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** In a similar but downplayed vein VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon is implied to take place a decade after VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue with the grown up versions of the old protagonist and rival aviliable to battle in the post-game

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'' is said through WordOfDante to be a distant sequel to ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX2''. A minor character in ''X-2'' eventually develops the technology to harness Mako energy from [[TheLifestream the Farplane]] and, a thousand years later, this research is perfected on another planet: the world of ''FFVII''.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2 is set over a thousand years [[AfterTheEnd after the events of Season 1]], and those events have become so distant that the two seasons' storylines are thus far virtually independent from each other (in most perspectives of events). In spite of this, there remains a deep connection between the seasons, ranging from small-scale {{Continuity Nod}}s to {{Mythology Gag}}s, to [[spoiler:Pearl's omnipresence as a deified PosthumousCharacter]], and [[spoiler:Sausage regaining his PastLifeMemories from Season 1 and the ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'']] is a prominent character arc in itself.

Not to be confused with SequelGap, which is when a sequel is released a long time later in RealLife, although it is common for many works to be both of these tropes. SubTrope of TimeSkip.

Not to be confused with SequelGap, which is when a sequel is released a long time later in RealLife. SubTrope of TimeSkip.

** The 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.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' adapts the event of the Second Age, taking place with thousands of years before the main events from the ''Lord of the Rings''. The show also presents itself as kind of a {{Spiritual|Successor}} distant prequel to the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings movies]] for borrowing so many {{Mythology Gag}}s from them despite taking place in an alternative universe.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2 is set over a thousand years [[AfterTheEnd after the events of Season 1]], and those events have become so distant that the two seasons' storylines are thus far virtually independent from each other. In spite of this, there remains a deep connection between the seasons, ranging from small-scale {{Continuity Nod}}s to {{Mythology Gag}}s, to [[spoiler:Pearl's omnipresence as a deified PosthumousCharacter]], and [[spoiler:Sausage regaining his PastLifeMemories from Season 1 and the ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'']] is a prominent character arc in itself.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' occurs approximately 3,956 years before the main ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies, and ''VideoGame/StarWarsEclipse'' takes place two centuries before them in the [[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic "High Republic" era]].

* ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' takes place during the distant past of the Sinnoh region, before humans and Pokémon developed the close bond they share in the present day.
* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' takes place 12 years after ''VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove'', by which point the original Combat Revues from Tokyo, Paris and New York seal themselves to thwart the demon invasions, the new World Luxury Operatic Federation (WLOF) is formed, and Sumire Kanzaki has managed to establish a new Imperial Combat Revue in Tokyo.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' is the first game to explicitly state this, taking 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/XenobladeChronicles3'': The game is explicitly set in the future of the first two games, with Shinya Takahashi stating that "the story of ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3'' ties together the futures of the worlds depicted in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2''." [[spoiler:Played with later. While it has indeed been hundreds if not thousands of years, that's only in the "Endless Now" of Aionios. It's unclear when exactly the worlds merged together, with some plot points implying it was only a few decades after ''1'' and ''2''. Once the worlds are separated again at the end of the game, they are able to continue with barely a hiccup, and it's unclear what impact Aionios had on the two worlds]].

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', the first two ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' sequels produced after ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', take place thirty years apart each.

* The fan-made series ''WebVideo/DanganronpaDespairTime'' is set approximately thirty years after the end of [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc The Tragedy]], where the world has largely recovered and Hope's Peak Academy has opened up divisions in other countries; the United States' East Coast Branch is on its 27th class. Of course, things haven't exactly one back to normal, with the titular SadisticGameShow apparently a popular piece of entertainment.

* Aside from the PresentDay FramingDevice in the original, ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' takes place 66 years after ''Film/WonderWoman2017''. Most of Diana's friends and foes from World War I have since died, and she has found new ones in the new era. On top of that, ''[=WW84=]'' is set over 30 years before the events of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.

* ''VisualNovel/ShinzaBanshoSeries'': Due to the immense timescales it operates by, the series embraces this trope quite frequently as it is a huge multiversal epic with each new installment focusing on a new gods era, usually at it's tailend. This also means that various settings of the series vary wildly in terms of tone and style. From the Dystopian Cyberpunk story ''Paradise Lost'', to the contemporary fantasy ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', to the medieval Japanese ''VisualNovel/KajiriKamuiKagura''. The HighFantasy ''LightNovel/AvestaOfBlackAndWhite'' inverts this by being a distant prequel.

* “Fanfic/ASongOfIceStoneWindAndFlame” is set a full 18,000 years after the events of the Legend of Korra Season 2 Finale. 8,000 years before the story begins, the next Harmonic Convergence caused the Avatar and spirits to enter the world of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire, so by the time of the first chapter, bending the elements and the Avatar are well known to the people of Westeros.

* ''VideoGame/Mother3'' is set an indefinitely long amount of time after the events of ''VideoGame/EarthBound''; by this point, the world already experienced an apocalypse, with the survivors deliberately erasing all of their memories about life before the cataclysmic event. ''[=EarthBound=]'' itself is also a milder example in the sense that it is set an ambiguous number of years after the events of ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''[[note]]that is, "[=199X=]" vs. 1988; the Japanese releases of ''Beginnings'', both the Famicom and Gameboy Advance port Mother 1+2 versions give a concrete 1988 regarding the latter but the cancelled English prototype which was eventually released on Wii U Virtual Console more ambiguously says "80 years after "the early 1900's"[[/note]], but is decidedly still "contemporary" in its setting compared to ''MOTHER 3''.