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* Shin Seijuro from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has a tendency to break any piece of technology handed to him within a minute, at the most. It started with him breaking a video camera by accident, which was followed up by him trying to open a GPS like a normal map. He apparently breaks the ticket machine every time he takes the train to school, and he can't even buy a can of soft drink from a vending machine without disabling it. Considering the guy is able to perform vertical push-ups ''on his index fingers'', one can make a [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|plausible guess]] about the reason. The most technologically advanced piece of equipment he is shown using in the series is a stopwatch.
** In the supplemental material within the manga, there is a girl who look like him and has a crush on him, that in order to be as much like him as possible, she breaks three computers a month on purpose.
* Mr. Yashiro (Ren's manager) from ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' is one of these. However, it only works if he has direct skin contact with the object, and said contact is for at least ten seconds. He uses this as a threat against Ren to get information out of him, holding Ren's cellphone as a hostage. Ren is later seen receiving a new cellphone from the LME president, obviously deciding the sacrifice was worth keeping the information.
* Nina Mercury from ''[[Lost Universe]]'' is ''infamous'' for breaking or ruining ''anything'' electronic she touches.
* Mihoko from ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'', when trying to print off [[Mahjong]] tournament records from an average personal computer, somehow turned the whole of the room into a [[Naughty Tentacles|mass of wire wrapped around her body]] with the intent of not letting her go.
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* And the same thing applies to Laura Anne Gilman's ''The Retrievers'' series, though for a different reason. {{spoiler|Magic ''is'' electricity. A wizard can recharge simply by tapping the nearest power source -- usually shorting it the hell out. All wizards are VERY careful when recharging, not to mention when using anything electrically powered.}} This occurs to all wizards in varying degrees.
* Likewise in Nick Pollotta's novels based in the Bureau 13 universe; wizards tend to cause nearby technology to fail in mysterious to spectacular ways. This is actually used as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when the team is attacked by a vampire high school football team equipped with lasers. (it's that sort of book...) When one of the wizards is confronted with a laser point-blank in her face, ''she grabs the barrel'', preventing it from working and giving her teammates time to stake its surprised holder.
* The [[Isaac Asimov]] story ''Saving Humanity'' eventually featured such a person, though he was initially just a natural jinx (called a ''teleklutz'') before he was reformatted into an anti-computer weapon to prevent [[
* Wobbler in Terry Pratchett's ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]''... sometimes. In the first book he's a fairly skilled [[Playful Hacker]], but by the second he can't turn his computer on without it smelling of burning plastic.
* This overlaps with [[Science vs. Magic]], but a ghost character in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''SERRATED Edge'' series was told to stay away from Tannim's tapes because [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts in that 'verse has a devastating effect on electromagnetic items]]. He eventually prevented a [[Big Bad]]'s getaway by walking through a plane's navigation board, rendering it completely useless.
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** Also his namesake, Hillaire Belloc's Lord Finchley, who "tried to mend/the electric light himself," with fatal results.
* Neil from ''[[The Young Ones]]''. He even laments that technology is rebelling against him.
* Captain Kirk was never this in ''[[Star Trek]]'', but he is often [[Flanderized]] into it in humor based on the series, due to the fact that he destroyed several [[
* Spencer from ''[[iCarly]]'' has had this joke used on him in a number of episodes in which many things - even things that don't have an ignition source or don't even use electricity (one example being a drum set) - spontaneously combust. At one point, after putting out a fire with a liquid, ''the liquid caught on fire''. [[Lampshade Hanging|He was unaware as to how, exactly, that could occur]].
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