New episodes of television shows aren't aired on the same day or even week everywhere in the world. For example, new episodes of an {{anime}} are going to be out in Japan before they're shown in the United States due to the time it takes to translate and dub it. Likewise, shows made in the United States are, naturally, usually shown in the United States before they're shown in another country. Basically, it only makes sense that a show will be shown first in the country that made it.

However, there is an exception to that rule and that's where this trope comes in. Although a title was made in one country, people in another country may see new episodes first. This can seem extremely odd, at least to the viewers residing the country of origin. This is most common with English-language programming, particularly American shows being aired early in Canada, Australia or the UK; even regions where English isn't the official language, such as Latin America or the Philippines, will still have stations that still broadcast in the language, meaning such works fall prey to the trope easiest. That said, there can (and have) been situations where even the foreign language dub comes out before the original language hits screens.[[note]]There's also the case of simulcasting (simultaneous broadcasting); most common with anime, this is when the overseas licensee receives episodes early enough that they can release a subtitled version the same day as the native country airing, if not the same time. But that doesn't fit quite neatly into this trope.[[/note]]

The reason this trope happens is that, once they've paid for them, licensees/networks in those countries often have considerable control over when they want to air the episodes, and they just happen to air them earlier than the original country's station does. Oftentimes a contract will state that episodes cannot be aired before a certain date, anticipating that the home network will air the show before then, but then for whatever reason the airdate in the home country is pushed back, while the foreign station keeps its originally planned airdate.

No matter the case, upon the advent of file-sharing networks and sites like Website/YouTube, this means that anxious viewers in the work's home country gained the ability to see these episodes weeks or even months before they're ever aired.

This may overlap with GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, which can sometimes be either a cause or an effect of this phenomenon. After all, if your American show is more well-liked in India than it is back home, might as well just let broadcasters there air them early to take advantage of that fact.

This can also happen during a crisis such as the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, when establishments such as movie theaters close, delaying or preventing the release of the work in its home country, but allowing it to run in foreign markets.

Contrast LateExportForYou, where certain regions get the work later than others, NoExportForYou, where foreign countries never see the work ''at all'', and EarlyBirdRelease, when a work has an episode released earlier than its intended airdate in its origin country.

And "Short Run in Peru" [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant does not refer to]] a work that's short-lived outside its home country. That would be UnfinishedDub. This trope's name refers to the fact the work may have a shorter run overseas due to them getting through all the content faster. Also, while many films premiere in festivals outside of their countries or have theatrical premieres in countries related to their story, remember this trope applies only for regular showings.

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* ShortRunInPeru/WesternAnimation
** ''ShortRunInPeru/SpongeBobSquarePants''
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Teknoman'', the English-language adaptation of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'', had its entire run air in Australia before it premiered in the US (which only ended up screening about half the series). It was also a different dub that had the main character keep his original name, and is generally seen to be closer to the original, and did not tell the entire backstory in the opening credits either. This is the version used for the DVD release.
* ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' was produced in English. As such, Creator/SpikeTV premiered the series in the United States before its Japanese broadcast.
* The ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' miniseries, which used the 4Kids cast, first aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland. US fans didn't even know about it until after the second episode had aired. Their run of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' also overtook other countries (including the US) for a while back in 2000. RTÉ airs quite a few US shows very early, at least before the UK. This is due to licensing being much cheaper for such a small country like Ireland, and trying to beat competition from UK channels which are easily available on cable and satellite (or terrestrially if you're near the border or south east coast).
* ''Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight'' was not screened in Japan until after it had already been released in the rest of the world for over a year. This is due to its production being headed by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]], rather than TV Tokyo. Despite this, the Japanese version had an extra twelve minutes of animation.
* The dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' had this happen when the final 17 episodes of R were finally dubbed. Because of the show's success in Canada, there was no trouble getting Creator/{{YTV}} to air them, but it took the show getting popular on Toonami in the US for the them to be released in the states, a year later.
* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' is an interesting case. While a grand total of 52 episodes of the series were dubbed, Canada (which got the show first) had four dubbed episodes pulled from the package. When the show resurfaced many years later in America, these four episodes were included but twelve different episodes were missing instead. Nobody knows why any of these episodes were pulled – fans have often speculated on censorship (because America), but since they were already dubbed and censored anyway, this argument makes no logical sense unless you're a programming planner at a US TV syndicator.
* This happened in Australia with Creator/FUNimation's dub of ''Franchise/OnePiece''; the dub first premiered in America on Creator/CartoonNetwork in Fall 2007, taking off from where the 4Kids dub ended, but was cancelled after about six months due to insufficiently improving ratings. However the entire ''season'', which had 28 more episodes, was already completely dubbed. So when Australia decided not to cancel the show, they ended up showing the rest of that season first. For the record, it took Funimation over three years for their DVD sets (which had started ''at the very beginning'' by fan request) to reach the Australia-only episodes.
* Being Creator/{{Toonami}}'s first original series, ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' was produced in English and was broadcast in the United States one day before before its Japanese broadcast. Japan did air entire 2nd season before the US though.
* ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' aired in America about five months before Japan; unfortunately, this was due to the translators having to work with unfinished episodes, resulting in distinctly [[OffModel sub-par animation]] and occasionally strange dialogue.
* In Australia, ''Anime/{{Redline}}'' was part of Creator/MadmanEntertainment's 2010 Reel Anime Festival, with a limited cinema run in early September, several weeks before its Japanese cinema debut.
* The second season of the 2001 ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' series was aired in Latin-America more than a year before the US did the same.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** The ''Anime/PokemonTheMastermindOfMiragePokemon'' anime special aired in the US first, despite being specifically made for the tenth anniversary of the games' ''Japanese'' release (back then, North America got the games ''years'' later). Since the other episodes of the anime were aired in their original order in the US, the special actually aired an entire year before it would normally air. The most likely reason is that Pokémon USA used the special to test out the [[TheOtherDarrin new voice actors]] that would be replacing the 4Kids actors the following year.
