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Changing of the Guard

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Changing of the Guard	comment	Story's over. The Hero and the Love Interest have married, settled down, have no further interest in adventures - and, besides, who would look after the kids while they saved the world? Or maybe he was Put on a Bus or perhaps - gasp - he died and stayed dead. And yet the powers that be still want a sequel. What's a writer to do? Why, promote the Sidekick of course. Or an ally. Or a brother or child. They haven't married and settled down yet. The Hero and his Love Interest can serve as supporting characters (and prove that they are Happily Married as a sidenote). Or the Heroic Bystander, or the Heroic Wannabe - any character that wasn't the lead can fit, if only they are promoted to lead. A Sequel Hook about their story helps, but is not required. Even new characters who have plausible relationships to the old story, such as the children The Hero and Love Interest could have - or the child the Love Interest is about to have, even if she wants to make sure he doesn't Turn Out Like His Father. Any story is possible; the Changing of the Guard may be invisible to the characters, behind the fourth wall. However, a Changing of the Guard can be noticeable. It could be subtle, such as when a character snarks about the precursor settling down because earlier in the series, when heart-whole and fancy-free, he had mocked lovers. However, it's often a bit more overt. When it is, it usually falls into one of these subtropes:
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Changing of the Guard / int_12f3c9b	comment	Puyo Puyo Fever was supposedly going to take place in a different universe from the previous games...but lo and behold, former protagonist Arle somehow found her way in, along with Carbuncle. Other classic Puyo characters returned in the sequel, putting them in the same continuity.
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Changing of the Guard / int_136342f1	comment	Mort and Ysabell's story ended with them Happily Married. So for the next novel that needed a young clueless human to take on Death's role and mess things up, their daughter Susan was introduced.
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Changing of the Guard / int_145d9b29	comment	Star Ocean: The Second Story, has two selectable protagonists, one of which is the son of one of the protagonists in Star Ocean.
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Changing of the Guard / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar does this, but just as often in reverse, recounting the experience of past generations rather than future ones. And then the children of past generations take the torch, but still in the past. And then their great-great-great-grandchildren show up in the present novels.
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Changing of the Guard / int_1aacbbc9	comment	A staple in the Dragon Age series: Dragon Age II continues the history of Thedas post-Fifth Blight (which was depicted in Origins) but with a new lead character and a mostly brand-new supporting cast. Dragon Age: Inquisition mixes things: Hawke's gang is for the most part dispersed all around Thedas, most party members are new faces and Ascended Extras from supplemental materials but Varric, alongside Origins veterans Leliana and Cullen joins the title organization, with Hawke themselves giving a hand for a while, while other veteran characters including the Origins protagonist, if they survived, are still active off-screen and referenced in the War Table section of the game.
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Changing of the Guard / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: The All-New, All-Different era begins with most of the original X-Men declaring they've grown up and graduated, and no longer want to stay at the Institute. Only Cyclops stays behind because of his Power Incontinence, allowing the new writer to focus on the new team. That said, Jean Grey came back soon enough, as did Havok and Lorna Dane when they caught a bad case of Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Changing of the Guard / int_1beec425	comment	Scary Go Round started with the characters Tessa and Rachel (let's call them the "New Guard") as protagonists, but they were soon complemented with and eventually usurped by characters from John Allison's previous webcomic Bobbins. For a while Shelley, Amy, Tim, and Ryan (the "Old Guard") reigned supreme, but then a batch of younger characters, in particular The Boy and Perky Goth Esther (the "Young Guard" along with their friends) gradually took over. In the final chapters of SGR, the younger siblings of the "Young Guard", mainly Lottie and Shauna (the "Kid's Guard") starred (and transitioned into the successor webcomic Bad Machinery). The "Old Guard" remained until the end too: the very last couple of comics show Shelley saying goodbye to Amy and Ryan and leaving town. As Lottie is the sister of Esther's best friend and both of them have met Shelley, it's almost my case of Take Up My Sword in the investigating-local-weirdness game. Ryan and Amy still appear in Bad Machinery as supporting characters - Ryan is now Shauna and Lottie's teacher.
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Changing of the Guard / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War skips 17 years after its halfway point, so pretty much your entire army will be replaced by the children of your units. This works backwards in the Elibe games. The Blazing Blade (or just Fire Emblem outside Japan) was a prequel to The Binding Blade, so it naturally starred the parents of several of that game's characters.
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Changing of the Guard / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron, by the film's end, several of the original Avengers lineup have retired, left to attend to other matters or just plain disappeared. A new team is unveiled in the final moments: Captain America, Black Widow, War Machine, the Falcon, Scarlet Witch and the Vision.
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Changing of the Guard / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: There's a new set of characters is almost every book. The only constant is the the Abbey itself. And there are a few novels that predate the construction of the Abbey, so not even that is entirely constant.
