Basic Trope: The story is set back a few chapters and re-writes those chapters to fit a new story arc.
- Straight:
- In Universe - All Just a Dream often portrayed here.
- In Real Life - A writer or group of writers didn't like the last 4 issues of a 25 issue comic-book story arc, instead of a full Continuity Reboot they simply reset the story back to issue 21 and continue from there.
- Alternatively - The fans didn't like so they ignore everything past issue 21 and write Fan Fiction of what they feel happened.
- Exaggerated: The entire story suffers a major retcon and it's revealed that none of it ever happened.
- Downplayed: Something that happened a minute ago is implied to not have actually happened.
- Justified: The time-altering super hero Chronos needs to save his girlfriend from being slaughtered after she was already mutilated and dead, so he rewinds time to a significant point and changes history and thus the outcome of the story.
- Inverted:
- Everything DID happen but it just all looks like it is happening again.
- Time Skip.
- Another work that was previously assumed to be unrelated or non-canon is retroactively inserted into the story's timeline.
- Subverted: The story 'appears' to go back a few chapters but in reality we find out it hasn't reset, only the point of view has...
- Double Subverted: ..But then you realize the point of view is that of the villain and it IS changing the story!
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The story is never reset.
- Enforced:
- Issues 22-25 received such a negative fan reception that the creators had to declare them non-canon to continue the story.
- The fallout between the series publisher and the crossover characters' Copyright holder has left the Issue 22-25 crossover Screwed by the Lawyers.
- Lampshaded: "Didn't we do this before?" — "No you must be imagining it."
- Invoked: "We wish we never found this wish granting amulet".
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Multiversal variants from the Alternate Universe in which the events of issues 22-25 happened appear and fight the characters of the canon timeline for their right to live.
- Reconstructed: The universes are successfully merged together, saving both sets of characters.
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