Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

Sequels always have more than the previous installment. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer All Just a Dream Mistaken for Gay Costume Porn In the Back Dropped a Bridge on Him Bar Brawl Author Avatar "Awesome McCool" Name An Arm and a Leg The Smurfette Principle Would Hurt a Child Parental Abandonment Worthy Opponent Big Eater Noodle Incident Dogged Nice Guy For Want of a Nail Demonic Possession Christmas Movies Index Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Male Gaze Daddy's Girl Stealth Pun Took a Level in Badass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Off-into-the-Distance Ending "Shaggy Dog" Story Eye Scream Music Stories Brick Joke My God, What Have I Done? The Stinger Nothing Is Scarier Historical In-Joke Put on a Bus Kick the Dog Plot Hole A Minor Kidroduction The Bully Silent Movie Video Credits Early Installment Weirdness Properly Paranoid Taking You with Me Immune to Bullets Hidden Depths Authority Equals Asskicking Skewed Priorities Mighty Whitey No Celebrities Were Harmed Horror Films Gainax Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Malevolent Masked Men Deadpan Snarker Hope Spot Big Bad Blood Knight Logo Joke Suddenly SHOUTING! Those Two Bad Guys Unresolved Sexual Tension Butt-Monkey The Cavalry The Cameo Fun with Acronyms Eyepatch of Power Betty and Veronica Undying Loyalty Breaking the Fourth Wall I Did What I Had to Do Fingore Sacrificial Lion Names to Run Away from Really Fast Irony Distracted by the Sexy Major Injury Underreaction Light Is Not Good Made of Explodium Country Matters Title Drop Redemption Equals Death British Films Animal Motifs Disproportionate Retribution Chewing the Scenery Only One Name Japanese Films Bait-and-Switch Throwing Your Sword Always Works Big Applesauce Cold-Blooded Torture Villain with Good Publicity More Dakka Mercy Kill Romantic False Lead The Ace Demoted to Extra Captain Ersatz Aluminum Christmas Trees Not So Different As Long as It Sounds Foreign Jerkass The Chick Pragmatic Adaptation Crazy-Prepared Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Arc Words Heroic Sacrifice Broken Pedestal Friend to All Children No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Creator Cameo Slap-Slap-Kiss Naked People Are Funny Artistic License – History Plucky Comic Relief Suspiciously Specific Denial Anachronism Stew Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dirty Coward Cool Shades Creative Closing Credits Covers Always Lie Reality Has No Subtitles Hypocritical Humor Fat Bastard The Remake Ambiguous Ending Gory Discretion Shot Italian Films Evil Plan Spiteful Spit No Antagonist Catapult Nightmare Arch-Enemy Scenery Gorn The Voiceless Hero of Another Story Really Gets Around Body Horror Translation Convention A.I. Is a Crapshoot Improbable Aiming Skills Fatal Family Photo Police are Useless Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dramatic Irony Action Prologue Overprotective Dad Dark Action Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist Parental Neglect Up to Eleven Parental Incest Mythology Gag Vampire Fiction Shoot the Shaggy Dog Ass Shove Pretty in Mink It Will Never Catch On Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Adorkable Horror Comedy The Place Victoria's Secret Compartment Curb-Stomp Battle Knife Nut Expy Intrepid Reporter Sealed Evil in a Can Sanity Slippage Crazy Jealous Guy Historical Hero Upgrade Redshirt Army Freudian Excuse Depraved Bisexual Mooks Wham Line Fiery Redhead Due to the Dead Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Yandere Imagine Spot Death Glare Off with His Head! Only a Flesh Wound Annoying Younger Sibling Face–Heel Turn Reckless Gun Usage Film Noir Leaning on the Fourth Wall Defrosting Ice Queen Deal with the Devil Kubrick Stare Take That! Riddle for the Ages Vacation Films Establishing Character Moment Small Name, Big Ego Romantic Comedy Get Out! Jerk Jock What You Are in the Dark Loophole Abuse Does This Remind You of Anything? Actor Allusion Film Series Make It Look Like an Accident Naïve Newcomer From Nobody to Nightmare Villain Opening Scene Bavarian Fire Drill Canon Foreigner Only Sane Man Take a Third Option I'm a Humanitarian The Hero Antagonist Title The Reveal Idiot Ball Handicapped Badass Continuity Nod Exact Words Greater-Scope Villain Punch-Clock Villain "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Documentary Men Are the Expendable Gender Flipping the Bird Blackmail Cruel and Unusual Death Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil Laugh Real Life Writes the Plot Index of Film Westerns Adaptational Badass Scenery Porn