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There's a general trend that when people consume works, especially serial works, they read/watch/listen in publication order. Which means "everyone" saw the first installment, most people saw the second, many people saw the third... the earlier it is in the series, the more familiar it is amongst the general populace. The culmination of this is that the very first installment (and, going even further, the first couple scenes, even) will be the one that is the most familiar by a wide margin. However, this is not true with all works. Creators anticipate that audiences may start a work during the middle of airing, so add tropes such as Soft Reboot to facilitate audience entry to that installment of the work. This provides a contrast where some installments of a series are more well-known or popular than others. Installments can range in size, proportional to the series. A franchise with three Sequel or Spinoff series can consider each one an installment, and each series can consider the first episode the first installment of that series. Examples should clearly define the scope of the series and why a given installment is first. William Hartnell, of Doctor Who, represents the first installment of the entire multimedia franchise, whereas Christopher Eccleston can only be considered the first installment of the "nu-who" Revival. Still, to "win", one of the Doctors would have to be better known than all of the others. By now it's recognized as never happening, and Whovians will often introduce themselves by "their" Doctor, which might be the second, fourth, twelfth, or whatever installment. Other works tend not to have the same struggles, and this page contains many examples of works that have embedded their first installments into the public consciousness far beyond what their successive installments have achieved. Concepts that help form this Audience Reaction are Nostalgia Filter, Sequelitis, and Small Reference Pools. Concepts that work against this reaction are Contested Sequel (when the first installment has a Broken Base), Early-Installment Weirdness (when the first installment feels strange to fans of the second) and Sophomore Slump (where the third installment of a series turns out to be better than the second, and possibly even the first). Note: Inversions may be listed in Sequel Displacement (or Adaptation Displacement), where one of the successive installments (including adaptations) has become vastly more popular than the original. Reactions similar to the inversion are Surprisingly Improved Sequel and Even Better Sequel, where the successive installment is considered better than the earlier installment, which often makes it more popular as well. A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples shouldn't be added until six months after the third installment is released, to avoid any knee-jerk reactions. For similar reasons, examples shouldn't be removed until six months after a new installment disqualifies them. |
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Among the Predator films while most fans agree Predators and Prey (2022) are very good (some people even mistaking Predators for the actual Predator 2), the first film with Arnie and Carl is still considered the best and most iconic. It’s also the most frequently quoted e.g “I ain’t got time to bleed�, “What’s got Billy so spooked?�, “GET TO THE CHOPPER!�, “If it bleeds we can kill it� and “Dillon, you son of a bitch!� — que epic handshake. | |
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Similar to Terminator below, there’s a good deal of people who even argue Alien is better than its acclaimed sequel Aliens, simply by the virtue of the fact that’s a true horror film steeped in darkly gothic sexual symbolism, thanks to H. R. Giger’s imput and leans right into the Space Isolation Horror — whilst Aliens is largely an action film with horror elements. The fact the lone Xenomorph in the first film feels so much more frightening than the many easily killable Xenomorphs in the second film, is also a reflection of this. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: This show is easily the most popular and well-liked of the three shows Dreamworks Animation made in association with Nickelodeon (partly because Legends of Awesomeness is very divisive among the Kung Fu Panda fanbase and Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) is universally regarded as a weak effort). Some fans would go further and argue that this show is still the best show based on a Dreamworks movie, although Dragons: Riders of Berk and All Hail King Julien have solid fanbases who disagree. | |
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Did you know that there have been eight official King Kong movies? While the original from 1933 is one of the most referenced and recognizable films of all time, up there with Star Wars, its sequel The Son of Kong failed to make an impact on release and has languished in obscurity ever since. Most people are vaguely aware that Kong fought Godzilla once, but hardly anybody knows about the followup King Kong Escapes, a live-action adaptation of the 60s Kong animated series in which he fights a robotic duplicate of himself (pre-dating Mechagodzilla by seven years!). The 1976 remake is somewhat well known, but not nearly as iconic as the original. Its sequel, King Kong Lives, is only known among B-movie connoisseurs for being one of the worst films ever made. The Peter Jackson-helmed remake is also pretty well-known, but again not as much as the original, and certainly not as much as Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. |
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The original Dune novel is still the most popular in the series. | |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the more iconic of the original two James Cameron films. However, there are also many people who consider the first film superior due to its greater focus on horror, its darker tone, and its self-consistent timeline, as opposed to the more action-oriented sequels which involve changing the timeline in one way or another, opening up questions of paradoxes and bringing about an extremely confusing and flimsy canon. Also, because Kyle and Sarah are mere humans all alone without any Terminator allies like in the sequels, their situation and that of humanity at large feel much more desperate in a way that is virtually impossible for the sequels to match. Tellingly it also has the highest critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, the only film in the franchise to have a 100% score. | |
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GoldenEye, the first film with Pierce Brosnan as Bond, is generally regarded as his best film. There are fans who prefer either Tomorrow Never Dies or The World Is Not Enough, but those ones are more divisive entries than GoldenEye is. | |
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Metallica's four albums from the 1980s are considered their best albums by most fans. Some fans will throw in their fifth, self-titled album as well, but after that, the albums range from "good, but not as good," to So Okay, It's Average, to terrible, depending on who you ask. | |
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The Jetsons: The first season has an overall stronger reputation among animation fans than the second and third, which Hanna-Barbera produced over 20 years later. The inaugural season remains the only one to air in primetime, and the era most heavily circulated in reruns and home media. The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, the first of the Jetsons' four feature-length endeavors, has proven the most iconic, especially among children of the '80s and '90s. Among the three in Warner Bros.' possession, it became the only one included in the Jetsons Complete Series DVD boxset. |
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Bojack Horseman: Not the series in and of itself, but as the first animated series created by Netflix. So far, it is their most well-known and well-received cartoon among both general audiences and critics, and is generally considered one of the greatest adult animated series ever created. | |
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Bullet for My Valentine: Their debut album The Poison is widely considered to be the their best so far, though it's follow-up Scream Aim Fire and Venom aren't that far behind. | |
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Soul Train is known as an embodiment of The '70s (in music, style, and culture); however, many are unaware it ran over 30 years, ending in 2006. | |
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In Brazil it's a different case. Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion is the fourth installment of Metal Heroes, but it was first Metal Hero series to be brought over there, and to this day remains the most popular. In fact, when Jikuu Senshi Spielban was brought over next, it was called "Juspion 2: Spielvan". | |
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"The Super-Steed of Steel" introduced Comet the Super-Horse, who became Silver Age Supergirl's Action Pet. Eventually, Crisis on Infinite Earths retconned Comet out, and Peter David created a new Comet in the late 90s for his Supergirl series. As typical of nearly all Post-Crisis replacements of Silver Age Superman concepts, new Comet's backstory and nature were even weirder and more convoluted, becoming quickly and completely forgotten in favor of the original Silver Age Comet. Even more modern stories like "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" use Comet's original version instead of Post-Crisis Comet. | |
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Every single Disney Animated Canon film with a direct-to-video sequel is always better remembered than its sequel. This is the main reason why Melody, Ariel's daughter, is not considered as an official Disney Princess, despite her own mother actually being considered as one. | |
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"The Bitch Fight of Canary Wharf" is the oldest video in The Bugger Anthology. It is also by far the most popular installment, having over four times as many views as the next most-viewed video and often having particularly memorable lines quoted whenever the episode it's based on is brought up. Its status is fueled primarily by the Daleks/Cybermen sass-off from "Doomsday" already being highly memetic and the dub adding goofier dialogue on top of it. | |
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The Hobbit trilogy, although far from obscure, is nowhere near as iconic as the prior Lord of the Rings trilogy. | |
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For Cyberchase, fans generally consider the first five seasons to be the best. Some narrow it down further to the first four seasons, feeling that Season 5 recycled too many plot concepts and was sloppily animated due to them being animated with pens/markers instead of pencils. Regardless, the interpolated puppet-rigged animation from Season 6 onward has disappointed both camps. | |
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The first season of Winx Club is the best-received and arguably the most memorable, and the others are criticized for creating good plots and characters and then wasting them, having anti-climatic resolutions, the Power Ups and Frilly Upgrades causing the main characters to lose the beauty and their simplicity, etc. Among the fandom, the first four seasons have been generally much better received than the Nick-produced Seasons 5 and 6. | |
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The classic era of Thomas & Friends, particularly the episodes based directly on stories from "The Railway Series", are the best known. Also, Ringo Starr is the best-known narrator despite only having been around for the first two seasons and Michael Angelis outlasting him by fourteen seasons and nearly two decades. | |
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Most Scanners fans don't know that there are three movies in the main series... and that there are FIVE of them if you count the spinoffs. That they are all B Team Sequels is a major factor. Also applies to the other B-Team Sequel to a David Cronenberg film, The Fly II. In this case, fans of the first film are well-aware of its existence and it has support among monster movie fans, but its much less ambitious and complex themes and characters mean it can never be regarded as an equal to its forbear. | |
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Thanks to a well-known movie version, The Talented Mr. Ripley is much better known than its four sequels (though some of them have been made into movies too). | |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is probably as famous as or more famous than the earlier The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But Twain's next two sequels, Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective? Not so much. (Yeah, that's right, Alan Moore didn't make up that part about Tom being an action hero.) | |
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Did you know that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has a prequel? Or that The Sting has a sequel? Didn't think so. | |
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Just William is by far the best-known of Richmal Crompton's long-running series. Most readers couldn't name any of the 38 subsequent books, and may not even be aware of their existence. This often leads to the incorrect assumption that stories and characters not featured in the first one (in particular, Ensemble Dark Horse Violet Elizabeth Bott) were invented for adaptations in other media. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug is this for Zagtoon as a whole. It was their first released show, and is far and away the most popular one that's been released so far; meanwhile, all their other projects (both released and currently in development) have gotten far less interest outside of the occasional accusation of them ripping off other shows. | |
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The Matrix: Though the sequels are not without their own share of fans, quite a few see them as inferior films when compared to the original, if they not outright treat them as Fanon Discontinuity. The fourth film The Matrix Resurrections managed to achieve the impossible and make fans retroactively view the second and third films in a better light in comparison, especially in terms of action. | |
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Heroes, as the first season is the only one which didn't disappoint most of the fanbase. | |
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Looney Tunes: Rabbit Fire is the best remembered and the best known short of Chuck Jones' "Hunting Trilogy". Though, some fans see the other two shorts as Even Better Sequels. The first Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short, Fast and Furry-ous, tends to be considered the best. Also, the Chuck Jones Road Runner shorts in general are considered to be superior to the two Robert McKimson shorts, the Friz Freleng short with Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales, and especially the eleven Rudy Larriva shorts (nicknamed "the Larriva Eleven"). |
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Superman: Earth One turned out to be pretty popular despite being the umpteen-trillionth version of Superman's origin and advertised as somehow similar to The Twilight Saga. Batman: Earth One — as the umpteenth-billion version of Batman's early days — was nothing special, especially since it was released just after DC's New 52 line hit the stands, and Volume 2 of the Superman series tried to be Spider-Man 2 but was more of a Star Trek Into Darkness. | |
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Friday the 13th: the original is still widely considered the one film in the series the whole fandom can agree is good and the one critics are most likely to give good remarks on. While there are a decent number of fans who prefer the sequels, Part VI: Jason Lives tends to be the only one that fans and critics unanimously like. | |
