"Buckaroo Banzai will return in.... 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Against the World Crime League!'"
— closing title, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Raj: "Hey, I know what to do tonight! Let's watch a marathon of movies that killed their franchises!"
Leonard: "Oh, yeah... like Jaws 4, Indiana Jones 4, Superman 4, Daredevil..."
Leonard: "Oh, yeah... like Jaws 4, Indiana Jones 4, Superman 4, Daredevil..."
"Word of advice, guys: concentrate on botching up the first shitty-ass movie before you start thinking of ways on how to fuck up the next one."
"Yes, I'm sure [Azula]'ll join the Super Mario Bros. (1993), Skeletor, Buckaroo Banzai, The Golden Compass and M. Bison's hand in that incredible, sure-to-happen sequel! What a piece of shit."
Santa Christ: Ah, I remember this! This is the first in a series of films that Shyamalan was planning to work on!
The Devil: Well, why aren't there more?
Santa Christ: (with a "isn't that obvious?" face) Because the first one was Devil!
The Devil: Well, why aren't there more?
Santa Christ: (with a "isn't that obvious?" face) Because the first one was Devil!
— The Nostalgia Critic, Devil review
"Is there even a point to having X-Men Origins at the beginning? I mean, they never made another one. Why? Because this movie sucked that hard! There's tons of X-Men, but they never gave them another X-Men Origins movie, because...yeah, this killed it! On the first try!"
Notice how Pryzm labels itself as "Chapter One," as if it were only the first step on the grand rainbow journey of Pryzm sequels. Well, I just checked with the future, and I'll skip you ahead to the title of the next edition—Pryzm Chapter Two: Legend of the Never Going to Happen.
— Seanbaby's The Rest of the Crap
"But to be perfectly honest, I don't think we can count our sequels before they hatch. "
Haha! They thought there was going to be a sequel. That's adorable...
From the company that went bankrupt in the '90s and sold off the rights to their most popular characters, comes a film based on the equivalent of left-over scrap metal, proving that Marvel can build a franchise around just about anybody! ...Except the Hulk.note
Wow, you're calling this "Book One" right off the bat, eh? You seem pretty confident that you'll be able to make Books Two and Three. Might I advise you not to count your chickens before they bomb at the box office?
It proudly announces its intention to be the first part of an epic trilogy, which in terms of tempting fate, is right up there with a character in a horror movie uttering the words "Everything's going to be all right", then getting their tits out.
— Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, about Too Human
Imagine if this were the first act. This would be on the verge of being a cool movie. Instead, I have a sneaking suspicion this whole movie is a first act; in case it was popular enough to get a sequel.
— Jeremy Scott of CinemaSins on Fantastic Four (2015)
These four somehow fly back to Earth via the direct to other dimension link Doom had — oh, f*ck it! Just roll the credits already! This s*it is beyond unsequelable already! Just shut it down.
— Jeremy Scott of CinemaSins on Fantastic Four (2015) (again)
Hellboy: Then what?
Alice: Then she doesn't come back for the sequel.
Don't go out and announce a cinematic universe before you know the audience actually wants it, otherwise it is just going to be embarrassing for everybody.
Art historians report Sudden Podcast Death Syndrome (SPDS) is a very serious issue amongst young artists. "Approximately one in four podcast ideas suddenly die before ever getting a theme song," said expert Laura Davis. "We still don't know the exact cause of SPDS, but we know it has something to do with groups of young, bored men who feel the need to have their voice heard, but have absolutely nothing of note to say."
Mighty No. 9's record-shattering Kickstarter, and then mismanaged development, made its share of headlines, but a closer look revealed a much worse story. The real problem with Mighty No. 9 was the chasm of separation between what people wanted, and what conceptor-in-chief Keiji Inafune wanted. People just wanted Inafune to make a game; Inafune instead wanted to make a media empire: A Mighty No. 9 cartoon, Mighty No. 9 live-action movie, Mighty No. 9 comics. This premature ambition, mixed with a muddy corporate structure, were the real downfall of Mighty No. 9 — and incredibly, this isn't even the only time it's happened.
For the most part it is okay and there are a lot of modes of play, still the story totally blows at the end as it is obvious they thought this game was going to be super great and they would be making a sequel so at the end you get kind of a incomplete end. And considering how many years it has been since this one's release anyone who has played this or will play it will never know how the story was supposed to end.
Sonic: Okay, this one's new. Yo, bandages! What version of me are you?
Boom!Sonic: I'm the version of you that failed.
Sonic: What, you mean like you're from an apocalyptic dystopian future?
Boom!Sonic: No, no, I mean I nearly killed the franchise.
Sonic: Oh.
Boom!Sonic: Had a mildly successful cartoon, though.
Sonic: Oh, that's good!
Boom!Sonic: It got cancelled.
Sonic: (sharp inhale) Mmm… ah, okay.
Boom!Sonic: Yeah, I've just been pretty much phased out of all Sonic history. I'm not even sure how I'm here right now.
Sonic: Huh. S-Sorry about that, man.
Boom!Sonic: No, no, it's fine. It gives me the opportunity for some hilarious self-deprecating humor. Check this out. (clears throat) Sonic Boom on the Wii U.
(Stock Sound Effect of an audience cheering plays)
Sonic: Wow. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Boom!Sonic: I'm the version of you that failed.
Sonic: What, you mean like you're from an apocalyptic dystopian future?
Boom!Sonic: No, no, I mean I nearly killed the franchise.
Sonic: Oh.
Boom!Sonic: Had a mildly successful cartoon, though.
Sonic: Oh, that's good!
Boom!Sonic: It got cancelled.
Sonic: (sharp inhale) Mmm… ah, okay.
Boom!Sonic: Yeah, I've just been pretty much phased out of all Sonic history. I'm not even sure how I'm here right now.
Sonic: Huh. S-Sorry about that, man.
Boom!Sonic: No, no, it's fine. It gives me the opportunity for some hilarious self-deprecating humor. Check this out. (clears throat) Sonic Boom on the Wii U.
(Stock Sound Effect of an audience cheering plays)
Sonic: Wow. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
