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A subset of the trope is when later installments drop the affix of earlier installments, commonly creating the illusion that a series is smaller than it really is. The reverse of this is, of course, when earlier installments are retroactively renamed to better fit in with their descendants.

 

 

When a bizarre phrase ''is'' the title, see [[Word Salad Title]]. For more literal subtitles, see [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]. For awe-inspiring subtitles, see [[Mad Lib Fantasy Title]]. For odd title changes in an ongoing series, see [[New Season, New Name]].

 

 

 

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** [[The Great Luke Ski]] has a song about [[Bacon Addiction|bacon]], titled [http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=42 “Bacon”]. Devo Spice wrote a parody about [[Kevin Bacon]], titled [http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1039 “Bacon 2: Electric Boogaloo”].

** An episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' parodies this with the title "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo". It was the second episode to feature time travel. It was also the second episode to feature Phineas and Ferb's giant roller coaster. For the record, the original title the creators wanted to go with was "Time Machine 2: Quantum Boogaloo".

 

* The clearest example is ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', which begat a whole host of series and [[Alternate Universe]]s, many of which are distinguished by letters, years, or combinations of one or both: ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta (Z) Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Gundam ZZ]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|Gundam 0080]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam F91]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory (V) Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|G Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing (W)]]'', ''[[After War Gundam X]]'', ''[[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' and its spinoffs, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'', and ''[[Gundam Unicorn]]''.

** Strictly speaking, only ''Z'' and ''ZZ'' are really sequels. The rest are either UC spinoffs (08th MS team, War in the Pocket, 0083, F91); or other universes (G Gundam, Gundam W, SEED, and so on). Turn A is somewhat of a crossover series, but I'd toss it in the 'other' bin too since it isn't strictly UC.

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' was followed by ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'', which in turn was followed by ''Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid'', making it the ''third'' series, not the second. (On the other hand, ''Fumoffu'' was more of a side story anthology than a true second chapter.)

** Following the manga reveals that the sidestories in "Fumoffu" should have taken place ''during'' the first season, interspersed with the more serious episodes, so it's not really a sequel at all.

* ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'' gave us ''Saber Marionette J Again'' and ''Saber Marionette J To X''. The logical followup ''Saber Marionette X'' never made it to an [[Animated Adaptation]], however. There was also a ''Saber Marionette R''.

** Some of the suffixes actually make sense. The "J" stands for Japoness, one of the six nations (yes, a clone of [[Medieval Japan]]) and the main theater in the first series. The "Again" is just an OVA follow-up. The X stands for "Xian", another nation (representing China), which plays some role in J-X, and the "R" stands for Romana (representing Italy), the center of the R series.

** The video games were ''Slayers Royal'' for [[Sega Saturn]], ''Slayers Royal 2'' for [[Sega Saturn]] and [[PlayStation]], ''Slayers Wonderful'' for PlayStation).

* ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' does this in both original and dub. The series has two sequels, an OVA and a sequel series; in the original Japanese version, the OVA's two parts are titled ''Weiss Kreuz: Verbrechen'' ("crime") and ''Weiss Kreuz: Strafe'' ("punishment"), and the sequel series is ''Weiss Kreuz: Gluhen'' ("glowing" - in German, "weiss gluhen" or "weissgluhend" means "white-hot"). The series was dubbed as ''Knight Hunters,'' and although the OVA has not been licensed, ''Gluhen'' has been released in English as ''Knight Hunters: Eternity''.

** To add confusion, the original name of the anime series known outside Japan as ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' was originally titled ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' in Japan, and was the semi-sequel to the unsuccessful anime ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', produced by an entirely different company and adapting the manga from the beginning up to the Pegasus arc. That series, which never made it to English-speaking shores, is referred to as "Season 0" by Western fans.

* The second series of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' TV Series was dubbed ''"[[Ah! My Goddess]]: Sorezore no Tsubasa"'' ("Many Wings"); the English subtitle is ''Flights of Fancy''. The third OVA was subtitled ''Tatakau Tsubasa'', or "Fighting Wings", and was never released outside of Japan.

