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Tough Act to Follow	comment	A work which attains such overwhelming success that it dooms its creator's later efforts to languish in its shadow. The follow-up may have its own merits, but fans will dismiss it because it doesn't stand up to the original. Essentially the creative version of typecasting. May overlap with Author Usurpation, which is when the work is so popular that no one is aware that the artist made anything else — and if they are aware, they don't care. Contrast Protection from Editors, for when the new creations do suck but get published anyway, or need more work if they're not going to suck but no one dares tell you this. Compare with Glory Days. See also First Installment Wins, Sophomore Slump, Post-Script Season, Follow-Up Failure, and One-Hit Wonder. Contrast with Breakthrough Hit, when a successful work leads to a series of hits. If fans become split over this, it will lead to a Broken Base. This will often lead to sequelitis and/or contested sequels. Frustration over this trope may cause Creator Backlash. If the creator views any subsequent work(s) as superior to the overshadowing "masterpiece", then it may also be a case of Magnum Opus Dissonance.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_10813376	comment	Lisa Marie Varon - in her 'Victoria' persona - had her first major feud against Trish Stratus. Considered one of the most intense women's feuds in WWE, it involved hardcore matches, table matches and street fights, and a memorable segment where Trish was knocked out with a steel chair! It climaxed in a triple threat at WrestleMania XIX (involving Jazz as well) also considered one of the best women's matches at the event. Although she became Women's Champion again, and stayed with WWE until 2009 (and had a decent run in TNA for another few years after that), she still couldn't recapture the intensity of that first feud. It didn't help that her character became Denser and Wackier, and was more often treated as a joke.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_131af0da	comment	The Boogiepop Series is a Trope Codifier of the light novel medium, and because of its huge impact Kouhei Kadono never really managed to create another series that was as successful.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_1360c1cf	comment	Expectations for Finding Dory were extremely high, both due to coming 13 years after its predecessor Finding Nemo and the fact that it would center on fan-favorite Dory.. Consensus-wise, Finding Dory isn't seen as epic-scale as the hype led expectations for it to be, but is still regarded by many to be a worthy follow-up to Finding Nemo nonetheless (especially with its record-breaking box-office results, such as the highest-grossing animated film in North America since Shrek 2).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_16e1deec	comment	Ever since the Big Gold Belt — largely considered to be the best championship belt design in wrestling history — was retired for good in 2014, fans have been begging WWE to bring it back and every top title design WWE introduced after the Big Gold was retired has been compared negatively to it. Not helped by the fact that the title belts WWE use nowadays are mostly Palette Swaps of the WWE Title, resulting in It's the Same, Now It Sucks!. The new "WWE World Heavyweight Championship◊" belt introduced in 2023 bears a clear resemblance to the Big Gold and while some appreciate this, others call it a knockoff and demand the actual Big Gold be brought back.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_17293dfa	comment	From Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kaede Akamatsu, the Decoy Protagonist of the game became this. Within her sole playable chapter, she was established as an Ideal Hero, and the one protagonist capable of giving a new spin to the already tired Danganronpa formula with her leadership and proactive attitude. But she is executed for committing murder in Chapter 1, and the real protagonist—shy, withdrawn detective Shuichi Saihara—quickly became a Base-Breaking Character for replacing her.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Every series in the Digimon franchise following the original Digimon Adventure has been notably controversial for some reason or other, also making this a case of First Installment Wins.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_1cf9029e	comment	DEATH BATTLE!: Being by far the most requested, longest, most extensively researched and most viewed of the Death Battle series to date, "Goku vs. Superman" casts a massive shadow over the rest of the series in terms of production, scale and fan excitement. Not that the other episodes aren't enjoyable, but they're more Overshadowed by Awesome. As of Season 5, that status seems to have been shifted to Thanos VS Darkseid. In a more Meta sense, Death Battle is this to every other series ScrewAttack has tried to release — after it was announced that the matchup after "Yang Xiao Long vs. Tifa Lockhart" would be revealed in the season finale for The Industry, many fans deliberately spoiled the ending of the episode by writing the matchup in the comments along with a message along the lines of "There, now you don't have to watch all this just to find out the next Death Battle. You're welcome!"
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Tough Act to Follow / int_1dbbf4d0	comment	This typically happens on a PPV when the best match of the night isn't the main event. Shawn Michaels was particularly guilty of this throughout his career, hence his nickname "The Show Stealer". WrestleMania III: Downplayed with the Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat Intercontinental champions. That match is considered one of the best of all time and one that helped shape the WWFâ€™s reputation as an actual wrestling organization rather than an entertainment company. That being said, it hasnâ€™t overshadowed the main event between Hulk Hogan vs. AndrÃ© the Giant: While it was generally considered to be a bad match at the time, that has long been eclipsed by its historical significance as a clash of the titans. WrestleMania 13: A pretty weak Mania that was saved by arguably one of the greatest matches in the event's history: the submission match between "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Bret Hart. The intensity, the work rate, the psychology, the booking, the finish, the post-match angle, and the fallout were all perfect. It was so great, that it pretty much overshadowed the rest of the matches of the card, including the forgettable main event headlined by Sycho Sid and The Undertaker. King of the Ring 1998: The infamous Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Mankind. This match is so iconic that most people don't even remember that this wasn't the main event of that PPV, which was "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Kane in a First Blood match in which Kane won his first World Title, nor the titular tournament that took place that night, which was won by Ken Shamrock. WrestleMania X8: The Rock vs Hulk Hogan. This is a weird case in that though it headlined the PPV, it wasn't the main event because it didn't go last like it was supposed to. Instead, management lobbied for the title match between Triple H and Chris Jericho to go last instead. WrestleMania XXV: Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker. They showed up everybody, and the crowd was effectively dead for the rest of the night. Understandably, their rematch next year was made the main event (aided by the fact that it was HBK's retirement match). The rematch is itself an example, while it was also considered one of the best matches of all time, it's not quite as highly regarded as the first one. Money in the Bank 2011: CM Punk vs John Cena. This match got a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer — the last time the WWE managed that was the first Hell in a Cell match between HBK and The Undertaker (which was also Kane's debut). While every match Punk and Cena had together afterwards easily clocked at four stars and above, it's kinda hard to match this one for a variety of reasons, mainly being the atmosphere just isn't as charged as it was in Chicago (CM's hometown, by the way), and the stakes just weren't as high, lowering the drama factor. It's not helped that this is considered to be one of the best matches WWE has put on in years (with some even going on to say that it's the best match in WWE history). WrestleMania XXVIII: Triple H vs. The Undertaker in Hell in a Cell with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee. In a 'Mania headlined by The Rock vs. John Cena, this is the match that everyone thinks about. WWE NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn: Bayley vs Sasha Banks. The fact that it was a Divas match of all things made it more surprising, but afterwards many consider it to be the greatest women's match in WWE history (despite the fact that it was on a developmental brand), and one of the matches of the year. In fact, the biggest, glaring flaw that everyone saw in the Finn Balor vs. Kevin Owens ladder match, a sure show stealer on any other card, was the fact that it had to follow this one, and that match was relegated to a footnote. It was so good that their rematch got to headline the next special, making history in the process. Like with Taker/HBK, while the sequel was also considered amazing, most people still prefer the first. WrestleMania 29: CM Punk vs The Undertaker. In a 'Mania headlined by The Rock vs John Cena, this is the match that everyone thinks about. Granted, this one is debatable seeing as not only was it the best match, many believe it was the only good match on the card (besides the always decent Daniel Bryan match). WWE NXT TakeOver: Dallas: Sami Zayn vs Shinsuke Nakamura. Expectations were already high enough considering the resumes both had, and this was Nakamura's debut match and Zayn's last NXT match, but then both men proceeded to blow those expectations out of the water. An instant classic, this match is nigh-universally considered the best match in all of 2016's WrestleMania weekend and one of the forerunners for match of the year. Even the highly anticipated Asuka vs Bayley match for the NXT Women's Championship wasn't able to live up to it, nor was the rematch for the NXT Championship between Samoa Joe and Finn Balor, and both, under normal circumstances, would've been sure fire contenders for match of the night. Battleground 2016: Sami Zayn vs Kevin Owens. Great spots, perfect storytelling, and an emotional ending, it was the perfect match to cap off their rivalry (for now). What makes this even better is that this show had The Shield Triple Threat for the WWE Championship on it, and that was an amazing match as well. The fact that Zayn and KO managed to steal the show from one of the most anticipated matches in WWE history is nothing short of astounding.note Considering that Owens and Zayn basically grew up together, have spent the majority of their careers in the same promotion (be it WWE, ROH, or Canadian indies), and have wrestled each other dozens of times (and have been tag partners off and on for over 15 years) it would be a lot more shocking if they didn't have a really good or even great match WWE Roadblock: Dean Ambrose vs Triple H. Though it was mainly this in regards to Roman Reigns vs Triple H at WrestleMania 32. It was absolutely no secret that most fans wanted Ambrose in the main event that year. While the company wasn't willing to relent on Reigns, they gave a title match to Ambrose at a WWE Network special as compensation, while Reigns was out for his deviated septum. The match Ambrose had with Hunter ended up being the main forerunner for Match of the Year until Nakamura/Zayn happened at Dallas. Ultimately, the match Reigns and Hunter had wasn't able to live up to it. WWE NXT TakeOver: New Orleans: The entire event was this for the then-upcoming WrestleMania 34, and arguably for every NXT TakeOver special from here on out. Already having its own Tough Act to Follow in NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia, which ended in a five-star classic between then-NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas and Johnny Gargano (the first WWE match to get this rating since the above-mentioned Cena/Punk match seven years ago), New Orleans completely outdid Philadelphia, with only one match clocking below four stars, and being bookended by two five-star matches; the opening match, which was an epic six man-ladder match to crown the first ever North American Champion, and the main event, which was the long-anticipated unsanctioned grudge match between former tag team partners turned bitter Arch-Enemies Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. WrestleMania 34: Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle vs Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. Yes, really. Blowing even the best expectations out of the water, this match completely undid the entire crowd, and Ronda went from being derided by the IWC to their newest darling almost as soon as the match was over. It was so good that even Dave Meltzer felt that WrestleMania should've been over after that. Not even the highly-anticipated AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match (which had the added handicaps of a dead crowd and Hype Backlash) could live up to it. At the 2018 all-women's Evolution PPV, the main event was Ronda Rousey vs. Nikki Bella and - while most critics found it to be a fine match - it had only a month of build-up. And it had the bad luck to follow an incredibly intense Last Woman Standing match between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair - who had been feuding since the summer, and Becky was enjoying her biggest surge in popularity yet. It's generally agreed that Ronda vs Nikki was only put as the main event to give the PPV the star power to convince WWE to have it in the first place. The Last Woman Standing match was thirty minutes, full of high spots and officially crowned Becky Lynch as the Smackdown Women's Champion (there had been fears that Charlotte would win the belt back) - while the main event was only fifteen minutes and tainted by the build-up making Ronda Unintentionally Unsympathetic. WrestleMania 38 saw two of the biggest X-Pac Heat-magnets in Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair face off to the collective apathy of the fandom. While many will say the match itself was decent on its own, the disdain the crowd had for both along with following two match of the year candidates in Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair and Seth Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes (the latter being Cody's return after his time in AEW) back-to-back made them less enthusiastic to cheer either woman, with the only reason most of the crowd hadn't clocked out was the anticipation for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's possible (and eventually confirmed) in-ring return.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_2268b84d	comment	Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After also struggled to live up to the well received first two movies in the series.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_23945975	comment	The Disney Animated Canon: One of Walt Disney's early successes was the cartoon short The Three Little Pigs (which featured the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?") Other follow-up cartoons with the same characters were less successful, which prompted Walt to comment, "You can't top pigs with pigs."note He actually made that comment before he made the other two cartoons. He made them anyway as a sort of proof-of-point to his distributors, who just wanted more of the same. Following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' massive success, the only other films from the canon released during Walt's lifetime to have been immediately successful both critically and financially were Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and 101 Dalmatians. Even worse is that it wasn't only because of how high Snow White set the bar, but because many of the other films were not immediately successful for a variety of reasons (for example, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi were released during World War II, while Alice in Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty, as well as Bambi, also received mixed reviews at best). At least Walt did live to see some of his films undergo re-appraisals. The Sword in the Stone would probably be better known today if it hadn't been released between two of Walt Disney's biggest animated hits, 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book (1967). The Rescuers Down Under had a very tough act to follow in The Little Mermaid and boy, did that turn out ugly (receiving mixed-to-negative reviews and flopping at the box office, getting overwhelmed by Home Alone). Down Under is today one of Disney's obscurities, barely known by the general public (also being followed by Beauty and the Beast), although it has become a Cult Classic in its own right. Heck, it is even generally considered to be even better than its predecessor, The Rescuers in practically every way. In The '90s, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules were the three films immediately following The Lion King (1994). These are also the three most controversial 1990s Disney Animated Canon entries, although Hercules was received much better than Hunchback, and both were received better than the decidedly So Okay, It's Average Pocahontas. Mulan and Tarzan in turn were received better than Hercules and Hunchback. All five, however, are usually as fondly remembered by children of The '90s as the earlier canon installments. Fantasia 2000 came a whopping sixty years after Fantasia. To say this trope was fully into effect at the time of the release is putting it mildly. Even Roy E. Disney asked that viewers not take it as the same art piece the original was intended to be. Bambi II tops that with a world record sixty-four years after the original film. Compared to most other Disney sequels, it is actually something of a Cult Classic, though naturally pales against one of Disney's first and most iconic animated films. It should be noted that Disney also considered and turned down sequels for Dumbo, Pinocchio, and even Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. What a bad time to be Vindicated by History. Ironically reversed in between the releases of Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog. Range wasn't well received by the entire Disney community and audiences alike (despite getting at least mixed to average reviews from critics, according to a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes... no joke!), Princess could be nothing but spectacular compared to it. Big Hero 6 got hit with this for similar reasons to The Sword in the Stone. While the movie itself was far from a failure, it does tend to get overlooked because it was released in between the cultural phenomenon Frozen and the enormously popular Zootopia, both of which made over a billion dollars at the box office. It also leads into the problem of optics: Frozen and Zootopia were sleeper hits that weren't expected to make anywhere near as much money as they did, while Big Hero 6 was a superhero movie made during a golden age of superhero movie profitability, so while its $657 million gross does make it one of the biggest movies ever for Disney Animation, it also made it the lowest-grossing major superhero film of 2014. Its opening weekend was in fact considered so unremarkable that the Hollywood trades didn't even focus on Big Hero 6 taking the #1 spot in the U.S., but rather on Christopher Nolan's hugely-anticipated Interstellar "embarrassingly" taking the #2 spot behind a Disney cartoon. It doesn't help that people in countries like the UK had to wait months before it came to cinemas there, by which point most people had either watched it illegally or just lost interest.