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Times when a character is a Weirdness Magnet in Fan Works.


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  • In Battle Fantasia Project, Naru Osaka's status as one gets lampshaded by Minako, whose birthday gift to her is a Death Busters weapon for self defense. She then demonstrates it when the Sailor Animamates 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).
  • Harry in Child of the Storm is even more of this than in canon. He even lampshades it to Hank McCoy:
    The more powerful I get, actually or just potentially - 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.
  • The Dragon King's Temple 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.
  • The Emiya Clan attracts insanity like has its own gravitational pull. Each kid seems to find some way to get themselves into interplanetary politics, monster academies, stuck in medieval Camelot, or dumped on the front lines of a war in a parallel world to name a few. Whether this is Laser-Guided Karma due to Shirou having so many wives, the result of the family's Cosmic Plaything status, or just Zelretch messing with everybody is up for contention. Most likely, it's a mixture of all three.
  • Fractured (SovereignGFC): Samantha Shepard repeatedly experiences this even more than in canon. Being in a crossover universe helps, as giant ships appearing out of nowhere to apparently solve the Reaper problem definitely counts as weird. Then, the Flood shows up which may count as In-Universe Serial Escalation in the weirdness department. Unfortunately, some things go exactly as you'd expect, while others surprise.
  • J-WITCH Series: In "Relics of Demons Past", when the group is discussing how they don't know what new evil is coming or how to deal with it, Jade suggests just waiting, given that that kind of stuff tends to find them most of the time. Alchemy admits that she has a point.
  • Mass Foundations: In the earlier drafts of Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars, Ethan Sunderland, the Courier, possesses the Wild Wasteland trait, which increases the likelihood of weird scenes, such as an encounter with Ersatzes of Han Solo and Greedo.
  • In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, 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 a legendary Mad Scientist 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 Mister Mxyzptlk.
  • Oni Ga Shiku Series: Izuku has a severe case of Chronic Hero Syndrome, a love for fighting and is an eternal quest to alleviate his boredom, while frequnting two Cities Of Adventure and working for a dude who is also a Weirdness Magnet. Naturally this gets him involved into a variety of odd hijinks, such as training an aspiring idol singer, busting a human trafficking chicken cult, being Dragged into Drag to fill in a spot at a maid cafe, hunting down beach polluters, and more.
  • In Senshi Of Thundera, Ranma Saotome doesn't even lead the strangest life ever recorded by his family, in spite of being the reincarnation of an alien prince with far too much fiancées — his older cousin is a time traveling miko fated to marry a dog demon, his other cousin is a starving death god, and that's only their generation. Genma claims it's because their ancestor was Oda Nobunaga, the mortal avatar to the Buddha ruling over the sixth Hell — his descendants just won't stop stumbling into crazy mystical adventures since.
  • Stars Above: Kagami and Tsukasa, as Barrier Maidens for The Multiverse, become irresistible targets for the Demons.

Beetlejuice

  • In the 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.

Calvin and Hobbes

Harry Potter

  • One ficlet pokes fun at this. When two separate but related accidents turn Hermione into a Time Lord and Harry into a 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."
  • Harry in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, 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.

My Hero Academia

  • In When Reason Fails, Izuku has the weirdest luck in the world, because he keeps getting involved in stuff that should have either killed him or driven him crazy and comes out of the other end (metaphorically) smelling like roses. The characters call these situations "Midoriya Moments", and when All Might learns that one of U.A.'s newest students is Izuku's hidden brother, he claims that, if the kid is as much a magnet as Izuku, the teachers will likely begin to kill themselves.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • In the Pony POV Series, Shining Armor becomes this in his own Story Arc. So far, he's attracted the attention of an insane General Ripper (and Super-Soldier who turns out to be an existence eating Equineoid Abomination escaped from Pandora's Box and now seeks world domination) who takes a tiny offense and 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 Abandoned Hospital 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) ...When did I become a Weirdness Magnet?
    • It only gets better, as it eventually turns out that he's Immune to Fate, living in San Dimas Time compared to the rest of the series, and is the only one who can circumnavigate said General Ripper's 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 the Doctor, who's also one of these, and they compare notes.
    • Even after Makarov's been erased Shining is still one of these. The biggest example being he's literally the Point of Divergence between the main timeline and Dark World]]. And that the Interviewers are technically his sisters (though he never finds that out.)
    • And now the Wedding happened. Not only did it turn out Chrysalis is actually a demi-goddess, Cadence's Enemy Without, and a Peggy Sue, the Wedding Arc ends with Cadence overthrowing Chrysalis, becoming Queen of the Changelings, and thus making Shining Armor the King. Also, 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. 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.
  • Ditzy Doo flat out states she's a weirdness magnet in Sailor Orbital and backs up her claim with enough Noodle Incidents to start a small buffet. It helps that her Kid from the Future is there to agree with her.

Naruto

Pokémon: The Series

  • Ashes of the Past: 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. 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 Pokemon: Shadow of Time, 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.

Power Rangers

  • Of Love and Bunnies 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.

Ranma ½

  • According to Cologne and Parvati in Ranma Saotome, Chi Master, 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.

RuneScape

  • Mainiac97 of 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.

Sailor Moon

  • 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.

Stargate SG-1

  • In "Bless the Children"- both the Gen and 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).

Star Trek

  • 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.
  • Insontis II: McCoy reflects on the sheer amount of bizarre dilemmas that occur on the Enterprise after Kirk is almost electrocuted by a wire malfunction.

Star Wars

Worm

  • In Bird Taylor has the uncanny ability to run into the most interesting patients at Alchemilla. Mimi, Elle, Heather, Charnel... All the while her power allows her to sense their true natures is it any surprise that she comes to show compassion for them?


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