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* 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.

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* 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]] 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.
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* 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.

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* 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 solidifies when Aldin tries to make him avoid adventure.
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* 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]].

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* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', the title character apparently has this in the [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060509.html [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/3 roof]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061005.html [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/68/ of]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070421.html [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/137/ his]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080812.html [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/274 house]]. Yes, it is a RunningGag -- see panel 4 of [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061028.html [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/78/ this strip]].
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* ''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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