Sequel in Another Medium

When a work leaves room for continued adventures or ends on an outright Sequel Hook, but is continued in a different medium.

This is most likely due to the original work not doing well financially, but has enough interest to merit continuation in a cheaper medium. Alternatively, they were Screwed by the Network of the original medium and they have to continue it in another. In case of movie continuation from other media, it may also mark a special part of the whole story.

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See also The Resolution Will Not Be Televised and its inverse Recycled: The Series. Related to Expanded Universe when the other media-sequels are treated as a lesser canon. Compare Anime First and Comic-Book Adaptation, as well as Continuation, Fan Sequel and Flash Forward Fic for Fan Fic examples. If the continuation is in the same medium that the predecessor was itelf adapted from, see Recursive Adaptation.

Note that cases of prequels and interquels also count here; the point is, the works are all part of the same timeline.

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Examples by the original medium

Anime and Manga

• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid is the manga continuation (the 4th season to be specific) of the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
• Even though the .hack franchise started with .hack//SIGN, the entire storyline is told between numerous mediums. Chronologically, the story goes from novels (.hack//AI Buster), to anime (.hack//SIGN), to video games (.hack//Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine), to anime that takes place during the games (.hack//Liminality), to novels (.hack//ZERO), to manga (.hack//Legend of the Twilight), to anime (.hack//Roots) that serves as both the prequel and epilogue to the corresponding video games (.hack//G.U.), that features a novel (.hack//CELL) as a side story between the two, to manga (.hack//LINK), to anime (.hack//Quantum).
  • This isn't even counting non-canon retellings such as the .hack//XXXX and .hack//GU manga. Yeah.. Its that kind of series. There are more games in the works too.
• The Sky Crawlers had a prequel in the form of a video game called The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces.
• Naruto ended its run after 700 chapters. In addition to the Spin-Offspring, there's a movie taking place during the Time Skip before the Distant Finale, which wraps up the Romance Arc between Naruto and Hinata Hyuga.
• The Next Generation -Patlabor- is the live-action sequel to the original Patlabor OVA continuity, and is set 15 years after its conclusion. Which also makes it the Distant Finale, as most of the original cast have retired from the SVU by then.
• The classic animated film Blood: The Last Vampire got a manga sequel, and said manga sequel got a video game sequel.
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero is a multimedia series. The anime was the first creation however was released concurrently with a light novel prequel, which was later given an animated adaptation. The series also has light novel sequels.
• The theatrical Dragon Ball movies Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ are interquels occuring in the Time Skip between Majin Buu's defeat and the manga's ending. They were later adapted into an anime/manga format in Dragon Ball Super, which itself got a movie sequel set after that series' ending.
• Ojamajo Doremi has the Ojamajo Doremi 16 novel series, set during the girls' high school years. This was later followed up by the 17, 18, 19, and 20 series, focusing on the cast as young adults.
• Martian Successor Nadesico started as an anime, continued as the video game The Blank of Three Years, jumped over to a movie The Prince of Darkness, and would have ended as another game had the movie not bombed.

Comic Book

• Watchmen (2019) is a TV sequel to the events of the original Watchmen comic, but in a universe that ignores both Before Watchmen and DC's Arc Welding of the original story in DC Rebirth, The Button, and Doomsday Clock.

