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* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} franchise ''Krrish'' films, in order: ''Film/KoiMilGaya'', ''Film/{{Krrish}}'' and ''Film/Krrish3''. Creator/HrithikRoshan, the main star, even said that they decided the name of the third film by taking cues from the ''Rambo'' series.

* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} franchise ''Krrish'' films, in order: ''Film/KoiMilGaya'', ''Film/{{Krrish}'' and ''Film/Krrish3''. Creator/HrithikRoshan, the main star, even said that they decided the name of the third film by taking cues from the ''Rambo'' series.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''[='=]s sequel was initially titled ''Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2'', which was not only {{long|Title}}, but it made the phrase "Wreck-It Ralph 2" the subtitle. [[SubvertedTrope However,]] Creator/{{Disney}} decided months before its release to just drop the subtitle altogether, making the film's final name just ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet''. It still sort of counts for this trope as the phrase "break the internet" had fallen out of style by the time the movie came out.

* Parodied in an early opening of ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', in which WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck attempts to rename the film "''[[LongTitle The Return of Super-Daffy Meets Gremlins 2 Part 6: The Movie]]''".

** WWF [=WrestleMania=], followed by WWF [=WrestleMania=] 2, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]], XIV, XV, [[AnnualTitle 2000]] (the 16th incarnation), X-Seven (pronounced "Seventeen"), and X8 (pronounced "Eighteen").

* 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 our hero]]. It is followed by ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (no “the”), which will again disregard everything since the original.

* The sequels to ''Film/JurassicPark'' aren't very cohesive. The second is ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', then the third is ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', and the fourth is ''Film/JurassicWorld''. The fifth shows it's mostly tied to the predecessor: ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. The sixth took a page from ''Star Trek'' and dropped the colon, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''.

* The [[BroadStrokes loose]] sequel to ''Film/SuicideSquad'' is just called ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. In between was ''[[Film/BirdsOfPrey2020 Birds of Prey]]'', which was more of a spin-off following Harley Quinn after the events of ''Suicide Squad''. This one was originally titled [[TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles "Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn,"]] but the marketing was changed to [[SpotlightStealingTitle "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey"]] due to many people who were fans of Harley from ''Suicide Squad'' not knowing who the Birds of Prey were. It doesn't help that Harley is the main character of the movie, and the Birds of Prey aren't technically formed until the very end.

* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', has somewhat different issues. It all started with the 2000 film ''Film/PitchBlack''. This was followed by a sequel called ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' in 2004 and an accompanying video game and animated special subtitled ''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' and ''WesternAnimation/DarkFury'', respectively. A second video game subtitled ''VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'' was released in 2009. All other entries aside from the second film at least style themselves as "The Chronicles of Riddick: Title of Entry", even ''Pitch Black'' retroactively. This is set to be followed by a third theatrical film in 2013 simply called ''Film/{{Riddick}}''. Word is still out on how this will play out, since it has also been called ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking'' by the creators.

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* The sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' is very appropriately titled ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart''.

* Discused in ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Guy]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG RPG]]'':

* The ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' series: ''Film/FirstBlood'', ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'', ''Film/RamboIII'', ''Film/RamboIV'', and ''Film/RamboLastBlood''. Yes, ''in that order''. In Brazil, the second film is called ''Rambo II - A Missão''. Since then, "A Missão" ("The Mission") has become the Brazilian equivalent of "Electric Boogaloo." The same goes for the Italian title of the second film, ''Rambo II - La Vendetta'' ("The Revenge"), which was often used to mock bad sequels.

* 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}}'' (Rocky training the son of his rival-turned-friend), which itself had a numbered sequel.

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' titled its follow-up seasons ''Knight of the Twin Moons'' and ''The Princess' Rondo''. "Rondo" being a musical movement that repeats a key idea three times.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' was followed by ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', which in turn was followed by ''Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid'', making it the ''third'' series, not the second. On the other hand, ''Fumoffu'' was more of a side story anthology than a true second chapter. In fact, following the manga reveals that the sidestories in ''Fumoffu'' should have taken place ''during'' the first season, interspersed with the more serious episodes, so it's not really a sequel at all.

* The second season of ''[[LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove Haiyore! Nyarko-San]]'' is called ''Haiyore! Nyarko-San W'' in yet another of the series' many {{toku}}satsu references (this time to ''[[Series/KamenRiderDouble Kamen Rider W]]''). The precursor flash series also used this trope, with ''Haiyoru! Nyarani'' followed by ''Haiyoru! Nyarani Remember my Love(craft-sensei)''.

* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' does this in both original and dub. The series has two sequels, an OVA and a sequel series; in the original Japanese version, the OVA's two parts are titled ''Weiss Kreuz: Verbrechen'' ("crime") and ''Weiss Kreuz: Strafe'' ("punishment"), and the sequel series is ''Weiss Kreuz: Gluhen'' ("glowing" -- in German, "weiss gluhen" or "weissgluhend" means "white-hot"). The series was dubbed as ''Knight Hunters,'' and although the OVA has not been licensed, ''Gluhen'' has been released in English as ''Knight Hunters: Eternity''.

