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| 11 | [[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/KidIcarus https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sequel_gap_horizontal_896.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising "Sorry to keep you waiting!"]]]] |
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| 14 | ->''"Welcome to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. After 9 years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''Gabe Newell''' |
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| 17 | A film or other literary work where a {{sequel}} is released long, long after the original work. May sometimes be a TrilogyCreep, very often related to DevelopmentHell. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | More common in games, particularly online games, as they can have a much longer life than other forms of non-interactive media, which are "finished" as soon as you reach the end of them. ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', for example, came out 12 years after the original ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' because the original remained massively popular for a long, ''long'' time after its release. |
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| 21 | Doesn't apply to sequels InNameOnly, SequelSeries or [[ContinuityReboot Franchise Reboots]]. This trope is for honest-to-goodness sequels, {{prequel}}s, and {{midquel}}s. See also CapcomSequelStagnation, and a related Webcomic trope, ScheduleSlip. Can overlap with CliffhangerWall if the last entry ended on a cliffhanger, but audiences only get a prequel or interquel after a long release gap. If the time passed in real life is reflected in the story, see RealTimeTimeskip. |
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| 23 | Not to be confused with DistantSequel, which is when a significant gap in time exists between a work and its sequel ''in-universe''. |
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| 25 | !!Note: In order to qualify as this trope, the sequel in question must have been released [[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease no less than five years after the previous installment]]. |
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| 28 | !!Examples: |
| 29 | [[index]] |
| 30 | * SequelGap/AnimatedFilms |
| 31 | * SequelGap/LiveActionFilms |
| 32 | * SequelGap/VideoGames |
| 33 | [[/index]] |
| 34 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * The first ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' [[Anime/Berserk1997 anime series]] and [[Anime/Berserk2016 second anime series]] -- 19 years. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/BlackButler:'' ''Book of the Atlantic'' movie - 2017, the fouth season - 2024 (7 year gap). |
| 39 | * The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' ended in 2012 without adapting the last arc of the manga, which was ongoing at the time. That adaptation would come as ''Bleach: The Thousand-Year Blood War'', in 2022 -- a 10-year gap. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' first season -- 2011, second season -- 2017 (6 year gap), third season -- 2024 (7 year gap). |
| 41 | * ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'' (2000) and ''Boogiepop and Others'' (2019) -- 19 years. ''Phantom'' is actually an anime-original story that takes place after the first novel of the ''Literature/BoogiepopSeries'' (which is the first arc of what the 2019 series adapted), making this both a Prequel & Sequel Gap. |
| 42 | * The ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' manga (1996-2000) and the ''[[Manga/CardcaptorSakuraClearCard Clear Card]]'' arc (2016-2023) -- 16 years. |
| 43 | * The second season of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' finished airing in 2011; the third aired in 2018 -- a 7-year gap. |
| 44 | ** The third season of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' debuted in 2020, 7 years after the second season. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/CityHunter''[='s=] last major animated work in the 90s was the movie ''City Hunter: Death of the Vicious Ryo Saeba'' in 1999. The next major work directly based on the franchise would be ''Anime/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes'' in 2019 -- 20 years. |
| 46 | ** Could also count as one for ''Manga/CatsEye'' due to the Kisugi sisters [[{{Crossover}} appearing in it]]. They haven't been seen in animation since 1985, meaning a 34 years gap. |
| 47 | * ''Literature/ClassroomOfTheElite'' Season 1 (2017) and Season 2 (2022) -- 5 years |
| 48 | * The original anime adaptation for ''Manga/DGrayMan'' ended in 2009, and a continuation started in 2016 - 7 years later. This was justified due to the constant hiatuses the manga author had due to her health. |
| 49 | * ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' Season 1 (2013) and Season 2 (2022) -- 9 years |
| 50 | * ''Anime/DiGiCharat'': ''Anime/DiGiCharatWinterGarden'' (2006) and ''Reiwa no Di Gi Charat'' (2022) -- 16 years. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' (2000-2001) and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' (2015-2018) -- 14 years. While other anime series and films came out in between, those took place in different continuities. |
| 52 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 53 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'' (1996) and ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' (2013) -- 17 years. |
| 54 | ** For the TV series ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' (1997) and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' (2015) -- 18 years (not counting the 2009 recut ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', with a 12-year gap). |
| 55 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' Season 1 (2010) and Season 2 (2015-2016) -- 5 years |
| 56 | * ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': |
| 57 | ** ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' (1983-1988) and ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' (2001-2010) -- 13 years (not counting the Buronson-penned 1996 novel ''Cursed City'', which featured an illustrated fight scene by Tetsuo Hara, which was 8 years after ''North Star'' and 5 years before ''Blue Sky'') |
| 58 | ** ''Fist of the Blue Sky'' (2001-2010) to ''Fist of the Blue RE:Genesis'' (2017-ongoing) -- 7 years. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' (2000-2001) and ''Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative'' (2018) -- 17 years. |
| 60 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' - The OVA for the anime adaptation's second season, ''The Second Raid'', was released in 2006 and a new anime was announced in 2015. The fourth season, subtitled ''Invisible Victory'' aired in Spring 2018 -- 12 years. |
| 61 | * There was a considerable gap in ''Franchise/{{Gatchaman}}'' TV anime, with ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman Fighter]]'' airing from 1979-80 and the first season of ''Anime/GatchamanCrowds'' starting in 2013 -- 33 years. There was an OVA series and a live-action film in the in-between period. |
| 62 | * ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'' aired in 2005, while ''Anime/AquarionEvol'' came out in 2012 -- 7 years. |
| 63 | ** The newest ''Aquarion'' anime, ''Myth of Emotions'', will have an even bigger cap, as it will release in 2024 when ''Anime/AquarionLogos'' released in 2015 -- 9 years. |
| 64 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'' and ''Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence'' (2004) -- 9 years. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' finished in 2002, and didn't get a sequel until 2009 with ''GTO: 14 Days in Shonan''. This is probably because Creator/TooruFujisawa wanted to focus on his other series, like ''Manga/RoseHipRose'', |
| 66 | * ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}'' (1988-89) and ''Anime/{{Diebuster}}'' (2004-05) -- 14 years. |
| 67 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': |
| 68 | ** Both in-universe and out-of-universe, there was a gap between ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''. Real life -- 5 years. In-universe, 7 years. |
| 69 | ** ''Film/GSaviour'' took 6 and a half years (and 70 in-universe years) to follow ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam''. |
| 70 | ** Another, even bigger gap is between ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' and its direct sequel, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', which takes place three years later but had its first episode launch about ''18 years'' after CCA. The Universal Century certainly loves sequel gaps a lot. |
| 71 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' (2004) and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDFreedom'' (2024) - 20 years. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 73 | ** OVA series Season 1 (1993-1994) and Season 0 (2000-2002) -- 6 years |
| 74 | ** OVA series Season 0 (2002) and TV series Season 1 (2012) -- 10 years. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/KamenTeacher'', and ''Manga/AnimalJoe''. -- 7 years. |
| 76 | * ''Anime/LastExile'' (2003) and ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'' (2011) -- 8 years. |
| 77 | * ''Franchise/LupinIII'' |
| 78 | ** Between [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga series]] (1967-1969) and the ''World's Most Wanted'' manga series (1977-1981) -- 8 years. There were also additional chapters called ''Lupin III New Adventures'' in 1971, though that still leaves 6 years between them and ''World's Most Wanted''. |
| 79 | ** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' (1971-1972) and ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' (1977-1980) -- 5 years. |
| 80 | ** ''Anime/LupinIIIPartIII'' (1984-85) and ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' (2012) -- 27 year prequel gap. The franchise was still pretty active in that time with the ''Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials'', but there hadn't been a dedicated TV series then. |
| 81 | ** If we count only the main TV series (since ''The Woman Called Fujiko Mine'' is both a spinoff and a prequel), then it's ''Anime/LupinIIIPartIII'' (1984-1985) to ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'' (2015) -- 30 years. |
