Basic Trope: A sequel which increases the scale of the original.
- Straight:
- In the first Trope Adventure film, Hiro had to stop Emperor Evulz from taking over Trope City. Now, in Trope Adventure 2, he has to stop Evulz from taking over the world.
- In Resident Rising 1, Chris Blueriver and Jill Christmas must work together to escape a zombie-infested mansion. Then in Resident Rising 2, Chris Blueriver and Jill Christmas must work together to escape a zombie infested city. In Resident Rising 3, the virus reaches the entire United States. In Resident Rising 4, the virus infests the whole world.
- In Lance Anthrax, Lance must fight against an army of aliens that want to take over the world. In Lance Anthrax 2, he must fight against an army of aliens that want to take over the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
- In Beat/Up, Cassie Blunt and her Russian half-demon friend Ivan must stop a slasher that murdering citizens in a small town. In Beat/Up 2, Cassie Blunt and Ivan must stop a slasher that's trying to slaughter the entire United States of America.
- In Patriot Man, the Flying Brick superhero of the same name must stop his arch-enemy Rex Ryans from taking over a city. Then, he has to stop Rex Ryans from taking over the galaxy.
- Exaggerated:
- And then 3 escalates this to an entire universe, and then 4 to the entirety of the space-time continuum!
- Alternatively, the first was set in a Sugar Bowl world where Evulz merely wanted to steal all the chocolate in Trope City. But in the sequel, Evulz is hell-bent on revenge, and is planning to do so by causing The End of the World as We Know It.
- Downplayed: The stakes are the same in the sequel, but the content inside is more - such as bigger fight scenes, and further development.
- Justified:
- The first film was just setting up the stage for where the story would go next.
- The sequel is Darker and Edgier.
- Inverted:
- Evulz goes from threatening the world in the original, to just Trope City in the sequel.
- The Prequel to Trope Adventure has Evulz threaten Trope City, chronologically before he made any plans of threatening the world.
- The original film had Evulz taking over Trope City whereas in the prequel, it has him taking over the world.
- Subverted: Evulz starts out threatening the world, but then it deescalates into just Trope City.
- Double Subverted: But a certain plot point changes it back to the world.
- Parodied: Trope Adventures ends with a promise of a "bigger badder sequel", said in a sports announcer voice.
- Zig-Zagged: Trope Adventure is a Long Runner series of films, and the stakes within the stories vary. 2 has the world at stake, but then in 3 it's just a MacGuffin, but then in 4 it's the world again, and then in 5 only part of the world, but then in 6...
- Averted: The sequels don't escalate upon the first.
- Enforced: "Okay, so if we're gonna make a sequel, we have to take everything from the first and make it bigger. Sequels are always bigger."
- Lampshaded: "For some reason, it's always harder the second time around."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "First Trope City, now Evulz is after the world?" "The second time around, the stakes are always higher. Just like in the movies."
- Conversed: ???
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