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{{quote|"''Everywhere you go, every time you turn around, somebody is killing somebody else!''"|'''Natalie Teeger''' to Adrian Monk, ''[[Monk]]'', "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever"}}
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Very often these are [[Always Murder|Murder Mystery Magnets]], leading to [[Unfortunate Implications]]. (See the entry on [[Murder, She Wrote|Jessica Fletcher]], below)
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***** Ai has pointed this out, once chiding Conan for acting like something was going to happen while out on a trip with the Detective Boys. Of course, something then happens, which prompts Ai to note, 'I guess you're not getting a vacation today'.
** The kid also can't seem to visit a mansion without getting trapped there with a psycho on the loose. And if he ever meets a group of people for the first time, chances are at least one of them is gonna die.
** His [[Fan Nickname]] has been '[[Shinigami]] Conan' for a while now. Or Shinigami Kudo, depending on the context. Shinigami Shinichi is a little ''too'' alliterative. Though it doesn't seem to have been ''quite'' this bad before he
*** This raises the question: does he become a body magnet because he's now the star of a detective show? Or does the show start here because this is where he becomes interesting, and the corpse magnetism is part of that?
* ''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]''. While Kindachi is occasionally recruited by the police to look into cases, it seems that the guy can't even go on a field trip without stumbling across some intricate plot to avenge the slight/death of a crazed person's loved one.
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* Jonathan and Jennifer Hart of ''[[Hart to Hart]]''.
* DCI Barnaby of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''. Seriously, that relatively small English county must be swiftly running out of citizens by now.
** In most episodes the actual
* Adrian ''[[Monk]]''. At one point, Natalie starts to become convinced that Monk is bad luck, but by the end of the episode she's convinced that Monk doesn't cause the murders, he's cosmically drawn to where they occur so he can solve them.
** Lampshaded when he notices that a skeleton on display at a museum is determined to have been a victim of homicide. Nope, no corpse that Mr. Monk has come across has died of a natural death.
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** Lampshaded by Gumshoe in the third game, where he says he's starting to wonder if Phoenix is directly responsible for everything he gets caught up in. Edgeworth [[First-Person Smartass|notes to himself]] that Gumshoe is involved just as often.
** Wendy Oldbag is a ''self-proclaimed'' version of this. [[Refuge in Audacity|Proudly so]]. In case 2-4, she describes herself as a "devilish woman" saying that wherever she goes, blood starts pouring down and corpses appear. Phoenix kindly suggests that she should stop working as a bodyguard, at least for the sake of everyone else, only for the old bat to reply in her [[Jerkass|usual way]] ("Whippersnapper!").
* Not only has [[Nancy Drew]] been a [[Kid Detective|Teen Detective]]
* Madison, from ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. Not only did she run into a serial killer taxidermist even before the game starts (via DLC), during the actual plot she runs into a guy who's after another serial killer (ironically the one she was looking for in the DLC). In the course of investigating that, she gets captured by ''still another'' serial killer, almost gets raped by a psychotic nightclub owner too, and trapped in a burning building by the real killer. Then, in one of the endings, ''yet another'' serial killer threatens her during a book signing, saying he's a true [[Worthy Opponent]] for her. Poor girl can't catch a break. No wonder she has nightmares.
* Jake and Jennifer Eagle, the protagonists of the ''[[Eagle Eye Mysteries]]'' series, seem to be this. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|noted]] during the second game's [[Justified Tutorial]].
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