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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''', ''[[
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The Movie is a heavily expanded, one-shot
This trope primarily dates from before DVD, and occurred a lot during the 80s and early 1990s. A cinematic feature was considered much more important for a particular series or franchise at the time, than it would be now; although it can still sometimes occur.
Not all movies are
Frequently, The Movie will decide to raise the stakes (often changing the dynamic of the original work) so it can be a [[Big Damn Movie]]. It can also act as the [[Grand Finale]]. There is also the [[Compilation Movie]].
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: the Series]].
If you came here from a link in the {{
Examples are sorted according to the original source.
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If you're looking for the video game, see ''[[The Movies]]'' ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|with an "S"]]).
== 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 Em All]]}} ending.▼
▲* The first ''[[Pokémon (
* Lampshaded in ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)|Bokusatsu tenshi Dokuro-chan]]'', where Sakura takes Shizuki to the cinema... to see Salaryman Binkan: The movie.▼
▲** 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.
* ''[[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.▼
▲* ''[[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
▲* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]: Do You Remember Love?'' told an alternative version of the events during the series, and was later [[
** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' got two: ''The False Songstress'' and ''The Wings of Goodbye''.
* The ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' movie takes the series' already-difficult-to-understand (at least for Westerners) Buddhist allegory, compresses it into two hours, and makes it even ''more'' allegorical. The resulting head trip of a film requires advanced knowledge of jungian theory, and knowledge of Gnostic belief to understand at all (but is still [[Les Yay|plenty hot]] if you don't).
* The ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' movie radically altered characters and motivations, hitting similar themes in a very different way than the series.
* The ''[[
* The movie based off of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* The eighth ''[[One Piece]]'' movie, ''One Piece: Episode of Alabasta, Princess of the Desert and the Pirates'', is a retelling of the series' Alabasta arc.
** There are a total of
* Currently there are 4 ''[[Bleach]]'' movies released. The first is about a group of rebels trying to destroy Soul Society, the second is about Captain Hitsugaya trying to clear his name, the third is about people forgetting Rukia and Ichigo, and the fourth is about Hell.
* Similarly, there are six, with a seventh announced, ''[[Naruto]]'' movies. The first three films are set in Part 1, only the first of which takes place before the Sasuke Retrevial arc, the latter two sometime during the filler arcs. The three Shippuden movies take place, presumably, before Sai's introduction, before Sasuke {{spoiler|kills Orochimaru}} and sometime after {{spoiler|Asuma's death}} respectively.
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* ''[[Robotech]]'' was set to have a movie which used footage from ''[[Megazone 23]]'', but a combination of [[Executive Meddling]] and poor reception in test screenings caused it to be shelved.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had three, one in the second season (''Sailor Moon R The Movie''), one in the third (''Sailor Moon S The Movie''), and a final in the fourth (''Sailor Moon SuperS The Movie''). None have anything to do with their corresponding seasons but seem to take place in just 'somewhere' in them. The S movie is the only one directly based on anything, a standalone manga chapter, The Lover of Princess Kagyua, Naoko Takeuchi wrote purposefully for adaption... there are quite a few plot diversions between them though.
** The
** Each Movie also aired with a short special. R had Make-up! Sailor Senshi, which introduced the Sailor Senshi, S had Ami-chan's first love (based off the manga chapter of the same name), while S had 3 smaller ones: An Elegant Metamorphosis? Crybaby Usagi's Growth Diary" a recap of the first 3 seasons, Haruka and Michiru, Again! The Ghostly Puppet Show", which shows what Uranus and Neptune are doing during
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' has the original 1986 movie, which was basically a [[Bloodier and Gorier]] big-budget version of the earlier TV series produced by Toei (who also did the TV series); the ''Legends of the True Savior'' movies from the late 2000's, which also retold events from the manga, but with new [[Adaptation Expansion|story elements]]; and the [[Live Action Adaptation]].
* The ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' movie is a [[Non
** It does fit in passably, considering the episodic nature of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' - a reasonably long amount of time could pass between any two given episodes.
** Given that ''[[Show Within a Show|Big Shots]]'' is still on, but we see a cameo of Andy as a ronin instead of a cowboy (which happened at the end of the episode he was in) it'd easily take place between episodes 22 and 23.
*** [[Word of God]] stated that the movie is meant to show us {{spoiler|the Bebop crew's last full mission together, before Ed's departure and Spike's death.}} That places it squarely in between episodes 23 and 24.
