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A film or other literary work where a [[Sequel]] is released long, long after the original work. May sometimes be a [[Trilogy Creep]], very often related to [[Development Hell]]. Does not apply to Sequels [[In Name Only]], [[Sequel Series]], or [[Continuity Reboot|Franchise Reboots]]. This Trope is for honest-to-goodness sequels. See also [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]], and a related Webcomic trope, [[Schedule Slip]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Slayers]] Try'' (1997) and ''[[Slayers]] Revolution'' (2008) -- 11 years.
* Both in-universe and out-of-universe, there was a
* ''[[Ghost in
* ''[[Last Exile]]'' (2003) and ''[[Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing]]'' (2011) -- 8 years.
* ''[[Gunbuster]]'' (
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* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', a gap of 11 years from ''2''.
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' will be getting a prequel, ''Monsters University'' in
* ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' (1982) and ''The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue'' (1998) -- 16 years.
* A number of [[Walt Disney]] [[Direct to Video]] examples:
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** ''[[The Rescuers]]'' (1977) and ''The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990) -- 13 years.
* ''[[Cat City]]'' (1986) and ''Cat City 2: The Cat of Satan'' (2007) -- 21 years.
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' (2004) and ''[[The Incredibles 2]]'' (2018) -- 14 years.
* ''[[Tron]]'' (1982) and ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' (2010) -- 28 years.
* ''[[Wall Street]]'' (1987) and ''Money Never Sleeps'' (2010) -- 23 years.
* ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' (1961) and ''[[The Color of Money]]'' (1986) -- 24 years.
* ''[[Psycho]]'' (1960) and ''[[Psycho II]]'' (1983) -- 23 years.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' (1989) and ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' (2008) -- 19 years.
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* ''[[Rambo]] III'' (1988) and ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Rambo]]'' (2008) -- 20 years.
* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' (1980) and ''The Blues Brothers 2000'' ([[Trope 2000|1998]]) -- 18 years.
* ''[[
* Common with the ''[[Terminator]]'' series: 7 years to the second, 12 to the third, and 6 to the fourth.
* Also common with the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' series: 7 years to the second, 6 to the third, and 5 to the fourth. And if you count the ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' films in the series, another 7 years to the first of those.
* Speaking of
* ''[[The Beastmaster]]'' and ''Beastmaster 2: Through The Portal of Time''
* ''[[Crocodile Dundee]] in Los Angeles'', released 13 years after the second.
* ''[[The Godfather]] Part II'' (1974) and ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990) -- 16 years.
* ''[[Superman Returns]]'' (2006), released nineteen years after the last Superman
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973 film)|The Three Musketeers 1973]]'' & ''The Four Musketeers'' (1974) and ''The Return of the Musketeers'' (1989) -- 15 years. (Not unreasonable considering the latter is an adaptation of the book ''Twenty Years After''.)
* ''Bean'' (1997) and ''[[Mr. Bean]]'s Holiday'' (2007) -- 10 years.
* An obscure film noir movie ''Strange Bargain'' (1949) was given a sequel 38 years later in
* ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] 3'' (2000) and ''Scream 4'' (2011) -- 11 years.
* ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]'' (1995) and ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' (2007) -- 12 years.
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* Counting only the main ''[[American Pie]]'' films (the direct-to-DVD spinoffs are borderline [[In Name Only]] anyway), it's 9 years between ''American Wedding'' and the 2012 ''American Reunion''.
* ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' (1995) and ''Before Sunset'' (2004) -- 9 years.
* ''[[Bad Boys]]'' (1995) and ''[[Bad Boys 2
* Brazilian filmmaker made a trilogy about his [[Alter Ego]] character Coffin Joe. The movies are ''At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul'' (1963), ''This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse'' (1967), and finally ''Embodiment of Evil'' (2008), only 41 YEARS after the second one. Of course, that doesn't mean he did nothing at all this years, even using Coffin joe in minor roles in his other projects.
