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# VideoGame.PaRappaTheRapper: Stage 2 in Pa Rappa 2 is called "Strictly For Adults". Pa Rappa and PJ find a TV show called Romantic Karate. It is prefaced with a content warning saying the show is "strictly for adults". Pa Rappa interprets this as a way to prove his maturity.
# Literature.TheFutureCanWeShapeIt: In "Taking Honor", a one-act play by Jill Infiorati, the baby, Honor is supposed to taken by the state government because the family is in violation of the Population Control laws. After the sick mother, Laura, cries out to announce her death, the police retreat, because the household is now back down to four members.
# Film.TheBirthOfANation1915: The title refers to the thesis that the United States did not truly become a nation until after the Civil War. It does not refer to the birth of the Confederacy, as often assumed by those who only know of the film by its (deserved) reputation for racism.
# Fanfic.PokemonOpalAndGarnet: Quasimodo, Frollo, Phoebus, Esmeralda, Clopin, and Tesla.

# Characters.{{Utawarerumono}}: After Hakuoro's coup of Kenashikorupe succeeds, he renames the country to "Tuskur" in her memory.
# Literature.DavidStarrSpaceRanger: The 1963 German translation calls this volume "Gift from Mars", which refers to the unusual mask given to David by the native Martians.
# Literature.TheFriendScheme: The Friend Scheme is the plan of the Donovan Family to befriend multiple members of the Miller family to extract information from them.
# Film.LandscapeWithInvisibleHand: Adam's various art pieces are shown at different points throughout the movie, with the title and medium shown onscreen. The final shot shows him beginning a mural, which shares a name with the film's title.
# Literature.StrangerInParadise: The end of the story gets very close to copying the title. It refers to the way Randall, an autistic child, finds happiness in being used as the basis for a computer that operates a robot sent to Mercury. Randall's specific version of autism (which the story explicitly makes rare) has him feeling imperfectly built to interact with his environment, but by essentially building a body to the environment, they've created a paradise of stimulus for the boy. A stranger so long and so lost— in paradise at last.