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Changing of the Guard / int_22f78bbb	comment	The son of the main characters from the previous game is implied to the new hero in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and the game also focuses a good deal on the other children of the previous heroes as well, but the old heroes are quite active in the story themselves as well.
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Changing of the Guard / int_22f844e4	comment	Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]: Half of the participants in the fifth Holy Grail War are the children of those who battled in the fourth.
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Changing of the Guard / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Of: Tales of Destiny 2 has Kyle, the son of Stahn and Rutee from Tales of Destiny, taking the role of protagonist after Stahn's death. Tales of Xillia 2 focuses on new character Ludger one year after the events of Tales of Xillia but still brings back the original cast as playable characters while the previous final bosses, Gaius and Muzet, get Promoted to Playable.
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Changing of the Guard / int_2e6be66a	comment	My-Otome changes the main character from Mai to Arika in both versions, but the nature of Mai's eventual reappearance is very different between the two adaptations.
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Changing of the Guard / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: StrikerS Sound Stage X has the big heavy-hitters of Riot Force 6 nowhere in sight; they're off on their own missions. A mere planet-wide Zombie Apocalypse is something for Subaru, Teana and the other Forwards to handle. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid has Nanoha actually listening to her doctors' advice for once and temporarily resting her wings, letting her daughter Vivio, whose training she's personally overseeing and who she had proclaimed to be skilled enough to have her own Intelligent Device, take over as main character. The Guard changes back in Force, however.
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Changing of the Guard / int_2f2f1ab7	comment	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is about Ariel's daughter more than Ariel herself.
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Changing of the Guard / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness levels end (which often involves the death, or worse of said character) although it still has a protagonist who's played in the intervals between chapters.
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Changing of the Guard / int_367b4b58	comment	Ruby Nation is a continuation of the story in Ruby's World, but the perspective has shifted to that of Elise.
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Changing of the Guard / int_390e5c71	comment	Terry Brooks' Shannara series does it regularly. The grandchildren of the characters of previous book typically become the protagonists of the next. Suffers from Generation Xerox somewhat.
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Changing of the Guard / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition mixes things: Hawke's gang is for the most part dispersed all around Thedas, most party members are new faces and Ascended Extras from supplemental materials but Varric, alongside Origins veterans Leliana and Cullen joins the title organization, with Hawke themselves giving a hand for a while, while other veteran characters including the Origins protagonist, if they survived, are still active off-screen and referenced in the War Table section of the game.
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Changing of the Guard / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, after the destruction of the old Special Operations team led by Levi, a new squad of the remaining 104th Trainees is formed. Eren notes the similarities between the two with visible sadness.
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Changing of the Guard / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers did a lot of this in its early seasons: when old actors left or started getting too old for their roles, they transferred their powers to new ones and went off to do stuff.
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Changing of the Guard / int_444f7f18	comment	In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy books, the first trilogy is narrated by Phedre. The second is by her adopted son, as Phedre is semi-retired from adventuring by the time he's an adult. (The third is by a distant relative of theirs a century or two later.)
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Changing of the Guard / int_4529b59a	comment	After a while, the Thoroughbred series stopped focussing on Ashley and her friends and timeskipped a few years to focus on their kids instead.
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Changing of the Guard / int_46823c49	comment	After The Final Problem arc off Moriarty the Patriot, Louis takes on the role of "M" and head of the supporting cast/crew that worked under William, as Albert is in The Tower and William is presumed dead.
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Changing of the Guard / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld Mort and Ysabell's story ended with them Happily Married. So for the next novel that needed a young clueless human to take on Death's role and mess things up, their daughter Susan was introduced. Lords and Ladies also ends with Magrat, the Maiden of the Lancre coven, getting married. Luckily, the same novel introduces a coven of young girls messing about, one of whom — Agnes Nitt — actually has some talent and becomes Third Witch (eventually) in the next coven novel. Arguably, the Tiffany Aching novels mark a Changing Of The Guard for the entire witches series, with Tiff becoming the main character while Nanny and Granny fade into support roles. Guards! Guards! starts off being about Carrot Ironfounderson, the secret heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork who joins and breathes new life into the night watch and turns his boss Captain Samuel Vimes around from being a burned out alcoholic into a capable watch commander again. Subsequent "watch" stories focus almost entirely on Vimes as the grizzled veteran.
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Changing of the Guard / int_479f5c5d	comment	Zigzagged in Tiere bis unters Dach. The first two seasons center around Greta , her sister Lilie, and her friends. At the beginning of season 3, she realizes that she's gotten too old for adventures, and her younger cousin Nellie moves in and becomes the new main character, while the previous child cast pretty much disappears. In season 4, the now teenaged Greta and Lilie once again become prominent recurring characters, and Greta's old friend Celine also shows up from time to time, though Nellie is still the main character.
