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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Timon:'''
'''Pumba:''' Timon, you can't use Two! There's already been a Two!
▲{{quote|'''Timon:''' ''"Waaaait, wait wait wait, hold on a second. ''Three?'' What's with the three? No, no, no, the three has ''got'' to go."''<br />
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'''Pumba:''' Yeah, more like a Behind-the-scene-quel!
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Also called a Midquel, this is, quite simply, when a new entry in a series is a sequel to one existing entry, and a [[Prequel]] to another, or alternatively takes place during a [[Time Skip]] in an earlier entry rather than continuing the story. This device is often used to expand a portion of the story only touched upon in other entries, or if more story is desired but there's no logical place for it either before the beginning or after the end. Happens ''a lot'' in [[Video Games]], since story has only recently become a major part of design. A more cynical creator might use it to cash in on a franchise without having to advance the [[Story Arc]]. [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation|Not that we want to name names, or anything...]]
Compare [[Prequel]], [[POV Sequel]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]] [[The Movie]]'' is set sometime during the last third of the TV series and features the team at the high point of their arc before things all start coming apart.
** Specifically, it occurs between episodes 22 and 23, judging from background details ("Cowboy Andy" in the samurai getup he adopted after 22, the events of 23 not yet happening).
* The second season of [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] rebroadcasts the episodes of the first, with new episodes inserted in between, in the correct chronological order.
* One of the manga adaptations of ''[[Darker
* [[Getter Robo]] manga has two. ''Shin Getter Robo'' was made because [[Ken Ishikawa]] wanted to explain how thigs went from ''Getter Robo G'' to the shape they were in ''Getter Robo Go'' and answer such question as why Ryoma was scared of Getter Rays in ''Go'' or what happened to Benkei. Then there's ''Getter Robio Hien: An Earth Suicide'', based on Ishikawa notes, set between ''Go'' and ''Getter Robo Ark''.
* [[Gundam]] is full of those, most notably with [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]], set between the original ''[[
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has been known to place [[Filler Arc]]s within mainstream arcs, which make these arcs in the anime this Trope for the manga. The first was the Little East Blue Arc which came out during the Impel Down Arc, and the second was the Cidre Guild Arc during the Wano Country Arc. Both these arcs are plot elements for the movie ''One Piece: Strong World'' (Slated for release in November 2013.)
== Comic Books ==
* All of the [[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]] comics, apart from ''Float Out'' take place between the end of the series and [[The Movie]].
* The "Spike" comics take place near the end of the last season of [[
* ''The Arrival'' takes place between and during episodes of season 1 of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', except the last issue, ''Rise of Safeguard'', which takes place between the third and seventh episodes of season two.
* Disney used the term "inbetweenquels" for all the "B" (and in one case, "C") chapters of [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''.
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Fast and
** The fifth installment, ''[[Fast Five]]'', is also an interquel and the direct sequel to ''Fast & Furious''. Going by [[The Stinger]] in ''Fast Five'', the sixth movie too will also be an interquel. ''[[The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift]]'' (the third film) is currently the final chronological installment.
* The short ''Rings'', available on the ''[[The Ring]]'' Special Edition DVD, chronicles the journey of the deadly VHS made to get into the hands of the unlucky victim in ''[[The Ring]] 2''.
* ''[[Saw]] IV'' takes place at the same time as the bulk of ''[[Saw]] III''.
* ''[[Paranormal Activity]] 2'' takes place mostly before, partly during, and immediately after the first movie.
* As with the ongoing TV series, ''[[Star Wars:
* ''[[L
* The [[Direct to Video]] film, ''[[Marley and Me]]: The Puppy Years'' is about what the title says and also Marley is [[Suddenly Voiced]].
* Although the films in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] are standalone for the most part, their internal chronology makes ''[[Iron Man
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* Because the books in Steven Brust's ''Vlad Taltos ([[Dragaera]])'' novels are not written in chronological order, the majority of them are interquels. ''Dragon'' deserves special mention, as due to its telling of multiple separate-but-related plots, it takes place both before ''and'' after the book ''Yendi''.
