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Chabal2
Since: Jan, 2010
Pisthetairos
Since: Apr, 2018
19th Apr, 2018 03:54:13 PM
Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of.
More of a piece of trivia than a trope...
I Swear We Have This... Usually, because of First Installment Wins, characters in the sequel will remember it as an epic. But, because Actionized Sequel is a thing, the following installment is usually much more epic. For example, Captain Kirk is remembered as an amazing hero in the Star Trek spinoffs, but he never took part in full-on wars or defended the whole of humanity to the level Picard and Sisko did. Or, as applied to videogames, the storyline of the first Warcraft game is often mentioned as this great war in the sequels, but thanks to the limited technology of the time, it's incredibly low-key compared to the third game.