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You didn't even know there were four sequels to The 400 Blows, did you? | |
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While the 2003, 2012 and 2018 shows have their share of fans, the original 1987 cartoon remains the most well-known and popular. The first season is also called the best by several fans of the show, due to having the best animation in it and for allowing the turtles to use their weapons more. | |
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The first Back to the Future film is well-remembered in the popular imagination for many iconic elements, such as the DeLorean time machine, the Spinning License Plate, Marty's performance of "Johnny B. Goode", the clock-tower climax and the ending line "where we're going, we don't need roads". What are the two sequels, which were both really good, remembered for? Hoverboards, Gray's Sports Almanac, and cowboys. But mostly hoverboards. | |
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My Little Pony: Until the introduction of Friendship is Magic (which has quite thoroughly displaced all previous incarnations in public perception of the franchise), the first of the My Little Pony TV Specials was considered the pinnacle of the franchise. The second special is a Contested Sequel while everything afterwards is a polarizing deal, even the aforementioned FIM. Speaking of Friendship is Magic, the first season is the most iconic and recognizable to many inside and outside of the fanbase for its many establishing moments and songs, as well as Lauren Faust being the primary showrunner (She left during Season 2). | |
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While Grey's Anatomy has been around for a while, many fans feel it was at its best with the original five interns - Meredith, Alex, George, Izzie, Cristina - and feel that it lost some magic after George died in Season 5. | |
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When They Cry: Higurashi: When They Cry was the first entry of the series, and without a doubt its most iconic, helped by it receiving a well-acclaimed anime adaptation that became a cornerstone of anime pop culture during The 2000s, a Stealth Sequel in 2020, and a spin-off mobile game titled Higurashi: When They Cry Mei. Neither Umineko: When They Cry nor Ciconia: When They Cry managed to live up to the success of Higurashi, with Umineko facing criticism for an Audience-Alienating Ending, alongside its anime adaptation being much less well-regarded, and Ciconia meanwhile having the misfortune of releasing after a lengthy Series Hiatus that dried up interest in the franchise, and its intended second phase falling into Development Hell. | |
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Out of all the movies for Naruto, the most well-known and the most liked is Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, the first one and usually the only one that people who write Fan Fiction for Naruto adapt. As for Shippuden, ironically enough the first movie during the second half of the series is arguably second in popularity. However, from a financial standpoint, Boruto: Naruto the Movie, the eighth Shippuden film and the last Naruto movie overall, is the most popular out of ALL the movies since it made the most money (Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow made the third most). | |
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As campy and cheesy as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) might be, it will forever be the most beloved and referenced facet of the Masters franchise, despite such incarnations as the 2002 continuity reboot and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power being much better received critically. | |
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Carry On is a well-beloved and best selling YA Queer Romance. The book has two sequels that make a trilogy, but these two sequels are quite controversial, especially the second book, due to a darker tone and pacing issues. | |
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Alien: Many fans prefer to watch Alien and Aliens and then stop there. There are fanbases for Alien³ and Alien: Resurrection (which to be fair are actually okay films - though the over-the-topness of the fourth one is a point of contention - though definitely not as good as the original). Opinions are split on Prometheus; half the Alien fanbase considers it to be an incredible and intriguing new entry into the canon which gives a whole new area of the Alien Universe to explore and accepts it as canon, the other half believes it to be an unoriginal mess of ideas and tries to ignore it. Alien: Covenant featured a lot of Pandering to the Base starring the Xenomorphs heavily but ironically only managed to divide fans further and make people appreciate the first’s film subtlety and smaller scope even more. Similar to Terminator below, there’s a good deal of people who even argue Alien is better than its acclaimed sequel Aliens, simply by the virtue of the fact that’s a true horror film steeped in darkly gothic sexual symbolism, thanks to H. R. Giger’s imput and leans right into the Space Isolation Horror — whilst Aliens is largely an action film with horror elements. The fact the lone Xenomorph in the first film feels so much more frightening than the many easily killable Xenomorphs in the second film, is also a reflection of this. |
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RWBY': A lot of spin-off material such as RWBY Chibi, RWBY: Ice Queendom, the manga anthologies, and various games are all either set during or use outfits from the Beacon Era (Volumes 1-3) with very rare exceptions. The first three volumes are also the most iconic ones and the ones generally better regarded. | |
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The original Fist of the North Star manga can be divided into two eras: everything up to the end of the Raoh saga (or what was adapted into the first TV series) and everything afterward (the second TV series). The majority of the later anime and manga spin-offs, as well as the numerous video games based on the franchise tend to be based on or set around the former era, with even side characters like Juza or Amiba often getting more exposure than the major players from the later era like Falco and Kaioh. The 1984 TV anime by Toei Animation is also by far the most well-known adaptation of the manga, to the point where fans use it as the basis for what an adaptation of Fist of the North Star should be like. It helps that the anime constantly receives high amounts of praise for its use of music and voice acting to convey the right kinds of emotions from certain scenes, leading many to call it the adaptation with a heart. |
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Rocky unlike Stallone’s other long running franchise Rambo is generally better liked film to film across its six film run and spin-off Creed films with only Rocky V being considered the real dud. However when it comes to overall quality, the first three films are considered the best, with the first film in particular for its underdog Loser Protagonist and “winning doesn’t matter, going the distance does� themes. | |
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Twitch Plays Pokémon. It started with Red, and became a sensation almost overnight. By the time it finished, over 100,000+ people had participated, over 20 million people saw it and many memes and religions were formed. Then it moved on to Crystal, and almost overnight the participants plummeted to around 10,000, and continued to halve for the next few runs. The viewer count continued to fall over the years, until it settled on a constant 100-200 viewers that it still maintains to this day. | |
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In the Austin Powers trilogy, only the first film, International Man of Mystery holds up today due to the sequels' jokes becoming Unintentional Period Pieces and overuse of gags. Though Goldmember got some Vindicated by History when Spectre would ironically burrow its evil brother reveal, in a rare case of the original franchise copying the parody. | |
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood's first album Welcome to the Pleasuredome is easily their most famous album. | |
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When Disney did a poll for the five most popular Rangers, the only non-MMPR to make the list was Andros from In Space. Not a single Disney-era Ranger charted. In this case, first production company wins. Though it helps by the cast staying around for a lot longer than most of the other Rangers, rather than being replaced every year. | |
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SCP Foundation: The first SCP made (173) is the highest-rated and locked from editing. Defied by wiki staff with regards to contributions. In their How To Write An SCP guide, they make it a point that if you're going to cross-reference other SCPs, you shouldn't just reference Series I SCPs (SCPs 1 through 999). |
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My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic: While the second and third issues have divided the fanbase on if they're good or not, Sombra's issue is not only agreed to be excellent by most, but is considered better than either of the two issues following. Issues #4 and #5 got back some of that affection, but only the latter is considered a challenger to the quality of Sombra's issue. | |
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What applies to Power Rangers also applies to Super Sentai. While some series had more postmortem popularity than others (Choujin Sentai Jetman and Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger being respective examples in the early 1990s and the 2000s - and the latter has two 2010s post-series productions to back it up and the pre-Gokaiger Blu-Ray releasenote the only others that got the Blu-Ray release being Goranger and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger), it is Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, the very first Sentai, that still gets the most exposure and is the subject of most homages and parodies, both in and outside the series. And just like the aforementioned Dekaranger, it got the Blu-Ray release. Albeit compared to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Goranger does not get as much special attention in Intra-Franchise Crossover stories nor in toylines (though the latter one is explained by Goranger predating Sentai's shift to a Merchandise-Driven nature). Choudenshi Bioman gets this in the Philippines and France as the first Sentai broadcast there, despite Bioman itself being the 8th installment in Super Sentai. |
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The first five seasons of The Fairly Oddparents are regarded as the best (or narrowed down to the first three or four seasons by some fans, with Seasons 4 and 5's Flanderization of some of the characters). Everything else onward depends on others opinions. | |
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Most fans of Starship Troopers don't even realize there are 2 DTV sequels. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation experiences a major Genre Shift (from sci-fi action to sci-fi horror) and is generally considered to be terrible.Starship Troopers 3: Marauder is a step-up from that, but still much less impressive than the first one due to the scaled-down budget. | |
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Planet of the Apes (1968) compared to its four sequels, with only Escape from the Planet of the Apes being unanimously liked. | |
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This also applies to Super Dimension Fortress Macross itself, which is the most popular and best-known of the Macross series, and usually considered the best. | |
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The Free Willy films. Yes, there was more than one, proving the point of this trope. | |
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Some fans believe that Brett Eldredge's debut single "Raymond" is his only good song, due to it being a well-written Tear Jerker, while the rest of his career has been largely criticized for a string of same-sounding ballads (e.g. "Beat of the Music", "Mean to Me") punctuated by the occasional "over the top" uptempo ("Drunk on Your Love", "Somethin' I'm Good At"). | |
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The first Kamen Rider series is the one most recognizable in Japan. Not to say that other, more recent series (like Den-O) haven't enjoyed their share of success, but the first series is the one that started it all. Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider, is also the most iconic character in the franchise by extension, with Hayato Ichimonji, his successor turned ally, as a close second. | |
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While the Total Drama series incorporates New Season, New Name, Island is the only season to get near-universal acclaim by the fanbase. Characters that succumbed to Flanderization in later seasons retain their charm, Chris is not as callous towards the cast, and the romantic subplots aren't as heavily focused on compared to later seasons, with the fan favorite couples flourishing here. As a result, the original 22 contestants are the most well-known and beloved, and Camp Wawanakwa is the most iconic location of the series. | |
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Most people are vaguely aware that Kong fought Godzilla once, but hardly anybody knows about the followup King Kong Escapes, a live-action adaptation of the 60s Kong animated series in which he fights a robotic duplicate of himself (pre-dating Mechagodzilla by seven years!). | |
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The Book of the Dun Cow series by Walter Wangerin, Jr. is an interesting case. The first book, The Book of the Dun Cow, is the most well known book in the series, receiving widespread critical acclaim as well as an off-Broadway theater adaptation. While the sequel, The Book of Sorrows, was also well-received critically, its Darker and Edgier tone (even compared to the already pretty dark first book) made it a tough read for some fans of the original. Then the author rewrote and cut large parts of the second book to fit the third book, causing a Continuity Snarl, leading to criticism from fans of the first two books as they already stood, and making the third book, Peace at the Last, the most divisive of the three. It was quietly published in 2013 with almost none of the first two's fanfare or acclaim. | |
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Believe it or not, there were books after the original Corduroy. | |
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The Mandalorian remains a bigger crowd-pleaser than its spin-off shows. The majority of fans believe that its peak lasted through either the first or second season, the latter of which marked the last one Disney+ released prior to the spin-offs. | |
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Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction works here. Not only is it the highest-selling debut album of all time, it also has "Sweet Child O' Mine", which is one of the most famous songs of the 80s. "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City" are pretty famous, too. Some fans argue that Appetite is the only good album the band has ever released. In either case, only very few even consider Chinese Democracy a Guns N Roses album instead of "Axl Rose and whoever wanted to record with him". | |
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Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers: Many American fans are familiar with ''The Quest for Iscandar' portion but don't realize that the Star Force will also fight the Comet Empire and the Bolar Federation. Both sequel series had been imported to the U.S, albeit the Bolar Wars was brought over a few years after the first two and not as widely distributed. | |