* The second series of ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' was ''"[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]: Enishi"'', ''enishi'' being the word for the [[Red String of Fate|bonds]] [[True Companions|between people]].

* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' tacked on "Pure".

* The various ''[[.hack]]'' installments have suffixed names as well; ''none'' of them are exempt from this, because the first few (''tasogare no udewa densetsu, SIGN'' and the first games) ran at the same time, so there is no true "original".

* ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', on the other hand, went with ''Shugo Chara Doki''. "Doki" is the Japanese word for a heartbeat sound.

** Also, ''Shugo Chara Party''

* ''[[Hell Girl]]'' has two follow-up seasons, each with a title incorporating its number.

** Season 2 is ''Hell Girl: Futakomori''. This means something like "The Two Prisoners", but there's no consensus on ''which'' two are intended. They could be Ai and Kikuri, who are both used by {{spoiler|the King of Hell}}; or they could be {{spoiler|Ai's parents, whose souls are held hostage to keep Ai working}}; or they could be "the hater and the hated", a duality that's emphasized in the intro. We don't know.

* The ''Galaxy Angel'' sequels are named in this order: ''Z, A, AA, S, X.'' Just try making sense of that. Not that the order you watch them in [[Negative Continuity|matters the slightest]].

* After the TV series ended, ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' has four OVA sequels: ''11'' (pronounced "Double One" instead of "Eleven") ''Zero'', ''Saga'' and ''Sin''. For example, ''11'' refers to [[Mid-Season Upgrade|Asurada's upgrade]] to the even more powerful Super Asurada AKF-11 and the title for 2 consecutive championship wins, and ''Zero'' refers to the [[Super Mode]].

** At the end of the [[DVD Commentary]] for ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'', Taliesin Jaffe and Jason C. Lee joke about the (un)likelihood of ''Eva 2: Electric Boogaloo'', which now that the ''Rebuild'' films and in particular the increasingly popular "sequel theory" exist is particularly [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].

* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' was followed by ''[[Macross II]]''. That was logical enough, but since [[Canon Discontinuity|the series' creators were not consulted with Macross II]], to avoid accepting its existence the "official" sequels have followed this trope ever since: ''[[Macross Plus]]'', ''[[Macross 7]]'', ''[[Macross Zero]]'', ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. Yes, that's in order.

** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is also something of an in universe example. The ''New Macross Class'' long range colony fleets are numbered at least up to eleven (this is where [[Macross 7]] gets its title) but at some point after that they start naming them, hence the twenty-fifth fleet is the titular [[Macross Frontier]] Colony Fleet, rather than the Macross 25.

* The second season of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' is "[[Hidamari Sketch]] x365" (pronounced "san-roku-go" or "three-six-five". The third season is "[[Hidamari Sketch]] [[Lucky Charms Title|x***]]" (pronounced "hoshimittsu" or "three stars").

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's]]'' story is split into several parts, with each one given a very Electric Boogaloo-ish title. Starting from the beginning we have: Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency, Stardust Crusaders, Diamond is Unbreakable, Vento Aureo, Stone Ocean, Steel Ball Run, and Jojolion.

* The second season of [[Yuru-Yuri]] will be named [[Lucky Charms Title|YuruYuri]]♪♪

* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'''s second season is called ''CLANNAD [[After Story]]'' [[Lucky Charms Title|(tildes mandatory)]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The earliest ''[[Tintin]]'' albums went: ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'', ''Tintin in the Congo'', ''Tintin in America'' and... ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. From that point on, though, the "Tintin in Geographic Location" formula was discarded for many years until ''Tintin in Tibet''.

 

 

* Any [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] movie! Except the 3rd and 4th.

* The sequel to ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' was called ''An Extremely Goofy Movie''.

* The ''[[An American Tail]]'' sequels did this. ''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'' wasn't such a bad title, the later direct-to-video titles became just a ''little'' too long; ''An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island'' and ''An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster''.

* The first five ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'' sequels are numbered. The sixth is simply titled ''Rocky Balboa''.

