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* ''Literature/ALittleInLove'' is ''Franchise/LesMiserables'' from the point of view of Eponine.

** The [=PS2=] and Wii versions of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' featured an extra scenario called "Separate Ways" which depicted certain specific events of the story from Ada's perspective, providing background information and details pertaining to how some specific events came about and how certain items were placed in the locations they were.

* ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'' retells some of the events of the MarvelUniverse from the viewpoint of an {{everyman}} photojournalist.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' had the episode "A Timeless Encounter!" which featured Ash and his Torracat traveling through time. The following episode, "Pikachu's Exciting Adventure", featured Ash's other Pokémon trying to look for him during the previous episode's events.

* Parts of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' retell some events of [[Film/BackToTheFuture the first film]] from the POV of ''Marty himself'', time-looping back over the same few days again (for an [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin entirely different reason]] this time).

** The short ''Jack-Jack Attack'' was released on ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' DVD. It shows the misadventures of [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter Kari the babysitter]] as Jack-Jack begins manifesting his superpowers and why she was leaving all the frantic voicemails that Helen Parr listens to during the main movie.

* ''Lo's Diary''. The story of Literature/{{Lolita}} from the girl's POV.
** Notably, this ignores the idea that the original had an UnreliableNarrator. The family of the original author disliked it for this reason.
*** Among others. ''Lo's Diary'' could more accurately be called the story of ''Lolita'' from the POV of an animal-torturing sociopath who matches her lipstick to her apple when she sets out to seduce Humbert, and who is given -- at twelve! -- to writing in her diary such lines as, "No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological."

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "The Wrong Customer" tells the same story as "The Wrong Address" from Shnitzel's point of view.

* The FormulaBreakingEpisode ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Love & Monsters", for the most part ADayInTheLimelight story, also contains {{Flashback}}s to several past events in New Who season from the POV of a {{Muggle}}.
* The direct-to-DVD ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' movie ''The Plan'' retells the events of the Re-Imagined series's first two seasons from the POV of the Cylons. It also helps explain [[BigBad Cavil]]'s RememberTheNewGuy-style introduction at the end of Season Two.
* Series/{{Lost}} does this occasionally. The episodes "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Adrift", and "Orientation" all have segments covering the same confrontation from different perspectives. There are also whole episodes which are done like this in the style of the show's flashbacks, such as "The Other 48 Days", "3 Minutes", and "Maternity Leave". And the plane crash is covered from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKcKtjrL5bc a number of different perspectives.]]
** The first two episodes that focused on Sun and Jin individually("House of the Rising Sun" and "...In Translation") told the story of their romance and marriage before the island from their respective points of view. Scenes shown in Sun's episode, are seen in a different light in Jin's.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** The first scene of the pilot episode shows [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Battle of Wolf 359]], a key event in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', from the perspective of a different starship and its captain.
** The episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" had the [=DS9=] crew interact with the original series crew during the events of "The Trouble With Tribbles". This could more accurately be considered an alternate timeline, however, since many scenes in the [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine [=DS9=]]] episode are actual scenes from the Original Series episode, but with some of the extras digitally replaced with [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine [=DS9=]]] characters.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Flashback", we see events from the movie ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' from the perspective of a young Tuvok, whose first Starfleet assignment was aboard the Excelsior under the command of Captain Sulu during the events of the movie.
* The third season Series/{{Heroes}} episode "Villains" retells key parts of the story from season one from the perspective of the villains.

* The ''Series/{{Class}}'' BottleEpisode "Detained" only features Miss Quill at the beginning (locking the others in detention) and the end (where she [[spoiler:has a scarred face, is free of her RestrainingBolt]], and just says "It's been a long day"). The following episode is "The Metaphysical Engine, [[EitherOrTitle or]] What Quill Did", which is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what Quill did]].

* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'':

* The second episode of ''Series/{{Runaways}}'' retells the events of the first episode from the viewpoint of the parents.

Not to be confused with SynchronousEpisodes, where two episodes are set at the same time, but their plots don't overlap.

* ''Webcomic/DailyJoJo'': The "Acting Different" arc is basically a retelling of "Executioner", but told in A-yeong's POV instead of Josh's.

