Divergent has a strong female protagonist in Tris, who is a rare 'divergent', someone who is equally suited to multiple factions in the city of Chicago.
Odyssey through Scourge are an unconnected storyline set 100 years later on the Dominarian continent of Otaria, where multiple factions battle for control of the Mirari, a powerful magical artifact left by Karn.
Even as Obama administration officials vowed to hunt down the hostage-takers in Algeria, they faced the added challenge of a dauntingly complex jihadist landscape across North Africa that belies the easy label of "Al Qaeda," with multiple factions operating among overlapping ethnic groups, clans and criminal networks.
Unfolding with a natural eavesdropper's deliberation over the course of his bumpy birthday party, Cone's film finds room to observe and understand multiple factions of his conflicted hero's equally confused community.
That said, there is a greater risk to shaking up the two party system that we haven't seen since the Whig party of old broke into multiple factions before ultimately organizing the Republican Party in 1854.
But the ranks of the insurgents, the fact that they represent multiple factions, and the extent of NATO efforts to provide transportation and security to adversaries they otherwise try to kill or capture have not been previously disclosed.
The Terrans are shown to be the most fragmented of the races in StarCraft, with multiple factions all vying for dominance over each other.
Blizzard Entertainment's bestselling real-time strategy game series StarCraft revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector.
(In the universe of "Divergent," citizens who can slot themselves in multiple factions are looked upon as dangerous outliers; there are five factions in total).
In June, the Afghan Taliban posted a letter to its website warning not to wage its own campaign against Americans troops, as multiple factions would not benefit either of their causes.