** And then there's ''Pokémon Chronicles''. While it was a compilation of episodes that had previously aired in Japan (3 1/2 years previously in the case of the opening three-parter), the series debuted in the UK a whole year before US audiences saw it, with Canada picking it up not long after the UK. [[BlatantLies The US promos still called it a world premiere.]]
** The UK has a regular history of jumping ahead of the US for a few episodes, then falling far behind. In the same year as Chronicles, ''Advanced Battle'' had the SpoilerOpening edited to cover up Pokémon that weren't supposed to be shown outside Japan yet an episode later than in the US airing due to scheduling. And in a massive case of timing, it came out that Kids WB would be skipping three episodes (later turned out to be delayed by two months) right as the third of those episodes was airing in the UK.
** Many episodes of ''Black and White: Rival Destinies'' aired in Italy before every other western country.
** The first two episodes of Sun and Moon aired on Creator/{{CITV}} in the UK first before their US premiere. In addition, the first two episodes of Sun and Moon premiered on Disney XD in the US before XY, the previous season, has finished its Cartoon Network US airing.
** Starting with ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction'', the English dubs of the films would air in Australia and New Zealand before the United States.
** A good chunk of episodes from ''[[Anime/PokemonJourneys Pokémon Ultimate Journeys]]'' aired in European countries before their US release.
* The ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' movie got a theatrical release in the US a few days before it opened in its native Japan.
* ''Anime/XamdLostMemories'' was available to purchase or rent for download in the US by Platform/PlayStation3 owners via the [=PlayStation=] Store months before the series had even aired in Japan.
* The ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' movie, "Badlands Rumble", first premiered at [=SakuraCon=] in Seattle, Washington, a few months before its Japanese theatrical release, presumably at least partially because of the show was significantly more popular in the US than Japan. Somewhat unusually for this trope, it was shown raw (aka in Japanese with no subtitles)
* A well-known instance of this on the anime front was ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, ''Bloodlust'' had its world premiere in Australia over a year before it screened in Japan or the US. Unusually for an anime, the English dub was recorded first (in fact, the initial ''Japanese'' DVD release of the film was English-only).
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a minor case of this trope for the English dub. Granted, while the series is readily available to watch on DVD, and has been since the beginning, the dub has not aired at all on television in its country of origin, while in Australia it aired on Creator/{{ABC3}}. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Which is primarily a children's station]], though the series is (luckily) [[SubvertedTrope aired in a timeslot which appears to be meant for teenagers]].
* ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', the anime based on Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', was dubbed into English using American voice actors, and aired in various English-speaking countries outside of the US for almost two years before it showed up in the States. And it didn't even last a week before it was given the boot.
* An odd example of this trope: An English dub of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' called ''The Adventures of Sidney and Albert'' was produced for Creator/{{TBS}} in the 1980's, but was left unaired. The dub would show up on a local TV station in UsefulNotes/{{Barbados}}, of all places.
* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' was one of Funimation's earliest simuldubs, with new episodes premiering on Creator/{{Toonami}} in the U.S. hours ''before'' they would in Japan. Oddly enough, the last episode of both seasons were aired in Osaka several days before it aired in America and the rest of Japan, making the show have a Short Run in Peru ''in its own country''.
* ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'' aired in Italy two months before its Japanese release, thanks to the show taking place in the country.
* Episodes 13, 14 and 15 of the English dub of ''VideoGame/YoKaiWatch'' aired in Canada weeks before they did in the United States, and episodes 20-26 aired in Australia before their US run.
* Ever since ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All Star Memories]]'', the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' movies have been released in China to streaming service iQiyi months before they are released on home video in Japan.
* The ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' episode "Happy Ham-Ham Halloween!" aired in the U.S. on October 21, 2003, ten days before its Japanese airdate on October 31. That means the English distributors of ''Hamtaro'' got the episode, dubbed it and made any other localization edits (there was Japanese text that got changed to English, for example), and got it to Creator/CartoonNetwork before it ever aired in Japan. It should also be noted that in Japan it was episode 173, and the English dub didn't dub past episode 105 in order, so this episode was treated as a special in the U.S. instead.
* The English dub of ''[[Franchise/{{Zoids}} Zoids Fuzors]]'' was cut short in the US. Its full run was only screened in Australia, the Philippines and Japan.
* Yet another Cartoon Network / Adult Swim co-production, ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Progressive]]'' premiered in the U.S on June 2, 2018, over three months before its Japanese release. But for their annual April Fools' prank, Adult Swim had a stealth premiere of ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Alternative]]'', ''in Japanese'', '''five months''' before premiering in Japan.
* The extended theatrical release of ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'' first premiered in North America in February 2021 before getting released in Japan six months later. Said extended cut would also see a Blu-ray release in North America even before Japanese the theatrical run. Various other European territories already received the film on Blu-ray when the film finally released theatrically in Japan. The film would also take until December to come out on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan, when the film was already out on Blu-ray for months in other countries.
