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* ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' has some in-universe examples of this. In 1955, Lou's Café is literally a café owned by Lou Caruthers. By 1985, it has become Lou's Aerobic Fitness Center and, given his age in 1955, Lou is probably no longer the actual owner of the building (or if he is, he's just collecting rent money). Twin Pines Mall (or Lone Pine Mall, depending on which timeline you're in) was named after the tree farm which used to exist on the land. Twin Pines Ranch being changed to Lone Pine Ranch after Marty ran over one of the display trees is an example of averting this trope, resulting in the irony that the name later becomes the artifact anyway when the mall is built.
* [[It Was His Sled|Practically everyone knows]] ''[[Soylent Green]]'' [[It Was His Sled|is people]], [[Adaptation Displacement|at least in the film]]. But in the original novel, Soylent Green was [[Future Food Is Artificial|soy and lentils]], hence the title.
* The Femme Five from ''[[The Specials]]'', who have eight members (and were recruiting a ninth) but refuse to change the team's name because [[Straw Feminist|"Traditional counting is an oppressive patriarchal tool"]]. (And maybe because they like the [[Added Alliterative Appeal|alliteration]], too.)
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Interesting case: The producers of ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' initially wanted to drop the ''"[[Call of Duty]]"'' supertitle, but re-appended it to the game's standard packaging and press releases after they took a few surveys and realized removing it decreased brand awareness. On the other hand, ingame menus and the console/PC refer to the game without the supertitle, and the developers officially call it just ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' to indicate its status as a new IP. So while ''[[Call of Duty]]'' is still an Artifact Title, that only applies to the game's publicity campaigns.
** Not that ''Call of Duty'' could ever really become an artifact anyway (unless they changed the game to being about surviving being stranded on an alien planet or something weird). The role of the player character is ''always'' to answer the "call of duty", whatever it may be. Needless to say, the attempt at spinning off the ''Modern Warfare'' arc into its own series did not take off.
* Any modern game involving [[Super Mario (franchise)|Mario]] that includes the prefix "Super" is somewhat anachronistic since, outside of the ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' series, turning from small Mario to "Super Mario" has ceased to be part of the play mechanics.
** The original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' itself lacked the 2-player co-op mode from the original ''[[Mario Bros.]]'', which is the reason why the preceding game was titled ''Mario Bros.'' in the first place. While ''Super'' has a 2-Player mode, it is of the alternating type, which reduces Luigi's role in the game to a mere afterthought (since there's no point of having a separate Player 2 character if both players have to take turn). The Japanese version of ''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels|Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' would try to justify Luigi's inclusion in the game by removing the 2-Player mode and making Luigi [[Divergent Character Evolution|an alternate character with his own characteristics]], while the 2-Player mode in ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'' allows both players to split the stages among themselves rather than having separate playthroughs for each one.
* ''[[Metroid]]'' seems to be desperately trying to avoid this; by ''Metroid Fusion'' the titular Metroids have been completely exterminated by the protagonist, and every game since then has been a prequel.
** On the subject of the prequels, the latter two thirds of the ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' trilogy ''just'' avoids falling into this. Dark Samus, the main antagonist of 2 and 3, is in fact the eponymous Metroid Prime, bonded with the Phazon Suit after the battle at the end of the first game. It's very easy to miss this, however, as it's never explicitly mentioned anywhere, and the only real hint (seeing Dark Samus' hand emerge from the puddle of Phazon) is only shown if you finish Prime with [[100% Completion]].
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* An in-game example: Several of the Ghost characters in ''[[Tekken|Tekken 6]]'' that use Armor King have customised him to not wear armor.
* Nintendo's Miis got their name as a pun on "Me" and "Wii", the console on which they made their debut. Half of that pun now makes little sense if you use them on the 3DS.
* Most unofficial fan sequels to the popular [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] game ''[[Duck Hunt]]'' actually do not involve shooting any ducks at all, since there aren't any there - you now instead shoot dogs! [[The Scrappy|Probably for the better]].
* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' features a protagonist named Zero, not Mega Man.
** Averted in ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'', but Mega Man is now a ''[[The Chosen Many|title]]'' referring to people who can use the Biometal [[Upgrade Artifact]], rather than an individual.
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** The "[[YKTTW|You know that thing where]]" page is titled around the idea that the person posting the trope idea needs help gathering a title or examples for the trope ("You know that thing where this happens? What should we call that?"), but it's currently used as a general vetting procedure for all new trope ideas, even ones where the person posting the idea already has a good title in mind and a number of examples.
* [[All The Tropes]], as well. While some of the artifacts mentioned for TV Tropes don't apply to All The Tropes, there are a large number of pages (notably in the Reviews namespace) that don't have any tropes at all.
