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3	->'''Tropers/FalconPain:''' ''Every'' ad I've gotten today has been for ''[[Series/{{V 2009}} V]]''. Perhaps our ad banners are just the beginning...\
4	'''@/TheAdvertisementServer:''' NO, IT'S JUST THAT MY SEQUENCING ALGORITHMS ARE MALFUNCTIONING. YOU SHOULD BE GETTING THE FULL BACKLOG OF ADS FOR ''W'' QUITE SOON.\
5	'''Tropers/{{G-Mon}}:''' And where were all the ads for ''VideoGame/{{N}}''?\
6	'''@/TheAdvertisementServer:''' DON'T YOU REMEMBER? THEY CAME AFTER ALL THOSE ONES FOR ''Film/{{M}}''.
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8	Related to OneLetterName, works with a One Letter Title are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly that]]: works that are titled with a single letter, of whatever script.
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10	See also ShortTitles and LetterMotif.
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13	!26 Latin Alphabet Examples:
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15	%%Feel free to edit the poem for better meter etc.
16	* ''A'' is an album, a Music/JethroTull one.
17	* ''b'' is a tabloid by the Baltimore Sun.
18	* [[MediaNotes/TheCLanguage C]] is a language that's good with runtime.
19	* ''D'' is a MediaNotes/{{Bollywood}} film about crime.
20	* Creator/{{E}} is a network for gossip when bored.
21	* F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
22	* ''G.'' is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
23	* "H." is a hit by Music/{{Tool}}, the rock band.
24	* i was the old name of [[Creator/IonTelevision ION TV]].
25	* j is a label that's owned by Sony.
26	* ''K'' is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
27	* Film/{{L\|ChangeTheWorld}} titles a film, while [[Manga/DeathNote Changing The World]].
28	* ''Film/{{M}}'' is a picture that stars Creator/PeterLorre.
29	* ''VideoGame/{{N}}'' is a game where a ninja gets glory.
30	* ''Film/{{O}}'' is ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', except [[RecycledINSPACE in high school!]]
31	* P was Creator/JohnnyDepp's band. Pretty cool.
32	* ''Film/{{Q\|TheWingedSerpent}}'' is a flick about a big flying snake.
33	* ''R.'' is a CD that [[Music/RKelly Kelly]] did make.
34	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(South_Korean_band) S]] was a short-living group of K-Pop.
35	* [[Creator/MrT T]] is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
36	* "U" is by Music/PearlJam, released in 'nine-eight.
37	* ''Series/{{V\|1983}}'' has an alien metaphor. [[SarcasmMode Great.]]
38	* ''Film/{{W}}'''s a biopic of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush George Bush Two]].
39	* ''Manga/{{X\|1999}}'' is a manga that Creator/{{CLAMP}} did debut.
40	* ''ComicBook/{{Y\|TheLastMan}}'' is a comic about the Last Man.
41	* ''Film/{{Z}}'' ends our list with a big junta ban.
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43	More examples below, except not in verse.\
44	And because they are not, it is so much [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion better.]]
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46	%%Feel free to edit the poem for better meter etc.
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49	!More Latin Alphabet Examples:
50	[[foldercontrol]]
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52	[[folder:A]]
53	* A tripped-out conversation novel by Creator/AndyWarhol.
54	* A band who is known for their song "Nothing".
55	* A song by Music/{{Knorkator}} which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
56	* A song by the Music/BarenakedLadies.
57	* A song by the Billy Naylor Band, mostly revolving around the five vowels in the English alphabet (not counting sometimes-vowel Y).
58	* An instrumental piece by DJ Amuro, which appeared in ''VideoGame/{{Beatmania}} IIDX'' and ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Extreme''
59	* A song by South Korean boy band Music/{{GOT7}}.
60	* A song by South Korean girl group Rainbow.
61	[[/folder]]
62	[[folder:B]]
63	* Website/TheClockCrew [[http://www.clockcrew.cc/clockopedia/alphabet_movies has covered them all.]] The most notable one though is ''B'', the very flash movie responsible for the Clock Crew's existence in the first place.
64	* Do not ever mention [[Website/FourChan /b/]].
65	* Also song of {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}}
66	* An anime called ''[[Anime/BTheBeginning B: The Beginning]]''
67	[[/folder]]
68	[[folder:C]]
69	* A well-regarded 2010 Tom [=McCarthy=] novel.
