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.
• The animes GaoGaiGar FINAL and Betterman got the Web Serial Novel followup King of Kings: GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman, set eight years after the events of the former series.

Asian Animation

• The story of BoBoiBoy Galaxy was not continued with a second proper television season; it was instead continued as a comic book series being advertised as Season 2.

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.
• The 2000 First-Person Shooter video game KISS: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child follows up the events of the Kiss Psycho Circus comic.
• The comic book Second Contact is a crossover between Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men. The novel Planet X is another one and acknowledges the first.

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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 movie.
• 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. Another sequel, Monsters at Work, is a TV series.
• 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.
• Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.² is a loose video game sequel to Heavy Metal 2000.
• Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon is the sequel to Treasure Planet.

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.
    • For the animated series, The Clone Wars is a sequel to Attack of the Clones, and both Rebels and The Bad Batch are this to Revenge of the Sith.
    • The Disney+ live-action series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are both sequels to Return of the Jedi, while Obi-Wan Kenobi is one to Revenge of the Sith.
    • While Solo never got a sequel the story of Han Solo's early years before A New Hope continued in the Han Solo and Chewbacca comic series. In addition Crimson Dawn and Qi'ra were followed up on in the event comic Crimson Reign
  • 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 novel written.
    • 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 Force Unleashed was a story set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, with the game as 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. The game is followed by Hulk: Gamma Games, which is a comic book set after the game.
• 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 video game 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, E.T.: 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, known as the Chronicles Of The Shadow War. 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, Loki).
• Groundhog Day got a virtual reality video game sequel called Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like Son, which is pretty much just Groundhog Day but you play as the son of Phil Connors, Phil Connors Jr., and the game takes place in the modern day.
• The Suicide Squad is continued with the Peacemaker series, although it only focuses on the titular character.

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! (2013) 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 sequel in the form of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, as well as prequels in the form of the Fantastic Beasts film series. Both of them are written by J. K. Rowling, hence they are officially canon in both the book and film versions of the Wizarding World.

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:
  • Star Trek
  • Many 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.
  • The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Conspiracy" debuted an alien infiltration by Puppeteer Parasites that was meant to create a recurring villain. However, the bluegills were dropped after this appearance due to the expense of the special effects needed; the Borg ended up taking their role. The Star Trek Novelverse, Star Trek Online, and the Star Trek Adventures tutorial campaign A Star Beyond the Stars all picked up the bluegill storyline in various ways—and oddly all three of them made some connection between the bluegills and the Trill.
• 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 comic book series that serves as the canonical season 11, covering Clark fully embracing his Superman persona.
• 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 Publishing has published "Season 3" and "Season 4" of Jericho (2006), as well as continuation comic books for The X-Files and Millennium (1996).
• 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.
• Kaamelott: Premier Volet is The Movie of Kaamelott, and a Distant Sequel to it.
• Sex and the City was followed by a duology which serves as the sequel of the series.
• The Sopranos got a prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.
• As noted above in Film, the main storyline from the Disney+ series WandaVision continues in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Appropriately enough, Multiverse of Madness further explores the idea of The Multiverse from Loki and What If...? (2021).

Tabletop Games

• Cyberpunk were made as book games that jumpstarted the Cyberpunk genre to the mainstream media, while two of their sequels, The Arasaka's Plot (a 2007 mobile game), and Cyberpunk 2077, are video game sequels, with the latter being a Distant Sequel.

