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There Are No Coincidences

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There Are No Coincidences	comment	As any student of cause and effect can tell you, a coincidence is when two or more events happen either simultaneously or in sequence, without any sort of obvious (and in most cases, inobvious) causal connection. Generally coincidences surprise us because, given their nature, we weren't expecting them. Most people know that sometimes things happen at the same time, but some people just refuse to believe it. There are, after all, reasons people say "where there's smoke there's fire." They also often say "There Are No Coincidences." 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 it 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 sprung from a common cause — the Conspiracy Theorist has an advanced case of it,note Most of the time, perhaps, but not all of the time. and no willingness to stop the investigation. as a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane way to say Because Destiny Says So. to show that there is something worse waiting in the shadows than mere "shit happening", and looking into it was a better idea than it looked at first. to show that there is such a thing as coincidences, the world is full of shit happening and people with astonishingly bad luck, and that characters that are determined to believe otherwise are too narrow-minded and end up being part of the problem (them saying this line inevitably becomes Ironic Echo fodder). This belief is Rule One of Wild Mass Guessing. The Genre Savvy are prone to it, because fictionally, the Law of Conservation of Detail militiates against its falsity. The Coincidence Magnet and related character tropes (Doom Magnet, Mystery Magnet, Weirdness Magnet et al.) is a natural enemy of this trope, especially if there is no In-Universe explanation for the coincidences beyond "having the absolute worst luck". Compare Chekhov's Gun.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock Inverted in "The Hounds of Baskerville" when a joke about a little girl's escaped rabbit turns out to be part of the A-plot. "People say there's no such thing as coincidence. What dull lives they must lead." Played straight in a third season episode, "The Sign of Three":
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There Are No Coincidences / int_1118ee42	comment	Wasp (2023): The day Nadia Pym's mother was killed, her father died in a "freak lab accident". Nadia believes this isn't remotely true, but hasn't been able to find any corroborating evidence. But there's a lot of evidence that Nadia was right to be suspicious.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_15022c3d	comment	This is a central belief of the two cults featured in The Tenets of Futilism. The titular cult believes there are two gods, one representing fortune and the other misfortune, who fight for control of humanity's fate. The gods are known as Crescis and Decrescis, respectively. Everything that happens is ultimately a result of one of their wills. Nothing is truly random. Sasha, the novel's protagonist, doesn't initially buy the cult's teachings. That changes after a few very unlikely coincidences occur. So unlikely, in fact, they leave her believing they're not coincidences at all. Sasha ends starting a cult of her own known as the Disciples of Waxing (or Waxers). Their belief system is much the same as the Futilists, only with a few changes Sasha makes to fit her ideals. Waxers believe that Crescis overcame his twin brother on December 21st 2012 when he prevented the Mayan apocalypse from occurring.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_15870207	comment	One episode of El ChapulÃn Colorado featured the hero at an area where it's usual to have falling rocks from space. Not believing it, Chapulin 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 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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There Are No Coincidences / int_1645fb27	comment	All-New Ultimates: Miles Morales pointed that they fought against Crossbones, Taskmaster and Scourge, three guys with skulls. He thinks that they must be related (they are not). Black Widow thinks that it's just that skulls are cool, and Kitty that they are fans of The Misfits.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_17e6aa40	comment	Robyn from The Tomorrow Series believes that "coincidences are God's way of telling you to wake up".
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There Are No Coincidences / int_1adee40d	comment	In the bonus chapter of The World Ends with You, one NPC talks about this. Given the way the story goes, he is probably right.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_20c7bc22	comment	A theme in Shadow Song, in which Avrum Feldman in particular believes very strongly in destiny. In particular, he claims it's no coincidence that he should meet and form an Intergenerational Friendship with the protagonist, Bobo Murphy, despite the meeting occurring in an unlikely place and the 51 years between their ages.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: At the end of the movie, Thor points out that in the years since the Avengers formed, they've ran into three of the Infinity Stones. His refusal to believe this is a coincidence is what spurs him to leave, and investigate further.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_21cda596	comment	In Goldfinger, James Bond tries to convince Goldfinger that their third meeting is a coincidence. He fails.