Changing of the Guard: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' passes the torch to a different [[Badass Family|Joestar]] every new series, although they usually wind up in conflict with [[Big Bad|Dio]] (even indirectly) at some point. It's also common for supporting characters in one series to show up in another, like Polnareff's involvement in Part 5.

* ''[[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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* 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]]''.

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* 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.

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** [[Discworld/Mort|Mort]] and Ysabell's story ended with them [[Happily Married]]. So for [[Discworld/Soul Music|the next novel]] that needed a young clueless human to take on Death's role and mess things up, their [[Spin Offspring|daughter]] Susan was introduced.

** ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' also ends with Magrat, the [[The Hecate Sisters|Maiden]] of the Lancre coven, getting married. Luckily, the same novel introduces a coven of young girls messing about, one of whom -- Agnes Nitt -- actually has some talent and becomes Third Witch ([[Refusal of the Call|eventually]]) in the next coven novel. Arguably, the Tiffany Aching novels mark a [[Changing of the Guard]] for the entire witches series, with Tiff becoming the main character while Nanny and Granny fade into support roles.

* 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 Action TV]] ==

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* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'', has two selectable protagonists, one of which is the son of one of the protagonists in ''[[Videogame/Star Ocean The First Departure|Star Ocean The First Departure]]''. (e.g. Star Ocean 1)

* 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 existance as Sin was the only thing keeping him alive}}. Obviously, ''[[Square Enix]]'' couldn't make him the protagonist of [[Final Fantasy X 2|the sequel]], so the story centers around Yuna instead and her quest to bring him back.

* At the end of [[Final Fantasy X]], Tidus {{spoiler|ceases to exist due to the fact that Jecht's existance as Sin was the only thing keeping him alive}}. Obviously, ''[[Square Enix]]'' couldn't make him the protagonist of [[Final Fantasy X-2|the sequel]], so the story centers around Yuna instead and her quest to bring him back.

* ''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]].

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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]]'' -- the old school [[Looney Tunes]] ran an academy at which they could teach their skills to the next generation of [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]].