The Bad Guys (2022) is DreamWorks Animation's 10th film to become a franchise, after Shrek (2001), Madagascar (2005), Kung Fu Panda (2008), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Trolls (2016), The Croods (2013), The Boss Baby (2017), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Puss in Boots (2011). This does not include those that only became a franchise through tv spinoffs, same said with Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) due to the follow ups to those films not being from DreamWorks Animation.
This is the first "The Bad Guys" film to produced in 1.85:1 aspect ratio, unlike the first film was produced in 2.35:1 aspect ratio.