History Main / TwoLinesNoWaiting

* In Wrestling/{{ECW}} in 1995, Wrestling/{{Taz|z}} had suffered a broken neck due to Wrestling/DeanMalenko and Wrestling/TooColdScorpio botching a spike piledriver in a match against [=Taz=] and Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, which put him on the shelf for a time. [[Wrestling/JimFullington The Sandman]] defeated [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html ECW World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/ShaneDouglas for the title at ''ECW Hostile City Showdown'' on April 15. Douglas felt that there was a problem with the officiating[[note]]Douglas was on his back with Sandman face-up on top of him in a submission hold but the ref counted Shane's shoulders down.[[/note]] and was determined to do something about it. At ''ECW Enter Sandman,'' May 13th, he introduced [=Pennsylvania=] State Athletic Commission referee Wrestling/BillAlfonso, who would enforce the rules, in a promotion that prided itself on its lack of rules. Fonzie quickly became the most hated guy in ECW history. What do these two storylines have to do with each other? The answer came at ''ECW November to Remember 95'' on November 18th. Right before the match between Wrestling/{{Konnan}} and [[Characters/{{ECW}} Jason "The Sexiest Man On Earth"]], Taz walked down to the ring in a referee shirt. Taz explained to Wrestling/JoeyStyles, who was doing the in-ring introductions, that ECW would not let him wrestle that night because they considered him an insurance risk. Jason gets in Taz's face as Taz asks if both guys are ready. Taz then decked Jason and Konnan powerbombed and pinned him in about 14 seconds. Later that night, there was a match, such as it was, between Alfonso and ECW Commissioner Tod Gordon, with Wrestling/{{Beulah McGillicutty}}, then a {{Heel}} as Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s [[{{Kayfabe}} girlfriend]], as the special referee. Fonzie [[WouldHitAGirl attacked her]] and threw her out of the match. They sort-of brawl for a while, complete with Fonzie blading, with no referee. Taz comes down while Tod is attempting a pin, starts to count, then stops, beats up Tod, puts Alfonso on top and counts the pin, thus [[FaceHeelTurn turning himself heel]]. The crowd is shocked, and Taz explains that he did it because none of the fans called or wrote or made any attempt to contact him after his injury and that Alfonso was the only person who seemed to care about him. He also rips on the fans for being happy to see Wrestling/{{Sabu}}, who had returned earlier that night after seven months in self-imposed exile in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and the indies,[[note]]Sabu had left ECW right before ''The Three-Way Dance'' on April 8th and the fans had chanted "FUCK SABU! FUCK SABU!"[[/note]], ECW booker [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]] and whatever and whoever else comes to mind, finally saying to the fans, "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU!"

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* Manga/{{MAR}}'s anime tried breaking up the War Game (read: TournamentArc) with various filler. The problem is, most of this was right after Snow's kidnapping so it just ended up annoyingly prolonging both the tournament and her rescue.

** The ''Best Wishes'' anime series has done this, with the Team Rocket trio occasionally stopping their usual pursuit of Ash's group and instead operating a long-term mission elsewhere. Their plotline progresses while Ash's does, and eventually the two merge together for a finish.

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* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLadTwilightOfTheSpirits'' has this happen, and eventually, both the narratives become one.

* In the bonus chapter of ''Cadenza 4: Fame, Theft and Murder'' Michael is [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]] and Martha and Big Jim split up to find the halves of an artifact which can reverse the curse. The chapter switches between them at several points.

* ''Front Mission'' shows this through ''2'' and ''4''.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Halo2'' does this with the Master Chief and the Arbiter.
** ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' does this with Master Chief's Blue Team and Jameson Locke's Fireteam Osiris.

** In ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'', [[TheHero Sora]] and [[TheLancer Riku]] run two unrelated plots that happen to take place in the same castle.

** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' has two (three if you count Knuckles' subplot) intertwining stories, and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' has ''six'' (seven if you count Tikal's subplot), that all come together in the end.

