Basic Trope: A sequel is set a very long time after the events of an earlier work.
- Straight: The Legend of Bob is set about a century after The Saga of Alice, by which time the earlier work's events have become famous and most of its characters have passed away.
- Exaggerated:
- The Legend of Bob is set tens of thousands of years after The Saga of Alice, whose events have become only vaguely-remembered myths, while the world has changed almost beyond recognition.
- Every work has a million year gap at the very minimum. After The Legend of Bob comes The Tale of Clay, and in between those two stories are millions upon millions of years apart.
- Downplayed: The Legend of Bob is set a few decades after The Saga of Alice; most of the earlier work's characters are still around, although they're getting on in years.
- Inverted:
- The Legend of Bob, written after the conclusion of The Saga of Alice, is set around a century before its events.
- The Legend of Bob is an Immediate Sequel to The Saga of Alice.
- Subverted: In the opening chapter of The Legend of Bob, Bob refers to the events of The Saga of Alice as if they were legendary deeds of ancient heroes. It then turns out that he was just being melodramatic about describing fairly recent events.
- Double Subverted: ... but when Chloe corrects him on this, she does by saying that they happened "barely a century ago".
- Averted: The Legend of Bob starts a day or less after The Saga of Alice ends.
- Exploited: Bob time travels into future during the opening cutscene in the sequel.
- Conversed: "Why do authors bother to make works sequels to earlier ones when they're going to set them so far into the future that they're functionally entirely new settings anyway?"
- Implied: It's never actually stated that The Legend of Bob is causally connected to The Saga of Alice, but characters periodically refer to ancient events that sound suspiciously like the story of the earlier work.
You can read the continuation at Distant Sequel, but it's Eleventy Zillion years later!
