Discussion Main / ToughActToFollow

The trope description is "A work which attains such overwhelming success that it dooms its creator's later efforts to languish in its shadow." But a lot of the examples, especially in the comics section, are "A work which attains such overwhelming success that it dooms subsequent creators on the same franchise to languish in its shadow" or even "A work where subsequent creators were just plain bad".

I have no real opinion on whether we should remove these examples (well, maybe the "just plain bad" ones) or add the franchise aspect to the description, but I think we should do one of those things.

Should we add Bluey as part of this page? I mean it gained a lot of overwhelming success overtime right?

I removed the part discussing Super Mario 64. I'm pretty positive that it's not "generally seen" as being better than the Galaxy games or 3D World. And while Sunshine is usually seen as being worse than 64, it's also seen as being worse than what came after, so I don't think that's really an example of this trope.

Awhile ago, I added Pokémon - XY as an example under YMMV.Pokemon Anime. Should we wait to see how well the next season is actually received (as opposed to the previews) before adding here?