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Why, promote the [[Sidekick]] of course. Or an ally. Or a brother or [[Spin Offspring|child]]. They haven't married and settled down yet. [[The Hero]] and his [[Love Interest]] can serve as supporting characters (and prove that they are [[Happily Married]] as a sidenote). Or the [[Heroic Bystander]], or the [[Heroic Wannabe]] - any character that wasn't the lead can fit, if only they are promoted to lead. A [[Sequel Hook]] about their story helps, but is not required. Even new characters who have plausible relationships to the old story, such as the [[Spin Offspring|children]] [[The Hero]] and [[Love Interest]] could have - or [[Someone to Remember Him By|the child]] the [[Love Interest]] is about to have, even if she wants to make sure he doesn't [[Turn Out Like His Father]].
Any story is possible; the
Compare with [[Legacy Character
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' picked up where [[Digimon Adventure|the first]] left off by having the two youngest kids team up with a whole new group, while the older heroes served as mentors.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]'' primarily focuses on Kira. In the sequel, ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', Kira and his love Lacus are happily living together with [[Babies Ever After|a score of orphans]], and the focus shifts instead to Kira's friend Athrun and a younger Gundam pilot, Shinn. About halfway through the series, Kira and Lacus came back as the primary protagonists alongside Athrun.
* ''[[
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Spin Offspring|ViVid]]'' has Nanoha actually [[Heroic RROD|listening to her doctors' advice for once]] and [[Retired Badass|temporarily resting her wings]], letting her daughter Vivio, whose training she's personally overseeing and who she had proclaimed to be skilled enough to have her own [[Transformation Trinket|Intelligent Device]], take over as main character. The Guard changes back in ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force|Force]]'', however.
* ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' changes the main character from Mai to Arika in both versions, but the nature of Mai's eventual reappearance is ''very'' different between the two adaptations.
* Tishe ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' OVA switches halfway through from Parn to Spark as the main character. Of course, {{spoiler|he's actually just being [[Badass]] offscreen, and returns just in time for the [[Battle Royale With Cheese]].}}
* Similarly, the second season of ''[[Superbook]]'' had Gizmo team up with a young friend of the main characters of the first season, Joy and Chris. They kept in contact with them through a communication screen in Gizmo's stomach (he's a robot).
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Short Circuit
* The ''[[Tremors]]'' series passes the "hero torch" from Val (gets married) to Earl (opens a theme park) to Burt (when last heard from, still at it..)
* ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' Part 3 with Snowman dressed as The Bandit.
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* Like the [[Indiana Jones]] above, [[Rocky Balboa]] had a perfectly good opportunity to pass off his Best Boxer EVAR mantle to a young man named Steps (who did not have any other purpose to the story). He doesn't, though.
* A meta-version of this occurs in the beginning of ''[[The Rundown]]'' when The Rock enters a club and passes Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wishes him a good time as he's leaving the club.
* An odd example occurs with the Van Wilder series. The first movie focuses around it's titular character. The second movie then shifts focus to the sidekick,Taj. The Third movie then returns to Van, the main character from the first movie.
* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' starred Jim Carrey as Bruce... and as a supporting character, Steve Carell as newscaster Evan. Steve's character would then get promoted to the lead role in the sequel, ''[[Evan Almighty]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Raymond E. Feist's ''[[The Riftwar Cycle
* [[J. R. R.
* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] played with this in his [[John Carter of Mars|Mars books]]. After the third book, he began writing about a larger stable of viewpoint characters, as John Carter's own romance arc had been completed and he needed new princesses to rescue and heroes to rescue them. John Carter remained a central figure and [[The Hero]] throughout the series, however
* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''[[Witch World]]'' started with two books about Simon Tregarth. Then she wrote them about his children, or about other characters in the same world.
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* [[Older Than Steam]]: Done repeatedly in the sequels to the [[Chivalric Romance]] of Amadis of Gaul.
* ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' does this, but just as often in reverse, recounting the experience of past generations rather than future ones. And then the children of past generations take the torch, but still in the past. And then their great-great-great-grandchildren show up in the present novels.
* Terry Brooks' ''[[Shannara]]'' series does it regularly. The grandchildren of the characters of previous book typically become the protagonists of the next. Suffers from [[Generation Xerox]] somewhat.
