The Dollars Trilogy as it’s sometimes called. Italian westerns Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Hitchhiker’s Trilogy
If you mean The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, man, I have a completely different take.
I use that as one of two prime examples of a series that I love the first book of but steadily like less-and-less as the series goes on. The other example is Dune.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy starts out funny. Okay, yes, black humor, but it’s funny. And it gets steadily less-pleasant and grimmer over the course of the series. I’m not really enjoying it towards the last book or so any more.
Maybe a third series would be the Calvin and Hobbes comics, though I don’t know if you can call that a series. Late Calvin and Hobbes, if you’ve ever read through a complete compendium, is very rarely funny, just kind of unhappy and cynical. The early and mid stuff, by contrast, is my favorite comic.
EDIT: Well, at least Watterson did leave it on a positive note with the final comic:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/c45362c0-e85d-40b2-a54e-f94bd3308768.webp
I personally loved THGTTG from beginning to the end. To each their own :)
as a functional trilogy the Back to the Future film series is pretty high up there.
Great Scott!
Also, apparently it has an animated cartoon series. Just learned about that the other day
Animated series plus you could consider the Telltale Games BttF the fourth movie, as it was written by Gale and has most of the cast. (MJF makes a cameo, Biff’s actor said his agent never contacted him)
The Star Wars trilogy.
Definitely not. I’m a huge fan of the originals since I was a kid, but there’s no way Return of the Jedi finished out a perfect trilogy. No way. Not even close.
EDIT: It’s by far my favorite, no other trilogy comes close for me. But it is not perfect.
The Phoenix Wright trilogy–the first three original GBA games/DS re-releases. They set up and develop so many arcs that pay off both within each game and across the entire trilogy. I would even go so far as to say that Phoenix Wright 3 is one of the best visual novel games of all time.
And the story is only one of many great things! The game art is gorgeous and the soundtrack is full of bangers that serve their purpose well to complement the story.
I love Ace Attorney.
I will argue House in Fata Morgana is the best visual novel of all time.
But then I will argue the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles 2 cases 3-5 are the greatest (hoo wee what a ride). If you can get through the slow pace of the rest of it it’s worth it.
Otherwise I’ll agree the Phoenix Wright trilogy is the ultimate power fantasy of seeing people in high places actually getting convicted of their crimes.
To add my own take, I think Umineko is actually the greatest visual novel. But DGS2 is a respectable choice.
Half-Life 1,2,2,2
Half-life 1, 2, *2.1, *2.2
Half-Life, Half-Life Opposing Force, Half-Life Blue Shift
The first three Toy Story movies.
There’s no way you all didn’t cry at the end of #3.
A movie can be bad and still make you cry.
Jack Frost anyone?
Toy story 3 was awful
Avatar the last Airbender had 3 perfect seasons.
The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. The original one that is, the second trilogy in the same universe not as much.
A good example for a writer who managed to place two consecutive trilogies in the same universe is Trudi Canavan with the Black Magician & Traitor Spy trilogies.
The Jason Bourne trilogy.
I see what you did there
Mass effect for video games, Rebuild of Evangelion for movies, and Old Man war for Books. I know only mass effect is a trilogy (Andromeda doesn’t exist) but I feel like all three stayed with me after finishing them, and the character development and plot lines all had satisfying conclusions.
How dare you disrespect the enigma that is Marauder Shields
Loll, his sacrifice was not in vain. I’ve still haven’t seen the extended endings because I was satisfied with the original.
There’s not much else to see. Honestly the best ending is the little citadel get together you play sometime in 3. Most of the characters you’ve come to know and love all gathered for a small, low key house party. Everything about the battle for earth and the citadel ghost can eat my shorts.
Movie: The Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future
Game: HL2 + the two episodic, Metro 1/2/exodus(exodus not my favorite but still great), Halo 1/2/3
Book: Physics/Biology/Chemistry(idk i don’t read book)
I do have a pretty solid complaint about back to the Future part 2, because if Marty goes into the future he should arrive in a future where he disappeared back in 1985.
They really should have introduced a new protagonist just for that section, otherwise it’s not internally consistent with itself.
Half life wise, could you also consider HL2, HL2 all episodes, and HL Alyx as a trilogy?
Hmm, i haven’t played Alyx so I couldn’t comment, but for trilogy i’d like to only stick to same protagonist in the same set of storyline, and since HL1 have different tone and set in different time and place and isn’t flow so well into HL2, and Alyx feature a different protag, HL2 and the two episodic is just the perfect 3.
I just had a side thought:
“It’s only a trilogy if it has the same protagonist”
“What about the Cornetto Trilogy”
“…”
Gin. Lime. Simple syrup.
I took some artistic liberties with the title.
Actual answer, John Carpenter’s trio
I’m re-reading the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zhan and it’s a lot better than I remember it.
Last time I read it, I was 10. I’m now 40 and it’s a much more interesting story now.
Was inspired when I watched Andor and it reminded me of Zhan’s take on the SW universe.
Damn, beat me to it!
Actually I started re-watching it last night. I usually don’t re-watch anything, but it’s just so damn good.
