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* Likewise with ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]''. Within individual arcs, a [[Game-Breaking Injury]] would be a serious matter, the Tendo home would be all but demolished and the characters would have to repair it, someone would get in deep financial trouble and stay that way through the end of the plot, or someone would land in the hospital with a full-body cast. All this damage will be undone by the next arc with nary a word from anyone. The only permanent change was the destruction of the Saotome home ([[Status Quo Is God|to force the family, Nodoka included, back into the Tendo household]].) This was even lampshaded once in the ''early anime'' when Genma tended to Ranma's neck injury and said it would take a week ([[Don't Explain the Joke|the time between episodes]]) to heal.
** Corollary: Should any specific fighting theory or technique come into play during a big fight (Ranma's shorter limbs in his female form being a disadvantage, using the opponent's aggression to create the Hiryushotenha, turning a boulder into gravel by poking it in just the right spot, etc.), said theory or technique will play a critical role in that fight, after which it'll be utterly irrelevant for the entire remainder of the series.
* The [[Anime]] ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* In ''[[Excel Saga (
* Nicely subverted in the anime ''Crayon Shin-Chan''. A [[Snap Back]] is expected when Shin accidentally blows up the family's house at the end of one episode, but the event is actually followed by an arc in which the family lives in a cramped studio apartment while the house is rebuilt.
* All through ''[[Adventures of Mini
* The ''[[
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' had Negative Continuity in two episodes just before the end of the series. The first one, titled ''Cosmic Collisions'', introduces the characters to {{spoiler|a group of dead people who are always searching for a buried treasure that never existed in the first place}}. The episode ends and {{spoiler|everyone is killed by a meteor that destroys the surrounding area}}. The next episode, ''Baseball Blues'', shows the characters competing in a game of baseball against an American team and everyone on the team {{spoiler|is severely injured or killed in the end (it's never satisfactorily explained if they actually were killed or not)}}, while the finale shows everyone in perfect health and in exactly the place where they had been headed for the entire series.
* [[Leiji Matsumoto]]'s works are known for this. Many of the shows based on his manga and stories, such as ''Galaxy Express 999'', ''Space Cruiser Yamato''/''Starblazes'' and the various ''Captain Harlock'' shows, share characters but present vastly different backstories and do not attempt to reconcile the character's actions between the shows. It should be noted, though, that this is not quite an intentional case of negative continuity, but rather gaps caused by each show being produced by an entirely different creative team.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* ''[[Naruto]]'' is full of this in the episode "Gotta See! Gotta Know! Kakashi Sensai's Real Face!", but it was more or less an episode-long omake anyway. Waterfall seems to get this a bit. In its first appearance in a dedicated OVA the village could house maybe twenty families and was ruled by a spineless coward. In its second almost appearance, it was noted for constantly launching border raids on other villages, disguised as war games. In its third appearance, there was a bunker with enough shinobi present to populate the entire village.
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** In a notable exception, the album ''Les Retours d'Iznogoud'' (''Iznogoud's Returns'') tries to explain how things returned to normal after some of the vizir's most infamous adventures. It does not always work, as many of those returns end with Iznogoud in an equally uncomfortable situation. That just raises further questions!
* The concept of "Hypertime" - outlined by Mark Waid and [[Grant Morrison]] as, basically, a way to remove the possibility of continuity errors in [[DC Comics]] while freeing writers from the need to remain consistent with the works of previous writers - could be described as "negative continuity through ''total'' continuity." The main points were (1) every story ever written did happen and is [[Canon]], even the stuff that [[Series Continuity Error|contradicts the other stuff]], however (2) every story takes place in its own [[Alternate Universe|discrete world]], and (3) the writer of any given story gets to decide which previously-written stories did and didn't happen in the "world" his or her story is taking place in, and therefore can just toss out anything they don't like and [[Hand Wave]] discrepancies with earlier stories by saying [[Canon Dis Continuity|"that never happened in my world."]] While the idea has its proponents, most tend to feel it causes more problems than it solves, not the least of which is the fact that the only people comfortable with its "anything goes" approach to continuity are the people who never minded continuity errors to begin with. It's now implied that Hypertime has ceased to exist because {{spoiler|in the future (a relative concept since he's already a time traveler), a more competent version of [[Booster Gold]] will [[Cosmic Retcon|deliberately eliminate it]]}}.
