| 1 | ->'''Marty [=McFly=]:''' Oh, this is heavy, Doc. I mean, it's like I was just here yesterday. |
| 2 | ->'''Doc Brown:''' You ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture1 were]]'' here yesterday, Marty, you were! |
| 3 | -->-- ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' |
| 4 | |
| 5 | A sequel where the plot picks up immediately after the previous part. Either literally immediately, to such a degree that it's possible to edit the two parts together without it looking noticeably strange, or at most within a couple of hours or so. Sometimes they'll open with the final moments of the previous installment as a kind of recap which then leads into the plot of the sequel. {{Prequel}}s may also occasionally end with a scene that immediately precedes or even flows into the opening of a previous installment, making it an Immediate Prequel. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Not to be confused with a sequel which is produced or released shortly after the previous part, while actually taking place later. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This may be used to start from a previous entry's instance of AndTheAdventureContinues or {{Cliffhanger}}. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The last third of a TwoPartTrilogy often fits. Related to ExtremelyShortTimespan. For this trope's polar opposite, see DistantSequel. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | !!Due to this trope's nature, beware of unmarked spoilers for the endings of certain installments. |
| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | !!Examples |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 20 | * The second season of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' starts immediately after the first season ended. The last episode of the first season shows Pastor Nick yelling at the Survey Corps members to [[spoiler:keep the two fighting titans away from the walls]], and {{the stinger}} for that episode showed [[spoiler:the face of a titan]] inside the wall as a piece of it crumbled away due to damage. The first episode of the second season opens on the Survey Corps members staring up at [[spoiler:the face]] in the wall, just as Nick finally catches up to them. We then get a flashback to twelve hours ago, meaning that part of the episode was actually running concurrently with the first season's last episode. |
| 21 | * ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' ends with Syaoran and Sakura meeting again in Tomoeda and hugging [[note]]This is in the manga. The anime features an ending where Sakura is saying goodbye to Syaoran in the airport, where he promises to return soon.[[/note]]. ''Manga/CardCaptorSakuraClearCard'' picks up from exactly that point, with them still hugging when the manga starts. |
| 22 | * ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure''[='=]s sequel ''[=MaX=] Heart'' picks up where the original ends. |
| 23 | * ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' picks up exactly where ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' left off. |
| 24 | * ''Franchise/LoveLive'': {{The movie}}s for both [[Anime/LoveLive the original series]] and ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'', following an opening [[AMinorKidroduction childhood flashback]], start right after the final episode of their respective series. |
| 25 | * Being a two-part movie, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' actually have several seconds of overlap (Nanoha's final line in the first one is the first line in the second). |
| 26 | * ''Anime/PsychoPass3FirstInspector'' begins the literal second right after the ''Anime/PsychoPass 3''[='=]s final episode. This is very notable because every other sequel in the ''Psycho-Pass'' franchise takes place after a lengthy TimeSkip. |
| 27 | * ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion:3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time]]'' begins directly after the events of the third film, ''Evangelion:3.0 You can (not) redo''. |
| 28 | [[/folder]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 31 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': |
| 32 | ** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho070Unregenerate Unregenerate!]]" takes place immediately after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]" and involves the Seventh Doctor dealing with the aftermath of his regeneration. |
| 33 | ** Similar to the above, "Psychodrome" takes place immediately after the Fifth Doctor's debut television story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]" and involves his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan getting to know the newly regenerated Doctor. |
| 34 | ** In "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoFDAS1E1DestinationNerva Destination: Nerva]]", the Fourth Doctor and Leela travel to Space Dock Nerva immediately after defeating Magnus Greel and bidding farewell to Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]". |
| 35 | ** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho208TheWatersOfAmsterdam The Waters of Amsterdam]]" takes place immediately after the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa were reunited with Tegan in Amsterdam in January 1983 and the three of them defeated Omega in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity Arc of Infinity]]". |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 39 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 40 | ** ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePromise'' starts off ''exactly'' where [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original show]] ended, with TheBigDamnKiss of Aang and Katara, which is interrupted by Sokka accidentally walking in on them and immediately declaring them SickeninglySweethearts. |
| 41 | ** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraTurfWars'' also starts off where [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra the show]] ended: [[spoiler:Korra and Asami on their date in the Spirit World.]] |
| 42 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 43 | ** The very first issue of ''ComicBook/WebOfSpiderMan'' acts as one to ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' #100: after a bout with the Kingpin and breaking things off with his then girlfriend the Black Cat, Peter comes back to his apartment and goes through his closet for something to wear, unaware of the symbiote inside it. |
| 44 | ** Issue #117, the very first chapter of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', continues from the very last panel of ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #216 (1994), with Peter Parker and Ben Reilly meeting each other at the rooftop of the hospital where Aunt May is. |
| 45 | * ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'' begins a few moments after Vader is revived by Palpatine on the operating table towards the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. |
| 46 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekUntoldVoyages'': The beginning of "Renewal" recreates the final scene of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' and carries on immediately from there. The Klingon High Council has sent three battle cruisers, including the ''Ravager'' and the ''Deathcry'', to Earth in order to obtain a full report on the intruder cloud generated by V'Ger which destroyed the ''Amar'' and two other ships. Furthermore, Admiral Nogura has recalled Kirk to Earth so that he can resume his position as Chief of Starfleet Operations now that the V'Ger Crisis has been resolved. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 50 | * ''Fanfic/AfterYamiko'''s prologue starts at the same time as the epilogue of its predecessor, ''Fanfic/DontCryForMeIveAlreadyWilted'', with the story proper starting the next day. |
| 51 | * ''Fanfic/AhsokaANZREStarWarsStory'' starts immediately after ''Series/TheMandalorian'' S2 E5 ended. |
| 52 | * The LDD-fanfic, ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'' is split into 2 parts, where the first chapter of part 1 is set '''20 seconds''' after the last chapter of part 2. [[spoiler: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke (retconned from death, long story) are embracing each other in [[TheBigDamnKiss their first kiss]] at the conclusion of part 1, and at the beginning of part 2 they're ''still'' in the middle of their kiss before being interrupted by Mr. Burke coming to his daughter's room]]. |
| 53 | * ''Fanfic/CodePrime'' begins with the final level of ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' and continues after its final boss fight to show Megatron coming in contact with V.V. and Charles. The story then jumps forward thirty-four years. |
| 54 | * ''Fanfic/CodeWings30'' starts off the day after [[spoiler: XANA is severely weakened.]] |
| 55 | * ''Fanfic/OurTimeIsNow'' starts right after Ba Nee leaves with her father in the final episode of ''Jem''. |
| 56 | * ''Patient Name: Propulsion'' takes place ''two seconds'' after the conclusion of ''Fanfic/NurseJet''. |
| 57 | * ''Fanfic/MastermindRiseOfAnarchy'' starts with Class 1-A's trip to the mall and Mastermind's subsequent arrest there, both of which occurred near the end of ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire''. |
| 58 | * ''Fanfic/SuperDanganronpaBros'' kicks off right at the end of the original ''Danganronpa''. Its sequel, ''Fanfic/SuperDanganronpaBros2'', takes place the day after the original fic. |
| 59 | * The scene with the young Wednesday in ''[[Fanfic/WednesdayAndTheWeepingAngel Wednesday and the Shifter]]'' occurs immediately after the end of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 63 | * ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'' continues from the last scene (apart from TheStinger) of [[WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs the original]] following a small intro. |
| 64 | -->'''Flint''': Sam Sparks, in the eight minutes since we've saved the world, I've had time to reflect. |
| 65 | * ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' starts with the attack of the Underminer, which [[AndTheAdventureContinues ended]] ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. |
| 66 | * Though the scene is slightly different, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' begins as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' ended, with the presentation of Simba's cub Kiara to the animal kingdom. |
| 67 | * ''The Little Drummer Boy: Book II'' begins just moments after the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'', with Aaron still at the manger playing his drum for baby Jesus. |
| 68 | * The cancelled sequel to ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' was supposed to be set on the day immediately following the end of the original film. |
| 69 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' begins where [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie the first movie]] ended, with the invasion of the Duplo Aliens after Finn's sister Bianca was allowed to play with their father's LEGO toys. The rest of the film takes place after a five-year time skip (reflecting the real-world amount of time between the two movies), though. |
