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5[[caption-width-right:350:Oh yeah, ''[=MasteriskAasteriskSasteriskH=]'' is like, my favorite show.]]
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7->''"The first challenge one confronts with ''Film/FaceOff'' is the curious, I might even say ''misplaced'', 'forward slash' in the title. Are 'Face' and 'Off' separate talents on the title's resume?"''
8-->-- '''Creator/MikeNelson''', ''Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese''
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10There are many ways to name something, but if you're looking to add a bit of variety, why not throw some symbols into it in place of letters? This comes in two varieties.
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12The first kind, extremely present in {{anime}} and the songs within it, is adding meaningless symbols into the title. These symbols can give the show its own identity, but since you can't exactly ''pronounce'' a symbol, they just end up being there for decoration. Hearts and stars are especially common, much like the marshmallows in a bowl of Lucky Charms. These usually end up being removed when the title is brought over to the West. One is tempted to count in tildes (~), which are ridiculously common in Japanese titles, but these actually serve a function - the same function that a dash or colon would serve in a Western title (and as such tildes are often simply changed to colons for the Western release).\
13The first variety, unless you're the sort that compulsively downloads character sets, may end up looking very, very strange when it pops up in a Web browser that doesn't fully support Unicode. Extreme examples can render the title impossible to search for online.
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15The second variety is common in the West. Instead of writing actual letters, [[Letters2Numbers replace them with numbers]] or symbols. Of course, this practice is just as common as part of [[LeetLingo "1337-speak"]] on the Internet, so the implications of it may vary, from looking cool to just looking silly. It can sometimes be used to make a political point, especially by using $ in place of S; examples of this are best left as an exer¢i$e for the reader.
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17May include a HeartSymbol. Apply this to speech, and you get SayItWithHearts. Letters2Numbers, TheBackwardsR, and PictorialLetterSubstitution are sister tropes. Compare to XtremeKoolLetterz. Also see CensoredTitle and QuestioningTitle.
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20!!Examples:
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24[[folder:Anime*and*Manga]]
25* ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter''
26* ''[[Manga/LuckyStar Lucky☆Star]]''
27* ''[[Anime/KujibikiUnbalance Kujibiki♥Unbalance]]''. The remake series does this to distinguish itself from the original. It's given as "Kujibiki Heart Unbalance" by the Genshiken characters.
28* ''UG☆Ultimate Girls''
29* ''Anime/ExcelSaga''
30* ''[[Anime/TwinPrincessOfWonderPlanet Fushigiboshi no☆Futagohime]]''
31* This is a recurring feature in ''Anime/PrettyCure'' titles.
32** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar''
33** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure''
34** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''
35** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure''
36** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure''
37** ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure''
38* ''Manga/PenguinMusume''♥''Heart''
39* ''Manga/XxxHolic''. The "×××" is silent, being replaced by whatever addiction the current episode is about. Whether you pronounce it correctly as "Holic" or more clearly as "Triple X-holic" or "Ex-Ex-Ex-Holic" is your choice.
40* ''Manga/HunterXHunter''. As in ''Manga/XxxHolic'', the "×" is silent; it's just "Hunter Hunter".
41* ''Franchise/DotHack'', which is pronounced "dot-hack", invoking "dot-com". Most media has the word dot written inside it to make it clear this is how it's pronounced. Reinforced by the party in the first set of games being called "The Dot Hackers" in the meta-series. The // applied to each title are never pronounced.
42* ''Blue Dragon RalΩGrad''
43* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'''s anime spoofs this by having it be increasingly confusing to seperate, the original run was called "Gintama", followed by Gintama', then Gintama°, then Gintama. including the period. The characters often complained about not knowing how to pronounce the new season's title.
44* ''Anime/GunXSword'', as in ''Manga/XxxHolic'', has a silent "×".
45* ''Manga/{{Lovely|Complex}}''★''[[Manga/LovelyComplex Complex]]'', which is the full name of the official title, ''Love''★''Com''.
46* ''Anime/UtaKata''
47* ''Anime/CandyBoy''
48* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': In the original Japanese, the "+" is pronounced as "''to'' (and)".
49* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' (pronounced "Turn A Gundam"). [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turned_A The symbol]], which is normally called a turn''ed'' A, is a mathematical symbol meaning "Applies to all", referring to [[spoiler:the series CanonWelding multiple continuities into a single backstory]]. So people won't be confused, the logo has "Called Turn "A" Gundam" written in English and an announcer booms out "Turn A... Gundam" during the opening.
50* ''Anime/{{S cry ed}}''. There does not seem to be any reason why the dashes are there. You might think it's supposed to be pronounced "ess-cry-ed", but the title in Japanese is just the transliteration of "scryed" ("''Sukuraido''")
51* ''Manga/MariaHolic''
52* Parodied by ''[[Anime/MagicalPokaan Renkin 3-kyuu Magical?Pokaan]]'', where the question mark is supposed to be a symbol that failed to render properly.
53* ''Manga/PrincessPrincess +'', which is pronounced "Princess Princess Plus".
54* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Usopp's first ImageSong is titled "Usopp☆Drop".
55* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi #'' is generally pronounced "Ojamajo Doremi Sharp"
56* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' has reached a new level. Its [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo third season]] is titled ''Hidamari Sketch x☆☆☆'', pronounced "Hoshimittsu" or "Three Stars".
57* ''Manga/PlusAnima'' is actually pronounced Plus-Anima.
58* Black☆Star from ''Manga/SoulEater'' always has his name with a star in it. It doesn't help that his seiyuu is the first of the Excel♥Girls (mentioned below). The title of the show also has Soul's logo between "Soul" and "Eater."
59* ''Anime/BloodPlus'' is just Blood Plus. However, when it was first airing, one person wrote in asking how to pronounce it, and Creator/AdultSwim suggested it's actually pronounced [[PretentiousPronunciation "Bleud Pleux"]].
60* ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''. The "X" is silent.
61* The titular idol group in ''Anime/MarginalNumber4'' is pronounced "Marginal Number Four", but when they announce their debut to their classmates, people don't know how to pronounce it. They think the # symbol is pronounced "sharp", or that it's the kanji 井, pronounced "i".
62* ''Onegai☆Teacher'' and ''Onegai☆Twins''. The English versions lost the stars but picked up exclamation points, becoming ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' and ''Anime/PleaseTwins'' respectively.
63* ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mahou Shoujo Madoka]]☆[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Magica]]''
64* ''Manga/{{Tokimeki|MononokeJogakkou}} ☆ [[Manga/TokimekiMononokeJogakkou Mononoke Jogakkou]]''
65* In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', the Public Media Guys consider making a ShowWithinAShow called ''π[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean rates of the Caribbean]]''.