* Less obvious but almost as intrusive as Hypertime is DC's "Ten Year Rule" (closer to twelve years since the One Year Later issues), which in the late '90s-early '00s almost unambiguously stated that no matter when you're reading a given comic, Batman and Superman started their careers 10 years ago, and they were the first significant superheroes to debut since the Justice Society disbanded in the 50s. Other heroes began their careers within the following year and the Justice League was formed roughly at the beginning of the next year. Between this and the fact that some stories weren't [[Retcon|retconned]] out of existence by the [[Crisis
* Marvel has a similar rule to the above, but they don't play quite so hard and fast by it; their flagship characters have aged about 15-20 years since their respective debuts in the 1960s.
* Despite [[Don Rosa]]'s attempts to create a duck "continuity", the vast majority of writers gleefully ignore it at their leisure, but just as is the case with ''[[The Simpsons]]'' there are occasional continuity nods. Several stories have ended up with Scrooge ruined, for instance. Still, 99% of all duck stories use negative continuity, making it possible for [[Donald Duck]] and Huey, Dewey and Louie to be surprised at seeing, for instance, dragons, even though they've seen much stranger things at least a hundred times.
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== Film ==
* If you're a love interest in a [[James Bond (
** The other exception: the very first EON Bond Girl, Sylvia Trench, appears in both ''[[
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] movies usually have a character get brutally injured in some way, only for them to be perfectly fine later on.
* The ''[[Godzilla]]'' films hit on this a bit. Many of the later movies are presented as sequels to the original 1954 ''[[Gojira (
* John Lovitz' character in ''[[Loaded Weapon 1]]'' is killed several times and always returns.
* The ''[[
* The ''[[X-Men (
== Literature ==
* [[Arthur C. Clarke
* 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.
add to Negative continuity,
* In the stories about Jerry Cornelius and his friends by Michael Moorcock and others, continuity naturally fails between the various twentieth century time streams, and often within some of them in what is, after all, a multiverse.
* [[
* [[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'Em All|was wiped out]] in book 3}}.
* In George Orwell's [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]], the dystopian government's power comes mainly from their ability to do this.
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== Live Action TV ==
* A few specific examples of this are called out below, but really, until fairly recently this was more the rule than the exception in American sitcoms.
* ''[[Married...
* ''[[
** Between the two appendix removals (in the series), his body was rebuilt by the DNA machine. That actually kind of makes sense.
** Of course, the series did have a fair bit of time travel, [[Wild Mass Guessing|which could well have altered the backstory of the show]].
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' is hardly the type of show you'd expect to find continuity in anyway but it has a surprising combination of both [[Reset Button]] and [[Snap Back]] plots. One episode has a main character die only to have him rescued from hell by another, upon returning he's asked "I thought you were dead" only to respond with something to the effect of "Yeah, I'm back now" which is treated very nonchalantly. In other examples, Bollo the gorilla dies on one episodes ending only to appear again later. And one [[Egregious]] example involves them employing a [[Snap Back]] on [[Backstory]]-- Howard reveals that he doesn't play instruments because he [[Deal
* ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' has a recurring character named Artie Kendall, who introduces himself and explains his backstory to Conan on every appearance, at which Conan shows no sign of having seen him before. This is particularly unusual given that Artie is a singing ghost.
** On the short-lived ''Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'', there was a recurring character named Cody Devereaux, to capitalize on the "brooding, emotional vampire" craze. In every appearance, Cody would get sad, run outside, and spontaneously combust in the sunlight. There would even be a graphic with his year of birth and year of death. Whenever he would appear again, Cody would be fine.
* ''[[
* The early-'90s Chris Elliott comedy vehicle ''Get a Life'' featured the main character getting ''killed'' at the end of several episodes, only to return in the next episode with no explanation or reference to his previous death.
* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' often destroyed their house, each other, and the [[Fourth Wall]] all in a single go. All are back by the next episode (fragile as ever).
* This trope is one of the charges frequently (and not without ''some'' justification) leveled at ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.
* The ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' recurring skit character [[MacGruber]] always gets blown up by a bomb along with his partners at the end of every skit, but is somehow still living (and still trusted by the others to defuse the next bomb in time even though he has yet to actually succeed at this task) for the next skit. Subverted in that his first love interest, Casey, is killed off in one sketch and stays dead (due to Maya Rudolph leaving the show). [[The Movie]], however, plays this trope straight when it retcons her manner of death.
