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* The situation in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy]]'' is an unusual example in that it's a downgrade [[NegativeContinuity without a breakup]]. Keiichi and Belldandy had a moment at the end of the first season, where Keiichi confessed his love to Belldandy with no intervention, tricks or other means of keeping the {{UST}} unresolved. Come ''Flights of Fancy'', however, the anime switched from being a BroadStrokes adaptation of the manga as a whole to a direct adaptation of several manga arcs, and in the manga, StatusQuoIsGod and Keiichi and Belldandy's relationship is frozen at UST. Accordingly, Keiichi attempts to confess his love to Belldandy several times in the second season, and the fact that he already did so is not addressed.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' ends with Indy together with Marion Ravenwood. This is followed by ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', which begins with Indy and Marion having been separated for the intervening seventeen years.
** ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' ends with Indy and Marion finally getting married. ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' reveals that they grew apart due to [[spoiler:the tragic death of their son Mutt in the Vietnam War]] and in the process of getting divorced, [[spoiler:but they do end up getting back together again]].

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' OfficialCouple Fox and Krystal become romantically involved at the close of ''Adventures'' and even have an engagement teased during ''Assault''; however, the intro to ''Command'' explains that Fox ended the relationship out of fear that Krystal might be harmed on one of their missions. Depending on which path the player takes through ''Command'''s branching storyline, the two of them may reconcile, retire to raise a family, or become permanently estranged.

-->-- '''Jack''' ([[HilariousInHindsight prophetically]]) in ''Film/{{Speed}}''; [[CallBack echoed]] by '''Annie''' ([[IronicEcho ironically]]) in ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl''

* Rafa and Amaia become an Official Couple at the end of ''Ocho apellidos vascos'', but by the start of the sequel, ''Ocho apellidos catalanes'', they have broken up and Amaia is now dating new character Pau.

* Rafa and Amaia become an OfficialCouple at the end of ''Ocho apellidos vascos'', but by the start of the sequel, ''Ocho apellidos catalantes'', they have broken up and Amaia is now dating new character Pau.

** Played with in Tony Stark and Pepper Potts'. At the end of ''Film/IronMan3'', Stark ostensibly retires the Iron Man identity to focus on his relationship with Pepper Potts. Potts gets a ShoutOut in ''[[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Age of Ultron]]'' where Stark has continued his use of the Iron Man identity. Then when we see him in ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]'', he laments that Potts left him [[OffscreenBreakUp offscreen]] for his continued obsession with saving the world as Iron Man. Then, in ''[[Film/SpiderManHomecoming Spider-Man: Homecoming]]'', they've [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor apparently resolved their issues and are back together.]]. At the end of the movie Stark [[RelationshipUpgrade publicly proposes]] to her, which was confirmed in ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Avengers: Infinity War]]''.

* To the irritation of many, the main couple's relationship is reset in the second season of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' because the guy didn't hear the {{Tsundere}}'s declaration of love at the climax of the first season.

* The theatrical trailer for ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'' had fans believing that this happened to Mulder and Scully in the six year interim between the end of the series and the movie.

** They are together for a season and a half before taking a much debated "break".

** They conceive a child together after a one night stand.

* The season four finale of ''Series/OneTreeHill'' had Lucas and Peyton finally together as well as Brooke having found love with new boyfriend Chase AND secondary characters Skills and Bevin moving forward with their relationship. Cue the 4 year time jump into the beginning of Season 5. Lucas and Peyton have been broken up for some time now (which leads to a very cathartic fight between the two in the season's sixth episode), Brooke is in NYC and Chase is nowhere to be found (although he does show up later in the season), and Skills makes an off-handed comment in the first episode indicating that not only did he and Bevin break up, but that it was kind of ugly.

* In the 2016 reboot of ''Series/TheXFiles'' this is revealed to have happened to Mulder and Scully between the 2008 film ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'' and the present. This is [[TheChrisCarterEffect surprisingly]] the most consistent thing about the entire reboot, as much of it [[RetCon RetCons]] a lot of the original series. The details are never divulged, but it appears that Mulder's depression, already present and having a negative impact on the relationship in the 2008 film, became too much for Scully to handle and she left. At the start of season 10, Mulder is living alone in their farmhouse (and back to sleeping on the couch) and Scully lives in an apartment elsewhere. Both are emotionally devastated by the break-up, with Scully regretful and reluctant to talk and Mulder bitter about the way things played out.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' OfficialCouple Fox and Krystal become romantically involved at the close of ''Adventures'' and even have an engagement teased during ''Assault''; however, the intro to ''Command'' explains that Fox ended the relationship out of the fear that Krystal might be harmed on one of their missions. Depending on which path the player takes through ''Command'''s branching storyline, the two of them may reconcile, retire to raise a family, or become permanently estranged.

* The situation in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy]]'' is an unusual example in that it's a downgrade [[NegativeContinuity without a breakup]]. Keiichi and Belldandy had a TheyDo moment at the end of the first season, where Keiichi confessed his love to Belldandy with no intervention, tricks or other means of keeping the {{UST}} unresolved. Come ''Flights of Fancy'', however, the anime switched from being a BroadStrokes adaptation of the manga as a whole to a direct adaptation of several manga arcs, and in the manga, StatusQuoIsGod and Keiichi and Belldandy's relationship is frozen at UST. Accordingly, Keiichi attempts to confess his love to Belldandy several times in the second season, and the fact that he already did so is not addressed.

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