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** Since the revival, the series has opted for season-long arcs, mostly linked together through ArcWords.
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** Since the revival, the series has opted for season-long loose arcs, mostly linked together through ArcWords.[[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent recurring phrases and motifs]], though usually unnoticed and not really interfering with the episode's main plots. Season 32 has - at the time of writing - seemingly adopted a tighter arc format, though the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episodic format]] doesn't suffer from it.
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*Both [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]] and [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix Jix]] both started off as a gag-a-day strips, despite having an ongoing story, but both became arc based. This is because the writer has a hard time writing jokes without having a story in place to joke about.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod surp]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon worse and worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breahter episodes. The episodes were Greasy Bufoons, One Coarse Meal, and The Scent of Money.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod surp]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon [[MoralEventHorizon worse and worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breahter breather episodes. The episodes were Greasy Bufoons, One Coarse Meal, and The Scent of Money.
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* You'd be hard pressed to find a ''SluggyFreelance'' strip that doesn't lead up to or follow up on another strip. Most of them do both. Even if you counted sub-chapters (technically called stories, so calling them arcs as well is a bit redundant) or even chapters for "episodes", there are still big storylines arcing over those.
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* You'd be hard pressed to find a ''SluggyFreelance'' strip that doesn't lead up to or follow up on another strip. Most of them do both. Even if you counted sub-chapters (technically called stories, so calling them arcs as well is a bit redundant) or even chapters for "episodes", there are still big storylines arcing over those.those, up to MythArc level.
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* You'd be hard pressed to find a ''SluggyFreelance'' strip that doesn't lead up to or follow up on another strip. Most of them do both.
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* You'd be hard pressed to find a ''SluggyFreelance'' strip that doesn't lead up to or follow up on another strip. Most of them do both. Even if you counted sub-chapters (technically called stories, so calling them arcs as well is a bit redundant) or even chapters for "episodes", there are still big storylines arcing over those.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod sup]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon worse and worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breahter episodes. The episodes were Greasy Bufoons, One Coarse Meal, and The Scent of Money.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod sup]][[ThreeShorts surp]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon worse and worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breahter episodes. The episodes were Greasy Bufoons, One Coarse Meal, and The Scent of Money.
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* Don't forget JackieChanAdventures and its seasonal arcs.
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* Don't forget JackieChanAdventures and its seasonal arcs.
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Arcs are not necessarily consecutive episodes. The story may reach a point where, although the arc is not completely resolved, it ceases to be of immediate concern to the characters, thus allowing the writers to intersperse non-arc episodes.
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Arcs are not necessarily consecutive episodes. The story may reach a point where, although the arc is not completely resolved, it ceases to be of immediate concern to the characters, thus allowing the writers to intersperse (or [[{{Filler}} insert]]) non-arc episodes.
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** Season Six has multiple interconnected plot lines: [[spoiler: the loss and return of Sam's soul (and in turn, the potential return of his memories of Hell), the civil war in Heaven, Crowley's search for Purgatory, and the coming of the Mother of All to Earth.]]
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* Though ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' mostly uses stand alone stories, they do occasionally throw in hints of story arcs, such as [[spoiler: the current Starro story arc]].
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* Though ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' mostly uses stand alone stories, they do occasionally throw in hints of story arcs, such as [[spoiler: Equinox, the current Starro story arc]].arc and the arrival of Darkseid]].
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* The ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series has had a three-game StoryArc dealing with Shadow. It started in ''SonicAdventure 2'', continued in ''SonicHeroes'' and resolved in ''ShadowTheHedgehog''.
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* Each season of the TotalDrama series is essentially this, with a different cast lineup, elimination order, and winner in each one.
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** ''StarTrekVoyager'' experimented with a StoryArc format in its second season, with an ongoing plotline centred around Seska's machinations with the Kazon against ''Voyager'' and Tom Paris's attempts to flush out a mole in their midst. This arc was rather tepidly recieved, and once it reached its conclusion, the writers on that seried never really tried another (or at least not one so ambitious).
