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Once upon a time, in an imaginary land far away, there was a film company called Allegory Productions.

Allegory Productions released ''Troperz'', a pretty big hit. Naturally, the next thing to do is to make a sequel: ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Troperz 2: Electric Boogaloo]]'', then ''Trop3rz'', concluding the ''Troping'' trilogy. Not satisfied with only three ''Troping'' movies, Allegory Productions released ''Troperz 0: The Beginning of the Tropes'', a prequel to the first ''Troperz''. Then a sequel to ''Troperz 0'' was released, titled ''Troperz 0.5''. Then a sequel to that titled ''Troperz 0.75'' came out. Now it's time to make a sequel to the ''Troping'' trilogy, so we have ''Troperz: Afterlife''. Oh, an [[Interquel]] in the original ''Troping'' trilogy would be nice, so now ''Troperz 1.5: Interstory'' is a thing.

Feeling confused yet? Allegory Productions is suffering from a severe case of '''Sequel Number Snarl'''.

A Sequel Number Snarl happens when the [[Numbered Sequels|numbering of sequels]] gets really, ''really'' complicated to the point where it's impossible to keep up. For example, many [[Interquel]]s start filling up the chronology. It also occurs when titles make it difficult to track which instalment is next chronologically, when an [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]], whose title ''doesn't'' include a number, is added to the series.

The trope can only be avoided with very careful planning. The franchise entries needs to be named so it's easy for ''anyone'' to see what comes after what, while accounting for the possibility of an [[Interquel]] or [[Prequel]] later. It is very easy for a franchise to fall into this naming scheme when higher-ups demand for another instalment of ''Troperz'', but the original trilogy is already done.

An interquel will almost certainly lead to Sequel Number Snarl, because it is very difficult to succinctly communicate ''where'' the interquel is in the chronology. Sure, you can go outside the set of natural numbers and name something ''Troperz 2.5'', but that title, frankly, isn't nice to look at. Don't even bother with a title like ''Troperz: In-between Story'' because that will confuse everyone outside the ''Troperz'' fandom. Also, both options bring you back to Sequel Number Snarl land.

Things like [[No Export for You]] could also lead to this, with a single name referring to one game in one region and another game in another.

A subtrope of both [[Numbered Sequels]] and [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', followed by the interquel ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'', followed by the sequel ''Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid''.

== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Ring]]'' series is somewhat baffling.
** A 1995 film, named ''Ring'' and re-released as ''Ring: Kanzenban''
** Hideo Nakata series: ''Ring'', ''Rasen'', ''Ring 2'' (which ignores the events of ''Rasen'') and a prequel ''Ring 0: Birthday''
** American films ''The Ring'', ''Rings'' (a short DVD-only film) and ''The Ring Two''
** Korean film ''The Ring Virus''
* The [[Rambo]] series goes ''First Blood'', ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', ''Rambo III'', and then ''Rambo'' (also known as ''[[Market-Based Title|John Rambo]]'' or ''[[Numbered Sequels|Rambo IV]]'' in certain countries).

