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* Classic ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft'' works like this. Quests are rarely intrinsically connected to more than one other quest. The raid bosses also have no obvious connection to one another, though all of them except C'Thun relate to one of the dungeons you completed while leveling. The game doesn't provide any overarching narrative.

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'': Luigi opens a book that makes a bunch of paper people come out. Now go jog across the grassland and the desert to Bowser's Castle. Bowser nearly hits the Bros. with a single cannonball and sends them to jail on an island. Sail back to where you started and climb up this mountain, but you have to go through the forest first. Everyone falls off the mountain, so go through the forest again to climb it again because Bowser's Castle is in the sky now. Beat up Bowser and trap the paper people back in the book. That's basically the main plot, and the fact that characters will regularly [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment show up and disappear with no explanation]] ([[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere including bosses]]) doesn't help make it more coherent.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'': Zigzagged. While the central goal of the game is to collect the six Big Paint Stars, and some chapters are tied together with a unified theme (fixing a train and helping it reach its destination, a pirate voyage to an island full of treasure), others aren't. For example, the last one consists of you taming a dragon to ride it through a volcano, a HotSpringsEpisode, visiting a restaurant to get a giant magnifying glass, taking that to the forest and fighting a boss, going through a NostalgiaLevel based on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', and then two circus-themed levels.
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* ''Literature/TheHitchchikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' starts with Arthur and Ford narrowly escaping the destruction of the Earth, and then describes a variety of strange things that happened to them afterwards. There isn't really an overarching narrative beyond that.

* {{Machinima}}s made with ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', such as ''Machinima/MassDefect'', tend to veer in this direction.

* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'', while being a comedic take on the EpicMovie, has this given the sheer scope of the film, verging on FourLinesAllWaiting -- there's quite a few different plotlines that are barely related, and don't merge until well into the movie, with a riot and subsequent aerial battle in downtown Los Angeles.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'': Zigzagged with While the central goal of the game is to collect the six Big Paint Stars, and some chapters are tied together with a unified theme (fixing a train and helping it reach its destination, a pirate voyage to an island full of treasure), others aren't. For example, the last one consists of you taming a dragon to ride it through a volcano, a HotSpringsEpisode, visiting a restaurant to get a giant magnifying glass, taking that to the forest and fighting a boss, going through a NostalgiaLevel based on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', and then two circus-themed levels.

* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' is about a (very stupid) man attempting to get a cartoon series off the ground (at least, that's what we think), but that plotline is only showcased for like 15 minutes of the film. The rest is nothing more than just pure, subversive madness. By the way, the titular Freddy never got fingered in the first place, meaning even the title is as pointless and nonsensical as any other part of the movie.

* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' is about a (very stupid) man attempting to get a cartoon series off the ground (at least, that's what we think), but that plotline is only showcased for like 15 minutes of the film. The rest is nothing more than just pure, subversive madness. By the way, the titular Freddy never got fingered in the first place, and that's as nonsensical and pointless as any other part of the film.

* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' is ''supposed'' to be about a (very stupid) man attempting to get a cartoon series off the ground, but that plotline is only showcased for like 10 minutes of the film. The rest is just pure random madness. By the way, the titular Freddy never got fingered in the first place, and that's as nonsensical and pointless as any other part of the film.

** ''Film/{{Weekend}}'' has a plotline but is a WorldGoneMad in which ''everything'' is SeriousBusiness.

* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}: An infamous example. The parody comic has a random events plot in that it could be said to have any sort of plot at all. It's trying to be satire, but [[ShallowParody has no real understanding of what it's satirizing]] and just has scene after scene that are bad jokes that weren't funny the first time and certainly weren't by the third. And then it switches over some sort of psuedo-philisophical discussion about science, religion, and life that manages to make even less sense.

* Taken UpToEleven with the obscure NoBudget ''Curse Of Halloween'' horror film. We start with some guy who's about to shoot himself talking about some bad experience he had last Halloween. The film proper starts with a ''different'' guy driving at night and accidentally crashing into some girl in the road. He then takes said girl to a conveniently abandoned and unlocked mansion, and then some passerbys come and get out to help him, only to find she is suddenly gone. What follows is about 30 minutes of completely confusing stuff, involving some villain wearing [[EvilWearsBlack black robes]] who seemingly kills people with some kind of [[ShockAndAwe electric touch]], only for several of said people to [[UnexplainedRecovery come back to life a few minutes later for no reason.]] Eventually they somehow all die except for the guy at the beginning, who then goes on a completely different story about how last Halloween the group went to some supposedly cursed island. We then get the {{Padding}} to end all padding as there is a 10 minute sequence of them going on a boat trip with no dialog and a song that [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sounds almost exactly like "Spybreak" by Propellerheads]] playing the whole time. ''Finally'', the group gets to the island and they all get killed by... someone whose face we never see and who is never identified. We then cut back to the narrator guy who says he can't take it anymore and [[AteHisGun shoots himself]], and the movie just ends with no credits whatsoever. Considering how low budget the movie is, it seems likely they ran out of money and just had to edit together whatever scenes they had filmed. In particular, both the box and the suicidal guy at the beginning talk about some Great Pumpkin Queen killing them all. Assuming this is meant to be the girl at the beginning, she only appears in the first 5 minutes and never kills anyone, suggesting that whole bit was just never filmed.

* In TabletopGame/MaidRPG the player have the possibility to throw on a table generating rendom events even the GM isn't able to plan before. Hence Maid RPG is one of the tabletops tending most to random event plots.

* ''Film/StopLookAndLaugh'': All that happens in the film is Creator/PaulWinchell, with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, going through their day with footage of Film/TheThreeStooges interspersed throughout the movie.

* ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' tries to cram in as much of [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the enormous roster of]] ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' as possible, and thus it's the protagonists finding and fighting some people while the story supposedly moves forward.

* ''Film/{{1941}}'', while being a comedic take on the EpicMovie, has this given the sheer scope of the film, verging on FourLinesAllWaiting -- there's quite a few different plotlines that are barely related, and don't merge until well into the movie, with a riot and subsequent aerial battle in downtown Los Angeles.