| 82 | ** In terms of the theatrical films, ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' (1979) and ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'' (1985) -- 6 years. |
| 83 | ** Also in terms of the theatrical films, ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'' (1985) and ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'' (1995) -- 10 years. ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' had a theatrical release, but that was originally made as an {{OVA}}. |
| 84 | ** For a more oddly specific example, we have the ''Green Jacket'' episode ''[[Recap/LupinIIIS1E2 The Man They Called The Magician]]'' (1971) and the OVA ''Anime/ReturnOfTheMagician'' (2002) -- 31 years. The former involves the magician Pycal's introduction, while the latter has him trying to get revenge for what happened in the former. |
| 85 | ** Speaking of the [=OVAs=], ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' (1987) and ''Anime/ReturnOfTheMagician'' -- 15 years. |
| 86 | ** The [=OVAs=] would be followed by ''another'' gap, with ''Anime/ReturnOfTheMagician'' (2002) and ''Anime/GreenVsRed'' (2008) -- 6 years. |
| 87 | * ''Anime/{{Macross}}'': |
| 88 | ** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' (2008) with its {{Compilation Movie}}s ''The False Songstress'' (2009) and ''The Wings of Farewell'' (2011) and ''Anime/MacrossDelta'' (2016) -- 5 years. If the CompilationMovie[=s=] are disregarded, then 8 years. |
| 89 | *** This also applies to the theatrical short ''Labyrinth of Time'', which aired in front of ''Macross Delta: Zettai LIVE!!!!!!'' in 2021, which had a gap of 13 years after the anime and 10 years after the second CompilationMovie. |
| 90 | ** The ''Macross Delta'' anime (2016) and its sequel movie ''Zettai LIVE!!!!!!'' (2021) (disregarding the CompilationMovie ''Passionate Walkure'' in 2018, despite ''Zettai LIVE!!!!!!'' being more of a sequel to the later) -- 5 years. |
| 91 | * ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' (2005-06) and ''Mushishi: Zoku-Sho'' (2014) -- 8 years. |
| 92 | * ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'': ''Non Non Biyori Repeat'' (2015) and ''Non Non Biyori Nonstop'' (2021) -- 6 years. |
| 93 | * ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'': ''Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho'' (2004) and ''Looking for Magical Doremi'' (2020) -- 16 years. |
| 94 | * ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' was released in 2010 by Creator/StudioGainax. In 2022 (12 years later and after the dissolution of Gainax), its SpiritualSuccessor Creator/StudioTrigger announced a second season was in the works. |
| 95 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' (2013) and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieWalpurgisnachtRising'' (2024) -- 11 years. |
| 96 | * ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': ''Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo'' came out in 2012, and ''Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time'' came out in 2021, due to numerous {{Schedule Slip}}s and a [[{{UsefulNotes/COVID}} pandemic]]. |
| 97 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 98 | ** ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' (1986-90) and ''Manga/SaintSeiyaNextDimension'' (2006-ongoing) -- 16 years (not counting the spin-off series ''Manga/SaintSeiyaEpisodeG'', which started in 2003) |
| 99 | ** The anime lasted 114 episodes airing from 1986 to 1989, cutting the story prematurely at the Poseidon arc. The subsequent Hades arc would be adapted 13 years later in the form of a 31-episode OVA series produced from 2002 to 2008. |
| 100 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}} Try'' (1997) and ''Slayers Revolution'' (2008) -- 11 years. |
| 101 | * ''Anime/SuperMilkChan'': ''Oh! Super Milk-Chan'' (2000) and ''Super Milk-Chan Forever'' (2021) -- 21 years. |
| 102 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo [[Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki Ryo-Ohki]]'': |
| 103 | ** Series 1 (1992-1993) and 2 (1994-1995) to series 3 (2003-05) -- 8 years. |
| 104 | ** And again from series 3 to 4 (2016-2017) -- 11 years. |
| 105 | * ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' (2011) with its movies ''The Beginning'' (2013) and ''The Rising'' (2014) and Season 2 (2022) -- 8 years |
| 106 | * ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' (2008-09) and ''Anime/YattermanNight'' (2014-15) -- 6 years. [[spoiler: And given [[CanonWelding new revelations]] by Dokurobei at the end of ''Night'', the 2008 remake of ''Yatterman'' and the original 1977 series have a gap of ''29'' years.]] |
| 107 | * ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' - The anime aired from 1992-1994 and the most recent OVA is from 2018 -- 24 years. |
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| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Automobiles]] |
| 111 | * Honda's NSX sports car was produced from 1990 to 2005, and entered the nameplate hiatus of 12 years before receiving second-generation model. There was a planned SpiritualSuccessor in form of HSV-010, but the road car model was ultimately cancelled due to financial recession, making it a racecar-only model. |
| 112 | [[/folder]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/TheQuestForTheTimeBird'': ''L'ami Javin'' came out in 1998, 11 years after ''L'Œuf des ténèbres''. Then ''Le Grimoire des dieux'' came out nine years later in 2007. |
| 116 | * Matt Wagner's ''[[ComicBook/MageTheHeroDiscovered Mage]]'' trilogy, consisting of three fifteen-issue miniseries, ''Mage: The Hero Discovered'', ''Mage: The Hero Defined'', and ''Mage: The Hero Denied''. The first miniseries was published in 1984-6, the second in 1997-9, and the third began in 2017. The gap between the first two was partly due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights disputes]] between Wagner and the original publisher, but the second gap was purely due to artistic reasons. |
| 117 | * ''ComicBook/{{Sasmira}}'': The first tome was published in 1997, and it took the author until 2011 to finish the second one. The third tome came out "just" five years later in 2016, with the fourth and final tome out in 2018. |
| 118 | * ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' was another one ScrewedByTheLawyers. After a copyright lawsuit led to his original publisher folding their comics division at the end of 1953, he didn't appear in print again until 1973 at which point the Captain Marvel trademark had been lost. |
| 119 | * As part of Creator/MarvelComics' [[MilestoneCelebration 80th anniversary]] in 2019, a 108th issue of ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', which had originally run from 1977 to 1986 and is part of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, was released. Read about it [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-weeks-star-wars-comic-is-like-opening-an-80s-time-1835104645 here]] and [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-is-reviving-its-classic-star-wars-comic-for-one-1832605150 here]]. |
| 120 | * ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' (1984-1991) and ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne'' (2012-2014) and ''ComicBook/Transformers84'' (2019-2020) -- 21 years and 5 years respectively. |
| 121 | * ''Le Rayon U'' (The U Ray) by Edgar P. Jacobs was prepublished in 1943. The sequel ''La Flèche ardente'' (The Burning Arrow) by Jean Van Hamme came out in 2023, 80 years later. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 125 | * ''Literature/TheBookOfTheDunCow'': |
| 126 | ** ''Literature/TheBookOfTheDunCow'' came out in 1978. Its sequel, ''The Book of Sorrows'', came out in 1985, a gap of 7 years. |
| 127 | ** A final sequel, ''Peace at the Last'', came out in 2013, a 23-year gap, alongside a rewrite of ''Sorrows''. |
| 128 | * ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'': |
| 129 | ** ''Literature/DuneMessiah'' (1969) and ''Literature/ChildrenOfDune'' (1976) -- 7 years. |
| 130 | ** ''Children of Dune'' and ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune'' (1981) --- 5 years. |
| 131 | ** ''Literature/ChapterhouseDune'' (1985) has a 14 year gap to the next installment, the prequel ''[[Literature/PreludeToDune Dune: House Atreides]]'' (1999), and a 21 year gap to the chronological sequel ''Hunters of Dune'' (2006). |
| 132 | * Creator/RosemarySutcliff's ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' (1954) was followed by [[Literature/TheDolphinRing five sequels]] within nine years. Two later {{Interquel}}s, ''Literature/FrontierWolf'' (1980) and ''Sword Song'' (1997), were each preceded by a 17-year gap. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': |
| 134 | ** A 12-year gap between ''The Plains of Passage'' (1990) and ''The Shelters of Stone'' (2002). |
| 135 | ** ''The Land of the Painted Caves'' came out in 2011, making another 9-year gap. |
| 136 | * ''{{Franchise/Foundation}}'': |
| 137 | ** The fourth book in Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Foundation'' series, ''Literature/FoundationsEdge'', was published in 1982, 29 years after the original trilogy. |
| 138 | ** The seventh book, ''Literature/ForwardTheFoundation'', was published in 1993, five years after ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation'' (Dr. Asimov had been ill for these past several years, and had died in 1992). |
| 139 | * ''Literature/{{Fudge}}'': The gaps between all four books in the series qualify: |
| 140 | ** ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'' (1972) and ''Superfudge'' (1980): 8 years. |
| 141 | ** ''Superfudge'' (1980) and ''Fudge-a-Mania'' (1990): 10 years. |
| 142 | ** ''Fudge-a-Mania'' (1990) and ''Double Fudge'' (2002): 12 years. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/Area51'': ''Legend'' (2004) was followed by ''Redemption'' (2018) fourteen years later. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/TheGodfather'' |
| 145 | ** ''The Godfather'' (1969) and ''The Sicilian'' (1984) -- 15 years |
| 146 | ** ''The Sicilian'' and ''The Godfather Returns'' (2004) -- 20 years |
| 147 | ** ''The Godfather's Revenge'' (2006) and ''The Family Corleone''' (2012) -- 6 years |
