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* Seina Yamada in ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' is a comic example. Accident and misfortune dog his every step, even causing him to be accidentally recruited into the Galaxy Police. Once he's there, though, his bad luck becomes an asset because it attracts pirate ships which the GP can then arrest. At the end of the series he somehow ends up with ''eight wives'' - whether that's good or bad luck is anybody's guess.

* [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]], also known as the "Humanoid Typhoon", is so potent an example of this trope that the planetary government legally declared him an "Act of God" and a "Natural Human Disaster". The plot of the anime involves him being followed from town to village by a pair of Insurance Agents who investigate insurance claims taken out against the damage caused by Vash simply being in the area.

*** ...until they decided to remove the bounty in the manga because ''like an earthquake or typhoon, you can't put a bounty on him'', so they declared him a local disaster in the second chapter.

* [[Slayers|Lina Inverse]], the "Dragon Spooker".

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Certain Doctors exemplify the trope far more than others, however. The Fifth Doctor instantly comes to mind, with {{spoiler|one of his companions dying on him, and most adventures ending with many (if not all) non-mains dead}}. With the Fifth, it got so bad that one of his companions actually chose to leave for home rather than deal with the death and devastation.

** Possibly topped in the revived series, when the Tenth Doctor discovered that London on one near-future Christmas Day was abandoned, as the residents had come to realize that every Christmas, aliens attacked their city. They returned a few days later.

* Ronon Dex of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' also fell under this during his time as a Runner.

* Eric Idle's character in one ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch (with the random title of "Prawn Salad") seems to cause accidents just by being there. Pictures fall off walls, furniture collapses, and a maid has a very unfortunate accident when showing him a dagger. And then it gets funnier.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Can happen in [[Scion]], due to the nature of Legend and Fate. As the Scions level up from heroes to demigods to gods, they inevitably either get drawn towards conflicts or cause conflicts to come to them. It gets stronger the higher a Scion's level, until it becomes so strong they have to either take on a godly avatar of lesser power or depart from the mortal world to prevent collateral damage.

 

* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'s cousin Stanley

* Coop in ''[[Megas XLR]]'' can't seem to go anywhere in the titular [[Humongous Mecha]] without causing mass destruction in the process. Good thing he has [[Negative Continuity]] on his side.

* [[Invader Zim]], who once accidentally shut down the power for ''half a military training planet'', for a ''snack'', is this trope. At two minutes old, he blew the power for most of a planet. His leaders put him in military science to try and turn his capacity for horrible oblivious destruction in a useful direction, but it didn't really work out. For instance, Zim caused another power outage when he decided to visit the surface of Irk, killed the two previous Tallests by creating a Lovecraftian horror that nearly wiped out all space, and caused a planet to explode just by standing on it. To keep him contained during an invasion, his commanders confined him to a circle drawn on the ground. Zim promptly decided was too simple a task for his GENIUS and hijacked a [[Humongous Mecha]] invasion machine, whereupon he commenced with the invading and the exploding and the uncontrolled fires blissfully unaware he had not yet left Planet Irk and bringing the entire invasion down single-handed. For their ''next'' invasion, Zim's commanders exiled him to Earth - as far away from them as possible. From there, he still managed to destroy a large part of the invading fleet with an out-of-control rapidly moving planet Mars. In one unused script, there was to be a montage of everything Zim had ever destroyed. ...It would have gone on for a while.

* Derpy Hooves from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', to the extent that she can hardly ''sit down'' without causing property damage.

** I think that falls under ''straw that broke the camel's back'' since that the sitting down only completed the disaster that was destroying town hall.

 

== Other ==

== Real Life ==

* Real life example: professional wrestler Ahmed Johnson (pseudonym). He seemed to have potential, but he couldn't go a month without getting injured. The most amazing part, though, was when he was thrown off the side of the ring and landed, on his feet, but using the announcing table for support. Somehow, his hand happened to land on some sort of big nail that was sticking out of the table for no apparent reason and he was injured once more.

* Another [[Real Life]] example: [[wikipedia:Terry Gilliam#Production problems|Terry Gilliam]]'s film productions, while spectacular, are classically, and now superstitiously, known for tendencies towards mishap, one of the arguing points used to dismiss consideration of him as director of the [[Harry Potter]] series of films. (Gilliam was Rowling's choice.)

 

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