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* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Through her first successful Sonic Rainboom, Rainbow Dash was indirectly responsible for all of her future friends getting their cutie marks. They wouldn't realize this until they all met years later. (For those unfamiliar with the series, this translates to "a tomboyish pegasus went so fast she created a rainbow/sonic boom hybrid that was indirectly responsible for a bunch of ponies hitting puberty and getting magical, life-defining tramp stamps." This is kind of a weird show.)

* LampShaded by [[DoctorWho the Doctor]] in the End Of Time Part 1, he has just realised that [[spoiler: TheMaster has come BackFromTheDead]] and is amazed that Wilf has been able to find him in the space of a day, where some people can spend years searching for him. Also happens with Donna in Partners In Crime, so that the Doctor suspects that the Noble family have a very important role to play in events to come. He's proved right both times in [[TearJerker horrible ways]]

* In ''What's Up, Doc?'', all of the owners of the four handbags, plus their various friends, associates, and loved ones, find themselves staying at ''exactly'' the same hotel. This leads to what is possibly [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the best chase scene in cinema history]].

* {{Baccano}}.

* Valentine's Day had this as their main gimmick, but it manages to play off as a bit more realistic than at first glance, due to not all "connections" being particularly plot important or advertised.

* Terry Pratchett, author of the {{Discworld}} series, lampshades this in ''Moving Pictures'':

* Effectively averted (so far) in George RR Martin's ASongOfIceAndFire - there will often be two or more viewpoint characters sharing a few scenes ([[JustifiedTrope particularly at major gatherings like weddings and tournaments]]), but characters wander away from one another just as often as they meet up, and there hasn't yet been a single gathering of all (or even most) if the main characters.

* Many characters [[{{TheFatherLukeWolfetrilogy}} Father Wolfe]] encounters are either his own former students, or the ''parents'' of former or present students.
* The many different plot threads in PeterFHamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained all follow different characters who, through one way or another, end up working against the BigBad.
* Many of the characters in A Confederacy of Dunces are completely unrelated until a comical convergence of events at the end.

* A trait of the story mode in SuperSmashBros Brawl.
* [[LiveALive Live-A-Live]]. Without spoiling anything, just look at the names of each Chapter's BigBad.

* {{Bacanno}}.

* {{YMMV}} on its success in Valentine's Day

* ''[[Theatre/{{Twilight}} Twilight:Los Angeles]]''.

* The many different plot threads in PeterFHamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained all follow different characters who, through one way or another, end up working against [[spoiler: The Starflyer]].

** 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.

* In ''{{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 ImprobableWeaponsUser 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.

The series might justify this with these characters having an interwoven "fate", or their alikeness (super powers, being supernaturals, street fighters, card duelists or what have you) naturally draw them to each other. Now, if it turns out they're all signifcant to each other ''before'' the story starts, you're looking at OneDegreeOfSeparation. If they all stick together after meeting, then they form a CharacterMagneticTeam. Related to the LawOfConservationOfDetail, in that if they weren't part of the story the author wanted to tell, they wouldn't have been included in the work. Contrasts with DucksInARow. Sometimes occurs because EveryoneIsRelated, other times everyone shared a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent. See also HyperlinkStory.

** It ''is'' stated that the sages were people Link knew.

* In ''{{Durarara}}'', you soon realize that literally EVERYONE is connected, from the ''OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent'' Mikado to ''TheFairFolk'' Celty to ''ManipulativeBastard'' Izaya to... well... everyone. (I'll get back to this later.)

* In ''[[Durarara]]'', you soon realize that literally EVERYONE is connected, from the ''OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent'' Mikado to ''theFairFolk'' Celty to ''ManipulativeBastard'' Izaya to... well... everyone. (I'll get back to this later.)

** It ''is'' stated that the sages were people Link knew, {{so yeah}}...

* Live-A-Live. Without spoiling anything, just look at the names of each Chapter's BigBad.

*''HotelDuskRoom215'': Every single person checked into the hotel has SOME connection to Kyle's search for Bradly. Every. Last. One. Well, Room 215 ''is'' called the wish room...

* The cast of ''DeptHeavenApocrypha'' has developed a tendency to become either distantly or directly involved in each other's problems. Characters whose plots haven't fully begun yet like Monica and Meria are especially prone to this.