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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Afro Samurai]]'', after losing the headband to some thugs as a kid, the titular character finds out that the current Number Two is his swordmaster, whom he'd trained under for ''years''. In the manga, he even walks the earth for five years looking for it.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
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** A far less amusing example occurs in Robin's backstory. When she was very young, her mother left on a quest to discover the true, unrecorded history of the world (a quest Robin herself now pursues). She managed to return to Ohara (after escaping a Marine ship) just when CP9 launched an assault, causing Robin to run to the Tree of Knowledge, ''just'' as her mother was running ''from'' it; the two rushed past each other without either noticing the other.
* The first [[All There in the Manual|sound stage]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'' had both the protagonists and the [[Hero Antagonist|Wolkenritter]] visiting [[Hot Springs Episode|a newly opened hot spring]] and missing a chance meeting with one another. This was mostly thanks to Nanoha and Fate spending [[Ship Tease|most of their time there washing each other's backs]] instead of wandering around the place with [[Those Two Guys|Alisa and Suzuka]].
* This happens in the ''[[Death Note]]'' anime; Light and Misa both wonder who the other Kira is while drinking in the same coffee house.
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** For something that doesn't involve Team Rocket for once, the recurring [[Cool Shades|sunglasses]]-wearing Krookorok, who faded from importance over 40 episodes ago,was revealed to have been stalking Ash and friends the whole time, only to miss them at every opportunity. (There was a quick flashback showing events of previous episodes and where Krookorok was around those times.)
* During the Soul Society arc of ''[[Bleach]]'', the separated group are looking for each other, while Chad accidentally saves Ichigo by blowing up a group of Shinigami mooks without seeing who they were chasing.
* When Marco arrives to Argentina in ''3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'' every time he went to a certain place, his mother had already
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* [[Buster Keaton]]'s silent comedy ''[[The Navigator]]'' shows two people repeatedly missing each other on a ship, in spite of the fact that they're also the only two passengers on the vessel.
* ''[[Minority Report]]'' features an awesome sequence with Anderton and Agatha avoiding the Future Crime cops, utilizing Agatha's future-seeing prediction to place themselves at the right place and right time for seemingly random events to hide them from the cops. (Example: Agatha tells Anderton to stop right in the middle of the mall, in plain view. Just as the cops stop at an overhead walkway to look down, a man with balloons blocks their view of Anderton.)
* In ''[[Beethoven (film)|Beethoven's 2nd]]'', when the puppies are still being hidden from the father, there are several close calls where he almost finds one.
* In the movie ''[[Milo and Otis]]'', Otis the dog, while searching for his friend Milo the cat, goes to several places Milo has been, but he always arrives a little too late.
* In the film ''[[Walkabout]]'' a teenaged girl, and her younger brother are lost in the Australian outback. At about the half way point in the movie we are shown that there is a farm house, just the other side of a hill from them. Of course, they never see it.
* In the relatively little known ''Three For The Show,'' a musical comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, and Betty Grable, Betty Grable is legally married to Jack Lemmon, and legally married to Gower Champion. At one point in the film, each man is led to believe that Betty has chosen him over the other, which leads to Gower Champion showing up at their apartment to set up for an evening with his wife. Then Jack shows up to set up for an evening with his wife. Then Betty comes home. And all three spend at least five minutes running through the apartment in a fantastic example of this trope.
** Though, at one point in this, Jack is in the bathroom shaving, and Gower is in the adjacent bedroom changing, and each one believes that Betty is on the other side of the door.
* In ''[[The Terminator]]'', [[Agent Scully|Dr. Silberman]] scoffs at the idea of the Terminator, and he leaves ''just'' as the Terminator arrives at the station. He's looking at his pager when he first walks in.
* In ''[[Bajrangi Bhaijaan]]'', Bajrangi and Munni infiltrated in a Muslim festival to escape the Pakistani police, and at some moment they were mere meters away of Munni's mother, who was attending the same festival to pray for her daughter's return to home. They only realized it after the fact, when reviewing some footage Nawad filmed at the festival to have as background for his reporting.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Dominic Deegan]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130611085353/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-10-08 walks by a ring that could have saved the entire town and a long story arc.] As Dominic is a Seer, this is a pretty big case of [[What an Idiot!]].
** Later on, he explains why he overlooked it, and his friends point out that the way he ended up doing things worked out for the better anyway.
* A [[Running Gag]] for a while in ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' was Lancelot and Galehaut [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1338.htm keeping missing each other].
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807150204/http://bash.org/?287414 This] bash.org quote.
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