Reboot, in serial fiction, means to discard all previous continuity in the series and start anew. Effectively, all previously-known history is declared by the writer to be null and void and the series starts over from the beginning. It is also known as the big reset button in the sky. Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims that can be substantiated with evidence. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ...

Etymology and meaning

The term originates from its use in computer science, where by rebooting a computer, nothing (except non-volatile storage, such as on a disk drive) of the computer's previous operating session has any bearing on its current session. ReBoot was a Canadian (CGI) animated series that was produced by Mainframe Entertainment, created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with character designed by Brendan McCarthy and Ian Gibson. ...

Comparison to remakes and prequels

A reboot differs from a remake or a prequel, in that the latter two are generally consistent with the previously established continuity of the series; with a reboot, the older continuity is largely discarded while the new continuity is declared the official canon. In film, a remake is a newer version of a previously released film or a newer version of the source (play, novel, story, etc. ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Additionally, prequels are often developed by the same creator as the original series it leads up to, while a remake is often produced by a different author than the original series, and can be seen as retelling of the same story and essentially sticking to the same canon. the term remake often applies to films or film adaption of TV shows, like The Fugitive. whereas the term Reboot is ascribed to franchises such as Batman or James Bond. The Fugitive is the name of at least two major fictional fictional works which have been reproduced in a variety of media. ...

Rationale

This term is often applied to comic books, where the prevailing continuity can be very important to the progress of future installments, acting (depending on circumstances and one's point of view) as a rich foundation from which to develop characters and storylines, or as a box limiting the story options available to tell and an irreconcilable mess of contradictory history. Such large continuities also become a barrier to introducing newcomers to the fandom, as the complex histories are difficult to learn, and make understanding the story very difficult; a reboot gives the chance for new fans to experience the story by reintroducing it in smaller and easier to understand installments. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Examples

Film

• Godzilla (ゴジラ - Gojira) has pressed the reset button several times since its inception in the 1950s. The most notable deviation from the original production was the 1998 American remake entitled Godzilla. Godzilla continuity reboots are as follows:
  • Godzilla 1984: Toho presses the continuity reboot button, eliminating the entire Showa series (the films from Godzilla Raids Again through Terror of Mechagodzilla), stipulating that Godzilla's only prior attack was in 1954, in the original Godzilla. This new series is called the "Heisei" series and continues until the events in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, where Godzilla dies.
  • The "Millennium" Godzilla series also makes heavy use of the continuity reboot; every film in this series (except for Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, which is a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) is a self-contained alternate universe directly connected only to the original 1954 Godzilla (in some cases retconning the end of the original to suggest Godzilla was never killed, and occasionally allowing minor references to earlier Godzilla-related movie, such as a nod to the American Godzilla remake in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and a reference to the events in War of the Gargantuans.)

• Similarly to Godzilla, Deiei's Kaiju star Gamera has undergone two continuity reboots, first in 1995 (in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe) and again in 2006 (in Gamera: The Brave). However, unlike the Godzilla series, both reboots ignore the original Gammera, the Invincible .

• The Sum of All Fears (2002) was a reboot of the Jack Ryan series, with Ben Affleck as Ryan. The film is set in the present time with Ryan just beginning his career at the CIA. As commented by producer Mace Neufeld in an interview on the DVD, the film is neither a sequel nor a prequel to the other three Ryan films, and should not be seen as such.

• Batman Begins, released in 2005, is a reboot of the Batman film series. It was done to not only start a new continuity that was more faithful to the tone of the comics, but also to distance itself from the latter installments of the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher series of films, and specifically the much maligned Batman & Robin.

• Casino Royale (2006) is a reboot of the James Bond franchise, in which Daniel Craig plays Bond at the start of his MI6 career.

• The Pink Panther (2006), a reboot of the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers Pink Panther series, starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau, and directed by Shawn Levy. This film makes no references to the events in the previous series.

• Superman Returns (2006) was a partial reboot of the Christopher Reeve series which alluded to the first two movies while completely disregarding the latter two.

• The upcoming Halloween film directed by Rob Zombie has been stated by the director himself to be both a remake and a prequel of the original movie.

• TMNT (2007) will be a partial reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series which alluded to the first two movies while completely disregarding the third film.

• Star Trek (2008) is expected to at least be a partial reboot of the Star Trek franchise, as was hinted at by screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Orci called the project a "reimagining of the franchise." ^[1]

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Television

• New Captain Scarlet which debuted in February 2005 is a reboot of the 1967 Supermarionation puppetry series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons by the same producer, Gerry Anderson.

• In 2003, Battlestar Galactica was rebooted by the SciFi channel's miniseries of the same name. See Comparison of Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Battlestar Galactica (2003) for a comprehensive list of changes.

• In 2002 the He-Man story was rebooted.

• The Transformers franchise has undergone two separate reboots. The first occurred in 2001 with the self-contained Transformers: Robots in Disguise series. The second rebooted continuity launched in 2002 and is ongoing, encompassing three TV and toy series so far: Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron. Interestingly, in Japan, the Cybertron series itself is a reboot of the preceding Armada/Energon continuity. On July 4, 2007, the live action Transformers Movie will be released, resulting in yet another reboot.

