History Main / OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo

* One of WebVideo/JonTron's most watched videos, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci2hj7CSHI Waterproofing My Life with FLEX TAPE'', has a sequel called ''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2WRpu5syw Flex Tape II: The Flexening''.

* ''Kingsman'' franchise had a good start with first two movies, ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' and ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. The third installment, however, serves as the prequel and bears the name of ''Film/TheKingsMan''. And that's not counting the upcoming follow-up movies called ''Kingsman: The Blue Blood'' and ''The King's Man: The Traitor King'', as well as distantly connected spin-off installment called ''Film/{{Argylle}}''.
* Rian Johnson's hit thriller ''Film/KnivesOut'' got a sequel in 2022 titled ''Film/GlassOnionAKnivesOutMystery''. The subtitle for the latter is usually ommited in promotional materials. Even the movie itself shows only ''Glass Onion'' part.

* There's very little consistency in the sequel naming used by ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' franchise. The [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 first sequel]] was just a {{Numbered Sequel|s}}, but the next movie went the ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' direction by calling itself ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII''. [[Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration Part 4]] then switched the numbers for subtitles. The [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003 remake series]] has too few entries to really say it's inconsistent, but 2013 saw the release of ''Film/TexasChainsaw3D'', which also [[CanonDiscontinuity ignores every film after the original]]. The next film in the series was titled simply ''{{Film/Leatherface}}'', and is an [[OriginsEpisode origin story of the titular character]]. It is followed by ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (no "the"), which will again disregard everything since the original.

** Both follow-ups to ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': The first is ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', and the second is an {{interquel}} ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning''.

* When a ''Music/TaylorSwift'' song turns out to be a sequel to something earlier, [[StealthSequel you definitely won't be able to tell from the title alone]]. "exile" follows up on "The Last Time", "cardigan", "august" and "betty" make up the trilogy called the "Teenage Love Triangle" and "Long Live" is the SpiritualSuccessor to "Change".

* ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' is the TropeNamer.
** "Electric boogaloo" at least has the excuse of being a style of dance. ''Breakin' 2'' had its own sequel, ''Rappin[='=]'', which was known in some regions as the completely nonsensical ''Breakdance 3: Electric Boogalee'' to [[RhymesOnADime keep the rhyme]].

* In order, ''Film/DieHard'', ''Film/DieHard2'' (with the tagline/unofficial subtitle ''Die Harder''), ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' -- which was released outside the US as ''Die Hard 4.0'' -- and ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard''. Can ''Die Hard [[Franchise/JamesBond Another Day]]'' or ''[[Music/{{Wings}} Live and Let]] Die Hard'' be far behind?
** In French, ''Piège de cristal''[[note]]Crystal Trap[[/note]], ''58 minutes pour vivre''[[note]]58 Minutes (in order) To Live[[/note]], and ''Une journée en enfer''[[note]]A Day In Hell[[/note]] -- and going the ColonCancer way with ''[[GratuitousEnglish Die Hard]] 4: Retour en enfer''[[note]]Return to Hell[[/note]].
** In the European Spanish version, the first film was called "La jungla de cristal" (The Glass Jungle). Of course, the second one is "La jungla de cristal 2" while the third one is "La jungla de cristal 3: la venganza". The fourth film bettered it by removing the "glass" part of it and was called "La jungla 4.0", and the second and third films' names were retranslated as simply "La jungla 2" and "La jungla 3" (with the relevant sub-titles) in DVD releases.

** To further confuse things ''Film/FinalDestination5'' (originally titled ''F5nal destination'') was [[spoiler:a prequel, ending with the crash of flight 180 in the first film, you even get to see the main characters of the first film as they leave the plane. Which makes the title of the fourth movie kinda accurate given it's ''The'' Final Destination chronologically.]]

* The first 5 ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films were ordered numerically [[StoppedNumberingSequels until]] 1995's ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''. The following film was then titled ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', killing two birds with one stone by commemorating the franchise's 20th anniversary while also making you think of the molecular composition of water. The only follow-up [[Film/Halloween2007 before a reboot]] was ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''.

* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'': ''Film/TheMummy1999'' was followed by ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' and then ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor''.
** ''The Mummy Returns'' spawned a prequel: ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', which in turn spawned a prequel of its own and yet another [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781896/ sequel]]).
* The full title of the first ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movie is ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!'', to identify it as a TV-movie spin-off of ''Series/PoliceSquad''. The sequels were numbered "2½: The Smell of Fear" and "33⅓: The Final Insult," spoofing both this and NumberedSequels (which led to ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' jokingly wondering how the second film incorporates half the plot from the third, and where the other 31 ''Naked Gun'' movies can be found).
** Subsequent to the release of ''Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult'', long before speculation of a continuation gave way to the concept of the inevitable reboot, the unmade fourth installment was tentatively titled "Naked Gun 5."
** Also bandied about -- "Naked Gun 4 Score: And 3 Sequels Ago". Sadly impossible due to Creator/LeslieNielsen's death.
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' followed by ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' and ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'' as separate branches, followed respectively by ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII,'' and so forth.
** And then there are the Italian {{Dolled Up Installment}}s, ''Film/Zombi2''/''Zombie Flesh Eaters'' and sequels.
** Creator/GeorgeARomero at least started to follow a form. Night. Dawn. Day. Then he came with... ''Film/LandOfTheDead''? Then ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''. And ''Film/SurvivalOfTheDead''.

