History Main / OneDegreeofSeparation

* All over the place in ''DennouCoil''. The grandfather of protaganist Okonogi Yuko "Yasako" [[spoiler:was the doctor of]] Asazawa Yuko "Isako" and also [[spoiler:created]] the [[TitleDrop Dennou Coil]] and [[ArcWords 4-4-2-3]] [[spoiler:based off of Isako's brother]], which gave Yasako and Isako their nicknames. Yasako's grandmother Megabaa (wife of said grandfather) set up the Coil Detective Agency whose membership includes that of [[spoiler:Yasako's father (Megabaa's son), who also works for the Megamass Corp. and is the boss of fellow Agency member]] Tamako, who's immediate superior is [[spoiler:Agency member]] Nekome and is the aunt of Agency member Haraken, who was friends with Kanna, who died in a car accident [[spoiler:partly because of Isako's "encoding", who copied her techniques from former "encoder" Tamako who is now trying to stop Isako's "encoding" along with Nekome, who is actually a DoubleAgent and is really Isako's partner in crime and who's brother]] Takeru became friends with Yasako.

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesOfKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdos number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos). There's even a Bacon-Erdos for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdos number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.)

* ''Amores Perros'' (or ''Life's A Bitch'') has three different stories with the characters tied together by a car crash and a dog.

*** Though they sometimes slip up-like how Nathan in early season 2 seemed to have forgotten meeting almost ''everyone'', even people he met before the events of the finale.

** There was another case where a girl named asked Marten out (after he had gotten with Dora), was declined, and went to Coffee of Doom, where Dora (the coffee shop's owner) found out. Dora goes ClingyJealousGirl on Marten for not mentioning that he got asked out, and they argue about it, reconcile, and go out to dinner, where Cosette is their waitress. Much [[DropWhatYouAreDoing dropping]] ensues. These are far from the only examples.

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesOfKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo's number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos). There's even a Bacon-Erdos for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo's number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.)

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesOfKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo's number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos). There's even a Bacon-Erdos for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.)

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a Bacon number (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo"s number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos). There's even a Bacon-Erdos for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.)

*** Also, The Exile was a general for Revan, of course, linking those two PCs.

** There was another case where a girl (Don't think she had a name. Let's call her "G") asked Marten out (after he had gotten with Dora), was declined, and went to Coffee of Doom, where Dora (the coffee shop's owner) found out. Dora goes all ClingyJealousGirl on Marten for not mentioning that he got asked out, and they argue about it, reconcile, and go out to dinner, where G is their waitress.
*** Naturally, "G" comes back. Her name is Cosette and she's now dating Marten's friend Steve, whose previous girlfriend was Ellen, who was room-mates with Tasha, who was going out with Amir - they met in a mosh pit, teeth were lost, and then they hooked up after Amir was Ellen, Tasha and Steve's waiter. Ellen and Tasha both attend the same college as Cosette and Tai (Marten's boss), and Amir, Tasha, Marten and Hannelore are members of the band Deathmole (or were, Tasha left after she and Amir split up). Also, Marten's mother is a famous dominatrix known as Veronica Vance, whose photoshoots were the reason Dora discovered [[BiTheWay she was bisexual]]. (Marten [[BrainBleach wished she'd never told him that]], but he got over it.)

* Sarah Dessen is known for this. All of her books seem to take place in one town, or in the beach town next door to it, and it must be a small area because in any one of her books (aside from the first) there will invariably be references to the others.

* ''JadeEmpire'', also of Bioware, had several characters openly expressing their disbelief in the number of connections encountered. As it turned out, [[spoiler:Master Li was really Sun Li, brother to the Emperor. Sagacious Zu had saved Li's daughter and ended up unknowingly leaving her with Li who also didn't know about the connection. This also means that Dawn Star is the cousin of Silk Fox, who is also daughter of the Emperor and niece of Li. And both daughters have fathers who are the main Big Bads]]. Gah!

* All over the place in ''DennouCoil''. The grandfather of protaganist Okonogi Yuko "Yasako" [[spoiler:was the doctor of]] Asazawa Yuko "Isako" and also [[spoiler:created]] the [[TitleDrop Dennou Coil]] and [[ArcNumbers 4-4-2-3]] [[spoiler:based off of Isako's brother]], which gave Yasako and Isako their nicknames. Yasako's grandmother Megabaa (wife of said grandfather) set up the Coil Detective Agency whose membership includes that of [[spoiler:Yasako's father (Megabaa's son), who also works for the Megamass Corp. and is the boss of fellow Agency member]] Tamako, who's immediate superior is [[spoiler:Agency member]] Nekome and is the aunt of Agency member Haraken, who was friends with Kanna, who died in a car accident [[spoiler:partly because of Isako's "encoding", who copied her techniques from former "encoder" Tamako who is now trying to stop Isako's "encoding" along with Nekome, who is actually a DoubleAgent and is really Isako's partner in crime and who's brother]] Takeru became friends with Yasako.

* In ''{{Ever17}}'' while nobody except Sara and You seem to have known each other beforehand, it turns out that [[spoiler:Sara and Hokuto are the children of Tsugumi and Takeshi, You and Coco's fathers designed Sora and Lemu. And You is actually two different people.]] As you can see from the majorly spoilery bit there, it's... complicated. [[spoiler:In fact, this is no coincidence at all, and these people were gathered together specifically as part of a massive XanatosGambit.]]

