History Main / OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo

* Roughly 13 years after the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', it gets the sequel called ''Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate''. It's also described as a pilot to the upcoming TV series ''Megamind Rules!''

** There third and fourth album formed a double album called ''Juggernaut'', consistenty of ''Juggernaut: Alpha'' and ''Juggernaut: Omega''. Afterwards they resumed the pattern Periphery II started 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.

* 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.

** Spoiling the joke somewhat, a Russian label put out Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever" as "The Traveling Wilburys, Volume Two." This actually works - the album was released between Volumes One and Three, and has Harrison, Orbison and Lynne making appearances.

** And to differentiate it from the band's widely-known 1985 demo, which was also titled "They Might Be Giants."

* Music/{{Chicago}} has subverted this numerous times, making album titles with nothing but roman numerals. They're up to XXXII; that includes the greatest hits but DOESN'T include a few non-numbered releases like "Live in Japan" so they really have closer to 40 releases over the years.

* The Music/BeastieBoys latest album is called "Hot Sauce Committee Part 2". There is no "Part One", though there was supposed to be. Supposedly the boys were busy making "Part One" when MCA was diagnosed with cancer, thus the album was delayed. Part 2 was released because the boys said they were going to release it on a certain date, so it kind of makes "Part One" a case of "The Missing Floppies".

** There third and fourth album formed a double album called Juggernaut, consistenty of ''Juggernaut: Alpha'' and ''Juggernaut: Omega''. Afterwards they resumed the pattern Periphery II started with ''Periphery III: Select Difficulty'' and ''Periphery IV: Hail Stan''.
* ''Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses'' 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 ''.5: The Gray Chapter''.

* Music/EpikHigh's albums "Map the Soul" and "Remapping the Human Soul." Guess their cartography wasn't on point the first time.

* Music/{{AJJ}} frequently parodies this in their titles. "People II: The Reckoning," "People II 2: Still Peoplin'," and "Gift of the Magi 2: Return of the Magi." In addition, "People II: The Reckoning" comes before "People," the song it's a sequel to, on People That Can Eat People... The band has joked that their next album will feature "People II 2 Act II: The Peoplening." Hasn't happened yet, but they did make an album called ''The Bible 2''.

* Creator/KevinSmith isn't just an accomplished filmmaker and actor. He's known to be very approachable to his fans. His signature Q&A sessions go as following: "An Evening with Kevin Smith", "An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder", "Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith", "Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40", and "Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell".

** The anime is notable for the fact it gets a new subtitle every season starting with Season 3 in the dub version. The original Japanese series has only changed its name twice. ''Pocket Monsters'' added the subtitle ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire Advanced Generation]]'' when it began the storyline based on the ''Pokémon'' games released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance (''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald]]''). The subtitle then changed to ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl Diamond & Pearl]]'' when the storyline became based on [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl said games]], although it adapted elements of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Platinum]]'' and the DS remakes of [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver the Gen II]] games as well. [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite The adaptation]] for ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' takes the cake, though, for being subtitled ''Best Wishes!''

** The video games were ''Slayers Royal'' for UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, ''Slayers Royal 2'' for UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and UsefulNotes/PlayStation, ''Slayers Wonderful'' for [=PlayStation=].

** Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.1 would now be followed by Windows 10, thus bypassing 9 altogether. This was actually done somewhat pragmatically to avoid conflicts with legacy programs designed for older versions that would identify 95 and 98 with strings such as [=if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))=]. The name "Windows One" was floated to provide consistent branding with their many other products with "One" in the name such as UsefulNotes/XboxOne, [=OneDrive=], [=OneNote=], etc. but decided against because of confusion with Windows 1.0 and likely based on the response to the Xbox One name.

* UsefulNotes/MacOS X is usually more known by its code name more than its version number (which just increments past the decimal). Except they started with big cats. As of 10.9, they're using locations in California starting with the odd-sounding Mavericks (after a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks,_California major big-wave surfing area in San Mateo County]]).