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: During the Season 3 finale, Connor, fooled by Holtz's Thanatos Gambit into thinking Angel killed him, traps Angel in a metal coffin and sinks him to the bottom of the ocean to starve and go mad; around the same time, Cordelia is approached by Skip and accepts his offer to become a higher being. Come the Season 4 premiere, when they find out what Connor did, Gunn and Fred are outraged and convinced that Connor did something to Cordelia as well, pointing out that Cordelia couldn't have just "happened" to disappear the same night Connor dumped Angel into the ocean. Connor didn't do anything to Cordelia, however, and Angel is able to deduce that he didn't from his words, saying Connor has lied to him enough that he can tell the difference.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_247422c7	comment	Just after Honor Harrington has made her grand escape from the prison planet Hades with over half a million escapees, apparently coming back from the dead to do so, Rob Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just discuss her apparent ability to have been in just the right spots to screw with Haven's war planning for a decade or more. Pierre admits that half his strategic analysts believe it's just coincidence. The other half think she's in league with Satan.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter - in a season seven flashback to much earlier, the title character quotes a saying that Doakes found in another killer's diary. He tries to pass it off as a coincidence, but Doakes doesn't buy it. "Fuck coincidences, I don't believe in 'em."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_28a0fe9f	comment	Mocked in The Saga of Tanya the Evil. A very, very long series of completely unrelated events leaves the intelligence agency of the Kingdom of Albion with the absolute certainty that the enemy Germanian Empire has completely infiltrated them to the point they're preparing for an invasion and laughing at the very idea of any resistance. Germania has no spies in Albion. However, the idea alone spooks the Albish to the point of kickstarting a Lensman Arms Race against Germania, joining forces with the Unified States and covertly beginning a cold war.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_28f30dc9	comment	Fortean Times talks about this sort of thing a lot but makes no judgement on whether it's down to synchronicity, serendipity, conspiracy theory, or just plain ordinary random coincidence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_2ae406c1	comment	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri plays with this trope by suggesting there are coincidences, but these coincidences might have their own perverse reasons for happening:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_2b2195d5	comment	A common theme in A Column of Fire (part 3 of The Pillars of the Earth), a Historical Fiction novel where main protagonist Ned Willard is second in command of Elizabeth I's secret service. Secret service as in the predecessor to MI6. "I don't believe in coincidences" might as well be Ned's catchphrase.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_2ba1d958	comment	In The Matrix, Morpheus believes in fate and prophecy, and thus does not believe in coincidence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_2cfe43cb	comment	Mr. Whittaker from Adventures in Odyssey believes this. (Although in a very early episode he comments on something being a coincidence.)
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There Are No Coincidences / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Naruto's birth was the source of this speculation for several years. It was too much of a coincidence that the Kyuubi attacked on the day the Fourth Hokage's son was born, leaving him a convenient vessel for him to seal the biju in. Left at a loss due to missing pieces, most believed the stress of the attack caused Kushina to go into labor prematurely, which presumably killed her. The truth reveals that none of it was a coincidence at all. Kushina was Kurama's previous jinchuriki, and female jinchuriki are at risk of having their biju being released during childbirth due to the seal weakening. Kurama attacked that day because someone was able to release him from Kushina after Naruto's birth. While confronting Obito, Madara points out that the events surrounding Rin's death happened a little too conveniently to turn Obito to darkness, and reveals that he orchestrated the whole thing to make sure Obito would help him. The only thing in that situation that was a coincidence was Kakashi, who Rin used to kill herself via Suicide by Cop. Madaraâ€™s resurrection in the 4th Ninja War was also a case of this. Obito never intended to resurrect him as he aimed to take control of the Moonâ€™s Eye Plan. He would have succeeded if not for Kabuto resurrecting Madara with the Edo Tensei. Itâ€™s ultimately revealed that Black Zetsu was the one who led Kabuto to the location of Madaraâ€™s corpse as part of his plan to bring back Kaguya Ootsutsuki.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_32066b8e	comment	V for Vendetta: "I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences." Later in that movie, V tells another character, "There are no coincidences, Delia. Only the illusion of coincidence." Chief Inspector Finch also says "When you're at this as long as I have, you stop believing in coincidence."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", a Gambit Pileup caused by everyone involved explains the bizarre occurrences in this episode.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_367fab9a	comment	Doctor Tony Hill, from Wire in the Blood, has a psychological justification for not believing in coincidences:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_39d61023	comment	The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: When Danny asks how Barbara Gordon figured out his secret, she points out, among other things, that both Fenton and Phantom are from Amity Park and both of them showing up in her home town around the same time was too big of a coincidence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_3e374b30	comment	In The Dark Knight Rises, Gordon tells Blake that, as a detective, "[he's] not allowed to believe in coincidences anymore".