* RobertAHeinlein's short story "'--All You Zombies--'": [[spoiler: all the characters in the story turn out to be the same person.]]

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesofKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo"s number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdo"s). There's even a Bacon-Erdo"s for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.)

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesofKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo"s number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdo"s). There's even a Bacon-Erdo"s for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.) The professional sports version of this is a [[http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=512065 Sillinger number]], after journeyman ice hockey player Mike Sillinger. No player in the National Hockey League's more than 90 year history is more than six degrees from Sillinger, and at one point in the 2007-08 season, every single player in the 30 team league had either played with Sillinger or had a teammate who had played with Sillinger. It's commonly believed that you can connect Sillinger to [[http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Two-degrees-of-Mike-Sillinger-addiction-strikes-?urn=nhl,134080 Kevin Bacon]] (here's how it works: Bacon was in "Sleepers" with Ron Eldard, who was in "Mystery, Alaska" with Tie Domi, who was on the Toronto Maple Leafs with Petr Svoboda, who was on the 1997-98 Philadelphia Flyers with Mike Sillinger), but in fact, the Petr Svoboda who played with Domi and the Petr Svoboda who played with Sillinger are [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=5272 different]] [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=36981 people.]] However, Domi was on the Toronto Maple Leafs with [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=3158 Eric Lindros]] in 2005-06, and Lindros played with Sillinger on the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Flyers. Sillinger's Bacon number is 4.

* The ''[[WheelOfTime Wheel of Time]]'' books: Elayne and Gawain are introduced as siblings, Galad as their half-brother. Whose father, Taringail Damodred, is a relative of Moiraine Damodred (whose cousin, Caraline Damodred, also appears in the series). Galad's ''mother'', Tigraine Mantear, on the other hand, is [[spoiler:also the mother of the main character, Rand al'Thor]]. Meanwhile, the mother of Elayne and Gawain [[spoiler:had an affair with Thom Merrilin, her court-bard-turned-wandering-gleeman, who likely killed Taringail]]. Gawain is now (sort of) romantically involved with Egwene al'Vere, who was Rand's love interest back in the first three books, while Rand is now involved with Elayne.

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesofKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo"s number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdo"s). There's even a Bacon-Erdo"s for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.) The professional sports version of this is a [[http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=512065 Sillinger number]], after journeyman ice hockey player Mike Sillinger. No player in the National Hockey League's more than 90 year history is more than six degrees from Sillinger, and at one point in the 2007-08 season, every single player in the 30 team league had either played with Sillinger or had a teammate who had played with Sillinger. It's commonly believed that you can connect Sillinger to [[http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Two-degrees-of-Mike-Sillinger-addiction-strikes-?urn=nhl,134080 Kevin Bacon]] (here's how it works: Bacon was in "Sleepers" with Ron Eldard, who was in "Mystery, Alaska" with Tie Domi, who was on the Toronto Maple Leafs with Petr Svoboda, who was on the 1997-98 Philadelphia Flyers with Mike Sillinger), but in fact, the Petr Svoboda who played with Domi and the Petr Svoboda who played with Sillinger are [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=5272 different]] [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=36981 people.]] However, Domi was on the Toronto Maple Leafs with [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=3158 Eric Lindros]] in 2005-2006, and Lindros played with Sillinger on the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Flyers. Sillinger's Bacon number is 4.

This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an EasterEgg or important to the MythArc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a [[SixDegreesofKevinBacon Bacon number]] (how many degrees away an actor is from KevinBacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdo"s number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdo"s). There's even a Bacon-Erdo"s for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film ''and'' written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdo"s number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for an B-E number 6. [[TheWonderYears Danica McKellar]] is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.) The professional sports version of this is a [[http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=512065 Sillinger number]], after journeyman ice hockey player Mike Sillinger. No player in the National Hockey League's more than 90 year history is more than six degrees from Sillinger, and at one point in the 2007-08 season, every single player in the 30 team league had either played with Sillinger or had a teammate who had played with Sillinger. It's commonly believed that you can connect Sillinger to [[http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Two-degrees-of-Mike-Sillinger-addiction-strikes-?urn=nhl,134080 Kevin Bacon]] (here's how it works: Bacon was in "Sleepers" with Ron Eldard, who was in "Mystery, Alaska" with Tie Domi, who was on the Toronto Maple Leafs with Petr Svoboda, who was on the 1997-98 Philadelphia Flyers with Mike Sillinger), but in fact, the Petr Svoboda who played with Domi and the Petr Svoboda who played with Sillinger are [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=5272 different]] [[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=36981 people.]]

[[{{Doonesbury}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/onedegree1.gif]]
-->''"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. I don't ''trust'' coincidences."''\\

-->''"Wanting connections, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything. The world exploded in a whirling network of kinships, where everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything else..."''\\

Often part of a JigsawPuzzlePlot. Sometimes just a lot of ContrivedCoincidence. See also GenerationXerox. Gets much more complicated when you have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters who all seem to know each other. Or if they don't they quickly do thanks to YouALLShareMyStory. Can lead to EveryoneIsRelated.