** Followed by the spinoff series (and pseudo-prequels) ''[[Alien vs. Predator (film)|Alien vs. Predator]]'' and ''Alien'''''s''' ''Vs. Predator 2''.

* ''The [[Terminator]]'' was followed by rather plain ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines''. The fourth drops the numbers entirely (''Terminator Salvation'').

* For ''[[Star Trek]]'', it started off clear but became a bit confusing later. The movies based on ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series]]'' started with ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' and were thereafter numbered with clear and consistent Roman numerals: ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'', ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]'' and ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]''. After that, the movies based on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' (''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'') were not numbered, making it confusing if you don't know which order to watch them in. And then of course there's the 2009 film, which is just called ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' with no qualifier or subtitle, because {{spoiler|it takes place in a different continuity}}...

** And now going back to the original cast with ''American Reunion''.

* ''Dominion: Prequel to [[The Exorcist]]'', probably the only movie in history to have a declarative statement in the title informing you that it's a sequel/prequel to another film.

* The ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films: ''[[X Men 1|X-Men]]'', ''[[X2: X-Men United]]: X-Men United,'' and ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]].'' The second film goes by a few different titles, perhaps because "X-men United" sounds like a soccer team to viewers outside the U.S.

** Then there's prequels: ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'' and ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine]]'', which will be followed by ''The Wolverine'' (though the director said it'll be a standalone film instead of a full-fledged sequel/prequel).

* After two numbered sequels, the fourth ''[[Final Destination]]'' movie - in somewhat of a similar vein to what happened to ''The Fast And The Furious'' series is called '''''The''' Final Destination''. And yes, it's not a [[Remake]]/[[Continuity Reboot|Reboot]] either. The following film, ''Final Destination 5'', went back to numbering.

* Oh dear God, the ''[[Highlander]]'' series. ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]], [[Highlander III the Sorcerer]], [[Highlander Endgame]]'' and ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]''...

* ''[[The Mummy 1999]]'' was followed by ''[[The Mummy Returns]]'' and then ''[[The Mummy Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor]]''.

** ''Police Story 3: Supercop'' was similarly released theatrically as simply ''Supercop'', leading to the several other films in the series being re-titled "Supercop 2" through ''Supercop 5'' for home video releases.

** ''Drunken Master 2'' was retitled ''Legend of the Drunken Master'' when released in the US. You could be forgiven for thinking there wasn't a ''Drunken Master 1'', given that nobody these days really associates Jackie Chan with his earliest fare.

* The [[Godzilla]] series has a fairly consistent ''Godzilla vs. Whatever'' or ''Whatever vs. Godzilla'' formula, but strange titles pop up from time to time. In Japan, there are two films called ''Godzilla'', one of which is the original and the other of which is its direct sequel that erases the movies that came in between. Also, some of the later movies replaced the "vs." in the titles with an "X" for no apparent reason.

* Surprisingly averted for almost the entire run of the ''[[Saw]]'' series, which were simply consistently numbered with successive roman numerals and no subtitles. This lasted until the seventh film, which instead of being ''Saw VII'' is ''Saw 3D''. The DVD release has renamed it ''Saw: The Final Chapter''.

* [[Michael Bay]] said ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' wouldn't have [[Numbered Sequel]]s. It was followed by ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''. It's at least consistent so far, but this does create the obvious problem of not being able to know the correct order without any prior knowledge or research.

* Parodied in an early opening of ''[[Gremlins 2 The New Batch]]'', in which [[Daffy Duck]] attempts to rename the film "[[Long Title|The Return of Super-Daffy Meets Gremlins 2 Part 6: The Movie]]".

* [[Home Alone|Home Alone 2: Lost In New York]]

 

 

* While some teams returning to ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' give their robot a [[Numbered Sequels|numbered sequel]] name (Chaos 2, for example, which was [[Adaptation Distillation|much more successful]] than Chaos) others use an Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo name (for instance [[Red Dwarf|Scutter's Revenge]] being followed by Spawn of Scutter, which in turn was followed by Spawn Again).