| 148 | * ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'' (1936) and its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind#Sequels authorised sequel]] ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'' (1991) have a gap of 55 years (coincidentally, so do the films based on both of them (1939/1994)) and then an officially authorized POVSequel ''Rhett Butler's People'' (2007) 16 years later. |
| 149 | * Creator/PhilipPullman's ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'': |
| 150 | ** ''Once Upon a Time in the North'' (2008), a prequel short story focusing on Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby, was published five years after ''Lyra's Oxford'', a sequel short story to the original trilogy. |
| 151 | ** A full-on sequel novel was later announced, initially titled ''Literature/TheBookOfDust'' before it was turned into a SequelSeries bearing that name, while its installments were titled separately. The first entry, ''La Belle Sauvage'' was released in 2017, nine years after ''Once Upon a Time in the North'' and seventeen years after ''The Amber Spyglass''. |
| 152 | * ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'': |
| 153 | ** 8 years between ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' (1984) and ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' (1992). |
| 154 | ** 17 years between ''Mostly Harmless'' and ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' (2009). However, the last book was published after Adams's death. |
| 155 | * The third ''Literature/LegacyOfOrisha'' book, ''Children of Anguish and Anarchy'', took a long time to come out compared to the previous novels; ''Children of Blood and Bone'' came out in March 2018, ''Children of Virtue and Vengeance'' (which ended on a {{Cliffhanger}}) came out over year later in December 2019, while after years of no news it was eventually announced in 2023 that ''Anguish and Anarchy'' would be released in June 2024, nearly a full five years after the second book. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/MySideOfTheMountain'' (1959) by Jean Craighead George had its sequel ''On the Far Side of the Mountain'' published in 1990, leaving a gap of 31 years. The third book, ''Frightful's Mountain'', came nine years after that. |
| 157 | * ''Falling Out of Time'', a sequel to the 1995 novel ''Literature/RunningOutOfTime'', came out in 2023. |
| 158 | * The ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' light novels stopped at the 15th volume released in May 2000. While there have been novels released for the spinoff ''Slayers Special'', a new mainline novel was released in October 2018 -- 18 years after the fifteenth novel. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/SolarQueen'' series by Creator/AndreNorton. 3rd novel ''Voodoo Planet'' appeared in 1959, then ''Postmarked the Stars'' in 1969, then ''Redline the Stars'' in 1993. That's 10 and 24 years. Granted, some of her other novels seem to be set in the same universe, but there are no direct connections. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 161 | ** A five-year gap between ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'' (2000) and ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' (2005). Oddly, originally the fourth book was going to be a five-year TimeSkip in-universe before it was delayed, then after not coming out for five actual years, the action picks up immediately where it left off. |
| 162 | ** A six-year gap between ''A Feast for Crows'' and ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'' (2011). |
| 163 | ** Twelve years and counting between ''A Dance With Dragons'' and it's as of yet (mid-2023) still unfinished and unpublished sequel. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': |
| 165 | ** ''Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined'' (2015), a {{Gender Flip}}ped version of the series, was the first full-length novel after ''Breaking Dawn'' (2008). It's also five years since the release of ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'', the first new narrative in the series since the tetralogy ended. |
| 166 | ** ''Life and Death'' was in turn followed by ''Midnight Sun'', a POVSequel told from Edward Cullen's perspective, which was published five years later (2020). Creator/StephenieMeyer originally wanted to release it shortly after ''Breaking Dawn'', but had a CreatorBreakdown when its draft was leaked online and decided to put it on hold for over a decade. |
| 167 | * DH Press's 2006-2007 series on Franchise/UniversalHorror, each by a different author and set in independent continuities, have some long gaps from the films being continued on from: |
| 168 | *** ''Literature/DraculaAsylum'' (2006) - direct sequel to ''Film/Dracula1931'', a gap of 75 years. |
| 169 | *** ''Literature/FrankensteinTheShadowOfFrankenstein'' (2006) - {{interquel}} taking place between ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935) and ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' (1939), a gap of 71 years. |
| 170 | *** ''Literature/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoonTimesBlackLagoon'' (2006) - distant sequel to the original ''Creature From the Black Lagoon'' trilogy, set decades later and exploring the origins of the Gill-Man, coming 50 years after ''Film/TheCreatureWalksAmongUs'' (1956). |
| 171 | *** ''The Wolf Man: Hunter's Moon'' (2007) - direct sequel to ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', a gap of 66 years. |
| 172 | *** ''Literature/TheBrideOfFrankensteinPandorasBride'' (2007) - direct sequel to ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935), a 72 year gap. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': |
| 174 | ** ''The Vampire Lestat'' in 1985, 9 years after ''Interview With the Vampire'' (1976). |
| 175 | ** ''Prince Lestat'' in 2014, 11 years after ''Blood Canticle'' (2003). |
| 176 | * The ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' series has never had short gaps between books. |
| 177 | ** The gap between ''Sideways Stories'' (1978) and ''Falling Down'' (1989) was eleven years. |
| 178 | ** The gap between ''Falling Down'' and ''Little Stranger'' (1995) was six more. |
| 179 | ** The gap between ''Little Stranger'' and ''Cloud of Doom'' (2020) was a whopping 25 years. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/LegendSeries'': ''Rebel'' (2019) was published six years after ''Champion'' (2013). |
| 181 | * Within the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse, Peter David's novels ''Imzadi'' (1992) and ''Imzadi II'' (1998) have a 6 year gap. |
| 182 | * ''Literature/{{Fletch}}, Too'' (1986) to ''Son of Fletch'' (1993) -- 7 years. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/AristotleAndDanteDiscoverTheSecretsOfTheUniverse'': The first book was released in 2013, but the sequel only hit the public in 2021, 8 years later. |
| 184 | * ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (1964) and ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'' (1972) -- 8 years. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/{{Holes}}'' (1998) and ''Literature/SmallSteps'' (2006) -- 8 years. |
| 186 | * ''Literature/TheDragonBusiness'' came out in 2014 and may have originally been meant as a standalone book, as ''Skeleton in the Closet'' wasn't released until 2023, nine years later. |
| 187 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': After ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' in 2007, the next installments in the franchise, ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' and ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' did not come out until 2016, a gap of nine years. |
| 188 | * The ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' light novel volume ''The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya'' was released in May 2011. The long awaited followup, ''The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya'', came out in November 2020 -- a 9-year gap. |
| 189 | * ''Film/MakeTheYuletideGay'' (2009) received a sequel in novel form in 2018, a gap of 9 years. |
| 190 | * Creator/ErleStanleyGardner's mystery novel ''Murder Up My Sleeve'' (1937) was followed nine years later by a sequel, ''The Case of the Backward Mule'' (1946). The fact that most of the intervening years had been occupied with World War 2 went some way to explaining why the characters had taken so long to get involved in another murder. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'' had 9 years (1999 to 2008) between the 2nd book and the 3rd book being published. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': A ten-year gap between ''Literature/{{Mockingjay}}'' (2010) and ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'' (2020). |
| 193 | * Fans of Creator/IsobelleCarmody's ''Literature/TheObernewtynChronicles'' waited 10 years for the fifth book in the sequence; the fourth book, ''The Keeping Place'' was originally published in 1998, ''The Stone Key'' in 2008. |
| 194 | * Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/OutOfTheDark'' came out in 2010. The sequel ''Into the Light'' was only released in 2021. -- 11 years |
| 195 | * The eighth ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book, ''Bad Hair Day'', was released in 2019, 11 years after the seventh book ''The Frandidate'' was released in 2008. |
| 196 | * There was a 12-year gap between the third and fourth book in ''Literature/TheDemonPrinces'' series. The series was always planned to have 5 books. |
| 197 | * ''Literature/TheExorcist'' (1971) and ''Legion'' (1983)''' -- 12 years. |
| 198 | * ''Magicians of Literature/{{Gor}}'' (book 25 in the series): 1988 -- ''Witness of Gor'' (book 26): 2001 -- 13 years. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/ThievesWorld''. The last original series anthology ''Stealers' Sky'' came out in 1989. The next one, ''Turning Points'', was published in 2002, 13 years later. |
| 200 | * In the ''Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover'' series, there was a fourteen year gap between the fifth book, ''Witches' Brew'', and the sixth, ''A Princess of Landover'' (for reference, there were nine years between the release of the first book and the ''fifth''). |
| 201 | * The first ''Literature/AlexBenedict'' book, ''A Talent for War'', came out in 1989. The second, ''Polaris'', came out in 2004, 15 years later (after that, there has been no gap larger than three years). |
