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** The graphic novel ''Tales of the Slayers'' tells the stories of various Slayers over the course of thousands of years from the first Slayer Sineya in prehistoric UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} to Melaka "Mel" Fray.
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** The graphic novel ''Tales of the Slayers'' tells the stories of various Slayers over the course of thousands of years from the first Slayer Sineya in prehistoric UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} to Melaka "Mel" Fray.
** ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'' takes place in the BadFuture of the 23rd Century, more than 200 years after the events of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Its protagonist is Melaka Fray, a recently activated Slayer who fights vampires (commonly called "lurks") and other demons in the town of Haddyn, formerly known as Manhattan.
** The graphic novel ''Tales of the Slayers'' tells the stories of various Slayers over the course of thousands of years from the first Slayer Sineya in prehistoric UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} to Melaka "Mel" Fray.
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** ''Series/UltramanMebius'' take places twenty five years after ''Series/UltramanEighty'', part as a continuation of the Nebula M78 Timeline (Showa Era).
** ''Series/UltramanMebius'' take places twenty five years after ''Series/UltramanEighty'', part as a continuation of the Nebula M78 Timeline (Showa Era).
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**''Franchise/UltraSeries'': ''Series/UltramanMebius'' take places twenty five takes place twenty-five years after ''Series/UltramanEighty'', part as a continuation of the Nebula M78 Timeline (Showa Era).
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** The short story "The Rules of War" in ''Strange New Worlds 9'' takes during the Eugenics Wars in 1994, about 160 years before the events of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The story concerns Jonathan Archer's great-grandfather Nathan Archer fighting [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan Dr. Stavos Keniclius]] in North Africa and managing to negotiate a temporary cease fire with him so that a school can be evacuated. Captain Archer tells Trip about this event in "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E17Hatchery Hatchery]]".
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** The short story "The Rules of War" in ''Strange New Worlds 9'' takes place during the Eugenics Wars in 1994, about 160 years before the events of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The story concerns Jonathan Archer's great-grandfather Nathan Archer fighting [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan Dr. Stavos Keniclius]] in North Africa and managing to negotiate a temporary cease fire with him so that a school can be evacuated. Captain Archer tells Trip about this event in "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E17Hatchery Hatchery]]".
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* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' takes place hundreds of years in an alternate BadFuture, after Equestria has been blasted into a ravaged hellscape in the magical equivalent of a nuclear exchange. The Mane Six are still recognized for what they did in the years of the war prior to the apocalypse, [[BigBrotherIsWatching although not all are remembered fondly]]. Civilization has had time to rebuild itself in rather unusual ways, and the only characters from the show still around all achieved biological immortality through ghoulification or... more peculiar means.
* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'' is set a thousand years after the events of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" end in disaster, and follows a new generation of Element Bearers. The show's characters are still remembered, but often in [[LegendFadesToMyth highly distorted and mythologized ways]], and a a Flim-Flam Corporation has apparently grown out of the Flim-Flam brothers' snake-oil businesses.
* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'' is set a thousand years after the events of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" end in disaster, and follows a new generation of Element Bearers. The show's characters are still remembered, but often in [[LegendFadesToMyth highly distorted and mythologized ways]], and a a Flim-Flam Corporation has apparently grown out of the Flim-Flam brothers' snake-oil businesses.
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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' takes place thousands of years before ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', enough time for magitek civilizations to rise and destroy themselves in a war before a meteor impact sends the world back into another technological dark age. An exact time gap is not given, but the [[{{Fanon}} general consensus]] is four thousand years, with ''Symphonia's'' ending acting as YearZero for the calendar used in ''Phantasia''.
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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' takes place thousands of years before ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', enough time for magitek civilizations to rise and destroy themselves in a war before a meteor impact sends the world back into another technological dark age. An exact time gap is not given, but the [[{{Fanon}} general consensus]] is four thousand years, with ''Symphonia's'' ''Symphonia''[='=]s ending acting as YearZero for the calendar used in ''Phantasia''.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' have a cast from Cybertron in the distant future of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]], by which point the portrayed events were the stuff of myth ([[PlotHole even though some of its veterans are still alive]]). Although in the former, it turns out [[spoiler:both the Maximals and Predacons have traveled to [[EarthAllAlong Earth in the distant past]]]].
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' have a cast from Cybertron in the distant future of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]], by which point the portrayed original's events were are the stuff of myth ([[PlotHole even though some of its veterans are still alive]]). Although in the former, it turns out [[spoiler:both the Maximals and Predacons have traveled to [[EarthAllAlong Earth in the distant past]]]].
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** The short story "Guardians" in the anthology ''Strange New Worlds VII'' begins in 2297, thirty years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and moves increasingly further into the future until it reaches 52267 when [[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark the mother Horta's eggs hatch.]]
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** The short story "I Am Become Death" in the anthology ''Strange New Worlds II'' takes place in 4367, 2,000 years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. By this time, humanity has gone extinct, having been replaced by a race of androids created by Data.
** The short story "Guardians" inthe anthology ''Strange New Worlds VII'' begins in 2297, thirty years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and moves increasingly further into the future until it reaches 52267 when [[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark the mother Horta's eggs hatch.]]hatch]].
