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* The title characters of a famous French movie were introducing themselves to a girl. To make sure of their names, she asked, "Jim et Jules?" The response? "Non, ''Jules et Jim!''"

* "[[The Last Starfighter]]...is dead." Oh, they go NUTS with this trope.

* ''[[Deathstalker]] II'': Possibly the cheesiest use of this trope for a numbered sequel.

{{quote| '''Sultana:''' I'll have my revenge, and Deathstalker too.}}

{{quote| '''Beth:''' Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for 18 years, Then I can survive anything.'''}}

* Done interestingly in ''[[You Can Count On Me]]'': at the end, the lead character's brother asks her to remember what they used to tell each other back when they were kids. This was the title sentence, but neither one of them actually ''says'' it.

{{quote| '''May Day:''' What a view!<br />

'''Zorin:''' To a kill. }}

*** The same sentence was said verbatim by Bond in the novella, under exactly the same circumstances.

** ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|The World Is Not Enough]]''-- Uttered by Bond when {{spoiler|he confronts Elektra King}}:

'''{{spoiler|Elektra:}}''' Foolish sentiment.<br />

'''Bond:''' ''[[Shut UP, Hannibal|Family motto]]''. }}

*** They pulled it in the video game version, however. As he's dying, Carver pushes the three minute countdown for the nuclear launch and drops it horribly out of place.

** Although the meanings of the first and third titles were already pretty clear, the books never came out and said which of the ''three'' towers that figured decisively in ''The Two Towers'' were the title ones. The movie line refers to Saruman's tower, Orthanc, and Sauron's fortress of Barad-dur. [[All There in the Manual|Supplementary information (among them the Tolkien-drawn book cover)]] show Orthanc and Minas Morgul. The latter isn't in the film, so it wouldn't make sense otherwise.

*** Make that five Towers. The title of the book was chosen by a publisher, not Tolkien, and Professor himself stated in his letters that it could refer to any of: Orthanc, Barad Dur, Cirith Ungol, Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith, pick two.

* ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'' features one early on thats rather laughable and has nothing to do with the film:

** Six months ago, they told me to stop or I was dead. I stopped. Now the spirits circle around my bed and they tell me to dance. I tell 'em, "Tough guys don't dance." They answer me, "Keep dancin'."

{{quote| '''Manos'''! God of primal darkness! As thou hast decreed, so have I done. '''The hands of fate''' have doomed this man. Thy will is done!}}

* In [[La Haine]], Vinz expresses his desire to kill a cop if his hospitalized friend (a victim of police brutality) does not wake from his coma, to show that the banlieusards are finished turning the other cheek. His friend Hubert tries to talk him out of it: "La haine attire la haine!" ("Hatred breeds hatred".)

* ''The Black Cat'' had ''nothing'' to do with its title (which is from an [[In Name Only|otherwise unrelated]] story by Edgar Allan Poe), so a black cat walks through some scenes, just to make some sense of it.

* The title of ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' is mentioned by Leonard Lawrence (Gomer Pyle) when describing some live ammunition {{spoiler|before he uses it to kill his drill instructor and himself.}}

* The title of the movie ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' refers to the special forbidden technique that Jet Li uses to kill the [[Big Bad]].

* A threefer occurs in ''[[The Rundown]]'', which {{smallcaps|[[Title Drop|Title Drops]]}} the title ("Your kid was a tough rundown, Billy"), the working title (sign reading "El Dorado" vandalized to read "Helldorado") and an alternate title ("Welcome to the Jungle, tough guy").

* The movie ''Dead Birds'' tries to pull a non-verbal version of these. The only scene where a dead bird ever appears -- and yes, it's only one -- has a dramatic sound in the background, and equally dramatic camera zooming on the only ''one'' dead bird that's never mentioned again. The result is that it simply feels [[Nightmare Retardant|ridiculous]].

** The producers who changed the title of ''Bride of the Atom'' to ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'' ruined another Ed Wood {{smallcaps|[[Title Drop]]}}.

* In the giant mutant ant flick ''[[Them]]'', the title is what a traumatized young girl screams when given a whiff of formic acid.

* ''[[The Last King of Scotland]]'' performs a {{smallcaps|[[Title Drop]]}} in one of Amin's speeches. This is because one of the titles Amin gave himself was "The Last King of Scotland" (the others being "[[Overly Long Name|His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular]]").

** Not exactly a title drop, since that involves working the title into the dialogue -- in this case the title was ''taken from'' the dialogue.

