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Happens frequently when [[Title: the Adaptation|Title: The Adaptation]] is involved. Things designated as "Classic", "Original" or "1/I" are very often examples.

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* The Japanese subtitle of the first ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' feature film, ''Ora no Gohan o Kaese!'' ("Gimme Back My Gohan!"), wasn't used until the film's home video release.

* The very first ''[[Sin City]]'' story was titled just that... [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Sin City.]] The series caught on, resulting in future stories containing secondary titles (i.e. ''Sin City: A Dame To Kill For''). Even when the original story was first collected in a trade paperback format, it retained its original title. [[Word of God]] gave it the nickname ''The Hard Goodbye'' and that's what [[Fanon]] called it when discussing this particular story. When [[The Movie|the movie]] came out, the collected editions added this title. Likewise, this particular sequence in the movie shares the same title. It resulted in a slightly awkward line, however. Every story [[Title Drop|name drops]] its own title but this one never contained the line "the hard goodbye" since that wasn't its original name. The line was added to the dialogue in the movie.

* The first ''[[Star Wars]]'' film was originally known as just that; references to ''Episode IV'' or ''[[A New Hope (Film)|A New Hope]]'' were incorporated after its sequels were released. ''[[The Empire Strikes Back (Film)|The Empire Strikes Back]]'' and ''[[Return of the Jedi (Film)|Return of the Jedi]]'' have always had their respective subtitles and episode numbers in the opening plot summary.

* Similarly, the video/DVD releases of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' retroactively retitled it "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" on their packaging, in line with the titles of the sequels. The title at the start on the movie was left unchanged though.

* When ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'' came to Blu-Ray, the case called it, "''TRON: The Original Classic''," so people could distinguish it from ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]''.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''

** In the original [[Kamen Rider (TV series)|1971 series]], the first Kamen Rider himself (Takeshi Hongō) was not known as Kamen Rider 1 until Kamen Rider 2 (Hayato Ichimonji) was introduced as a temporary substitute and later partner.

* [[Colossal Cave Adventure]] -- originally—originally just called "Adventure"; called what it is now so as not to be confused with other games, inc. the Atari 2600 classic.

* The first ''[[Battletoads (Video Game)|Battletoads]]'' game for the [[Game Boy]] was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled ''Battletoads in Ragnarok's World''.

* Subverted by ''[[Command and& Conquer]]: Tiberian Dawn'', which was officialy known as such, but was almost always referred to as "Command and Conquer" until the release of Tiberian Sun. Played straight whenever you refer to the N64 version as TD, though, as it was always just called "Command and Conquer".

* Lampshaded in one of ''[[The Simpsons]]'''s [[Halloween Episode|Halloween specials]]. The story takes place in the 1930s depression era, where Grandpa Simpson states that times haven't been this bad since [[World War OneI]]. This leads Lenny to remark why he keeps calling it that, followed by his response "[[World War Two|Oh, you'll see!]]"

* ''The Return of Jafar'', the [[Pilot Movie]] for ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]: [[Recycled: the Series|The Series]]'', came to DVD with a case adding Aladdin's name at the beginning of the title.

** An inversion: the original PlayStation was once commonly referred by the gaming media as the PSX, a holdover from its development days back when it was called the "PlayStation X". Sony later used the PSX name for a DVD-R recorder that played [[Play Station 1]] and [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] games, much to the confusion of people who still used the PSX abbreviation when referring to the original PlayStation.

* The first two [[Super Bowl|Super Bowls]]s were known at the time as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. The catchier name came about when one of the team owners saw his child playing with a rubber toy called a [[Line -of -Sight Name|Super Ball]].

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