1 | 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 SoftReboot of current events in order to do them over or change the outcome of the 'current' time line. |
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3 | 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 to 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. |
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5 | Some Tabletop gamers also have soft-resets like this which erase only one or two stories of play and go back to a previous point allowing different actions to be taken or different paths to be accepted in story telling. Similar to using a video game's SoftReset or SaveScumming but in book or story format. Sometimes it's even present in such media. |
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7 | 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 canon and can sometimes cause RetGone when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present. |
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9 | !!Examples: |
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13 | [[folder:Comics]] |
14 | * DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax storyline, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' by performing some StableTimeLoop plot line. |
15 | ** Creator/MilestoneComics did this as well when joining the DC Universe by erasing most of the ''final'' story. |
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18 | [[folder:Literature]] |
19 | * When ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' was first killed off, hundreds of early FanFiction stories appeared in newspapers and book stores as freebees re-writing the last book. |
20 | * In ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', Paul Sheldon tries to kill off the main character of a novel series that he's come to hate. When [[LoonyFan his number-one fan]] Annie Wilkes finds out, she loses it and forces him to write a sequel bringing Misery Chastain back to life in a way that she finds satisfactory. She is adamant that he not completely {{retcon}} the ending, but make it fit with the existing material. |
21 | * ''Literature/BriansSaga'': After Brian is rescued at the end of the first book, the third goes into AlternateContinuity territory in order to have him survive not two months but an entire winter. |
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24 | [[folder:Film]] |
25 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy 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. |
26 | * 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 |
27 | * ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' ignores everything but the first [[Film/TheTerminator two]] [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay movies.]] |
28 | * ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': Happened twice, not counting Rob Zombie's full-on reboot. |
29 | ** ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' (1998) and its direct sequel ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' (2002) ignored everything after movie 2. |
30 | ** ''Film/{{Halloween|2018}}'' (2018) ignored everything after movie 1. |
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33 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
34 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona2'' 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.]] |
35 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[spoiler:kills Crono partway through]]. To resurrect him the party has to go through a journey, which in a sense, resets the story and undoes the death. |
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38 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
39 | * ''Literature/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. |
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