Video Games

• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy V had the OVA sequel Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals.
  • 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.
    • Final Fantasy VII Remake has an interquel novel, Final Fantasy VII Remake Trace Of Two Pasts.
  • Final Fantasy X has an audio drama CD, acting as a sequel to Final Fantasy X-2, which many fans consider non-canon due to the hatred it has amassed. Since Final Fantasy X 3 was canned, the audio drama CD can be considered WhatCouldHaveBeen.
  • Final Fantasy XV has its prequel movie, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV.
    • It also had what was supposed to be the Grand Finale of the story, the Dawn of the Future DLCs, collected into a novel that told What Could Have Been the stories of those DLCs.
• 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 four: 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, Danganronpa 3, an anime which served as the conclusion chapter, Killer Killer, a manga taking place just before the events of Danganronpa 3, and Nagito Komaeda and the World Destroyer, an OVA set some time after the end of Danganronpa 2. 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 starts 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.
  • Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe takes place after Injustice 2, more specifically the Absolute Power route of the final battle.
• 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 place 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.
• Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation is an anime interquel to Phantasy Star Online 2, set between the events of EPISODE 3 and EPISODE 4 and starring a mostly original cast and story. Very little of its plot has any actual bearing on the game's story, but it is used to explain the absence of a certain character early in EPISODE 4 and its characters are featured in some cutscenes.
• Invoked by Twinbeard when they announced a sequel to Frog Fractions, as they claimed they would make it such a Stealth Sequel that it might not even be a video game at all. Two years later, and it would turn out the sequel was the ARG used to find it.
• Red Faction: Origins is a Syfy film interquel between the two games in the Red Faction series, namely, Guerilla and Armageddon.
• Nefarious was originally a standalone 2D platformer released in 2017, but it received a follow-up as an ongoing webcomic. This was pretty clearly done in response to the property's own strengths: the game was considered pretty mediocre and finicky, but it managed to be carried by its premise and charm, with enough room to expand its Excuse Plot beyond gameplay.

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

• Adventure Time:
  • Season 11: A "proposed" season set after the series finale, despite the title, it didn't actually cover any new ground and was cancelled after six issues. Word of God states they're non-canon, anyway, with the animated miniseries Adventure Time: Distant Lands serving as the true continuation.
  • 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 GOLB form in the series finale to save everyone.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender has had several comic books 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. There are also a number of comics that serve as interquels to the show's events.
  • 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.
• 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.
• Darkwing Duck: The show got a comic book continuation from KaBOOM! Comics in 2010, set a years after the TV series and which had Drake take up the Darkwing persona once more. The series ended after eighteen years, when Disney revoked Boom's license due to now having Marvel under their belt. The comic would be briefly revivedin 2016, ignoring the Boom run's final story arc for legal reasons, before being cancelled after eight issues.
• The Dragon Prince has a comic book called Through the Moon, which takes place after season three.
• The Fairly OddParents:
  • The series 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 by fans.
  • The show would later get alive-action TV series sequel in the form of The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, which has Timmy personally grant his younger cousin his fairies as he gets ready to head off to college.
• 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. The comics ended up being cancelled when Disney increased their licensing fees, which prompted publisher Slave Labor Graphics to drop the series.
• Gravity Falls received a single volume dubbed Lost Legends written by the show's creator that, in addition to covering stories taking place during the events of the show and even before it, also 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, mostly consisting of self-contained adventures benefitting of the original show's Negative Continuity nature, though a few overarching plot points 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 tie-in 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.
• 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.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The tie-in comic book series labeled its final fourteen issues as "Season 10."
• Over the Garden Wall has a number of tie-in comics by KaBOOM! Comics, some of which are set after the show's end.
• 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.
• Regular Show received a six-issue mini called 25 Years Later in which a now older Mordecai and Rigby get into a situation where their kids are taken from them by a magical imp and their quest to get them back.
• Samurai Jack: From 2013 to 2015, a comic book series was made which continued Jack's adventures and concluded with Jack and his allies preparing to confront Aku in one final battle. The show would get an actual fifth season shortly after, but there are fans who still view the comics as being canon, squeezing them into the 50-year Time Skip between seasons four and five.
  • 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. The game’s Golden Ending goes on to retcon the show's ending, showing Ashi surviving and getting to live happily ever after with Jack in the past.
• 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.
• 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 were intended for the show's proposed third season. Thus some fans consider the comic a continuation of the TV series.
• Prior to the show being Un-Canceled, 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.
• 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, which included addressing the show's Ambiguous Ending, and introduced several characters they either couldn't use or had no time to cover (like Ravager, Wildfire, and Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark).
• 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 show's original comic book tie-in, also written by Weisman and staff writer Kevin Hopps, also told many canonical stories that were interquels to various episodes. Every story arc but the last one took place around season one, while the final story arc took place exactly one month before the start of Invasion.

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