History Sandbox / ContinuityReboot

* It would certainly seem that every new season of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' was a complete reboot, featuring similar concepts and recurring Digimon, but having a whole different cast of humans with a totally new world to explore. These were clearly cases of [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]]; the ''Young Hunters'' and the UsefulNotes/WonderSwan games made this fact more obvious, but since [[NoExportForYou they have yet to be released outside of Japan]], the confusion about the casts is forgivable.

** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} was originally started by DC rebooting most of its lines of comics starting with ComicBook/TheFlash in 1956, but later extending to ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/TheAtom, ComicBook/WonderWoman and the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, whose reboot included a slight name change to the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. Most of these reboots also included {{Retool}}s as well to make the series more sci-fi oriented. The original continuity that was displaced by these reboots was later shown to take place in an alternate universe, Earth-Two, which would later regularly crossover with the reboot universe, which was dubbed Earth-One.

** ''Wonder Woman'' was also rebooted corresponding to the start of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] in 1956 with ''Wonder Woman'' (vol. 1) #98. Unlike a lot of DC's other Silver Age reboots which completely revamped the characters, Wonder Woman's reboot kept the character mostly the same with a few slight changes, but reset her story to have her leaving Paradise Island for the first time. Among other changes, Wonder Woman was given the ability to glide on air currents and Hippolyta was changed into a blonde.
* This is actually a plot point in the Creator/GrantMorrison run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan''. Because of the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Buddy, the titular hero, literally has to reboot his life to avoid a paradox. It's like this: Buddy Baker, the Animal Man, was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] hero, and thus lived on Earth-Two. After the Crisis, all of the Earths were folded into one, so while Buddy still existed, he was a completely different person but still drew from his Silver Age origin (the accident which gave the original Buddy powers sterilized him, while [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] Buddy sired two children after he got his powers, not to mention Modern Buddy suddenly became years younger than the original). In order to prevent the paradox, Buddy had to use a RealityWarper machine to rewrite his personal history so it made sense. Got all that?

* Thanks to an UpdatedRerelease, ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Original Generation}}s'' resets continuity with the inclusion of new characters and scenarios not seen in the original UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance incarnations, and thanks to Banpresto rectifying a massive {{flanderization}} of a certain villainous character, [=OGs=] allowed ''Original Generation Gaiden'' to occur, wherein said character [[spoiler:pulls a massive, well-deserved HeelFaceTurn to help the heroes during their times of woe.]]

* In the sixth game of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series, the series shifted from the UsefulNotes/PC98 to Windows 95. While some things from the PC-98 era were kept, the continuity began anew for the Windows era.

* The ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' series underwent a reboot in 2001. This "New Age" Goemon had a new futuristic setting and made major changes to the characters, including turning Ebisumaru into a ShyBlueHairedGirl and replacing Yae by a ShortTank named Yui. The reboot lasted for two games but apparently didn't catch on; the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game seems to give it a TakeThat.

** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'' implies it and ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' are reboots set in an AlternateUniverse from the pre-3DS games. ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' confirms this with [[spoiler:the appearance of Anabel from ''Pokémon Emerald'', who came to the new universe from the pre-Gen VI one]]. However, unlike most reboots, it's implied the old games still happened in mostly the same way, the only difference being that [[ForWantOfANail Mega Evolutions exist thanks to AZ firing his weapon in the distant past]].