Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 106: Franchise Killer

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Johnbobb
09/24/18 7:35:25 PM
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Yesterday's Results: Batman in my Basement
Eleven - 6
The Amphibian Man - 3
Batman - 2
Boo - 1
Thor - 1
Dobby - 1
ET - 1
The Punisher - 1
The Terminator - 1
Roger - 1

Nominations
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Always a Bigger Fish
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Flaming Hair
Glass Cannon
Evil Brit
Spotlight-Stealing Squad
No One Could Survive That
Defeating the Undefeatable
Double Agent
Calling Your Attacks
Magnificent Bastard
Disney Death
villainous breakdown
Bittersweet Ending
Combat Commentator
Interface Screw

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Cain and Abel - Solid and Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
Double Reverse Quadruple Agent - Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
Defeating the Undefeatable - Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors)
What Could Have Been - Silent Hills
All-American Face - Captain America (Marvel)
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy)
Nigh-Invulnerability - Superman (DC)
Intelligible Unintelligible - Boomhauer (King of the Hill)
100% Approval Rating - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Upgrade vs. Prototype - Mewtwo v. Mew (Pokemon: The First Movie)
Spider Limbs - Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man)
Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics - The entire movie Wanted
The Man in Front of the Man - Alex (Golden Sun) / Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
Batman in my Basement - Eleven (Stranger Things)

Today's tropes is the Franchise Killer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FranchiseKiller

Sometimes a sequel sucks. Sometimes it sucks, but leaves the possibility open that the followup will be better and that this is just a blip in the quality of the franchise. Then sometimes it sucks so much that it kills the franchise stone dead, destroying the producers'/publishers' hopes for further sequels. In the most extreme cases, it can even take the producer/publisher down with it. Or even the entire genre itself.
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Anagram
09/24/18 7:43:30 PM
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Batman and Robin

So dumb
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Johnbobb
09/24/18 7:45:25 PM
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Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (actually a great game too, but proved that GH couldn't compete with Rock Band)
Tony Hawk: Ride
Fant4stic

HM:
Green Lantern
Elektra
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Heroes Season 4
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Lightning Strikes
09/24/18 8:07:42 PM
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Good thing this means the best example, not the actual best thing because this trope has some absolute stinkers.

My vote:

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5

This was such a franchise killer, that it revived the franchise after it had already been effectively killed by Ride/Shred and HD in a last ditch effort to save the series - giving it a number and everything - just to kill it so badly it can never possibly return. Batman came back, THPS is dead as a doornail.
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Janus5k
09/24/18 8:10:11 PM
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E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (Atari)
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Pirate_Harris
09/24/18 8:12:56 PM
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Batman and Robin

So dumb

So dumb it's good
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Pirate_Harris
09/24/18 8:14:17 PM
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Batman and robin
The amazing spider man 2
E.T game
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Shonen_Bat
09/24/18 8:15:33 PM
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

rip Rare
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Pirate_Harris
09/24/18 8:15:57 PM
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@Johnbobb
Quest for identity and identity absorption
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Underleveled
09/24/18 8:16:37 PM
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Batman: The Enemy Within

Too soon?
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KamikazePotato
09/24/18 8:16:40 PM
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Batman and Robin
Apollo Justice
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Pirate_Harris
09/24/18 8:17:54 PM
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Shonen_Bat posted...
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

rip Rare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8NREI_IPs" data-time="

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tazzyboyishere
09/24/18 8:18:35 PM
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Other M
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Pirate_Harris
09/24/18 8:21:20 PM
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Replace the amazing Spider-Man 2 with metroid other m
Replace e.t game with banjo kazooie nuts and bolts
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Snake5555555555
09/24/18 8:33:07 PM
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Dead Space 3
Mass Effect Andromeda
Dino Crisis 3

HMs:
Sega Dreamcast
The Predator (most likely anyway)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Punisher: War Zone
Spider-Man 3
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KamikazePotato
09/24/18 8:37:02 PM
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Mass Effect Andromeda
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Mewtwo59
09/24/18 8:43:45 PM
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Stargate Universe
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5tarscream
09/24/18 8:46:21 PM
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Eragon
Green Lantern
Lion King 2
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Xeybozn
09/24/18 8:48:36 PM
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Batman and Robin
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hylianknight3
09/24/18 8:49:47 PM
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Adam has authorized me to vote for

