Revenge of the Sequel

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In many sequel names, particularly in schlock horror, the title, or sub-title, describes some kind of return, revenge, reaction, counter-force, backlash, etc. that usually implies it's a direct consequence of one of the previous installments. The movie's tagline might even be something like "And this time, It's Personal."

Also expect "Return of _____", "Son of _____", and "Bride of _____". Can overlap with Character Action Title, where the most common variants are "_____ Returns", "_____ Strikes Back" and "_____ Rides Again".

Compare Unabashed B-Movie Fan. Usually overlaps with The X of Y.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon. The original Japanese title was Diaboromon Strikes Back. The "02" in Digimon Adventure 02, carried over from the series, isn’t meant to identify it as a sequel, but refers to it taking place in 2002, though. (At the time it was written, 2002 was 20 Minutes into the Future.)
• Averted with Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge; because it's the First Appearance of that character, his "revenge" is for the death of his brother Freeza. The trope is played straight for the following film, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler.
• Gundam:
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
  • The Compilation Movie of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory is titled The Last Blitz of Zeon.
• The second season of Jubei-chan, "The Counterattack of Siberian Yagyuu."
• Mewtwo Strikes Back is an odd example, since it's the subtitle of Pokémon: The First Movie. The sequel is called Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.
• The Lupin III OVA Return of the Magician is a sequel of sorts to the original 1972 series, featuring the return of the villainous magician Pycal.
• The second season of Zombie Land Saga is entitled Zombie Land Saga Revenge.

Asian Animation

• The 10th season of Happy Heroes is officially titled Happy Heroes and the Return of the Superhero.

Comic Books

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is not actually a sequel, but its sequel is The Dark Knight Strikes Again
• Lobo's second series was Lobo's Back. The third was Lobo's Back's Back.
• The second Hack/Slash trade paperback is titled The Revenge of the Return.
• Ambush Bug's second series was Son of Ambush Bug.
• In X-Men: The End, Jubilee is a movie producer - and one of the posters in her office is for Lord of the Flies 2: Piggy's Revenge

Fan Works

• Kirby: Revenge of Dream Land, while not a direct sequel, is a Nintendo Hard rework of Kirby's Return to Dream Land. The title doubles as a reference to Kirby Super Star Ultra, where the souped-up bosses all had "Revenge" in their names.
• The Secret Return of Alex Mack references both the canonical series (The Secret World of Alex Mack), and Diane Castle's prior story where Alex was called away to join The League of Extraordinary Women.

Films — Animated

• Aladdin: The Return of Jafar: Jafar uses Abis Mal, a foolish thief with a grudge against Aladdin and Iago switching sides, to get back in power.
• Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
• Space Chimps was followed by Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back.

