Line #92 Main/RealTimeTimeskip


1	->''"…It’s just weird to think about how the [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp original movie]] is from 1955, and [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure the sequel]] came out in 2001. Like, I feel like everybody should be dead."''
2	-->-- '''[[https://youtu.be/xJBmf-L2Rts?si=Zk_PvCqJgekmMc3M Regular Pat,]]''' on ''Lady and the Tramp II''’s aversion of this trope
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4	When the real-world time between franchise installments is acknowledged in-universe. Say, if Alice and Bob get married at the end of the first movie, then the sequel comes out three years later and the characters say they've been married for three years. This trope is all but guaranteed if [[SequelGap the gap is particularly huge, like ten years or more]], especially if the work is live-action due to the aging of the actors. Anything less, it's usually just understood that an unspecified amount of time has passed since the original.
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6	CharacterAgedWithTheActor is a common result of this, especially for very large gaps.
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9	!Examples
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14	* The manga for ''Manga/InuYasha'' began serializing in 1996, and the anime premiered in 2000. The SpinOffspring sequel ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'', premiering in 2020, is set approximately 20 years later.
15	* ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' was released in 2011 and was based on popular material from the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' such as ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. The carnival in question is said to take place every 10 years in-universe. Fast forward to New Years 2021, and the spinoff ''Anime/FateGrandCarnival'' is aired, this time focusing on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''.
16	* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' season 1 ends in March 2113 with Mika Shimotsuki joining the Bureau as a new Inspector, which parallels its real-life season finale airing in March 2013. The second season begins in October 2114 and Mika mentions she's been an Inspector for a year and a half, which is precisely how long it took for the second season to begin airing in October 2014.
17	* The first episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' begins with Lupin and his gang ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Zenigata]]) reuniting five years after their last caper. ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' finished its run in March 1972, with ''Part II'' premiering in October 1977, a five-year gap.
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21	* When ''ComicBook/WormwoodGentlemanCorpse'' came back in 2017 after almost a decade-long hiatus, it was revealed that Wormwood had spent the intervening period in-universe sulking on a jungle world after a love affair went bad.
22	* After DC Comics purchased the rights to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] in 1973, they explained the characters' twenty-year absence from comics by revealing that all the characters were put in suspended animation for 20 years thanks to one of Dr. Sivana's experiments GoneHorriblyWrong.
23	* It's not quite exact, but the 1986-87 comic ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' takes place in an AlternateHistory version of 1985. The 2020 DistantSequel, ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'', takes place in the same timeline's version of 2020.
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27	* A SharedUniverse example: ''ComicStrip/{{Crankshaft}}'' and ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' share the same universe, and normally runs on ComicBookTime. But the events of ''Funky Winkerbean'' happen ten years later than those in ''Crankshaft'', due to the former strip skipping ahead ten years after Lisa died in 2007 and aging everyone up (for the second time). Characters who appear in both strips are visibly older in ''Funky Winkerbean'', especially title character Ed Crankshaft, who is hospital-bound and near death.
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31	* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' was released in 2018, six years after the first ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''. In the early scenes of the movie, it's stated that it's been six years since Ralph and Vanellope first met.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' begins with a brief scene that shows what happened right after the final scene of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie the original movie]], and then it cuts after a five years timeskip. The movie came out in 2019, five years after the first.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' takes place eleven years after the events of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. Old home movies of a young Andy and Molly are shown in the film's prologue, and the film's plot involves Andy's toys being donated to Sunnyside when Andy tries to decide what to do with them since he hasn't played with them in years. The third film itself was released in 2010, eleven years after the second.
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37	* The ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series has pulled this twice through a combination of SoftReboot and CanonDiscontinuity:
38	** ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', which ignores the continuity of every film after the second, was released in 1998 and set [[CaptainObvious twenty years later]] from ''Film/Halloween1978''.
39	** ''Film/Halloween2018'' then ignores the continuity of every previous film except the first one ''again'' and is set forty years later it, as the film too was released forty years later.
40	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
41	** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' is set 3 years after ''Film/ANewHope'', and released 3 years later. The same also happened with ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
42	** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' is set thirty years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the same amount of time that passed between the two movie releases.
