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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "I Was A Teenage Gary", after [=SpongeBob=] leaves for the convention, Squidward gets ready to relax...then it jumps to three days later when [=SpongeBob=] is coming home and Squidward neglected Gary the whole time.
** In "SB-129", the episode skips 2000 years into the future with Squidward frozen in the freezer.

* ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'' has books titled ''[[Literature/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'', ''2010'', ''2061'', and ''3001''. No points for guessing the length of the time skips. It's notable that a HumanPopsicle from the first book plays a large role in the last one.

* ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'' jumps ahead nine years (from 1783 to 1792) from Napoleon's time at Brienne College to the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.

* The last 8 issues of ''ComicBook/NobleCauses'', vol. 2 #33-40, took place five years after #32, during which time Rusty lost his humanity and started acting like a robot, Frost became an accepted member of the family, and at least three marriages happened.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'', it happened between issue #7 and #8. In this time, the mentor of Nävis, Mackel-Loos, died.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' did an interesting variation of this: at the end of issue #125, Sonic is teleported across the universe, and spends the next several issues making his way back to Mobius. In issue #130 he finally makes it home, only to discover that - due to relativity - what had been a few weeks for him was actually a whole year on Mobius, during which many things had changed.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Sonic and his friends were sent forwards into the future by Dr Robotnik in one of the earliest issues, during which time he had managed to make himself emperor of Mobius.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' Volume 3 has a one-year time skip between #22 and #23 [[spoiler:after Rio Morales dies.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' takes place quite a while after ''WesternAnimation/{{Puss in Boots|2011}}''. The latter is set before ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', while the former is set after ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', during which time we see Shrek and Fiona meet, fall in love, and start a family of three children, so the time skip is at least several years. Puss also sounds significantly older, as ''The Last Wish'' is released eleven years after its predecessor.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Around halfway through the tenth episode, the entire story jumps ahead to weeks after the Senate became gridlocked in response to the Imperium's invasion of the Axum system. This is done to show the fallout of the Imperial occupation of Axum--the Republic is facing a sudden refugee crisis caused by civilians who fled Axum before it fell, while the Imperials have had time to entrench themselves on Axum and start purging the planet's non-human population. Most of the Imperial invasion force has moved on since then, leaving behind only a token garrison to defend their newly conquered holdings, presenting the Jedi with the opportunity to launch a counter-invasion to retake Axum and force the Senate to break their weeks-long deadlock.

** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' has a couple - the first one from an undisclosed year (in which Madeleine Swann witnesses Lyutsifer Safin killing her mother) to the present day (in which Bond is ambushed in an Italian town visiting [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper Lynd's]] tomb), and then a second one from that time to five years into the future, during which time Bond retires from [=MI6=] service.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Around halfway through the tenth episode, the entire story jumps ahead to weeks after the Senate became gridlocked in response to the Imperium's invasion of the Axum system. This is done to show the fallout of the Imperial occupation of Axum. The Republic is facing a sudden refugee crisis caused by civilians who fled Axum before it fell. Meanwhile, the Imperials have had time to entrench themselves on Axum and start purging the planet's non-human population. Most of the Imperial invasion force has moved on since then, leaving behind only a token garrison to defend their newly conquered holdings, presenting the Jedi with the opportunity to launch a counter-invasion to retake Axum and force the Senate to break their weeks-long deadlock.

* * ''Webcomic/CashmereSky'': After the events of Volume One, Volume Two skips forward in time by seven years.

* The entire Franchise/DCUniverse jumped forwards a year following the CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', during which time ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, and Franchise/WonderWoman were out of commission. The weekly limited series ''[[ComicBook/FiftyTwo 52]]'' filled in the events of the missing year in real time through the eyes of several minor characters.

* The ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' relaunch picks up eight months after the most recent CrisisCrossover, ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', with every returning title changing its status quo in some way during that time, such as [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Parker Industries]] going from a struggling business to an international success. Many of the changes were explored further in flashbacks, but a few were never really explained.

** ''Film/GoldenEye'' begins in 1986 with 007 and fellow agent 006/Alec Trevelyan infiltrating a Soviet chemical weapons factory and Trevelyan [[spoiler:presumably]] getting killed. The film then skips to 1995, where Bond is sent to investigate the theft of a prototype helicopter capable of resisting [=EMP=] attacks during a military demonstration in Monte Carlo and how it ended up in a radar facility in Siberia.

* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' has a two-year time skip in the "real world" at the same time as a ten-year time skip in the roleplaying game the characters are playing, between ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. And then another two "real" years, along with the three in-universe years, pass between ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Presumably this trend will continue through the remaining three movies.

* ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'': Issue #21 jumps ahead two months from the end of Issue #20, but the most significant time skip is the six month leap between Issues #25 and #26. [[spoiler:Following Fred's death, the gang was able to successfully take control of the mall and the location is now a base of operations and is on its way to becoming a true survivors' encampment as Velma had hoped, currently housing of hundreds of humans who have managed to find their way to Albany. Oh, and Velma and Shaggy are now a couple.]]
* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': The first issue takes place during the incursion between the Franchise/MarvelUniverse and the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]]. The next four issues take place eight years later, on GodEmperor Doom's Battleworld, formed from the remains of the destroyed multiverse. During this time, the two life rafts containing survivors of both the Marvel and Ultimate universes (led by ComicBook/MisterFantastic and [[ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour The Maker]], respectively) were discovered and opened, causing chaos. Issue six jumps ahead three weeks, after a manhunt was issued for the incursion survivors, framing them for the murder of [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Sheriff Strange]] (Doom secretly killed him).