# Literature.ZForZachariah: When she was a little girl, Ann had a Bible ABC book in which A was for Adam, the first man, so she assumed Zachariah was the last man.
# Literature.FirebirdTrilogy: Fusion Fire refers to the enormous burst of energy created by reverse-polarity (telepathic) fusion, a technique which is first seen about halfway through that book and first used successfully during the climax.
# Literature.{{Gog}}: Gog (from Goggins) is the main character of the novel.
# Recap.FraggleRockS4E3WembleysWonderfulWhoopeeWater: When the fizzy water Wembley discovers is a hit with all the Fraggles, Red and Gobo make an announcement. Gobo: In honor of its discoverer, we think this delicious fizzy stuff should be known as... Red and Gobo: [in unison] Wembley's Wonderful Whoopee Water!
# Literature.TheLanguageOfLiteratureGrade6: "President Cleveland Where Are You?" culminates in Jerry, the protagonist, needing to fix his bicycle tire to ride over to the North Side of the town to trade his extra Warren G Harding collectable card for a Grover Cleveland card to sell to Rollie Tremaine, the antagonist, for five dollars so he can buy his brother a corsage and new shoes so he can take Sally Knowlton to a fancy dance.
# WebVideo.TheMinervaAlliance: EmergencyBroadcast: TheNamesake of "Unusual EAS Alert"
# Recap.GameOfThronesS7E5Eastwatch: The titular Eastwatch doesn't appear until the last five minutes of the episode.
# Literature.TheMartianWay: Ted Long, our protagonist and colonist of Mars, is obsessed with what he calls "The Martian Way". To him, it is the frontier spirit/culture that has developed due to their distance from Earth. Many things are "The Martian Way" for him, but midway through the story, during the trip to Saturn, he talks about how building more colonies and expanding human civilization is the destiny of Martian colonists, not Grounders from Earth.
# Literature.Underground2016: "Underground" refers to the underground fighting ring that doesn't show up until halfway through the book.
# Literature.TheTraders: The original title, "The Wedge", refers to trade being the wedge that needs inserting into foreign cultures so that the Foundation can introduce their Scam Religion and slowly subvert control from the other interplanetary nations. The revised title, "The Traders", refers to a subculture of Foundation agents. Limmar Ponyets is a member of said culture, and this story demonstrates how they use guile and salesmanship to convince the foreign markets to buy Foundation technology.
# Literature.UntoTheFourthGeneration: This story is about a young man, fresh from college, meeting his great-great-grandfather; four generations away. The main character is the first male descendant born in the new world.
# Manga.AstraLostInSpace: The title of the series comes from the spaceship they're traveling in, dubbed the Astra by Kanata. Astra is also the name of the B5 team's home planet.
# Literature.CoilingDragon: The Coiling Dragon. This ring has special powers that are revealed through the story. Examples include allowing the wearer to use less energy to cast spells and protecting Linley's soul from being destroyed. Once Linley is able to probe inside of the Coiling Dragon, he finds out that it is a Sovereign-level artifact that the has been damaged and the soul-protecting shield has a hole in it. On the bright side, it is still able to absorb and refine souls to increase his power. Linley also finds A drop of Dragon God's blood that jacks up his dragonform to a new level and three drops of Sovereign power to apply some Plot Armor
# Film.{{Lion}}: At the end of the movie, it's revealed "Lion" is the meaning of Saroo's given name.
# Literature.Nightfall1990: Saro University sets up a Sanctuary in an old particle-accelerator laboratory to keep people safe for the duration of the eclipse. Theremon points out that the Apostles of Flame have their own sanctuaries for people in nearly every city. It's hoped that some people will be able to survive Nightfall without going crazy.
# VideoGame.{{Foxhole}}: Since Foxhole is inspired by WWII, a lot of things fall under this category.The Rifle is the default primary weapon. While it's slow to fire and requires quite a bit of steadying for a good aim, it's the cheapest weapon and can dish out a good amount of damage. Trucks are cheap to manufacture, and can transport a good amount of troops and supplies to the front. Expect to see a lot of trucks around. Foxholes (the dugout defenses) are the namesake of the game for good reason. They can be built for free, and much more quickly than other structures, making them useful for holding ground before more permanent trench defenses can be established.
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# Literature.ApproachesToScienceFiction: In "The Star", a Short Story by H. G. Wells, when the perspective changes to the Martian astronomers, it's suddenly revealed that the titular star was actually a missile that had been fired from outside the solar system.
# Film.DeathDuel: The titular Death Duel refers to the eventual battle between Third Master Chi and Yen Shih-San.
# Fanfic.HereWeGoAgain: The title of the fanfic is in fact the name of Horsemen-4's tank.

# WesternAnimation.LittleEinsteins: This happens. A lot. The title itself is also something of a namesake, as the phrase "Little Einsteins" was coined by June at the end of their first mission.
# TooDumbToLive.VideoGames: Paragon City is actually nicknamed "The City of Heroes" in-universe, a fact that is well-known and well-publicized throughout the city and beyond. So the street thugs you meet at the lowest levels should know better by now than to draw their weapons and charge at the people in funny costumes. Even if they do know better, it doesn't stop them from trying, anyway.

# Characters.DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody: {{Fangirl}}: Enjoys stories about heroes and wants to become one herself. Her favorite one, the story of "Orion Pendragon" (an Expy of King Arthur and Heracles) provides TheNamesake for Satou's noble surname.
# Literature.ABoysBestFriend: The title refers to the popular English phrase "a dog is man's best friend", modified to focus on a child instead. However, the titular "best friend" isn't a real dog like the parents want for their son; it's a Robot Dog.

# Literature.YankeeDoodleWentToTown: The title is a reference to an old American song, which the person Colonel Davenheim is questioning has been humming unconsciously.
# Recap.OrangeIsTheNewBlackS01E02TitPunch: Red punches her adversary in the chest, popping the woman's breast implant.
# Recap.WarriorCatsMidnight: Midnight is named after the talking badger the cats meet at the end of the book.
# Literature.TheImmortalBard: The title refers to William Shakespeare, and his universal writing appeal. Dr Welch had hoped, because Shakespeare understood humanity in a timeless fashion, that he would be able to adapt to present-day culture.
# Characters.FireEmblemOnForumsWonderfulBlessing: Generia's money is named after her, fitting for the Goddess of Money.
# Manga.{{Yuureitou}}: The title appears to be a Title Drop for the ghost tower, but is also a Stealth Pun for Tetsuo. note The second kanji in "The Ghost Tower" is replaced by the first kanji in the name Tetsuo was given at the orphanage.
# Literature.TheEmpiriumTrilogy: The series is named after the empirium, the Sentient Cosmic Force that the world of Avitas is made out of.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioAndTheDismalHeart: For almost the whole game, the Dismal Heart never appears and is never mentioned. It is only until the very end that it is revealed to be the Artifact of Doom responsible for Count Bleck's return to evil.
# Literature.Foundation1951: The title, reused from the first story, refers to the (first) Foundation, which Hari Seldon arranged to have colonized the distant planet Terminus. The alternative title, The 1,000 Year Plan, refers to Hari Seldon's Plan for a mere thousand years between the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the next Galactic Empire.
# Franchise.{{Tintin}}: The titular sharks only show up at the end of The Red Sea Sharks, which may explain why the English title translation is an outlier for an adventure everyone else knows roughly as "Coke on Board". The significance of the title in The Broken Ear also takes a while to come into focus.

