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Yesterday's trope, Un-Canceled, was won by Futurama, which scored 4 votes.

Today's trope is Continuity Reboot.

The writers of a particular work are about to start working on a continuation story, but they have an irreparable issue with the prior continuity.

The solution? Initiate a Continuity Reboot.

A Continuity Reboot is the partial or complete elimination of continuity from any and all previous works in a series. You could say it's the creation of an Alternate Universe that shares virtually little to no canon with the preceding works in a franchise. It's not a Reset Button or Snap Back: while those revert the continuity to a previous state, a Continuity Reboot starts over, providing the authors with a new clean slate to work on. In one form, as far as later works are concerned everything before it is in Canon Discontinuity (to which it sometimes overlaps).

Frequently, a Continuity Reboot will include one (or more) Tone Shifts, usually to whatever is considered the best money-maker for the target demographic, Darker and Edgier or Lighter and Softer.

TL,DR: An old, finished series is brought back for a new take which does not share continuity with the previous version. This acts as a new jumping-on point for viewers.

Here's the trope page link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityReboot

Nominations:
Batman Begins
Tomb Raider (2013)
Pokemon: I Choose You