Commonality Connections in Live-Action Films.
- 3 Days to Kill: Ethan bonds with Mitat, who's the Wolf's driver, after seeing the photo he has of his twin daughters. As a father himself of a teenage daughter who he's struggling to connect with, Ethan asks his advice. Mitat is at first incredulous, then gives him actual good advice and Ethan saves his life later so he can get home to be there with his family again.
- In ...And Your Name Is Jonah, Jenny and Connie bond over the fact that they both have deaf children - their sons Jonah and Tommy attend the same speech therapy class.
- The Big Cube: Adriana likes her stepdaughter Lisa, whom she sees as similar to herself as a teenager, in terms of both appearance and personality. Her feelings are not returned.
- The Book of Revelation: Daniel, who's struggling with his trauma after being kidnapped and raped, bonds with an Aboriginal woman named Julie after he meets her on a train, seeing her hand is scarred. Julie tells him that her sister stuck it into a pot of boiling water when they were kids, and Daniel sees some affinity in this with his own sufferings. He's also relieved from paranoia that she's possibly one of his (masked) rapists as all three were white, and Julie's shorter as well.
- Eagle Vs Shark: Lily has a crush on Jarrod because he shares an almost identical mole on his upper lip with her. After they become a couple, Lily comments on it, and Jarrod is unaware that he even has a mole on his lip.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once: In one universe Deirdre extends a final chance to Evelyn because Waymond tells her of their upcoming divorce, and Deirdre knows the stress that comes with that due to being divorced herself.
- The Fallout: Up until the first shots are fired, Vada was making fun of Mia for being an influencer. And then they're stuck together in a bathroom stall throughout the ordeal and bond over their trauma afterwards.
- Fielder's Choice: Advertising executive Philip has more in common with his autistic nephew Zach than he cares to admit, most notably their shared passion and talent for art.
- Glass (2019): Casey tells Kevin that she too was horribly abused as a child with him explicitly saying they're the same as she tries to breakthrough to him and his split personalities.
- In Henry & Verlin, a mute child forms a close bond with his simple-minded uncle. It's implied that Verlin inherited Henry's disability or a very similar one.
- In The Innocent (1994), Lieutenant Barlow tells the orphaned autistic boy Gregory that they have a lot in common because he grew up as an orphan too - his only family was his grandfather, who died when he was twelve.
- Keep the Change (2017): After spending most of the movie trying to distance himself from the "weirdos" in the autism support group, David realizes that he loves Sarah because she's weird, like him.
- The Lobster exaggerates the trope for satire. Residents of the hotel, who are required to find a mate, each announce their "distinguishing characteristic," such as wearing glasses or getting nosebleeds, with the intention of fostering a connection with someone else who shares this trait. Several of the relationships we see are built exclusively around this shared trait. To be with a woman who gets nosebleeds, John repeatedly hit himself in the nose to maintain the charade of sharing her trait.
- In Molly (1999), Sam, who has a learning disability, is "kind of on the same wavelength" as Molly, who is autistic and intellectually impaired. Sam is pretty much the only person who's able to form a genuine human connection with her before her brain surgery.
- More Than Ever: Hélène becomes attached to Bent, even though he's a stranger on the internet, because nobody else in her life understands how it is to have a deadly disease.
- In Run Wild, Run Free, the Colonel suspects that Philip's attachment to the horse might be because they're both different from the others - the horse because of his albinism, Philip because of his muteness.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022):
- Tails grew up as an outcast due to his two tails and when he discovers Sonic, it helps him realize he is not alone.
- When Knuckles reveals his entire tribe was killed, leaving him as the sole survivor, Sonic notes that both of them know what it's like to lose family and lose everything in just one night. Ironically, it's implied that the echidna tribe and the owl tribe wiped each other out.
- Spider-Man: No Way Home, after Peter loses Aunt May to the Green Goblin, he meets his parallel dimension counterparts: one is still trying to recover from losing the love of his life, and the other spent a long time grieving for his Uncle Ben. In every case, the losses they suffered also taught them that With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, and this connection they shared gives them the inspiration to try to save the villains that crossed over into Peter's dimension.
- Star Trek: Generations: On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Capt. Picard has been shown to be passionate about horseback riding. So, Picard finally convinces Capt. Kirk to help him while they're riding together through the Nexus. This scene was actually William Shatner's idea, since he's an avid rider himself, even teaching Patrick Stewart some tricks during filming.
- The Sting. While the con men are planning to pull a scam on Doyle Lonnegan, J.J. Singleton mentions that Lonnegan came from a place called Five Points. Later on, when Lonnegan asks Hooker where he's from, he says that he came from Five Points in the hope that it will cause Lonnegan to trust him.
- Franny from Under the Piano was born with a paralyzed arm, and Rosetta is autistic. The sisters' disabilities help them bond.
- In White Frog, part of the reason why Nick's dead older brother Chaz was so protective of him is that neither one matched their parents' ideal of the perfect son - Nick has Asperger's syndrome, while Chaz was gay and in a relationship with his best friend Randy.
- X2: X-Men United: Bobby Drake and Logan have a little chat about their inability to be close to the woman they have strong feelings for.
