History Main / PovSequel

* The climax of ''Film/SawIV'' reveals that most of its events have been taking place at the same time as ''Film/SawIII'', but in different locations. This is only explicitly shown when Strahm runs into Jeff, the protagonist of ''III'', in the Gideon Meatpacking Plant. Rigg, despite also entering the plant, doesn't witness anything related to the plot of ''III'', with the exception of his partner Eric's corpse.

* ''Film/SawIV'' took place at the same time as ''Film/SawIII'', but in different parts of the city. We only find out the ''Saw III'' connection when the main character of the FBI Agent's subplot runs into Jeff during the climax. Rigg never actually encounters anything ''Saw III'' related, with the exception of his partner's corpse.

* The SomethingCompletelyDifferent ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Love & Monsters", for the most part ADayInTheLimelight story, also contains [[FlashBack Flashbacks]] to several past events in New Who season from the POV of a {{Muggle}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has done episodes which show what other characters were doing during the TimeSkip of another episode, making for a borderline examples. "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" shows how the Fireside Girls got the tree sap that the title characters use in "Bubble Boys," which takes place during the same day. The two "Unfair Science Fair" episodes do the same. In addition, ''Phineas and Ferb: Franchise/StarWars'' kicks off when they discover [[ExternalRetcon the Death Star plans fell out of R2 on Tatooine]], following which they have a largely separate adventure with ''Film/ANewHope'' happening in the background.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episodes "The Gift" and "The Gift 2: The Giftening" tell the same story, the former being told from Wander and Sylvia's perspective, the latter from Lord Hater and Commander Peepers. Funnily enough, "The Gift 2" was broadcast before "The Gift".

** ''ComicBook/TheAvengersPreludeFurysBigWeek'' runs through the events of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', ''Film/IronMan2'', and ''Film/{{Thor}}'' from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s perspective, confirming that they all happened pretty much at once.

** Season 13 has two episodes that take place during the Super Bowl, the first focused on Charlie and the second focusing on the rest of the Gang[[note]]except Dennis, who is [[AbsenteeActor mysteriously absent]][[/note]].

* ''Literature/MidnightSun'', from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series, is a retelling of the first book from Edward's perspective. It ended up coming out more than a decade later than planned: Stephenie Meyer gave the early incomplete draft to someone who leaked on to the internet, and she got so upset over the leaking that she refused to continue to work on it. She later published the incomplete draft on her website so her fans at least would get it legally, and finally finished the book and had it published in 2020.

* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Vegas 2'' follows a different team (sort of; you play a different character as team leader, but your squadmates are the same people throughout most of both games) during the same terrorist attack on Las Vegas shown in the first game.

The P.O.V. Sequel, sometimes called a "Parallel", is a sequel or SpinOff which, instead of putting your initial main characters in a new situation, simply retells a previous one from a different perspective (point-of-view) typically from another character or new protagonist. Done well, it can help you flesh out your side characters [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter that the audience may have felt deserved more attention]], and add new perspectives to the story up to and including making your CardCarryingVillain into a [[AntiVillain sympathetic guy]]. Done badly, it reeks of laziness.

* Creator/AnneRice's Literature/VampireChronicles:

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** The 2007 ''Literature/DeathStar'' novel's second half is basically ''Star Wars: Film/ANewHope'' told from newly identified extras' POV's. It takes place during the Rebels' time aboard the Death Star and the battle afterwards, and includes the guy who said 'stand by' long enough for Luke to blow it away.
** ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' is a collection of 40 short stories, each of them being exactly this. They all take place during ''Film/ANewHope'' (with two exceptions: the first one happens just before it, during the final moments of ''Film/RogueOne'', and the last one, being somewhat meta, takes place at an indeterminate point in the future) and they all feature a protagonist that was decidedly not one of the main characters of the film, telling their perspective on the story. This ranges from rather notable supporting characters like Grand Moff Tarkin and Mon Mothma to minor one-scene ones like the droid Uncle Owen almost bought before it short-circuited [[spoiler:in an act of {{Heroic Sacrifice}}]] and the stormtrooper who gets mind-tricked by Obi-Wan in Mos Eisley, to those who were little more than background crowd like one of the Tusken Raiders who tried to capture Luke and R2 and the rebel stationed on the watchtower on Yavin 4 watching ships arrive and depart, and to characters who weren't even in the film like Yoda, Palpatine and Qui-Gon's ghost. There are also five different retellings of the cantina scene.

** ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'' is from the perspective of a Delta Force operative in the same time-frame as Perseus Mandate (its first mission ends with the nuclear explosion that ended the first game). And its ''Reborn'' DLC shifts the focus to one of the Replica soldiers some time after they're reactivated.

* Downplayed; the Epilogue of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' and the Prologue of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' detail the same sequence of events; Shay Patrick Cormac's assassination of Charles Dorian, with ''Rouge'' presenting the events from Shay's perspective, while ''Unity'' displays it from the perspective of Dorian's son, Arno.

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* ''Literature/MidnightSun'', the fifth book in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series, would have been a retelling of the first book from Edward's perspective. But Meyer gave the early draft to someone who leaked on to the internet and she later published it on her website so her fans at least would get it legally, given that she got so upset over the leaking that she refused to continue to work on it.
** Finally the author released ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'', which is definitely a straight example. It prevents some AlternativeCharacterInterpretation in ''Eclipse'' as to whether the Volturi secretly wanted the Cullens dead or sincerely wanted Victoria stopped.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Steamed Hams]], [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHMvDXF4ibs but it's from Chalmers' perspective]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS18E16ToadsBrightIdea Toad's Bright Idea]]" takes place during the events of the special, ''WesternAnimation/TaleOfTheBrave'', with the episode's story focusing on Gator and Toad as they deliver Oliver's freight cars when Oliver breaks down.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS18E16ToadsBrightIdea Toad's Bright Idea]]" takes place during the events of the special, ''WesternAnimation/TaleOfTheBrave'', with the episode's story focusing on Gator and Toad as they deliver Oliver's freight cars when Oliver breaks down.

** The 2017 ''Literature/DeathStar'' novel's second half is basically ''Star Wars: Film/ANewHope'' told from newly identified extras' POV's. It takes place during the Rebels' time aboard the Death Star and the battle afterwards, and includes the guy who said 'stand by' long enough for Luke to blow it away.

* In a weird way, the ''Online'' portion of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' can be considered to Story Mode. In the main game, Michael and co. are usually employed by the FIB, while in ''Online'', the protagonist's main government contract is the IAA. Agent ULP and Karen, two minor villains in Story Mode, re-appears in ''Online'' as allies.

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* One of the most significant examples of this tropes are Literature/TheFour Gospels of the New Testament. The oldest canonical gospel, Mark, is quite short, mostly written in simple language, and surprisingly omits numerous theological and mythological ideas that afterwards became the dogma of Christianity (i.e. Jesus's birth or origin are not even mentioned). The Gospels of Luke and Matthew tell more-or-less the same story as Mark, but they expand it with numerous other events, characters, motives and entire new subplots (i.e. the story of Jesus's miraculous birth, the Sermon on the Mount, the Doubting Thomas etc); hence why these 3 gospels are known as the ''synoptic'' (Greek for "see-the-same) gospels . However, the Gospel of John is shorter than both Luke and Matthew, with a noticably different structure, in addition to being much more spiritual and enigmatic in its tone, and even esoteric at times.
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* The third ''VideoGame/EscapeTheMuseum'' game, ''Escape the Museum 2'', centers around David, the husband of the first game's protagonist Susan. David journeys across his earthquake-torn neighborhood in order to rendezvous with his family, who were last known to be at a nearby museum. The first game, meanwhile, was about Susan and their daughter Caitlin escaping that museum.

* ''VideoGame/NatsukiChronicles'' takes place around the same time as ''VideoGame/GingaForce'', showing Natsuki's HeelFaceTurn after learning the truth about the [[MegaCorp Magni Corporation]] from Margaret and how Natsuki took care of things on her end while Alex and Margaret deal with Viridian.

The P.O.V. Sequel, sometimes called a "Parallel", is a sequel which, instead of putting your initial main characters in a new situation, simply retells a previous one from a different perspective (point-of-view) typically from another character or new protagonist. Done well, it can help you flesh out your side characters [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter that the audience may have felt deserved more attention]], and add new perspectives to the story up to and including making your CardCarryingVillain into a [[AntiVillain sympathetic guy]]. Done badly, it reeks of laziness.