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There Are No Coincidences / int_3e5de40b	comment	Laverne in Scrubs. "Everything happens for a reason." Then JD's narration comments on how this is subverted at the end of the same episode when Laverne is left in a coma by a random car accident. Then played straight in the next episode, Laverne holds on to life just long enough for her best friend Carla to get past denial of the situation and say goodbye.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: This applies to the Knights of the Cross. Each knight has one of the three three swords, each with a nail from the Crucifixion and they're specifically meant for fighting Fallen Angel, but the knights generally help anyone in need and fight evil. God doesn't specifically assign the Knights to do anything, but through Divine Intervention via Contrived Coincidence he both puts them in the right place to helps people and ensures that side issues are taken care of so they can focus on their work. When a woman cries out "God in Heaven Help us," Sanya just happens to show up to help out. Or when Michael needs a babysitter so he can go out on Knight business, Father Forthills car break down just in front of his house. Forthill's comment implies that this is not the first time something like this has happened either.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: As Bobby said in "The Magnificent Seven", "I believe in a lot of things. Coincidences ain't one of them."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_47b1287b	comment	In Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, Quinn tells Omnibus they are about to be attacked: all their systems went offline at once when they reached the gravity well -- obviously not a simple malfunction.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_489150a8	comment	In The Licanius Trilogy, this is meant in a very literal sense. Everything that happens to Davian and Caeden in the first book was a direct result of Caeden's plan before he wiped his own memory.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_4e5a4630	comment	Star Wars: Republic Commando: "One's an anomaly, two's a trend. Rule 89, Boss."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_4f9064f5	comment	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.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_50e2e357	comment	In the Star Trek (2009) fanfic Written in the Stars, both Spock Prime and Fem!Kirk Prime make it clear to Alt Reality Fem!Kirk that it's no coincidence all the original crew ended up on the same ship.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic II: While not a complete rejection of coincidences, Kreia 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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There Are No Coincidences / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: All-New Ultimates: Miles Morales pointed that they fought against Crossbones, Taskmaster and Scourge, three guys with skulls. He thinks that they must be related (they are not). Black Widow thinks that it's just that skulls are cool, and Kitty that they are fans of The Misfits. The Ultimates: S.H.I.E.L.D. does not confirm or deny the allegations about Pym's wifebeating, but... a history of violent relations? An addiction to prescription painkillers? As a TV News anchor puts it: "It hardly takes a genius to put two and two together here". Cap: "I believe the expression for that is 'cosmic coincidence'". Utilized against Cap when Loki puts his schemes together, making it look like he was The Mole. Because what were the chances SHIELD just happen to find the body of the world's only successful super soldier just when they were putting a super-team together?
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There Are No Coincidences / int_53ebf3bb	comment	In the Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, fate often seems to be an active agent with a will of its own. Characters refer to it as "event" or "the Luck", and it is said to move in strange ways around those of Clan Korval and Line yos'Phelium in particular, making them the ultimate Weirdness Magnet. Individuals who are Genre Savvy enough to recognize it (including those of Korval themselves) make allowances for it in their plansâ€”Bechimo's builders who warned him to steer clear of Clan yos'Phelium in Ghost Ship, and Zaneth Katrina who wishes nothing to do with Clan Korval at the present time because the Luck is too unsettled in Dragon Ship. Those who don't believe in the Luck or the powers of the dramliza end up puzzled by the way Korval is always at the nexus of extraordinary happenstance and often assign human intentions to utter coincidence. (Or what would be utter coincidence if it weren't for the Luck causing it.) For example: what are the odds that a half-brainwashed Agent of Change disengaging from a mission would meet, become companions with, and eventually lifemate a woman who happens to be the granddaughter of a missing member of a long-lost clan with whom his is alliedâ€”a woman who grew up on the planet that his cousin is shortly going to civilize so Clan Korval can move to? And that this woman's own clan's world is about to be invaded by Yxtrang, bringing with them the very member of that race he had encountered ten years before? The entire series is one long chain of increasingly unlikely "coincidences". (It drives the Department of the Interior, and more than a few people who are in the know about Clan Korval's history with the Luck, right up the wall.)
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There Are No Coincidences / int_59215319	comment	Persona 2: Innocent Sin is one long journey in discovering that no, there are no coincidences. Your entire party comes together as playing pieces in a game between two gods, chosen because you were conveniently there - almost any group of childhood friends would have suited. Everything is part of some horrible grand scheme, especially the bits that look pulled out of nowhere.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_5999b1ec	comment	The Xanth novels define "coincidence" as a word used by Mundanes to explain away something magical happening.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_61b1bd67	comment	This was also prominent in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- which was the sister series to Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC and (sort of) tied in with the original Cardcaptor Sakura series.