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_26a78cbc	comment	Satsuki Yoshino hit it big with Barakamon, and was decently successful with the high school Spin-Off Handa-kun, but afterwards constantly struggled to find success with works that weren't about Sei Handa and company. Yoshi no Zui kara, which contains heavy autobiographical elements about the writing of Barakamon itself, made it three years but only three volumes thanks to Schedule Slip, and 18 Eighteen only lasted for a year and a half, and both works were criticized for relying way too much on Barakamon-style rural humor.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_283b23c1	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's was a major improvement from the first series for many fans. StrikerS, however, wasn't that popular with fans because it didn't live up to the complexity and awesomeness that was A's. The manga sequels and movies have suffered from this as well.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_2894671c	comment	Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis inevitably have every series they launch compared to their classic Justice League International run, no matter how different their new projects are. They finally gave in and accepted this, as they started writing a new Justice League spin-off as part of the New 52.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_297c4318	comment	Not only is Go! Princess Pretty Cure considered the best thing since HeartCatch, but its successor Maho Girls Pretty Cure! also averted this trope (at least in Japan).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_2a640f8c	comment	Gunsmith Cats was a very popular Girls with Guns manga and did good enough to get a well made 3 episode OVA that also became very popular. The follow up Gunsmith Cats Crash, was rejected by most fans for it being just silly action with no focus on plot and character development like the original.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Code Geass did this for the Super Robot Genre and Real Robot Genre respectively, resulting in the two shows combined being a tough act to follow for the mecha genre as a whole — in the decade since, no mecha show has managed to approach the popularity of either series.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_3018c949	comment	Bambi II tops that with a world record sixty-four years after the original film. Compared to most other Disney sequels, it is actually something of a Cult Classic, though naturally pales against one of Disney's first and most iconic animated films. It should be noted that Disney also considered and turned down sequels for Dumbo, Pinocchio, and even Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. What a bad time to be Vindicated by History.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_30a5ebfd	comment	After the success of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto went on to create Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru. While he acknowledged that people would be hesistant to accept a new work from him, he still hoped people would come to enjoy it regardless. Unfortunately, Samurai 8 was nowhere near as popular as Naruto, as it was cancelled after only ten months of serialization.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_35e88987	comment	Starrcade 86 was the last hurrah of Jim Crockett Promotions, and perhaps, the National Wrestling Alliance, as the NWA would survive but never again reach such heights. JCP, though, was dead within two years. Of course, this was somewhat deliberate, as Vince McMahon was hard at work to ensure Starrcade '87 would flop, going so far as to create another pay-per-view (Survivor Series) for the sole purpose of running against it and telling all the cable companies that picking Starrcade meant they wouldn't get WrestleMania IV the next yearnote The WWF would create the Royal Rumble to mess with the NWA's next PPV, Bunkhouse Stampede, only this time for free on the USA Network. It was such a success that it was made a PPV the following year and has been held every January since. In response to this JCP ran Clash of the Champions against WrestleMania IV for free on TBS, this also drew a huge rating and JCP/WCW would end up doing 34 more COTC shows, only ending them in 1998 when Nitro and Thunder made a 2 hour live cable special redundant.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_366a284d	comment	Tetsuo Hara pretty much struggled to escape the shadow of Fist of the North Star for most of his career after it ended. With the exception of Hana no Keiji, which lasted a full three year run, all of his follow-up titles for Weekly Jump (Cyber Blue, Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu and Takeki RyÅ«sei) ended up being cut short. Hara would end up leaving Weekly Jump in the mid-90's and spent the rest of the decade working on a string of also short-lived titles for other manga anthologies before eventually forming the manga editing company Coamix in 2001 with his former editor Nobuhiko Horie. Fist of the Blue Sky, a prequel to Fist of the North Star, would serve as the flagship title for Coamix's first manga anthology, Weekly Comic Bunch, but Hara's own struggle with keratoconus (which left him blind in the right eye) forced the title from being changed from a regular feature to a semi-weekly one halfway during its run and the story ended in an inconclusive matter when Coamix broke up with publisher Shinchosha, resulting in the discontinuation of Comic Bunch in 2010. Hara moved on to his current title, Ikusa no Ko: The Legend of Oda Nobunaga, which began serialization in Coamix's subsequent anthology Monthly Comic Zenon in 2010, although he would also end up supervising the sequel to Fist of the Blue Sky, Regenesis, which began in 2017.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_3ec42be5	comment	Dr. Havoc's Diary is unfortunately overshadowed by the more popular and well-known The Most Popular Girls in School. Though to be fair, the former was only watchable on an American subscription site (Fullscreen) while the latter is everywhere on YouTube.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_3fdafaad	comment	WrestleMania 38 saw two of the biggest X-Pac Heat-magnets in Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair face off to the collective apathy of the fandom. While many will say the match itself was decent on its own, the disdain the crowd had for both along with following two match of the year candidates in Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair and Seth Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes (the latter being Cody's return after his time in AEW) back-to-back made them less enthusiastic to cheer either woman, with the only reason most of the crowd hadn't clocked out was the anticipation for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's possible (and eventually confirmed) in-ring return.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_40010ddc	comment	The HeartCatch Pretty Cure! series, considered to be one of the best seasons in the entire franchise, due to its Darker and Edgier plot and having even more over-the-top fight scenes compared to its predecessors has left the few seasons after it as part of this trope.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes managed to be this for its entire medium. Ever since it ended in 1995, there have been dozens of comic strips released with varying degrees of reception, but not a single newspaper comic (or even webcomic) has been as beloved or made as much of a mark as Calvin and Hobbes. The comic strip has also been this for its creator, Bill Watterson, who retired from cartooning after ending the strip in 1995 and went many, many years without writing or illustrating anything to be sold to the public.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_42482e40	comment	Lionel Bart stuck it big with Oliver!, but his 5 other musicals didn't make such a impression. His first predates Oliver was a minor hit, then his first post-Oliver two musicals had minor runs in London, then the final two were costly failures, leaving him bankrupted and forced to sell his copyrights.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_437c83b7	comment	Sombra's issue of My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic was very well received, being well written and giving what fans wanted from his backstory, and set the high bar against which the subsequent issues would be measured.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_44fe781e	comment	After Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno tried to make "serious" films, and publicly bashed both Evangelion fans and otakus in general. He never managed to make anything as widely successful or influential as Eva, and eventually gave in and created the Rebuild of Evangelion series over a decade later.