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* ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII On The Way To A Smile: Denzel's story]]'' is an OVA that shows many of the original game's major events (The Sector 7 Plate falling, Meteor, the early stages of Geostigma) from the perspective of a little kid (he was six when the plate fell) born and raised on the plate, who was eventually taken in by Cloud and Tifa after he contracted Geostigma.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' had the episode "A Timeless Encounter!" which featured Ash and his Torracat traveling through time. The following episode, "Pikachu's Exciting Adventure", featured Ash's other Pokémon trying to look for him during the previous episode's events.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has a retelling of the Aincrad Arc in much greater detail in the form of the manga series Sword Art Online: Progressive. The main difference, however, is that the story is told from Asuna's perspective, NOT Kirito's.
* ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' is a POV SpinOff of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. It mostly covers the same events as the main series, but from the student council {{fangirl}}s Karen and Erika instead of the student council themselves. In fact, much of the spinoff's humor come from the readers knowing exactly what's happening in the main story and seeing Karen and Erika grossly misinterpret it.
* ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is a POV '''prequel''' of ''Manga/SoulEater'', focusing on entirely new main characters, with some from the original series making cameo appearances.

* ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'' retells some of the events of the MarvelUniverse from the viewpoint of an {{everyman}} photojournalist.
* The first issue of ''ComicBook/GodzillaTheHalfCenturyWar'' is the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' movie told from the point-of-view of a soldier in Japan's SDF.

* ''ComicBook/FarCryRiteOfPassage'' retells the stories of the [[VideoGame/FarCry3 three]] [[VideoGame/FarCry4 previous]] [[VideoGame/FarCry5 games]]' antagonists through [[VideoGame/FarCry6 Antón Castillo]], antagonist of the sixth main entry.

* ''Fanfic/{{Unfinished Business|TheThing}}'' was written as an ensemble piece set immediately after the events of John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', but centred largely around the survivors from each film. The prequel story ''Irina's Memoir'' is written as a recollection by a character who never appeared in either film and only had a minor role in the first story- the two survivors of the Carpenter film are only given a passing mention at the very end.
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/128177/a-stranger-among-the-voices A Stranger Among the Voices]]'' is a retelling of ''FanFic/AVoiceAmongTheStrangers'' from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies']] point of view, as opposed to the TokenHuman.
* ''FanFic/LathboraViran''​ is a retelling of ''Videogame/DragonAgeInquisition'' from the perspective of Solas.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39247230 Do You Believe In Destiny?]]'' is a retelling of ''Fanfic/EyesOnMe'' from Ruby's perspective.

* Crossing with {{Interquel}}, ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponASnowman'' revisits ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' to focus on what Olaf was up to between his creation during the famous "Let It Go" sequence and his first meeting with Anna and Kristoff.

* ''Film/ParanormalActivity2'' takes place mostly before, partly during, and immediately after the [[Film/ParanormalActivity first movie]].
* Creator/ClintEastwood's ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' tells the story of Iwo Jima from the point of view of the men who raised the famous flag, while ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' tells the story from the perspective of the Japanese defenders. None of the actors in either film appeared in the other.
* Introduced in ''Film/WildAtHeart'', where she had a somewhat small role in the events, the character of Perdita Durango was promoted to the lead in 1997's ''Perdita Durango'', loosely based on a 1993 novel by the same author, Barry Gifford; she was played by Rosie Perez this time around, and had a severe case of AdaptationalVillainy.

* ''Film/MaryReilly'', ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' from his maid's POV.
* 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 Kerry's corpse (which was outside the plant).
* Parts of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' retell some events of [[Film/BackToTheFuture the first film]] from the POV of ''Marty himself'', time-looping back over the same few days again (for an [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin entirely different reason]] this time).

* In an in-story example from ''Film/WagTheDog'', film producer Stanley Motss (Creator/DustinHoffman) claims to have made an extremely successful film re-telling ''Literature/MobyDick'' from the perspective of the white whale.
* ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' is a sidestory told from the perspective of Aaron Cross, a Treadstone-affiliated operative who works to discover the roots of a conspiracy at the same time as the events of ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'' (even using several of the same supporting characters).

* ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' pokes fun at the concept with "infinitely many out-of-genre cover sequels", where you see the same event from a different perspective each time with the help of judicious GenreRoulette (disaster film, gross-out comedy, road trip, Western).

* Jill Thompson's ''Death: At Death's Door'' is a retelling of (parts of) the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' arc ''Season of Mists'' from Death's P.O.V. And like Death herself, it's cute and unexpectedly funny.

* ''[[LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA]]'', which is the spinoff to ''Aria the Scarlet Ammo'', takes place around the same time as the first season, but this time focusing on a set of new characters.

* The manga ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' revolves around Mikoto "Railgun" Misaka, a supporting character from the ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' novel series. Most of ''Railgun''[='=]s story arcs are at least [[ContinuityNod tangentially related]] to characters or events introduced in ''Index'', though Mikoto's ignorance of [[TheMasquerade magic]] and the city's [[WainscotSociety "dark side"]] (initially) mean that they tend to be more down-to-earth. This is most prominent during ''Railgun'''s version of the [[ClonesArePeopleToo Sisters arc]], which covers the same events as ''Index'' but significantly expands Mikoto's side of the story as she uncovers the "dark side" of Academy City firsthand and shows what leads her to the point [[spoiler:[[DespairEventHorizon she's ready to die fighting Accelerator to stop the Level 6 experiment]].]]

