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  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch ditches Michael Myers and instead has a story about evil masks that possess little children. The original plan was for a Genre Anthology film involving several unrelated stories, with the first just being longer. The movie tanked, and they haven't made another non-Michael version since.
  • Home Alone 3 takes place after Christmas, contrary to the other five Home Alone films taking place before.
  • Ruthless People is a departure from the usual fare from filmmaking team Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, as it's their only film that isn't a spoof, but a more traditional farce.
  • Scream:
    • Scream 3 is the only film in the series in which there is only one Ghostface, as opposed to there being two.
    • Scream VI also dispenses with the usual formula of there being two Ghostfaces. There are five — three official, and a pair of wannabes.
  • Part of why the James Bond film Licence to Kill was poorly received in its original release (at least in the US) was how extremely atypical it was compared with previous Bond films. This time, Bond was not on a mission with MI6, fighting for king and country, he was on his own, fighting for himself and his friends in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • This is explicitly stated to be the reason why Marvel made the Guardians of the Galaxy movie for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Each of the previous movies depict the origins of the Avengers, with top of the line Marvel characters such as Captain America and Thor, culminating in The Avengers movie. Guardians of the Galaxy is pretty much a gathering of C-list and D-list Marvel characters that nobody would have expected to be featured in a film.
  • Monsieur Verdoux was a Charlie Chaplin film that broke with tradition: it a Black Comedy about a serial killer who murders women where Chaplin didn't play his familiar tramp character. The audience didn't like it that much and it would only become a Cult Classic later.

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