History Main / ConnectedAllAlong

* This happens in the first two series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', the Chosen Children learned that they all used to live in the same apartment complex, and witnessed a battle between Greymon and Parrotmon before moving away. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', we learn that all of the new kids were partly recruited because the Digital World touched their lives in a big way. For the three new kids specifically, Daisuke and his family were among the many kidnapped families who were taken hostage by Vamdemon and his minions, Iori and his family were in the plane that got rescued by Garudamon and [=AtlurKabuterimon=], and Miyako watched the battle against Diablomon and contributed to its defeat.

* This happens in the first two series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', the Chosen Children learned that they all used to live in the same apartment complex, and witnessed a battle between Greymon and Parrotmon before moving away. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', we learn that all of the new kids were partly recruited because the Digital World touched their lives in a big way. For the three new kids specifically, Daisuke and his family were among the many kidnapped families who were taken hostage by Vamdemon and his minions, Iori and his family were in the plan that got rescued by Garudamon and [=AtlurKabuterimon=], and Miyako watched the battle against Diablomon and contributed to its defeat.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel's great-grandmother, [[TitleCharacter the movie's titular "Coco" (her real name is Socorro),]] is Hector's daughter--which means that Hector (not [[BigBad Ernesto de la Cruz]]) is Miguel's great-great-grandfather.

** [[TheHero Josuke Higashikata's]] StarterVillain is Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri, a depraved SerialKiller and rapist that tries to kill Josuke and his family [[DisproportionateRetribution after Josuke stopped a punk Angelo was using as a puppet with Aqua Necklace from robbing a convenience store]]. During the arc, it's revealed that Josuke's grandfather Ryohei was the man who arrested Angelo in the past, [[spoiler:and Angelo decides to focus his revenge on Ryohei first]].
** The SpinOff ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' reveals that [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Noriaki Kakyoin]] grew up in the town of Morioh.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': The SpinOff ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' reveals that [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Noriaki Kakyoin]] grew up in the town of Morioh.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48488527/chapters/122307433 Miraculous City]]'': Following a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent where everyone in Paris gets a Miraculous power, Lila Rossi acquires Ladybug powers while in chapter 8 an experienced criminal gets Butterfly powers and uses it to empower his subordinates. In chapter 13, [[spoiler:after they rescue Lila/Cerise, the Butterfly villain (named Chrysalis in the following chapter) reveals themself as Cerise's old mentor. They decides to reconnect with their old apprentice and recruits her and her team against both Team Miraculous and Monarch]].

** In the ''Islands'' mini-series, it is revealed that Susan Strong, a previously AmbiguouslyHuman "Hoo-man", is truly human, and that Susan, real name Kara, and Finn once belonged to the same island of humans. Dr. Gross, who patented Kara's [[[{{Cyborg}} cybernetics]], tasked her with finding Finn after he and his father disappeared one night. While Finn was found and adopted by Jake's family, Kara suffered some trauma that left her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnestic]] until she was eventually found again by Dr. Gross.

** In the ''Islands'' mini-series, it is revealed that Susan Strong, a previously AmbiguouslyHuman "Hoo-man", is truly human, and that Susan, real name Kara, and Finn once belonged to the same island of humans. Finn's mother tasked her with finding Finn after he and his father disappeared on night; during her search, her [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetics]] got tampered with, giving her amnesia and brain damage, while Finn was found and adopted by Jake's family.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', it's revealed that the Ice King ([[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity prior to his descent into madness]]) acted as a father figure to Marceline when she was a child, as her mother died in the fallout of [[GreatOffscreenWar The Great]] [[WorldWarIII Mushroom War]] and her demon father was a {{jerkass}} who barely cared. By the end of the series, it turns out that Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline and Ice King are all connected in some way: In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E14SimonAndMarcy Simon and Marcy]]," Simon and Marceline are helped by the semi-sentient mass of bubblegum that would later form Princess Bubblegum, and in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS7E7EverythingStays Everything Stays]]" Marceline protects a group of humans that are later confirmed by "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS8E12MinAndMarty Min and Marty]]" to be Finn's ancestors.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesKuroNoKiseki'' has [[TheHero Van Arkride]] who, thanks to his job as a Spriggan which entails working with individuals who are skirting the line, knows lots of people. He knows who [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Walter]] is despite being a part of [[AncientConspiracy Ouroboros]] and worked with him during [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel "The Great War"]], he has worked alongside [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Cao Lee and Heiyue]], and he's the driver mentioned in the in-universe book "Three & Nine" who helped [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie Swin Abel and Nadia Rayne]] who were on the run. It's become a [[MemeticMutation meme]] by fans that "Van knows everyone."

* The ''ComicBook/EarthX'' trilogy reveals that every Marvel character is actually a mutant, whose X-gene was catalyzed by whatever origin story they originally had. That's not even going into the wackier connections, such as how ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is distantly related to [[ComicBook/MoonBoyAndDevilDinosaur Moon-Boy]], or how Belasco was actually ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, ''or'' how Mister Sinister was really ''ComicBook/{{Colossus}}''. Basically, everyone and everything that ever was a part of the Marvel Universe was secretly tied to something else.

