The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

The word pompatus has, because of its peculiarity and seemingly nonsensical usage, become a minor pop culture trivia icon.

Race times are recorded in hundredths of seconds, so even seemingly minor errors-especially those at the beginning, which affect the remainder of the heat-can have a measurable impact on the final race standings.

He considered this to be an important decision, as the player would need those seemingly minor characters in later parts of the game and would receive a chance to " really interact with them ".

Also termed a looped slip-string, this seemingly minor modification allows for a far greater variety and sophistication of motion, thanks to increased stability and suspension of movement during free spin.

Strong religious partisanship was largely a reflection of the seriousness with which the Pennsylvania Dutch took their faith, while only differing in seemingly minor points from each other, at least compared to a more worldwide view of religions and their differences.

Other people are so afraid of any reminder of illness that they will avoid medical professionals for a seemingly minor problem, sometimes to the point of becoming neglectful of their health when a serious condition may exist and go undiagnosed.

Meanwhile, an increasing crime rate prompted Parliament to exclude many seemingly minor property crimes from the benefit of clergy.

There is flow in the seemingly disjointed ideas and episodes ; for example, as Holden sits in a chair in his dorm, minor events such as picking up a book or looking at a table, unfold into discussions about experiences.

Byrne ( playing White ), after a standard opening, makes a seemingly minor mistake on move 11, losing tempo by moving the same piece twice.

Through brief flash-forward sequences of still images, Lola's fleeting interactions with bystanders are revealed to have surprising and drastic effects on their future lives, serving as concise illustrations of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which minor, seemingly inconsequential variations in any interaction can blossom into much wider results than is often recognized.

Reportedly, the experimenters themselves were deeply troubled by being involved in such a seemingly minor violation of a social norm.

Earlier on lap 14 in the same race, young driver Larry Smith died in a seemingly minor wreck.

He is also able to quickly judge the quality of, and find even seemingly minor flaws in most weaponry, down to very specific details.

This seemingly minor change arguably helps the story flow more smoothly.

One poem, " Igdlugssaq Nápagaungmat " or " When the House Was Built ," details the seemingly minor event of constructing a home in Angmagssalik.

Often this happens because book collectors judge minor defects in an old book so harshly as to make them seemingly unsaleable.

Although seemingly minor events, the Erfurt Union proposal and the Punctation of Olmütz bring the problems of influence in the German states into sharp focus.

Glass which has not been annealed may crack or shatter due to a seemingly minor temperature change or other shock.

Despite a seemingly minor role in the anime, her involvement in the story becomes deeper toward the end.

Through these studies, which took place in 1987, 1989, and 1997, Link advanced a " modified labeling theory " indicating that expectations of labeling can have a large negative effect, that these expectations often cause patients to withdraw from society, and that those labeled as having a mental disorder are constantly being rejected from society in seemingly minor ways but that, when taken as a whole, all of these small slights can drastically alter their self concepts.

It requires discipline and learning aptitude to repair and maintain the home in good condition, but it is a satisfying experience to perform even seemingly minor repairs.

Political dissent, spoken or written, is a punishable offense, and those so punished frequently receive years of imprisonment for seemingly minor infractions .”

Even Lennon's seemingly direct engagement with the tumultuous political issues of 1968 in " Revolution 1 " carried a nuanced obliqueness, and ended up sending messages the author may not have intended.

For the Zentradi's part, the enemy was a maddeningly unpredictable foe ; the initial engagement had them seemingly able to accurately fire the ship's reflex cannons to simultaneously destroy two ships as a first strike, but their follow up attack suggested that they had no idea how to competently wage war in space.

His opponents claim Vuk's political engagement at this early stage of his political career is full of inconsistencies and seemingly diametrically opposing views and actions.

Though seemingly enthusiastic about the War engagement ( if this is possible ), seen by the fact that Scotland mobilised 22 out of the 157 battalions that made up the British Expeditionary Force, the wartime threat to an exporting economy soon came to be a fore.

Birnbaum proved that the likelihood principle follows from two more primitive and seemingly reasonable principles, the conditionality principle and the sufficiency principle.

According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.

Kenneth Arrow proved a more basic point for a set of seemingly reasonable conditions.

Stephenson is decidedly not a prodigy ; but his babe-in-the-woods routine has proved irresistible for some, who are hailing his seemingly innate ability to meld the products of exhaustive historical research with what they see as a brilliant, idiosyncratic sense of humor and adventure.

" Moreover, the appearance of the Duchy of Warsaw so soon after the partitions proved that the seemingly final historical death sentence delivered in 1795 was not necessarily the end of the Polish nation-state.

Hollins ' side certainly proved to be effective and functional, rather than pretty, seemingly winning 1 – 0 every week on their way to the title.

The council declared that the Roman church possessed “ the supreme and full primacy and authority over the universal Catholic Church .” The council was seemingly a success, but did not provide a lasting solution to the schism ; the Emperor was anxious to heal the schism, but the Eastern clergy proved to be obstinate.

When The Crimson Ghost was unmasked in the 12th and final chapter, he proved to be yet another actor entirely, Joseph Forte, who had played a character seemingly above suspicion at that point in the serial.

The skills learned and honed at the fort, seemingly trivial at a peaceful post such Mackinac, later proved important for many troops at later postings in the still-dangerous American West.

The council was seemingly a success, but did not provide a lasting solution to the schism ; the Emperor was anxious to heal the schism, but the Eastern clergy proved to be obstinate.

He proved impervious to their firepower, and seemingly eliminated them all with a foldspace warhead, with Megatron commenting they were " lost in space ".

According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.

However during that difficulty, Arnold's seemingly impossible prediction proved accurate with a freak snowstorm burying the city and thus the hotel welcomed the pig with open arms again.

He is proved correct and the failure of Dixit seemingly leads to the break-up of his partnership with Ali.

The Kingpin seemingly proved that he was back to normal by clandestinely taking over as ruler of HYDRA.