Commonality Connections in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Amazing Fantasy: Izuku and Sero quickly strike up a friendship over their shared desire to attend U.A. and usage of Building Swinging to get around when they meet on Bepsi Tower.
- In the Battlestar Galactica (2003)/Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles crossover "An Angel With No Fate
", one reason that the teenage John Connor and Kara Thrace form such a strong bond is that they each consider Cameron a person rather than judge her as a machine, Kara recalling how Cameron actually saved her life when she was initially created in the future as proof that Cameron can act beyond her programming. - Avengers: Infinite Wars:
- Invoked when the Guardians of the Galaxy and their allies learn of Vision's connection to Ultron, Gamora subtly reminding Rocket that he trusts her despite her history with Thanos as a means of convincing him to trust Vision in turn.
- The heroes having a connection to Ultron is also referenced due to Wanda and Pietro's powers also being attributed to the Mind Stone; since Ultron was created from the same source, the Avengers keep the Maximoff twins out of potential stealth missions against Ultron in case he can sense their power based on that connection.
- Throughout Avengers of the Ring and its sequels, various characters bond over small but significant things they share, ranging from Clint Barton obviously bonding with Legolas and Bard (the great-grandson of the bowman who killed Smaug) due to their status as archers, to Scott Lang encouraging Beorn to join the opposition against Thanos by mentioning how Cassie inspires Scott to be a hero, reminding Beorn of his own daughter.
- Luna and Emerald in Chapter 42 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant form a bond with each other thanks to their past lives as thieves who were forced to do whatever it took to survive.
- The Bridge (MLP) has this happen all the time, often between the two casts.
- Princess Luna and Godzilla Junior are both dutiful protectors of their respective realms and had a sad ending to their relationship with their father figures. note
- Both Aria Blaze and Monster X are homesick in a way. Aria is physically barred from her home in the sea due to being in the Equestria Girls world and in a human body. X meanwhile is missing his metaphorical home because he lost all his memories of it.
- Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: This is what helps Reisen, who normally doesn't like humans, form a friendship with Kiva: both of them were soldiers with their respective factions that weren't serving at present, both of them daily had to put up with the whimsical actions of their associates, and they both had to adjust to entirely new circumstances.
- The First Halfa: Egon Spengler is contacted by the Guys in White to examine an ectoplasmic sample retrieved from the Ghost-Boy of Amity Park, as they wish to determine if they are dealing with a human-turned-ghost based on Egon's own experience of such a transformation ("Egon's Ghost"). While Egon is able to confirm that this is the case, he hides his discovery from the GiW as he recognises that they just want to catch the Ghost-Boy while he's human and vulnerable, whereas Egon can now see that the Ghost-Boy is a teen hero defending his town whose only mistakes are because he's still learning what he's capable of. When Egon shares this information with the other Ghostbusters, they all agree to keep it secret and stay out of Amity Park to stop the GiW finding their target, reflecting that the Ghost-Boy is the only new generation ghost hunter they genuinely respect as he's doing it for the right reasons rather than to, for example, sadistically experiment on the ghosts he defeats.
- God of War: Chains of the Heart: One of the major things Kratos and Sora bond over is their shared Blood Knight natures. Both really enjoy fighting powerful opponents, and they have protracted, engaging conversations (especially notable since Kratos isn't much of a talker even with the people he's friends with) on the enemies they've fought and the best ways to kill them.
- Heroes of the New World; Izuku and Yamato bond over their Hero Worship tendencies for their respective idols All Might and Kozuki Oden, sharing stories with one another about their heroes' adventures and achievements.
- "Heroes" Series;
- While he doesn't quite act on it, Slade Wilson feels a strong connection to Willow Rosenberg as he watches her reunite with Tara, holding the Scooby Gang back from interfering and recognizing that only Tara can actually solve the situation thanks to his own experiences with Shado.
- Freya Mikaelson and Erik Lensherr end up having one with each other, which leads to both of them ending up in a relationship, and later happily living together.
- I'm Nobody: Joker and Della Duck form a friendship based on how they're both Ace Pilots with a love of adventure who are both disabled (Joker has Osteogenesis Imperfecta while Della is missing a leg). Joker even says that he should learn from her example.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: The Red Lotus Trio (Chloe, Atticus and Lexi) end up bonding cause they have similar connections.
