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{{trope}}
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There's a tendency in media to create very long titles full of [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|rare (or fake) multisyllabic words]] that paint a picture of whimsy, fun, and adventure, especially when the work is set in the past. This is almost a [[Dead Unicorn Trope]] as most of the titles are homages to works that never existed at all. It's often associated with pseudo-Victorian throwbacks and [[Steampunk]].
Not to be confused with (but may overlap with) [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]. A sub-trope of [[Long Title]]. See also [[The Adjectival Superhero]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''
==
* ''The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake)''.
== [[Fan
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'':
** ''[http://blacksatinrose.livejournal.com/195184.html How I Spent My Winter Holidays, Starring James Who Is Brill (And Not Fancying Evans)]''
** ''[http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/after_the_rain/TAOITIP01a.html The Adventures of Icarus, The Invisible Poltergeist]''
** ''[http://phaballa.livejournal.com/102192.html The Late Night Visit, Or, Why Jo Decided To Kill Off Someone Else Instead]''
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3410969/1/Evil_Beast_Boys_Fanciful_Exploits_in_Perdition Evil Beast Boy's Fanciful Exploits in Perdition]''. According to the author, if it weren't for [[Fanfiction.net|Fanfiction.net's]] title character limit, it would be called ''The Fanciful and Mildly Grotesque Exploits of Evil Beast Boy in Perdition''. It should be noted that this is a companion piece to [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3326179/1/Doppelganger_Non_Grata another story of his], and contains spoilers for it.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'':
** ''[[The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova]]''
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles]]''
* ''[[From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]''
* ''The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm''
* Another classic kids' book: ''Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', officially known as ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships''.
* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Scarface: Being the story of one Justin Blade, late of the pirate isle of Tortuga, and how fate deal justly deal with him to his great profit''—which harks back to the same era as Gulliver
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* ''[[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]''
== [[Live
* [[Stephen Colbert]] claimed that Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy starred in ''The Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades of Filliam H. Muffman''.
* ''Mr. Show and the Incredible, Fantastical News Report''
* Subverted in a series of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skits with [[Michael Palin]] about a supposed [[Charles Dickens]] novel, ''The Wretched Birth, Miserable Childhood, Agonisingly Painful Adolescence, and Appallingly Vile and Degrading Death of Miles Cowperthwaite''.
== [[Music]] ==
* ''Music from the unrealized film script '''''Dusk at Cubist Castle''''',''
== [[
*
* ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness''▼
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''▼
* [[Ben Croshaw|Yahtzee]] created an adventure game called ''Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment''.▼
* ''[[The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello]]''▼
* ''The Transcredible Exploits of Zapp Brannigan'' from ''[[Futurama]]''.▼
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''▼
* ''[[Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge|Cheyenne Cinnamon and The Fabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge]]'' on [[Adult Swim]].▼
== [[Web
* The ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' one-shot ''Traversing the Luminiferous Aether with Rupert and Hubert''.
* Some week-end specials in ''[[Narbonic]]'': "The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co."
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120207212733/http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/ Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual: The Toaster With Two Brains]''
* ''[[The Remarkable Journey of Higgins Von Higgings]]''
== [[
*
▲* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''
▲* ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness''
▲* ''[[The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello]]''
▲* [[Ben Croshaw|Yahtzee]] created an adventure game called ''Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment''.
▲* ''The Transcredible Exploits of Zapp Brannigan'' from ''[[Futurama]]''.
▲* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''
▲* ''[[Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge|Cheyenne Cinnamon and The Fabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge]]'' on [[Adult Swim]].
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