66* ''VideoGame/TheIdolMaster'' has an "@" instead of an "a" and is written in all caps except for the "i". It's pronounced normally, though. ''Manga/TheIdolmaster2TheWorldIsAllOne'' manga adds not one, but two exclamation points to the end just for the heck of it.
67* ''φBrain''--[[Anime/PhiBrainPuzzleOfGod Phi Brain]]
68* ''Manga/{{Diece}}''
69* The second season of the ''Manga/YuruYuri'' anime is ''Manga/YuruYuri ♪♪''.
70* The Japanese title for ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'' is romanized as "''Saiki Kusuo no Ψ nan''" (Ψ pronounced as "sai" from "PSI"). The English title loses the sai[=/=]Ψ pun, but uses the "Psychic" pronunciation pun from "[=SaikiK=]", instead.
71* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Naruto writes his family name Uzumaki as a spiral, since that's what it means.
72* In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', when Mugen learns how to read, he signs his name as an infinity sign.
73* ''Manga/ChibiDevi''
74* ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space☆Dandy]]''
75* ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya''
76* The Japanese title of ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' is ''Yurucamp△'', using the upper-case delta to represent a tent. This is somehow retained in the English translation, as the covers always [[TheBackwardsR replace the "a" in "Camp" with the same delta]], as ''Laid-Back C△mp''.
77* The title for ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is actually Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho It has not one but 2 "Stars" in it.
78* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'' has a "Star" in the title of its anime = Kimagure Orange☆Road.
79* ''Literature/HighSpeed2013'', the LightNovel series that ''Anime/{{Free}}'' is a sequel to.
80* A recurring feature in the ''Franchise/UtaNoPrinceSama'' Anime Titles.Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ features many symbols. Including a "Star", "Music Note", as well as the occasional "Percent" symbol.
81** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 1000%
82** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000%
83** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000%: Shining Star Xmas
84** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Revolutions
85** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star
86** Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie
87* ''Manga/TheWallflower'' anime Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge♥ has a "Heart" at the end of the title.
88* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'''s English titles use the format ''You VERB (Not) X''. Yes, "not" is in parentheses.
89* ''[[Anime/TransformersHeadmasters Headmasters]]'', whose full title is ''Transformers: The★Headmasters'' (or, rather, ''トランスフォーマー ザ★ヘッドマスターズ'')
90* ''Scoop Musou "Scoop Hadouhou!"( `・ω・´)♂〓〓〓〓★(゜Д ゜ ;;;).:∴Dogooo'' -- in case you're wondering, that's the main character firing a beam from his shovel. According to the official website the middle bit is pronounced "doshuooooouuuuzugoooon".
91* The [[https://www.shonenjump.com/j/rensai/img/main_ayakashi.jpg logo]] for ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' renders the Japanese text in a bizarre, incredibly angular font that draws part of the first character (あ) and the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakuten_and_handakuten dakuten]] as equilateral triangles. The English translation in the same logo is written in all-caps with all the [=As=] drawn to emphasizes their triangular shape, sometimes filling them in with red. The English release eventually uses a slight variation of the latter where the A in "TRIANGLE" is replaced with a triangle ([[TheBackwardsR or perhaps the Greek letter delta]]).
92* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': Like ''Hunter x Hunter'', the "×" is silent. The author in fact said that [=HxH=] was the inspiration for adding a "x" to his manga's title.
93* The ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' spinoff ''Manga/FourTownFourReal'' has silent stars.
94* ''Anime/TheUltraman'' has a star in reference to the star on Joneus's head that serves as a TransformationTrinket.
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97[[folder:Comic~Books]]
98* The title for ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' was written as "Boo$ter Gold" early on. Post-52, the comic title became "B∞ster Gold" (using the infinity symbol), but it's always been pronounced "Booster".
99* ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse $crooge [=McDuck=]]]'' comics.
100* And then there's ''[[ComicBook/RichieRich Ri¢hie Ri¢h]]''.
101* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' once fought a computer intelligence called "Killg%re." Although the writer intended it to be pronounced "Killgore," a fan wrote a letter (published in a subsequent issue) that argued the "%" carried no sound and, thus, the name was properly pronounced "Kill-gree."
102* All books of the comic ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'' are actually titled "Ach!lle Talon". The titular character comments once, [[MediumAwareness when asked to check the page]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall he's appearing on]], that "the I is on its dot, as it should be".
103* The horror noir graphic novel ''ComicBook/DraculaMotherfucker'', written by Alex de Campi and illustrated by Erica Henderson. The title includes both asterisks and an exclamation point.
104[[/folder]]
105
106[[folder:☆Fanfic☆]]
107* ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'': The second chapter, [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/342886/2/anchor-foal-a-romantic-cringe-comedy/ponyville Ponyville: ↓]], which is also a play on OneWordTitle, because it only has one actual ''word''.
108* ''Fanfic/GoodLuck'' is written with a "<3" at the end.
109* ''[[http://www.st-minutiae.com/humor/series/index.html Star Trek: Series ?]]'' is a fanfic series that throws characters from all over the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' timeline(s) together on a time-traveling ship. According to the author, the ? is meant to be read as <the sound of the 'X' ('wrong answer') buzzer on a game show.>
110[[/folder]]
111
112[[folder:××Film××]]
113* Slash in the title:
114** The slash in ''Film/FaceOff'' was added to make sure moviegoers didn't think the movie was about hockey.
115** ''Film/{{Selfless}}'' is a thriller about body-swapping – hence the slash.
116** ''[[Film/CrazyBeautiful Crazy/Beautiful]]''
117** ''Film/OutlawKing'': The title of the film is displayed as "''Outlaw/King''" in the film itself, emphasizing that the main character could be considered solely one or the other.
118* Period at the end:
119** ''Film/{{Adaptation}}''
120** ''Film/BloodSimple''
121** ''Film/{{Clerks}}''
122** ''Film/Emma2020''
123** ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck''
124** ''Ladies in Lavender.''
125** ''[[Film/Missing1982 missing.]]''
126** ''Film/{{Snatch}}''
127* Ellipsis at the end:
128** ''Film/AboutLastNight''
129** ''Film/AndGodSaidToCain''
130** ''Film/TheEarringsOfMadameDe''
131** ''Film/ForAGoodTimeCall''
132** ''Film/IWasBornBut''
133** ''Film/PourCentBriquesTasPlusRien''
134** ''Film/SayAnything''
135** ''Film/ThereWasACrookedMan''
136** ''Film/WhenTimeRanOut''
137* The "$" sign for an "S":
138** ''Film/{{Dollars}}'' (1971) is a film starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. It is popularly pronounced "Dollars," and in the UK is called ''The Heist''.
139** ''Film/TheSecretOfMySuccess'' is sometimes stylized as ''The Secret of My Succe$s''.
140** ''$la$her$'' is about contestants surviving AxCrazy serial killers for fabulous cash and prizes! Appropriate, since in-universe the game show is Japanese.