| 202 | * ''Literature/TheIceLimit'' (2000) and its sequel ''Beyond the Ice Limit'' (2016) -- 16 years. The protagonist Eli Glinn has appeared in writer duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs' other books however. |
| 203 | * Creator/PeterDavid's ''[[Literature/KnightLifeSeries Knight Life]]'' (1987) and ''One Knight Only'' (2003) -- 16 years (the original did get an UpdatedRerelease in 2002.) |
| 204 | * Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheHobbit'' (1937), followed by ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (three volumes, 1954-1955) -- 17 years. |
| 205 | * In Clare Bell's ''[[Literature/TheBookOfTheNamed The Named]]'' series, the release of the first four books was spread between 1983 and 1991. Seventeen years later, the series started its re-issue because of its new fifth book, ''Ratha's Courage'' (2008). The next year also saw a [[http://www.wandsandworlds.com/community/node/7230 novelette]] written on Twitter and a short story in an anthology of speculative fiction. |
| 206 | * Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin published the 3rd and 4th books of the ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series, ''The Farthest Shore'' and ''Tehanu'', in 1972 and 1990 -- 18 years. |
| 207 | * The ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'' novel ''A Fire Upon the Deep'' came out in 1992; the sequel, ''The Children of the Sky'', was released in 2011 (19 years). ''A Deepness in the Sky'' -- set in the same universe but not a direct sequel -- came out in the interim. |
| 208 | * Creator/IsaacAsimov invoked this deliberately with his first published short story ''Marooned off Vesta''. The sequel was written 20 years later, was called ''Anniversary'', and dealt with events 20 years after the original story. |
| 209 | * ''[[Literature/{{Blackcollar}} The Blackcollar]]'' (1983), ''The Backlash Mission'' (1986) and ''The Judas Solution'' (2006) -- 20 years. |
| 210 | * ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy'': original trilogy released 1985-1988, two new trilogies released from 2009 onwards, after a gap of 21 years. |
| 211 | * Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/{{Cyteen}}'' and ''Regenesis'' (1988/2009) -- 21 years. Similar to the Vinge example above, Cherryh had other Literature/AllianceUnion books come out between the two. |
| 212 | * ''Literature/{{Jumanji}}'' (1981) and ''Literature/{{Zathura}}'' (2002) -- 21 years. |
| 213 | * The ''Literature/PitDragonChronicles'' by Jane Yolen was originally a trilogy that was published 1982-1987. The [[TrilogyCreep fourth book]] came out in 2009 -- 22 years. |
| 214 | * ''Literature/JulieOfTheWolves'' (1972) by Jean Craighead George got a sequel, ''Julie'', 22 years later in 1994 (followed by another sequel, ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', only three more years later in 1997). |
| 215 | * ''Psycho'', the original Creator/RobertBloch novel (1959), and ''Psycho II'' also by Bloch (1982), which was totally unrelated to [[Film/PsychoII the film sequel]] -- 23 years. |
| 216 | * ''Literature/WrongTimeForDragons'' (1997) to ''Wrong Place For People'' (2020) -- 23 years. This is also exactly how many years elapse in-universe between the two books. |
| 217 | * ''Literature/DreadEmpire'' - ''An Ill Fate Marshalling'', book seven of the overall saga -- 1988. ''A Path to Coldness of Heart'', book eight -- 2012. 24 years. Justified, in this case - the manuscript for the book was apparently stolen, throwing [[Creator/GlenCook the author]] off and causing him to focus on other projects instead. |
| 218 | * Part I of Goethe's ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' was first published in 1808. Part II (a sequel in all but name) was released in 1832 (24 years). |
| 219 | * ''The Seventh Sword'' was written by Creator/DaveDuncan in 1984 and published as a trilogy in 1988. The 4th novel ''The Death of Nnanji'' appeared in 2012 after a 24 year gap. |
| 220 | * The third book in Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Robot Trilogy", ''Literature/TheRobotsOfDawn'', was published in 1983, 26 years after the second. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/MagicByTheNumbers'': ''Riddle of the Seven Realms'' (1988) and ''The Archimage's Daughter'' (2017) -- 29 years. |
| 222 | * ''Literature/TheEgyptGame'' (1967) and ''The Gypsy Game'' (1997) -- 30 years. Both are set in ThePresentDay through the use of ComicBookTime. |
| 223 | * ''Literature/RosemarysBaby'' (1967) and ''Literature/SonOfRosemary'' (1997) -- 30 years. |
| 224 | * ''Closing Time'', the sequel to ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo'', was published in 1994; 33 years after the original novel. |
| 225 | * ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' (1985) and ''Literature/TheTestaments'' (2019) -- 34 years. Creator/MargaretAtwood began writing ''The Testaments'' in 2017 in conjunction with [[Series/TheHandmaidsTale the television adaptation]] of the first book, [[https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/margaret-atwood-the-testaments-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-1203329718/ stating]] she felt the themes of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' were just as relevant now as they were in the 1980s. |
| 226 | * ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries'': The first two books were published in 1974 and 1975, a year apart, but ''Moriarty'' came out in 2008, thirty-three years after the previous books. It was posthumously published a year after John Gardner's death. |
| 227 | * Creator/StephenKing got ''Literature/TheShining'' released in 1977. Its sequel, ''Literature/DoctorSleep'', was released in 2013... 36 years later. |
| 228 | * Creator/PGWodehouse wrote ''The Luck of the Bodkins'' in 1935 and its sequel, ''Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin'' in 1972 -- 37 years. |
| 229 | * Creator/RayBradbury published ''Literature/DandelionWine'' in 1957. The sequel, ''Farewell Summer'', came out 49 years later in 2006. |
| 230 | * ''Literature/ReturnOfTheWolfMan'' (1998), which is set in the same universe as the Franchise/UniversalHorror films, was released 50 years after ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' (1948). |
| 231 | * Creator/AlanGarner's 2013 novel ''Boneland'' is the continuation of his 1960 and 1963 novels ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' and ''The Moon of Gomrath'' - some ''fifty years'' after the original books. |
| 232 | * Harper Lee's ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' (1960) and ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' (2015), 55 years apart, though the latter was originally a draft of the former. |
| 233 | * ''[[Literature/PeterPan Peter and Wendy]]'' (1911) and its authorised sequel ''Literature/PeterPanInScarlet'' (2006) -- ''95'' years. |
| 234 | * ''Literature/RileyMcDaniels'': ''Fear's Return'' came out in 2011, ten years after ''Moonshiner's Gold'' and seven years after ''Discovery at Flint Springs''. |
| 235 | * ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'': The light novels originally ended with Volume 17 in 2011, before the sequel volumes labeled ''Spring Log'' began with Volume 18 in 2016 -- a 5-year gap. |
| 236 | * ''The Time Ships'', an official sequel to ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'', was published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first book (1895/1995). |
| 237 | * Armistead Maupin retired his series ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity'' after the sixth book, ''Sure of You'' (1989). The main character had contracted AIDS, which at the time would have led to almost certain death, and Maupin didn't want to write his death. After effective treatments became available, Maupin resumed the series in 2007 (18 years later) with the aptly titled ''Michael Tolliver Lives.'' |
| 238 | * ''Literature/TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' were likely composed some time around 850 BC. ''Literature/TheAeneid'', a ContinuationFic, was finished in 19 BC. If both are taken as part of Myth/ClassicalMythology, that's a gap of ''over 800 years''. |
| 239 | * Xavier Herbert's first two novels are ''Capricornia'' (1938) and ''Seven Emus'' (1959). His last (and only other) two are ''Soldiers' Women'' (1961) and ''Poor Fellow My Country'' (1975). The last is considered a SpiritualSuccessor to the first. |
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| 247 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 248 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 249 | ** The original series ended in 1989, and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV movie]] that followed it up aired in 1996, 7 years later. |
| 250 | ** The official revival began in 2005, 9 years after the TV movie and 16 years after the original show's conclusion. |
| 251 | ** For an episode-specific example, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017) is an interquel to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]" (1966). |
| 252 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' |
| 253 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' (1966-1969) was followed by ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (1987-1994) nearly 18 years later. In between those two series was ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' (1973-1974), although 13 years would pass between the end of ''TAS'' and the premiere of ''TNG''. |
| 254 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' (2017) comes 12 years after the end of the last ''Star Trek'' series ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' (2001-2005), and 48 years after the end of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' (1966-1969), to which it is a prequel. |
| 255 | ** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' debuted in 2020, nearly 26 years [[note]]May 1994 -- Jan. 2020[[/note]] after ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ended and just over 17 years [[note]]Dec. 2002 -- Jan. 2020[[/note]] after the eponymous character was last seen in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. |
