Mirabel: He's totally gonna dump me... Probably for Paulita, her hair's way prettier than mine...
Hiccup: She's totally gonna dump me... Probably for Mattias, that guy's got abs for days...
Hiccup: She's totally gonna dump me... Probably for Mattias, that guy's got abs for days...
Examples of Strange Minds Think Alike found in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Armored Gensokyo, Hustler One becomes fast friends with Cirno due to how similiarly their minds work. In particular, he realizes that her seemingly stupid tactics are actually quite devastating to anyone caught on the wrong end (provided that it's physically possible for her to pull them off).
- The Biju Biju Fruit has Kiba and Kankurou watching Naruto's fight with Gaara. When he headbutts Gaara in order to wake him up, both remark on him "Using his head", unaware that the other is saying much the same thing.
- Boldores And Boomsticks: Both Nox and Gary independently say the situation with Team RWBY is like something out of a comic book or a fairy tale.
- Development: Whereas Wednesday and Lydia were meant for each other romantically, Beetlejuice and Pugsley get along like a house on fire.Beetlejuice: Are those beetles?
Pugsley: Yeah. We usually get a termite-roach blend, but they were out at the bait shop. So I got an economy beetle variety pack instead. Are you staying or what?
Beetlejuice: I'm in heaven. - Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?: After Mirabel and Hiccup cool off from their fight in Chapter 6, they both think one will dump the other in favor of a person in town they percieve as more attractive than them.
- In Ed, Edd n Eddy/Devilman: crybaby, Mikiko believes that Akira may well have become the most powerful, brutal and ruthless devil of them all. Later, Ryo subconsciously and unknowingly agrees with her, using the exact same phrasing in his internal narration.
- Fairy Tail Watches DBZA
: As both of them are Blood Knight Idiot Heroes, Natsu is one of the few members of his guild that can understand the fight and food-oriented thoughts of Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z Abridged. He even refers to Freeza as "Freezer" even before Goku does on screen.Goku:Huh... For a second, there, I swore [Garlic Jr] was gonna yell out "spaghetti" or something...
Natsu: Yeah, I thought so too.
Lucy: Why? - The Infinite Loops: Timmy and Crocker both thought of the same joke regarding Dimmsdale. Crocker was the one who got the sign with said joke up first.
- Kwami Magi Homura Magica: When Homura issues her ultimatum against Ladybug, Alya mistakes her ranting about the Incubators as a reference to the farming tool, thinking she wants to destroy all of the machines used to hatch eggs for... some reason. Sayaka makes the exact same mistake.
- Lincoln Goes to Hell: After seeing Lincoln parading his adopted daughter around on a leash, Blitzo stops himself from immediately confronting him by reminding himself that Lincoln is stronger and could rip his head off and shove it down his neck. Later, when Lincoln returns to I.M.P.'s office, he threatens to do exactly that.
- My Princess Academia: During Star's match against Mina in the Sports Festival, both Mineta and Tom hope that Mina's powers will melt Star's clothes off her body.
- The Stepbrother Sitch: Fan-tastic Voyage has Kim, Ron and Candace watching Ballroom with the B-List and remarking on the Show Within a Show. Cut to the reveal that Doof and Drakken are doing the same thing and have similar opinions.
- Three Can Keep a Secret has Dipper and Star bonding over their distinctive strain of selective paranoia. While they trust each other easily, they really connect when she shares her story of chasing away Gustav, with Dipper offering to teach her how to break into people's houses and place listening bugs.
- Turnabout Storm has a trans-dimensional example. When Twilight and Apple Bloom get into Ace Attorney's eternal ladder vs. stepladder debate, their conversation almost perfectly mirrors the first one Phoenix and Maya had.Apple Bloom: Hey Twi, look! A ladder!
Twilight: That's a stepladder...
Apple Bloom: So? What's the difference? You need to stop judging things based on narrow-minded cultural assumptions.
- The Stalking Zuko Series: After Katara and Zuko argue over fireflakes, she makes a list full of reasons why Zuko annoys her, with includes a Suspiciously Specific Denial about how she'd definitely never like him or find him attractive in any way. In The Collected Lists of Zuko, it's heavily implied that Zuko made a very similar list following that same incident, with extremely similar bullet points, the only difference being that it's pro-fireflakes and centered around all the problems he has with Katara. Neither one is aware of the other's list.
- Getting it Right: When Orihime, Uryu, and Ichigo are trying to think of a way to fight a Menos, Orihime comes up with the idea of slicing the Menos down in sections until she can reach the mask, which Uryu calls ridiculous. Ichigo, who'd had the same idea the first time he went through this scenario, mumbles that he sees how it could have worked.
- In Broken Facades, Light is quite surprised to learn that Misa has very similar opinions to his own about the state of the world and its justice system.
- A Sticky Situation: It's eventually revealed that everyone around Renamon assumed that she would eventually end up mating with Guilmon rather than Terriermon. When this is finally brought up with Renamon herself, she admits that she finds Guilmon quite sweet, but doubts that he'd know just what a relationship is.
