Basic Trope: Excessive references to a series' previous installments.
- Straight: Alice & Bob 3: Vengeance is heavily based on details in the first two movies. Minor locations are revisited, Plot Holes are closed, and there's much symbolism that won't make sense to newcomers.
- Exaggerated: A one-off line from a spinoff series becomes a major plot point.
- Downplayed:
- Continuity Cavalcade
- The excessive references are particularly subtle.
- Justified: There were many important events happening behind the scenes during the first two movies that only come to light during the third.
- Inverted: Continuity Reboot
- Subverted: Negative Continuity
- Double Subverted: Continuity Creep
- Parodied:
- The first two Alice & Bob installments were nothing but brief Excuse Plots. As a result, everyone ends up referencing the same few events over and over, much to the annoyance of a Fourth-Wall Observer.
- Continuity Snarl makes it practically impossible to get any facts straight, much to everyone's confusion.
- Zig Zagged: Broad Strokes
- Averted:
- There are a few references to previous installments, but not many.
- There are none.
- Enforced: Fanbase isn't sure the writer knows what they want anymore, so the writer tries to appeal to them with loads of continuity.
- Lampshaded: "Seems like these old places we barely knew are suddenly becoming important to our journey."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Continuity Rebooter
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Continuity Lockout greatly affects the sales of the film.
- Reconstructed:
- Vindicated by History
- The film's obsessive fanbase ensures that it is Vindicated by Cable.
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