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== Toys ==
* ''[[Transformers]]'' has had this since day 1; while [[Marvel]]'s original [[The Transformers (animation)|cartoon]] and [[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)||comic]] from 1984 share the same characters, setting, and premise, they tell completely different and irreconcilable stories, and new continuities keep sprouting to the extent that fans group them into [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family higher-order sets] to make sense of it all. Hasbro at one point [[canon]]ised this with the concept of a [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Universal_stream universal stream], groups of universes that more or less correspond to the existing franchises (and also include ''[[Go Bots]]'' and ''Robotix'')... and then apparently decanonised with with the launch of the ''[[Transformers Prime|Prime]]'' franchise, apparently because alternate universes were confusing and boring.
** Possibly re-canonised - Unicron, Primus and the big Thirteen are back in as we know and love them (With some minor changes to specifics).
* ''[[Monster High]]'' has several continuities: the doll's diaries, the cartoon series, and the novel series by Lisi Harrison. The diaries and the webisodes seem to follow the same plot line, and there is some debate over whether the TV specials are part of the same continuity as the webisodes. The novels, meanwhile, follow a completely different story.
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* ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' was considered the sequel to ''[[Tron]]'', until it was rendered non-canon by ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''.
* ''[[BioShock Infinite]]'' takes place in another continuity rather than the main ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' setting.
* [[Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds]] differs from [[The War of the Worlds (novel)||the book]] and the [[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds|rock opera]] that inspired it by taking place in an alternate universe where the humans aren't quite so outmatched, and the Martians remembered to take their flu shots.
* In the first [[Disgaea]], the good ending is considered canon but, the game [[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]] is canon from the "normal" ending. You can tell considering that {{spoiler|Prinny Laharl}} shows up as a boss.
* Two versions of the fourth ''[[Ys]]'' game were produced concurrently, ''Ys IV: Mask of the Sun'' for the [[Super Famicom]] (Falcom's canonical version) and ''Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys'' for the [[TurboGrafx-16]] CD. They have the same characters and places but are completely different in terms of plot.