* Promotional footage from ''Anime/PanyoPanyoDiGiCharat'' was used in a [[https://youtu.be/wZYs4KWLH3Q commercial]] for Broccoli's now defunct American store[[note]]then known as Omochabox, later renamed to Anime Gamers[[/note]] in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20011217015754/http://synch-point.com:80/production/digicharat/index.html Fall 2001]], months before the series would air in Japan.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|2011}}'' was released in European countries in Fall 2011, and was one of the most popular movies of the year over there, but it didn't hit American theaters until December, and it bombed there[[note]]Granted, December is a very tough time in America for any film that isn't either Christmasy, a planned late-year blockbuster, or OscarBait[[/note]]. Probably due to the fact that while ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' is one of the most successful and well-known franchises in Europe, it's hardly known in America aside from hardcore fans (and children who watched the animated version on Nickelodeon). Even in North America, the movie debuted earlier in Quebec, where Tintin (and FrancoBelgianComics in general) are huge cultural icons.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' was released in Mexico a little under four weeks earlier (October 27) before its set release (November 22) in the United States, since Día de Muertos, which the film centers around, is November 2 and being released long after the holiday would make little sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' was released in the UK 3 months before it was released in the US, likely because it adapted [[Literature/WinnieThePooh a British work]].
* The UK got ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' a few weeks before their US release. For the former, it's likely since a majority of the film takes place in London.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' was released one week early in China to avoid "the blackout," an annual month-long period in which only Chinese films are allowed to be released to promote local Chinese cinema.
* ''Franchise/{{Trolls}}'':
** Once the COVID-19 pandemic was closing enough theaters to make ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' go straight to streaming (aside from opening in whatever screens could still be used, mostly drive-ins), this meant only Russia, Singapore, and Malaysia got traditional releases.
** ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'' started its international rollout in October of 2023 starting in the UK, parts of Europe and Latin American countries, before it's US release November 17.
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrolTheMovie'' was released on August 9, 2021 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, nearly a week and a half before releasing in its home country of Canada.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' was released in parts of Europe, Latin America and select Asian countries on June 28 and 29 before hitting the United States, although American chain Regal Cinemas showed the film [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230623042902/https://www.regmovies.com/movies/monday-mystery-movie-0619/ho00014516 as part of their Monday Mystery Movie promotion]] on June 19, 2023, averting the trope at least for one US-based theater chain.
* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' were all released theatrically internationally before they were domestically aside from a handful of theatres and streaming.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* An early instance of this was ''Film/SupermanII'', which had an unusually staggered release for an American blockbuster; it launched in Australia, South Africa and much of Europe in December 1980, then in the UK and West Germany around Easter 1981. However, the US release was held off until the summer season, launching on June 19, 1981 - over six months after its initial premiere.
* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' was released in America several months after it was in the UK (and a full year after France).
* The American indie horror film ''Film/AllTheBoysLoveMandyLane'' was released in Britain in 2008... and was not released in America until ''2013'', due to the rights for the film being caught in [[ScrewedByTheLawyers a legal limbo]] when its distributor went out of business. The horror website Bloody-Disgusting ranked it #1 on its list of the best unreleased horror films for four years straight.
* The 2011 film of ''Film/{{Jane Eyre|2011}}'' was a UK production, but its UK cinema release was 6 months after most countries, and it was already on DVD and Blu-ray by the time the UK saw it.
* A few of Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's movies were released first in Brazil, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where he's really popular]].
* A number of superhero films, such as ''Film/IronMan3'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]'', ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' (and [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 its sequel]]) and ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' were released abroad in several countries several weeks before they received a U.S. release, presumably due to more advantageous schedules and, in the case of the ''Spider-Man'' films, a more lucrative foreign market (the rebooted series had limited American success compared to the Creator/SamRaimi films).
* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' was released in China on the weekend preceding its U.S. release to avoid the threat of competition by the Chinese would-be blockbuster ''The Eight Hundred''. Ironically, though, ''The Eight Hundred'' [[https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-eight-hundred-cancels-china-release-shanghai-film-festival-1203252527/ saw its release cancelled, apparently due to Chinese censors,]] shortly before the opening of ''Far From Home''.[[note]]''The Eight Hundred'' would ultimately open around the world in August 2020.[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Warcraft}}'' began its worldwide run two weeks prior to its U.S. release, with some suggesting the move as an effort to save face for a pending lackluster debut in its home territory. ''Warcraft'' was one of many summer movies (''Civil War'', ''Apocalypse'', ''[[Film/Neighbors2014 Neighbors 2]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'') which are getting earlier in foreign markets -- not only to take advantage of international money, but because the UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship will make it hard to drive UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball fans to theaters.
* This was the case for the [[Series/TheAmandaShow Amanda Bynes]] vehicle ''Love Wrecked''; the American production was released in a few parts of the Eastern Hemisphere starting in June 2006, but didn't make its US debut until it was dumped straight-to-cable via [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] in January 2007.
* Similar to the above example The Creator/MileyCyrus vehicle ''Film/SoUndercover'' was originally supposed to come out in theaters in the U.S. in 2011 but The Weinstein Company declined to release it for unknown reasons, it wound up going to theaters in The U.K. along with 12 other countries in 2012 before the U.S. distribution rights were acquired by Millenium Films who finally dumped the film DirectToVideo in 2013.
* Being an American film adaptation of [[Franchise/DragonBall a popular Japanese property]], ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' was released in Japan a month before America.
* ''Shopkins: Wild'', one of the DirectToVideo movies based off ''Toys/{{Shopkins}}'', played in Australian movie theaters a month and a half before its American DVD release.
* Creator/WoodyAllen's 2019 film ''Film/ARainyDayInNewYork'' was pulled off of distributor Amazon Studios' release slate after Allen's past allegations of sexual abuse were taken more seriously thanks to the [=#MeToo=] movement, and ultimately Amazon washed its hands of the film and gave the distribution rights back to Allen. The film began its European rollout in July 2019 and, by the time it found an American distributor (MPI Media Group) and opened in October 2020, it had opened in nearly every other major territory already.[[note]]Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic shutting down most theaters globally, the film's South Korean debut of $330,000 made it the largest film worldwide during the May 8-10, 2020 weekend.[[/note]]
** Allen's next film, ''Film/RifkinsFestival'', went through a similar ordeal, beginning its European launch in October 2020, and MPI Media Group finally releasing it in the American market in January 2022. Time will tell if they also distribute Allen's latest film, ''Coup De Chance'', which is actually a French production. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff No surprise there.]]
* Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/{{TENET}}'', which had its release plans frustrated by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic failing to come under control in the United States, was instead released internationally in August 2020 before opening in September in the U.S. (though early U.S. previews meant the delay ultimately amounted to less than one week).
* The British film ''Film/TheElectricalLifeOfLouisWain'' didn't see a UK theatrical release until 1st January 2022, after it has already had a limited US theatrical run on 22 October 2021 and then premièring on Creator/PrimeVideo in the US on 5 November 2021.
* ''Film/{{Archive}}'', a British Sci-Fi flick didn't see release in the UK until January 18, 2021, six months after it received a simultaneous digital release and limited theatrical screening in the US on July 10, 2020.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' both saw releases in Australia a couple of weeks before they premiered in the US.
* The UK made thriller ''The Fourth Angel'' went to theaters in a few European countries with its planned theatrical releases in the UK and the US ultimately getting cancelled due to 9/11 and it getting dumped DirectToVideo in those countries instead.
* British {{thriller}} ''Film/TheLesson'' received a limited release in the US on July 7, 2023, over 3 months before its UK release of September 23.
* ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', the British studio [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Film Productions]]' 1958 adaptation of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', had its world premiere in UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}, of all places, as part of a double feature with ''Film/TheThingThatCouldntDie''. It had its British premiere in London two weeks later. What's more, the film was titled simply ''Dracula'' in its native UK, but was [[MarketBasedTitle changed]] to ''Horror of Dracula'' in the US to avoid confusion with Franchise/{{Universal|Horror}}'s more famous [[Film/Dracula1931 1931 adaptation]].
* ''Film/TheEndWeStartFrom'' was released in the US on December 8, 2023, over a month before it's British release on January 19, 2024.
* Ahead of ''Film/KnightsOfTheZodiac'''s American release, Japan got the film first on April 28, 2023, and it was also released in Latin America and other European territories throughout early May.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Due to production delay of the anthology which it was written for, the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novella "Winterfair Gifts" was first published in Croatia, rather than in the US.
* ''Literature/IAmNotASerialKiller'' was written by the American author Dan Wells, but it debuted in the UK before being published in the United States. Ditto for ''Mr. Monster'', his second book.
* Despite living in America for much of his later life, most of Vladimir Nabokov's works (particularly ''Lolita'') were published in France and Britain long before they saw the light of day in the US.
* During Sylvia Plath's lifetime, ''Literature/TheBellJar'' was pseudonymously published in the UK only.
* ''The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939'' by Antony Beevor was published in Spain, in translation, before it was published in English. Books about the Spanish Civil War by foreign authors are popular in Spain: they are seen as being less likely to be biased than books by Spanish authors.
* The Creator/TerryPratchett novel ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' was released a month earlier in the United States than it was in the UK, the only ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book to do so. The UK fanbase was not pleased.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
!!!'''Creators:'''
* This has happened to three different Gerry Anderson series. Several episodes of ''Series/Space1999'' made their debut in either the US or Australia before airing in the UK (though not in Italy, even though the series was partly financed by RAI) and a number of episodes of ''Series/{{Terrahawks}}'' were shown in the US and/or Japan before their British screenings, but the champ in the Anderson canon is ''Series/SpacePrecinct'' — the '''entire series''' was shown in America before Britain.
!!!'''Networks:'''
* When Creator/DisneyChannel launched in Canada in 2015, they got to air brand-new episodes of all of Disney Channel's shows at least one week ahead of its U.S. counterpart as part of the launch event. Regarding Disney Channel's two most popular show in particular, ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' and ''Series/KCUndercover'', this created a huge demand for Canadians to record the episodes and then upload them to file-sharing sites for their US brethren. This prompted ''Girl Meets World'' star Creator/RowanBlanchard and creator Michael Jacobs to very vocally speak out against the issue of piracy of their show, even threatening that such piracy would adversely affect production of future episodes.
!!!'''Series:'''
* The Canadian series ''Series/AnneWithAnE''. All of season 2 was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} in July 2018 in several countries... except for Canada, where episodes were broadcast weekly on Creator/{{CBC}} Television beginning in late September 2018.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' aired in the US amid the then-usual reruns. What was ''not'' usual was that PTEN, Babylon 5's distribution network, typically held back the last four to five episodes of each season ''until the next season was ready to air.'' This meant season-ending story arcs intended to keep viewers intrigued over a hiatus between seasons never lined up with the hiatus. Channel Four in the UK ignored all this and showed each season in weekly order, meaning the UK saw the last four or five episodes of each season weeks or months before the US airing.
* This happened with the first season of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', which was co-produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and [=BSkyB=]. By the time the series premiered in the US, all but the final episode had already aired in the UK. Series creators Ron Moore and David Eick went so far as to post a plea on the show's official message board asking American fans not to download the episodes before they aired in the US ([[ExactWords what an oddly specific request]]).
* The final eight episodes of ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' aired in a number of non-US markets for around three years before finally being seen in the US on Playhouse Disney in 2006.
* This practice was pointed out in Henry Jenkins's ''Literature/TextualPoachersTelevisionFansAndParticipatoryCulture'', with fans on the US/Canada border recording French-dubbed episodes of ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|1987}}'' that aired a few days (or weeks) earlier than the US Stations, and the women at the viewing party "shouting out" lines they understood from old high-school French classes.