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Changing of the Guard / int_4a90c60b	comment	The White Queen has Elizabeth Woodville as the main protagonist marrying Edward IV, the head of a rival dynasty. Jacquetta of Luxembourg is the Queen's mother smoothing her ascent to power - and teaching her the use of magic. Cecily Neville is the King's mother, resentful of the newcomer displacing her. Margaret of Anjou is the exiled Queen fighting to put her teenage son on the throne and Margaret Beaufort is a distant relative quietly plotting her own progeny's accession. In The White Princess Elizabeth of York becomes the main protagonist and marries the newly-crowned Henry VII, while Elizabeth Woodville inherits Jacquetta's role. Margaret Beaufort replaces Cecily Neville, who sort of takes up Beaufort's role in scheming to install either Perkin Warbecknote Who might be her grandson. or Edward of Warwicknote Who definitely is., aided by another Margaret from her seat in Burgundy. While their political positions are not the same, a similar character arc is shown with Anne Neville and Maggie Pole, who start off shy and submissive but gradually become more assertive, yet still end up losing everything.
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Changing of the Guard / int_4bf9cc7b	comment	Most of the main good guys from the first three Emberverse books have a lot of authority in the new nation-states by the time the second series rolls around. This would put a crimp in their ability to go haring off to find the Sword of Plot Advancement when such a trip would take several years - a fact the resident Tolkien geek deeply laments - and so the task falls to the previously established Chosen One, his childhood friend, and seven more characters who either could be missed by blinking in the first three books or are completely new. While they're away, we do get the occasional glimpse of the old guard struggling to stave off the new Big Bad.
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Changing of the Guard / int_5999b1ec	comment	Done constantly in the Xanth series. What generation of Bink's family are we on now?
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Changing of the Guard / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: Skyfall does this for the Bond series' supporting cast. By the end of the film Judi Dench's M has died, been replaced by Ralph Fiennes' male M. We are introduced to a quartermaster, or Q (Ben Whishaw), for the first time in a Bond movie with Daniel Craig. At the end we learn that Eve (Naomie Harris) was named "Moneypenny" all along, when she decides to give up being a field agent for a desk job. At some point, a Spin-Off of Die Another Day was in the works, starring Jinx (Halle Berry) as the main character, and would have had Pierce Brosnan doing a cameo appearance as James Bond. Wai-Lin from Tomorrow Never Dies was also rumored to have her own movie. In the end though, the Bond producers decided it wasn't worth it and stuck to making Bond-centric movies. They reiterated this by the time of the release of No Time to Die about twenty years later.
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Changing of the Guard / int_5cc8537d	comment	In Warlock Series, the hero of Storm Over Warlock is the Love Interest of Ordeal in Otherwhere.
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Changing of the Guard / int_5f3128db	comment	Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure is, as the title indicates, about Lady and Tramp's son Scamp, not them.
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Changing of the Guard / int_610a694a	comment	With every new arc and region of PokÃ©mon Adventures comes new protagonists, with the old ones occasionally providing backup. The best thing about this is that since the focus isn't on one character all the time, nobody suffers from Badass Decay.
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Changing of the Guard / int_6348f5cf	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid has Nanoha actually listening to her doctors' advice for once and temporarily resting her wings, letting her daughter Vivio, whose training she's personally overseeing and who she had proclaimed to be skilled enough to have her own Intelligent Device, take over as main character. The Guard changes back in Force, however.
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Changing of the Guard / int_691be369	comment	Agent John Doggett replaced Fox Mulder as the male lead after the latter was abducted by the aliens in the eighth season of The X-Files. In the ninth season, Monica Reyes replaced Dana Scully as the female lead, completing the guard change.
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Changing of the Guard / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond is about Batman's replacement. The original Batman acts as Mission Control.
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Changing of the Guard / int_698fef57	comment	Confession Executive Committee's Love Series centers around the students of Sakuragaoka High School, but every few years the current cast gets phased out in favor of a newer, fresher group of students. At first it focused on a group of six friends, but after a while focus shifted to the friend group of two of the first generation's younger siblings, and by 2019 focus shifted to that cast's juniors. The previous groups still do get some focus, but it mostly comes in side material and they are nowhere near the focus of the primary series afterwards.
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Changing of the Guard / int_6a97ecc0	comment	An odd example occurs with the Van Wilder series. The first movie focuses around its titular character. The second movie then shifts focus to the sidekick, Taj. The third movie then returns to Van, the main character from the first movie.
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Changing of the Guard / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	The first four entries of the X-Men Film Series featured Wolverine as the main protagonist, but X-Men: First Class has Magneto and Professor X as the two lead characters.
