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May include a [[Heart Symbol]]. Apply this to speech, and you get [[Say It with Hearts]]. [[Letters 2 Numbers]] and [[The Backwards R]] are sister tropes.
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== Series Titles with Symbols ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
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* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'' replaced the Es in "Greek" with sigmas: ''My Big Fat GrΣΣk Wedding''.
* [[Jim Henson]]'s ''[[The Muppets|Muppet]]★[[Disney Theme Parks|Vision]] [[3D Movie|3D]]''.
* ''[[Slashers (film)|$la$her$]]'' is about contestants surviving [[Ax Crazy]] serial killers for fabulous cash and prizes! Appropriate, since in-universe the game show is Japanese.
=== Live-Action TV ===
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=== Real Life ===
* Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio) has a sorority called Sigma Alpha Tau, which makes the letters ΣAT. Since the sorority was founded in 1910, it's hard to say whether the founders were aware of the now-obvious double entendre.
== Numbers In Place of Letters ==
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* ''[[Se7en]]'', which arguably brought the whole 133t-speek numbers/letters deal into the mainstream. Damn it.
* The film ''[[Murder by Numbers|Murd3r 8y Num8ers]]''.
* ''Thir13en Ghosts'', the modern remake of William Castle's ''Thirteen Ghosts''.
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** Also, she consists of [[Zeroes and Ones]].
* ''[[Layer Cake|L4yer C4ke]]''
* Roman numeral example: ''Menace Ⅱ Society''.
* Does the punny acronym title of ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s sequel, MIIB, count?
** Only to two, [[The Firesign Theatre|Mudhead]]
* ''[[Lucky Number Slevin|Lucky Number S7evin]]'', although to convey this properly I'd have to find a way to flip the 7 upside-down. And, yes, it's upside down because it's standing in for an "L".
* ''[[Thr3e]]''
* ''TR2N'', which was renamed ''[[TRON: Legacy]]''.
* ''[[Bandslam]]'', which featured Sa7m.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Numb3rs]]''
* The [[Syfy]] original miniseries ''[[5ive Minutes to Midnight]]'' also featured this. "5ive" is just pronounced "five".
=== Music ===
* The boyband 5ive.
** The Jackson 5ive sometimes used this one first.
* The Avril Lavigne song ''Sk8er Boi''.
* Many Prince songs. (''I Would Die 4 U'', ''When 2 R in Love'', etc.)
* [[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Interstella 5555]]: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''
* ''SURV1V3'' by Jonathan Underdown, one of the soundtracks from ''[[Gran Turismo]] 5 Prologue''.
* The Architecture In Helsinki song ''It'5!'', pronounced "it's five".
* Goa trance group/artist [[Merr0w]].
=== Recorded and Stand up Comedy ===
* Quoth [[Tom Lehrer]]: "I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know who's name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelled it HEN3RY. The 3 was silent, you see."
=== Video Games ===
* The video Game ''Driv3r''.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''
** In [[The Stinger]] of [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's review of the above]], he derides this trope with "There's a special circle of hell 4 people who replace words with numbers"
* The 2014 version of ''[[Thief]]'' was first announced as ''Thi4f''. Shortly after the announcement of the above, John Walker of ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' spoofed this on [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/05/12/4idos-gam4-nam4s-rev4al4d/ these Photoshop jobs].
* The Apocaly[[Play Station 3]], referring to the March 1, 2010 bug where the internal clock perceived 2010 as a leap year. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]] if you were a Xbox 360 fan. [[Tear Jerker|If not...]]
=== Real Life ===
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Austin [[Market-Based Title|division's]] version of the Mini was originally called "Austin Se7en"
* An early internal name for the successor to Windows Vista was Windows Se7en. In a rare moment of intelligence, Microsoft simplified it to simply Windows 7 by the time the official announcement came around.
* All sen10r classes of 2010. You know who you are.
** Oops?
* Skateboard clothing company 323K13(upsidedown)7 (Ezekiel).
* [[The Ev3nt]]. Although it's more like a backwards "E".
== Names with Symbols ==
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== Other ==
=== Advertising ===
* Sony's ''U R Not {{color|red|e}}'' ads for the Playstation.
* The Famous, (and often parodied) I♥NY T-shirts
** Leading to the infamous I ✈ NY shirt
*** And plenty of other X ♥ Y merchandise as well. Sometimes parodied with other playing card suits, as in I ♠ My Cat or I ♣ Baby Seals.
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[K-On!]]'', the two names Mio suggests for their band are "Chocolate ☆ Melody" and "Pure ☆ Pure". (Curiously, she suggested them purely vocally, so one might wonder if she just said "hoshi" or "suta" in a way that made it clear that she intended the symbol rather than the word... or just accept that it's manga, so if it can be printed, you just pretend that they can say it somehow.)
* The ¥€$ currency in ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''.
* ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''{{'}}s English titles use the format ''You VERB (Not) X''. Yes, "not" is in parentheses.
=== Literature ===
* The novel ''Vampire$'' by [[John Steakley]]. The film adaptation, ''John Carpenter's Vampires'', eliminates the dollar sign and therefore misses the entire point.
** Sadly, [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HRELFE/ recent editions] of the book itself have followed suit, dropping the $ to tie in better with the movie, even thought the company the book is named after is still unchanged. Very sad.
* [[House of Leaves|{{color|blue|House}} of Leaves]].
* While presumably pronounced "slant," the science fiction novel / is somewhat disorientingly titled, particularly since it's uncertain that ''is'' the title unless you look at the copyright page (which for clarity's sake describes the situation rather than simply putting a / on the page.)