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There have been follow-up series after The Muppet Show, but the first is the most famous. The other shows used new settings, while the Muppet Theater setting is usually the one depicted in merchandise. The Muppets (2015) put the show in a different format from the previous shows, and following that show's cancellation, the Muppets have done a number of live shows invoking the classic Muppet Show format. But then again, all the follow-up shows were Short-Runners. | |
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The first Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short, Fast and Furry-ous, tends to be considered the best. Also, the Chuck Jones Road Runner shorts in general are considered to be superior to the two Robert McKimson shorts, the Friz Freleng short with Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales, and especially the eleven Rudy Larriva shorts (nicknamed "the Larriva Eleven"). | |
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Though the other two How to Train Your Dragon movies have their fans, both are also contentious for different reasons, like the Big Bad Drago being a Flat Character, several characters being underutilised and a poor tone balance in the case of the former and a highly divisive ending for the latter. As a result, there are plenty of fans who prefer the first movie for its charm and lacking said contentious elements, and this is reflected in its 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the sequels' lesser (albeit still high) 92% and 91% respective ratings. | |
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White Wolves: All of the films have about the same critical reception (although some people dislike either the third or fourth ones), but the first one is viewed as being a little better due to being directly based on the Newberry-Medal winning Brian's Saga, while the sequels follow original characters. | |
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While generally considered good by those who did play them, none of Azul's sequels came close to the popularity of the original. | |
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Land of Oz: Perhaps because of the film adaption being a lot more popular than the book, most people are unaware that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has thirteen sequels written by L. Frank Baum and an additional 26 "official" books written by other authors after that. Clearly, it was not a dream all along. The original W.W. Denslow illustrations portray Dorothy with dark hair in Girlish Pigtails. John R. Neill's illustrations, which were used in most of the books, portray her as having a blonde '20s Bob Haircut. Denslow's design is slightly truer to the text as, though Dorothy's appearance isn't touched upon much, it is mentioned that she only has two dresses, but Neill was fond of giving Dorothy an Unlimited Wardrobe. W.W. Denslow's pigtailed brunette design is how most people see Dorothy and is also the one used in the movie and most other adaptations (though, a number of fanfics and Oz derivatives do make Dorothy a blonde). |
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The Twilight Zone (1959). While it had a few revivals that were quickly cancelled and forgotten, generation after generations go back to the original with its stark black-and-white images and Rod Serling's hypnotic voice doing the opening and closing narrations. | |
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Family Feud has run non-contiguously since 1976: from 1976-85 with Richard Dawson; from 1988-95 with Ray Combs (except for the last season, which reverted to Dawson); and from 1999 onward with four different hosts (Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley, Steve Harvey). Despite the contemporary incarnation running longer than its two predecessors combined, the original Richard Dawson version is still what most people think of when they think of the Feud, and the persistence of the Dawson and Combs eras in reruns has not hurt either. | |
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Heavy metal band Machine Head's first album Burn My Eyes is widely considered a groove/thrash metal classic and one of the most influential metal albums of the 90s. None of their subsequent albums have managed to garner the same level of acclaim or long term popularity. Especially not the band's two "nu-metal albums" (The Burning Red and Supercharger). | |
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Mazinger Z has got a lot of sequels (Great Mazinger, UFO Robo Grendizer...), alternate series (God Mazinger, New Mazinger, Shin Mazinger Zero...) and reimaginations (Mazinkaiser, Shin Mazinger...). Neither of them has got the success, the impact or the popularity enjoyed the original series. Mazinger Z fans tend to think the original series was better, and the sequels and remakes did not live up to its legacy. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: Out of The Lord of the Rings films, The Return of the King won the most awards and The Two Towers was the best-reviewed, but in the years since the trilogy's release, The Fellowship of the Ring has proven to be the most well-remembered of them by far. For instance, the Fellowship-exclusive character Boromir is far more well-known than his brother Faramir despite the latter's large role in the sequels, the showdown between Gandalf and the Balrog is the single most iconic moment in the trilogy, a disproportionate number of Fellowship quotes have been immortalized as memes, and Gandalf's grey outfit is far more recognizable than the white one he dons in the sequels.note Strictly speaking, they're not "sequels" so much as the latter two-thirds of a single story Divided for Publication, but the point stands. The Hobbit trilogy, although far from obscure, is nowhere near as iconic as the prior Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power also borrowed a lot from the first trilogy and tried to compete withe it, but is clearly overshadowed by the movies in the eyes of the viewer. |
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The first installment in the series, Space Sheriff Gavan, is by far the most iconic and Gavan himself is the Metal Hero most subject to getting homages, even getting his own movie decades after the series ended. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry will always be known as the gore filled horror it was in Season 1 instead of the tearjerker mystery-murder it became in later seasons. | |
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Of Carl Orff's Trionfi trilogy of secular choral music, Carmina Burana is by far the best known. Catulli Carmina is far less popular, and Trionfo di Afrodite is outright obscure. And Carmina Burana is known mostly for its first (and last) song, the first to be composed: "O fortuna." | |
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The Godfather: While both Part I and Part II were widely acclaimed by both critics and audiences, with some even arguing that II was an Even Better Sequel, Part I is the installment that more firmly cemented itself in the public consciousness. This view is exemplified by the films' Rotten Tomatoes scores, with Part I just barely edging out Part II for both the critics' score and the audience scorenote Part I has a critics' score of 97% and an audience score of 98%; Part II comes in at 96% and 97%, respectively. Meanwhile, Part III is nowhere near as well-known and celebrated as the first two. | |
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While the follow-up novels were just as critically acclaimed, Dawn and Day don't hold up to Elie Wiesel's Night. | |
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Cruel Intentions and Wild Things both had several DTV sequels (Cruel Intentions had 2 sequels, while Wild Things had 3) | |
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Out of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Shaun of the Dead is the most beloved and well-regarded. The film even manages to avoid the Once Original, Now Common effect long after zombies grew so ubiquitous and oversaturated in pop culture that parodies and deconstructions of zombie fiction have become a genre unto themselves. | |
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James Bond: The first era, in which Sean Connery starred as the title character, is the most widely referenced in pop culture, and Connery is often considered to be the best Bond, though the most popular individual film in his era is the third one, Goldfinger. GoldenEye, the first film with Pierce Brosnan as Bond, is generally regarded as his best film. There are fans who prefer either Tomorrow Never Dies or The World Is Not Enough, but those ones are more divisive entries than GoldenEye is. A similar occurrence is at play with Daniel Craig era as his first film, Casino Royale, is generally the most unambiguously loved for its action sequences, tense poker scenes, chilling villain, fan favourite Bond girl and heartbreaking ending. Among the Craig sequels only Skyfall (the highest grossing Bond film ever) truly rivals Casino Royale. |
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Most people will be aware of Digimon Adventure, maybe Digimon Adventure 02 if you're (really) lucky, but probably won't even know there were any further anime series beyond 02, let alone that there are now ten. And then Toei announced another sequel to Adventure long after Digimon Fusion finished its run, with little to say about the characters that debuted in 02! And then they release the first five minutes of said sequel where the little they said about said characters is, "They're beaten up by a new Digimon. Let's never mention them again." | |
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For Red Dwarf the biggest Broken Base among fans is over this, as there’s a good amount of fans who prefer the very first series simply for being an irreverent and darkly humorous comedy about three guys and a computer stuck alone in deep space — rather than the more wild and adventurous Monster of the Week Star Trek/Doctor Who-esque show it became despite the gags being better than ever. Worth noting the series does go back to having lower stakes like the first two seasons in the VIII series and Revival series. | |
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Out of all the Watch books, most people know the name Night Watch. Day Watch is also fairly well-known due to the same style of writing. Then you have Twilight Watch and Final Watch, which many non-fans simply haven't heard of, and the two spin-offs (one of which by the co-author of Day Watch). The first novel gained some international fame, mostly due to The Film of the Book. | |
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While most of their other albums are regarded to be good, Dismember's Like an Ever Flowing Stream is considered a classic album and a staple in both Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal. | |
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Flowers in the Attic is the best known and most notorious of the Dollanganger series. You'll probably get people who didn't even know that there were three sequels and a prequel. It didn't help that for a long time FITA was the only book to receive a film adaptation (at least until Lifetime made adaptations of all the books sans the last). | |
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The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, the first of the Jetsons' four feature-length endeavors, has proven the most iconic, especially among children of the '80s and '90s. Among the three in Warner Bros.' possession, it became the only one included in the Jetsons Complete Series DVD boxset. | |
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When non-fans discuss Pokémon Adventures they tend to discuss the Kanto and Johto arcs. This is especially common because most of the frequently-cited violent moments (like the Cloyster being killed by Giovanni or the zombie Psyduck scene) come from the first Kanto arc. It helps that the RGBY arc was the only one translated in many places for several years. | |
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A Wrinkle in Time is the most famous of L'Engle's Time Quintet partially because of the tidy little Newberry Award on the cover. In addition, the Time Quintet has a whole series in between the fourth book in the series (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) and the fifth and last book (An Acceptable Time) that is about Calvin and Meg's children. | |
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Though Suicidal Tendencies' early career has a lot of acclaimed releases (leaving their best album among hardcore fans a source of debate), their debut album is their best known release and is generally regarded as one of the iconic rock/punk albums, especially with it containing the famous "Institutionalized". | |
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13 Reasons Why caused a huge impact upon its release. The following seasons, on the other hand, are considered exploitative and non-sensical and gathered negative reviews all around (the Rotten Tomatoes score dip is particularly impressive: 78% for the first season, 27% for the second, and everything after scored on the 10% mark). | |
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Neuromancer is much more popular and critically acclaimed than the other novels in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy. | |
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In terms of the 1998 show, many fans consider the first four seasons to be the best of the show. Seasons 5 and 6—which were produced after Craig McCracken left to work on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, are considered a sharp decline in quality. | |
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In general, the 1998 series is considered the best of the franchise. People tend to overlook the infamously despised 2016 reboot or the often-forgotten 2006 anime adaptation due to their lack of involvement from Craig McCracken, along with the former spending less time on the superhero aspect of the PPG—being more of a Sliceof Life comedy with a more surreal tone, while the anime functions more like a Magical Girl show a la Sailor Moon. | |
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Macross: Robotech fans are most passionate about the Super Dimension Fortress Macross Saga. It's also the most familiar installment to those who might only be casually familiar with Robotech. Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (The Masters) and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (The New Generation) have their fans, but their lack of recognition may have to do with merchandising in Japan. The Valkyrie mecha (Veritech Fighter) has become an institution in and of itself. The Spartus hovertank and Alpha Fighter...not so much. It's reflective of how the original shows were also received in Japan; Macross has become a respectable Long Running franchise in its own right, while there has been little interest in revisiting the settings of Southern Cross and MOSPEADA. This also applies to Super Dimension Fortress Macross itself, which is the most popular and best-known of the Macross series, and usually considered the best. |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: When it comes to MCU Netflix shows Daredevil especially its first season is considered the absolute best despite Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Punisher having their fans (Iron Fist, not so much). Daredevil is also considered superior to the official Disney+ Marvel TV shows which have plenty of broken bases and critics. Such is the acclaim and popularity of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil that he’s the first Netflix Marvel character to make his way into a mainline film: Spider-Man: No Way Home. Concerning the Disney+ MCU shows, easily the best reviewed, the most bang for the buck, least controversial (barring its final episode) and most liked all around is WandaVision the first one. WandaVision's refreshingly different and weird direction for the studio and generally good pacing and character drama make it effortlessly the favourite of the bunch. |