Films — Animated

• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, a PS2 and Xbox sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was based on a script for a film sequel that was cancelled after Tim Burton convinced Disney not to do it. They chose not to throw it away entirely and made it into a video game instead.
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King is a Gameboy Advance prequel to the same cartoon.
• The first four levels of the Over the Hedge console game are directly taken from the climax of the movie. The rest of the game is a straight sequel where the animals raid houses and battle Dwayne the Verminator.
• The console Meet the Robinsons game is a prequel, while the Game Boy Advance game is a sequel.
• The Incredibles has a videogame sequel titled The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer featuring the villain who appeared at the end of the film. The official Incredibles 2 wasn't announced until 13 years later.
  • Originally a comic book series likewise continued from the first film and ended on a major cliffhanger but was rendered non-canon when the sequel picked up from the first film itself. Ironically there's now another comic that takes place after the second movie.
• Like The Incredibles above, Cars had a video-game follow up that preceded its actual theatrical sequel with its tie-in game, wherein Lightning once again challenged Chick Hicks for the Piston Cup, and, unlike in the movie, succeeds in winning it.
• Big Hero 6: The Series is this to the 2014 film.
• Tangled: The Series, likewise, is a sequel to the original movie, taking place between it and Tangled Ever After.
• Monsters, Inc. has a comic set after the end of the movie which focuses on Mike and Sully trying to run the company and facing threats not only from a returning Randall but from Sid of Toy Story of all people.
• Frozen has a few semi-canon sequels set between it and Frozen II, starting with Frozen: Breaking Boundaries.
• While most of the Disney worlds in the Kingdom Hearts games are alternate depictions of the source material and the stories told in them are usually Broad Strokes retellings of the movies with the protagonists and the Heartless inserted, Word of God confirms that the Toy Box world in Kingdom Hearts III was written collaboratively with Pixar to be a canonical Toy Story 2.5, set between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 in the continuity of the original films. While not explicitly stated, it can also be inferred that the same applies to the Monstropolis world, whose story similarly functions as a sequel to Monsters, Inc..
  • The San Fransokyo world in III is also written as a sequel to Big Hero 6, though seemingly contradictory to Big Hero 6: The Series mentioned above, as it concerns the corruption and eventual restoration of Baymax’s original body.

