkien

* In the StrangeMatter series, Fairfield is a hotspot of ghosts, aliens, monsters, and other weirdness.

* In ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'', Evan is this. He ends up involved in a BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle between the BrainlessBeauty Kendra, the JerkJock Brett, and the AlphaBitch Lucy, is forced to arrange a date between Archie and Kendra, or else Archie will [[ManipulativeBastard Ruin his Bar Mitzvah.]]

* Charlie of "WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn" fame. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus Enough]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4&feature=fvw Freaking]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o&feature=channel Said]].

* Hanna of ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' is a paranormal investigator, so this stands to reason, and has attracted a zombie looking for a job, and was the first person to be assaulted by the Lee!Ghost in the second job arc.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Toni in Chapter 3 when she says, "There's something about you that draws out all the paranormal oddities. I ''am'' one, and I have never seen so many until you."

* ''Webcomic/TheSanityCircus'': When Nimbus Owens tells the main charcters that his reason for fleeing the Directorship is kind of weird, Attley points that she's currently being accompanied by a boy with feathers for hair and a man who was once a flute before being brought to life, and that they've been chased by fear-eating monsters all day.

* The titular toy store in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' seems to be one. The owner is an EvilOverlord wannabe who can't tell genders apart, a former government super-soldier shows up looking for a job only to randomly find ''another'' former government super-soldier already working there (one who is ''supposed to be dead''), UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} are likewise resurrected solely to work retail, one employee is obsessed with ninjas to the point of stabbing people and hallucinating the world around him as a manga, a sentient talking car now works in the stock room, a disgruntled former employee plots for years (even getting elected to congress and recruiting Walter Mondale and UsefulNotes/SarahPalin in the process) to get revenge for being fired, a religion is founded around one employee, another briefly achieves world peace through the consumption of Cadbury Creme Eggs, and the whole place seems to have a "good twin" in the form of another store across the street with suspiciously similar workers where everything is perfect.

* Any member of the cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
* ''Webcomic/ScaledUp'': This is how Patricia ends up getting involved in Adrien's time travel adventures in the first place.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Tagon' Toughs try to operate by two general rules: Get paid, and live long enough to enjoy their pay. Things just tend to unintentionally spiral out of control from there. Some examples:
** An early contract gas them "guarding" a resteraunt ship. They end up repelling an invasion of diamond-carapaced bugs.
** Kevyn (re)invents the "Teraport", thereby cracking open a conspiracy by the Gatekeepers to spy on the galactic inhabitants.
** In need of a new ship, they buy one 'on the cheap'. The ship's AI ends up as the semi-official ruler of the Galaxy.
** While attending a diplomatic conference, Shlock derails a FalseFlagOperation 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.)
** The Toughs are contracted to deliver one shipment of food to Credomar. Net result: [[spoiler:setting up LOTA as king, and the re-introduction of the "Long Gun" to the public knowledge]].
* ''WebComic/SequentialArt'': Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].

* 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:
** The first resulted in Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus fighting Super Mecha Death Christ.
** The second had the appearance, [[spoiler:death, and rebirth of Santa Christ]].
** The third involved the groups cased by murderous people in cloaks, a hippie summoned out of a book by magic, a bizarre witch, a dude with a living hand puppet, and magical artifacts . This all is justified in that the group was actively participating in a strange quest, but that doesn't explain how the map was sent to the ''Critic'' out of everyone in the world. Plus, there's the fact that the only reason he went for it was his greed.
** The fourth event centered around them being pursued by two evil aliens, [[spoiler:Ma-ti]] living in Spoony's head, and a huge hole in time and space causing random, unexplained events. In fact, the PlotHole, as it was named, ended up becoming an in-universe explanation not only for the strange things that happened to everyone in that event, but in ''the entirety of Channel Awesome history''.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': While the Griffin family as a whole has had it fair share of zanny-ness (Peter running into Death multiple times, befriending Jesus Christ, and getting into a brief feud with Santa Claus), a good majority of it is mostly drawn to Brian and Stewie, who have-among other things-traveled in time, gone to alternate dimensions, and saved Christmas. Lampshaded by Brian, after learning that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stewie is being stalked by tiny!Tom Cruise]].

* Fuzzy of ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' explicitly calls Sam this in [[http://samandfuzzy.com/1281 this strip]].

* 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.

* Literature/HarryPotter and his friends Ron and Hermione, as well as Hogwarts School in general, are a definite magnet for weirdness. Lampshaded in the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince sixth film]], where Professor [=McGonagall=] wonders aloud why [[PowerTrio "you three"]] are always around whenever something bad happens. Ron responds that he's been wondering the same thing for six years.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the Joestar bloodline. Hell, just look at the title. Though every part has its share of weirdness.
** Joseph Joestar from Part 2 is the biggest weirdness magnet so far. Imagine godlike super vampires who eat vampires to live, warrior monks who turned into vampires, mafia, Nazis, the power of the sun, and Stroheim. Then getting a futuristic prosthetic hand like Stroheim. Then [[spoiler:dying, having his spirit ascend, and then being brought back thanks to a blood transfusion from the body of his grandfather which had been kept alive by a vampire's head]]. Joseph Joestar is the only [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo]] to have battled vampires, Pillar Men, ''and'' Stands (which means he's also the only hero to have used both hamon and a Stand), not to mention encountering ghosts and being around when there's a guy claiming to be an alien. Also, he managed to accidentally find an abandoned invisible baby that he ended up raising in his old age.
** ''Stroheim,'' the ultra-hammy, Nazi captain who got blown up in a grenade incident, got rebuilt as a Terminator-esque cyborg and fires a machine gun built into his chest while making hilariously campy poses. He kills vampires with '''NAAAAAZI SCIIIIIIIIIIENCE!!!'' Also he's actually a good guy. Kinda. Don't even ask how that happened.
** 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 (he stole the second user's sandwich bag), 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.
* Osaka Naru (or Molly, if you prefer) from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DesignatedVictim attracting almost every kind of supernatural creature in existence]] as the most frequent VictimOfTheWeek, earning the FanNickname "youma bait". Luna {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this early in the second season. However, her role in later seasons was downplayed until she was finally PutOnABus.

