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* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIILostAtSea'' and ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIIIDoubleTrouble''.
* From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
** InUniverse, we have "Tornado Sharks 2: I Think Things Just Got A Little More Windier".
** In the story itself, there's "The Night of the Living Television II" and more subtly "Part Three".

** Made absolutely ridiculous by the fact that the subtitle of "The First Movie" is "Mewtwo Strikes Back", clearly implying that it was a sequel. (This had long been what we Americans had been told, but it turns out that this is not totally true, as ''The Origin of Mewtwo'' was just a short featurette of the same length as those ubiquitous Pikachu specials.) The origin story, which had been removed from the American theatrical release of ''Pokemon: The First Movie'' in order to preserve the G rating, was eventually packaged on the direct-to-video release Mewtwo Returns. So we have a "Strikes Back", and then we have a "Returns". Is anyone else sensing a StarWars {{Homage}} here?
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' films seem to be using the same system as ''BlackAdder'' as an {{Homage}}: ''Shrek'', ''Shrek 2'', ''Shrek the Third'', and ''Shrek Forever After''.

* The first major film to start using this technique was ''Film/TheGodfather'' in ''The Godfather Part II''. It was one of Francis Ford Coppola's three demands for working on the sequel. His two other demands were approved, but the studio highly objected to simply following the title with a number. Its success began the tradition of numbered sequels.

->''Coming soon from Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures - ''{{Airplane}} III ''''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShatner:''' Wait! That's EXACTLY what they'll expect us to do!

* ZAZ didn't want to have anything to do with ''{{Airplane}} II - The Sequel'', (and even claim to this day to have never watched it), even though they'd later make sequels to ''Naked Gun'' and ''HotShots!''. ''Airplane II'' lampshades the trope with the announcement at the end of the credits "Coming soon from Paramount Pictures : ''Airplane III''" followed by William Shatner saying "Wait! That's exactly what they'll be expecting us to do!"
** Speaking of ''HotShots!'': its sequel was ''Hot Shots! Part Deux''[[note]]French for two[[/note]], with the tagline, "Just [[{{Pun}} Deux]] It!"

*** If you have to explain the 33⅓, then you better explain that an LP is a [[WhatAreRecords vinyl record]] ([[TechMarchesOn what music was recorded on before CDs]]).

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', which consists of the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI original game]], ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', and the upcoming ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''. Also includes a pair of sequels, ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' to the second game.
** Played with as the next game is to be called Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

** Speaking of ''HotShots!'': its sequel was ''Hot Shots! Part Deux''[[hottip:*:French for two]], with the tagline, "Just [[{{Pun}} Deux]] It!"

* The ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'' series, consisting of ''Jumper'', ''Jumper Two'' and ''Jumper Three''[[hottip:*:and ''[[VideoGameRemake Jumper Redux]]''.

* ''[[HalfLife Half-Life]]'' being followed many years later by ''Half-Life 2'', then the sequels (which even Valve admits should be referred to as Half-Life 3) being called ''Half-Life 2 Episode One'' and ''Half-Life 2 Episode Two''.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'' series, consisting of ''Jumper'', ''Jumper Two'' and ''Jumper Three''[[hottip:*:and ''[[VideoGameRemake Jumper Redux]]'']].

** Played with as the next game isto be called Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

* Trying to arrange the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' in chronological order can get confusing. ''KingdomHeartsII'', the only game with a straightforward numbered subtitle, was neither the second game released nor the second chronologically (''KingdomHeartsChainofMemories'' being both). The most recent game, ''KingdomHearts3D'', while the direct sequel to ''II'', is ''not'' the long-awaited ''Kingdom Hearts III''. If ''III'' is released next, it will be the ''eighth'' game in the series (ignoring updated rereleases).

* ''Film/MenInBlack'' has two sequel, but the first uses Roman numbers (''Men In Black II'', stylized ''MIIB'') and the latter Arabic ones (''Men In Black 3'', stylized ''MIB[[superscript:3]]'').

** The new series being shown (at the time of writing) on the channel Dave is referred to as Red Dwarf X.
* Another BBC comedy, ''TheBlackAdder'', was followed by Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth (bad pun!)

