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4	[[quoteright:250:[[Music/SimplePlan https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_simple_plan_single.png]]An "untitled" title with a titled subtitle.]]
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6	->''"But the title IS Untitled. See? It's me being ever so clever."''
7	-->-- '''The Professor''' on ''[[WebVideo/TolarianCommunityCollege Untitled Magic: The Gathering Podcast]]''
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9	Rather than a work truly having NoTitle, the work officially has a title that SAYS the work lacks a title. By definition, all examples of this DO have titles [[NeverTrustATitle which are thus]] [[NonIndicativeName technically inaccurate]].
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11	Often this is done to evoke the "unprofessional" feel of a work with NoTitle while still having the convenience of being able to refer to the work by name. It is also common for these titles to start out as [[WorkingTitle placeholders]] [[PermanentPlaceholder that were never changed to something else]], either from a lack of time or because someone [[ThrowItIn liked how the placeholder sounded]]. When it comes to artworks, "Untitled" is sometimes chosen as a title to leave the work's meaning to audience's interpretation. "Untitled" is the most common form, but any name for the work which says it lacks one counts.
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13	Compare YouKnowTheOne, where a person or plot element is always referred to in a cryptic way to keep the information from the reader, and SpeakOfTheDevil, where a character is never named because people fear the name.
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16	!!Examples
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20	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
21	* One chapter of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is titled "Untitled," a reference to how Sai never gives names to any of his paintings.
22	* One of the final [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] in ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' is called "Anonymous" ("Nanashi", meaning "nameless", in Japanese). It's an incredibly half-assed [[PeopleInRubberSuits Person in a Rubber Suit]] -- [[spoiler:at least initially]] -- that its creator didn't even bother to name.
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25	[[folder:Film]]
26	* Creator/CameronCrowe initially wanted to name ''Film/AlmostFamous'' "Untitled", after the style of an obscure record by a forgotten band. The studio forbade it until the Director's Cut, which was officially titled "Untitled: The Almost Famous Director's Cut."
27	* A [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow Morey Amsterdam]] vehicle was called ''Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title''. Not ''directly'' saying the work lacked a title, but still implying it.
28	* Music/{{Silverchair}}'s contribution to the soundtrack of ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' has "Untitled" as the title.
29	* "Untitled Self-Portrait", {{Franchise/Batman}}'s song from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.
30	* ''Film/Deadpool2'' spent most of its marketing campaign calling the film "The Untitled Deadpool Sequel", ''after'' announcing the film was called "Deadpool 2".
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33	[[folder:Fanfiction]]
34	* The Franchise/HarryPotter fanfic ''The Untitled Cheekquel Project''.
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37	[[folder:Literature]]
38	* George Jean Nathan's ''A Book Without a Title''.
39	* Raymond Smullyan's ''This Book Needs No Title''.
40	* Mordkhe Spektor's ''A roman on a nomen'' (Yiddish for "A Novel without a Name").
41	* Pseudonymous Bosch's ''[[Literature/SecretSeries The Name of this Book is Secret]]''.
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44	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
45	* Alan Davies (of ''Series/JonathanCreek'' and ''{{Series/QI}}'' fame) hosted a chat show on the British station Dave in the summer of 2014, called ''Alan Davies: as yet Untitled''. He talks with four or five guests (mostly comedians), all seated round a table. At the end of the show, Alan and his guests have to come up with a title for that episode.
46	* Episode 10 of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' is named "Untitled," at least on the A&E video release.
47	* Episode 10.20 of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is called "Untitled." It concerns a murder at an art gallery, and "Untitled" is a standard "title" for paintings.
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50	[[folder:Music]]
51	Note: Any song or album intended to [[NoTitle truly]] be untitled will be this by default (or sometimes, in the case of the latter, [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]]) when released digitally due to technical restrictions. Only add examples in which "Untitled", or variations thereof, is clearly supposed to be its name.
52	* [[invoked]] Music/SimplePlan's "Untitled", often [[RefrainFromAssuming thought to be named "How Could This Happen to Me?"]]. Because of this confusion, when it was released as a single, it was officially re-titled "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)", making it a supposedly untitled song with ''two'' titles.
53	* Music/EltonJohn's album ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'' has a track entitled "This Song Has No Title", which is a part of the chorus.
54	* Ten Years After named a track on their "Stonedhenge" album "No Title."