* ''[[Spy Kids]] 3D: Game Over'' (2003) and ''Spy Kids 4D: All the Time in the World'' (2011) -- 8 years, by which time [[Fleeting Demographic]] had set in. The franchise was [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|more-or-less remarketed as though new]].
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* ''[[Men in Black]] 3'' comes 10 years after its predecessor.
* Harold Lloyd's ''The Sin of Harold Diddlebock'' (1947) was a sequel to his hit film ''[[The Freshman]]'' (1925).
* ''[[The Hobbit (film)|The Hobbit]]''
* ''[[Top Gun]]'' (1986) and ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'' (2022) -- 36 years, though work was being done on it as far back as 2012.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* [[Vernor Vinge]]'s ''[[Zones of Thought|A Fire Upon the Deep]]'' came out in 1992; the sequel, ''[[Zones of Thought|The Children of the Sky]]'', was released in 2011 (19 years). ''[[Zones of Thought|A Deepness in The Sky]]''
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[Vernor Vinge]]'s ''[[Zones of Thought|A Fire Upon the Deep]]'' came out in 1992; the sequel, ''[[Zones of Thought|The Children of the Sky]]'', was released in 2011 (19 years). ''[[Zones of Thought|A Deepness in The Sky]]'' -- set in the same universe but not a direct sequel -- came out in the interim.
* [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''[[Cyteen]]'' and ''Regenesis'' (1988/2009) -- 21 years. Similar to the Vinge example above, Cherryh had other [[Alliance Union]] books come out between the two.
* ''The Time Ships'', an official sequel to ''[[The Time Machine]]'' was published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first book (1895/ 1995).
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* ''[[My Side of the Mountain]]'' (1959) by Jean Craighead George had its sequel ''On the Far Side of the Mountain'' published in 1990, leaving a gap of 31 years. The third book, ''Frightful's Mountain'', came nine years after that.
* ''[[Julie of the Wolves]]'' (1972) by Jean Craighead George got its sequels ''Julie'' and ''Julie's Wolf Pack'' in 1994 and 1997, respectively (22 and 25 years).
* ''Psycho'', the original [[Robert Bloch]] novel (1959), and ''Psycho II'' also by Bloch (1982), which was totally unrelated to the film
* ''Magicians of [[Gor]]'' (book 25 in the series): 1988 -- ''Witness of Gor'' (book 26): 2001. 13 years.
* Fans of Isobelle Carmody's ''Obernewtyn'' series waited 10 years for the fifth book in the sequence; the fourth book, ''The Keeping Place'' was originally published in 1998, ''The Stone Key'' in 2008.
* In Clare Bell's ''[[The Book of the Named|The Named]]'' series, the release of the first four books was spread between 1983 and 1991. Seventeen years later, the series started its re-issue because of its new fifth book, ''Ratha's Courage'' (2008). The next year also saw a [
* The fourth book in Isaac Asimov's ''[[Foundation]]'' series, ''Foundation's Edge'', was published in 1982, 29 years after the original trilogy.
* The third book in his "Robot Trilogy", ''[[The Robots of Dawn]]'' was published in 1983, 26 years after the second.
* ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'' (1937), followed by ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (three volumes, 1954-1955) --
* The ''[[Pit Dragon Chronicles]]'' by Jane Yolen was originally a trilogy that was published 1982-1987. The [[Trilogy Creep|fourth book]] came out in
* [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] books: 8 years between ''[[So Long and Thanks For All The Fish]]'' (1984) and ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'' (1992), and 17 years between ''Mostly Harmless'' and ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/And Another Thing|And Another Thing]]'' (2009). Though the latter was due to [[Author Existence Failure]].
* ''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'' were likely composed some time around 850 BC. ''[[The Aeneid]]'', a [[Continuation Fic]], was finished in 19 BC. If both are taken as part of [[Classical Mythology]], that's a
* ''[[The Egypt Game]]'' (1967) and ''The Gypsy Game'' (1997) -- 30 years. Both are set in [[The Present Day]] through the use of [[Comic Book Time]].
* The first two books in Leslie Barringer's [[Low Fantasy]] ''Neustria Cycle'' came out in 1927 and then '28. The third and final book was published 20 years after the second.
