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{{trope}}
'''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 ''[[
* Early games starring [[Mario]] went under a variety of titles, the most well-known games being ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Mario Bros
* The ninth, tenth, and eleventh ''[[Friday the
* 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 (
* ''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 (
* 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]].
* The ''[[Soul Series]]'' was originally called ''[[Soul Blade]]'' but is now better known as ''[[Soul Calibur]]''.
* ''Men Who Hate Women'', from [[The Millennium Trilogy]], is most often better known as ''The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'', its English title. The sequels in English are ''The Girl Who Played With Fire'' and ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest''.
* The ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* Thomas Harris's series of books featuring Hannibal Lecter began with ''Red Dragon'', but it's known as the ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'' series due to the [[Adaptation Displacement|popularity of that film]].
* ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' takes its series title from the second book in the sequence.
* ''[[Gormenghast]]'' is given a series title taken from its second book (and from the setting of the first two books). However, this was contrary to the designs of the author, who [[Author Existence Failure|had intended]] that the series would centre around the doings of the title character of first book, ''Titus Groan'', who leaves Gormenghast Castle to journey the outside world at the end of the second book.
* In the states, the ''[[
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