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Parodied in ''[[The Middleman]]'' with the super-addictive !!!!. Yes the drink is called !!!!. It is pronounced by stamping your foot and doing jazz hands.
* There's a ''[[Lost]]'' episode called "?" This refers to something specific in the plot, but was also so named in tribute to the episode's intended director, Darren Aronofsky, who directed the movie ''π'' (that's ''[[Pi]]'', of course). Aronofsky had to bow out of the episode, but the title remained.
* [[Earth Star Voyager|Earth☆Star Voyager]] - a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] that originally aired as a 2-part miniseries on ABC's ''Wonderful World of Disney'' in January 1988. It focused on a bunch of young people from a late 21st century [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Future Earth]] as they [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|trekked through the stars]] to find a new home for the human race.
* On ''[[Top Gear]]'', the new{{when}} "reasonably priced car" is a Kia Cee'd (pronounced like "seed"). Jeremy Clarkson, however, insists on calling it the "[[I Read That As|see apostrophe dee]]."
=== Music ===
* 80s J-pop band TOM☆CAT
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* The Japanese [[Boy Band]] D☆DATE.
* Shudder To Think's "Gang Of $". It's a [[Non-Appearing Title]], but apparently it's supposed to be pronounced "Gang Of Money'.
* Some songs by I've Sound have this kind of title, for example "Otomegokoro + √[[Unusual Ears|Nekomimi]] = ∞".
* [[Sonic Youth|Thurston Moore's]] 1995 solo album is usually referred to as ''Psychic Hearts'', but the album artwork actually renders the title as ''Psychic ♥♥♥''.
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* All-female [[Visual Kei]] band [[Exist Trace]].
* ★ - [[David Bowie]]'s last album and also the titular song. Pronounced as [[Shaped Like Itself|★]], or ''Blackstar''.
* [[Korn|KoЯN]]
* BT's ''THЭSЭ HOPЭFUL MACHINЭS'' album.
* Sasha's ''Invol2ver'' mix compilation.
* Some [[Autechre]] songs, such as "90101-5|-|" (pipe dash pipe?) and "O=0"
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* The red "Na" in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi no {{color|red|Na}}ku Koro ni]]'' is officially part of the title.
** The official dub calls it ''When They {{color|red|C}}ry''.
** ''Higurashi Day{{color|red|b}}reak'' by Tasogare Frontier: The b is officially off-color, although the color depends on the material - if the rest of the text is white, the b is normally black, but if the rest of the text is black, the b is red. Spelled in Japanese, the "bu" (ブ) is treated the same way.
* The revisions to ''[[Guilty Gear|Guilty Gear XX]]'' generally had strange names: "Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload" (pronounced "Sharp Reload"), "Guilty Gear XX/" ("Slash") and "Guilty Gear XX Λ Core" ("Accent Core"). Even the "XX" part of the title is actually pronounced "Igzex".
* [[Tetris|TET]]Я[[Tetris|IS]], of course.
* [[Acclaim|A<<laim]].
* The [[Wii]]. A homophone for "we", and the i's represent two people.
* ''[[Amorphous]]+''.
=== Real Life ===
* Canal+, a French film and television studio and distributor, and TV channel. (Usually pronounced "Canal Plus", using the French pronunciation.)
* E!, the American cable and satellite television network.
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*** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|£ido$]] gets a double whammy of the dollar sign and the pound symbol.
* The now-defunct British satellite channel L!ve TV.
* The computer programming languages C++ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110926063620/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name pronounced "see plus plus"]; "++" means "increment by 1" in it<ref>on numeric primitives; due to operator overloading you can never be sure what it will do on any custom type</ref> and its predecessor C, so C++ means "C incremented"<ref>or, for extra pedantry, return the value of C and then increment it - perhaps a subtle nod at its fairly large degree of backwards compatibility?</ref>) and C# ("see sharp", despite actually using a pound sign, which is subtly different from a musical sharp symbol, which has led to its nickname "D flat", or Db)
** Well, "see octothorpe" doesn't roll off the tongue.
* Toys 'Я' Us
** Made even worse by the fact that Я is a Russian letter ''and'' word (meaning "I" or "myself"). It's like the English "I", which is a letter by itself and a pronoun as well. So basically it's saying "Toys I Us".
* The Bittorrent client "μTorrent", which we're supposed to pronounce "uTorrent". Geek options: muTorrent for the linguistics geek; microTorrent for the science geek.
* The Swedish feminist party (which didn't ''quite'' take off in the 2006 elections, and now hasn't been heard from in a while) chose "F¡" for their symbol. It was, of course, impossible to stop the party's detractors from reading it as "Fi", which is the traditional Swedish military abbreviation for "enemy" ("fiende" in Swedish).
* The [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=coexist%20bumper%20sticker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Coexist] bumper sticker, which comes in many variations.
* Actor Laurence Tureaud legally changed his name to [[Mr. T]], reportedly so that racists would have no choice but to call him "mister".
{{quote|"First name: Mister, Middle name: Period, Last name: T!"}}
* The English seaside town Westward Ho! (exclamation mark official)
* Sm:)e Records.
* Just try finding a check cashier storefront in America which doesn't have a "CHECK$ CA$HED" sign up.
* g0y, used by gay men who don't want to identify as gay. They get amusingly pissy if you call them "goys".
** [[You Have to Have Jews|g0yim?]]
** To be perfectly clear, g0ys do identify as bi- or homosexual, but "reject" the term "gay" because of its association with anal sex; gay - a(nal) = g0y. Their website is so hateful to non-g0y gays that even someone who agrees with the basic ideals of the g0y movement could be repulsed.
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