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So [[The Movie]] was a massive success, and the studio want you to make a sequel! Trouble is, you killed off all your main characters [[Killed Off for Real|for real]], [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blew up the Earth]], [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|destroyed]] the [[Time Machine]] and stopped the [[Big Bad]] from ever being born. So where do you go from here? Well, there was [[Ensemble Darkhorse|that one really cool side character]] - perhaps we could retell the story from his perspective!
The
Compare the [[Perspective Flip]], the non-canon equivalent; [[A Day in the Limelight]], where the POV changes but tells an original story; [[Changing of the Guard]], where the main character shifts to tell an original story; [[The Gump]], when the sequel protagonist does something that retroactively affects the original's plotline; and [[The Rashomon]], where the character's opinions can colour what the audience sees. [[Another Side, Another Story]] is a video game specific subtrope where the
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Marvels]]'' retells some of the events of the [[Marvel Universe]] from the viewpoint of an [[Every Man]] photojournalist.
* ''[[Superman for All Seasons]]'' from [[
** ''[[Lex Luthor: Man of Steel]]'' is told by Lex Luthor and he explains the reasons for going after Superman.
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* ''BURN-E'', a short on the ''[[WALL-E]]'' DVD, shows how events on the movie affect one character, a repair robot left outside the ship in a throwaway gag.
** Pixar did a similar short called ''Jack-Jack Attack'' on ''[[The Incredibles]]'' DVD. It shows what happened to the babysitter, how she got so [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|badly battered]], and why she was leaving all the crazy answering machine messages that Helen Parr listens to during the main movie.
** For ''[[Up]]'', they did two shorts: ''Dug's Special Mission'', released on the DVD, about what Dug the dog was doing up to the point where he meets Carl and Russell; and ''George and A.J.'', shown on the internet, about the two orderlies who came to take Carl to the retirement home.
* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s ''[[Flags of our Fathers]]'' tells the story of Iwo Jima from the point of view of the men who raised the famous flag, while ''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]'' tells the story from the perspective of the Japanese defenders. None of the actors in either film appeared in the other.
** Interestingly, while ''[[Flags of our Fathers]]'' was quite well received, ''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]'' was considered to be the superior of the two films.
* Introduced in ''[[Wild at Heart]]'', where she had a somewhat small role in the events, the character of Perdita Durango was promoted to the lead in 1997's ''Perdita Durango'', loosely based on a 1993 novel by the same author, Barry Gifford; she was played by Rosie Perez this time around, and a severe case of [[Adaptational Villainy]] turned her into a [[Complete Monster]].
* ''[[Diary of the Dead]]'' apparently is from the POV of a group of film students on the first night of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] show in ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''. However, because both movies were set in the "present" and ''Night'' was released in the '60's, it might be more accurately described as taking part in an [[Alternate Continuity]].
** Also, ''Night'' took place in the spring (Barbara's comments about the time change and days getting longer), while ''Diary'' took place during the autumn (the foilage & climate).
*** But what about the Savini-directed/Romero-produced remake of ''Night'' from 1990? ''Diary'' might fit that version better...
** ''Diary's'' sequel [[Survival of the Dead]] in turn focuses on a group of soldiers who showed up only briefly in that film to steal some of our main characters' supplies.
* ''[[Mary Reilly]]'', ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' from his maid's POV.
* ''[[Saw|Saw IV]]'' took place at the same time as ''Saw III'', but in different parts of the city. We only find out the ''Saw III'' connection when the main character of the FBI Agent's subplot runs into Jeff during the climax. Rigg never actually encounters anything ''Saw III'' related, with the exception of his partner's corpse.
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* "Crossroads of Twilight", the tenth book in the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, spends a great deal of time showing what all the characters who weren't present at the ninth book's [[Grand Finale]] were up to at the time. The answer: [[Filler|absolutely nothing]].
* ''Midnight Sun'', the fifth book in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series, would have been a retelling of the first book from Edward's perspective. But Meyer gave the early draft to someone who leaked on to the internet and she later published it on her website so her fans at least would get it legally, given that she got so upset over the leaking that she refused to continue to work on it.
