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'''[[William Shatner]]:''' Wait! That's EXACTLY what they'll expect us to do! }}
A common way to name movie [[Sequel|sequels]] is to take the title of the original, possibly abbreviated, and add a number. So ''Foomovie'' will be followed with ''Foomovie 2'', ''Foomovie 3'' (or ''[[Third Is 3D|3D]]''), etc. Also common is to follow ''Foomovie'' with ''Foomovie, Part 2'', etc. - though the word "part" will usually be dropped when talking about the movies. (This is usually done when the stories of the movies are supposed to form one big story.) Sometimes there are subtitles as well.
The result of this is that the original ''Foomovie'' will become known as ''Foomovie 1'', and on occasion will actually be rereleased this way (see [[Retronym]]). This is actually a recent practice, beginning in the 1970s.
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* Parodied by ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' series; ''The Naked Gun'' was followed by ''The Naked Gun 2½'' and ''The Naked Gun 33⅓''.
** 33⅓ is the speed one plays an LP.
*** If you have to explain the 33⅓, then you better explain that an LP is a [[What Are Records?|vinyl record]] ([[Tech Marches On|what music was recorded on before CDs]]).
** Another sequel, provisionally titled ''The Naked Gun 444.4'' or ''The Naked Gun 4 Score and 3 Sequels Ago'' was in development in the late '90s, although obviously nothing came of it.
* ZAZ didn't want to have anything to do with ''[[Airplane!]] II - The Sequel'', (and even claim to this day to have never watched it), even though they'd later make sequels to ''Naked Gun'' and ''[[Hot Shots]]!''. ''Airplane II'' lampshades the trope with the announcement at the end of the credits "Coming soon from Paramount Pictures : ''Airplane III''" followed by William Shatner saying "Wait! That's exactly what they'll be expecting us to do!"
** Speaking of ''[[Hot Shots]]!'': its sequel was ''Hot Shots! Part Deux''<ref>[[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|French]] for two</ref>, with the tagline, "Just [[Pun|Deux]] It!"
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** Made absolutely ridiculous by the fact that the subtitle of "The First Movie" is "Mewtwo Strikes Back", clearly implying that it was a sequel. (This had long been what we Americans had been told, but it turns out that this is not totally true, as ''The Origin of Mewtwo'' was just a short featurette of the same length as those ubiquitous Pikachu specials.) The origin story, which had been removed from the American theatrical release of ''Pokemon: The First Movie'' in order to preserve the G rating, was eventually packaged on the direct-to-video release Mewtwo Returns. So we have a "Strikes Back", and then we have a "Returns". Is anyone else sensing a [[Star Wars]] [[Homage]] here?
* The ''[[Shrek]]'' films seem to be using the same system as ''[[Blackadder]]'' as an [[Homage]]: ''Shrek'', ''Shrek 2'', ''Shrek the Third'', and ''Shrek Forever After''.
** They were supposedly reluctant to use the title "Shrek 3," lest it create confusion with the short "Shrek 3-D" which was released in a box set with the first two films. Apparently [[Viewers are Morons]].
* The ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' series is surprisingly consistent with this. Of the 10 movies (excluding ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]''), 7 of the movies were numerically numbered, with #4 being (the misleading) "The Final Chapter", and #9 being "Jason Goes to Hell". #10 uses the roman numeral "X". Because [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|it's cool]] and took place [[Recycled in Space|in space]].
* Since you mentioned Freddy ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' was similar, with five numbered sequels, then ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (which is not much misleading, as all the following sequel and ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'' have him truly dead) and ''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Wes Craven's]] New Nightmare''.
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* ''Psycho'' was [[Adaptation Displacement|originally a book]]. The sequel ([[Alternate Continuity|which was never filmed]]) was called ''Psycho II''. None of the actual Psycho sequel films adapt Bloch's sequels, ''Psycho II'' and ''Psycho House''. A similar situation exists with Brian Garfield's sequel to ''Death Wish'', ''Death Sentence''. None of the Charles Bronson sequel films adapted it. ''Death Sentence'' was later filmed with a different hero.
* [[Martin Caidin|Martin Caidin's]] first book about Steve Austin, Cyborg, had three sequels, with the last named Cyborg IV (the other two had completely different names).
* Gary Brander wrote ''Howling II'' and Howling ''III''.
* Numerous paperback original series such as the Destroyer, the Penetrator, the Marksman, etc. had numbered titles.
* The UK versions of ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' by Meg Cabot have fun with this; the sequels are called ''The Princess Diaries: Take Two'', ''The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky'', ''The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth'', ''The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five'', ''The Princess Diaries: Sixsational'', ''The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven'', ''The Princess Diaries: After Eight'', and ''The Princess Diaries: To the Nines''.
* The [[Stephanie Plum]] novels by Janet Evanovich take this to the extreme, being no more than a short phrase containing the number in the series (except for holiday specials). The series goes from ''One For the Money'', ''Two for the Dough'' and ''Three to Get Deadly'' all the way to ''Explosive Eighteen'' in 2011.
* Megan McCafferty's popular series includes ''Sloppy Firsts'', ''Second Helpings'', ''Charmed Thirds'', ''Fourth Comings'', and will conclude in April 2009 with ''Perfect Fifths''.
* Several [[Marcus Didius Falco|Falco]] novels had a count ''down.'' Thus ''Three Hands in the Fountain'' was followed by ''Two for the Lions'' and then ''One Virgin Too Many''. Since the Romans never got around to inventing the number zero, subsequent novels had to drop the numerical theme.
