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== [[Anime]] ==
== [[Anime]] ==
* [[Kobato]] seems to constantly run into the same person until she fixes their emotional problems, and then promptly never sees them again.
* [[Kobato.]] seems to constantly run into the same person until she fixes their emotional problems, and then promptly never sees them again.
* [[Elfen Lied]] in ''spades''. It goes beyond [[Contrived Coincidence]] and into some kind of [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Improbability Field.]]
* [[Elfen Lied]] in ''spades''. It goes beyond [[Contrived Coincidence]] and into some kind of [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Improbability Field.]]
* [[Kanon]]. Although this may be due in some small part by [[It Makes Sense in Context|miracles,]] it's still damn unlikely for Yuuichi to run into people whenever he steps outside.
* [[Kanon]]. Although this may be due in some small part by [[It Makes Sense in Context|miracles,]] it's still damn unlikely for Yuuichi to run into people whenever he steps outside.
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== Comics ==
== Comics ==
* Inverted in ''[[Flash Gordon (Comic Strip)|Flash Gordon]]''. Mongo was a big, extremely multivaried place. Then again -- at least in the early days of the comic and most TV & film adaptations -- the main characters are stranded on Mongo and ''can't'' visit other planets, so it makes sense for Mongo itself to be portrayed as a richly diverse world.
* Inverted in ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]''. Mongo was a big, extremely multivaried place. Then again -- at least in the early days of the comic and most TV & film adaptations -- the main characters are stranded on Mongo and ''can't'' visit other planets, so it makes sense for Mongo itself to be portrayed as a richly diverse world.


== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'', of course. In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', [[The Hero|Luke]] is told to look for Yoda in the Dagobah System. That's all he's told about where to find Yoda. And not only does he get the right planet, but he even lands within a mile or so of Yoda's hut.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'', of course. In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', [[The Hero|Luke]] is told to look for Yoda in the Dagobah System. That's all he's told about where to find Yoda. And not only does he get the right planet, but he even lands within a mile or so of Yoda's hut.
* [[Lampshaded]] in the above quote from ''[[Casablanca]]''.
* [[Lampshaded]] in the above quote from ''[[Casablanca]]''.
** It's actually not that much of a coincidence in this case, since everybody involved has [[Run for The Border|a good reason for being in Casablanca]], and in Casablanca, everybody comes to Rick's.
** It's actually not that much of a coincidence in this case, since everybody involved has [[Run for the Border|a good reason for being in Casablanca]], and in Casablanca, everybody comes to Rick's.
* Constantly, ''constantly'', in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]''.
* Constantly, ''constantly'', in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' films:
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' films:
** In ''[[Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]'', after passing through the Great Barrier, the heroes land in a random spot on a random planet. After wandering around for a bit, they find the exact spot where the temple-thing comes out of the ground.
** In ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]'', after passing through the Great Barrier, the heroes land in a random spot on a random planet. After wandering around for a bit, they find the exact spot where the temple-thing comes out of the ground.
** In ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'', when Kirk ''just happens'' to run into {{spoiler|Spock Prime}} while marooned on Delta Vega. The latter was sent to a location where they could observe a certain unexpected astronomical event, while the former was, presumably, dropped within walking distance (or maybe [[Death World|getting eaten distance]]) of a Starfleet base, with no reason whatsoever for the two locations to be anywhere near each other -- apart from the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]], of course. Lampshaded in the novel adaptation.
** In ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', when Kirk ''just happens'' to run into {{spoiler|Spock Prime}} while marooned on Delta Vega. The latter was sent to a location where they could observe a certain unexpected astronomical event, while the former was, presumably, dropped within walking distance (or maybe [[Death World|getting eaten distance]]) of a Starfleet base, with no reason whatsoever for the two locations to be anywhere near each other -- apart from the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]], of course. Lampshaded in the novel adaptation.
* In ''[[Enemy Mine (Film)|Enemy Mine]]'' the Human and the Drac both manage to not only crash on the same planet, but within ''walking distance'' of each others spaceships.
* In ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]'' the Human and the Drac both manage to not only crash on the same planet, but within ''walking distance'' of each others spaceships.