** Finally the author released ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'', which is definitely a straight example. It prevents some [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] in ''Eclipse'' as to whether the Volturi secretly wanted the Cullens dead or sincerely wanted Victoria stopped.
* ''Nerilka's Story'', from [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Dragonriders of Pern|Dragonriders]]'' series, is a retelling of ''Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern'' from Nerilka's perspective.
** The Harper Hall trilogy and the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy have significant overlap as well, writing from different characters' perspectives. And I believe there's also some overlap between ''Master Harper of Pern'' and ''Dragonflight''.
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* ''Chainer's Torment'', the second book in the ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Odyssey]]'' [[Magic: The Gathering|Cycle]], is a retelling of ''Odyssey'' from Chainer's perspective.
* Some ''Dragonlance'' books are these.
* The ''[[Baccano!]]!'' [[Light Novels]] do this regularly with the larger stories, although they're always planned in advance. For example, "Local Episode" of ''Grand Punk Station'' focuses on Jaccuzi, Ladd, and Chane while "Express Episode" goes for Czeslaw, Rachel and {{spoiler|the self-proclaimed Rail Tracer}}.
* ''Belgarath The Sorcerer'' and ''Polgara The Sorceress'' view many events from ''[[The Belgariad]]'' from a much [[Immortality|longer perspective]].
* The 2007 ''[[Death Star]]'' novel's second half is basically ''[[Star Wars]]: A New Hope'' told from newly identified extras' POV's during the Rebels' time aboard the Death Star and the battle afterwards, including the guy who said 'stand by' long enough for Luke to blow it away.
* Evan S. Connell's ''Mrs. Bridge'' and ''Mr. Bridge.''
* In [[John Scalzi]]'s ''[[Old
* ''Lo's Diary''. The story of [[Lolita]] from the girl's POV.
** Notably, this ignores the idea that the original had an [[Unreliable Narrator]]. The family of the original author disliked it for this reason.
*** Among others. ''Lo's Diary'' could more accurately be called the story of ''Lolita'' from the POV of an animal-torturing sociopath who matches her lipstick to her apple when she sets out to seduce Humbert, and who is
* The Gregory Maguire Novels could be cosidered this, those written by a different author a hundred years after the originals.
* Very common in Japan; they're called ''gaiden'' in Japan.
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* There have been several tie-in Disney storybooks which had the movie told from another character's perspective (besides the ''Lion King'' example mentioned above), such as [[The Little Mermaid|Sebastian the crab]], [[Beauty and the Beast|Mrs. Potts]], [[Aladdin (Disney film)|the Genie]], [[Pocahontas|Meeko the raccoon]], and [[Mulan|Mushu the dragon.]] Also, there have been two tie-in storybooks based on ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' which had the movie's plot told from [[Everything's Better with Princesses|____'s]] point of view. And then there's the "My Side of the Story" series books, which had the film's plots told from ''the villain's'' point of view.
* The second book of the [[Green-Sky Trilogy]] is mostly about the events of the first book from Teera's point of view, but after the second act, it takes a new direction and sets up ''Until The Celebration.''
* ''Golden Afternoon'' by Andrzej Sapkowski is a retelling of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' from the point of view of the Cheshire Cat.
== Live-Action TV ==
* The [[Something Completely Different]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "Love & Monsters", for the most part [[A Day in the Limelight]] story, also contains [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]] to several past events in New Who season from the POV of a [[Muggle]].
* The direct-to-DVD ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' movie ''The Plan'' retells the events of the Re-Imagined series's first two seasons from the POV of the Cylons.
* [[Lost]] does this occasionally. The episodes "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Adrift", and "Orientation" all have segments covering the same confrontation from different perspectives. There are also whole episodes which are done like this in the style of the show's flashbacks, such as "The Other 48 Days", "3 Minutes", and "Maternity Leave". And the plane crash is covered from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKcKtjrL5bc a number of different perspectives.]
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* The ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life 1]]'' expansion packs ''Blue Shift'' and ''Opposing Force'', which show the Black Mesa Incident from the POV of the security guards and the Marines respectively.
