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* Earlier titles for the ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' film ''Curse Of The Were-Rabbit'' included ''The Vegeburglars'' and ''The Great Vegetable Plot''.
** ''A Matter Of Loaf And Death'' was originally to be named ''Trouble at T'Mill''. The original name was kept for the British release, but changed because no one else would get the joke.
* ''[[The Invention of Lying]]'' was originally going to be called ''This Side of the Truth''. Ricky Gervais's blog would indicate that this was a voluntary attempt to get the point across better, but that hasn't stopped people from [[
* The two ''Matrix'' sequels were shot back to back under the codename ''The Burly Man''.
* ''[[October Sky]]'' is an interesting case. The working title, "Rocket Boys"
* Subverted with ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'', which was only a working title. [[Samuel L. Jackson]] liked the name so much that it he threatened to quit if they changed it.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' was first announced as ''Die Hard 4.0'', tying into the films cyber-terrorism plot. When shooting actually began, [[Twentieth Century Fox]] announced the title would be ''Live Free Or Die Hard.'' Though the film was released everywhere but America as ''4.0'' Director Len Wiseman and star [[Bruce Willis]] can be heard on the DVD commentary mocking the change.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* The Australian drama series ''headLand'' had the working titles of ''Away From Home'', ''Campus'' and ''Ten Degrees South''. The first title is explained by the fact it was orginally intended as a [[Spin-Off]] from ''[[Home and Away]]'', but with UK broadcaster Channel Five having no interest in the spin off, Channel 7 decided to make it a separate series altogether.
* The UK version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero?]]'' had the working title of ''The Ultimate Superhero'' at one point. This is evidenced in the episode where the superheroes visit BBC Television Centre and their guest passes read "The Ultimate Superhero".
* ''[[High School Musical]]'' was meant to be a working title, but the title was still being used in post-production and it stuck.
* ''[[The Worst Witch|Weirdsister College]]'' had a working title of ''The Worst Witch: The College Years'' (and ended up being used in an autumn CITV promo).
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* ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'' was originally going to be named ''The New World'', as evidenced by early promotional materials before changing to ''Miracle Day''. However, the first episode keeps the original name and one character name-drops it in the season finale.
* Many episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' were filmed under a different name to the one they were broadcast under. ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E03 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]'' was originally "The Dangerous Assassin", until Robert Holmes decided it didn't "sound right". ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8/E03 The Claws of Axos|The Claws of Axos]]'' was known as ''The Vampire from Space'' right up until transmission, with the first episode being listed in the ''[[Radio Times]]'' under that title. And [[Doctor Who/Recap/S4/E06 The Moonbase|three]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E03 The Invasion|seperate]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E05 Revenge of the Cybermen|stories]] were originally known as ''Return of the Cybermen'', with at least one being changed so the Cybermen would be a surprise.
** In his ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' column for March 2011, [[Steven Moffat]] announced what some of the upcoming episodes ''wouldn't'' be called: The first episode of the new season ''wouldn't'' be "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E01 The Impossible Astronaut|Year of the Moon]]" ("I really like that title, but absolutely nobody else does in the whole wide world"), the second ''wouldn't'' be "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E02 Day of the Moon|Look Behind You!]]", and the mid-season finale either wouldn't be "His Darkest Hour" or it wouldn't be "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|A Good Man Goes To War]]". [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' had a number of these including ''Star Trek A New Beginning'', ''Star Trek A New Generation'', ''Star Trek The New Generation'' and ''Star Trek Enterprise 7'' (the latter title is explained by the fact the ship was to be known as the Enterprise 7 rather than the Enterprise D).
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' was originally conceived as ''Ready, Willing and Wired''. When Stephen Stohn suggested the eventual title, apparently Linda Schuyler disliked the sense of rehashing past successes and felt the ''Trek'' reference sounded forced at first. But, since name recognition both in the U.S. and abroad is always an uphill battle for a [[Canadian Series]], tying it in with the [[Degrassi Junior High|still-popular]] [[Degrassi High|previous efforts]] made good business sense.
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* Speaking of ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', its working title was ''Lady Liza'', but the song of that name was cut.
* The musical ''Something For The Boys'' began production as ''Jenny Get Your Gun''. It's no coincidence that the same star and same writers next joined forces on ''[[Annie Get Your Gun]]''.
* ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' began production under the title of its source play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs'', but started its out-of-town tryouts as ''Away We Go''.
== Toys ==
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* The first ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' game had the working title of ''Real Bout'', which had several [[Title Drop|title drops]] thorough the backgrounds of the game's stages. It was eventually used as the actual title for a later sub-series of ''Fatal Fury'' games.
