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'''Appropriated Title''' is when a franchise is better known by a different title than it was originally known as. There can be various reasons for this:
* The sequel was more successful, or at least [[Sequel Displacement|more famous]].
* The original title would be an [[Artifact Title]] if the series continued to use it.
* The sequel's name [[Rule of Cool|just sounded cooler]].
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* The first ''[[Rambo]]'' movie was actually called ''First Blood''. It wasn't until the sequel, ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', that the Rambo name was used at all, followed by ''Rambo III''. This enabled them to call the fourth film ''Rambo'', since that name was never actually used.
* The first release in the ''[[Chronicles of Riddick]]'' canon was called ''Pitch Black''. This goes along with the complete change in tone and focus the series underwent after the first installment.
* The first ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' movie was just called ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', while all other media include Jones' name in the title. For what it's worth, later re-releases did change the title to ''Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark''.
* Early games starring [[Mario]] went under a variety of titles, the most well-known games being ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Mario Bros.]]'', and ''Wrecking Crew''. It wasn't until ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'', the 15th unique game in the series (counting Game & Watch spin-offs), that the series finally got a definitive title.
* The ninth, tenth, and eleventh ''[[Friday the 13th]]'' movies went under the ''[[Antagonist Title|Jason]]'' name. However, this was only out of necessity, as New Line did not own the rights to the ''Friday the 13th'' title; once they bought them, the series reverted to its original name.
* In an unusual case of entire ''companies'' doing this, [[DC Comics]], [[Archie Comics]], and [[Marvel Comics]] all got their names from their previous incarnation's most popular title.
* Although ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'s'' third and fourth films went under the original title, most spin-off merchandise is known under ''Alien'''s''''', which was the second movie.
* ''Batman Begins'' has two sequels, both under the ''Dark Knight'' name, in what has come be known as ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''.
* If you can believe it, the ''[[Star Wars]]'' series was originally meant to be called ''The Adventures of Luke Skywalker''. The first film's tremendous success and fame negated this.
* ''[[Super Mario Land]] 3: [[Wario Land]]'' and ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]] 2: [[Yoshi's Island]]'' both had sequels that went by their subtitles' names. Though, the originals [[Artifact Title|weren't really sequels anyway]].
* The adaptations of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' take their name from ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'', the second book in the series.
* The ''[[X-COM]]'' series started as UFO: Enemy Unknown. It had to relabel itself X-COM when somebody complained there's already a game called UFO. ''And'' a [[UFO|television show]].
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