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* At the end of the original ''{{Rocky}}'', Rocky goes the full fifteen rounds with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed and before the final bell an exhausted Creed tells Rocky before the final bell "Ain't going to be no rematch!" In the beginning of ''Rocky II'' Apollo changes his mind.

* At the end of the original ''{{Rocky}}'' Rocky goes the full fifteen rounds with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed and before the final bell an exhausted Creed tells Rocky before the final bell "Ain't going to be no rematch!" In the beginning of ''Rocky II'' Apollo changes his mind.

* At the end of the original ''{{Rocky}}'' Rocky goes the full fifteen rounds with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed, and he tells Rocky before the final bell "Ain't going to be no rematch!" In the beginning of ''Rocky II'' Apollo changes his mind.

* ''HomeAlone 2'' simply gave Kevin AesopAmnesia, ticking off his family yet again and getting left alone in a completely different way and an exhausted Apollo tells him before the final bell "Ain't going to be no rematch!" In the beginning of ''Rocky II'' Apollo changes his mind.

* ''HomeAlone 2'' simply gave Kevin AesopAmnesia, ticking off his family yet again and getting left alone in a completely different way.

* {{Bleach}} does this after [[spoiler: Ichigo defeats Aizen with the "final Getsuga Tensho," which [[BroughtDownToNormal strips him of his powers.]] Ichigo stays a {{Muggle}} for awhile before he begins to pursue alternative power sources, such as Fullbring. This allows the series to return to the more mysterious [[UrbanFantasy]] feel of the early chapters, and gives Ichigo's allies a chance to [[Can'tCatchUp catch up.]]]]

-->'''AustinPowers 2: [[http://www.the-editing-room.com/austinpowers2.html The Abridged Script]]''

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* ''SpeedRacer'' has been remade for television three times, twice by American studios, but only one of them was a sequel reboot. ''SpeedRacerTheNextGeneration'' follows the adventures of Speed's ''sons'', taking place 40 years after the events in the original show. Coincidentally, this premiered during the franchise's 40th anniversary, and around the time the feature film was released.

-->"This pissed you off '''so''' much that you gon' hit the road again, to find the Number Two Headband ''again'', just so you can kill the Number One, '''''again'''''."

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* In ''TheMatrix'', Neo must kung fu fight his enemies in the virtual world of the Matrix until he learns to control the simulation and transcend physical combat. In the sequel, his apparent apotheosis is downgraded to a [[TookALevelInBadass new level in badass]], as he must fight a more powerful group of enemies with his kung fu.

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* The movie ''{{Stargate}}'' ends with Daniel living happily on Abydos, O'Neil rediscovers his sense of purpose and retires, and the BigBad is defeated. ''StargateSG1'' begins with Daniel's HappilyEverAfter kicked over by the new BigBad, which introduces a slew of BigBads, which causes O'Neill (with two Ls) to come back from retirement, which in turn causes the Stargate Program to be reopened.

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* ''[=~Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge~=]'' starts stating that Guybrush broke up with Elaine since the last game, and that he became famous after slaying Lechuck, but eventually people started forgetting and doubting about it, so he went to set out on a new adventure to regain its former glory. Later it's revealed that Lechuck revived, but as a Zombie.
** It's heavily implied that Guybrush won't shut up about his victory over LeChuck(He even wrote a Trilogy of books about it) and everyone is just really sick of hearing him tell the same story(with incredible embellishments, no doubt) over and over again. It's not a far cry from there to thinking he made the entire thing up.

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* Nearly every installment in the ''LeisureSuitLarry'' series ends with Larry hooking up with the "final girl", and then immediately breaking up with them at the start of the next game so Larry can go [[TheLeisureSuitLarry do his thing]] for the rest of the game. In fact, 'LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail!'' begins just minutes after the conclusion of the previous game, ''Shape Up Or Slip Out!'', when the final girl of the last game has had her fun with Larry, takes his money and leaves him chained to a burning bed.