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' gained a bit of this in terms of season numbers when Disney decided to [[Recut]] part of [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|the first season]]. Officially, the [[Recut]] is Season 18, but fans are reluctant to name glorified reruns as a full season and consider the following span of ''new'' episodes, ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'', as the actual Season 18. The impending adaptation of ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' is affecting fan perception as well, as it's a [[Milestone Celebration]] season (35 years of ''[[Super Sentai]]''), would be the 20th year of ''Sentai'' adapted for ''[[Power Rangers]]'', and would air the year of ''Rangers''' 20th anniversary... but would be Season 21 by current official numbering.
** It got even more complicated when ''Samurai'' was extended to two seasons, the second part as ''Super Samurai''. Beyond the possibility that ''Gokaiger'' might miss the anniversary, nobody's sure whether to consider ''Super Samurai'' as Season 18b, 19, or 20.
** Long before that, there was ''[[Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers]]'', a transitional period between the third season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]''. It's commonly considered Season 3b, being too short to be a season in itself and sharing enough with ''Mighty Morphin''' S3 to be lumped in with it.
* [[Super Sentai]] itself also underwent a similar situation. The first two Sentai shows, ''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' and ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]]'', which Toei co-produced with Ishinomori Production, were not counted among the later Super Sentai shows that Toei produced independently starting with ''[[Battle Fever J]]''. As a result, ''[[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]]'' was produced as the tenth anniversary series and ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' was originally considered the fifteenth series. Somewhere along the lines ''Goranger'' and ''J.A.K.Q.'' were retroactively added to the franchise's count, making the earlier anniversary shows before their inclusion seemed odd in retrospect.
* The [[Kamen Rider]] franchise has a similar issue, not with the number of shows, but with the official number of main Riders:
** The first ''[[Kamen Rider (TV series)|Kamen Rider]]'' series had two main Riders: Rider 1 and Rider 2 (the latter started off as a temporary substitute of the former).
** ''[[Kamen Rider V 3]]'' (the second Rider series, which centered around the titular third Rider) featured a secondary character named Riderman, a villain who underwent a [[Heel Face Turn]]. Despite the fact that Riderman was not a main character, he shows up in many of the subsequent crossover movies and specials as the fourth main Rider.
** [[Kamen Rider Stronger]], the seventh Rider, had a female sidekick named Tackle. Unlike Riderman though, she is not counted as an official Rider.
** [[Kamen Rider Black]] and [[Kamen Rider Black RX]] were originally counted as one Rider, since they were different alter-egos of the same character (RX being an upgraded form of the original Black). Thus, RX was counted as the eleventh Rider when the older Riders guest-starred in his show. However, Black and RX have been counted as separate characters ever since RX guest-starred in a two-part episode of ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' where he teamed up with an alternate universe version of himself who retained his original Black form.
** All of the Rider shows from ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'' and onward had numerous secondary Riders (including movie-exclusive characters) in addition to the titular protagonists.<ref>''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' for example had 13 Riders (some of them villains), plus two pseudo-Riders.</ref> ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' established the official number of Riders by counting all of the Riders from Rider 1 to [[Kamen Rider J|J]] (with Black and RX being established as separate individuals at this point) and counting only the titular Riders from [[Kamen Rider Kuuga]] and onward.
** The official count leaves out the alternate versions of the first three Riders who were in the reboot movies (''[[Kamen Rider the First|The First]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider the Next|The Next]]''), as well as [[Kamen Rider G]] (a Rider created for a one-off parody).

== [[Music]] ==
* The Traveling Wilburys named their first album ''Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1'', and their second album ''Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3''— eit her as a joke, or to reference their involvement in the charity album ''Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal'', which featured a track by the Wilburys, as well as two [[George Harrison]] songs, as a supposed Vol. 2.
* [[Chickenfoot]]'s second album is ''Chickenfoot III'' to spoof [[Sophomore Slump]].

== Software ==
* Windows 7. In the software numbering, it's 6.1. Going on major design changes, it ''is'' the seventh iteration (NT/95/98/ME being the fourth, 2000/XP being the fifth, Vista being the sixth). But as far as major releases go, it's the ninth (NT/95, 98, 2000/ME, etc).
** Windows 10.  Microsoft skipped directly from Windows 8 to Windows 10, apparently because just about every program in existence identified Windows 95 or 98 by looking for "Windows 9" in the version string reported by the operating system.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
*  The various ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' editions are titled ''Dungeons and Dragons'', ''The Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set'', ''Advanced Dungeons and Dragons'', ''Basic Dungeons and Dragons'', ''Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Second Edition'', ''Dungeons and Dragons, 3rd Edition'', ''Dungeons and Dragons, Revised Edition'', ''Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition'', and ''Dungeons and Dragons Essentials''. Which means that "4th Edition" is actually Version 8. Whether ''Essentials'' counts as Version 9 or is simply Version 8 renamed is the subject of some debate among the game's fans.

== [[Web Original]] ==
* Discussed in [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s video "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVzPCY2T-g Chronologically Confused about Movie and Video Game Sequels]"