Films — Live-Action

• The Universal Horror films of the '30s and '40s may have been the Trope Codifier:
  • Frankenstein was followed by Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, etc.
  • Dracula was followed by Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, and House of Dracula.
  • The Mummy was followed by The Mummy's Hand (actually a reboot rather than a direct sequel), which itself was followed by The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The Mummy's Curse.
  • The Invisible Man (1933) was followed by The Invisible Man Returns and The Invisible Woman.
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon was followed by Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us.
• Star Wars:
  • Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Has become so well known that nearly any movie, book, or other title with the words "strike back" in it that came after 1980 is 99% likely to be referencing this.
  • Episode VI: Return of the Jedi It was originally titled Revenge of the Jedi in both posters and even the teaser trailer before Lucas changed the title a few weeks before the premiere (as Jedi do not seek Revenge).
  • Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which was itself a reference to the original title of Episode VI (as Sith certainly do seek Revenge).
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is of course a direct reference to Star Wars. Complete with Mark Hamill (applause).
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge. However, it's a Non-Indicative Title, since Freddy is not getting his revenge on anyone. Nancy, the only survivor of the original film is not in this one, and she didn't even beat him then, prompting no actual revenge. There is also no hint that the kids' parents in this film were responsible for killing Freddy.
• Halloween:
  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
  • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
  • Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later was originally going to be Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode.
• Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
• The Return of the Living Dead (a sort-of sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968)) and its four sequels.
• The actual George Romero sequels: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead.
• Jaws: The Revenge
• The Return of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
• Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. Justified title, as the Fallen is an actual character in the movie, seeking revenge for things that happened millennia before the first movie took place. Also a subtle play on events from the first movie.
• The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther, Son of the Pink Panther.
• Porky's Revenge
• Superman Returns
• Batman Returns
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
• Godzilla:
  • Godzilla Raids Again
  • The former English title of All Monsters Attack is Godzilla's Revenge. However, it's a Non-Indicative Title, since Godzilla is not getting his revenge on anyone, nor does he even exists; the kaiju in that movie are just the make-believe imaginary adventures of a young boy in a mundane world.
  • The Return of Godzilla, also known as Godzilla 1985.
  • The second Mechagodzilla movie, known in English as Terror of Mechagodzilla, has a Japanese title that translates to Mechagodzilla's Counterattack.
• Star Trek II was nearly named The Vengeance of Khan, but the third Star Wars movie was known at the time as Revenge of the Jedi, so they switched to calling it The Wrath of Khan.
• The Mummy Trilogy:
  • The Mummy Returns
  • Done again at the Universal Studios theme parks with the Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster.
• Hammer Horror were never content with a Numbered Sequel. Why settle for 'Dracula III' when you can have Dracula: Prince of Darkness instead?
• Psycho Cop Returns
• The Return of Swamp Thing
• Return of Sabata
• Zebraman 2: Vengeful Zebra City
• The Son of Kong, sequel to the original King Kong (1933).
  • Similarly, King Kong (1976) was followed by King Kong Lives.
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again, sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
• The fourth, fifth, and sixth Child's Play films are entitled Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, and Curse of Chucky.
• Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - although it is not exactly a sequel to Valley of the Dolls.
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes! and Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
• Return to Cabin by the Lake.
• The Man Who Saves the World, a.k.a. Turkish Star Wars, has a sequel named Son of the Man Who Saves the World. As you might guess, the sequel's protagonist is the son of the prequel's protagonist.
• Return to House on Haunted Hill, sequel to the remade House on Haunted Hill (1999).
• Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial.
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Kriemhild's Revenge, the second part of Fritz Lang's cinematic epic Die Nibelungen.
• Before he died, Stanley Kubrick wanted Terry Gilliam to direct a Dr. Strangelove sequel called Son Of Strangelove.
• The international subtitle for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is Salazar's Revenge.
• Tarzan's Revenge is notable in that at no point does Tarzan express a desire to take revenge on anybody.
• Wrath of the Titans, the sequel to the Clash of the Titans remake.
• Darkman II: The Return of Durant
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, which sees the titular killer come back to life after his death two films prior.
• The Fly (1958) was followed by Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly.

Literature

• C. J. Cherryh's novel The Kif Strike Back. Cherryh was shocked that her publisher took her joking suggestion seriously.
• It's worth noting that Return of the King is not an example of this trope because: 1) it's not a trilogy but the third volume of a single story, 2) the titular return is something that's been hundreds (?) of years in the making, and not a direct follow-up to the two previous installments. Return of the Shadow was a rejected title for The Fellowship of the Ring, and eventually turned up as the title of the sixth volume in The History of Middle-Earth, Christopher Tolkien's making of dodecalogy.
• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
• Many Goosebumps books: "Return of the Mummy", "Say Cheese and Die - Again!", "Return to HorrorLand", "Return to Ghost Camp", "Return to the Carnival of Horrors", "Return to Terror Tower", "Revenge of the Body Squeezers" and "Bride of the Living Dummy". The "Goosebumps HorrorLand" series includes several non-numbered sequels, starting with "Revenge of the Living Dummy".
• Arthur Conan Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories after bringing the character back to life was titled - what else? - The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Likewise, Chesterton brought back his detective, Father Brown, in The Resurrection of Father Brown.
• The second omnibus of The Spirit Thief books is titled Revenge of Eli Monpress.
• One of Richard Lederer's sequels to Anguished English is The Bride of Anguished English.
• A The Addams Family tie-in novel by W. F. Miksch was called The Addams Family Strikes Back.