* The ''[[Babylon 5]]'' made-for-TV prequel movie seems appropriately titled ''In the Beginning,'' taking place a decade before the series. The movie fleshes out the Earth-Minbari War and how the Minbari, with vast technological superiority, very nearly wiped out the human race with only a single military loss. Near the end, Delenn asks another of the Minbari ruling body if there is any glory in genocide. The reply is, "Not as much as in the beginning."

** Each ''[[Babylon 5]]'' season has a title, such as "Signs and Portents" or "Point of No Return". Some episodes have the same title as the season they occur in. These episodes are typically [[Wham! Episode|rather important]].

* Towards the end of ''Free Willy'', the [[Kid Hero]] says "Let's free Willy!"

* ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'': The title is [[Literary Allusion Title|a line from an Alexander Pope poem]], which Kirsten Dunst recites at one point.

* The working title of ''The Toxic Avenger'' was "The Monster Hero", so that phrase shows up repeatedly. As it stands, the trope is averted -- nobody uses the phrase "Toxic Avenger".

* "He could have ''[[Total Recall]]'' within the hour!"

* "[[You Bastard|We who watch]], are we...''[[The Condemned]]''?"

* "But I believe that [[Love Actually]], is all around us."

* Steven screaming "[[I Love You Phillip Morris]]!" when he's being taken to another prison.

* In ''Splendor in the Grass'', the Wordsworth poem where the title is coming from is discussed at an English class.

'''Popescu:''' A novel, Mr. Martins?<br />

'''Holly:''' It's a murder story. I've just started it. It's based on fact. }}

{{quote| '''Adso:''' And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name.}}

* A particularly brilliant title drop occurs in the Anthony Perkins / [[Stephen Sondheim]]-penned murder mystery ''The Last of Sheila''. Seemingly referring to the [[The Chessmaster|puzzle-happy Clinton Green]]'s obsession with his wife who was killed in a hit-and-run accident ("I wonder if we'll ever hear the last of Sheila?" says one character), the title is actually a clue to a puzzle set up near the beginning of the play, which ultimately reveals Clinton's murderer: {{spoiler|Each of the six guests / suspects are given 'dirty secrets' that actually ''are'' the secrets of one of their fellow guests. Each secret corresponds to a letter in the word "Sheila"; the murderer is uncovered when one guest acting as detective cracks the puzzle and realises that the murderer replaced the final secret, "Alcoholic", with "Hit and Run Killer", in order to guilt someone into confessing their accidental killing of Sheila. As the detective points out, "the ''last of Sheila'' isn't an H, it's an A."}}

{{quote| '''Reporter:''' Well, whatever you call them, Champion City will forever owe a debt of gratitude to these mystery men.<br />

'''The Sphinx:''' Wait! Wait, that's it. We are...the Super Squad! }}

* ''Gone Baby Gone'':

{{quote| "And if that girl's only hope is you, well I pray for her. 'Cause she's gone, baby. ''Gone.''"}}

* ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]'': The President uses a {{smallcaps|[[Title Drop]]}}, in contrast to his earlier, more vague [[Spy Speak]], to initiate an illegal war against the drug cartels.

** Generally speaking, the President of the United States can name any person or group a "clear and present danger" to the safety and security of the USA. This is roughly equivalent to a Mafia don saying that he dislikes someone immensely: don't expect said person to last very long.

** It is.

* "What was his name, [[The Departed|the, uh, departed?]]"

** And also at William's mother's funeral, where Costello left a card reading "God Bless the Dearly Departed."

** The phrase is also said at a funeral at the end of the film.

* In ''Nil By Mouth'', Ray gives a speech about his father that goes some way toward explaining his behaviour. During it, he mentions an incident in which he saw the words 'Nil By Mouth' written above his father's hospital bed.

* In Paul Greengrass's film ''Bloody Sunday'', the local cinema's billboard advertises a showing of John Schlesinger's ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''. Ironically, Schlesinger's film is about a bisexual love triangle and has nothing to do with Greengrass's film or the historical events upon which it is based.

{{quote| '''Shannon Hamilton:''' Smart-ass ex-boyfriend! I've got two things to tell you. One: I don't like you. I see you every week in this mall. I don't like you shiftless layabouts. You're one of those loser fucking mallrat kids. You don't come to the mall to shop or work. You hang out all day, act like you fucking live here. Well, I have no respect for people with no shopping agenda.}}

* Alex tells Lara "Well, you're the [[Tomb Raider]]."