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* ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'': The first two stories in the short story anthology ''Enterprise Logs'', "The Veil at Valcour" and "World of Strangers", take place in 1776 and 1942 respectively, hundreds of years prior to the rest of the stories in the collection and the usual time frame of the franchise in general. "The Veil at Valcour" is set aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS ''Enterprise'' during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution while "World of Strangers" is set aboard the US Navy vessel U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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** The first two stories in the short story anthology ''Enterprise Logs'', "The Veil at Valcour" and "World of Strangers", take place in 1776 and 1942 respectively, hundreds of years prior to the rest of the stories in the collection and the usual time frame of the franchise in general. "The Veil at Valcour" is set aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS ''Enterprise'' during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution while "World of Strangers" is set aboard the US Navy vessel U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) duringUsefulNotes/WorldWarII.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
** The short story "Guardians" in the anthology ''Strange New Worlds VII'' begins in 2297, thirty years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and moves increasingly further into the future until it reaches 52267 when [[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark the mother Horta's eggs hatch.]]
** The first two stories in the short story anthology ''Enterprise Logs'', "The Veil at Valcour" and "World of Strangers", take place in 1776 and 1942 respectively, hundreds of years prior to the rest of the stories in the collection and the usual time frame of the franchise in general. "The Veil at Valcour" is set aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS ''Enterprise'' during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution while "World of Strangers" is set aboard the US Navy vessel U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) during
** The short story "Guardians" in the anthology ''Strange New Worlds VII'' begins in 2297, thirty years after the events of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and moves increasingly further into the future until it reaches 52267 when [[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark the mother Horta's eggs hatch.]]
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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': The ''Dawn of the Clans'' series takes place in what the modern Clans would describe as being ancient times, focusing on the very creation and foundation of the Clans, generations before ''The Prophecy Begins'' took place.
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* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is set 49 BCE, more than a thousand years before [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]]; ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' is set 431 BCE, around 400 years before ''Origins''.
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** "The Merchant Princes": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "The Traders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
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** "The Merchant Princes": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "The Traders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors"."The Mayors".
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** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet [[FoundingDay Terminus is colonized by the Foundation]].
** "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": The events in this story take place in 50 F.E., fifty years since the events of "Literature/ThePsychohistorians".
** "Literature/TheMayors": The events in this story take place in 80 F.E., thirty years since the events of "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and manages to keep two characters from the previous story, who are now aged and important figures.
** "Literature/TheTraders": Created as an {{Interquel}} between "Literature/TheMayors" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", occurring two decades before the latter (making it take place around 130 F.E.).
** "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "Literature/TheTraders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
** "Literature/TheGeneral": The events in this story begins over forty years after "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" (roughly 200 F.E.), and Ducem Barr (the offscreen son of an old man) is now, himself, an old man. Hober Mallow is gone, replaced by Sennett Forell (his bastard son). The other characters have all died from old age.
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** "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": The events in this story take place in 50 F.E., fifty years since the events of "Literature/ThePsychohistorians".
** "Literature/TheMayors": The events in this story take place in 80 F.E., thirty years since the events of "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and manages to keep two characters from the previous story, who are now aged and important figures.
** "Literature/TheTraders": Created as an {{Interquel}} between "Literature/TheMayors" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", occurring two decades before the latter (making it take place around 130 F.E.).
** "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "Literature/TheTraders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
** "Literature/TheGeneral": The events in this story begins over forty years after "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" (roughly 200 F.E.), and Ducem Barr (the offscreen son of an old man) is now, himself, an old man. Hober Mallow is gone, replaced by Sennett Forell (his bastard son). The other characters have all died from old age.
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** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": "The Psychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet [[FoundingDay Terminus is colonized by the Foundation]].
**"Literature/TheEncyclopedists": "The Encyclopedists": The events in this story take place in 50 F.E., fifty years since the events of "Literature/ThePsychohistorians".
"The Psychohistorians".
**"Literature/TheMayors": "The Mayors": The events in this story take place in 80 F.E., thirty years since the events of "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" "The Encyclopedists" and manages to keep two characters from the previous story, who are now aged and important figures.
**"Literature/TheTraders": "The Traders": Created as an {{Interquel}} between "Literature/TheMayors" "The Mayors" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", "The Merchant Princes", occurring two decades before the latter (making it take place around 130 F.E.).
**"Literature/TheMerchantPrinces": "The Merchant Princes": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "Literature/TheTraders" "The Traders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
**"Literature/TheGeneral": "The General": The events in this story begins over forty years after "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" "The Merchant Princes" (roughly 200 F.E.), and Ducem Barr (the offscreen son of an old man) is now, himself, an old man. Hober Mallow is gone, replaced by Sennett Forell (his bastard son). The other characters have all died from old age.
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* The Creator/DCComics limited series ''The Kents'' takes place from 1854 to 1874, many decades before Franchise/{{Superman}}'s arrival on Earth. It explores how the events leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, the war itself and its aftermath impacted on the Kent family, principally brothers Nathaniel and Jebediah.
* All of the stories in ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'' are set centuries or millennia after the 20th Century. Both ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman: Shadow of the Bat]]'' Annual #4 and ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'' Annual #2 take place at the end of the universe 19-20 billion years in the future.
* All of the stories in ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'' are set centuries or millennia after the 20th Century. Both ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman: Shadow of the Bat]]'' Annual #4 and ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'' Annual #2 take place at the end of the universe 19-20 billion years in the future.
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* ** All of the stories in ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'' are set centuries or millennia after the 20th Century. Both ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman: Shadow of the Bat]]'' Annual #4 and ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'' Annual #2 take place at the end of the universe 19-20 billion years in the future.
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* The Creator/DCComics limited series ''The Kents'' takes place from 1854 to 1874, many decades before Franchise/{{Superman}}'s arrival on Earth. It explores how the events leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, the war itself and its aftermath impacted on the Kent family, principally brothers Nathaniel and his brother Jebediah.