- They're all into stories. Atticus recites tales from his kingdom and reads classic novels, Chloe has a knack for writing macabre tales and Lexi himself is a book that records the accounts of cars within the train.
- They're all excited to explore the train for different reasons: Atticus wants another adventure, Chloe is journeying to find herself, and Lexi wants to explore the other cars and hopefully have a chance to get revenge on Grace and Simon (who buried him alive for years).
- The three are unable to forgive someone in their pasts: Chloe can't forgive her father or Goh for favoring Pokémon over her, Atticus will not let Amelia go so easily for the torment she unleashed as the Conductor, and Lexi wants nothing more than to hurt Grace and Simon.
- Interdimensional Cartoon Discussion and Support Group:
- Camila, Oum and Bee bond over having to cope with a child Trapped in Another World.
- Dipper, Luz and (virtually) Marcy, Lilith and Ford do so over their love of codes and ciphers and form a sort of club to solve the ones in their shows.
- Hop Pop and Willow over farming and gardening.
- Polly and King bond over their shared mischievous streaks, planning to use the Mystery Shack's copier to make clones of themselves after seeing it in action in "Double Dipper".
- Pacifica, Sasha and Amity all bond over previously being haughty mean girls who Took a Level in Kindness over the course of their series. Their understanding of each other allows them to figure out each others identities despite the spoiler effect during the second break.
- J-WITCH Series:
- In "The Underwater Mines", Jade and Caleb bond over their similar headstrong attitudes and senses of loyalty.
- "Down to Earth" reveals that at some point offscreen, Jade formed a friendship with Martin over a shared love of superhero comics. Near the end of the chapter, he forms a similar bond with Irma over the same subject.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: During the Beacon Dance, Jaune and Weiss bond over having Parental Issues and rebelling against their parents. Jaune's parents were extremely overbearing and overprotective, while Weiss's father was distant and emotionally abusive. This led both to strike out on their own and come to Beacon.Jaune: (raises glass) To crazy parents?
Weiss: (toasts) To striking out on our own. - The Lightning Strike: After learning from Thor that wizards such as Harry were apparently initially empowered by the Reality Stone/Aether, other Avengers compare it to how Pietro and Wanda's powers come from the Mind Stone, and Maria Hill mentions Carol Danvers as another example of a human being empowered by an Infinity Stone.
- In the Power Rangers in Space/Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series crossover "Lost and Found", Wildwing swiftly bonds with Andros when he observes Andros’s reaction to the idea of Karone being in danger and compares it to his own response if anything threatens Nosedive.
- Lost in Camelot:
- When Kenzi discusses her past with Lancelot, she is ashamed to admit to some of her previous acts, such as theft, but Lancelot assures her that he understands that committing such acts to survive doesn't mean she's not a good person given what he has done to survive himself.
- Kilgharrah explains at one point that the bond between dragons and trolls is because the dragons once joined a group of the more intelligent underfae in demanding better treatment from the rest of their kind, as dragons are another example of a species that cannot pass undetected among humans.
- Lost to Dust: Weiss Schnee and Oda Nobunaga have a bonding moment when they learn they are both looked down upon by their families, and that they both have bratty Non-Action Guy little brothers.
- In one "What If?" scenario in Manehattan's Lone Guardian where Leviathan ends up in the EG side of the mirror, she discovers that she and Sunset Shimmer have a few things in common where their pasts were concerned (i.e. ruining other people's lives for what they believed was the right reasons).
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Danny Fenton discovers that he has some traits in common with (most of) his dates.
- He is a teen hero that also has to juggle school and family life, like Kim, Alex, Gwen, Kara, Jenny, Violet, April,Lita/Makoto and Barbara.
- He has superpowers which he uses to protect others, just like Gwen, Kara, Kitty, Violet and Starfire.
- He has a secret double life, like Alex, Musa, Cleo, Felicia, Kara, Barbara and Diana.
- He is connected to the paranormal world, just like Phanty, Spectra, Cleo, Musa and Sabrina.
- He is half ghost, while Spectra and Phantasma are full ghosts.
- He and Daria are both Deadpan Snarkers, with little tolerance for jerks.
- He has expressed a desire to live a normal life, just as Debbie did.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: Izuku meets Momo Yaoyorozu early in the story, and after helping her retrieve her cellphone from a sewer, the two quickly become friends over their shared dream of being Pro Heroes and admiration for Princess Shazam.
