History Main / TitleDrop

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* TitleDrop/WebComics

See a video collection of Title Drops [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1sYNvKZt8 here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJGIQDsr-M here]].

Title Drops aren't always deliberate or premeditated (i.e. the writer takes the title and inserts it for effect). Sometimes the creative process runs the other way, and a phrase from the body of the work will be picked out and used as the title (sometimes [[WorkingTitle the title is the last thing to be nailed down]]).

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* TitleDrop/NewspaperComics

* [[TitleDrop/AnimatedFilm Films - Animated]]
* [[TitleDrop/{{Film}} Films - Live-Action]]

** TitleDrop/TheBackyardigans

A second variety of Title Drop is the FinaleTitleDrop, occurs when the title of a work is used as the last line spoken or near its end. Here, it's not nearly as big and flashy and important as the first variety, but it still explains things to the audience a bit more. You can probably find these mainly in thriller works, where it makes you sit up and think (and adds a bit of drama to the ending). It's also common in plays that were written during the Victorian era. A third variety is TitleDropChapter, in which a chapter of a written work or an episode of a serial work has the same title as the whole work; this often is used for important developments.

->'''Rose:''' That's him, that's the Doctor.\\
'''Jackie:''' What do you mean that's "the Doctor"? Doctor Who?
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]"

->'''Michael:''' Your average American male is stuck in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development.\\
'''Narrator:''' Hey! That's the name of the show!
-->-- ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''

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-> [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Welcome to... TITLE DROP!!!]]

* TitleDrop/AnimatedFilm

* TitleDrop/{{Film}}

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Compare with JustifiedTitle, TitleThemeTune. See also ArcWords, AppropriatedAppellation, TitleScream, SingerNamedrop, and AlbumTitleDrop. Often combined with a LiteraryAllusionTitle. The opposite of this trope is NonAppearingTitle, as well as NonindicativeName and sometimes WordSaladTitle as well. When a title of a series was once accurate and descriptive, but has since become obscure or out-of-date, it has an ArtifactTitle.

Compare with JustifiedTitle, TitleThemeTune. See also ArcWords, AppropriatedAppellation, TitleScream, SingerNamedrop, and AlbumTitleDrop. Often combined with a LiteraryAllusionTitle. Opposite of this trope is NonAppearingTitle and NonindicativeName, and sometimes WordSaladTitle as well. When a title of a series was once accurate and descriptive, but has since become obscure or out-of-date, it has an ArtifactTitle.

Compare with JustifiedTitle, TitleThemeTune. See also ArcWords, AppropriatedAppellation, TitleScream, SingerNamedrop, and AlbumTitleDrop. Often combined with a LiteraryAllusionTitle. Opposite of this trope is NonAppearingTitle and NonindicativeName, and sometimes WordSaladTitle as well. When a title was accurate and descriptive at one time, but has since become obscure or out-of-date, it has an ArtifactTitle.

Note: If a series is named after a [[CharacterTitle central character]], [[ThePlace setting]], group, etc., it does not count as a Title Drop, unless they are usually called by another name. Hence, ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/TheWestWing'', ''Series/{{House}}'', and things like that don't qualify. Often, the Title Drop will finally explain why the episode/book/etc is called that way to begin with. If this explanation comes by ''[[ShowDontTell showing instead of by telling]]'' (i.e. it is not actually spoken aloud by any of the characters), then it's TheNamesake.

Compare with JustifiedTitle, TitleThemeTune. See also ArcWords, AppropriatedAppellation, TitleScream, SingerNamedrop, and AlbumTitleDrop. Often combined with a LiteraryAllusionTitle. The exact opposite of this trope is NonAppearingTitle.