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* All of the stories in ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'' are set centuries or millennia after the 20th Century. Both ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman: Shadow of the Bat]]'' Annual #4 and ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'' Annual #2 take place at the end of the universe 19-20 billion years in the future.
* All of the stories in ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'' are set centuries or millennia after the 20th Century. Both ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman: Shadow of the Bat]]'' Annual #4 and ''ComicBook/SovereignSeven'' Annual #2 take place at the end of the universe 19-20 billion years in the future.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' Parts 2 and 3 take place quite some time after one another. ''Manga/BattleTendency'' takes place in 1938, fifty years after ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', which took place in 1888. ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' then takes place in 1988, another fifty years later. Part 7, ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', takes place in 1890; its sequel, ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', takes place in 2011, about 120 years later.
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** The first three parts, ''Manga/PhantomBlood'' (1888), ''Manga/BattleTendency''takes place in 1938, fifty years after ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', which took place in 1888. (1938), and ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' then takes (1988) take place in 1988, another fifty years later. apart each.
** Part 7, ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', takes place in1890; its sequel, 1890 of a new AlternateContinuity. The next part, ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', takes place in 2011, about 120 years later.
** The first three parts, ''Manga/PhantomBlood'' (1888), ''Manga/BattleTendency''
** Part 7, ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', takes place in
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' have a cast from Cybertron in the distant future of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]]. Although in the former, it turns out [[spoiler:both the Maximals and Predacons have traveled to [[EarthAllAlong Earth in the distant past]]]].
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' have a cast from Cybertron in the distant future of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]].cartoon]], by which point the portrayed events were the stuff of myth ([[PlotHole even though some of its veterans are still alive]]). Although in the former, it turns out [[spoiler:both the Maximals and Predacons have traveled to [[EarthAllAlong Earth in the distant past]]]].
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* ''Film/{{Tron}}'' takes place in 1982 with Kevin Flynn getting inside the TRON game, ''Film/TronLegacy'' takes place in 2010, with Kevin's son, Sam Flynn, taking the role of main protagonist this time.
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* ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'': Many of the books' compoenet stories were first published in the {{Pulp Magazine}}s of the time. The overarching story achieves a DashedPlotLine effect due to skipping between characters, often with {{Time Skip}}s of a generation or some between stories.
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet Terminus is colonized by the Foundation.
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet Terminus is colonized by the Foundation.
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'': Many of the books' compoenet component stories were first published in the {{Pulp Magazine}}s of the time. The overarching story achieves a DashedPlotLine effect due to skipping between characters, often with {{Time Skip}}s of a generation or some between stories.
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet [[FoundingDay Terminus is colonized by theFoundation.Foundation]].
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet [[FoundingDay Terminus is colonized by the
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Some stories take place a very long time after their prequels, whether only a few decades afterwards or after centuries or millennia. Depending on the amount of time passed and the events that took place in earlier stories, the prequels' characters and events may by the time of the sequel [[LegendaryInTheSequel have become famous or part of the historical record, or even entered into myth]]. If sufficient distortion and mythologizing takes place over generations or centuries of word-of-mouth retellings, then the sequel's account of the events of earlier stories [[LegendFadesToMyth may have become rather different from how the audience remembers it]].
Another trait of a Distant Sequel is that it can allow for significant changes to occur in the story's world. Actions taken by the main characters in earlier stories may have had the time to change the world in significant ways, characters may become parents or grandparents or leave distant descendants -- [[SpinOffspring who may in turn become the sequel's main characters]] -- nations may rise, grow and fall, and science and civilization advance or regress.
See also DistantFinale, where a work's last episode, scene or chapter is set a long time after its main body, which can easily lead into this trope if a sequel is made to a work with a Distant Finale. Compare with DashedPlotLine, where the plot skips years ahead several times over the course of the story. A SequelSeries may be more likely to be distant from its prequel than a sequel within the same series as its prequel.
Distant prequels are also covered by this trope, as the primary theme -- the time gap between the two stories and the changes that take place during it -- remains largely the same. In a sense, a work with a distant prequel can be thought as having itself retroactively become a distant sequel.
Not to be confused with SequelGap, which is when a sequel is released a long time after its prequel in RealLife. SubTrope of TimeSkip.
The opposite of this would be an ImmediateSequel, of course.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' Parts 2 and 3 take place quite some time after one another. ''Manga/BattleTendency'' takes place in 1938, fifty years after ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', which took place in 1888. ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' then takes place in 1988, another fifty years later. Part 7, ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', takes place in 1890; its sequel, ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', takes place in 2011, about 120 years later.
* ''Anime/MazingerZInfinity'' takes place years after ''Anime/MazingerZ''. Kouji Kabuto is no longer a hotheaded teenage boy fighting for justice, but has graduated into a respectable researcher of Photon Energy. His girlfriend Sayaka Yumi has become head of the Photon Research Lab while her father went on to become the Prime Minister of Japan. His little brother Shiro is about to graduate from high school and has taken a side job of test pilot of mass-produced Mazinger machines. His adopted older brother [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] has joined the army to bolster Japan's defenses with his good ol' Great Mazinger, and has married his childhood friend Jun Honoo and is expecting a child. The threat of Dr. Hell seemed to be a memory of the past until it came back knocking just in time when Kouji discovered a REALLY huge Mazinger...
* ''Manga/UQHolder'' is set seventy-five years after the events of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', focusing on Negi's grandson Touta Konoe.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'': This is fairly common in the Legends continuity's ExpandedUniverse, as it covers several millennia of galactic history:
** ''ComicBook/DawnOfTheJedi'' takes place no less than 25,000 years before the movies, during the earliest origins of the force-using order that would later schism to form the Jedi and the Sith.
** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' is set 5,000 years before the movies and 100 years before ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'' takes place about one hundred years after the the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie trilogy, after numerous wars and political upheavals. The main characters are the descendants of the first trilogy's main cast, several generations removed, and when older characters show up it is typically as ghosts.
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* ''Fanfic/DiaryOfAWimpyKid25YearsLater'' is, as the name states, set two and half decades after its [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid parent work]]. A considerable amount of things happened in the intervening time, including Manny ditching his family to move to New York and Rodrick getting married.
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* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'': ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' and ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'' take place in the 2000s, ''Film/{{Alien}}'' is set about a hundred years later, ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3'' are set 57 years after the events of ''Alien'', and ''Film/AlienResurrection'' takes place another 200 years after that.
* ''Film/Halloween2018'' is set forty years after the original ''Film/Halloween1978'', by which point Laurie Strode is old enough to have a granddaughter.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'': About seventy years go by between the events of ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', which take place in the 1920s, and the main series.
* ''Film/JasonX'' is set 400 years after the previous ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''[[Film/ANewHope Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' takes place nineteen years after ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'', enough time for the infant Luke and Leia to grow to adulthood, and for the nearly-extinct Jedi to fade almost entirely into legend.
** ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]'' takes place 30 years after ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]]'', by which point Luke, Leia and Han have all become quite old, Han and Leia have an adult child and Luke has managed to establish a new Jedi Order which was then betrayed and destroyed by Han and Leia's aforementioned child.
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* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
** ''The Magician's Nephew'' is set 1,000 years before ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', 1,300 years pass between ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' and ''Prince Caspian'', a generation or so between ''Prince Caspian'' and ''The Silver Chair'', and seven generations between ''The Silver Chair'' and ''The Last Battle'', which in turn takes place at the end of the world. This allows the world to change, often significantly, between novels, such as Narnia being overrun and conquered by the Telmarine people between the first novel and ''Prince Caspian''.
** Due to [[NarniaTime time flowing differently in Narnia than in our world]], far less time passes between sequels for the human protagonists than for the land of Narnia. The Pevensie siblings are children in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', and they're only teenagers or young adults by ''The Last Battle'', even though millennia have passed in Narnia. ''The Magician's Nephew'' is the only one that's a distant sequel (or rather, prequel) in Earth time as well as in Narnia time -- it's set in TheEdwardianEra and focuses on Digory Kirke as a child, while the next book (chronologically) happens during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the blitz]] and shows Digory as an old man.
* ''Literature/EndersGame'': ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' is set about three thousand years after the first book, as this is the amount of time needed to travel from Earth to the book's setting, the planet Lusitania, in a slower-than-light sleeper ship.
* ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'': Many of the books' compoenet stories were first published in the {{Pulp Magazine}}s of the time. The overarching story achieves a DashedPlotLine effect due to skipping between characters, often with {{Time Skip}}s of a generation or some between stories.
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet Terminus is colonized by the Foundation.
** "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": The events in this story take place in 50 F.E., fifty years since the events of "Literature/ThePsychohistorians".
** "Literature/TheMayors": The events in this story take place in 80 F.E., thirty years since the events of "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and manages to keep two characters from the previous story, who are now aged and important figures.
** "Literature/TheTraders": Created as an {{Interquel}} between "Literature/TheMayors" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", occurring two decades before the latter (making it take place around 130 F.E.).
** "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "Literature/TheTraders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
** "Literature/TheGeneral": The events in this story begins over forty years after "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" (roughly 200 F.E.), and Ducem Barr (the offscreen son of an old man) is now, himself, an old man. Hober Mallow is gone, replaced by Sennett Forell (his bastard son). The other characters have all died from old age.
%%** "Literature/TheMule":
* The ''Literature/{{Helliconia}}'' books are set centuries apart from each other, showing how the eponymous planet changes as it and its parent star Batalix [[BinarySuns orbit around Freyr]], cyclically affecting the planet's climate over centuries. The story of Aoz Roon overthrowing the two chiefs of his village and becoming one himself in ''Helliconia Spring'' is remembered in ''Helliconia Summer'' as nothing more than a cautionary tale that was probably made from whole cloth.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' takes place sixty years after ''Literature/TheHobbit''; this is not immediately noticeable due to most main characters belonging to species that are either very LongLived or actually [[TheAgeless ageless]], but enough time has passed for Bilbo to become an old man with an adult nephew and for the city of Dale to be ruled by the grandson of Bard, who becomes its ruler at the end of ''The Hobbit''.
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Most novels are set a generation or so apart from one another, so that any given work tends to feature as main characters people who were either children in its immediate sequel or who are the offspring of the previous work's main characters. As there are twenty-two novels in the series, the end result is that the last few books in chronological order take place a good few centuries after the first ones, and extensive dynasties and family lines can be traced among the characters who are each other's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': The ''Dawn of the Clans'' series takes place in what the modern Clans would describe as being ancient times, focusing on the very creation and foundation of the Clans, generations before ''The Prophecy Begins'' took place.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' are all set approximately a hundred years from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', which in turn takes place a century after ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
** The ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' movies, ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', and ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', all take place one hundred years after ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' and its sequels.
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* ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'': The main character, Britt Reid, is typically depicted as the grand-nephew of John Reid, Radio/TheLoneRanger. As such, ''The Green Hornet'' is typically set two generations or so after the events of the earlier series, enough time for the Green Hornet's parents to be dead from natural causes.