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The original, "0th" edition of Dungeons & Dragons has a devoted following to this day, despite being released in 1974 and having (depending on how you count it) six versions after it. This is mostly averted in the wider fandom sphere, though, where the most widely played editions overall are 3rd and its variants (which caught both the dawn of large-scale internet access and a massive boom in interest in fantasy, and stayed supported well into the mid-10s by products like Pathfinder) and 5th (which rode a second boom and became the edition of choice for shows like Critical Role), and the most widely played "old-school" edition likely being AD&D 2nd (the last edition to be made by TSR and have a clear lineage to OD&D, and also the one with the most official settings). | |
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Pacific Rim launched a small franchise of comic books, licensed games, a spinoff anime, and a sequel movie, Pacific Rim: Uprising. However, only the reception of the original movie is largely positive, while the reception to all the follow-ups and tie-ins ranges from forgettable to terrible, with the sequel in particular being a Franchise Killer and many fans try not to think about its existence. | |
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When it comes to The Mummy Trilogy the first film The Mummy (1999) is near universally loved, the sequel The Mummy Returns has plenty of fans but is not a patch on and the threequel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a strong reminder of how good the first film is. And the less said about The Scorpion King, its sequels and The Mummy (2017) the better. Fair to note the 1999 film is not even the first installment but The Mummy (1932) has simply been overshadowed in the public zeitgeist by its 90s revamp. | |
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Disturbed's best known and best selling album, The Sickness gets this quite a bit despite some Early-Installment Weirdness. It contains some of the band's most iconic songs, including "Down With The Sickness." | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first film in the Disney Animated Canon, is often considered the best of Walt Disney's films. Walt Disney viewed Bambi as the best, leading to Magnum Opus Dissonance. | |
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Deicide's 1990 self-titled debut (and, to a lesser extent, its follow-up Legion) is hailed as a Death Metal classic. Any amount of anger and blasphemy within the genre was taken Up to Eleven, and all of the sudden a genre dedicated to having fun shocking people was dead serious. As it turned out, band mastermind Glen Benton didn't actually have anything else to say or take his music, and album after album of the same detuned riffing and Religion Rant Songs got old fast, leaving people to wonder why Benton and his cohorts decided to keep making them long after the well of enthusiasm and originality had dried up. | |
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Moanin' in the Moonlight by Howlin' Wolf is widely regarded as his best. It has all the songs he is most well known for. | |
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Die Hard is the most well known of the series - it even originated an action subgenre! | |
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When it comes to Berserk pretty much the only adaptation that’s considered to have done justice to the original manga is the very first 1997 anime which remains the most beloved many decades on for its true-to-the-text atmosphere and quieter moments and magnificent soundtrack by Susumu Hirasawa (barring the corny intro song). Berserk: The Golden Age Arc has a lot of fans and acclaim (particularly the third film) but is derided for Conspicuous CG and removing important character moments featured in the manga and 97 anime (though this got somewhat fixed with the memorial edition), while the infamous Berserk (2016) series just makes the 1997 anime even better by comparison. | |
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Stargate SG-1 has lasted the longest of all the shows in the franchise and has the largest following, given how many times it was Un-Canceled. Stargate Atlantis lasted several seasons, while Stargate Universe (having a different format) was canceled fairly quickly. No mention of Stargate Infinity, a (non-canon) short-lived cartoon series. Surprisingly, the original installment, the Stargate film, is something most people who are fans of the series must be introduced to the film retroactively only after watching the series. Understandable with it being a relatively obscure sci-fi film from the 90s. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender remains the most popular installment in the franchise of the same name, having near-Sacred Cow status among the fanbase, while the various comic book follow-ups and Sequel Series The Legend of Korra are viewed as being inferior in comparison. Even individual moments and story arcs that are highly-regarded (such as Book 3 of Korra) are nevertheless seen as failing to reach ATLA's own narrative peaks. | |
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Most fans of the first Hellraiser probably aren't aware of how prolific a franchise is— as of 2023, there are eleven films in the series, including a whopping six DTV sequels, all but two of which star Doug Bradley. One of them, Hellseeker, even functions as a direct sequel to the second film in the franchise. In terms of the big horror franchises of the 80s and 90s, this actually places Hellraiser second only to the Friday the 13th series in terms of the number of entries. | |
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LEGO: BIONICLE: Mask of Light is a nostalgic early-2000s Direct to Video film for many. Its two prequels are mostly only remembered by fans. The fourth movie is at times neglected even by them. The LEGO Movie remains the most critically and financially successful of LEGO's theatrical films. While most of the later ones also received warm receptions in their own rights, the majority of viewers seem to find the novelty of the toys reaching the big screen, with more charm and depth than the average Merchandise-Driven cartoon, felt freshest in the original. |
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While some series had more postmortem popularity than others (Choujin Sentai Jetman and Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger being respective examples in the early 1990s and the 2000s - and the latter has two 2010s post-series productions to back it up and the pre-Gokaiger Blu-Ray releasenote the only others that got the Blu-Ray release being Goranger and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger), it is Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, the very first Sentai, that still gets the most exposure and is the subject of most homages and parodies, both in and outside the series. And just like the aforementioned Dekaranger, it got the Blu-Ray release. Albeit compared to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Goranger does not get as much special attention in Intra-Franchise Crossover stories nor in toylines (though the latter one is explained by Goranger predating Sentai's shift to a Merchandise-Driven nature). | |
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The L Word: Any trouble digesting the ridiculousness of the latter seasons will either be soothed or completely exacerbated by the dramatic superiority of any episode from the first three. | |
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In regards to the Victorious fanfic series The Wolf in me, the first story remains the most popular and best-reviewed work of the series. It is also one of the author's most popular stories. While the sequels are far from being considered bad by the fanbase, none were quite the hit that the first one was. It helps that, unlike the sequels, it's a mostly straightforward supernatural romance story, while the others often got lost in world-building and lost focus on the romance most fans were there for. Many also felt that it had the best villain from the series in Livia. | |
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The entire Resident Evil Film Series has a largely negative reception from both critics and fans of the games, but of them, only the first film is the one held in any sort of regard by any of the fans, because, even if it has almost nothing to do with the games to the point of being an In Name Only adaptation, it at least captures the tone of the games. The sequels were not treated with the same sentiment, veering even further from the story of the games, having more ridiculous action and plots, non-existent continuity that make watching the whole series pointless, and especially because they turned Alice (the Canon Foreigner main character who is, not coincidentally, also the director's wife) into an Invincible Hero. | |
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In an odd case of this happening to a portion of a single book, most people don't know that there is more to Gulliver's Travels than just the Lilliput section. This gets compounded by a lot of publishers choosing only to publish that section. | |
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Final Destination, even though the fanbase's split on whether the first or the second installment wins. | |
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The Black Stallion is a series spanning over 20 books. Most people have only read the first few though. | |
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Even critics of Creed will admit that the band's first album, My Own Prison, is genuinely good and, while not nearly as popular, is certainly better than their later output. | |
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While the original from 1933 is one of the most referenced and recognizable films of all time, up there with Star Wars, its sequel The Son of Kong failed to make an impact on release and has languished in obscurity ever since. | |
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The 1976 remake is somewhat well known, but not nearly as iconic as the original. Its sequel, King Kong Lives, is only known among B-movie connoisseurs for being one of the worst films ever made. | |
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Not an instance involving nostalgia or memories, but: the first episode of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is by an enormous margin the most oft-quoted and most subject to Memetic Mutation outside the Homestuck fanbase. Virtually everyone knows about stairs and warnings thereof, but the chances of hearing about any other quotations from the series aren't all that great. This is partly because that first entry is always the one that comes up when you load the comic's home page (as it displays the first comic, not the most recent one), and partly because it's one of the more commonly-referenced pages within Homestuck itself. | |
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In the Star Trek canon, none of the follow-ups or films will match the cultural significance of the Original Series. Furthermore, Star Trek: The Next Generation was much more popular than the other Star Trek shows created after the original. Out of the later shows, Next Generation was the only one that became a film series. In fact, TNG was, by most metrics, more popular than the original series had been during its first-run... but the financial success of the TOS-based movies remains unmatched. | |
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Mario had three TV shows in the late 80s, early 90s. There was The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World (1991). While they are all infamously memetic in their own rights (especially World), the first one, however, is the one most people think of and is the one referenced most often. | |
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The first film in the Friday franchise is definitely the most well-known spawning a whole Fountain of Memes and gaining a huge cult following. Despite that, most fans (not critics) consider Next Friday decent but the less said about Friday After Next, the better. Losing Chris Tucker saw the sequels take a hit in quality. | |
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Everyone knows of the first movie of the Pokémon anime. People also tend to know about the next two. But people outside the fandom are typically oblivious to the fact that there are 23 films and counting. | |
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The somber, melancholic first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 14 is widely recognized as the "Moonlight Sonata" and frequently performed as a standalone piece. The more upbeat second movement and the frenetic third movement are nowhere near as familiar to the general public, even though they are from the same composition. Ironically, Beethoven himself meant for the final movement to be the main focus of the work when he wrote it. | |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids to its sequels. Honey, I Blew Up the Kid did fairly well, but Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves doesn't hold up as well as the first two movies. | |
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K-9 had two direct-to-video sequels, though unlike most DTV sequels, these two were a rare case in which the original star (James Belushi) returned. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura is an odd example. The most iconic outfit for Sakura is a pink and white one she wears on the cover of the first volume (manga) and the first opening (anime) (see it here◊), but never actually appears in the story proper. Despite one gimmick of the series being not repeating outfits. | |
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The Land Before Time. The original film is by far the most popular. It's considered to be an excellent piece of work, even for adults... the musical sequels on the other hand tend to be quite disliked. Still, they have scores of fans and a forum. | |
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If you count Saved by the Bell as the same show as Good Morning, Miss Bliss, then it is by far considered the best show in its franchise. Saved by the Bell: The College Years, while it has its fans, lasted for only one season, and isn't nearly as well-remembered. Saved by the Bell: The New Class, despite lasting even longer than the original show, is considered the worst show in the franchise. | |
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Gundam: The original series has the most spin-offs and merchandise, including video games, models, toys, manga, etc. etc. Outside of Japan, however... The most well-known installments in the series, G Gundam, Gundam SEED and Gundam Wing, were made close to twenty years after the original; and fans of the Universal Century timeline tend to prefer Zeta Gundam. The Compilation Movie trilogy of the original Mobile Suit Gundam tends to be pretty well-received, though, for having removed some of the sillier elements, improved animation, etc. (the movies were what made Gundam a success in the first place, with the first TV series being canceled due to low ratings). |
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A New Hope won the most Oscars, got the most significant nominations, was the biggest commercial success, and the most parodied and referenced of the original films. On a wider scale, the Original Trilogy as a whole is the most acclaimed group of films in the franchise and is particularly prevalent when contrasted with the Contested Sequel status of the Prequel Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy. | |
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The first Kittie album, Spit, is easily their most iconic, and a notable part of the Nu Metal movement of the late 90s. Their subsequent albums have their fans, but aren't as well-known, not just because of the fall of Nu Metal in the 2000s, but because Kittie themselves shrugged off Nu Metal, and got Darker and Edgier and less accessible over time. | |