* The anime version of ''SailorMoon'' technically counts, as it was originally intended to only have one season which sports a ResetButtonEnding in the form of the Sailor Senshi getting killed and then resurrected without their memories -- even crossing into the BookEnds trope with a scene borrowed from the first episode. Then, within the first two episodes of the second season, the Sailor Team gets their memories back to fight {{Filler Villain}}s. Ironically, in the manga, the second story arc kicks in without any traces of this trope within the same chapter where the first one ends, showing the level of [[OvertookTheManga Overtaking The Manga]] and AdaptationDecay quite clearly.

* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse has to contend with this any time an author's looking to write [[HighFantasy High Space Opera]]. In TheThrawnTrilogy (the foundation of the modern ExpandedUniverse), there's a LampshadeHanging: Leia muses, looking at Endor, that if the war really ended there, that means the "mop-up action" has been going on for a good five years now--and they might call themselves the New Republic, and they're retaken the capital planet, but they're hardly the galaxy-spanning bastion of civilization the original one was. That trilogy is one of the better sets of books.

However, just as the SequelHook can come across as being cheesy, clichéd and hokey, the SequelReset can sometimes be quite contrived. It's sometimes apparent that the [[ExecutiveMeddling producers]] aren't going to do anything new, nor enrich the world of the first movie by showing us what happened later down the track; instead, they may just be trying to cash in on something that worked the first time around by offering us more of the same or, perhaps, completely overturning the clear -- and ''satisfying'' -- ending of the first piece. It's often an unfortunate sign that {{Sequelitis}} is just around the corner, by forcing open an ending that was clearly and satisfyingly shut for no other reason than to provide an excuse for a sequel. If it's particularly grating, then it may fall into DisContinuity with the fans.

* KnightErrant: The heroes have saved one country, but there's a dozen others on the map to save. Get on your bikes/horses and go save some other people.

* ''AustinPowers'' ends with the titular hero having undergone CharacterDevelopment, allowing him to mature and adjust his free-spirited Swinging Sixties ways to the more conservative but still liberated nineties, and setting him up in married life with his partner, Vanessa. So the beginning of the second movie reveals that Vanessa was actually a robot and blows her up, and as soon as she's gone, Austin instantly reverts to his immature old ways.

*** There were plans to shoot a cameo with Heather Graham, but she was unable to film it.

* ''Super {{Metroid}}'' ends with the last Metroid specimen dying and the planet Zebes destroyed. As a result, the ''MetroidPrime'' trilogy is actually set before ''Super Metroid'' and ''Metroid II: Return of Samus''. However, ''Metroid Fusion'' had Samus revisit the Metroid homeworld and bringing [[TheVirus the X species of parasites]] into a space lab orbiting the planet, as well as discovering that [[spoiler:the Galactic Federation had been genetically breeding new Metroids]].

* ''{{Shrek}}'' literally ended with HappilyEverAfter, but the sequels have been putting that off ever since. The second film reveals there was in fact an actual Prince Charming that was supposed to break the curse on Fiona, and that her royal parents are still around; the action picks up after the lovers' honeymoon as they're forced to meet her parents, causing another go-round of problems regarding Shrek's self-esteem. The amusing new characters as well as ones who got expanded roles (i.e. Gingy the gingerbread man) helped mitigate this for audiences, but reaction to the third film (where Shrek now has to get out of being king if he ever hopes to live out his life in the swamp, and the loose end of 2 involving Prince Charming's fate is brought up) suggests the formula is wearing thin, so the fourth film finally concludes Shrek's story.

* Subverted in ''{{Hellboy}} 2''. The first movie hints that there will be some sort of love triangle between Agent Myers, Liz and Hellboy. The second movie begins with Hellboy and Liz having trouble in their relationship, which they have been in for quite a while now. And Myers, it is off-handedly explained, is in Alaska doing research... with the implication Hellboy was responsible, no less.

* Subverted in ''{{Hellboy}} 2''. The first movie hints that there will be some sort of love triangle between Agent Myers, Liz and Hellboy. The second movie begins with Hellboy and Liz having trouble in their relationship, which they have been in for quite a while now. And Myers, it is off-handedly explained, is in Alaska doing research.

