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* The Frogwares ''Sherlock Holmes'' adventure games have always existed in an ambiguous state as far as a series canon goes: the different games often included nods to one another, but they shared no significant continuity or chronology, included a frequently shifting voice cast for Holmes and Watson, and were often very different in tone and style from one another. However, the release in 2016 of the eighth game, ''Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter'', confirmed that at least the previous two games had taken place in the same universe, and that a conscious effort had been made to distinguish this Holmes as "new", with a new voice actor and much [[AgeLift younger-looking]] character models for him and Watson. Whether this means the first five games in the series were also canonically connected is less clear, but the announcement of the deliberate reboot is the first official word on the subject at all from the developers.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' has undergone several reboots, the first in 2003, the second in 2009 titled "Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures", and the third/current one in 2021 titled "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City".

* In Creator/WilliamShatner's ''Quest for Tomorrow'' books, the main character Jim Endicott begins to develop certain powers and, by the third novel, has the power to literally alter the course of TheMultiverse. Which he does, by altering his own fate, resulting in him never getting those powers in [[TheEarthPrimeTheory the prime universe]]. The following two books are about a different Jim Endicott (who even changes his last name to hide from enemies). While it seems as if certain events may repeat themselves, the fact that Shatner stopped writing the series makes it unlikely we'll ever find out.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' also has two reboots: the first in 2002 and the second in 2009.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has had four core reboots. All four gens take place in different continuities from the looks of it. G3 received a soft reboot near the end, which removed many ponies from production and revamped the existing ponies slightly. In 2021, the toy line will be rebooted again, the fifth time the toy line has done so.

* It would seem that every new season of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' is a complete reboot, (except for ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', which are set in the same continuity) featuring similar concepts and recurring Digimon, but having a whole different cast of humans with a totally new world to explore. These were clearly cases of [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]]; the ''Young Hunters'' and the UsefulNotes/WonderSwan games made this fact more obvious, but since [[NoExportForYou they have yet to be released outside of Japan]], the confusion about the casts is forgivable.

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

** ''Wonder Woman'' was also rebooted corresponding to the start of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] in 1956 with ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' (vol. 1) #98. Unlike a lot of DC's other Silver Age reboots which completely revamped the characters, Wonder Woman's reboot kept the character mostly the same with a few slight changes, but reset her story to have her leaving Paradise Island for the first time. Among other changes, Wonder Woman was given the ability to glide on air currents and Hippolyta was changed into a blonde.

* This is actually a plot point in the Creator/GrantMorrison run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan''. Because of the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Buddy, the titular hero, literally has to reboot his life to avoid a paradox. It's like this: Buddy Baker, the Animal Man, was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] hero, and thus lived on Earth-Two. After the Crisis, all of the Earths were folded into one, so while Buddy still existed, he was a completely different person but still drew from his Silver Age origin (the accident which gave the original Buddy powers sterilized him, while [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] Buddy sired two children after he got his powers, not to mention Modern Buddy suddenly became years younger than the original). In order to prevent the paradox, Buddy had to use a RealityWarper machine to rewrite his personal history so it made sense. Got all that?

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

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

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

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' ends with [[spoiler:BigBad Pucci activating his final Stand, Made in Heaven to reset the universe. But in the process of tying up loose ends, he's killed before he can complete another reset, creating a new universe where his ability is undone (with new incarnations of the characters who died prior to the reset leading better lives and Pucci himself seemingly to have never existed)]].
** Parts from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' onwards take place in a new universe separate from the first six parts, though it has some characters, locations and concepts named after those from the original.

** ''Film/Godzilla1998'', the first American reboot, which was intended to start a trilogy, but was a tremendous flop with critics, general audiences, and long-time fans, resulting in only [[WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries an animated series]] that followed the film being produced and the rest scrapped.

** ''Film/Godzilla2014'' is one for both the original Toho films and the 1998 American film, setting itself in a completely separate continuity (although still with [[MythologyGags numerous nods]]) that tries to be more faithful to its source material than the 1998 film, and also acts as an IntercontinuityCrossover with Franchise/KingKong, dubbed the Film/{{Monsterverse}}.
** Toho later started plotting a different, separate from Creator/{{Legendary|Pictures}}, Godzilla film of their own for 2016 with ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', which is a pure reboot, even ignoring the original ''Gojira'', which may lead to ''two'' running alternate continuities at once. They later scrapped the idea of a direct sequel, but have plans to move ahead with another unrelated connected universe.
** Only a year after ''Shin Godzilla'', Toho began releasing a trio of animated Godzilla films set in their own contained continuity, once again completely unrelated to any of the other films, which began with ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters''. This was in turn followed by another live-action film several years later, ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'', which was again another new continuity completely unrelated to any of the others.