| 256 | ** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'', debuted in 2022, in addition to being a spin-off of ''Discovery'', spotlights the characters from the [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage original]], long-unaired PilotEpisode of ''The Original Series'', for an unprecedented ''58-year'' gestation. |
| 257 | * ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'' |
| 258 | ** Between the original series and the revivals: ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Twilight Zone]]'' (1959-1964)-- 21 years --''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 The Twilight Zone]]'' (1985-1989)-- 13 years --''[[Series/TheTwilightZone2002 The Twilight Zone]]'' (2002-2003)-- 16 years --''[[Series/TheTwilightZone2019 The Twilight Zone]]'' (2019-2020). |
| 259 | ** ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]" aired in November 1961 while its sequel "It's Still a Good Life", an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'', aired in February 2003, a ridiculous gap of 41 years and 3 months between the original episode and its sequel. |
| 260 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': |
| 261 | ** Season 9 (2002) and Season 10 (2016) -- 14 years. |
| 262 | ** Season 9 and ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'' (2008) -- 6 years. |
| 263 | ** ''I Want to Believe'' and Season 10 -- 8 years. |
| 264 | ** In terms of just the movies: ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'' (1998) and ''I Want to Believe'' -- 10 years. |
| 265 | * ''Series/BreakingBad'' (2008-2013) got a sequel movie called ''Film/ElCamino'' (2019), 6 years after the final episode of ''Breaking Bad'' originally aired. On the other hand, between ''Breaking Bad'' and ''El Camino'' there was a prequel series called ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' (2015-2022), which only came out about 2 years after ''Breaking Bad'' ended, so it's not much of an example. |
| 266 | * ''Series/TheKennedys'' (2011) and ''Series/TheKennedysAfterCamelot'' (2017) -- 6 years. |
| 267 | * ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' (2007-2012) received a [[Series/ICarly2021 revival series]] in 2021, 9 years after the original series ended. |
| 268 | * ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' (2003-2007) and the SequelSeries, ''Series/RavensHome'' in 2017 -- 10 years. It also comes nine years after the end of the spin-off ''Series/CoryInTheHouse'' (2007-2008). |
| 269 | * The ABC Mystery Movie was an attempt to revive The NBC Mystery Movie block, featuring new installments of both ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' and ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', both 11 years after the original runs ended. |
| 270 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' (1993-2000) gained a SequelSeries, ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' (2014-2017), 14 years after it ended. |
| 271 | * ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'' (2001) was followed up by Creator/{{Netflix}} original SequelSeries ''Series/WetHotAmericanSummerFirstDayOfCamp'' (2015), a 14-year prequel gap almost to the day. Made extra funny because many of the same actors who (intentionally unconvincingly) played thirty-something-as-teenager reprised their roles playing forty-something-as-teenager. |
| 272 | * ''Series/MissionImpossible'' (1966-1973) and its short-lived revival in the 1980s (1988-1990) -- 15 years. |
| 273 | * ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' (2022), which details Obi-Wan's life between ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' (2005) and ''Film/ANewHope'' (1977), was released 17 years after the former and 45 years after the latter. |
| 274 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' was greenlit for a [[Series/Frasier2023 revival]] on Creator/ParamountPlus which premiered in 2023, 19 years after its 11th season concluded in 2004. |
| 275 | * The second season of ''Series/JoeMillionaire'' ended in November 2003. A third season began more than 18 years later in January 2022, as ''Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer''. |
| 276 | * ''Series/FullerHouse'' came out in 2016, 21 years after the end of ''Series/FullHouse'' (1987-1995). |
| 277 | * The ''Series/{{Mannix}}'' episode "Little Girl Lost", in which the mystery of who killed the girl's father was left unresolved, didn't get a follow-up until 24 years later, in the ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "Hard-Boiled Murder". |
| 278 | * ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'' (1992) and ''Series/TwinPeaks'' ([[{{Revival}} 2017]]) -- 25 years. |
| 279 | * ''Series/CobraKai'' came out in 2018, 34 years after the first ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}'' movie (1984). While there were sequels to the original film, as well as a reboot, the show specifically focuses on the rivalry between Daniel and Johnny 34 years after the tournament. Even taking the intervening films into account, it still applies as it comes 8 years after the [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 reboot]] (2010), 24 years after the last original continuity film ''Film/TheNextKarateKid'' (1994) and 29 years since the last appearance of Daniel and the Cobra Kai storyline in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'' (1989), which itself saw a sequel gap of 5 years until the next installment. |
| 280 | * ''Series/{{Riget}}'' had two seasons in respectively 1994 and 1997, before the untimely death of several of the principle actors resulted in the planned third season being put on ice indefintely. But in 2020, series creator Creator/LarsVonTrier made the surprising announcement that he would make a proper third season and GrandFinale to the series, ''Riget Exodus'', which premiered in 2022, twenty-five years after the second season. |
| 281 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' (2005-2014) and ''Series/HowIMetYourFather'' (2022-2023) -- 8 years after the original show ended. |
| 282 | * ''Series/That70sShow'' (1998-2006) and ''Series/That90sShow'' (2023-) -- 17 years after ''That '70s Show'' ended. The earlier series took place between 1976-1979 (ending immediately at January 1, 1980), and the latter takes place in 1995. |
| 283 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which ended in 2015, was revived 6 years later as ''Series/CSIVegas'' with a whole new team in 2021. It had originally been set for the 20th anniversary of the anchor series' premiere, but the COVID-19 pandemic halted production so it had to be postponed for another year. |
| 284 | * ''Series/NightCourt'' (1984-1992) and its SequelSeries ''Series/NightCourt2023'', which premiered over thirty years after the original show ended its run. |
| 285 | * ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' was released on June 12, 1981. Meanwhile, ''Series/HistoryOfTheWorldPartII'' premiered over a whopping ''forty-one'' years later on March 6, 2023. |
| 286 | * The 2022 Netflix arabic TV series ""Series/AlbahthAnUla" (The search for Ula) is a sequel for th 2010 Ramadhan TV series "Series/AizaAtgawiz" (I want to get married), with 12 years between them. |
| 287 | * An odd example involving a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' prequel taking place in an AlternateContinuity. In the late '90, Creator/NewLineCinema acquired their rights to adapt ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''Literature/TheHobbit'', with the books being adapted in two trilogies, the first airing in the early 2000, and the other one a decade later. Tolkien Estate was not happy with Jackson's adaptations, and would take them around 2 decades to allow another adaptation of Middle-Earth to be created. In 2017, Amazon acquired the rights to adapt the Second Age, which led to the creation of ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' (with New Line Cinema being again involved), which aired a decade later after the Hobbit trilogy. |
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| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 291 | * Music/{{Boston}} was notorious for this, to the point where Boston's record label actually sued the band because they were taking too long to record ''Third Stage''. |
| 292 | * It took ''33 years'' for Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Music/{{Imaginos}}'' saga to receive its second act, ''Music/ImaginosIIBombsOverGermany''. |
| 293 | * Music/{{Kraftwerk}} have fallen into this ever since they released ''Music/ComputerWorld'' in 1981. Their next album, ''[[Music/TechnoPop Electric Café]]'', followed 5 years later, which at the time was the longest gap between their albums. Then things begin to get a bit crazy; the follow-up to that album, ''Tour de France Soundtracks'' (if you don't count ''The Mix'' or ''Expo 2000''), came out 17 years later in 2003. And that album has been their most recent album for nearly 20 years now. Even if you do count ''The Mix'', it still doesn't really help matters, because that's still another 5 years after ''Electric Café'' and 12 years before ''Tour de France Soundtracks''. ''Expo 2000'' meanwhile isn't as bad, as it was only 3 years before ''Tour de France Soundtracks'' despite plugging a 9 year gap of very little activity at all in terms of musical releases. |
| 294 | * Music/{{Metallica}} has fallen into this for their most recent albums. It first happened with the five year gap between ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Metallica]]'' and ''Music/LoadAndReLoad''. Then there was a six year gap between ''[=ReLoad=]'' and ''Music/StAnger''. Their next album ''Death Magnetic'' (2008) took five years to come out. If one discounts their Music/LouReed collaboration ''Lulu'' (2012) ([[FanonDiscontinuity most fans definitely prefer to]]), their next album ''Hardwired... to Self-Destruct'' came out 8 years later in 2016. The follow-up to that, ''72 Seasons'', similarly took seven years to come out, releasing in 2023. |
| 295 | * Music/DrDre's three albums have this. His debut album ''The Chronic'' came out in 1992, while its sequel ''2001'' took seven years until it was finally released in 1999. Then, his third and final album ''Compton'' took ''sixteen'' years when it was finally released in 2015, after the cancellation of the originally-envisioned third album, ''Detox''. |