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' during "One Last Hope", a TrainingMontage takes Hercules from awkward teenager to co-ordinated adult (at least, as far as the audience knows at this point).

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' takes place quite a while after ''WesternAnimation/{{Puss in Boots|2011}}''. The latter is set before ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', while the former is set after ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', during which time we see Shrek and Fiona meet, fall in love, and start a family of three children, so the time skip is probably several years. Puss also sounds significantly older, as ''The Last Wish'' is released eleven years after its predecessor.

** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is set twenty two years after the first film. John Hammond has long died, leaving behind a legacy of a dinosaur theme park that is open to the public.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' With the introduction of the Horus Heresy series, there is technically a time skip from the heresy to "present day", 10k years later. While the Horus Heresy game is built upon the same game system as "regular 40k", it's points system does not seem to be balanced against the existing 40k system (with many saying that it has good internal balance, but will utterly crush any current 40k army). Forge World (the producer of Horus Heresy series) differentiate between the two by stating that certain models can be used in 40k, dubbed the "Age of Darkness", and gain extra rules to reflect how they're older technology, but also has adjusted point costs and rules. The Horus Heresy campaign books itself contains several time skips within the Heresy, as it took place across several years with only a few notable events happening (due to it being an intergalactic war). Between 7th and 8th editions there's a jump from the final days of the 41st millennium to a little more than a century later... or the next day, depending on where a given character was standing when time went weird.

* ''Webanimation/GenLock'' opens in 2068, and then it skips four years.

** Another timeskip would have followed after the end of Season 6 (which was left unfinished due to cancellation, unless the revival has something to say about it), giving the impression that the three periods of the show take place in each year of the war.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie the television movie]] and the ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]]'' miniseries, which take place two years after the finale.
** ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Action]]'' had a time skip from the finale, to the later special and the third season. It's not known exactly how long, although a year is probably the best guess (enough time for about half of Heather's hair to grow back, and most of them to try to grasp fame and fail at it).

* The sequel to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' takes place four years after the first movie, where Lightning has since won four Piston Cups. The third takes place six years after the second, where he is now a 7-time Piston Cup winner.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the AnimatedAdaptation of the webcomic of the same name, is actually a StealthSequel, set a mere three-and-a-half months in the comic's future. The comic begins in earnest around [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=3 May 21st, 1927]]. Its most recent strips have VenturousSmuggler|s Rocky, Freckle and Ivy making their debut as a whiskey-runners for a probationary supplier, while speakeasy saxophonist Zib and ProfessionalKiller Mordecai concurrently realize through a police station encounter and mob informant grapevine that the feds are newly arrived in town. An open day planner on a station desk places these events no later than ''[[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=146 May 31st of that year]].'' The PilotMovie takes place in mid-September 1927, as referenced by [[GoodGuyBar speakeasy]] owner Mitzi May reading, out loud, a passage from Isadora Duncan's obituary. (Her real-life scarf-induced tragicomic death occurred September 14, 1927.) By then, Rocky and company are a slightly less green CaperCrew, the supplier is now a regular, underworld figures treat the Feds presence as [[AsYouKnow common knowledge]], and Zib, booked for public drunkeness and in jail for a two-month stint in-comic, is out amongst 'em and soused as ever.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the AnimatedAdaptation of the webcomic of the same name, is actually a StealthSequel, set a mere three-and-a-half months in the comic's future. The comic begins in earnest around [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=3 May 21st, 1927]]. Its most recent strips have VenturousSmugglers Rocky, Freckle and Ivy making their debut as a whiskey-runners for a probationary supplier, while speakeasy saxophonist Zib and ProfessionalKiller Mordecai concurrently realize through a police station encounter and mob informant grapevine that the feds are newly arrived in town. An open day planner on a station desk places these events no later than ''[[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=146 May 31st of that year]].'' The PilotMovie takes place in mid-September 1927, as referenced by [[GoodGuyBar speakeasy]] owner Mitzi May reading, out loud, a passage from Isadora Duncan's obituary. (Her real-life scarf-induced tragicomic death occurred September 14, 1927.) By then, Rocky and company are a slightly less green CaperCrew, the supplier is now a regular, underworld figures treat the Feds presence as [[AsYouKnow common knowledge]], and Zib, booked for public drunkeness and in jail for a two-month stint in-comic, is out amongst 'em and soused as ever.

A Time Skip also provides another advantage for animated series that isn't necessary for live-action series: [[FloatingTimeline after a certain number of episodes have passed it looks more and more ridiculous that the characters haven't aged]]. However, animation doesn't really allow for the extremely subtle effect of gradual aging. Thus, the best way to show aging has happened is to jump ahead to when they're older.