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Line 1: {{trope}} A strange title naming trope where a title that obviously refers to one ~~thing -- the~~thing—the general idea of a work, or something about its ~~format -- is~~format—is contrived so as to refer to something specific in the story. This means more than just that the title refers to something in the ~~work -- it~~work—it means that the title so obviously refers to something ''else'' that the fact that it does mean something in the work comes across as pretty farfetched. It's as if ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV'' had taken place on the fourth moon around a gas giant named "Episode", and the viewers were supposed to believe that that's what "Episode IV" really refers to. Compare [[Title Drop]] and [[Epunymous Title]]. [[I Am Not Shazam]] is what happens when the title doesn't refer to an entity within the story, but fans assume otherwise. If the title refers to more than one concept ''within'' the work, it's a [[Double Meaning Title]]. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * The voiceover for the ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' anime doesn't claim it has anything to do with a video game; rather, it says that the main character Akira is ''named'' the Virtua Fighter. Needless to say, this is referenced nowhere else. The Latin American Dub [[Cultural Translation\|tried to make up]] by translating "Virtua" as "Virtuous". * [[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.]]: Originally seems to be a generic [[Engrish]] love story title, until at the end it's revealed that {{spoiler\|There were two towns all along, also making it a Shout Out for A Tale of Two Cities.}} * The ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ARMs]] TV'' series claims that the TV stands for "Twilight Venom", not "television". * ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is something of a fake-out. "Tengen Toppa" means approximately "Heaven Breakthrough", and "Gurren Lagann" is the name of the main [[Humongous Mecha]] used throughout the series, so you might think it's a typical "descriptive-phrase main-vehicle-name" title such as ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''... but no. There's actually a machine used near the end called, in full, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. And it's even more impressive than the name implies. * [[Gundam Seed Destiny]], rather than being simply an [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]] refers to both the [[Designated Hero]]'s [[Mid-Season Upgrade]], the Destiny Gundam, but also to the main villain's sinister, [[Brave New World (novel)\|Brave New World]]-esque "Destiny Plan". Line 22: * The [[DC Comics]] mini-series ''[[52]]'' was 52 issues long, one per week for a year; within the story, the title refers to the characters' discovery of 52 {{spoiler\|universes in [[The Multiverse]]}}. Additionally, the number "52" appeared [[Arc Number\|whenever it was even remotely possible to do so]]- everything from numbers on football players to clocks set to "5:02". Plus, the final issue of the series came out on 5/2/2007 - but DC comics says this was a coincidence. * ''[[Final Crisis]]: Superman Beyond 3D'' is a 3D comic that involves [[Superman]] entering the "Bleed" between universes; going "beyond" three-dimensional space. * The ''[[X-Files]]'' comic book series ''X-Files: Year Zero'' not only takes place in the year of the first X-File, it features a major character named Mr. Zero. == [[Film]] == * In ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]'', the title is obviously a reference to the [[Zeerust\|retro-futuristic nature of the movie]], but "Sky Captain" is the nickname of the main character, and the villain calls his little plan {{spoiler\|(intending to leaving the earth on a rocketship with two of every animal, destroying the Earth)}} the "World of Tomorrow". * The ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' [[The Movie\|movie]] introduced a new group of adversaries actually named the "Martian Successors". * The title of ''[[Spy Kids]]'' refers both to the fact that the [[Kid Hero~~\|Kid Heroes~~]]es are spies and to the name given to the evil robotic children created by the villains. This is ignored in the sequels. * ''[[Quatermass]] II'' (at least the 1950's version) is obviously named that because it's a sequel to ''The Quatermass Experiment''. But essential to the plot is a rocketship actually called the "Quatermass II". Similarly, [[RoboCop]] 2 actually involves an evil cyborg known as, you guessed it, [[RoboCop]] 2. * The masks in [[Halloween III: Season of the Witch]] come in exactly three styles, and are subsequently called the "Halloween three." Line 36 ⟶ 37: == [[Literature]] == * The title of the novel ''The Big Clock'' was just a ~~metaphor--until~~metaphor—until the creators of [[The Film of the Book]], apparently thinking the metaphor was [[Viewers are Morons\|too subtle]], decided to throw an actual giant clock into the story. == [[Live Action TV]] == Line 49 ⟶ 50: * Many assumed (and still do) that [[The Beatles]] song ''Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'' is about LSD, given the initials, the trippy lyrics and the fact that the Beatles openly admitted to experimenting with drugs, which would make it an instance of this trope. That notwithstanding, John Lennon (who wrote it) has made it quite plausible that it's a complete coincidence, and that it's about a character in a drawing his son made, which was really called Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. That really is true, her name was Lucy Richardson and she died in 2005 at 47, after having a brilliant career as an Art Director in film. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724682/ The band's openness about drugs makes the alternate explanation '''more''' ~~credible--after~~credible—after all, if it were a drug reference, they wouldn't be shy about saying so, at least, they wouldn't concoct a cover story. == [[Video Games]] == Line 68 ⟶ 69: Given that one of Metroid Prime's attacks [[Mook Maker\|spontaneously generates a pair of metroids]], I'd say it's vague but direct. There is also an actual "Super Metroid" in ''Super Metroid''. * The [[Dead or Alive]] series is ostensibly named after the Dead or Alive Tournament featured in the game, however this is a misconception. The game is called "Dead or Alive" due to the fact the game was expected to either sink or save the floundering company TECMO, thus the "Dead or Alive Tournament" is an attempt to justify the title. This makes sense when one considers that "Dead or Alive" is a rather strange name for a tournament in which nobody dies. * The original ''[[Marathon Trilogy\|Marathon]]'' game was so named early on because the creators pictured the player running a "Marathon" of endless fighting throughout the game. The title is justified fairly well in-game by calling the colony ship The Marathon, which is ostensibly running a "marathon" from Earth to Tau Ceti, however the making-of book confirms that the project was named first, and the colony ship is therefore a justification. * ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days ~~Over 2~~\|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'' is named for the fact that, as a [[Gaiden Game]], it takes place between the [[Kingdom Hearts (video game)\|numbered]] [[Kingdom Hearts II\|games]], and one week shy of a year (358 days) is the amount of time that elapses between them, and, hence, is the period in which Roxas was part of [[Organization Index\|The Organization]]. The '2' symbolizes [[Tomato in the Mirror\|his relationship with]] [[The Hero\|Sora]] and also symbolizes the fact that the 358 days are shared by both Roxas and Xion {{spoiler\|both of whom are part of Sora}} == [[Web Comics]] == Line 80 ⟶ 81: {{reflist}} [[Category:Title Tropes]] [[Category:~~Justified Title~~{{PAGENAME}}]]