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{{quote|''"[[Hypocritical Humor|I can't believe we're paying to see something we get on TV for free!]] [[Take That, Audience!|If you ask me, everyone in this audience is a giant sucker!]] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Especially]] [[This Loser Is You|YOU!]]"''|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons Movie (Animation)|The Simpsons Movie]]''}}
{{quote|''"Just add a few new cuts and you will be able to fool the audiences, uh-huh!"''|'''Kagura''', ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]''}}
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If it's a series' first attempt at making one, it might even be called some variation of [[Title the Adaptation|Title: The Movie]]. You know, in case you didn't realize.
For the inverse, a series based off a movie, see [[Recycled:
If you came here from a link in the {{smallcaps|Literature}} section of a page, see [[The Film of the Book]] and [[Wiki Magic|go back and correct the link.]] Then [[
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The first ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime film was meant to tie up loose ends and make sense of certain events in the first season. Later films in the series were more standalone, though still considered in continuity. Interestingly though, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth movie feature an overarching storyline involving the three Dragon legendaries of Sinnoh.
** It is worthy to note that the first movie was once intended as a [[Grand Finale]] in the early production process, [[Never Trust a Trailer|indicated by early teasers]], but that plot was dropped later because of popularity.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|The End of Evangelion]]'', a feature-length movie that was supposed to be the "true" ending, as opposed to the [[Gainax Ending|low budget]], [[Mind Screw|confusing]] ending of the TV series. Instead, we were given a high budget, [[Mind Screw|confusing]] {{spoiler|[[Kill
* Lampshaded in ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)|Bokusatsu tenshi Dokuro-chan]]'', where Sakura takes Shizuki to the cinema... to see Salaryman Binkan: The movie.
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]: Do You Remember Love?'' told an alternative version of the events during the series, and was later [[Retcon|retconned]] into appearing in later Macross series as a fictional movie produced in the Macross '[[The Verse|Verse]] twenty years later, telling a garbled version of events that the few survivors had witnessed.
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* The sequel movie to ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' is an example of an anime [[Grand Finale]], despite [[Cut Short|not actually concluding anything]].
** The movie was actually intended to be the first part of a trilogy, with two [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] video games [[All There in the Manual|filling in the blanks]] between the series and movies.
* ''Be Invoked'', the [[Grand Finale]] (of sorts) for ''[[Space Runaway Ideon]]''. Also known as "the worst [[Kill
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[The Movie]] 1st'' retells the first season of the series and is described by Seven Arcs as a "new parallel history".
** Though if you go by the related sound stage, it's apparently an actual movie in story...
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** This was also the case for the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', at least in Canada and Europe.
*** ...and In America! Where it appeared in some theaters ... in ''Sensurround!''
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' 's movie was actually ''shorter'' than any episode of the TV series - having apparently had a few of the 'host segments' cut right out just prior to release - and featured [[Viewers
** ''This Island Earth'' was itself edited down significantly for use in the [[MST3K]] movie which- even including the new footage- still ran almost 15 minutes shorter than the original film.
* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' have had 10 films between them -- six of the former and four of the latter. In a more conventional way of speaking, however, the first one (''[[Star Trek:
** But then TOS had a [[Continuity Reboot]] and [[Revival]] in the 2009 film ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'', giving it what you might call ''[[Up to Eleven|another]]'' "the" The Movie.
* [[The Sixties]]' ''[[Batman]]'' series had a theatrical film (''[[Batman the Movie]]'') between the first and second seasons, featuring the Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman as a [[Legion of Doom]].
* ''[[McHales Navy|McHale's Navy]]'' spawned two movies during its run as a TV series in the early 1960s; then [[The Film of the Series]] in 1997 attempted to tell an "after-the-series" story mainly by ignoring the show's WWII roots and throwing in a [[Cold War]] [[Retcon]].
* ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]]'' series of films continue the adventures of the short-lived series ''[[Police Squad!]]!''. The combined running-length of the three films is 253 minutes, over an hour and a half more screen-time than the six-episode series [[Adaptation Displacement|which you've probably never seen or heard of]].
* ''[[Gilligans Island]]'' had three [[Made for TV Movie|Made For TV Movies]], in addition to its two [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]].
** ''Rescue From [[Gilligans Island]]'' had the cast finally escape the island, struggle to reintegrate into normal life, and finally become shipwrecked on the island once again during a reunion cruise.
** ''The Castaways on [[Gilligans Island]]'' saw them escape yet again, but return to open a holiday resort. This was intended to be the pilot for a [[Spin
** ''The Harlem Globetrotters on [[Gilligans Island]]'' saw, you guessed it, The Harlem Globetrotters crash landing on the island before helping to thwart the schemes of a [[Mad Scientist]] who wants the island for its rich energy supply. The issue is, naturally, settled in a basketball match between The Globetrotters and the [[Mad Scientist]]'s robotic team.
