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    Quote Originally Posted by j9ac9k View Post
    I'm not 100% positive, but didn't the "American Pie" franchise continue on by bringing the supporting characters more to the front after the leads left?
    Damn!
    Eugene Levy's been in all (American Pie, American Pie 2, Wedding, Reunion, Band Camp, Naked Mile, Beta House, Book of Love) but one of the movies, 2020's Girls' Rules.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ikari View Post
    Well in the first movie, they were meant to be different characters. Vader becoming so iconic certainly increased Anakin's overall role in the saga to the point he became a messianic character. Originally Vader was just an exotic henchman, like Oddjob or Jaws.

    Frozen is maybe sort of example of this - character of Elsa was originally written as antagonist as the Snow Queen in the original story. In the finished movie she was written into sort of a victim role, but she became face of the franchise.

    This is even more clear in the earlier drafts of Star Wars. Eventually the "General Vader" from those scripts was combined with the villain Sith Knight Valorum, along with Ralph Mcquarrie thinking he'd need a space helmet to board Leia's ship, and that's pretty much where we got the cinematic Vader.
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    Pinhead in Hellraiser was a supporting character. Actually, he is pretty much the Deus Ex Machina who has, what, about 10 minutes of screen time? Kirsty is the main character and Julia was set up to be the series "recurring big bad". Ultimately, Pinhead caught on and he is the only character to appear in all the movies.

    Nancy was the hero in ANOES. Nancy passed the torch to Kristen in ANOES 3. Kristen then passed it to Alice in ANOES 4. She remained the "protagonist" for that, part 5, and was going to pop up in the original script for Freddy's Dead (Which would have been 3 movies). Nevertheless, Freddy ultimately became the main character in the franchise.

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    Charlie the town drunk was a supporting character in Critters. He became more central in Critters 2. He was the only character to show up in the first 4 movies (apart from Terence Mann who was in the first 2, had a cameo in 3 and a supporting cameo role in 4).

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    Quote Originally Posted by caj View Post
    Friday the 13th

    Mrs. Voorhees was the killer in the original. Jason only showed up at the end in a dream sequence.

    But then, Jason took over the franchise.
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    Pinhead in Hellraiser was a supporting character. Actually, he is pretty much the Deus Ex Machina who has, what, about 10 minutes of screen time? Kirsty is the main character and Julia was set up to be the series "recurring big bad". Ultimately, Pinhead caught on and he is the only character to appear in all the movies.

    Nancy was the hero in ANOES. Nancy passed the torch to Kristen in ANOES 3. Kristen then passed it to Alice in ANOES 4. She remained the "protagonist" for that, part 5, and was going to pop up in the original script for Freddy's Dead (Which would have been 3 movies). Nevertheless, Freddy ultimately became the main character in the franchise.
    I was thinking Nightmare. The series eventually became the Freddy show.

    Would the Halloween series fit? The main character in the first 2 was Laurie (even though she was passed out in a hospital for most of 2), and while Michael was the Big Bad, Loomis really only had a small supporting role in the first movie. His role grew larger in Halloween 2, and then he became the protagonist through most of the rest of the movies.

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    The Saw series. I can't name them off the top but whatever cop or FBI agent that survived a movie will ended up being a lead in a sequel.

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