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_452cb6f3	comment	The Good Dinosaur fell into this rut. The film's delayed release resulted in it debuting just five months after Inside Out, the film that was heralded as Pixar's return to form and one of the greatest family films of the decade, if not of all time. As a result, the movie was generally well-received, more so than Pixar's Cars 2 beforehand, but not nearly as much as its predecessor and only around the same lines as Brave and Monsters University.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_46c4d95b	comment	Bartender: According to Hanegashima, every cocktail is a Tough Act to Follow. Either you underperform, and the customer will never return, or you do your best, and your customer will come back, and expect you to do even better.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_4c16b4e7	comment	Tokyo Necro is seen as a solid entry in nitro+'s catalogue with much of the hallmark writing that is expected of them with quirky and memorable characters and heaps of Nightmare Fuel that they are known for. The problem? nitro+'s last big projects were the back to back releases of none other than Full Metal Daemon Muramasa and Steins;Gate, two of the most highly esteemed visual novels ever written. To say that Tokyo Necro had big shoes to fill is something of an understatement. As such, despite being seen as solid enough in its own right, it is constantly held back by being in its predecessors shadow.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_4e866cb9	comment	The annual Royal Rumble PPV always has the titular match as the main event. By nature of the match's design, the Royal Rumble keeps the crowd constantly active, wearing them out by the end when they finally reach the winner. As a result, the rare occurrence where the match isn't in the main event has the following matches having to endure dead crowds. This problem only got worse during the 2018 Royal Rumble PPV, where there were two Rumble matches thanks to the historic, first ever women's Royal Rumble. Because of the novelty of the match, the women's match was the main event that year and the men's match was placed in the middle of the show, exhausting the Philadelphia crowd for the following two matches. The women's match managed to wake them up, but needed the aid of a proportionally larger amount of nostalgia/surprise entrants than the usual Rumble match (going by the formula of the men's match) to do so.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_4f514657	comment	The NXT women's division as a whole pulled this on the main roster women from the 2014-2015 period. NXT started giving the women time to wrestle, feuds that had meaning, fans were into them and the matches were usually hits. The match that really put NXT's women on the map - Charlotte vs. Natalya at Takeover - was followed by a series of lackluster matches in the feud between A.J. Lee and Paige. General consensus was that the main roster women's matches were okay, but had no chance of overshadowing NXT. The 2014 TLC PPV was the worst offender, taking place only five days after an NXT special.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_501187d0	comment	The Incredible Hulk (1968): After Peter David's decade and change run on the title, Joe Casey had the task of following up on him before the title ended after six issues. The final story even begins with a fourth-wall breaking moment where Casey even addresses how the deck was pretty stacked against him from the start.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_50cb8af5	comment	Director Kazuki Akane started strong with The Vision of Escaflowne, which became wildly popular (even broadcast on Fox Kids in the United States), and remains to this day one of the most iconic anime from the 1990s. His next project was Geneshaft, which was seen by few and hated by most who did. His next creation was Heat Guy J; most who know of it know only about how much Geneon paid for it (as much as FUNimation paid for Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)) and how poorly it sold. Next came Noein, which fared better in popularity and reception, but only modestly. Later on, Birdy the Mighty: Decode sold very poorly in Japan, and Stars Align was praised while it was airing but ended on a Cliffhanger due to the number of episodes being cut to half its intended length late in production.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_54f1f0c	comment	Irodori's run on Kemono Friends. After gaining massive popularity with its grounded approach to the plot and gateway status to the rest of the franchise, no other media associated with it before or after could match that level of acclaim. Tomason was a definite victim of this, especially since they picked up the reigns for Season 2 after Tatsuki's firing and ran against Irodori's immediate next work. To say it had a lot to live up to was barely scratching it.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern has Ron Marz, who made the book a hit with the introduction of Kyle Rayner as Green Lantern. When he left the book, he was replaced with Judd Winick, whose run started to bleed readership. Following him was Ben Raab, whose run was so reviled that many Rayner fans blame him (in addition to Winick) for sinking the sales of the title and basically forcing DC to bring Hal Jordan back as Green Lantern to stop the bleeding. Green Lantern also has Geoff Johns, who brought back Hal Jordan (without displacing any other human Lantern) and the Space Cop stuff, while also expanding the mythos to include multiple Lantern Corps, and turning the franchise into a gigantic space opera that became central to the DCU. The stuff that followed by Robert Venditti is not looked highly upon, nor are any of the Green Lantern series that take the space opera approach. Green Lanterns gets a pass for having the characters focus on Earth and being more about everyday superheroics, but that's about it.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_56466301	comment	Greg Rucka's run on Wonder Woman (Rebirth) has resulted in every run after it (and it was the first of the series) being negatively compared to it. It reintroduced Wonder Woman's post-Crisis origin while updating it to incorporate the Cheetah and was very well-liked for being sentimental and heartfelt while never being boring, and interesting inclusion of the Greek Gods that incorporated more recent and nuanced interpretations of them. The following runs are disliked for either being boring, bringing back Wonder Woman's disliked New 52 origin or disliked interpretations of the Greek Gods.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_59ef17f4	comment	Yuki Urushibara has had trouble replicating the success of Mushishi, widely considered one of the greatest manga of all time, during the rest of her career. Her next series Waters was a Short-Runner that didn't make it a year due to fan disinterest, and she ended up not writing anything for almost a decade before returning with When the Cats Face West...which also ended up flying under the radar and ending in a short time.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_5b15000	comment	Cross-sport: Chris Jericho (pro wrestling; son of NHL player Ted Irvine); Grant Hill (basketball; son of NFL star Calvin Hill); Patrick Mahomes (NFL; son of MLB journeyman Pat Mahomes); Lindsay Davenport (tennis; daughter of volleyball player and referee Wink Davenport); Sam Kerr (soccer; daughter of Australian rules football player Roger Kerr)
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Tough Act to Follow / int_5c4365d7	comment	Jim Starlin, who thanks to his masterful work crafting The Infinity Gauntlet, has every comic book given to him compared to it and rarely in a favorable light.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_5fe76d21	comment	Cullen Bunn had the unfortunate luck of writing for Agent Venom right after Rick Remender's run, which was praised by fans and critics alike. While plenty of people liked his work on the title, it was almost universally viewed as a step down in quality and the book ended up being cancelled right in the middle of resolving its Myth Arc.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_614a1bf1	comment	Rhyme and Reason was the first Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Fan Fic ever written that was meant to be a Fan Fic, but it was also on the verge of staying the only one of its kind. Since there were no other CDRR fics around, it was seen as the reference for everything to follow. However, it used to be the longest of all CDRR fics, it's very well written, and it's also very intense. After all, it tied for Best All-Time Fanfic with Of Mice and Mayhem at the Golden Acorn Awards for several years in a row until both were declared ineligible to give other fics a chance. When it was released in spring 1996 after some two years of writing and several months of proofreading and editing, the Rangerphiles believed that all CDRR fics to come had to live up to these high standards. As they felt they couldn't write anything even close to it, they decided not to write anything at all.It wasn't until 1997 that another CDRR fic was published. The Robo\|\\|erd's series The Adventures of Gadget Hackwrench is vastly different from Rhyme and Reason, and it demonstrated that CDRR fanfic doesn't have to try its hardest to mimic this masterpiece in any way to be worth reading. The number of CDRR fanfics grew quickly from then on.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_623f0768	comment	When it comes to Batman origin stories, the clear favourite is Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One". It modernised Batman's original origin with a noir atmosphere, phenomenal art from David Mazuchelli and was a tightly plotted crime drama with a layered deuteragonist in Jim Gordon. Batman origin stories following it, in all media, tend to be negatively compared to it. This is especially the case with "Batman: Zero Year".