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' kept good continuity in the main story, but the flashbacks were free game. JD and Turk met for the first time in so many different ways. (Usually when one opened the door to their dorm room, but which one it was and what the other was doing would change.) Since all flashbacks and daydreams were happening in JD's head, it makes sense that they would continue to change.
* ''[[Saved
** Of course, let's not forget the "Tori season". Essentially, the show filmed its final season, including the graduation. The network wanted more episodes, but two of the three female leads wouldn't return. A new slate of episodes were filmed with a new female character. These episodes where aired alternately with the original final season episodes. Therefore, they had Kelly & Jessie episodes interspersed with Tori episodes with Zack as love interest for both Kelly & Tori and neither set of episodes referencing each other.
* [[Louis CK]] said of his show ''[[Louie]]'': "Every episode has its own goal, and if it messes up the goal of another episode, [...] I just don't care." This is reflected in such matters as his character's mother being played by two different actors as having two completely contradictory characters in two episodes.
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== Video Games ==
* Early [[Super Robot Wars]] games in the "Classic" timeline were notorious for this, especially when events that happened in one game would repeat in the exact same manner from the last game and no one noticed or commented on it. By [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]], when the writing got markedly better, this trope ceased to be prevalent.
* Honorable mention: Each route in the games to ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and ''[[Fate/stay
** The [[Galaxy Angel (
* The first three ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' games do have a canon. It starts with Cortex making Crash, then he gets defeated on his blimp, finds the [[Green Rocks|crystal]] and sets the plot of Crash 2 into motion, where at the end his space station gets destroyed. Start of Crash 3 then shows this released [[The Man Behind the Man|Uka Uka]], and by the end N. Tropy, Uka Uka, and Neo Cortex are all trapped in time. This is where the [[Negative Continuity]] begins, as it's never explained quite how he recovered to [[Go-Karting
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** There's also some Negative Continuity with the characters too. Lan's father Yuichiro works for Sci Lab in every odd-numbered game, but otherwise: It's played straight in 2, where he's working at the Official Center (an "internet police" organization), justified in 4, where he's recruited by NAXA (a play on NASA and JAXA) due to a global emergency, and in 6 he's transferred to a different city to oversee the upcoming Expo. Also, in the third game, Lan's best friend Dex moves to Netopia (another country) in the 3rd game (and returns immediately "as a visit"), but in the following games he is back in ACDC.
* This is the case with the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' series, where [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] said that there wasn't a continuity simply because it'd limit the development of future Mario games (hence the [[Reset Button]] basically occurring at the end of every single Mario game when the world is saved).
** This isn't entirely the case with the RPGs, however, where events in past games are occasionally referenced.
*** But this is because after ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' and ''[[Paper Mario]]'', Miyamoto doesn't even touch the RPGs.
** While Princess Peach's castle looks more or less the same every time it appeared, its surrounding area or maybe even the interior changes with each appearance. In contrast, Bowser's own castle remains inconsistent in terms of design, though the ''[[Mario and Luigi
** So basically, story-wise, every Mario game reboots.
* In ''[[Drawn to Life]]: The Next Chapter'' for the DS, Galileo is nowhere to be found for some reason. It's not even said where he went to.
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* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series has some outside of the main canon. You can kill any charakter and they can still come back in the ending or next game.
** Averted and played with in Mortal Kombat 9. Apparently everything up to Armageddon happened and Raiden tried to reverse it all with time travel, Resulting in a very different series of events. Averted in that each character apparently still has their own side stories, which do not run canonically with the main story.
* ''[[
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* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' rarely keeps continuity for more than one three-panel strip at a time; in news posts there is a [[Running Gag]] about the struggle against "dreaded continuity". Despite this, there are [[Continuity Nod|continuity nods]], such as a watch that passes to the victor when one character kills the other.
* ''PvP'' once parodied this when character Cole needed a trip to the dentist. He cheerfully told the dentist to go ahead and do whatever he needed and heck, forget the anesthesia, because Cole would be all better in the next strip anyway. The dentist then informed him that [[No Fourth Wall|PvP isn't that kind of comic]]. Cole spent the next few strips at home, recovering and in a great deal of pain.
* ''[[The Non
** It is actually [http://nonadventures.com/2010/07/17/taken-for-granite/ stated at one point] that the universe "reboots" whenever a [[Time Paradox]] occurs, resetting the continuity. This is a fairly common event in the comic, usually caused by Wonderella herself.