* Each season of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has its own subtitle: 'Signs and Portents', 'The Coming of Shadows', 'Point of No Return', 'No Surrender, No Retreat' and 'The Wheel of Fire'. However, this subtitle does not appear in the credits and was strictly informal until the DVD releases, when the subtitle was included on the front cover packaging.

* ''Grace and Favour'', the short-lived sequel series to ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'', was marketed in the U.S. as ''Are You Being Served? Again!'' Some believe that this is due to [[Viewers are Morons]], but others argue that if it were more clearly identified as a sequel to ''Are You Being Served?'', it might not have been short-lived.

** Well, it would still have been as short-lived, but you may be right in the sense that it may have been more popular. Billy Burden (Mr. Moulterd) died just after the series ended.

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' was followed by ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]''. "Zeo" was the name of the crystal that gave the heroes their new powers.

 

* [[Five Iron Frenzy]] named one album ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo'' after this trope. It was their ''fourth'' full-length studio album, and the only one to be self-titled.

* The first three LPs released by Led Zeppelin were called simply ''Led Zeppelin'', ''Led Zeppelin II'' and ''Led Zeppelin III''. Their fourth album, which has no title aside from a sequence of unpronounceable symbols, is informally referred to as ''Led Zeppelin IV'' in keeping with this pattern.

** Their second album, ''You Could Have It So Much Better'', was originally going to be called ''You Could Have It So Much Better...with Franz Ferdinand,'' which is [[What Could Have Been|a much better title]].

** Similarly, [[Weezer]] currently has three (out of six) self-titled albums. They're identified by the colors of the cover: blue, green, and red.

* [[Peter Gabriel]]'s first four solo albums were all named ''Peter Gabriel''. To avoid insanity, they've since been given nicknames based on their covers: ''Car'', ''Scratch'', ''Melt'', and ''Security''.

** Gabriel said he wanted each cover to look like the next issue of a magazine (thus the identical [[Useful Notes/Fonts|typeface]]/layout on those four LPs). His American label regarded this as a marketing nightmare. As a minor concession, Gabriel agreed to allow a sticker reading "Security" to appear on the shrinkwrap of the fourth: a disposable title. The label then unilaterally decided to put the "title" on the spine, the record's label, etc. (Some reissues have conformed with the artist's original intentions.) BTW how would the title "''Security''" correspond to the cover art (a video capture of...[[True Art Is Incomprehensible|something]])?

* Also boasting two self-titled albums is the band Rancid. The first was released in 1993, the second in 2000.

 

* In 1985, the World Wrestling Federation held a pay-per-view called [[Wrestlemania]]. Since then, they've bounced back and forth in number conventions for each year's edition of the show. Each show name, in order:

** WWF [[Wrestlemania]]

* When WCW ran a motorcycle-themed pay-per-view in 1997 called Hog Wild, they ran afoul of a Harley Davidson group which owned that name. All subsequent editions of the show were called Road Wild.

 

* Due to a disagreement between the game's two creators, ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' was split into two games, a stripped-down version also called Dungeons & Dragons, and an expanded version called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. This was later revised into Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, while the second Dungeons & Dragons was still being published in parallel. Then the publisher folded and the rights were bought by Wizards of the Coast, who unified the two lines as Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. So is this the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which incorporated a bunch of concepts from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons? Or is it the 3rd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, making it the 4th edition in order (since the original AD&D was a sequel to the original D&D, with the second version of D&D as a [[Gaiden Game]]).

** Then they followed 3rd Edition with a minor rewrite called Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, which was not so much "confusing" as "stupid" naming.

** In the interest of fairness, 5th edition was an intentional spoof of this very trope.

* The editions of ''[[Traveller]]'' are, in direct line: Traveller, MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era, Marc Millar's Traveller, Traveller, Traveller 5. Note that Traveller 5 is the 6th. A completely unrelated science fiction game from the same company was released as Traveller: 2300 - it's actually a sequel to Twilight: 2000. This also doesn't count the ports of the setting to generic rules systems: GURPS Traveller, Traveller 20 and Traveller HERO.