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* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': A common occurrence, as the games are set all over recorded history.
** [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI The first game]] is set in 1191, during the Third Crusade. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' takes place during [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance the Renaissance]], many centuries later. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' is set during the American Revolution, a few centuries after ''II''. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' is a prequel/interquel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, around fifty years before that, following the grandfather of ''III''[='=]s protagonist.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is set 49 BCE, more than a thousand years before [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]]; ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' is set 431 BCE, around 400 years before ''Origins''.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': The first three games were set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series is set around TheNewTens, around seventy years later.
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' takes places over centuries with the Belmont clan's fight against Dracula:
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' is set in 1691, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' is a prequel set in 1476, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' is a sequel in 1792, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' goes further to 1917, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' goes back to 1748, the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' games are set in the 2030s, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' goes all the way back to 1094, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' is set in 1479, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' occurs in 1944, and the last Metroidvania game before the reboot, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'', takes place in 1800s. The protagonists are thus often each other's ancestors and descendants -- the protagonist of ''Rondo of Blood'', Richter Belmont, is for instance the grandson of Simon Belmont, the protagonist of the original game.
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' is set 1,000 years after its [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow prequel]], following the latter's DistantFinale. It follows the same protagonist as its prequel does, as he [[spoiler:becomes immortal after turning into a vampire]].
* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'': This happens twice.
** The first game, ''5 Days a Stranger'', takes place in the 1990s, ending with the death of multiple characters and the assumed defeat of the murderous ghost John [=DeFoe=]. The sequel is ''7 Days a Skeptic'', which takes place in 2385, aboard a spaceship, with only loose connections to the original game -- otherwise, it's a new cast of characters being terrorized, once again, by John [=DeFoe=].
** The third game, ''Trilby's Notes'', is set only a few years after the events of ''5 Days'', bringing the series back to a focused, overarching plot. Although the next game ''6 Days a Sacrifice'' follows this overarching plot trend, and even adds some meaning to the events of ''7 Days'', it also takes place in 2189.
* ''Videogame/DarkSouls'':
** ''Videogame/DarkSoulsII'' takes place at least a thousand years after the events of the first ''Dark Souls'', by which point the Chosen Undead's journey to determine the fate of the Age of Fire is nothing but a faded memory.
** While the first two games take place close enough to each other that the First Flame showing no sign of permanently fading, ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' is set countless thousands of years in the future, after so many cycles have come and gone that the Flame is at risk of permanently going out and the events of the first two games aren't just legends, but the legends of long-dead civilizations. ''The Ringed City'' DLC is implied to be set even further in the future.
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' is set 1200 years after ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'', and although it is not a ''direct'' sequel to it (it actually more closely follows ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity''), the two games form the two end points of the same story arc concerning the DangerousForbiddenTechnique Source as the origin of the divine power: ''D:OS'' explains how it got corrupted, while the sequel allows you remove it from the world entirely in some of the endings.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' takes place several centuries after the events of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', following a number of wars, political upheavals and a massive eruption that devastated ''Oblivion''[='=]s setting.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': While individual games are set no more than a few decades after their prequels, the years add up between installments -- ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is set 126 years after the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', and, while still set in an AfterTheEnd ScavengerWorld, later games show signs of civilization having rebuilt considerably from the point of the first few games. Among other things, agriculture, trade and nations larger than village-sized city-states all reappear as time goes on. The New California Republic, which the player helps establish and defend in early games, has for instance grown into a powerful nation by the time of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is set in the same world and continents as ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'', but about 2,000 years after their events. ''Mystery of the Emblem''[='=]s protagonist, Marth, is now a legendary figure known as the Hero-King, and two of ''Awakening''[='=]s main protagonists, Chrom and his daughter Lucina, are his very distant descendants.
** Inverted with ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', which is a distant prequel, taking place 20 years before ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Three'' takes place millennia after ''Jumper Two'', due to Ogmo spending all that time in a spaceship. The game doesn't even provide any specific number, it just throws up a random number as a number of years that passed since Ogmo boarded the rocket in the intro.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': The franchise often jumps around by centuries or millennia between games -- '' VideoGame/BloodOmen2'', for instance, takes place 400 years after the original '' VideoGame/BloodOmen''.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Most games are implied to take place anywhere between a few lifetimes to centuries away from each other, as Link, Zelda and Ganondorf all reincarnate over and over again throughout Hyrule's history, and events from various games often feature as legends of ancient deeds in chronologically later installments. While clear amounts of time are never given, games at the far end of the franchise's timelines, such as ''Spirit Tracks'' and ''The Adventure of Link'', take place centuries, and likely millennia, after games such ''Skyward Sword'' and ''The Minish Cap'' that are set in the early parts of the setting's history.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' takes place a very long time after [[TheGreatFlood a great flood]] destroyed Hyrule at some point after ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Ocarina of Time]]'', long enough that Hyrule itself, Link and his deeds and the Triforce have all long passed into legend, and that language drift has caused the dialect of Hylian spoken in ''Ocarina of Time'' to become an incomprehensible dead language to the people of the game's present.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is one to effectively the franchise as a whole. Exactly how long after the other games ''Breath of the Wild'' takes place is not stated, but 10,000 have passed since the ancient, technologically advanced Hylian civilization sealed the Calamity Ganon away in the game's backstory. This is on top of the amount of time that would have been needed for the medieval Hyrule seen in most games to develop the technology needed to create robots, GiantMecha and other such wonders to begin with, making the amount of time that must gone by between the times of the other ''Zelda'' stories and ''Breath of the Wild'' vast indeed.
* ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' takes place about 1,000 years after ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', although it shares two returning characters.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' takes place hundreds of years after the original VideoGame/MassEffect trilogy, due to the physical limitations of intergalactic travel.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'' loves this trope.
** In the main timeline, the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series takes place a century after the events of the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic original series]]. The events of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series takes place a century after that, by which time Zero and X have become downright legendary figures. ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' takes place two hundred more years after the previous series, while ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' is thought to take place several ''thousand'' years after ''ZX''.
** On a smaller scale, the events of ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' take place two hundred years after the events of ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork''.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' occurs approximately 3,956 years before the main ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' takes place in the future of the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' where an aging Bruce Wayne trains a new Batman.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' takes place 70 years after ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', by which point Aang has died of old age, allowing the Avatar to be reborn among the Water Tribes in the form of the protagonist. Characters from the prequel series, all now famous historical figures, return as either alive but very elderly (like Toph, Katara and Zuko), deceased (like Sokka) or deceased but still present as spirits (like Aang and Iroh). Other characters include the now middle-aged children of the first show's main cast, many with children of their own, and a large city and surrounding fifth nation has been established in the time between the shows.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Season five takes place fifty years in-universe after the fourth season, by which point most characters -- except Jack, who seems to have become immune to aging -- have become elderly and have families of their own.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' take place 300 years after [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]].
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Another trait of a Distant Sequel is that it can allow for significant changes to occur in the story's world. Actions taken by the main characters in earlier stories may have had the time to change the world in significant ways, characters may become parents or grandparents or leave distant descendants -- [[SpinOffspring who may in turn become the sequel's main characters]] -- nations may rise, grow and fall, and science and civilization advance or regress.
See also DistantFinale, where a work's last episode, scene or chapter is set a long time after its main body, which can easily lead into this trope if a sequel is made to a work with a Distant Finale. Compare with DashedPlotLine, where the plot skips years ahead several times over the course of the story. A SequelSeries may be more likely to be distant from its prequel than a sequel within the same series as its prequel.
Distant prequels are also covered by this trope, as the primary theme -- the time gap between the two stories and the changes that take place during it -- remains largely the same. In a sense, a work with a distant prequel can be thought as having itself retroactively become a distant sequel.
Not to be confused with SequelGap, which is when a sequel is released a long time after its prequel in RealLife. SubTrope of TimeSkip.
The opposite of this would be an ImmediateSequel, of course.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' Parts 2 and 3 take place quite some time after one another. ''Manga/BattleTendency'' takes place in 1938, fifty years after ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', which took place in 1888. ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' then takes place in 1988, another fifty years later. Part 7, ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', takes place in 1890; its sequel, ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', takes place in 2011, about 120 years later.
* ''Anime/MazingerZInfinity'' takes place years after ''Anime/MazingerZ''. Kouji Kabuto is no longer a hotheaded teenage boy fighting for justice, but has graduated into a respectable researcher of Photon Energy. His girlfriend Sayaka Yumi has become head of the Photon Research Lab while her father went on to become the Prime Minister of Japan. His little brother Shiro is about to graduate from high school and has taken a side job of test pilot of mass-produced Mazinger machines. His adopted older brother [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] has joined the army to bolster Japan's defenses with his good ol' Great Mazinger, and has married his childhood friend Jun Honoo and is expecting a child. The threat of Dr. Hell seemed to be a memory of the past until it came back knocking just in time when Kouji discovered a REALLY huge Mazinger...
* ''Manga/UQHolder'' is set seventy-five years after the events of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', focusing on Negi's grandson Touta Konoe.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'': This is fairly common in the Legends continuity's ExpandedUniverse, as it covers several millennia of galactic history:
** ''ComicBook/DawnOfTheJedi'' takes place no less than 25,000 years before the movies, during the earliest origins of the force-using order that would later schism to form the Jedi and the Sith.
** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' is set 5,000 years before the movies and 100 years before ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'' takes place about one hundred years after the the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie trilogy, after numerous wars and political upheavals. The main characters are the descendants of the first trilogy's main cast, several generations removed, and when older characters show up it is typically as ghosts.
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* ''Fanfic/DiaryOfAWimpyKid25YearsLater'' is, as the name states, set two and half decades after its [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid parent work]]. A considerable amount of things happened in the intervening time, including Manny ditching his family to move to New York and Rodrick getting married.
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* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'': ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' and ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'' take place in the 2000s, ''Film/{{Alien}}'' is set about a hundred years later, ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3'' are set 57 years after the events of ''Alien'', and ''Film/AlienResurrection'' takes place another 200 years after that.
* ''Film/Halloween2018'' is set forty years after the original ''Film/Halloween1978'', by which point Laurie Strode is old enough to have a granddaughter.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'': About seventy years go by between the events of ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', which take place in the 1920s, and the main series.
* ''Film/JasonX'' is set 400 years after the previous ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''[[Film/ANewHope Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' takes place nineteen years after ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'', enough time for the infant Luke and Leia to grow to adulthood, and for the nearly-extinct Jedi to fade almost entirely into legend.
** ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]'' takes place 30 years after ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]]'', by which point Luke, Leia and Han have all become quite old, Han and Leia have an adult child and Luke has managed to establish a new Jedi Order which was then betrayed and destroyed by Han and Leia's aforementioned child.
