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*** Twilight: She is attempting to hatch a dragon egg using magic, which is the entrance exam to Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns. Due to her anxiety, she chokes, and can't seem to use any magic at all. The sudden BOOM of the Sonic Rainboom causes her to panic, subconsciously opening the floodgates to her magic, not only hatching the egg and causing the dragon inside to grow huge, but turning her parents into potted plants and nearly destroying the Academy due to PowerIncontinence. Princess Celestia intervenes, and noticing that Twiight has incredible magical potential, takes her on as her personal student.

** The main cast of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': Ashe; a princess who lost her kingdom to invaders, Basch; the man who took the fall for the invasion, Balthier; outlaw SkyPirate and [[spoiler:son of one of the architects of the invasion]], Penelo; a young girl who lost her entire family to the war, Vaan; who lost his older brother to the invasion and Fran, Balthier's partner who remains level headed and reminds the rest that the world is a lot bigger than their petty squabbles.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', as everyone is drawn to the same place (the Pulse Fal'Cie Anima) through half a dozen different motivations: Lightning and Snow want to save Serah, who was abducted by Anima; Hope wants to kill Snow for [[spoiler:leading his mother to her death in the clashes against the police]] during the Purge; Vanille hopes to [[spoiler:find Fang, from whom she was separated soon after their awakening from crystal stasis by Anima]]; Sazh just tags along with Lightning because he has no real drive in life ever since his son [[spoiler:was turned into a l'Cie by a Cocoon Fal'Cie as its defense mechanism against the intruding Pulse l'Cie--namely, Vanille and Fang]]. Lastly, Fang makes an EarlyBirdCameo in flashback cutscenes, interacting with Lightning and Snow before the Purge, and is basically driven by the desire to reunite with [[spoiler:her fellow Pulse l'Cie Vanille, though she enlists the help of the military opposed to the Purge]].

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler: Squall, Selphie, Seifer, Quistis, Irvine, and Zell were at the same orphanage when they were little kids and have all forgotten about it]]. Well, except Irvine--that's how they figured it out in the first place.
*** While [[spoiler:Rinoa wasn't from the orphanage, but she did have a relationship with Seifer]]. She is also the daughter of [[spoiler:of Julia, who was Squall's father's crush, and another man born after Laguna, Squall's father, was presumed dead]].
** And in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', as everyone is drawn to the same place (the Pulse Fal'Cie Anima) through half a dozen different motivations: Lightning and Snow want to save Serah, who was abducted by Anima; Hope wants to kill Snow for [[spoiler:leading his mother to her death in the clashes against the police]] during the Purge; Vanille hopes to [[spoiler:find Fang, from whom she was separated soon after their awakening from crystal stasis by Anima]]; Sazh just tags along with Lightning because he has no real drive in life ever since his son [[spoiler:was turned into a l'Cie by a Cocoon Fal'Cie as its defense mechanism against the intruding Pulse l'Cie--namely, Vanille and Fang]]. Lastly, Fang makes an EarlyBirdCameo in flashback cutscenes, interacting with Lightning and Snow before the Purge, and is basically driven by the desire to reunite with [[spoiler:her fellow Pulse l'Cie Vanille, though she enlists the help of the military opposed to the Purge]].

* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', you soon realize that EVERYONE is connected, from the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Mikado to the ShrinkingViolet Anri to her StalkerWithACrush teacher Nasujima to IntrepidReporter Niekawa to TheFairFolk Celty to the MisterExposition Shinra to ManipulativeBastard Izaya to the amazingly ImprobableWeaponUser Shizuo to the FrozenFace Kasuka to IdolSinger Ruri to the ButtMonkey fanboy Togusa to the TortureTechnician otakus Walker and Erica the PerpetualFrowner Kadota to the ScaryBlackMan Simon to the LargeHam Kida to ALoveToDismember Seiji to InsaneTrollLogic practitioner Namie to... well... everyone. Someone should make a chart about this.
** Slightly out of date, but [[http://kokuun.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/drrr-relationships.png done]].
** More complete [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lay4mjvfw61qbiooko1_1280.jpg]].
* Similarly ''Literature/{{Baccano}}.'' which is written by the same author but set in prohibition-era America. Most of the characters are or are at least connected to gangsters though.

* The majority of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise, particularly ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Sonic Adventures 1]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 2]]'', had Sonic and the other playable characters take separate routes, each relating to their respective arcs, only for all of them to intersect in an unlockable final-storyline.

* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'': although Yumenosaki Academy is actually a full-sized school, all the audience ever sees are the same 40-odd main characters. This makes sense when it comes to idol units, as all of the faceless characters are simply implied to be in units together, but it gets a bit more confusing when it comes to clubs (do the Tennis and Basketball clubs really only have four members each?) and classes (in one event the six characters we know from 2-A put on a 'Class Live' together - did they invite any of the other guys?). Also, due to the writers' love of mixing and matching weird combinations of characters, the students have a striking tendency to randomly run into each other all over the place. It gets a bit weird when all of the main characters' relationships are ''so'' well-defined and elaborate (you'd be hard-pressed to find two characters who don't at least have one other character in common) and yet there are apparently large numbers of other students entirely left out of all this.

* In ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', the three separate subplots involving Lennox's team, the NSA hackers, and Sam and Mikaela (as well as the main plot about, y'know, the giant robots) all converge when everyone is assembled at the Hoover Dam for the final battle.