* The "Thin Man" referred to in the title of the Creator/DashiellHammett novel and Creator/WilliamPowell-Myrna Loy screwball comedy-mystery film ''Film/TheThinMan'' was actually a missing person that Nick Charles was retained to find, [[spoiler:and turns out to be the victim of the murder Nick and Nora wind up solving]]. For some reason, audiences started associating "the Thin Man" with Nick Charles (note that Nick isn't thin at all in the book, while William Powell was quite thin indeed), and the ''Thin Man'' sequels pretty much gave in to this and became references to the erroneous "Nick Charles" = "Thin Man" equation. This is most obvious in the fifth movie in the series, ''Film/TheThinManGoesHome'', in which Nick Charles returned to his boyhood home to visit his parents (and, of course, managed during that visit [[AmateurSleuth to get involved in a murder case]]).

* This happened to Creator/JackieChan films in the USA a ''lot'', because they were originally released only on home video here, where they were underground cult favorites, but not part of mainstream culture. Then his film ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'' was released theatrically and became a hit, so many of his earlier films got re-released on video or finally given a theatrical release. However, several of his films were part of long-running series, the earlier films typically had cheap sets and special effects, were shot on poor-quality film stock, and/or were not originally written with worldwide release in mind, and so the studios and distributors didn't think [[EagleLand American]] audiences would understand the Chinese cultural concepts. So the later films in those series, which had better production values and more [[LowestCommonDenominator universal appeal]], got theatrical releases under new titles, with the earlier films re-released on home video... retitled as if they were follow-on sequels to the later films that got theatrically-released first here in the states.

* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series has a fairly consistent ''Godzilla vs. Whatever'' or ''Whatever vs. Godzilla'' formula, but strange titles pop up from time to time. In Japan, there are two films called ''Godzilla'', one of which is [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original]] and the other of which is [[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla its direct sequel]] that erases the movies that came in between. Also, some of the later movies replaced the "vs." in the titles with an "X" for no apparent reason.

* ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' has a sequel entitled ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2''. This uses the odd SequelTheOriginalTitle format. The title also makes no sense as no "Book of Shadows" is ever mentioned, or alluded to, and it pretty much has nothing to do with anything in the movie. It got worse when the series was revived, with the plain title ''Film/BlairWitch''.

* Each season of ''Series/BabylonFive'' has its own subtitle: 'Signs and Portents', 'The Coming of Shadows', 'Point of No Return', 'No Surrender, No Retreat' and 'The Wheel of Fire'. However, this subtitle does not appear in the credits and was strictly informal until the DVD releases, when the subtitle was included on the front cover packaging.
** The season titles were also the titles of the most significant episodes in that season, which did appear on screen. (Thus Season I was named ''Signs and Portents'' after the episode that introduced Morden and really kicked off the MythArc, and so on.)

** Well, it would still have been as short-lived, but you may be right in the sense that it may have been more popular. Billy Burden (Mr. Moulterd) died just after the series ended.

** In Japan, ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' was followed by ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' and ''Series/BattleFeverJ'' before every Franchise/SuperSentai season followed the same "[[AdjectiveNounFred [Adjective] Sentai [Name]]]" template (with only [[Series/ChoudenshiBioman two]] [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman exceptions]]).

* The first three [=LPs=] released by Music/LedZeppelin were called simply ''Music/{{Led Zeppelin|1969}}'', ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' and ''Music/LedZeppelinIII''. Their fourth album, which has NoTitle aside from a sequence of unpronounceable symbols, is informally referred to as ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' in keeping with this pattern.
** The fourth album is also sometimes called "Zoso" due to the fourth unpronounceable symbol looking vaguely like that word.
* Early in their career, Music/FranzFerdinand had intended to title all their albums simply ''Franz Ferdinand'', and differentiate them only by their cover art. Their producer talked them out of the idea.

