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== Web Original ==
* Glitch Girl of the ''[[Legion of Net Heroes (Literature)|Legion of Net Heroes]]'' has this as a superpower. When she can keep it under control, it's fairly useful. When she can't...
* Overload of the [[Whateley Universe]] is an Energizer with a powerful electromagnetic field. That he can't control. The special [[Super
* The said character of the [[Mastermind (Web Animation)|Mastermind]] series somehow managed to tangle up a ''wireless'' router. The techs trying to fix it were nothing short of astounded.
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== Real Life ==
* Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, one of the fathers of modern chemistry, frequently saw experiments explode or fail whenever he came near them. On one occasion, an experiment in a university failed, and the scientists figured it couldn't be Pauli, he was nowhere around, he was on his way to Zurich. Except, as it turned out, he ''was'' in town... waiting for a train connection. [[The Other Wiki]] [
** Actually, theoretical scientists in general can be classed as such.
* There's an elaborate mock-theory known as quantum bogodynamics which deals with the emission and absorption of bogons (the elementary particle of bogosity) and which is supposed to explain how some people can cause computers to spontaneously malfunction by mere presence -- and how others can make such malfunctions disappear.
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* The Usenet newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery had tales of [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/browse_thread/thread/729e94c6bf3082d4/8e142051db9a011b?hl=en&q=telecom+destruction+bunny#8e142051db9a011b The Telecom Destruction Bunny].
{{quote| "''Unfortunately, our Bright Young PFY will no longer be assisting with expeditions downtown, as he has been dubbed the Telecom Destruction Bunny and banned from taking his aura anywhere near anything major.''" - Anthony DeBoer}}
* The [
* Unfortunately inverted by Janice Tunni. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8520405/Meet-the-woman-allergic-to-electricity.html Due to her being electrosensitive, just being around electromagnetic fields causes her to have physical pain.]
* Channing Tatum, by all accounts. According to everybody around him, he has what they call "gremlins," and they claim that you can put a brand new iPod right in front of him, and it will be a brick within the hour.
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