* ''Beyond the Break'' suffered this ''hard'' with season 3, which didn't even start in the US until June 2009 (at which point the entire season was aired in the span of three weeks, with new episodes premiering Mondays through Thursdays), over a year after they'd aired in Canada.[[note]]What makes this even worse is that the episodes marketed as "Season 3" are actually the '''second season''' of production due to The N splitting the first twenty episodes into two separate seasonal blocks. Even worse, the network proceeded to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Beyond_the_Break_episodes recode Season 2 with "30(x)" production numbers behind the creators' backs]] sometime during the '''27 months''' in which the show was on hiatus.[[/note]]
* This wound up happening to the Argentine Disney series ''Series/{{BIA}}'' during its second season. In Hispanic America, the show took a mid-season break after the 40th episode in early May 2020. In Spain, which began to air the season around a month after in Latin America, there were no breaks in its run and unaired episodes began to premiere later in June. Because of how widespread spoilers and [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil unauthorized copies of the episodes]] became, the network abruptly moved up the premiere date in Hispanic America to the following week and aired marathons of episodes that had yet to be rerun before then. The season would go on to finish in Hispanic America the day after it finished in Spain.
* The final five episodes of the cancelled series ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' were broadcast in Canada months ahead of anywhere else.
* [=BBC4=] aired all six episodes of ''Crimes Of Passion''… which have not actually had a Swedish TV airing (the first aired in cinemas, the others went to DVD).
* Later seasons of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' have seen some episodes airing in the US before they air in Canada.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** 20th anniversary special [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]] aired on a collection of Creator/{{PBS}} member stations in the US before it aired in the UK. This is because the BBC decided to delay the special to ''Series/ChildrenInNeed'' Night 1983 — November 25th — whereas the PBS stations just went ahead and aired it on the ''actual'' anniversary, November 23rd.
** Parts 2 and 3 of the Seventh Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]" aired in New Zealand as part of a compilation broadcast prior to being shown in the UK.
** The [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie 1996 television movie]] aired in Canada and the US two weeks before it hit British airwaves, due in part to it being an international co-production between Creator/{{the BBC}} and Creator/{{Fox}}.
* CTV is scheduled to air the remaining episodes of ''Do No Harm'', an NBC series that was cancelled after two episodes, the series premiere having broke the record for the lowest-rated premiere on a Big-Four network.
* A very odd example with ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': The "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" special, as well as four segments ("Snow Day", "Snow Surprise Challenge", "Yodel Bird Sitting" and "Superhero Squabble") showed up on TVO Kids' Website/YouTube channel, rather than airing on TV, before they aired on TV in the United States. To make matters worse, "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" and "Snow Surprise Challenge" were accidentally made available worldwide for a few days.
* In the United States, the final episode of ''Series/FreeSpirit1989'', "Love and Death", was pre-empted for a rerun of ''Series/FullHouse''. However, this episode did air in Canada and Australia.
* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' is the TropeNamer for this, in story. In the first few minutes of the first episode, Marenghi, the fictitious "creator" of the ShowWithinAShow, mentions that although the show was never broadcast in its native land of Britain when first produced in TheEighties, it did have "a [[BeamMeUpScotty brief]] run in Peru".
* Happened to ''Series/H2OJustAddWater''. The third season was aired in the U.K. before being aired in its native Australia, and took even longer for its debut in the US ([=TeenNick=] added episodes of ''[=H2O=]'' from the third season to its broadcast rotation of the show in January 2012, when the network brought back the series from a short sabbatical from the network. Additional episodes of the second season that were also unseen in the U.S., due to Nickelodeon pulling the program halfway through airing the second season in 2008, were also added to [=TeenNick=] airings of the show).
* ''Heads Up'', a 2016 Creator/EllenDeGeneres game show produced for [[Creator/HeadlineNews HLN]] as a spin-off of a game from her daytime talk show, got caught up in the network's [[NetworkDecay/{{Slipped}} slippage]] away from being a social media-flavored channel to a ''Series/ForensicFiles''-flavored channel. The show later aired on Family Channel in Canada.
* Due to several factors (extremely bad critical reception of the pilot, ''two'' school shootings that took place around the time the series was supposed to premiere, and the general climate in the US not being the best for the themes this kind of show presented) nobody bought the rights for domestic distribution of the TV series based on ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. The series did end airing in several European countries via HBO, before Paramount Network eventually picked the series back up in the U.S. with edits.
* Season 4 of ''Series/JohnsonAndFriends'' first aired in the U.S. in 1994, but it wouldn't air in its native Australia until two years later. This was likely because Creator/FoxKids and WQED Pittsburgh footed the entire bill thanks to the show's sudden popularity on the former network.
* Brazil aired ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' beyond episode 15 where it was held in the US on a hiatus.
* For some reason, ''Series/Kingdom2007'' season 3 aired in Belgium ''six months'' before airing in the UK.
* Series 2 of ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' aired in Canada almost a half year before the UK. The same has also happened in regards to Series 4.
* A number of second season episodes of ''Series/LazyTown'' have never aired in the US, most of them airing first in the UK or Canada, though two aired first in Australia. This is presumably due to attempts on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s part to [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screw the show over]], but forgetting that ''Lazy Town'' is neither under their control nor dependent on the American market (the next season was commissioned by Creator/TheBBC), and it continues to be a success in the rest of the world. Even outside the US, ''Lazy Town'' is consistently released in a number of English-speaking markets before it is dubbed for showing in Iceland, its ''actual'' country of production.
* The third-season ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "I'll See You in Court" never aired during its original run on Fox as a right-wing boycott of the show happening at that time lead network executives to become nervous over its premise (the Bundys and Rhoadeses sue a seedy motel that tapes the couples having sex without them knowing). The episode still aired overseas during the show's run but didn't air at all in the U.S. until 2002, five years after the show ended.
* The final eight episodes of ''Series/MindGames'' never aired in the US, as the show was cancelled after the fifth episode. They did air in Japan, however, as the full series was shown over the summer. Also, the show made it to the UK, supposedly.