70	* An anime, fully titled ''[[Anime/CControl [C] - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control]]''.
71	* The penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''.
72	[[/folder]]
73	[[folder:D]]
74	* [[VideoGame/{{D}} A horror game released in 1995.]]
75	* A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
76	* A Japanese VisualKei [[Music/{{D}} metal band]].
77	[[/folder]]
78	[[folder:E]]
79	* ''[e]'' is the title of Music/EpikHigh's 6th full-length album.
80	* ''E'' is a song by American ThrashMetal band Wehrmacht.
81	[[/folder]]
82	[[folder:F]]
83	* [[Manga/{{F}} A manga about Formula One racing]] that later received an anime adaptation.
84	* 「F」 is a song by ''Music/MaximumTheHormone'' and a tribute to the character Frieza from ''Manga/DragonBall''. The song's title would inspire the film's title ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' which features the resurrected Frieza as the film's BigBad.
85	[[/folder]]
86	[[folder:G]]
87	* ''G'': John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
88	[[/folder]]
89	[[folder:H]]
90	* An Elizabeth Shepard found-document novel about an autistic boy's letters from summer camp.
91	* Also a French LiveActionTV '''H'''ospital comedy.
92	[[/folder]]
93	[[folder:I]]
94	* A song by Music/BlackSabbath. Music/{{KISS}} also did one, but the fans [[FanonDisContinuity won't admit it.]] Neither will the band, who even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72y_iGy3vA forgot how to sing it.]]
95	* Also a rather good EP by Music/{{Meshuggah}}, [[EpicRocking and the only song contained therein]].
96	* And a side project of Music/{{Immortal\|Band}}'s frontman Abbath.
97	* And a Music/BadBrains song.
98	* ''i'': A news-digest of ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Independent]]''.
99	* Also, an album by Music/TheMagneticFields, where appropriately enough, all the song titles start with "I".
100	[[/folder]]
101	[[folder:K]]
102	* ''K'', a 1997 French thriller film.
103	* ''Anime/{{K}}'' is a multimedia (anime/manga/novels) series revolving around supernatural Kings.
104	* A song by Glitched Hero Y.
105	[[/folder]]
106	[[folder:L]]
107	* A South Korean movie.
108	* A novel by Norwegian author Erlend Loe.
109	* An album by Godley and Creme (of Music/TenCc).
110	[[/folder]]
111	[[folder:M]]
112	* A non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
113	* A British one-man band from 1979, known for their OneHitWonder song "Pop Muzik".
114	* A song by Music/{{Kent}} about Jocke Berg's grandma when she was ill.
115	* An album by Music/MonochromeCoat.
116	* A song by Music/AyumiHamasaki.
117	[[/folder]]
118	[[folder:N]]
119	* A short story by Creator/StephenKing.
120	* Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
121	* Also a song created by {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}}
122	[[/folder]]
123	[[folder:O]]
124	* ''Theatre/{{O}}'', a Creator/CirqueDuSoleil show.
125	* The title of an EtherealChoir [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwQfDPOuqo song]] on Music/{{Coldplay}}'s album ''Ghost Stories''. On the original album, it actually contains a HiddenTrack titled "Fly On", followed by ~2 minutes of silence, upon which "O" plays. In the Target exclusive version of the album, "Fly On" and "O" were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gA3H3clEqk combined]], and the silence was cut. On both versions of the album, the song is titled "O".
126	* The title of Oprah's magazine.
127	* Film/{{O\|2001}}, a 2001 film directed by Creator/TimBlakeNelson.
128	* An anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
129	* ''O'' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya album
130	* ''Ö'' is an album by German singer/songwriter Herbert Gr''ö''nemeyer.
131	* The author of ''Webcomic/CoolAndNewWebComic''.
132	* Song of {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}}
133	[[/folder]]
134	[[folder:P]]
135	* A song by Music/VenetianSnares.
136	[[/folder]]
137	[[folder:Q]]
138	* ''q'' is an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC formerly hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
139	* Q is a song by Music/QueenBee.
140	* Q, a novel by Luther Blisset (actually a collective pseudonym)
141	[[/folder]]
142	[[folder:R]]
143	* ''-R-'' is the debut solo album by Rosé of Music/{{BLACKPINK}}.
144	[[/folder]]
145	[[folder:S]]
146	* The US title of a BoysLoveGenre LightNovel [[Literature/{{S2005}} series]].