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Changing of the Guard / int_6c6852ca	comment	Yakuza 6 is the final part of Kazuma Kiryu's story arc. The next game, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, follows a new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, as he makes shockwaves through the Japanese criminal underworld.
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Changing of the Guard / int_7013cf88	comment	In the Apprentice Adept series, this is played with. The main characters in Book 4 and 5 are from the second generation, but in Book 6, the first-, second- and third-generation heroes all get equal screen time and are equally relevant to the plot.
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Changing of the Guard / int_727850de	comment	Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 with Snowman dressed as The Bandit.
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Changing of the Guard / int_72de92f6	comment	A meta-version of this occurs in the beginning of The Rundown when The Rock enters a club and passes Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wishes him a good time as he's leaving the club.
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Changing of the Guard / int_73a9c933	comment	The Walking Dead Season 9 features The Hero Rick Grimes getting Put on a Bus early on. His Lancer Daryl Dixon, resident Action Mom Carol Peletier, and Rick's wife Michonne became a Power Trio to fill the role Rick left in subsequent episodes.
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Changing of the Guard / int_73b74949	comment	The Borderlands games do this between each main entry. Each group of vault hunters in one game become key side characters in the next. The first generation that was Roland, Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick couldn't take on the threat of Hyperion in the second game, and the Crimson Raiders were scattered and complacent by the time the Children of the Vault emerged in the third.
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Changing of the Guard / int_73f5b8e2	comment	The first three books of The Black Company series are narrated mainly by Croaker, Annalist of the Black Company, who then passes the duty to his successor Murgen, who ever only gets mentioned once in the third book, and while Croaker stays an important character, we don't get his point of view anymore. Murgen in turn passes the annalist duties on to his understudy Sleepy, who in turn is implied to be succeeded by Shukrat and Arkana, Croaker's adopted daughters. It's worth noting that according to company tradition the annalist tends become the standard bearer and eventually rise to being captain, so each of those follow the previous one in more than one role.
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Changing of the Guard / int_75149ccd	comment	X-Wing Series: The first four books had Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron, but the primary focus was unmistakably Corran Horn. Those four books ended with the Rogues, including Wedge and Corran, deciding to help a planet's defenses build up after "killing" the Big Bad. The next three books were to be written by another author, who wanted to write from the POV of some of Wedge's friends creating a new squadron. Executive Meddling nixed this, so Aaron Allston had Wedge leave the Rogues for a while and create a new squadron himself. Some other characters are in common, but in different or reduced roles. Mercy Kill, the 10th X-Wing novel, happens after a 20 year Time Skip, and a new generation of Wraiths are introduced. Several of them are the children of the original cast.
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Changing of the Guard / int_76e4f654	comment	Fresh Minty Adventure: Game 3.5 of the Pony Platforming Project, has changed protagonists by having Promoted to Playable, the Damsel in Distress of Game 3: Minty Fresh Adventure!.
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Changing of the Guard / int_78e27fa7	comment	This works backwards in the Elibe games. The Blazing Blade (or just Fire Emblem outside Japan) was a prequel to The Binding Blade, so it naturally starred the parents of several of that game's characters.
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Changing of the Guard / int_7a7d900b	comment	The first few episodes of Transformers: ★Headmasters moved the main characters from The Transformers out of the spotlight to focus on the Headmasters. Something similar happened between Masterforce and Victory.
