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ELI5: Was Pangaea an accident or necessary?

Clarification: Is it impossible to end up with multiple continents unless they start out as one super-continent? Or could many different continents have developed independently of each other?

Note: I'm not asking whether it's possible that we could have ended up with our seven continents without a Pangaea step in between. I'm asking if it's possible in general to end up with multiple continents without having a Pangaea first.
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Sure it would be possible for there to be multiple continents without having a Pangea first. It is possible to have a world with absolutely no active tectonics. In fact Earth may be very unusual in this respect, we don't know yet. A super continent is in no way a prerequisite for separate continents to eventually exist, it is just the way it happened on our planet to the best of our knowledge. Also our separate continents may eventually combine again to become a second Pangea.