| 70 | * After a flashback detailing how [[AMinorKidroduction the Penguins became a team]], ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' begins during the ending of ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''. |
| 71 | * The events of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' begin immediately after Miss Bianca and Bernard rescue Penny and find foster parents for her, only to find another distress signal coming from Australia. |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'' begins on the same Christmas Eve when ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964'' ends, just after Rudolph and Santa Claus have come back to the North Pole. |
| 73 | * ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', where Princess Fiona is kidnapped by Lord Farquaad's ghost as revenge for being eaten by a dragon, and as a result Shrek and Donkey had to stop him again and save Fiona. This happens while they are still in the onion carriage they drove away in at the end of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 77 | * ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' |
| 78 | ** ''Aliens'' pretends to do this, with the team rescuing Ripley in her escape pod from the first film. It's only later that she is told that she has been missing for over half a century. |
| 79 | ** ''Film/Alien3'' starts off very shortly after the events of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' with Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop still in stasis aboard the ''Sulaco'' bound for Earth. |
| 80 | ** ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'' ends in a Predalien chestburster appearing out of the corpse of the final Predator, as his comrades are leaving Earth. The sequel ''[[Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem Requiem]]'' starts with the chestburster morphing into the drone form and causing the ship to crash back on Earth. |
| 81 | * ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'' begins where ''[[Film/AustinPowersInterNationalManOfMystery International Man of Mystery]]'' left off with Austin (Creator/MikeMyers) and Vanessa (Creator/ElizabethHurley) on their honeymoon. |
| 82 | * Both ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequels. ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture1 Part 1]]'' ends with Doc Brown coming to take Marty and Jennifer back to the future with him to avert problems with their future family, and ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Part 2]]'' begins with that scene ([[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin albeit reshot given]] [[TheOtherDarrin Jennifer was recast]], plus some added set-up for later plotlines) and then them arriving in the future. ''Part 2'' ends with Marty trapped in 1955 and visiting the Doc Brown of said time period, and ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII Part 3]]'' begins with that scene followed by Marty driving Doc home after the initial meeting. |
| 83 | * ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' continues with Taylor and Nova riding along the beach after the infamous, [[spoiler:EarthAllAlong]] TwistEnding from [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 the first film]]. |
| 84 | * ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': |
| 85 | ** ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'' begins (not counting the final scene in ''The Bourne Supremacy'', which is seen in this film in its proper chronological order) immediately after the wounded Bourne said his condolences to Irena Neski, and is trying to flee the immediate area after the chase with the assassin. |
| 86 | ** ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' starts ''during'' the events of ''Ultimatum''. |
| 87 | * ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' starts with the [[TorchesAndPitchforks villagers]] concluding that the Monster has died in the burning windmill. The Monster then climbs back up and [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kills the parents of the little girl that he accidentally murdered in the previous film]]. |
| 88 | * ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIITheFinalSacrifice'' starts with authorities alerted by [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 the previous film's]] protagonists going through Gatlin's tragedy, and relocating the remaining children to the neighboring town of Hemingford. |
| 89 | * ''Film/DeadSnow'' ends with remaining character realizing that he has the remaining piece of the treasure that the Nazi zombies are looking for, and being attacked by them. The sequel ''[[Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead Red vs. Dead]]'' starts with him escaping this predicament. |
| 90 | * ''Film/DraculasDaughter'' starts with two constables finding the aftermath of ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', and arresting Prof. Van Helsing for murder, not knowing that his "victim" was a vampire. |
| 91 | * ''Film/DunePartTwo'' picks the story more or less where [[Film/Dune2021 the first film]] ended, with Stilgar's troop going back to Sietch Tabr while carrying Jamis' corpse and bringing Paul and Jessica with them. They ambush Harkonnen soldiers on the way. |
| 92 | * ''Film/ElCamino'' picks up just after the finale of ''Series/BreakingBad'' with Jesse on the run from the cops having escaped his captivity from the Aryans. |
| 93 | * All three original ''Franchise/EvilDead'' movies lead directly into one another. Creator/BruceCampbell has noted that, with a little judicious editing to remove the recaps and some minor contradictory stuff between the [[Film/EvilDead2 second]] and [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness third]] films, one can make a near-seamless 4 1/2-hour movie out of the trilogy (which fans, not surprisingly, have indeed done). |
| 94 | * ''Film/FastAndFurious'' ends with Dominic's gang ready to spring him from a prison bus. ''Film/FastFive'' begins with them rescuing Dom. |
| 95 | * ''Film/FinalDestination5'' (2011) [[spoiler:reveals itself to be an Immediate Prequel as it ends with Sam and Molly getting killed in the Flight 180 disaster, overlapping with the opening of ''[[Film/FinalDestination1 Final Destination]]'' (2000)]]. |
| 96 | * ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone'' begins with the destruction of [[Film/TheGunsOfNavarone the guns of Navarone]], and the two survivors of the operation getting picked up by a rescue boat. |
| 97 | * ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' |
| 98 | ** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' starts the day after ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', with the previous movie's incident being mentioned in the news. |
| 99 | ** ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' starts with police and paramedics arriving at the scene of ''Part III'' and taking Jason's NotQuiteDead body to the morgue. |
| 100 | * ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' |
| 101 | ** ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' starts with Dr. Loomis running out on the lawn and starting to look for the disappeared Michael. Slight continuity error in that he fell from the balcony in the back in [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} the original]], while the sequel changes it to the front of the house. Laurie spends most of the movie out of action in the hospital from the injuries sustained in the original. |
| 102 | ** The opening scene of ''[[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers]]'' shows how Michael survived the climax of [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers the previous film]], before falling into a coma and waking up [[ContrivedCoincidence exactly]] [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday one year later]]. |
| 103 | ** ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' ends with Laurie beheading Michael. ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' begins with the reveal that [[spoiler:she killed an innocent man whom Michael forced to dress up as him]]. |
| 104 | ** Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'' picks up immediately after his [[Film/Halloween2007 first film]], but then jumps ahead two years after the first act. |
| 105 | ** ''Film/HalloweenKills'' starts immediately after ''Film/Halloween2018'' as first responders rush to the Strode house fire. |
| 106 | * ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'' opens approximately an hour or two after the ending of [[Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle the first film]]: just enough time for the two to eat a couple dozen burgers each, drive home, and for Harold to start running a shower, and the burgers to work their way through Kumar's digestive system all before they head off to Amsterdam. |
| 107 | * The ''Hatchet'' trilogy |
| 108 | ** ''Film/{{Hatchet}}'' abruptly cuts to black on one of the characters, mid-scream. The [[Film/HatchetII sequel]] opens with a smash cuts into the second half of the scream. |
| 109 | ** Similar thing happens between the sequel and the [[Film/HatchetIII third movie]] as well, showing what happened after the villain was supposedly killed for good (spoiler: he wasn't). |
| 110 | * Played with in ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' series. The second film does begin with the last scene of the first one... being watched by somebody in RealLife who decides to make their own Human Centipede. |
| 111 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 112 | ** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' starts not long after ''Film/DrNo'', as Bond is first seen on a romantic picnic with Sylvia Trench (which he promised to her in the previous film). The recent death of Dr. Julius No is also brought up by Kronsteen when he discusses the operation to kill Bond with the other SPECTRE heads. |
| 113 | ** The ActionPrologue of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' might be set not long after the end of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', which saw Bond's newlywed wife Tracy being killed in a drive-by by Irma Bunt with Blofeld at the wheel. The opening of ''Diamonds are Forever'' has Bond frantically punch his way through informants to find Blofeld, which can be interpreted as a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. |
| 114 | ** Uniquely among the Bond films, ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' follows immediately on from ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', with Bond transporting Mr. White to M in Siena after capturing him at the end of the previous film. |
| 115 | ** Outside the DistantPrologue that opens the film, the present-day ActionPrologue of ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' picks up right where ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' ended (Bond RidingIntoTheSunset with Madeleine Swann), with Bond and Madeleine enjoying life together in Italy before being ambushed by Spectre and separating. The rest of the film happens [[TimeSkip five years after this]]. |