55	* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins are another group who have a song that's officially listed as "Untitled" - it was a previously unreleased song that appeared on their GreatestHitsAlbum.
56	* A well-known Dutch singer was called the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangeres_Zonder_Naam Zangeres Zonder Naam]]'' (''Singer With No Name''). That was her official name.
57	* The Benjamin Gate's debut album was named ''[Untitled]''.
58	* Music/LLCoolJ's ''Radio'' album has a track listed "Untitled", though it's actually just talking, not a song.
59	* The track "Untitled" on ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' by Music/MarilynManson.
60	* Music/TheByrds' album ''(Untitled)'', which ended up being an example by mistake: The band were still trying to settle on a title when producer Terry Melcher was asked to fill out some documentation for the sessions and listed "(Untitled)" as a placeholder album title. Due to miscommunications, this ended up on the cover of the final release without the band knowing it.
61	* The hymn "For All the Saints" is typically sung to a melody called "Sine Nomine", composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The tune's name literally means "without a name" in [[GratuitousLatin Latin]].
62	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants have a track called "Untitled" on the EP of "(She Was A) Hotel Detective". It's a recording of a phone call accidentally left on the band's Dial-A-Song answering machine, in which the caller expresses her confusion over the existence of Dial-A-Song.
63	** The track also turns up on the compilation ''Miscellaneous T'' with no title at all; it is sometimes called "13" because it is the 13th track on the compilation.
64	* Music/MatthewSweet's song "Untitled" works the word into the lyrics:
65	-->Don't let me go on sad and unfinished
66	-->Don't make mine a chord that is diminished
67	-->Don't let me go on untitled
68	* Music/SigurRos' third album contains eight untitled tracks and has the unpronounceable name ''( )'', which some have speculated to mean that the album itself is also untitled.
69	* Music/KendrickLamar's album ''untitled unmastered.'' has eight untitled tracks.
70	* There is a German band called "Band ohne Namen" This translates to "A Band without a name"
71	* The band Music/{{mewithoutYou}} has a 2018 album called ''[Untitled]'', with the square brackets and everything.
72	* Music/DukeEllington's ''Second Sacred Concert'' included a piece named "T.G.T.T.", which stood for "Too Good to Title".
73	* The Music/{{Nas}} song "Untitled"; from an album that [[NoTitle actually is untitled]], incidentally.
74	* The Romany Rye's best known song is "Untitled (Love Song)", famously covered by Music/CountingCrows.
75	* American Water have a song called "Formerly Untitled".
76	* Music/DavidBowie's ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia'' features a track named "Untitled No. 1", which is called that as an allusion to this trope's prevalence among fine art.
77	* Music/{{Pelican}} has two examples. One album of theirs is simply called "Untitled - EP" and also the 4th track on their album ''The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw'' has no title, represented by a simple dash mark.
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80	[[folder:Video Games]]
81	* ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory''.
82	* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod''.
83	* There was an old shooter game in the 1980s which was meant to be named ''Challenger''. Then the ''Challenger'' shuttle disaster happened, and the game was hastily renamed to ''[[InitialismTitle GWNN]]'', i.e. "Game With No Name".
84	* The level "Hell Keep" ([=E3M1=]) in the game ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' has the music track "Untitled", possibly because "MIDI Version of [[Music/{{Pantera}} Mouth for War]]" was too cumbersome and litigation-prone.
85	* In the horror adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'', there is a painting by this title in [[EldritchLocation Guertena's Art Gallery]].
86	* The Platform/Atari2600 game ''Name This Game and Win $10,000'', which is about a diver protecting treasure from an octopus; the publisher went bankrupt before the naming contest could be held. A later, unofficial naming contest gave it the name ''[[DoubleMeaningTitle Going Under]]''.
87	* The second expansion pack for ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'', "You Have To Name The Expansion Pack". You can in fact edit the title, and you get an achievement for doing so.
88	-->'''Look, I'm a game developer!:''' Name the expansion pack.
89	* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has an exaggerated in-universe example. Rin Tezuka not only refuses to name any of her paintings, to avoid coloring the viewer's interpretation of them, she refuses to even call them "Untitled" because, as she points out, that's still technically a title.
90	* The Platform/AmstradCPC[=/=]Platform/ZXSpectrum game ''Nonamed'', set in a castle without a name.
91	* "The Untitled Game" mappack for ''{{VideoGame/Mari0}}''.