* ''LightNovel/WiegenliedOfGreen'' is this to ''LightNovel/ClotureOfYellow'', focusing on a woman named Michaela who, while playing a minor role in the latter, ultimately has enormous influence on the plot.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has a retelling of the Aincrad Arc in much greater detail in the form of the manga series Sword Art Online: Progressive. The main difference, however, is that the story is told from Asuna's perspective, NOT Kirito's.

* ''LightNovel/DotHackAIBuster'' is about the adventures of system administrator Albiero as he is forced into an EscortMission by [[MysteriousWaif Lycoris]] and is joined by NaiveNewcomer Hokuto. ''AI Buster 2'' features a chapter which retells the story from Hokuto's perspective, [[spoiler:which reveals that she's not a newbie after all, but an experienced player pretending to be a newbie.]]

* The ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' LightNovels do this regularly with the larger stories, although they're always planned in advance. For example, "Local Episode" of ''Grand Punk Station'' focuses on Jaccuzi, Ladd, and Chane while "Express Episode" goes for Czeslaw, Rachel and [[spoiler:the self-proclaimed Rail Tracer]].

* The first 93 chapters of ''Caterpillar'' are a prequel to ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' set a year earlier. After a time skip, chapter 94 begins a retelling of the Arachnid Hunt from Imomushi's perspective.

** ''[=BURN-E=]'', a short on the ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' DVD, shows how events on the movie affect one character, a repair robot left outside the ship in a throwaway gag.

** For ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', they did two shorts: ''Dug's Special Mission'', released on the DVD, about what Dug the dog was doing up to the point where he meets Carl and Russell; and ''George and A.J.'', shown on the internet, about the two orderlies who came to take Carl to the retirement home.

* Some ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' books are these.

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So the film was a massive success, and the studio wants you to make a sequel! Trouble is, you killed off all your main characters [[KilledOffForReal for real]], [[EarthShatteringKaboom blew up the Earth]], [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup destroyed]] the TimeMachine and stopped the BigBad from ever being born. So where do you go from here? Well, there was [[EnsembleDarkhorse that one really cool side character]] - perhaps we could retell the story from his perspective!

* ''Comicbook/{{Marvels}}'' retells some of the events of the MarvelUniverse from the viewpoint of an {{everyman}} photojournalist.
* The first issue of ''Comicbook/GodzillaTheHalfCenturyWar'' is the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' movie told from the point-of-view of a soldier in Japan's SDF.
* Jill Thompson's ''Death: At Death's Door'' is a retelling of (parts of) the ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' arc ''Season of Mists'' from Death's P.O.V. And like Death herself, it's cute and unexpectedly funny.

* Crossing with {{Interquel}}, ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponASnowman'' revisits ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} to focus on what Olaf was up to between his creation during the famous "Let It Go" sequence and his first meeting with Anna and Kristoff.

* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': Creator/JohnCho and Creator/KalPenn, the actors playing the main characters, had played FunnyForeigner characters in other gross-out comedies and the movie is sort of a perspective shift to focus on them; Harold's coworkers are a parody of the {{Jerkass}} [[DesignatedHero Designated Heroes]] of most of these films and amusingly, all of their adventures happen offscreen. Similarly, the two have a pair of [[ReplacementFlatCharacter even nerdier (and Jewish) friends]], Rosenberg and Goldstein who also have adventures off-screen, alluding to the play ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' which is a famous example of this.

** The 2012 novel ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' begins as a prequel to the movies, but later on shows us the events of Episode I and beyond from the POV of [[BigBad Palpatine]] [[spoiler: such as killing his master Darth Plagueis]], showing exactly how the Sith orchestrated their EvilPlan first hand.

* There have been several tie-in Disney storybooks which had the movie told from another character's perspective (besides the ''Lion King'' example mentioned above), such as [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Sebastian the crab]], [[WesternAnimation/BeautyandtheBeast Mrs. Potts]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Genie]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} Meeko the raccoon]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu the dragon.]] Also, there have been two tie-in storybooks based on ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' which had the movie's plot told from Kida's point of view. And then there's the "My Side of the Story" series books, which had the film's plots told from ''the villain's'' point of view.

* Sherrilyn Kenyon's ''Styxx'' is this for ''Acheron'', telling the story from the perspective of Acheron's [[spoiler: not]] evil twin brother.