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* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
** ''The Magician's Nephew'' is set 1,000 years before ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', 1,300 years pass between ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' and ''Prince Caspian'', a generation or so between ''Prince Caspian'' and ''The Silver Chair'', and seven generations between ''The Silver Chair'' and ''The Last Battle'', which in turn takes place at the end of the world. This allows the world to change, often significantly, between novels, such as Narnia being overrun and conquered by the Telmarine people between the first novel and ''Prince Caspian''.
** Due to [[NarniaTime time flowing differently in Narnia than in our world]], far less time passes between sequels for the human protagonists than for the land of Narnia. The Pevensie siblings are children in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', and they're only teenagers or young adults by ''The Last Battle'', even though millennia have passed in Narnia. ''The Magician's Nephew'' is the only one that's a distant sequel (or rather, prequel) in Earth time as well as in Narnia time -- it's set in TheEdwardianEra and focuses on Digory Kirke as a child, while the next book (chronologically) happens during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the blitz]] and shows Digory as an old man.
* ''Literature/EndersGame'': ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' is set about three thousand years after the first book, as this is the amount of time needed to travel from Earth to the book's setting, the planet Lusitania, in a slower-than-light sleeper ship.
* ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'': Many of the books' compoenet stories were first published in the {{Pulp Magazine}}s of the time. The overarching story achieves a DashedPlotLine effect due to skipping between characters, often with {{Time Skip}}s of a generation or some between stories.
** "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": A ShortStory added retroactively when ''Literature/Foundation1951'' was published, this begins the timeline of the Foundation Era at [[AlternativeCalendar -1 Foundation Era]]. Year 1 is when the planet Terminus is colonized by the Foundation.
** "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": The events in this story take place in 50 F.E., fifty years since the events of "Literature/ThePsychohistorians".
** "Literature/TheMayors": The events in this story take place in 80 F.E., thirty years since the events of "Literature/TheEncyclopedists" and manages to keep two characters from the previous story, who are now aged and important figures.
** "Literature/TheTraders": Created as an {{Interquel}} between "Literature/TheMayors" and "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces", occurring two decades before the latter (making it take place around 130 F.E.).
** "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces": The events in this story take place over a few years, starting twenty years after "Literature/TheTraders" (and with none of the same characters), reportedly a "century and a half" since Terminus was colonized by the Foundation. This places it seventy years after the events of "Literature/TheMayors".
** "Literature/TheGeneral": The events in this story begins over forty years after "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces" (roughly 200 F.E.), and Ducem Barr (the offscreen son of an old man) is now, himself, an old man. Hober Mallow is gone, replaced by Sennett Forell (his bastard son). The other characters have all died from old age.
%%** "Literature/TheMule":
* The ''Literature/{{Helliconia}}'' books are set centuries apart from each other, showing how the eponymous planet changes as it and its parent star Batalix [[BinarySuns orbit around Freyr]], cyclically affecting the planet's climate over centuries. The story of Aoz Roon overthrowing the two chiefs of his village and becoming one himself in ''Helliconia Spring'' is remembered in ''Helliconia Summer'' as nothing more than a cautionary tale that was probably made from whole cloth.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' takes place sixty years after ''Literature/TheHobbit''; this is not immediately noticeable due to most main characters belonging to species that are either very LongLived or actually [[TheAgeless ageless]], but enough time has passed for Bilbo to become an old man with an adult nephew and for the city of Dale to be ruled by the grandson of Bard, who becomes its ruler at the end of ''The Hobbit''.
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Most novels are set a generation or so apart from one another, so that any given work tends to feature as main characters people who were either children in its immediate sequel or who are the offspring of the previous work's main characters. As there are twenty-two novels in the series, the end result is that the last few books in chronological order take place a good few centuries after the first ones, and extensive dynasties and family lines can be traced among the characters who are each other's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': The ''Dawn of the Clans'' series takes place in what the modern Clans would describe as being ancient times, focusing on the very creation and foundation of the Clans, generations before ''The Prophecy Begins'' took place.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' are all set approximately a hundred years from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', which in turn takes place a century after ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
** The ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' movies, ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', and ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', all take place one hundred years after ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' and its sequels.
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* ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'': The main character, Britt Reid, is typically depicted as the grand-nephew of John Reid, Radio/TheLoneRanger. As such, ''The Green Hornet'' is typically set two generations or so after the events of the earlier series, enough time for the Green Hornet's parents to be dead from natural causes.
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* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': A common occurrence, as the games are set all over recorded history.
** [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI The first game]] is set in 1191, during the Third Crusade. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' takes place during [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance the Renaissance]], many centuries later. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' is set during the American Revolution, a few centuries after ''II''. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' is a prequel/interquel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, around fifty years before that, following the grandfather of ''III''[='=]s protagonist.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is set 49 BCE, more than a thousand years before [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]]; ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' is set 431 BCE, around 400 years before ''Origins''.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': The first three games were set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series is set around TheNewTens, around seventy years later.
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' takes places over centuries with the Belmont clan's fight against Dracula:
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' is set in 1691, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' is a prequel set in 1476, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' is a sequel in 1792, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' goes further to 1917, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' goes back to 1748, the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' games are set in the 2030s, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' goes all the way back to 1094, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' is set in 1479, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' occurs in 1944, and the last Metroidvania game before the reboot, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'', takes place in 1800s. The protagonists are thus often each other's ancestors and descendants -- the protagonist of ''Rondo of Blood'', Richter Belmont, is for instance the grandson of Simon Belmont, the protagonist of the original game.
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' is set 1,000 years after its [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow prequel]], following the latter's DistantFinale. It follows the same protagonist as its prequel does, as he [[spoiler:becomes immortal after turning into a vampire]].
* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'': This happens twice.