Green-Eyed Monster The '60s May–December Romance Easily Forgiven Our Vampires Are Different The Ditz Red Oni, Blue Oni Pet the Dog Affably Evil Gold Digger Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Whole Plot Reference Bittersweet Ending Back from the Dead Death Seeker Blood from the Mouth Shell-Shocked Veteran Character Development Agony of the Feet Chase Scene Obfuscating Stupidity Card-Carrying Villain Bowdlerise Fourth Date Marriage Implacable Man Nice Hat Bolivian Army Ending The '70s Shower Scene Dressing as the Enemy Funny Foreigner Everyone Has Standards Dumb Blonde The '50s Mind Screw Disguised in Drag Rousing Speech Department of Redundancy Department Left the Background Music On I Need a Freaking Drink What Happened to the Mouse? The Smart Guy Meet Cute Extreme Doormat Smoking Is Cool Corpsing Dual Wielding Sequel Escalation Captain Obvious Death by Adaptation Fate Worse than Death Parental Substitute Camp Gay Good Is Not Nice Our Zombies Are Different Attempted Rape Insult Backfire Adaptation Dye-Job Star-Crossed Lovers Combat Pragmatist Fantastic Racism Married to the Job All Girls Want Bad Boys You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Eldritch Abomination Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fake Shemp Ax-Crazy And I Must Scream Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Geography Cowboy Cop Anyone Can Die Offscreen Moment of Awesome My Greatest Failure Wrong Genre Savvy Ascended Extra Sadistic Choice Protagonist Title Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Genre Savvy Revenge Straight Gay Maybe Ever After Bring My Brown Pants An Axe to Grind Anguished Declaration of Love War Is Hell Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Anachronic Order 20 Minutes into the Future Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Non-Indicative Name Bi the Way Manly Tears She Cleans Up Nicely Market-Based Title Knight Templar Product Placement The Alcoholic Funny Background Event Mr. Exposition Credits Gag Truth in Television Animal Title Index Based on a True Story Kick the Son of a Bitch Facial Horror Retcon Match Cut Here We Go Again! Bare Your Midriff World of Ham NO INDOOR VOICE Henpecked Husband Calling the Old Man Out Children Are Innocent Setting Update Token Minority Psychopathic Manchild Call-Forward As You Know No Name Given Psycho for Hire Meaningful Background Event Black Best Friend Monumental Damage Stuff Blowing Up Badass Boast Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Re-Cut The Brute Precision F-Strike Stylistic Suck Contrived Coincidence Death by Sex Running Gag Double Entendre Artistic License – Physics Double-Meaning Title Alpha Bitch Driven to Suicide Red Herring Award-Bait Song Damsel in Distress Failed a Spot Check Self-Deprecation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! La Résistance Silence Is Golden Not Using the "Z" Word Tempting Fate Shown Their Work Catch-Phrase Super Strength Beard of Evil How We Got Here He Knows Too Much Badass Normal It Can Think B-Movie Slasher Smile Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Even Evil Has Loved Ones Belligerent Sexual Tension Unusual Euphemism Show Within a Show Artistic License – Gun Safety Final Girl Evil Is Hammy Vomit Discretion Shot Diabolus ex Machina Break the Cutie One Steve Limit A Date with Rosie Palms Lampshade Hanging Exactly What It Says on the Tin Determinator aka: The Determinator The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Scare Chord Wicked Cultured Faking the Dead Fanservice Posthumous Character Eagleland Femme Fatale Ms. Fanservice Mystery and Detective Films Biopic Roger Ebert: Great Movies List You Killed My Father The Quiet One Paper-Thin Disguise Affectionate Parody Arranged Marriage Central Theme He Who Fights Monsters Gilligan Cut As the Good Book Says... Not Quite Dead Foil Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Action Genre Dirty Cop Dies Wide Open Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Red Shirt Outrun the Fireball German Films No OSHA Compliance Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Famous Last Words Despair Event Horizon Awesome, but Impractical Big "NO!" Sinister Minister Big Bad Duumvirate The Lancer Laughing Mad Bloodier and Gorier Hoist by His Own Petard timeperiod Smug Snake The Mole A Father to His Men Only Known by Their Nickname Stalker with a Crush Australian Movies Real Life Shout-Out Rule of Symbolism Dying Moment of Awesome Hate Sink Soundtrack Dissonance Ghost Fiction Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Wham Shot Serial Killer Slasher Movie No Ending Improbable Weapon User Pragmatic Villainy All for