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* ''VisualNovel/{{Infinity}}'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/Ever17'' does this during the prologue of the game, switching between Takeshi and [[NoNameGiven The Kid]]. It drops this shortly into the game, at which point the player is locked into one of the two characters. [[spoiler: This trope returns during [[GoldenEnding Coco's path]], which begins switching back and forth between the two characters again]]
** ''VisualNovel/Remember11'' has its prologue set up the same way, with Kokoro and Satoru being the viewpoint characters. While this game does force the player into one of the two characters after the prologue finishes, it continues to use this trope throughout its entirety during the [[FreakyFridayFlip personality transfer phenomena]], resulting in part of each story being seen no matter which character the player is.
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* ''Fanfic/OurTrueColors'' uses this technique to simultaneously tell the story of Scootaloo's present and [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie's]] past.

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* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' tells two parallel stories: that of the four and their adventures on a variety of worlds, and that of the Fans who put them in this situation and who are watching/commenting on/empowering/manipulating them. The two lines are semi-separate (the Fans are aware of the four, but not vice-versa) until the end of the Second Movement, when the Fans speak directly to the four for the first time. The threads intersect a few more times in the book but mostly remain separate. There are also several chapters, notably the New Zork chapter, where the four get split up and have individual adventures, or which focus on only one of the four.
* ''Fanfic/PinkPersonalHellAndAlteringFate'' alternates between an OddCouple story in our world and a SliceOfLife story in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Ponyville]]. In fact, it's confirmed to be a ShoutOut to ''Literature/HardBoiledWonderlandAndTheEndOfTheWorld'' with different narratives using [[spoiler: the same protagonist and having different narratives. This way, it gives the impression of Nickel Steel mentally reliving the events of his "Pink Personal Hell."]]
* The third ''FanFic/MyHostageNotYours'' story is split pretty evenly between Zim and Gaz's efforts to conquer Earth, and Dib (and later Tak)'s efforts to stop them.
* [[http://crystalrobot.deviantart.com/ Crystal Robot's]] ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfiction starts off with a simple LoveTriangle plot surrounding Zim, Dib, and Casie [[CousinOliver (Zim's OC sister)]]. The plots split when Dib becomes [[MisterSeahorse pregnant]] by [[HomosexualReproduction Zim]], and Casie becomes the {{Yandere}}. At that point, the major ark revolves around a [[SpotlightStealingSquad bunch of OC's]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Gaz]]) trying to defeat [[spoiler: Casie and]] a group of evil {{Doppelganger}}s, while the the ark surrounding Dib's pregnancy and his developing relationship with Zim plays in the background.
* Fanfic/GuiltySparks is a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''/''Franchise/MassEffect'' crossover split between the Normandy crew getting involved in the events of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', while a major B plot involves Liara investigating Covenant infiltration of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe.
* The WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fan fiction ''Fanfic/OurTrueColors'' uses this technique to simultaneously tell the story of Scootaloo's present and [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie's]] past.
* The ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OutOfTheDeadLand'' intertwines the psychological drama of the Winter Soldier/Bucky's identity issues and relationship with Steve with the action/mystery drama of evil robot duplicates attempting to hijack the Avengers' identities, with a lot of thematic overlap between the two.
* [=RainbowDoubleDash=] describes his work ''[[FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse Magic Tutor]]'' as having an "A" plot (Trixie's attempts to teach the foals of Ponyville magic) and an "E" plot (Twilight beginning her community service), which partway through merge into an AE plot (Twilight helps Trixie with the magic tutoring).
* [[FanFic/DeathBecomesYou Zootopia: Death Becomes You]]: The story uses this device as its sole plot mechanic to flash back and forth between past and present timelines while throwing in a healthy dose of random timeline events to shake things up. This helps keep some light-heartedness intact within the story while still building the tension and suspense that leads up to the grim circumstances we find WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} at the end of chapter 1. It utilizes this style well to hold back on important plot twists and reveals until just the right moment in the story where it makes the most impact on both timelines.
* ''Blog/ThePredespairKids'': There are a lot of story arcs going on at the same time, ranging from personal quests to investigations to just people goofing around. While there are times where they can feel like [[ThreeLinesSomeWaiting three]] or [[FourLinesAllWaiting four lines]], or just [[AbortedArc end abruptly]] [[note]] It really depends on whether or not the askers themselves continue their story lines or if the blog's ask box decides to be uncooperative[[/note]], the author, Mod J, is fortunately pretty good about keeping things moving and answering questions at the same time without everything devolving into a KudzuPlot.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' does this during the ''Bloody Hell'' arc of the sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past''. It is evenly split between this verse's take on the ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]]'' book ''Literature/DeadBeat'' (which sees [[TheStarscream Voldemort,]] [[TheAgeless Selene]], [[ReformedButNotTamed Magneto]] and [[BarrierMaiden Wanda Maximoff]] getting involved in the fight for control of [[GodhoodSeeker the]] [[PhysicalGod Darkhallow]]), and another plot line focused on Harry and a group of allies trying to stop Dracula and his Grey Court from [[spoiler: ritually draining Carol's blood]] in order to [[spoiler: become immune to sunlight]].
* The WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fan comic ''Webcomic/AgeInappropriate'' has two plots. One follows Spike's actions and the other one revolves around Luna trying to keep Twilight "busy".