Metroid: Other M
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Underleveled
09/24/18 8:51:07 PM
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5tarscream posted...
Lion King 2

Except not only was this fairly well-received for a direct-to-video Disney sequel, but they still made another movie after it. So this doesn't qualify.
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hylianknight3
09/24/18 8:54:25 PM
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Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain
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Johnbobb
09/24/18 10:11:10 PM
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Pirate_Harris posted...
@Johnbobb
Quest for identity and identity absorption

oh that's weird I added them back last time but they're missing again
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azuarc
09/24/18 10:34:51 PM
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KamikazePotato posted...
Mass Effect Andromeda

I can't possibly think of a better example.
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NowItsAngeTime
09/24/18 10:37:05 PM
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
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Johnbobb
09/25/18 10:47:25 AM
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morning
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hylianknight3
09/25/18 10:48:32 AM
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
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Girugamesh
09/25/18 10:49:31 AM
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Mass Effect Andromeda
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hylianknight3
09/25/18 10:49:42 AM
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Honorable Mention:

Law and Order: Los Angeles
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PrestonStarry2
09/25/18 10:54:48 AM
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I nominated this trope. Thank you for skipping all of the crummy suggestions.

Star Fox Zero

The Broken Base that started in Star Fox Adventures managed to finally come back to bite the Star Fox franchise in the rear with Star Fox Command. It was the poorest-selling game in the series to date, and barring the Nintendo 3DS remake of Star Fox 64, it took an entire decade for the series to receive a new title through Star Fox Zero for the Wii U.

Alas, Star Fox Zero received polarizing reactions from critics and fans, no thanks to its unconventional control scheme and removal of staple features; as well as being yet another Continuity Reboot.

The result was Zero reportedly selling even less than Command, painting a very bleak future of the series. As a Consolation Prize, Star Fox 2, the cancelled SNES sequel of the original game finally got an official release on the SNES Classic.

Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive

In the West, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive was the defining factor in Disney's grinding the franchise to a halt and selling it back to Saban in 2010.

Note the only reason Power Rangers Jungle Fury and Power Rangers RPM were made (2007-08 and 2009 resp.) was because Jetix Europe and Bandai respectively asked them to for each series.
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PrestonStarry2
09/25/18 10:58:03 AM
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Might as well, join the norm with the last one.

Metroid: Other M

The poor reception of 2010's Metroid: Other M put the Metroid series on ice for a second timenote . Despite good initial sales, poor word-of-mouth took its toll, and new copies were rapidly marked down to bargain price.

Yoshio Sakamoto, a co-creator of the franchise who was heavily involved with Other M, said at the time that he didn't plan to return to Metroid or any of his other traditional video game creations any time soon.

In 2016, Nintendo attempted to revive the franchise with the spin-off Metroid Prime: Federation Force, but only achieved low sales, lukewarm critical reception, and outright rejection by the fan base, as many saw it as a failure to address the damage Other M had done to the franchise.

However, as alluded to in interviews around Federation Force's release, Metroid Prime 4 was announced the next year, alongside Metroid: Samus Returns. While the former is still in development, Samus Returns was very well-received, and it looks like Metroid is back in business for the time being.
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Tom Bombadil
09/25/18 11:36:19 AM
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Mass Effect
The Last Airbender (they shoulda cast Jeter!!)
Duke Nukem Forever
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Johnbobb
09/25/18 11:37:57 AM
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Tom Bombadil posted...
The Last Airbender (they shoulda cast Jeter!!)

YES

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GenesisSaga
09/25/18 11:43:20 AM
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Films:

The Golden Compass
The Last Airbender

Ha ha both of these set up for sequels at the end. Hell the latter had the gall to set up for a sequel at the very beginning by calling it "Book 1: Water". Yeah, as if.
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GavsEvans123
09/25/18 2:34:40 PM
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Marvel VS Capcom Infinite
Fant4stic
The Ghostbusters reboot
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NFUN
09/25/18 2:36:47 PM
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can I say Theodore Rex for killing Whoopi Goldberg's career?
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malyg
09/25/18 2:49:35 PM
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The Last Airbender
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Johnbobb
09/25/18 3:53:12 PM
#38:


change Guitar Hero to Marvel v Capcom Infinite

oof
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