Hobbs and Shaw Has any other franchise ever taken bigger shift in tone?

[KOSLOX]

I got to thinking about what's hot in pop culture right now. Into the Spider-Verse, obviously. Kingdom Hearts 3 (and the franchise as a whole, from the beginning). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Dragon Ball Super. Heck, Secret Wars from a couple years ago, the Ghostbusters comics, famously DC every few years or so and, by extension, the CW DC shows. Star Trek Discovery touched upon this briefly. Even Kimmy Schmidt had an episode on this.

What do they all have in common?

Their multiverses.

And in most cases, saving the multiverse.

We now know what Dom and Co. must race to save in a future movie: The Fast and the Furious Multiverse.

But if you're asking, "What multiverse? All the movies are in one canon!" Then I'll reply, "FOOL! Does it look like that matters to this franchise?!"

And it can be called The Last of the Furious.

But you know they'll make a sequel to that film, too.

The sequel can be called "Last Fast".

[CliffHanger2]

I got to thinking about what's hot in pop culture right now. Into the Spider-Verse, obviously. Kingdom Hearts 3 (and the franchise as a whole, from the beginning). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Dragon Ball Super. Heck, Secret Wars from a couple years ago, the Ghostbusters comics, famously DC every few years or so and, by extension, the CW DC shows. Star Trek Discovery touched upon this briefly. Even Kimmy Schmidt had an episode on this.

What do they all have in common?

Their multiverses.

And in most cases, saving the multiverse.

We now know what Dom and Co. must race to save in a future movie: The Fast and the Furious Multiverse.

But if you're asking, "What multiverse? All the movies are in one canon!" Then I'll reply, "FOOL! Does it look like that matters to this franchise?!"

And it can be called The Last of the Furious.

But you know they'll make a sequel to that film, too.

Nah Fast Forever! lol-Forever always spells the end of a series tho.

[KOSLOX]

Nah Fast Forever! lol-Forever always spells the end of a series tho.

Not... always.

Maybe they can call it Fast and Furious and Robin.

[Cyke]

Not... always.

Maybe they can call it Fast and Furious and Robin.

and Knuckles

[Arsenal]

I got to thinking about what's hot in pop culture right now. Into the Spider-Verse, obviously. Kingdom Hearts 3 (and the franchise as a whole, from the beginning). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Dragon Ball Super. Heck, Secret Wars from a couple years ago, the Ghostbusters comics, famously DC every few years or so and, by extension, the CW DC shows. Star Trek Discovery touched upon this briefly. Even Kimmy Schmidt had an episode on this.

What do they all have in common?

Their multiverses.

And in most cases, saving the multiverse.

We now know what Dom and Co. must race to save in a future movie: The Fast and the Furious Multiverse.

But if you're asking, "What multiverse? All the movies are in one canon!" Then I'll reply, "FOOL! Does it look like that matters to this franchise?!"

And it can be called The Last of the Furious.

But you know they'll make a sequel to that film, too.

The Last of the Furious 2: Return of the Fast coming soon to theaters near you.

[Cyke]

The Last of the Furious 2: Return of the Fast coming soon to theaters near you.

The wiki entry would read as:

"The Last of the Furious 2, the fifteenth entry in the franchise..."

[CliffHanger2]

Not... always.

Maybe they can call it Fast and Furious and Robin.

As long as Schwarzenegger can come and play a freeze villain I'm in. Lol.

[ChrisIII]

Regarding the tonal shift I think this kind of goes for Star Trek as well.

The first film was in a few ways a tonal shift from TOS, although it did stay close to many of it's themes it was considerably less humorous/adventurous than many of the TOS episodes. Wrath of Khan pretty much switched to a more action and event-driven style for the films.

TNG's first two seasons also were largely different in tone than the rest of the series.


In both cases Roddenberry was largely in charge, but then "kicked upstairs" so to speak.