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* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' movies go like this: "Pokémon: The First Movie", "Pokémon The Movie 2000", "Pokémon 3 The Movie", "Pokémon 4Ever", and then they stop trying to incorporate the numbers into the title and just go to straight subtitles.
** Made absolutely ridiculous by the fact that the subtitle of "The First Movie" is "Mewtwo Strikes Back", clearly implying that it was a sequel. (This had long been what we Americans had been told, but it turns out that this is not totally true, as ''The Origin of Mewtwo'' was just a short featurette of the same length as those ubiquitous Pikachu specials.) The origin story, which had been removed from the American theatrical release of ''Pokemon: The First Movie'' in order to preserve the G rating, was eventually packaged on the direct-to-video release Mewtwo Returns. So we have a "Strikes Back", and then we have a "Returns". Is anyone else sensing a StarWars {{Homage}} here?
* The ''{{Shrek}}'' films seem to be using the same system as ''BlackAdder'' as an {{Homage}}: ''Shrek'', ''Shrek 2'', ''Shrek the Third'', and ''Shrek Forever After''.
** They were supposedly reluctant to use the title "Shrek 3," lest it create confusion with the short "Shrek 3-D" which was released in a box set with the first two films. Apparently ViewersAreMorons.

* Wanna hear something funny? ''TheLandBeforeTime'' started to number its sequels with roman numbers, and to this day never changed that formula. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_%28series%29 We're talking about ''thirteen'' movies, by the way.]]
** Of course, after reaching double-digits the movies started to go out of their away to avoid mentioning what number they were up to, as if out of embarrassment. Re-releases of the sequels on DVD rarely state the number of the movie anymore either.
* The ''{{Saw}}'' film series went from 1 to 6 (using Roman numerals for the second to sixth films). Then an [[OddlyNamedSequel Oddly Numbered Sequel]] (at least over here) is the seventh movie, known as ''Saw 3D''.

* WorldWarII, the "sequel" to the Great War also known as the War to End All Wars that is now commonly referred to as World War I. Of course, there is also the as yet hypothetical WorldWarIII. Higher numbered World Wars are occasionally referenced in media set far enough into the future.

* Creator/{{Infocom}}'s "VideoGame/{{Zork}}" series/universe started with ''Zork I'', ''II'' and ''III'', but after that got complicated, with the VideoGame/{{Enchanter}} Trilogy (''Enchanter'', ''Sorcerer'' and ''Spellbreaker'') and then titles like ''Beyond Zork'' and ''Zork Zero''.

* The UK versions of ''ThePrincessDiaries'' by Meg Cabot have fun with this; the sequels are called ''The Princess Diaries: Take Two'', ''The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky'', ''The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth'', ''The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five'', ''The Princess Diaries: Sixsational'', ''The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven'', ''The Princess Diaries: After Eight'', and ''The Princess Diaries: To the Nines''.

** PLayed with as the next game is ''VideoGame/Assassin'sCreedIVBlackFlag''.

* In one of the least intuitively named movie series yet, ''TheFastAndTheFurious'' was followed sequentially by ''TwoFastTwoFurious'', ''TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' and now a fourth movie simply called ''FastAndFurious''. However, this makes more sense than it appears, as ''Tokyo Drift'' is a sequel InNameOnly while the new film is a return to the original cast and setting. Then the fifth movie goes back to numbers is called ''FastFive''...

If the movies in a series were made out of chronological order, the numbering can refer either to the order in which they were made or the order in which they take place. The latter gets you titles like ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' and ''TheLionKing 1½''. Very rarely, you'll see a prequel with a negative number. The print version of the webcomic ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' has two prequels, numbered #0 and #-1, and the French comic ''Donjon'' (planned to run from #1-#100) has spinoff series planned to run from #-99 to #0 and #101 to #200.

** ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIIITheManhattanProject''

* The ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' GaidenGame ''Fuun Kabuki Den'' has a fake title screen reading ''Tengai Makyou III''. The real ''Tengai Makyou III'' was not released until eight years after ''Tengai Makyou IV''.

* TheBeatles' sixth album released by Capitol records in the U.S. was ''Beatles VI.''

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* When CBS revived Goodson-Todman's ''MatchGame'' in 1973, it was suffixed with "'73," as opposed to calling it "The New Match Game" (which some TV listings actually had). The year in the title changed accordingly each December 31st. (In 1979, NBC revived ''{{Password}}'' as ''Password Plus''; [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they were going to name it ''Password '79''.)