Weirdness Magnet / Webcomics

• Bob and George: Proto Man justly blames the Author for weirdness
• Jenn from Casey and Andy. The author has said that when strange things happen, they happen to Jenn. Notably, when someone confronted her about it, she got Trapped in Another World mid-conversation, has a presumably lengthy adventure, arrives back a second or two after she left, and merely asks, "anyway, you were saying?"
• In Charby the Vampirate 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 College Roomies from Hell!!!, who at times seems to be weirdness personified.
• Dominic Deegan, from Dominic Deegan 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 Friendly Hostility 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 lampshades this with the remark that he makes a great reporter as weird things keep on happening to him.
• In Girl Genius Jiminez's brother Aldin laments that Jiminez is one of these, though Jiminez himself seems to love it. This solidifies 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 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.
• El Goonish Shive:
  • The city of Moperville, the main setting of the story, is described as the kind of place where weird stuff happens, and neighboring towns treat the Moperville newspaper like a tabloid. While it's eventually revealed that the town has elevated levels of ambient magic that 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 gender-bent against his will in a series of events resulting in an Opposite-Sex Clone. Later, a simple walk in the park results in him getting kidnapped by a hedgehog person. He's attacked by a gremlin-like monster at school, and by a dragon at the martial arts dojo. He apparently thinks nothing of a griffin asking him for directions. He eventually wises up to his status enough to correctly predict that his date would be interrupted by 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, guess who's getting interviewed. When a giant boar finds its way into Moperville, 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 Gunnerkrigg Court, partly because of curiosity, partly because she's a medium.
  Headmaster: Tell me, do you find strange things seem to happen around you?
  Antimony: ... On occasion.
• Hanna of Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name 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. Lampshaded 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 The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, the title character apparently has this in the roof of his house. Yes, it is a Running Gag — see panel 4 of this strip.
• Fiona Fennec has been one for Kevin & Kell 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.
• A Magical Roommate has established Children of Prophecy to be natural weirdness magnets. The main character rooms with one unknowingly at the beginning of the strip, and is now shacked up with TWO!
• Ash Upton from Misfile has, to date, been one of only two people on the whole damn planet to be "misfiled" by a stoned angel (who then moved in with him and is posing as her boyfriend), been forced to race against a woman possessed by a vengeful ghost, been stalked by Lucifer's niece, and raced against a guy who can hold conversations with cars and is haunted by his girlfriend's psychically manifested Id. Oh, and apparently his car growls at people.
• Dave Davenport from Narbonic, due to his latent madness.
• David of Ow, my sanity seems to have become one. Then again, it is rather hard to build an Unwanted Harem of Eldritch Abominations if you aren't one.
• Questionable Content is longer on weirdness than its first-glance Slice of Life 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 ... at present, without explanation. However, 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 Route148 but he seems to find it amusing.
• Sam is a weirdness magnet for everything from fridge possession to ninja mafias. Fuzzy even lampshades it.
• The Sanity Circus: 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.
• Scaled Up: 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 Scary Go Round 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.
• Schlock Mercenary: 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 False Flag Operation to start a civil war just by being in an open plaza. (And, 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: setting up LOTA as king, and the re-introduction of the "Long Gun" to the public knowledge.
• Sequential Art: Lampshaded when the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators.
• Shortpacked!:
  • The titular toy store seems to be one. The owner is an Evil Overlord 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), Ronald Reagan and 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 Sarah Palin 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 "Gay Nexus" by one employee. Totally straight people seem to be in the minority among the cast.
• Michelle Jocasta of Skin Deep 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 lampshaded by Michelle in one comic.
• Too Much Information (2005): Lampshaded here - "Does anything normal ever happen to you, Ace?"
• Detective Franklin Clarke from TRU-Life Adventures has a reputation among his fellow police for getting stuck with unusual cases. Enough of them turn out to be related to Time Travel that the Time-Line Authority eventually recruit him as an agent.
• Monica Villareal from Wapsi Square, though she appears to actually be a Cosmic Plaything for Aztec gods. She's not thrilled about it.
  • Though her weirdness magnet status may actually be because she herself is one of the most incredibly powerful supernatural beings in the world.
• In The Whiteboard, according to Jake Doc's shop qualifies.
• Annashi from WTF Comics. Around her, impossible things occur on a regular basis, from encounters with Gnome Monks to visitors from another dimension.
• Zebra Girl: 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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