 

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]''

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'' is a perfect example. Just so you know, that's pronounced Kingdom Hearts Three-Five-Eight Days Over Two.

** Not that the series hadn't gotten itself into trouble with numbers before. Due to the fact that ''[[Chain of Memories]]'' is ''not'' a [[Gaiden Game]] (it's a continuation of the plot, just with a different battle system), ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' is the third game of the series.

* ''[[Halo|Halo 3:ODST]]'' actually takes place concurrent with ''Halo 2'' and has next-to-nothing to do with ''Halo 3'', but because it was built on the ''Halo 3'' engine it got ''Halo 3'''s number.

* The ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' series does this for each [[Alternate Continuity]]; ''Super Robot Wars F'', ''Super Robot Wars Alpha'', and ''Super Robot Wars: Original Generation'' are among the variations.

* While the standard ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games are regularly named, its side-game names are getting progressively weirder.

** The problem developed when they started making sequels when [[Non-Linear Sequel|they hadn't before]]. The trend started with ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'', which is pronounced, according to [[Word of God]], as "Final Fantasy Ten Two."

** ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]: Ring of Fates/My Life as a King/The Crystal Bearers''. Too many subtitles.

** The worst offender is, without a doubt, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]: Grimoire of the Rift''. It's a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', which is a spiritual successor to ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''. But because the new game isn't ''on'' the [[Game Boy Advance]] the way [[Super Title 64 Advance|Tactics Advance]] was, they couldn't call it Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2, so instead they dropped the -dvance but kept the A, ''[[Serial Escalation|AND THEN]]'' added the subtitle ''Grimoire of the Rift'', leaving us with the absolutely bonkers [[Word Salad Title]] we have today.

** ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' started off as merely suffering from [[Gratuitous Latin]]. But then the sequel is named ''Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy'' (where ''Dissidias 2'' through ''11'' went we'll never know). Except it's supposed to be pronounced ''Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy'', because once again, [[Gratuitous Latin]]. To really drive the point home and avoid another ''358/2 Days'' confusion, they've helpfully included the correct pronunciation in the game's logo. Only now it actually gets MORE confusing because the logo now reads ''Dissidia [duodecim] 012: Final Fantasy''. ''Just calling it Dissidia 2 would have been perfectly fine, Square-Enix.''

*** The first ''Dissidia'' is ''Dissidia 13''; that is, in ''Dissidia'', the war between Cosmos and Chaos is an endlessly repeating cycle, with the original ''Dissidia'' chronicling the thirteenth repetition of said cycle. ''Duodecim'' is a prequel covering the twelfth repetition. [[Sarcasm Mode|Which is not confusing at all]].

** The Japanese naming conventions are even weirder. ''Nintendo All-Star: Dairantou Smash Brothers'' [sic], ''Dairantou Smash Bros. DX'' (DX is short for "Deluxe"), and ''Dairantou Smash Bros. X''. All words in English in the title are actually that way, by the way. "Dairantou" roughly translates to "Melee" or "Brawl."

* ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'': More a case of Oddly Named [[Non-Linear Sequel|Non Linear]] [[Numbered Sequel]]s, there are three second-installments (''Rainbow Islands'', ''Bubble Symphony'', '''''Part''' 2'') and two third-installments (''Parasol Stars'', ''Bubble Memories'') in the series.

** You missed "Grand Theft Auto: 1969", "Grand Theft Auto: 1961", "Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and The Damned" and "Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony." However, this naming convention has some sense; each numbered title started on a new engine9Until GTA V), while the rest were considered to be very large expansion packs. Each numbered title is also the beginning of a new story, with completely new characters, while games without numbered titles just act as prequels and reuse characters (so as to give them bigger backstories).

* The original ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' series consists of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', ''Tomb Raider II'', ''Tomb Raider III'', then ''Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation'', ''Tomb Raider Chronicles'' and ''Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness''. The Crystal Dynamics [[Continuity Reboot]] of the franchise continues this trend, with ''Tomb Raider: Legend'', ''Tomb Raider: Anniversary'', and ''Tomb Raider: Underworld''. Then it was rebooted ''again'', with just "Tomb Raider".