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Films — Live-Action

• Men in Black: Retribution, the comic sequel to the Men in Black film.
• The Countdown to Darkness prequel comic for Star Trek Into Darkness.
• Star Wars franchise:
  • The Expanded Universe works as this, producing prequels, sequels, spinoffs and lower deck episodes in any possible medium beyond the theatrical films.
  • Legends:
    • Splinter of the Mind's Eye was originally intended to serve as the basis of a low-budget Made-for-TV Movie if Star Wars wasn't popular enough to produce cinematic sequels. The TV film didn't prove necessary, but the book stands as the first Legends work ever produced.
    • The Shadows of the Empire multimedia project basically had this as its goal, making all of the merchandising tie-ins—centered around a novel, but also with a game, a comic, an orchestral soundtrack, trading cards, and action figures—for a movie set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but without making the actual movie.
    • The later The Force Unleashed project did the same thing, with a story set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the only primary difference being that the game was the centerpiece of this project.
• From the movie Pitch Black, we have:
  • Escape from Butcher Bay, video game prequel.
  • Assault on Dark Athena, the second video game prequel.
  • Dark Fury, animated movie set just after the first movie.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey had a Marvel Comics adaptation followed by a continuation.
• TRON 2.0, a game sequel to TRON, which fell into Canon Discontinuity after TRON: Legacy was announced. 2.0 also had a comic book sequel called Tron: Ghost in the Machine and a prequel in its GBA port, TRON 2.0: Killer App.
  • TRON: Legacy has its own Expanded Universe in the form of interquels Tron: Betrayal, the Flynn Lives! Alternate Reality Game, TRON: Evolution, and TRON: Uprising.
• Hulk is a game sequel to Hulk.
• Return to Labyrinth, an "Amerimanga" sequel to Labyrinth. Archaia Entertainment also printed a prequel comic about the origins of the Goblin King Jareth. Both are officially licensed.
  • Archaia also did The Power of The Dark Crystal. A sequel comic to The Dark Crystal that was originally intended to be a movie.
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game is basically the third Ghostbusters movie, while the IDW comic continues the story from where the video game left off.
• Pacific Rim has the prequel "Tales from Year Zero", and it's supposed to be getting a comic book series and an animated series.
• All the expansions of The Matrix - the video games, comics, The Animatrix - were intended by the creators to be canon to the films. This includes Enter the Matrix, which was created concurrently with The Matrix Reloaded and weaves in and out of its storyline, and The Matrix Online, which picks up where the movie trilogy left off.
• The Back to the Future trilogy got follow-ups in Back to the Future: The Animated Series, a set of video games and a comic book.
• The Thing (1982):
  • It was followed by a videogame sequel 20 years later named simply The Thing, in which a rescue team investigates what happened at outpost #31 and encounters a Thing plague.
  • The film surprisingly had several comic book continuations. The Thing from Another World, set after the film, has MacReady found by an ice-breaking ship and brought aboard, but naturally, a piece of the Thing manages to find its way on as well. This was followed by Climate of Fear, set in a rainforest, and finally Eternal Vows, set in a village in New Zealand. Another, Questionable Research, is another attempt set directly after the film (only MacReady and Childs die in this version before the story starts), focusing on a research team answering the S.O.S, finding the frozen remains of the Thing, bringing it on their ship and naturally all hell breaking loose.
• The animated film Starship Troopers: Invasion is a Broad Strokes sequel to the live-action movies that incorporates a fair bit from the novel and the animated series as well.
• Super Mario Bros. notoriously ended in a Sequel Hook, but no sequel came after the film went on to be a critical and financial failure. The sequel eventually came in the form of a webcomic with creative input from one of the movie's writers.