* Some 65 years separated Harper Lee's ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' and ''[[Go Set a Watchman]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' (1988) and ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'' (2008) -- 20 years.
* ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'' (1996) and ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' (2011) -- [[Duke Nukem Forever/Development History|15 years]]. There were a few games that played differently a few years after ''3D'', however.
* ''[[Kid Icarus]]: Of Myths and Monsters'' (1991) and ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' (2012) -- 21 years. The trailer for the new game pokes fun at this by having Pit say, "Sorry to keep you waiting."
* ''Super Metroid'' (1994) and ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' / ''[[Metroid]] Fusion'' (2002) -- 8 years. Then 8 more years to ''Metroid: Other M'' (2010). Then 11 more to ''Metroid Dread'' (2021).
* ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''
* ''[[The Great Giana Sisters]]'' (1987) and ''Giana Sisters DS'' (2009) -- 22 years.
* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' was released in 1998, ''[[Fallout 3]]'' came out in
* ''[[
* ''[[Street Fighter III]]: 3rd Strike'' (1999) and ''[[Street Fighter IV]]'' (2008) -- 9 years. Although, there were other Capcom fighting games featuring ''[[Street Fighter]]'' characters.
* ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic The Hedgehog 3]]'' (1994) and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'' (2010) -- 16 years. Although there were many other ''Sonic'' titles released between then.
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* ''[[Raiden]] III'' (2005) -- 7 years if you count ''[[Raiden Fighters]] JET'' (1998) as the last entry, 11 if you count ''Raiden DX'' (1994) as the last.
* ''G-Darius'' (1997) and ''Darius Burst'' (2009) -- 12 years.
* ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'' (1990) and ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' (1998) -- 8 years.
* ''[[River City Ransom]]'' (1989) and ''River City Ransom 2'' (scheduled for 2012) -- 23 years. There has been other [[Kunio
* ''[[Carmageddon]] TDR 2000'' (2000) and ''Carmageddon: Reincarnation'' (scheduled for 2012) -- 12 years.
* ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]'' (2001) and ''Luigi's Mansion 2'' (scheduled for 2012) -- 11 years.
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* ''[[Sam and Max|Sam & Max: Hit the Road]]'' (1993) and ''Sam & Max: Culture Shock'' (2006) -- 13 years.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' (1991) and ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'' (2008) -- 17 years. Note that this is in regards to a direct story sequel, as the [[Final Fantasy]] series is [[Non-Linear Sequel]] with 14 titles in the main series.
* ''[[Pikmin]] 2'' (2004) and ''Pikmin 3'' (planned to be a launch title for the [[Wii U]] in late 2012) --
* ''[[
* ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins
* ''[[Yoshi's Island|Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' (1995) and ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' (2006) -- 11 years. Mario had kept on going in the meantime, but ''New'' was a direct return to classic 2D platforming that had been mostly abandoned since ''Yoshi's Island''.
* ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' (1981), ''[[Donkey Kong 94]]'' (1994), and ''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong]]'' (2004) -- 13 years and 10 years, respectively.
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]] 3'' (1996) and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' (2010) -- 14 years. If you count ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' (1999) in the series, it's 11 years.
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* [[Yoshi's Island]] (1995) to [[Yoshi's Island]] DS (2006), that's 11 years if you only count games in the direct [[Yoshi's Island]] series. If you count other Yoshi games, the gap between [[Yoshi's Story]] (1997) and Yoshi's Topsy Turvy/Universal Gravitation (2004) would count instead, with 7 years between games.
* ''[[Rayman]] 3: Hoodlum Havoc'' (2003) and ''[[Rayman Origins]]'' (2011) -- 8 years. The ''[[Raving Rabbids]]'' games are only spin-offs.
* ''[[Disaster Report]]'''s fourth game came out nine years after the third due to real life disaster setting it into [[Development Hell]]. Counting English releases only, it raises to thirteen years.
* ''[[Armored Core]]: Verdict Day'' (2013) to ''Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon'' (2023) -- 10 years.
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