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' has had (in order) 1st edition, 2nd edition, 5th edition ([[CanonDiscontinuity later declared]] an "[[{{Unperson}} unproduct"]], 3rd edition (unpublished), [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows XP]] (formally dropped after Microsoft complained, so this version was just called "Paranoia"), and 25th Anniversary Edition (a reprint of XP with some additional material). In the interest of fairness, 5th edition was an intentional spoof of this very trope.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, followed by the UsefulNotes/Xbox360, probably to suggest equivalence to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} (at the time still known by its code name, Revolution). Microsoft's third console followed the trend with the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which actually confused people due to the seeming chronological regression and "Xbox 1" having been a retronym for ''the original Xbox'', and had the side effect of making it impossible to give the next Xbox a sensible name. The fourth Xbox console line, consisting of the [[UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S]], is thus simply named "Xbox".
** And of course the Nintendo series of consoles: Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo UsefulNotes/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 UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch bridges these categories, but the naming of its successors remains to be seen.

** The sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' is called ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''.

** The first sequel to ''''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' is ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''. The second is the POVSequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf''. Some foreign countries entitle the third movie as ''The Lion King 3''.

* ''Film/HomeAlone'' got a SettingUpdate sequel (''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork''). Then came a sequel with [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute another character]], ''Film/HomeAlone3''. Then one that's ''supposedly'' with the same character from the original, ''Film/HomeAlone4''. The following two dropped numbers altogether.

** The first sequel to ''''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' is ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''. The second is the POVSequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf''. Some foreign countries entitle the third movie as ''The Lion King 3''.

** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''[='=]s sequel was initially titled ''Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2'', which was not only long, 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 [[UnintentionalPeriorPiece fallen out of style]] by the time the movie came out.

* ''WesternAnimation/ACarsLifeSparkysBigAdventure'' was followed by ''Car's Life 2'' [[InvertedTrope with no subtitle]]. [[ZigZaggedTrope the third and fourth films had subtitles of ''The Royal Heist'' and ''Junkyard Blues'', respectively.

* Any ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' movie! Except the third (''Anime/Pokemon3'' -- technically ''Pokémon 3: The Movie'') and fourth (''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'').
* The sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' was called ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''.

* The sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' is very appropriately titled ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart''.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has a 2005 direct sequel called ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch''. However, it's actually [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch the franchise's]] ''third'' film and an {{interquel}}. The ''2'' is referring to the fact that it is ''chronologically'' the second film in the franchise, not the second ''released''; ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' (an odd title in itself, but that was [[ArtifactTitle for unintentional reasons]]) was released first in 2003. Going further, ''Lilo & Stitch 2'' is also the only film in the franchise to receive a subtitle, which RhymesOnADime here. Oddly enough, the subtitle ''Stitch Has a Glitch'' does not appear within the film itself, which suggests that it was a marketing decision for the video release.

* ''WesternAnimation/TarzanII'' is an {{interquel}}; this is especially strange considering ''Tarzan and Jane'' was released several years before, and ''that'' was a CompilationMovie of three episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan''.
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''[='=]s sequel was initially titled ''Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2'', which was not only long, 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.

* ''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'', ''F9'', and then ''Fast X''.
** Just to confuse things further, every film between ''Tokyo Drift'' and ''Furious 7'' are {{midquel}}s chronologically fitting between ''2 Fast'' and ''Tokyo Drift'', and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well.

* Surprisingly averted for almost the entire run of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series, which were simply consistently numbered with successive roman numerals and no subtitles. The filmmakers explicitly noted that they were not going with sequel names like ''Saw 2: Hacksaw'' or ''[[Letters2Numbers S4w]]'' to avoid this. This lasted until the seventh film, which instead of being ''Saw VII'' is ''Film/Saw3D''. The DVD release has renamed it ''Saw: The Final Chapter''.
** Then came the eighth overall film in the franchise, 2017's ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', set ten years after John Kramer's death(!) And follow-up ''Film/Spiral2021'', which technically is ''Spiral: From the Book of Saw''.
* Creator/MichaelBay said ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' wouldn't have {{Numbered Sequel}}s. It was followed by ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' and ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''. It was at least consistent all throughout, but this does create the obvious problem of not being able to know the correct order without any prior knowledge or research.
** Soft reboot ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' will be followed by ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' to restore the pattern.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s story is split into several parts, with each one given a very Electric Boogaloo-ish title. Starting from [[LongRunners the beginning]] we have: ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', and ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands The JOJOLands]]''.