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Silent Hill]]'' had four games, a prequel (''Zero''), an oddly named sequel (''Homecoming''), and a remake of the first (''Shattered Memories''). The next, ''Downpour'', was slated to be released as ''8'' until someone realised the problem.
* ''Super [[Metroid]]'' and ''Metroid Fusion'' was called "Metroid 3" and "Metroid 4" respectively in their opening titles. ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' came out the same time as ''Fusion'', and was intended to be just an aside between the original and ''Return of Samus''. But then the ''Prime'' series was a runaway success, creating 2 sequels and 2 spinoff titles. And ''then'', there's ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', an interquel between ''Super'' and ''Fusion'', that came out in 2010. This may prompt Nintendo to drop the classic system of numbering if the 2D sequel to ''Fusion'' ever comes out.
* ''[[Street Fighter]]'', which was released in the order I-II-Alpha-III-IV. Chronologically, it's I-Alpha-II-IV-III.
** Then there's the ''[[Street Fighter EX]]'' series, a polygonal offshot of ''[[Street Fighter II]]''. In terms of plot, the original game was intended to be a side-story set during the events of ''II'', but since the series was developed by Arika (who own the rights to the new characters introduced in the series), it evolved into its own continuity instead.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' was originally released in America as ''II'', and ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' as ''III''. Synchronising the sequels as of ''VII'' confused Americans briefly, but the numbering has caught on.
** The [[Virtual Console]] releases of ''Final Fantasy IV'' and ''VI'' in America, being straight emulation of the SNES versions, kept the earlier Americanized numbering, despite the fact that there were already ports of those game for the [[PlayStation]] and [[Game Boy Advance]] that restored the original numbering.
** Then you had ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' (and later, ''[[Final Fantasy XIII-2]]''), which muddied things further.
* ''[[StarCraft]]'' was initially released on 31 March 1998. By 2009 the franchise included various novels, add - ons, etc., as well as a major [[Expansion Pack]], ''Brood War''. When ''[[StarCraft|Starcraft II]]'' came out in 2010, there was a noticable [[Double Take]] by some fans at the fact that it was "only" the first sequel.
* Similarly, the ''[[Homeworld]]'' franchise consists of three major installments, ''[[Homeworld]]'' (1999), ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'' (2000), and ''Homeworld 2'' (2003)
* ''[[Call of Duty]]'' had it's fourth game named ''Call Of Duty 4: [[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]]''. Its sequels are named ''Modern Warfare 2'' and ''Modern Warfare 3''. Then there's ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops|Call of Duty Black Ops]]'', which is arguably a spin-off from ''Modern Warfare'', but isn't given the ''Modern Warfare'' tagline.
* The Gorky series began with ''Gorky 17'' (also known as ''[[Odium]]''), then ''Gorky Zero'' and then ''Gorky 02'.
* Although it does not bear a numbered title, the 2011 version of ''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat]]'' is officially considered to be the ninth game in the series by the developers (excluding updated versions like ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3''). The crossover game ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]'' is the eighth game.
* The [[Legacy of Kain]] series started out with ''Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain''. The sequel shifted the subtitle to the forefront and was titled ''Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver''. This was followed by ''Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2'' and then by ''Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2'', the reasoning being that they were subseries, the Blood Omen games featuring Kain as protagonist and the Soul Reaver games following Raziel. The developers finally did away with the "numbered subseries" idea when they released the fifth and currently final game titled ''Legacy of Kain: Defiance''.
* The ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series initially contained six numbered games (of which ''[[Air Combat|1]]'' and ''[[Ace Combat 2|2]]'' weren't originally part of the main continuity, and ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere|3]]'' is set [[Distant Finale|after]] ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies|04]]'' (As of 2024 the only one with a leading zero), ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War|5]]'', and ''[[Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation|6]]'') and five oddly-numbered ones: ''[[Ace Combat Advance|Advance]]'' (prequel to ''3''), ''[[Ace Combat Zero|Zero]]'' (prequel to the entire series and, more specifically, ''5''), ''[[Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception|X]]'' (released before ''6'' but set after it), ''[[Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion|Xi]]'' ([[Hero of Another Story|interquel]] to ''X''), and ''[[Ace Combat X 2|X2]]'' (which was eventually stripped of the "number" because it had nothing to do with ''X'' except the [[PlayStation Portable|platform]]). Namco [[Stopped Numbering Sequels]] at ''[[Ace Combat: Assault Horizon]]'', but after ''Assault Horizon Legacy'' and ''Infinity'', it restarted with ''[[Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown|7]]''.