* ''[[
* After already being [[Recycled:
* Numerous British [[Sit Com|Sit Coms]] of the 1970s had movie spinoffs, featuring the original cast and (usually) writers, but filmed on different sets and locations. These films typically featured the cast going on a bus trip, or a cheap foreign holiday, and generally had poor reviews. Examples include:
** ''[[On the Buses]]'' - not one but ''three'' movie spinoffs.
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* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Monty Python]] refilmed a bunch of their TV sketches and released it in 1972 as ''And Now For Something Completely Different.'' It became must-see viewing on the midnight movie circuit.
* ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'' had a theatrical movie at the end of its run. Miss Brooks finally marries [[Love Interest]] Mr. Boynton. She also spends much of her time tutoring a [[Lonely Rich Kid]]
* ''[[Studio 3 (TV)|Studio 3]]'s'' ''Bitcom'' segment of shorts became popular enough to get its own 40-minute [[Spin
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** Three-part Emmy winning story arc ''South Park: Imaginationland'' has been edited into a full length film. (Indeed, it was originally intended to be a second film before being split into episodes instead.)
* In an episode of ''[[The Weekenders (Animation)|The Weekenders]]'', in which the title characters adore a punk rock band called "[[Trope Names for A Band|Chum Bucket]]," Tino mourns that he must spend time with his geeky cousin and cannot go on opening day with the rest of the gang to see "[[Trope Names for A Band|Chum Bucket]]: [[The Movie]]. Lampshaded even further when he's talking to them on the phone and hears them in an arcade playing "[[Trope Names for A Band|Chum Bucket]]: [[The Movie]]: [[Adaptation Decay|The Game]]."
* ''[[Batman:
* ''[[Transformers the Movie (Animation)|Transformers: The Movie]]'' was released in 1986. It took place between two seasons of the animated series and skipped the plot forward by 20 years, to the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|far future date]] of 2005.
** It also skipped violence in cartoons forward by about 20 years, since the TV show traditionally never had anybody die, whilst most of the movie was restrained mecha manga.
** It was also meant to [[Kill
* Spoofed in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' with "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie". In the fullness of time, ''[[The Simpsons Movie (Animation)|The Simpsons Movie]]'' came to be, reversed some of the worst horrors of [[Flanderization]] and inflicted Spider-Pig upon the world. And of course, sparked much debate on whether it sucked or ruled.
** Also [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] when Homer criticizes the audience for paying money to watch something they could get for free on TV, as quoted above.
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* ''The [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]] Movie'' was meant to serve as a [[Grand Finale]] to the series. However, [[Executive Meddling|those meddling guys at Nickelodeon]] decided to continue with the series anyway.
** [[Word of God]] says that no matter what happens in the show or how long it goes on, that the movie is the series finale.
* ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'' has two movies. First it's ''A Sitch in Time'' where they discovered that [[The Dragon]] Shego became a [[Evil Overlord]] in a [[Bad Future]]. The second movie is about the [[Harmless Villain]] Dr. Drakken becoming a [[Not
* ''[[Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo (Animation)|Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo]]''.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'s Big Picture Show'', which, as you can tell from the page quote, was the [[Grand Finale]] and had the eponymous trio [[Earn Your Happy Ending|finally become respected by the other kids]].
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents (Animation)|The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has several [[Multi Part Episode|TV Specials]], like ''Abra-Catastrophe'', ''Channel Chasers'', ''School's Out! [[The Musical]]'', ''Fairly OddBaby'' (where [[Cousin Oliver|Poof]] made his first appearance), the ''[[Two Part Trilogy|Wishology Trilogy]]'', and others, but it has actually only one movie, the live-action film ''Grow Up, Timmy Turner!'' that [[Distant Finale|takes place 13 years in the future]].
* After spending time in [[Development Hell]], the ''[[Samurai Jack (Animation)|Samurai Jack]]'' movie, which is to be the [[Grand Finale]] of the series, will finally see the light of day.
* Inverted with ''[[Rudolph the Red
* ''The Man Called Flintstone'', the 1966 film version of ''[[The Flintstones (Animation)|The Flintstones]]'' animated series.
* Disney's ''[[Recess (Animation)|Recess]]'' and ''[[Teachers Pet (Animation)|Teachers Pet]]'' and Nickelodeon's ''[[Hey Arnold (Animation)|Hey Arnold]]!'' had the full-length theatrical treatment.
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