* In ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'', two characters are picked up by a bee, flown all around the yard which to them is now 3-miles long, and conveniently dropped off not far from the others. "[[Pun|It's a small world after all]]", indeed.
* In ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'', two characters are picked up by a bee, flown all around the yard which to them is now 3-miles long, and conveniently dropped off not far from the others. "[[Pun|It's a small world after all]]", indeed.


== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In [[Dan Simmons]]' ''[[Ilium]]'' and ''Olympos'' this is justified and deconstructed. Everyone lives close to the teleporters all across the planet because there is no need to go very far from them. The unfortunate result is that they've managed to forget about the entire rest of the planet.
* In [[Dan Simmons]]' ''[[Ilium]]'' and ''Olympos'' this is justified and deconstructed. Everyone lives close to the teleporters all across the planet because there is no need to go very far from them. The unfortunate result is that they've managed to forget about the entire rest of the planet.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: In Fielding's ''Tom Jones'', characters who are travelling separately are forever running into each other at [[You All Meet in An Inn|inns]] along the road. Critics have tried to [[Justified Trope|justify]] these remarkably convenient coincidences by making learned references to the average speed of a stagecoach and the density of coaching inns along the major roads in Georgian England.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: In Fielding's ''Tom Jones'', characters who are travelling separately are forever running into each other at [[You All Meet in An Inn|inns]] along the road. Critics have tried to [[Justified Trope|justify]] these remarkably convenient coincidences by making learned references to the average speed of a stagecoach and the density of coaching inns along the major roads in Georgian England.
* ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'': The first humanoid alien Arthur meets after he goes into space is a guy who crashed a party he'd been to. The second is the Earth woman that guy hit on at said party after Arthur had been chatting her up himself. They acknowledge that this is weird, although this is the Improbability Drive in action, so... [[A Wizard Did It|A Sci-Fi Scientist Did It]]?
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': The first humanoid alien Arthur meets after he goes into space is a guy who crashed a party he'd been to. The second is the Earth woman that guy hit on at said party after Arthur had been chatting her up himself. They acknowledge that this is weird, although this is the Improbability Drive in action, so... [[A Wizard Did It|A Sci-Fi Scientist Did It]]?
** Zaphod is ''also related to Ford'' just for a gag about [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
** Zaphod is ''also related to Ford'' just for a gag about [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
* Some critics have pointed out that a good number of plot points in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' are driven by Alex running into an old friend.
* Some critics have pointed out that a good number of plot points in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' are driven by Alex running into an old friend.
* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|The Vor Game]]'', Miles Vorkosigan is on a space station several wormhole jumps from home, and just happens to get tossed into a holding cell that contains his old friend {{spoiler|Emperor Gregor}}. And later, on an entirely different station, he runs into {{spoiler|General Metzov, the man whose career he had ended in the opening chapters of the book.}}
* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|The Vor Game]]'', Miles Vorkosigan is on a space station several wormhole jumps from home, and just happens to get tossed into a holding cell that contains his old friend {{spoiler|Emperor Gregor}}. And later, on an entirely different station, he runs into {{spoiler|General Metzov, the man whose career he had ended in the opening chapters of the book.}}
** In ''The Warrior's Apprentice'', one of the first people Miles meets after arriving on Beta Colony is the freighter captain that his mother had conned into giving her a lift off the planet eighteen years earlier. And then, several planets away from both their home worlds, he runs into {{spoiler|Elena's mother}}.
** In ''The Warrior's Apprentice'', one of the first people Miles meets after arriving on Beta Colony is the freighter captain that his mother had conned into giving her a lift off the planet eighteen years earlier. And then, several planets away from both their home worlds, he runs into {{spoiler|Elena's mother}}.
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s "[[The Slithering Shadow (Literature)|The Slithering Shadow]]", [[Conan the Barbarian]], running away from a [[Zerg Rush]], gets dropped through a [[Trap Door]] to where Natala has been abducted, [[Just in Time]] to save her from the [[Living Shadow]].
