Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 2 - Continuity Reboot

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Opposing Sports Team

Without further ado, let's get started!

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

My nominations, at least for now:

Batman Begins
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Deadpool (if it counts - the continuity being eliminated in this case being Deadpool's appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
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Barman Begins
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will come back later with more but for now

Deadpool
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Punisher MAX
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
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Rankings so far:

Batman Begins - 3 votes
Deadpool 2 votes
Tomb Raider (2013)
Pokemon: I Choose You
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Punisher MAX
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

I'll be at work when 24 hours have been for this topic, so there'll be a few hours extra on this one, and I'll do the next one when I come home from work.

Charmed (2018)
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Tomb Raider 2013
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Casino Royale, starting the Craig Bond series.
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I'll replace Puppet Master with Tomb Raider 2013
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