Lighter and Softer/Playing With

Basic Trope: A dark and edgy show has a light-hearted sequel.

• Straight: A work with dark and gritty elements has a softer and kinder sequel made for fans to like it again.
• Exaggerated: The remade show is so over the top with its light-heartedness, it's almost diabetic.
• Justified: The writers didn't want the darker show scare off its audience, so they made a light-hearted sequel to bring its old fans back.
  • The sequel was meant to be a parody of its predecessor.
• Inverted: Darker and Edgier
• Subverted: The show appears to have elements of light and softness of a kids' show, but it isn't.
• Double Subverted: But then, it turns out it is.
• Parodied: The show remains the same, but suddenly, the characters act like morons and drink tea.
• Deconstructed: The show is not light-hearted enough for the newer audience to forget about the darker predecessor and many old fans actually liked or loved it and bash on the sequel for being so childish.
• Reconstructed: The show manages to appease both the newer audience and the older fans, despite being lighter in tone.
• Zig Zagged: The show has episodes that either have a darker or lighter overtone.
  • Mood Whiplash
• Averted: The sequel has the same tone of the previous work.
• Enforced: "We need to make a sequel to this game, but it won't be as dark as the last one."
• Lampshaded: "Hey, this movie doesn't seem so dreary and drab, like the last one."
• Invoked: A test audience watches a movie and some of them complain that the movie needs some humor.
• Defied: "Let's not make the movie too comical or too dramatic."
• Discussed: "I didn't like this older show. It was too emotional and depressing..."
• Conversed: "Oh, man, that guy just fell face-first on a pie! Ha-ha!"

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