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "[[Xuthal of the Dusk|The Slithering Shadow]]", [[Conan the Barbarian]], running away from a [[Zerg Rush]], gets dropped through a [[Trap Door]] to where Natala has been abducted, [[Just in Time]] to save her from the [[Living Shadow]].
* Les Misérables; characters we thought we left behind have a way of popping up again as the plot demands it. Not that this is a bad thing.
* Les Misérables; characters we thought we left behind have a way of popping up again as the plot demands it. Not that this is a bad thing.
* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novels take this to absolutely ridiculous extremes. Just a couple of examples:
* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novels take this to absolutely ridiculous extremes. Just a couple of examples:
** [[Death Troopers|The prison ship that just so happens to find a Star Destroyer infected with a]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] ( {{spoiler|A.k.a [[Playing With Syringes|Project Blackwing]]}}) just so happens to be holding {{spoiler|Han Solo and Chewbacca}} in solitary confinement.
** [[Death Troopers|The prison ship that just so happens to find a Star Destroyer infected with a]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] ( {{spoiler|A.k.a [[Playing with Syringes|Project Blackwing]]}}) just so happens to be holding {{spoiler|Han Solo and Chewbacca}} in solitary confinement.
** Jaden Korr (of [[Jedi Academy]] fame) happens to be in precisely correct spot in all of space to intercept an Old Republican jedi master who was flung into the future due to a hyperdrive malfunction.
** Jaden Korr (of [[Jedi Academy]] fame) happens to be in precisely correct spot in all of space to intercept an Old Republican jedi master who was flung into the future due to a hyperdrive malfunction.


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* Very obvious in ''Doctor Who'', where the TARDIS never seems to land on the opposite side of the planet from wherever the local intrigue is going on. The episode ''The Doctor's Wife'' tells us that the TARDIS is doing it on purpose, even in the early seasons when the ship's flights were entirely random.
* Very obvious in ''Doctor Who'', where the TARDIS never seems to land on the opposite side of the planet from wherever the local intrigue is going on. The episode ''The Doctor's Wife'' tells us that the TARDIS is doing it on purpose, even in the early seasons when the ship's flights were entirely random.
** For example, despite having an entire planet to argue over, the Thals and the Kaleds apparently live within walking (or gliding) distance of each other in ''Genesis of the Daleks''.
** For example, despite having an entire planet to argue over, the Thals and the Kaleds apparently live within walking (or gliding) distance of each other in ''Genesis of the Daleks''.
* In one episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', Zhaan searches for her missing crewmembers by ''asking a bartender'' on a random planet nearby. Because clearly there is only one bar on the entire planet which they could have visited if they had been there, which, thankfully, they did not.
* In one episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', Zhaan searches for her missing crewmembers by ''asking a bartender'' on a random planet nearby. Because clearly there is only one bar on the entire planet which they could have visited if they had been there, which, thankfully, they did not.
** A Pa'u Did It?
** A Pa'u Did It?
* The first season of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' suffered badly from this. Characters just seemed to run into each other all the time, even when they came from distant places like Tokyo. Perhaps the most blatant example was {{spoiler|when Hiro met Nathan at a roadside diner, and shortly afterwards, Sylar also happens to show up on it (in time to kill Hiro's new love interest.)}}
* The first season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' suffered badly from this. Characters just seemed to run into each other all the time, even when they came from distant places like Tokyo. Perhaps the most blatant example was {{spoiler|when Hiro met Nathan at a roadside diner, and shortly afterwards, Sylar also happens to show up on it (in time to kill Hiro's new love interest.)}}
** Actually two different diners. {{spoiler|Nathan and Hiro were outside Las Vegas. Hiro, Charlie, and Sylar were outside Odessa, Texas. Hiro just loves waffles.}}
** Actually two different diners. {{spoiler|Nathan and Hiro were outside Las Vegas. Hiro, Charlie, and Sylar were outside Odessa, Texas. Hiro just loves waffles.}}