| 116 | * ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' directly picks up from the events of ''Film/JohnWick'', with at most a week between the two. ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' is an even more extreme example - it picks up ''20 minutes'' after ''Chapter 2''! |
| 117 | * In a strange case, the first 30 minutes or so of ''[[Film/JuOn Ju-On: The Curse 2]]'' are the last 30 minutes or so of ''[[Film/JuOn Ju-on: The Curse]]'' with some added footage in places and the plot continuing from the point The Curse ended after that. Since all the Ju-On movies are told in AnachronicOrder it's debatable to what extent this is an example since the portion of the first film repeated is in parts set significantly earlier (detailing the origin of the curse). |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'' begins with the aftermath of the tournament ([[RefittedForSequel a sequence originally written for but then cut out of the first movie]]), before doing a TimeSkip to six months later. |
| 119 | * ''Film/LookWhosTalking'' has Julie's conception and birth happening over the end credits. ''Look Who's Talking Too'' starts with those events, as well as Mikey's potty training. |
| 120 | * The [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers second]] and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing third]] movies in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' series start exactly where the previous film left off (give or take a day), due to basically being one big, three part movie. |
| 121 | ** Ditto for ''Film/TheHobbit'' movies, since each movie is one part of the same book. |
| 122 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' |
| 123 | ** ''Film/IronMan2'' starts as Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) watches as Tony Stark admits on-camera to being Iron Man at the end of [[Film/IronMan1 the first movie]]... [[TimeSkip before skipping ahead six months]]. |
| 124 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' begins pretty much immediately after the mid-credits scene of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', with Thanos attacking the Asgardian refugee ship in search of the Space Stone. |
| 125 | ** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' opens during the ending of ''Infinity War'', with Clint witnessing his family disappear thanks to the machinations of Thanos. The next 18 or so minutes take place 22 days after Thanos’s victory, before heading into the five-year TimeSkip after Thor [[OffWithHisHead aims for the head.]] |
| 126 | ** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' opens during TheStinger of ''[[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome Far From Home]]'', where J. Jonah Jameson [[TheUnmasking reveals Spider-Man's secret identity]] to the world via Mysterio's doctored video. |
| 127 | * ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' picks up where ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' ended off. This contributes to the TwoPartTrilogy feel of the series. |
| 128 | * The first ''[[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie Mortal Kombat]]'' film ends with the protagonists celebrating the end of the tournament, and preparing themselves to fight the suddenly appearing Shao Khan. ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' picks up from this setup, but changes a bit that Shao Khan's appearance is now accompanied by an extra-dimensional invasion. |
| 129 | * The first thing seen in ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' is the "The End" title from [[Film/TheMuppets2011 the previous movie]]. It also instantly establishes that the previous movie was a movie in-universe and only loosely canon. |
| 130 | * Each of the ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'' sequels pick up immediately where the preceding film ended. |
| 131 | * ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' is followed by ''Porky's 2: The Next Day''. |
| 132 | * ''Film/{{REC}} 2'' starts five minutes after the end of ''[REC]'', and ''[REC] 4: Apocalypse'' picks up exactly where ''[REC] 2'' left off. ''[REC] 3: Genesis'' begins hours before the first film and ends the next day, happening concurrently with the other films. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/RedDragon'' is an immediate prequel to ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', overlapping with the first 9 or so minutes, as the epilogue shows Dr. Chilton informing Hannibal Lecter that "a pretty young woman from the FBI" would like to meet with him. |
| 134 | * ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'': |
| 135 | ** ''Film/RockyII'' starts with the aftermath of the [[Film/{{Rocky}} first film]]'s climactic fight. |
| 136 | ** ''Film/RockyIV'' begins with Rocky coming home after the "fun" spar with Apollo, which was the conclusion of ''Film/RockyIII''. |
| 137 | ** ''Film/RockyV'' begins minutes after ''Film/RockyIV'', with Rocky suffering the effects of Drago's blows. |
| 138 | * ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': While an amount of time ranging from months to years passes between the events of most films (with ''Film/SawIV'' being a POVSequel to ''III''), ''Film/SawIII'', ''Film/SawV'', ''Film/SawVI'' and ''Film/Saw3D'' start off within seconds, minutes or hours after their respective preceding films. |
| 139 | * ''Film/SeeNoEvil2'' begins with the villain Jacob Goodnight being pronounced dead on his way to the hospital after his defeat in the previous film. He doesn't stay that way for long. |
| 140 | * ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', being the only entry to date in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film series to immediately follow its predecessor, opens with the last set of events of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' and picks up shortly thereafter with the damaged ''Enterprise'' making its way back to Earth spacedock following the Battle of the Mutara Nebula [[spoiler:and Spock's funeral above the Genesis Planet]]. |
| 141 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 142 | ** As a cross-media example, ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' begins a few hours after the end of the original ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Clone Wars]]'' series (after Palpatine had been scooped up by Grievous and the Separatist forces on Coruscant and the Jedi launch a rescue operation). The Nelvaan storyline with Anakin was rendered as CanonDiscontinuity due to the [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars CGI series]], which instead opted for {{Lower Deck|Episode}} SynchronousEpisodes spanning the film's time frame in its final arc, however the Coruscant siege from the 2D show is uniquely supported by the 3D show (Obi-Wan mentions losing contact with Shaak Ti in 3D, which happens as she first flees from Grievous in 2D). |
| 143 | ** The ending scene to ''Film/RogueOne'' [[spoiler:directly leads to the opening of ''Film/ANewHope'' with the rebels making a run for it aboard the ''Tantive IV'' having acquired the Death Star plans after the climactic Battle of Scarif with a [[ComputerGeneratedImagery CG]] Princess Leia cameo onboard]]. The difference between the two is a couple of hours spent in Hyperspace. |
| 144 | ** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' ends with protagonist Rey [[spoiler:face-to-face with Luke Skywalker, who has been missing for many years]]. ''Film/TheLastJedi'' picks up just a few seconds after that, with [[spoiler:Luke taking the lightsaber]] and the Rebels escaping their base from the previous film. |
| 145 | * The first four ''Film/{{Subspecies}}'' films take place immediately after the last. The fifth is an origins film, with Radu narrating from some unknown time period after the films. |
| 146 | * Although the original cut of ''Film/SupermanII'' takes place some time after the ending of the first movie, the Richard Donner version released in 2006 begins ''during the events of the first film'', where the nuclear missile Superman launches into space winds up releasing Zod, Ursa, and Non from the Phantom Zone. |
| 147 | * ''Film/{{The Thing|2011}}'' (2011) [[spoiler:ends with Lars seeing the creature, disguised as an Alaskan Malamute, escaping from Thule Station. He then has his pilot friend who just arrived to restart the helicopter where he tries to shoot the "dog" down leading into the opening scene of ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' (1982).]] |
| 148 | * ''Film/AfterTheThinMan'' takes place several hours after ''Film/TheThinMan'', when the train Nick and Nora were on with Dorothy and her new husband Tommy arrives in San Francisco. |
| 149 | * ''Film/UnderworldEvolution'' starts with Selene and Michael on the run, the morning after the [[Film/Underworld2003 first film]]'s climax. In fact, discounting [[Film/UnderWorldRiseOfTheLycans the prequel]], and the TimeSkip (during which time Selene is in suspended animation), from her perspective the movies all take place over the course of about a week. |
| 150 | * ''Film/WaxworkIILostInTime'' starts immediately after the first film's SequelHook, with the crawling zombie hand causing trouble. Although the effect is a little odd, because one of the surviving characters from the original is now TheOtherDarrin. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 154 | * The ''Literature/ActsOfTheApostles'' in Literature/TheBible begins with Jesus's ascension to Heaven a few weeks after his resurrection, which is more or less where each of the four Gospels leaves off. Most directly, it's a sequel to the book of Luke, both being penned by the same guy. |
| 155 | * ''Aftershock'' by Creator/ColinThiele begins right where the penultimate chapter of ''Literature/{{Shatterbelt}}'' left off, showing us the earthquake that the first book only referenced in a news report. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' Several of the books pick up immediately after or even slightly before the previous one ended. |
| 157 | ** Each book of ''The Andalite Chronicles'' begins where the previous left off. |
| 158 | ** Each book of The David Trilogy. Book 20 ends with most of the team in cockroach morph being blown out of the Blade Ship, and Book 21 begins with them falling through the air. Book 21 in turn ends Jake sending Ax to wake Rachel while he hunts for David [[spoiler:and loses the fight]], and Book 22 beginning with Rachel being woken by Ax and joining the hunt. |
| 159 | ** Book 35 ends with Marco receiving a phone call from [[spoiler:Visser One in his mother's body. ''Visser'' depicts Visser One on trial, eventually getting to the point where she calls him. The rest of the book is then effectively a sequel to 35]]. |
| 160 | ** Book 45 ends with the team sending a transmission to the Andalites, and book 46 begins with them actually talking to the Andalites. |
| 161 | ** The second to last book of the series ends with Jake ordering Rachel to launch her attack. The last book begins with Rachel going on her [[spoiler:suicide/assassination]] mission, she gets the order at the end of chapter 2. |