* ''[[
** [[
* ''[[Le Avventure
* ''[[
* In ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'', Bob has repeatedly raised vast evil armies and reduced the earth to ashes, or fed every living thing into the mouths of gibbering Lovecraftian horrors, complaining all the while how people just don't have his vision. It never sticks.
* ''[[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-Immersion Gaming]], but both gamers are [[The Roleplayer|roleplayers]] and neither are often shown, so their out-of-game personalities and thought processes don't often impact the comic. And since they recycle the same characters over and over, from the reader's usual perspective the same characters are [[They Killed Kenny|dying over and over]].
* In ''[[
* ''[[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.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[
* ''Space Tree: The Space Tree'' used this a lot; in one early episode, a character is killed and replaced with an evil robot (but is mysteriously better in the next), while in another, ''the entire universe is destroyed''.
* ''[[
** Oddly enough, there's still the occasional [[Continuity Nod]]. One episode featured Flippy being cured of his PTSD which actually seems to stick. An episode after this showed Flaky being afraid to get near him and having visions of him killing her, seemingly implying that somehow she is aware of how she has been killed before.
* Similarly, ''[[
* ''[[
* And [[Pico]] and friends from ''[[
* ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'', also hosted on [[Newgrounds]], takes full advantage of [[Negative Continuity]] to kill/maim the main cast (especially [[Butt Monkey|Bunny]]) each episode, only to have them back by the next. In one later episode, the entire ''universe'' was destroyed by one of the cast {{spoiler|when he tried to f*** a ''black hole''}}. Surprisingly, the series actually reveals ''why'' it has [[Negative Continuity]] (aside from [[Rule of Funny]]): {{spoiler|in one timeline the cast grew up; while they ultimately became successful adults (somehow) they also became smart enough to realize that their world ''[[Crapsack World|sucks]]''}}. Cat, {{spoiler|who became a [[Mad Scientist]], then invented a Physical Law Usurper, which gave them all the chance to go to a place outside of normal space and time, where they could remain blissfully ignorant forever}}. As a side character in a later episode notes, "they exist in a continuity proof bubble, like a bunch of Kennys from ''[[South Park]]''!"
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Cat:}}''' We can go back {{spoiler|Donkey}}! We can go to a place where we will be young and retarded forever! We will never grow old. We will never get smart. And we will never realize what a [[Crapsack World|horrible place this world truly is]].}}
** 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 Abridged Series
* [[The Spoony Experiment
* [[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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== Western Animation ==
* It should be noted that continuity in Western Animation is a relatively new thing, perhaps its earliest use starting when cartoons first moved to television in the late 1950s, but even then it took a while to become widespread. When watching something like ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', ''[[Popeye]]'', or ''[[
** Example: Sylvester and Tom often go from master to master between cartoons, or are pets in one picture and strays in another. Claude Cat, except for "No Barking Here", was always a housepet, though his design changed from sleek to more rangy, and a red stripe was added on his underbelly.
** The location of Bugs' hole also changed from picture to picture, often seen in a place where he became a nuisance to someone who wished to build on that property.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** It should be noted that, during the Coon episodes, it is eventually stated why Kenny is always alive later.
** Some faux-[[Clip Show|Clip Shows]] have the characters remembering past episodes ''completely wrong'' (such as everyone getting ice cream at the end.)
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Duckman]]'': Lampshaded when the character Ajax was beat up and placed in traction. He mentioned that he would be in perfect shape tomorrow due to non-FDA approved drugs. Another example: The amount of grievous bodily harm that Duckman puts his secretaries Fluffy and Uranus through, only for them to be back to normal by the following episode; this was lampshaded by Uranus in the first episode, when [[Ambiguous Gender|s/he]] comments that being stuffed makes them "very resilient."
* ''[[
** The fan webcomic ''[[Grim Tales
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': The world has been dragged trillions of miles off course and major characters have been turned into bologna or had their organs replaced with household objects, and yet virtually every episode starts as though nothing unusual has happened. Again, there are occasional callbacks.
* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'': Both Norbert and his brother Daggett suffer this by getting themselves in all sorts of trouble in end of almost every episode. It's mostly from other animals in the forest, and the humans especially.