# RedHerring.LiveActionTV: Because the first person accused of murder is always found innocent on television shows, Josephine frames herself so that she will be exonerated by the investigation. "Quit-It": The "Quit-It" pills, despite being TheNamesake and the second thing Austin assumes is responsible for the adults getting Brainwashed, have nothing to do with the resolution, but trying to investigate them does get him in plenty of trouble with the adults.
# Characters.RuneScapeGods: It shares the same name as that of the game's primary setting.
# WebAnimation.AskosverseShorts: CherryBlossoms: Cherry Blossoms - When Nina confesses to Peter, they're in a garden filled with cherry blossom trees.This is also TheNamesake.
# Literature.{{Strikebreaker}}: The people of Elsevere have a complex caste system, where each Elseverian has a social niche to fulfill. We only see three categories of people; Elsevarians, Outworlders, and Ragusniks. Mikhail Ragusnik was one of the founding members of Elsevere, and they handle the sanitation machines, which turn the world's waste into fertilizer and water. The current Ragusnik, Igor, tries to go on strike, but an Outworlder volunteers to learn the job, breaking the strike. Upon leaving the Ragusnik estate, the Outworlder learns they've been exiled; they're now a permanent member of the Ragusnik caste. "Each individual Elseverian fits into a comfortable niche. The appearance of a stranger without fixed caste is unsettling."
# Wrestling.KingOfTheRing: The titular King of the Ring will be awarded to whoever wins the eponymous tournament.

# Manga.PandemoniumWizardVillage: While the titular village is where almost the entire story takes place, the 'Pandemonium' part of the title isn't brought up until much later, where one of the characters is referred to as befitting the description. And while it's not revealed in the manga proper, 'Pandemonium Wizard Village' is the title of the book Molte wrote about the events of the story, as seen in this drawing.
# Literature.TheRestOfTheRobots: The preface of "Part II: The Laws of Robotics" explains that this collection's title comes from it containing stories that were not included in I, Robot. As Dr Asimov was inclined to continue writing robot stories, an interested reader may wish to pick up The Complete Robot instead.
# Recap.TintinTheRedSeaSharks: The English title for this story is metaphorical, referring to the villains and their predatory traffic in human lives. However, an actual shark appears and plays a minor role towards the end.
# FateWorseThanDeath.{{Literature}}: One of the problems with the experimental spacecraft is that any animal that goes through hyperspace loses all higher cognitive functions, sitting in their own waste and refusing to take any action, even eating. Gerald Black, who is chosen to risk this fate, is terrified of it.

