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Interestingly, this line can be made by both the [[Agent Scully]] and the [[Agent Mulder]]. One believes that the improbable has a simpler explanation and one believes that is has a fantastic one. Both are [[Genre Savvy]] in that [[Contrived Coincidence]] is something that should usually be avoided in serious plots.
Usually used either to motivate investigation into possible reasons why an apparent coincidence actually sprung from a common cause -- the [[Conspiracy Theorist]] has an advanced case of it, and no willingness to stop the investigation -- or as a [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]] way to say [[Because Destiny Says So]].
This belief is, of course, Rule One of [[Wild Mass Guessing]]. The [[Genre Savvy]] are particularly prone to it, because fictionally, the [[Law of Conservation of Detail]] militiates against its falsity.
Compare [[Chekhov's Gun]].
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