- New Stars: Isaac notices how the Republic's treatment of the clones is not too dissimilar to how the Builders treated the first Kaylon (even likening the pain receptors to the clones' inhibitor chips).
- Paragons of Virtue and Glory:
- Izuku quickly becomes friends with Ruby and Jaune because of their shared hope to become heroes and help protect the innocent from evil.
- One of the outros has Mei Hatsume becoming friends with Ruby because they both love engineering and creating stuff.
- Yang bonds with Kirishima because he's a Blood Knight Boisterous Bruiser like her, and Kaminari because they're both Pungeon Masters.
- Todoroki and Weiss connect due to their use of ice as a weapon and having abusive fathers. This causes Mercury Black to also feel connected with them.
- In Peter Parker Needs A Hug, Bruce Wayne finally gets Peter to open up to him about what he's been through by telling him he knows first hand what it feels like to lose someone you love, leading to Peter finally accepting Bruce as his new mentor/father-figure and the Bats as his new family.
- PRT Threat Assessment: Batman invokes the trope. Celestia (a stranger to the group) is having a Heroic BSoD, so he tells Wonder Woman to go comfort her. Why Wonder Woman specifically?Batman: Because you and she are both millennium-old Greek-themed princesses with penchants for golden jewelry. Plenty of common ground.
- RWBY: Epic of Remnant: EMIYA Alter befriends Ruby Rose due to their mutual love of weapons, especially guns.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Jade and Metalbeak connect in Chapter 20 when she compares her act of killing Shendu to end his threat over the world once and for all to Metalbeak's quest to kill Vera's grandfather for all he did to the Mogriffs.
- In Chapter 29, Vathek sadly reflects on the fact that he and Amelia both share the tragedy of a close friend (Caleb and Vera, respectively) going rogue out of obsession.
- Caroline starts befriending Sofia and Maya when the two healers recognize her medical skills and ask her help in Snowpoint's healing wing.
- A Song of Silk and Saplings: Elizant II and Hornet end up forming a bond over both being expected to step into the shoes of extremely accomplished, beloved and successful monarchs despite not feeling even slightly up to the task, and over being from groups originally native to Deepnest.
- Strange Potter: When Bruce Banner is helping Remus Lupin research a cure for his condition, he shows Remus a video of the Hulk in action to help Lupin realise that Bruce understands what it's like to fear a part of yourself that could be capable of great destruction.
- Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future: Darry Fenton and Maxwell Neutron are always fighting and arguing until they are captured by SpongeCog, and when trying to escape, they bond over the discovery that they both suffer from an Inferiority Superiority Complex due to the pressure they feel about having to live up to their fathers' legacy.
- Turnabout Storm: Princess Celestia acknowledges that Twilight and Phoenix will get along very well the moment Twilight starts talking about "contradictions" much in the same way Phoenix does. Indeed, after some bumps in the road, they end up considering each other a friend.
- The Ultimate Big Brother: Aoi Asahina and Charlotte Katakuri strike up a friendship as the two find they have the same Trademark Favorite Food in donuts.
- Dirty Sympathy: Klavier and Apollo become drawn to each other when they reveal that they're both abuse victims in situations they can't escape from.
- Trade Us for the World:
- While Marcy attempts to invoke this once she moves to Connecticut, she sadly finds that none of the clubs she tries out for are willing to welcome her in. The Chess Club members get upset when she does too well during her introductory matches; the Math Club members ignore her efforts to get involved in their conversations; and the Creatures & Caverns Club is in the middle of a three-month campaign, and don't really want her around as an audience.
- Invoked by Percy when he confides to Anne how badly he wants to leave Toad Tower, commenting that "I guess you out of everyone here would understand that."
- To Hell and Back (Arrowverse); Barry and Eddie's first interaction that isn't outright hatred comes about when Eddie's parents reveal that he used to be a fencer. Barry challenges him to a friendly duel, and they begin to joke about who would win.
- In Bring Me to Life, Lorne, Xander, and Andrew end up briefly bonding over their shared appreciation for jazz singers.
- A Certain Droll Hivemind: Abe Eiko bonds with Yui over running and cute animals. Or, that's what Yui thinks they're bonding over. Eiko has actually realized that Yui is a product of some Dark Side experiment (though it's pretty clear she doesn't know any of the details), and commiserates over some of the physical and mental side effects such things cause. During the attack on the mall, it turns out Eiko was a Dark Side assassin, and she and Yui take down the assailants without too much trouble. After, Yui asks Eiko why their flatmates were acting strange (that is, not being disturbingly calm in a life-threatening situation), the first time she asked anyone for explicit help.
