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21 Pop Culture Coincidences

By:: Cracked Plasticians

May 20, 2019

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You know how movies and shows are laced with unlikely coincidences and chains of events? Well, hold onto your headwear. It turns out pop culture is littered with just as many uncanny connections among the various franchises. There are billions of little intersecting points that nobody talks about.

We asked our readers to collect the most ridiculously mind-blowing examples they could find. Then we paid them prize money. Which wasn't a coincidence.

21 Entry by Moses Armstrong

Avenres The jet Thor throws the Hulk into in The Avengers is the same jet at the end of True Lies. True Lies CRACKED

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TO HONOR QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S 90TH BIRTHDAY, A LIMITED EDITION ALE CALLED, PURPLE REIGN WAS RELEASED. THE NAME OF THE ALE WAS A NOD TO THE POPULAR P

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QUENTIN TARANTINO'S 1997 CRIME FILM, JACKIE BROWN WAS CAST BY A WOMAN NAMED JAKI BROWN.

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10 Entry by Moses Armstrong

When Stan Lee conceived Tony Stark in the 1960s, he based the character in part on Howard Hughes. When Jon Favreau made 2008's Iron Man, one of the fl

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CRACKEDCON The horses in Game of Thrones' Battle of the Bastards are the same as those in the finale of 2012's Les Miserables.

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In one of the last scenes he filmed as Albus Dumbledore, Richard Harris explains how when a phoenix dies, it's reborn in flames. He died not long afte

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The infamous murder house from American Horror Story's first season previously appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In Fear Itself, the gang gets t

3 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Zoe Saldana's involvement with the Star Trek franchise in 2009 was foretold in The Terminal (2005). In the 2005 film, Zoe plays Dolores, an immigratio

2 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Tuff Turf (1985) is an obscure film starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr... ...whose characters can THB be seen walking past a NEW wall painted

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The second time Susan Hill's 1983 novel, The Woman In Black, was made into a film, the main character was played by Daniel Radcliffe -- a.k.a Harry Po

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