* The trope is named for the movie ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'', the sequel to the movie ''Film/{{Breakin}}''. The term "Electric Boogaloo" for an oddly-named sequel picked up currency quickly, especially for sequels perceived to have unwieldy subtitles, inferior quality, and no real reason for existing to begin with. This particular sequel caught the public's eye because it happened to be released in the ''same year'' as the original ''Breakin''', so it fit all of those categories beautifully. The "electric boogaloo" is a real dance style, but not everyone picked up on that and thought it was a WordSaladTitle. It also wound up being the title to the documentary released in 2014 about both movies' producers, Creator/TheCannonGroup.

* The trope is named for the movie ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'', the sequel to the movie ''Film/{{Breakin}}''. The term "Electric Boogaloo" for an oddly-named sequel picked up currency quickly, especially for sequels perceived to have unwieldy subtitles, inferior quality, and no real reason for existing to begin with. This particular sequel caught the public's eye because it happened to be released in the ''same year'' as the original ''Breakin''', so it fit all of those categories beautifully. The "electric boogaloo" is a real dance style, but not everyone picked up on that and thought it was a WordSaladTitle.

* 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 two numbered sequels.

* ''Film/{{Predator}}'', ''Film/Predator2'', ''Film/{{Predators}}'', and ''Film/ThePredator''. And then came ''Film/{{Prey|2022}}'', inverting the subject so to say.

** Upon its release in 1977, the first movie was called simply ''Star Wars''. 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). 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. This always leads into TitleConfusion when trying to mention one of the movies not by subtitle or number. For example, the "first ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie" is either Episode I or Episode IV.
** The prequels had the episode number in the title. The eventual third trilogy only use the number in the opening scroll - the official titles are ''Star Wars: Film/TheForceAwakens'', ''Star Wars: Film/TheLastJedi'' and ''Star Wars: Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker.''

** ''[[Film/XMen1 X-Men]]'', ''Film/X2XMenUnited,'' and ''Film/XMenTheLastStand.'' The second film goes by a few different titles, perhaps because "X-Men United" sounds like a soccer team to viewers outside the U.S.
** Then there's the prequels and spinoffs: ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' (2009), a prequel, was intended to start a spinoff "X-Men Origins" franchise [[StillbornFranchise which never materialised]]; ''Film/TheWolverine'' (2013) was a mostly stand-alone story set after the original trilogy; and ''Film/{{Logan}}'' (2017), a DistantFinale of sorts named after Wolverine's street name. However, the sequential films ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' (2011), ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (2014)[[note]]which also partially follows on from the original trilogy and ''The Wolverine''[[/note]] and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' (2016) all have a consistent title-subtitle format. Then this pattern was broken with ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (2019), although it was marketed as "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" in some countries.

* ''Film/Venom2018'' was followed by ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''.

* 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.
** This always leads into TitleConfusion when trying to mention one of the movies not by subtitle or number. For example, the "first ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie" is either Episode I or Episode IV.
** Although excitedly anticipating its release back in 1999, plenty of fans were admittedly somewhat befuddled by the subtitle ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.

* Any ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' [[Film/{{Pokemon}} movie]]! Except the third (''Anime/Pokemon3'' -- technically ''Pokémon 3: The Movie'') and fourth (''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'').

* Steven Soderbergh's ''Film/MagicMike'' has two sequels titled ''Film/MagicMikeXXL'' and ''MagicMikesLastDance''.

* Any ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Film/{{Pokemon}} movie]]! Except the third (''Anime/Pokemon3'' -- technically ''Pokémon 3: The Movie'') and fourth (''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'').

* ''Film/MissionImpossible'' 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.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s story is split into several parts, with each one given a very Electric Boogaloo-ish title. Starting from [[LongRunners the beginning]] we have: ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'', and ''[=JoJo=] Lands''.

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