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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[spoiler:kills Chrono partway through]]. To resurrect him the party to go through a journey, which in a sense, resets the story and undoes the death.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[spoiler:kills Chrono partway through]] and forces the party to go through a journey to resurrect the hero, which in a sense, resets the story from [[HeroicBSOD Crono]] no longer existing to a new timeline.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has [[spoiler: Chrono killed off]] and forces the party to go through a journey to resurrect the hero which in a sense resets the story from [[HeroicBSOD Crono]] no longer existing to a new timeline.

* When ''SherlockHolmes'' was first killed off, hundreds of early FanFiction stories appeared in newspapers and book stores as freebees re-writing the last book.

So you have a comic or a novel that you just published and you reached the third sequel but now you hate everything about the second book. What do you do? Well a Story-Reset of course! This trope is used often to do a SoftReset of current events in order to do them over or change the outcome of the 'current' time line.

* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series has done this no less than five times. The first time was in ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' which was set after [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original film]] but disregarded all the others to establish a new continuity. Starting with Film/Godzilla2000, they released [[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus four]] [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack movies]] [[Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla in a row]] as direct sequels to the originals before making [[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS a direct sequel to the last one.]] Film/GodzillaFinalWars would finally move away from the original film and Film/ShinGodzilla is an updated origin story for the character

* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series has done this no less than five times. The first time was in Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla which was set after [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original film]] but disregarded all the others to establish a new continuity. Starting with Film/Godzilla2000, they released [[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus four]] [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack movies]] [[Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla in a row]] as direct sequels to the originals before making [[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS a direct sequel to the last one.]] Film/GodzillaFinalWars would finally move away from the original film and Film/ShinGodzilla is an updated origin story for the character

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Persona 2]]'' we have ''Innocent Sin'' & ''Eternal Punishment'' with [[spoiler: ''Innocent Sin'' taking place first with a BadEnding then following the story with ''Eternal Punishment'' allowing you to restart the story with a different protagonist and get the GoodEnding.]]
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has [[spoiler: Chrono killed off]] and forces the party to go through a journey to resurrect the hero which in a sense resets the story from [[HeroicBSOD Chrono]] no longer existing to a new timeline.