- Danganronpa 2/3 Redux: Return Unto Death: Ibuki and Kaede hit it off right away due to their shared love of music.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Denial:
- While Teruteru greatly dislikes Nagito after how he nearly slit his throat while trying to kickstart the mutual killing game, he also feels some sympathy for him, believing that both of them are Dirty Cowards who tell lots of lies and hide behind a false front.
- He feels similarly about the Imposter once they're exposed to the rest of the students.
- Kazuichi Strangelove: Kazuichi and Mahiru gradually grow closer after realizing that both of them have had rather poor childhoods, along with how both of them have had to effectively parent their fathers at times.
- In A Student Out of Time, Iroha and Jataro end up bonding over their mutual love of art, and eventually their mutually abusive upbringings. After hearing about how much his mother despised him, she decides to become his big sister, promising to let him know how much he's loved.
- Resurrected Memories: How Sam and Ember/Amberline end up becoming friends, along with the former’s willingness to help the latter defeat Paulina in the prom bet. Both girls are fans of dark clothing, the band Kiss and share a mutual hatred towards Paulina and the A-Listers, which help cement a genuine friendship between the two girls.
- "The Beginning of Uncertainty" begins in an AU aftermath of The Flash (2023) where Barry's actions create a new timeline. Barry initially assumes that he has “reset” reality like he did originally, but later learns that Kara Zor-El also remembers the events of that timeline, the two swiftly reaffirming their previous alliance and helping the other face their losses while acknowledging their role as heroes.
- Cassandra and the Inquisitor are able to eventually become friends in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium in part because of this trope. They have something particularly unpleasant in common; they both know what it's like to lose their brothers.
- In the AU fanfic All This Venatori Nonsense, Inquisitor Trevelyan tries to invoke this by suggesting he and a Venatori Dorian Pavus can be civil over their mutual hatred of red lyrium. Dorian retorts that "a distrust of blighted lyrium and breathing do not friends make".
- Unlikely: Purpled and Tommy quickly strike up a friendship over their shared desire to become knights.
- Fate/Starry Night: Lancer is surprised to learn that Ritsuka, a human from the Age of Man, has also been trained by his teacher Scáthach. This interests Lancer enough to spare Ritsuka's life.
- A Chance for a New Dawn: Bernadetta is very concerned that Monica suddenly wants to bury the hatchet and be good acquaintances just a few hours after their deadly fight in the mock battle. Throughout the story, Monica gets along with Bernadetta and her friends and even joins on most of her house's missions. It's until Chapter 19 where Bernadetta learns she is half-Agarthan from her mother's side. Monica is also half-Agarthan, but she figures out Bernadetta's ancestry early on when she drew blood out of her during the mock battle, and constantly hangs out with her since "half-breeds need to stick together".
- build your wings on the way down: Edward and Gabby bond when they talk about being disturbed by the quiet of their rooms after growing up with a family.
- Teachers Outside of the Classroom: The reason Libby asked Mrs. Roop for advice on how to ask Molly out was because the latter is an open lesbian who's happily married and has lots of personal experience with queer issues. This makes her one of the few people who knows Libby is gay.
- Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived;
- After her first lesson with Lupin reveals Daphne’s fear of being rejected by her friends, Lupin asks her to stay behind and offer his own insights into that fear, although he avoids directly discussing his werewolf status at this point.
- During Christmas at the Burrow over her sixth year, Daphne helps Fleur bond with Ginny by observing how Fleur's issues being judged as a Veela instead of her own skills (and how Bill was the first to see her as a person) are similar to her own troubles being judged as a Slytherin rather than as an individual.
- Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Italy and Japan have this. Despite having vastly different personalities, they both liked literature, anime, manga, fencing, food, and cats. They both even cosplayed as Light Yagami and Teru Mikami respectively from Death Note. To say Germany wasn't pleased with this would be a massive understatement.
- Ruby Pair: Dib feels a bond with Lard Nar when they meet in "Frosting the 13th" and the latter starts ranting about how he was the only one who saw Invader Larb as the threat that he was, much like Dib's situation with Zim.
- A Tale of Two Rulers: Vaati might be The Starscream and an Abhorrent Admirer to Zelda, but when they work together on a Magitek experiment, they bond over their shared love of magic theory. It actually provokes a Heel Realization from Vaati and motivates him to act better.