* ''[[Ghost in
* 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]]
** Though if you go by the related sound stage, it's apparently an actual movie in story...
* ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' has roughly one movie of this sort per series. (If [[Sixth Ranger|Hikari]] hadn't been in the first movie, it would have been ''exactly'' one per series.) Like the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' movies mentioned above, all of them are disconnected from the parent series' plots but seem to take place somewhere along the way.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' had two movies: Gurren Chapter and Lagann Chapter that were essentially summaries of the original series with new animation put in. Don't let that fool you though. In Gurren-hen the beginning of the movie shows {{spoiler|Lord Genome's rise to Spiral Knight and fall to despotic tyrant.}} Then it's pretty much the same until: {{spoiler|Adine, Guame, Cytomander, and the new general: Viral (Yes that Viral, complete with his own Enkidu-daiganzan) all attack the Dai Gurren-dan at once. Simon later snaps out of his wangst after trying to climb Suzaku to save Nia. (Suzaku is at least a mile in the air at this point) The generals then combine their mechs to form the Dai-Gan Doten-Kaizan which falls after a combined attack by the entire Dai Gurren-dan (GIGA DRILL BREAKER! DAI GURREN-DAN SHOOT)}} Lagann-hen then takes the last episode of the series and raises it to the power of itself after: {{spoiler|The ENTIRE Dai Gurren-dan (Only Kittan died, the rest of the [[Mauve Shirt
* Of the dozen or so movies in the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise, ''[[Chars Counterattack]]'', ''[[
* ''[[Slayers]]'' has five [[Non
* The movie version of ''[[X
* ''The Disappearance of [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', based on the light novel of the same name, was released 2010.
* ''[[
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has an alternate continuity movie which re-writes everyone's back story and motivations. It is connected to the series though.
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' will have more than 30 movies in a year or two, but since the story doesn't have a real ending nor it has any development, plus what most of what the studio's doing nowaday is to [[The Remake|remake em'all]] for new genaration's kids. All Doraemon movies (except some short movies and spinoffs) are considered not the [[Non
* ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Sundome]]'' was adapted into ''four'' live-action movies.
* ''[[
* ''[[K-On!]]''
* ''[[
* The anime adaption of ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' received a feature film titled ''Steins;Gate//The Movie - Load Region of Déja Vu,'' which takes place one year after the events of ''Steins;Gate'', and focuses more on Makise Kurisu as she {{Spoiler|tries to keep Okabe Rintaro from disappearing from existence due to his so-called "Reading Steiner" going haywire}}.
* The ''[[Violet Evergarden (anime)|Violet Evergarden]]'' series has two: ''[[Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll]]'' and ''[[Violet Evergarden: The Movie]]''. The latter advances the arc of the titular character.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'' by [[Eyrie Productions, Unlimited]], despite being a fanfic,
==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'', despite being a fanfic, has a [[The Movie]], set after the episodes and wrapping everything up with an epic fight scene.
* ''[[The X
* ''[[
* The 1970s [[Speculative Fiction]] series ''[[Buck Rogers in
** This was also the case for
▲* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' had two films starring Peter Cushing as 'Dr. Who' (his real name) which took place outside the series' continuary. A canon film was the 1996 Paul McGann TV movie, which was an attempt to get the show back on track after its original 1989 canceling.
▲* ''[[The X Files]]'' used its first movie to further its storyline, although it mostly used the medium to reveal important secrets of the [[Government Conspiracy]]. By contrast, ''The X-Files: I Want to Believe'' has nothing to do with the [[Myth Arc]], so it's more of a [[Non Serial Movie]].
▲* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' spawned a theatrical film, ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'', which tied up most (but not all) of the dangling threads from the short-lived series. Universally known to fandom as the [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Movie.]] [[Fan Fiction]] even uses this to help identify the time frame: Post Show Pre BDM, Post BDM, No BDM. There are some that are Post BDM + AU.
▲* The 1970s [[Speculative Fiction]] series ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'' found its pilot released to theatres rather than broadcast.
▲** 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 [[
* ''[[Star Trek:
** But then TOS had a [[Continuity Reboot]] and [[Revival]] in the 2009 film ''[[Star Trek (
* [[The Sixties]]' ''[[Batman]]'' series had a theatrical film (''[[Batman:
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[
* ''[[
** ''Rescue From [[
** ''The Castaways on [[
** ''The Harlem Globetrotters on [[
* ''[[
* After already being [[Recycled: the Series|a spinoff]] of the original ''[[Stargate Verse|Stargate]]'' movie, once ''Stargate SG-1'' was canceled, the major plot of the ninth and tenth seasons was brought to a climax in the movie ''Stargate: The Ark of Truth''. This was then followed by a sequel called ''Stargate: Continuum''. Further movies were apparently planned, including another SG-1 movie, an SGA movie, and an SGU movie, but these have since devolved into [[Development Hell]] if not cancelled altogether.