* The entire cast of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', but especially the lead character, [[PropheticNames Ataru Moroboshi]]. As a cultural note, the very first story has Ataru's mother reminiscing about all the bad omens that took place on the day that Ataru was born. It reads like a beginner's guide to superstitions with particular references to Japanese beliefs, starting with the fact that he was born on the anniversary of the Buddha's death. Also, his name can be translated to mean "Many stars will hit him on the head". And finally, the name of the series itself can be translated as "Those Annoying Aliens", suggesting that the galaxy and series' version of Earth is teeming with sentient species who are all irritating in their own ways. Ataru is therefore simply unlucky enough to catch the attention of ''all of them''.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'', as Watanuki is fully aware that he is a weirdness magnet, and starts the story by making a DealWithTheDevil (Yuuko, actually, but Watanuki seems to consider them one and the same) to get rid of his unwanted ability.
** The cause of his weirdness magnetism is actually explained later on -- suicidal thoughts and desires that have been magically amnesia'd away. He may not ''remember'' that he wants to die nor the reason for why he does, but he still smells like it to spirits and stuff.
** A second reason, seemingly taken directly from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', is that [[spoiler:as a time travel duplicate, he's doomed, as reality itself tries to exorcise him. He just manages to hang on regardless]].
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', to the point that most fans suspect that Ranma's curse isn't [[GenderBender gender bending]] so much that it's his almost supernatural ability to attract weirdness wherever he goes.
** Others have theorized that it might actually be ''Akane Tendo'' who's the real weirdness magnet; Ranma, and the trouble associated with him, could be considered the weirdness that ''she'' attracts. Or perhaps they're both weirdness magnets, and their mutual presence is strengthening the effect, hence why more and more whacked out stuff happens as the anime/manga goes on.
** Though it's never outright stated that any character in ''Ranma ½'' is a weirdness magnet, it is a fairly easy conclusion to leap to. While the world itself clearly is full of weirdness -- the existence of the various MartialArtsAndCrafts practitioners, plus the cursed, easy-to-fall-into Jusenkyo ponds, prove it -- it does seem that Ranma, Akane and the other characters do have a particular knack for getting involved with the more bizarre parts of life. Kuno manages to be the 1 millionth customer to a "Pull the Wish-Granting Sword from the Stone" contest, which means he gets the three wishes. Shampoo brings back a supposedly haunted set of bells as a present for Ranma, and sure enough, out pops a ghost. In the first NonSerialMovie, a young woman who is the third generation of her family to have possession of a relic that will supposedly bring a prince or princess to marry the one who holds it has gone her entire life waiting to be swept off her feet. When she tracks down OldMaster [[DirtyOldMan Happosai]] to express her disgruntlement at its failure to work, guess who shows up the second the relic falls into Akane Tendo's hands? Ryoga just happens to stumble upon a creepy merchant selling [[LovePotion toy fishing rods that make the person you "catch" fall head-over-heels in love with you]] and, intending to use it on Akane, he winds up snagging Ranma instead. And these are just a ''few'' examples.

* In the early chapters of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', characters with spiritual affinity were weirdness magnets. Ghosts appeared to such characters, and hollows hunted them. Ichigo's spiritual attunement spilled over to his classmates making them weirdness magnets as well.
** The entirety of Karakura Town, the hometown of the human protagonists, can be considered as one giant Weirdness Magnet, going back at least 15-20 years before it became relevant to the BigBad's plans.

* Rincewind in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books was one of these, and it bothered him; he didn't [[IJustWantToBeNormal just want to be normal]], he wanted to be actively ''boring''. It's no coincidence that one of the books with him is titled ''Interesting Times''.

* The Straw Hat Pirates from ''Manga/OnePiece'' always gets in trouble wherever they go and will surely continue do so in the future. Nami actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s a much more literal version of this trope when the eccentric [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot talking living musician fencing skeleton Brook]] joins the crew, by saying "Why do our crew always attract the weird ones?"" - other weird members being the perverted cyborg Franky and the reindeer human Chopper. Plus there's Robin who can make body parts appear all over the place. And then there's Luffy: a ''living rubber band''. We later get an explanation when we see other pirate crews competing with the Straw Hat Pirates: It turns out that all of the other crews carefully choose their paths to avoid as much trouble as possible, whereas the Straw Hats' captain, Monkey D. Luffy, deliberately seeks out the most dangerous options because he finds them the most amusing. That is, Luffy makes himself a Weirdness Magnet on purpose and is fully aware of it.

* Franchise/{{Tintin}} seems to be EvilOverlord and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt prone.

* The protagonist of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is a Bizarre Murder Magnet, at least in the early seasons. Everywhere he goes, someone gets murdered, kinda makes you think, eh? Lampshaded by Inspector Megure upon arrival who always wonders why Conan and Kogoro always happened to be there whenever a murder takes place.

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

* The "Life with Loopy" segments on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' had this as its main premise.