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Related to [[Status Quo Is God]], except it is (or can be) more deliberate/explicit, and it doesn't require any narrative explanation.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Literature ==
* [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]]'s ''Odyssey'' novels are notable for each book taking place in a slightly separate universe than the one before it.
* Similarly, Clarke seemed to also regard the three ''Rama Cycle'' books cowritten with Gentry Lee as being set in a somewhat different universe to his original ''[[Rendezvous With Rama]]''. This may be less to do with continuity concerns and more to do with the fact that Lee wrote the bulk of these stories in a very different style and tone to Clarke's writing.
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* [[HP Lovecraft]] was known to disregard continuity whenever it suited him (mostly on the account of not seeing the point in continuity in the first place). The name "Old Ones" referred to both gods like Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth but also strange alien races like the one in ''The Shadow out of Time''. Likewise, he has claimed that the "nightmare plateau of Leng" is in Asia, Antarctica and an otherworldly dreamland in various stories. [[Unreliable Narrator|One's sanity is a tenuous thing, after all...]]
* [[Robert Rankin]]'s Brentford <s>trilogy</s> [[Trilogy Creep|octalogy]] keeps the [[Reset Button]] firmly held down at all times - Brentford itself has been repeatedly destroyed/heavily damaged {{spoiler|and on occasion, had the ''Great Pyramid of Giza'' teleported directly on top of it}}, world changing events are promptly ignored in later books, secondary characters disappear without a trace and almost the entire main cast {{spoiler|[[Kill
* In George Orwell's [[Nineteen Eighty
* The stories in ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' by Max Shulman contradict each other in many ways, as the author's note points out.
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* ''[[Insecticomics]]'' has this in ''spades''. A "catastrophic event of order" that would cause most universes to stagnate because of lack of entropy, only succeeded in {{spoiler|giving the comic an official backstory, and not a particularly good one at that}}. The only subversions I can think of are: [[Gender Bender|Thrust's gender]], and {{spoiler|the breakup of the Brigade}}.
* ''[[Nobody Scores]]'' uses this trope emphatically. Most episodes culminate in a disaster from which no kind of narrative could recover without the hard reset.
* ''Speak With Monsters'' is technically a case of [[Deep
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', some of the EGS:NP storylines. Like this [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2008-09-19 one].
* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' doesn't even keep the main character's personality constant from strip to strip--the only things that never change are that he wears a hockey mask and, for one reason or another, kills people.
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** And then, Bunny attempted to destroy the entire universe. Needless to say, while he succeeded...
* ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'' is 30 minutes of [[Negative Continuity]].
* Zorc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|"There is no continuity, there is only Insano"]]. Spoony is determined to introduce a [[Multiple Choice Past|new possible origin story for Dr. Insano]] in nearly every episode he appears in. [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Is he a version of Spoony from another universe?]] [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Did Spoony get a doctorate and travel back in time to give his past self all the science he could ever need?]] [[Kickassia|Is he the Mr. Hyde to Spoony's Dr. Jekkyl?]] Or is he one of the Schlumper brothers? All we know for sure is that the guy loves him some '''[[For Science!|SCIENCE!]]'''
* [[Hardly Working]] (except Jake and Amir) with the worst example being ''Die Hardly Working'' - people die and come back to life in the episode
* The two ongoing series on [[Red Letter Media]], the Plinkett Reviews and ''Half In The Bag'', both adhere to this. In the case of HITB, though, this is subverted by reality: the living room set is gradually destroyed by the ongoing antics of the characters, and the beer bottles consumed in previous episodes are left to accumulate, to the point where it's difficult to move around without running into them.
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