History Main / RealTimeTimeskip

[[AC:Western Animation]]

* ''IndependenceDayResurgence'' takes place 20 years after ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and was also released 20 years after.

* Downplayed in the ''VideoGame/TexMurphy'' series. After a gap of 16 years between the fifth installment, ''Overseer'' (1998), and the sixth one, ''Testla Effect'' (2014), seven years has passed in-universe, where Tex has been "away" due to a really mean SplitPersonality taking his body over for those seven years.

When the real-world time between franchise installments is acknowledged in-universe. Say, if Alice and Bob get married at the end of the first movie, then the sequel comes out three years later and the characters say they've been married for three years. This trope is all but guaranteed if the gap is particularly huge, like ten years or more. Anything less, it's usually just understood that an unspecified amount of time has passed since the original.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', released in 2016, the Vision states it's been eight years since Tony Stark revealed his identity as Franchise/IronMan, [[Film/IronMan1 whose film]] released in 2008. This is actually a minor [[SeriesContinuityError continuity error]], as the first Iron Man is officially set in [[NextSundayAD 2010]].
** Most of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse are implied to be set in the years they were released, with only a few exceptions: ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' are explicitly prequels set in the past, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' is set only a few months after [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy the first one]] and [[spoiler: everything from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' onwards is set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 4 years from now]].]]

[[AC:Anime and Manga]]

* The manga for ''Manga/InuYasha'' began serialising in 1996, and the anime premiered in 2000. The SpinOffspring sequel ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'', premiering in 2000, is set approximately 20 years later.

--->'''Laura''' [to Dale]: I'll see you again in twenty-five years.

** Most of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse are implied to be set in the years they were released, with only a few exceptions: ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' are explicitly prequels set in the past, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' is set only a few months after [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy the first one]] and [[spoiler: everything from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' onwards is set [[ThirtyMinutesInTheFuture 4 years from now]].]]

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', released in 2016, the Vision states it's been eight years since Tony Stark revealed his identity as Franchise/IronMan, [[Film/IronMan1 whose film]] released in 2008.

* The /Literature/WildCards series of novels presents a superhero universe in a somewhat realistic light. One of the major differences between it and comic book universes like the Marvel and DC Universes is that time passes and characters age and change, and even die for real. The series was put on hold during the mid-1990s. The newer books published after 2008, acknowledge the real-life gap of 13 years.

[[AC: ComicBooks]]

[[AC: AnimatedFilms]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' was released in 2018, six years after the first ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''. In the early scenes of the movie it's stated that it's been six years since Ralph and Vanellope first met.

* ''Film/BeforeSunrise'' and its sequels ''Before Sunset'' and ''Before Midnight'' were released respectively in 1995, 2004 and 2013, and nine years passed between each of them both in-universe and in real life.

[[AC: VideoGames]]

* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'', where one of Kerrigan's StopPokingMe statements is that the past seven years feel more like seventeen (seven years have passed in game, but seventeen in RealLife).

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX-2'', released in 2003, is set two years after ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'', released in 2001. More specifically, it came out only a couple of months before a completely-accurate two year anniversary.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' takes place twenty years after the events of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', which is fairly close to the real-life gap of 18 years between the two. It's referenced that Picard ResignedInProtest from Starfleet roughly 14 years before the start of the series and the ''Enterprise'' crew have gone their separate ways.

* Sort-of example: ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' was released 23 years after [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the original]]. After ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' rebooted the franchise, ''MKX'' had a 25-year time skip

When something is popular, you can expect to see more of it in the future.

But some times, you have to wait. Happens mostly for movie franchises, but sometimes happens for other media too, like between seasons of a show.

Sometimes this is {{lampshaded}} with someone mentioning that some [[TimeSkip time has passed since the original]], which coincidentially is the exact same amount of time that actually passed between the two releases.

Sometimes this is {{lampshaded}} with someone mentioning that some time has passed since the original, which coincidentially is the exact same amount of time that actually passed between the two releases.

CharacterAgedWithTheActor is a common result of this, expecially for very large gaps.

** ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'' takes place eight years after the events of ''Tooie''. As a result of not having any villainy to fight for eight years, Banjo and Kazooie have become fat, lazy, and [[BagOfSpilling have forgotten how to do all of their special moves from the first two games]], resulting in the game's shift from an action platformer to a driving-based game. Grunty, now reduced to a skull, has spent the past eight years making her way back to Spiral Mountain. ''Nuts and Bolts'' was released in 2008, eight years after ''Tooie''.