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Many fans feel this way about the first season of Glee. More charitable ones will extend it to the first lineup of the titular glee club. | |
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Virtually any Lost parody will focus on elements introduced in the first season - the survivors, the Others, the Hatch, the Monster, the Numbers, and the polar bears. Nearly the entire remainder of the series' pop culture reputation comes from the second season, with DHARMA Initiative. The first season is also the least disputed one as all five that followed are accused of Seasonal Rot, if only for making the plot weirder as it went. The fact that the show completely changed focus around Season 3 makes it very easy to identify someone who hasn't watched the show since the first season, and the fact that it continued changing focus every season after that makes it also easy to identify when someone stopped watching. | |
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RoboCop has quite a few sequels as well as a 2014 remake, but most likely will never match the 1987 original in terms of reception and impact on pop culture, with its ultra-violence and memorable quotes. | |
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Madness' first album One Step Beyond Album is still the one that usually represents the group in "best album" polls and has a book written about it. This is perhaps a little strange, since although there's certainly an almost-universal affection for the LP, few fans or critics actually consider it their best. | |
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Danganronpa: For all of its own faults, the original Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is the most consistently well-liked of all of the installments, with most fans willing to praise its rather grounded atmosphere and having an antagonist that is agreed to have set a high bar for both successors and repeat appearances. All of the following games faced their own respective criticisms: Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is also seen mostly positively, but still mostly agreed to have fell short in keeping all of its cast relevant in the actual story and have more contrived motives for murder, spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls became rather controversial for its Out-of-Genre Experience into a third-person shooter and inconsistent handling of the topic of child abuse, and while Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony's gameplay was regarded as having improved, the actual plot became immensely divisive over certain plot twists and the cases not going far enough to differentiate themselves from the previous two mainline games. | |
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A New Hope (Danganronpa): The first fanfic, the eponymous A New Hope is the one that, to this day, has the most engagement online. The sequels, while also receiving attention, don't get the attention that ANH had. An attempted reboot was created, but shelved due to minor lack of interest. | |
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Perhaps because of the film adaption being a lot more popular than the book, most people are unaware that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has thirteen sequels written by L. Frank Baum and an additional 26 "official" books written by other authors after that. Clearly, it was not a dream all along. | |
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Reflected in both the flashback case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and the trial in London at the start of Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney where, despite the events taking place around the time of the third game in the series, they use music from the first. | |
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Psycho has had several sequels, a TV movie and a remake. But the original Alfred Hitchcock film from 1960 still reigns supreme, with the Bates Motel prequel series its closest competition. | |
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Naruto: Out of all the movies for Naruto, the most well-known and the most liked is Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, the first one and usually the only one that people who write Fan Fiction for Naruto adapt. As for Shippuden, ironically enough the first movie during the second half of the series is arguably second in popularity. However, from a financial standpoint, Boruto: Naruto the Movie, the eighth Shippuden film and the last Naruto movie overall, is the most popular out of ALL the movies since it made the most money (Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow made the third most). This trope can also apply to the Naruto series as a whole. Naruto receives more praise than Naruto Shippuden which suffers from an Annihilated Base — though everyone generally agrees that the last eighty or so episodes of Filler in the original series means it's not by that large of a margin. Boruto also had a hard time keeping up with the reputation of Naruto thanks to its Lighter and Softer first several dozens episodes and its Base-Breaking Character protagonist. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is quite a bit more well known than its sequels, especially the very first scene. References to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and most importantly Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade do pop up infrequently, especially the latter's earlier parts. Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? indeed. (Also, It Belongs in a Museum.) | |
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The first Police Academy, while often viewed as little more than 80s slapstick, is still the best of the series. A certain portion still consider the 2nd and 3rd to be "good", but after that the less said the better. | |
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Son Volt's debut album, Trace, is their best-selling album and their most well-liked album by critics and casual fans. | |
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When it comes to the Iron Man Films it’s safe to say RDJ’s first outing is easily most the beloved and whilst 2 and 3 have their genuine positives and fans they still come under fire and are far more critically and audience divided than the first film is. Hell this applies to the greater franchise as a whole as Iron Man 1 still ranks very high for many several decades on despite the competition simply for its freshness and un-family friendly grittiness before the MCU fully ballooned in its wake. | |
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This trope very much applies to the Scream sequels. Though Scream VI has manage to break this trend being a Surprisingly Improved Sequel despite the lack of Neve Campbell‘s Sidney. | |
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"Supergirl's Super Pet" introduced Streaky the Supercat' Supergirl's original action pet. However, Streaky would be Put on a Bus in 1971 as part of an effort to make the Superman books less "silly". Since then, several writers have tried to give Supergirl and even Power Girl a non-powered pet cat, but neither of them stuck precisely because they were just a regular cat, ergo unremarkable. However, people kept remembering the original Streaky, so he eventually returned to the comics. | |
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Some fans of The Empirium Trilogy feel that the first book, Furyborn, is the best of the three. Those that do usually cite it has having stronger character writing and better pacing than the latter two. | |
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When it comes to MCU Netflix shows Daredevil especially its first season is considered the absolute best despite Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Punisher having their fans (Iron Fist, not so much). Daredevil is also considered superior to the official Disney+ Marvel TV shows which have plenty of broken bases and critics. Such is the acclaim and popularity of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil that he’s the first Netflix Marvel character to make his way into a mainline film: Spider-Man: No Way Home. | |
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Jurassic Park (1993) is a widely-acclaimed visual masterpiece, whose two sequels are generally reviled. Although the belated fourth entry Jurassic World was much better received commercially, most people would agree that it doesn't live up to the first film's standards, and its followup Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom even less so (to the point that the reputation of the second film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which shares some plot points, was slightly upgraded). Once Jurassic World Dominion came out, it ended up creating a subsection of this trope, as everyone agreed the first of the World trilogy was the best. | |
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Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables | |
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Metal Heroes: The first installment in the series, Space Sheriff Gavan, is by far the most iconic and Gavan himself is the Metal Hero most subject to getting homages, even getting his own movie decades after the series ended. In Brazil it's a different case. Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion is the fourth installment of Metal Heroes, but it was first Metal Hero series to be brought over there, and to this day remains the most popular. In fact, when Jikuu Senshi Spielban was brought over next, it was called "Juspion 2: Spielvan". |
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Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, a.k.a. 48 Preludes and Fugues. The entire work is a masterpiece, but the first Prelude remains its best-known portion. | |
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Scary Movie serves for both its own series (though the third has its fans) and the ouvre of co-writers Seltzer and Friedberg, who went on to make their own Narrow and Shallow Parody films with the suffix "Movie" (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie), almost universally hated by critics. Although it wasn't their actual first screenwriting gig, that being Spy Hard. | |
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Everyone knows about Little Women. Its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys however... not so much. In the UK only the first half of Little Women is known, because the second part was published separately as Good Wives. | |
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Most people consider the first of the Pirates of the Caribbean series to be the best because it was fresh and original in its style and humor, although the second and third were bigger at the box office. | |
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Choudenshi Bioman gets this in the Philippines and France as the first Sentai broadcast there, despite Bioman itself being the 8th installment in Super Sentai. | |
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There have been over thirty Godzilla movies, and the original 1954 one is STILL the highest rated on Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB and Letterboxd (as well as amongst the fanbase) and the most famous in the popular mind, even if few have actually seen it. It wasn't until the release of Godzilla Minus One almost 70 years later that fans felt there was another Godzilla film that rivalled it. | |
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Much like SpongeBob, the first three seasons of Rugrats are also generally considered the best. Some will throw Seasons 4 and 5 in with the first three, but beyond that, the seasons get pretty divisive. Also, of the four shows in the Rugrats franchise, the original 1991 series is, by far, the most remembered, and is the one that is looked back on most fondly. | |
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A Christmas Story is far more well known than its direct sequelIt Runs in the Family (1994) (also known as My Summer Story (an adaptation of another part of the source novel), to the point that its universally panned and more obscure Direct-to-DVD threequel was titled A Christmas Story 2. | |
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Between the four Futurama direct-to-DVD movies, Bender's Big Score is by far and away the most popular with fans, with some even wishing that we had gotten a theatrical Futurama movie based on its storyline, rather than the four DVD movies (and later Comedy Central seasons) that we actually did get. | |
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Despite its short length, Brock Lesnar's original WWE run from 2002-04 is significantly more revered than his 2012 return. This is because unlike his second run, Lesnar made regular appearances, had a more diverse moveset, actually did his own promos, and in general at least appeared to give a damn about his work. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: While the 2003, 2012 and 2018 shows have their share of fans, the original 1987 cartoon remains the most well-known and popular. The first season is also called the best by several fans of the show, due to having the best animation in it and for allowing the turtles to use their weapons more. Speaking of the 2012 series, a good portion of that show's fandom also feels the first two seasons were the best, due to being the only seasons the original crew worked on. |
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El Eternauta: The original is widely regarded as a masterpiece and the greatest Argentinian comic ever made. Perceptions of the various sequels and follow-ups range from okay but not as good as the first, to angry leftist propaganda disguised as comics, to cheap, disgraceful tie-in crap that has no right to exist. | |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was deemed a fun movie that kept true to the Harry Potter franchise even if with massive Adaptation Expansion. The sequels are divisive at best. | |
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Although some fans seem to consider her second album her best, Tuesday Night Music Club is Sheryl Crow's strongest album to date. | |
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Allen Drury's Advise & Consent was a best-seller that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, inspired a successful film adaptation and remains a Trope Codifier for the modern Government Procedural. Its sequels have faded into obscurity, largely because they veer into right-wing polemics against Communism, liberals, the UN and minorities. To give you an idea, one book ends with a Soviet takeover of the United States. | |
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The first Ice Age film is the best-reviewed of the series and the only one nominated for Best Animated Feature. Granted, the series has a status as a Franchise Zombie and while the sequels do have their fans, none of them are considered universally good by even the fans of the original. Ice Age: The Meltdown: More like first sequel in this case. The Meltdown is the best-reviewed Ice Age sequel among critics and audiences, receiving praise for being a natural continuation of the first movie's story and having mostly good additions to the cast as well as some positive critics and fans arguing that this film is just as good as, or an Even Better Sequel to the original movie. |
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Almost no one knows The Giver has three sequels, rendering all those English essays about the "ambiguous" ending completely moot. One of the "sequels" only barely references The Giver, another is plenty ambiguous itself, but the third clearly explains the ending of the original. | |
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The Bad Seed (1956) is undoubtedly a psychological horror classic that successfully displaced the book it was based on. The movie was remade twice, in 1985 and again in 2018, which are nowhere near as remembered, if they are ever fortunate enough to be mentioned. | |