* ''[[Redwall]]'': There's a new set of characters is almost every book. The only constant is the the abbey itself.
** And there are a few novels that predate the construction of the Abbey, so not even that is entirely constant.
* ''[[Dragonlance]] Chronicles'' has Tanis as its lead character but its sequel ''Legends'' set shortly after has the twins Caramon and Raistlin take the spotlight. The next book set years later has the children of the heroes from Chronicles as the main cast.
* The last few ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' books are mostly about her kids.
* ''[[The Sacketts]]'' series by [[Louis L'
* Every new one of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' has a new changing of the guard: First, there were the 4 Pevensie siblings. Then there were two and a cousin. Then the cousin and a friend... The [[Prequel]] even established a minor character from the first published book as the major character in a previous adventure.
* In Jacqueline Carey's ''[[Kushiel]]'' books, the first trilogy is narrated by Phedre. The second is by her adopted son, as Phedre is semi-retired from adventuring by the time he's an adult.
* ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]'' features a new set of characters across almost
* The sequel series to ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' focuses on a new group of kids.
* [[Rick Riordan]]'s ''[[The Heroes of Olympus|The Lost Hero]]'' centers about three entirely new demi-gods, not Percy Jackson and his friends.
* The first four books of the [[X Wing Series]] had Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron, but the primary focus was
* The first series of the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' books started off with Firestar as the [[The Hero|main character]]. He was then replaced by Brambleclaw in the ''[[Warrior Cats the New Prophecy]]''. In ''Power of Three'', he turns into a background character like Firestar, and is replaced by Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf. ''Omen of the Stars'' has Ivypool and Dovewing as its main focus, with the ''Power of Three'' characters still in tow.
* Most of the main good guys from the first three ''[[Emberverse]]'' books have a lot of authority in the [[Divided States of America|new nation-states]] by the time the second series rolls around. This would put a crimp in their ability to go haring off to find the [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] when such a trip would take several years - a fact the resident Tolkien geek deeply laments - and so the task falls to the previously established [[Chosen One]], his childhood friend, and [[Shout-Out|se]][[The Lord of the Rings|ven]] more characters who either could be missed by blinking in the first three books or are completely new. While they're away, we do get the occasional glimpse of the old guard struggling to stave off the new [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** [[
** ''[[
* After a while, the [[Thoroughbred]] series stopped focussing on Ashley and her friends and timeskipped a few years to focus on their kids instead.
== [[Live
* ''Inspector Morse's'' sidekick, now the star of ''[[Lewis]]''.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' did a lot of this in its early seasons: when old actors left or started getting too old for their roles, they transferred their powers to new ones and went off to do stuff.
* The ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' series did this when it switched into a [[Darker and Edgier]] season, throwing out [[Villain Decay|decayed villains]] and immediately establishing the threat of the new ones with the death of two of the ensemble. Their mourning was short-
* In ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* Agent John Doggett replaced Fox Mulder as the male lead after the latter was abducted by the aliens in the eighth season of ''[[The X-Files]]''. In the ninth season, Monica Reyes replaced Dana Scully as the female lead, [[Deuteragonist|completing the guard change]].
* One episode in ''[[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|The Winds of War]]'' miniseries actually uses the trope name as its title. It features Roosevelt and Churchill meeting in the Atlantic on warships from each navy, accompanied by [[Crowning Music of Awesome|bands]] and [[Bling of War|navalistic pageantry.]] The implication is that after Britain had been [[You Shall Not Pass|holding the line]] for the first few rounds of the war soon America would enter and become the senior partner of [[The Alliance]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'', has two selectable protagonists, one of which is the son of one of the protagonists in ''[[
* The [[And the Adventure Continues...|ending]] of [[Neverwinter Nights]] was set up for another adventure, but they move on to entirely new groups of heroes in the expansions and the sequel.
* Most games in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series focus on a different Belmont, although sometimes they're not available due to plot purposes, like in ''Bloodlines'', ''Symphony Of The Night'', and ''Portrait Of Ruin''.
* Later installments of the ''[[King's Quest]]'' series focus on the adventures of Graham's (the original protagonist) descendants.
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' levels end (which often involves the death, [[Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]] of said character) although it still has a protagonist who's played in the intervals between chapters.
