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Hey how come Transformers and TMNT aren’t mentioned here?

I feel like this trope causes a LOT of problems. Should we do something about it?

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Negativity, started by EternalSeptember on Dec 23rd 2010 at 5:40:37 PM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Seriously? It's two TV shows and a comic. It seems whoever wrote the example is trying to justify it by saying the later seasons weren't as good, but that's YMMV.

Based on the definition given in the main article, The Powerpuff Girls was not a cash cow franchise. It was once very popular, but not for a long time. A cash cow franchise is said in the article to be very popular for a long period of time. Yes, the Powerpuff Girls franchise may have spawned a lot of merchandise over various forms, but it was not a cash cow franchise because it was a fad. The show was only popular from around early 2000 to late 2001, and the 2002 theatrical feature film based on it did poorly in the box office. That's not a testament to long-lasting popularity.

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• There has been a total of 36 film franchises that have grossed over $1 billion worldwide: Harry Potter, James Bond, Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Shrek, Spider-Man, The Lord of the Rings, Ice Age, Transformers, The Twilight Saga, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, X-Men, Madagascar, Men in Black, The Matrix, The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles Of Narnia, Star Trek, The Mummy, Terminator, Kung Fu Panda, The Da Vinci Code, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Meet the Parents, Die Hard, Rocky, Ocean's Eleven, Sherlock Holmes, The Hangover, Cars and Alien.

First, many of these are series of comparatively recent origin, suggesting that the figures aren't inflation-adjusted. Second, it's a laundry-list of examples, many of which are better described individually elsewhere on the page (sometimes under other mediums).

How about the Command And Conquer series? 8 classic games, almost as many expansion packs, 1 mobile game, a upcoming browser multiplayer game and one more game in the working.

the fact that they hired the people they did for the cutscenes is proof enough that its grabbing freakishly high revenues

Some numbers to think about and add into the movie.

The most cash from one episode is Evangelion, earning 28 billion yen for the first week the new movie 1.0 aired in Japan. (it sold most copies of each episode of the TV series to begin with anyway)

The most promising anime franchise is Gundam, though. It's annual return is 50 billion yen, in 2009, it is 54.5 billion yen. It's model sales cover half of Japan's character plastic model business.

This is still far from the best selling character in Japan, Sanrio's Hello Kitty, with its dropping sales figures, in 2009 it still got a 57 billion yen income, which is said to be about half of its golden days.

• I'm confused. Did the above troper just call the entire genre of action movies one cash cow franchise?
• Yes, yes, he did.

No, no he didn't. He (or she!) stated that action movie franchises are frequently Cash Cow Franchises. Also, natter.

The trope description would seem to be rather more specific than most of the examples, which appear to believe this is a trope about media that makes a lot of money.