* ''Fanfic/ANewWorldOnHerShoulders'' is divided into two stories, each one taking up half a chapter. The first half of each chapter is always centered on Atlas and team SCRP, while the second half focuses on Beacon and team VYBA.

* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe's adventures throughout the Infinity Train are swapped with her friends and family worried about her sudden disappearance.

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'' has two major timelines, referred to by the author as "Paragon" and "Renegade" based on the characterisations in ''VideoGame/MassEffect''. Initially they are almost identical, but the protagonists' choices increasingly push them down different paths, such as the Paragon [[spoiler:merging with the Ophidian and gaining EnlightenmentSuperpowers]] while the Renegade instead [[spoiler:acquires Apokoliptian technology that he uses to turn himself into a New God]]. Each episode tends to focus on one or the other, with a couple of dozen chapters about the primary protagonist and two or three from the secondary. 99% of the time, it's possible to completely ignore one of the timelines and just read the other one, but on rare occasions they have affected each other and demonstrated that they exist in parallel universes, such as [[spoiler:the Renegade injuring Krona, and the Paragon later fighting Krona in his resulting weakened state]].

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* ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'': The events of the school day--leading up to the suicide at 2:37 p.m.--are shown from the viewpoint of six different students, whose stories overlap and intersect fairly often.
* Creator/WoodyAllen has done these a few times in two of his highest regarded movies. ''Film/CrimesAndMisdemeanors'' has a straight example with the two storylines being distinct and only crossing paths rarely, while ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'' follows several character arcs with a lot of interaction between them.

* ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie''. In Japan, it was two short [=OVA=]s about the original cast and one longer movie about the season two newcomers. To make it a theatrical feature after the first season and an introduction to said newcomers, a bit of narration was used for ArcWelding, and Diaboromon and Kokomon were said to be affected by the same virus, and given the same voice actor and a couple catchphrases in common. ("Don't interfere!" "[[ArcWords Go back to the beginning.]].") Connecting Diaboromon to the Willis thing actually made Diaboromon a much more sympathetic character than the original GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, but the longer ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' really [[CompressedAdaptation loses a great deal of plot]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies typically feature two plotlines: the main plot starring Sid, Manny, Diego, and their friends, and the secondary plot featuring the squirrel Scrat's endless pursuit of the acorn. Scrat's plotline is typically more lighthearted and outlandish than the main story (as well as being entirely action-based without dialogue), and Scrat interacts less and less with the main characters as the sequels go on.