• S.M. Stirling's T2 Trilogy of novels continues the story of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Before Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines or The Sarah Connor Chronicles were released).
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a sequel novel, ET The Book Of The Green Planet, giving the story of what happened when E.T. went home. It was written by William Kotzwinkle, who had written the novelization of the movie, and was presented as if it were the novelization of a non-existent sequel film, even being released in both a full novel and an abridged "storybook" with extra illustrations.
• The fantasy film Willow had a sequel in the appropriate form of a trilogy of fantasy novels. They were credited as a collaboration between George Lucas and Chris Claremont, and pick up the story when Elora Danaan is an adult.
• The Fly II (which was itself a sequel to David Cronenberg's version of The Fly) received a comicbook continuation in The Fly: Outbreak courtesy of IDW Publishing. Martin's continued experiments lead to more people getting infected. Body Horror ensues.
• The Goonies II for the NES is a Video Game sequel to The Goonies.
• The Amazing Spider-Man got this in the form of a video game that continued the film's events despite being released around the same time. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 rendered it Canon Discontinuity, though its own video game adaptation alters the story to continue from the first game's events and basically make it an Alternate Continuity.
• Stargate SG-1 is a TV series sequel to Stargate in a Broad Strokes fashion.
• Limitless had a sequel in form of a TV series, though focusing on a new protagonist and the main protagonist of the film has a supporting role in the series.
• The Warriors:
  • The video game acts as both a prequel (Telling the story how the gang was formed, how certain members joined and how they gained their notoriety against other gangs) and a direct adaptation of the movie.
  • A four part comic sequel subtitled "Jailbreak" which involved the gang going to break out Ajak after his arrest by the police in the main film.
• The Punisher is a game sequel to the 2004 movie.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street attempted one after Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare which went more into depth about Freddy's past, but it was cancelled after three issues.
• Chasing Dogma: A midquel example for the The View Askewniverse, the comic follows Jay and Silent Bob from the events of Chasing Amy and how they ended up coming to Bethany's rescue in Dogma which in turn lead to their involvement in that movie.
• Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash is a continuation of Freddy vs. Jason, made after the proposed sequel was shelved, though still had the movie script to use. As the title states, it featured Ash Williams of Evil Dead fame. It in itself got a sequel subtitled The Nightmare Warriors
• Night of the Living Dead: Barbara's Zombie Chronicles covers what happened to Barbara after she was carried off by her zombie brother in the original movie.
• Power Rangers (2017) has a tie-in graphic novel, subtitled Aftershock, which serves as an immediate sequel to the movie.
• The Scorpion King had a video game prequel The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian and a video game sequel exclusively for the Gameboy Advance The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris.
• Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday was a graphic novel released in 2008 as a supposed sequel to Repo Man. Alex Cox writes that the novel explains what happened to Otto 10 years after his disappearance.
• Good Burger got a sequel novel called Good Burger 2 Go which was originally intended to be a movie.
• The Karate Kid series finished its LaRusso trilogy in 1989, and had a Soft Reboot in 1994 with The Next Karate Kid, and later a full Continuity Reboot in 2010. In 2018, YouTube Premium (then known as YouTube Red) debuted the series Cobra Kai, an Un Reboot which promoted Starter Villain Johnny Lawrence to protagonist status, which became a huge hit. For its third season (released on New Year's Day in 2021), the show would move to Netflix.
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe continued the story of some characters on TV, first regular one (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for Agent Coulson, Agent Carter for Peggy Carter) and then Disney+ (WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier).