| 162 | * ''Catriona'', the sequel to ''Literature/{{Kidnapped}}'' by Creator/RobertLouisStevenson. ''Kidnapped'' ends with the protagonist visiting a bank where he can cash a letter of credit. ''Catriona'' begins as he leaves the bank with his money. |
| 163 | * Several books in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' begin just as the previous one finishes. A notable example is New Testament Volume 18, which begins exactly 5 seconds after 17 ends. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'' picks up immediately after the ending of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', with Willy Wonka and the Bucket family headed back to the factory in the elevator -- but the process of doing so is screwed up by the frightened, still-bedridden grandparents, and the elevator ends up ''in orbit''. |
| 165 | * The second half of ''Literature/{{COLD}}'', an original Literature/JamesBond novel by John Gardner, picks up right after his previous original Bond novel ''Literature/SeaFire'', with Bond leaving Puerto Rico with his battered girlfiend Fredericka von Grüsse on a helicopter.[[note]]The stipulation of "original" is because Gardner also wrote the novelization of the Bond film ''Goldeneye'', which was published between the two.[[/note]] |
| 166 | * ''Literature/{{Deryni}}'' series: Camber's body is found at the end of ''Camber the Heretic''; ''The Harrowing of Gwynedd'' opens with his son and daughter discussing the fact that [[spoiler:his body shows no signs of decay]]. |
| 167 | * The first two ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels: ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} of Rincewind falling off the Rim, which ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'' resolves. |
| 168 | * The ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' series' second book, ''Insurgent'', takes place immediately after the first, specifically, just as Tris and co. arrive at the Amity sector. |
| 169 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''Literature/GhostStory'' continues from the moment ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' ended, at least, from Harry's POV. [[spoiler:Turns out, half a year has passed while he hung out in the AfterlifeAntechamber.]] |
| 170 | * ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': ''The Mammoth Hunters'' and ''The Shelters of Stone'' both begin immediately where the previous books (''The Valley of Horses'' and ''The Plains of Passage'', respectively) ended. |
| 171 | ** ''The Valley of Horses'' ends with Ayla and Jondalar encountering a band of Mamutoi hunters while exploring the nearby area; ''The Mammoth Hunters'' begins by detailing their meeting and fleshing out the Mamutoi characters, who invite Ayla and Jondalar to stay at their camp. |
| 172 | ** ''The Plains of Passage'' ends with Ayla, Jondalar and their animals finally reaching the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii and someone calling out that "Jondalar is home"; ''The Shelters of Stone'' opens with Jondalar being reunited with and introducing Ayla to his friends and family. This one particularly stands out given ''The Plains of Passage'' was published twelve years prior, but in-universe no time had passed. |
| 173 | * ''Firefox Down'': Author Craig Thomas notes in the foreword that it "...takes up the story of Mitchell Gant and the [=MiG-31=] at precisely the point where [[Film/{{Firefox}} its predecessor]] left them." |
| 174 | * ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy'' by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: ''And All Between'' starts out with Teera and her life underground, but the Kindar part of the tale picks up just minutes after the events that close off ''Below the Root''. ''Until the Celebration'' starts on the evening after the events that close ''And All Between''. Raamo climbs into the farheights of the tree city to think things over, [[{{Bookends}} as he does at the beginning of ''Below The Root''.]] |
| 175 | * The last three books of ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' series break the series tradition of a one-year-gap between each novel by having it immediately pick up from where the previous one left off. ''The Mark of Athena'' begins ''immediately'' after ''The Son of Neptune'' ends, albeit from a different perspective. ''The House of Hades'' begins maybe a day at most after ''TMA'' ends. Finally, ''The Blood of Olympus'' picks up the next afternoon after ''THH'' ends. It's justified, since there's a prophecy to fulfill and only a few weeks to spare since the end of ''TSN''. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/HiveMind2016'': Each of the first three novels ends with Amber's team being sent off on an emergency run; the next novel starts with that run. The fourth ends with Amber and Lucas sharing a New Year kiss; the fifth starts mid-kiss. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'': |
| 178 | ** ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' picks up right where ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' left off, a result of them being two parts of what was originally intended to be a single book. |
| 179 | ** ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' follows directly on from ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', what with having that "Haven't all the main characters been killed?" thing to deal with. |
| 180 | * A couple of Literature/HonorHarrington novels: |
| 181 | ** Book 3, ''A Short Victorious War'', ends with Honor and her crew returning to Manticore; Book 4, ''Field of Dishonor'', begins with their arrival back home. |
| 182 | ** Book 8, ''Echoes of Honor'', ends with Admiral White Haven getting Honor's message that she survived and is back in the system; Book 9, ''Ashes of Victory'', begins a couple hours later when Honor actually arrives. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/KonoSuba'': The ''Explosions!'' spin-off follows Megumin's life before she joins up with Kazuma's party. The last volume takes place concurently with the two week period after Kazuma and Aqua arrived (which was mostly glossed over in the main story) and ends right when Megumin introduces herself to them. |
| 184 | * ''Literature/LethalWhite'', the fourth book of the ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'', picks up immediately after the dramatic cliffhanger at the end of ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' in which [[spoiler:Strike stumbles into Robin's wedding as she's giving her "I do," and crashes on the floor, causing her to look into his eyes and not those of her new husband.]] This is the prologue, and the first chapter then begins a year later. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'': the second ends with Lisbeth being airlifted to a hospital, the third with her arriving. |
| 186 | * ''Literature/TheMissus'' begins right where ''Literature/TheMister'' ended, with Maxim and Alessia preparing for their hastily-arranged wedding in Albania at the insistence of Alessia's father. |
| 187 | * Creator/KyellGold does this between ''Literature/OutOfPosition'' and ''Isolation Play'' with only about a five minute passing between the two books. |
| 188 | * The ''Creator/VCAndrews'' novel ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind'' picks up right where ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'' left off, with the three surviving Dollanganger siblings on a bus heading out of town, having escaped their attic prison. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/RetiredWitchesMysteries'': Book 3 literally starts with the same line that book 2 ended with. |
| 190 | * ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'', the authorized sequel to ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind''; despite being published [[SequelGap 55 years later]], it picks up only a few days after the end of the original novel. ''Gone With the Wind'' ends with Melanie's death, and ''Scarlett'' begins at her funeral. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'' duology by Creator/SergeyLukyanenko: The start of the second novel makes it appear as if this trope is averted, but it's then revealed that less than a day passed after the end of the first novel. This makes it seem like the duology is DividedForPublication. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': ''Syren'' starts immediately where ''Queste'' ends. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': From ''The Vile Village'' onward, each book directly leads into the next one and the TimeSkip in the earlier books were a few days at most. It's pointed out a few times that the Baudelaires' previous adventures happened one or two day prior. |
| 194 | * ''Literature/ShatterTheSky'': The second book starts exactly where the first left off. |
| 195 | * ''Slan Hunter'' starts within hours of the end of ''Literature/{{Slan}}'', preventing our heroes from being able to put what they learned in the first book to use before multiple disasters strike. |
| 196 | * Very little time passes between books in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''; the time passed between the end of one book and the start of the next is no different to the time passed between some chapters. Special mention must go to the gap between [[Literature/AStormOfSwords book 3]], which ends with the night of the death of Lord Tywin Lannister, and [[Literature/AFeastForCrows book 4]], which opens with the other Lannisters finding his body before dawn has broken. |
| 197 | * ''Literature/TheStarsAreColdToys'' duology by Creator/SergeyLukyanenko: ''Star Shadow'' starts mere hours after the end of ''The Stars Are Cold Toys''. This makes it seem like the duology is DividedForPublication. |
| 198 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 199 | ** ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' begins shortly after the destruction of the Death Star in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. The Rebel Alliance is still camped on Endor's Sanctuary Moon, its ships and pilots in need of rest and repair. Leia and Han share some Ewok wine, and Luke has to spend several hours in bed in order to recover from the Force Lightning he'd been zapped with on the Death Star. |
| 200 | ** ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'' is an immediate prequel to ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', ending with General Grevious capturing Palpatine and Obi-Wan and Anakin being recalled to rescue him. |
| 201 | ** ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'' starts at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith'', opening with one of the final battles of the Clone Wars and the activation of Order 66, with the story proper is set in the very early days of the Empire. Vader meanwhile is almost completely unknown to everyone, and he spends most of the book struggling to adapt to his new body. |
| 202 | ** ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'' is also an immediate sequel to ''Revenge of the Sith'', the prologue has Obi-Wan on Tatooine before he's even dropped Luke off with the Lars. The rest of the story is the beginning of his time on Tatooine. |