However, just as the SequelHook can come across as being cheesy, Clichéd and hokey, the SequelReset can sometimes be quite contrived. It's sometimes apparent that the [[ExecutiveMeddling producers]] aren't going to do anything new, nor enrich the world of the first movie by showing us what happened later down the track; instead, they may just be trying to cash in on something that worked the first time around by offering us more of the same or, perhaps, completely overturning the clear -- and ''satisfying'' -- ending of the first piece. It's often an unfortunate sign that {{Sequelitis}} is just around the corner, by forcing open an ending that was clearly and satisfyingly shut for no other reason than to provide an excuse for a sequel. If it's particularly grating, then it may fall into DisContinuity with the fans.

However, just as the SequelHook can come across as being cheesy, clichéd and hokey, the SequelReset can sometimes be quite contrived. It's sometimes apparent that the [[ExecutiveMeddling producers]] aren't going to do anything new, nor enrich the world of the first movie by showing us what happened later down the track; instead, they may just be trying to cash in on something that worked the first time around by offering us more of the same or, perhaps, completely overturning the clear -- and ''satisfying'' -- ending of the first piece. It's often an unfortunate sign that {{Sequelitis}} is just around the corner, by forcing open an ending that was clearly and satisfyingly shut for no other reason than to provide an excuse for a sequel. If it's particularly grating, then it may fall into DisContinuity with the fans.

* Done in ''DeusEx: InvisibleWar''. The first ''DeusEx'' provides a choice between three different endings depending on how you beat the EndBoss, the sequel [[RoadCone drops all of them]]. You do eventually get an explanation for why things are the way they are, but by the time you do the game is mostly over.

* The 1996 run of ''OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' {{Christmas Episode}}s finishes with Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert having achieved their dreams of wealth and success and [[RidingIntoTheSunset walking into the sunset]]. Then, they made a ''later'' series, which takes this all away and reduces them to the same barely-scraping-by life they were leading before, except Rodney would now become a father, and Albert's will saved the Trotters from getting evicted.

* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse has to contend with this any time an author's looking to write [[HighFantasy High Space Opera]]. In TheThrawnTrilogy (the foundation of the modern ExpandedUniverse), there's a LampshadeHanging: Leia muses, looking at Endor, that if the war really ended there, that means the "mop-up action" has been going on for a good five years now--and they might call themselves the New Republic, and they're retaken the capital planet, but they're hardly the galaxy-spanning bastion of civilization the original one was. That trilogy is one of the better sets of books.
* ''SpeedRacer'' has been remade for television three times, twice by American studios, but only one of them was a sequel reboot. ''SpeedRacerTheNextGeneration'' follows the adventures of Speed's ''sons'', taking place 40 years after the events in the original show. Coincidentally, this premiered during the franchise's 40th anniversary, and around the time the feature film was released.
* {{Shrek}} literally ended with HappilyEverAfter, but the sequels have been putting that off ever since. The second film reveals there was in fact an actual Prince Charming that was supposed to break the curse on Fiona, and that her royal parents are still around; the action picks up after the lovers' honeymoon as they're forced to meet her parents, causing another go-round of problems regarding Shrek's self-esteem. The amusing new characters as well as ones who got expanded roles (i.e. Gingy the gingerbread man) helped mitigate this for audiences, but reaction to the third film (where Shrek now has to get out of being king if he ever hopes to live out his life in the swamp, and the loose end of 2 involving Prince Charming's fate is brought up) suggests the formula is wearing thin, so the fourth film finally concludes Shrek's story.
* ''[=~Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge~=]'' starts stating that Guybrush broke up with Elaine since the last game, and that he became famous after slaying Lechuck, but eventually people started forgetting and doubting about it, so he went to set out on a new adventure to regain its former glory. Later it's revealed that Lechuck revived, but as a Zombie.
* At the end of the first ThursdayNext book, Thursday is happily married, [[MeaningfulName Jack Schitt]] is [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in a book]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Acheron Hades]] is dead, and the literary police, formerly charged with the dull job of tracking down stolen and counterfeit books, face an interesting future policing where Fiction meets the real world. In the next book, Thursday's husband is erased from existence, the literary police are still doing drudge work, there's easier ways to get between Reality and Fiction and characters do it all the time, and there's more in the Schitt and Hades families to contend with. [[TwoPartTrilogy The second through fourth books are a trilogy dealing with all this.]]

