History Main / NotHingistHesAMeanyMore

-->-- '''[[TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron Sheen Estevez]]''', ''JimmyTimmyPowerHour''

For many shows, the StatusQuoIsGod. However, there are series that have the guts to seriously change their premise, or at least to shake up major parts of their story, and really mean it. No {{Reset Button}}s, no {{Snap Back}}s, no way to restore the comfortable status quo. NothingIsTheSameAnymore is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- the setting, or the characters' situation, has changed significantly and irrevocably, for better or for worse, and now the characters have to deal with it.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft: Cataclysm'' is the NothingIsTheSameAnymore Expansion. While the first two expansions each opened a new continent without touching the old world, bar minor details, this expansion tears the status quo and runs over its remains on a steamroller. Azeroth is hit by the eponymous Cataclysm, some zones are left completely wrecked while others change hands, and virtually every zone has its questing experience significantly revamped.

** '09: We're introduced to a brand new world, Bara Magna. Mata Nui makes a new body and wins a war for the locals. Meanwhile, the original universe becomes a vile CrapSackWorld.

** And on a smaller scale, people get older, and can [[CharacterDevelopment change]] over time, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worst. Sometimes you part ways with friends, and meet new ones, move to different places, get fired from and/or quit your job and find another, possibly better one, get married, have kids, and learn more about the world. Your siblings, who were once teenagers, are now approaching 30, and etc., and sometimes you meet reunite with old friends later on. Overall life changes constantly, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing.

** And on a smaller scale, people get older, and can[[CharacterDevelopment change]] over time, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worst. Sometimes you part ways with friends, and meet new ones, move to different places, get fired from and/or quit your job and find another, possibly better one, get married, have kids, and learn more about the world. Your siblings, who were once teenagers, are now approaching 30, and etc., and sometimes you meet reunite with old friends later on. Overall life changes constantly, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing.

* RealLife itself. Nothing ever stays the same for too long and as [[IsaacAsimov a wise man]] once said, "the only constant is change."

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** Apparently, though, [[spoiler:this was more or less cosmetic. The old team just won't leave, and the new team keeps breaking up and reforming every episode this season, with the old team more or less back for real now]].
** Although, [[spoiler: technically it's half new team/half old team at this point.]]

* Webcomic example: ''StarslipCrisis'' when it became ''Starslip'': The main characters starslipped into a universe where starslip drive was outlawed and almost immediately afterward crushed Katarakis' evil plans ''before'' they came to fruition (since the "present time" in this universe is two years earlier than the one in the previous universe), causing Vanderbeam to keep/regain his position as captain. The loss of the starslip drive then caused the Terran Consortium to collapse and be repurposed as the "[[TheFederation United Star Configuration]]". The ''Fuseli'' is then decomissioned and turned into an orbiting space museum while Vanderbeam and his crew are reassigned to the starship ''Paradigm'', thus making the strip a bit closer to traditional SpaceOpera. [[DeusAngstMachina Jovia is still dead, though]].

* In ''{{Literature/Worm}}'' this happens at least three different times. First when Leviathan attacks the city, then when Tattletale juryrigs an interdimensional portal out of two CloudCuckoolander's powers, and finally when Skitter's identity is outed in blatant violation of the Truce.

* The factions, their members, and the motivations changed between each season of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred''. The first season was simply dealing with the immediate need to understand the incident and deal with the displaced people. Season two was more of the long term effects of what the event would cause (Including many people who also wanted powers joining a clear Church of Scientology knockoff), and the government trying to use the abducted. Season 3 dealt with more violent actions and strife among the people. Season 4 began the introduction of the super-power serum to the general public (Although it had a 50-50 rate for powers or death), and the pseudo-religious movement to save the world. Season to season, ''{{The 4400}}'' had more changes season to season than most other shows, and it more or less worked.

