Is it worth having one for the Crisis Core part of Final Fantasy VII?

SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY

He only meets Yuffie, Aerith and Tifa. He also works, in a sense, under Reeve (Controller of Caith Sith #Whatever). Now, the editor suggested that they didn't remember, but I wish to suggest that Yuffie was so hyper, she didn't think anything of it. Secondly, Aerith DID, in FFVII, make many references (though not in name) to Zack, even going out in tears when visiting his parents. Lastly, Tifa does seem to remember him, but, as we find out through the course of the story, she hides a lot of the knowledge of the past in order to keep Cloud happy.

Removed a couple examples from the Contrived Coincidence page that I felt were faulty. Remember that this concept is being defined as "...a highly improbable occurrence in a story which is required by the plot, but which has absolutely no outward justification". With that in mind, the removed Back to the Future example and the Dresden Files example, and probably a lot of others I didn't address, do not fit.

The cited part from Back to the Future complained that it was too big of a coincidence that Biff went back to the same point that Marty went back to in the first movie. How justifiable this is could be debated all day, but the important fact is that what date, specifically, he chose was not terribly important to the plot.

The cited part from the Dresden Files involved the divine intervention that follows the Knights of the Cross; this divine intervention represents a concrete force at work within the novel, and so does not fall under the definition of having "no outward justification".

Many of these other examples should probably be looked at as well.

I know I've seen an entry for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in an article in these lines, and I suppose it must have been this one. So I suppose it has been here and was removed. Can someone give a reason why? (It was about no-one being killed by the basilisk because everyone just happened to see it only in a reflection or something.)

These are general comments. The example section is for specific example works. Please see How To Write An Example, particularly the Keep It An Example: subsection.

• Is there an anime or manga without a scene where two characters don't just happen to bump into each other? Tokyo isn't that small, is it?

• Most gay romance novels (especially those with teenagers) are practically built on this trope, where the couples meet in contexts not necessarily related to gay people or finding a lover. This means they're beating a 90% chance that the other person is straight.

What do we call a coincidence contrived by the characters? (You know, a plot that's meant to resemble a coincidence.)