* New episodes of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' air about a month earlier in the UK than in Canada.
* The final season of BBC series ''Series/TheMusketeers'' aired in several Eastern European countries and Canada, as well as being made available via Hulu in the US, over a month before it finally premiered in the UK.
* Several episodes of ''Series/MythBusters'' - namely, "Plane Boarding/Bite the Bullet" and "Traffic Tricks" — for some reason aired in the UK first before being aired in the US. Apparently the root cause of this is that several US bodies and companies were suing Discovery Communications over various aspects of the episodes. But since the lawsuit only named Discovery US, the international counterparts were unaffected and thus got to screen them in line with the season while US viewers needed to wait until the lawsuit was cleared before it could be screened in the US.
* Most PBS affiliates in the USA aired the first episode of ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' a week before TV Ontario did in the show's home country. As a result, the affiliates that ran the show from Monday-Friday at the time ran a majority of the episodes before Canada got them.
* The British show ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is distributed by Creator/{{Netflix}} in the US. As is standard for Netflix, all 6 season 3 episodes premiered at once on May 31, 2016. However, the UK didn't finish airing the episodes until June 9.
* Seems to be a trend with ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
** A noted example is the ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' episode "Wormhole", the second {{crossover}} episode with ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', which accidentally aired in Canada before the first crossover episode even aired in the US.
** Most seasons from the Neo-Saban and Creator/{{Hasbro}} eras have finished their runs outside the US first, thanks to Nickelodeon putting the show on hiatus over the Mid-Spring and Summer months. Starting with the second season of ''Dino Fury'', the hiatus problem has been eliminated, due to doing a ChannelHop to Creator/{{Netflix}}.
** "Mystic Fate", the two part finale of ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', first aired in the UK on Jetix prior to its US premiere.
* The third season of ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' aired one and sometimes even two episodes in advance in Spain compared to the UK.
* The final three episodes of ''Series/PushingDaisies'' aired in the UK before they did in the US, although apparently they aired (with English audio available) in Italy before either.
* It's crossed the pond the other way too. ''Series/RedDwarf'''s eighth season took eight weeks to air all eight episodes in the UK, but when it was shipped to the US for broadcast, most of the PBS affiliates who picked it up aired the whole thing in two nights.
* The final series of ''Series/ScrapheapChallenge'' aired in Australia before the UK. When it did reach the UK, it got split into two blocks, aired a year apart, and dropped part-way through the second block, leaving several episodes still unaired.
* Season 6 of ''Series/TheShield'' started airing in France (with no changes other than the opening credits being in French) right before it starting airing in the US, and the French run saw two new episodes shown each week, so France quickly jumped way ahead of the US. As you might expect, the French broadcasts proved to be very popular on torrent sites.
* Australia was getting ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' ahead of the US at one point.
* In the US, ''Series/SouthOfNowhere'' had its Season 3B premiere pushed back from May to October 2008. However, it appears that France did not have the mid-season break that the US uses, meaning that the series (which was filmed between seasons) aired in its entirety there.
* ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'':
** The initial broadcasts of ''Series/StargateSG1'' aired in America ahead of the UK, but when the North American showing had a mid-season hiatus the UK showings catch up, as they continuously aired the episodes in one go.
** Something similar happened with season 3 of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and Season 10 of ''Series/StargateSG1''. The first half and the second half were separated in the US by a few months. The UK had them in one go. This resulted in the latter's show finale, "Unending" being shown in the UK about two months before the US.
* Due to time zone differences, ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' aired in Australia, the Philippines, India, the UK, and Ireland before it reaches the US. It had also previously aired a day earlier in Canada (due to the channel airing UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague games on Thursdays).
** Beginning in 2016, ''[=SmackDown=]'' is now broacast live every week. If the show isn't broadcast simultaneously with the US, its usually broadcast on delay. Certain episodes are still taped during international tours.
* By 1985, both the Creator/{{CTV}} network and the Ottawa local affiliate that ''made the show'' had cancelled ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''; Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} paid the station to keep making new episodes as it was their breakout hit at the time. The middle seasons remained unseen in Canada until Creator/{{YTV}} was created in the late '80s.
* Episodes of the US soap ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' air in Canada one day before they do in the US.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeamToon'' premiered on Cartoon Network UK in 2013 but wound up never airing on TV in the U.S. despite being a fully American production (featuring a pre-fame Creator/MegDonnelly in the main cast no less) and it wouldn't be seen in the US until it was released on Netflix in 2014, where it remained until it was removed in 2018. Now it's currently only officially available on Amazon UK.
* The last 7 episodes of season 3 of ''Series/SeeDadRun'' were never aired in the US(and as of 2022 have not been digitally released there either) for unknown reasons, though they did air in several countries overseas including the UK and South Africa, and the episodes were released digitally on iTunes in Australia and the UK version of Creator/ParamountPlus.
* ''Series/LivingWithFran'' was unusual in that it got 2 seasons but six episodes of the first season never aired in the US for unknown reasons, though they did air in other places like Germany, the UK and France and they finally were officially made available in the US when the show arrived on Hulu.
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* Junior Senior's ''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' was released in Japan first, then later their native Denmark (it was briefly available in other parts of Scandinavia too). Two years later, it was released in the US and Australia. Oddly, it was never released in the UK, despite the band's previous album ''D-Don't Stop The Beat'' being very successful there.
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's 2015 album ''Emotion'' was released in Japan two months before it was released in the U.S. and her native Canada.
* Music/ImagineDragons released the ''Smoke + Mirrors'' Super Deluxe album overseas in February 2015, the same date as they did the normal version of the album. In the US, the Super Deluxe version didn't become available until October 2015. Although, the bonus tracks had already become available by then on either their own singles, or other soundtracks.
