"This might be that film you saw or the song stuck in your head.
Or this might be that novel that already read.
Well the point is that you won't have to think at all during this show
It's Something You Already Know!"

— Rob Paravonian, Something You Already Know

Nothing could be more natural than following up on a success. And sometimes, nothing could be harder. This page is for all kinds of sequels, prequels, translations, adaptations and spin-offs that attempt to do that, and the ways in which they succeed or, more commonly, fail.

See also Continuity Tropes and Localization Tropes.

Tropes and trivia

• Abridged Series
• Adaptational Abomination
• Actionized Adaptation
• Adaptational Attractiveness: An adaptation makes a character better-looking.
  • Adaptational Ugliness: An adaptation makes a character more hideous.
• Adaptational Badass
• Adaptational Comic Relief
• Adaptational Context Change
• Adaptational Intelligence
• Adaptational Wimp
• Adaptation Displacement: The adaptation becomes more well-known than the source material.
• Adaptation Distillation
• Adaptation Dye-Job
• Adaptation Expansion
• Adaptation Explanation Extrication
• Adaptation First
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
• Adaptation Inspiration
• Adaptation Name Change
• Adaptation Overdosed
• Adaptation Personality Change
  • Adaptational Heroism
  • Adaptational Jerkass
  • Adaptational Nice Guy
  • Adaptational Villainy

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• Adaptation Sequence
• Adaptation Species Change
• Adapted Out: A character from the original work is omitted in the adaptation.
• After Show
• Animated Adaptation
• Ascended Extra: A minor character is given a more important role.
• Ascended Fan Fic
• Audience-Coloring Adaptation
• Based on an Advice Book
• Canon Fodder
• Cipher Scything
• Comic-Book Adaptation: A work is adapted into a comic book.
• Compressed Adaptation
• Continuity Reboot: An installment of the franchise that ignores the canon of the previous installments in favor of establishing a new continuity.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character
• Creator-Preferred Adaptation: The creator of the original work finds the adaptation to be better than their original creation.
• Creator's Apathy: The creator admits that they didn't care about the quality of the work.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Sequels to a video game with Multiple Endings only regard one ending as canon.

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• Death by Adaptation: The adaptation kills off a character who remained alive in the original work.
• Derivative Differentiation
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: The way a character dies in the adaptation is different from how they died in the original work.
• Disowned Adaptation: The creator of the original work dislikes the adaptation.
• Distaff Counterpart: The female equivalent of a pre-existing male character (the reverse of this would be a Spear Counterpart)
• Divorced Installment: A work originally planned as part of a specific franchise ends up retooled into being its own thing.
• Dolled-Up Installment: Slapping a franchise onto an initially unrelated product.
• Dramatic Reading
• Early Adaptation Weirdness
• Early-Bird Cameo: A character makes a brief appearance before being properly introduced later within the work or within their own story.
• Era-Specific Personality
• External Retcon
• Fairy Tale Episode
• Fan Fic: A story based on a work of fiction written by a fan of the work and posted online.
• Fan Verse
• Fanon: Fans' interpretations of what isn't confirmed within the work or by the work's creators.
• Fanwork Ban: Fan-made content is forbidden.
• Featurization
• Fiction Science
• Filk Song
• Film Comic: Photo Comic based on some other media.
• The Film of the Series
• Franchise Killer
  • Genre-Killer
  • Creator Killer
• From the Ashes
• Gag Dub
• Gag Sub
• Game Mod
• The Game of the Book
• Gendered Outfit
• Gender Flip: An adaptation changes the gender of a character.
• God-Created Canon Foreigner: An adaptation features a new character created by the creator of the original work.
• Human-Focused Adaptation
• Humble Beginnings
• Indecisive Medium
• In the Style of...
• Inspired by...
• Like That Show, But with Mecha
• Literary Necrophilia
• Live-Action Adaptation
• Lost in Imitation: An adaptation is influenced more by previous adaptations than the original work.
• Mission-Pack Sequel
• Movie Bonus Song
• Non-Linear Sequel: A sequel that doesn't directly take place after the previous entry of the series.
• On Ice
• Original Generation
• The Original Series
• Patchwork Story
• Perspective Flip
• Plot Tumor
• P.O.V. Sequel: An episode is given a follow-up where the episode's events are shown from another character's perspetive.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: The adaptation changes or omits elements from the original story that would be difficult or impossible to leave as they were in the source material.
• Prequel: A series installment that takes place before the first installment.
• Quietly Performing Sister Show
• Redubbing
• Recursive Adaptation: An adaptation is given its own adaptation in the medium of the original work.
• Recursive Import
• Recycled: The Series
• Recycled INSPACE
• Reimagining the Artifact
• The Remake
  • Foreign Remake
• Remake Cameo: The reboot features a cameo by one of the actors from the original version of the work.
• Remix Comic
• Revival: A show that ended its run some time ago is renewed for more episodes.
• Running the Asylum
• Same Story, Different Names
• Series Minus Series Core
• Setting Update
• Shot-for-Shot Remake
• Sidenote Full Story
• Soft Reboot: A series installment that has the aesthetic of a reboot, but still regards older installments as canon.
• Spared by the Adaptation: A character who died in the original work remains alive in the adaptation.
• Spinoff: A show that exists in the same continuity of an older show and often shares some characters with it.
  • More Popular Spinoff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.
  • Spinoff Babies: An adaptation starring younger versions of the original show's cast.
  • Spinoff Sendoff
  • Spin-Offspring: The show gets a sequel starring the children of the characters from the original show.
• Spin-Off Cookbook
• Spiritual Antithesis: A work that is basically the polar opposite of another work.
• Spiritual Successor: A work that isn't a direct continuation of a previous work, but still has enough similarities that it can be taken as a continuation of the original work in spirit.
• Stealth Sequel: A work that appears to be a new continuity turns out to be a subtle prequel or sequel to the original version.
• Stillborn Franchise: A work is intended to start a franchise, but isn't successful enough to warrant further installments.
• Stock Subtitle
• Suggested by...
• The Theme Park Version
• Third-Option Adaptation: An adaptation of an interactive work has a new choice made to go around deciding which of the choices the protagonist makes in the adaptation.
• TV Tropes Derivatives
• Twice-Told Tale
  • Fractured Fairy Tale
• Two-Part Trilogy
• Xenafication
• You Don't Look Like You: An adaptation has a character look drastically different from the appearance they are normally depicted with.
• Younger and Hipper