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* A straight-to-DVD crime thriller was released in some Asian markets as [[Memento|Memento 2]] despite the movies having nothing to do with one another.
* Spoofed in the ''[[Death Proof]]'' segment of ''[[Grindhouse]]''. The movie obviously had an alternate titlecard which was quickly covered with the new "Death Proof" title. This was a common occurance in b-movies of the 70's, which this film was a parody of.
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== Video Games ==
* The Japanese ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series suffered a lot from this. ''[[
** This is one of the few cases where wiser heads eventually prevailed. The various games have seen multiple re-releases, and every rerelease gives the game its "proper" number. Some non-Japanese re-releases of IV and VI do note that they were originally released as II and III, however.
* When the original SNES game was released, Nintendo were unable to use the name ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]'' in Europe due to trademark issues involving a German C64 game of the same name. The game was therefore renamed ''Starwing'', with ''Star Fox 64'' renamed ''Lylat Wars''. This issue has since been resolved and subsequent games have kept the original titles.
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* ''MOTHER 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back'', better known outside Japan as ''[[Earthbound]]''. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, it's the only ''Mother'' game to actually have been released outside of Japan. Also, EB's opening tagline, "The War Against Giygas", said "Gyiyg Strikes Back" in the Japanese version (still printed in English, though). The reason for the change is obvious: since the original ''[[MOTHER 1|MOTHER]]'' [[No Export for You|wasn't released outside Japan]], Giygas had no reason to "strike back" as far as American players knew and keeping it would've been confusing, especially in the days before people could easily find out that the first ''MOTHER'' did in fact exist.
** Speaking of ''MOTHER'', the leaked English prototype and early promotional materials indicated that in the original plans to internationally release it (which [[No Export for You|obviously never happened]]), it was [[Name's the Same|also]] going to be renamed ''Earth Bound''. Given that inevitably more people are going to emulate the English prototype than they are the Japanese version, the people who polished up the prototype ROM dump to make it playable [[Fan Nickname|renamed it]] ''[[MOTHER 1]]'' to avoid potential confusion with the ''[[Earthbound]]'' we already knew and loved; said name is now arguably the name by which it's more commonly known.
* The ''[[Ar
* The Konami arcade game ''Green Beret'' was released in North America as ''[[Rush N Attack]]'', exploiting the Cold War hysteria at the time (if it isn't so obvious, "Rush'n Attack" is a [[Pun-Based Title|play on]] "Russian Attack").
* ''Pokemon Trozei'' was named ''Pokémon Link'' in Europe.
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