141** The Marty Feldman vehicle ''In God We Tru$t''
142** ''How to Beat the High Co$t of Living''
143** ''Ca$h'' is a 2010 Sean Bean movie, appropriately revolving about a suitcase full of cash dollars.
144* The Godzilla series originally used the Japanese term "tai" (meaning "against" or "versus") in its titles. While pronounced the same way, the later Heisei films would swap out "tai" for the English letters "VS". Even later, the Millennium-era films would again change this to the English "X". As an example, there are three films in the entire Godzilla series which share the same spoken title, distinguished only by their written title:
145** 1974's ''Gojira tai Mekagojira'' (''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'')
146** 1993's ''Gojira vs. Mekagojira'' (''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII'')
147** 2002's ''Gojira X Mekagojira'' (''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'')
148* The first theatrical release from Creator/TheAsylum is titled ''#Holdyourbreath''. So is it ''Hold Your Breath'' or ''Hashtag Hold Your Breath''? But then again, what did you expect from The Asylum?
149* ''Film/{{M3gan}}'': While the title is [=M3GAN=], the 3 is further stylized in the official title as a stack of three red horizontal bars. In the trailer, they light up in succession, like a status light on [=M3GAN=].
150* Creator/JimHenson's ''[[Ride/MuppetVision3D Muppet★Vision 3D]]''. The ''Walt Disney World Explorer'' program from TheNineties used the name ''Jim Henson's Muppet★Vision 3D 4D'' with 3D struckout with a red slant [[note]] Which can't be typed here for several reasons[[/note]] . This is because the film has 4D effects.
151* ''[●REC]''
152* The movie ''[[Film/IHeartHuckabees I ♥ Huckabees]]''. Public consensus quickly settled on pronouncing it "I Heart Huckabees".
153* The movie ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''.
154* Posters and other promotional material for ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' rendered the title as ''The Ωmega Man'', which would sort of make it "The Omegamega Man".
155* ''Film/{{Pi}}''.
156* The first two entries of the ''[[Film/OlsenBanden Jönssonligan]]'' film series both use this:
157** ''Varning för Jönssonligan'''s title has the first word spelled as "Varn!ng" in the film itself and on IMDB, although most other sources spell it normally. While most of the fans go with "Varning" as well, there is an English fansub that tried replicating this stylistic choice by rendering the title as "Beware Øf the Jönsson Gang" - with silly results for anyone familiar with [[https://forvo.com/word/%C3%B8/ how the Ø symbol is usually pronounced]].[[note]]The sign is also sometimes referred to as the "Danish ö", and the film ''is'' a Swedish remake of a Danish film, although it's unknown whether the translator had this in mind when making this choice.[[/note]]
158** The titlecard of ''Jönssonligan och Dynamit-Harry" also features the word "Dynamit" in white, but with a drawing of a red stick of dynamite in place of the letter i. For various reasons this doesn't get replicated anywhere else.
159* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is officially spelled with a dot in it, but people tend to just use a hyphen.
160* ''Film/IAmHereNow''. That's a four-period ellipsis in there, which would normally indicate that it's the end of a sentence, and that "Now" is the first word of a new sentence.
161* ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'' [[TheBackwardsR replaces each E with Σ]] (sigma), which in Greek stands for the sound of S.
162* ''Film/WhatTheBleepDoWeKnow'' is stylized as ''What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?'' on its promotional poster and DVD cover.
163* ''Film/Alien3'', though almost nobody pronounces it as "Alien Cubed".
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166[[folder:Inter@ctive.Comic]]
167* ''☆dventure'', a [[InteractiveComic forum adventure]] at the [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MSPA forums]] ([[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?35334-%E2%98%86dventure found here]]).
168* In ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'', one character was always referred to as "♠" in the facility's various {{Apocalyptic Log}}s. It took a lot of time before the story revealed it was actually pronounced "Ace".
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170
171[[folder:$Literature]]
172* In ''Literature/SnowCrash'', the hacker named [=Da5id=].
173* In ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'' by Alfred Bester, several characters spell their names with symbols. Examples: Dr. Wyg& (pronounced Wygand), @kins.
174** Randall Garrett's ''The Demolished Man: A Review in Verse'' replicates this and carries it much further, replacing many words and phonemes with numbers and symbols, in some cases as phrases or partial phrases ("Mr. Hassop has gone in2 th@ mor* his hide!")
175* The seminal CyberPunk novel ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' gave us Lady 3Jane, a clone daughter of the founding fathers of the artificial satellite that the story takes place on.
176* Creator/GahanWilson's short story in the ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions'' anthology has no title - it's identified by a black blob. (It's ''about'' a black blob, illustrated in the story itself, that grows and grows until...)
177* The novel ''[[Literature/{{Vampires}} Vampire$]]'' by Creator/JohnSteakley. The film adaptation, ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires'', eliminates the dollar sign and therefore misses the entire point. [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HRELFE/ Recent editions]] of the book itself have followed suit, dropping the $ to tie in better with the movie, even thought the company the book is named after is still unchanged.
178* ''[=My Name Is Sus5an Smith. The 5 Is Silent=]'' is a YoungAdult novel by Louise Plummer about a young artist desperate to be different.
179* In ''[[Literature/DanShambleZombiePI Slimy Underbelly]]'', young supervillain-wannabee Jody is ''very'' insistent that people refer to his villainous alter-ego as "Dr. Darkness'''!!!'''", even using the triple-exclamation marks as his ChestInsignia.
180* The German version of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' is called "Bis(s) zum Morgengrauen"; "Bis" means "until" and "Biss" means "bite". Thus it's "Until Dawn" or ""Bite till dawn". But note the latter of the two translations in German is very bad grammar and actually a very botched translation.
181* ''Literature/CardForceInfection'' has an in-universe example in the musician "[=Hazuki/Zer0=]", pronounced "Hazuki over zero".
182* ''Literature/DungeonEngineer'': Multiple chapters:
183** Chapter 29: A N T S 🐜🐜🐜
184** With MusicIsEighthNotes: Chapter 30: ♫ I've Experiments to Run, There is Research to be Done ♫, a ShoutOut to the "Still Alive" song from ''VideoGame/Portal1''.
185* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': The U in ''Hard Luck'' is a horseshoe.
186* While presumably pronounced "slant", the science fiction novel / is somewhat disorientingly titled, particularly since it's uncertain that ''is'' the title unless you look at the copyright page (which for clarity's sake describes the situation rather than simply putting a / on the page.)
187* ''Literature/LevelUpHero:'' The cover reads ''Level Up HΣ℞Θ''. H - Sigma - Prescription - Theta.
188[[/folder]]
189
190[[folder:Live.Action::TV()]]
191* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Austin and Ally}}'' episode "Bloggers & Butterflies", where the blog mocking Austin is called "Miami H8ter Girl" ("H8ter" pronounced as "Hater"; the correct spelling should be "H8r").
192* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' (but not the AfterShow, ''Series/AfterMASH'').
193* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has the logo of ''F·R·I·E·N·D·S''
194* ''Series/NumbersNeverLie.''
195* Neither do ''Series/Numb3rs''.
196* In Japan, ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is called ビッグバン★セオリー, or "Big Bang★Theory". MarketBasedTitle much? They even add a subtitle that basically means "The romance laws of our geekiness".
197* The Japanese version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' is titled "Quiz $ Millionaire" (クイズ$ミリオネア)
198* ''Series/{{Greek}}'' is rendered as ''GR''ΣΣ''K'', [[TheBackwardsR despite the fact that that really transliterates to "GrSSk", not "Greek"]].
199* The "A"s in ''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' are always rendered in the show's titles as the Ancient symbol "At" (A symbol resembling the Greek letter Λ; crowned by a small circle). Until the first one changes back to a plain ol' A.
200* Commercials for the TV show ''Dirt'' render the title as D!rt.
201* ''[[Series/TheStreet The $treet]]''
202* The 1970s series ''Vega$''
203* ''Series/{{Arliss}}'' is sometimes stylized ''Arli$$''
204* ''Series/ShitMyDadSays''
205* '' Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23''
206* ''Series/KevinCanFuckHimself''
207* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' episode "Ro$e Love$ Mile$"
208* Game $how title$ ar€ gold mine$ for thi$ trop£:
209** * ''[[Series/ThePriceIsRight $The Price Is Right]]'' (the $ is silent) has pricing games named "Lucky $even", "Pocket ¢hange", and "$uper $aver" (the latter one is now retired).
210** ''Series/SuperPassword'' had a special round called the [=Ca$hword=].
211** The short-lived game shows ''Amne$ia'', ''$how Me the Money'', and ''$et For Life''
212** The [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] GameShow ''[[Series/Chase2008 Cha$e]]''.
213** ''[[Series/CashCab Ca$h Cab]]''. Though only in the American version.
214** The multi-national GameShow ''[[Series/SaleOfTheCentury $ale of the Century]]'' did this everywhere except the United Kingdom after Reg Grundy acquired the format. The original Creator/{{NBC}} daytime series, with Jack Kelly and later Joe Garagiola, rendered its title ''$ale of the ¢entury''.
215** The British version of ''[[Series/{{Greed}} Greed]]'' was called ''Gr££d''. Oh, and the Finnish and Italian versions were ''Gr€€d''. Which was especially strange as neither version had their amounts in €uro at first.[[note]](Finland switched for the final s€ri€s)[[/note]]
216*** Oh, not to forget the lifeline, the Fr££bi£.
217*** The German one was called ''Ca$h - Das eine Million-Mark Quiz''.
218*** The trailers for the British version called it ''Gr€€d''. Strange, as the UK never adopted the Euro anyway.
219* Parodied in ''Series/TheMiddleman'' with the super-addictive !!!!. Yes the drink is called !!!!. It is pronounced by stamping your foot and doing jazz hands.
220* There's a ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode called "?" This refers to something specific in the plot, but was also so named in tribute to the episode's intended director, Darren Aronofsky, who directed the movie ''Film/{{Pi}}''. Aronofsky had to bow out of the episode, but the title remained.
221* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' logo used from 2010 to 2014 featured the monogram DW in the shape of a TARDIS.
222* The Creator/ComedyCentral PanelGame ''Series/AtMidnight''
223* ''[[Series/{{KamenRiderAgito}} Kamen Rider AgitΩ]]''. The Omega is pronounced like an "O".
224* ''[[Series/{{Awkward}} Awkward.]]'' The period is part of the title.
225* The Creator/{{ESPN}} "30 for 30" installment on Southern Methodist University's recruiting scandal that led to the NCAA slapping their football program with the "death penalty" was titled "Pony Exce$$" with the dollar signs replacing the two "s"'s.
226* ''Bron|Broen'', in its original Danish-Norwegian market, uses a pipe symbol to separate the Swedish and Danish titles. The later seasons used multiple pipes to indicate sequel numbers. Creator/TheBBC dropped this when they localized it to English as ''Series/TheBridge2011''.
227* The longtime Creator/{{PBS}} news show ''Wall $treet Week''.
228* ''Oblivious'' a hidden-camera game show that ran for two seasons on Creator/SpikeTV, was stylized as ''Obliviou$''.
229* Mocked in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. At the end of the short ''Film/WhatAboutJuvenileDelinquency'', a question mark zooms in on screen, prompting this exchange:
230-->'''Tom Servo:''' It's Prince's new name, isn't it?\
231'''Crow T. Robot:''' Naw, more like [[Series/Batman1966 Frank Gorshin's]] new name.
232* ''Series/McMillions'', an Creator/{{HBO}} documentary about a scam involving the [=McDonald's=] Monopoly game, is stylized as ''[=McMillion$=]''.
233* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' is stylized as ''Schitt[[superscript:$]] Creek''.
234* ''Series/BlackNarcissus:'' The logo replaces the I in Narcissus with a cross: ''BLACK NARC†SSUS''.
235* ''Series/HouseOfLies'', in which the two "S"s are replaced with dollar signs.
236* The Season 4 DVD of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' lists the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E03IHeartNJ I Heart NJ]]" as "I ♥ NJ".
237[[/folder]]
238
239[[folder:Magazines/]]
240* ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'': The magazine was (relatively briefly) officially known as ''Analog Science Fiction [symbol] Science Fact''. The symbol, resembling a right-pointing arrow superimposed on a ⋂ (inverted U), was invented by editor Creator/JohnWCampbell to represent "Analogous to", because they were [[NewSeasonNewName changing the name]].
241* The most popular magazine about computers and tech of the Netherlands was renamed to ''Computer!Totaal'' in the 90s, which made many people write in in protest that it was a terrible choice because "You can't use special characters in a title!". Ironically, in recent years the website has become more important than the paper magazine and the URL for the website excludes the ! - even though that is considered a safe character to use in an URL - so the controversial bang was weeded out in the end.
242[[/folder]]
243
244[[folder:=Music -- Band and Artist Names]]
245* 80s J-pop band TOM☆CAT
246* Hello! Project loves this trope to the extremes, although they've toned down with it in recent years:
247** Athena & Robbikerottsu: Honkimekimeki♡Tokimekimeki, Yuugure☆Sherbert.
248** Buono!: Renai♥Rider, Muteki no ∞ Power.
249** Berryz Koubou: Sakura→Nyuugakushiki.
250** ℃-ute: Tsuugaku Vector ☂, ★Akogare My STAR★, Suiiitsu→→→Live.
251** Country: Onna no Ko no Torishirabe Time♥.
252** GAM: Icha♡Icha Summer.
253** Heike Michiyo: L♡M→Baby, Star★Man.