* While he did start off with uploading test videos of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGvuqLYHlTs smartphones], the Filipino charity YouTuber [https://www.youtube.com/@TechRamVlog TechRam] now has nothing to do with technology or random-access memory for that matter. The "Ram" in the channel's name refers to channel owner Ramil Manalastas, and yet his videos are more into helping indigent people than something along the lines of gadgetry and electronics. Ramil later clarified in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVXyjOXe8U video] with news anchor Bernadette Sembrano that he used to have a stall selling smart devices in Manila but was forced to close up shop when then-Manila mayor [[wikipedia:Isko Moreno|Isko Moreno]] enacted a [https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/07/1958178/isko-moreno-bans-trade-second-hand-mobile-phones-manila ban] on the sale of used electronics due to rampant fencing of stolen goods taking place in malls and street corner stalls in the city.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* While the title ''[[My Little Pony]]'' always made sense for the toys, it makes less sense for the various animated series, as the ponies aren't owned by anyone. ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', at least, has tried to [[Title Drop]] the name by having ponies use the phrase among themselves.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', the [[Sequel Series]] to ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' went through two [[Working Title]]s, the second of which was ''The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra.'' Awkwardly, the supertitle was superfluous and inaccurate, because in-universe, Korra isn't "the last airbender." The title was soon shortened to ''The Legend of Korra.''
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', the HIVE-5 were a group of villains who seemed to be an in-universe example; Kid Flash was the one who pointed out there were actually ''six'' of them the second time they appeared. Although, in all fairness, the name "Sinister Six" [[Spider-Man|was already taken...]]
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** Heck, the name "floppy disk" itself became artefactual when the 3.5" disk format supplanted the 5.25" disk as the former used a hard plastic shell, though the magnetic disk inside the shell is in fact still floppy.
* The acronym VGA, short for Video Graphics Array. It was originally designed as a graphics chip for IBM's PS/2 line of computers, and the acronym has since been used to refer to the 640x480 resolution it introduced, or the connector it had (a 15-pin D-Sub). In some countries such as Indonesia, people refer to graphics cards as "VGA cards" despite contemporary cards lacking a VGA port or having only vestigial support for the legacy VGA display standard at best.
* AMD still uses the ATI brand name internally for system files and/or drivers used on their Radeon line of graphics processing units, e.g. <
* Among Hawaiian companies: LikeLike Drive Inn, for many years now neither near Likelike Avenue nor a drive in. KamBowl Haircuts, formerly in the Kamehameha Shopping Center Bowling Alley, but now in a nameless strip mall near Dillingham Avenue after the demolition of said bowling alley. Wisteria Vista condominiums on South King Street, formerly overlooking the Wisteria Restaurant (therefore literally offering a Wisteria Vista). Now not so much, as the Wisteria was torn down and replaced with an ordinary 7-11 (see below). Kapiolani Community College, also decades in its spot near Diamond Head instead of its former location on Kapiolani Avenue. And of course, Pearl Harbor has long been inhospitable to the pearl-bearing oysters it was once rich in.
* The famous (and now gone forever) New York music venue CBGB stood for "Country, Blue Grass, and Blues", initially specializing on those aforementioned types of music (along with "Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers"). Soon, CBGB, instead of being a home for old-time folk music, went down in history as an important landmark for the American punk/New Wave scene, housing bands such as [[The Ramones]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], and [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]].
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*** Division names in the [[American Football|NFL]] suffer from this, especially before the 2002 realignment. New teams occasionally joined the league, and divisions ranged from four to six teams. By 1995 most of the NFC Western division's teams were east of the Mississippi River. Reluctance to break up traditional rivalries kept these divisions in place until the league finally reached 32 teams in 2002, allowing a realignment into eight equal-sized divisions. It didn't happen without a fight, and there are still oddball things like Dallas in the East and St. Louis in the West.
**** St. Louis does sort of make sense, in that St. Louis has a nickname of "the gateway to the west."'
*** Two stadiums used primarily by the NFL had, for a time, naming rights held by corporations that were otherwise no longer in existence:
*** As [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219072232/http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/steeler_defense_renamed_mid this Onion article] points out, the Steelers' name refers to an industry that is no longer very prominent in Pittsburgh, though one could argue that the name is nowadays an homage to the city's heritage.
** Soccer
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*** Ultimate Fighting Championship is a fascinating case study:
**** The men behind the first UFC, in particular Rorion Gracie, meant "Ultimate" literally; i.e. the ''only'' time it would ever be held. Furthermore, Gracie made it quite clear that this was largely a vanity project to promote Brazilian jiu-jitsu. (That's why no one ever considered the long-term consequences of the unrestrained violence and inevitable political backlash; there weren't supposed to be any.) Only after it became a huge hit on pay-per-view did SEG decide to turn it into a franchise.
**** The
**** Finally, the "Championship", up until the second Ultimate Ultimate, was an 8-man single elimination tournament (16 men for 2) with no weight classes. (The only break was 9 due to unlucky circumstances.) The "champion" was the winner of the tournament, like in tennis. The system showed its flaws as early as 3...two words: Steve Jennum. Lack of weight classes proved to be a problem in 10 when Marc Coleman beat Don Frye without ever being threatened because he was bigger and stronger. But the death knell was 11, which Coleman won because he had ''no opponent for the final''. UFC split into "Heavyweight" and "Lightweight" divisions in 1997 and reduced the tournaments to 4 men each, held at irregular intervals. SEG did away with regular tournaments after 17, and the last one ever held was 23.
* Following the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was postponed until 2021; the 2020 Olympics moniker
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* Much like the Shoemart example above, the online retailer Zappos started as a purveyor of footwear, its name being a corruption of the Spanish word "zapatos" which means "shoes". Since 2007 they've expanded their inventory to include articles besides footwear such as clothing, handbags and other accessories.
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