43	* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' was released in 1989 and took place in 1938. Due to various factors, it wouldn't get a sequel, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', until 2008. Said sequel took place in 1957, so the gap between both the release dates and settings was nineteen years.
44	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
45	** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', released in 2016, the Vision states it's been eight years since Tony Stark revealed his identity as ComicBook/IronMan, [[Film/IronMan1 whose film]] released in 2008. This is actually a minor [[SeriesContinuityError continuity error]], as the first Iron Man is officially set in [[NextSundayAD 2010]].
46	** Most of the films are implied to be set in the years they were released, with only a few exceptions: ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (released in 2011) and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel\|2019}}'' (released in 2019) are explicitly prequels set in the past, ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk\|2008}}'' (both released in 2008) are set in 2010, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' is set only a few months after [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 the first one]], ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' (released in 2017) ''Film/{{Black Panther\|2018}}'' (released in 2018), and ''Film/{{Black Widow\|2021}}'' (released in 2021) are all set in 2016 and [[spoiler: both ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' (released in 2019) are set in 2023]].
47	* ''Film/BeforeTrilogy'''s 3 films were released in 1995, 2004, and 2013. Nine years passed between each, both in-universe and in real life.
48	* ''Film/BadBoysII'' (2003) takes place exactly 8 years after ''Film/BadBoys1995'', while ''Film/BadBoysForLife'' (2020) is set 17 years after ''II''.
49	* ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' is a ContinuityReboot released in 1984 which ignores all prior films in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series except [[Film/Godzilla1954 the 1954 original]], but is still set thirty years later.
50	* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' takes place 20 years after ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and was also released 20 years after.
51	* The Spanish movie ''La niña de tus ojos'' (The Girls of your Dreams) was released in 1998, and takes place in 1938 during UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, it centers around a film crew who just finished their movie, and are hired to remake the movie [[ThoseWackyNazis in German by Joseph Goebbels]]. The sequel ''La reina de España'' (The Spanish Queen), was released in 2016 and has the cast reunite in the 1950s', and make a new film under the watchful eye of the Fascist government.
52	* ''Film/TheCraftLegacy'' is set in 2020, the year it was released, while ''Film/TheCraft'' was released in 1996 and also set then, meaning twenty-four years has passed in-universe and out. [[spoiler:Nancy looks to be in her late thirties or early forties (Creator/FairuzaBalk was 45 during filming), which fits with the timeline given she was in her late teens in the first movie; as she's revealed to be Lily's birth mother, at least sixteen years would had to have passed given Lily is in her late teens]].
53	* ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'' was released more than a decade after the series' DownerEnding (due to developmentHell, ExecutiveMeddling and then the COVID pandemic), which actually works quite well to show just how bad Lancelot's mismanagement of the kingdom has gone since he spent fortunes trying to find Arthur (who'd been MadeASlave somewhere in the Mediterranean).
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57	* Twenty years after his first published story, "Marooned Off Vesta", Creator/IsaacAsimov wrote a sequel to it called "Anniversary", where the heroes gather to celebrate twenty years since surviving the incident.
58	* In the ''Ulysses Moore'' series, between the sixth and seventh novels, two years had passed both in RealLife and in the novels. This is part of the author's "playing with reality" style.
59	* The Literature/WildCards series of novels presents a superhero universe in a somewhat realistic light. One of the major differences between it and comic book universes like the Marvel and DC Universes is that time passes and characters age and change, and even die for real. The series was put on hold during the mid-1990s. The newer books published after 2008, acknowledge the real-life gap of 13 years.
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63	* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' plays with this. Although the television series ended in 1991, it was followed by a film that is both a prequel ''and'' a sequel, ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', that aired in 1992 (which periods set before the series aired around 1990, and then in 1992 itself...or thereabouts). Twenty-five years later, the series returned with the followup season (technically sort of Season 3), called 'The Return'. These twenty-five years that have passed are implied to be a part of the overall mythos of the show, although why is left ambiguous, as Laura (who last appeared in ''Fire Walk With Me'', where she was the protagonist) implies.
