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* ''Game/MegaMan and Bass'' takes place between ''Mega Man 8'' and ''9''. It's even called "Mega Man 8.5" in the internal programming. There is a case for the GameBoy ''Mega Man'' titles being interquels of the main series. The "Wily Tower" segment of ''The Wily Wars'' could conceivably be set between ''3'' and ''4''.
** ''Mega Man and Bass'' is not an example, as it came out before ''9'' and after ''8''. It's just a non-traditional sequel title crossed with a spin-off.

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': The entirety of the fifth book, ''The Horse and His Boy'', occurs in the middle of the TimeSkip before the final chapter of the first book, ''The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe''. The Pevensie siblings are twentysomething kings and queens, and they haven't returned to England and de-aged yet.
* The ''{{Redwall}}'' series has a bunch of these.

** The Star Wars EU is packed with interquels, really. TimothyZahn's TheThrawnTrilogy took place five years after ReturnOfTheJedi; the New Republic was still fighting a defiant Empire, the Empire's capitol world had been taken over, Han and Leia had married. When this trilogy jumpstarted the EU, and a lot of novels explored the years after that, others took on the intervening space. And there's always intervening space and new stories to tell.
** ShadowsOfTheEmpire is worth noting as a multimedia interquel designed to have every tie-in a movie set between ESB and ROTJ would have - a {{Novelization}}, a video game, a six-issue comic book, a soundtrack, toys, trading cards - without the movie. There were even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we7B9hFO308 a trailer.]]

* ''LegendOfZelda'' is a regular TimeyWimeyBall, so the releases have either been straight {{prequel}}s or interquels.

* All of the {{Firefly}} comics take place between the end of the series and TheMovie.

* ''ParanormalActivity 2'' apparently takes place, for the most part, during part 1.
* Technically, Episodes II and III of ''StarWars'' interquels between Episode I and the original trilogy.
** To be less nit-picky, the Clone Wars movie and both Clone Wars series take place between Episodes II and III of the Prequel Trilogy.
*** TO be more nit-picky, the first Clone Wars series was released before episode III.
** This troper doesn't count them since they do actually have their own numbers, and thus are not written as afterthoughts.

* Orson Scott Card loves doing this with his books. The entire "shadow" series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hedgemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant) all take place alongside/in-between Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide.

* MetalGearRising is one type of this (story between two works, namely MGS2 and MGS4) but may be another type (story in the middle of a work, namely MGS4) depending on how for the game goes.

** Most deliberately coined with the title ''TheLionKing 1½''- although ironically in TVTropes terms, it's more of a POVSequel.

** ''{{Bambi}} 2'' is an interquel because it takes place right inbetween when Bambi's mom dies and when it instantly shifts to happy springtime songs. Apparently TheNostalgiaCritic isn't the only one who thought the first movie was a little too quick in the mood change.

-->--[[http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi219087641 The Lion King 1½ teaser]]

* Both volumes of BrianLumley's aptly-titles ''{{Necroscope}}: The Lost Years'' take place during the {{timeskip}} between the second and third ''Necroscope'' books.

* ''TheDreamer'' has short stories that can be read as these and as [[POVSequel POV Sequels]].

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* ''TheDreamer'' has several short stories that take place in the story, also serving as [[POVSequel POV Sequels]].
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* ''[[MegamanBattleNetwork MegaMan Network Transmission]]'''s story takes place between the events of ''Battle Network'' and ''Battle Network 2.'' The game was released after ''Battle Network 3''.
* ''MegaMan and Bass'' takes place between ''Mega Man 8'' and ''9''. It's even called "Mega Man 8.5" in the internal programming. There is a case for the GameBoy ''Mega Man'' titles being interquels of the main series. The "Wily Tower" segment of ''Mega Man: The Wily Wars'' could conceivably be set between ''3'' and ''4''.
** ''MegaMan and Bass'' is not an example, as it came out before MegaMan9 and after 8. It's just a non-traditional sequel title crossed with a spin-off.

* The ''MetroidPrime'' subseries, that take place between ''{{Metroid}}'' and ''Metroid II''.
** And within that, ''Metroid Prime Hunters'', which by WordOfGod takes place between ''Prime'' and ''Prime 2''.
** The recently announced ''Metroid: Other M'' will take place between ''Super Metroid'' and ''Metroid Fusion''.

* ''[[AceAttorney Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' takes place [[spoiler:before and]] after the events of the third game, ''Trials and Tribulations'', and is itself a prequel to ''Apollo Justice''.

* ''[[MortalKombat Mortal Kombat]]: Shaolin Monks'' is an interquel that starts with a retelling of the first game and leads up to the events of the second game.

** ''{{Bambi}} 2'' is an interquel because it takes place right inbetween when Bambi's mom dies and when it instantly shifts to happy springtime songs. Apparently the NostalgiaCritic isn't the only one who thought the first movie was a little too quick in the mood change.

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[[caption-width-right:320:What? Continue the story when the beast ''wasn't'' the beast anymore?]]

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[[caption-width-right:330:What? Continue the story when the beast ''wasn't'' the beast anymore?]]

** Specifically, it occurs between episodes 23 and 24, judging from background details ("Cowboy Andy" in the samurai getup he adopted after 23, the events of 24 not yet happening).