* The FormulaBreakingEpisode ''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}}.
* The direct-to-DVD ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' movie ''The Plan'' retells the events of the Re-Imagined series's first two seasons from the POV of the Cylons. It also helps explain [[{{BigBad}} Cavil's]] RememberTheNewGuy-style introduction at the end of Season Two.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' sometimes does a variant of this where the beginning of one episode is basically the end of the last one from another character's perspective. Examples include "Kill Ari, Part I" which shows [[BigBad Ari's]] perspective of [[spoiler: Kate's]] death in "Twilight" ([[spoiler: he shot her]]) and "Aliyah" which shows Ziva walking into the end of "Semper Fidelis" and seeing that [[spoiler: Tony shot Rivkin]].

* The ''Series/{{Class}}'' BottleEpisode "Detained" only features Miss Quill at the beginning (locking the others in detention) and the end (where she [[spoiler: has a scarred face, is free of her RestrainingBolt]], and just says "It's been a long day"). The following episode is "The Metaphysical Engine, [[EitherOrTitle or]] What Quill Did", which is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what Quill did]].

* Music/{{mothy}}'s Music/{{vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QykKSkt_KZ0 The Escape of Salmhofer, the Witch]] is this to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJny2S00dOA Moonlit Bear]]

* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'' later received a three-part DLC titled ''Secrets of The Maw'', which takes place during the events of the main game from the point of view of The Runaway Kid, a character who briefly appeared in Six's journey [[spoiler: as the Nome that Six ends up eating.]]

* ''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//Another Birth]]'', the novels for people who didn't have the console or couldn't track down the original four games to save their lives, tells the story (originally Kite's) from [=BlackRose's=] perspective. It also ticks off Kite/[=BlackRose=] shippers by giving her a boyfriend, which may be why some don't consider it up to standard, although she does ditch him for [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds no apparent reason]] near the end of the book.

* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.'s]]'' second expansion, ''Perseus Mandate'', is set concurrently to both the original game and the earlier ''Extraction Point'' expansion. For the most part it focuses on its own story, but you also see or hear about several events from the original game and ''Extraction Point.''[[note]]Your team is sent in in response to an event about a third of the way through the original game, the nuclear explosion from its ending occurs about halfway through, and you end up traveling through a lot of the same areas the Point Man covers in ''Extraction Point'' - at one occasion possibly even witnessing the aftermath of a fight between him and the Replica.[[/note]]

* The director's cut version of the ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' [=PS2=] remake includes Leon Side; a mode where you play through the events of the first half of the game [[spoiler: prior to Leon's death]] from his perspective rather than Stahn's. The additional scenes flesh out the relationships between Leon and other characters and [[spoiler: the events leading up to his betrayal.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Earth 2150}}'' stand-alone ExpansionPack called ''The Moon Project'' takes place at the same time as the campaign of the original and has a more chronological feel to its missions than the original (where the only goal was to amass enough resources to build an evacuation fleet to escape from the dying Earth). The campaign of ''The Moon Project'' involves the [[OneNationUnderCopyright Lunar Corporation]] finding something under the surface of the Moon and a secret [[EagleLand United Civilized States]] force heading to stop them. All this while the main forces of the three powers are fighting tooth and nail to get the last remaining resources on Earth.

* ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'': The first comic of the series shows [[CuteKitten Pixie's]] perspective when her human brings home a new pet. Another comic, much later, shows [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Brutus]] meeting Pixie for the first time and deciding that sharing a house with a civilian (and a cat, at that!) won't bother him as much as he first thought.

* The episodes "[[Recap/TrollhuntersS2E8JustAddWater Just Add Water]]" and "[[Recap/TrollhuntersS2E9TheCreepslayerz The Creepslayerz]]" in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' show events from the same stretch of time. The former focuses on Jim and his friends, while the latter shows the story from the perspective of [[spoiler: Steve and Eli, who are just discovering the magical underground world of Arcadia]]. Both stories will occasionally intersect.

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII On The Way To A Smile: Denzel's story]] is an OVA that shows many of the original game's major events (The Sector 7 Plate falling, Meteor, the early stages of Geostigma) from the perspective of a little kid (he was six when the plate fell) born and raised on the plate, who was eventually taken in by Cloud and Tifa after he contracted Geostigma.

* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' does this to itself. Most of the game is played switching between three POVs (four if you count the dog). At the end you go back to play through several key events of the game from one of the villains' perspective.

* [[Fanfic/HermioneGrangerSeries]] is a retelling of the Harry Potter books from Hemrione's perspective

* FanFic/UnfinishedBusiness was written as an ensemble piece set immediately after the events of John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', but centred largely around the survivors from each film. The prequel story ''Irina's Memoir'' is written as a recollection by a character who never appeared in either film and only had a minor role in the first story- the two survivors of the Carpenter film are only given a passing mention at the very end.

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* The direct-to-DVD ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' movie ''The Plan'' retells the events of the Re-Imagined series's first two seasons from the POV of the Cylons.