64	-->'''Laura''' [to Dale]: I'll see you again in twenty-five years.
65	* Season 5 of ''Series/{{Billions}}'' was forced to suspend production for over a year due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and the episode "Liberty" (shot after production resumed in Summer 2021) features a months-long timeskip to reflect this.
66	* ''Series/CobraKai'' takes place thirty-some years after its predecessor ''Film/TheKarateKid'', equivalent to the real-life time since the movie's original release.
67	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' takes place twenty years after the events of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', which is fairly close to the real-life gap of eighteen years between the two. It's referenced that Picard [[ResignInProtest resigned in protest]] from Starfleet roughly fourteen years before the start of the series and the ''Enterprise''-D crew have gone their separate ways.
68	* The 1995 revival for the French-Canadian {{sitcom}} ''Moi et l'autre'' had 30 years pass in-universe. The real-life gap is only slightly shorter (about 24 years after the airing of the original series' final episode).
69	* ''Sarah, Plain and Tall'': The second instalment of the made-for-tv movie trilogy was filmed two years after the first one, and the third came along another six years later. The ages of Jacob's children and the length of his and Sarah's marriage coincide throughout the series.
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73	* Music/{{Helloween}} has "Who is Mr. Madman", from ''7 Sinners'' (2010), a sequel to "Perfect Gentleman" from ''Master of the Rings'' (1994). At the beginning of the song, the narration specifies that "fifteen years have passed" since the titular Gentleman was locked in a mental institution because his narcissism led him towards insanity.
74	--> ''"Sixteen years have passed since he, one perfect of his kind, the Casanova of his time, crowned himself to conquer the land in craving for lust. Lust, one of the seven deadly sins. Punishment he has suffered. Look at him what did he become, who is he now?"''
75	* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ConceptAlbum ''Music/OperationMindcrime'' was released in 1988, with the ending all but stating that Nikki, the main character, got locked up in prison after the events of the album. The sequel, ''Operation: Mindcrime 2'', was released in 2004, and the beginning has Nikki being freed from prison after sixteen years.
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79	* 19 years had passed between the release of ''VideoGame/AlienHominid'' and its sequel, ''VideoGame/AlienHominidInvasion'', and the sequel itself also takes place after 19 years since the events of the first game, because the Mothership that had the distress signal from the original alien actually did take that long reach Earth. This also means the Fat Kids in the first game that helped the original alien escape the FBI have grown up to become adults, which is important regarding the overall story of the sequel. [[spoiler: One of the Fat Kids who was abducted by the alien came back to Earth to raise a new underground group of Fat Kids, known as Large Lad now. There was also a Fat Kid that did not get abducted and was instead imprisoned all due to wear a seatbelt as the driver, who grew up to become [[FaceHeelTurn the current FBI director who opposes his former allies out of bitterness.]]]]
80	* The ''VideoGame/AndroDunos'' sequel, ''Andro Dunos 2'', is released on the first game's 30th anniversary and set three decades later, and a HappyEndingOverride where despite defeating the aliens in the original game, it turns out in the interim the aliens have return and took over earth.
81	* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'':
82	** ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' takes place two years after the events of the original game. As a result of being trapped under a boulder for two years, Grunty has been [[DemBones reduced to a living skeleton]], and once she is rescued by her sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, she [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kills Bottles as retribution]]. The goal of the game is to get into the Cauldron Keep so Banjo and Kazooie can use the Big O. Blaster (which Grunty plans to use on herself to restore herself to her former glory) to bring Bottles back to life. ''Tooie'' was released in 2000, two years after the original game.
83	** ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'' takes place eight years after the events of ''Tooie''. As a result of not having any villainy to fight for eight years, Banjo and Kazooie have become fat, lazy, and [[BagOfSpilling have forgotten how to do all of their special moves from the first two games]], resulting in the game's shift from an action platformer to a driving-based game. Grunty, now reduced to a skull, has spent the past eight years making her way back to Spiral Mountain. ''Nuts and Bolts'' was released in 2008, eight years after ''Tooie''.
84	* ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'': Episode 2 takes place in 2023, three years after the first game, which is the same gap between the release dates of the two games.