* Music/TheBeatles, due to the amount of albums Capitol squeezed out of them, released several songs in the US before they were released in the UK. The Beatles' Second Album included "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name", Something New had "Matchbox" and "Slow Down" (all A Hard Day's Night outtakes, later compiled on a UK EP called "Long Tall Sally"). This was followed with "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" and "Bad Boy" being recorded to fill out "Beatles VI", with the former later appearing on "Help" and the latter on "A Collection Of Beatles Oldies". "Beatles VI" also gained two tracks from the upcoming UK version of Help, "You Like Me Too Much" and "Tell Me What You See". Finally, "Yesterday And Today" took three tracks from the upcoming "Revolver", these being "I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Doctor Robert", after which the band insisted that all their albums were the same in the US - with the one caveat that the US release of "Revolver" could not include those songs since they were now officially released.
* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}:
** In July of 1965 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was topping the American charts but hadn't even been released in the UK. The US release had been in June, but it didn't come out in the UK until late August. Since it was recorded at the RCA studios in Hollywood, their American label had easier access to it.
** "Sad Day" was released as the b-side of the US single of "19th Nervous Breakdown", whereas the UK got an album track instead. It wasn't until the 70s that "Sad Day" got a UK release.
** "Cocksucker Blues" was recorded in 1970 as a ContractualObligationProject for Decca/London Records, who declined to release it in the UK due to its deliberately offensive lyrics. It was widely bootlegged, but its first and only official vinyl release was as a bonus single on early pressings of ''The Rest of the Best'', a compilation released in West Germany in the early 1980s which also features a number of other fairly rare tracks.
* Music/ThinLizzy had "A Ride In The Lizzy Mobile" (later renamed "Cruisin' In The Lizzy Mobile") which suffered a huge amount of this. It was released as the b-side to "The Rocker" in Germany only, but the UK got "Here I Go Again". It wouldn't see release till the box set "Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels" over 30 years later.
* Kelis' ''Wanderland'' took '''17 years''' to get a proper North American release, after her label Creator/VirginRecords had initially scrapped plans for a release in her home country when the single "Young, Fresh, 'n New" failed to chart and doubted the album's commercial potential.
* The American AlternativeRock band Music/ThePixies' E.P. ''Come On Pilgrim'', excerpted from a demo session, was only released in the U.K. by Creator/FourADRecords. After its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff rapturous reception by the British music press]], it was finally released stateside concurrently with the band's first full-length album, ''Music/SurferRosa'', appended to the CD version as well as separately on vinyl and cassette by fellow indie label Rough Trade.
* Music/{{Alphaville}} frontman Marian Gold's solo album ''United'' was released in South Africa in December of 1996, over two years ahead of its American and European release in May of 1999.
* Music/TearsForFears: ''Music/EverybodyLovesAHappyEnding'' released in Europe a full year after its US release.
* Music/DavidBowie: ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' came out in the United States in 1970, but it would take another year for it to come out in Bowie's native UK, owed to a dispute with Creator/MercuryRecords over Bowie's decision to depict himself in a dress in the artwork.
* Music/DuranDuran: ''Medazzaland'' took a solid ''25 years'' to come out in the band's native UK following its 1997 US release, owed to the poor reception of ''Thank You'' directly before it.
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* ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' first opened in New York on December 31, 1879, and only made its way to London three months later. There had been several unauthorized productions of ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'' in the U.S., and Creator/GilbertAndSullivan were determined to get there first this time.
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* The [=PlayStation=] 4 was released in the US and Europe on November 15th and 29th 2013, respectively, while its Japanese release date was pulled back to February 22nd a year later. This can be explained because of the early release date of the anticipated European game ''Killzone: Shadow Fall''. The game was probably never meant to appeal to the Japanese audience, so Sony pulled back the date for the Japanese release to make sure it came out on the same day as ''Dynasty Warriors 8''.
* Several mobile games tend to release in a method called "soft launch", which often times release the game in specific regions, most commonly Australia & Canada. Examples include ''[[VideoGame/AngryBirds Angry Birds Go]]'', ''[[VideoGame/{{Asphalt}} Asphalt 9: Legends]]'', ''[[VideoGame/{{Peggle}} Peggle Blast]]'', and ''[[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls]]''.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Several games in the Japan-created franchise, including most of the mainline Genesis/Mega Drive games, were released in North America before Japan, as the series was created specifically to appeal to Western fans, and also because ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic 2]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3 Sonic 3]]'', and ''VideoGame/SonicSpinball'' were made at Sega's American branch. But even the 100% Japanese ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Sonic 1]]'' came out in the US first.
** ''VideoGame/Sonic3DBlast'' (a.k.a ''Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island''), made by UK firm Travellers Tales, saw first release in Europe, then North America about a month later, then finally Japan over a year later.
** This happens from time to time even in the "Modern" Era, though nearly all production has moved back to Japan, on the occasions where Sega has Americans write the scenarios (thus the English dub gets recorded first).
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' was released in America in January 2010, and was released in Europe in April and in Japan in late October, possibly because the first game bombed in its native Japan but did ''slightly'' better in America.
* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'':
** ''Advance Wars'' was originally intended to be a minor example of this, planned to be released in the US shortly before the Japanese release in October 2001. It was then cancelled for unknown reasons and wasn't released in the region until November 2004, in a compilation pack with its sequel that itself only released a year after it came out in overseas territories. For a dose of irony, it was originally intended to be Japan-exclusive like all prior ''Wars'' entries as well.
** The Japanese release of second Nintendo DS game, ''Days of Ruin'', was delayed several times following the overseas release in early 2008, before they seemed to drop release plans all together. The title wouldn't see release in its home country until October 2013, where it became available exclusively for Club Nintendo members as a digital download title for the Nintendo 3DS.
