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** An interquel, ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'', is a streaming series set between the events of Waternoose's arrest and the first movie's epilogue.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':

* While most of the Disney worlds in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games are alternate depictions of the source material and the stories told in them are usually BroadStrokes retellings of the movies with the protagonists and the Heartless inserted, WordOfGod confirms that the Toy Box world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' was written collaboratively with Creator/{{Pixar}} to be a canonical ''Toy Story 2.5'', set between ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' in the continuity of the original films. While not explicitly stated, it can also be inferred that the same applies to the Monstropolis world, whose story similarly functions as a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. The San Fransokyo world in ''III'' is written as a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', though seemingly contradictory to ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'', as it concerns [[spoiler:the corruption and eventual restoration of Baymax's original body]].

* ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest'' Issue #271 is simultaneously a RecursiveAdaptation and a sequel to a few episodes of the 1940's Superman radio show, namely the ones dealing with Zoltan (in which Batman and Robin first appeared in the show) and Atoman (who is the villain of this story).

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10GeneratorRexHeroesUnited'' had a SequelHook teased at the end, but the special never got a follow-up in animated form. However, a sequel story was written for issue 65 of the ''Cartoon Network Action Pack'' comic, though it didn't follow up on the teased hooks.

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' is a sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} first]] and [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar second]] movies and a prequel to the [[WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves third]] movie in the trilogy.

* The comic book ''Second Contact'' is a crossover between ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''Franchise/XMen''. The novel ''Planet X'' is another one and acknowledges the first.

* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'' is basically the third ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' movie, while the [[Comicbook/{{Ghostbusters}} IDW comic]] continues the story from where the video game left off.

* ''Film/TheNextGenerationPatlabor'' is the live-action sequel to the original ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' OVA continuity, and is set 15 years after its conclusion. Which also makes it the DistantFinale, as most of the original cast have retired from the SVU by then.

* ''Film/GoodBurger'' got a sequel novel called ''Literature/GoodBurger2Go'' in 1998, which was originally intended to be a movie. An official sequel to ''Good Burger'' is confirmed for a Fall 2023 release on Creator/ParamountPlus.

* ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'' is a novel continuation of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', telling two different versions of what might have happened to the characters after the original comic ended. Notably, the Epilogues repeatedly call their own canonicity as the "true ending" of ''Homestuck'' into question, and they make very clear that the [[BrokenBase controversial]] original ending is intended to stand on its own. The Epilogues themselves would get [[Webcomic/Homestuck2 a sequel]] in the ''original'' medium three years later.

* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' is the sequel but set at an altogether different time and place with a (mostly) new cast of characters. The events of ''Crysis'' and ''Crysis: Warhead'' were more directly continued in a six-issue comic book series endorsed by EA and published by IDW intending to fill the gap.
* The Titan Comics-published ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' four-part comic mini-series details the fall of Cleopatra 14 years after the game.

* ''[[VideoGame/SiN1998 SiN]]'' was originally followed by [[Anime/SiNTheMovie a 2000 anime movie]] in which Blade's partner died and was replaced by his sister, though this movie was later rendered non-canon when [[VideoGame/SiNEpisodesEmergence a sequel game]] came out in 2006.
* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' had two prequels in other mediums. The "Alma Interviews" was a live-action short movie depicting an interview with a young Alma before she really started on the spooky business from the game, while the "Director's Edition" of the game also came with a Creator/{{Dark Horse|Comics}}-drawn adaptation of the beginning of Fettel's rampage from the game's opening cinematic.
* The Hope's Peak Saga of ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' (most of which consisted of visual novels and video games) had four: ''Literature/DanganronpaZero'', a novel set before the first and second games and the only novel in the saga to be directly related to the plot, ''Anime/Danganronpa3'', an anime which served as the conclusion chapter, ''Manga/KillerKiller'', a manga taking place just before the events of ''Danganronpa 3'', and ''Nagito Komaeda and the World Destroyer'', an OVA set some time after the end of ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa 2|GoodbyeDespair}}''. [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony The third cardinal game]] tells a completely separate story.
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' has a [[ComicBook/LifeIsStrange comic continuation]] taking place after one of the two possible endings, in particular [[spoiler:the one where Max saves Chloe and let the storm destroy Arcadia Bay]]. They go on with their lives, least until Max's time rewinding power suddenly starts acting up, to which they must find out why.
* ''VideoGame/LittleTailBronx'' had to resort to using short stories as a means of expanding on the stories started in the main games due to lack of financial success combined with Bandai Namco's partial ownership interfering with Creator/CyberConnect2's desires to make more games in the franchise. Unfortunately, none of them have official translations.
** ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' has "After That Concerto" that acts as a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue to the main cast.
** ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' has a bunch of these, with the prequels "Ragdoll Elegy", "9071 Morning Sacrifice", "A Captain's Final Adventure", "Bitter Rain", "Overture - Movement 0", "Shepherd Report", and most famously "Red Data Children". Sequels include "Warm Memories", "Forest of Healing", "Hospitality At Nippon", "Black and White Borderline", and, crossing over with ''Tail Concerto'', "Onward - Bon Voyage!" and "Kadenz -Closing Melody-". There are also three [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] stories "From Now, An Important Time To Live", "Double-Edge Sword", and [[HighSchoolAU "Summer at Shepherd Academy"]].

