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# ''Tell them your quest.'' Who knows? Maybe they too are out to put a stop to Doctor Demonica? A particularly idealistic or persuasive hero can pull this off with gusto on even [[Jade-Colored Glasses|the most jaded]].
Often at the center of a [[Character-Magnetic Team]]. Contrast with [[The Dulcinea Effect]], which usually involves the hero falling victim to a similar phenomenon at the hands of a member of the opposite sex, and [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]. A female
If the resultant group actually sticks around for a while, you may get [[True Companions]] or [[Badass Crew]].
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* [[Nightwing]] is a huge one too, to the point where some believe his superpower is charisma. When he sowed up to a fight with multiple generations of [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], Superboy noted how everyone instantly followed his lead.
** He also once convinced every hero on Earth, without question, to jump into a parallel dimension (saving them all).
** Batman even said it's one of the reasons he's proudest of
*** So essentially he's "Batman with social skills"
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* Played remarkably straight (along with several other tropes) in the movie ''[[Krull]]''. Prince Colwyn got an Ergo [[The Magnificent]], a group of escaped prisoners intent on robbing him, a [[Blind Seer]] and a cyclops to join his party.
* About the first third of ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' consists of this.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''
* Morpheus in ''[[The Matrix]]''.
* [[King Arthur]] in most of his incarnations in film, but most notably John Boorman's ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''. If you're fighting a fully-armed knight, get the better of him, and demand he swear faith to you with your sword at his neck, you generally ''don't'' ask him to knight you ''and hand over your [[Infinity+1 Sword]] to him'' when he objects to giving you his allegiance because you're a squire and thus he outranks you. On the other hand, if you're the knight in question you generally don't use said sword to knight said squire when he ''kneels before you to accept your knighting and then kiss his hand in fealty'' ... unless the squire, of course, is a
* ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension|Buckaroo Bonzai.]]''
* The 1982 ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' film. Conan releases Subotai from chains in exchange for his companionship. The two of them meet Valeria while robbing a temple of [[Big Bad|Thulsa Doom]]. Conan later runs into [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|the wizard]] on his journey to assassinate Thulsa Doom. The sequel, ''Conan the Destroyer'', relies more on [[Avengers Assemble]], but Zula's recruitment is an example of this trope.
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* Likewise, subconsciously attracting allies is a {{spoiler|semi-divine}} power of ''[[Breath of Fire|Breath Of Fire IV's]]'' hero.
* Every Lord in a ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game. Enough so to attract [[Loads and Loads of Characters|more allies]] than your party has room for. Regrettably, this includes at least one [[Crutch Character]] per game.
* Commander Shepard of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has natural talent for influencing other people. Whether that talent is for charm or for
** Hackett himself even notes that this is exactly why he essentially made him/her the [[Big Good]] to the other species. Because he knew that s/he could get them to believe in the cause and follow him/her, no matter what the cost or odds.
** Archangel is another example, recruiting a multi-racial band of vigilantes to [[They Fight Crime|fight crime]] all over Omega. It worked fairly well until a traitor left them wide open to retaliation. {{spoiler|[[Undying Loyalty|Since he's Garrus, you can guess where he picked it up from.]]}}
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* The MC of ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' can become one, depending on dialogue choices and in some paths, end up recruiting more humans than the player can deploy in battle.
* Yuri from ''[[Infinite Space]]'' seems to have natural air of leadership that draws people to him... or have him to do dirty work for them.
* Reimu and Marisa from ''[[Touhou Project]]'' are extreme examples of this trope - every game introduces about 8 new characters, and the series is a dozen games long, not even counting the [[Gaiden Game
* The Gray Wardens of ''[[Dragon Age]]'' have far less clout in Fereldan then they enjoy in other countries, so they rely on this for their recruitment. Duncan and the player are two such examples. Arl Eamon also owes his political influence to being one.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' - Not only does he have his main [[Power Trio]] of [[Sonic the Hedgehog/Characters/Main Trio|Team Sonic]], he has plenty of other friends and allies.
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* Innumerable ordinary heroes. You probably know a couple personally.
* Both Churchill and Hitler were [[Magnetic Heroes]], in the eyes of their followers. Hitler was not heroic in any other sense. They had tens of millions of followers. Both managed to array great world powers behind them on the issue of the largest war in human history, based largely on the force of their personality and oratory. Hitler was a decorated soldier in [[WW 1]], Churchill fought as a soldier/reporter in the Sudan and Boer Wars.
:Several people who met Hitler said he was magnetic. Of course, really, you should wonder about the testimony of someone who was granted an audience with Hitler. One of the chief appeals of Nazism was to give people a way to try to live fantasy in [[Real Life]] . That was one of the main points of the torchlight parades and the hocus-pocus. Thus if one is to convince factory workers that they were [[Proud Warrior Race]] guys, they need to have a
** True, but some of the Nazis' attempts to create [[Les Collaborateurs]] led to a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] moment.
* Horatio Nelson. The man was heavily into self promotion, but he earned ever accolade, and his ability to inspire men was even termed 'the Nelson effect'.
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