* ''[[Final Fight]]'' was original titled ''[[Street Fighter|Street Fighter '89]]'', but was changed after play testers criticized the game of being a [[Dolled-Up Installment]]. Ironically enough, members of the ''Final Fight'' cast would later migrate into the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series.
* ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' was originally intended as a side-story to the series and was known under a variety of working titles such as "Biohazard Gaiden" (not to be confused with the later Game Boy Color game of the same name), "Biohazard 1.9/2.1" and "Biohazard: Last Escape". The "3" was added to the last title, as Capcom wanted to release a final numbered Resident Evil game before moving on to the next-generation platforms.
** ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]'' was originally titled "Biohazard 3" during its early drafts, until Capcom decided to keep the numbered installments on the [[PlayStation]]. Ironically enough, ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' ended being made for the GameCube.
* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
** The original plan for ''[[Metal Gear
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' was originally titled ''Metal Gear 3'' (back when the game was being made for the 3DO) until Kojima figured that not many people played the original MSX2 games (or that were people actually who actually owned 3DOs).
** During the early development of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', the game was actually titled ''MGS III'' (skipping a number).
* ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi]]'' (''The Sword of Seal''), the first Game Boy Advance game in the series, was originally titled ''Fire Emblem: Ankoku no Miko'' ("The Maiden of Darkness").
* The first ''[[Alone in
* ''[[Battalion Wars]]'', a [[Nintendo GameCube]] installment of Nintendo's ''[[Nintendo Wars|Wars]]'' series, was initially titled ''Advance Wars: Under Fire'', keeping the ''Advance Wars'' moniker the series was introduced to internationally. Ironically the Japanese version was titled ''Totsugeki!! Famicom Wars'', which used the original ''Famicom Wars'' moniker.
* [[Konami]] initially planned to release ''[[Contra|Contra Spirits]]'' in America as ''Contra IV'', since they originally intended to market ''[[Dolled-Up Installment|Contra Force]]'' (a localization of an unrelated game titled ''Arc Hound'') as the third game in the series. However, ''Contra Force'' got delayed and Konami decided to bump down the title of ''Contra IV'' to ''Contra III''.
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* The codename for the [[Sega Genesis|Genesis 32X]] was "Project Mars", following the Solar System motif of the [[Sega Saturn]] (thus, the unreleased Genesis/32X hybrid would've been the Neptune, which is where the protagonist of ''[[Neptunia]]'' got her name from, by the way).
* Two competing architectures were developed by Sega to become the basis of the [[Sega Dreamcast|Dreamcast]]. One was called [[Katanas Are Just Better]] and the other was called [[Virtua Fighter|Dural]]. Sega decided to use the Dural design, but 3Dfx, the company that made that design's GPU, leaked its specs so they chose the Katana to be the Dreamcast instead.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] was originally called Mr. Needlemouse (a literal translation of the Japanese for "hedgehog"); as a [[Development Gag]], ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'''s
** The name "[[Sonic Generations]]" was originally thought to be the
** In actuality, this game already had a ''different''
* ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' were originally known as ''[[Numbered Sequel|Pocket Monsters 2]]: Gold and Silver''.
** ''[[Pokémon Crystal]]'', the [[Updated Rerelease]] to the aforementioned ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, was once known as ''Pokémon X''.
* ''[[Fallout]]'' had a [[Zig-Zagging Trope|weird situation]]. After ''[[Fallout 2]]'', the team created a project for a prequel and codenamed it "Van Buren." Then Black Isle went bust and Van Buren never saw the light of day. After Bethesda bought it up, they made ''[[Fallout 3]]'', which reused nothing from the Van Buren project...and then Bethesda farmed out their ''next'' project, ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', to Obsidian, the successor studio to Black Isle, who reused a lot of elements from the discarded Van Buren project for ''New Vegas'' and elevated Van Buren to [[Broad Strokes]] canon. However, all the remaining old material is still called Van Buren.
* ''[[Darwinia|Multiwinia]]'' was originally meant to be a working title with users suggesting the title of this game. However, the original stuck.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance]]'' would have been called ''Mortal Kombat: Vengeance'', according to its [[Concept Art Gallery]].
* ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', ''[[Mario Kart]] 7'', and ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' were all announced as ''Super Mario'', ''Mario Kart'', and ''Kirby Wii''. Presently, the 3DS installment of the ''[[Paper Mario]]'' series is just a [[Recycled Title]].
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