Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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

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