- Tamers Forever Series: Ruki and Rika. Which makes sense considering that Ruki was based on Rika's personality. Still doesn't make it any less hilarious though.
- In An Unpleasant Surprise, Molly's former friend Ashley guesses that she's planning a party for Libby long before Libby's actual birthday arrives. Later on, it's revealed that Libby also accurately predicted the same thing.
- Goblin Slayer Abridged has Goblin Slayer wonder if elves are a type of goblin after High Elf Archer fails a goblin test. When the Goblin Lord asks if Goblin Slayer has any last words, he asks if elves are goblins and the Goblin Lord says they aren't, he checked.
- For Love of Magic: Upon meeting Slughorn, both Luna and Etal wonder how far he'd roll if pushed down a hill. Harry has to fight down his laughter that Luna says the exact same thing as Etal despite not speaking Parseltongue.
- Begrudging Assistance Requests: In Chapter 7, Dmitri and Ellie react the exact same way upon hearing the government approaching the complex: asking "What the hell is going on here?!"
- For the Glory of Irk: Whereas the concept drives Dib nuts in disbelief, Zim sees absolutely nothing wrong with the ridiculously over the top security measures (dart traps, pressure plates, hidden axes, etc) that the Membranes have in their labs.
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): Skoodge for some reason shares Zim's misconception that Tak is in love with him.
- Invoked in the Bridging the Gap when Kim and Ron tell their parents how Ron reacted when Kim told him she was pregnant, as Ron started acting as though he had to be ready for her to give birth any moment even though Kim obviously didn't look nine months pregnant. Kim's father acknowledges that he and his brother Slim had a similar reaction to learning about their wives' first pregnancy, and Ron's father affirms that when his wife told him she had "a bun in the oven" he genuinely thought she was talking about baking at first.
- Calm and Chaos revolves around Lincoln's son Logan getting to meet all of his cousins. Lucio and Lance prove to be the most monsterous, as both pick on and prank him... and somehow, both of their pranks involved tying Logan up.
- Accidental Hero of the Galaxy: In The Hero We Deserve, Shepard and Miranda have an argument that results in their first kiss. The Hero Who Loved Me, a P.O.V. Sequel recounting events from Miranda's perspective, reveals that both reacted in exactly the same way. Her thought process matches his precisely, right down to the exact same number of "oh god"s.
- Hawkmoth Gets A Reference: In chapter 5, Luka figures out that Juleka must be under an Akuma's spell because she's radiating too much "top" energy around her crush Rose. In intermission one, he blurts out to the couple that he always thought Rose would be the top when he catches them making out, and Anarka comments the same when she joins them. Later in chapter 25, Emilie Agreste comments to Gabriel that Juleka would be the bottom of the pair, while Gabriel responds that it's rather obvious.
- Miraculous: Tales of Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black: While watching Mayor André Bourgeois bow to his Spoiled Brat of a daughter's every whim on Career Day, many of the parents question why they voted for him, wondering if they were drunk and/or high at the time. Max wonders the same thing before fighting Rogercop.
- Scarlet Lady: "Frozer" opens with Chat Noir casually teasing Marigold about how he's certain she's figured out her Secret Identity and intends to ask her out as a civilian, prompting Marigold to declare she'll ask HIM out first. Both belatedly realize just how bad things could get if either of them is wrong. Later, both realize that they don't actually know what to DO on a date, each asking their friends for pointers.
- Truth and Consequences: Played for Laughs in the Abridged version: When Ladybug discovers Hawkmoth's Secret Identity, she screams "Sacre-tittyfucking-bleu!" Hawkmoth shouts the exact same expression upon learning she knows.
- In Accidental Hero (CashewsAndCoconuts), Izuku decribes the Zero Pointers as "unstable giant-ass robots". Principal Nezu uses the exact same phrasing.
- Karma in Retrograde: Touya bolts for a window to climb out of when he hears his brother Natsuo's voice so he wouldn't have to face him. Unfortunately for him, Natsuo had the same idea and climbed up to the same window from the ground floor to head him off.
- The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse: When they meet for the first time, Izuku and Setsuna play the exact same prank upon each other by severing their hands off in the middle of their handshake. Setsuna winds up freaking out a little since while her limbs don't bleed when she cuts them off, Izuku's do.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- All-American Girl (Shinzakura): In "Love, Hope and Acceptance", Faust breaks down and admits how lonely she's been, questioning whether it's wrong for her to desire a romantic partner of her own. Princess Celestia suffers a very similiar breakdown over her own misery and isolation.Faust: Is it so wrong that I want someone of my own? I bleed and cry and all the other things living creatures do, why am I denied happiness? I am supposedly a living goddess... but who do I get to turn to when I need salvation from whatever The Rules are doing to me? When do I get to see my foals again? When do I get to have a love of my own? When do I— (Greg kisses her.)