• WCW Monday Nitro (as well as the company itself) was rebooted on 10 April 2000, when head writer Vince Russo and creative consultant Eric Bischoff took over the reins for the company. It started by having all of WCW's Championship belts being vacated.

• In 2000, X-Men: The Animated Series was rebooted in the X-Men: Evolution series, a retelling of the saga from the beginning. It is similar to the original comic in the 1960s, in that many of the main characters are teens living at the Xavier Institute, but also deviates from that concept by making Beast, Storm and Wolverine adult staff members. Beast was one of the original X-Men in the comics and was not blue and furry at that time, though he is in Evolution. Evolution mixes concepts from various decades of X-Men comics.

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Comic books

• Arguably, DC Comics rebooted in the late 1950s when it reintroduced several characters that had been staples of their superhero comics in the 1940s, but had since disappeared from the public eye. The Flash was relaunched with a different name and costume, and other characters, including Green Lantern, Hawkman, and The Atom, were re-introduced (mostly with more science fiction-influenced attributes rather than the often mystically-tinged earlier characters).

• DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985 had far-reaching effects on many DC titles. One of the goals of the event was to make DC continuity less complicated and more modern, and this involved complete reboots of Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Superman (arguably), and others. (The histories of some other characters were merely retconned.) This may be the earliest use of the term "reboot" in this way, though it is unlikely that the term was widely used at the time, when most readers were still unfamiliar with the operation of computers.

• DC's Legion of Super-Heroes comic book had its continuity rebooted in the events surrounding Zero Hour in 1994. The characters' stories came to a decisive close, the previous 36 years of continuity were discarded, and a new Legion made up of similar characters based on the earlier versions began their careers without any mention of the previous continuity (except for tacit allusions). The series was rebooted again in 2004.

• Marvel Comics, in the mid-1990s, turned several of their titles over to studios affiliated with Image Comics, and these titles (Fantastic Four, Captain America, The Avengers, and Iron Man — the Hulk would be included in this trend only as a character, but without his own title) were rebooted in their own separate universe, while the rest of Marvel's line maintained the original continuity in which the affected characters were presumed to have died in a cataclysmic battle. The rebooted titles lasted only a year, at which point the heroes involved returned to the original universe. See Heroes Reborn.

• In addition, Marvel Comics also published Spider-Man: Chapter One by John Byrne, which was meant to be a complete reboot to the Spider-Man series and was treated as such until editorial changes caused the series to reboot itself, making all changes null and void.

• In 2000, Marvel launched the Ultimate Marvel line of comic books that rebooted the Marvel Universe. The Ultimate series was intended to modernize the characters, to rewrite the individual characters into a more cohesive universe and to make the series more appealing to non-Marvel fans as the huge back-story of the Marvel Universe made it very difficult for newcomers to understand the characters and storylines. Unlike most reboots, however, the original Marvel Universe continued to publish as well. This makes the two lines appear to be parallel Universes rather than a true reboot.

• In 2003, the Robotech universe was rebooted with the launch of Wildstorm's new comic book series. While it does frequently borrow characters and situations introduced in previously existing lore (most notably Robotech II: The Sentinels), Harmony Gold USA now considers only the original 85 episode animated series (and possibly the current Wildstorm comics) as canon and everything else as secondary continuity.

• Between 2003-2005, Marvel ran Supreme Power, a modernization of Squadron Supreme; like the Ultimate Marvel line, Supreme Power ran concurrently with the main Marvel comic lines as an alternate universe, instead of replacing them.

• In 2005 the webcomic Melonpool featured a complex time travel storyline which resulted in a reboot. This coincided with a change from newspaper style strips to a comic book format and the removal of the previous strips from the site's archives.

• The Transformers Generation One comic was rebooted in 2002 with the Dreamwave comic and in 2006 with the IDW comic.

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Video games

• In 1997, Star Fox 64 was a retelling of the original Star Fox, rewriting some story elements, such as the fate of James McCloud. This game is regarded as the start of Star Fox canon, and the previous game's story is disregarded.

• The Armored Core series appears to have been rebooted after Armored Core 3. The first five games in the series appeared to be leading the ongoing storyline through humanity's recovery from a catastrophic war known as "The Great Destruction", with the last of the five games, Armored Core 2: Another Age ending quite positively in the rather ambiguous Armored Core series. The next game, Armored Core 3 meanwhile begins with humanity back in self-imposed exile underground after a catastrophic war under the yoke of an omnipresent supercomputer known as "The Controller".

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was initially intended as a rough prequel to the original game, but the two later sequels it spawned ignored the earlier series entirely and began a completely new storyline.

• The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning discards many aspects of the platforming-based Spyro series in favor of a completely new storyline and more action-oriented gameplay.

• DOOM 3 effectively reboots the series, retelling and altering the story established in the original DOOM and DOOM II games.

• Tomb Raider: Legend apparently reboots the series, as it seems to disregard all the tragic events in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider Chronicles and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness storylines.

• Ninja Gaiden apparently reboots the series and retelling altering the story established in the original games .

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See also

• Canon (fiction)
• Retcon
• Reset button technique

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