** Previously episodic in format, ''StarTrekEnterprise'' introduced an epic story arc with the Xindi war in season three, before settling into a series of loosely-related smaller story arcs in season four.
** Previously episodic in format, ''StarTrekEnterprise'' introduced an epic story arc with the Xindi war in season three, before settling into a series of loosely-related smaller story arcs in season four.
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** Season Five: This troper stopped watching. Someone else finish this.
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** Season Five: This troper stopped watching. Someone else finish this.The search for the chi of the demon sorcerers.
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* Don't forget Jackie Chan Adventures and its seasonal arcs.
** Season One: The search for Shendu's talismans.
** Season Two: Defeating Shendu's demon siblings.
** Season Three: Finding the animals with the talismans' powers.
** Season Four: Finding the Shadowkhan masks
** Season Five: This troper stopped watching. Someone else finish this.
** Season One: The search for Shendu's talismans.
** Season Two: Defeating Shendu's demon siblings.
** Season Three: Finding the animals with the talismans' powers.
** Season Four: Finding the Shadowkhan masks
** Season Five: This troper stopped watching. Someone else finish this.
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* ''{{Dexter}}'' has naturally fallen into this, as its entire first season was an adaptation of one novel. Subsequent seasons have each carried their own story arc.
* ''{{Weeds}}'' contains over-arcing storylines, although they aren't necessarily clearly-defined between seasons, and they sometimes aren't so much resolved as they are escaped from. This gives it a quality of drifting from situation to situation that fits its stoner subject matter, while characters from unresolved plotlines sometimes resurface later.
* ''{{Weeds}}'' contains over-arcing storylines, although they aren't necessarily clearly-defined between seasons, and they sometimes aren't so much resolved as they are escaped from. This gives it a quality of drifting from situation to situation that fits its stoner subject matter, while characters from unresolved plotlines sometimes resurface later.
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** Season Two focuses on Beast Boy and even moreso on SixthColumn Terra, who is manipulated by Slade to become TheMole and ultimately TheDragon.
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** Season Two focuses on Beast Boy and even moreso on SixthColumn SixthRangerTraitor Terra, who is manipulated by Slade to become TheMole and ultimately TheDragon.
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* ''ExoSquad'' had not only the primary story arc (the struggle between the Terrans and the [[GattacaBabies Neo Sapiens]]), but it was also broken into smaller four or five episode long mini arcs, with the action typically focusing on a particular theater of the war. On the DVD release, each mini-arc gets its own name in addition to the episode titles.
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** Season 1: The Master's attempts to escape his [[SealedEvilInACan can]] and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt open the Hellmouth]].
** Season 2: Technically the fights between Buffy and Spike count as an arc, but the ''real'' arc doesn't start until [[FaceHeelTurn Angel loses his soul]] and becomes [[EnemyWithin Angelus again]].
** Season 3: The Mayor's plans to become a pure demon, and [[DarkActionGirl Faith's]] [[FallenHero fall from good]] and her eventual FaceHeelTurn.
** Season 4: Buffy adjusting to college life and dealing with [[GovernmentConspiracy The Initiative]], whose experiments ultimately lead to the rise of [[HalfHumanHybrid Adam]].
** Season 5: Buffy dealing with Dawn's arrival, [[spoiler: Joyce's]] death, and [[PhysicalGod Glory's]] plans.
** Season 6: Willow dealing with her addiction to magic, and Buffy trying to provide for Dawn while also getting tormented by the Trio.
** Season 7: [[UltimateEvil The First]] attempts to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt open the Hellmouth]], while Buffy builds an army of Potential Slayers to fight it.
** Season 2: Technically the fights between Buffy and Spike count as an arc, but the ''real'' arc doesn't start until [[FaceHeelTurn Angel loses his soul]] and becomes [[EnemyWithin Angelus again]].
** Season 3: The Mayor's plans to become a pure demon, and [[DarkActionGirl Faith's]] [[FallenHero fall from good]] and her eventual FaceHeelTurn.
** Season 4: Buffy adjusting to college life and dealing with [[GovernmentConspiracy The Initiative]], whose experiments ultimately lead to the rise of [[HalfHumanHybrid Adam]].