* ''VideoGame/InFamous'': A {{midquel}} example, the comic is set in between the first and [[VideoGame/Infamous2 second game]] and covers the plot points that the first game LeftHanging. Namely what happened with Alden, Moya and Sasha.

* The UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' released alongside a comic tie-in that acts as a sequel to ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'', and uses plot elements from what would have been the third game in the series, ''[=MediEvil=]: Fate's Arrow''.
* Although it wasn't as apparent when it released, ''VideoGame/NieR'' had a sequel in the stage play ''Theatre/YoRHa'', which told of a robot war in the setting's distant future and the androids that fought it. When ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' eventually elaborated on these plot points, ''[=YoRHa=]'' was expanded and converted into a series of side story plays.
** ''[=NieR=]'' also got a companion sidebook/strategy guide, ''Grimoire [=NieR=]'', which included several side-stories set before, during, and after the game. Most notably is "The Lost World", which [[spoiler:continues on from the game's Ending D to encompass an "Ending E" that was later made the canon ending, leading into ''Automata'' and [[RecursiveAdaptation made a playable ending]] in the ''ver.1.22474487139...'' remaster]].
* ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' was a bit weird about this. While it started out as a mobile game before getting an anime, for most of the story the anime went on as if it was an AlternateContinuity. However, after a certain point it gets revealed that the anime was actually a {{Stealth|Sequel}} DistantSequel, albeit one that's vague about exactly how much time has passed between the two. This wound up being done again several years later, where the anime got a new mobile/arcade game called ''Kemono Friends 3'', set after the second anime season.
* ''Anime/PhantasyStarOnline2TheAnimation'' is an anime interquel to ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', set between the events of ''EPISODE 3'' and ''EPISODE 4'' and starring a mostly original cast and story. Very little of its plot has any actual bearing on the game's story, but it is used to explain the absence of a certain character early in ''EPISODE 4'' and its characters are featured in some cutscenes.
* Invoked by Twinbeard when they announced a sequel to ''VideoGame/FrogFractions'', as they claimed they would make it such a StealthSequel that it might not even be a video game at all. Two years later, and it would turn out the sequel was [[spoiler:the ARG used to find it]].
* ''Film/RedFactionOrigins'' is a Creator/{{Syfy}} film interquel between two games in the ''VideoGame/RedFaction'' series, namely, ''Guerilla'' and ''Armageddon''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'' was originally a standalone 2D platformer released in 2017, but it received a follow-up as [[WebComic/{{Nefarious}} an ongoing webcomic]]. This was pretty clearly done in response to the property's own strengths: [[EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame the game was considered pretty mediocre and finicky, but it managed to be carried by its premise and charm]], with enough room to expand its ExcusePlot beyond gameplay.

