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* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]

== Anime and Manga ==

** One of Lelouch's subordinates was romantically involved with an enemy knight, who just happened to be the first person to survive Lelouch's [[Mind Control]] powers in the beginning of the series, and the enemy knight had amnesia for a while after being shot by a high school girl who had a huge crush on Lelouch. His head scientist was a former colleague of an influential enemy scientist, who is both the mentor to Lelouch's aforementioned rival, and the fiancé of the head of the student council. Lelouch's primary accomplice and confidante was formerly the head of a cult whose members are now supporting the evil empire, and had watched over Lelouch when he was a child. Recently, a powerful knight in the empire was revealed to have had some sort of past connection with Lelouch. Also, a new rival of Lelouch's is a general in the Chinese Federation, who has pledged his life to support a child Empress whose first and only friend is the aforementioned fangirl of Lelouch's alter-ego.

** Still, ''[[Code Geass]]'' isn't really any worse than any other series. The half-sibling thing is important to the plot of the first season, but it's not like their relationship is a coincidence. The rivalry between Lelouch and Suzaku's alter egos and their relationship several years beforehand is also pretty intentional, but closer. The real web of relations come towards the end, when we find out that several characters were in the home of, around, or had some business with Lelouch's mother.

== Film ==

* In ''[[Saw]]'', two apparent strangers, Adam and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, are trapped in a room together. It turns out, however, that {{spoiler|Adam was hired by a detective to spy on Gordon, who was suspected of being Jigsaw who turned out to be a patient of Gordon's with terminal cancer}}; this was all part of the plan, but the characters didn't know that when they found out.

* ''[[Star Wars]]''. Not only is the [[Evil Overlord]] whom the main character met through a long series of coincidences his father, but the woman that he happened to meet through the same series of events is his sister.

** In addition, it turned out that R2-D2 was owned by Queen Amidala and C-3PO was ''built'' by Anakin Skywalker. Boba Fett, as well, is the clone-son of Jango Fett, who is the original model for the entire [[Send in The Clones|Clone Army]].

* Happens in ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'', by the end of the series. Greatly assisted by the presence of several "temporary immortals" (the longest-lived being Parry) ''and'' a literal Fate playing a centuries-long chess game against the Devil. {{spoiler|Niobe (Lachesis, the middle Aspect of the incarnation of Fate, formerly Clotho (another Aspect)) is the mother of Orb (Gaia, Incarnation of Nature, from Niobe's second marriage) who's married to Parry (Satan, Incarnation of Evil). Orb's child with Mym (Mars, Incarnation of War), is Orlene (God(dess), Incarnation of Good). Orlene once dated Norton (Chronos, Incarnation of Time), and bore a child (who later died). Niobe's granddaughter, Luna (via Niobe's son from her first marriage), is dating Zane (Thanatos, Incarnation of Death). Kerena (Nox, Incarnation of Night) is a distant ancestor of Orlene's dead husband, and accidentally introduced into her line the curse that would kill Orlene's child. Parry's demon ex-lover, Lilith, is a concubine of Mym. Another Aspect of Fate, Nicolai (Atropos), is a friend of Orb and helped find an adoptive family for Orlene. There's also a very strong hint on the first page of ''Under a Velvet Cloak'' that Kerena's sister Katherine is a distant ancestor of Niobe, thus also of Orb, Luna, and Orlene.}}

* The focus of ''[[Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency]]'', hence the "holistic" in the title -- everyone is connected through the main character Richard. Which only goes to prove that Dirk's ideas about the interconnectedness of all things are not crackpot theories, despite the cynical use he makes of them.

{{quote| '''Zaphod:''' Is this going to happen every time we use the Improbability Drive?<br />

'''Trillian:''' Very probably, I'm afraid. }}

* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Snoopy attempts to tie together all of the characters in his novel "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" in this fashion:

{{quote| Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates?}}

* [[Lampshaded]] in [http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20090321 this] ''[[Doonesbury]]'' strip, as shown in the page image.

** To demonstrate how bad it is: By the end of the third game's last case, Protagonist Phoenix Wright is pretty much the ''only'' relevant character who is not either related to {{spoiler|the Feys}} or was directly screwed over in a way by the events of DL-6, or both. And even then they indirectly had huge influence on his life by setting up 90 of the 100 reasons he decided to become a Defense Attorney.

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', Darth Revan, [[Big Bad]] Malak's former master, was also HK-47's original owner, the Jedi who inspired Juhani to join the Order, and the one who led the fight against the Mandalorians (including Canderous). He died in a capture mission led by Bastila.

* ''[[Jade Empire]]'', also of Bioware, had several characters openly expressing their disbelief in the number of connections encountered. As it turned out, {{spoiler|Master Li was really Sun Li, brother to the Emperor. Sagacious Zu had saved Li's daughter and ended up unknowingly leaving her with Li who also didn't know about the connection. This also means that Dawn Star is the cousin of Silk Fox, who is also daughter of the Emperor and niece of Li. And both daughters have fathers who are the main Big Bads. And Death's Hand is the emperor's other brother's spirit, bound to Li's old armor}}. Gah!

* In ''[[Planescape Torment|Planescape: Torment]]'', you come across a rather staggering array of people with one degree of separation from one or another of The Nameless One before he got amnesia, including all your party members {{spoiler|except Nordom and Fall-From-Grace}}. Mainly [[Justified]] in that the game is about a personal quest for identity and therefore you will logically be hunting down people with a prior connection to you, but many of the more incidental side-quests show a rather astounding array of this either way.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'''s [[Arch Enemy]] Dr. Drakken was a college friend of her father. Tasked with finding dates for their friends, he built crude robot girls instead. The resulting mockery led to his [[Start of Darkness]], storing up trouble for Dr. Possible's future daughter.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''... Perry's [[Arch Enemy|arch-nemesis]] is [[Mad Scientist|Professor Heinz Doofenshmirtz]], formerly married to Charlene Doofenshmirtz, who goes to the same cooking class as Linda Flynn, Phineas and Candace's mother. Doofenshmirtz's daughter, wife, and himself have also met Phineas and Ferb (and Candace, besides Doofenshmirtz <ref>Well, he kind of met her when she switched bodies with Perry, but that's not really relevant.)</ref>) but Doofenshmirtz is still not aware that they are the owners of Perry. Doofenshmirtz also at one point ''dated'' Linda Flynn, and in one episode, he states that he wants to see her again.

* This occurs throughout ''[[Robotech]]'' as a way of tying together the different groups of characters in the different sub-series. Max Sterling and Miriya Parina, of the ''Macross'' cycle, eventually have two daughers: Dana and Maia Sterling, who star in the ''Robotech Masters'' cycle and ''[[Robotech the Shadow Chronicles|The Shadow Chronicles]]'' movie, respectively. Likewise, Claudia Grant of ''Macross'' is eventually revealed to have a brother, Vince Grant, who is one of the stars of ''The Sentinels'' and who appears in ''The Shadow Chronicles'' along with his wife, and whose son, Bowie Grant, stars in the ''Robotech Masters'' cycle. Marcus Rush, another of the stars of ''The Shadow Chronicles'', is the younger brother of Marlene Rush, a bit character in the ''New Generation'' cycle.

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