| 203 | * ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' starts the day after the end of ''Literature/{{The Way of Kings|2010}}'' and the same happens between ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' and ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}''. ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' bucks this trend, with a one year TimeSkip. |
| 204 | ** Also notable, the prologues of all four of these books (and presumably the fifth) happen the exact same day, [[RashomonStyle all from different points of view]]. |
| 205 | * ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series by Creator/TerryGoodkind: The breaks between books rarely take place more than a few instants after the end of the previous one. On several occasions, the new book starts while the characters are still busy celebrating their victory in the previous book. One exception is ''Faith of the Fallen'', but even then, the bulk of the time passing is a timeskip after the book starts. Even the break between the end of the main ''Sword of Truth'' series (''Confessor'') and the start of the new ''Richard and Kahlan'' series (''The Omen Machine''), several years in real time, is maybe half an hour in-universe. |
| 206 | * Creator/AndreiBelyanin's ''Literature/SwordWithNoName'' ends with a short TimeSkip after the protagonist returns home, following a phone call from the MedievalEuropeanFantasy world he visited with a request to come back. Guess how the sequel starts. It should be noted that time flows differently in the fantasy world, so this trope is averted for the people there. |
| 207 | * ''The Return of Tarzan'', the first sequel to ''Literature/TarzanOfTheApes'', picks up during the same conversation on which the first novel ended. |
| 208 | * ''Literature/ThursdayNext'': ''The Well of Lost Plots'' also takes up where ''Lost in a Good Book'' leaves off. |
| 209 | * ''Literature/TimeOutOfTime'': The second book, "The Telling Stone", starts where the first book, "Beyond The Door", ends. |
| 210 | * In Creator/MikhailAkhmanov's ''[[Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark Trevelyan's Mission]]'' series, the end of the second novel has the titular protagonist convinced to travel to planet Inferno to deal with the crisis there. The third novel starts with him traveling to Inferno on an AI-controlled ship as the only passenger. After dealing with the book's crisis, he continues on his way to Inferno. Naturally, the fourth novel starts with him arriving to the planet. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/TwoGraves'' opens by following the last chapter of ''Literature/ColdVengeance'' from a different character's POV, then immediately follows up on its cliffhanger mere minutes after the book ended. |
| 212 | * In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, the most notable examples are: |
| 213 | ** The end of ''Rising Storm'' and beginning of ''A Dangerous Path'' - ''Rising Storm'' ends with a cliffhanger, and ''A Dangerous Path'' picks up at the same moment. In fact, you could stick the first line of chapter 1 of ''A Dangerous Path'' after the last line of ''Rising Storm'', and not know that there was meant to be a break. |
| 214 | ** ''Starlight'' begins minutes (at the longest) after ''Dawn'' ends - the Clans arrive at the lake just at the beginning of dawn, and Starlight's first page describes how they're staring down at the water, and it still describes it as very early dawn. |
| 215 | ** ''Twilight'' and ''Sunset'' have a bit of a cliffhanger as well - Twilight ends at the end of a battle, with Brambleclaw seeing two characters he never thought he'd see again, and Sunset begins with him walking over to them. |
| 216 | %% Zero Context Example %% * Creator/VladimirVasilyev's ''Literature/WolfishNature'' duology. |
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| 219 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 220 | * ''Series/Annika2021'': Season 2 starts up within hours of Season 1, with the cops off on another murder case. Everyone is worried about Annika, who is still working right after she was held captive in the trunk of her car--though Annika is fine about that: what looks like PTSD to people who aren't privy to Annika's InternalMonologue [[spoiler:is actually Annika angsting about whether she should tell Michael he's Morgan's father]]. |
| 221 | * ''Series/BreakingBad'': FlashForward ColdOpen aside, "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E1SevenThirtySeven Seven Thirty-Seven]]" (and Season 2) starts at and continues on from the end of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E7ANoRoughStuffTypeDeal A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal]]". Fitting, given how the gap between the episodes' air dates was ''exactly'' one year. |
| 222 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 223 | ** "What's My Line?" (both parts) ended then began with the reveal that Kendra, who is thought to be a villain, is also a Slayer. |
| 224 | ** "Hush" ends with Buffy and Riley awkwardly staring at each other after finding out each other's secret lives. "Doomed" begins when they break the awkwardness. |
| 225 | ** "I Was Made To Love You" ends with Buffy finding Joyce dead. "The Body" begins with Buffy trying to wake Joyce up. |
| 226 | * ''Series/BurnNotice'' |
| 227 | ** Season 1 ends with Michael driving his car into a trailer truck in the middle of the overseas highway. The next season begins when he gets out of the truck and finds himself in the middle of an airstrip that has been attacked. |
| 228 | ** The Season 2 mid-season finale ends with Michael evading a bomb blast. The next episode begins with him walking away while injured. The season itself ends with Michael jumping out of a helicopter in the middle of the ocean. The next season begins with him swimming back to shore. |
| 229 | * ''Series/CobraKai'': |
| 230 | ** Season 2 begins right where season 1 left off; with Johnny being reunited with his former sensei Kreese. |
| 231 | ** Season 3 ended with Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang joining forces. Johnny tells the students "Let's begin!". The next season, Demitri asks [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Begin what?"]]. |
| 232 | * The first season of ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' ends with a zoom-out on two characters kissing. The next season begins by zooming back in on them engaging in the same kiss. (Notably, it's the only season break in the series that does not involve an InUniverse summer vacation.) |
| 233 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': While most seasons feature time skips of varying lengths between them, Seasons 5 and 7 begin right after the {{Wham Episode}}s which ended the previous seasons; in Season 5's case dealing with the aftermath of [[spoiler:Rita's murder by the Trinity Killer]], and in Season 7 [[spoiler:Deb discovering that Dexter is a serial killer]]. |
| 234 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': As a general rule of thumb, if two stories do not provide any narrative wiggle room for the Doctor in the time frame between them for authors to squeeze in Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse stories in the gap, they qualify. |
| 235 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]" begins immediately where "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" left off, with the Doctor lying injured on the Ogron planet after the climatic showdown with the Master. |
| 236 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" have seconds of overlap. |
| 237 | ** The sequence of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" is continuous due to the Doctor not relying on Time Lord travel technology. "The Ark in Space" ends with the TARDIS team using Nerva's transmat beams to warp down to Earth into "The Sontaran Experiment", at the end of which they transmat back to Nerva only to be intercepted within the beam by a Time Lord right into "Genesis". |
| 238 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]", the only classic series serial with a PreviouslyOn segment, picks up right where the segment ends. |
| 239 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" starts with the TARDIS on fire moments after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]". |
| 240 | ** The Doctor fell in the sky for half an hour between "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon A Time]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]". |
| 241 | ** The 60th Anniversary Specials, "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" all take place one after the other. |
| 242 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 243 | ** Season 2 starts with the now smitten Rachel waiting for Ross at the airport, but he brings his new girlfriend Julie. The only clue that months had passed between seasons is that Matthew Perry and Matt [=LeBlanc=] have cut their hair. This becomes part of the B-plot. |
| 244 | ** Seasons 5 and 8 picks up from the previous seasons during a wedding ceremony. |
| 245 | ** Season 6 starts the morning after Ross and Rachel got married in Las Vegas last season. |
| 246 | ** Season 7 has to be the worst example as it begins mere hours after Chandler proposed to Monica. Matthew Perry lost a lot of weight between seasons but this is never acknowledged. |
| 247 | ** Season 9 has Joey accidentally proposing to Rachel, then Ross walks in on them. |
| 248 | ** Season 10 begins when Ross walks in on Joey and Rachel kissing. |
| 249 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 250 | ** Season 1 episode 9 ends with [[spoiler:Ned Stark getting executed. The next episode begins as his carcass is dragged away]]. |
| 251 | ** Season 2 ends with the Night's Watch being surrounded by an army of the dead. Season 3 begins with the survivors hobbling away from the battle which ended just moments ago. |
| 252 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': |
| 253 | ** Season 1 ends with David and Mary Margaret embracing each other as a cloud of magic engulfs the town. Season 2 begins with them as the cloud disappears. |
| 254 | ** Season 2 ends with everybody going to Neverland. Season 3 begins the same way. |
| 255 | ** Season 3 ends with Queen Elsa being let out of a magic bottle where she was imprisoned. Season 4 begins with her heading to town. |
| 256 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': "The Origin of Species" begins several minutes after the final scene of "Double Helix" in which Dr. Martin Nodel, his son Paul, Hope and six students board the alien ship which will take them to the homeworld of the race that seeded Earth with their DNA 60 million years ago. |
| 257 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': |
| 258 | ** "Number Crunch" ends with Finch narrowly escaping with a seriously wounded Reese. "Super" begins with Finch taking Reese to a morgue so his wound can be stitched up. |
| 259 | ** "2-Pi-R" ends with Reese getting arrested. "Prisoner's Dilemma" begins with him getting interrogated. |
| 260 | ** Season 2 begins where the previous season ended; with Reese answering a phone call from The Machine. |
