Say one day you meet a girl and fall in love. Nothing wrong with that. However, on your wedding day, when you meet her father, you remember that he's the guy who failed you in biology in the twelfth grade. Okay, odd, but not inconceivable. But wait, isn't her mother the one who sat next to you at a bus station five years ago and gave you great life advice? And her cousin looks familiar, too. Hold on, it seems you've met her entire family at one point or another throughout your entire life. Subtropes:
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| - Say one day you meet a girl and fall in love. Nothing wrong with that. However, on your wedding day, when you meet her father, you remember that he's the guy who failed you in biology in the twelfth grade. Okay, odd, but not inconceivable. But wait, isn't her mother the one who sat next to you at a bus station five years ago and gave you great life advice? And her cousin looks familiar, too. Hold on, it seems you've met her entire family at one point or another throughout your entire life. And then she comes up to you and reveals that she's met your whole family before as well. In fact, you are her father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. It seems there's only One Degree of Separation. This is where every character is tangentially connected to almost every other character. It doesn't matter if it's an Easter Egg or important to the Myth Arc. Everyone's connected. In film this is known as "hyperlink cinema". This concept is also used by actors with a Bacon number (how many degrees away an actor is from Kevin Bacon) and by mathematicians with an Erdos number (how many degrees away from you is the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos). There's even a Bacon-Erdos for those rare few who've happened to both act in a film and written a mathematical/scientific paper. (e.g. Natalie Portman, who has an Erdos number of 5 and a Bacon number of 1, for a B-E number 6. Danica McKellar is also 6 (4 and 2). Stephen Hawking is a 7, BTW.) Often part of a Jigsaw Puzzle Plot. Sometimes just a lot of Contrived Coincidence. See also Generation Xerox. Gets much more complicated when you have Loads and Loads of Characters who all seem to know each other. Or if they don't they quickly do thanks to You ALL Share My Story. Can be seriously aggravated by the presence of immortals. Subtropes:
* Already Met Everyone
* Everyone Is Related
* Everyone Went to School Together Examples of One Degree of Separation include:
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