History Main / WordPureeTitle

* The text-based game ''VideoGame/{{ZZT}}'' was so named to appear at the bottom of Website/{{Usenet}} listings.

There's the WordSaladTitle, [[UpToEleven and then there's this]]. This isn't so much of a salad as the diced carrots ''on top'' of the salad. This trope comes into play when the creators deconstruct words, rearrange letters, or create new terms to name their works. This usually takes one of three forms:

This is usually justified by the RuleOfCool, and related to AsLongAsItSoundsForeign. Sometimes the title is random due to ease of trademarking a non-generic word. See also TheUnpronounceable, which is this trope taken UpToEleven. The proper noun version of PerfectlyCromulentWord. In some cases, may overlap with MadLibFantasyTitle.

* The Music/{{Genesis}} album ''Abacab'', along with the title song from said album. As for where the title came from, it came about when they were recording the title song; they had three different musical sections (sections A, B, and C) and would arrange them in different ways. At one point, the way the sections were arranged spelled out "Abacab", so they decided to use that for the title. (The finished song ended up having a very different arrangement of sections.)

* ProgressiveRock group Squackett were named as a portmanteau of their two most well-known members: [[{{Music/Yes}} Chris Squire]] and [[{{Music/Genesis}} Steve Hackett]].

* COGASM were a supergroup consisting of [[Music/TheCure Robert Smith, Jason Cooper]], and [[Music/DavidBowie Reeves Gabrels]]. They got their name by mashing together the first two letters of each member's last name... But it's probably not coincidence that it also sounds like a portmanteau for "collective orgasm", especially since the only song they produced ("A Sign From God") was written for the soundtrack to ''{{Film/Orgazmo}}''.

** Mouse On Mars has albums titled ''Agit Itter It It'', ''Niun Niggung'' and ''Pickly Dred Rhizzoms''. The track titles on these albums are further examples.

[[caption-width-right:350:And then make a left turn on Fdsg Street...[[note]][[SincerityMode Zzyzx Road is actually the name of a real road]].[[/note]]]]

* [[Music/HundredGecs 100 gecs]] claim their name is short for "a hundred geckos", and is something of a CreatorInJoke - member Laura Les once tried to order one gecko online and ended up being shipped a hundred of them.

[[caption-width-right:350:And then make a left turn on Fdsg Street...]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' (pronounced “ohs”) is explained in-show as an infinity symbol with a third loop in it to represent “beyond-infinite power”, but it also does this to lampshade the ongoing ''Franchise/KamenRider'' gimmick of multiple mix-and-match forms for the hero - each form has three modular parts, head, arms and legs, and interchanging them means adding together the names and sometimes parts of the names of all three parts to provide a way of referencing each form. Just to confuse things further, body part names can come in either GratuitousEnglish or regular Japanese. For starters:

** Kuwa'''gata''' (stag beetle), Kama'''kiri''' (mantis) and '''Ba'''tta = [[color:green:'''Gatakiriba''']], the green, insect themed form.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has always named teams [Theme]ranger, but as the "ranger" gets cut more and more, it's possible for newcomers to the franchise to not know why titles nonsensically end in "ger" as less and less of the word is apparently needed in the eyes of the producers. Abaranger, Dekaranger, Magiranger, Boukenger, Gekiranger, Go-Onger, Shinkenger, Goseiger, Gokaiger, and Go-Busters (yes, with an S). At first we wondered if having an R in there ''somewhere'' would be the extent of the Ranger suffix from then on, but the following seasons got the G back, with Kyoryuger and [=ToQger=].
* Usually the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' is straightforward, naming their series and the title characters ''Ultraman [noun]''. Not so with ''Series/UltramanGeed'', as "Geed" requires some explaining. It's originally derived from the character's motto, "'''Jī'''ttoshite temo '''dō'''nimo naranē!" (roughly translated, "Sittin'''g''' around '''do'''ing nothing will get us nowhere!") Later in the series, the meaning is changed to stand for "'''Ge'''ne '''De'''stiny"; with the "De" reversed to symbolize how Geed is saying ScrewDestiny in regards to his family history.

* ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' has a repeated OneLetterTitle.

* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' (pronounced “ohs”) is explained in-show as an infinity symbol with a third loop in it to represent “power beyond infinity”, but it also does this to lampshade the ongoing ''Franchise/KamenRider'' gimmick of multiple mix-and-match forms for the hero - each form has three modular parts, head, arms and legs, and interchanging them means adding together the names and sometimes parts of the names of all three parts to provide a way of referencing each form. Just to confuse things further, body part names can come in either GratuitousEnglish or regular Japanese. For starters:

* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' (pronounced “ohs”) is explained in-show as an infinity symbol with a third loop in it to represent “power beyond infinity”, but out of universe it’s a lampshade the ongoing ''Franchise/KamenRider'' gimmick of multiple mix-and-match forms for the hero - each form has three modular parts, head, arms and legs, and interchanging them means adding together the names and sometimes parts of the names of all three parts to provide a way of referencing each form. Just to confuse things further, body part names can come in either GratuitousEnglish or regular Japanese. For starters:

* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' uses this trope to lampshade the ongoing ''Franchise/KamenRider'' gimmick of multiple mix-and-match forms for the hero - each form has three modular parts, head, arms and legs, and interchanging them means adding together the names and sometimes parts of the names of all three parts to provide a way of referencing each form. Just to confuse things further, body part names can come in either GratuitousEnglish or regular Japanese. For starters:

* The Spanish film ''Crimen ferpecto'', which translates as ''The Ferpect Crime''. The main character, who is characterized by his scrupulous attention to detail, is attempting to plan the perfect murder and rents a bunch of crime films for research. He is dismayed that one film is ironically mislabeled, "The Ferpect Crime," as he can't afford such mistakes. Some foreign markets renamed it ''The Perfect Crime'', [[LostInTranslation removing the joke]].

* Music/{{Coldplay}}'s 2011 album ''Mylo Xyloto'' is pretty much this, and the band itself has admitted so.

* 100 gecs is short for "100 geckos", and is something of a CreatorInJoke - member Laura Les once tried to order one gecko online and ended up being shipped a hundred of them.

* ''VideoGame/VVVVVV'' has a repeated OneLetterTitle.

* ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel'' has two actual words out of seven, and one of them is rather obscure. The other five words are specific to the franchise, so while ItMakesSenseInContext[[labelnote:context]]Ar Ciel is the name of the planet the games take place on; the "knell" refers to the fact that the planet is on the verge of death at the time of the game, and the protagonists are out to prevent that. "Ar tonelico" refers to the three towers used to power song magic used in the game's setting, and "Qoga" is the in-universe language's word for "end", signifying the end of the trilogy.[[/labelnote]], it's so nonsensical otherwise that NIS America had to put out [[https://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/ar-tonelico-qoga-name-explanation/ a press release]] simply to explain what the ''blithering hell'' the "jumble of seemingly random letters" they named the game means. (Of note is that the original Japanese title was ''Ar tonelico III: The Trigger of the World's Demise Pulled by a Girl's Song'', which, aside from being an OverlyLongTitle, at least has the decency to tell you that it's the third game in a franchise and gives you a brief synopsis of what it's about. NISA changed the III to "Qoga" hoping that it would prevent turning off people who thought the first and second games would be required reading, but ironically it seemed to have made the title ''more'' unapproachable. It should also be noted that a good part of the fandom agrees that "Qoga" is a poor choice of a word to signify "end" due to the heavy implications that the word belongs to a dialect spoken solely in the region where the second game takes place, and which has zero speakers or ways to be learnt in the region the third game is set in.)

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