* ''Film/LionsForLambs'' features three separate plotlines happening at the same time, all focusing on UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror: a reporter interviewing a Republican senator about his plans for victory, two American soldiers in Afghanistan stuck on a mountain ridge waiting for rescue while being ambushed by the Taliban, and a political science professor at an unnamed university in California trying to get a bright but apathetic student to re-engage with his class again. The plotlines don't intersect but are tangentially related to each other.

* The music video for Music/{{REM}}'s "Imitation of Life" is set at an outdoor party with dozens of smaller events taking place, [[RewatchBonus some of which aren't apparent in the very first viewing]].

* Disk 3 of ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'' has the party forced to split up. The plot then follows: Cooke and Mack as they attempt to follow the Aurora Borealis, Kaim and Sarah as they try to stop the kids from getting in too much trouble, Seth and [[spoiler: Tolten]] being warped to Uhra and meeting up with [[spoiler: Sed]], Jansen and Ming stuck on a train that's becoming an icy coffin. Despite being split four ways, the story doesn't suffer. Every party member gets their moment in the limelight. They are all [[spoiler: reunited at the end of Disk 3]].
* ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta 2}}'' starts off with a plot ToHellAndBack for the titular character in order to reclaim the soul of her friend, Jeanne, but gets sidetracked by a secondary plot involving a TagalongKid named Loki who just so happens to [[AmnesiacHero have amnesia]] about who he is, other than he just to happens to be trying to get to the same holy mountain as Bayonetta. The plots clash more than a few time, but end up being more intertwined once the BigBad [[spoiler:Loptr/Aesir]] is revealed, since [[spoiler:he was the one who caused Jeanne's soul to be sent to hell, and also happens to be Loki's evil half]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening:'' Lucina's arc happens simultaneously along with the other 3, shifting in and out of focus as the events of the BadFuture they come from become relevant.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' usually juggles several storylines, with new ones picking up and old ones ending fairly regularly, along with occasional one-off gags unrelated to any of them.

* ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'' has several storylines all running semi-simultaneously, which are hinted to tie together in the end. Between the length spent on any given storyline and the ScheduleSlip problems, threads can be dropped and picked up again quite literally ''years'' later.

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' habitually cut between storylines.
* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' has no main plot, except for crossover between plots, so at any given moment there's seventeen different stories going on simultaneously (plus the Miscellaneous theme, which doesn't have a coherent plot or characters), although of late the primary ones are Steve & Terry, Fantasy, Space, and Cliffhangers, with secondary (but still important!) ones being Series/MythBusters and Scientific Revolution. And something's happening with the Shakespeare theme, and the Nigerian Finance Minister and Pirates are still out there somewhere, and so on. With so many themes, there are frequent crossovers; at one time, ''fourteen'' of the different themes converged for the destruction of the universe (not included were Miscellaneous, which doesn't have a storyline; Supers and Espionage, which exist in a totally separate continuity). Oddly enough, the Me theme was originally self-contained, dealing with the author living his life, producing the webcomic, or making very meta gags. That was, until he [[ItMakesSenseInContext kills himself off]] and finds himself actually involved with the characters themselves (mainly the Deaths and the Scientific Revolution characters).
* Used in ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure''. Julie and her group's adventures to collect the Magicant and solve their world's problems is the A Plot. Zaedalkaah/Umbria's release, meeting with Trevoricus and Jason and joining with Angelo's kids as part of her quest to get her body back is the B Plot.
* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160313110909/http://www.ambarb.com/?p=20 Two Tank Omen's advance and Yoosamon's talking with the king parallel in every strip for a while]].

* ''Film/{{Steam}}'': All three of the protagonist's stories are alternately shown, with the only connection as their meeting in a steam room, where they talk.