Celestia: Is it so wrong that I want someone of my own? I bleed and cry and all the other things living creatures do, why am I denied happiness? I am supposedly a living goddess... but who do I get to turn to when I need my own blessings? When do I get my own life? When do I get to have a love of my own? When do I— (Sam grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her out of it.) - In A Gem of a Day, Sunset shoots down Pinkie's suggestion of distracting the chimera by shouting "Hey you!", declaring their target wouldn't fall for that. Mere moments later, Twilight, who wasn't close enough to hear their conversation, calls out "Hey you!", getting its attention — and causing Pinkie to regard Sunset smugly.
- Innocence Once Lost: Apparently, one of the side effects of being trapped upon the moon for a thousand years is that Luna now thinks very similiarly to humans, who have also built up a natural resistance to her magic that they otherwise lack. Princess Celestia is so unnerved by this that she wonders whether humans actually discovered some way to brainwash her sister into having a mentality much like their own.
- A Minor Variation: Twilight is understandably baffled by how Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns was able to procure a dragon egg for her entrance exam. Upon learning about the incident, Rarity is similarly floored, with her disbelief being phrased almost exactly the same as Twilight's, even placing emphasis on the same word.Twilight: It would have taken some sort of improbable miracle for me to be able to hatch... where did they even GET a dragon egg...
Rarity: (thinking) You're kidding, right? Where did they even GET a dragon's egg? - Sharing the Nation: Twilight and Ember independently come up with "bilizardification" as a way to r refer to Celestia splitting into two partly-draconic alicorns.
- Ice and Darkness: These are Itachi's thoughts on Sasuke building a private army of Academy Students and the fact that Obito had made the same plan a generation earlier. And given what we know about Obito's sanity, this doesn't speak well for Sasuke's mental stability. Not that this is anything new to anyone, as is mentioned a sentence later.
- Rise of the Minisukas: When Asuka unveils her Unit-02, Shinji notes it has four eyes and he wonders aloud if Unit-03 will have eight eyes since Unit-00 and 01 have one and two eyes respectively. Ten chapters later, Aoba -who has not even talked to Shinji- asks Gendo if Unit-05 has thirty-two eyes since Unit-00, 01 and 02 have one, two and four eyes.
- Zoro's Directions centers around Zoro attempting to direct Luffy and Sanji to a stand that was giving out free meatballs, despite the fact he has No Sense of Direction. Amazingly, Luffy is able to decode his instructions.
- Time Travails: Redux: When 1914!Monogram and Carl trade their fezes for Panama hats, Carl remarks that "I think they're just called 'hats' here." Later, when 1914!Doofenshmirtz comments on Perry wearing a Panama hat, Norm says the same thing.
- One Good Turn Deserves Another: After being separated from Team JNPR as the final barricades in Magnis fall, Team RWBY decides that they need to try and take down the Grimm Dragon themselves or die trying. By the time they manage to get on its back, they discover that Team JNPR had the exact same idea and actually beat them there.
- A Rabbit Among Wolves: Played for Laughs with Jaune's outfit for the Vytal Festival. Several characters, including Jaune himself, independently describe it as "a cross between a musketeer and a failed superhero".
- In Bequeathed from Pale Estates, both Tywin and Varys remark that Cersei would have made a good mummer.
- Robb Returns: Oberyn Martell and Tywin Lannister think the exact same thing about magic returning: that some fool will attempt to bring dragons back, and thus risk another Summerhallnote . Then, in the same chapter as Tywin, Viserys tells Daenerys he intends to find a way to awaken a dragon.
- The Weirwood Queen:
- Sansa and Tommen each independently dub a Cute Kitten with the name Buttons.
- Both Pyp and Olyvar Frey make the same joke about Stannis "brooding enough to hatch a flock of chickens".
- Zillo Beast for Chancellor!: Upon hearing it proposed that the Zillo Beast that ate Palpatine should become the new Chancellor, Yoda declares that this will only end poorly... and that he wants popcorn. Later, a member of the Red Guard says much the same thing; Fox even remarks upon it.
- White Sheep:
- When Jaune recounts how his mother locked his father in the dungeon, Ruby and Pyrrha comment about how strange it is to have something like that at your home... only for Weiss to declare her house has the same feature. She states that it's used to interrogate anyone caught attempting to steal from or sabotage the Schnee Dust Company.
- Nora and Ozpin both indepedently come up with calling Jaune's Grimm form "The Grimminator". Qrow also seems to like that name, as well.
- A Mother's Touch: Yoko has a talk with Yuto over how there should be a sushi Xyz archetype. Two chapters later, she sees Reiji also working on a sushi Xyz archetype.
- Shadowchasers Series: Meta-example. The cards that Bruno uses are based on characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a much Darker and Edgier theme, including an older version of Alice using a Vorpal Blade as a weapon. The author first introduced these cards in a fic called Legacy Of The Duelist, which appeared years before a certain video game with similar themes was released.