- 14, 000, 606 opens with Peter Parker performing the Snap to kill Thanos rather than Tony Stark. After Peter survives through urgent medical treatment at Wakanda (albeit at the cost of his left arm and eye, as well as heavy scarring), Thor and Hulk each observe that they share something significant with Peter; he and Thor are the two who vanquished Thanos, and Peter and Hulk each used the Infinity Stones. As an acknowledgement of their bond, Thor gives Peter the cybernetic eye he received from Rocket to replace Peter's lost eye.
- Because I Knew You opens with Wanda Maximoff coming to New York to investigate the spell compelling the world to forget Peter Parker. While Peter assumes that "Lizzie" doesn't remember him any more than the rest of the world, the two soon find themselves bonding over how they lost everyone else in their lives after the Snap and literally nobody else was there for them when things went wrong. They also discreetly acknowledge that they might have been part of the reason they lost contact with the other Avengers, as they were each so focused on their bonds with Tony and the Vision respectively that they didn’t spend as much time with the rest of the team.
- “A Far, Far Better Thing I Do” depicts an alternate set of events post-Avengers: Endgame, with a key difference being that the other Avengers get involved in Peter Parker’s fight with the displaced villains in the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. After Norman Osborn has been put back in control of himself, Bucky Barnes observes to Osborn that he has experience of being a super-soldier with no control of himself, advising Osborn to find something to focus on that’s changed in a good way from how things were before his accident. On a more humorous note, when DUM-E enters the room, Octavius’s arms basically decide to regard the other robot as “their stupid little cousin” even though they were created by completely independent scientists.
- "Caught in her Web" is essentially a Spider-Gwen AU where Peter Parker became Gwen's tech expert and lover rather than mutating himself into the Lizard. After he and Gwen begin a physical relationship, Peter forms an unexpected bond with Doctor Jane Foster when exploring options on how to cope with being the lover of a physically enhanced hero, such as how Gwen and Thor would destroy most regular beds considering their great strength.
- Crimson and Noire: Back when anti-akuma prejudice was high, former akumas like Ivan, Aurore, and Mylene got close because of their past as Monarch's brainwashed minions and since they were orchestrated by their classmates because of what they did while Brainwashed and Crazy.
- In Fashion Upgrade, an Odd Friendship develops between Nino and Chloe due to how both are protective towards Adrien. This leads to an in-joke about them 'adopting' him, play-fighting over who gets custody.
- Feralnette AU:
- This is Played for Drama during Enough Rope: Chloé tells Marinette that they've both been screwed over by Hawkmoth, convinced that Hawkmoth has something to do with how Marinette Stopped Caring about her friends, fashion and social life.
- Felix takes more of an interest in Marinette after seeing some of the designs in her sketchbook and realizing that she's also interested in fashion.
- Played for Laughs in one chapter of Squad Goals, where Guardian Su-Han comes to check up on Team Miraculous and Ladybug worries that her teammate's Bunny-Ears Lawyer antics would end up enraging him. Su-Han ends up sympathizing with her instead, as he knows the burden of being the Only Sane Man.
- Played for Laughs in Tidal waves; Alya instantly clicks with Adrien after learning that he's also interested in Ladybug. Marinette finds herself shuddering with unease without understanding why.
- Weight Off Your Shoulder puts a dark spin on this: Chloe is confident that she'll be able to work well with Gabriel Agreste and his legal team because both of them want to control Adrien's life. Gabriel because he's an Abusive Parent and Chloe because she feels entitled to Adrien.
- 1-X: Izuku and Pony quickly hit it off once Izuku reveals he can not only understand Pony, but speak English himself, the two regularly having entire conversations in English while others can only guess what they're talking about. Add on the two of them finding common ground in being massive hero nerds and Pony standing up to Bakugo for Izuku's sake, the two quickly become close, with Izuku even considering Pony his new best friend.
- In From Muddy Waters, Todoroki takes an interest in Izuku after seeing his discomfort with his Quirk despite his clear skill with it. He began wondering if Izuku was like him: a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb raised by his Vicariously Ambitious father. Because of this, he begins trying to get closer to Izuku, sitting with him at lunch, offering him a seat on the bus, and working with him in a group. Izuku is utterly ashamed when he realizes this, as his father never beat him- only emotionally manipulated into accepting more and more Quirks. During their fight at the Sports Festival, Izuku firmly tells Todoroki to not let his father's ambitions control him. Unlike in canon, Todoroki is so shaken by this that he forfeits the match instead of using his fire powers.
