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* The song "Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' has Janet singing as she's seducing Rocky in the lab as well as Columbia and Magenta singing as well... while mocking Janet from inside a bedroom.
* The song "Come Back To Me" from ''[[On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]]''. Daisy is avoiding the psychiatrist so he tries to reach her telepathically. She begins hearing the words of the song coming from the mouths of her cooking class teacher, police officers, and other random strangers. (Does not happen in the stage show.)
* The second verse of "At The Opera Tonight" from ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera]]'' is a duet between the Repo Man and Blind Mag. The distance between them is not simply physical: while Mag sings about how she's made peace with her fate, Repo Man is raging and planning a bloodbath.
* All of John and Abigail Adams' duets in ''[[Seventeen Seventy Six1776]]''. Especially fitting as the duets are based off their letters to each other.
* Lalita and Darcy share a Distant Duet that was cut from the movie ''[[Bride and Prejudice (Film)|Bride and Prejudice]]'' but can be seen on the DVD.
* Two in ''[[The Muppets (Filmfilm)|The Muppets]]'': Piggy (in her dressing room) and Mary (at a restaurant) in "Me Party", and then Gary (on the street) and Walter (in the Muppet Studios basement) for "Muppet or Man" (there's an [[Imagine Spot]] where they're together in the middle, but as far as the reality of the film is concerned, they're not).
 
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* The "[[La Résistance]]" Medley from ''[[South Park]]: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'', which is also a deliberate parody of these kinds of songs. The members of [[La Résistance]], the mothers, the fathers, Terrance and Phillip and Satan all sing different parts, often reprising other songs from the movie.
* The [[Award Bait Song]] "For Longer Than Forever" from ''[[The Swan Princess]]''.
* "Am I Feeling Love?", one of two blatant [[Award Bait Song|Award Bait Songs]] in the theatrical cuts of [[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and Thethe Cobbler]].
* "Shere Khan's Lost Song" from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' was originally going to be one for Shere Khan, the film's [[Big Bad]].
* The [[What Could Have Been|canceled]] [[Betty Boop]] movie was planned to have a distant duet between Betty and her father. [http://www.moorestudiosinc.com/bettyboop.htm See it here.]
 
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* "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" and "Fantasies Come True" from ''[[Avenue Q]]'' both do this. The former has three singers, all in different buildings. The latter is a twist on the "love song" variant; the two singers are both singing about having found love, but not with each other. And one of the two people who's found love discovers immeadiately afterwards that it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* "Summer Nights" from ''[[Grease]]''.
* "Till Then" and "Yours, Yours, Yours" between [[John Adams|John]] and Abigail Adams in ''[[Seventeen Seventy Six1776]]''.
* Parodied in "West End Musical", by [[Mitch Benn]] and the Distractions (also a [[Counterpoint Duet]]):
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* "Skid Row" from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' has various characters singing one line, before developing into a more conventional [[Distant Duet]] with Audrey and Seymour.
* ''[[Thirteen]]'' has a subversion. Evan and Patrice are standing right next to each other and are giving advice to Brett saying what they wish they would really say to each other
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' has a distant trio, with Sweeney in his barbershop, Anthony searching for Johanna, and Johanna in an insane asylum.
* "Christmas Makes Me Cry" from [[Brooklyn (Theatre)|Brooklyn]] has Faith in Paris, singing to young Brooklyn, and Taylor in New York, singing to...anyone who'll listen, and both of them thinking of each other.
* "What You Don't Know About Women" in ''[[City of Angels]]''. Gabby and Oolie are separated not only by a split stage, but by the latter being a fictional character in a [[Film Noir]] written by the former's husband.
* 'I Know Him So Well' from ''Chess'', although this one depends on the production: in some versions, the two singers are actually singing to each other.
* The finale reprise of ''For Good'' in [[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eoMAgYmNh0 Friendship Isn't What it Used to Be] from ''Vanities: The Musical'' was originally a solo sung by Kathy after the other two characters leave the scene, but made a Distant Trio in later productions.
 
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== Web Original ==
 
* Another [[Joss Whedon]] example is "My Eyes" from ''[[Dr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]]''.
 
== Western Animation ==
 
* "So Far Apart" from ''[[My Little Pony]]: [http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729115001 The Runaway Rainbow]''.
** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': "This Day Aria", from "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2". Sung by Princess Cadence and {{spoiler|her impersonator, [[Shapeshifting Seducer|the Changeling Queen]]}}.
* "Greasy Spoon" in ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]''.
* An episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' gives ''Siskel and Ebert'' (playing themselves, no less) one of these when they temporarily end their partnership. Then a third verse is sung by Jay's boss, secretly upset that Jay has quit to pursue a partnership with one of them.
* The [[Phineas and Ferb]] episode, "Bully Bromance Break Up" had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhmXLNXnAIM "Hole in My Heart",] a [[Break Up Song]] between [[The Bully|Buford]] and [[Bollywood Nerd|Baljeet.]]
* The ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' episode "Dream of Love" has a [[Break Up Song]] between Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig.
 
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