# Literature.TeamYankee: Team Yankee is about an armored company, named...Team Yankee.
# WesternAnimation.StanleyAndStellaInBreakingTheIce: Zig-zagged. The sphere is in space, and the orientation of the animals suggests that an objective "up" direction exists. However, they all appear to float, and can even fly/swim in water/air, respectively. The fact that Stanley can land and rest on the ice proves there is some kind of gravity there. However, when Stanley breaks the ice, he doesn't fall straight to the bottom, he slowly descends as if he was in water, and can float where he is without hitting the bottom. No water surface is visible, either, showing that birds fly and fish swim in the same substance.
# WesternAnimation.TheHollow: "The Hollow" is the title of both the video game the kids are playing and the game show the characters are playing said game on.
# Characters.ChoAniki: Idaten acts as the "super big brother" to Adon and Samson after rescuing them.
# Literature.TheImaginary: The title refers to imaginary numbers in the mathematical notations for the alien's use of psychology.
# HiveMind.PlayedStraight: The entire planet in Foundation's Edge is incorporated: every man, woman, animal, and every plant and inanimate object on the eponymous planet, all the way down to the rocks and the atmosphere. This is of the Mental Fusion variant, as individual Gaians possess names, personalities and even prestige based on individual accomplishments. However, important decisions are made via an ultimate form of direct democracy where everyone and everything on Gaia contributes at least some input to superorganism's decision-making. Gaia's ultimate goal is to create Galaxia — turning the entire galaxy into a shared mind, from every asteroid and dead planet to the great black hole at its center. "Green Patches": The organisms of Saybrook's Planet have green patches that grants Psychic Powers. Their Telepathy is used to facilitate a Genius Loci where life has formed a global organism that lives in blissful cooperation with everything else.
# Film.LifeGamble: The titular Life Gamble finally happens in the hour-mark of the film, when Yun-Xiang and Mo Jun-feng decides to engage in one last life-or-death gamble.
# Film.MillersCrossing: there are a lot of characters crossing each other in the movie, none of them named Miller. Halfway through the film it turns out that Miller's Crossing is a location in the woods where mob executions take place.
# GoMadFromTheRevelation.{{Literature}}: Nightfall (1941 novelette), later expanded as Nightfall (1990 novel): Lagash's six suns means an Endless Daytime, except for once every 2,049 years, when five suns set and the only sun left in the hemisphere is eclipsed by the moon. The scientists are trying to prepare civilization and themselves for the upcoming nightfall, but when it does occur, no-one is prepared for the thirty thousand stars that suddenly appear in the night sky. This leads to the far more devastating revelation how tiny and insignificant they are by comparison. "Aton, somewhere, was crying, whimpering horribly like a terribly frightened child. 'Stars — all the Stars — we didn't know at all. We didn't know anything. We thought six stars in a universe is something the Stars didn't notice is Darkness forever and ever and ever and the walls are breaking in and we didn't know we couldn't know and anything —'"
# Literature.KeynesCruisers: For the title of the work itself, the heavy and light cruisers that were built with heavy influence from Keynes' economic theories.
# Literature.TheAlloyOfLaw: The book's title is probably based off of one of Miles's quotes: I served [the law] too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.
# Literature.TheHazing: Because this is the first group of humans from Earth to join the college, some of the college sophomores take it upon themselves to create a new hazing ritual to welcome them.
# Literature.AsTomorrowBecomesToday: The title of "The Game Of Rat And Dragon", by Cordwainer Smith, refers to a battle that humanity is fighting against an unknown enemy. Humans see this enemy as dragons, fierce and dangerous, capable of tearing apart a telepathic mind. Partners (telepathic descendants of cats) see this enemy as rats, nasty monsters that they can beat and kill.
# Literature.TheMessage: The jokes and stories told by the old servicemebers are mentioned in the abstract, establishing the sort of conversation they're having before they obliquely mention the Kilroy Was Here trope. The third soldier is implied to be the first person from the present to have seen the message.
# Music.TheAllmanBrothersBand: Current guitar player Derek Trucks was actually named after Derek and the Dominos.
# Recap.DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio: The title is explained when Grant says that if the Doctor was a comic book superhero he would have been called "Doctor Mysterio". The episode's title effectively means "The Return of the Doctor", which is fairly accurate in and out of universe.
# Fanfic.PokemonXNimjaPlayTheGame: All three members of the Spoken get named in "One Vision," and all three have meaningful names. Aegis' name is derived from his species (he's an Aegislash), but "aegis" also means "the backing or support of an organization," and Aegis is the group's ego and their support. Boomer is a Trevenant, a giant tree Pokémon, and his name comes from "boom," which is Dutch for tree. However, it also serves as a reference to his baritone voice (even though it's rather shy and not really booming). Finally, Crowe, who is a wisecracking, punny Haunter, is named for two other fictional characters named "Crow(e)"- one of which is a ghost and one of which is a punny wisecracker.
# Podcast.DougLovesMovies: The game Last Man Stanton, which revolves around naming all the movies a certain actor/actress has appeared in, is named for prolific character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared on the podcast and played a very early version of the game.The Leonard Maltin Game is named for film critic and recurring guest Leonard Maltin, writer of many, many movie guides.
# WebVideo.MystifyingOracle: OuijaBoard: The main catalyst for the events of the series and TheNamesake of the series is none other than a 1972 Parker Brothers Ouija.
# Recap.ArrowS8E8CrisisOnInfiniteEarthsHourFour: Barry meeting his DCEU counterpart, especially the part where he couldn't believe it was actually happening. For a long time, fans had the same sentiment in regards to the TV and film 'verses crossing over. This is still an Arrow episode, so it is only appropriate that the show that introduced us to Oliver Queen, and ultimately the Arrowverse at large, marks his final farewell. The fact that the Spectre, formerly the Green Arrow, kickstarted the rebirth of the Multiverse, gives a whole new meaning to the term "Arrowverse".
# Sandbox.TitleTropes: EpisodeTitleCard: context is when (right after the title sequence, when TheNamesake is made clear, etc.) the card appears and in what format (just text on-screen or something fancier)
# Literature.KidStuff: At the end of the story, Jan Junior takes a look at his father's manuscript in the typewriter, and calls it kid stuff.