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Changing of the Guard / int_822aaa02	comment	My Little Pony: Equestria Girls has Twilight Sparkle remain as the protagonist in the first film, teaming up with humanized versions of her friends. In the sequels, the reformed Sunset Shimmer takes over as The Hero while Twilight's role is gradually diminished in place of her own human counterpart.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8799b5fe	comment	The Tales of the Magic Land cycle is divided into two parts: Ellieâ€“Totoâ€“Fred/Charlie era and Annieâ€“Artoâ€“Tim era. The third book ends with Ramina the Mouse Queen predicting that Ellie would never return to the Magic Land, but it didn't stop the fans from crying for more. The writer then quickly introduced Ellie's little sister Annie and Toto's grandson Arto to throw them into a new adventure.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam focuses on Amuro Ray and Char Aznable as the main protagonist and antagonist, respectively. The sequel, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, picks up 7 years later, with new protagonist Kamille Bidan taking over as the main character, with Amuro and Char moving to supporting roles. This trend persists with each show in the Universal Century, with a new main character being introduced each series or OVA to pilot a new Gundam and face a different threat. Examples include Judau Ashta in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Uso Erwin in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, and so forth. This trend would later extend to alternate universes (such as After Colony, Anno Domini, and Post Disaster), which each introduced a new main character to be the hero in that respective timeline. Ultimately subverted in the Cosmic Era timeline, featured in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. In the sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, new character Shinn Asuka was intended to take the main role, with previous protagonist Kira Yamato as a secondary antagonist/supporting character. But flagging ratings led to Kira and a majority of the cast from the original SEED to return to the starring roles, where the new "heroes" conveniently became the main antagonists in the final leg of the series. Due to this subversion, Broken Base reactions have ensued for more than a decade after the end of Destiny due to this breaking of the usual trend. Gundam Build Fighters focuses on Gunpla builder Sei Iori and Gunpla fighter Reiji Asuna. The sequel, Gundam Build Fighters Try, picks up 7 years after the end of Build Fighters, with new teenagers Fumina Hoshino, Sekai Kamiki and Yuuma Kousaka taking over the protagonist roles from the now considerably older Sei and Reiji.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8c264362	comment	Skyfall does this for the Bond series' supporting cast. By the end of the film Judi Dench's M has died, been replaced by Ralph Fiennes' male M. We are introduced to a quartermaster, or Q (Ben Whishaw), for the first time in a Bond movie with Daniel Craig. At the end we learn that Eve (Naomie Harris) was named "Moneypenny" all along, when she decides to give up being a field agent for a desk job.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8c6bc3c2	comment	Street Fighter III was supposed to be this, with only Ryu and Ken being returning characters among a brand new roster (with new character Alex being the main protagonist.) After the game turned out to be a commercial disaster, the updated 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike (the latter of which would eventually become Vindicated by History) added Akuma and Chun-li, and Capcom eventually reached a compromise, with future titles being set between 2 and 3 (until Street Fighter 6, nearly 20 years after 3 was first released), with both the previous cast and some of the newcomers from 3.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8d7f023e	comment	After the second season of GARO, a movie was released to wrap up the story of the hero Kouga; after this, the third and fifth seasons focused on Ryuuga (a future Garo user) and the fourth on Kouga's son Raiga.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8d814070	comment	In MAS*H this happens to several major cast members: Henry's tour of duty ends, he gets killed on his way home, and is replaced by Sherman Potter. Trapper goes home as well, in comes BJ. Frank breaks down, and is replaced by Charles. When Radar leaves, Klinger takes over his role as the company clerk.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Happened frequently in Law & Order; probably could have gone on forever if the network hadn't pulled the plug.
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Changing of the Guard / int_8ee238c9	comment	Each new main entry in the Persona series features a new group of heroes; Persona 2 is the only main series game where party members from the previous one still play a major role in the plot, though Persona 4: Arena reveals that the cast of Persona 3 haven't given up on the hero business just yet. The first Persona plays this almost literally by having the female protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei if... pass down her sword to the Player Character.
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Changing of the Guard / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: After the end of the fifth season, the show was brought back with the miniseries Recovery One, which featured a new protagonist named Agent Washington in the starring role. None of the original main characters reappeared, and the only returning characters were Delta, featured in the first miniseries Out of Mind, and Wyoming, who appears briefly and without any lines. Washington continued as the protagonist into the next season, Reconstruction, where the original cast gradually joined him.
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Changing of the Guard / int_939cf436	comment	The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder: The trailer depicts an older Timmy Turner (the original series' main character) personally passing Cosmo and Wanda down to his cousin Viv, thereby cementing that she's the new protagonist.
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Changing of the Guard / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 would periodically write off and replace members of its small cast, which would be reflected by changes to its title sequence. In order: Dr. Eckhardt was Put on a Bus between Seasons 1 and 2 and replaced by TV's Frank; Joel escaped the Satellite of Love midway through Season 5 and was replaced by Mike; Frank died at the end of Season 6 and was replaced by Pearl; Dr. Forrester was Killed Offscreen between Seasons 7 and 8, with Pearl taking over as Big Bad and bringing in Professor Bobo and Brain Guy as her assistants; and as the Bots are the only characters brought back in the Season 11 revival, Mike and Pearl's group are all replaced respectfully by Jonah, Kinga, and Max.
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Changing of the Guard / int_98fbd79c	comment	The Other: Rosie's Road of Love: The new protagonist, is a side character from the prequel, Rosie, who has been Promoted to Playable.
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Changing of the Guard / int_99d5980c	comment	Aikatsu! has Ichigo train a fan of hers, Akari, in the idol business, clearing the way for when Akari and new group of friends take over the main character roles in season 3.
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Changing of the Guard / int_9ac9d448	comment	In a controversial decision, the folks in charge of Ultimate Spider-Man allowed Peter Parker to be killed off. A successor named Miles Morales took up the mantle, despite being younger, smaller, and afraid of his powers.
