History Main / CoincidenceMagnet

* Izuku in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13239859/10/Unlimited Unlimited]]'' has run into so many crimes on accident over the course of a year that he's the reason an AI's systems recognize bad luck as a variable in it's calculations. Though some of it is because the local police are fully aware he's a LightningBruiser on par with All-Might and deliberately let him wander into those situations rather than keep him behind the police line because it resolves said situations faster.

If you would have said it was literally impossible until it happened to you (because it involves magic, aliens, time travel, demons, or something similar), you're a Weirdness Magnet. If the events in your life were always possible, but just had a trillion-to-one chance for any of them to happen (much less all of them), then you're a Coincidence Magnet. If you're encountering a lot of murders or other crimes by pure coincidence, but nothing else unlikely, you're a MysteryMagnet.

* Job, from Literature/TheBible, fits into this trope in a different way. From the point of view of God, Satan, and whoever is narrating the Book of Job, this is a case of one ContrivedCoincidence after another; from the point of view of Job and the Israelites, Job is a Coincidence Magnet, and a jinxed one at that.

* Bink's Talent in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series manifests it's self this way. His Talent protects him from any form of magical harm and has an extremely broad definition of what this includes. In particular, if people knew about his Talent, they would attack him through mundane means which means his Talent (which is magical) would be causing him harm. As a result the Talent protects him via coincidences that prevent magic from harming him will still keeping the Talent secret.

* Most PulpMagazine heroes were this to one extent or another, but [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Lord Greystoke]] took it UpToEleven. By the third act of the second book, for example, Tarzan, his lifelong love (and her family), his rival for her affections (and holder of Tarzan's rightful peerage), his first recurring enemy, and his first and best human friend are all reunited. In Africa within a mile of the cabin where Tarzan grew up. Despite having embarked on three different ships from three different continents, with no intention of coming anywhere near the place. And it goes from there...

->''"Why does this keep happening to us?"''

-->'''Zaphod:''' Is this kind of thing going to happen every time we use the Infinite Improbability Drive?
-->'''Trillian:''' Very probably, I'm afraid.

* Job, from Literature/TheBible, fits into this trope in a different way. From the point of view of God, Satan, and whoever is narrating the Book of Job, this is a case of one ContrivedCoincidence after another; from the point of view of Job and the Israelits, Job is a Coincidence Magnet, and a jinxed one at that.

* Creator/Channel4 had a SitCom in the late 80s/early 90s called ''Chance in a Million'' in which Tom Chance had an equally improbable life. Perhaps it's something [[MeaningfulName about the name]]

* Creator/Channel4 had a SitCom in the late 80s/early 90s called ''Chance in a Lifetime'' in which Tom Chance had an equally improbable life. Perhaps it's something [[MeaningfulName about the name]]