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** The infamous "Golden Turd" saga, which was seen in "Homeland Insecurity", "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option", "Blagsnarst: A Love Story" and "Father's Daze".

** The infamous "Golden Turd" saga, which was seen in "Homeland Insecurity", "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option", "Blagsnarst: A Love Story" and concluded in "Father's Daze".

** The infamous "Golden Turd" saga, which was seen in "Homeland Insecurity", "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option" and "Blagsnarst: A Love Story".

** [[MusicalEpisode The Rapper Bob Arc]] - [[JerkAss Bob]] has [[FaceHeelTurn betrayed his friends]] to finally become a successful rapper, including [[KickTheDog ending his friendship with Fishy Boopkins]], it's up to Mario, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Saiko]] and the gang to end his rapping career once and for all.

** The [=YouTube=] Arc - [[BigBad SMG3]] has gotten his production studio destroyed by [=SMG4=], which caused the former to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil be evil for good]], afterwards he gets his own crew which are [[EvilCounterpart copycats]] of the [[FanNickname Glitchy Gang]], who will help him to [[spoiler:[[RetGone erase [=SMG4=] and the gang (sans Mario) from existence]].]]

*** Season 3: Barry deals with the fallout from his [[CosmicRetcon creation of Flashpoint]], not least of which is the arrival of [[AGodAmI Savitar]].

** The Waluigi Arc - [[OmnicidalManiac Waluigi]] gets rejected from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' again, causing to embrace the power of rejection and use the power to turn everyone into T-Pose zombies and cause an apocalypse on the Mushroom Kingdom.
** The Rapper Bob Arc - [[JerkAss Bob]] has betrayed his friends to finally become a successful rapper, including ending his friendship with Fishy Boopkins, it's up to Mario, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Saiko]] and the gang to end his rapping career once and for all.
** The Anime Arc - After Bob accidentally destroys Peach's castle, Anime is banned from the Mushroom Kingdom, including Saiko (who is a real life anime character) so the gang wants to unban anime with the help of Axol, later on after anime is unbanned, Meggy and Axol were kidnap by [[HateSink Francis]], who wants to make an island of waifus with the inklings ink, so it's up to the gang (including [[TheRival Desti]], of all people) to save Meggy and stop Francis.
** The [=YouTube=] Arc - [[BigBad SMG3]] has gotten his production studio destroyed by [=SMG4=], which caused the former to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil be evil for good]], afterwards he gets his own crew which are [[EvilCounterpart copycats]] of the [[FanNickname Glitchy Gang]].

** The Waluigi Arc - [[OmnicidalManiac Waluigi]] gets rejected from SuperSmashBros. again, causing to embrace the power of rejection and use the power to turn everyone into T-Pose zombies and cause an apocalypse on the Mushroom Kingdom.

** The Waluigi Arc - [[AGodAmI Waluigi]] gets rejected from SuperSmashBros again, causing to embrace the power of rejection and use the power to turn everyone into T-Pose zombies and cause an apocalypse on the Mushroom Kingdom.

** The Anime Arc - After Bob accidentally destroys Peach's castle, Anime is banned from the Mushroom Kingdom, including Saiko (who is a real life anime character) so the gang wants to unban anime with the help of Axol, later on after anime is unbanned, Meggy and Axol were kidnap by [[BigBad Francis]], who wants to make an island of waifus with the inklings ink, so it's up to the gang (including [[TheRival Desti]], of all people) to save Meggy and stop Francis.
** The [=YouTube=] Arc - [=SMG3=] has gotten his production studio destroyed by [=SMG4=], which caused the former to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil be evil for good]], afterwards he gets his own crew which are [[EvilCounterpart copycats]] of the [[FanNickname Glitchy Gang]].