* Atari's ''Sprint'' series of arcade games. ''Sprint 2'' started the series in 1976, followed by ''Sprint 4'', ''Sprint 8'', ''Sprint One'' (switching from Arabic numerals to words), ''Super Sprint'', ''Championship Sprint'', and finally ''Badlands'' (which is ''Sprint'' in a [[After the End|post-apocalypse]] setting). The confusing thing is that the numbers in the first four ''Sprint'' titles do not indicate the game's order in the series. It actually indicates how many human players can race at the same time. So ''Sprint One'' got its name for being a one player game, even though it was the fourth in the series chronologically.
* The first game in the ''[[Gex]]'' trilogy is simply called ''Gex'', and the last one is called ''Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko'', but the second game is called ''Gex: Enter the Gecko'', no "2" involved.
* The ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]]'' series has this. ''Battlefield 2'' was actually the third installment, for instance (which makes some sense; ''Battlefield Vietnam'' wasn't as well-received as ''1942'') . ''[[Battlefield 3]]'', on the other hand, is at the very least the ''eleventh game'' in the series.
* ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]'' was designed and written to be the true sequel to ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', but since it was originally released as a [[Dreamcast]]-exclusive at a the time [[Resident Evil]] series was still tied to the [[PlayStation]], it was treated as a side-game rather than as a numbered sequel. As result, the number "3" was instead given to ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'', a [[Gaiden Game|side-game]] [[Mission Pack Sequel|developed on the second game's engine]]. The next two games were a remake of the [[Resident Evil 1|first game]] and a prequel titled ''[[Resident Evil Zero]]'' (both originally released for the [[Game Cube]]) and as a result, ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' is actually the seventh game in the mainline series.
* The arcade version of ''[[Contra]]'' was followed by a solo sequel titled ''Super Contra'' and both games were eventually remade for the NES (the latter being shortened to ''Super C''). The NES games were followed by an SNES sequel titled ''Contra III: The Alien Wars'' and all subsequent sequels were left unnumbered until the release of ''Contra 4'' for the [[Nintendo DS]], which was actually the eleventh (non-port) installment in the series and an interquel set between ''Contra III'' and ''Contra Hard Corps''. To add further confusion, ''Contra III'' was actually the fourth game, since there was a [[Game Boy]] game titled ''Operation C'' released between ''Super C'' and ''Contra III'' (which was likely not counted at the time since it was a portable release).
** Note that this was never much of an issue in Japan, where none of the Contra sequels were numbered: ''Contra III'' was originally titled ''Contra Spirits'' and when ''Contra 4'' was localized there, it was retitled ''Contra: [[Super Title 64 Advance|Dual Spirits]]''.
* The original ''[[Shinobi]]'' was released for the arcades in 1987, which was followed by two separately-developed sequels in 1989: an arcade sequel titled ''Shadow Dancer'', which featured the same play mechanics as the first game (but with the addition of a canine companion); and a sequel for the [[Sega Genesis]] titled ''The Revenge of Shinobi'', which featured completely different play mechanics from the arcade games (with a few elements borrowed from the [[Master System]] version of the first game, such as a health gauge and multiple ninjutsu spells). The Genesis later received two additional Shinobi games in the forms of ''Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi'' in 1991 (a remake of the arcade ''Shadow Dancer'' with the same play mechanics, but with different stages) and ''Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master'' in 1993 (the true sequel to ''The Revenge of Shinobi'').<ref>In Japan, ''The Revenge of Shinobi'' and ''Shinobi III'' were titled ''The Super Shinobi'' and ''The Super Shinobi II'' respectively.</ref> To add further confusion, there was also a Master System-exclusive sequel released in Europe and Brazil titled ''The Cyber Shinobi: Shinobi Part II''.
* The ''[[Wonder Boy]]'' sequels consists of ''[[Wonder Boy in Monster Land]]'' (aka ''Super Wonder Boy: Monster World''), ''[[Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair]]'', ''[[Wonder Boy III the Dragons Trap]]'' (aka ''Monster World II''), ''[[Wonder Boy in Monster World]]'' (aka ''Wonder Boy V: Monster World III'') and ''[[Monster World IV]]''. Most of these alternate titles were the result of the games being retitled in different regions, but even in Japan the console ports of the first two arcade games were released under different names as well (the original ''Wonder Boy'' was retitled ''Super Wonder Boy'' on the Mark III and ''Monster World'' was the title of the Mark III port of ''Monster Land''). ''Monster Lair'' (the third arcade game) and ''Dragon's Trap'' (a [[Master System]] game) were developed and released almost at the same time, resulting in two different games being titled ''Wonder Boy III'' (although ''Dragon's Trap'' was released exclusively for the overseas market at first and only made it to Japan a bit later via a Game Gear port released shortly after the game's own sequel ''Monster World III'').
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] became like this. Officially, it goes ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' (released '91), ''Sonic 2'' ('92), ''Sonic 3'' ('94), ''Sonic & Knuckles'' ('94) which is a [[Mission Pack Sequel|direct continuation]] of Sonic 3, ''Sonic CD'' ('93), ''Sonic 4 Ep. I'' (2010), and then ''Sonic 4 Ep. II'' (2012).