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Tough Act to Follow / int_68ea0c85	comment	Death Note cast a long shadow over writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata, and their future collaborations Bakuman。 and Platinum End were doomed to never become as iconic as their first work.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_6c4031ea	comment	Following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' massive success, the only other films from the canon released during Walt's lifetime to have been immediately successful both critically and financially were Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and 101 Dalmatians. Even worse is that it wasn't only because of how high Snow White set the bar, but because many of the other films were not immediately successful for a variety of reasons (for example, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi were released during World War II, while Alice in Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty, as well as Bambi, also received mixed reviews at best). At least Walt did live to see some of his films undergo re-appraisals.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_6c60475	comment	Following the cult success of Blood: The Last Vampire and Blood+, CLAMP was entrusted to work with Production I.G on their own version, Blood-C. However, the overall reception of the franchise was mixed, coupled with the low BD/DVD sales of the TV series and the movie bombing in the Japanese box office despite the latter being funded by the Japanese government. This also affected CLAMP's later works.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_6e859048	comment	Big Hero 6 got hit with this for similar reasons to The Sword in the Stone. While the movie itself was far from a failure, it does tend to get overlooked because it was released in between the cultural phenomenon Frozen and the enormously popular Zootopia, both of which made over a billion dollars at the box office. It also leads into the problem of optics: Frozen and Zootopia were sleeper hits that weren't expected to make anywhere near as much money as they did, while Big Hero 6 was a superhero movie made during a golden age of superhero movie profitability, so while its $657 million gross does make it one of the biggest movies ever for Disney Animation, it also made it the lowest-grossing major superhero film of 2014. Its opening weekend was in fact considered so unremarkable that the Hollywood trades didn't even focus on Big Hero 6 taking the #1 spot in the U.S., but rather on Christopher Nolan's hugely-anticipated Interstellar "embarrassingly" taking the #2 spot behind a Disney cartoon. It doesn't help that people in countries like the UK had to wait months before it came to cinemas there, by which point most people had either watched it illegally or just lost interest.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_72f19882	comment	The Flash: Mark Waid's run developed Wally so that he became more than just Barry Allen's successor as the Flash, having him grow and mature across the entire run. It also featured what is considered one of the most realistic relationships in superhero comics in Wally's relationship with Linda Park. Not only that, but it introduced the concepts of the Flash Family, unifying DC's speedsters into one family dynamic, while also introducing beloved speedster Bart Allen (Impulse). Waid introduced the concept of the Speed Force, which has become central to the Flash mythos and gave the franchise a more mythical element. Waid's run told larger than life stories that could span across time and space, or just focus on one city, but all were steeped in strong character work. His run is considered the definitive run on the franchise, and nothing that follows is looked as highly upon, including Waid's own returns to the book. Geoff Johns' run is considered this too, though is also considered not as good as Waid's. Johns brought in a smaller scope, focusing on world-building with Keystone City and Central City. Johns' run is also known for its strong villains, bringing back the Rogues, setting up some new characters, and bringing in fan-favourite villain Hunter Zolomon, a character that is considered incredibly sympathetic yet monstrous, and incredibly powerful without being overpowered, along with having an interesting motivation and personal relationship with Wally, to the point that every evil Speedster has been negatively compared to him. Johns' run is also known for how it gradually built up over time, with almost every arc leading to an epic conclusion. Like Waid, subsequent Flash works are often negatively compared to Johns' run, including Johns' own subsequent Flash work with Barry Allen (Wally's predecessor as the Flash).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_72f8201c	comment	The Chaos;Head anime was the first to be adapted in the Science Adventure Series (to mixed reviews). After that, the Steins;Gate anime was released, to mass critical acclaim and being listed as one of the top anime of all time on various anime database sites. None of the adaptations after Steins;Gate (Robotics;Notes, Occultic;Nine, and Chaos;Child) have managed to capture the same level of success.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_76c6fb6f	comment	After Paru Itagaki decided to bring her breakout work Beastars to a rather abrupt end, she would eventually begin work on a few new projects, a new serialization of Beastars's sister series Beast Complex, a short dramedy manga Botabota, and a weekly series called Sanda, none of which reached the heights or interest of her biggest work. In the case of Sanda, despite having 4 printed volumes and counting, it doesn't even have its own page on The Other Wiki. And despite Beastars's Audience-Alienating Ending, people are still hungry for more of this series. Paru posting about Sanda on Twitter typically generates extremely mild interest at best, while posting anything Beastars-related typically generates quite a bit. It's clear her biggest work's popularity and acclaim, as well as how its end left fans unsatisfied, has cast a shadow in her career she is yet to get out of.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_7d271ad1	comment	The Sword in the Stone would probably be better known today if it hadn't been released between two of Walt Disney's biggest animated hits, 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book (1967).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_7db52f7e	comment	Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay's first musical collaboration was Elisabeth, the most successful German-language musical ever made. Their next musical, Mozart!, was much less successful. They had slightly better luck with their third, Rebecca, which is more popular than Mozart! but not nearly as popular as Elisabeth. Their fourth, Marie Antoinette (Musical), was a flop in Germany but had a much better reception in Japan. Their fifth, Lady Bess, has only been performed in Japan and there's no word of it ever coming to Europe.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_853937a3	comment	For Lerner and Loewe, one reason Camelot disappointed so many people was that it was their follow-up to the sensation that was My Fair Lady.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_87c6ac8e	comment	Monsters vs. Aliens was a milder version, as it was sandwiched between Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, with both becoming notable for marking Dreamworks' turn into more story-based films.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam tends to suffer from this as a whole, depending on how well or poorly received the previous series was. It's not unknown for a series to suffer poor ratings during airing and then be Vindicated by History later, after everyone's gotten over the "not as good as Gundam Whichever" reactions. Sometimes the creators deal with this by making their series such a departure that there's no way to compare it—such as the Darker and Edgier Mobile Suit Victory Gundam being followed by the unabashedly Super Robot World of Ham that is Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Death Note cast a long shadow over writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata, and their future collaborations Bakuman。 and Platinum End were doomed to never become as iconic as their first work. On a character level, many feel that Near and Mello wouldn't be so divisive if it weren't for the fact that they're the successors to the nigh-universally beloved L. It's hard to imagine any character meant to take over his role in the narrative would've gotten a warm reception from fans, at least at first. While Near is still hated by a large segment of the fandom, Mello is generally agreed to be an interesting character on his own merits. (Which doesn't mean the fanbase has forgiven the creators for killing L off in the first place...)