* At the end of the first season of ''ShakuganNoShana'', Shana finally confesses that she's in love with Yuuji. However, in the interests of maintaining the WillTheyOrWontThey {{Tsundere}} {{UST}}, the second season reveals that he didn't hear her, and she can't get up the nerve to tell him again.
* Done in ''DeusEx: InvisibleWar''. The first ''DeusEx'' provides a choice between three different endings depending on how you beat the EndBoss, the sequel [[RoadCone drops all of them]]. You do eventually get an explanation for why things are the way they are, but by the time you do the game is mostly over.
* Subverted in ''Hellboy 2''. The first movie hints that there will be some sort of love triangle between Agent Myers, Liz and Hellboy. The second movie begins with Hellboy and Liz having trouble in their relationship, which they have been in for quite a while now. And Myers, it is off-handedly explained, is in Alaska doing research.
* The first ''AfroSamurai'' series/movie ended with Afro killing Justice, avenging his father, claiming the Number 1 Headband, and finally making peace with the decisions he made in life. The movie ends in a somewhat distant future where Afro is having a rematch with his former friend Kuma who has the Number 2 Headband, ending with the concept that the cycle of revenge will continue. Then comes ''Afro Samurai: Ressurection'', where Kuma returns, looking less like a robot no less, with his previous unexplained Sister Sio, looking for revenge, Afro has gone back to regretting his actions in the past.

* ''Super {{Metroid}}'' ends with the last Metroid specimen dying and the planet Zebes destroyed. As a result, the ''MetroidPrime'' trilogy is actually set before ''Super Metroid'' and ''Metroid II: Return of Samus''. However, ''Metroid Fusion'' had Samus revisit the Metroid homeworld and bringing [[TheVirus the X species of parasites]] into a space lab orbiting the planet, as well as discovering that [[spoiler:the Galactic Federation had been genetically breeding new Metroids]].

* You could say this is a ''Saga Reset'' for Dragon Ball Z because the Frieza and Cell sagas (The two main villains of those sagas) were [[spoiler:originally intended on being the last sagas in the series.]]. At the end of the Frieza Saga, when we think that Frieza is dead, [[spoiler:he is still alive and his body is floating through space and his father finds him.]] Then when we think the world is saved after [[spoiler:Frieza and King Cold easily get killed by Future Trunks, a warrior from the future, we immediately get told that there are Androids that are planning on destroying the world. After the Androids escape, Trunks kills them in the future, but another main villain comes out of nowhere and kills that alternate timeline Trunks and goes back in time to try to absorb Androids 17 and 18. After Cell gets killed by Gohan]], we finally get 7 years of rest until out of nowhere, some minions of [[spoiler: an apparently stronger evil, Majin Buu]], interfere with a tournament and then the Buu Saga beings.
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* Very unfortunately done with ''CodeGeass R2'', which actually had a SequelHook that, due to ExecutiveMeddling, was partially ignored.

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* SequelReset is very often invoked with video games, but in some cases, it's particularly silly.
** In all Megaman games, all gained abilities are ALWAYS stripped for the next game.
** Zelda games will always start the character off with 3 heart containers and not even a sword.
** And of course, Metroid games. No matter how badass Samus is at the end of the game, the next game will start her with an energy max of 99, and a normal beam, and nothing else. Most even make you get the morph ball again.
*** The later Metroidvanias solved the issue by making each game use a new main character, for the most part.
** Oh, look, Princess Peach got kidnapped by bowser... AGAIN!