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_61cb77ae	comment	Eddie LaCrosse: In Burn Me Deadly, the protagonist acts on the assumption that this is the case, but actually, it's specifically averted â€” most things are connected, but not everything. Eddie assumes that the murder of Mother Bennings was orchestrated by the same people whose attack Mother Bennings healed him from, and not the marginally-connected guy who Gary Bunson is planning to execute. In fact, it really is the Open-and-Shut Case Gary thinks it is, and the killer's choice of victim had nothing to do with a connection to Eddie.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_69ef13c0	comment	Jim Williams airily drops the line in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil after John Kelso spots a copy of his book, which wasn't exactly a bestseller, on Jim's bookshelf while doing a puff piece for a magazine on Jim's annual Christmas party. Actually a justified use: Jim then explains that liked the book and specifically requested Kelso for the article.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_6ccaea9f	comment	Squid Row: Randie doesn't believe in luck.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape references Albert Einstein just to hammer in, "Yeah, Scorpius has your number, Crichton, and he will never stop screwing with you!" Harvey, the invisible friend in Crichton's head is dressed like Einstein. Complete with Einstein Hair. Farscape's that kind of show.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_6ec2a52c	comment	My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!: Kisaki ends up in the same school as Haruka by â€œcoincidenceâ€� and also volunteers to be a library helper by â€œcoincidenceâ€�. As explained by Rinko, those are not coincidences at all.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya and Shirogane end up getting trapped in a storeroom together in Chapter 78 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and are so used to their ongoing Battle of Wits that they both automatically assume the reason the door won't open is that it's part of some scheme that the other hatched and decide to play along. In reality, a twig had fallen off an overhanging tree and gotten caught in the track for the sliding door and both of them remain completely oblivious to the fact that they were actually trapped until Iino comes along.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7094fe80	comment	Flight to the Lonesome Place: Anna Maria Rosalita believed this, especially with Ronnie making his way to the ship on which she was on.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_72e7d7f6	comment	In the Lord Peter Wimsey book The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Lord Peter explains that he suspected murder because it was certainly possible for the timing of General Fentiman's death to be coincidental, but it was more believable if it had been deliberate.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_73d7930f	comment	Semi-averted by Garak in a conversation with Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_74f7210c	comment	The The Legend of Zelda fic Wisdom and Courage reveals that it was no accident that Link showed up in Termina just in time to stop Majora from dropping the moon; rather, Farore guided him there after Terminus, Termina's guardian deity, begged the Golden Goddesses for aid in containing the threat.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7616a253	comment	Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC: This idea is Yuuko's shtick and a major plot point, if not the major point of the series; though she also comments that the ultimate cause of an event may be an incident so minor that it's next to impossible to recognize the connection, even with supernatural help. She has a point — for example, the only reason that we, the readers, know that Doumeki's destroying one specific spiderweb while housecleaning is at all relevant to the story is that the manga devotes an entire page to depicting it, as opposed to the many other spiderwebs that have presumably been destroyed at some point or another without being shown. (Watanuki's job is being Yuuko's live-in slave, after all.) Unlike real life, fictional works have limited space, so only the significant events are depicted. The phrase came before in an older work, Cardcaptor Sakura and even before the idea of fate had come before in most of Clamp's works, since the beginning. This was also prominent in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- which was the sister series to Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC and (sort of) tied in with the original Cardcaptor Sakura series.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_78ec49bd	comment	This is repeated several times in the Young Wizards series. When people regularly find themselves going on vacation, only to discover that locals need someone with just their expertise to solve the dire problem that recently cropped up, and when their bosses are Reality Warpers that make most gods look tame, this attitude is more than slightly justified. Granted, this is usually used to get wizards to the problem; once there, they're usually on their own.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7a8eea7e	comment	The Scholomance: The last book reveals that El receiving the Golden Stone sutras was not by any sort of luck at all. They're the entire reason she was born. The ancient enclave her father's family used to live in was one of the Golden Enclaves, and her father's dream was to rebuild the enclave, one he shared with her mother. When they voiced their wish to the universe, it responded by giving them El, who would have the power to properly use the sutras and rebuild the Golden Enclaves for them. In the first book, it's noted by El that once-in-a-generation talents such as Orion and herself aren't rare, but what's weird about their situation is how extreme their gifts are and how closely they were born together, being in the same year and all. She suspects that he, a mal-slaying hero, was born in response to a group of maleficers who sacrificed their entire graduating class, and that she, a prophesied mighty dark witch, was in turn born in response to him. The third book reveals this wasn't even that much of a coincidence: there was no cabal of maleficers, or if there were they were scapegoats. Orion was deliberately engineered by his mother Ophelia to be a wizard/maw-mouth hybrid she would use as a Living Weapon, who she was destined to eventually lose control of as he tried to consume the world in his insatiable hunger. The universe responded with El, who was essentially born with her immense destructive power so she could stop him when the time came. Everyone knows about the principle of balance in magic, and Ophelia, an uncommonly gifted wizard, even predicted that the universe would respond this way, and actively searched for El for years. Deepthi, El's own great-etc.