** The first game, ''5 Days a Stranger'', takes place in the 1990s, ending with the death of multiple characters and the assumed defeat of the murderous ghost John [=DeFoe=]. The sequel is ''7 Days a Skeptic'', which takes place in 2385, aboard a spaceship, with only loose connections to the original game -- otherwise, it's a new cast of characters being terrorized, once again, by John [=DeFoe=].
** The third game, ''Trilby's Notes'', is set only a few years after the events of ''5 Days'', bringing the series back to a focused, overarching plot. Although the next game ''6 Days a Sacrifice'' follows this overarching plot trend, and even adds some meaning to the events of ''7 Days'', it also takes place in 2189.
* ''Videogame/DarkSouls'':
** ''Videogame/DarkSoulsII'' takes place at least a thousand years after the events of the first ''Dark Souls'', by which point the Chosen Undead's journey to determine the fate of the Age of Fire is nothing but a faded memory.
** While the first two games take place close enough to each other that the First Flame showing no sign of permanently fading, ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' is set countless thousands of years in the future, after so many cycles have come and gone that the Flame is at risk of permanently going out and the events of the first two games aren't just legends, but the legends of long-dead civilizations. ''The Ringed City'' DLC is implied to be set even further in the future.
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' is set 1200 years after ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'', and although it is not a ''direct'' sequel to it (it actually more closely follows ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity''), the two games form the two end points of the same story arc concerning the DangerousForbiddenTechnique Source as the origin of the divine power: ''D:OS'' explains how it got corrupted, while the sequel allows you remove it from the world entirely in some of the endings.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' takes place several centuries after the events of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', following a number of wars, political upheavals and a massive eruption that devastated ''Oblivion''[='=]s setting.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': While individual games are set no more than a few decades after their prequels, the years add up between installments -- ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is set 126 years after the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', and, while still set in an AfterTheEnd ScavengerWorld, later games show signs of civilization having rebuilt considerably from the point of the first few games. Among other things, agriculture, trade and nations larger than village-sized city-states all reappear as time goes on. The New California Republic, which the player helps establish and defend in early games, has for instance grown into a powerful nation by the time of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is set in the same world and continents as ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'', but about 2,000 years after their events. ''Mystery of the Emblem''[='=]s protagonist, Marth, is now a legendary figure known as the Hero-King, and two of ''Awakening''[='=]s main protagonists, Chrom and his daughter Lucina, are his very distant descendants.
** Inverted with ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', which is a distant prequel, taking place 20 years before ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Three'' takes place millennia after ''Jumper Two'', due to Ogmo spending all that time in a spaceship. The game doesn't even provide any specific number, it just throws up a random number as a number of years that passed since Ogmo boarded the rocket in the intro.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': The franchise often jumps around by centuries or millennia between games -- '' VideoGame/BloodOmen2'', for instance, takes place 400 years after the original '' VideoGame/BloodOmen''.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Most games are implied to take place anywhere between a few lifetimes to centuries away from each other, as Link, Zelda and Ganondorf all reincarnate over and over again throughout Hyrule's history, and events from various games often feature as legends of ancient deeds in chronologically later installments. While clear amounts of time are never given, games at the far end of the franchise's timelines, such as ''Spirit Tracks'' and ''The Adventure of Link'', take place centuries, and likely millennia, after games such ''Skyward Sword'' and ''The Minish Cap'' that are set in the early parts of the setting's history.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' takes place a very long time after [[TheGreatFlood a great flood]] destroyed Hyrule at some point after ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Ocarina of Time]]'', long enough that Hyrule itself, Link and his deeds and the Triforce have all long passed into legend, and that language drift has caused the dialect of Hylian spoken in ''Ocarina of Time'' to become an incomprehensible dead language to the people of the game's present.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is one to effectively the franchise as a whole. Exactly how long after the other games ''Breath of the Wild'' takes place is not stated, but 10,000 have passed since the ancient, technologically advanced Hylian civilization sealed the Calamity Ganon away in the game's backstory. This is on top of the amount of time that would have been needed for the medieval Hyrule seen in most games to develop the technology needed to create robots, GiantMecha and other such wonders to begin with, making the amount of time that must gone by between the times of the other ''Zelda'' stories and ''Breath of the Wild'' vast indeed.
* ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' takes place about 1,000 years after ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', although it shares two returning characters.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' takes place hundreds of years after the original VideoGame/MassEffect trilogy, due to the physical limitations of intergalactic travel.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'' loves this trope.
** In the main timeline, the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series takes place a century after the events of the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic original series]]. The events of the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series takes place a century after that, by which time Zero and X have become downright legendary figures. ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' takes place two hundred more years after the previous series, while ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' is thought to take place several ''thousand'' years after ''ZX''.
** On a smaller scale, the events of ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' take place two hundred years after the events of ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork''.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' occurs approximately 3,956 years before the main ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' takes place in the future of the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' where an aging Bruce Wayne trains a new Batman.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' takes place 70 years after ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', by which point Aang has died of old age, allowing the Avatar to be reborn among the Water Tribes in the form of the protagonist. Characters from the prequel series, all now famous historical figures, return as either alive but very elderly (like Toph, Katara and Zuko), deceased (like Sokka) or deceased but still present as spirits (like Aang and Iroh). Other characters include the now middle-aged children of the first show's main cast, many with children of their own, and a large city and surrounding fifth nation has been established in the time between the shows.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Season five takes place fifty years in-universe after the fourth season, by which point most characters -- except Jack, who seems to have become immune to aging -- have become elderly and have families of their own.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' take place 300 years after [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]].
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