%%* Many heroes (cybertronian and human) in the ''{{Transformers}}'' TheMultiverse are connected to one another in some fashion or another.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', you soon realize that literally EVERYONE is connected, from the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Mikado to the ShrinkingViolet Anri to her StalkerWithACrush teacher Nasujima to IntrepidReporter Niekawa to TheFairFolk Celty to the MisterExposition Shinra to ManipulativeBastard Izaya to the amazingly ImprobableWeaponUser Shizuo to the FrozenFace Kasuka to IdolSinger Ruri to the ButtMonkey fanboy Togusa to the TortureTechnician otakus Walker and Erica the PerpetualFrowner Kadota to the ScaryBlackMan Simon to the LargeHam Kida to ALoveToDismember Seiji to InsaneTrollLogic practitioner Namie to... well... everyone. Someone should make a chart about this.

* Similarly ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}.'' which is written by the same author but set in prohibition-era America. Most of the characters are or are at least connected to gangsters though.

* During the first part of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link helps a number of characters of various races in their homelands. Seven years later, the majority of them discover that they are actually the sages of various elements. While exceptions exist, the pattern is sufficiently established that, when Link goes back to his youth and meets Nabooru, the player can easily guess that the same thing will happen to her. A similar thing happens in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds''.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', you soon realize that literally EVERYONE is connected, from the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Mikado to the ShrinkingViolet Anri to her StalkerWithACrush teacher Nasujima to KnifeNut Haruna to IntrepidReporter Niekawa to TheFairFolk Celty to the MisterExposition Shinra to ManipulativeBastard Izaya to the amazingly ImprobableWeaponUser Shizuo to the FrozenFace Kasuka to IdolSinger Ruri to the ButtMonkey fanboy Togusa to the TortureTechnician otakus Walker and Erica the PerpetualFrowner Kadota to the ScaryBlackMan Simon to the LargeHam Kida to ALoveToDismember Seiji to InsaneTrollLogic practitioner Namie to... well... everyone. Someone should make a chart about this.

* For a game who's Main/Tagline is 'Everything is Connected' it comes as no suprise that VideoGame/WatchDogs ultimeately reveals that most of the people Aiden interacts with in the game is in some way connected to the death of his niece, which set him down his path in the first place. When he and his friend [[FaceHeelTurn turned enemy]] Damien try to hack Mob Boss, Lucky Quinn's hotel, gang leader Iraq hacks them at the same time, to steal blackmail on the Chicago Mayor, set up via a deal between Quinn and the company Blume. Mistaking Aiden and Damien for going after said file Quinn has one of his own hackers for hire, Clara Lille, track them down, before getting Iraq to hire Maurice, the hitman, to kill Aiden, which he fails to do, resulting in Lena's death, and Clara having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone induced HeelFaceTurn. Even Aiden's other ally Ray Kenny is very loosely tied to it as the blackmail was footage of the mayor killing his girlfriend, a former colleague of Ray's who turned whistle blower with him, putting her on Blume's hit list, causing them to manipulate the mayor and her together in the first place. Everything is connected indeed.

* In ''[[VideoGame/LiveALive]]'', each scenario feels separate until the Middle Ages chapter is played and reveals that the BigBad is [[spoiler:Oersted, the chapter's protagonist who becomes the Lord of Dark Odio at the end of the scenario, and he has been terrorizing and testing humanity in all the previous chapters using his various incarnations.]] The Final Chapter involves all of the protagonists from the previous scenarios (should the player choose one of them) being teleported to the BigBad's home world to confront them.

* In ''[[VideoGame/LiveALive Live-A-Live]]'', each scenario feels separate until the Medieval chapter is played and reveals that the BigBad is [[spoiler:Oersted, the chapter's protagonist who becomes the Demon King Odio at the end of the scenario, and he has been terrorizing and testing humanity in all the previous chapters using his various incarnations.]] The Final chapter involves all of the protagonists from the previous scenarios (should the player choose one of them) being teleported to the BigBad's home world to confront them.

"We are all connected" isn't just hippie-dippie jargon; in Fictionland it's a universal constant like gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces. In a narrative with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (or even as few as two), these will [[JustForFun/HowToGatherCharacters invariably be drawn together]] no matter how far away or distinct the characters and their troubles are. They probably won't stick together as strongly as the CharacterMagneticTeam, but what ends up happening is that everyone meets at least once and they build at least a working relationship. Essentially, every character works on a different aspect of the plot; while one tracks down the [[AngelUnaware mysterious]] woman in [[EtherealWhiteDress white]], another fights the killer after her, and a third is trying to find out where the killer gets his orders from.

* Averted on ''Series/TrueBlood'' due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and multiple sub-plots. Seasons 2 and 4 came the closest to involving all the main characters, but even then, there were a couple missing (Eric and Pam had nothing to do with Maryanne in Season 2; Sam had nothing to do with Marnie in Season 4).

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%%* A standard in [[LiveActionRoleplayingGame Live Action Roleplaying Games]], as otherwise the characters would have little reason to interact with each other.
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* The cast of ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'' has developed a tendency to become either distantly or directly involved in each others problems. Characters whose plots haven't fully begun yet like Monica and Meria are especially prone to this.

* ''Franchise/StarWars''. Oh, Star Wars... If you're not a Jedi, a Jedi's close friend, or take orders from a Jedi, you're welcome to live a normal, unremarkable life. If you are one of those things, you will be dragged into an intergalactic war with the Sith. Eventually you will be packed into a small area for the final bit of Rising Action before the Climactic Fight Scene with every other named character who fits this description. This will play out the same way regardless of any qualifications any of you may or may not have about fighting evil robots and space ninjas. The ''only'' thing more powerful than the Force in a galaxy far, far away is coincidence. (Although considering that TheForce flows through everything, they may be one and the same.)