** The Waluigi Arc - Waluigi gets rejected from ''VideoGame/{{SuperSmashBros}}'' again, causing to embrace the power of rejection and use the power to turn everyone into T-Pose zombies and cause an apocalypse on the Mushroom Kingdom.
** The Rapper Bob Arc - Bob has betrayed his friends to finally become a successful rapper, including ending his friendship with Fishy Boopkins, it's up to Mario, Saiko and the gang to end his rapping career once and for all.
** The Anime Arc - After Bob accidentally destroys Peach's castle, Anime is banned from the Mushroom Kingdom, including Saiko (who is a real life anime character) so the gang wants to unban anime with the help of Axol, later on after anime is unbanned, Meggy and Axol were kidnap by Francis, who wants to make an island of waifus with the inklings ink, so it's up to the gang (including [[TheRival Desti]], of all people) to save Meggy and stop Francis.

** The Waluigi Arc - Waluigi gets rejected from ''VideoGame/{{SuperSmashBros}}'' again, casuing to embrace the power of rejection and use the power to turn everyone into T-Pose zombies and cause an apocalypse on the Mushroom Kingdom.

** The Anime Arc
** The [=YouTube=] Arc

** The first season, in addition to the overall MythArc of the struggle against [[AGodAmI Corona]] and standalone threats, is built around the manipulations of the [[DeadlyDecadentCourt corrupt Night Court]], which comes to a head in ''At The Grand Galloping Gala''.

** Season 3: The Winx earning their Enchantix and Bloom continuing her search for her birth parents, among this is the sorcerer Valtor who harbors a connection with her.
** Season 4: The Winx going to earth to help humans believe in fairies and magic.

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* Disney's ''Series/{{Zorro}}'', which ran in the late 1950s was organized into arc stories, rather than simply being episodic. Each episode set up a new set of troubles that Zorro would have to deal with in the next episode in logical, linear fashion.

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* WebVideo/BoardJames has one in season 3 which was propelled by the season 2 Dream Phone episode.

* Each 'chapter' of ''Roleplay/TheMadScientistWars'' is usually a self contained storyline - but as the gae has been going on, more and more storylines will run somewhat through other chapter. For instance, 'Chic's Family' has been going on since the Mad Sci Con chapter.

* WebVideo/DemoReel had Donnie's DarkAndTroubledPast, a SWAG leader wanting to destroy the production team and general learning-from-your-mistakes.
* 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. The more over-arcing Are machines sentient? arc, began with the freeing of Dee and her sister Bit.
** One of the largest involved [[Manga/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.
* ''Roleplay/PokemonDigimonMonWars'' is divided into three arcs so far;
** Orange Islands Arc: Based on the FillerArc and Pokemon2000 from the Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime
** Myotismon Arc: A variation of Myotismon's invasion of Tokyo, but instead on a large chunk of kanto
** Dark Masters Arc: Current arc, with the Dark Masters merging the digital world with Johto and Orre into Spiral Mountain
* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' has numerous arcs brought into several sagas:
** J-Team Assemble Saga: The assemblage of the J-Team and its codification as a concept, consisting of the Sinnoh, PMD-1, Unova-1, Ranger, and Gold Conference Arcs.
** Upheaval Saga: The AU Arc.
** Aftershock Saga: Dealing with the aftermath of the AU and consisting of the OI, Hoenn, and Infinity Keystone and Kanjoh-1 arcs.
** Paths Saga: The PMD-R and Kanjoh-2 arcs, taking place partially concurrently.
** Cipher Saga: The J-Team's fight against Cipher, consisting of the Unova-2, Holonquest, and Orre arcs.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' goes through several short arcs each season, with a larger arc always on the backburner that comes into play for the season finale. Season 1 had the Beacon initiation ritual (episodes 1-8), Ruby and Weiss's rivalry (9-10), Jaune's bully problems (11-14), and Blake [[spoiler:running away because her team finds out she's a Faunus]] (15-16), with the overall arc being Roman Torchwick's mysterious crime spree. Season 2 had Team RWBY hunting down Roman (episodes 1-4), the Beacon Dance and Blake's health problems (5-7), and the team's mission to Mountain Glenn (8-12), with the overall arc being [[spoiler:Cinder]]'s infiltration of Beacon. Season 3 has the TournamentArc, which then segues into the Fall of Beacon arc.