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Changing of the Guard / int_9b20c46e	comment	Lords and Ladies also ends with Magrat, the Maiden of the Lancre coven, getting married. Luckily, the same novel introduces a coven of young girls messing about, one of whom — Agnes Nitt — actually has some talent and becomes Third Witch (eventually) in the next coven novel. Arguably, the Tiffany Aching novels mark a Changing Of The Guard for the entire witches series, with Tiff becoming the main character while Nanny and Granny fade into support roles.
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Changing of the Guard / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The main PokÃ©mon series has had 12/24/25 heroes so far (depending on how you count); Red/Leaf, Ethan/Kris/Lyra, Brendan/May, Lucas/Dawn, Hilbert/Hilda, Nate/Rosa, Calem/Serena, Elio/Selene, Chase/Elaine, Victor/Gloria, Rei/Akari, and Florian/Juliana. In the Orre games, there's Wes in PokÃ©mon Colosseum and Michael in PokÃ©mon XD: Gale of Darkness. Ranger games have 3/6 heroes (Lunick/Solana, Kellyn/Kate, and Ben/Summer). Then there's Mark/Mint from the TCG games, an unnamed hero from PokÃ©mon Conquest, Todd Snap from PokÃ©mon Snap and Lucy Fleetfloot from PokÃ©mon Troizei/Link. In a series that revolves around "gotta catch 'em all", this was probably the best way to avoid continually invoking Bag of Spilling.
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Changing of the Guard / int_a63b23da	comment	Bruce Almighty starred Jim Carrey as Bruce... and as a supporting character, Steve Carell as newscaster Evan. Steve's character would then get promoted to the lead role in the sequel, Evan Almighty.
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Changing of the Guard / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War skips 17 years after its halfway point, so pretty much your entire army will be replaced by the children of your units.
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Changing of the Guard / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: The son of the main characters from the previous game is implied to the new hero in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and the game also focuses a good deal on the other children of the previous heroes as well, but the old heroes are quite active in the story themselves as well. At the end of Final Fantasy X, Tidus ceases to exist due to the fact that Jecht's existance as Sin was the only thing keeping him alive. Obviously, Square Enix couldn't make him the protagonist of the sequel, so the story centers around Yuna instead and her quest to bring him back. At the end of Final Fantasy XIII, Vanille and Fang all die as a result of the plot and Lightning is gone for story reasons, so they're out. Bring in Lightning's sister, Serah. Conveniently, Lightning, while in Valhalla (Heaven if you will), is able to summon Noel to give her some help. Hope, Vanille, Fang, Snow, and Sahz also make appearances, not counting DLC.
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Changing of the Guard / int_a81bac45	comment	The Record of Lodoss War OVA switches halfway through from Parn to Spark as the main character. Of course, he's actually just being badass offscreen, and returns just in time for the Final Battle.
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Changing of the Guard / int_abb11fc7	comment	Fatal Fury followed in Street Fighter III's footsteps with Garou: Mark Of The Wolves, the final game in the series, which had Terry as the only returning character (while main protagonist duties were passed onto Geese Howard's son Rock.)
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Changing of the Guard / int_ad2543b4	comment	PriPara shifted focus from Lala Manaka to her temporary roommate Yui Yumekawa in Idol Time Pripara.
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Changing of the Guard / int_b09be8	comment	Gundam Build Fighters focuses on Gunpla builder Sei Iori and Gunpla fighter Reiji Asuna. The sequel, Gundam Build Fighters Try, picks up 7 years after the end of Build Fighters, with new teenagers Fumina Hoshino, Sekai Kamiki and Yuuma Kousaka taking over the protagonist roles from the now considerably older Sei and Reiji.
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Changing of the Guard / int_bf4cfd40	comment	StrikerS Sound Stage X has the big heavy-hitters of Riot Force 6 nowhere in sight; they're off on their own missions. A mere planet-wide Zombie Apocalypse is something for Subaru, Teana and the other Forwards to handle.
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Changing of the Guard / int_c258504b	comment	inFAMOUS: Second Son changes the protagonist from Cole McGrath to Delsin Rowe due to the fact that the game takes place after the good ending of inFAMOUS 2, in which Cole sacrifices himself.
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Changing of the Guard / int_cf3e7a82	comment	In Superman story The Death of Superman (1961), the Man of Steel gets killed off by Lex Luthor permanently, and his younger cousin and pupil Supergirl takes over his duties.
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Changing of the Guard / int_cf8b5ea0	comment	Return To Never Land is about Wendy's daughter Jane going to Never Land with Peter Pan.
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Changing of the Guard / int_d3bc03fe	comment	One Tree Hill: Protagonist Lucas Scott (and his wife Peyton Sawyer) left the show after Season 6 (though he returned for an episode in the final season). Lucas' half-brother and Deuteragonist Nathan is then promoted to the protagonist role in Seasons 7 and 8. When Nathan's actor only joined the final season as a part time regular, his wife Haley becomes the show's final protagonist.
