History Main / SpontaneousCrowdFormation

* This tends to happen a lot in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, particularly to Franchise/SpiderMan. Usually the crowd being there will result in the villain threatening them so he/she can get away. At other times, they witness the wrong thing at the wrong time and blame the heroes for whatever happened.

* At the end of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the crowd that forms to gawk at [[spoiler: Judge Doom's body]] was awfully close at hand and made up of some awfully prominent citizens of Toontown given how quickly they gathered.

* This is an established rule in Literature/{{Discworld}}'s Ankh-Morpork -- no matter what the citizenry are doing, if something interesting is going on, they WILL stop to watch it. Can work for or against people.
** This is often called the official pastime of Ankh-Morpork.

* In the climactic [[spoiler:dance]] battle of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', a crowd of people shows up as a convenient audience. This is all the more inexplicable because [[spoiler:the city they're in had previously been evacuated, dive-bombed, and borderline ''[[ColonyDrop colony dropped]]'']], yet there are still plenty of people around to gawk.

* In the ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'' series, a crowd forms whenever a fight breaks out in public. The onlookers serve as a barrier that keeps the player from running away. This is averted in the later entries, where you're allowed to run from a fight.

* In the ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'' series, a crowd forms whenever a fight breaks out in public. The onlookers serve as a barrier that keeps the player from running away.

The inverse of this is when a building or hallway full of people clear the area with remarkable speed, panic and thoroughness, so that the hero and the villain can duke it out in an empty hallway, possibly with loose papers flying around. That reaction can often be a form of CrowdPanic.

* Spontaneous Crowd Generation was one of the many phenomenons discussed in [[''Creator/RobertRankin ''The Book Of Ultimate Truths'']]

* In the ''VideoGame/Yakuza'' series, a crowd forms whenever a fight breaks out in public. The onlookers serve as a barrier that keeps the player from running away.

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* At the end of Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, the crowd that forms to gawk at [[spoiler: Judge Doom's body]] was awfully close at hand and made up of some awfully prominent citizens of Toontown given how quickly they gathered.

* In the climactic [[spoiler:dance]] battle of Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, a crowd of people shows up as a convenient audience. This is all the more inexplicable because [[spoiler:the city they're in had previously been evacuated, dive-bombed, and borderline ''[[ColonyDrop colony dropped]]'', yet there are still plenty of people around to gawk.]]

* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'', the Joker announces he will be giving away free money at a parade. Despite knowing he's a murderer, [[TooDumbToLive the crowd shows up on schedule and he almost kills them]].

-->-- '''Creator/PGWodehouse''', "No Wedding Bells for Him"

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* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'', during the scene in the convenience store, a crowd pops into view from behind various shelves to mock Larry's choice of condom. "WHAT A PERVERT!"

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* A TV adaption of the aforementioned Bradbury story can be viewed here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGda_1-uX2g part 1]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpT9jD_Nb8 part 2]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alscLa4qDCg part 3]].

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* Happens several times in Tevri'ed in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' when there's a particularly interesting fight going on.

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* At the end of Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, the crowd the forms to gawk at [[spoiler: Judge Doom's body]] was awfully close at hand and made up of some awfully prominent citizens of Toontown given how quickly they gathered.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', when you enter a battle the scene with switch to a theatre with a cheering crowd. The size of the crowd increases as the game continues, and sometimes they can provide you with items or a power-up.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning'', Daffy makes the mistake of admitting that it's really duck season, causing a ring of hunters to instantly pop into view and blast him.