254** Juice=Juice and their 2nd album, #2 -¡Una más!-
255** [[Manga/KirarinRevolution Kirarin]]☆[[Manga/KirarinRevolution Revolution]]: Happy☆Happy Sunday, Happy☆彡, Hatten×Joy, Love da yo☆Darling, Koi☆ka na, group Kira☆Pika, Kirarin☆Land, ☆☆☆[[note]]read as "Mitsuboshi" (lit. ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin three stars]]'')[[/note]].
256** Matsuura Aya: ♡Momoiro Kataomoi♡, Zettai Tokeru Mondai X = ♡, ○○ -Joshikousei no Shuchou-, ×3
257** Minimoni: Gyutto Dakishimete <FOREVER>.
258** Morning Musume: The☆Peace!, Yuki / Ai x Anata ≥ Suki, Hare Ame Nochi Suki♡, Tomodachi(♀)ga Ki ni Haitteiru Otoko kara no Dengon, "Suki da yo...", "Suggoi Nakama", "Sugoku Suki na no ni.. ne".
259** Odoru♡11, Happy♡7.
260** Satoda Mai to Fujioka Fujimaki: Ojisamatte Daisuki!♪
261** SI☆NA.
262** S/mile♡ge: ○○ Ganbaranakutemo Eenende!!
263*** As ANGERME: Uraha=Lover
264** Viyuden: Issai Gassai Anata ni∮A?ge?ru♪, Koisuru♡Angel♡Heart.
265** Producer Tsunku's name is written as つんく♂.
266** And this list is nowhere near complete!
267* The OP and ED songs for the ''Literature/BalladOfAShinigami'' anime were provided by a singer called K○Y.
268* The band ¡Forward, Russia!. Even stranger is the other way of writing their name, ¡FФЯWДЯD, RUSSIД!, which might be transliterated as "¡FFYAWDYAD, RUSSID!"
269* Music/HedPE, is often rendered with a schwa, a letter used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, as (həd) p.e.
270** Which would, according to the IPA, actually be pronounced "hud".
271* Also, the artist Ryutaro Nakahara goes by Ryu☆
272* The band !!!. Yes, three exclamation points. It can be pronounced by saying any sound three times, though the usual rendering is "chk chk chk".
273* The group Hear'Say.
274* American indie-rockers stellastarr*
275* British boy band 5ive. (pronounced "Five")
276* Fictional Example: In ''Manga/KOn'', the two names Mio suggests for their band are "Chocolate ☆ Melody" and "Pure ☆ Pure". (Curiously, she suggested them purely vocally, so one might wonder if she just said "hoshi" or "suta" in a way that made it clear that she intended the symbol rather than the word... or just accept that it's manga, so if it can be printed, you just pretend that they can say it somehow.)
277* Music/SunnO -- they named themselves after the logo of their preferred brand of amps. (On the logo the O))) looks more like a circle with soundwaves coming from it.) Strictly speaking, they chose their name and amps based off of the favored amps of the band Earth.
278* ACϟDC (Music/{{ACDC}}.)
279* →↑→, pronounced "Tsk Tsk Tsk" or "Tch Tch Tch" were an Australian Underground group of the late 1970s that used this.
280* Irish girl group B* Witched.
281* [[Music/ATeens A* Teens]]
282* R* Angels.
283* The British {{progressive rock}} formation Frost*
284* Irish band ''Therapy?'' - rumor had it the question mark was simply added to the name to make it span across the cover of a homemade demo after an alignment error. Although this could be [[UnreliableNarrator inaccurate]] depending on [[http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/music-discussion/45990-kurt-cobains-jumper-therapy-s-question-mark-musical-guide-larne.html who you ask]].
285* The Christian band Delirious?.
286* The singer Music/{{Kesha}}, who used a dollar sign in place of an S in her name up until March 2014. That's pronounced "Keh-sha", by the way.
287* [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco Panic! At The Disco]] eventually lost the ! on their second album, ''Pretty. Odd.,'' citing "too much punctuation." They found it again after members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left to form The Young Veins.
288* ? and the Mysterians, a band famous for its one-hit "96 Tears". Their lead singer ''does'' in fact just go by ? (pronounced "question mark").
289* Nearly every band in the genre known most commonly as Witch House. Names include: ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ, Gr†LLGR†LL, †‡†, dir†ypride, 8:*), ///▲▲▲\, PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS, ▲, [=twYlY<ght>ZoNe=], ✝NO VIRGIN✝, Δressed Up Like Δogs, μnłıłĿΞΔ, and more. This is often done to make it harder to search for the artist on Google, helping to prevent them from going mainstream.
290* Rick Ro$$, on his album covers.
291* Ma$e on ''his'' album covers.
292* [[Music/TooShort Too $hort.]]
293* The Japanese BoyBand D☆DATE.
294* British dance-punk band Hadouken!
295* All-female VisualKei band Music/ExistTrace. (The cross is silent.)
296* It's sort of a trend in VisualKei: another band is called †я i ¢к.
297* The British indie rock band ∆, whose name is pronounced "Alt-J", due to the keyboard command that produces the symbol on a Mac.
298* The singer Music/{{Pink}}. Her breakout album also had it, along with XtremeKoolLetterz: ''M!ssundaztood''.
299* Music/BlueOysterCult
300* Music/{{Prince}}, during his "[[TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX Artist Formerly Known As Prince]]" period (1993-2000), had a "stage name" that consisted solely of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Symbol_Album Love Symbol #2]], a modified transgender symbol with a second, stylized bar at the base of the shaft (Prince had previously used iconography based around the vanilla transgender symbol on his 1990 album ''Graffiti Bridge'', though in an implicit context of challenging gender norms). Warner Bros. Records actually had to send out floppy disks with a custom font just so that the symbol could be used in print media.
301* ''Music/BlackRockShooter'', a character seen in a Music/{{Vocaloid}} music video, sung by Hatsune Miku, which spawned a [[Franchise/BlackRockShooter franchise of the same name]].
302* ?uestlove of Music/TheRoots. It's pronounced "Questlove."
303* A certain British synth-pop band of the 80s originally was named with an unpronounceable symbol comprised of a spiral leading into an undulating line and ending in a loop. When their label complained about their unpronounceable name, they offered the name Freur. Other than this, they are most famous for including Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, later to become famous in the 90s as Music/{{Underworld|Band}}.
304* {{Music/Delirious}} is stylized as [=Deliriou5?=] on their first few albums.
305* Excel♥Girls, the seiyuu duo of Yumiko Kobayashi and Mikako Takahashi.
306* British Industrial group Music/ZovietFrance is usually written as :zoviet*france: (with a crescent moon under the asterisk) or during their first years as :$oviet:france:. Occasionally they would actually use made up symbols to spell out their name[[https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1422372_699295610095036_915060440_n.jpg]].