- The Scorpion Jar:
- All of the allies Izuku gathers while enacting his plan to bring Aldera Middle School down from the inside were also being bullied. By the time the school is closed down, he's come to consider them to be actual friends.
- Kagami Atsuko, the reporter who winds up interviewing Izuku, quickly connects with him due to the fact that her own daughter is Quirkless.
- With Confidence: Izuku and Nedzu bond over the fact that they are both smart people who suffered for being different from the norm of society.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Slice of Velvet and Pear, Fluttershy and Moondancer manage to bond over their shared social anxiety, after Moondancer is left shaken by suddenly being surrounded by a crowd of ponies.
- Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison:
- Kabuto tries to forge a connection with Sakura by commenting that "us civilian-borns gotta stick together". This backfires; hearing that from a practical stranger only serves to raise her hackles and her guard.
- After watching Sakura's match with Ino, Gai notes to himself that a common thread runs between her, Tenten, and himself: all three of them have been severely underestimated and scrutinized due to their humble backgrounds and lack of fancy clan jutsus. He's also acutely familiar with how it feels to be rejected and isolated due to not fitting the mold, and worries that Sakura might face the same judgement after how she took down a clan heiress.
- Sakura and Tenten immediately bond over how both feel as though they're the Only Sane Members of their respective genin teams.
- Ffreire's NaruFox AU: Played for Laughs when Team Seven meets Zabuza. While Kakashi already knows him as a mercenary, his genin team sees how he shares their teacher's distinctive fashion sense and leaps to the conclusion that they're brothers. Zabuza is more than happy to roll with it and claim the kids as his nephews and niece, while Kakashi protests that none of them are related.
- Five Petals:
- Kakashi tries to get Sasuke to see their similarities by telling him about how he used to be "a prideful little jerk who never felt good enough, but hated when other people were better than me" when he was his age.
- After the preliminary matches, Sasuke and Lee find themselves bonding over how both of them received crippling injuries during their fights, though they play a rather furious round of Misery Poker first.
- Obito-Sensei: Tenten brings this up to Sakura as to why the two have grown so close, even outside of the former training the latter in kenjutsu. Both of them were placed on teams with exceptional teammates (Sakura with Naruto and Sasuke and Tenten with Lee and Neji), which pushed both of them to get stronger and not fall behind.
- OrangeLemon's Sannin Swap:
- When asking Tsunade to accept him as her apprentice, Sasuke points out that both of them come from the two founding clans of Konohagakure, the Senju and the Uchiha.
- Along similar lines, it's hinted that Sakura's pitch strikes a chord with Jiraiya; as she admits that she doesn't have a clan or any special jutsus, and sees herself as the weakest member of her team, he silently flashes back to when his team was just starting out.
- Tsunade later puts a darker spin on Sasuke's original pitch while complaining about how the two of them are the last remnants of their respective clans, noting that while they're seemingly venerated for that status, they don't have much in the way of actual political power.
- Naruto convinces Killer Bee to join his cause by appealing to how both of them are jinchuuriki, and were isolated and mistreated by their respective villages as a result.
- In Part Seven, Kushina compares their own life to Naruto, noting how she grew up as an outsider and was restricted in ways that her peers weren't.
- Son of the Sannin: During her wedding, Kurenai mentions that part of the reason why she and Asuma bonded so easily is because both of them had issues with their fathers (hers disapproved of her becoming a ninja and his was always absent due to all his various responsibilities).
- your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue):
- When Tenten joins their squad, Sakura offers her a copy of Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja, calling it 'the unofficial book of Team 14' and encouraging her to read it so they have something in common.
- After bumping into Kakashi, Sakura notices how they both like to read and walk at the same time. Trying to get to know him better, she asks if Icha Icha is just as good as her favorite book, and if he recommends it.
- A Glass of Wine: Shinji and Asuka's relationship starts deepening when they talk about their latest battle and bond over their shared phantom pains.
- OSMU: Fanfiction Friction: On their Blind Date, Oswald and Oksana hit it off rough as she takes a dislike to him. When she mentions going to see the band Gastrointestinal Disorder play live after the date, Oswald is invested as he likes the band as well, and the pair eventually decide to go and see them perform. They later go to see other bands like Alien Open Autopsy and Coprolite.