147	* ''S.'' is a 1988 John Updike novel
148	* The stage name of Jenn Ghetto, a {{slowcore}} musician
149	[[/folder]]
150	[[folder:T]]
151	* An EP by Music/FunkerVogt.
152	* A song by {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}}
153	[[/folder]]
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155	[[folder:U]]
156	* One of the songs by Music/{{WASP\|Band}}'s "Kill, Fuck, Die."
157	* Also a song by Music/PaulaAbdul
158	* Also a song and an album by Yuya Matsushita.
159	* Also a song by {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}}
160	* Also a song by Music/SuperJunior.
161	[[/folder]]
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163	[[folder:V]]
164	* Creator/ThomasPynchon's [[Literature/{{V}} first novel]], and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
165	* A [[Music/{{Bemani}} dj TAKA]] song based on the "Winter" movement of Music/AntonioVivaldi's ''The Four Seasons'', originally produced for the ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX'' series.
166	* In addition to the original ''Series/{{V\|1983}}'', there was also [[Series/{{V\|2009}} a reboot series]] in 2009.
167	[[/folder]]
168	[[folder:W]]
169	* Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
170	* [[WesternAnimation/{{W}} An interstital cartoon]] that aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in TheTwoThousands.
171	* A video essay by WebVideo/JanMisali that is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all about the letter "W"]].
172	[[/folder]]
173	[[folder:X]]
174	* [[VideoGame/{{X}} A science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.]]
175	* A Japan-only Platform/GameBoy [[VideoGame/{{X1992}} game.]]
176	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.
177	* A UsefulNotes/LosAngeles [[Music/XUSBand Punk Rock band]] from TheEighties.
178	* An Australian punk band, also from TheEighties.
179	* A Music/DefLeppard album.
180	* A hard trance instrumental by DJ Scot Project. Most, if not all songs by him have this often having subtitles in parentheses, like "U (I Got A Feeling)," "F (Future is Now!)," and "O (Overdrive)."
181	* An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
182	* A rebranded version of Website/{{Twitter}}.
183	* Also how Music/XJapan called themselves before going international.
184	* A song by Music/{{Poppy}} from her album ''Am I A Girl?''.[[note]]Justified, since it is likely named after a term for ecstasy.[[/note]]
185	* ''X'', the 24th book in the ''Literature/KinseyMillhone'' series.
186	* [[ComicBook/XDarkHorseComics A comic book series]] by Creator/DarkHorseComics.
187	* [[Film/{{X\|2022}} A slasher film released in 2022]].
188	[[/folder]]
189	[[folder:Y]]
190	* ''Music/{{Y}}'': The first album by British band The Pop Group.
191	* A song by {{Music/Iamamiwhoami}} from the album ''bounty''.
192	[[/folder]]
193	[[folder:Z]]
194	* [[VideoGame/{{Z}} A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers. ]]
195	* A free-roaming ShootEmUp for the Platform/Commodore64, also known as ''Z-Pilot''.
196	* There's also a Polish novel titled ''Z.'', with the dot.[[note]]By Mieczysław Porębski[[/note]]
197	* Music/MyMorningJacket's fourth album, from 2005.
198	[[/folder]]
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201	!! Non-Latin Alphabet Examples
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203	* [[https://www.jeemtv.net/ Jeem TV]] is a children’s television channel.
204	* ''Film/{{Pi}}''.
205	* ''Fanfic/ThePetricultureCycle'': "π" is the title of the fourth story.
206	* "?" is an episode in the second season of ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
207	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''
208	* Ё (pronounced "Yo") is a Russian planned hybrid electric car.
209	* A novel called ''The Aleph'', but spelled out.
210	* In-universe example: in a Soviet comedy "Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика" (Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures), [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio]] call the planned operation "Y", "so that nobody would guess it".
211	* ''VideoGame/MisterMosquito'''s Japanese name is simply 蚊 (''Ka'', meaning "Mosquito").
212	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' Season 3, Episode 17: "[=/=]". "[=/=]" is the root directory for a Unix or Linux operating system. Root Path was mentioned as the title on [=IMDb=], which is at least somewhat accurate.
213	* A 1971 film starring Creator/WarrenBeatty and Creator/GoldieHawn about an OutlawCouple robbing a bank was titled simply ''Film/{{Dollars}}''.
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