"This might be that film you saw or the song stuck in your head.
Or this might be that novel that already read.
Well the point is that you won't have to think at all during this show
It's Something You Already Know!"
Nothing could be more natural than following up on a success. And sometimes, nothing could be harder. This page is for all kinds of sequels, prequels, translations, adaptations and spin-offs that attempt to do that, and the ways in which they succeed or, more commonly, fail.
See also Continuity Tropes and Localization Tropes.
Or this might be that novel that already read.
Well the point is that you won't have to think at all during this show
It's Something You Already Know!"
— Rob Paravonian, Something You Already Know
Tropes
Categories:
- Abridged Series
- Adaptation Displacement
- Adaptation Distillation
- Adaptation Dye-Job
- Adaptation Expansion
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication
- Adaptation First
- Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
- Adaptation Inspiration
- Adaptation Name Change
- Adaptation Overdosed
- Adaptation Personality Change
- Adaptation Sequence
- Adaptation Species Change
- Adaptational Attractiveness
- Adaptational Badass
- Adaptational Comic Relief
- Adaptational Intelligence
- Adaptational Wimp
- Adapted Out
- After Show
- Animated Adaptation
- Ascended Extra
- Ascended Fan Fic
- Based on an Advice Book
- Cipher Scything
- Canon Fodder
- Comic Book Adaptation
- Compressed Adaptation
- Continuity Reboot
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character
- Creator-Preferred Adaptation
- Cutting Off the Branches
- Death by Adaptation
- Derivative Differentiation
- Disowned Adaptation
- Distaff Counterpart
- Divorced Installment
- Dolled-Up Installment
- Dramatic Reading
- Early-Bird Cameo
- Era-Specific Personality
- External Retcon
- Fairy Tale Episode
- Fan Fic
- Fan Verse
- Fanon
- Fanwork Ban
- Featurization
- Fiction Science
- Filk Song
- The Film of the Series
- Franchise Killer
- From the Ashes
- Gag Dub
- Gag Sub
- Game Mod
- The Game of the Book
- Gendered Outfit
- Gender Flip
- God-Created Canon Foreigner
- Human-Focused Adaptation
- Humble Beginnings
- Indecisive Medium
- Ink-Stain Adaptation
- In the Style of...
- Inspired By
- Like That Show but with Mecha
- Literary Necrophilia
- Live-Action Adaptation
- Lost in Imitation
- Mission-Pack Sequel
- Movie Bonus Song
- Non-Linear Sequel
- On Ice
- Original Generation
- The Original Series
- Patchwork Story
- Perspective Flip
- Plot Tumor
- P.O.V. Sequel
- Pragmatic Adaptation
- Prequel
- Quietly Performing Sister Show
- Recursive Adaptation
- Recursive Import
- Recycled: The Series
- Recycled IN SPACE!
- Redubbing
- Reimagining the Artifact
- The Remake
- Remake Cameo
- Remix Comic
- Revival
- Running the Asylum
- Same Story, Different Names
- Series Minus Series Core
- Setting Update
- Sequel
- Shot-for-Shot Remake
- Sidenote Full Story
- Spared by the Adaptation
- Spinoff
- Spiritual Antithesis
- Spiritual Successor
- Stealth Sequel
- Stillborn Franchise
- Stock Subtitle
- Suggested By
- The Theme Park Version
- They Just Didn't Care
- Third-Option Adaptation
- TV Tropes Derivatives
- Twice Told Tale
- Two-Part Trilogy
- Xenafication
- You Don't Look Like You
- Younger and Hipper