* Numerous British [[
** ''[[On the Buses]]'' - not one but ''three'' movie spinoffs.
** ''[[Please
** ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]''
** ''[[Love Thy Neighbour]]''
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** ''[[Man About the House]]''
** ''[[George And Mildred]]''
** ''[[Are You Being Served
** ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' - which had two sequels relocating Lurcio to different time periods, ''Up The Chastity Belt'' ([[The Middle Ages]]) and ''Up The Front'' ([[World War I]]).
** ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' - two movies
** ''[[Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads]]'' (filmed as ''The Likely Lads'')
** ''[[Porridge]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Bless This House]]''
*** It's worth recording Nick Hornby's reaction to these things, when he was watching them as a kid. 'For me, growing up, the cinemas wasn't a place of magic and wonder. It was where old sitcoms went to die.'
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'': The series was followed by two theatrical movies, which were unexpected box-office flops.
* In one of the largest dichotomies in this trope, the otherwise-cheery and humorous ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had ''Follow That Bird'', a full-length [[Tear Jerker]] of a film that delves into much darker territory of family, loss, and self-identity than anything that ever showed up in the normal show. This was followed over a decade later by ''Elmo in Grouchland''.
* Some '80s US sitcoms had [[Made for TV Movie|made for TV]] extensions:
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** ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' (''Return to Mayberry'')
** ''[[Eight Is Enough]]: A Family Reunion''
** ''[[I
*** Also, ''I Still Dream of Jeannie''
** ''[[The Love Boat]]: A Valentine Voyage''
** ''Back to the Streets of San Francisco''
** Several ''Rockford Files'' movies in the '90s.
* ''[[Lizzie
* ''[[
* ''[[Sex and
** And there's a [[Sequel]].
* British political satire ''[[The Thick of It]]'' spawned ''[[In the Loop]]'', in which the action transferred to the US and most of the actors played different characters.
* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' got two of these in [[Direct to Video|Direct To DVD]] form: ''Razor'' and ''The Plan''. ''Razor'' is a [[Midquel]] and ''The Plan'' is a [[POV Sequel]]. Each focuses on a troubled villainous character, [[General Ripper|Admiral Helena Cain]] and [[Big Bad|Brother John Cavil]], respectively.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Gong Show]] Movie''.
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'s Apocalypse'', in which all the characters became [[Refugee From TV Land|Refugees From TV Land]], and enacted a terrible revenge on the writer-performers.
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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]]
* ''[[
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'' is the origin story of the D, and would chronologically lead to the earlier HBO shorts. Of course, [[Stoner Flick|everybody was probably too baked]] to care about the canon.
* ''[[ABBA]]: The Movie.'' Guess what it's about. It also had album and sheet music tie-ins, called ''ABBA: The Album'' and ''ABBA: The Folio''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer
▲== Western Animation ==
** To be specific, the reference is in the form of a two part episode, resolving the question of what happens to the relationship between Saddam Hussein and Satan.
▲* ''[[South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut (Animation)|South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut]]'' is in canon with the rest of the series. The back of the DVD case claims that "unlike most other movies that got their start on the silver screen, [this one] doesn't suck." ([[Stephen Sondheim]] is known to have sent the shows creators a letter congratulating them on the film's musical score.)
** 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.)
▲** To be specific, the reference is in the form of a two part episode, resolving the question of what happens to the relationship between Saddam Hussein and Satan. {{spoiler|Satan has started to date another guy, but by the end, he decides to stay single.}} There is also mention of the US-Canada war and Terrance & Phillip's near execution in "Terrance & Phillip: Behind the Blow."
* In an episode of ''[[
▲** 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.)
* ''[[Batman:
▲* 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 the Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' had ''[[Batman Mask of the Phantasm (Animation)|Batman Mask of the Phantasm]]'' in theaters in 1993.
▲* ''[[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 (
** Also [[Lampshade
** Another in-universe example: "Angry Dad: The Movie".
* ''The [[
** [[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.
* ''[[
* ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
* ''[[The Fairly
* After spending time in [[Development Hell]], the ''[[
* Inverted with ''[[Rudolph the Red
* ''The Man Called Flintstone'', the 1966 film version of ''[[
* Disney's ''[[
* ''[[
* According to [[Word of God]], Butch Hartman wouldn't have any trouble giving this treatment to ''[[
* ''[[G.I. Joe:
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In addition to the live-action movie made when the live-action show was on the air, [[the Sixties]]' ''[[Batman]]'' got a second movie in 2016. ''Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders'' is very much a love letter to the show's fans - almost every trope and meme from the show ended up somewhere in the movie, if only as a cameo.
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