* ''[[Prince of Persia]]''. The first game was followed by the Sequel ''Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame'' then ''Prince of Persia [[Third Is 3D|3D]]'' followed, when the series [[Polygon Ceiling|jumped to 3D]] and a new story was begun. Four years later came ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'', starting a new story yet again, which continues in the direct sequels ''Prince of Persia: Warrior Within'' and ''Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones''. Then, the story resets again, with ''Prince of Persia'' in 2008, to be continued in another two sequels apparently, the first of which is supposed to be called ''Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands''.

** Per [[wikipedia:Forgotten sands|The Other Wiki,]] ''Forgotten Sands'' is actually an [[Interquel]] set in the ''Sands of Time'' 'verse, taking place between that game and ''Warrior Within''. The timing of the game's release and the cover art both suggest that this decision was made to make the game and the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473075/ film] more closely related.

* ''[[Gargoyle's Quest]]'' and ''Gargoyle's Quest II'' came out for the Game Boy and NES, respectively. They were followed by ''Demon's Crest'' on the Super NES. Their Japanese names weren't any better, the first two games being named ''Red Arremer I'' and ''II'', and then the third game being called ''Demon's Blazon''.

* The ''[[Mario Kart]]'' series started out with ''[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super]] Mario Kart'', followed by ''Mario Kart [[Nintendo 64|64]]''. Then it went to subtitles with ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' (for [[Game Boy Advance]]) and ''Mario Kart: [[Exicted Episode Title|Double Dash!!]]'' (for [[Nintendo GameCube]]). It then returned to [[Super Title 64 Advance]] with ''Mario Kart [[Nintendo DS|DS]]'' and ''Mario Kart [[Wii]]'' before finally falling into [[Numbered Sequels]] with ''Mario Kart 7'' (for [[Nintendo 3DS]]).

* ''[[Gex]]'' was followed up by ''Gex[[Sequel Number Snarl|:]] Enter the Gecko'' and then ''Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko''.

* The [[Puzzle Game]] ''Tant-R'' had sequels named ''Ichidant-R'' and ''Sando-R''. "Ichidan" means "more" and "sando" means "three times."

* The ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]'' games, whose first and second games were "[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]: The Battle of Aces" and "[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]: The Gears of Destiny" respectively.

* During the 90s, [[Electronic Arts]] released a series of helicopter-based shooters named the "Strike series". The series consists of ''[[Desert Strike]]'', ''Jungle Strike'', ''Urban Strike'', ''Soviet Strike'' and ''Nuclear Strike''.

* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series started off with fairly standard numbering, even if it did switch from Roman Numerals to numbers between the second and third games, but it became more and more this trope as the series went on. The main games are: ''[[Mortal Kombat (video game)|Mortal Kombat]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat 2|Mortal Kombat II]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]'' (re-released as ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'', and then the first three games were combined to make ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy''), ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'' (re-released as ''Mortal Kombat Gold''), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]''. The most recent game in the series is just called ''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat]]'', as it's a [[Continuity Reboot]]. This, of course isn't getting into the side-games, ''[[Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat: Special Forces|Mortal Kombat Special Forces]]'' and ''[[Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks]]'', which only serve to create even more confusion for new fans of the series. To further increase the problem, the [[Mortal Kombat (film)|film]], and [[Mortal Kombat the Journey Begins|it's]] [[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|sequels]] all had their own (number free) names, as did the [[Mortal Kombat: Conquest|live-action series]], the [[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm|animated seires]] and the [[Mortal Kombat: Legacy|web series]].

* ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' has two sequels: ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', and the recently announced ''New Super Mario Bros. 2''. ''[[NSMB 2]]'' is actually the third game.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Parodied in [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=314 this] ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]''. Kate Beaton apparently wants "The Legend of Curly's Gold" to be the next "Electric Boogaloo".

