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When a work is adapted into a different medium, there is a tendency to subtitle that work with the format of the new adaptation. For example, a TV show called ''[[Alice and Bob|Bob And Alice]]'', when adapted into a movie, will be called ''Bob and Alice: [[The Movie]]''.

This is a fluid trope. Sometimes, if an adaptation becomes more popular than the original work, it'll drop the subtitle, while in other cases, if a new adaptation is produced, a show that didn't originally have a subtitle will have one added on. Many times, these are even added on by fans.

 

 

{{examples|Examples (listed by medium):}}

* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]: The Movie: The Game''

* ''[[AMV Hell]] 3: The Motion Picture''

** ''AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One.''

* ''[[GU Comics|Lego Star Wars: The Movie]]''

* ''The [[Drawn Together]] Movie: The Movie!''.

* [[Futurama|Movie: The Game]]

* [[Futurama|Game: The Movie]]

** Also ''The Movovie'', ''The The Film'' and ''The Movle''.

 

** ''Spider-Man: The NEW Animated Series''

* ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]: The Animated Series''

* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]''

* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]''

* ''Kong: The Animated Series''

* ''[[Ragnarok Online|Ragnarok]] The Animation''

* ''[[Police Academy]]: The Animated Series''

* ''Kurokami: The Animation''

* ''[[Rayman]]: The Animated Series''

* ''Evolution: The Animated Series'', better known as ''Alienators: Evolution Continues''

* ''[[Zeiram|Iria: Zeiram The Animation]]'' (based on a Japanese live-action movie called "Zeiram")

* ''[[Fraggle Rock|Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series]]''

* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters|S.O.S. Fantômes: La Serie Animée]]''<ref>Had the previous unrelated live-action series by [[Filmation]] not existed, the show likely would have invoked this trope in the U.S. as well.</ref>

 

* ''[[Clerks]]: The Comic Book''

 

* ''[[Miami Vice]]: The Game''

* ''[[Hannah Montana]]: The Movie: The Game''

* ''[[Peter Jackson]]'s [[King Kong]]: The Official Game of the Movie''

* ''[[Lost]]: The Game''<ref>You just did</ref> and ''Lost: The Video Game'' (also known as ''Lost: Via Domus'' in North America)

* ''TV Tropes: The Party Game. [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/6381161#6381161 No, really.]''

 

== [[The Movie]]: (see also, [[The Film of the Book]]) ==

* ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''

* ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]''

* ''[[Santa Claus]]: The Movie'' (called that everywhere except in the opening credits)

* ''[[Slugs]]: The Movie''

* ''[[Digimon]]: The Movie'' (Two ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' films and one ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' film edited together)

** ''Naruto The Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel''

** ''Naruto The Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom''

** ''[[Colon Cancer|Naruto: Shippuden: the Movie]]''

** ''Bleach The Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion''

** ''One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta''

* ''[[Keroro Gunsou|Chou Gekijou-ban Keroro Gunsou]]'' (literally, "Sgt. Frog: The Super Movie")

** ''Gekijouban'', literally meaning Theater Edition, is commonly prefixed before movie adaptations of Japanese series.

 

* ''[[Evil Dead]]: The Musical''

* ''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|David Warrack's]] Rob Roy - The Musical''

* ''The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein'' (This is actually the official title of the musical. No colon. It's so official, they had to read out the whole name for each of its nominations on the Tony awards broadcast.)

* ''Vanities: A New Musical''

 

== The Next Generation: (and similar names) ==

* ''[[Degrassi High|Degrassi]]: [[Degrassi the Next Generation|The Next Generation]]''

* ''[[Speed Racer]]: The Next Generation''

* ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]: The Next Generation''

* ''[[Bonanza]]: The Next Generation''

* ''[[The Love Boat|Love Boat]]: The Next Wave''

* ''[[Castlevania Bloodlines|Castlevania: The New Generation]]'' (in Europe)

* ''[[Care Bears|Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation]]'' (a subversion; this movie is a [[Continuity Reboot]])

 

* ''[[Lexx]]: The Series''

* ''[[Police Academy]]: The Series''

* ''[[FX the Series|F/X: The Series]]''

 

== Other ==

* The heavily mocked ''[[On Ice]]!'' phenomenon of the 1990s.

** Parodied on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' with ''Dangeresque: Put 'Em on Ice!''

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]] [[Radio Drama|Radio Edition]]''

* [[The Abridged Series]]: The whole genre.

* ''[[Michael Jackson]]: The Experience'' (a video game)

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