I’d add on that the expectation in an individualist society like the US is to become independent and move out. Those ideas are used synonymously in a lot of contexts. Someone who hasn’t moved out can be seen as lacking independence. Of course that isn’t necessarily true, but it’s the perception.

For a young person growing up with these ideas as the standard, there can be a certain safety in forgoing that independence. That was my situation for years, where I was financially independent, but moved back home after my roommates moved away. I was in my mid twenties before I moved out for good.

• Enter The Matrix [Ties Into The Matrix Resurrections]

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora [Co-Exists With The Avatar Movies]

• Ghostbusters: The Video Game [Acts As A Sequel To Ghostbusters II]

• Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) [Exists In The Spider-Verse]

• The Thing [Takes The Mystery Out Of The Movie’s Ending]

• Saw: The Video Game [Saw’s Creators Contributed To The Game]

• Mad Max [Introduced Furiosa’s Main Villain]

• The Lord Of The Rings Online [Expands The World Of Middle-Earth]

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [Part Of The Star Wars Timeline]

• Kingdom Hearts 3 [The Toy Story world is meant to take place before Toy Story 3 in the canon timeline of the movies.]

Some of these are a stretch, imo