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Scooby-Doo: The original 1969-1971 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is by far the most popular and influential incarnation of the franchise, being the origin of all of the franchise's famous memes and Once per Episode conventions. While Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated are both far more critically acclaimed by both fans and critics, neither will ever beat the original for recognition by the general public. Speaking of Zombie Island, it was the first entry in the long-running franchise of Direct-to-Video Scooby-Doo films. To this day, Zombie Island remains the most acclaimed and most well-remembered. The movies that immediately followed (The Witch's Ghost, The Alien Invaders, and The Cyber Chase) are all held in high regard, with The Witch's Ghost in particular birthing the Hex Girls, but not to the same degree. And every other DTV film ever since that original tetralogy — though some have their own followings, such as Legend of the Phantosaur for being the launching pad of the Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme — are often overlooked or see mixed response. |
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Fan re-dubbed clip-shows, originating from god-knows-where, are generally referred to in their respective forms and themes by the originators of them. Examples include: AMV Hell, which has become a catch-all term for any clip show featuring several different Anime series; Phoenix Wrong, for Flash-made Ace Attorney-based clip shows. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power also borrowed a lot from the first trilogy and tried to compete withe it, but is clearly overshadowed by the movies in the eyes of the viewer. | |
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Elaine Stritch as Joanne ("The Ladies Who Lunch") in Stephen Sondheim's Company | |
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Metal purists will swear by Fear Factory's debut Soul of a New Machine and especially their follow-up Demanufacture, considered a masterpiece and one of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s. The jury is still out on its successor, the concept album Obsolete, though there is a small faction that considers it to be the band's finest hour. | |
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There have been several Beyblade anime series, but the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade series that started it is the most well-known. | |
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Speaking of Zombie Island, it was the first entry in the long-running franchise of Direct-to-Video Scooby-Doo films. To this day, Zombie Island remains the most acclaimed and most well-remembered. The movies that immediately followed (The Witch's Ghost, The Alien Invaders, and The Cyber Chase) are all held in high regard, with The Witch's Ghost in particular birthing the Hex Girls, but not to the same degree. And every other DTV film ever since that original tetralogy — though some have their own followings, such as Legend of the Phantosaur for being the launching pad of the Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme — are often overlooked or see mixed response. | |
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For Deltora Quest, most people outside Australia will likely only be familiar with the very first book series which is about the protagonist Lief and his friends Barda and Jasmine finding the seven gems to put on the belt. Far less people will be familiar with the second or third book series despite them containing plenty of great adventure and interest to fans like Lief and Jasmine becoming an Official Couple for one and taming dragons for another. Of course the popularity of the anime adaptation, that only covers the first book series, helps with the Pirran Pipe and Four Sister sequel series books obscurity. Usually resulting in “Wait there’s more?� responses from people whom have only watched the anime or read the manga adaptations and are informed that there were more adventures afterwards. The video game and board game adaptations are also based purely on the first book series. | |
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The Mysterious Island is much less well known than 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. | |
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Ender's Game is definitely the most popular book in its the series. Ironically, Orson Scott Card only expanded the short story upon which it's based so he could provide backstory for Speaker for the Dead, the story he really wanted to tell. | |
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In regards to the Sequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens is the least controversial of the three films and had the most consistently positive critical reception from both critics and audiences (The Last Jedi was subject to Critical Dissonance and major Broken Base, and The Rise of Skywalker has received mixed reviews across the board). | |
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Superman: The Movie is usually considered the best of the four films, often garnering the highest star reviews among critics, and having the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is the highest grossing of the Christopher Reeve films as well. | |
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As both the first movie based on Saturday Night Live sketches (though it's been at odds with Wayne's World for a while) and the first in its series, The Blues Brothers is one of the best known of them while Blues Brothers 2000 — and many other SNL movies — proved to be silver screen flops. | |
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Not only is Silence considered to be Sonata Arctica's magnum opus by most of the band's listeners, but quite a few consider them to have jumped the shark with Winterheart's Guild and never looked back. Some take it even further and swear by their debut Ecliptica and have little interest in anything further. | |
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Catch-22 received a sequel called Closing Time. It was written 33 years after the original novel and has essentially been ignored. Nothing else Joseph Heller ever wrote came close to Catch-22 in popularity. His rather brilliant comment on the situation: | |
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In the Ultra Series, the 60s and 70s series (especially the original Ultraman and Ultraseven) are far more famous and popular in Japan (and the west, to a lesser extent) than their 90s-onwards counterparts. That's not to say those series don't enjoy their share of success (as is the case with Ultraman Tiga and Ultraman Mebius), but there is a reason why most people think of the older shows when they think "Ultraman" (or even be unaware the franchise is still producing shows today) and the producers tend to bring back older monsters over newer ones. | |
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Jaws had sequels. The second is mostly remembered for the tagline ("Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."). The other two, for intense decay (culminating in the Voodoo Shark and another famous tagline: "It's Personal"). In a variant, many consider this to apply to all the movies that tried to follow the steps of it, with the first Jaws being the only good movie about sharks (at most Open Water and The Shallows get a pass, and both had to take a different approach to the overall "shark attack" story). | |
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Saw is near unanimously regarded as the best Saw movie, with many going so far as to call it the only good one. Of the nine sequels only Saw X has recieved anywhere near the same level of praise. Some of this can be explained by the abrupt shift from Psychological Horror Police Procedural to Torture Porn, a subgenre that not only alienates a large number of potential viewers but also largely fell out of favor in The New '10s. The other commonly cited reason is the growing Kudzu Plot, which really started to kick in after the death of the original Jigsaw, John Kramer, in Saw III. | |
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2001: A Space Odyssey vs. its sequels, both cinematic and literary. | |
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The Super Dog from Krypton introduced Krypto, Superman's dog who quickly became a hit between readers and inspired dozens of imitators (like Ace the Bat-Hound, Streaky the Super-Cat...). By the 1990s, DC did not want multiple Kryptonian characters around, not even dogs, so they tried to replace him with a common Earth dog who was named "Krypto" by a Superman fanboy...and who hardly someone became popular in-and-out-universe and only made a handful of appearances before being sent to comic-book Limbo, completely forgotten and replaced by the returning original Krypto. | |
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When it comes to Spider-Man and his Live-Action Adaptation the very first first film trilogy by Sam Raimi (particularly the first two movies) are far more conclusively liked than their successors The Amazing Spider-Man duology and the Spider-Man: Homecoming Trilogy which is set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe despite the latter instalments having numerous fans especially the latter. Telling the third film of the Homecoming films Spider-Man: No Way Home is such a crowd pleaser in no small part because it brings back characters from the original Raimi films. | |
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Winnie the Pooh is a more complicated example than most of the DAC due to its enormous supply of follow-up material, including a sequel made by WDAS, four B Team Sequels, a live-action adaptation, four TV shows, and a near-endless amount of holiday specials. While The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is usually the most well regarded with Disney buffs, a lot of its continuations are still praised for being rare effortful Disney follow ons, with many Pooh fans praising cases such as Pooh's Grand Adventure, The Tigger Movie or even The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh TV series as Growing the Beard moments for the franchise due to more poignant and consistent storytelling. | |
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Robotech fans are most passionate about the Super Dimension Fortress Macross Saga. It's also the most familiar installment to those who might only be casually familiar with Robotech. Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (The Masters) and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (The New Generation) have their fans, but their lack of recognition may have to do with merchandising in Japan. The Valkyrie mecha (Veritech Fighter) has become an institution in and of itself. The Spartus hovertank and Alpha Fighter...not so much. It's reflective of how the original shows were also received in Japan; Macross has become a respectable Long Running franchise in its own right, while there has been little interest in revisiting the settings of Southern Cross and MOSPEADA. | |
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According to most of the general public, Live only had two albums: their grandiose U2-esque folk-rock debut Mental Jewelry and its Darker and Edgier, grunge-styled and stylistically chaotic commercial breakthrough Throwing Copper. Everything afterwards doesn't actually exist. | |
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Ratt's debut album Out of the Cellar is regarded as a Hair Metal classic and their best album. Their later work often received mixed reviews from critics. | |
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Usually, when a wrestler changes their theme song, the new one quickly becomes more iconic than the previous ones. One exception is Sheamus's "Written in My Face", which has become so iconic thanks in no small part to its memetic mishearings that it will be difficult to top. | |
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Both the sequel and the prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service could not replicate the original's acclaim. | |
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For a lot of people the first season of Stranger Things will always dwarf the second and third seasons, simply for having the right combination of 80s grittiness and heart with its cast as well as having enough unexplained mystery and intrigue. When discussing the series, the now iconic moments of Joyce using the Christmas lights to communicate to Will and Eleven saving Mike and Dustin before having a Group Hug are brought up far more than moments from the second and third seasons. Incredibly, the fourth season, thanks to numerous great scenes and new characters and what is generally considered a huge improvement from Seasons 2 and 3, has managed to rival the first, being extremely acclaimed and discussed, even if the first season is still the best liked overall. | |
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Many fans prefer to watch Alien and Aliens and then stop there. There are fanbases for Alien³ and Alien: Resurrection (which to be fair are actually okay films - though the over-the-topness of the fourth one is a point of contention - though definitely not as good as the original). Opinions are split on Prometheus; half the Alien fanbase considers it to be an incredible and intriguing new entry into the canon which gives a whole new area of the Alien Universe to explore and accepts it as canon, the other half believes it to be an unoriginal mess of ideas and tries to ignore it. Alien: Covenant featured a lot of Pandering to the Base starring the Xenomorphs heavily but ironically only managed to divide fans further and make people appreciate the first’s film subtlety and smaller scope even more. | |
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Recess: School's Out is a lot more well known and more well received by fans than either Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade and Recess: All Growed Down. Plus, the other two were released Direct to Video, and Recess: All Growed Down consisted of three previous episodes of the show it's based on, a never-before-seen origin story, and linking material, though Disney refers to it as a movie. | |
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The original cast of Hamilton, with emphasis on Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr, Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Daveed Diggs as the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, and Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler. | |
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Even hardcore fans of the whole Earth's Children series tend to agree the first book, The Clan of the Cave Bear, is the strongest book; it's the most critically acclaimed entry, is less divisive amongst readers compared to the sequels, and lacks some of the writing flaws of the later entries such as excessive padding and narrative bloat (most fans still enjoy the next three books despite their flaws, while the last two got a far more mixed reception and are agreed to be the weakest entries). Chances are you'll be more familiar with the title The Clan of the Cave Bear than Earth's Children (the title of the whole series); one of the alternate titles for this series' TV Tropes entry is Clan of the Cave Bear. | |
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Stevie Nicks' solo debut Bella Donna is still her most popular album. | |
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Foo Fighters have either their debut, which is arguably the one that got most acclaim, or The Colour and the Shape, the first as a full band (as Foo Fighters is really a Dave Grohl solo album), sometimes called their masterwork, and the most commercially successful with songs such as "Monkey Wrench", "My Hero" and their possible Signature Song "Everlong". | |
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Anne of Green Gables (by L. M. Montgomery) goes on to become Anne of Avonlea, The Island, Windy Poplars, her own House of Dreams, and Ingleside - then her kids take over. A popular "boxed set" of this series includes only the first three books. | |