307* Music/{{NSYNC}} stylizes their name in all caps with the asterisk (or an apostrophe in their early days), but they're also willing to accept people spelling it without the punctuation. It's the improper location of the asterisk that gets them.
308* Swedish music producer Thomas G:son.
309* Industrial duo ∆AIMON, which apparently has no official pronunciation but the most accepted is pronounced like "daemon." Sometimes spelled AAIMON where deltas aren't possible.
310* The techno artist/band ΔΔ (Delta Delta).
311* The doujin singer Kanipan("crab bread") often emoticonizes her name as (V)・∀・(V), representing a head-on view of a crab.
312* There exists a rap group by the name of Dujeous?. With the question mark.
313* The Czech post-black metal band ██████. Officially, they have no name. For websites that are limited to ASCII, they're known as Nic (Czech for "nothing/null/none") or sometimes Black Strip.
314* The band Music/TwentyOnePilots, formerly stylised as twenty | one | pilots, now stylised as TWENTY ØNE PILØTS.
315* When the band mclusky partially reunited for some one-off performances, they were billed as 'mclusky' and later mclusky*. In both cases, the punctuation was meant to acknowledge that it wasn't the full original lineup.
316* A similar thing happened with A.R.Kane - a version without co-founder Alex Ayuli toured in 2015 as #A.R.Kane, with the intention of dropping the hash symbol if he decided to join them.
317* Music/{{KARD}} is often referred to as K♠RD.
318* Japanese {{shoegaze}} idol group (yes, that's a thing) ・・・・・・・・・, pronounced "Dots". On top of that, the members have their eyes hidden, are anonymous and known collectively as "Dots-chan". Originally there were nine members, and thus nine dots in the group's name, now they are just six.
319* Sludge metal group Buzzov•en (variously stylized as Buzzoven, Buzzov-en, Buzzov.en, and Buzzov*en). The logo featured on their early albums was pasted together from the separate entries for the words "buzz" and "oven" in the same English dictionary, with the dot that was meant to separate the two syllables of "oven" left in; while the logo gradually changed, they've always kept some symbol between the o and v out of tradition, even if it's a barely distinguishable dot.
320* English electronic musician Music/MuZiq, pronunced "music".
321* Music/{{Crosses}}, a side project of Music/{{Deftones}}' Chino Moreno (not to be confused with the already mentioned †‡†). It's pronounced "crosses". Also, they have a tendency to replace all T's in their song titles with cross symbols, as in "†his Is A †rick", and even have a song simply titled "†".
322* [[Music/{{Korn}} KoЯn]]
323* [[http://www.dance-man.net/index.html DANCE☆MAN]], a FunnyAfro-clad dude specialized in covers of songs from the 70s and 80s.
324* J-Pop idol label [[https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/GMG_Entertainment_Inc GMG Entertainment]] enjoys doing this with their acts: [=SiLENT←NOiSE=], Zero Kara⭐︎Star→t and the short-lived [=↑ANiMO↑=].
325[[/folder]]
326
327[[folder:->Music - Individual Tracks and Albums]]
328
329[[AC:Themes]]
330* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' OP -- "Makasete★Splash☆Star★"
331** The ending theme for ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'' has some ☆s in its ''lyrics,'' as Karen and Kurumi are so kindly demonstrating for us up at the top.
332** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', the lyrics for the second ending have some (^^)s thrown in, as does a song from the first Vocal Album.
333* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', Rena's ImageSong, "Egao Happy Peace♪"
334** Same with [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Inoue Orihime's]] ImageSong, "La La La♪".
335** ''Higurashi'' also gives us "Sukisuki ∞ Nii Nii" for Satoko.
336** ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' in general, some of the letters in the title are red.
337* ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome'' have this in spades. Both series' first opening theme has a star in it ("Shining☆Days" and "Dream☆Wing", respectively), and these titles are shared by the final episodes. In fact, the working title for ''My-Otome'' (''舞-乙[=HiME=]'') was ''舞☆[=MAiD=]''.
338** The title ''舞-乙[=HiME=]'' counts too, since 乙[=HiME=] is meant to be pronounced "otome," which would normally be spelled 乙女.
339* The opening theme for ''Anime/TokyoMewMew'' has the ☆ as part of its kanji lyrics.
340** As does the ending theme of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 [=GoGo=].''
341* The opening theme for ''Manga/LuckyStar'' has a ♥ in it.
342* The second opening to ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is called Shichiten Hakki ☆ Shijōshugi! And it has a (O_O;) in its kanji lyrics!
343* "Groove☆Master", Sumomo's ImageSong from ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' (ft. Shinbo).
344* In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', Minako has a song (both in and out of universe) called "Kiss[[superscript:2]] Bang [[superscript:2]]". Much like the lyrics state it's meant to be pronounced "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
345* The opening theme of ''Nanatsuiro★Drops'' is called "Shining Stars Bless☆."
346* The OP single for ''Manga/{{Kanamemo}}'' has a second song titled "Wake Me Up (^_-)b!"
347* The OP for ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' is called "Zettai Muteki☆Fallin' LOVE☆"
348* Kawaii Metal group Music/BabyMetal's "ド・キ・ド・キ☆モーニング" ("Doki Doki Morning") and "ウ・キ・ウ・キ★ミッドナイト" ("Uki Uki Midnight").
349
350[[AC:Game music]]
351* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1'' has the theme song "Miracle! Portable ☆ Mission".
352* [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy ''We Love Katamari's'']] "DISCO★PRINCE".
353* The ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' series has one song whose instrumental version is called "Candy☆", and whose vocal version is titled "Candy♥".
354** Konami has a lot of fun with this elsewhere in the ''Bemani'' series: "Happy☆Angel", "Sweet Sweet ♥ Magic", "Love ♥ Shine", "♥ Love[[superscript:2]] Sugar → ♥", "Stars★★★"... Need I mention "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUmXBFI1tdQ Magic Door (Theme of SPACE(Saturn)MACO]]"?
355** ''In The Groove'' songs "Utopia," "Destiny," "Delirium," and "Xuxa," among others, are credited to ☺. Pronounced "smiley." There is also a song entitled "!" pronounced "bang."
356* Fictional Example: In ''Manga/KOn'', the two names Mio suggests for their band are "Chocolate ☆ Melody" and "Pure ☆ Pure". (Curiously, she suggested them purely vocally, so one might wonder if she just said "hoshi" or "suta" in a way that made it clear that she intended the symbol rather than the word... or just accept that it's manga, so if it can be printed, you just pretend that they can say it somehow.)
357
358[[AC:Music of Asia]]
359* Music/{{BeForU}} songs titled "Peace (^^)v" and "BRE∀K DOWN".
360* Japanese experimental noise rock band Music/{{Boredoms}} is somewhat known for their odd song titles, but on ''Vision Creation Newsun'' all of the songs are the following symbols: "◯", "☆", "♡", "Ҩ", "〜", "◎", "↑", "Ω", and finally "ずっと".