* David Charney wrote ''Sensei'' and ''Sensei II: The Swordmaster''.
* The second and third ''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'' books are numbered and [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|subtitled]] as ''The Science of Discworld II: [[William Shakespeare|The Globe]]'' and ''The Science Of Discworld III: [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s Watch''.
* Some printings of ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Second Jungle Book]]'' use the title ''The Jungle Book II''.
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* Most of [[Nine Inch Nails]]' albums, singles and EPs have a "Halo number" appended to the title, indicating the chronological order of its release. ''The Downward Spiral'', for example, is designated "Halo 8", while their most recent release, ''The Slip'', is "Halo 27". Usually the releases that don't have a Halo number are releases that Reznor's record company forced him to release and fall under [[Canon Discontinuity]].
* As a response to the NWOBHM, Guitar Player columnist Mike Varney established the Shrapnel Records label, and issued a ''U.S. Metal'' compilation to spotlight unsigned American metal bands. ''U.S. Metal Vols. II-IV'' followed.
* An unusual case of this happening with a band name: King Missile III, so named because it was the second time they'd made significant lineup changes since forming. Technically, there was never a King Missile II: The first incarnation of the band was King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) and the second was simply King Missile.
* Similarly, Big Audio Dynamite became Big Audio Dynamite II once Mick Jones was the only original member left.
* Normally, in classical music, number of works isn't really that important, but there's a particular superstition around writing exactly nine numbered symphonies...
** Gustav Mahler, superstitious that several other previous composers had died either leaving 9 symphonies, or 8 and an unfinished 9th, at one time said that the symphony now numbered his 9th was actually his 10th, by counting the symphonic cantata "Das Lied von der Erde" as a symphony and thus as his actual ninth (this is what qualifies him for this trope). Subverted in that nobody else has since accepted that renumbering, so "Das Lied" remains defined as a symphonic cantata, is NOT counted in the sequence of symphonies, and the 9th symphony as a 9th. Oh, and he died shortly afterwards, leaving sketches for a half-completed 10th.
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== Videogames ==
* Only three of the first six ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games were released in North America. Two of those -- ''[[Final Fantasy IV|IV]]'', and ''[[Final Fantasy VI|VI]]'' -- were renumbered for North American release, making them ''II'', and ''III''. This was made all the more confusing when, starting with ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Square decided to release the games with their proper numbers globally, making it seem in North America as though ''Final Fantasy IV-VI'' had simply vanished. This was further muddled when the NES and SNES games were rereleased worldwide on other consoles and given their original numbers.
** The series also features ''[[Final Fantasy X
** ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy XIV]]'' are [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]]; every other ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game is a single-player [[RPG]]. The former makes this distinction with its official title being "Final Fantasy XI: Online".
** Notably, ''[[Final Fantasy X
*** ''[[Final Fantasy X
** There also exist Final Fantasy Legend II and III for the original Game Boy, although the Japanese versions were a separate series named [[SaGa]] and only branded Final Fantasy for international releases.
* The ''[[Sim City]]'' series has had a lot of fun with this one: the first sequel was named ''[[Sim City]] 2000'', presumably in homage to the year 2000, one of the game's optional starting dates. The third game was then named ''[[Sim City]] 3000'', presumably because it would be odd to go from 2000 to 3 in terms of sequel numbering. (Though nobody told that to the Pokemon movie people.) Of course, the fourth game was called ''[[Sim City]] 4''.
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* ''[[Mario Party]]'' has numbered sequels from 1-9.
* Mostly avoided by ''[[Mario Kart]]'', which instead went for the [[Super Title 64 Advance]] format (though the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube installments were examples of <nowiki>[[Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]</nowiki>). For the 3DS installment, however, it will be released as ''Mario Kart 7''.
** But technically its the 9th installment in the series, guess the arcade don't count huh?
* ''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', ''[[Super Mario Land 2 Six Golden Coins]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
* The ''[[Contra]]'' series only had two numbered sequels. ''Contra III: The Alien Wars'' for the SNES, which directly followed the original arcade and NES games, ''Contra'' and ''Super Contra'' (aka ''Super C''), although ''Contra III'' was just the [[Market-Based Title]] for the American version (the Japanese version was titled ''Contra Spirits''). The second numbered sequel was ''Contra 4'' for the Nintendo DS, although it was released more than a decade later after other ''Contra'' sequels were made. The "4" on its title has less to do with its release order and more to do with its setting (taking place after ''Contra III'', but before ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'')..
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*** ''[[Sonic Advance Trilogy]]'' 1, 2, and 3
*** And finally, not a direct sequel to anything, ''Sonic 3D'', which was released as ''Sonic 3D Blast'' in America, but ''[[Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island]]'' in Europe to avoid confusion with the similarly named, but entirely unconnected ''[[Sonic Blast]]'' for the [[Game Gear]].
* id Software likes to do this with their ''[[Doom]]'' and ''[[Quake]]'' games, but their ''[[Wolfenstein (2009 video game)|Wolfenstein]]'' titles avoid this.
* The ''[[Jumper (video game)|Jumper]]'' series, consisting of ''Jumper'', ''Jumper Two'' and ''Jumper Three''<ref>and ''[[Video Game Remake|Jumper Redux]]''</ref>.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', which consists of the [[Assassin's Creed (video game)|original game]], ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', and the upcoming ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''. Also includes a pair of sequels, ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' to the second game.
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