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Tough Act to Follow / int_8d62323c	comment	Danganronpa: The Big Bad of the first game, Monokuma (AKA Junko Enoshima AKA the Ultimate Despair), is widely agreed by fans to be the best villain of the entire franchise, even better than their incarnations in other installments! The first two after, Monaca and Izuru, did get praise, but were still overshadowed. And the ones after them? Kazuo and Ryota of DR3 and Tsumugi of New Danganronpa V3 were flat-out hated by the fans, being considered weak, ineffectual, and outright stupid. The second game in relation to the third. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is considered a big improvement over the original, and while the third game's gameplay improvements and bonus modes were well-received, the plot and characters are significantly more divisive. From Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kaede Akamatsu, the Decoy Protagonist of the game became this. Within her sole playable chapter, she was established as an Ideal Hero, and the one protagonist capable of giving a new spin to the already tired Danganronpa formula with her leadership and proactive attitude. But she is executed for committing murder in Chapter 1, and the real protagonist—shy, withdrawn detective Shuichi Saihara—quickly became a Base-Breaking Character for replacing her. The second and third games' fifth cases are considered among the best in the series, particularly because the truth behind the "murders" is not at all how it first appears. The sixth and final cases are not nearly as well regarded, partly because of this trope, partly because of Ending Fatigue and, in V3's case, because of the controversial plot twists involved in the ending.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue had continuously set those - Reconstruction was the point where the comedy series incorporated a dramatic plot and it worked, so Recreation being a more relaxed and laugh-focused season was deemed a step down; Season 10, closing both the ongoing plot and the tenure where Monty Oum made the series more epic with his action scenes, leaving much for new showrunner Miles Luna to live up to; and most importantly Season 13, to the point that not knowing how to follow the Bolivian Army Ending of the Grand Finale forced Season 14 to be an anthology so as not to attempt directly continuing the story.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_93395d58	comment	Storks was an even bigger example, being Warner Animation Group's second movie, and its first entirely original property. This movie had a different crew behind it, and was met with far less praise from critics, as well as having to contend with The Magnificent Seven on opening weekend. While it was ultimately the more profitable film thanks to a lower budget and far better overseas numbers ($109.7 million compared to The Magnificent Seven's $68.9), it was still considered a disappointment by Warner Bros.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_981900a1	comment	Following the unbridled success of Kuroko's Basketball, Tadatoshi Fujimaki went right back to the Hot-Blooded sports genre with his follow-up series, Robot Ã— Laserbeam. Except it turns out the usual shounen sports clichÃ©s don't really work when applied to a manga about golf, which is known for being a slow-paced and non-confrontational sport. Combine the odd combo with an unpopular timeskip and readers growing tired of the aforementioned sports manga clichÃ©s, and the manga found itself cancelled a little over a year after it began.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_994af351	comment	The best installment of the series is generally considered to be Trials and Tribulations. All later games heavily split the fandom but are almost never considered better. All other cases have their high points compared to those of these cases.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_9ab064e6	comment	Boublil and Schonberg followed up Les MisÃ©rables with Miss Saigon, a critical and popular smash that introduced the world to a seventeen-year-old Filipina phenom named Lea Salonga. But not even Miss Saigon can top the longest-running, best-written, best-loved, best-known, and quite possibly best musical ever produced. Interestingly, Les Mis is so good that no one really cares what Boublil and Schonberg have gotten up to since - they wrote Les Mis and are therefore entitled to write whatever else they damn please.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	Anything X-Force related following Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force. While the previous run had its fans, it has a very big Broken Base for being almost a parody of what X-Force is (mutants who kill to protect other mutants). Remender portrayed this and didnâ€™t glorify it, and in fact deconstructed the entire idea of a mutant kill squad, while still allowing for character development. He also masterfully implemented X-Men history into his run. The runs that followed... well, theyâ€™re more traditional X-Force runs (meaning style over substance and grimdark galore), and just arenâ€™t considered as good. To put it lightly: Uncanny X-Force is considered not only the best X-Force run, but also one of the best X-Men comics of all time, while every X-Force run that followed is barely remembered.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Lone Wolf and Cub cast a massive shadow over every other work that Kazuo Koike made after it — a common criticism of Mad Bull 34, Crying Freeman and others was that they failed to live up to the expectations set by Lone Wolf and Cub.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_9f89a5f0	comment	When it comes to the PokÃ©mon movies, only the first (mainly in its original Japanese version) and third are regarded as the best (though the eighth, fifteenth and twenty-first movies are almost as well-regarded). All the others have been seen as So Okay, It's Average at best, and have grossed less in Japanese theaters.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_a0ae471	comment	The announcement that Toy Story 4 was in production was met with an extremely polarizing reaction within mere minutes, especially from those who thought that the aforementioned Toy Story 3 was the perfect ending for the franchise and that any further movies would be stomping all over said ending (or, at the very least, were skeptical that 4 would garner as enjoyable or emotional of an experience as 3 did). In spite of this, upon release, the movie was ultimately a success with critics and fans and regarded to be just as good as the first three movies (though some still swear up and down and all-around that the third movie should have been the end of the franchise).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_a284bfa	comment	Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz: The Surprisingly Improved Sequel nature of the film and how it stands above the average Tom and Jerry Direct to Video flick make it likely that any movie following it would have felt like a letdown. Franchise Killer Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory would have been poorly received by just about any standards, but coming on the heels of this film just emphasized that failure for many fans.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_a65bd95	comment	Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?: The first teacher, Kana Kojima, is perhaps the most popular in the series, enough that later arcs are often compared unfavorably to hers. Many readers want to see her and Satou become the central focus of the story again, or would have preferred that instead of introducing a new couple for each volume, the story should have focused entirely on her evolving relationship with Satou, although the pair of Tanaka and Tachibana, of the original four pairs, seems to be almost as highly regarded.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_a947f78e	comment	The Unicron Trilogy zig-zags this a bit. Transformers: Armada isn't exactly a masterpiece and has a very slow beginning, but partway in it found its footing and dramatically increased in quality. This created decently high hopes for its sequel Transformers: Energon; hopes that Energon, having a very rushed Troubled Production, could never meet. The final installment, Transformers: Cybertron, ended up inverting this trend; Energon's disastrous launch left a very low bar that Cybertron, with its strong Character Development and plotting, was easily able to jump over.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_a96a7ada	comment	Quite possibly the reasoning for nothing but more Yu-Gi-Oh! from Kazuki Takahashi. And even then, his input has fallen from writing the manga (Yu-Gi-Oh!), to having major input and plot work on the anime (GX), to just doing character designs (5Ds, Zexal, ARC-V, and VRAINS).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ad4d7d6a	comment	Your Name blew away every previous work by Makoto Shinkai, becoming the second-highest grossing anime movie in Japan (behind only Spirited Away) and the highest-grossing anime movie of all time worldwide. There was simply no way his next work, Weathering With You, could possibly have been able to match it, and despite being considered a very good movie in its own right, everyone more or less agrees that it didn't. Unless he manages to do something truly unbelievable, Your Name is presumably going to loom over Shinkai this way for the entire rest of his career.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_b2c6817c	comment	After Sazae-san had become a huge success and the most viewed anime ever (a record which remains unbeaten to this day), Machiko Hasegawa created a new comic strip called Granny Mischief about an old woman who always spent her time creating trouble for her fellow man with all kinds of pranks. It's just as funny as Sazae-san, but never became quite as popular.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_b527a8f4	comment	WWE Roadblock: Dean Ambrose vs Triple H. Though it was mainly this in regards to Roman Reigns vs Triple H at WrestleMania 32. It was absolutely no secret that most fans wanted Ambrose in the main event that year. While the company wasn't willing to relent on Reigns, they gave a title match to Ambrose at a WWE Network special as compensation, while Reigns was out for his deviated septum. The match Ambrose had with Hunter ended up being the main forerunner for Match of the Year until Nakamura/Zayn happened at Dallas. Ultimately, the match Reigns and Hunter had wasn't able to live up to it.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_b99ea867	comment	None of Ryosuke Takahashi's works after Armored Trooper VOTOMS managed to achieve the same level of acclaim and longevity as that aforementioned series, with Yoroiden Samurai Troopers coming the closest (but even that didn't last past the early nineties). As a result, he's ended up handling most of VOTOMS' prequel and sequel OVAs.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton: In-Universe, there's, of course, George Washington. Even King George III laments that there is no one in the states who looms quite as large, before realizing that his successor, John Adams, will never be able to keep the union together.