361* Some songs by I've Sound have this kind of title, for example "Otomegokoro + √[[UnusualEars Nekomimi]] = ∞".
362* Japanese speedcore duo DJ Sharpnel's albums ''UG☆Psyclone'' and ''Running★★★All Night!!''
363** The latter album also features a ''Manga/LuckyStar'' remix titled ''LITTLE GOD CH@NNEL''.
364* Japanese singer Maki Ohguro's album ''Suppin'' includes a song titled "君は✈☠☢☻☈". On top of that, no website other than her own even parses these characters out, and they won't show up on iPods, so this song has to be written as "君は■■■■■" or "君は○○○○○". The song's name is actualy read as "君はテロリスト", translated as "You Are a Terrorist".
365* One song by J-pop group Plus-Tech Squeeze Box is simply titled "☆".
366* Gravure idol Yuka Kosaka's debut mini-album is titled ''Ero♥Puri★Trance ~Yuka-chin Mahou wo Kakechauzo~''.
367* Music/CiboMatto's second album, ''Stereo ☆ Type A''.
368* Japanese pop/rock band High and Mighty Color entitled their debut album ''G∞VER''. After some confusion as to how to translate that (Pandora typed it out as "Goover" at one point,) Website/TheOtherWiki stepped in and stated that it's supposed to be "Go Over." Songs on the album include the title track "(G∞VER)" and "RUN☆RUN☆RUN".
369* Japanese Electropunk types Mad Capsule Markets have a song called "Pulse" that is properly spelt with a square waveform in the title also.
370* Japanese composer Music/HiroyukiSawano is fond of combining Japanese, English, Greek, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and emojis for titling tracks on soundtracks he scores. ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Series/ThunderboltFantasy'', nothing is safe or even printable in most formats depending on where the song's name is listed. To give a relatively "simple" example, there's a ''{{Anime/Promare}}'' track called "Burning Formation"... except it's actually titled "[=BAR2NG4女14yoN=]" and reading the title requires knowing the japanese pronunciation of english words, an unusual reading of the kanji for "woman", and [[GoroawaseNumber converting numbers into syllabs]] (with the number 4 used as two completely different ones ''in the same word'').
371* Almost all Music/{{Loona}} album titles are symbols and/or numbers. ''Flip That'' is an exception, but even that is stylized as ''Fl!p That''.
372* The fourth and last song in the Kaisen Ichiba by Music/{{Koronba}} is ".", and no actual pronunciation is given for this. Some fans call it "Jellyfish" ("クラゲ") instead.
373* The subtitle of Music/{{Twice}}'s ''Music/FormulaOfLove: O+T=<3'' ([[FanCommunityNicknames ONCE]] plus TWICE equals LOVE).
374* Music/JHope has "=" (pronounced "equal sign") from ''Jack in the Box''.
375
376[[AC:Music of the Western World]]
377* "Citizen/Soldier" by 3 Doors Down (although, being about the U.S. National Guard, it ''is'' appropriate).
378* Some Music/{{Autechre}} songs, such as "90101-5|-|" (pipe dash pipe?) and "O=0"
379* [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]] has, among his repertoire, a song which is simply referred to as "a mathematical equation," due to the difficulty of actually pronouncing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowlicker#Track_listing the title]].
380* Music/BassHunter has an album titled ''LOL <(^^,)>''
381* The final track of Music/{{Anamanaguchi}}'s album ''Endless Fantasy'' is titled "(T-T)b".
382* [[Music/BlackEyedPeas Will.i.am's]] ''#willpower'', possibly the first album to be named with a Platform/{{twitter}} hashtag.
383* The song "#Beautiful" by Music/MariahCarey featuring Miguel.
384* The Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor album ''F♯A♯∞''. This is actually meaningful, as on the LP version side one begins with an FF♯ chord, side two begins with an A♯ chord, and the last track ends with a locked groove that will continue for infinity if you let it.
385* Music/BobDylan's song "Love - 0 / No Limit" from ''Music/BringingItAllBackHome''. The title is meant to be expressed as a mathematical problem, pronounced "Love minus zero divided by no limit". The quotient, according to Dylan, is "absolutely unlimited love". This title confused some fans, who thought the track was a medley of two songs called "Love Minus Zero" and "No Limit," although it is clearly only one song. Many cover versions list the title as just "Love Minus Zero."
386* "Hero/Heroine" by Music/BoysLikeGirls.
387* BT's ''THЭSЭ HOPЭFUL MACHINЭS'' album.
388* There exists a rare Devin Townsend EP named ''C:enter:###'' (See colon, enter colon, pound pound pound).
389* Music/DepecheMode put out a pair of {{Greatest Hits Album}}s called ''The Singles 86>98'' and ''The Singles 81>85''. Which, if you read too much into their choice of symbol, makes it look like the band themselves are saying that their early singles are "greater than" their later ones.
390* Music/FallOutBoy's live concert CD/DVD, ''* * * * : Live in Phoenix''. The band stated that you pronounce * * * * by [[DoubleEntendre replacing it with any other four letter word you'd prefer]].
391* The band Five Knuckle has a song entitled "."
392* "* * * * (Jungle Law)" by Love & Rockets. Oddly enough, there sort of ''is'' a title drop in the lyrics - "And it shows four stars where the name oughta be". Additionally, even the album version of the song bleeps out a certain word, and said word is in fact represented by four asterisks in the lyric sheet.
393* Music/{{NSYNC}}, a trend Music/JustinTimberlake would continue upon going solo with his album ''[=FutureSex/LoveSounds=]'' and its title track (which drops the plural).
394* One of German industrial band Music/{{KMFDM}}'s albums has a title consisting of a sunburst, a skull-and-crossbones, a bomb, a spiral, and a banging fist (read 💥☠💣🌀👊)). It's universally called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_(album) Symbols]]''.
395** ''Blitz'' has a track with a modified Uranus symbol for it title. In the song, it's pronounced "[[UranusIsShowing Up Uranus]]"
396* Music/LedZeppelin's fourth album, ''Music/LedZeppelinIV''. The cover has NoTitle, and the label has four symbols where the title would be, one representing each band member. Since no one can actually pronounce or write those symbols (apart from Jimmy Page's which resembles "Zoso"), it's mostly called ''Led Zeppelin IV''--although some people, misled by Page's symbol, call it "Zoso."
397* Marco V has a song entitled "C:del * .mp3".
398* METZ has a song entitled "—-))-–"
399* Music/{{Melvins}}' ''Mangled Demos From 1983'' has several songs with symbols for titles, such as "☘". The album compiles old demo recordings of material that (for the most part) never made it to proper albums, so the band presumably either forgot the names of these songs, or they had just never agreed on proper titles for them to begin with. There's also the song "HOW --++--" off of ''Honky''.