| 296 | * Music/PinkFloyd's album ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' (1994) was their first since ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' (1987) -- a 7 year gap. At the time, it was seen as their final album. They released a definitive final chapter with ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' (2014) -- that's a ''20 year gap''. Their next release of new material, the one-off charity single "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!", came out in 2022, eight years after ''The Endless River''. |
| 297 | * Music/DavidBowie: |
| 298 | ** There was a six-year gap between the releases of ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' (1987) and ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' (1993), owed to Bowie eschewing solo material during the turn of the '90s in favor of working with Tin Machine as a means of artistically reinvigorating himself[[note]]''Music/{{Tin Machine|Album}}'' (1989) was legally considered a Bowie album under his contract with Creator/{{EMI}}, but its status as a full-band project means that it's typically excluded from the man's solo discography[[/note]]. |
| 299 | ** Bowie ended up going a full 10 years between ''Music/{{Reality}}'' (2003) and ''Music/TheNextDay'' (2013), owing in part due to a heart attack while on-tour in 2004 that motivated him to step out of the public eye. |
| 300 | ** “Space Oddity” and its sequel “Ashes to Ashes” both follow Major Tom and had an 11 year gap. |
| 301 | * Music/{{Daughters}} as a rule tended to take a very long time to record new albums. Their first two albums, ''Canada Songs'' and ''Hell Songs'', were released in 2003 and 2006 respectively, a gap of three years. After this, their SelfTitledAlbum dropped in 2010, a further gap of four years. After this the band split up for most of the subsequent decade, and they returned in 2018 with ''You Won't Get What You Want'', a considerable eight year gap. |
| 302 | * Music/KingCrimson: |
| 303 | ** An example about songs: "Larks Tongues in Aspic" had Parts 1 and 2 included on the titular album (1973). After that, you have "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 3" from ''Music/ThreeOfAPerfectPair'' (1984) -- an 11-year gap. After that is Part 4 from ''The [=ConstruKction=] of Light'' (2000) for a 16-year gap. Curiously, "Level Five" from 2003's ''The Power to Believe'' makes for the shortest gap in the series, at just three years. [[note]]However, an early version of the song was included on a limited-run EP of the same name (''Level Five'') in 2001, about a year and a half after ''[=ConstruKction=]''.[[/note]] |
| 304 | ** In terms of their proper albums, ''Music/{{Discipline}}'' (1981) came out roughly seven years after ''Music/{{Red|KingCrimsonAlbum}}'' (1974), ''THRAK'' (1995) 11 years after ''Music/ThreeOfAPerfectPair'' (1984), and ''The [=ConstruKction=] of Light'' (2000) five years after ''THRAK''. Their most recent album, ''The Power to Believe'' (2003), still has yet to see a follow-up. |
| 305 | * Music/BobSeger: |
| 306 | ** There was a 5-year gap between ''Like a Rock'' (1986) and his next album ''The Fire Inside'' (1991) |
| 307 | ** ''Face the Promise'' (2006) was Seger's first non-compilation album since ''It's a Mystery'' (1995), an 11 year gap. His next album, ''Ride Out'' was released eight years later in 2014. |
| 308 | * Music/PeterGabriel: ''Music/{{Us}}'' (1992) released six years after ''Music/{{So}}'' (1986)[[note]]''Music/{{Passion}}'' (1989), a reworking of the score for ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' released between ''So'' and ''Us'', is generally regarded as a soundtrack album rather than a proper studio album[[/note]], and ''Music/{{Up|PeterGabrielAlbum}}'' (2002) came out a full decade after ''Us''. His next record, the CoverAlbum ''Scratch My Back'' (2010), released eight years after ''Up'', and while the re-recordings album ''New Blood'' (2011) took only a year to come out, the follow up ''i/o'' was stuck in DevelopmentHell until its release in 2023 (it was originally slated for 2004 and started production all the way back in ''1995'', concurrently with ''Up''). |
| 309 | * There was a 11-year gap from Music/SteelyDan frontman Donald Fagen's solo debut, ''Music/TheNightfly'', to 1993's followup ''Kamikiriad'', partly a result of Fagen's WritersBlock. He would follow that up with the first Steely Dan album since 1980's ''Gaucho'', ''Two Against Nature'', in 2000, bridging a 20-year gap. Fagen's third solo album, ''Morph the Cat'', would be released in 2006, bridging a 13-year gap between solo albums. |
| 310 | * Music/KateBush went twelve years between ''Music/{{The Red Shoes|Album}}'' (1993) and ''Music/{{Aerial}}'' (2005), long enough that many people surmised she'd given up music entirely. She went on to issue two separate albums -- ''Director's Cut'' and ''Music/FiftyWordsForSnow'' -- in 2011 (six years after ''Aerial''), but hasn't released any new studio material since, only a LiveAlbum in 2016. |
| 311 | * Music/AphexTwin released the album ''Music/{{Drukqs}}'' in 2001. It would be 13 years until he released the next album under that name, ''Music/{{Syro}}'' (2014). The most recent non-compilation album even as AFX at that time was ''Analord'' (2005). That still ended at least a 9 year wait. |
| 312 | ** The gap wasn't completely blank though, fortunately; he released a few new songs in that time under different names such as 'The Tuss'. |
| 313 | * Music/{{Pendulum|Band}} released the single "Ransom" in 2011, and wouldn't release another single for nine years, until 2020's "Driver / Nothing For Free" as Rob Swire and Gareth [=McGrillen=] were more interested in focusing on Music/KnifeParty for much of the time in between. |
| 314 | * Music/{{Eminem}}'s ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' was released in 2000. While he had a fair amount of studio albums after it, the direct sequel, ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'', wasn't released until 2013. |
| 315 | * Music/{{Blur}} released their first album without guitarist Graham Coxon, ''Think Tank,'' in 2003. It would be another twelve years before Coxon rejoined and the band released ''The Magic Whip'' in 2015. The follow-up to that album, ''The Ballad of Darren'', wouldn't come out until 2023, eight years later. |
| 316 | * Music/{{Tool}} took 13 years between ''10,000 Days'' (2006) and ''Fear Inoculum'' (2019), owing mostly to legal issues. |
| 317 | * The ''Bat Out Of Hell'' trilogy by Music/MeatLoaf. ''Music/BatOutOfHell'' was released in 1977; ''Bat Out of Hell 2: Back Into Hell'' came out 16 years later in 1993, and ''Bat Out of Hell 3: The Monster Is Loose'' rounded it off 13 years after that, in 2006. |
| 318 | * Music/AmericanFootball's debut SelfTitledAlbum was released in 1999. Their next album, also called ''American Football'', was released in 2016. |
| 319 | * Gas released four albums in pretty quick succession. The fifth, ''Narkopop'' (2017) followed ''Pop'' (2000). That's ''17 years''. |
| 320 | ** Even if you count the compilation album ''Nah und Fern'' (2008), you've still got an 8-year previous and 9-year wait. |
| 321 | * The Braxtons went 19 years between ''So Many Ways'' (1996) and ''[[ChristmasSongs Braxton Family Christmas]]'' (2015). |
| 322 | * Italian record producer Music/GiorgioMoroder had a 23 year gap'' between ''Forever Dancing'' (1992) and ''Déjà Vu'' (2015). |
| 323 | * Music/EltonJohn released a ConceptAlbum in 1975 called ''Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'', chronicling his and lyricist Bernie Taupin's rise to fame, at the height of Elton's success. In 2006, 31 years later, Elton released a sequel album, ''The Captain and the Kid'', chronicling the duo's success and personal issues. |
| 324 | * Music/{{Possessed}} took a whopping 33 years to release their third album ''Revelations of Oblivion'' in 2019; their previous album ''Beyond the Gates'' came out back in 1986. |
| 325 | * Vashti Bunyan released ''Just Another Diamond Day'' in 1970. The album failed to find an audience and she retired from music and started a family. The album's popularity snowballed over the next few decades and is now cited as one of the earliest examples of the "freak folk" genre. Inspired by recognition from mid 2000s artists such as Music/JoannaNewsom and Music/AnimalCollective, Bunyan made ''Lookaftering'', which came out ''35 years'' after her debut, making the 9 year gap between that and ''Heartleap'' seem like nothing. |
| 326 | * Music/JethroTull frontman Ian Anderson released a followup to Tull's 1972 ConceptAlbum, ''Thick as a Brick 2'', during the 40th anniversary of ''Music/ThickAsABrick'''s release (2012). |
| 327 | * The Sonics recorded three albums in the mid-60s, before splitting up after ''Introducing The Sonics'' in 1967. They reformed in TheNewTens and released ''This Is The Sonics'' in 2015 - a gap of ''forty-eight years''. |
| 328 | * Music/NineInchNails had this happen a few times with their albums, especially during the 1990s, partly due to Trent Reznor's perfectionism and legal wranglings with his labels. |
| 329 | ** ''Music/PrettyHateMachine'' (1989), ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' (1994), and ''Music/TheFragile1999'' were all released five years apart. After ''The Fragile'' there was ''Music/WithTeeth'' (2005), released six years later. |
| 330 | ** Reznor would spend the later half of the 2000s with more frequent releases, with ''Music/YearZero'' (2007) coming out two years after ''With Teeth'', and ''Music/GhostsIToIV'' and ''Music/TheSlip'' both coming out in 2008. Reznor however put NIN on hiatus in 2009, before returning in 2013 with ''Music/HesitationMarks'' -- five years after ''The Slip''. |
| 331 | ** The all-instrumental ''Ghosts'' albums: ''Ghosts I-IV'' (2008), and ''Ghosts V: Together'' and ''Ghosts VI: Locusts'' (both 2020) -- twelve years. |
| 332 | * Music/{{Sade}} had a long eight year gap between the band's album ''Love Deluxe'' (1992) and ''Lovers Rock'' (2000). Another long gap of ten years followed that before they released ''Soldier of Love'' (2010). |
| 333 | * Music/SystemOfADown released two singles in November 2020 -- a fifteen-year wait after ''Music/MezmerizeHypnotize'' (2005). |
| 334 | * Music/AlyAndAJ self-released ''a touch of the beat gets you up off your feet gets you out and then into the sun'' in May 2021 -- fourteen years after their previous studio album ''Insomniatic.'' |
