If nothing else, I like how directly The Matrix Resurrection lampshaded this. Thomas Anderson’s game company is forced into making a sequel to their Matrix trilogy by Warner Bros itself, and provides infinitely conflicting corporate views on being completely original and yet repeating the source material.

They couldn’t escape the sequel trap, but they could at least draw attention to it.

You take the good name of Star Trek out of your mouth.

IDK if it’s still popular anymore or just tax write off slop, but definitely Scooby Doo.

I would have absolutely been in the minority back when it came out, but as someone who grew up watching it through reruns on Boomerang, I personally like some of HB’s other attempts that didn’t stick better.

As the lyrics to Running Under Water by Pain goes:

Me and my friends get no respect.

What does Scooby do that we neglect?

Currently the SC franchise is pretty much a walking corpse with the extremely formulaic plot of “the gang loves xyz and are going to see them/experience event” with little to zero prior showing that they care. Perfect example is literally the KISS crossover movie that came out maybe less than a decade ago. A basically dead band that’s been out of the spotlight for a long time and a franchise that went creatively bankrupt decades ago are a perfect match for each other… Except they had to suddenly transform the gang into KISS fans for anything to make any sense.

Edit:

I think it’s actually called Running Under Water and not Jabberjaw…

Jurassic Park, the last like 5 have been the same rehashed ideas along with “big dinosaur how we kill it?”

Literally all long running franchises. There is a clear downward trajectory over the lifetime of franchises. It doesn’t have to start immediately, but goddamn if it’s not true for everything. Go out on top. Don’t go out floundering about the lower-middle (at best).

James Bond

MCU has really run its course. They’ve jumped the shark

Fucking Grey’s Anatomy. Idk if it really counts as a franchise though but it’s on season 22 and hasn’t been good in years. It needs to end. I keep waiting for an asteroid to hit the hospital because that’s pretty much the only disaster that hasn’t hit that hospital yet.

Tomb raider.

Or, wait, capitalism. Damn that’s not a franchise, too bad.

Fast and furious.

All of them. How about some new shit for once?

Videogame Time

Call of Duty
Battlefield
Modern Warfare
Uncharted
Assasin’s Creed
Dark Souls
Tombraider
Final Fantasy
Tales Of
Zelda
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
God of War
Deus Ex (pretty much dead already thanks to Square Enix doing a shit job)

Rupert Murdoch.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say South Park.

They’re just terrible satire. Even when they have a clear target for their satire instead of making fun of everyone in the episode, they get the freaking message wrong a lot of the time.

Like the wall-mart episode. What’s the big baddy? Is it the economies of scale, and that allowing massive companies that get every benefit from that scaling compete directly with mom and pop shops? No, it’s the customers who like convenience and low prices!

They’re just … shit at their job most of the time. The first couple seasons are waaaay better because they’re just stupid juvenile stories having fun for the most part. The more political they attempt to get, the worse their satire gets, and I’m someone who generally agrees with what they’re attempting to make fun of. (with many glaring exceptions, like directly calling the act of cleaning up the environment and using green energy “gay”, making fun of trans people, etc)

They’re seriously just… bad satire that ultimately only succeeds in normalizing being rude to each other.

Every. Single. Fucking. EA Sports franchise

They ought to be arrested for it, but players are somehow still buying it.