*** [[Word of God]] is that [[Because Destiny Says So|evolved humans are subconsciously drawn to each other]].
*** [[Word of God]] is that [[Because Destiny Says So|evolved humans are subconsciously drawn to each other]].
**** Translation: "[[Follow the Leader|We wanted to be like]] ''[[Lost]]''."
**** Translation: "[[Follow the Leader|We wanted to be like]] ''[[Lost]]''."
* Cleverly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the original ''[[Land of the Lost (TV)|Land of the Lost]],'' where the artificial pocket dimension the Marshalls are trapped in is not only small, but warps over on itself, so that if you walk far enough in one direction, you will return to your starting point. The local "mountain range" is, in fact, just the endlessly repeated image of the ''same mountain,'' and if you stand on its peak and look at the neighboring beak with binoculars, you can see your own back.
* Cleverly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the original ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]],'' where the artificial pocket dimension the Marshalls are trapped in is not only small, but warps over on itself, so that if you walk far enough in one direction, you will return to your starting point. The local "mountain range" is, in fact, just the endlessly repeated image of the ''same mountain,'' and if you stand on its peak and look at the neighboring beak with binoculars, you can see your own back.
* Averted and then played straight in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. Starbuck crash lands on a barren moon and a big deal is made of how difficult it is to find one person on a planet when all you've got is "visual scanning". At one point they even show a map of the moon with the comparatively small area they've managed to search drawn on. They then throw this out the window by having Starbuck find a crashed Cylon Raider that apparently came down not far from where she crashed. [[Contrived Coincidence]] maybe, maybe not, as she personally shot it down before she crashed from damage it inflicted.
* Averted and then played straight in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. Starbuck crash lands on a barren moon and a big deal is made of how difficult it is to find one person on a planet when all you've got is "visual scanning". At one point they even show a map of the moon with the comparatively small area they've managed to search drawn on. They then throw this out the window by having Starbuck find a crashed Cylon Raider that apparently came down not far from where she crashed. [[Contrived Coincidence]] maybe, maybe not, as she personally shot it down before she crashed from damage it inflicted.
** Later in the series, Starbuck makes various similar leaps with predictability especially during the final episode where she {{spoiler|manages to make an FTL co-ordinate out of the song she and the Final Five kept hearing, just in time to avoid the collapse of the Cylon colony ship under nuclear attack, only for this to turn out to be a new habitable planet, precisely what the fleet had been looking for since the planet formerly known as Earth had turned out to have been nuked by humans attacking earlier Cylons}}. Not only do all of those ducks get lined in a row, but {{spoiler|it turns out there are indigenous humans genetically compatible with the humans on the fleet, despite total biological isolation of the two populations prior to this episode.}} Lucky coincidence indeed.
** Later in the series, Starbuck makes various similar leaps with predictability especially during the final episode where she {{spoiler|manages to make an FTL co-ordinate out of the song she and the Final Five kept hearing, just in time to avoid the collapse of the Cylon colony ship under nuclear attack, only for this to turn out to be a new habitable planet, precisely what the fleet had been looking for since the planet formerly known as Earth had turned out to have been nuked by humans attacking earlier Cylons}}. Not only do all of those ducks get lined in a row, but {{spoiler|it turns out there are indigenous humans genetically compatible with the humans on the fleet, despite total biological isolation of the two populations prior to this episode.}} Lucky coincidence indeed.
*** The answer to all of the above is, of course: {{spoiler|[[A Wizard Did It|the entity which does not like to be called God did it.]]}}
*** The answer to all of the above is, of course: {{spoiler|[[A Wizard Did It|the entity which does not like to be called God did it.]]}}
* Present in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' season 2, in the Pylea arc. After lengthy discussion of how two people going through the portal might wind up halfway across the world from each other, -and- coming up with a plan to stop them from doing so, Angel, Wesley, Gunn, and Lorne get to Pylea and find {{spoiler|they're a few miles from where Cordi ended up after her own trip through the portal. Cordi herself came through about the same place that Fred had, on yet another trip}}. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that it's mentioned that the portals need psychic energy to open. The Pyleans, and a few of the wild animals nearby, produce quite a bit of said energy.