* The ending of ''ComicBook/AllGhoulsSchool'' reveals Becca's aunt Dora is Elle's mother, making them cousins.
* In the final arc of ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'', it is revealed that it was Ra's al Ghul who sponsored Cassandra's father in his experiments to make her a perfect assassin, rather than him doing it for his own freelance mercenary work.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} finds out that the Court of Owls is behind everything
* The long-forgotten ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' mini-series ''Conspiracy'' implied that most of the FreakLabAccident and MillionToOneChance-based {{Origin Stor|y}}ies from UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} were actually the work of a shadowy government cadre called "Control." So any silly story conceits that could be dismissed as a PlotHole or TheoryOfNarrativeCausality were actually implied to have been caused deliberately. The reason [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and his friends]] were easily able to sneak into space, as well as the reason their rocket didn't have proper radiation shielding? Control. The gamma bomb test that transformed Bruce Banner into Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk? Control. The wildly unsafe radiation experiments witnessed by [[Franchise/SpiderMan a certain schoolboy from Queens]]? Control.

* In ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'', it's established that Snake-Eyes' family was killed when their car was hit head-on by a drunk driver (who also died). It was later revealed the drunk driver was the brother of the man who would become Cobra Commander.
* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in one of the possible endings of ''ComicBook/{{Meanwhile}}''. Jimmy goes back in time and lives as all of the characters in the story: the ice cream man who gave Jimmy ice cream, the scientist, and Jimmy's own father. He raises his child self as his son.

* This happens in the first two series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', the [=DigiDestined=] learned that they all used to live in the same apartment complex, and witnessed a battle between Greymon and Parrotmon before moving away. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', we learn that all of the new kids were partly recruited because the Digital World touched their lives in a big way.

** In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles," the Mane Six tell the Cutie Mark crusaders about how they got their own Cutie Marks. Nearly all of them involve the sudden appearance of either a rainbow and/or a massive shockwave at the right time to help them realize their personal talents or passions. Then Rainbow Dash tells the story of getting her mark when she triggered the first Sonic Rainboom; a sky-shattering, multicolored shockwave and trailing rainbow. Hearing the story, the others all realize that it was the Sonic Rainboom that theysaw or felt that day.

* In ''Fanfic/InheritanceWorm'', when the current Butcher is killed their powers and a copy of their mind are transferred to the killer. When Sanguine killed the original Butcher, the two were surprised to realize that, outside of being rival capes, they'd regularly played ''Warframe'' tabletop games together.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': In addition to V and Urizen turning out fo be two halves of Vergil, Vergil is revealed to be Nero's father (which also makes Dante Nero's uncle).

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': ''Night Watch'' reveals that of all the police officers recruited in The Watch chronologically after ''Guards Guards'', he was the one that already had a history with Vimes, Colon and Nobbs. He had fought alongside all of them and died when the new dictator's men tried to kill them.

* This happens in the first two seasons of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. In the first season, the [=DigiDestined=] learned that they all used to live in the same apartment complex, and witnessed a battle between Greymon and Parrotmon before moving away. In the second season, we learn that all of the new kids were partly recruited because the Digital World touched their lives in a big way.

** In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles," the Mane Six discover they all got their cutie marks due to the exact same event, that being Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom as a filly.

* In ''VisualNovel/CafeStellaAndTheReapersButterflies'', there is a small situation with a man who comes into the café, only to never eat the cake he orders. It turns out that he's beating himself up over a mistake he made at his job. Right after, we learn of a little girl who wants to give her father a cake for his birthday. It turns out her father is the sad sack from earlier.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}: ''Night Watch'' reveals that of all the police officers recruited in The Watch chronologically after ''Guards Guards'', he was the one that already had a history with Vimes, Colon and Nobbs. He had fought alongside all of them and died when the new dictator's men tried to kill them.

-->'''The Duke:''' [[CatchPhrase What're ya buyin'?]] Heh heh... just something an old friend of mine used to say.

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has the end bosses of each chapter have similar naming conventions the prominently feature the consecutive letters O and D ("Odo" in prehistory, Ode Iou in Bakumatsu Japan, Odie O'Bright in the modern era, etc.). During the Middle Ages chapter, the lair of the Lord of Dark has a room with statues of all of the bosses from the previous chapters. [[spoiler:Then, in the closing moments of the chapter, Oerstead, having witnessed everyone betray him even after doing as he believed he should, snaps and names himself the new Lord of Dark, Odio, and uses his dark powers to spread his malice and hatred across all of history: all of the bosses you fought in the previous chapters were extensions of Odio!]]

* On ''Series/SupermanAndLois'', it's revealed that Morgan Edge is actually a Kryptonian named Tal-Rho, and is in fact Kal-El/Clark/Superman's half-brother.