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* The majority of ''[[Resonance of Fate]]'' consists of your three party members running errands and interacting with each other while [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|shadowy]] [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]] plot something far, far away. The two groups only cross paths near the very end, mostly because one of the random events made a party member upset, and the other two [[Berserk Button|didn't like that.]]

** This actually works pretty well within the story as the 3 main characters are basically freelancers, each with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] that is connected with the [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]], who are trying to live their lives in peace.

* ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]'' has a limited variant of this in the first half of the game. The game is divided into six "chapters," of which all except the first have a good, neutral, and evil version. Chapters 1 and 2 and two versions of chapter 3 each have multiple possibilities for which version they lead into, and the determination is made not from any storyline choice, but through how often you sacrifice the lives of your allies (a standard gameplay action.) This means that while each chapter makes sense in and of itself, each of the first three chapters is self-contained, and the outcome of each is completely irrelevant to what happens in later chapters. (Once you're in the second half the chapter versions you'll get for the rest of the game are determined, so this stops applying and the chapters lead into one another.)

* ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'' has a limited variant of this in the first half of the game. The game is divided into six "chapters," of which all except the first have a good, neutral, and evil version. Chapters 1 and 2 and two versions of chapter 3 each have multiple possibilities for which version they lead into, and the determination is made not from any storyline choice, but through how often you sacrifice the lives of your allies (a standard gameplay action.) This means that while each chapter makes sense in and of itself, each of the first three chapters is self-contained, and the outcome of each is completely irrelevant to what happens in later chapters. (Once you're in the second half the chapter versions you'll get for the rest of the game are determined, so this stops applying and the chapters lead into one another.)

* ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' suffers from this trope badly, [[Multiple Endings|due to the way the game was structured]]. You could pick 3 different paths per level, Good, Evil, or Neutral. Depending on your choice, you end up in a completely different level, but the game always has to justify why Shadow ends up there, and more often than not, [[Heel Face Turn|especially when it goes against every other moral choice you've made up to that point]], the justifications are [[Villain Teleportation|piss-poor]] or [[Random Teleportation|completely arbitrary]].

=== Western Animation ===

* The ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "Hereafter" was like this to some degree. As one review put it: "And boy, does it avoid the obvious. There's not a predictable moment in this story. On the other hand, it's unpredictable only because it's pretty damn arbitrary. The wake gets interrupted by... [[Lobo]]? Superman hacks through the jungle and finds... the Watchtower? He's met there by... Vandal Savage? I have a vision of the writer at his keyboard with a Random Event Chart and a thirty-sided die."

** The trope is then [[Subverted]], as the following episode provides [[It Makes Sense in Context|the context that makes sense of]] the events of "Hereafter"... except for Lobo's appearance, which only makes sense to someone who has seen the ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "The Main Man".

* ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' seems to be a series of random events slapped together to sort of create a story based on ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.

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