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* In ''Film/IronMan'', Stark's first seemed to be mostly scrap iron, but his final is more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:

* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans'' does not in fact involve any Titans, clashing or otherwise. Their existence is acknowledged in the backstory, but by the time the plot starts they've all been defeated. Though it [[SadlyMythtaken incorrectly]] refers to [[{{Medusa}} a Gorgon's]] head being used to fight a sea monster as "a titan against another titan."

* ''Film/XMen'':
** Emma Frost from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', has crystal-like (and anti-psychic) powers, not ice powers.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' is in no way connected with Music/TheMoodyBlues or any of their albums.

* ''Film/Tyrannosaur'': Despite the title and the poster having the skeleton of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' buried underground, this dramatic film about [[spoiler: domestic violence, rape, revenge, and suffering]] has absolutely nothing to do with dinosaurs. Turns out, the movie's title is actually a metaphor for the whole story.

* In the documentary ''Film/AmericanMovie: The Making of Northwestern'', the subject Mark Borchardt quickly abandons his more ambitious feature film ''Northwestern'' and instead finishes "Coven," a black-and-white short film.

* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' features the Incredibly Deadly Viper--[[DeathbringerTheAdorable not so incredibly deadly]]. Justified because it was intentional by Uncle Monty in order to scare the rest of his colleagues as revenge for all their mocking of his name.

* ''Film/TheCandyTangerineMan'': Despite what the theme song implies, the protsgonist's pimp name isn't " The Candy Tangerine Man." It's "The Black Baron."

* The weapon in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' is identified as "The Glaive". It isn't a [[BladeOnAStick curved-blade polearm]], but rather a starfish-shaped throwing weapon. Even if you take the older meaning of "glaive" as "sword" it doesn't fit. Due to the film's popularity, a number of other works have named similar weapons "glaives," such as ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''BladeTheSeries''.

* ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': The guys in the masks aren't the ones doing the avenging. They're the ones having vengeance wrought upon them.

* In ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', AbbottAndCostello go ... to Venus. They were ''supposed'' to go to Mars, however.

* ''Frankenstein's Bloody Terror'' is about...werewolves. [[FurAgainstFang Fighting vampires]]. This is actually {{Handwave}}d in the prologue, which explains that the family of werewolves that in the film is actually descended from the Frankenstein family. The reasons behind the title change are more interesting than the actual film. The US distributor promised theaters a Frankenstein picture, but ran out of money midway through production. In desperation, they acquired the rights to an unrelated Spanish picture called ''Mark of the {{Wolfman}}'', added the aforementioned prologue, and released it hoping that [[ViewersAreMorons no one would notice]].

* The titular character of ''Film/{{Axeman}}'' is more of a KnifeNut than an [[AnAxeToGrind axeman]], though he does wield an axe a couple times.

* ''TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'', where do we even start?

* For ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' fans, ''PodPeople''. As Dr. Forrester says, "It has nothing to do with pods... it has nothing to do with people... it has EVERYTHING to do with hurting."

* ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire only features one of the original 300.

* The protagonist of ''BigDaddy'' is neither big (he's average-sized at best), nor a daddy (well, not until the final scene, at least). And at no point does he ever hold a position of authority over others, which is what the metaphorical "Big Daddy" refers to.
* Averted by ''{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title character is not a beetle (though he briefly transforms himself into one) and has nothing to do with juice. In fact, technically speaking, "Beetlejuice" isn't even his name; he is known officially as "Betelgeuse" (actually the name of a star in the constellation Orion, which apparently has nothing to do with the film, making it in itself an example!), and "Beetlejuice" is simply a folk etymology (phonetic rendering) of the true spelling. That said, Betelgeuse ''does'' eat a raw beetle (well, a cockroach, but why nitpick?) for a snack, and when he bit into it he presumably swallowed a good portion of the bug's "juice."

* HighSchoolMusical 2 has nothing to do with a high school musical. In fact, the movie takes place summer vacation.

* The MarketBasedTitle of Film/{{Skyfall}} for Latin America is "[[OperationBlank Operation: Skyfall]]". The TitleDrop is TheNamesake (it's the Bond family manor, important to James' backstory and the location of the climactic battle).