| 335 | * Music/{{ABBA}} originally broke up two years after the release of ''Music/TheVisitors'' (1981). After reuniting in 2016, they released a new studio album, ''Music/{{Voyage|2021}}'' (2021), forty years after its predecessor. |
| 336 | * Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's ''Music/{{Technodon}}'' (1993) released a full decade after ''Music/{{Service}}'' (1983), owed to the band splitting up (or "spreading out" as they put it) and reforming within that time. |
| 337 | * Music/NewOrder's ''Music/GetReady'' (2001) released eight years after ''Music/{{Republic}}'' (1993), owed to CreativeDifferences and burnout putting the band on hiatus. ''Lost Sirens'' (2013) released eight years after ''Waiting for the Sirens' Call'' (2005) for identical reasons. If one discounts ''Lost Sirens'' on the basis of it being an archival release, that makes for a ten-year gap between ''Waiting for the Sirens' Call'' and ''Music/MusicComplete'' (2015), with their next release after that being the non-album single "Be a Rebel" (2020) five years later. |
| 338 | * Music/{{Radiohead}} saw a five-year gap between the releases of ''Music/TheKingOfLimbs'' (2011) and ''Music/AMoonShapedPool'' (2016). They have yet to put out another album, focusing instead on side-projects and curating archival reissues. |
| 339 | * Music/TearsForFears saw a nine-year gap between ''Music/RaoulAndTheKingsOfSpain'' (1995) and ''Music/EverybodyLovesAHappyEnding'' (2004). Their next album, ''The Tipping Point'' (2022), came out ''eighteen'' years after its predecessor. |
| 340 | * Music/MissionOfBurma saw a whopping 22-year gap between ''Vs.'' (1982) and ''[=ONoffON=]'' (2004), owed to their loud performances giving guitarist Roger Miller severe tinnitus. |
| 341 | * While Music/JeanMichelJarre puts out music on a fairly consistent basis, albums made as direct sequels to previous ones tend to have fairly sizable gaps between them: |
| 342 | ** ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' (1976) was followed up by ''Oxygène 7-13'' in 1997 (21 years), and that got followed up with ''Oxygène 3'' in 2016 (19 years) to commemorate the original's 40th anniversary. |
| 343 | ** ''Music/{{Equinoxe}}'' (1978) didn't receive a sequel until 2018, 40 years later, with the release of ''Équinoxe Infinity''. |
| 344 | * Similarly to Jean-Michel Jarre, Music/MikeOldfield tends to release albums fairly frequently, but his true sequel albums see long gaps between one another: |
| 345 | ** ''Music/TubularBells'' (1973) was followed up by ''Music/TubularBellsII'' (1992) 19 years later, and that was followed up with ''Music/TubularBellsIII'' (1998) six years later. |
| 346 | ** ''Ommadawn'' (1975) saw its first loose sequel in the form of ''Amarok'' (1990) 15 years later, and ''Return to Ommadawn'' (2017) came out 27 years after that. |
| 347 | * Music/MyBloodyValentine's third album ''mbv'' came out in 2013, over 21 years after their previous album ''Loveless''. |
| 348 | * Rap duo Black Star (consisting of Mos Def and Talib Kweli) released their second album ''No Fear of Time'' in 2022, some 24 years after their 1998 debut ''Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star''. |
| 349 | * Music/DavidByrne: |
| 350 | ** Discounting the collaborative albums ''Music/EverythingThatHappensWillHappenToday'' (2008) and ''Music/LoveThisGiant'' (2012), ''Music/AmericanUtopia'' (2018) ended a fourteen-year gap since his previous solo album, ''Music/GrownBackwards'' (2004). |
| 351 | ** Counting collaborative albums, Byrne saw an eight-year gap between the releases of ''Music/MyLifeInTheBushOfGhosts'' (1981) and ''Music/ReiMomo'' (1989), owed to him prioritizing work with Music/TalkingHeads for most of the '80s. Furthermore, the gap between ''Music/LoveThisGiant'' (2012) and ''American Utopia'' (2018) spanned six years. |
| 352 | ** Focusing ''solely'' on collaborative albums, the Byrne & Music/BrianEno duumvirate saw a ''27-year'' gap between ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' (1981) and ''Music/EverythingThatHappensWillHappenToday'' (2008). |
| 353 | * Music/GeorgeHarrison saw a whopping 15-year gap between the releases of ''Cloud Nine'' (1987) and ''Brainwashed'' (2002). By the time the latter came out, he had been dead for a year. |
| 354 | * Music/ArcadeFire had a five-year gap between ''Everything Now'' (2017) and ''WE'' (2022), marking their longest break between studio albums. |
| 355 | * Music/RogerWaters saw a five-year gap between ''Radio K.A.O.S.'' (1987) and ''Music/AmusedToDeath'' (1992). Barring side projects, that was then followed up ''twenty-five'' years later with ''Music/IsThisTheLifeWeReallyWant'' (2017), owed to Waters focusing more on his live act. In turn, ''The Dark Side of the Moon Redux'' (2023) came out six years after that album. |
| 356 | * Music/PorcupineTree saw a 13-year gap between ''The Incident'' (2009) and ''Closure/Continuation'' (2022). |
| 357 | * Music/{{Beyonce}} saw a six-year gap between ''Music/{{Lemonade|2016}}'' (2016) and ''Renaissance'' (2022). |
| 358 | * Music/MichaelJackson: |
| 359 | ** There was a six year gap between ''Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI'' (1995) and ''Music/{{Invincible}}'' (2001), though a remix album featuring new songs, ''Blood on the Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] in the Mix'' (1997), came out in the interim. |
| 360 | ** If one is willing to count posthumous albums, then his first posthumous album ''Music/{{Michael}}'' (2010) came out nine years after ''Invincible''. |
| 361 | * Music/TheAvalanches saw a nearly sixteen-year gap between ''Music/SinceILeftYou'' (2000) and ''Music/{{Wildflower}}'' (2016). |
| 362 | * Music/DepecheMode saw a six-year gap between ''Spirit'' (2017) and ''Memento Mori'' (2023). |
| 363 | * Music/JanelleMonae saw a five-year gap between ''Dirty Computer'' (2018) and ''The Age of Pleasure'' (2023). |
| 364 | * Music/CultureClub's ''Don't Mind If I Do'' (1999) came out 13 years after ''From Luxury to Heartache'' (1986); in turn, ''Life'' (2018) came out 19 years after that. |
| 365 | * Music/DavidSylvian: |
| 366 | ** Discounting collaborations and other side projects, ''Dead Bees on a Cake'' (1999) was his first studio album since ''Secrets of the Beehive'' (1987) 12 years prior. |
| 367 | ** ''There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight'' (2014) released five years after its predecessor, ''Manafon'' (2009), owed to Sylvian retreating further and further from the public eye as he grew older. Tellingly, Sylvian hasn't put out another album since this one came out. |
| 368 | * Music/BeYourOwnPet had no releases between 2008's ''Get Damaged'' and 2023's ''Mommy'', leaving a 15 year gap. "Goodtime!" on the latter album actually acknowledges the time it took between the band breaking up and reuniting, with Jemina Pearl reflecting that she now has more adult responsibilities and feels like she's the only person around her who's grown up since then. |
| 369 | * Music/TheBeatles: |
| 370 | ** 25 years passed between the release of their final studio album ''Music/LetItBe'' (1970) and the release of their first "new" song from the ''Anthology'' project, "Free As A Bird" (1995). This is because of Music/JohnLennon's death in 1980, with the song being a Lennon demo that received additional work from the then three surviving Beatles. |
| 371 | ** 27 years passed between "Real Love" (1996) and "Now and Then" (2023). Like "Free as a Bird", both were Lennon demos that the rest of the band worked on for the ''Anthology'' project, yet "Now and Then" remained shelved for decades, with Music/GeorgeHarrison having passed on in the interim in 2001. It then fell to the two remaining Beatles, Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/RingoStarr, to finish up the song with some assistance from 2020s recording technology to enhance Lennon's vocal. |
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| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 375 | * ''Pinball/BlackKnight'' 2000 (1989) and ''Black Knight: Sword of Rage'' (2019) -- 30 years. |
| 376 | ** With the gap between the original (1980) and ''2000'' being quite sizable itself at 9 years. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 380 | * Finnish board game ''TabletopGame/StarOfAfrica'' (1951) received the MissionPackSequel ''Inkan aarre'' in 2005 (''54'' years later) and the {{expansion|Pack}} ''Retkikunnat'' in 2014 (''63'' years later). |
| 381 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' (1990) and ''Cyberpunk V3.0'' (2005) - 15 years. When removing ''V3.0'' from the canon, then it's 29 years between ''Cyberpunk 2020'' and ''Cyberpunk RED'' (2019). |
| 382 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Uno}}'' (1971) and ''Dos'' (2018) - 47 years. |
| 383 | * TabletopGame/{{Chess}} (modern variant came to be around 1475) and ''[[TabletopGame/Chess2 Chess 2: The Sequel]]'' (2014) - '''[[ExaggeratedTrope 500+]]''' years. |
| 384 | * ''TabletopGame/GameOfLife'' (1860) and ''The Game of Life 2'' (2020) - 160 years. If only counting the 1960 ReTool of ''Life'', which the sequel is based on, then it is 60 years. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 388 | * ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' (2001-2010) and ''Toys/Bionicle2015'' (2015-2016) -- 5 years. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 392 | * ''WebAnimation/GhostTale'': Released on Halloween 2023, this animation is a follow-up and spiritual sequel to the Halloween-focused ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' promotional short released in 2008, ''WebAnimation/SonicNightOfTheWerehog'', a gap of 15 years. |
| 393 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The first ''[[VideoGame/DangeresqueRoomisode1BehindTheDangerdesque Dangeresque]]'' Roomisode was released in 2008. A second game was in the works and seemed to have been cancelled when developer Telltale Games folded in 2018. The game, along with a third installment, finally made it to Steam in August 2023, nearly 15 years after the first. |
| 394 | * ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' originally ended in 2013. However, after getting picked up by Creator/RoosterTeeth following the shut down of Creator/{{Machinima}} in 2019, the show was renewed for a PostScriptSeason. That's a roughly six year gap in between seasons. |
