Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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

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