History Main / StoryReset

* DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax storyline, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the ''GreenLantern'' by performing some StableTimeLoop plot line.

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.

* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie.

* ''TrintonChronicles'' has done this more then once in it's long running history; whole story arcs have been eradicated and replaced or the current story has been erased to a point and picked back up.

** MilestoneComics did this as well when joining the DC Universe by erasing most of the ''final'' story.

Sometimes can overlap with ContinuityReboot in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out ''all'' of the current story and goes back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause RetGone when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has a form of this when the time lines are constantly altered, two of which [[RetGone erases]] a few characters from existence and does a story reset of sorts to the original 1985 time line.

* In ''[[{{Persona2}} 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.]]

* DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax story line, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the ''GreenLantern'' by performing some StableTimeLoop plot line.

* '''''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie.

* ''WishMaster'' has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie.

* ''BackToTheFuture'' has a form of this when the time lines are constantly altered, two of which [[RetGone erases]] a few characters from existence and does a story reset of sorts to the original 1985 time line.

* ''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.

Sometimes can overlap with ContinuityReboot in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out 'all' of the current story and goes back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause RetGone when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present.

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.

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.

This trope allows you to go back a few pages or even a novel or two and rewrite the story after it has already been seen or published and either replace it with a brand new story or a change the original outcome while not being forced into doing a full ContinuityReboot. Basically keeping the previous stories and merely changing/rewriting the most current.

* ''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.

* ''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.]]

* ''ChronoTrigger'' has [[sppoiler: 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.]]

Sometimes can overlap with ContinuityReboot in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out 'all' of the current story and go back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause RetGone when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present.

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 'soft reset' of current events in order to do them over or change the outcome of the 'current' time line.

Sometimes can overlap with ContinuityReboot in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out 'all' of the current story and go back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon.

Not related to ContinuityReboot, although they could overlap in some ways, a Continuity Reboot will wipe out all of the current story and go back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon.

** MilestoneComics did this as well when joining the DC Universe.