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1	'''Basic Trope''': The story is set back a few chapters and re-writes those chapters to fit a new story arc.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** In Universe - AllJustADream often portrayed here.
4	** In RealLife - A writer or group of writers didn't like the last 4 issues of a 25 issue comic-book story arc, instead of a full ContinuityReboot they simply reset the story back to issue 21 and continue from there.
5	** Alternatively - The fans didn't like so they ignore everything past issue 21 and write FanFiction of what they feel happened.
6	* '''Exaggerated''': The ''entire story'' suffers a major retcon and it's revealed that none of it ever happened.
7	* '''Downplayed''': [[{{Retcon}} Something that happened a minute ago is implied to not have actually happened]].
8	* '''Justified''': The time-altering super hero Chronos needs to save his girlfriend from being slaughtered after she was already mutilated and dead, so he rewinds time to a significant point and changes history and thus the outcome of the story.
9	* '''Inverted''':
10	** Everything DID happen but it just all looks like it is happening again.
11	** TimeSkip.
12	** Another work that was previously assumed to be unrelated or non-canon is [[CanonWelding retroactively inserted into the story's timeline.]]
13	* '''Subverted''': The story 'appears' to go back a few chapters but in reality we find out it hasn't reset, only the point of view has...
14	* '''Double Subverted''': ..But then you realize the point of view is that of the villain and it IS changing the story!
15	* '''Parodied''': ???
16	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
17	* '''Averted''': The story is never reset.
18	* '''Enforced''':
19	** Issues 22-25 received such a negative fan reception that the creators had to declare them [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] to continue the story.
20	** The fallout between the series publisher and the crossover characters' Copyright holder has left the Issue 22-25 crossover ScrewedByTheLawyers.
21	* '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't we do this before?" -- "No you must be imagining it."
22	* '''Invoked''': "[[ResetButton We wish we never found]] this [[BecarefulWhatYouWishFor wish granting amulet]]".
23	* '''Exploited''': ???
24	* '''Defied''': ???
25	* '''Discussed''': ???
26	* '''Conversed''': ???
27	* '''Deconstructed''': Multiversal variants from the AlternateUniverse in which the events of issues 22-25 happened appear and fight the characters of the canon timeline for their right to live.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': The universes are successfully merged together, saving both sets of characters.
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30	Back to StoryReset
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32	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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34	%%* '''Implied''': ???
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37	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
38	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / StoryReset