Live Action TV

• The Quantum Leap episodes "Return of the Evil Leaper" and "Revenge of the Evil Leaper."
• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?? is kind of a variation on this.
• Several Mr. Bean episodes: "The Return of Mr. Bean", "The Curse of Mr. Bean", "Mr. Bean Rides Again", etc.
• How I Met Your Mother made a sequel episode to "Slapsgiving" called "Slapsgiving: Revenge of the Slap". Then they made a third called "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra."
• The second Cinemax season (third Sky1 series) of Strike Back is known as Strike Back: Vengeance in Britian.
• An in-universe example happens in Friends, when Joey mentions to have acted in a movie titled "Family Honor 2: This-a-Time-a-It's-a-Personal".
• The Horror Host of Screaming Yellow Theater was named Svengoolie, so a few years later when another the station hired a new horror host he called himself the Son of Svengoolie.
• Doctor Who has the stories "Revenge of the Cybermen" (which, as is often pointed out, is a contradiction in terms as the emotionless Cybermen should not be able to feel the desire for revenge) and "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".
• The revival series for Baal Veer is called Baalveer Returns.
• The title for Return of Ultraman is a bit of a holdover from early development plans, when the Ultra hero from the first series was going to return as its lead protagonist.

Music

• The O.C. Supertones' second studio album was titled Supertones Strike Back, and their sixth was titled Revenge of the O.C. Supertones.
• Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson's followup album to Nilsson Schmilsson.
• The Frank Zappa instrumental trilogy Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar Some More, and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar.
  • The song title Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (predating the above trilogy) parodies this trope.
• Although it's not a sequel, Genesis gave us the song "Return of the Giant Hogweed," in which the eponymous weed (which, in real life, is very unpleasant) comes to life and wreaks havoc.

Pinball

• Given its B-movie traits, Revenge from Mars is fittingly named.

Video Games

• Burnout Revenge
• Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge
• Batman: Return of the Joker. The Sega Genesis version changes the title to Revenge of the Joker.
• Batman: Vengeance
• B.C. II: Grog's Revenge, the sequel to B.C.'s Quest for Tires.
• Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack
• Cybernoid II: The Revenge
• Double Dragon II: The Revenge
  • Return of Double Dragon, the Japanese version of Super Double Dragon.
• Inverted with Dusty Revenge, who later has a prequel, Dusty Raging Fist
• Command & Conquer:
  • The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 expansion pack Yuri's Revenge.
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars: Kane's Wrath
• Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James is followed by Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James, although it's a Non-Indicative Title because Jesse never goes on any revenge despite the title.
• Metroid II: Return of Samus
  • And its remake, Metroid: Samus Returns
• Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back! (known as Earth Bound: The War Against Giygas! in the U.S.)
• Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
• Kirby:
  • The mini-game Revenge of Meta Knight in Kirby Super Star was the titular knight's second appearance in the mainline Kirby series.
  • From Kirby Super Star Ultra, we get Revenge of the King. A darker and much harder remake/semi-sequel of the first game in the series with King Dedede and all of the bosses taking a huge Level In Badass.
  • Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
• Metal Gear:
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
  • Snake's Revenge, the non-canonical NES sequel to the original Metal Gear. The title makes very little sense in context, since the plot is actually about Big Boss getting his revenge on Solid Snake for turning him into a cyborg. It becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater revealed that "Snake" was originally Big Boss' codename.
• Bonk's Revenge, but what Bonk's getting revenge for is uncertain. If anything, King Drool should be getting revenge on him.
• Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
• Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
• Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, which is actually about Dracula getting his revenge on Christopher Belmont for Castlevania: The Adventure.
• The European version of Super C is known as Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces.
  • The arcade version of Super Contra bore the tagline Erian no Gyakushu in Japanese, which literally means "The Alien's Counterattack" or "The Aliens Strikes Back".
• The two Shinobi sequels for the Sega Genesis were called The Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers the second Game Boy game in the series.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder, the Japanese version of TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist for the Genesis.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Especially fitting here, since it's the first game based on the show to have been made in decades.
• Terra Cresta has the second game called Mandler's Counterattack.
• Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
• Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
• Final Fight Revenge
• Golden Axe: Revenge of the Death Adder (the arcade sequel)
• The Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
• Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
• Donkey Kong Country Returns (in this case, the Donkey Kong Country series itself Returns from a real-life decade-long Sequel Gap)
• Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
  • In Space Quest IV, one of the time travel dates is called Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II.
• Police Quest II: The Vengeance
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge is titled after Risky Boots, the series' main villain, who wants payback on Shantae for defeating her in the previous game.
• Lode Runner II: The Bungeling Strikes Back
• Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress. The Big Bad of part two is the ex-girlfriend of the Big Bad from part one.
• Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge
• Star Wars Racer Revenge
• Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge. It's not clear what Quasimodo is supposed to be taking revenge for.
• Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge
• Return of the Invaders, 1985 sequel to Space Invaders
• Revenge of the Mutant Camels, sequel to Attack of the Mutant Camels
• Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna
• Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back
• The Return of Ishtar, sequel to The Tower of Druaga
• Dragon's Revenge, sequel to Dragon's Fury
• Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back
• Montezuma's Return was a sequel to Montezuma's Revenge, which wasn't a sequel to anything.
• Mystery Case Files's Ravenhearst series: Return to Ravenhearst, and then Escape from Ravenhearst.
• Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge
• Doomdark's Revenge, sequel to Lords of Midnight
• Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance. (This may have been intended as a Tag Line rather than a subtitle, but some versions did include it on the title screen.)
• Another non-sequel example is the Game Boy Advance port of Infogrames' The Smurfs (1994) titled Revenge Of The Smurfs (which is also the name of one of the cartoon show's episodes).
• Columns III: Revenge of Columns.
• In LEGO Batman, two of the episodes have titles like this, even though the game itself is not a sequel: "The Riddler's Revenge" and "The Joker's Return." It's justified by the opening showing all the villains breaking out of Arkham Asylum, so even though the game isn't a sequel, the Joker is returning to committing crime in Gotham. Briefly.
• X2: Wolverine's Revenge
• Emperor Yie-Gah's Counterattack: Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2
• Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return
• Zuma's Revenge
• Splatoon 3's story mode is titled "Return of the Mammalians", referring to the mysterious re-emergence of mammals in a world where they had long since gone extinct.
• The Licensed Game of the 2011 Green Lantern film is titled Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters.
• Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge