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Electronic music duo Justice reached early acclaim with their debut album †(Cross), universally praised for its uniquely raw, commanding "opera-disco" dance sound, becoming one of the most famous Electro House albums of the Aughts. Future albums have garnered more divisive reactions from audiences and critics as the duo sought to move onto sounds more inspired by their personal influences, including the Progressive Rock leanings of Audio, Video, Disco and the psychedelic Disco tinges of Woman. Reactions are so polarized that there's significant schism among audiences and critics alike, colloquially joked as "Those who like Justice, and those who like Cross". | |
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Left Behind. Would you believe that, counting the three prequels, there are SIXTEEN books in the series? The later ones tend to suffer a bit from Arc Fatigue. | |
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First Blood manages to somehow be both this and Early-Installment Weirdness: while the name "Rambo" is more associated with the wanton death and destruction featured in the sequels, the general consensus is that the first movie is still the best, with a more compelling plot and dramatic study of trauma, rather than the mindless jingoistic war porn that followed. | |
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Batman (1989) is widely beloved in comparison to its far more controversial sequels: the Contested Batman Returns (though it was later Vindicated by History), the even more contested Batman Forever, and the widely-reviled Batman & Robin. It's also the obvious favorite within the "classic" Batman quadrilogy. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls: In terms of the 1998 show, many fans consider the first four seasons to be the best of the show. Seasons 5 and 6—which were produced after Craig McCracken left to work on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, are considered a sharp decline in quality. In general, the 1998 series is considered the best of the franchise. People tend to overlook the infamously despised 2016 reboot or the often-forgotten 2006 anime adaptation due to their lack of involvement from Craig McCracken, along with the former spending less time on the superhero aspect of the PPG—being more of a Sliceof Life comedy with a more surreal tone, while the anime functions more like a Magical Girl show a la Sailor Moon. |
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µ's, the first group of the Love Live! franchise, remains the most popular and influential group outside of the series' fanbase despite the strong success of Aqours and Nijigasaki, with many of its members, songs and memes being more easily recognizable to non-fans. | |
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An American Tail has three sequels; Fievel Goes West, The Treasure of Manhattan Island, and The Mystery of the Night Monster. Of the four movies, the original remains the best remembered, probably thanks to the involvement of Don Bluth, although Fievel Goes West is a bit of a Contested Sequel and has its fans. | |
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Possessed produced two solid works after their debut album Seven Churches, but those will forever be in the shadow of that monster. Churches is widely considered one of the most influential metal albums ever and one of the earliest albums to give rise to Death Metal. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! was a multi-million dollar smash hit when imported overseas. While the card game is still popular enough to warrant dubbing the series, most fans of the original won't accept anything from GX and onward.note Though technically it was the second Yu-Gi-Oh! series, it was the first imported to the US. | |
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When it comes to the Avengers films and which one truly stands on its own merits, The Avengers (2012) has by far the least Broken Base and tightest story of the tetralogy with a manageable cast of characters, best balance of grittiness and lightheartedness, many spectacular fights sequences and is what truly made the MCU the industry juggernaut that it became. Of its sequels Avengers: Infinity War and to a slightly lesser extent Avengers: Endgame rival its acclaim but have far more caveats and discourse, though its generally agreed that Avengers: Age of Ultron is the real weakest entry (despite having its fair share of fans). | |
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Charlie Chan spoofs and homages pay little attention to The House Without a Key, which in both film and prose started the Charlie Chan series (the film remains lost as of 2009, however). The "Number One Son" Henry first appeared in the novel Black Camel. Keye Luke played him in the films (in the first film, they explicitly refer to Luke's role as Henry). | |
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The music magazine Kerrang! published a readers' poll of the best British rock albums. Top of the list was the debut album by Black Sabbath. | |
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Purely in terms of manga, the original Toriyama Dragon Ball run from 1984 to 1995 * The latter half was rebranded in the west as Z as most people know it outclasses the official Sequel Series manga Dragon Ball Super by Toyotarou. This even reflected by the fact the Super manga has Traced Artwork of poses and moves from the original series. Subverted of course when it comes to the Animated Adaptation as the Z anime brutally overshadows its predecessor the original anime to the extent where the latter practically doesn’t exist for mainstream audiences. | |
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Within the franchise itself, Beast Wars's corner of the continuity has this going on. The original Beast Wars is seen as one of the pinnacles of the franchise, while everything to do with the Beast Era since then (Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, Beast Machines, the Universe and Collector's Club comics, IDW's Gathering and Ascension, Dawn of the Predacus), has been at best controversial, and more than a few attempted followups contradict or outright ignore one another, only taking the original cartoon as canon. The only one uncontroversially seen as good is Beast Wars: Uprising, which, on top of being far more obscure, is also an extremely heavy Alternate Universe. Depictions of the characters, such as their Masterpiece toys, also almost invariably use their Season 1 designs. | |
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The Blair Witch Project was followed by two sequels and launched a multimedia franchise due to its massive financial success in spite of a minuscule budget. However, the other installments are considered forgettable at best, in large part due to the original film's gimmick being heavily Viral Marketing oriented, tricking the audience with advertising that insisted the events shown were real (as well as being one of the first Found Footage Films). This was an innovative new promotion strategy at the time, but it would be impossible to play it off again, turning the rest into basically bog-standard horror movies. | |
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YMMV as to whether or not Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is masterful or overrated, but when its sequel, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, was released, it marked the beginning, for many fans, of the Creator Breakdown of Frank Miller. Things only got worse when All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder came out, whether you accept it as a prequel or not. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984) is more popular than its 1989 sequel and the 1980s cartoon that followed, which only added the mood slime and Slimer as the Team Pet to the series. Not even the mid-to-late 1990s animated reboot Extreme Ghostbusters is remembered much (though it has been somewhat Vindicated by History and does have a following by those nostalgic for obscure 1990s cartoons that aired in first-run syndication). And the less said about the 2016 all-female remake, the better. Much of why Ghostbusters: Afterlife was so warmly received by the fandom revolves around its extended homage to the original movie. The phrase "lightning in a bottle" is frequently used to describe the original movie, as it features a cast of seasoned comic actors in the height of their prime giving some career-highlight performances, whereas most sequels and adaptations hinge far more on the novelty of the core "supernatural extermination service" premise rather than on the quality of the humor, to decidedly mixed results. | |
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The first book in The Twilight Saga is considered to be the best and is the most well known. While not considered a great work of art by any stretch of the imagination, it's seen as an overly long and flawed but enjoyable paranormal teen romance. It's also the lowest stakes book and focused on the romance rather than the world around it. The sequels are a lot more divisive due to increasingly bizarre and uncomfortable plot developments (like an eighteen year old boy falling in love with a baby), Wangst, Character Derailment, and lots and lots of Padding. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. The general public is most familiar with the plot and jokes from Season 1, despite the show changing drastically in the years since. This is understandable when you consider that Season 1 has the most episodes out of any season of the show (530 episodes, to be precise), it still airs in some countries, and people tend to stop following the show after Season 1. | |
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When it comes to The Hunger Games while its two sequels have a lot of fans, most people simply enjoy the first book of the trilogy the most for its Battle Royale-esque Deadly Game simplicity with the YA dystopia being the backdrop, rather than the main focus. This also reflected in the box office of the film adaptations as while The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire which both contained Hunger Games were huge hits, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay which is about the revolution did far less well. Although granted splitting the book into two films wasn’t exactly a point in its favour either. | |
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The original 1969-1971 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is by far the most popular and influential incarnation of the franchise, being the origin of all of the franchise's famous memes and Once per Episode conventions. While Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated are both far more critically acclaimed by both fans and critics, neither will ever beat the original for recognition by the general public. | |
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Halloween: The first film is considered a horror movie masterpiece that helped codify a genre. The reputation of its numerous sequels ranges from So Okay, It's Average to nearly incomprehensible garbage, to the point the franchise had to be remade or rebooted three times. | |
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Beowulf has three sections, each linked to the monster that Beowulf fights. His first fight with Grendel is by far the most famous. Not surprisingly, Grendel has become a somewhat famous mythical monster, even inspiring a Twice-Told Tale (John Gardner's Grendel) in which he is the antihero of the story. Grendel's mother and the dragon, neither even having a name, are not nearly as well remembered. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Everyone knows of the first movie of the Pokémon anime. People also tend to know about the next two. But people outside the fandom are typically oblivious to the fact that there are 23 films and counting. The first season of the anime (Indigo League) is also the most recognized outside of the fanbase. Out of all the theme songs of the Pokémon anime that have been made in the US, the first theme is considered by many to be the best and is easily the most recognized. A new cover of the original theme was composed for the XY series. The Johto League Champions season uses the first verse, but afterwards diverges into its own theme. A fair amount of fans dislike the XY Mega Evolution Specials for their more serious stories and the older lead of Alain, preferring the more idealistic take on the series with Ash. This hate only intensified when Alain appeared in the main series and, in a very controversial decision, beat Ash at the Kalos League to become its Champion. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebooks: While the series consists of six books and each have different set of author(s) per two books, majority of the fans tend to agree that the James Wallis books - more specificity Metal City Mayhem and Zone Rangers - are the best books in the series, mainly for having a darker edge, sharper humor and engaging stories compared to the other books. | |
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All the aspects of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which have experienced Popcultural Osmosis are exclusively from the first book in the series. You'd be very hard-pressed to find someone aware of anything beyond that book; that it was the only installment adapted for film doesn't help. This also extends to the work of Douglas Adams in general; Hitchhiker's is by far his best-known work, and his other books are dwarfed to a massive degree by it. In a subversion, not many people are aware that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) was a BBC Radio series before it was a book. (Though the radio series is itself an example: the well-known parts of the story are all from the "primary phase".) | |
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The Karate Kid: The first film is considered a pop culture classic, with the "wax on, wax off," and the crane stance being the most referenced scenes in the series, even with the second film being considered a strong improvement over the first. Most felt that the third film was mediocre in comparison to the previous two because it's just the first movie but a different guy fighting Daniel in the tournament. You also have Daniel's character, who matured a bit in the second film, while in the third he suffered a case of Flanderization. The less said about The Next Karate Kid the better. The 2010 remake/reboot was met with decent critical and fan reception, but didn't leave a lasting impact on pop culture. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the first film ever based on one of Roald Dahl's books, is still indisputably the most iconic and beloved film ever adapted from his work. Ironically enough, it was the least successful at the box office; the most successful was the book's second trip to the big screen, which later faced intense backlash for being seen as an insult to the original. While Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Fantastic Mr. Fox are still cult classics, and generally more respected today than the 2005 Charlie, neither of them are quite on the level as the 1971 Willy Wonka. | |
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Warrior Cats: The first series of Warriors is universally considered the best of the numerous story arcs (there are five total series planned, plus plenty of Expanded Universe books out.) The other Erin Hunter series are financially successful but are not nearly quite as popular, probably because Warriors is a tough act to follow. |
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Tsukihime: This Visual Novel separates different parts of the story by which girl you end up with. But because some information is revealed before others, you have to see every girl's story in a certain order, to its full conclusion. (START Arcueid->Ciel->Akiha->Hisui->Kohaku END.) Since Tsukihime truly is a novel, with tens of thousands of lines of text, casual players without a lot of time to devote to the game only play the first installment, Arcueid's route, without getting far enough to start on anyone else's. Arcueid is also the most popular of all the main heroines among fans, completely defying the First Girl Wins rule. And how many people have actually played its sequel, Kagetsu Tohya? Both have been fan-translated for years but the first game is still better known. |