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Changing of the Guard / int_d5dbb3d8	comment	In Valis IV, Yuko Ahso, who Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence at the end of Valis III, passes the Valis Sword to new heroine Lena Brande. Cham and Valna return as supporting characters.
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Changing of the Guard / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: By way of reincarnation, Korra is this to previous series' protagonist Aang, with Katara (another protagonist and the elderly wife of said character) noting this in a Passing the Torch speech in the first episode. While Korra and her group of friends run around as the new leads, Katara remains in the South Pole as a healer, Zuko is retired and ceded the throne to his daughter, Toph became a hermit after raising her children to adulthood, and Sokka was a councilman who died at some unspecified point when Korra was a child. It was played with a little bit previously in ATLA, with Aang was frequently being compared with previous, highly-regarded incarnations Roku and Kyoshi.
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Changing of the Guard / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: Given the long line of legacy heroes in the 'verse, this happens fairly often. The first Jack-in-the-Box was killed in action, although his family knew only that he vanished without a trace. It wasn't until years later that his son discovered a hidden cache of his costumes and equipment, and decided to become the second Jack-In-The-Box and avenge his father's death. Jack-In-The-Box II had a two-issue story arc on his succession. Jack is confronted by nightmarish futuristic versions of his son, who blame Jack for their fate — in their Alternate History, Jack died before they were born, and was therefore unable to be a father figure in their lives. When Jack later discovers his wife is pregnant, he has to decide between giving up his super-hero identity or risk leaving behind a twisted offspring. The problem is resolved when Jack passes his super-hero identity to an acrobatic gang member, whom he aids from his home basement with remote-control spy cameras and microphones. The mantle of The Confessor is passed on when the original Confessor is killed and his sidekick chooses to take over the role. Played with in the case of Quarrel, a male villain whose daughter inherits his title and equipment, but ends up becoming a hero instead — just as he wanted. Comes up in the story of Starfighter as well, in a different way. As his powers begin to fade, he wonders what he's done wrong... only for the entity that grants said powers to explain it just wants him to have a peaceful retirement. It then presents him with a list of several worthy candidates to take on the mantle, one of whom is his daughter.
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Changing of the Guard / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II continues the history of Thedas post-Fifth Blight (which was depicted in Origins) but with a new lead character and a mostly brand-new supporting cast.
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Changing of the Guard / int_e2b86487	comment	Raymond E. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle. While most of the powerful magicians are long-lived, supporting characters in the later books are typically descendants of the original protagonists. Famous examples are the descendants of Duke Borric and Jimmy the Hand.
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Changing of the Guard / int_e5feb1e	comment	Apollo Justice takes over from Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney games. Well, he technically does — the fact that the entire Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney game centres on what happened to Phoenix left some fans unconvinced. Still, Phoenix's pals were absent, to allow for a new cast. Probably as a response to this, later games fleshed out Apollo's personality and backstory to make him more distinct from Phoenix. It actually was supposed to be a whole new set of characters, but Executive Meddling caused it to include Phoenix and the writers had to make it so that Phoenix couldn't just swoop in and save the day.
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Changing of the Guard / int_e6fcc408	comment	Part One of Tokyo ESP focuses on Rinka and Azuma, who go missing so Part Two features new protagonists Jun and Zeusu.
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Changing of the Guard / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam focuses on Amuro Ray and Char Aznable as the main protagonist and antagonist, respectively. The sequel, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, picks up 7 years later, with new protagonist Kamille Bidan taking over as the main character, with Amuro and Char moving to supporting roles. This trend persists with each show in the Universal Century, with a new main character being introduced each series or OVA to pilot a new Gundam and face a different threat. Examples include Judau Ashta in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Uso Erwin in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, and so forth. This trend would later extend to alternate universes (such as After Colony, Anno Domini, and Post Disaster), which each introduced a new main character to be the hero in that respective timeline.
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Changing of the Guard / int_eafa9816	comment	Season Two of The Walking Dead (Telltale) has Clementine become the hero this time around since Lee ends up succumbing to the zombie plague by the end of the first season.
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Changing of the Guard / int_eb6802b4	comment	At the end of Final Fantasy XIII, Vanille and Fang all die as a result of the plot and Lightning is gone for story reasons, so they're out. Bring in Lightning's sister, Serah. Conveniently, Lightning, while in Valhalla (Heaven if you will), is able to summon Noel to give her some help. Hope, Vanille, Fang, Snow, and Sahz also make appearances, not counting DLC.
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Changing of the Guard / int_ec1ff3ae	comment	Bravely Second, the sequel to Bravely Default, brings in new protagonist Yew, due to original protagonist AgnÃ¨s getting taken hostage, although Tiz and Edea from the first game still return as party members.