92	* The ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO'' LevelEditor will name any newly created room "Untitled Room." The editor gives a count the number of rooms not renamed from this default when saving a house, which gives users an incentive to change every "Untitled Room" to something else, even border rooms that aren't meant to be accessible but may be partly visible in 9-room mode. (The default house "Slumberland" names such border rooms "Darling.") However, some playable rooms in well-known houses use silly variations on the default title, e.g. "Oh, these Untitled Rooms!" One of the many randomly titled sewer rooms in "Slumberland" is titled "This Room Has No Name."
93	* There's a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} named "Type: Null", featured in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', referring to the fact that it's artificially created to synthesise the strengths of various Pokémon. Once it "evolves" by breaking free of its restraints, it's given a proper name of Silvally.
94	* One of the songs from the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' GameMod ''Back to Saturn X'' is punningly named "Untilted".
95	* ''VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame'', which is a PermanentPlaceholder. It got the name ''Goose'' in development, but the creators thought it didn't have the same ring to it.
96	* Guybrush Threepwood from ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' is an odd example. He was unnamed and just referred to as "guy" during production. Creator/StevePurcell then named the file for his sprite "guybrush.bbm," because it was the "brush" file associated with the character. Eventually, people started referring to "Guy" as "Guybrush" and he stayed that way.
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99	[[folder:Webcomic]]
100	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' had a series of storylines about the characters holding a party in the wake of "Sister 3". The early party setup was called "Title Pending", although Dan said in TheRant he'd give it a title later. Then the scenes directly before the party were "Title Pending 2 - Even More Pending". The first part of the actual party was "Title Pending 3 - Untitled Party" ("[[NoYou No, YOU'RE confusing!]]") and the part following the big cliffhanger event was "Title Pending 5 or 6" (because Dan thought the early parts were a bit long. He hasn't renumbered them, though). Given that the "Family Tree" arc was also initially titled "Title Pending", time will tell if this title sticks. The final page names the overall story as "Reflections", but the chapter list still uses the "Title Pending" names.
101	* ''Webcomic/UntitledsProjectSeries'' has a sock puppet who is named Untitled.
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104	[[folder:Web Original]]
105	* ''WebVideo/TolarianCommunityCollege'' features a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' podcast named ''Untitled Magic: The Gathering Podcast''.
106	* Episode 9 of ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanityInvitational'' is titled "Title TBD"--or "Title To Be Determined". This is also the title of the cartoon the Thinkers make for the challenge. [[spoiler: The TBD in the title refers to the fact that the Bow in the show, [[RottenRoboticReplacement who is a robot]], doesn't just want to be a copy of the real Bow, and TBD is what Goo calls her after she tells him that she doesn't know what to call herself yet.]]
107	* ''WebAnimation/UntitledObjectShow''
108	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0AQIMR-tpomoIJvGM91XvxPao_67XlR2 Untitled Review Show]]'', by Creator/DougWalker.
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111	[[folder:Websites]]
112	* On Website/{{Tumblr}}, the generic placeholder name for your blog is "untitled". Some users will keep the blog title either for aesthetic purposes or because they can't be bothered to change it.
113	* Website/TVTropes: The NoTitle article, which is about untitled works. It even has "Untitled" as an alternate name.
114	* A Google search for "Untitled Document" results in 61,400,000 results, indicating some degree of laziness on the part of Web authors in (not) creating content for the Title element of their pages.
115	* Website/{{Wikipedia}} references this with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer%27s_Law TenPoundHammer's Law]], which declares that any article on a forthcoming project whose name has yet to be determined (and thus has an "Untitled" Title for the article name, such as "[name of artist]'s [n]th album") is likely to be deleted.
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118	[[folder:Western Animation]]
119	* A ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' [[CowboyEpisode Western pastiche episode]] is called "The Episode With No Name" in reference to "The Man With No Name" in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
120	* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Deleted Scenes", where Shake shows outtakes from a film he produced which is officially named "Untitled Master Shake Project".
121	* The ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "[[Recap/SonicBoomS2E18UnnamedEpisode Unnamed Episode]]" is about the townsfolk figuring out a name for their seemingly [[CityWithNoName unnamed village]].
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124	[[folder:Real Life]]
125	* During the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution, and after a revolt, Marseille was [[PleaseSelectNewCityName renamed]] ''Ville-sans-Nom'', or "Nameless Town".
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