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The first two Home Alone films are considered absolute classics (in particular the first). The next four? Not so much. The only thing that people ever bring up about the third film is that the lead character's older sister was played by a teenage actress named Scarlett Johansson. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) is the only installment in the 90s live-action film series whose quality the fanbase can widely regard as good. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze has its defenders, but many criticize it for being Lighter and Softer and not having enough action, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is widely considered the worst film in the entire franchise, and animated quasi-sequel TMNT is a Contested Sequel at its finest. | |
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The first season of Once Upon a Time is generally the best received and least controversial season with fans due to having a more cohesive storyline compared to the following seasons that suffered from The Chris Carter Effect and got divisive reception at best. | |
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For fans of the band Morbid Angel, their first three albums (Altars of Madness, Blessed are the Sick, and Covenant), especially Altars, are regarded as their best and most influential works, with their remaining albums succumbing to various degrees of of Contested Sequel, Fanon Discontinuity, and, with their post-2000 releases, Seasonal Rot. | |
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Highlander is much better known than its sequels, like the notorious second one. A common saying among the fandom is "There should have been only one." | |
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The LEGO Movie remains the most critically and financially successful of LEGO's theatrical films. While most of the later ones also received warm receptions in their own rights, the majority of viewers seem to find the novelty of the toys reaching the big screen, with more charm and depth than the average Merchandise-Driven cartoon, felt freshest in the original. | |
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Most people have heard of King Solomon's Mines. H. Rider Haggard's other fourteen Allan Quatermain books: not so much. | |
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Flo Rida's debut single, "Low", is still a beloved 2000s pop classic, contrasting with the rest of his music often falling under Critical Dissonance at best. | |
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Rabbit Fire is the best remembered and the best known short of Chuck Jones' "Hunting Trilogy". Though, some fans see the other two shorts as Even Better Sequels. | |
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Ace Attorney: Reflected in both the flashback case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and the trial in London at the start of Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney where, despite the events taking place around the time of the third game in the series, they use music from the first. The Pursuit theme from the first game is so beloved that it returns in Trials and Tribulations in the final case when you are about to present the final piece of evidence to prove Godot's guilt of murdering Misty Fey. |
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The original series has the most spin-offs and merchandise, including video games, models, toys, manga, etc. etc. Outside of Japan, however... | |
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The first four seasons of Family Guy seem to be the most popular, considering it was mainly before the show was Un-Canceled. The gruesome and brutal content after the show's cancellation, however, are contested at best and hated at worst. | |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remains the most popular book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series. The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, being a two-parter story, are considered a bit inferiors and the continuation trilogy after the original author's death is very controversal. It also helps that the American adaptation of the first book was a critical hit while the subsequent film The Girl in the Spider's Web (adapted from the fourth book) was a flop. | |
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Transformers (2007) is widely considered the best (aside from Bumblebee or the 1986 animated movie), as it is devoid of all the problems caused by Sequel Escalation, such as overtly complicated plots and action scenes that border on Sensory Overload. | |
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John Cena will always be a rapper to casual wrestling fans, even though he hasn't acted as a rapper for the majority of his career. (And ironically, while the rap shtick was one of his first gimmicks, it wasn't the very first one.) | |
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Robinson Crusoe got two sequels, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (although the last one is a series of essays to which Crusoe's name was added in order to boost sales). | |
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Our Lady Peace's debut Naveed is widely considered a masterwork of concise, well-written Alternative Rock that the band has never come close to reproducing. | |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first book written in The Chronicles of Narnia (though second in chronological reading order due to the prequel The Magician's Nephew). It's by far the best remembered, to such a degree that many aren't even aware it's only the first in a series. This also seems to have carried over into adaptations, with the film adaptation of Prince Caspian not doing as well as its predecessor. | |
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The Universal Horror classics are almost, well, universally examples of this. The originals —Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man in the first wave, The Wolf Man a decade later, and Creature from the Black Lagoon a decade after that — spawned sixteen sequels, not including the Abbott and Costello comedies. Of those 16, Bride of Frankenstein is almost universally (there it is again) considered an Even Better Sequel; Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is remembered for Canon Welding the gang into a shared universe; and, for those who have seen it, Dracula's Daughter is a Contested Sequel in terms of comparison to the original's quality. The rest, well... | |
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The most well-known installments in the series, G Gundam, Gundam SEED and Gundam Wing, were made close to twenty years after the original; and fans of the Universal Century timeline tend to prefer Zeta Gundam. The Compilation Movie trilogy of the original Mobile Suit Gundam tends to be pretty well-received, though, for having removed some of the sillier elements, improved animation, etc. (the movies were what made Gundam a success in the first place, with the first TV series being canceled due to low ratings). |
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Out of The Lord of the Rings films, The Return of the King won the most awards and The Two Towers was the best-reviewed, but in the years since the trilogy's release, The Fellowship of the Ring has proven to be the most well-remembered of them by far. For instance, the Fellowship-exclusive character Boromir is far more well-known than his brother Faramir despite the latter's large role in the sequels, the showdown between Gandalf and the Balrog is the single most iconic moment in the trilogy, a disproportionate number of Fellowship quotes have been immortalized as memes, and Gandalf's grey outfit is far more recognizable than the white one he dons in the sequels.note Strictly speaking, they're not "sequels" so much as the latter two-thirds of a single story Divided for Publication, but the point stands. | |
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Scarlett was the sequel to Gone with the Wind. Bet most of you didn't even know there was one, Timothy Dalton fans not included. It was written by another author after Margaret Mitchell died and generally regarded as a cheap attempt to cash in on the demand for a sequel. Mitchell's Estate regards Scarlett as non-canon, but commissioned an official sequel titled Rhett Butler's People. | |
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Is This It by The Strokes is widely considered their masterwork by fans and critics alike, and is arguably the definitive record from the garage rock revival era. Only their second album, Room on Fire, really seems to compare favorably to their debut, with subsequent releases receiving a decidedly more lukewarm critical and commercial response. | |
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While everybody agrees that The Sopranos was a great show through and through, most point to the first season as its best overall. | |
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The first season of the anime (Indigo League) is also the most recognized outside of the fanbase. Out of all the theme songs of the Pokémon anime that have been made in the US, the first theme is considered by many to be the best and is easily the most recognized. A new cover of the original theme was composed for the XY series. The Johto League Champions season uses the first verse, but afterwards diverges into its own theme. | |
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Everyone's heard of Ben Drowned. Greatly fewer have heard of the Moon Children, and hardly anyone outside of Within Hubris has heard of Ryukaki. | |
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While Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level have their fans and are undoubtedly successful, the original Jumanji with Robin Williams is still considered the best decades on being the most heartfelt, compelling and actually thrillingly scary of the franchise, despite not making the Dwayne the Rock Johnson box office money like its sequels did. | |
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''Steamboat Willie", Mickey Mouse's first sound appearance, is by far the most referenced of Mickey's shorts. Fortunately, it also happens to be one of the funniest of Mickey's cartoons. | |
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Whenever Sailor Moon is brought up in popular culture, the shout-outs will usually have only the first five Sailor Guardians, Queen Beryl as the main villain, and Sailor Moon will be in her iconic red, white, and blue costume. If you're lucky, Sailor Pluto or Chibiusa might appear. the live-action series was a stand-alone show that only retold the first storyline. In fact, while the re-dub of the original series by Viz Media is considered vastly superior quality, with better voice-acting and no Bowdlerization or Dub-Induced Plotline Changes, it's the original DIC version from The '90s that many people still talk about, probably for that very same reason (and the well-regarded soundtrack). | |
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The Walking Dead Television Universe: While many fans have numerous complaints about the later seasons, they tend to still hold the original series as being superior to any of the various spin-offs. | |
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Whenever Transformers is ever referenced in popular media, the references will almost always be about the original cartoon (with occasional mentions of the AllSpark). By now, though, the movieverse has eclipsed all else when it comes to what the world at large (as opposed to actual fans of the franchise) thinks of when they think of it; by now, you'll hear the name "Bumblebee" even more than "Optimus Prime" in passing due to 'Bee's increased screentime. However, the franchise deserves special mention in terms of this trope because of the purist fans - to them, G1 isn't just the most memorable, but They Changed It, Now It Sucks! as practically a religion. It's hard to find a Star Trek fan who hates TNG for simply not being TOS, but if you dare suggest something not G1 is something other than garbage, let alone better, well... it won't be pretty. This has improved somewhat in recent years, though, largely as the original G1 fandom has been fairly willing to admit the original cartoon was none too hot itself. The TFwiki also discusses "GEEWUN", about parts of the Unpleasable Fanbase who only like the G1 stuff. Within the franchise itself, Beast Wars's corner of the continuity has this going on. The original Beast Wars is seen as one of the pinnacles of the franchise, while everything to do with the Beast Era since then (Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, Beast Machines, the Universe and Collector's Club comics, IDW's Gathering and Ascension, Dawn of the Predacus), has been at best controversial, and more than a few attempted followups contradict or outright ignore one another, only taking the original cartoon as canon. The only one uncontroversially seen as good is Beast Wars: Uprising, which, on top of being far more obscure, is also an extremely heavy Alternate Universe. Depictions of the characters, such as their Masterpiece toys, also almost invariably use their Season 1 designs. |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown: More like first sequel in this case. The Meltdown is the best-reviewed Ice Age sequel among critics and audiences, receiving praise for being a natural continuation of the first movie's story and having mostly good additions to the cast as well as some positive critics and fans arguing that this film is just as good as, or an Even Better Sequel to the original movie. | |
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Noir, the first installment of Bee Train's Girls with Guns trilogy, remains by far the most famous and popular one, despite Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja's virtues. | |
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Despite having three theatrical sequels and four DTV installments to its name, the first American Pie is still the most-remembered of the franchise. In addition to being released the most times of any of the films (in both rated/unrated Collector's/Ultimate editions and compilation boxsets), it featured most of the signature moments the series became famous for. | |
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Downton Abbey: The first season is regarded the most favorably with almost universal appreciation. The second season is reasonably popular but criticized for its more soap-opera like elements, the third is disliked because of Sybil and Matthew's deaths and the fourth went past the point of no return for a lot of viewers. | |
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Saint Seiya: Any shout-out almost always refer to the Gold Saints or something from the Sanctuary arc in general. The Poseidon and Hades arcs are never brought up. | |
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The Muppets: There have been follow-up series after The Muppet Show, but the first is the most famous. The other shows used new settings, while the Muppet Theater setting is usually the one depicted in merchandise. The Muppets (2015) put the show in a different format from the previous shows, and following that show's cancellation, the Muppets have done a number of live shows invoking the classic Muppet Show format. But then again, all the follow-up shows were Short-Runners. Gonzo and various members of The Electric Mayhem have changed their default outfits over the years, but in merchandise and illustrations, the characters are generally depicted in their original outfits. |
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