Literature

• The Dark Tower was adapted into a film of the same name, with all marketing pointing to it being a loose adaptation. It was actually a Stealth Sequel.
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-Sky Trilogy was followed up with Below the Root, a video game conclusion to the series.
• The same company also consulted with Ray Bradbury to make an authorized text adventure sequel to Fahrenheit 451.
• The first book and two chapters from the second book about Madicken were first adapted into a TV series in six parts. The rest of the second book was adapted into a movie. And to make things complicated, material from the first TV series was used to make a second movie and material from the first movie was used to make a second TV series.
• Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club eventually got a sequel, Fight Club 2, published as a monthly comic book series later collected in trade paperback. A threequel, Fight Club 3, was also released in this format.
• The Witcher games are the continuation of the books series. That being said, the author of the books doesn't consider the games to be canon.
• Several of H.P. Lovecraft's works have received this treatment.
  • At the Mountains of Madness has two sequels in tabletop game format, with the Beyond the Moutnains of Madness campaign in Call of Cthulhu and the Assault on the Mountains of Madness campaign in Achtung! Cthulhu. The source book for the later even references the former, letting the keeper decide whether the two campaigns are canon with each other.
  • The Shadow Over Innsmouth also has a prequel/sequel tabletop campaign in the "Escape from Innsmouth" scenario from Call of Cthulhu. It greatly expands on the federal government's raid on Innsmouth that was only briefly mentioned in the original story, while also extrapolating on what happened to both Innsmouth and the horrors it contained after the raid's conclusion. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a somewhat loose adaptation of this scenario.
• Ringworld was given a 1992 PC game sequel titled Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch.
• High★Speed! was given a sequel in the form of the anime franchise Free!.
• Nnedi Okorafor's comic miniseries LaGuardia is a sequel to her prose novel Lagoon, although there is no character overlap.
• Harry Potter was given a prequel in the form of the Fantastic Beasts film series. Unlike the film adaptations of the books, Fantastic Beasts tells an entirely original story, and is thus considered completely canon to the original book series.