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_be508da7	comment	Onward is a lesser case. Everyone agrees it's a good movie, but the problem is that Pixar set the bar too high. Then came it being the lowest-grossing Pixar film due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the much more acclaimed Soul coming later that year to push Onward a bit further down.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_bf6690ba	comment	My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks is considered a Surprisingly Improved Sequel and Growing the Beard to the Equestria Girls Spin-Off. Its sequel, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Friendship Games, had a lot to live up to. Opinions are divided regarding how well it compares.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c2e08381	comment	Office Academy, the company behind Space Battleship Yamato, made several forgettable series such as Space Carrier Blue Noah that failed to gain recognition inside or outside of Japan, unlike Yamato.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c34f83b2	comment	The second game in relation to the third. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is considered a big improvement over the original, and while the third game's gameplay improvements and bonus modes were well-received, the plot and characters are significantly more divisive.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c4343335	comment	Fantasia 2000 came a whopping sixty years after Fantasia. To say this trope was fully into effect at the time of the release is putting it mildly. Even Roy E. Disney asked that viewers not take it as the same art piece the original was intended to be.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c720f71e	comment	In Mexico, the creator and animator Rulo Barrera has made several web shows and shorts in the past years, but none else compared when he made "El Consultorio del Dr. Goku" an flash animated show were Goku and Vegeta answered questions of real people e-mailed to him in many hilarious ways. With the 9th episode the series were definitively over but any subsequent series or short got the boot from fans and were not as half as popular like Dr. Goku was forcing a short sequel named Dr. Goku 2012 where he ran as president of Mexico, then he got other special in the holidays, then another shorter special after, after that due to high demand and poor reception, Rulo made a new YouTube channel and boot up Dr. Goku with a new format, a live talk show (like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast) but flopped badly and then come with a newer format, an slice of life like adventures of him much shorter than the original episodes.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c7b62e5f	comment	Mitch Leigh had an even worse record: all the musicals he wrote after Man of La Mancha were atrocious flops.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c9125d76	comment	Ironically reversed in between the releases of Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog. Range wasn't well received by the entire Disney community and audiences alike (despite getting at least mixed to average reviews from critics, according to a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes... no joke!), Princess could be nothing but spectacular compared to it.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up: Due to how well-loved this movie is, practically every Pixar film following it is compared to Up, leading to all sorts of reactions along the lines of, "It was good, but not as good as Up." In a weird way the prologue of the film can act this way to the rest of the film. It's not uncommon for people to say that the first 10 minutes were so well done the rest of the film can feel disappointing by comparison.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_caec3927	comment	Pretty Cure All Stars movies get hit with this as well, as DX3 (which was released shortly after HeartCatch finished) and its fans argue that its over-the-top moments make the succeeding New Stage series seem lacking by comparison.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: Some feel that every era lives uncomfortably under the shadow of the Frank Miller era, who redefined Daredevil into the gritty noir character known today and established much of his expanded mythos and acclaimed stories, such as the Hand, Elektra, "ExposÃ©" and "Born Again". Any Daredevil run following the hugely successful Bendis and Brubaker eras. Both were massively successful mega hits and award winners, and the follow-up, Andy Diggle's run, is as a result not looked highly upon. Waid's run gets a pass for being very tonally different than the Bendis and Brubaker runs, but the Soule run that followed got this treatment for not living up to all three runs, as well as the hit Netflix series. Despite following those two, Mark Waid's Daredevil run is now also this. Noted for its more lighthearted and optimistic tone, while still maintaining a darkness and drama to itself, the run is noted for being a much more different take on the character that didn't eschew the darkness, but addressed it directly. It's also liked for the focus on supporting characters like Foggy Nelson and Maggie Murdock. Following this run, the idea of a darker Daredevil run was not only negatively compared to the Bendis and Brubaker eras but also the more optimistic Waid era.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita: Last Order is an example. The original Battle Angel Alita was a huge success; it was translated into English and became a must-read manga classic for people getting into the genre. The sequel is nowhere near as successful and only survived mainly because of dedicated fans of the original giving it a cult following.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_d53a59cd	comment	On a character level, many feel that Near and Mello wouldn't be so divisive if it weren't for the fact that they're the successors to the nigh-universally beloved L. It's hard to imagine any character meant to take over his role in the narrative would've gotten a warm reception from fans, at least at first. While Near is still hated by a large segment of the fandom, Mello is generally agreed to be an interesting character on his own merits. (Which doesn't mean the fanbase has forgiven the creators for killing L off in the first place...)
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Tough Act to Follow / int_dc3cc0a7	comment	Money in the Bank 2011: CM Punk vs John Cena. This match got a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer — the last time the WWE managed that was the first Hell in a Cell match between HBK and The Undertaker (which was also Kane's debut). While every match Punk and Cena had together afterwards easily clocked at four stars and above, it's kinda hard to match this one for a variety of reasons, mainly being the atmosphere just isn't as charged as it was in Chicago (CM's hometown, by the way), and the stakes just weren't as high, lowering the drama factor. It's not helped that this is considered to be one of the best matches WWE has put on in years (with some even going on to say that it's the best match in WWE history).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_dd638dbf	comment	Shark Tale came out just after Shrek 2 became a smash. The film's attempt to be a more mature story (with the death of an instrumental character) didn't tune in with either audiences nor critics, and was received much less favorably. This film also followed Finding Nemo, and got two negative labels: being called a mess of all of the negative clichÃ©s for which DWA has been derided, and having the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score out of all of their movies. It didn't help that the studio's following film, Madagascar would become wildly popular.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_de83ae94	comment	King of the Ring 1998: The infamous Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Mankind. This match is so iconic that most people don't even remember that this wasn't the main event of that PPV, which was "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Kane in a First Blood match in which Kane won his first World Title, nor the titular tournament that took place that night, which was won by Ken Shamrock.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_dfa2160d	comment	It's thought that Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken coming off the heels of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, widely regarded as one of the greatest films the studio has ever made, was one of the contributing factors in Ruby Gillman ultimately becoming one of the studio's biggest box-office failures in the studio's history. After The Last Wish told an ambitious story dealing with very deep themes, while also featuring incredible animation and a spot-on sense of humor, Ruby Gillman featuring a more conventional story and themes (which wasn't helped by the trailers spoiling much of the movie's few genuine surprises) resulted in audiences being much less interested in seeing it.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_e0f3d2b6	comment	Honest Trailers by Screen Junkies consistently generates 1 million+ views for the channel. Other videos they produce, including Movie Fights can rarely exceed the 500k mark. Its gaming oriented spin-off ''Honest Game Trailers" suffered a similar fate following its relocation from Smosh Games to Fandom Games in 2019 and the decision to replace the original voice actor (though seemingly with his blessing) with a rotating cast of new Epic Voices (though Jon Bailey eventually returned in 2020). Though none of the new actors were considered bad by any means, many viewers still missed Jon's iconic voice.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_e103f77e	comment	At the 2018 all-women's Evolution PPV, the main event was Ronda Rousey vs. Nikki Bella and - while most critics found it to be a fine match - it had only a month of build-up. And it had the bad luck to follow an incredibly intense Last Woman Standing match between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair - who had been feuding since the summer, and Becky was enjoying her biggest surge in popularity yet. It's generally agreed that Ronda vs Nikki was only put as the main event to give the PPV the star power to convince WWE to have it in the first place. The Last Woman Standing match was thirty minutes, full of high spots and officially crowned Becky Lynch as the Smackdown Women's Champion (there had been fears that Charlotte would win the belt back) - while the main event was only fifteen minutes and tainted by the build-up making Ronda Unintentionally Unsympathetic.