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* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' has a second season titled ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Second Gig'', as well as a sequel movie titled ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society''.

* ''Every'' Japanese name for the ''[[Pokémon (film)|Pokémon]]'' movies, once the seasons started getting subtitles. ''[[Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea|Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation the Movie: The Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy]]''. That's ''three'' subtitles. Only two colons though, luckily.

* ''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]''

 

* A number of [[Marvel Comics]] [[Miniseries]] featuring solo adventures for members of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' have titles like ''X-Men: Phoenix: Warsong'' or ''X-Men: Kitty Pryde: Shadow and Flame''.

** Also from Marvel: ''Dark Reign: The List: Punisher'' or any of the other "List" one-shots.

** ''Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil: A Novel of the Old Republic''

 

* The soundtrack for [[The Movie]] of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' was titled ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters Colon The Soundtrack''. (Yes, they used the word instead of the punctuation mark.)

* ''Gigantic: A Tale of [[One Steve Limit|Two Johns]]: A Movie About [[They Might Be Giants]]''

* Walmart's online listing for ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' lists it as ''Recess: The Movie: School's Out''.

 

* [[The Parody]] of Sarah Palin's autobiography is called ''Going Rouge: Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare.''

* While books are usually immune to this trope, ''[[Star Wars]]'' novels seem to have it in spades The worst offenders are some of the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series, such as ''Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream''. ''Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic'' also deserves a mention. Its sequel dropped the final colon.

* As if his blindness weren't enough, adventurer Erik Weihenmayer contracted Colon Cancer in his autobiography, ''Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story''

* ''Aftermath: Star Wars: The Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens''

{{quote|[…] disjointed, tonally dissonant writing style is what's drawing the lion's share of the criticism. The book's hyper-punctuated title is a pretty accurate foretaste of what awaits readers within. }}

 

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'''s second [[Spin-Off]] only consisted of one movie, but since it was supposed to be a pilot episode as well, it had both an episode and a series title. As a result, it ended up being called ''Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight'' (though the third part is often left off).

* ''[[Freddy's Nightmares]]: [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: The Series''

* A fake [[Police Procedural]] series on [[Cartoon Network]]'s [[Adult Swim]] is entitled "NTSF:SD:SUV::" which stands for "National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle". (The last two colons are purely decorative.)

 

* Coheed & Cambria's third and fourth albums are named ''Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'' and ''Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow''.

** They have a song titled The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth.

* Italian power metal band Domine's third album is called ''Stormbringer Ruler: The Legend of the Power Supreme'', and closes with a track called ''Dawn of a New Day - A Celtic Requiem: The Chronicles of the Black Sword - The End of an Era [[Serial Escalation|part 4]]''.

 

* ''[[Star Wars]]'':

** ''Star Wars: [[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords''

* The first game of the [[Free Space]] series was given the awkward title ''[[Descent]]: FreeSpace: The Great War'' to avoid confusion with the hard drive compression utility Freespace. The sequel averts this, being named simply ''FreeSpace 2''.

 

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080114005404/http://www.bobandgeorge.com/metroid/index.php?comic=186&num=5 This strip] of ''Metroid: Third Derivative'' parodies the practice.

* So does this [https://web.archive.org/web/20150226183159/http://www.moviepunks.com/?id=186 this Movie Punks strip].

 

* ''[[AMV Hell]]'' is a series of short pieces of popular Anime with accompanying music for comic effect. The third one was feature length, and called ''[[AMV Hell]] III: The Motion Picture''. When the fourth one was also feature length, they decided to call it ''[[AMV Hell]] III: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell IV: The Last One''.

** Amusingly enough, it technically was not "the last one", as they released the contest-based "AMV Hell: Championship Edition", the pornographic "AMV Hell: Divided by 0", a sequel to the equally pornographic "AMV Hell 0," and several relatively short collections of "AMV Minis."

* The e-novel ''[[EHUD Prelude to Apocalypse|E.H.U.D.: Prelude to Apocalypse]]'' was recently revealed to be short for [http://neldak.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-pagan-tree-day.html American Inheritance: Trilogy I: Tales of the E.H.U.D.s: Book I: E.H.U.D.: Prelude to Apocalypse].

 

* Every episode of ''[[Clone High]]'' contains at least one colon in its title (and the final episode contains three).

* [[Futurama]] ''verbal'' Colon Cancer in the episode ''The Problem With Popplers'':

{{quote|"Popplers: Eating Them: Is it Alright To?"}}

 

* Most students who have quoted other works in an academic paper have undoubtedly come across this phenomenon, since many methods for citation require putting the author's name in front of the quoted work's title, with a colon in between. If the work title itself has a colon, then you have instant colon cancer.

** Smithee, Alan J.: ''Tropes, Idioms, and Cliches: Essays on a Certain Addictive Website'' (Troperville, 2008).

* ''Cyclopaedia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Containing the Definitions of the Terms, and Accounts of the Things Signify'd Thereby, in the Several Arts, both Liberal and Mechanical, and the Several Sciences, Human and Divine: the Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses, of Things Natural and Artificial; the Rise, Progress, and State of Things Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, and Commercial: with the Several Systems, Sects, Opinions, etc; among Philosophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Physicians, Antiquaries, Criticks, etc.: The Whole Intended as a Course of Ancient and Modern Learning.''

 

== Colon Cancer: The Examples: Fictional Examples ==

 

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