85	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
86	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', released in 2003, is set two years after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', released in 2001. More specifically, it came out only a couple of months before a completely-accurate two year anniversary.
87	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' was first released in Japan as a mobile phone game in 2008 and takes place exactly 17 years after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', which originally came out in 1991.
88	* In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', Palutena mentions that it's been 25 years since Pit defeated Medusa. ''Uprising'' was released 25 years after the original ''[[VideoGame/KidIcarus1986 Kid Icarus]]'' game.
89	* Games in the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series take place on or around their real-world Japanese release dates, with the exception of ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' (which is set in TheEighties).
90	* Sort-of example: ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' was released 23 years after [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 the original]]. After ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' rebooted the franchise, ''MKX'' had a 25-year time skip to acknowledge the time that has passed.
91	* ''Videogame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' are set 3 years after the first games. They were released in Japan in 1999, while ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndGreen'' first appeared in 1996. Similarly, ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' came out in Japan in 2010 and their sequels ''Videogame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' set two years later came out in 2012.
92	* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' games between 2002 and 2012 all referred to previous entries this way. For example, 2012's ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One All 4 One]]'' referred to Dr. Nefarious' defeat in 2009's ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackinTime A Crack in Time]]'' happening three years beforehand. A famous example is the Gadgetron employee discount Ratchet earns in [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the original 2002 game]]: he's told it wouldn't kick in for another two years, which it finally does in 2004's ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Up Your Arsenal]]'' so long as the player [[OldSaveBonus has a save of the original where Ratchet got the discount]].
93	* ''VideoGame/{{Rocket Knight\|Adventures}} (2010)'' takes place fifteen years after the events of ''Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2'', the previous game in the ''Rocket Knight Adventures'' series. In between the events of the two games, Sparkster [[CallToAgriculture took up farming, got married, and raised a son]]. ''Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2'' was released in late 1994, while ''Rocket Knight'' was released in May 2010.
94	* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'': The difference between ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' is two years (the difference between their release dates). Meanwhile, the difference between ''Splatoon 2'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' is five years (again, the difference between their release dates). In these time skips, new {{Idol Singer}}s rise and previous ones become old news, fashion trends change, and characters grow, age, and [[LegendaryInTheSequel become legends for their deeds]].
95	* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'', where one of Kerrigan's StopPokingMe statements is that the past seven years feel more like seventeen (seven years have passed in-game, but seventeen in RealLife).
96	* Played with for ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' and ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou''. The original game came out in 2007, but had an UpdatedRerelease in 2018 titled ''Final Remix'' with an additional storyline as a SequelHook for ''NEO'', "A New Day". The sequel chooses to use the added storyline's 2018 release date as the jumping off point for its TimeSkip of three years between the two games with the game's release in 2021, rather than the 14 year gap between the original base game and its proper sequel.
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100	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' progresses in WebcomicTime, and most of Acts 1-5 (released in 2009 through 2011) take place in one day. At the end of Act 5, a WhamEpisode reveals that there will be an ActBreak as all characters must split up and travel, and their journey will take three years to complete. When they arrive at their destination (in 2012) they have aged with the comic and matured from 13-year-olds to 16-year-olds.
101	** The same applies to ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues''. Released on ''Homestuck's'' 10-year anniversary (2019), all the characters are exactly a decade older than they were at the beginning of the comic.
102	* The ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'' webcomic is set 25 years after the events of the original arcade game, and was released 25 years after the arcade game in real life (1987 to 2012). As a result, the series features Momo's daughter, Momoko, who takes up the mantle of Wonder Momo from her mother.
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106	* ''WebVideo/EconomyWatch'': The release between episodes reflects on the timeline - If no new episodes are released for 3 months, then 3 months pass in-universe.
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110	* The [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 2020 revival]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' acknowledges the two decades between the last episode of the original series and the revival, given the main characters's habit of BreakingTheFourthWall.
111	* ''Total Drama All-Stars'', the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', took place one year after the events of ''Revenge of the Island'', given that Chef Hatchet bailed Chris out of prison in time for season 5. Chris was arrested at the end of season 4 for dumping toxic waste on Camp Wawanakwa.
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