"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!"
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
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.
Tropes
Categories:
- Abridged Series
- Actionized Adaptation
- Adaptational Attractiveness
- Adaptational Badass
- Adaptational Comic Relief
- Adaptational Context Change
- Adaptational Intelligence
- Adaptational Wimp
- 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
- Adapted Out
- After Show
- Animated Adaptation
- Ascended Extra
- Ascended Fan Fic
- Audience-Coloring Adaptation
- Based on an Advice Book
- Canon Fodder
- Cipher Scything
- Comic-Book Adaptation
- Compressed Adaptation
- Continuity Reboot
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character
- Creator-Preferred Adaptation
- Creator's Apathy
- Cutting Off the Branches
- Death by Adaptation
- Derivative Differentiation
- Dies Differently in Adaptation
- 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
- 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
- Redubbing
- Recursive Adaptation
- Recursive Import
- Recycled: The Series
- Recycled INSPACE
- Reimagining the Artifact
- The Remake
- Remake Cameo
- Remix Comic
- Revival
- Running the Asylum
- Same Story, Different Names
- Series Minus Series Core
- Setting Update
- Shot-for-Shot Remake
- Sidenote Full Story
- Soft Reboot
- Spared by the Adaptation
- Spinoff
- Spiritual Antithesis
- Spiritual Successor
- Stealth Sequel
- Stillborn Franchise
- Stock Subtitle
- Suggested by...
- The Theme Park Version
- Third-Option Adaptation
- TV Tropes Derivatives
- Twice-Told Tale
- Two-Part Trilogy
- Xenafication
- You Don't Look Like You
- Younger and Hipper
