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The last third of a [[Two Part Trilogy]] often fits.

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* ''Beneath the [[Planet of the Apes]]'' continues with Taylor and Nova riding along the beach.

* ''[[Bride of Frankenstein (Film)|Bride of Frankenstein]]'' starts with the [[Torches and Pitchforks|villagers]] concluding that the Monster has died in the burning windmill.

* In ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]] II'' Dr. Loomis runs out on the lawn and starts looking for the disappeared Michael. Slight continuity error in that he fell from the balcony in the back in the original, while the sequel changes it to the front of the house. Laurie spends most of the movie out of action in the hospital from the injuries sustained in the original. The opening scene of ''Halloween 5'' shows how Michael survived the climax of the previous film, before falling into a coma and waking up [[Contrived Coincidence|exactly]] [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday|one year later]].

* ''[[The Karate Kid (Film)|The Karate Kid]], Part II'' begins with the aftermath of the tournament (a sequence written for then cut out of the first movie), before doing a [[Time Skip]] to six months later.

* Within [[The Dresden Files]], ''Ghost Story'' continues from the moment ''Changes'' ended, at least, from Harry's POV. {{spoiler|Turns out, half a year has passed while he hung out in the [[Afterlife Antechamber]].}}

* [[Terry Goodkind]] loves this trope. The breaks between his books vary from a few months to a few instants. ''Stone of Tears'' follows immediately from the end of ''Wizard's First Rule''.

* ''Slan Hunter'' starts within hours of the end of ''[[Slan]]'', preventing our heroes from being able to put what they learned in the first book to use before multiple disasters strike.

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series, the most notable examples are:

** Sindel is ressurected in Earthrealm during the events of ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]'', and ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]'' deals with Eathrealm & Outworld forcibly merging because of this.

** ''[[Mortal Kombat Deception (Video Game)|Deception]]'' takes place immediately after ''[[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance (Video Game)|Deadly Alliance]]'', right after the heroes confront the titular [[Enemy Mine]] of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. [[Downer Beginning|Things don't look too good for our heroes.]]

* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' ends with Sylvia getting a V-watch and UFOs invading Movie Land. ''Viewtiful Joe 2'' picks up right then, in the final scene of the first game, with Joe and Sylvia making their way toward the new enemy.

* ''[[Jumper (Video Game)|Jumper Two]]'' begins with Ogmo jumping off a plane that made up the final sector of the first ''Jumper''.