* Present in ''[[Angel]]'' season 2, in the Pylea arc. After lengthy discussion of how two people going through the portal might wind up halfway across the world from each other, -and- coming up with a plan to stop them from doing so, Angel, Wesley, Gunn, and Lorne get to Pylea and find {{spoiler|they're a few miles from where Cordi ended up after her own trip through the portal. Cordi herself came through about the same place that Fred had, on yet another trip}}. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that it's mentioned that the portals need psychic energy to open. The Pyleans, and a few of the wild animals nearby, produce quite a bit of said energy.


== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Somewhat averted in ''[[Battle Tech]]''. Most worlds sport populations in the hundreds of millions, and a few have them in the billions. Similarily, most worlds will have numerous cities and other settlements. That being said, there are remote worlds with almost ludicrously small populations (Some as low as a thousand) where there is only a single community on the whole world.
* Somewhat averted in ''[[BattleTech]]''. Most worlds sport populations in the hundreds of millions, and a few have them in the billions. Similarily, most worlds will have numerous cities and other settlements. That being said, there are remote worlds with almost ludicrously small populations (Some as low as a thousand) where there is only a single community on the whole world.
* Both Averted and Justified in ''[[Traveller]]''. From the point of view of your usual [[Big Damn Heroes|intrepid intersteller adventurer]] a [[Space Is an Ocean|starport]] is the only part worth thinking about on a given planet. However most planets are quite large and whole campaigns can be featured on just one of them.
* Both Averted and Justified in ''[[Traveller]]''. From the point of view of your usual [[Big Damn Heroes|intrepid intersteller adventurer]] a [[Space Is an Ocean|starport]] is the only part worth thinking about on a given planet. However most planets are quite large and whole campaigns can be featured on just one of them.


== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Painfully obvious in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', where one "world" consists of only a single thoroughfare and one block to either side in Agrabah, and one spot in the desert with the Cave of Wonders, and another consists of just Captain Hook's pirate ship and the top end of Big Ben. Other worlds are similarly diminutive.
* Painfully obvious in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', where one "world" consists of only a single thoroughfare and one block to either side in Agrabah, and one spot in the desert with the Cave of Wonders, and another consists of just Captain Hook's pirate ship and the top end of Big Ben. Other worlds are similarly diminutive.
** It's still bad, but gets better in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'', especially for the worlds that are redone. The new worlds, however...meh, could've been more expansive.
** It's still bad, but gets better in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', especially for the worlds that are redone. The new worlds, however...meh, could've been more expansive.
** But wait! Arguably, ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' actually ''averts'' this. After all, being a giant [[Crossover]] game, the worlds it contains are ''already'' fictional worlds mostly suffering from this [[Trope]], and therefore their meta-representations in KH are actual size!
** But wait! Arguably, ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' actually ''averts'' this. After all, being a giant [[Crossover]] game, the worlds it contains are ''already'' fictional worlds mostly suffering from this [[Trope]], and therefore their meta-representations in KH are actual size!
* In the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series, a great many worlds can be visited, and each one consists of a single action adventure zone, no larger than the levels in ''[[Sly Cooper]]'', (which are all set in various parts of one single world). If it weren't for [[Big Bad|Chairman Drek]]'s [[Evil Plan]] and its importance to the plot, there would be no reason for space travel at all.
* In the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series, a great many worlds can be visited, and each one consists of a single action adventure zone, no larger than the levels in ''[[Sly Cooper]]'', (which are all set in various parts of one single world). If it weren't for [[Big Bad|Chairman Drek]]'s [[Evil Plan]] and its importance to the plot, there would be no reason for space travel at all.
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**** ...an address belonging to a ''terrorist organization wanted in all of Citadel space''. Then again, given their penchant for [[Sigil Spam|plastering their logo on everything]], it wouldn't be surprising if it were something like "cmdshepard@cerberus.org"
**** ...an address belonging to a ''terrorist organization wanted in all of Citadel space''. Then again, given their penchant for [[Sigil Spam|plastering their logo on everything]], it wouldn't be surprising if it were something like "cmdshepard@cerberus.org"
** Played straight with searching for Liara. The smallest to which your superiors can narrow down her location is a sector ''with four navigable star systems''. Although they do recommend starting the search on "the planet with the Prothean ruins", without even specifying its name. Likewise, Liara can only narrow down the Conduit's location to "somewhere on Ilos", and you only find it by locating [[Big Bad|Saren]] and airdropping right behind him.