** That's most likely a reference to [[Music/TheBeatles The White Album]]. Weezer released its own White Album in 2016.

* The Soviettes subvert the usual practice of bands naming their albums with actual titles, and made ''LP I'', ''LP II'' and ''LP III''.
** Portending at least a six-album career, these Minnesotans strove to create a "rainbow" of album art. ''LP I'' sported a red scheme, ''LP II'' featured orange, and ''LP III'' was yellow. Theoretically, [=LPs=] IV-VI would have been green-, blue- and violet-themed (indigo having been stricken from the spectrum long ago). This was confirmed both in an interview and in the fact that the band's post-career online-only release, ''Rarities'', had the green color scheme LP IV ''would'' have had.
* Music/{{Seal}}'s first two albums were self-titled.
** His third self-titled album (but fourth album) is called ''Seal IV''.

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' self-titled debut album has been nicknamed "The Pink Album" because of its cover art. And as a Beatles reference.
** And to differentiate it from the band's widely-known 1985 demo, which was also titled ''They Might Be Giants''.

* Music/{{Periphery}} followed up their self-titled debut album with ''Periphery II: This Time It's Personal''.
** There third and fourth album formed a double album called ''Juggernaut'', consistenty of ''Juggernaut: Alpha'' and ''Juggernaut: Omega''. Afterwards they resumed the pattern, with ''Periphery III: Select Difficulty'' and ''Periphery IV: Hail Stan''.
* ''Music/Vol3TheSubliminalVerses'' by Music/{{Slipknot}} is actually the band's fourth. ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Slipknot]]'' is their second. Their first was a limited, self-issued album called ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'', released in 1996.
** Likewise, their sixth album is called ''Music/PointFiveTheGrayChapter''.

* I present to you: ''[[Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie Ensign 2]]'': [[http://www.interrobangstudios.com/potluck/index.php?strip_id=1485 Electric Sue-galoo]]. The final product was titled (probably more appropriate to the subject matter) ''Ensign Two: The Wrath of Sue'', the former was only used as a promotional image. And the announced third part will be titled ''Ensign³: Crisis of Infinite Sues'' (yes, not 3, cubed).

** And of course the Nintendo series of consoles: Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Platform/NintendoGameCube, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo Platform/WiiU. The Wii U name actually caused confusion since it followed Wii accessory naming trends, and since advertising focused too much on the [=GamePad=], too many people thought it was an accessory for the Wii rather than a new console, which, combined with several other factors, had a catastrophic effect on sales (though at least it hadn't been a retronym for the [=GameCube=]). And then there's the portables (Nintendo [=GameBoy=] Advance SP Micro [=DSi=] Lite XL?). The Platform/NintendoSwitch bridges these categories, but the naming of its successors remains to be seen.
* Similarly, try to figure out how old a camera is by model numbers. Sometimes these model numbers will change ''depending on what country the camera is being sold in''. Even for the more expensive Digital SLR cameras such as the Rebels, the 60D, and the 1DmkIV, the model numbers don't seem to do much to tell you the cameras' relation to each other, aside from additional digits in the EOS model numbers implying that the camera is progressively cheaper (A few years ago, a Canon Rebel EOS 450D ran for about seven or eight hundred bucks. The Canon 1DmkII at the time ran for something close to ''five thousand'' dollars.)
** Canon's release scheme is: the more numbers in a name, the cheaper the camera (the 1000D or XS is the cheapest option, where the 1D is the most expensive); the higher the number in the series, the newer (20D is older than the 60D). The single-digit cameras are the top of the line pro-bodies with top of the line tech at the time of the release, many of which have had multiple iterations (7D; 5D vs. 5D Mk. II; 1D vs. 1D Mk. IV vs. 1Ds Mk. III)

* Nvidia's [=GeForce=] cards are just as confusing. The first one was "256," then there were some 3000s and 4000s followed by "FX [number]," then more numbers up to 9800, after which the 9XXX cards were rebranded as 1XX, and later releases counted up from there. Many of them have "GT," "GTX," "Ti," etc. stuck on to indicate improved performance or...something. Once the numbers reached the high 900s, the next series was called "series 10" and included 10XX models. That was followed by series 16, then series 20, then 30 and 40, all following the four-digit numbering system.

** The desktop version skips the 800 series, due to NVIDIA jumping the gun on releasing the Maxwell architecture for laptops. When the next generation of Maxwell came out, rather than have an 800 series for Desktops and possibly a 900 series for laptops, they just bumped the desktop series up to 900.
*** They also skipped the 300 series. Technically there was a 310 which was actually just a rebrand of the 210 (kind of like how the 900 series sounds like a two generation leap over the 700 series, which is very misleading), then they went straight to the 400 series.

* Desktop IBM and compatible computers. The early versions were named based on their Intel microprocessor chip [[NumberedSequel number]]: 8086 and 8088, followed by the 80186 (which almost nobody ever even heard of, superseded almost immediately by) 80286, 80386, and 80486. Intel complained that AMD and other knockoffs were using their names but were informed that one couldn't trademark a number, so with the 80586 they changed the name to "Pentium," followed by the Pentium II, III, etc.