* Various ''Franchise/KamenRider'' projects tend to receive novels after ending, and most of those are continuations. The canonicity of those vary, some offer no conflict as follow-ups (like ''[[Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue Shin]]''), others are contradicted by following appearances of the characters (like ''[[Series/KamenRiderBlade Blade]]''). The only continuation that seems certainly canon is the ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' novel, [[spoiler:as the series finale features Takeru's son from the novel, and the post-series ''RE:BIRTH: Kamen Rider Specter'' movie also debuts Chloe, who the novel stablished as Takeru's future wife and he seemed to have some slight infatuation since the moment they met]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' received a manga sequel named ''Manga/FuutoPI'', still written by Creator/RikuSanjo. It received a TwelveEpisodeAnime adaptation in 2022 covering the first few story arcs.

* ''Film/RedFactionOrigins'' is a Creator/{{Syfy}} film interquel between the two games in the ''VideoGame/RedFaction'' series, namely, ''Guerilla'' and ''Armageddon''.

* ''Film/UltramanZearth'' receives a video game for the original [=PlayStation=] which continues the two movies, in which the original movie's Alien Benzene makes a comeback with more monsters in a second attempt to conquer earth. Curiously the game plays out more like an RPG instead of an action game, like most other ''Ultramen''-related medium at the time.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' had plans for a sequel that all made their way to DevelopmentHell making it one of the most financially successful films ''not'' to get one. Apart from the [[WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShorts 3 theatrically-released animated shorts]] and (maybe) ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'', the closest thing the film has to a true follow-up, as of now, come in the forms of ''Roger Rabbit: [[spoiler:The Resurrection of Doom]]'', a Creator/MarvelComics sequel partially detailing [[spoiler:Judge Doom's]] origins; the ''Roger Rabbit's Toontown'' comic series, and a few books by Creator/GaryWolf, the author of the original novel, ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit''. Wolf, in fact, [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation loved the film adaptation so much]], he {{retcon}}ned the events of that novel as AllJustADream to make the subsequent works fit the movie's canon.

*** ''Star Trek: [[spoiler:Khan]]'' delves into the immediate aftermath of the ''Into Darkness'' climax while also being an OriginsEpisode for "John Harrison" AKA [[spoiler:Khan Noonien Singh]].

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' had plans for a sequel that all made their way to DevelopmentHell making it one of the most financially successful films ''not'' to get one. Apart from the [[WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShorts 3 theatrically-released animated shorts]] and (maybe) ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'', the closest thing the film has to a true follow-up, as of now, come in the forms of ''Roger Rabbit: [[spoiler:The Resurrection of Doom]]'', a Creator/MarvelComics sequel partially detailing [[spoiler:Judge Doom's]] origins; the ''Roger Rabbit's Toontown'' comic series, and a few books by Creator/GaryWolf, the author of the original novel, ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'', [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation who loved the film adaptation so much]], he {{retcon}}ned the events of that novel as AllJustADream to make the subsequent works fit the movie's canon.

These are often subject to CanonDiscontinuity if a Distant Sequel is made in the original, more mainstream medium after a sizeable SequelGap.

See also ConclusionInAnotherMedium and its inverse RecycledTheSeries. Related to ExpandedUniverse when the other media-sequels are treated as a lesser canon. Compare AnimeFirst, ComicBookAdaptation, and LiveActionAdaptation, as well as {{Continuation}}, FanSequel and FlashForwardFic for FanFic examples. These are often subject to CanonDiscontinuity if a Distant Sequel is made in the original, more mainstream medium after a sizeable SequelGap. If the continuation is in the same medium that the predecessor was itself adapted from, see RecursiveAdaptation.

See also ConclusionInAnotherMedium and its inverse RecycledTheSeries. Related to ExpandedUniverse when the other media-sequels are treated as a lesser canon. Compare AnimeFirst, ComicBookAdaptation, and LiveActionAdaptation, as well as {{Continuation}}, FanSequel and FlashForwardFic for FanFic examples. If the continuation is in the same medium that the predecessor was itself adapted from, see RecursiveAdaptation.

** ''[[ComicBook/AdventureTimeMarcyAndSimon Marcy & Simon]]'': A spin-off that covers Simon, aka the former Ice King, suddenly regressing and Marcy's quest to help him [[spoiler:culminating in trying rescue Betty who took on the GOLB form in the series finale to save everyone.]]

* The Maverick Hunter X PSP remake of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' features an OVA prequel called "Day of Sigma", revealing when Sigma became the BigBad and giving him a motivation in-line with what it had evolved into by the time of ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''.