** Played straight with searching for Liara. The smallest to which your superiors can narrow down her location is a sector ''with four navigable star systems''. Although they do recommend starting the search on "the planet with the Prothean ruins", without even specifying its name. Likewise, Liara can only narrow down the Conduit's location to "somewhere on Ilos", and you only find it by locating [[Big Bad|Saren]] and airdropping right behind him.
* The ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' games take this trope to an even farther extreme than the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies. Regardless of whether the protagonists land on a desert planet, an ocean planet, or a planet that is one big city (Coruscant-style), their destination is always just a few zones away, perfectly walkable on foot, even if they don't know its location. Also applies when their spaceship crash-lands in the middle of nowhere.
* The ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' games take this trope to an even farther extreme than the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies. Regardless of whether the protagonists land on a desert planet, an ocean planet, or a planet that is one big city (Coruscant-style), their destination is always just a few zones away, perfectly walkable on foot, even if they don't know its location. Also applies when their spaceship crash-lands in the middle of nowhere.
** In the case of Tatooine(desert planet) and Manaan(water planet), there were only one setlement on each planet, so there really wasn't anywhere else to go. Also on Tatooine, when finding the Star Map there is really no way to know how far it was before you find the cave containing the map, especially given that you are unable to travel there without a map. Also on Taris(city planet), you and Bastila both ejected from the same ship at roughly the same time, meaning it would be highly unlikely for you to end up in different locations. Everything else that you encounter is largely related to Bastila's capture. Although the fact that you travel to Tatooine of all places is really an example of this.
** In the case of Tatooine(desert planet) and Manaan(water planet), there were only one setlement on each planet, so there really wasn't anywhere else to go. Also on Tatooine, when finding the Star Map there is really no way to know how far it was before you find the cave containing the map, especially given that you are unable to travel there without a map. Also on Taris(city planet), you and Bastila both ejected from the same ship at roughly the same time, meaning it would be highly unlikely for you to end up in different locations. Everything else that you encounter is largely related to Bastila's capture. Although the fact that you travel to Tatooine of all places is really an example of this.
* [[The King of Fighters]] meta-series has several of the oldest fighters (Takuma, Saisyu, Chin, etc.) having either known each other superficially or being old friends. Specially, [[Art of Fighting|Takuma Sakazaki]] knew [[Fatal Fury|Jeff Bogard]] rather well, and he also was an acquintance of Kyo Kusanagi's father Saisyu; also, Chin Gentsai was an old friend of [[Fatal Fury|Tung Fu Rue]]. ** Noticeable in that the "Takuma knew Saisyu" angle was pure [[Fanon]] at first, then became canon.
* [[The King of Fighters]] meta-series has several of the oldest fighters (Takuma, Saisyu, Chin, etc.) having either known each other superficially or being old friends. Specially, [[Art of Fighting|Takuma Sakazaki]] knew [[Fatal Fury|Jeff Bogard]] rather well, and he also was an acquintance of Kyo Kusanagi's father Saisyu; also, Chin Gentsai was an old friend of [[Fatal Fury|Tung Fu Rue]]. ** Noticeable in that the "Takuma knew Saisyu" angle was pure [[Fanon]] at first, then became canon.


== [[Web Comics]] ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', runaway Grace sought Tedd after the Goo incident became public, [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-02-17 and...]
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', runaway Grace sought Tedd after the Goo incident became public, [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-02-17 and...]
{{quote| '''Grace''': (thinks) I don't believe this! How can ''he'' be Tedd's father?!<br />
{{quote| '''Grace''': (thinks) I don't believe this! How can ''he'' be Tedd's father?!<br />
'''Mr.Verres''': (thinks) Is that -- Shade Tail?! }}
'''Mr.Verres''': (thinks) Is that -- Shade Tail?! }}
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