-grandmother and a great seer, in turn saw that coming, and had to estrange El from her paternal family to ensure she would remain out of Ophelia's clutches until she was strong enough to defend herself—as much or more from Ophelia's manipulation as any direct attack. It's only until Shanfeng points it out that El realizes how strange it is that the maw-mouth anchoring Beijing was found attacking London, and how that contrasts the original Shanghai enclave being taken out by the maw-mouth anchoring San Diego's enclave. Shanfeng confirms that this isn't a coincidence, and reveals that the western and eastern enclaves have been in a Lensman Arms Race of maw-mouths ever since Shanghai was revived.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman has a hard time accepting that coincidence is the reason for anything happening. Batman is right most of the time.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Mark Russell seems to have this mindset throughout the movie, a notable example being when he quickly assumes that Godzilla's agitated activity means he'll lead them to the ORCA. Regardless of how well-founded or rational his assumptions are, he tends to be right.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): On his deathbed, Eddie Thawne came to believe this was the case in regards to his unexpected presence in the timeline. It just so happened that the timeline Eobard Thawne altered by murdering Nora Allen was one where Eddie became a member of Team Flash, as Barry Allen's friend, Iris West's boyfriend/fiancee, and Joe West's partner, thus causing him to have a vested interest in stopping Eobard. He just so happens to be in the right place, at the right time, to do it by committing a Heroic Suicide, causing a Grandfather Paradox. Through this, it's heavily implied that the Speed Force allowed Eobard to run amok because it knew Eddie would one day kill himself to erase the latter from existence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_81692f99	comment	The Romulans of Star Trek, as a species, do not believe in luck. If something goes wrong, it is because someone either intentionally made things go wrong, or else someone messed up and unintentionally made things go wrong. Semi-averted by Garak in a conversation with Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead," a Klingon spy was exposed aboard the Enterprise at about the same time that a component of the warp core exploded, crippling the ship. The two were naturally assumed to be connected, making the spy a saboteur as well. Ultimately subverted, however, when the explosion was determined to have been an accident.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_88b348e8	comment	The phrase came before in an older work, Cardcaptor Sakura and even before the idea of fate had come before in most of Clamp's works, since the beginning.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost's central theme was whether the crazy stuff happening to the main characters has any sort of meaning or purpose, or if they're all just deluding themselves or being conned into thinking that because of their psychological issues.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_8d81bb26	comment	Gibbs, from NCIS. Rule #39, in fact. However, after Gibbs rules a group of chop-shop employees out of the investigation of a dead body found in the trunk of a car they stole:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_8e726ef	comment	In Bryan Miranda's The Journey to Atlantis, the main characters' ship sinks during a violent thunderstorm, which strands them on the island. Obviously, it wasn't just a normal storm, but was created by Loki to get the kids on the island so he could have his twisted fun with them.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_90f42a9b	comment	Comes up several times in The Wheel of Time, in particular thanks to three incredibly powerful ta'veren traipsing around, distorting probability with their presence. Invoked memorably when Verin tried for days to leave a particular town but was repeatedly flummoxed by random delays, until finally she decided that she was supposed to be there and settled down to see who would show up. In broader terms, resident pragmatist Gareth Bryne sums it up:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_927aa947	comment	Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act III: Kuyou just happens to call the gang to warn them he's coming back to settle the score with Tsukune a few chapters after Hokuto himself enrolls in Yokai Academy; it's ultimately revealed that Hokuto himself personally orchestrated Kuyou's return in order to steal an Artifact of Doom from the school while everyone else was distracted with Kuyou.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_994af351	comment	During Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, you end up having to cross-examine a parrot, in a desperate attempt to link the owner to the current case. One press gets you nowhere, as it's a small clue that has no meaning, with the prosecutor and the judge calling it a coincidence. A second press gets a different answer, which is also a small clue which has no meaning on its own. The prosecutor calls it a coincidence, but the Judge isn't so sure...
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There Are No Coincidences / int_9b2f5b8f	comment	The Air I Breathe: "There are some people who believe in coincidences. I am not one of them."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_9d34190a	comment	A common theme throughout The Elder Scrolls series. Given that the series gets its surtitle from prophetic Tomes Of Eldritch Lore, this shouldn't be too surprising. The Septim dynasty in particular repeatedly learns this the hard way, with Uriel Septim VII uttering the trope name immediately before being assassinated while Martin Septim goes from from feeling in control of his destiny to believing things are pre-planned. One exception are the "heroes", an in-universe metaphysical concept. These are rare individuals not bound in any way by fate and who have the ability to rule their own destiny. Heroes are closely related to the prophecies revealed in the Elder Scrolls, but are not bound by them, and they often grow to become far more powerful than most other mortals (sometimes to the point of becoming Physical Gods or outright Deities Of Human Origin). Each Player Character in the series to date has been such a hero, and many others are mentioned in the series' lore (often as Long Dead Badasses and Founders Of Their Kingdoms).