* Looking at the model names in the early iPhone line (iPhone > iPhone 3G > iPhone 3GS > iPhone 4 > iPhone 4S > iPhone 5 > [=iPhone=] 5S/C) it would seem [[UnInstallment they skipped the second installment]]. In reality, the 3G and 3GS models are generally considered to be iPhone 2 and 3 respectively. However, 4S is considered iPhone 4 (just like its predecessor) rather than iPhone 5, making the naming convention oddly inconsistent. Moreover, iPhone 5 is actually the sixth gen iPhone, not fifth gen like its name would have one believe. [=iPhone=] 5C is actually a cheaper, plastic version of the 5 with reduced capabilities.
** From the iPhone 6 until 11, Apple alternated between incrementing the model number and adding a "C" to last year's phone. The [=iPhone=] X (in place of 10) broke this pattern temporarily, being followed by the iPhone XS. Then Apple dropped 'S' phones are started incrementing normally, following the [=iPhone=] 11 with the 12.

** "Pilot" (two numbered models) was followed by "Palm Pilot" ("Personal" and "Professional") which became the "Palm III" (III, IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe, IIIc) followed by the "Palm V" and "Palm VII". ("Palm IV" was skipped because FourIsDeath.)

* The editions of ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' are, in direct line: ''Traveller'', ''[=MegaTraveller=]'', ''Traveller: The New Era'', ''Marc Miller's Traveller'', ''Traveller''[[note]]AKA Mongoose Traveller 1st Edition [[/note]], ''Traveller 5'', and ''Traveller'' [[note]]AKA Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition[[/note]]. ''Traveller 5'' is really the 6th version of the rules.

* The editions of ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' are, in direct line: ''Traveller'', ''[=MegaTraveller=]'', ''Traveller: The New Era'', ''Marc Miller's Traveller'', ''Traveller'', ''Traveller 5''. Note that ''Traveller 5'' is really the 6th version. That progression also doesn't count the ports of the setting to different generic rules systems: ''GURPS Traveller'', ''Traveller 20'', and ''Traveller HERO'', which were all released between ''Marc Miller's Traveller'' and the second ''Traveller'' in the list above. If you do count them then ''Traveller 5'' is really the ''9th'' version of the game.

* Nvidia's [=GeForce=] cards are just as confusing. The first one was "256," then there were some 3000s and 4000s followed by "FX [number]," then more numbers up to 9800, after which the 9XXX cards were rebranded as 1XX, and later releases counted up from there. Many of them have "GT," "GTX," "Ti," etc. stuck on to indicate improved performance or...something. The top card at time of writing drops the number part entirely in favor of the [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords ambiguous word "Titan,"]] apparently because it's in the 6XX series but they already released a "GTX 690."

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':

* Fans were deeply, deeply saddened when no amount of letter writing could convince Creator/MichaelBay to name his sequel ''Film/{{Transformers}} 2: Electric Boogaloo''.

* ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'' had two numbered sequels. The fourth drops them: ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''. ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' and ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning]]'' (in two parts!) followed suit.

* The ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' branch of [[LongRunners long-running]] ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies doesn't bother with numbering the movies following up after ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 the 2014 Godzilla installment]]'', just like numerous original Japanese installments before it. The follow-ups are named as such: ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', and ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''.

* ''Kingsman'' franchise had a good start with first two movies, ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' and ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. The third installment, however, serves as the prequel and bears the name of ''Film/TheKingsMan''.

** Also bandied about -- "Naked Gun 4 Score: And 3 Sequels Ago". Now sadly impossible due to Creator/LeslieNielsen's death.

* The first five ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' sequels are numbered. The sixth is simply titled ''Film/RockyBalboa''. And it was followed by a SpinOffspring of sorts in ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'' (Rocky training the son of his rival-turned-friend), which itself had two numbered sequels.

* If there is a more iconic example than the Hammer/Universal series, it would have to be ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''. They started with ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'', followed by ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', and finally ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes''. Then there was a more or less standalone [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 remake under the original title]], followed by a reboot/prequel(?) series which are, in order, ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', and ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes''. We'd try to explain the ''internal'' chronology, but that way lies madness.
* The ''[Franchise/MonsterVerse]'' branch of [[LongRunners long-running]] ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies doesn't bother with numbering the movies following up after ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 the 2014 Godzilla installment]]'', just like the original Japanese installments before it. The follow-ups are named as such: ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', and ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''.

* Rian Johnson's hit thriller ''Film/KnivesOut'' got a sequel in 2022 titled ''Film/GlassOnionAKnivesOutMystery''. The subtitle for the latter is usually ommited in promotional materials.