# Literature.{{Segregationist}}: Despite the recent laws being passed that make Metallos (robots) citizens with rights equal to that of humans, prejudice remains. The titular character dislikes the mixing of the species, believing that humans should stay human and Metallos should stay Metallo. He calls the process mongrelization. The med-eng calls it out as "segregationist talk", which the (robot) surgeon is fine with. "Then let it be that." The surgeon said with calm emphasis, "I believe in being what one is. I wouldn't change a bit of my own structure for any reason. If some of it absolutely required replacement, I would have that replacement as close to the original in nature as could possibly be managed. I am myself; well pleased to be myself; and would not be anything else."
# Literature.TheCuriousOmission: The title refers to the fact that Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There has Chess pieces: pawns, rooks, knights, queens, and kings, but doesn't have any bishops.
# Literature.IsaacAsimovPresentsTheGreatScienceFictionStoriesVolume051943: P Schuyler Miller's "The Cave": Most of this story takes place in a cavern on Mars where a human colonist finds several Martian natives taking cover from the storm.
# VideoGame.{{Inversion}}: It's revealed that the worldship which everyone is unknowingly living inside is called the Inversion.
# Literature.TellMeAStoryScienceFictionOne: In "The Golem", the title refers both to the old legend about Rabbi Loeb (which is summarized in the story) and the stranger that has come to their porch. In "Beside Still Waters", the title refers to the emptiness of space, as well as a reference to Chapter 23 of the Book of Psalms.
# Literature.SFTheYearsGreatestScienceFictionAndFantasy: In "The Golem", the title refers both to the old legend about Rabbi Loeb (which is summarized in the story) and the stranger that has come to their porch.
# Literature.ANecklaceOfFallenStars: A headstrong woman's uncle tries to find her possible suitors, unaware that she's already fallen for a minstrel.
# Recap.StarWarsRebelsS2E15TheHonorableOnes: "The Honorable Ones", as in, plural. Zeb isn't the only character in the episode who proves to have a sense of honor.
# Literature.EighteenGreatestScienceFictionStories: In "The Golem", the title refers both to the old legend about Rabbi Loeb (which is summarized in the story) and the stranger that has come to their porch.
# Podcast.TheHiddenPeople: The title The Hidden People refers to the eldritch Fair Folk who act as the main threats once the series shifts into urban fantasy.Overlaps with Antagonist Title.
# WesternAnimation.HotelTransylvania: Hotel Transylvania.
# Literature.BridgeToTerabithia: The titular "bridge" finally appears in the last chapter, when Jesse builds it.
# TheElderScrolls.TropesNToO: The eponymous Elder Scrolls don't actually appear in-game until the fourth game in the series, Oblivion, and aren't directly involved with the main quest of a game until the fifth, Skyrim. They are mentioned earlier, often as part of the impetus for the main quest, but are not actually seen. Fun fact, according to former series developer Ted Peterson, the name The Elder Scrolls was chosen as the surtitle to Arena simply because "it sounded cool", and it wasn't determined until later in development what an "Elder Scroll" actually was in-universe.
# Literature.MalazanBookOfTheFallen: Memories of Ice, The Bonehunters and Toll the Hounds all refer to important events; the first example is also used as a Title Drop and the third as Arc Words. Meanwhile, The Crippled God is named for, well, the Crippled God.
# Literature.{{Sovereign}}: Each of the novels' titles refer to the state of mind of one particular character.