Sequel Curse

''The original: I love you. The sequel: GET OUT RIGHT NOW''

The original of a media is all-around loved by everyone. Its story is fun and interesting, the characters are memorable, the emotional points were nailed beautifully, the comedy was impeccable, and the ending left everyone with a good feeling. Then the creators see how successful the original was and decide to make a part two of it. Everybody HATES it. It abandons everything good the much-better original had: the story is clichéd to death, the characters feel like hollow shells of their former selves, the emotional points feel forced, the comedy is terrible, and the ending is just as awful as the story was. This is because people are more accustomed to the original and will not accept any tampering with it by its creators. This includes adding unnecessary sequels or prequels no one asked for.

The Sequel Curse does not just apply to movies or video games; it also works with TV shows' seasons. For example, The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants have their first few memorable, quotable, lovable seasons people still to this day reminisce about how much they watched those episodes. Even the Internet has made numerous memes from episodes of those first seasons of both shows. But now the two shows have aged and no one really cares about the later episodes like how they did the earlier ones.