| 261 | ** Season 4 ends with Team machine fighting their way out of a building. The next season begins with them fanning out all over the city. |
| 262 | * "Old Friends," the premiere of Season 2 of ''Series/ResidentAlien'', picks up right where Season 1 left off with Harry and Max in Harry's spaceship and Max demanding that Harry take him back to Earth. |
| 263 | * ''Series/{{Rome}}'' season 1 ends with the deaths of Julius Caesar and Niobe. The next season begins with Caesar's murderers still standing over his body and Vorenus' children walking in on him cradling his wife's body. |
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| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 267 | * ''Music/TheNotoriousBIG'''s first album "Ready To Die" ends with "Suicidal Thoughts", where his death is indicated by the stopping of his heart. His second album "Life After Death" begins with his heart beating again. |
| 268 | * ''Music/TupacShakur'''s "California Love" music video ends with him waking up from a nightmare. The "California Love Remix" video begins with him telling ''Music/DrDre'' about his nightmare. |
| 269 | * ''Music/{{Usher}}'''s "U Got It Bad" video ends with him depressed in bed. The "U Don't Have to Call" video begins when he gets a call from ''[[Music/SeanCombs P. Diddy]]'' to get out of bed because he's coming with them to a party. |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 273 | * ''Annie Warbucks'', the rarely-performed sequel to ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'', literally begins where ''Annie'' ends, with the cast singing the last few bars of "A New Deal for Christmas" and Sandy being brought onstage to reunite with Annie. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 277 | * The ''Theatre/WaterworldALiveSeaWarSpectacular'' show at the Ride/UniversalStudios parks takes place shortly after the [[Film/{{Waterworld}} original film]], with its plot involving Helen returning to the Atoll to inform them of her discovery of dry land. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 281 | * ''VideoGame/AeroTheAcroBat 2'' takes place seconds after the first game's [[TheEndOrIsIt ambiguous ending]], with Zero saving Edgar Ektor from his [[DisneyVillainDeath apparent downfall]]. In turn, ''Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel'' picks up on the events described in ''2'''s epilogue, as Zero wants to investigate the deforestation of his homeland against his master's wishes. |
| 282 | * The FramingDevice of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' picks up from the exact moment the first game ended. In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', the framing story opens with Desmond in the van as the assassins flee their hideout, at most a few hours after ''II'', and Ezio's story starts with him escaping the Vatican, exactly where we left him. The 'present' plot also continues in this fashion in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' is a later interquel that ends with what was depicted as a premise in the intro of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' (namely [[spoiler:the protagonist and his/her companions leaving the titular city in a hurry and being suddenly captured by figures hidden in shadow under the order of the BigBad of the sequel]]). The latter still starts the actual game some times after that premise. |
| 284 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' ends with Nikolai and Price evacuating the grievously wounded Soap from Afghanistan. ''Modern Warfare 3'' picks up as they land in India. |
| 285 | * ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker'': [[spoiler:After the credits, it's revealed the Wii U version takes place right before ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' showing the opening and then Captain Toad falling down the clear pipe, revealing how he is in 3D World and also making the game a StealthPrequel.]] |
| 286 | * In ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals Command And Conquer Generals: Zero Hour]]'', the GLA campaign ends with them destroying the last major US base in Europe. The Chinese campaign begins with the GLA getting hit with a nuclear missile while celebrating their victory. |
| 287 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' |
| 288 | ** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' starts with Dr. Cortex discovering the plot-driving Power Crystals by accident after his defeat in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996''. |
| 289 | ** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' starts with the remains of Cortex's space station from the second game crashing on Earth, releasing [[SealedEvilInACan Uka Uka]] from his prison. |
| 290 | ** The ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'' intensifies this trope with {{Foreshadowing}}: the regular ending cutscene of the first game starts with the first seconds of the second's intro ([[CuttingOffTheBranches thus making that ending canon]]), and the GoldenEnding of the second game adds a shot of the Cortex space station wreckage falling to Earth. |
| 291 | * In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', the intro of the second game picks up almost literally after the end of the first one. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty 3'' starts off several in-universe seconds after ''Distorted Travesty 2''[='=]s cliffhanger ending. |
| 293 | * ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' starts as Duke is coming home from his abduction in ''Duke Nukem II''. |
| 294 | ** ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' parodies this by starting with Duke ''playing'' the previous game and beating the final boss. |
| 295 | * ''[[VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' picks up with Ecco frolicking among his podmates just after rescuing them... and with the final boss of the first game following the escaping dolphins back to Earth. |
| 296 | * The end of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' has the Titans scaling Mount Olympus to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens wage war against the gods]]. ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' picks up as they're still climbing. The last line Kratos says in ''II'' is also the first line he says in ''III'', and it comes after Zeus gives a RousingSpeech to the gods in both games. |
| 297 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge'' opens up where the previous game left off, minus the epilogue (which saw the PlayerParty sail off) since the main character is now the antagonist of the previous game. It begins at the point where Felix and his TrueCompanions (minus [[KnightTemplar Saturos and Menardi]], since they were the previous game's FinalBoss) were last seen; leaving the Venus tower. |
| 298 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' doesn't fully qualify as about two decades have passed after ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', but since Gordon Freeman was frozen in time, from his frame of reference they follow on immediately. Episodes One and Two play it straight, each starting more or less immediately where the previous game left off; it's still possible Gordon was knocked out for some time, but for all intents and purposes it doesn't matter. |
| 299 | * ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' starts with Master Chief performing a RocketlessReentry after jumping off the Forerunner Dreadnought that he ended ''VideoGame/Halo2'' on as it lands on Earth. |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/HeroOfSparta'' ends with you sailing back home to Sparta after escaping the underworld. The sequel begins it's first stage with your arrival in Sparta and realizing the city is being attacked by various monsters, with you kicking ass before even leaving your ship. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' is set immediately after [[VideoGame/Hitman2016 the first game ends]], with the gap not being any longer than a week. ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' is set no more than two weeks after Hitman 2. |
| 302 | * ''VideoGame/TheIncrediblesRiseOfTheUnderminer'' picks up directly where [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1 the movie]] ended, with the heroes facing the eponymous villain. This was rendered CanonDiscontinuity by ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', which also picks up at the exact same spot as mentioned above. |
| 303 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Jumper Two]]'' opens with Ogmo jumping off a plane that made up the final sector of the first ''Jumper''. |
| 304 | * ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIII'' ends with Graham tossing his adventurer's cap to his children. ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIV'' opens with the same scene. |
| 305 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 306 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' ends with [[TheHero Sora]], [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald]] and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} walking through a grassy plains, wondering what to do next. When ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' rolls around... they're still in the grassy plains. They don't stay there for long. |
| 307 | ** The Secret Episode of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' ends with Aqua running into the Castle of Dreams from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage'' opens with her still in front of it. |
| 308 | ** In turn, ''0.2''[='=]s FramingDevice begins moments after ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' and ends with Sora piloting the Gummi Ship to Olympus. ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' begins with Sora's arrival at Olympus; while the series' narrative gives no indication of the time spent flying a ship between worlds, from a gameplay perspective across all the games' ship segments it would take only a few minutes. |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'': |
| 310 | ** Part 1 ends has Raziel having a boss fight with Kain then he chases Kain into a portal where he meets Moebius. Part 2 retcons the boss fight into a FMV cutscene. |
| 311 | ** Part 2 ends with [[spoiler:Raziel storming the Sarafan stronghold and killing the Sarafan knights including his past human self to avenge Janos. Kain realizes that they have both been manipulated by the Elder God and that Janos must stay dead. Raziel then vanishes back into the underworld]]. When Defiance begins, Kain must fight his way out of the stronghold. |
| 312 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky''[='=]s First Chapter ends with Estelle being sedated by Joshua and left to sleep on her bed. The Second Chapter begins the next day as she's waking up. If not for a few subtle changes to the game's interface and font, you'd not know they weren't part of the same game. Seeing as it's a TwoPartTrilogy, it makes sense. |