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There Are No Coincidences / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Discussed often in One Piece, often in regards to the Luffy's outrageous luck working against his total lack of survival abilities: In Loguetown, Smoker wonders if the storm hitting the island working in the Straw Hats' favor- a bolt of lightning saving Luffy from Buggy's sword, the rain making the Navy's gunpowder wet, the wind just right for a getaway- means if some divine force is trying to get Luffy off the island. It's implied, but not proven, that the enigmatic Dragon has something to do with it. Later on, in Totto Land, Baron Tamago wonders if the Big Mom Pirates have been Underestimating Badassery when it came to the Straw Hats, considering that Whole Cake Chaeau collapsed just as Big Mom crew was about to kill the heroes, and now their surveillance system no longer working. Mort D'Or insists it's all a coincidence, but Tamago notes that lately there have been nothing but accidents in Luffy's favor. In these cases, the explosion that destroyed the Chateau was due to King Neptune hiding a bomb in the Tamate Box for unrelated reasons, the Sun Pirates were sabotaging Totto Land's spy network.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_9e876c22	comment	Good Omens. At first glance it seems that a bunch of random stuff (starting with the babies getting mixed up, and escalating from there) came together to interfere with the Divine Plan. It's not until it's over that the protagonists start to wonder if the Divine Plan they've been told about is the actual Divine Plan.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_a346e791	comment	Comes up a few times on NUMB3RS. In this case, Charlie does allow for the possibility of coincidences, but he's also able to see when an apparent coincidence is a little too improbable. In one episode, he realizes that a bus accident was staged due to the sheer number of factors that had to come together at the exact right moment; in a later episode, he uncovers a murder plot after discovering that five people who worked together all died within a few weeks of each other in a series of supposedly random incidents (four "accidents" and one "suicide"), the odds of which, according to Charlie, are about 700 million to one.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_a55aafee	comment	In Race to Witch Mountain Dr. Alex Friedman calls this chaos theory.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_a6cc2dfa	comment	This is part of Teru Mikami's backstory in Death Note. As a child, he was a Bully Hunter with a sense of Black-and-White Morality who stood up to bullying whenever he saw it, but all this really accomplished was getting himself beaten up. When his mother tried to convince him he shouldn't fight the bullies because he's only getting himself hurt, he takes this to mean she's taking the bullies' side and is just as bad as they are. When his mother and those very same bullies he spent his school years fighting were all killed in the same accident completely by chance, he takes this as a sign from God that he was right and that they all deserved to be punished.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid
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There Are No Coincidences / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: After discovering that Halbrand has kingly blood, Galadriel is convinced that her meeting Halbrand in the open sea was not the product of a mere coincidence. Later, her own conviction comes back and bite her in the ass when it turns out that Halbrand is Sauron, who did take her words to his heart and wants her to be by his side to reshape Middle-earth together.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_b226d262	comment	Blackbird (Arrow): When Oliver learns that Laurel vanished from Starling City shortly before Sara returned, he's convinced that isn't a coincidence and the two events are related. He's right. Shortly after it becomes apparent Laurel was in fact kidnapped and an investigation is started, Walter Steele vanishes. Thea panics and thinks the two events are connected. This time however, it really is a coincidence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_b4816c2e	comment	In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II, Vorador refuses to believe that Raziel's sudden appearance and the imminent destruction of the Pillars is a coincidence.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_b89bf586	comment	In the Hunted arc of Ninjago, the teenage Wu doesn't use the words, but he does voice the same sentiment. He doesn't actually know the location of his father's armor or the way back home, but he believes there's a reason he had a dream where his father told him "You have to have faith" immediately before meeting an ally whose name is literally Faith, so he takes it as a sign to trust his instincts.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010): The third time the Team's actions interfere with the Light's plans, they begin to take action against them, citing the old proverb:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_b9353ff6	comment	Pibgorn:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_ba3d2748	comment	In The Incredibles, Dash Parr's homeroom teacher Bernie Kropp has been finding thumbtacks in his chair just as he sits down and he suspects Dash of doing so, but never caught him doing so in his eyes. So he uses a hidden video camera to record one incident and find that right when he sits down, the camera shows Dash blurring before the thumbtacks appear, which he takes as proof that he's involved. While Helen and the audience know Dash used his superspeed to put the thumbtacks right when Bernie sat down, the principle thinks his colleague is being paranoid and allows the Parrs to go home.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_ba9d1b1c	comment	In Signs, Graham Hess phrases the statement as a means to deny the existence of God.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	In episode 91 of Critical Role, Caduceus shares the story of the three clans that serve The Wildmother: Dust, Clay, and Stone. Fjord, who had recently become a paladin of the Wildmother due to Caduceus's influence, then bemusedly reveals that the last name he'd been given at the orphanage was Stone. While Fjord is convinced it was just a very strange coincidence, Caduceus takes this as a sign that fate was guiding the two of them down their respective paths. Ironically enough, it genuinely was a coincidence. Travis and Taliesin developed this aspect of their character's backstories independently, and were as surprised as anyone when it came out in game.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: In Graham McNeill's Ultramarines novel Dead Sky Black Sun, when Uriel meets Colonel Leonid, who can tell him what is in the Chaos fortress, Uriel tells him that it was not chance that brought him to meet Leonid. In C. S. Goto's Dawn of War trilogy, "Coincidences are for the weak-minded and the ignorant."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Inko Midoriya invokes this trope while trying to convince her husband Hisashi to adopt the baby alien child they found in the spaceship that crashed near their campsite just days after they discovered they are infertile. He doesn't buy into it at first, but eventually relents, as the alternatives would be to kill the child, leave him at an orphanage, or hand him over to the authorities, none of which are particularly appealing.