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* The original ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' movie pulls out a final skit after the credits, hinting at a sequel dubbed ''Son of Jackass'', where the now-elderly cast runs a march of death while getting maimed and killed in increasingly gory ways. While there ''was'' a sequel, it wasn't called ''Son of Jackass''. For that matter, in the credits of ''Jackass 2'', Bam begs, "Please, God, don't let there be a Jackass Three!" There was.

--->''Why'd they have to go and dig up Jason? ''[[AsideGlance <looks into the camera>]]'' Some folks have a strange idea of entertainment.''

** In [[Film/Scream3 the third film]], Randy delivers a new set of rules for [[GrandFinale trilogy closers]] [[spoiler:posthumously via videotape]], which include how AnyoneCanDie, how the killer is now supernatural, and how there will be {{Shocking Swerve}}s concerning characters' backstories.

** In [[Film/Scream4 the fourth film]], we see that the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe]] ''Stab'' series has [[StylisticSuck descended]] into FranchiseZombie territory after [[FinalGirl Sidney Prescott]] sued to stop the producers from continuing to [[RippedFromTheHeadlines base the films off of the actual Ghostface murders]]. The fifth ''Stab'' film had an inane TimeTravel storyline, and the seventh was a RealWorldEpisode where all the previous ''Stab'' films existed within that film's universe, both signs of a series that had run out of ideas.
** A major plot point in [[Film/Scream2022 the fifth film]] is that the eighth ''Stab'' movie was [[BrokenBase extremely divisive]], with many fans declaring the series DarthWiki/RuinedForever as a result. It's said to have been directed by "the ''Film/KnivesOut'' [[Creator/RianJohnson guy]]," a thinly-veiled reference to the similarly contentious reception that ''Film/TheLastJedi'' received in real life, and one scene has Richie watching a pair of rage-bait {{Caustic Critic}}s on Website/YouTube utterly eviscerate the film. [[spoiler:Richie and Amber hated it so much that [[LoonyFan they staged the latest Ghostface killing spree over it]] in order to provide new source material for a film that will bring the ''Stab'' series back to its roots.]]

* From ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'': "No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghost face! I wanna be in the sequel!"

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':

* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'': In "The Star System Syndrome", the worms write [[Film/MenInBlack a movie treatment for MIB]], which gets produced, starring Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TommyLeeJones... and the CGI version of the worms who look more like the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' than their actual selves. J complains that Will Smith looks nothing like himself.

As a result, it's not uncommon for parodies of these genres to make a joke about having a sequel. Oddly enough, the movies that make these jokes rarely if ever end up actually having sequels made to them. This is probably because the jokes are inserted for the purpose of making fun of sequels, and actually creating one after that would be missing the point.

** In ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Part II]]'', Marty's reaction to the holographic shark used to promote ''Film/{{Jaws}} [[RidiculousFutureSequelization 19]]'' is to remark that, even in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2015]], they ''still'' can't get the shark to look realistic.

** ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' even implies a sequel in its title -- apparently, a play on an old historian who intended to write a history of the world in two volumes but was executed before he could finish the second one. The film even includes a couple of "previews" of a putative ''Part II'' (including "Hitler on Ice" and "Jews in Space"). While the film was clearly made with no intention of a sequel, an actual ''History of the World Part II'' started development in 2021, decades after the first film.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': At the drive-in where the 1955 Doc sends Marty on his way to 1885, the movie marquee in the background lists three sequels, as a TakeThat by the writers against the complaint that Hollywood was making too many sequels at the time, visually showing this was always the case in the industry.

* The ''very first song'' of ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' is about how they're doing a sequel to [[Film/TheMuppets the last Muppet film]]. It includes a line about how the sequel's never quite as good, a spoken bridge about trying to find a half decent plot, among other things.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' joked about a sequel, and then [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} it took it 11 years to actually get made]]. ''And'' [[NoExportForYou it was Japan-Only.]]

* A joke teaser for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' titled "Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser" depicts Raiden (the surprise protagonist of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'') traveling back in time to the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' in order to assassinate Naked Snake and prevent his clone Solid Snake from existing so that he could be the main character of the fourth game. However, every time he warps back to the past, he always ends up arriving at an inconvenient moment and repeatedly makes an embarrassment of himself. Raiden gives up on this endeavor and goes back to the present, where his girlfriend Rosemary reassures him that even though he's not the main character of ''4'' anymore, "there's going to be a ''5''." Raiden eventually did get [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance his own game again]], even though it wasn't exactly ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV Metal Gear Solid 5]]''.

* Maggie Simpson's second (and currently last) word, spoken at the end of the credits in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', is "sequel?".

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', when mail from Earth finally catches up with the Dwarfers [[note]]Three million years later[[/note]], one item in the mail-pod is a video of ''Film/FridayTheThirteenth, Part 396''

** Even the ''title'' of ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' implies a sequel, and they do "previews" to Part Two (including "Hitler On Ice!!!"), but it's clear they don't mean to make one.
*** This example ultimately ended up being subverted, as an actual ''History of the World Part II'' is now in the works as of 2021.
** The rapping GreekChorus in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' jokes about reappearing in ''Robin Hood 2''. No sequel has been announced.
** In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', [[Creator/MelBrooks Yogurt]] jokes that he and Lone Starr will meet again in ''Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money'', as part of the movie's RunningGag about [[MerchandiseDriven merchandising]]. No sequel has been made, though an animated series had a short run in the mid-2000s.
** In an interview with Clive James, Brooks denied vehemently that he would ever make ''Spaceballs II'' but might consider making ''Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II''.

Compare RidiculousFutureSequelisation and SequelHook.