Works based entirely around featuring forgotten and abandoned sections of the canon and going beyond
A Day in the Limelight but making an entire
Ensemble Cast of
Ascended Extra /
Ensemble Darkhorse characters.
Compare
Team Up Series.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Pokémon Chronicles, a Spin-Off of the Pokémon anime centering around characters that had been Put on a Bus, including Misty, Tracey, Richie, and various One Shot Characters.
- The various gaiden manga series for Fist of the North Star are these, with different miniseries for Raoh, Toki, Rei, Jagi, and Juza, currently.
Comics
- Watchmen was originally supposed to star a team of Charlton Comics superheroes, though that plan was cancelled when it was decided to integrate said characters into the DC Universe at large.
- Marvel Comics' The Defenders, for most of its versions.
- DC's The Outsiders too.
- DC's Gotham Central focuses on the Gotham City Police Department with only cameo appearances by Batman, the Joker, etc.
- Archie's Sonic Universe, which focuses on anyone not named Sonic the Hedgehog (and even then, he can take center stage!) and allows for storylines that can't be fit into the main comic to be addressed.
Live-Action TV
Video Games
Western Animation