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c007a111	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition: The sheer number of coincidences responsible for the Inquisitor's survival and rise to power convinces one skeptic that the Inquisitor is The Chosen One.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c0519fd9	comment	RuneScape: In sort of a meta-example, during the quest Doric's Quest, a dwarf will ask you to gather certain ores for him (12 in total). To save time, experienced and informed players tend to gather these ores before starting the quest so they can immediately complete it. Doing so will lead to a funny conversation with the player happily exclaiming thatâ€”by pure coincidenceâ€”they already have the exact ores he requires. Doric will amazedly respond that the odds of having these exact items on you when you have only 28 inventory spots at a time are incredibly low.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c11e7037	comment	Whispered Tribulation: "Eraserhead" Aizawa believes this very, very firmly, and thus when he notices that Izuku Midoriya, on top of other allegedly suspicious behavior (such as his Quirk assessment notes) has constantly appeared around the locations of tragedies that have affected Class 1-A (even if he is a Regular Studies student and not a Hero), he jumps on the conclusion that Izuku is the traitor within UA and drags him away for interrogation.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c1cb1895	comment	Peace Forged in Fire: Morgan notes that the timing of the Tal'Shiar false-flag attack against ch'R Maens is more than a little coincidental. Tovan responds:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c34f83b2	comment	In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Chiaki Nanami takes note of the fact that Nagito Komaeda was picked for cleaning duty and standing next to the cord of the lamp are two coincidences happening one after another, leading to him being a suspicious person in the case.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The First Doctor was more likely to call things that were obviously enemy action coincidence and to call a coincidence fate. Later Doctors have a tendency to say this, usually while figuring out the plot. By now he's had nine hundred years of experience in how these things work. One of Eleven's rules is "never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're in a hurry, then always ignore a coincidence". The TARDIS, while in a human body basically tells the Doctor there is no coincidence that the Doctor arrives just before some trouble happens because the TARDIS is taking him to where he is needed.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_cac1f772	comment	On CSI Gil Grissom has repeatedly said in a handful of episodes that he does not believe in coincidences. He even quoted Goldfinger at one point: However, in the episode "Chaos Theory", Grissom is forced, at the end of the episode's investigation, to accept that the death and disappearance of college student Paige Rycoff was the result of a series of unfortunate random events that, when taken in sequence, were only connected because, together, they directly led to the girl dying in a tragic accident that merely appeared at first blush, to be murder. At the end of the aforementioned episode, Gil is forced to look into the mirror when the parents of Paige refuse to believe the explanation even with all the evidence, the one thing that Gil absolutely believes in an investigation, due to grief.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: In the episode "A Higher Power", a detective enlists the help of the BAU to search for an "angel of death" Serial Killer who is targeting the grieving families of the people who died in a fire and "helping" them perform the suicides he thinks they "want" to do when the detective's brother kills himself. After all is said and done, the BAU team has to look at the detective in the eye and tell him that while his initial suspicion about the spike of suicides was correct, unfortunately the brother's suicide was a coincidence - the killer had absolutely nothing to do with it. Understandably, this leaves the detective in utter shock.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_cd62d386	comment	7 YÃ¼z: Used to disturbing effect in the episode "KarÅŸÄ±laÅŸmalar". After learning she crossed paths with her husband Onur hundreds of times before actually meeting him, GÃ¶zde seeks to assign meaning to the events â€” specifically, the four times they passed within ten meters of each other. Far from finding a fatefully romantic narrative, she uncovers the unsettling truth: the passing encounters and their first meeting were not due to mere coincidence, but Onur watching her every move.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_d537677b	comment	The basis of Aaron's worldview in Unsong to the point that his signature quote is "This is not a coincidence because nothing is ever a coincidence." This is pretty reasonable, considering that he practices magic based on the reverse engineering the nature of God from so-called coincidences (and the omnipresent puns) and the settings main other form of magic is based on Narrative Causality.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: S.H.I.E.L.D. does not confirm or deny the allegations about Pym's wifebeating, but... a history of violent relations? An addiction to prescription painkillers? As a TV News anchor puts it: "It hardly takes a genius to put two and two together here". Cap: "I believe the expression for that is 'cosmic coincidence'".
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There Are No Coincidences / int_d77f28f7	comment	In Ancillary Justice, this is the view of the dominant religion in Radch space which holds that all things are the will of the god Amaat so every seeming coincidence is significant. Breq uses this belief to her advantage several times throughout the book.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	No Game No Life: The siblings don't believe that a game of "pure chance" exists. Whether its Black Jack or the probability that the next person to walk into a given alley is a given gender, there are any number of invisible factors that make the outcome inevitable. This is why information is so important.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Other characters have this, too, but Baelfire explicitly states that it's one of the few things that he and his father, Rumplestiltskin, agree on.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_de9a7807	comment	Happens in one episode of Flashpoint, "Clean Hands". Parker believes a would-be murderer had conspired with his boss to take out a serial killer, until he learns that he had served in the Sudan, the same place where the customs agent on the case had worked. He decides this is one coincidence too many. (Additional evidence quickly validates his suspicions.)
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There Are No Coincidences / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: By the end of the series, 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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There Are No Coincidences / int_eb9e3429	comment	In 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."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_eba89670	comment	In C. S. Goto's Dawn of War trilogy, "Coincidences are for the weak-minded and the ignorant."