* Orson Scott Card loves doing this with his books. The entire "Shadow" series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hedgemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant) all take place alongside/in-between Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide.
** The Other Wiki has a good summary picture of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110710210238/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Enderverse.png ridiculous chronology.]
* The Alan Quatermain books by [[H. Rider Haggard]]. The first, ''[[King
* This trope is a major feature of the [[Deryni]] portion of [[Katherine Kurtz]]'s works. Several short stories, the Heirs of Camber trilogy (published 1989-1994) and the Childe Morgan trilogy (first published in 2003 and still incomplete as of 2011) are set between the Camber trilogy (published 1976-1981) and The Chronicles of the Deryni trilogy (published 1970-1973).
* Both volumes of Brian Lumley's aptly-titles ''[[Necroscope]]: The Lost Years'' take place during the [[Time Skip]] between the second and third ''Necroscope'' books.
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* More than a third of Bernard Cornwell's ''[[Sharpe]]'' novels were written to slot between the existing stories, often expanding on [[Noodle Incident|NoodleIncidents]] or historical events that occurred geographically and temporally close to previous novels.
* The first book in the ''[[Pern]]'' series actually starts the chronologically latest [[Arc]] (9th Pass). Everything since then has been an interquel between a chronologically earlier title and the 9th Pass.
* A majority of the ''[[
* ''Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman'' is set 80 years after the second part of ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'', but over five centuries before the third and final part.
* The 13th [[
* Book four of ''[[
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== Radio ==
* ''[[Torchwood:
* The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and post-2005, Eighth Doctor [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] stories are set in the gap between episodes of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' TV series that have already been chronicled. There's also a series of Fourth Doctor audio dramas produced by BBC Audio released from 2009 onwards.
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Street Fighter]] Alpha'' series is set between the very first ''Street Fighter'' and the ''Street Fighter II'' series. The more recent ''Street Fighter IV'' series is a [[Non-Linear Sequel]] set after ''Street Fighter II'', but before the ''Street Fighter III''
** Kinda. [[SFA 1]] was a straight-up midquel. [[SFA 2]] was a complete remake of [[SFA 1]] that also advanced the plot a little with the introduction of Sakura. [[SFA 3]] was (pretty obviously) a complete, if clumsy, wrap-up of all of Alpha and II's loose ends taking place an indeterminate amount of time after [[SFA 2]]. Much later, [[SF 4]] came out as a pre-
* Given that the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series covers nearly 950 years of time, the majority of entries are interquels of two pre-existing games.
** Thus far, ''[[Castlevania: Lament of Innocence|Lament of Innocence]]'' is the first, and ''[[Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' has four interquels: ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' trilogy, that take place between ''[[Metroid]]'' and ''Metroid II: Return of Samus'', and within that, ''Metroid Prime Hunters'', which by [[Word of God]] takes place between ''Prime'' and ''Prime 2''.
** ''[[Metroid
* ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' is both a interquel between ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil 2|2]]'' and a sequel to ''2''. The first half takes place a day before the events of ''2'', but then Jill falls unconscious for a whole day after she is injected with a serum that cures her from the T-Virus. The events of ''2'' transpire during the whole day that Jill is asleep and she regains consciousness after those events are over.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' takes place between the 1st game and the 2nd.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]] Thracia 776'' (the fifth FE released) takes place between shortly before chapter six and the end of chapter eight of the previous game, [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Genealogy of the Holy War]].
* ''[[Jak and Daxter|Daxter]]'' shows how the eponymous sidekick managed to bust Jak out between the first and second games.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]] Investigations'' takes place {{spoiler|before and}} after the events of the third game, ''Trials and Tribulations'', and is itself a prequel to ''Apollo Justice''.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: Shaolin Monks'' is an interquel that starts with a retelling of the first game and leads up to the events of the second game.
* The Unnkulia games had a prequel (Unnkulia Zero), followed by an Interquel (Unnkulia One Half).
* ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] III: The Ancient Ship of Doom'' is actually an interquel set between the first NES game and ''Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos''. While the English version's manual does somewhat imply that the game is set before ''Ninja Gaiden II'', most people didn't notice it and assumed that ''Ninja Gaiden III'' was a standard sequel. The Japanese version always had it clear that it was an interquel.
* ''[[
* Most of the Caverns of Time missions in [[World of Warcraft]] fit this description. The Caverns of Time allows players to visit points in Azeroth's history mostly to help the Bronze Dragonflight prevent the mysterious Infinite Dragonflight from altering the past. Of the four Caverns of Time instances, one takes place before any of the Warcraft games (Opening the Dark Portal), making it a [[Prequel]]. Two more instances recreate and expand on key campaigns in Warcraft III (Culling of Stratholme and Battle for Mount Hyjal), making them arguably Interquels or arguably [[POV Sequel
* ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' takes place DURING ''[[Halo 2]]''. Specifically, right after Master Chief goes through a slip space rupture.
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' could possibly be considered this, as it chronologically takes place between ''[[Halo Wars]]'' and ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.
* ''Trilby's Notes'' and ''6 Days A Sacrifice'', the final two games of the [[Chzo Mythos]], are both interquels to the first two games. What is interesting is that 6 Days A Sacrifice includes a part that makes takes place after the second game, set after 6 Days, technically making it part-sequel.
* Both versions of ''[[
* ''[[God of War (
* In between ''[[Dead Space (
* [[Spider
* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]][[Revenge of the Sequel|: Grunty's Revenge]]'' took place in between the two Nintendo 64 games ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* ''Forever Kingdom'' is an interesting example. It is a [[Prequel]] to ''[[Ever Grace]]'', chronicling the events of the main character Darius before the original game. However, those events are happening concurrently to Sharline's path through ''[[Ever Grace]]'', which took place before Darius', making it both a Prequel AND an Interquel to the original game.
* The House of the Dead 4 is an interesting case. Although ostensibly a midquel taking place before 3, it's probably more accurate to call it a ''replacement'' for 3. Apparently big time jumps were all the rage at the time 3 came out (cf. Tekken 3, Garou: Mark of the Wolves), Sega realized that there really wasn't anywhere to go from there, and so decided to make 4 a more traditional follow-up to 2.
* [[The Force Unleashed]] provides a look at the time between the [[Star Wars]] prequel and original trilogies.
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** Most deliberately coined with the title ''[[The Lion King]] 1½''- although ironically in [[TV Tropes]] terms, it's more of a [[POV Sequel]].
*** With a touch of Point-Of-View prequel since some of it takes place before the movie (ie section before Timon meets Pumbaa).
** The two ''[[Beauty and
** ''[[Bambi (Disney film)|Bambi]] 2'' is an interquel because it takes place right inbetween when Bambi's mom dies and when it instantly shifts to happy springtime songs. Apparently more than a few people thought the first movie was a little too quick in the mood change.
** The same goes for ''[[The Fox and
** And ''[[Tarzan]] 2''.
** ''[[Lilo and Stitch]] 2: Stitch Has A Glitch'' and its accompanying short film ''The Origin Of Stitch'' both take place after the first movie and before ''Stitch: The Movie''.
* Both ''[[
* ''[[Bionicle]] 3: Web of Shadows'' takes place within the last ten minutes of the previous movie (which is itself a [[Prequel]], making it an Interquel on two levels).
* The [[Direct to Video]] installments of the ''[[An American Tail]]'' series can be viewed as interquels between the first and the second movie.
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* ''[[The Dreamer]]'' has short stories that can be read as these and as [[A Day in
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* ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'' takes place between ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' and ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''
** And ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' takes place between the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequel trilogy and the original trilogy.
* The two-part comic ''Portal 2: Lab Rat'' bridges the gap between the video games ''[[Portal (
* The comic ''Tron Betrayal,'' the game [[Tron Evolution]], and the upcoming Tron Uprising animated series spell out what happened between the two movies.
* The graphic novel series ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender
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