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Suppose you go see a film called "the boat". Movie starts and it takes place as far away from a body of water as is possible. No boats. An hour can pass and you won't see a single boat. But just when you were thinking "maybe it's a [[Non-Indicative Name]]", a huge sailing vessel [[The Reveal|is revealed]] to be what everything was revolving around. Expect to hear someone in the theater go, "Oh, that's what it was!" This trope is similar to a [[Title Drop]] except that a character need not say it aloud.
A namesake is the thing within a story that the story itself is named after. It could be [[The Eponymous Show|a character]], [[The Place|a place]], an object, or indeed a metaphor. Often, the namesake is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|rather obvious]] (''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' is obviously named that way because there's a character called "Romeo" and another called "Juliet"; ''[[The Time Machine]]'' obviously includes a machine to [[Time Travel|travel through time]]) but sometimes, authors (or film studios) want to use titles that draw attention, and that's when the namesake may not appear until the end of the story, or might indeed only be a metaphor for a certain situation in the story which doesn't become clear until the end. In short, this becomes a trope when the reason why the book/movie/chapter/episode/etc. is called the way it is, isn't revealed to the audience until [[Now You Tell Me|near the end]]; regardless of whether the characters [[The Not
Examples below should be stories where either what the title "promised" wasn't delivered until rather late in the story, or the title seemed [[Non-Indicative Name|non-indicative]], and later was revealed to be physically in the story. Please do not put stories whose name was [[I Thought That Was|intentionally misleading]] all along, with the title thing never actually appearing.
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* Several ''[[Lost]]'' episodes do this, such as "The Substitute," "Some Like it Hoth," and "Jughead." The flashbacks in "Not in Portland" depict Juliet being recruited for a job in Portland. At the very end, we learn this is actually how she was recruited by the Others. Richard tells her, "Well, actually we're not quite in Portland."
* The titular event in ''[[The Event]]'' is not revealed until the final episode. Because the series is [[Cut Short]], it only really gets mentioned in passing and we never see it transpire.
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** Not to mention {{spoiler|[[Spoiler Title|"The Wedding of River Song"]]}}, which doesn't take place until the end of the episode.
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