| 313 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 314 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was retroactively made into one with the linked ending for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', which shows Link sailing away on the raft he used in the intro for the former game. |
| 315 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has Link joining with Tetra and her crew to go explore the ocean. Not long after, Link gets caught in a maelstrom that knocks him overboard, [[BagOfSpilling separates him from his equipment]], and washes him ashore to where ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' takes place. |
| 316 | * The ''VideoGame/MarySkelter'' series features an unusual example. ''Mary Skelter: Nightmares'' ends with the group preparing to escape from underground. ''Mary Skelter 2'' [[spoiler:is ButterflyOfDoom caused by time travel shenanigans, with a potential StableTimeLoop being severed in the EmbeddedPrecursor version of the first game that results in an ending that is roughly the same as the original's]]. ''Mary Skelter Finale'' happens immediately after the heroes escape from underground. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' ended with the protagonist Talion promising to forge a new Ring of Power. ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' opens with him and Celebrimbor setting out to do just that. On an extended note, the ''Blade of Galadriel'' DLC for Shadow of War starts where the sequel left off with [[spoiler:A corrupted Talion gazing at the Palantir and setting off to perpetuate a ForeverWar against the Lord of Mordor]] |
| 318 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' has done this a few times. |
| 319 | ** The challenge for the tournament in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'' is issued within hours of the end of the original ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992''. |
| 320 | ** Sindel is resurrected in Earthrealm during the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' deals with Eathrealm & Outworld forcibly merging because of this. |
| 321 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]'' takes place immediately after ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', right after the heroes confront the titular EnemyMine of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. [[DownerBeginning Things don't look too good for our heroes.]] |
| 322 | ** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9''[='=]s [[AlternateContinuity Story Mode]] shows the aftermath of [[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon the Battle of Armageddon]]. |
| 323 | * The good ending to ''[[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'' ends with Abe attending a ceremony celebrating his rescue of the Mudokon slaves. ''Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus'''s opening cutscene is Abe falling off the stage at that ceremony and getting knocked unconscious, where he has a PropheticDream that kicks off the game's plot. Gameplay itself starts a couple days later when Abe travels to the location mentioned in the dream. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/TheOther'' series: ''VideoGame/TheOtherAirisAdventure'', and ''VideoGame/TheOtherRosiesRoadOfLove'': The second happens not long after the first's heroes return home. |
| 325 | * The ''VideoGame/PaperDolls'' sequel takes place immediately after the first. The original game ends with you getting sucked into a vortex leading to the spirit world, and the second game begins with you exploring said world. |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'' takes place immediately after the ending of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', and ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' takes places mere minutes later. |
| 327 | * ''VIdeoGame/{{Putrefaction}}'' ends with you entering a portal. The sequel opens with you emerging from said portal, discovering another universe. |
| 328 | * Most games in the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' franchise take place immediately following one another; ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'' ends with the Hero departing Spielberg with Khameen, Shema, and Abdulla on their flying carpet, with ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' picking up in its credits with their flight and arrival in Shapeir. ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII'' ends with the Hero trapped in a spell, while ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'' begins with him arriving in Mordavia (somewhat played with in that the malfunctioning spell requires a couple weeks to get him to Mordavia thanks to the Dark One's influence). ''IV'' in turn ends with the Hero spirited off to Silmaria, and ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'' begins with his arrival in Erasmus's house. The only break the Hero gets in the entire series is the time he spent lounging around Shapeir between ''II'' and ''III''. |
| 329 | * ''The Return of Ishtar'' begins with Ki and Gil right where they were at the end of ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga''; i.e., at the top of the tower. They have to go down. |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/ShenmueIII'' begins with the {{Cliffhanger}} that ended [[VideoGame/ShenmueII the previous game]], which is Ryo and Shenhua discovering massive replicas of the Dragon and Phoenix Mirrors carved into the walls of a stone quarry, and Shenhua reciting a poem. |
| 331 | * The ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series: |
| 332 | ** ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic 3]]'' takes place immediately after the 16-bit version of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic 2]]''. Sonic rides Tails's biplane back down to sea level to escape the Death Egg that ended ''Sonic 2''. The first land sighted happens to be the Floating Island, where guardian Knuckles the Echidna ambushes Sonic and steals his Chaos Emeralds, kicking off the plot of ''Sonic 3''. The Death Egg crash-landed here too, and Dr. Eggman wants those Emeralds to relaunch it. ''Sonic 3'' ends and ''Sonic & Knuckles'' begins when Eggman finds the Hidden Palace and its Super Emeralds. However, this is a subversion since ''Sonic 3'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles'' are actually OneGameForThePriceOfTwo, so they were never meant to be separate installments in the first place. |
| 333 | *** This has been retroactively applied to the four [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 main]] [[VideoGame/SonicCD Classic]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3AndKnuckles games]] with Story Mode in ''[[CompilationRerelease Sonic Origins]]'', which suggests the events of each game happened immediately after the previous one, with newly animated [[PreRenderedCutscene Pre-Rendered Cutscenes]] bridging the stories together into one massive epic. |
| 334 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' ends with [[spoiler:the Phantom Ruby opening a dimensional portal and traveling through it, pulling Sonic into it in the process. The both of them wind up in the dimension of Modern Sonic, where Dr. Eggman uses the Phantom Ruby to TakeOverTheWorld before ''Sonic Mania''[='=]s Sonic could arrive there, kicking off the story for ''VideoGame/SonicForces'']]. |
| 335 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' ends with [[spoiler:Classic Sonic returning to his own dimension due to the defeat of Eggman and the Phantom Ruby. This sets the stage for the UpdatedRerelease of ''Sonic Mania'', ''Sonic Mania Plus'', whose Encore Mode opens with Sonic and the Phantom Ruby returning to Angel Island.]] |
| 336 | *** Strangely, the first episode of ''WebAnimation/SonicManiaAdventures'' (the animated [=YouTube=] series based on ''Sonic Mania'') also seems to suggest it too is an ImmediateSequel to ''Forces'' with Sonic [[spoiler:returning to his own dimension in the middle of waving good bye, meaning he went somewhere between the final battle in Egg Reverie and coming back to his world]]. The subsequent events between ''Adventures'' and Encore Mode are [[ContinuitySnarl irreconcilable]] yet both suggest that they are canon to ''Forces''. |
| 337 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon'' takes place with Roger [[spoiler:still in cold sleep which he entered at the end of the second one, although this trope could be averted for everyone but Roger, since we're not told how much time has passed.]] ''Space Quest IV'' opens with Roger stopping off at a bar on his way home from ''Space Quest III'''s ending. ''Space Quest 6'' starts with Roger being court-martialed for his actions in ''Space Quest V'', implying that not much time passes between the games. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2EnterElectro'' takes place shortly after ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2000'', as part of the start sees Peter reading a copy of the ''Daily Bugle'' talking about the capture of Dr. Octopus and the end sees Electro, Shocker, and Hammerhead in the cell across from Dr. Octopus, Mysterio, Scorpion, Rhino, and a Jade Syndicate goon. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'': [[EpisodicGame The fourth episode]], ''Dangeresque 3'', ends with Strong Bad jumping off his couch to escape being surrounded by the other characters, who were not happy with the changes he made to the movie compared to what he promised them. The fifth and final episode, ''8-Bit is Enough'', opens with Strong Bad landing from that very jump, crashing into and damaging the Trogdor arcade machine in the process. |
| 340 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}: Liberation Day'' picks up right after the end of ''Sunrider: Mask Of Arcadius'', with [[TheDragon Veniczar Fontana]] having just [[{{Pun}} unmasked]] the titular [[BigBad Arcadius]] as [[spoiler:one of the [[ArtificialHuman Prototypes]], a cabal of hive-minded clones bent on ruling the galaxy from the shadows]], and Chigara freaking out at the realization that [[spoiler:said Prototypes [[TomatoInTheMirror look exactly like her]]]]. |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' recounts the story of Samus finding a baby metroid at the end of the [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus previous game]], then explains that she took it to a laboratory, before said laboratory was attacked. The minute she arrives back at the lab is when the game actually begins. |
| 342 | * ''[[VideoGame/SyphonFilter Syphon Filter 3]]'' begins at Teresa's funeral, which was the end of part 2. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/Tekken5'' begins after Jin leaves Hon-Maru in his ending of ''VideoGame/Tekken4''. Kazuya and Heihachi wake up from their beatings with just enough time to be greeted by an invasion of Jack robots. The actual tournament begins a month later. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' ends with Silvia getting a V-watch and [=UFOs=] invading Movie Land. ''Viewtiful Joe 2'' picks up right then, in the final scene of the first game, with Joe and Silvia making their way toward the new enemy. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'' starts with beating the [[VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand previous game]]'s final boss. |