Live-Action TV

• Firefly had some of its remaining plot threads resolved in the film Serenity after the show's cancellation. It was then continued further in a series of comics, including both prequels and sequels to the other two installments.
• Buffyverse:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer received a direct continuation in comic book form and went on for five more "seasons" before finally ending for good and undergoing a new comic with it's own continuity.
  • Likewise Angel which provides closure where the original series left off.
  • Angel: "After the Fall" covers where the show's Bolivian Army Ending left off and Angel's struggles in a Los Angeles ravaged by monsters.
• The various Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Adaptations and Doctor Who Expanded Universe books spun off from Doctor Who between 1989-2005 when (other than the Backdoor Pilot Made-for-TV Movie, simply called Doctor Who) there was no new Who airing.
  • Several entries in the Expanded Universe are direct sequels to TV episodes. In particular, the Sequel Hook in "The Masque of Mandragora" was taken up by other media on four occasions (a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, a Sarah Jane Smith audio drama season arc, a Past Doctor Adventures novel and a New Series Adventures novel) with the last one taking the time to reference the other three.
• The X-Files started off a TV series with a couple of live-action movies, and got a 10th season comic in 2013 and an 11th in 2015 which continue Mulder and Scully's adventures. Ironically after the comics ended, the show was revived by Fox the following year and likewise got a 10 and 11th season, which ended up knocking the comic seasons out of canon (though some fans like to view them as an Alternate Continuity).
• Star Trek: The Original Series:
  • Many Star Trek comics by Gold Key Comics and DC Comics which were published between the end of the original series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series was a short lived continuation of the original series, created by Filmation.
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture started a series of movies based on the original series.
• There have been hundreds of novels that take place after final episodes of the various Star Trek series, notably the "Relaunch" lines of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Four years after Charmed ended, Zenescope Entertainment started publishing a monthly comicbook series set eighteen months after the events of the final episode.
• After Stargate Atlantis was cancelled rather suddenly a continuation novel series was started. It's even considered canon.
• The Third Day: While the first and last instalments of the Mini Series - "Summer" and "Winter" - are both pre-filmed TV series while the middle episode is a live semi improvised theatre play that was live-streamed in real time on Facebook and Sky.
• Smallville has a season 11 covering Clark fully embracing his Superman persona.
• TV series The Prisoner (1967) had a comic book sequel called Shattered Visage, which was controversial among fans due to its simultaneous attempts to do a Mind Screwdriver and a Happy Ending Override on the TV show's final episode.
• Multiple stories of the Expanded Universe books of Space: 1999 continued the story of the series between the last televised episode and the Distant Finale / "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue featurette "Message From Moonbase Alpha".
• IDW Comics has published "Season 3" and "Season 4" of Jericho, a continuation comic book for The X-Files and is about to launch a continuation comic book for Millennium
• Penny Dreadful has a comic book series produced by Titan Comics that continues after the events of the third season.
• A Father Ted stage musical has been announced that will be set after the series ended with Ted somehow becoming pope.
• Charmed (1998) got a Season 9 in the form of a comic, wrapping up loose ends of the series before finally putting it to bed for good. A 10th "season" followed after that.

Video Games

• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy VII received a direct sequel in the form of an animated film, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, not to mention the various sequels and prequels, one of which was an anime short titled Before Crisis.
  • Before that Final Fantasy V had the OVA sequel Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals.
• Crysis 2 is the sequel but set at an altogether different time and place with a (mostly) new cast of characters. The events of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead were more directly continued in a six-issue comic book series endorsed by EA and published by IDW intending to fill the gap.
• The Titan Comics-published Assassin's Creed Origins four-part comic mini-series details the fall of Cleopatra 14 years after the game.
• The 1998 shooter SiN was originally followed by a 2000 anime movie in which Blade's partner died and was replaced by his sister, though this movie was later rendered non-canon when a sequel game came out in 2006.
• First Encounter Assault Recon had two prequels in other mediums. The "Alma Interviews" was a live-action short movie depicting an interview with a young Alma before she really started on the spooky business from the game, while the "Director's Edition" of the game also came with a Dark Horse-drawn adaptation of the beginning of Fettel's rampage from the game's opening cinematic.
• The Hope's Peak Saga of Danganronpa (most of which consisted of visual novels and video games) had two: one was Danganronpa Zero, a novel set before the first and second games and the only novel in the saga to be directly related to the plot, and Danganronpa 3, an anime which served as the conclusion chapter. The third cardinal game tells a completely separate story.
• Life Is Strange has a comic continuation taking place after one of the two possible endings, in particular the one where Max saves Chloe and let the storm destroy Arcadia Bay. They go on with their lives, least until Max's time rewinding power suddenly start acting up to which they must find out why.
• Injustice: Gods Among Us has a prequel set 5 years before Superman's regime, in comic book form.
  • Injustice 2 also has a prequel comic.
• The Maverick Hunter X PSP remake of Mega Man X features an OVA prequel called "Day of Sigma", revealing when Sigma became the Big Bad.
• Melty Blood got a sequel through the manga Back Alley Nightmare, which also added Fate/Grand Order to the list of Nasuverse crossovers in the game.
• Sakura Wars:
  • The Le Nouveau Paris OVA as well as Sakura Wars: The Movie both continue from where Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? left off.
  • The Sakura Wars: New York OVA is a direct sequel to Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love.
  • Sakura Wars the Animation takes a year after Sakura Wars (2019).
• Infamous: A midquel example, the comic is set in between the first and second game and covers the plot points that the first game Left Hanging. Namely what happened with Alden, Moya and Sasha.
• The IDW comic of Sonic the Hedgehog, while likewise being a Continuity Reboot following the cancellation of the Archie version, acts as a follow up of Sonic Forces, covering the aftermath of that game and what happened to Eggman after he was defeated before veering off into the usual good vs evil business. But not Infinite, oddly enough, whom in the game just vanished after Sonic and the Rookie beat him. This was due to a mandate by Sega that the writers weren't allowed to cover his fate, apparently wanting to do this themselves for a future game.
• The PlayStation 4 remake of MediEvil released alongside a comic tie-in that acts as a sequel to MediEvil 2, and uses plot elements from what would have been the third game in the series, MediEvil: Fate's Arrow.
• Although it wasn't as apparent when it released, NieR had a sequel in the stage play YoRHa, which told of a robot war in the setting's distant future and the androids that fought it. When NieR: Automata eventually elaborated on these plot points, YoRHa was expanded and converted into a series of side story plays.
• Kemono Friends was a bit weird about this. While it started out as a mobile game before getting an anime, for most of the story the anime went on as if it was an Alternate Continuity. However, after a certain point it gets revealed that the anime was actually a Stealth Distant Sequel, albeit one that's vague about exactly how much time has passed between the two. This wound up being done again several years later, where the anime got a new mobile/arcade game called Kemono Friends 3, set after the second anime season.