* "And though I never would've anticipated it, in the end she did for me what I have done for so many: help solve a problem, first by observation, then by careful intervention -- in other words, the [[Zero Effect]]."

* A rare [[Coen Brothers]] example has Sy Ableman described as "[[A Serious Man]]" at his funeral.

* Bart Got a Room. ''[[Running Gag|Bart]]'' [[Running Gag|got a room?]]

* "It must be some kind of...Film/HotTubTimeMachine." Craig Robinson lampshades the trope by delivering a deadpan [[Aside Glance]] to the camera immediately after saying the line.

* ''Throw Momma from the Train'' is the title of the book Larry writes based on the events of the movie.

* "Are you sure [your car] is safe?" "It's better than safe. It's [[Death Proof]]."

'''Mac''': [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|No, actually it's called blackmail.]] Entrapment is what cops do to thieves. }}

* When a Mexican patrón learns who impregnated his daughter, he gives an order: ''[[Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia]]''.

* "They're people like us, they're [[Goodfellas]]."

* "They're [[Spies Like Us|Spies...like us]].

* ''Kill Me Again'': Said by Joanne Whalley to Val Kilmer.

* "I'm sorry, it's just [[Rush Hour]]".

* Titles Drop like flies in Weird Al's "Theme From Spy Hard," which is the theme from ''[[Spy Hard]]''.

{{quote| '''Colonel Trautman:''' Well you did some pushing of your own, John.<br />

'''John Rambo:''' They drew first blood, not me.<br />

* In ''[[Suspect Zero (Film)|Suspect Zero]]'', the titular numbered suspect is often mentioned in the cryptic communications between FBI Agent Mackelway and [[Serial Killer]] O'Ryan.

* "Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! ''[[Cool Runnings]]''!"

{{quote| "Each year, over 21,000,000 people receive general anesthesia. The vast majority go to sleep peacefully. They remember nothing. 30,000 of these patients are not so fortunate. They find themselves unable to sleep. Trapped in a phenomenon known as Anesthesia Awareness. [[You Can Panic Now|These victims are completely paralyzed]]. [[And I Must Scream|They cannot scream for help]]. They are...''[[Title Drop|Awake]]''."}}

* "''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?''"

* ''[[Wall Street]]: Money Never Sleeps'' has a partial one: "Money is the bitch that never sleeps".

* "Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma -- a coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a "[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]". I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna [[Kill Bill]]."

* Brilliantly subverted in the Indie Movie "Rocket Science;" the main character has a stutter, and when trying to figure out love, he says, "You know, it shouldn't be, it really shouldn't be, it shouldn't be rocket, uh, shouldn't be rocket, um, sometimes..." stopping just short of saying the whole title.

* "They tell me you are a man with [[True Grit]]."

{{quote| ''The time has come for the Cobra to rise.''}}

* ''Black Narcissus.'' The Young General explains that it's the perfume he uses to scent his handkerchief.

'''Valerie:''' ''[kissing him]'' This is "easy". }}

* "That's the answer to the riddle. Because that's what an 8000-pound mako thinks about. About freedom. About the ''[[Deep Blue Sea]]''."

* "Today is a ''[[Training Day]]'', Officer Hoyt."

* Takes until the end credits for ''[[Sleeping Dogs]]'', when the theme song plays, with, of course, the line "let sleeping dogs lie."

* "You've got nothing kiddo. ''[[Snake Eyes]]''. The house wins."

* "I am ''[[Bruce Almighty]]''! My will be done!"

{{quote| '''Chavez:''' Are you still working with the police department?<br />

'''McDonaugh:''' Port of call still New Orleans. }}

* In ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'' Jess speaks the exact title once ("No one can cross a ball or bend it like Beckham") and a close variant at another moment ("Anyone can cook aloo gobai, but who can bend a ball like Beckham?").

* In the 2001 indie film ''Jump Tomorrow'', George uses the title words to talk a man out of suicide. Later, the man turns the words back at him when telling him to stay another night at the family of the girl he really loves, rather than go to the wedding he's been pressured into.

* The title of ''[[The Right Stuff]]'' is mentioned early in the film by one of the characters.

* "''[[Inception]]'', is it possible?"

* "Eventually, all things merge into one, and ''[[A River Runs Through It]]''".

* ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' gets it's name from when the main character accuses his father of [[Black Comedy Rape|sexually molesting his younger brother Freddy]] in order to humiliate him and tarnish his reputation.

* "... so what else can I do, but Carry On Cruising?"