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A work that is produced after one installment in a series but, internally, is chronologically set prior to it. Maybe the last entry in the series left no room for a sequel. Maybe the writers just want to explore the Backstory, Origins Episode, Start of Darkness or what have you. Maybe they want to provide more context to certain elements of previous installments. As they might say, sometimes it's not about the destination...but the journey. Either way, it may be time for a Prequel (a portmanteau of "pre-" and "sequel"): a sequel that is set chronologically before the previous work. On one hand, this allows for Call Forwards as well as an opportunity to further expand the universe of a work. On the other, the prequel often heavily retcons the backstory, it can have consequences that should have been mentioned in the original story, and it's difficult to keep up the tension when the audience knows how it ends. For example, in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, various characters interact with others they would meet again in the original Star Wars trilogy, but in that film they show no evidence of recognizing them. Because the second Indiana Jones film was a prequel, audiences knew he would survive, and that he wouldn't get to keep the girl. That, however, doesn't mean a prequel can't have big twists or major reveals of their own and may even cast some aspects, if not the entirety, of a previous work in a whole new light. TV Series usually wrap a prequel in a Whole Episode Flashback. A movie may get a prequel TV series. Sometimes writers will squeeze a story between existing entries in a series, making it both a sequel and a prequel. Prequels are also an easy way to make use of an Expansion Pack World and introduce new conflicts without undermining the resolution of the previous work by introducing an even more ultimate evil. Occasionally said ultimate evil can get their own prequel with a Start of Darkness. One issue with prequels in electronic media is that if they come out years after the original, you have the problem of technology in Real Life advancing to the point that special effects, graphics, etc. make the prequel look more advanced than the original, which ends up with a Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel. Depending on the series, and the circumstances surrounding it, this can be overlooked, or jarring. Remember that a work must be produced after its related installment to be considered a prequel; previous installments do not qualify for the definition. For example, Rocky is not a prequel to Rocky II, because Rocky II was both produced and set after the first. Is often, but not always, an Origins Episode. Compare Backstory, Flashback and Interquel. Prequel in the Lost Age is a subtrope set in a bygone era mentioned in-universe. If a genuine sequel or interquel is released after the prequel, then it's Anachronic Order. |
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Quinnis, narrated by Susan, takes place on a planet that was a Noodle Incident in the third ever serial. | |
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The Stinger in the ending for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker reveals that the game actually takes place before Super Mario 3D World (or as of the Switch port, Super Mario Odyssey), as Captain Toad winds up in 3D World's opening cutscene. Captain Toad follows Mario and crew down the clear pipe, which also explains how he wound up in the Sprixie Kingdom in said game. In the Switch port, instead, Toad and Toadette's cart ends in the Sand Kingdom, and upon Toad seeing the Odyssey flying through the skies, he eagerly follows it, much to the dismay of Toadette. | |
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The entire Prequel Trilogy provides the backstory for Anakin Skywalker's turn to the Dark Side and the formation of the Galactic Empire. Some viewers objected to the way the series has Anakin interact with characters he does not seem to recognize later in the Original Trilogy. The Expanded Universe attempts to retcon some of the discrepancies away. This despite the fact that Anakin/Vader was in the same scene in both trilogies with only a handful of characters. To wit, Palpatine, Obi Wan, Boba Fett (using a very generous definition of "with"), Tarkin and C3P0. In each case except the last, he does recognize them, with C3P0, well when they meet in Empire Strikes Back, Vader was kind of preoccupied. The Prequel Trilogy’s films also show a far more advanced galaxy than the Original Trilogy, despite it being over two decades earlier. Justified to an extent as most of the Original trilogy takes place in the galactic boondocks or on Naval Ships while the Prequels are set in the main part of the galaxy. OTH, George Lucas says that was deliberate, as the prequels were a more "civilized age". |
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Star Wars Expanded Universe: Master and Apprentice is set before The Phantom Menace, covering Obi-Wan's apprenticeship to Qui-Gon. Queen's Peril is a prequel to both The Phantom Menace, set at the very beginning of Padmé's reign as Queen of Naboo, and its predecessor novel Queen's Shadow, which starts at the end of Padmé's time as queen. Timothy Zahn's Ascendancy Trilogy is a prequel to his new-canon trilogy about Grand Admiral Thrawn (Thrawn, Alliances, Treason), about Thrawn's time serving the Chiss Ascendancy. |
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The Prequel Trilogy’s films also show a far more advanced galaxy than the Original Trilogy, despite it being over two decades earlier. Justified to an extent as most of the Original trilogy takes place in the galactic boondocks or on Naval Ships while the Prequels are set in the main part of the galaxy. OTH, George Lucas says that was deliberate, as the prequels were a more "civilized age". | |