* ''[[Shining Force]] III Part Two'' tells some of the story of Part One, but from the Empire's point of view instead of the Republic's.
* ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' is set at roughly around the same time period as ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''. The starting portion of the game is actually set a day before ''RE2'' begins and at one point, Jill falls unconscious for two days and awakens after the events of ''RE2'' have already transpired.
** The two ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' games feature numerous scenarios set during the fall of Raccoon City depicted in ''RE2'' and ''RE3''.
** The spin-off games for the Wii, ''Umbrella Chronicles'' and ''Darkside Chronicles'', featured numerous scenarios set during the events of the first few ''Resident Evil'' games (including ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]'').
** The PS2 and Wii versions of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' featured an extra scenario called "Separate Ways" which depicted the events of the main game from Ada's perspective and explained why certain items were located in the places they were.
* ''Heart of the Alien'', the Sega CD sequel to ''[[Another World (video game)|Another World]]'', was originally intended to be set during the events of the first game, but played through the perspective of Buddy (Lester's alien friend, although technically Lester is the alien). Interplay vetoed this idea, but still included an extensive flashback which shows everything Buddy did during the first game.
* ''[[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game)|Rainbow Six]]: Vegas 2'' follows a different team during the same terrorist attack on Las Vegas shown in the first game.
* The video game ''[[Enter the Matrix]]'' highlights what side characters Ghost and Niobe are doing during the events of ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', popping in and out of the actual plot of the film as needed.
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* ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]]'' has a POV expansion pack that shows what Psycho was off doing while Nomad was busy swimming around inside the alien mothership.
* ''[[Rolling Thunder]] 3'' for the [[Sega Genesis]] was set during the events of ''Rolling Thunder 2'' and focused on a third WCPO agent named Jay. While Albatross and Leila were occupied with chasing [[Big Bad|Gimdo]] during the second game, Jay was assigned to track down Gimdo's [[The Dragon|second-in-command]] Dread.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'s'' 2 DLC, ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV:
* [[F.E.A.R.]] expansion Persius Mandate shows the events of the original game and its first expansion from the perspective of a no name F.E.A.R. operative.
** ''Project Origin'' is from the perspective of a Delta Force operative.
* ''[[Blaze Union]]'' is a POV prequel to ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', taking place a few years before the main game and telling the story of how Gulcasa (''[[Yggdra Union]]'''s [[Hero Antagonist]]) saved his country from its previous Emperor.
* The director's cut version of the [[Tales of Destiny]] [[
* ''[[Halo 3: ODST|Halo 3 ODST]]'' to ''[[Halo 2]]''.
* [[Suikoden]] III does this to itself. Most of the game is played switching between three
* ''[[Darksiders]] 2'' is going to be this for the original game, according to developers, with [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Death, instead of War]], being the focus.
* Done twice with ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' series:
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' pokes fun at the concept with "infinitely many out-of-genre cover sequels", where you see the same event from a different perspective each time with the help of judicious [[Genre Roulette]] (disaster film, gross-out comedy, road trip, Western).
* ''[[Brock of the Undead]]'' is one to the [[Fan Web Comic]] ''[[Braceface Fangface]]'' showing Brock's prospective after being bitten and turned into a vampire.
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* The ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' episode "The Little Peas" tells the same story as "The Big Cheese" through the eyes of a very small character trying to help.
** It is notably the most reviled episode in the series, to the point where the creator ''issued an apology'' for it becuase A) it introduced a character even more annoying than Cheese, B) it took the one moment of good thinking that Frankie had in The Big Cheese and gave it to Little Peas, and C) The Big Cheese was already a hated episode ''on its own''
* ''[[The Fairly
** In this episode, Chester and AJ were updated to their [[Flashback with the Other Darrin|current voice actors]] and characterization.
* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]'' with a [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]] for ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' from the POV of the horses.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' does this occasionally; "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" shows how the Fireside Girls got the tree sap that the title characters use in "Bubble Boys," which takes place during the same day.
** Another example would be the two "Unfair Science Fair" episodes.
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