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''Franchise/StarWars'' video games are notorious for this, as are titles derived from ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' TabletopGames. Generally, most games from a non-game franchise will suffer from this, as do [[TieInNovel Tie-In Novels]].

* Ironically, the ''TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse'' games picked this up ''after'' Onyx Path bought them from Creator/WhiteWolf, the owners of the Worlds of Darkness: ''Trinity Continuum: TabletopGame/{{Aeon}}'', ''Trinity Continuum: TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'', ''Trinity Continuum: TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!''

* ''Manga/GiantRobo: The Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still''

* ''Every'' Japanese name for the ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movies, once the seasons started getting subtitles. Example: ''[[Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation the Movie: The Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy]]''. That's ''three'' subtitles. Only two colons though, luckily.

[[JustForPun A pun on]] [[BlackComedy the medical disease of the same name.]]

-->-- '''[[Creator/{{Atlus}} Atlus USA]]''', announcing the release of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/DevilSummoner 2: VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon''

* This happens to some ''Franchise/StarTrek'' games as well; ''VideoGame/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineTheFallen'' and ''[[VideoGame/StarTrekVoyagerEliteForce Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force]]'' are good examples.

* ''Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer'' (a spin-off title made by Zane from ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw''), a fitting title made by an edgy high school kid.

* The third season of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' anime, which adapts the ''Alicization'' arc, was split into three airing schedules. The first 24 episodes were simply known as ''Sword Art Online: Alicization''. Then the next 12 episodes added the sub-subtitle ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld''. The final 11 episodes concluded with ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld: The Final Season''. Wow.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has spawned a lot of spin-off material, and those titles get into this territory. The best example from this franchise would [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/04/11/sword-art-online-spin-off-nabs-distinction-of-longest-light-novel-title-of-2015-nsfw-ish probably be]] ''[[LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online]] IV: Third Squad Jam: Betrayer's Choice.'' Phew!

* This is frequently the case with young-adult adaptations that split a book into two parts, most notably ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1]]'' (and ''Part 2'') and ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1]]'' (and ''Part 2''), using em-dashes to downplay this trope. Averted with the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' film series, where ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant: Part 1'' and ''Part 2'' were renamed as ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant'' and ''The Divergent Series: Ascendant''.[[note]]Due to the box office failure of ''Allegiant'', ''Ascendant'' was never made, giving the false impression of a completed trilogy.[[/note]]

* Spoofed by the Creator/JimmyDavis WebAnimation/YouTubePoop- "Link: The Boy: The Movie: The Trailer: The Poop."

* This is par for the course in media tie-in fiction, as also evidenced in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels, e.g. ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration: Literature/TheQContinuum: Q-Strike'', ''[[Literature/StarTrekColdEquations Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations]]: The Persistence of Memory'' (and there are many more.)

* Spoofed by the Creator/JimmyDavis YouTube Poop- "Link: The Boy: The Movie: The Trailer: The Poop."

* The sequels to the first ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'', ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', also suffer from this: ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' and ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations''. This is due to the new main character, Apollo Justice, appearing in the fourth game in the series. They couldn't call the series ''Phoenix Wright'' anymore, as it had seemed to be for the first game, so they had to change the series name to ''Ace Attorney'' and relegate Phoenix's name to a "supertitle" above that. The fourth game, therefore, is just ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. The spin-off series ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' don't help at cleaning this mess.

* ''Fanfic/FireEmblemThreeHousesFithPath'''s The title has two colons, qualifying it for this trope.

* The soundtrack for ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForceColonMovieFilmForTheaters'' was titled ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters Colon The Soundtrack''. (Yes, they used the word instead of the punctuation mark.) Same with the DVD release: "...Colon for DVD"

* This trope is applied a NamesTheSame kind of way in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' with the Rikti. Their ''dialogue'' is riddled with Colon Cancer. The entries in StarfishLanguage and EloquentInMyNativeTongue give reasonable examples of this.

** On top of that, the third season of the anime, which adapts the ''Alicization'' arc, was split into three airing schedules. The first 24 episodes were simply known as ''Sword Art Online: Alicization''. Then the next 12 episodes added the sub-subtitle ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld''. The final 11 episodes concluded with ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld: The Final Season''. Wow.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has spawned a lot of spin-off material, and those titles get into this territory. The best example from this franchise would [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/04/11/sword-art-online-spin-off-nabs-distinction-of-longest-light-novel-title-of-2015-nsfw-ish probably be]] ''[[LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online]] IV: Third Squad Jam: Betrayer's Choice.'' Phew!
** That one has now been [[SerialEscalation one-upped by its fifth volume]]: ''Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online V: Third Squad Jam: Betrayer's Choice: Finish''. This still stands as the longest title of any ''Sword Art Online'' light novel volume.
** On top of that, the third season of the anime, which adapts the ''Alicization'' arc, was split into three airing schedules. The first 24 episodes were simply known as ''Sword Art Online: Alicization''. Then the next 12 episodes added the sub-subtitle ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld''. The final 11 episodes concluded with ''Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld: The Final Season''. Wow.

** The fifth game in the main series, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' (''Gyakuten Saiban 5'' in Japan) continues the colon cancer.

** ''The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 - Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie - Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley [=SaGa=]'', the upcoming (and now sadly-canceled) sequel.