* The Japanese name of the second anime adaptation of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is ''Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist''. They used the English name for the first series as a subtitle for second one. Obviously this would make no sense in English, so it was christened ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]''. Which makes even less sense considering that [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] OvertookTheManga and went off on its own tangent about 1/3rd of the way through, and yet carries the same name as the manga, whilst the second anime is based entirely from the manga storyline, but has a different name. Hmm...

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* 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/{{Halloween 2007}} before a reboot]] was ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''.

* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} franchise ''Krrish'' films, in order: ''Koi... Mil Gaya'', ''Krrish'' and ''Krrish 3''. Creator/HrithikRoshan, the main star, even said that they decided the name of the third film by taking cues from the ''Rambo'' series.
* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse only used NumberedSequels for ''Film/IronMan'' and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (and in the latter it's ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', alluding to how one of the main characters likes mixtapes), and thus all follow-ups in the {{Modular Franchise}}s use subtitles. A big case is Spider-Man, who in [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy previous]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan iterations]] only had numbered movies, and then the MCU instead had subtitles with a single word shared between them: ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' and ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.

* The original ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films never used numbers. The first three films all had completely separate titles (''[[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'', ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' and ''Film/InspectorClouseau''). Then the fourth film (''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'') reintroduced the Pink Panther diamond, and after that all the sequels worked the phrase "Pink Panther" into their titles even when the actual Pink Panther diamond didn't figure in their plots (with ''Film/SonOfThePinkPanther'' being a particularly nonsensical title). Then the ContinuityReboot with Steve Martin started numbering its sequels, with no subtitle. Keeping all nine films in order can be tricky.

* Considered titles to ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Rocky Horror Picture Show's]]'' sequel were ''Rocky Horror Shows His Heels'' and ''The Brad And Janet Show'' but they ended up naming it ''Film/ShockTreatment'' after one of its songs.

* Gradually happened with ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}''. There's ''Leprechaun'', followed by ''Film/{{Leprechaun 2}}'' and ''Film/{{Leprechaun 3}}'', then introducing subtitles with ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace'', followed by dropping the number for ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'' and ending with ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' by mimicking ''Film/TwoFastTwoFurious'''s ridiculous title.

* Discused in ''[[Videogame/SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Guy]] [[Videogame/SuperMarioRPG RPG]]'':

* The original ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films never used numbers. The first three films all had completely separate titles (''[[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'', ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' and ''Film/InspectorClouseau''). Then the fourth film (''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'') reintroduced the Pink Panther diamond, and after that all the sequels worked the phrase "Pink Panther" into their titles even when the actual Pink Panther diamond didn't figure in their plots. Then the ContinuityReboot with Steve Martin started numbering its sequels, with no subtitle. Keeping all nine films in order can be tricky.

* Rian Johnson's hit thriller ''Film/KnivesOut'' got a sequel in 2022 titled ''Film/GlassOnionAKnivesOutMystery''.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise takes this to the point of absurdity, as ''no two movies'' use the same numbering system. It goes ''The Fast and the Furious'', ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', ''The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK), ''Fast & Furious 6'', ''Furious 7'', ''The Fate of the Furious'', ''Hobbs & Shaw'' and now ''F9''.

** WWF [=WrestleMania=], followed by WWF [=WrestleMania=] 2, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]], XIV, XV, [[AnnualTitle 2000]] (the 16th incarnation), [[NoPronunciationGuide X-Seven (pronounced "Seventeen"), and X8 (pronounced "Eighteen").]]

* NXT has produced five specials: NXT [=ArRIVAL=], NXT Takeover, NXT Takeover: Fatal Four Way, and NXT Takeover: [[NoPronunciationGuide R Evolution]] (pronounced like R Evolution or "our evolution"), and NXT Takeover: Rival. The IWC was so confused by the Takeover specials at first (before they realized that they were a callback to the old In Your House specials) that Cageside Seats even jokingly called Fatal Four Way NXT Takeover: Electric Boogaloo.

->"...couldn't we just call it ''Amnesia: Revelations'' or something?"

* The ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' sequel is called ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' to reflect the new protagonist having a cockroach theme, much like how the spinoff was called ''Caterpillar''. Curiously, the title was first unveiled as if it was [[WorkingTitle temporary]].

[[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet And just in case you're wondering]]: ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo''.

* In the ''WebVideo/HistoryMatters'' video on the Cod Wars between the United Kingdom and Iceland, Cod War II is subtitled "Electric Boogaloo".

** ''Film/Halloween2018'' is a direct sequel to the 1978 original, ignoring any other sequels, but has the same title as the original, giving the impression it's another remake. It was followed by ''Film/HalloweenKills'', and then will come ''Halloween Ends'' with the intent of finishing the series.

* Upon its release in 1977, ''Franchise/StarWars'' was called simply that. Its first sequel was titled ''Episode '''V''': Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and a re-release (in 1981) of the original retroactively added the subtitle ''Episode IV: Film/ANewHope''. This was all decades before Lucas got around to making the {{Prequel}} Trilogy (note that none of these movies were referred to by episode number anywhere but the opening crawl until the prequels came out). It is worth noting that Lucas had always intended for the original film to be called ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'', but 20th Century Fox shot it down due to concern that the subtitle would confuse audiences, as no Star Wars movies existed prior to 1977.