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** Later in that movie, V tells another character, "There are no coincidences, Delia. Only the illusion of coincidence."
* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', Master Oogway tells Master Shifu, "There are no accidents," in relation to Po being chosen as the Dragon Warrior. Master Shifu later repeats this to Po.
* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', Rick tries to shrug everything off as a coincidence and Ardeth tells him "There's a fine line between coincidence and fate."
* ''[[The 51st State]]'' has this conversation on coincidence...
{{quote|'''Felix DeSouza''': ''Yeah, well, Shit Happens!''
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* Michael Garibaldi, from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' prefers to make his own luck rather than just relying on chance.
* Gibbs, from ''[[NCIS]]''.
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{{quote|'''Anthony DiNozzo''': "In the immortal words of Leroy Jethro Gibbs [puts on a deep voice] 'I don't believe in coincidences'."}}
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{{quote|'''Gibbs''': "You know how I feel about coincidences, Abs."
'''Abby''': "Equatorial pygmies know how you feel about coincidences, Gibbs." }}
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** Then JD's narration comments on how this is subverted at the end of the same episode when {{spoiler|Laverne is left in a coma by a random car accident}}
*** Then played straight in the next episode, {{spoiler|Laverne holds on to life just long enough for her best friend Carla to get past denial of the situation and say goodbye}}
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
{{quote|"Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and leprechauns."}}
** By the end of the series, [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|just about the only mythical creature we haven't seen is a leprechaun]]. This is even lampshaded on ''[[Angel]]'' when Cordelia sarcastically asks a group of demon if she's going to see a leprechaun next and the demons point out that no-one believes in leprechauns.
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* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] has a tendency to say this, usually while figuring out the plot. It's almost like he knows he's in a universe that has people writing the script. Or he's just had nine hundred years of experience in [[Genre Savvy|how these things work]].
** He didn't used to. The First Doctor was more likely to call things that were obviously enemy action coincidence than to call a coincidence fate. So the experience explanation seems likely.
* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2
* One episode of ''[[El Chapulin Colorado]]'' featured the hero at an area where it's usual to have falling rocks from space. Not believing it, Chapulin [[Sarcasm Mode|sarcastically]] announced the arrival of one that made stops in Jupiter and Saturn. Then a rock falls and hits someone nearby. Chapulin dismissed it as a coincidence that could happen anywhere on the world and [[Tempting Fate|challenged another one to appear]]. It did, hitting the same someone. "Two coincidences", the hero said and then challenged again. A third rock fell and Chapulin decided to hide just in case a "fourth coincidence" appeared. Several rocks fell later, and the hero weakly dismissed them as coincidences.
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* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''
{{quote|'''Solid Snake''': Well, I don't believe in coincidences.}}
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' averts this trope by using a twist on the Einstein quote:
{{quote|Einstein would turn in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, ''Looking God in the Eye'' }}
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* In the bonus chapter of ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', one NPC talks about this. [[Gambit Pileup|Given the way the story goes]], he is probably right.
* While not a complete rejection of coincidences, Kreia in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'' believed that true coincidences were rare and that events usually chalked up to coincidence actually happened because of the Force.
** Bastila also lampshades it in the first game, saying such things are so commonplace to those who are active Force Users that they simply "get used to" it.
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