** Season 5: Buffy dealing with Dawn's arrival, [[spoiler: Joyce's]] death, and [[PhysicalGod Glory's]] plans.
** Season 6: Willow dealing with her addiction to magic, and Buffy trying to provide for Dawn while also getting tormented by the Trio.
** Season 7: [[UltimateEvil The First]] attempts to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt open the Hellmouth]], while Buffy builds an army of Potential Slayers to fight it.
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* Although the setting in Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars is easily changed with some effective roleplaying, some longer arcs have been implemented. After the move to Role-playing, there's always been one.
** Also, an Alternate Universe resolution to the final conflict of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S tied in to @/{{Mapi}}'s Mega Crossover fanfic.
** A truly epic arc concerning vampires, which began with the introduction of an Alternate Universe Future Badass version of Flandre Scarlet and came to its conclusion with the defeat of none other than The Lord of Evil, Dracula himself.
** Not to mention the more over-arcing Are machines sentient? arc, which began with the freeing of Dee and her sister Bit.
** One of the largest involved [[FullmetalAlchemist Father]]'s attemps to remake the multiverse, and destroy the Fourth Wall.
** Anyone who wants to can usually kick off an arc, and several plots sometimes run at once. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to have become too confusing.
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* Although the setting in Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars is easily changed with some effective roleplaying, some longer arcs have been implemented. After the move to Role-playing, there's always been one.
** Also, an Alternate Universe resolution to the final conflict of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S tied in to @/{{Mapi}}'s Mega Crossover fanfic.
** A truly epic arc concerning vampires, which began with the introduction of an Alternate Universe Future Badass version of Flandre Scarlet and came to its conclusion with the defeat of none other than The Lord of Evil, Dracula himself.
** Not to mention the more over-arcing Are machines sentient? arc, which began with the freeing of Dee and her sister Bit.
** One of the largest involved [[FullmetalAlchemist Father]]'s attemps to remake the multiverse, and destroy the Fourth Wall.
** Anyone who wants to can usually kick off an arc, and several plots sometimes run at once. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to have become too confusing.
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* ''{{CSI}}'' did one fairly recently with the "Miniature Killer", so called because they would leave a perfect scale model of the crime scene there, and which served as the set up at the end to put one of the regulars [[PutOnABus on a bus]].
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* Each season of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has an arc.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod sup]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon worse and worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breahter episodes.
episodes. The episodes were Greasy Bufoons, One Coarse Meal, and The Scent of Money.
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* LivingWithInsanity used to be a comic strip with the occasional story arc, but now is mostly story arcs.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants recantly had one concerning Mr. Krbas getting worse and worse until his redemption. There were lots of breater episodes.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants recantly SpongeBobSquarePants, [[StatusQuoIsGod sup]][[ThreeShorts risin]][[RuleOfFunny gly]], recently had one concerning Mr. Krbas Krabs getting [[MoraleventHorizon worse and worse worse]] until his [[AwesomeMoments commupance]] and redemption. There were lots of breater breahter episodes.
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* SpongeBobSquarePants recantly had one concerning Mr. Krbas getting worse and worse until his redemption. There were lots of breater episodes.
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* Each of the original games in the ''WhenTheyCry'' series are their own arc. Later remakes tend to have multiple arcs in one game though.
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*AtopTheFourthWall has had these ever since Mechakara's introduction, though each had a similar flow with the exception of the Linkara Lost ark. The villan tries to break him, and then does a direct assault. The arks so far have been Mechkara, Linsano, Linkara Lost and now Lord Vyce. On a side note in lieu of the normal structure, linkara lost consisted of linkra being missing for an extended peroid of time, with guest hosts every week and stingers covering the spread of the ark until the conclusion in the Ewoks #9 review. There are also periodic filler episodes inbetween, so the arc dosen't take over the show.
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* In any given season, TheWire tends to have half-a-dozen story arcs at one time. At least. And they are all awesome.
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* In any given season, TheWire [[ViewersAreGeniuses tends to have half-a-dozen story arcs at one time. At least. And they are all awesome.awesome]].
