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== Film ==
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' is called in the commercials "[[DreamWorks]]' ''Dragons.''"
* The fourth [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] movie had its title changed to TMNT.
* ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'' was usually advertised as just ''Zack and Miri''. This is an interesting case in that the abbreviation had nothing to do with the title being too long; there are just places where you can't get away with referencing porno.
* Inverted and in ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'', as its former name is ''[[Hanuman Returns]]''.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'' was also marketed as "[[ID 4]]" (4 being a reference to the 4th of July).
* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', or ''How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the Bomb''.
* The Disney [[Direct to Video]] film [[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|''Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch'']] is simply known as ''Lilo and Stitch 2'' in the actual film.
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== Literature ==
* The book ''[[Charles Darwin|On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life]]'', known today simply as ''On the Origin of Species'' or even just ''Origin of Species''.
* [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|ZerothLaw:]] many of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays are known by shorter versions of their titles, such as ''The Famous History of the Life of [[Henry VIII (
* ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]]'' is often known simply as ''Frankenstein'' or ''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein''. It's commonly done with old books which follow the format of giving a title followed by 'or' and an alternative description of the content.
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* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'' = Ab Fab
* ''Lock Stock'', The short-lived series of the film ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' became merely ''Monty Python'' in its final season without John Cleese.
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' became just ''Degrassi'' starting in season 10, because all of that particular generation had moved on from the titular [[High School]].
* Inverted with ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', which was adapted for and marketed to Japanese audiences as ''Secret Idol [[Hannah Montana]]''.
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** ''[[El Tigre the Adventures of Manny Rivera]]'' is simply ''El Tigre''
* Most commercials for ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' reruns (back when they actually aired the reruns) called the show simply ''Dexter's Lab.'' Even before that, the lyrics to the show's ending theme called it "Dexter's Lab."
* The ''[[Total Drama]]'' series are all abbreviated: TDI, TDA, and TDWT {{spoiler|as well as the fourth season, TDR, or Total Drama Reloaded}}.
** Even the dropped name ''Total Drama the Musical'' was shortened to TDtM.
* ''[[Adventure Time|Adventure Time with Finn and Jake]]'' is officially just ''Adventure Time'' now. (Not like anyone called it by its full name anyway.)
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