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' was developed by Japanese company Creator/PlatinumGames and released in America and Europe in March 2009. Due to its graphic violence, however, Sega refused to release it in Japan; it eventually reached Japan eleven months later, published by Spike.
* Although it was developed in Japan, uses only Japanese voice acting and was even available with a Japanese language option, ''VisualNovel/ObeyMe'' made its debut in English speaking countries a year before it was officially launched in Japan.
* The first ''VideoGame/RockBand'' game was released in America in late 2007, but didn't see a European release until the following May. To make up for the difference, some extra songs were included in the European version of the game that were released as paid DLC in the US version.
* ''VideoGame/MachRider'' was an NES launch title that Nintendo created for American audiences, publishing it one month earlier in the US than in Japan. Of course, the result was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff clear]].
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'' holds the distinction for being released in North America, Europe and Australia first, and then in its native Japan (the exception is the United Kingdom, where it was released later still due to production issues... and that was ''before'' having to be recalled for a later re-release due to a content controversy).
* ''VideoGame/WerewolfTheLastWarrior'' was released by Creator/DataEast USA seven months before it was released in Japan... by Takara, of all companies.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonMaster II'' was developed in the US, but the series' [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff greater popularity in Japan]] is reflected by the fact that the Platform/PC98 was the first platform on which it was released.
* ''VideoGame/Quest64'' was developed in Japan, but was released in the United States over a year before Japan.
* ''VideoGame/AngryBirds Blast'' was released in the UK in October 2016, two months before the North American release, and even before the voices were added.
* ''VideoGame/EverOasis'' was released in the West almost 3 weeks before its release in Japan, which is especially rare for niche [=JRPGs=].
* ''VideoGame/KirbyBattleRoyale'' was released in Europe first (with Australia getting it one day later) rather than Japan. The American and Korean releases came out two and three months after the Japanese release, respectively.
* ''VideoGame/NightmareCircus'' was intended for physical release in North America in late 1995, but ultimately canceled by Sega of America, only to surface on the Sega Channel in late 1996. Between cancellation and release, it was brought to store shelves in Brazil by Sega's local publisher Tectoy. This version is an ObviousBeta, suggesting that it was the last version of the game before its official cancellation.
* Since Creator/{{Sega}} dropped support for the Platform/SegaMasterSystem[=/=]Mark III in Japan rather abruptly after the launch of the [[Platform/SegaGenesis Mega Drive]], several Master System games developed in Japan and likely intended for Japanese release were released in Western countries exclusively or first. These included:
** ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'', which even had enhanced music for the Japan-exclusive FM Sound Unit. It received Japanese releases through ports to other console systems.
** ''VideoGame/PsychoFox'', developed in Japan and influenced by Japanese {{kitsune}} folklore, wasn't released in Japan at all.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arcaea}}'', which has an international development team with none of its core staff based in Japan (although they commission and get licenses for a lot of work from Japanese creators), had a song debut in Japan first. During the event Comiket 92 in Japan in 2017, visitors to the developers' booth could play the song "Auxesia" about a week before it would be available to all players, as well as purchase an unlock code to unlock it on their in-game account early.
* ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut'' for the SNES was released in 1994 in the Americas and early 1995 in Europe. Japan (the game's country of origin) didn't receive it until early 1998.
* A number of video games developed by Creator/{{Rare}}, including practically all the games that they developed for the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, were released first in the Americas before the developers' native UK or even Europe. Such was the case for all ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' games (the most extreme case was with ''Banjo-Tooie'', which wasn't released in Europe until 2001, after having had a 2000 release in North America; the mildest case was ''Nuts and Bolts'' which was released in Europe only three days after its American release.)
* ''Power Strike II'' for the Platform/SegaMasterSystem[[note]]not to be confused with ''Power Strike II'' on the Platform/GameGear, which is a different game in the same franchise[[/note]], a spinoff of the ''VideoGame/{{Aleste}}'' series, was released exclusively in Europe and Australia in 1993. It would not see a release in the developers' native country of Japan until 2020 ('''27 years''' later!), when it was released as part of ''[[CompilationRerelease Aleste Collection]]''.
* A unique mention is the Korean MMORPG ''VideoGame/GrandChase'', where Rin, a character that was created by Brazilian players through a forum suggestion, got sent to the developers and then gave the Brazilian server Rin first, while Koreans got it some time afterward. Her second job arrived in Brazil three weeks before the Korean server got it. Normally the Korean server gets the latest updates, but this was the first time a new update was developed and released outside the Korean server first. Uno, the last character, would actually get a day zero release in Brazil, as Korea got it a day later.
* The Master System version of ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} II'', known as ''Sagaia'' [[MarketBasedTitle outside of Japan]], was originally released exclusively in Europe in 1992 to cash in on the console's enduring popularity in the region (meanwhile, Japan and North America would get the Genesis/MD port instead), and would not see a release in Japan until 2019 when it was included in the console port and special editions of ''Darius Cozmic Collection'', 27 years later.
* The NES version of ''VideoGame/SkyShark'' / ''Flying Shark'' (itself a game originally made by Creator/{{Toaplan}}, a Japanese company) was originally released only in North America in 1989. Japanese players will have to wait until 2022 for its inclusion on the CompilationRerelease ''Toaplan Arcade Garage: Hishou Same! Same! Same!''.
* Despite being developed by [=WayForward=] in America, ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls2'' was released in Japan and Asia on December 1, 2022 before being released elsewhere at a later date.
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* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Despite being an English-language comic, the first [[WebcomicPrintCollection print edition]] to be released was actually a French translation of the first volume in 2018. An English edition was later produced thanks to a successful UsefulNotes/{{Kickstarter}} campaign the following year, but it would not be published by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment and sold on store shelves until ''2021''. This is mitigated, of course, by the fact that this volume was already available in English online before even the French edition was published.
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