* The factions, their members, and the motivations changed between each season of ''{{The 4400}}''. The first season was simply dealing with the immediate need to understand the incident and deal with the displaced people. Season two was more of the long term effects of what the event would cause (Including many people who also wanted powers joining a clear Church of Scientology knockoff), and the government trying to use the abducted. Season 3 dealt with more violent actions and strife among the people. Season 4 began the introduction of the super-power serum to the general public (Although it had a 50-50 rate for powers or death), and the pseudo-religious movement to save the world. Season to season, ''{{The 4400}}'' had more changes season to season than most other shows, and it more or less worked.

* Around late 2011 to early 2012, a succession of unrelated events radically altered several of the major characters of ''{{Sinfest}}'', changing the tone of the entire comic as a result. The previously seductive 'Nique gets an ImportantHaircut and a [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses pair of pants]] as she turned ultra-feminist to fight 'The Patriarchy'. Li'l E takes a dive in the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia River Lethe]] and forgets [[AmnesiacDissonance all the bitterness that made him turn evil]] (while we simultaneously discover that he's not just a Devil Fanboy - he's the bonafide [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]], [[LukeIAmYourFarther son of the Devil]]! TheFundamentalist StrawMan Seymor gets shot by the [[CareBareStare Arrows of Amor]], and turns into a LoveFreak sort of christian instead (when he isn't busy reading erotic Jesus-fanfiction). Fuschia escapes from Satan's service and gets together with Criminy, with the two of them turning SickeninglySweethearts. And the previously one-shot-joke characters known as The Sisterhood of Spooky Shit (a group of tricycle-riding girls fighting misogyny) [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and now seem to be directly facing off against Satan himself, and his support of the Patriarchy and sex-industry. Slick - who [[OutOfFocus doesn't get nearly the screentime he used to]] - attempts to forgo his CassanovaWannabe, pretend-pimp ways in order to win over the changed 'Nique - resulting in the creation of his very own EnemyWithin 'Devil Slick'. Does it ultimately improve the comic? That's up for debate...

* Around late 2011 to early 2012, a succession of unrelated events radically altered several of the major characters of ''{{Sinfest}}'', changing the tone of the entire comic as a result. The previously seductive 'Nique gets an ImportantHaircut and a [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses pair of pants]] as she turned ultra-feminist to fight 'The Patriarchy'. Li'l E takes a dive in the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia River Lethe]] and forgets [[AmnesiacDissonance all the bitterness that made him turn evil]] (while we simultaneously discover that he's not just a Devil Fanboy - he's the bonafide [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]], [[LukeIAmYourFarther son of the Devil]]! TheFundamentalist StrawMan Seymor gets shot by the [[CareBareStare Arrows of Amor]], and turns into a LoveFreak sort of christian instead (when he isn't busy reading erotic Jesus-fanfiction). Fuschia escapes from Satan's service and gets together with Criminy, with the two of them turning SickeninglySweethearts. And the previously one-shot-joke characters known as The Sisterhood of Spooky Shit (a group of tricycle-riding girls fighting misogyny) [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and now seem to be directly facing off against Satan himself, and his support of the Patriarchy and sex-industry. And Slick... well, he's still Slick, only now he gets less screentime and spends most of it complaining about 'Nique not being any fun anymore. Does it ultimately improve the comic? That's up for debate...

*** Then Optimus was revived with wings by [[SpotlightStealingSquad f*cking]] [[TheScrappy Smokescreen.]]

* Played with in the ending ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'s fourth movie where the entire cast (and then some) are on the run and flee into a giant wormhole that was said to take them to unknown corners of the universe. However, the revived next season gives things a subtle HandWave that puts everything back to status quo. It was said that there was a dispute whether or not to make the change. Obviously, those against it won.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The first episode of the second season does this thanks to a TimeSkip. Seven episodes in, the changes are still only slowly being revealed.

**** Also, [[spoiler:the Phoenix Force is now destroyed, causing untold damage to the universe (some effects briefly seen in Gillen's Iron Man run; the Celestials are now aware of aliens living off of their lifeblood, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and are not amused]]).]]

*** The "Age of Ultron" storyline, Ultron returned and is ruling over a dystopian world. Though this is seemingly AU.