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* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' when Vsye and the two girls get split up after their ship gets destroyed they spend a day in a large town, sleep in the same inn ''next door to each other'', and even complete a dungeon together (without each other's knowledge) following this trope.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': In "iTwins", Sam is bummed when her girly twin sister Melanie visits, but Freddie assumes she and Carly are pranking him again and assumes Melanie is just Sam in disguise. Throughout the episode, Sam leaves right before Melanie arrives and vice versa, because she wants to avoid her as much as possible. In the end, when Freddie ''still'' refuses to believe it and forces Sam to admit Melanie doesn't exist, he leaves right before Melanie actually does show up.

-->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Every other second he walks right past his family as they just barely miss each other. Just turn your head to the left, dammit! No no no, go back! Go back! Go back! No no, the other way! The other way! The other way! Goddammit, just get together!

-->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick:''' So Thumbelina, who at any given time seems to be only about ten feet away from her house going the wrong way.

* As pointed out by WebVideo/CinemaSins, ''Film/Halloween1978'' features one of these as a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent. As Dr. Loomis finishes a conversation while in Haddonfield, Michael can be seen in the stolen car behind him.

* A girl named Liza Dick ran away from home. Her family spent years looking for her. Eventually, the local newspaper printed a story about it, with a recent picture of the family. The photo had been taken outdoors near a city street. Homesick, Liza came back. Sometime after this, she noticed that ''she herself'' was walking in the [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent far background of the photo]]. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' calls it [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18788_the-5-most-mind-blowing-coincidences-all-time_p2.html the second most mind-blowing coincidence of all time.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Masterpiece}}'' edition of ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Valjean and Cosette escape from Javert and his squad by climbing over the wall of a convent. The camera angle shows Cosette being pulled to safety just as Javert and company come around the corner.

* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Dunwin and Wulfrith, two quasi-SeparatedAtBirth identical twins (technically two of a set of triplets in which the third child was kept by their birth parents), where separated when the old shepherd who took them in literally sold Wulfrith at the market because he couldn't care for both. Clootie, the man who buys Wulfrith remains reliant on the small village holding the market for his own supplies after that and sometimes sends Wulfrith there. The brothers proceed to never run into each other, or have anybody get them mixed up for more than a decade until someone who knows their third sibling happens upon Dunwin, tells their mother, is sent back to get him and grabs Wulfrith instead. Clootie himself asks himself the question after remembering Dunwin exists and puts it dows to how few and far between the supply runs were because of their fugitive life (he's a wizard and there is currently a BanOnMagic).

* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Dunwin and Wulfrith, two quasi-SeparatedAtBirth identical twins (technically two of a set of triplets in which the third child was kept by their birth parents), where separated when the old shepherd who took them in literally sold Wulfrith at the market he couldn't care for both. The man who buys Wulfrith remains reliant on the small village holding the market for his own supplies after that and sometimes sends Wulfrith there. The brothers proceed to never run into each other, or have anybody get them mixed up for more than a decade until someone who knows their third sibling happens upon Dunwin, tells their mother, is sent sent back to get him and grabs Wulfrith instead.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': After learning that Trapper John had been sent stateside while Hawkeye was on R&R, Hawkeye races to the airfield to try to catch up with him in order to say goodbye in person, but when he gets there, he learns that Trapper's plane had left just ten minutes earlier.

* Webcomic/DominicDeegan [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-10-08 walks by a ring that could have saved the entire town and a long story arc.]] As Dominic is a Seer, this is a pretty big case of WhatAnIdiot.

* Happens on several occasions in ''The Edge of Heaven'': The main character, Nejat, looks everywhere for a young woman, who happens to have been crashing unnoticed for weeks in the lecture hall where he teaches German literature. She, in turns, seeks her mother, and doesn't notice her when her car and the bus her mother is riding in are side by side in the street.

* The movie ''See No Evil Hear No Evil'' (not to be confused with [[SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil the trope of the same name]]) uses this trope during the climactic confrontation between Richard Pryor's character and the BigBad in the latter's office, with the two men sometimes unknowingly passing within a few feet of each other. This is justified by the fact that [[spoiler:both men are stone blind]].

** PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'': During the search for Polpo's fortune, Giorno and Mista get split up while pursuing a Stand-using assassin due to Giorno staying back to act as a lookout. They get further separated when Mista ends up getting into a TraintopBattle with the assassin on top of a delivery truck that's headed to the top of Capri island. After dealing with the assassin, Mista gets the driver to go back to the marina so he can report in to Bruno... and just after he's left, Giorno jumps into truck's passenger seat and tells the driver to take him to the top of the island so he can find his friend.

* In a fanfic for ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11680012/1/Ruby-Face Ruby Face]]'', Shulk ends up being the one lost in the Mechon attack, rather than Fiora. However, due to certain circumstances, there are three separate occasions where Fiora and Reyn are [[spoiler: in the same area as Shulk, who is now half-Mechon, and there is even one point where they are face-to-face with the Mechon he now pilots]]

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': When Clara realizes Doc still loves her, she bails from the train to run back to Hill Valley. However, Doc and Marty left moments earlier as when she makes it into town, the crowd is still gathered watching Buford getting arrested. Luckily for her, she finds the model showing their plan to travel back to 1985, and she takes a horse to catch up with them.

* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had two identical twins who were SeparatedAtBirth killed in what appear to be separate incidents (robbery gone bad and suicide). They'd been living within a few blocks and using the same laundrette without meeting each other and various acquaintances had mistaken them for one another but they'd never met. [[spoiler: The husband of one twin murdered the other by accident (staging it to look like a robbery) and had to kill her and make it look like suicide.]] Tragically [[spoiler: had they lived just a week longer, one would have been teaching a night class the other was attending, most likely bringing them together at last.]]

* This happens throughout chapter 10 of ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'', as Momo and Ken search for the other during lunch break to hang out but keep barely missing each other. Eventually they think the other one is avoiding them, but eventually reunite with an AccidentalKiss at the end.

* In a fanfic for ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} Xenoblade Chronicles]]'' called "Ruby Face," Shulk ends up being the one lost in the Mechon attack, rather than Fiora. However, due to certain circumstances, there are three separate occasions where Fiora and Reyn are [[spoiler: in the same area as Shulk, who is now half-Mechon, and there is even one point where they are face-to-face with the Mechon he now pilots]]

** PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'': During the search for Polpo's fortune, Giorno and Mista get split up while pursuing a Stand-using assassin due to Giorno staying back to act as a lookout. They get further separated when Mista ends up getting into a TraintopBattle with the assassin on top of a delivery truck that's headed to the top of an island. After dealing with the assassin, Mista gets the driver to go back to the marina so he can report in to Bruno... and just after he's left, Giorno jumps into truck's passenger seat and tells the driver to take him to the top of the island so he can find his friend.

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