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So you have a comic or a novel that you just published and you reached the third sequel but now you hate everything about the second book. What do you do? Well a Story |
So you have a comic or a novel that you just published and you reached the third sequel but now you hate everything about the second book. What do you do? Well a [[Story Reset]], of course! This trope is used often to do a [[Soft Reset]] of current events in order to do them over or change the outcome of the 'current' time line. |
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This trope allows you to go back a few pages or even a novel or two and rewrite the story after it has already been seen or published and either replace it with a brand new story or to change the original outcome while not being forced into doing a full [[Continuity Reboot]]. Basically keeping the previous stories and merely changing/rewriting the most current. |
This trope allows you to go back a few pages or even a novel or two and rewrite the story after it has already been seen or published and either replace it with a brand new story or to change the original outcome while not being forced into doing a full [[Continuity Reboot]]. Basically keeping the previous stories and merely changing/rewriting the most current. |
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Some Tabletop gamers also have soft-resets like this which erase only one or two stories of play and go back to a previous point allowing different actions to be taken or different paths to be accepted in story telling. Similar to using a video game's [[Soft Reset]] or [[Save Scumming]] but in book or story format. Sometimes it's even present in such media. |
Some Tabletop gamers also have soft-resets like this which erase only one or two stories of play and go back to a previous point allowing different actions to be taken or different paths to be accepted in story telling. Similar to using a video game's [[Soft Reset]] or [[Save Scumming]] but in book or story format. Sometimes it's even present in such media. |
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Sometimes can overlap with [[Continuity Reboot]] in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out ''all'' of the current story and goes back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause [[Ret |
Sometimes can overlap with [[Continuity Reboot]] in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out ''all'' of the current story and goes back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause [[Ret-Gone]] when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present. |
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== Comics == |
== Comics == |
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* DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax story line, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' by performing some [[Stable Time Loop]] plot line. |
* DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax story line, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' by performing some [[Stable Time Loop]] plot line. |
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== Film == |
== Film == |
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* ''[[Wishmaster]]'' has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie. |
* ''[[Wishmaster]]'' has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie. |
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* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' has a form of this when the time lines are constantly altered, two of which [[Ret |
* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' has a form of this when the time lines are constantly altered, two of which [[Ret-Gone|erases]] a few characters from existence and does a story reset of sorts to the original 1985 time line. |
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== Web Original == |
== Web Original == |
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* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has done this more then once in |
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has done this more then once in its long running history; whole story arcs have been eradicated and replaced or the current story has been erased to a point and picked back up. |
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Latest revision as of 20:52, 25 August 2017
So you have a comic or a novel that you just published and you reached the third sequel but now you hate everything about the second book. What do you do? Well a Story Reset, of course! This trope is used often to do a Soft Reset of current events in order to do them over or change the outcome of the 'current' time line.
This trope allows you to go back a few pages or even a novel or two and rewrite the story after it has already been seen or published and either replace it with a brand new story or to change the original outcome while not being forced into doing a full Continuity Reboot. Basically keeping the previous stories and merely changing/rewriting the most current.
Some Tabletop gamers also have soft-resets like this which erase only one or two stories of play and go back to a previous point allowing different actions to be taken or different paths to be accepted in story telling. Similar to using a video game's Soft Reset or Save Scumming but in book or story format. Sometimes it's even present in such media.
Sometimes can overlap with Continuity Reboot in some ways, although a Continuity Reboot will often wipe out all of the current story and goes back to square 1; a Story Reset only wipes it back so far to a particular point saying previous stories are still cannon and can sometimes cause Ret-Gone when characters introduced after a certain point are no longer present.
Comics
- DC Comics has done it once in the Parallax story line, basically null and voiding 15 issues of the Green Lantern by performing some Stable Time Loop plot line.
- Milestone Comics did this as well when joining the DC Universe by erasing most of the final story.
Literature
- When Sherlock Holmes was first killed off, hundreds of early Fan Fiction stories appeared in newspapers and book stores as freebees re-writing the last book.
Film
- Wishmaster has a form of this by allowing the protagonist to 'wish it never happened' thus erasing all events of the movie.
- Back to The Future has a form of this when the time lines are constantly altered, two of which erases a few characters from existence and does a story reset of sorts to the original 1985 time line.
Video Games
- In Persona 2 we have Innocent Sin & Eternal Punishment with Innocent Sin taking place first with a Bad Ending then following the story with Eternal Punishment allowing you to restart the story with a different protagonist and get the Good Ending.
- Chrono Trigger has Chrono killed off and forces the party to go through a journey to resurrect the hero which in a sense resets the story from Chrono no longer existing to a new timeline.
Web Original
- Trinton Chronicles has done this more then once in its long running history; whole story arcs have been eradicated and replaced or the current story has been erased to a point and picked back up.