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Castlevania had its first game set in 1691, but there have been games set before this time. And a shitload of sequels/interquels. So much so that the main climax isn't even a game yet! Chronologically, the main timeline begins with Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, which is set in 1094 and depicts the origins of Dracula, Vampire Killer and the Belmont Clan. | |
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A Wizard Did It | |
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When Jennifer Fallon was writing the prequels to her Demon Child series, she had a large board labelled "These People Must Die" next to her desk, indicating characters she had to kill off before the end of the prequel series in order to avoid having to explain their absence in the original series. | |
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Heroic Bloodshed | |
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The Tsui Hark movie A Better Tomorrow III was the prequel to the two John Woo movies that would kick off the Heroic Bloodshed genre. It follows Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor as he goes to Saigon, falls in love, and develops into the gunslinging badass that we know from A Better Tomorrow. And no, he does not keep the girl. | |
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Star Wars: The entire Prequel Trilogy provides the backstory for Anakin Skywalker's turn to the Dark Side and the formation of the Galactic Empire. Some viewers objected to the way the series has Anakin interact with characters he does not seem to recognize later in the Original Trilogy. The Expanded Universe attempts to retcon some of the discrepancies away. This despite the fact that Anakin/Vader was in the same scene in both trilogies with only a handful of characters. To wit, Palpatine, Obi Wan, Boba Fett (using a very generous definition of "with"), Tarkin and C3P0. In each case except the last, he does recognize them, with C3P0, well when they meet in Empire Strikes Back, Vader was kind of preoccupied. The Prequel Trilogy’s films also show a far more advanced galaxy than the Original Trilogy, despite it being over two decades earlier. Justified to an extent as most of the Original trilogy takes place in the galactic boondocks or on Naval Ships while the Prequels are set in the main part of the galaxy. OTH, George Lucas says that was deliberate, as the prequels were a more "civilized age". Rogue One is a prequel to A New Hope, ending very shortly (possibly minutes) before the first movie kicks off. Solo is a prequel to the Original Trilogy featuring the origin story of Han Solo (naturally). It includes the beginning of his friendship with Chewbacca, his history with Lando Calrissian and the Millennium Falcon, and the circumstances of his record-breaking Kessel Run. |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Both Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Prequels to the original film in two different perspectives (of the directors; the former is the result of a complex Executive Meddling for the latter). | |
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Direct to Video | |
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The Direct to Video film The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior is a prequel to The Scorpion King, making it a prequel to a prequel. | |
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Weirdly enough, this is subverted in DDLC+, the Updated Re-release of Doki Doki Literature Club! — that is to say, something looks like a prequel but isn't exactly. The side stories that are added are clearly a prequel to the original story in the sense that they detail how the characters got to know each other and formed the Literature Club. They do suffer from slight continuity problems typical in prequels in that, since they focus on developing the characters' relationships, it makes it a bit odd that some issues seem to be more unresolved in the original story that was written first.note For example, Natsuki is insecure about reading manga because it's seen as immature in her school. In the original game, she says "As if I could ever get my friends to read this. They just think manga is for kids." However, in the side stories, Sayori did read her manga with her, the rest of the Literature Club learnt not to look down on it, and she broke up with her old friends who were mean to her about it, so what's she even talking about? You could contrive an explanation — eg. she got insecure again, to the point of ignoring what's actually happened, because Monika suddenly kind of made fun of her for reading manga, which itself seems like Aesop Amnesia or Out-of-Character Moment in the light of the prequels, but that could be explained knowing Monika was under pressure for an unrelated reason — but it would get a bit strained. However, DDLC+ also contains a backstory, revealed later, about a group of people who were the fictional developers of the game, and this explains how the side stories are in a different simulated universe than the game proper, one where certain things are different. So the sort-of-prequel side stories are actually in a different in-universe Alternate Continuity from the main game; they (or at least the first ones, anyway) are set before those events in the timeline of the history of the Literature Club but don't actually lead up to them in the broader story where it all being a game is part of the story. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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Word of God | |
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Word of God has stated that Shadow of the Colossus is the prequel to ICO, and that Wander is the progenitor of the "cursed" horned children like the titular Ico, as signified by Wander becoming an infant with horns at the end. | |
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The War Doctor Begins, starring Jonathon Carley as a nascent version of the late John Hurt's War Doctor, is a prequel to the original series The War Doctor, which itself precedes "The Day of the Doctor". | |
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