Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness

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When naming anything -- a place, a weapon, a title, a society, anything -- just add a prepositional phrase to get instant AWESOME! This is most commonly seen when being used to beef up the titles of movies and books. The most frequently used preposition for this is "of (put noun of choice here)", but "with" and "for" are also usable. Often times, when this is used, the thing being upgraded wouldn't be half as cool or interesting without their handy-dandy prepositional phrases.

Sub-tropes include:

• The X of Y
• The Noun and the Noun
• Character Name and the Noun Phrase
• In Which a Trope Is Described
• Revenge of the Sequel
• In Space

• All tropes involving these phrases:
  • Doomy Dooms of Doom
  • Everythings Better With
  • Rule Of
  • The Power Of

Compare Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With. Can often be A Good Name for a Rock Band, even if that trope name's not an example of one.

Examples of Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness include:

Anime and Manga

Most of these are likely to be introduced by translations, rather than being original to the Japanese versions, simply because there is almost always another possible word order the translation could use, but didn't.

• The Familiar Of Zero
• There's a reason fans of Naruto tend to prefer the subtitles' name for the last battle between Naruto and Sasuke in Part One over the dub's name. Compare the Valley of the End to the Final Valley and make your own decision.
• Legend of Galactic Heroes

Fan Works

• Jeft seems to think so in With Strings Attached, according to the names he gave various places and people in his handmade world Damaeren: the Plains of Death, the Brothers of Doom, the Forest of Screams, and so forth.

Film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Every title in the Indiana Jones series of movies has one of these. Except The Last Crusade, but it still fits Character Name and the Noun Phrase.
• Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith
• The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• Planet of the Apes

Literature

• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Harry Potter books 2 through 5 combine The X of Y and Character Name and the Noun Phrase
• One of the rare double prepositional phrase examples: The Curious Incident (#1) of the Dog (#2) in the Night-Time (chosen by Literary Allusion Title, though).
• And another: Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
• Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha.
• The titles of most Sherlock Holmes stories fit this trope (e.g. A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, etc.)
• The Lord of the Rings—and bonus volume titles The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King
• The Chronicles of Prydain has this in its series title; additionally, the novels The Book of Three and The Castle of Llyr have The X of Y going for them.

Live Action TV

• Bill Nye the Science Guy uses this all the time to describes his gadgets. For example, the Huge Magnetic Pendulum- OF SCIENCE! * fanfare*
• Land of the Lost
• Married... with Children

Music

• Another double phrase example: Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King
• Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire, though they changed their name from "Rhapsody" because of a trademark dispute. Still ... "The power of the Dragonflame will burn brighter than ever before!"
• Same goes for Nanowar, who became "Nanowar Of Steel" due to trademark shenanigans.
• A few of the songs from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra fit this trope, like "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve," "Queen of the Winter Night," and "The Dreams of Candlelight."

New Media

• Our very own stick of off-topic thumping.

Western Animation

• Phineas and Ferb: "He's a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal OF ACTION!" Yup, platypi just became awesome.
  • Just became? They've always been awesome.
• The Brak Show: "That's a light switch... OF TOTAL DEVASTATION!"