Persona Franchise
- Hours 'Verse: Akechi bonds with Ken over their similarities, being members of the Justice Arcana who threw away a good portion of their lives seeking revenge against the men responsible for the deaths of their mothers.
- In the Role Swap AU Second Chance, Ryuji initially doesn't get along with the Metaverse bird Chihaya, just like with Morgana in canon. That is until he learns her wish is to become human and not stuck in her current body, something that Ryuji, as a trans boy, can relate to.
- Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey: Julia Parisa and Merlin Knowles become friends over the fact that they're both autistic.
- "Power Rangers: Wolf War" opens with Koragg (Power Rangers Mystic Force) harnessing the power of the dark mystic wolves to fight the Rangers, only to be opposed when the light side of those magics draw together the five Rangers empowered by the spirit of the wolf; Billy Cranston (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Blue Wolf Ninja), Maya (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Wolf Galactabeast), Merrick and Zen-Aku (Power Rangers Wild Force wolf Wild Zord), and RJ (Power Rangers Jungle Fury, Purple Wolf Jungle Fury)
- Aunt Salem: Weiss discovers Blake's identity long before Blake intended to reveal it, and commiserates on them both being from prominent families and dedicating their lives to organizations that turned out to be worse than what they expected.
- Children of Remnant: All over the place at the girls' night.
- Emerald quickly connects with Velvet and Coco upon realizing that girls dating girls is allowed, which allowed herself to realize that she was a lesbian. Upon realizing this, Velvet and Coco hug and comfort her as the realization sets in.
- Weiss and Ruby quickly become close when Weiss begins admiring Crescent Rose, followed up when Ruby offers her cookies that she snuck into the party.
- Yang and Pyrrha begin to break the ice between them when Yang realizes Pyrrha's feelings for Jaune and offers her advice on the situation, alongside asking Pyrrha for similar advice regarding Blake.
- After the party, Blake begins to become friends with Ren over their similar personalities and music tastes.
- The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf and Tyrion end up bonding over their respective loves being taken away from them by more powerful men in their lives, although it doesn't stop the Wolf from constantly making Innocently Insensitive comments to everyone (but as Tyrion notes, at least he doesn't make dwarf jokes).
- In "To the Journey", after Voyager returns to Earth, Seven of Nine approaches Tasha Yar for insight on having a relationship with an artificial life-form, based on Tasha's successful marriage to Data and Seven contemplating a relationship with the Doctor.
- "Precedent" sees Admiral Janeway attempt to help Dal R'El (Star Trek: Prodigy) in his ambition to join Starfleet by introducing him to Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as the first known augment in Starfleet. Bashir observes that the precedent set by his own acceptance means that Dal has a good chance of getting into Starfleet himself, as Bashir and Dal were both augmented by others against their will.
- these ruined hands of mine (they seek out you, always you) has the concept of baschna from Tatooine's slave culture. When someone calls another one baschna, it means both have suffered and understand each other's pain. Shmi Skywalker explains that to Feral to let him understand why her son Anakin designated him such after learning he was born a slave on Dathomir.
- The Stargate SG-1 fic “A Road Not Taken” features Jack, Daniel and Sam being childhood friends rather than meeting as adults. Sam and Daniel’s bond is reinforced when Sam mentions the death of her mother a short while before she met Daniel, with Daniel’s own experience of the death of both his parents helping Sam form a better relationship with her father as Daniel points out that at least she still has one parent.
- my youth is yours: In addition to their love of engineering, Lena and Winn bond over being from supervillain families. Lena is of course the White Sheep of the infamous Luthor family, while Winn is the son of the Toyman, a serial killer who used toys to kill people.
- In Before The Dawn, Bella finds herself acknowledging her bond with Maysun, Joham's daughter, as they each gave birth because of Joham's plans (Joham had another vampire rape Maysun). While they ultimately reacted differently to their children, Bella keeping her son Alexander and Maysun letting her daughter be adopted by Rosalie and Emmett, the two nevertheless recognise their shared suffering.
- In to rest in crypts and wake in gardens (book 8 of you can only use your own), Frisk initially distrusts Chara, but they end up bonding over their troubled pasts after Chara shows Frisk their Self-Harm scars.
- In The Power of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) Seto and Mai bond over being transgender young adults who grew up in abusive rich households and who had to figure out their own way in the world.