Web Original

• A story on The Daily WTF mentions the ITAPPMONROBOT server, dedicated to physically pushing a button with its CD tray. A year later, a similar story was published as The Son of ITAPPMONROBOT.

Web Video

• Pokémon Talk: Season 4 Episode 1: "Gengar Returns".

Western Animation

• Frosty Returns
• Total Drama Revenge of the Island
• The Snow Queen (1995)'s sequel is named The Snow Queen's Revenge.

Real Life

• "Pojan koston paluu" is used quite a lot in Finnish. It literally means "The return of the revenge of the son".
• Similarly, in Spain "X 2: La Venganza" (X 2: The Revenge) is basically the Spanish equivalent of Electric Boogaloo.

Parodies:

Comic Books

• One Short Circuits strip in issue #53 of Mega Man (Archie Comics) revolved a hypothetical sequel to "Curse of the Lion Men", generally considered the worst episode of the Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon. It was titled "Son of the Return of the Curse of the Lion Men".

Fan Works

• Peter Chimaera parodies this with his Troll Fic DIGIMON 2: RETURN OF DIGIMON. Why the title character needs specific mention of returning is anyone's guess...
• Turnabout Storm: Pinkie spoofs this in one of her fourth wall moments with the potential sequel title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: The Revenge of Wob Niar ^note Wob Niar being the made-up name of her "Evil Twin of Rainbow Dash" theory.
• The sprite comic Bass Comic Adventures has a story arc called "Return of the Revenge".

Films — Live-Action

• Taken to the hilarious extreme and beyond by Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D—which isn't even a sequel in the first place. That is, it does have a sort of sequel itself: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 33.
• There was a script written for a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show called Revenge of the Old Queen.
• Combined with Department of Redundancy Department in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again.

Literature

• In Carpe Jugulum, the Old Count is writing a piece of "music" entitled Return of the Bride of the Revenge of the Son of Count Magpyr. He considered adding "From 20,000 Fathoms", but then scored that bit out.
• Star Warped, a Star Wars parody, entitles its third part "Episode VI: Return of the Son of Jobbi Rides Again", and the sixth "Episode III: Revenge of the Return of the Son of Psmyth Rides Again: the Next Generation - The Early Years".
• The final two books in Craig Shaw Gardner's Cineverse Cycle (which take place in a universe of clashing B-Movies) are called Bride of the Slime Monster and Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies (the first is Slaves of the Volcano God).
• In The 39 Clues, Dan decides to use his new credit card to order The Ninja’s Revenge Part VII: The Last Revenge and The Ninja’s Revenge Part VIII: The Final Last Revenge on Pay-per-view.
• The illustrated collections of the Bastard Operator from Hell have volumes named "Son of the Bastard Operator From Hell" and "Bride of the BOFH".
• The collected books of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are variations on the It Was a Dark and Stormy Night line: Just the line itself, then Son of, Bride of (in that order), The Final Conflict, and Rides Again.