** There's also the Dreamcast games ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' (ported to the GameCube as ''Sonic Adventure DX''), followed by ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' (ported to the GameCube as ''Sonic Adventure 2: Battle'', not to be confused with the [[Game Boy Advance]] game ''Sonic Battle''). Storylines from this series continue into the multiplatform releases of ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'', and then further into ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''.
** There's also ''Sonic 3D Blast'', which was renamed Sonic 3D: Flickies Island in Europe, which has no direct connection to any other game, not in the least ''Sonic Blast'' for the [[Game Gear]].
* [[Assassin's Creed]] seems to be heading down this road. The first game was simply ''Assassin's Creed'', the sequel was ''Assassin's Creed II'', followed by ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' and ''Assassin's Creed: Revelations''. Due out in 2012 is ''Assassin's Creed III'', which is the fifth game. And that's not counting [[It Got Worse|the spinoffs]]...
* The arcade sequels to ''[[Out Run]]'' consists of ''Turbo Out Run'' (1989), ''Out Runners'' (1993), ''Out Run 2'' (2003), ''Out Run 2 SP'' (2004) and ''Out Run 2 SP SDX'' (2006).
* ''Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls'' is a fighting game spin-off of ''[[Double Dragon]]'' that featured character from the ''Double Dragon'' [[Double Dragon (animation)|animated series]]. While there was no actual game titled "Double Dragon IV", ''Double Dragon V'' seems to be counting the SNES-exclusive ''Super Double Dragon'' (aka ''Return of Double Dragon'') as the fourth game in the main series. Whether anyone considers ''Double Dragon V'' to be a true ''Double Dragon'' sequel is a whole 'nother debate (since it's a game of a completely different genre developed by Leland Interactive without Technos' involvement and with little resemblance to the previous games).
* ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' (originally released for the arcades in 1986) was followed by numerous sequels such as ''Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2'' (a 1987 arcade sequel that played nothing like the first game), ''Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III'' (a [[TurboGrafx-16]] sequel to ''Rainbow Islands'' released in 1991), ''Bubble Bobble Part 2'' (an NES sequel to the original game released in 1993), ''Bubble Symphony'' (the third arcade game in the series, released in 1994 and also known as ''Bubble Bobble II'' in North America) and ''Bubble Memories: The Story of Bubble Bobble III'' (the last game in the main series, released for the arcades in 1996)
* ''Tatakae Genshijin 3'', the third game in the series and the second one to star [[Joe and Mac|Joe & Mac]] (the protagonists of the original game) is known as ''Joe & Mac 2'' in the US and ''Joe & Mac 3'' in Europe (note that there was a ''Joe & Mac Returns'' released around the same time, but it was an arcade game, whereas ''Joe & Mac 2/3'' is an SNES game). For those curious, ''Tatakae Genshijin 2'' was ''Congo's Caper''.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto...]]'' hoo, boy. It goes ''[[Grand Theft Auto Classic|Grand Theft Auto]]'', ''Grand Theft Auto: London 1969'', ''Grand Theft Auto: London 1961'', (the ''London'' games actually being mission packs), ''[[Grand Theft Auto II]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'', (the latter two being DLC), and then ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''. If you include the [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|portable games]] and the ''[[Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories|two]]'' ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories|Stories]]'' games, ''Grand Theft Auto V'' is the ''15th'' overall game in the series.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' is a harder [[Mission Pack Sequel]] to the [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|original]]; it's called ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' in Japan. ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' in the west is a [[Oddball in the Series|different game entirely]] that is a [[Dolled-Up Installment]] of ''Doki Doki Panic'', done because of ''SMBLL''<nowiki/>'s similarity to ''SMB'' and to avoid having to call ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' "Super Mario Bros. 2" in the west. [[Super Mario World (video game)|''Super Mario World'']]'s full title in Japan is ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World]]'', and in the west, there's ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', which is known in Japan as just ''[[Inverted Trope|Super Mario: Yoshi Island]]''. ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' is not the 64th of his sidescrollers - it's a case of [[Super Title 64 Advance]], even though ''SMB''{{'}}s name is not. Then there's the Advance games (also ST64A): ''Super Mario Advance'' (''SMB2'' and the only one that isn't subtitled), ''Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World'', ''Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island'', and finally ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3''. [[Up to Eleven|And that isn't even all of the snarls!]]
* ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'' first went 1-5, but then went back to 0 before going to 6. Then the 7th got called ''Yakuza: Like a Dragon'', before ''8'' regained the numbering. That doesn't even mention the spinoffs.

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