** Michael Palin made ''Brazil with Michael Palin'' in 2012. It could conceivably be misleading for anyone familiar with the film but unaware that Palin has been making travel series since the 80s.

* The MarketBasedTitle of Film/{{Skyfall}} for Latin America is "[[OperationBlank Operation: Skyfall]]". The TitleDrop is TheNamesake (it's the Bond family manor, important to James' backstory and the location of the climactic battle).

* ''Film/SwingParadeOf1946''. At no point does a "Swing Parade" actually occur. Much to the consternation of the RiffTrax crew. In fact, very little, if any, of the music in the film is swing to begin with, most of it being more general big-band standards or light musical ballads. The only swing actually in the movie is provided by Louis Jordan and his band, and if you were watching the film in 1946 in the south or other places where laws or customs dictated the excising of blacks from films unless they were servants or Pullman porters you were pretty much out of luck.

* ''Film/SwingParadeOf1946''. At no point does a "Swing Parade" actually occur. Much to the consternation of the RiffTrax crew. In fact, very little, if any, of the music in the film is swing to begin with, most of it being more general big-band standards or light musical ballads. The only swing actually in the movie is provided by Louis Jordan and his band, and if you were watching the film in 1946 in the south or other places where laws or customs dictated the excising of blacks from films unless they were servants or Pullman porters you were pretty much out of luck.

* For [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] fans, ''PodPeople''. As Dr. Forrester says, "It has nothing to do with pods... it has nothing to do with people... it has EVERYTHING to do with hurting."

* ''NationalTreasure: Book of Secrets'' actually centers on finding a lost city of gold. The Book of Secrets is only a single road sign on the way to it. To put things in perspective, this is like giving the first movie the subtitle of "Ben Franklin's Letters".
* Bobby Fischer never appears in ''SearchingForBobbyFischer.'' In fact, nobody really searches for him in the film. ''Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer'' would have been a more accurate title.
* ''HauntedHoneymoon'': The characters are not on their honeymoon. They are not even married yet.

* ''BlueMonkey'' was originally titled ''GreenMonkey'', even though there's no monkey of either color in the film.

* ''ClashOfTheTitans'' does not in fact involve any Titans, clashing or otherwise. Their existence is acknowledged in the backstory, but by the time the plot starts they've all been defeated. Though it [[SadlyMythtaken incorrectly]] refers to [[{{Medusa}} a Gorgon's]] head being used to fight a sea monster as "a titan against another titan."

* There are no zombies in ''ZombieIslandMassacre''.
* At the end of ''TheNightTheWorldExploded'', the Earth remains intact and unexploded.
* There are no dinosaurs (or any other prehistoric beasts, for that matter) in ''MassacreInDinosaurValley''.

* In the 2010 remake of ''Film/TheKarateKid'', there is still a kid, but he does not do any karate. It's set in China, so he learns kung fu instead.

* In ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the dragon Toothless ''has'' teeth. Being retractable, they're mostly hidden, and show up when he eats or [[GameFace attacks]]. Hiccup's father Stoick is not TheStoic. And Hiccup never gets hiccups (though in the series it's explained that runts are named Hiccup.)

* When Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures picked up JessFranco's WitchHunt opus ''The Bloody Judge'' for American distribution, they [[MarketBasedTitle re-titled]] it as ''Night of the Blood Monster'' and printed up [[CoversAlwaysLie posters]] featuring a suitably horrific "Blood Monster" that naturally never appears in the movie itself.

* AlexanderPayne has a habit with this. Notably ''Film/{{Sideways}}'' doesn't have a lot to do with being sideways, ''Film/TheDescendants'' isn't really overly concerned with the the fact that the leads are descended from King Kamehameha.

* The Hong Kong film ''Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai'' is known as ''Election 2'' in English. It isn't a sequel to the American film ''{{Election}}'' or any other film. The American release fixed this by naming the film ''Triad Election''.

* The sequel to ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' was called "Book of Shadows", even though there was no such mention of any Book of Shadows in the film.

* Ain't no ghosts in ''Film/GhostWorld''.

* Ain't no ghosts in ''GhostWorld''.