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* In ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'', while exploring a Bug Hive, the narrator mentions that the prescribed MI battle doctrine is to leave 10% of your force behind to cover any forks in the tunnel, rather than splitting your force up in two to explore the tunnels separately, with the added bonus of them making sure the bugs don't sneak up behind you. [[Genre Savvy|Rico]] decides that this would be an excellent way to end up with him at the deepest part of the tunnel with a very small handful of troopers, and instead decides to leave only two troopers to cover each junction, giving him a bigger force to use in the deeper, more dangerous parts of the tunnels.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** Resisted by Anya at the beginning of season 6 ("No -- bad idea!"), but the gang splits up anyway.
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''Barbara goes down one corridor, Ian another and the Doctor and Susan take the third. Less than five minutes later the angriest pepperpots in the entire history of time and space make their television debut.'' }}
** In the Second Doctor story "The Faceless Ones," the Doctor and his three companions arrive on the tarmac at Gatwick Airport. When it looks like they're about the be apprehended by authorities, the Doctor's reaction is to call out, ''"Scatter!"'' And they did, and his companions all went off and very nearly got killed...in different, equally perilous situations.
* This happens on ''[[Misfits (TV series)|Misfits]]'' when the group are trying to track down a malevolent shapeshifter - a pretty foolish decision given that she can, y'know, ''shapeshift'' to resemble any of them. To their credit, they did devise a password so they could identify each other, and the plan might have been effective had [[The Ditz|Nathan]] not screwed things up quite so royally.
* In one of the more commonly cited episodes of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', ''The Big Game'', Reid becomes excited about an epiphany he's had and tells JJ, who he's with, that they should split up. She weakly protests but complies anyway, and it [[It Got Worse|all goes to hell]] from there. The stupidity of their actions is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a later episode when JJ says to Reid, "No matter what happens this time, we don't split up, clear?"
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