Web Comics

• The Homestuck Epilogues is a novel continuation of the webcomic Homestuck, telling two different versions of what might have happened to the characters after the original comic ended. Notably, the Epilogues repeatedly call their own canonicity as the "true ending" of Homestuck into question, and they make very clear that the controversial original ending is intended to stand on its own. The Epilogues themselves would get a sequel in the original medium three years later.

Western Animation

• Samurai Jack: From 2013 to 2015, a comic book series was made which continued Jack's adventures and with Jack and his allies preparing to confront Aku in one final battle. This was at a time when it was uncertain if the show would ever get an ending, with it would a few years later with a fifth and final season. There are fans who still view the comics as being canon, squeezing them into the Time Skip between seasons.
  • Said fifth season’s finale received a canonical interquel, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, a video game depicting an adventure set between Jack and Ashi jumping through Ashi’s portal to the past to actually arriving in the past, with the game’s Golden Ending adding onto the series finale by showing Ashi surviving and getting to live happily ever after with Jack in the past.
• ReBoot was cancelled (for good) after a Season 4 cliffhanger, but the story continued years later in an official webcomic format hosted by Rainmaker Entertainment, ReBoot: Code of Honor.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender has had several following the end of the show, which run the gamut of exploring plot threads the series left hanging to laying down the foundation for various plot and setting elements present in The Legend of Korra.
  • The Legend of Korra: Following in its predecessor's footsteps, the comics explore the immediate aftermath of the show's fourth season. Namely the issue of the new spirit portal in the middle of Republic City and the remnants of the Earth Nation army still making a bid for power in Kuvira's absence.
• Darkwing Duck: Like Rescue Rangers, the show got a comic book from Boom in 2010 set many years after the TV series and Drake taking up the Darkwing persona once more. Again however, sadly cancelled when Disney revoked Boom's license due to now having Marvel under their belt.
• Gargoyles: A comic continued the story, headed by main show runner Greg Weisman no less, in 2006, ignoring the show's third season, The Goliath Chronicles. It even got a spin-off, Bad Guys, which as the title states focuses on the villains of the series. Despite great reception from fans, the comics ended up being cancelled when Disney increased their licensing fees and publisher Slave Labor Graphics had to drop the series.
• The Critic was continued as online webisodes several years after it was cancelled by FOX.
• In terms of Sequel Episodes, "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" from The Simpsons had a sequel in the comic series, dubbed the "Quickly Cancelled Comic Book Cavalcade". The stories are continuations of the three spinoffs proposed in the original episode, and true to form, they are as hokey as ever. In the "Wiggum, P.I." story, Wiggum becomes undead and Skinner suspects Big Daddy is behind it. Meanwhile, the eponymous "Lovematic Grandpa" finds his soul switched with that of Moe's Girl of the Week. Finally, "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour" is forced to hold their salute to Rock & Roll on an island due to Homer crashing their plane on the way to their gig in Hollywood.
• Teen Titans had a tie-in comic, Teen Titans Go! (not to be confused with the 2013 show of the same name, or the comic based on that show), which ran alongside it. The comic continued after the show ended and told stories taking place after the series finale, even introducing characters they either couldn't use or had no time to cover (like Ravager, Wildfire and both Wonder Girls: Donna Troy and Cassie). It also reveals Terra's past and answers the Ambiguous Ending from the final episode of if the girl Beast Boy ran into was Terra or not, with it being confirmed by her brother, Geo Force, that it is indeed her.
• The Fairly OddParents got three live-action movies set after the main series in the form of A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, A Fairly Odd Christmas, and A Fairly Odd Summer. Considering how wonky their inclusion would be in the TV series (especially in later seasons), they're pretty much considered an Alternate Continuity.
• Prior to the show being Un-Cancelled, Star Wars: The Clone Wars had some of its unmade story arcs adapted into other mediums; the comic book miniseries Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir and the novel Dark Disciple were made in a time when it seemed all but certain the show was dead.
• Adventure Time:
  • Season 11: A "proposed" season set after the series finale. Despite the title, it doesn't really cover much of anything new, was cancelled after six issues, and Word of God states they're non-canon anyway.
  • Simon & Marcy: A spin-off that covers Simon, aka the former Ice King, suddenly regressing and Marcy's quest to help him culminating in trying rescue Betty who took on the GOLOB form in the series finale to save everyone.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers got one in 2010 that continue where the series left off where the rangers regroup once more. Lasted for only for eight issues due to Disney revoking Boom's license after gaining Marvel.
• Gravity Falls received a single volume dubbed Lost Legends that, while covering stories during the events of the show and even before it, likewise has a few set in-between when Bill was defeated and Dipper and Mabel leaving for home.
• Invader Zim: The comic continues on where Season 2 left off, usually in a lot of self-contained adventures though a few things did stick. Elements of the comics also showed up in the TV movie, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus.
• Legion of Super-Heroes had its own comic series, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, which kept going after the show's end and had some stories taking place after it.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The existing comic line has a "Season 10" starting in 2020.
• Over the Garden Wall has a number of tie-in comics by KaBOOM! Comics, some of which are set after the show's end.
• Regular Show received a six issue mini called 25 Years Later in which a now older Mordicai and Rigby get into a situation where their kids are taken from them by a magical imp and their quest to get them back.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): This one is a more complicated example. The comic book came first before the TV series but was more light-hearted against the darker themes of the TV show. After the TV series ended, the comic ended up taking on the more mature theme of the TV series as well as using some of the plotlines that was intended for the show's proposed third season. Thus some fans consider the comic a continuation of the TV series.
• Mega Man: Fully Charged has a six-issue comic book mini-series that takes place after the first season's ending. It is written by the show's writers and introduces story ideas originally planned for the second season before its cancellation. It also has a notably Darker and Edgier tone compared to the series it is based on.
• Before the release of Young Justice: Outsiders, DC released a two-issue digital comic book that took place between the previous season and Outsiders, written by series showrunner Greg Weisman. During the DC Fandome virtual event, a audio play called "The Prize" premiered that Weisman also wrote and was performed by the show's voice cast. It canonically takes place between Outsiders and Phantoms.
• The Dragon Prince has a comic book called Through The Moon, which takes place after season three.

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