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'': The [[Running Gag]] of Sealab blowing up repeatedly. [[Lampshade Hanging]] occurs in the third episode, "Radio Free Sealab," when Marco tells Captain Murphy, "Once again, your stupidity has killed us!" before the explosion. The show also plays with this trope-- some episodes reference past shows with perhaps only some characters actually remembering the event. For example, when Quint mentions he was a robot (as revealed in an earlier season) and everyone seems surprised, Quint explains he had told them previously. <ref>It should be noted that the episode in question ended with everyone being killed.</ref>
* ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Mr. Burns''': I'm sure your replacement will be able to handle everything. Who is he, anyway?<br />
'''Smithers''': Uh, Homer Simpsons, sir--one of your organ banks from sector 7-G. All the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way. <br />
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* ''[[Aeon Flux]]'': The title character died in every single ''[[Liquid Television]]'' short, usually at the end and once near the very beginning. Justified in that a later episode explains Aeon to actually be a series of identical clones.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' applies this trope endlessly, with characters dying several times an episode, spouses of otherwise unmarried characters showing up for one episode and then vanishing, the Earth being conquered (and all characters killed) by robot insects with hats, etc.
* ''[[
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'': Not only does Coop destroy the garage (and often house) where he lives every time he takes Megas out, but he often destroys New Jersey ENTIRELY. It's always fine the next episode. Lampshaded vaguely in an episode where Coop needs money and says: "I don't have any cash; my mom took away my allowance for wrecking the house again," and again in an episode where Coop destroys the city (again!).
* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', many episodes has Eustace being turned to stone, eaten by a dragon, stuck in space, etc., or Courage turning into a helicopter, or Muriel becoming a puppet, but everything was back to normal by the next episode. Also, villains would come back and not be remembered. One noted exception is the character Le Quack, where it is actually explained how he comes back and why no one recognizes him.
* In ''[[Tom Goes to
* ''[[
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' frequently had Townsville getting physically smashed or going up in flames. It was always [[Snap Back|perfectly fine by the next episode]] (even though the episodes are probably very close together, since the characters never move on from kindergarten). Lampshades (sensing a theme?) when Townsville was undergoing renovation/reconstruction, presumably from all the fights the PPG have had there.
* ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' series is positively [[Egregious]] in this regard, constantly resetting character traits and ignoring all the times when they finally got to paradise.
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* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'''s continuity can't make up its mind. Although a fair amount of things ''do'' stay with the continuity, some cases go beyond [[Status Quo Is God]]. Camp Kidney built five years ago one episode? Next episode, it's decades old. How old the camp is, how long the characters have known each other and more change from episode to episode, yet things like Edward owning a doll and Lazlo renaming the newspaper remained until the show ended. Edward being able to drive the cabins like cars was even promoted from a one-time gag to a plot element in the next season.
* Very few things that happened in episodes of ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' carried on into later episodes (they lived in a different place every episode), but one of the things that did get carried from episode to episode was Stimpy's first material possession (a litter box)... until it was destroyed.
* ''[[
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' is very guilty of this, but averts it with the episodes with [[Boisterous Bruiser|The Scotsman]].
* Just about every ''[[
* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'', given that the premise seemed to be to just put the character in [[Played for Laughs|antic inducing situations for 7 minutes]], and then start anew in the next short. It does become a bit of a head scratcher when skills the two have acquired simply vanish, and little bits are blatantly reversed-- such as Yumi's fear of squirrels in Season 1 paired with her love and devotion to squirrels in Season 2. Also Kaz's love of watching professional paint drying, contrasted with his later attitude of what a waste of time it is.
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': Thanks to the [[Reset Button|"Returns to the Past"]], any injuries or problems the kids face can be easily resolved and the [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]] unchanged, even for no real reason. The only exception is death, though the series did end up trying to decrease the RTTP power by giving a consequence for its overuse. Even with the [[Reset Button]], the first season still had a bit of unexplained negative continuity, such as certain characters never being mentioned again. The later seasons stopped doing this, as a side-effect of not using the returns to the past in [[Once an Episode|every episode]] any more.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' does this quite a bit. On the other hand, it also often takes throwaway gags in previous episodes and turns them into running gags (or devotes whole episodes to them!).
* ''[[
** In fact, it's moderately common in the show. For example, in one episode, Mr. Crocker does not recognize Poof, who he had a bond with in "Bad Heir Day" (keep in mind, this happened after that episode).
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