Basic Trope: A sequel picks up right where its predecessor left off, or a few hours later at most.
- Straight: The action movie Bob's Battles ends with the hero Bob at a ceremony to honour him for destroying a crime gang. Its sequel, Bob's Battles Part 2, starts with Bob at that same ceremony, only for it to be attacked by terrorists, whom Bob sets off to hunt.
- Exaggerated: Bob's Battles Part 2 starts on the next frame of the same shot as the first film’s ending.
- Downplayed: Bob's Battles 2 starts with Bob waking up the morning after the ceremony.
- Justified: Bob is being hunted by a powerful conspiracy that’s trying to wear him down by making him constantly fight for his life without any rest.
- Inverted: Distant Sequel
- Subverted: Bob's Battles Part 2 starts with Bob at the ceremony; however, this was just a flashback, and the bulk of the film takes place 20 years later.
- Double Subverted: However, 20-years-later Bob was actually trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine, and after breaking free, he finds that it's indeed still the day of the ceremony.
- Parodied: Bob breaks the fourth wall to complain about his constant workload and threatens to call the Movie Heroes Union to get a proper break.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's Battles 2 starts some days or longer after Bob's Battles.
- Lampshaded: "Most guys go their whole lives without getting caught up in shit like this, what are the odds it happens to me twice in a row…"
- Invoked: N/A; not a in-universe trope
- Exploited: N/A; not a in-universe trope
- Defied: N/A; not a in-universe trope
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- The sequel starts In Medias Res with Bob pursuing the terrorists, but he's wearing the same clothes from the ceremony.
- Alice is watching Bob's Battle's Chapter One… the name implies that the original work has been Divided for Adaptation and that the next work will start at the point of division.
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