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Changing of the Guard / int_ee829854	comment	House of Anubis: Nina Martin was the protagonist of the first two seasons. Due to her actress leaving in the third season, she was replaced by Eddie Miller and the new character KT Rush, who led Sibuna in her place.
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Changing of the Guard / int_eef62751	comment	Tales of Destiny 2 has Kyle, the son of Stahn and Rutee from Tales of Destiny, taking the role of protagonist after Stahn's death.
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Changing of the Guard / int_f16adb7	comment	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull introduces Indy's son Mutt, who was seemingly being set up to take his father's place. Even so, the film ends with a pointed subversion of passing the torch as Indy's trademark hat is blown off its rack and Mutt picks it up. He's about to try it on when Indy snatches it back. And in 2023, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released, with Harrison Ford still in the lead.
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Changing of the Guard / int_f1f8c1a1	comment	Rocky Balboa had a perfectly good opportunity to pass off his Best Boxer EVAR mantle to a young man named Steps (who did not have any other purpose to the story). He doesn't, although Creed shows him training the son of his old rival.
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Changing of the Guard / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance Chronicles has Tanis as its lead character but its sequel Legends set shortly after has the twins Caramon and Raistlin take the spotlight. The next book set years later has the children of the heroes from Chronicles as the main cast.
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Changing of the Guard / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: This was a theme of the fifth season, beginning with Captain Elizabeth Lochley being assigned to replace Captain Susan Ivanova as commander of the station. Through the course of the season, most of the established characters would retire, take on new jobs, deal with the fact that they didn't have their old jobs, and generally pass the torch to a variety of minor or supporting characters from previous seasons who were similarly moving on from their old roles in life. With the penultimate episode, Sheridan and Delenn depart Babylon 5 and the audience is treated to a shot of all of the replacement characters standing at the Command and Control viewport in the style of the first season's intro. This also happened to a smaller degree in the second and fourth seasons. Commander Sinclair was reassigned to Minbar after the first season (due to the actor suffering from medical problems) and replaced with Captain Sheridan. In the fourth season, Garibaldi goes missing, then takes a leave of absence, then resigns, and throughout all of this, Zack Allen ends up with his job. Sheridan goes on the warpath against Earth and Susan Ivanova takes over as commander of the station for most of the season.
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Changing of the Guard / int_f959f1d8	comment	The Witch World started with two books about Simon Tregarth. Then she wrote them about his children, or about other characters in the same world.
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Changing of the Guard / int_fb0b1c34	comment	The Anderssons: When the series starts out, Elin is clearly the protagonist. But after two installments, that role is naturally given to her daughter Rebecka instead. And then, it is moved around between different girls in their family.
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Changing of the Guard / int_fb710c49	comment	In the universe of the franchise, Love Live! Sunshine!! exists as a time skip 5 years after Love Live! takes place, showing the legacy the Âµ's girls left behind and how they set the standard for the Love Live competition. In the real world, Aqours exists because not only were the Âµ's voice actresses contracts set to expire in 2016, but also due to Yoshino Nanjo's knee injury that caused her to sit out on a majority of Âµ's public appearances in 2015. Love Live in general was bringing in too much money merchandising wise to let it die out after Âµ's went on hiatus, so Aqours was created as a remedy to keep the hype for the brand alive.
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Changing of the Guard / int_fe5f7909	comment	Guards! Guards! starts off being about Carrot Ironfounderson, the secret heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork who joins and breathes new life into the night watch and turns his boss Captain Samuel Vimes around from being a burned out alcoholic into a capable watch commander again. Subsequent "watch" stories focus almost entirely on Vimes as the grizzled veteran.
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Changing of the Guard / int_fe92b338	comment	Tales of Xillia 2 focuses on new character Ludger one year after the events of Tales of Xillia but still brings back the original cast as playable characters while the previous final bosses, Gaius and Muzet, get Promoted to Playable.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Ju-on / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Scream 4 / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Skyfall / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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X-Men: First Class / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Persona (Franchise) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Tolkien's Legendarium (Franchise) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Old Kingdom / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Roadside Picnic / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Temeraire / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Unseen Academicals / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Warlock / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Horimiya (Manga) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Rave Master (Manga) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Peculiar Objects (Podcast) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Mall Fight (Roleplay) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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The New Avengers / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Gotham Knights (2022) (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Growlanser (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
HoloFunk - Pre-6.0 (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
inFAMOUS: Second Son (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Jet Set Radio (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
King's Quest (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Pathfinder (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Sengoku Basara (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Surviving High School (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Trails Series (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Wandersong (Video Game) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Red vs. Blue: The Recollection (Web Animation) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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Stan Frederick (Web Video) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Inverse Platinum (Web Video) / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
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