History WeirdnessMagnet / ComicBooks

** 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/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.

* 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.

** 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.

* ''Comicbook/AstroCity''

* 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}}''.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:

* 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 up to eleven in ''Avengers Forever''.

* 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.]]

** 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.
** Tildie Armstrong just seems to have a knack for being around weirdness, like her school actually being the center of a pickpocketing ring, or going to a museum just as a snake cult stages an attack. She's also stopped aging for some reason.

* ''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.

* The protagonist of ''Blue Devil'', as noted on the main page.

** [[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.

* 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''.

* The protagonist of ''Blue Devil'', as noted above.

* ''[[Creator/MilestoneComics Xombi]]''. David Kim's status as an immortal, artificial zombie makes him the target of a lot of weird plots.