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* '''Exaggerated''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set tens of thousands of years after ''The Saga of Alice'', whose events have become only vaguely-remembered myths, while the world has changed almost beyond recognition.

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''The Legend of Bob'' is set tens of thousands of years after ''The Saga of Alice'', whose events have become only vaguely-remembered myths, while the world has changed almost beyond recognition.recognition.
** Every work has a million year gap at the very minimum. After ''The Legend of Bob'' comes ''The Tale of Clay'', and in between those two stories are millions upon millions of years apart.
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* '''Averted''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set after ''The Saga of Alice'' with a day or less.

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* '''Averted''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set starts a day or less after ''The Saga of Alice'' with a day or less.ends.
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* '''Exploited''': Bob time travels into future during the opening cutscene in the sequel.
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** ImmediateSequel

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** ImmediateSequel''The Legend of Bob'' is an ImmediateSequel to ''The Saga of Alice''.

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* '''Inverted''': ''The Legend of Bob'', written after the conclusion of ''The Saga of Alice'', is set around a century before its events.

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''The Legend of Bob'', written after the conclusion of ''The Saga of Alice'', is set around a century before its events.



* '''Averted''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set after ''The Saga of Alice'' with a day or less.
* '''Conversed''': "Why do authors bother to make works sequels to earlier ones when they're going to set them so far into the future that they're functionally entirely new settings anyway?"



* '''Conversed''': "Why do authors bother to make works sequels to earlier ones when they're going to set them so far into the future that they're functionally entirely new settings anyway?"
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** ImmediateSequel
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You can read the continuation at DistantSequel, but it's EleventyZillion years later!
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'''Basic Trope''': A sequel is set a very long time after the events of an earlier work.
* '''Straight''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set about a century after ''The Saga of Alice'', by which time the earlier work's events have become famous and most of its characters have passed away.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set tens of thousands of years after ''The Saga of Alice'', whose events have become only vaguely-remembered myths, while the world has changed almost beyond recognition.
* '''Downplayed''': ''The Legend of Bob'' is set a few decades after ''The Saga of Alice''; most of the earlier work's characters are still around, although they're getting on in years.
* '''Inverted''': ''The Legend of Bob'', written after the conclusion of ''The Saga of Alice'', is set around a century before its events.
* '''Subverted''': In the opening chapter of ''The Legend of Bob'', Bob refers to the events of ''The Saga of Alice'' as if they were legendary deeds of ancient heroes. It then turns out that he was just being melodramatic about describing fairly recent events.
* '''Double Subverted''': ... but when Chloe corrects him on this, she does by saying that they happened "barely a century ago".
* '''Implied''': It's never actually stated that ''The Legend of Bob'' is causally connected to ''The Saga of Alice'', but characters periodically refer to ancient events that sound suspiciously like the story of the earlier work.
* '''Conversed''': "Why do authors bother to make works sequels to earlier ones when they're going to set them so far into the future that they're functionally entirely new settings anyway?"
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