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There Are No Coincidences / int_eff0512b	comment	In The World of Narue, sudden Contrived Coincidences are a sign of impending interference by the mysterious "Serpents" which exist beyond space and time, and which can send causality out to lunch. There are no coincidences, but there are acausal side effects.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f0ef5ab2	comment	In CharCole, professor Cedar explains to "Charlie" how he discovered he's Cole. It involves a lot of coincidences, and a lack of belief therein.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f36a428d	comment	This is a major plot point in Bridge of Birds, with Master Li slowly realizing that all the unlikely events and reappearances of characters and side stories that keep happening to him and Number Ten Ox are the work of a god doing his best to clue them in on their Fetch Quest being part of a much bigger quest without breaking the rule of gods not being allowed to intervene directly in mortals' affairs. The chapter where he explains all this to Ten Ox is even titled "There Are No Coincidences in the Great Way of Tao".
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f435cfbd	comment	The 51st State has this conversation on coincidence... In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by dozens of skinheads with automatic weapons just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to make your life hell.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier episode "Bla-Z-Boy" has Frasier invoke the Trope when Martin spills oil on his Berber rug, thinking Martin did it on purpose, whether consciously or subconsciously. Martin's reply is priceless. Later in the episode, Frasier (somehow) lights Martin's chair on fire and it falls 19 floors to the ground, slamming in front of Martin and Daphne below, thoroughly destroying itself. Martin rightfully gives Frasier a loud What the Hell, Hero? that Frasier could have killed someone, leading up to this Armor-Piercing Response:
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f73ffcb9	comment	In Hitman 3, Jiao will say in Berlin's "Apex Predator" mission that there are no coincidences when Agent 47 is around. Given that the Hitman series has long featured ways for 47 to set up kills that look like accidents, 47 is known within the ICA for specializing in these kinds of hits, and that said line is triggered by 47 setting up such an accident that kills two of the agents that Jiao is overseeing to kill 47, Jiao is clearly Genre Savvy enough to know just what's going on (even if she's powerless to prevent it).
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Michael Garibaldi prefers to make his own luck rather than just relying on chance. When Ambassador Sinclair unexpectedly returns to Babylon Five in the two-parter "War Without End", Sheridan says his timing seems like more than just a coincidence. Sinclair enigmatically replies that there are no coincidences; in fact, he's aware that there's a Stable Time Loop in effect, and is holding information back to avoid causing a paradox or a Bad Future.
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There Are No Coincidences / int_f9bf945b	comment	In Equestria: A History Revealed, the narrator believes this to the point of using Insane Troll Logic to justify her theories. In Chapter 10, she reveals that she was motivated to write this essay because she found a Celestia-shaped Dorito chip and was convinced it was a sign from destiny, invoking this trope.
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A Moth to a Flame (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Again (Breath of the Wild) (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Between Three Rogues (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Blackbird (Arrow) (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Double Agent Vader (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
From The Ashes (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Frozen Wight (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
HTTYD The Kunoichi's Way (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Heroes of the Digital World (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
In Flight (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Inheritance of Cards and Demons (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
My Hero Academia: Mechanical green (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Peace Forged in Fire (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Tales of the Dekuverse (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Whispered Tribulation (Fanfic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
A Dangerous Method / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Avengers: Age of Ultron / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Blue Is the Warmest Color / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Charley Varrick / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Constantine (2005) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
$ / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Dune: Part Two / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Jesus Camp / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Jumpin' Jack Flash / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Latter Days / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Serendipity / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Shutter Island / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The 51st State / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Air I Breathe / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Dark Knight Rises / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Man Who Would be King / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Wrong is Right / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
A Swiftly Tilting Planet / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Azure Rain / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Book of Esther / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Burn Me Deadly / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Catching Fire / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Darth Bane / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Desert Star / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Flight to the Lonesome Place / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Harry Bosch / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Holes / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Imperial Radch / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Inside the Worm / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Leaphorn & Chee / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Light / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Mass Effect Annihilation / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
No Game No Life / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Nobody Gets the Girl / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Resurrection Walk / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Santa Olivia / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
ShadowSong	seeAlso	There Are No Coincidences
Six Chances / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Skin Game / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Small Favor / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Spiral Arm / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Blob That Ate Everyone / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
TheClairvoyantCountess	seeAlso	There Are No Coincidences
The Licanius Trilogy / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Saga of Darren Shan / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Scholomance / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Tomorrow Series / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Word Is Murder / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Unsong / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Fortean Times (Magazine) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	There Are No Coincidences
TheChainMan	seeAlso	There Are No Coincidences
Basara (Manga) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps! (Manga) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	There Are No Coincidences
Musou Verse (Roleplay) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Alphas / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Baggage / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
CSI / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Crash Landing on You / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
For All Mankind / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Hawaii Five-O / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Magpie Murders / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Mirror, Mirror (1995) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Perry Mason (2020) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Please Like Me / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Quiz (2020) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Slasher / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Titanic (1996) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Witchblade / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
7 Yüz / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Monsterpocalypse (Tabletop Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Arcadia (Theatre) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Hades (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Kingdom Hearts coded (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Legend of Kay (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Star Trek Retribution (Web Animation) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Stampylongnose (Web Video) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Templar Arizona (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Descended (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Rock Cocks (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Young Justice - Original Series / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Liaden Universe / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
therearenocoincidences	sameAs	There Are No Coincidences
Aquapunk (Webcomic) / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences

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