 

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'''s parody of such trends was ''Dangeresque 2: This Time, It's Not Dangeresque 1''

** And ''Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective'', which was released as part of ''Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People''. Not forgetting the original, which was titled ''Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?'' and the prequel ''Dangeresque 0: The Prequel Begins''.

* ''[[Chaos Fighters]]'' has a few novels with such titles. ''[[Non-Linear Sequel|Chaos Fighters II]]'' is a major offender with subtitles ''Cyberion Strike'' and its sequel ''Chemical Siege''. However, it helps that the former is {{spoiler|the name of the final attack launched by the big bad of the novel}} while the latter refers to the chemical hollows which pollutes the city of Murio. Both titles are set as a [[Time Skip]] to the ''main series''.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] gives [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVzPCY2T-g a long diatribe] about both this topic and [[Market-Based Title]].

{{quote|Mario/Peter Griffin: By the way Mallow, which movie had the exploding arrows?"

Mallow/Chris Griffin: [[Rambo]]

Mario: Rambo, ok it was Rambo, and then was Rambo 2, right?

Geno/Brian Griffin: Actually its full title is Rambo:First Blood Part 2

Mallow: Yeah they should have called it Second Blood

Geno: You mean how [[Call of Duty]] [[Modern Warfare]] 2 is actually Call of Duty 5?

Mario: Yeah, exactly. }}

* From ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'':

{{quote|"ARROW'D 2! [[Lampshade Hanging|ELECTRIC BOOGA-]] wait a sec..."}}

 

* Happened to ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'' in Japan; while ''[[Transformers Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' had sense, there's no excuse for ''[[Transformers Masterforce|Super-God Masterforce]]'' or ''[[Transformers Victory|Victory]]''. They did this very often, spawning no less than ''fourteen'' differently named series (not all televised, or even given fiction at all; Operation Combination is a toyline only, for example.) in Japan, though "only" seven in English-speaking countries.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. When the family temporarily get filthy rich, they move. Jack wants to call their new home "Fenton Works 2: This Time, it's Personal".

* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'''s second season was called ''Total Drama Action'' (shift to movie-themed challenges on an abandoned film lot) and the third season was named ''Total Drama World Tour'' (traveling the world ''and'' spoofing musicals). Season four will be titled ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'' (original location, different cast).

 

* [[CS Toys|CSToys The Alternatives]] is an oddly named [[Spin-Off]] of a live show done by a toystore in Japan.

* Microsoft ''Windows 7'' is an oddly numbered release. Since Windows 3.x, Microsoft abandoned the numbering system but released more than four iterations of Windows, including Windows 95, NT, 98, 2000, Millennium Edition, XP, Server 2003, Vista before returning to the numbering system with Windows 7. Even if we are selective in which editions we count as actual significant releases, the latest Windows should still be higher than the 7th major release.

*** Actually, it would be NT 4.1 - NT was first released as ''3.1'', to match the version number of the regular Windows releases(the codebase had also started as ''OS/2'' version 3).

*** Maybe 7 was simply chosen because it is a deliberate lucky number in many states.

* The Xbox, followed by the Xbox 360, probably to suggest equivalence to the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii (at the time still known by its code name, Revolution).

** And of course the Nintendo series of consoles: Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Nintendo [[Game Cube]], and Nintendo Wii. And then there's the portables (Nintendo [[Game Boy]] Advance SP Micro [[D Si]] Lite XL?).

* The Palm pilot series of handheld organizers: "Pilot" "Palm Pilot" "Palm III" "Palm V" and ''then'' "Palm IV"

** Similarly, the Voodoo line of graphics accelerators also skipped 4 and then went back to it as a budget variation of the Voodoo 5 (and then there's the Voodoo Banshee).

** 80286-80486 also came in "SX" versions, the SX being a cheaper (and less powerful) version - except that it was exactly the same chip, it just had some of the programming deactivated.

* Ubuntu uses a version name based on the year and month of release, with major releases every six months. This is then followed by an alliterative adjective-noun name with the first letters going up through alphabetical order for each release. For example, 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released in October 2010, followed next April by 11.04 Natty Narwhal and then 11.10 Oneric Ocelot.

 

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