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* ''Midnight Sun'', the fifth book in the ''{{Twilight}}'' series, wound have been a retelling of the first book from Edward's perspective. But Meyer gave the early draft to someone that leaked on to the internet and she later publish it on her website so her fans at least would get it legally, given that she got so upset over the leaking that she refused to continue to work on it.
** It's been speculated that it was likely just a publicity stunt. The leaked draft was nearly word-for-word the same as Twilight, and the author herself has moved on to write about mutant-flying-siren-mermaids.

* In an In-Story-Example from WagTheDog, film producer Mods (DustinHoffman) claims to have made an extremely successful film re-telling MobyDick from the perspective of the white whale.

* MichaelMoorcock has written the story where four incarnations of the eternal champion are brought together from at least three of their viewpoints. In case he reads this site I have to say they are all pretty good.

* Some of the AnneRice's VampireChronicles sequels have significant portions retelling events from the first book (InterviewWithTheVampire) as told the protagonist of the sequel in question.

* ''Heart of the Alien'', the Sega CD sequel to ''AnotherWorld'', was originally intended to be set during the events of the first game, but played through the perspective of Buddy (Lester's alien friend, although technically Lester is the alien). Interplay vetoed this idea, but still included an extensive flashback which shows everything Buddy did during the first game.

* The ''ResidentEvil'' game ''The Umbrella Chronicles'' combines straight remakes of the original RE games with missions showing the actions of other characters during the outbreak.
** ''ResidentEvil 3'' showed a new group of characters during the outbreak that formed the basis for ''ResidentEvil 2''
*** Not forgetting ''Resident Evil Outbreak'' and ''File #2''.
*** Or ''Separate Ways'', a retelling of ''Resident Evil 4'' from Ada's perspective.
* ''Heart of the Alien'', the Sega CD sequel to ''Another World'', begins with a flashback which retells the events of the first game from the alien buddy's perspective (technically Lester is the alien, but you get the point).

* Namco's ''[[RollingThunder Rolling Thunder 3]]'' for the Genesis is set during the same period as the second game in the series and focuses on a third WCPO agent who is assigned to track down Geldra's second-in-command, while Albatross and Leila are busy chasing after the leader.

* ''Midnight Sun'', the fifth book in the ''{{Twilight}}'' series, wound have been a retelling of the first book from Edward's perspective. But Smeyer gave the early draft to someone that leaked on to the internet and she later publish it on her website so her fans at least would get it legally, given that she got so upset over the leaking that she refused to continue to work on it.
** It's been speculated that it was likely just a publicity stunt. The leaked draft was nearly word-for-word the same as Twilight, and the faux author herself has moved on to write about mutant-flying-siren-mermaids.
** Finally the author released ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'', which is definitly a straight example. It prevents some AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: in ''Eclipse'', you never knew whether the Volturi secretly wanted the Cullen dead or sincerely wanted Victoria stopped. Get resolved in ''Bree Tanner''.

* Margaret Atwood's companion novels ''OryxAndCrake'' and ''The Year of the Flood'' move along similar timelines, showing the same events from different perspectives. They occasionally intersect, with characters who were the protagonists in one book being peripheral characters in the other.

So TheMovie was a massive success, and the studio want you to make a sequel! Trouble is, you killed off all your main characters [[KilledOffForReal for real]], blew up the Earth, destroyed the TimeMachine and stopped the BigBad from ever being born. So where do you go from here? Well, there was [[EnsembleDarkhorse that one really cool side character]] - perhaps we could retell the story from his perspective!

** It's been speculated that it was likely just a publicity stunt. The leaked draft was nearly word-for-word the same as Twilight, and the faux author herself has moved on to write about mutant-flying-siren-mermaids.

** The Harper Hall trilogy and the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy have significant overlap as well, writing from different characters' perspectives. And I believe there's also some overlap between ''MasterHarper of Pern'' and ''Dragonflight''.
* McCaffrey also did this in her ''Dinosaur Planet'' series, which she later came back to with co-writers to retell from the point of view of another character.

* In John Scalzi's ''OldMansWar'' series, the book ''Zoe's War'' is a retelling of the events of ''The Last Colony'' from the POV of the main character's adopted daughter.

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* The Genesis game ''Rolling Thunder 3'' is set during the same time period as ''Rolling Thunder 2''. Whereas ''Rolling Thunder 2'' focuses on Leila and Albatross chasing after Gelda's [[BigBad new leader]] Gimdo, ''Rolling Thunder 3'' features a third WCPO agent named Jay who is sent to track down Gimdo's [[TheDragon lieutenant]] Dread.

* PhineasAndFerb does this occasionally; "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" shows how the Fireside Girls got the tree sap that the title characters use in "Bubble Boys," which takes place during the same day.