* A Finnish comic novel named "OM" did this in a decidedly {{Mind Screw}}y way. The A Story (or at least the one it opened on), being the adventures of the eponymous samurai rabbit, was interrupted abruptly by the B-story of the surreal JustForPun adventures of "li'l Piggybear". The B-story, in turn, was ostensibly the dreams of one of the characters in the C Story, a real-world relationship drama. The connection (if any) between the stories was never in any adequate way explained, giving the comic an overarching "what the... ?" -kind of feel. Ostensibly, the C Story, which was introduced last, could be seen as the "main" story, but that is all open to interpretation... It could just as well have been AllJustADream of the samurai protagonist who was, if memory serves correctly, mortally wounded at the time.

* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': The main plot line of training and attempting to assassinate Koro-sensei is interwoven with the students dealing with various problems in their school and personal lives.
** Korosensei himself, aside from the whole "destroy the planet in a year" thing, does not kill or significantly injure anyone, at least onscreen. Other assassins have no such restrictions, so they often take advantage of Korosensei's inability to retaliate by mercilessly abusing his desire to protect his students.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' was an enormous critical and financial success as it utilized at least ''seven'' lines with no waiting. Featuring several different "main" characters, each character had their own plot throughout the series which would occasionally cross over into other characters' plot-lines. These stories ranged from personal, character-driven issues (such as [[ComicBook/ElongatedMan Ralph Dibny's]] personal quest to bring his wife back from the dead) to large-scale, grandiose events (like ComicBook/BlackAdam's alliance with, and then struggle against, superpowered groups throughout the world), and some were not connected to the other stories in any way (like Comicbook/AnimalMan, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, and ComicBook/AdamStrange struggling to get back to Earth from across the galaxy). One of the points credited to ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'''s success was its ability to make all these unconnected stories mesh together and complement one another, avoiding FourLinesAllWaiting.

* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' storyline "Leaves of Grass" has an A-plot about Batman trying to stop [[{{plant person}} Floronic Man]] from getting everybody in Gotham high on super-marijuana (also ComicBook/PoisonIvy's there). The B-plot follows Tim Drake, the current [[{{sidekick}} Robin]], as he tries to keep a friend of his from smoking marijuana and dealing with the fallout when his friend doesn't listen.
* ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'' follows both an EnemyMine alliance including the bulk of the Avengers fighting off an invasion by the multidimensional Builders, and the remaining heroes defending Earth and the Infinity Gems from ComicBook/{{Thanos}}.

* ''Fanfic/PinkPersonalHellAndAlteringFate'' alternates between an OddCouple story in our world and a SliceOfLife story in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Ponyville]]. In fact, it's confirmed to be a ShoutOut to ''Literature/HardBoiledWonderlandAndTheEndOfTheWorld'' with different narratives using [[spoiler: The same protagonist and having different narratives. This way, it gives the impression of Nickel Steel mentally reliving the events of his "Pink Personal Hell."]]

* Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' actually follows two storylines, [[spoiler:Shosanna Dreyfus staging a massacre at her movie theater hoping to kill the nazi leader,]] and the Basterd's efforts in trying to assassinate Hitler. [[spoiler: the third act involves the Basterds attending said event and killing the nazi's before the bombs go off.]]

* ''VideoGame/GeminiRue'' jumps back and forth between two seemingly-unconnected plotlines, one about a HardboiledDetective searching for his brother and the other about a hapless prisoner escaping a strange rehabilitation facility. The twist is [[spoiler:it is actually a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]; you are not playing two disparate storylines, you're playing one story in AnachronicOrder. The prisoner segments are actually the detective's flashbacks to his DarkAndTroubledPast, and the aforementioned prisoner is his younger self.]]

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' at first appears to just have 7 stories which don't have any direct relation to each other, until the player figures out that [[spoiler:each chapter's main antagonist is a variant on "Odio", suggesting a connection. Then after the completion of the secret [[WhamEpisode Middle Ages]] chapter, a TimeCrash occurs, bringing all 7 main protagonists together to discover that they were fighting incarnations of the Lord of Dark, Odio.]]

* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=20 Two Tank Omen's advance and Yoosamon's talking with the king parallel in every strip for a while]].
* ''[[http://tidecomic.com/ Tides Of Change]]'' switches between ''Tides of Change'' set in the past and ''The Dragon Rider'', set several thousand years later in the present. Only recently in the story have connections between the two started appearing in the stories.

** The original ''Brave New World'' has this for nearly every character, which resulted in a lot of SwitchingPOV. Later in the story, it tended to focus mainly on Charlie's story.

** In ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar World at War]]'', however, there is no connection between the two characters, one in the Eastern Front from the siege of Stalingrad to the Soviets taking over Berlin and one in the Pacific Front as the Marines push closer to Japan; the plot just switches between them every few missions presumably for a change of pace.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': There are three main stories, each taking place a year apart (1930, 1931, 1932), as well as one in the 1700s. The clips from each of these are then mixed together throughout each episode, and you don't get to see the end of any of them until you finish the series. It's slightly less confusing than it sounds, as the clips usually begin by stating the year in which they occur. Usually. And those aren't even counting the flashbacks.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* The plot in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' eventually split into two stories, with the "A Story" focusing mainly on Shiroe and his dealings with the macro aspects of the setting and the "B Story" focusing on the beginner players and the micro aspects of the setting.

* The first act of ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter2'' alternates control between Gabe and Lian at the same point in time. Likewise for ''Dark Mirror''. The bonus missions in ''The Omega Strain'' have you play as major characters at the same time that Cobra is undertaking his/her missions.

* All of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' installments after the [[Film/SawI first movie]] fit this plot structure. The A-storyline tends to focus on the plot (including the aftermath of most of the games featured), while the B one is usually centered around the movie's main game. The movie jumps to Line A whenever something {{Gorn}}[[{{Crunchtastic}} tastic]] happens in Line B, and to Line B after some plot development happens in Line A. Some of the movies spend more time in Line A (''[[Film/SawV V]]'', ''[[Film/Saw3D 3D]]'' and ''[[Film/Spiral2021 Spiral]]''), and others spend more in Line B (''[[Film/SawII II]]'', ''[[Film/SawIII III]]'', ''[[Film/SawIV IV]]'', ''[[Film/SawVI VI]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Jigsaw}} Jigsaw]]''), which often relates to how gory a given installment is. Most of these plots meet up in some fashion at the end.[[labelnote:Details]]''Saw II'' - Line A: Eric and Jigsaw, Line B: The Nerve Gas House. ''Saw III'' - Line A: Lynn, Amanda and Jigsaw, Line B: Jeff. ''Saw IV'' - Line A: Jigsaw's Past, Line B: Rigg. ''Saw V'' - Line A: Hoffman and Strahm, Line B: The Fatal Five. ''Saw VI'' - Line A: Hoffman and Erickson, Line B: William. ''Saw 3D'' - Line A: Hoffman and Jill, Line B: Bobby. ''Jigsaw'' - Line A: Logan and Halloran, Line B: The barn game. ''Spiral'' - Line A: Zeke, Line B: The various individual tests.[[/labelnote]]

* ''VideoGame/DUSK12'' is set in Chernozersk, Russia, where a mutagenic viral strain - the titular "Dusk-12" - turns most of the civilian population into mindless, mutated monsters. One of the two player character, Gorin, was also a former human used as a test subject to create SuperSoldiers, only to be converted into a gigantic monster of his own where he's called an "abomination!" in one cutscene.

** Done twice in ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles''. First, Chapter 5 has Sonic, Knuckles, and two other characters make their way to Angel Island, while simultaneously Tails and [[spoiler:Eggman]] head up another team trying to gather pieces to build a weapon. Chapter 10 has Sonic and Tails lead a team after one of Ix's [[TheDragon dragons]] while Knuckles and [[spoiler:Shade]] go after the other.