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: The HeartCatch Pretty Cure! series, considered to be one of the best seasons in the entire franchise, due to its Darker and Edgier plot and having even more over-the-top fight scenes compared to its predecessors has left the few seasons after it as part of this trope. Pretty Cure All Stars movies get hit with this as well, as DX3 (which was released shortly after HeartCatch finished) and its fans argue that its over-the-top moments make the succeeding New Stage series seem lacking by comparison. Not only is Go! Princess Pretty Cure considered the best thing since HeartCatch, but its successor Maho Girls Pretty Cure! also averted this trope (at least in Japan). In terms of anniversary seasons, HuGtto! Pretty Cure (15th anniversary) was considered one of the better seasons in general and put up a very high bar for Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure (20th anniversary) to where both seasons are frequently compared.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: The best installment of the series is generally considered to be Trials and Tribulations. All later games heavily split the fandom but are almost never considered better. All other cases have their high points compared to those of these cases. The last two cases of Justice for All invert this: The penultimate case, "Turnabout Big Top," is widely considered to be the worst case in the franchise's history, due to its cartoony nature and several Scrappy Mechanics that are featured. Thus, the case that follows it would have to be spectacular in comparison. Indeed, the next case is "Farewell, My Turnabout," widely considered to be one of the best cases in Ace Attorney history, rivaled only by "Bridge to the Turnabout." The role of the prosecutorial rival has proven difficult to get just right over the course of the franchise and, unfortunately, the first game really nailed it with Edgeworth. Edgeworth had both sympathetic and unsympathetic qualities, had a dense and complicated personal past with Phoenix, and his character arc was the main plot of the game. He also had great animations and lines, whether he was being very smug or Not So Above It All. It worked so well that pretty much every subsequent prosecutor struggled to get out of his shadow, whether leaning too far in one direction or the other when it came to balancing sympathetic and unsympathetic qualities, having to squeeze their character arc in around a more-interesting main plot in which they are just a side player, going a bit too over-the-top with their animations and Courtroom Antics, or just feeling like they're retreading the same ground Edgeworth once did. None of them are helped by Edgeworth's incredible popularity seeing him join the story for at least part of most final cases (or even notably filling in for a sick Phoenix during the third game), further making them seem less interesting than he. That's not to say that other main prosecutors don't have their fan followings (Franziska and Godot being the most notable cases, themselves from the original trilogy rather than any of the sequels or spin-offs though they are still Base Breaking Characters), but First Installment Wins is definitely in play where Edgeworth is concerned.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi was very well regarded (save for the ending) during its run, and its sequel UQ Holder! has had nowhere near the same amount of popularity or success. Fans have speculated that certain plot points and characters from Negima were added to bring back fans of the previous series, as it wasn't nearly as related to the previous series in its earliest chapters.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ea77c5ab	comment	After Captain Tsubasa ended its original eight-year run on Weekly Jump, creator Yoichi Takahashi attempted to do different sports-related manga such as Legend of Sho (tennis), Ace! (baseball) and Chibi (boxing), but none of them ever caught on. Takahashi ended up going back to Captain Tsubasa and doing sequels and spinoffs to his most popular work.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ed6a91a8	comment	The studio entered a devastating rout after Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: A few films like The Croods, Mr. Peabody & Sherman and How to Train Your Dragon 2 became modest successes although neither got much notice. On the other side, Rise of the Guardians, Turbo and Penguins of Madagascar became notorious bombs that almost bankrupted the studio. After Penguins was released, DreamWorks's PDI branch was closed while COO Mark Zoradi (a 30-year Disney vet who had only joined the studio months earlier), and CCO Bill Damaschke were fired. By 2015 however, Home (2015) gave studio a badly-needed boost and Kung Fu Panda 3 became as successful as the series' previous entries.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ee742814	comment	Jewelpet Twinkle☆ is the second season, and the one whose shadow looms over every sequel season. The reason for this is because it was Darker and Edgier and had lots of Character Development, and then they decided to follow it up with three light-hearted Gag Series. Lady Jewelpet, the sixth season, is considered an improvement (being similarly Darker and Edgier), but has a Broken Base due to the drastically reduced screentime of the titular Jewelpets. And let's not get started on the Franchise Killer Jewelpet: Magical Change, which even got cancelled before its time because of how badly it was initially received.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_eef5470a	comment	This is believed to be the reason why Rurouni Kenshin author Nobuhiro Watsuki was not (and likely will never be) able to have another series which runs longer than 10 volumes, the magic number where Buso Renkin ended publication. Gun Blaze West was cancelled after only three.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_f4559fd1	comment	Yudetamago ran into this after concluding Kinnikuman.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_f7360065	comment	The LEGO Batman Movie had the bad luck to follow the critically acclaimed The LEGO Movie. While Batman is seen as a good movie, which turned a profit at the box office, it's generally considered somewhat of a step down, with much lower tallies than TLM.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_facd2d24	comment	The LEGO Ninjago Movie failed to win over critics who enjoyed both of the two previous theatrical Lego movies, with reviews calling it too generic, with less effort to appeal to older audience members. These turned it into WAG's first movie with a Rotten RT score, as well as its first box-office bomb.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera is this for Andrew Lloyd Webber — while several of his subsequent shows did decent/fine business in his native England (Sunset Boulevard also did well in the U.S.), he's never had another international sensation along the lines of Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, or Phantom. In 2010 he brought out a sequel to Phantom, Love Never Dies, but its reception has been extremely mixed. After the original Broadway run of Phantom closed in 2023 after a 36-year run, its longtime home, the Majestic Theatre, was subject to speculation as to what could possibly replace the longest-running show in Broadway history.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_fb413485	comment	This trope is partly the reason why Oakland Athletics fans hate current owner Lew Wolff. The A's former owners Charlie Finley and Walt Haas were nothing short of legendary; Finley was an eccentric yet successful owner who headed the small-market A's during their early 70's "Swinging A's" dominance (thanks in no small part to guys like Catfish Hunter and Reggie Jackson), while Haas became well loved due to his excellence as an owner (the late 80's-early 90's A's successes were under his ownership) and his constant presence in the East Bay community. Wolff, on the other hand, is a cheapskate who doesn't really care about the A's; his refusal to spend money was what caused the A's to constantly lose stars like Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon, Barry Zito, Yoenis CÃ©spedes, and Josh Donaldson. If it weren't for Billy Beane's Moneyball-based genius, the A's in the 2000s would've become a bigger joke than their equally unsuccessful Oakland neighbors (the pre-Curry Warriors and the post-Gruden Raiders).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya fell victim to this. Kurumada's first runaway hit was Ring ni Kakero, a boxing drama although with its share of Shonen elements. Saint Seiya was the closest he got, but it lost popularity and was forced to conclude with a Bittersweet Ending. A few of his works have tanked and the only series post-Kakero he was able to end on his terms was B't X.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_fe8ef766	comment	Ed Brubaker's Captain America was lauded as a great reinvention of the character and his mythos, combining political commentary with a sleek spy-fi angle while having lots of twists and turns. It's also noticeable for having Bucky Barnes not only Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in retconning him into a much darker character, but turning him into a Breakout Character by making him the new Captain America. The series was an audience and critical darling and brought the character into a new century. Every run that's followed has been negatively compared to it. Rick Remender's run was considered So Okay, It's Average pulp sci-fi when it wasn't loaded with widely disliked retcons and Nick Spencer's run became controversial for the sheer volume and unsubtlety of its political commentary before it pulled a Cosmic Retcon to turn the titular character into a Nazi (and made an event out of it).
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Tough Act to Follow / int_fec91a1d	comment	The Rescuers Down Under had a very tough act to follow in The Little Mermaid and boy, did that turn out ugly (receiving mixed-to-negative reviews and flopping at the box office, getting overwhelmed by Home Alone). Down Under is today one of Disney's obscurities, barely known by the general public (also being followed by Beauty and the Beast), although it has become a Cult Classic in its own right. Heck, it is even generally considered to be even better than its predecessor, The Rescuers in practically every way.
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Tough Act to Follow / int_ffbfaeb3	comment	Grayson was a Better Than It Sounds spy series about Dick Grayson operating within an organisation determined to find out the secrets of superheroes. While originally loathed for not having Dick as a superhero, a cover depicting him holding a gun and cancelling the then-ongoing Nightwing series, come release, it gained popularity very quickly, and helped launch the career of Tom King and provide some mainstream work for Tim Seeley. The series was liked for its fundamental understanding of the character despite its strange situations, playful yet very strong dialogue, as well as actually doing something new and refreshing with a Batman character. The series ended and was followed by Nightwing (Rebirth), written solely by Seeley. While not considered bad, it's considered a fairly standard Bat-family superhero comic, and the absence of King is very noticeable, as Seeley had Dick narrate every issue. To say Grayson fans aren't wowed is putting it lightly.
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