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* Movie examples: the eponymous heroes of ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', its western remake ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', and the remade ''[[Oceans 11]]'' are introduced in this manner.

* Happens early in the film adaptation of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. M summons Allan Quatermain from Kenya to lead the new generation of the League; Allan meets him in an underground library and is promptly introduced to three of his teammates -- [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Captain Nemo]], [[Dracula|Mina Harker]], and [[Canon Foreigner|Rodney Skinner]]. They then have to leave to collect the remaining two, and manage to pick up a [[Tagalong Kid]] in the process.

 

 

* In the first ''[[Animorphs]]'' book, the heroes meet at the local mall and decide to walk part of the way home together by taking a shortcut through an abandoned construction site. This is before any of them get involved with aliens or [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]], and though they all already knew each other to some extent they were not a collective group until this moment. Previous to this meeting their various relationships were one-to-one between the various members; Jake/Marco and Rachel/Cassie were best friends, Jake/Rachel were cousins, Jake/Tobias were minor friends after Jake saved Tobias from bullies at school, and Jake/Cassie had mutual crushes on each other. After this night they became a solitary group of friends committed to the fight against the Yeerks, but they had to maintain the cover that nothing had changed to avoid being discovered, so whenever they were in public they had to make it look like they were not "a group."

* In the first ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, Harry meets Ron, most of the Weasleys, Hermione, Neville, Crabbe, Goyle, Dumbledore, McGonagall etc. for the first time all on the same day. (His only previous contact with wizards was with Malfoy, Hagrid and Ollivander.) In the book Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and McGonagall are ''all'' meeting each other for the first time.

* The main cast are all gathered together as old friends at the beginning of ''Dragons Of Autumn Twilight,'' first book in the [[Dragonlance]] series.

* The novel [[The Alienist]] gathers the team members for dinner at Delmonico's.

 

== Live Action Television ==

* ''[[The Real World]]'' is a particularly notable [[Reality Show]] example.

* ''[[Sliders]]''

* ''[[The X-Files]]''

* Although two of the characters and part of the premise had been established in the film ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'', the premiere of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' was largely an [[Everyone Meets Everyone]] episode. Much the same can be said of the premiere of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''.

{{quote|''Sam'': Kirby Plaza doesn't count. They never actually even talked.}}

* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'''s pilot, about half of the ship's officers and skilled staffers were killed, forcing the captain to accept various Maquis rebels, area aliens, and even computer programs as replacements.

* Although starting off with a [[Welcome Episode]] for Gwen Cooper, ''[[Torchwood]]'' used flashbacks to show how the rest of the team were recruited.

* ''[[Lost]]'' begins with the plane crash in which the majority of the principal characters meet, and by the end of the pilot they all seem to become good friends. More characters are added and taken away during the course of the show, however it seems to be that latecomers, especially the tailies {{spoiler|don't seem to last as long as anyone else}}. This idea is also used as a plot device with {{spoiler|Arzt, Nikki and Paulo}}.

* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has "How I Met Everyone Else", where they tell Ted's new girlfriend the story about how Ted & Marshall, Lily & Marshall, Ted & Lily, Ted & Barney, and Ted & Robin (but not Barney & Robin! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just no.) met.

* Averted big time in ''[[Solitary]]''. The contestants never see or communicate with each other, save special occasions, and then only through a third party.

* In ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin were already friends prior to the start of the series. Will moves in and is taken into their circle (mostly because Hay Lin's grandmother is ready to set them up to be a team). Then Caleb shows up (and gets captured soon after) and when Will gets captured, the other girls meet Blunk in the process of saving both Will and Caleb.

* The first episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', in which Twilight Sparkle meets the rest of the mane cast for the first time, and their quest to defeat Nightmare Moon helps them bond as a group of friends. (In subsequent episodes, it's also implied that some of the other ponies ''knew'' each other but are only now becoming proper friends.)

* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' made this the series ''finale'', with a [[How We Got Here]] setup showing Ickis, Oblina and Krumm's arrival at the Academy.