Nothing Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mugging the Monster Visual Pun Amusing Injuries Superhero Cain and Abel Amoral Attorney Black Dude Dies First For the Evulz Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Artistic License – Military The Load Abhorrent Admirer Race Against the Clock The Dragon Almost Kiss Moment Killer Karma Houdini Science Fiction Films Rasputinian Death Adapted Out Playing Gertrude Psychological Thriller Hypocrite Adults Are Useless Important Haircut Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Works Set in World War II Loads and Loads of Characters Break the Haughty My Beloved Smother Narrator Badass in a Nice Suit The '90s Apocalypse How Comically Missing the Point You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Russian Films The Stoner Room Full of Crazy The Dreaded Cool Old Guy The Casanova Disney Villain Death Villain Song Black and Gray Morality Bunny-Ears Lawyer Framing Device The Bad Guy Wins Villainous Breakdown A God Am I Thriller Obviously Evil Guns Akimbo Those Two Guys The Starscream Television Movie Index Neck Lift Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Offscreen Teleportation Sir Swears-a-Lot Determinator Mad Scientist Frame-Up Tranquil Fury Evil Counterpart Bald of Evil Very Loosely Based on a True Story Toplessness from the Back Brutal Honesty This Is Gonna Suck Death by Irony Disney Death Sexy Discretion Shot Anti-Hero Closed Circle Poor Communication Kills Lighter and Softer The Musical As Himself '80s Hair Expository Hairstyle Change Bilingual Bonus The Film of the Book Serious Business Sports Stories Gorn The Ghost It's All About Me Ambiguous Disorder Shirtless Scene Bloodless Carnage Time Skip Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rule of Cool Rape as Drama Deliberate Values Dissonance Black Comedy Rape Dark Reprise Refuge in Audacity Tagline Earn Your Happy Ending She's Got Legs Four-Temperament Ensemble Mood Whiplash Developing Doomed Characters Not So Above It All Dutch Angle Stepford Smiler Camera Abuse Bad "Bad Acting" Military and Warfare Films Deconstruction Accidental Murder Epic Fail Leave the Camera Running Evil Is Petty Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Even Evil Has Standards Large Ham Villain Ball Line-of-Sight Name Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Meaningful Name Adaptational Heroism Martial Arts Movie Early-Bird Cameo Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Attractiveness Accidental Misnaming The Alleged Car Have a Gay Old Time Spared by the Adaptation Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Spanner in the Works Heroes Want Redheads Dwindling Party Pre-Mortem One-Liner One-Man Army Adaptation Expansion The Vamp Heterosexual Life-Partners The '80s Twist Ending Cool Guns Jerkass Has a Point Adaptational Villainy Enemy Mine Conspicuous CG Say My Name Hong Kong Films Lock and Load Montage Karmic Death Intergenerational Friendship The Chessmaster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Power of Love Happily Married Let's Get Dangerous! Getting Crap Past the Radar Babies Ever After Madness Mantra Race Lift Soft Glass Black Comedy Not So Stoic Bury Your Gays Action Survivor Ripped from the Headlines Red Eyes, Take Warning Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bond One-Liner And Starring Red Right Hand Chekhov's Skill Disappeared Dad Rule of Three Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Meaningful Echo Big-Bad Ensemble Needs Wiki Magic Love Man on Fire Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Domestic Abuse Broken Aesop Casting Gag Fire-Forged Friends And the Adventure Continues Chekhov's Gun In Medias Res Bound and Gagged Evil vs. Evil Evil Sounds Deep The Great Depression Pyrrhic Victory The Mafia Morality Pet Sole Survivor Last-Name Basis Film Noir Index Anti-Villain Insistent Terminology One-Word Title Missing Mom Heel Realization Does Not Like Shoes Dissonant Serenity Extremely Short Timespan Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cat Fight Stealth Hi/Bye Tap on the Head Hollywood Law Bland-Name Product Historical-Domain Character Only in It for the Money Stock Footage Asshole Victim Danny Peary Cult Movies List Trailers Always Spoil Boom, Headshot! Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Biology Together in Death Random Events Plot Evil Brit Police Brutality Scary Black Man Auto Erotica Neck Snap French Films Older Than They Look Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fan Disservice The Dog Bites Back Drugs Are Bad The End... Or Is It? Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Took a Level in Jerkass Face Death with Dignity Politically Incorrect Villain Beware the Nice Ones Destination Defenestration Manchild Cool Car Insane Troll Logic No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Punny Name Composite Character Your Head A-Splode Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sci-Fi Horror Love at First Sight Cluster F-Bomb Downer Ending Same Language Dub Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Crucified Hero Shot Daylight Horror Jump Scare Guile Hero Badass Bookworm Darker and Edgier Deliberately Monochrome Retirony Historical Villain Upgrade Adaptation Name Change Cat Scare Informed Ability Heroic BSoD Dramedy Mr. Fanservice Decoy Protagonist Killed Mid-Sentence Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Never Found the Body Motor Mouth Mama Bear The Oner Once More, with Clarity! From Bad to Worse Public Domain Feature Films Woman Scorned Freeze-Frame Bonus Epic Movie In Name Only The Big Guy Gender Flip Wretched Hive Bullying a Dragon Spell My Name with an "S" Chekhov's Gunman Made of Iron Drives Like Crazy Genre Shift Zombie Stories Your Cheating Heart Heel–Face Turn Curse Cut Short Empathic Environment Interrupted Suicide Beta Couple Deus ex Machina Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Un-Reveal Fatal Flaw Ship Tease Humiliation Conga Fanservice Extra The Sociopath Fantasy Films Death of a Child Word of God Dull Surprise Ungrateful Bastard Ironic Echo Spiritual Successor Actually Pretty Funny Hair-Trigger Temper Didn't Think This Through Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Damn Heroes The Lost Lenore Vitriolic Best Buds Honor Before Reason Genre Throwback Five-Man Band Eureka Moment Unusually Uninteresting Sight Broken Bird Bond Villain Stupidity It's Personal Suspiciously Similar Substitute Foreshadowing Car Fu Laser-Guided Karma Air-Vent Passageway Mexican Standoff All There in the Script Gone Horribly Right Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sassy Black Woman Ambiguously Gay Batman Gambit No-Sell Bad Boss Be Careful What You Wish For Bloody Hilarious Never My Fault Aside Glance Rewatch Bonus Love Triangle Villain Protagonist Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil N-Word Privileges Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Law O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Atoner Dirty Old Man Alliterative Name The Stoic Celebrity Paradox Action Girl Brainless Beauty MacGuffin Unwitting Instigator of Doom Kill It with Fire Rule of Funny Rated M for Manly Darkest Hour Better to Die than Be Killed Training Montage Author Appeal Reality Is Unrealistic Half the Man He Used to Be The Hero Dies Mundane Made Awesome The X of Y Foregone Conclusion Obstructive Bureaucrat Fainting Overly Long Gag Oh, Crap! Badass Grandpa Rich Bitch Those Wacky Nazis Grey and Gray Morality Novelization Faux Affably Evil Adaptation Distillation Brother–Sister Incest Retired Badass Leitmotif Homage Kill 'em All Abusive Parents Big Brother Instinct Hollywood Darkness Storming the Castle The Faceless "The Reason You Suck" Speech Creepy Child Totally Radical Shut Up, Hannibal! I Have Your Wife Kids Are Cruel What the Hell, Hero? Drowning My Sorrows Papa Wolf Call-Back All There in the Manual Jerk with a Heart of Gold Male Frontal Nudity Animated Credits Opening Blatant Lies Drill Sergeant Nasty Dark and Troubled Past Hell Is That Noise Corrupt Corporate Executive Dark Is Not Evil Dramatic Gun Cock Instant Death Bullet Alas, Poor Villain Improvised Weapon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Cool Old Lady Chiaroscuro Reality Ensues An Aesop Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nice Guy Did Not Get the Girl Pretty Little Headshots Humans Are Bastards folderlabel All Men Are Perverts Unreliable Narrator Grievous Bottley Harm Ominous Latin Chanting Cassandra Truth BFG Fish out of Water True Companions Age Lift Would Hit a Girl Berserk Button Reasonable Authority Figure Canadian Movies Sequel Hook I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Not What It Looks Like Manipulative Bastard Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eiffel Tower Effect Too Dumb to Live Woman in White Advertised Extra You Have Failed Me Slashed Throat Defiant to the End Gratuitous English Vomit Indiscretion Shot Book-Ends Never Trust a Trailer Every Car Is a Pinto Shipper on Deck Pay Evil unto Evil Adult Fear "Well Done, Son!" Guy Armor-Piercing Question After the End Cloudcuckoolander Evil-Detecting Dog Taking the Bullet Flashback Big Fancy House Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Jitter Cam Bottomless Magazines Groin Attack Hero Antagonist Crapsack World Pimped-Out Dress