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* Downplayed example with ''Series/StrangerThings''; Season 2 of the series was officially titled ''[[NumberedSequels Stranger Things 2]]'', as if it was a sequel to a movie. Season 3 was known as, well, ''Stranger Things 3''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' was renamed to ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and then ''WesternAnimation/{{Super Mario World|1991}}'' as the plot changed to reflect the then-new games.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier dub]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad series]], were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad series]], were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier ]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad series]], were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier series]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad]], were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier series]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad]] were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers four]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier series]] were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' was retitled ''Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures'' in its third season, to reflect how the show was becoming less about racing and more about the day-to-day hijinks of Mickey and his friends.

* The TV adaptation of ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' was renamed ''Ultimate Goosebumps'' for seasons 3 and 4. The show was named ''Goosebumps'' when it aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork during Halloween (including the "Ultimate Goosebumps" episodes).

* Creator/{{SEGA}}'s ''Ryū ga Gotoku'' series was first localized outside Japan as ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza|1}}''. That stayed the series' English name until 2022. In 2020, the seventh numbered game, ''Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue'', was released outside Asia as ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with the name intended to help transition the English series to the new name; [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yakuza/images/0/0a/YLAD_-_Logo.png the game's logo]] notably has ''Like A Dragon'' take up significantly more space than ''Yakuza'' despite ostensibely being a subtitle. In 2022, the series officially changed its English name to ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'', with the announcement of ''[[VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuIshin Like a Dragon: Ishin!]]'', ''VideoGame/LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName'' and ''VideoGame/LikeADragon8''.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' had a few:
** Spidey's second title, ''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'', got shortened to ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' with issue #134.
** The fourth title, the adjectiveless ''Spider-Man'', was changed to ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' with issue #75, coinciding with the ending to ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.

* Creator/{{SEGA}}'s ''Ryū ga Gotoku'' series was first localized outside Japan as ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza|1}}''. That stayed the series' English name until 2022. In 2020, the seventh numbered game, ''Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue'', was released outside Asia as ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with the name intended to help transition the English series to the new name; [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yakuza/images/0/0a/YLAD_-_Logo.png/revision/latest?cb=20220414125509 the game's logo]] notably has ''Like A Dragon'' take up significantly more space than ''Yakuza'' despite ostensibely being a subtitle. In 2022, the series officially changed its English name to ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'', with the announcement of ''[[VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuIshin Like a Dragon: Ishin!]]'', ''VideoGame/LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName'' and ''VideoGame/LikeADragon8''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' was retitled ''Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures'' in its third season, due to it downplaying the racing aspect of the show.

* Creator/{{SEGA}}'s ''Ryū ga Gotoku'' series was first localized outside Japan as ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza|1}}''. That stayed the series' English name until 2022. In 2020, the seventh numbered game, ''Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue'', was released outside Asia as ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with the subtitle being a translation of the original Japanese name. In 2022, the series officially changed its English name to ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'', with the announcement of ''[[VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuIshin Like a Dragon: Ishin!]]'', ''VideoGame/LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName'' and ''VideoGame/LikeADragon8''.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} with ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. In addition to new production staff, Creator/{{Toei|Company}} decided to give ''Dragon Ball'' a rebrand so that they could market it as a brand new show despite little change between the two at that point. As for the name, several options were considered by Toei that focused around new addition Gohan, but Toriyama settled on "Z", the last letter of the alphabet, as he was considering ending the story soon.[[note]]This is considered deeply ironic today as ''Z'' wound up being twice as long as the portion that came before it, causing something of a CreatorBreakdown[[/note]]. This happened to coincide with a notably ramp up in the drama and ki-based action that made the franchise explode in popularity, such that ''Z'' is effectively a brand in and of itself. As a result, 90% of the time people will refer to the entire franchise as "DBZ" and not "Dragon Ball".

* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' was renamed ''Archie Bunker's Place'' following its ninth season. CBS wanted the show to continue indefinitely, while series creator Norman Lear was eager for it to end before it got stale. To keep Lear happy without sacrificing their cash cow, CBS agreed to relaunch the show under a new title and drop his creator credit.
* ''All Quiet On The Preston Front'' became simply ''Preston Front'' after its first season, since everybody called it that anyway.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} with ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. In addition to new production staff, Creator/{{Toei}} decided to give ''Dragon Ball'' a rebrand so that they could market it as a brand new show despite little change between the two at that point. As for the name, several options were considered by Toei that focused around new addition Gohan, but Toriyama settled on "Z", the last letter of the alphabet, as he was considering ending the story soon.[[note]]This is considered deeply ironic today as ''Z'' wound up being twice as long as the portion that came before it, causing something of a CreatorBreakdown[[/note]]. This happened to coincide with a notably ramp up in the drama and ki-based action that made the franchise explode in popularity, such that ''Z'' is effectively a brand in and of itself. As a result, 90% of the time people will refer to the entire franchise as "DBZ" and not "Dragon Ball".

* TheBBC's US-focused news show ''100 Days'' was meant to cover the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, but quickly gained a reputation for the quality of its coverage so that instead of ending after 100 days as planned, it was kept on and simply retitled ''Beyond 100 Days''.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' at 26 episodes a season, with later seasons named ''NEXT'', ''TRY'', ''Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R'' (the latter two basically being a typical 26-episode season split in two).

* The second season of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' was ''Zero no Tsukaima: Futatsuki no Kishi''; the third was ''Zero no Tsukaima: Princess no Rondo''.

* The second season of ''LightNovel/CoffinPrincessChaika'' has "Avenging Battle" added to the title.

* Every new installment of the ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' series is some form of the word ''monogatari'' ("Story") with some prefix attached to it (''Bakemono'' = monster, ergo, ''Bakemonogatari'' = "Monster Story"). "Bakemonogatari" was just the first instance of the thematic title used to mark the starting point of the series (well, ''[[AnachronicOrder one]]'' of them, at least), so arguably, the umbrella title for the whole shebang is "Monogatari".

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' became ''The Adventures of Batman and Robin'', then ''The New Batman Adventures'' (though reruns don't use this title, instead using the original ''BTAS'' intro; these episodes originally ran alongside ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' as ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' with a combined open). Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' became ''Justice League Unlimited''.

* ''Manga/KOn'''s second season has a title with a little difference: one additional [[ExcitedShowTitle exclamation point]]. [[labelnote:note]]''K-On!!''[[/labelnote]]

* ''Manga/ShugoChara'', which was followed by the [[ExcitedShowTitle even more excited]] "''Shugo Chara!! Doki''" and "''Shugo Chara! Party!''".

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers four]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier series]] were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. In the original Japanese version, the six series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show, so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers four]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier series]] were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' was renamed to ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and then ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' as the plot changed to reflect the then-new games.

* ''Series/BillyTheExterminator'' Season 7 is officially titled ''Billy Goes North''