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** This trope works backwards in the 6th and 7th ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games. FE 7 was a prequel to FE 6, so it naturally starred the parents of several of the 6th game's characters.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' and ''[[Chrono Cross]]''. The main characters from the former are all out of the picture somehow (dead, in another time, or busy elsewhere), but before they left they set up an unimaginably complex [[Gambit Roulette]] to produce the main characters of the latter and get them to be in the right places at the right times.
* Apollo Justice takes over from Phoenix Wright in the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games. Well, he ''technically'' does - the fact that the entire Apollo Justice game centres on what happened to Phoenix left some fans unconvinced. Still, Phoenix's pals were absent, to allow for a new cast.
** It actually was suppose to be a whole new set of characters but [[Executive Meddling]] caused it to include Phoenix and the writers had to make it so that Phoenix couldn't just swoop in and save the day.
* The son of the main characters from the previous game is implied to the new hero in ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'' and the game also focuses a good deal on the other children of the previous heroes as well, but the old heroes are quite active in the story themselves as well.
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* ''[[Valis]] IV'' introduces a new heroine named Lena Brande, since Yuko, heroine of the previous games, [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] at the end of ''Valis III''. Cham and Valna return as supporting characters.
* All the games in ''[[The Tale of Alltynex]]'' trilogy does this.
* At the end of [[Final Fantasy X]], Tidus {{spoiler|ceases to exist due to the fact that Jecht's
* ''Pokémon'' series has had by far 6/12/13 heroes (depending on how you count) ([[Pokémon Red and Blue|Red/Leaf]], [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Ethan/Kris/Lyra]], [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Brendan/May]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Lucas/Dawn]], [[Pokémon Black and White|Hilbert/Hilda and the new, unnamed heroes]]) in the main series. In Orre games, there's Wes in [[Pokémon Colosseum]] and Michael in Pokémon XD. [[Pokémon Ranger|Ranger games]] have 3/6 heroes (Lunick/Solana, Kellyn/Kate and Ben/Summer). Then there's Mark/Mint from TCG games, an unnamed hero from Pokémon Conquest, Todd Snap from Pokémon Snap and Lucy Fleetfloot from Pokémon Troizei/Link. It's probably used to justify [[Bag of Spilling]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' started with the characters Tessa and Rachel (let's call them the "New Guard") as protagonists, but they were soon complemented with and eventually usurped by characters from John Allison's previous
** The "Old Guard" remained until the end too: the very last couple of comics show Shelley saying goodbye to Amy and Ryan and leaving town. As Lottie is the sister of Esther's best friend and both of them have met Shelley, it's almost my case of [[Take Up My Sword]] in the investigating-local-weirdness game. Ryan and Amy still appear in ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' as supporting characters - Ryan is now Shauna and Lottie's teacher.
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* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' is about [[Batman]]'s replacement. The original Batman acts as [[The Obi-Wan]].
* The entire purpose of ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' was to kill off the old [[Merchandise-Driven|toys]] to make room for new ones.
** Almost happened with the GI Joe Movie as well, which was in production around the same time. The negative reactions from the audiences prompted the executives to rework the plot, allowing Duke to live. Still happened to an extent with Cobra Commander however.
* A common Disney tactic:
** ''[[The Lion King]] 2'' is about [[The Hero|Simba]]'s daughter, Kiara, rather than about Simba.
** ''[[The Little Mermaid]] II: Return to the Sea'' is about Ariel's daughter more than Ariel herself.
** ''[[Lady and the Tramp]] II: Scamp's Adventure'' is, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as the title indicates]], about Lady and Tramp's son Scamp, not them.
* ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' does what the above-mentioned ''Ghostbusters 3'' planned to do: focus on Egon training a new group. [[The Real Ghostbusters]] haven't quite quit, though, and return for one two-parter.
* This was sort of the entire point of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''
* In the ''[[The Legend of Korra]],'' episode "Welcome to Republic City" Katara, aged survivor of the previous series ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' [[Lampshaded Trope|lampshades]] this in her [[Passing the Torch]] speech to young Avatar Korra:
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** It was played with a little bit previously, as the Avatar is a constantly reincarnated series of heroes, and Aang was frequently compared with his previous incarnations Roku and Kyoshi. Korra gets it a little worse though as there are plenty of people living who still remember Aang.
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