Live-Action TV

• A Blackadder the Third episode has the title character making sacracstic reference to "Dictionary 2: Revenge of the Killer Dictionary".
• Mr. Show had a sketch called The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost - a B-Movie parody which consisted largely of the characters arguing over what it was they were supposed to be afraid of.
• During his opening monologue for the very first episode of The Tonight Show (then known simply as Tonight) in 1954, Steve Allen noted that NBC had already had success with their morning show, Today, then joked that if Tonight was successful, they would introduce yet another program called Son of Tonight.
• One episode of Russ Abbot's Madhouse had a spoof sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda called Return to Zenda.

Radio

• Red Dwarf started as a sketch on Son of Cliché which was a Sequel Series to Grant Naylor's previous show, Cliche. The first Red Dwarf script book was called Soup and the second, Son Of Soup as a nod to this.

Video Games

• The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Evil Chicken of Doom...Returns!

Webcomics

• One of Brawl in the Family's Waluigi comics is titled "Waluigi Strikes Back", and features exactly that.
• El Goonish Shive, has the storyline "Revenge of the Jokes".

Web Originals

• How 2 Kill a Mockingbird: Return of the Revenge.
• Linkara names his live shows in such a manner (e.g: Return of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, Curse of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, Son of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, etc).

Web video

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged's version of Dragonball Z The Return Of Cooler was renamed to Cooler 2: The Return of Cooler's Revenge: The Reckoning

Western Animation

• The Simpsons were once watching a trailer for Titanic 2: Revenge of the Titanic.
  • "Rocky V plus Rocky II equals... Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge!"
  • In "Homer the Whopper", the producers of the Everyman movie plan to make a sequel titled "Everyman 2: Rise of the Revenge".
• Family Guy had an episode involving "The Passion of the Christ 2:Crucify This". From what we see of it, it appears to be a Buddy Cop movie featuring Jim Caviezel and Chris Tucker.
• One episode of The Venture Bros. is "Return to the House of Mummies, part 2." There is no part 1.
• An episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo has the gang sucked into a horror movie called The Son of the Bride of the Ghost of Frankenstein.
• The Penguins of Madagascar has an episode called "The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole", which is a sequel to the episode "The Revenge of Dr. Blowhole".
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had an episode where Baxter Stockman returns yet again from banishment in dimensional limbo, called "Son of Return of the Fly II." (Two of his other appearances were straight examples of this title trope: "Return of the Fly" before the parody-titled episode, and Revenge of the Fly after it.)
• Season one of Darkwing Duck had an episode titled "Battle of the Brainteasers". (The "brainteasers" were Puppeteer Parasite aliens that looked like hats with eyes.) A sequel episode followed in season two titled "The Revenge of the Return of the Brainteasers, Too!"
• Danger Mouse: "The Clock Strikes Back" was the follow-up to "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma."
• In the reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, the villain Man Boy appears in episodes each with the prefix "Man Up" (the first installment) in them:
  • Man Up 2: Still Man-ing
  • Man Up 3: The Good, the Bad and the Manly
  • Man Up 4: The Donnyest Games (with Donny the Unicorn)
• WordGirl: Lady Redundant Woman's second focus episode is called "Return of the Reprise of Lady Redundant Woman", a joke about how said character is themed around being redundant.

Real Life

• Terry Pratchett used to have a gag he did with people who brought all their Discworld novels to sign. He'd start off with "Best Wishes" then "Better Wishes", "Even Better Wishes", "More Wishes" and so on, then eventually move on to "Son of Best Wishes", "Bride of Best Wishes", and "Return of the Killer Best Wishes (from 20,000 Fathoms)". This prompted one fan to suggest the sort of dedications Sir Terry would be writing when he hit the fifty book mark and people were backing the car in, including "Fuck Off", "Son of Fuck Off" and "Third Prodigal Son of a Fling with the Daughter of the Baker to Fuck Off". Fans being what they are, some people later requested these.

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