** ''Anime/DragonBallKai'': Saiyan/Vegeta (26 episodes), the fourth quest for the Dragon Balls (Namek/Freeza, 25 episodes), Androids/Cell (Androids, 24 episodes; Cell, 20 episodes; 44 episodes total), and Buu (Majin Buu, 34 episodes; Evil Buu, 25 episodes; 60 episodes total)

** Season One follows [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Regina the Evil Queen]] casting the Dark Curse and sending fairy tale characters to a town called Storybrooke in the real world, where they remain trapped and without the memories of who they really are, and how it's the destiny of Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter, Emma Swan, to be "the Savior" and break the curse. The mini-arcs are Emma accepting her role as mother to her newfound son Henry and her place in Storybrooke, ultimately becoming sheriff after the old one is killed (episodes 1-9); an amnesiac Snow and Charming having an affair that creates trouble with the wife Charming has in Storybrooke, who then goes missing leaving Snow the prime suspect (episodes 10-18); and Emma being made to believe in her true identity and destiny by both a mysterious writer named August and Rumpelstiltskin, [[MagnificentBastard the mastermind behind everything]] (episodes 19-22).

** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' has four arcs. The first arc introduces the characters and has the mysterious group of time travelers erase the past history of previous Kamen Riders while showing tribute to Build, Ex-Aid, Fourze, Faiz, Wizard, OOO, Gaim, Ghost, and Decade (1-16). The second arc involves the alternate version of a main character coming from a timeline where the EvilOverlord was defeated while paying tribute to Ryuki and Blade (17-30). The third deals with the fallout of the multiple TimeParadox as well as learning more about the female lead's past as well as tributes to Agito, Hibiki, Kiva, Kabuto, and Den-O (31-40). The final arc reveals the motivation of the BigBad and how the heroes must fix the time distortion before their universe is destroyed and showing tributes to W and Drive as well as the Movie Riders (41-49).

* The ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' anime has thus far adapted five of the light novels' arcs, each one usually revolving around a new virtual-reality [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]]. The arcs are:

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':

** Phantom Bullet, which introduces new character [[ColdSniper Sinon]], and details her and Kirito's investigation of Death Gun, a player in the {{Steampunk}} MMO Gun Gale Online, who seems to be able to kill players in the real world by killing them in the game.

* The ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' anime has thus far adapted five of the light novels' arcs, each one usually revolving around a new virtual-reality MMORPG. The arcs are:
** Aincrad, which deals with Kirito, Asuna, and thousands of other gamers being trapped in the MMORPG Sword Art Online (SAO), and their efforts to escape by defeating the boss on each of the 100 levels.
** Fairy Dance, which deals with Kirito's attempts to [[spoiler:rescue Asuna from her {{Jerkass}} fiance, who has taken control of the SAO game engine and trapped her and many other SAO victims in another game, Alfheim Online (ALO), for some nefarious purpose]], after he and most of the other gamers escape back to the real world.
** Phantom Bullet, which introduces new character Sinon, and details her and Kirito's investigation of Death Gun, a player in the steampunk MMO Gun Gale Online, who seems to be able to kill players in the real world by killing them in the game.

** Mother's Rosario, which focuses on Asuna [[DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest instead of Kirito]], and deals with her friendship with new character Yuuki, her helping Yuuki's guild, the Sleeping Knights, to defeat a particularly deadly Aincrad boss, and her fraught relationship with her mother.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' goes through several short arcs each season, with a larger arc always on the backburner that comes into play for the season finale. Season 1 had the Beacon initiation ritual (episodes 1-8), Ruby and Weiss's rivalry (9-10), Jaune's bully problems (11-14), and Blake [[spoiler:running away because her team finds out she's a Faunus]] (15-16), with the overall arc being Roman Torchwick's mysterious crime spree. Season 2 had Team RWBY hunting down Roman (episodes 1-4), the Beacon Dance and Blake's health problems (5-7), and the team's mission to Mountain Glenn (8-12), with the overall arc being [[spoiler:Cinder]]'s infiltration of Beacon.

* Though ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' mostly uses stand alone stories, they do occasionally throw in hints of story arcs, such as [[spoiler: Equinox, the Starro story arc and the arrival of {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub has a major arc in every season.