| 395 | * ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'': The longest gap between installments is the one between "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE205Videography videography]]" and "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE206Sbemail206 sbemail 206]]", at just under 5½ years. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 399 | * ''Webcomic/The3LittlePrincesses'' was originally made in 2008. 10 years later, the creator began his work on parts 2 and 3 to celebrate the comic's 10th anniversary. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 403 | * ''Film/TheCinemaSnobMovie'' was released in 2012. The sequel, ''Another Cinema Snob Movie'', wouldn't be released until 2019, seven years later, though Craig and other characters from the first film would occasionally appear in [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob the series]] during the intervening years.[[note]]Though by the time of the sequel's production, the web series' version of the Snob seemed to have decided that the events of the films are an AlternateContinuity for himself.[[/note]] |
| 404 | * The original first "season" of the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' parodying series, ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'', came out in January 2008. It would take a little over 9 years for a second "season" to manifest in February 2017. |
| 405 | * WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}: The seventh installment of ''The Adventures of Mario and Luigi'' premiered five years after episode six. |
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| 407 | |
| 408 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 409 | * ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'': |
| 410 | ** As far as strictly animation goes, there's a five-year gap between the end of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 the original series]] (ended 1985) and ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfHeMan'' (1990), which doesn't even reach the full five years if one counts ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' (ended 1986); counting other adaptations, the gap is otherwise filled with the live-action ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' (1987). |
| 411 | ** ''The New Adventures of He-Man'' to ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' -- 12 years. |
| 412 | ** The 2002 series to ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' (2018) -- 16 years. |
| 413 | ** The 2002 series to ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' / ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' -- 19 years, in regards to an installment that stars He-Man. However, ''Revelation'' is also considered a followup to a BroadStrokes version of the 1983 series, meaning a gap of 36 years. |
| 414 | * ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': |
| 415 | ** The first season aired in 1981. The second season aired in 1996, 15 years later (though a few specials had aired in between). |
| 416 | ** The third season aired in 2004, an 8 year gap. |
| 417 | ** Though the series was ongoing yearly from that point on, there was another five year hiatus between the sixth (2008) and seventh season (2013). |
| 418 | * ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': |
| 419 | ** The fourth season ended in 2004. The fifth and final season wouldn't be produced and aired until 2017, making for a twelve-and-a-half year wait in the meantime. This may have been in part due to the creator spending most of the time desiring to produce the final arc of the show as a theatrical film before deciding that ending it on television would be a better route, as the creator jumped between multiple TV and film projects with the hope of eventually doing that final season as a movie. |
| 420 | ** If you take the non-canon IDW comic book series that ran from 2013 to 2015 into account, you have a nine year gap between new ''Samurai Jack'' stories. |
| 421 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has the perhaps [[LongRunner singular honor]] of a SequelEpisode appearing 6 months shy of a ''quarter-century'' after its predecessor, with Season 28's "Kamp Krustier" in 2017 serving as an ImmediateSequel to Season 4's "Kamp Krusty" in 1992. [[LampshadeHanging Fittingly]], the episode ends with a mock-SequelHook for "Kamp Krustiest" in Season 52 (that is, in 24 more seasons). |
| 422 | * ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'': |
| 423 | ** ''Defender of the Universe'' to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronTheThirdDimension'' (1998) -- 12 years. |
| 424 | ** ''The Third Dimension'' to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce'' (2011) -- 13 years. |
| 425 | ** ''Force'' to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' (2016) -- Five years. |
| 426 | * ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' had a 5-year hiatus between series 3 and 4. |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' was cancelled in 2013 after two seasons, but was revived for a third season in 2019, six years later. |
| 428 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' was cancelled in 2013, with its sixth season being released on Creator/{{Netflix}}, DVD and syndication in 2014. Its [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWarsSeasonSeven seventh season]], announced in 2018, was released on Creator/DisneyPlus beginning February 21, 2020, nearly six years after the sixth season: a six-year period in which SequelSeries ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' completed its four-season run, ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance Resistance]]'' had just completed its two-season run, and the ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens entire]]'' [[Film/TheLastJedi sequel]] [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker trilogy]] was released. |
| 429 | * ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', which premiered in 2017, was a direct sequel to the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' (2010) -- 7 years. |
| 430 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' aired its series finale in 2006 and officially ended in 2007 with ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo Trouble In Tokyo]]'', and was followed by ''WesternAnimation/NewTeenTitans'' shorts in 2012 (about 5-6 years, depending if you count ''Trouble In Tokyo'') and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' in 2013 (about 6-7 years - though ''Go!'' is more of a [[DarkParody Dark]] SelfParody than a sequel), and eventually making a minor comeback with ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans'' in 2019 (about 12-13 years). |
| 431 | * The 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' came 9 years after the end of ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island'' (2014). While the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramarama'' also ended in 2023, that was set in an AlternateContinuity, which makes the revival the first set in the original continuity since the first spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' (2015-2016) 7 years earlier. |
| 432 | * The third season of the Creator/AdultSwim series ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' premiered 13 years after the second season ended in 2007. |
| 433 | * After the Creator/{{Nelvana}}-produced ''[[WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s Care Bears]]'' series ended in 1988, [[Franchise/CareBears the franchise]] went 16 years without an AnimatedAdaptation until 2004's ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsJourneyToJokeALot''. If their first animated series since 1988 is to be considered, then it's 19 years with ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' (2007) closing the gap. |
| 434 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' ended in 2004. The [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 revival series]] came out in 2021, 17 years later. It also comes 13 years after the end of the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' in 2008, with the short lived SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/RugratsPreSchoolDaze'' ending the same years. |
| 435 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' (2001-2005) got a revival series called ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder'' in 2022, 17 years after the original show ended. |
| 436 | * The ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' franchise had a gap without an animated television series that lasted 18 years between 1992's ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' and 2010's ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The toy line did exist as Generation 3 and 3.5 between 1997-99 and 2003-09 respectively, but the only animated works between these periods were direct-to-video films and shorts. |
| 437 | * ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': The first season aired from 2002 to 2003 before being cancelled. The second season aired in 2023 (owing to [[NewbieBoom renewed online interest]] in the CultClassic). It immediately picked up on the cliffhanger ending and worked the time gap into the plot by having the [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] main characters thaw out twenty years later and adapt to 2023. |
| 438 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' to ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' - A ''22'' year gap.[[note]]Based on the original series final episode airing on 1998[[/note]] If the 1999 tie-in DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' is considered, than it is a 21 year gap. |
| 439 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' (1992-1997) to the {{Revival}} ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'' (2024) - A 27 year gap. This is for a followup in the same medium, not counting the 2015 ''ComicBook/Xmen92'' comics that revisited the universe. |
| 440 | * ''WesternAnimation/GremlinsSecretsOfTheMogwai'', a prequel to ''Film/Gremlins1984'', was released in 2023, 33 years after ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' (1990), plus a 39 year prequel gap to the original film. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
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