Enter
Run into
Run into verb - Collide violently with an obstacle.
Both terms in one sentence
- Contrived Coincidence: The Antipholuses and Dromios are in the same city, run into the same people, and even enter the same buildings... just never, ever at the same time.
Source: Theatre / The Comedy of Errors - As the good guys enter the outpost, they run into Anubis who gloats at them with this trope's name.
Source: You Are Too Late -
Room Full of Crazy: When the characters first enter the TV world, they run into one, covered in mutilated pictures of Misuzu Hiiragi and splattered in blood.
Source: Video Game / Persona 4
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