| 346 | * The second part of ''{{VideoGame/Xenosaga}}'' begins right where the first part left off. |
| 347 | * The FanSequel ''VideoGame/YoNoid2EnterTheVoid'' happens after the Noid claims his [[AndYourRewardIsEdible pizzas]] for saving New York in [[VideoGame/YoNoid the original game]]. |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland'' takes place immediately after [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland the original]] albeit with a RetCon: the parents who were brought the Mario Bros. are actually not their parents. |
| 349 | * ''VideoGame/YsIAncientYsVanishedOmen'' ends with series protagonist Adol Christin defeating Dark Fact at the top of Darm Tower and acquiring his Book of Ys before being consumed in light. ''VideoGame/YsIIAncientYsVanishedTheFinalChapter'' opens with Adol waking up on the titular FloatingContinent after being teleported there. In fact, both games are so closely related that all subsequent re-releases of them bundle them together as ''Ys I & II''. |
| 350 | ** ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'' ends with Adol leaving the port city of Xandria via passenger ship; ''VideoGame/YsVIIILacrimosaOfDana'' begins with him on this same vessel, heading back to the mainland. |
| 351 | * The original ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' trilogy directly picks up where you finished the last adventure. The second game has you getting up after you've fallen into a barrow. The third installment has you tumbling down the enchanted staircase where the second ends. |
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| 354 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 355 | * Early ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' storylines tended to start a week or even the day after the previous one has concluded, resulting in everything from Luna's introduction to the War in Hell taking place in a timespan of about a month. The trope ends up being deconstructed as by the time of the War in Hell, Dominic is utterly exhausted from having to continually save the day without any real downtime to recuperate. After that, new plots would usually start a few months after the prior one. |
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| 358 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 359 | * The ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' Episode; "[[Recap/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreetS1E45 Better The Devil You Know]]" begins on the same day as the previous Episode; "[[Recap/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreetS1E44DantesInferno Dante's Inferno]]". |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'': As a [[MultiPartEpisode 3-part story]], the episodes "Baby Names" and "Night Night Lala" were immediate sequels where they took place immediately after the previous episode "Bringing Home Baby" left off. "Baby Names" immediately starts a while after Doc's parents brought Maya home, and "Night Night Lala" immediately starts a few hours later before nighttime comes and focuses on Lala and Maya having a hard time feeling at home on their first night at the [=McStuffins=]' house. |
| 361 | * ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' begins moments after the death of Godzilla in ''Film/Godzilla1998''. |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': |
| 363 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E2WitchesBeforeWizards Witches Before Wizards]]" begins on the day after Luz ended up on the Boiling Isles and starts her witch training with Eda. |
| 364 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E19YoungBloodOldSouls Young Blood, Old Souls]]" picks up right where "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E18AgonyOfAWitch Agony of a Witch]]" left off, when a fully-cursed Eda is captured by the Emperor's Coven. |
| 365 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E1SeparateTides Separate Tides]]", Luz mentions in a video to her mother that a week and a half has passed since the events of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E19YoungBloodOldSouls Young Blood, Old Souls]]". |
| 366 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E6HuntingPalismen Hunting Palismen]]" begin the day after "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E5ThroughTheLookingGlassRuins Through the Looking Glass Ruins]]" ends, with Luz now keeping the echo mouse in a terrarium at home and Amity staying home from school in sheer embarrassment after kissing Luz in front of her house. |
| 367 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E11FolliesAtTheCovenDayParade Follies at the Coven Day Parade]]" takes place shortly after "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E10YesterdaysLie Yesterday's Lie]]", with Luz having to deal with the consequences of the RashPromise that she made to her mother. |
| 368 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeOfTheWorld Edge of the World]]" starts the day after "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E16HollowMind Hollow Mind]]", with Luz telling Eda, King, and Hooty what she saw while inside the Emperor's mind. |
| 369 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E19OTitanWhereArtThou O Titan, Where Art Thou]]" starts with Luz, King, and Hooty arriving back on the Boiling Isles after their trip to Titan Trapper Island in "Edge of the World". |
| 370 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E20CloudsOnTheHorizon Clouds on the Horizon]]" begins the morning after "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E19OTitanWhereArtThou O Titan, Where Art Thou]]", showing that Luz carved her palisman into an egg overnight. |
| 371 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E21KingsTide King's Tide]]" begins with Luz's friends en route to rescue her after she was captured at the end of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E20CloudsOnTheHorizon Clouds on the Horizon]]". |
| 372 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E1ThanksToThem Thanks to Them]]" partially overlaps with "King's Tide", even reshowing the last minute or so before cutting to the Hexsquad getting Camila up to speed. |
| 373 | ** The opening scene of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E2ForTheFuture For the Future]]" covers the ending of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E21KingsTide King's Tide]]" from King's perspective, showing the immediate aftermath. After this, the rest of the episode picks up right where "Thanks to Them" left off with Luz. |
| 374 | ** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E2ForTheFuture Watching and Dreaming]]" starts a few seconds after the end of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E2ForTheFuture For the Future]]", with everyone being captured following the Collector's BadassFingersnap. |
| 375 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' ends on the last day of summer vacation. The StealthSequel series ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' starts on the first day of school. |
| 376 | * An AnimatedAdaptation case happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "[[Recap/TheRealGhostbustersS1E11CitizenGhost Citizen Ghost]]", which takes place immediately after the events of the [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 live-action film]], explaining how Slimer came to be their TeamPet. |
| 377 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E25KrustyKoncessionairesDreamHoppers Dream Hoppers]]" starts immediately where its sister episode "Krusty Koncessionaires" left off, with a tired [=SpongeBob=] coming home from the Low Tides concert with the Krabby Patty machine still on his back. |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 379 | ** The Season 2 premiere, "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E1FullDisclosure Full Disclosure]]", picks up just after the previous season's finale, "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E49JailBreak Jail Break]]". The episodes begin and end, respectively, with Steven and the Crystal Gems standing near the ruins of Peridot's ship and Connie calling Steven to find out what happened. |
| 380 | ** The first five episodes of the third season take place over the course of a few days; "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E2GemDrill Gem Drill]]" immediately takes place after "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E1SuperWatermelonIsland Super Watermelon Island]]", while "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E5HitTheDiamond Hit the Diamond]]" takes place immediately after "Barn Mates", which takes place immediately after "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E3SameOldWorld Same Old World]]". |
| 381 | ** The final four episodes of the third season take place on the same day, with all the episodes following "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E21Beta Beta]]" taking place right after each other. |
| 382 | ** The fourth season has the episodes "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E10StevensDream Steven's Dream]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E11AdventuresInLightDistortion Adventures in Light Distortion]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E12GemHeist Gem Heist]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E13TheZoo The Zoo]]", and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll That Will Be All]]" all begin and end within minutes of each other. |
| 383 | ** The final two episodes of the fourth season ("[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E23AreYouMyDad Are You My Dad?]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E24IAmMyMom I Am My Mom]]") directly lead into the first four episodes of the fifth season, with some episodes beginning with the same scene that closed the previous one. The next episode after that picks off moments later before skipping ahead to the next day. |
| 384 | ** Season 5's "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon Jungle Moon]]" takes place immediately after "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E11LarsOfTheStars Lars of the Stars]]". |
| 385 | ** The episodes "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack Can't Go Back]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose A Single Pale Rose]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart Now We're Only Falling Apart]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem What's Your Problem?]]", and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion The Question]]" take place over the course of two days and lead directly into each other. |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E30HarvestDayThankfulnessStew The Treeborhood Thankfulness Stew]]" takes place immediately after its [[ThreeShorts paired segment]], "The Treeborhood Harvest Day." |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' subverts this. The first episode of season two does pick up immediately after the end of season one... [[TimeSkip before skipping ahead five years]]. |
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