400* Music/{{Ministry}}'s album ''Psalm 69'' actually has a blank front cover and ''ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ'' written on the spine. The ''ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ'' part is actually the Greek word for "head" (κεφαλη, "kefali" spelled in Greek allcaps), combined with the Greek numerals for "69" (''ΞΘ''). "Head" in itself doesn't mean anything in Greek, but in ''English'' Al is making a ShoutOut to Creator/AleisterCrowley's ''The Book of Lies'': chapter 69 of the book has Crowley use "the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs" (geddit?), and Crowley actually called the chapter itself ''ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ'' (''[=HEAD69=]''). Essentially, the album's title is the most pointlessly convoluted and reference-tastic {{pun}} about 69ing.
401* Orbital has a song on ''The Middle of Nowhere'' called "Way Out -->", named after a London Underground station.
402* One Porno Graffitti song is entitled "World☆Saturday Graffitti". The album version is "World☆Saturday Graffitti (★★★)".
403* Music/{{Prince}}:
404** The album and film ''Music/SignOTheTimes'' feature a peace sign in place of the "o" (a contraction of "of").
405** From 1993 to 2000, Prince officially went by an intentionally unpronounceable glyph, known as the Love Symbol, due to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords owning the trademark for his given name.
406** Starting with ''[=LoveSexy=]'', his song titles replace the word "I" with an icon of an eye.
407* Sasha's ''[=Invol2ver=]'' mix compilation.
408* Shudder To Think's "Gang Of $". It's a NonAppearingTitle, but apparently it's supposed to be pronounced "Gang Of Money'.
409* The Icelandic group Music/SigurRos has an album entitled ''( )'', usually referred to as the Bracket Album, the Parenthesis Album or the Untitled Album, although it has no official pronunciation. In Icelandic, the band members sometimes call it ''Svigaplatan''.
410* [[Music/SonicYouth Thurston Moore's]] 1995 solo album is usually referred to as ''Psychic Hearts'', but the album artwork actually renders the title as ''Psychic ♥♥♥''.
411* Italian punk rock-turned-pop singer Jo Squillo has an album entitled ''2p L♪ ± xy = (NOI)''. The "L♪" is probably supposed to be a "la" (the note); on top of that, the dot on the "I" of "NOI" has been replaced by a heart. The listeners just call it "Noi" ("Us").
412* Creator/StanFreberg's "Green Chri$tma$." ("Christmas has two S's in it, and they're both dollar signs!")
413* Music/TalkingHeads have "Love → Building on Fire", read as "Love Goes to Building on Fire".
414* There's a Thelma Aoyama B-side called I☆You - pronounced in the lyrics as "I Star You".
415* The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic brony]] musician [[https://www.youtube.com/user/unchargedThunder µThunder]]. The µ symbol may actually be a [[TheBackwardsR mock Greek]] U, as evident by the Platform/YouTube channel URL.
416* Music/JohnZorn: The tracks on the Hemophiliac album ''50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_Birthday_Celebration_Volume_6 are all symbols.]]
417* Breakcore artist [[https://exophobiaorgqebrus.bandcamp.com/ Qebrus]] abuses this with a majority of their song and album titles.
418* Music/DavidBowie's [[Music/BlackstarAlbum final album]] has this [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]]: it's officially called just ''★'' and ''pronounced'' "Blackstar", but various press releases (and music stores) call it just by the latter.
419* Sid Wilson (#0 of Music/{{Slipknot}}) LOVES this trope. His 2018 SoloSideProject album ''∫∑x©∆p∆D∑∫ øƒ †h3 høP∑£3∫∫ ®øbø†¡¢'' AND every track title in it leaves almost no room for regular alphabetic spelling.
420* The second album by Beak (the second band of Music/{{Portishead}} member Geoff Barrow) is titled ''>>'', which it was later announced is pronounced "two".
421* Canadian electronic artist Music/{{Grimes}} is very fond of those. Her albums contain song titles like "∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆", "World♡Princess", "≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈ ", and "Infinite ♡ Without Fulfillment".
422* French house group Music/{{Justice|Band}} has an album titled ''†''. (It's pronounced "cross".)
423* Part 4 of the "Something at the Bottom of the Sea" suite by the band Quantum Jump is given a squiggly line in lieu of a name for a title.
424* The Music/GangStarr song "The ? Remainz". The "?" is pronounced as "question".
425* Solarstone has a trilogy of albums with Morse code titles, namely ''.---- (1)'' ''..--- (2)'', and ''...-- (3)'', otherwise known as the Magenta, Cyan, and Yellow albums respectively by their cover colors.
426* [[{{Music/ToyBox}} Toy-Box]] has a song titled "www.girl"
427* Music/CaravanPalace's third album is named ''<I°_°I>''. It's a text representation of the band's mascot, hence it is [[https://www.reddit.com/r/CaravanPalace/comments/3q1es7/comment/cwb8fww officially pronounced]] "Robot Face".
428* Music/GunsNRoses' debut live EP ''Live ?!★@ Like a Suicide''.
429* Music/BoardsOfCanada teased the release of ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' by making six individual singles (only six, total) and placing them in record stores in Europe & the United States. Four are known to have been found, all named along the line of ''------ / ------ / ------ / XXXXXX / ------ / ------'' (this was the fourth single, and the XXXXXX was a six-digit number spoken on the record).
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432[[folder:◉--Pinball]]
433* Technically, the title for ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers'' is "No Good Go'''L'''fers", but the "L" in the logo is smashed to pieces by (one would assume) a stray golf ball.
434* Dutch Pinball's ''Pinball/TheBigLebowski'' is spelled "The Big Lebow$ki".
435[[/folder]]
436
437[[folder:Pℜofessional Wrℰstling]]
438* Wrestling/{{FMW}}'s first and most persistent rival, W*ING, as well as it's most iconic wrestler, W*ING Kanemura.
439* The "Infamous" on Bobby Fish's tights uses a star in place of the "a".
440* While Wrestling/SuYung was trying to seduce Rich Swann for the Premier Athlete Brand, and for sometime after the fact everyone knew it was an act, she wore a pair of pants with [=SW*NN=] on them.[[/folder]]
441
442[[folder:→Soft→ware]]
443* The computer programming languages C++ ([[http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name pronounced "see plus plus"]]; "++" means "increment by 1" in it[[note]]on numeric primitives; due to operator overloading you can never be sure what it will do on any custom type[[/note]] and its predecessor C, so C++ means "C incremented"[[note]]or, for extra pedantry, return the value of C and then increment it--perhaps a subtle nod at its fairly large degree of backwards compatibility?[[/note]]) and C# ("see sharp", despite actually using a pound sign, which is subtly different from a musical sharp symbol, which has led to its nickname "D flat", or Db)
444* A host of C++ imitators: F# (F-sharp), #develop (Sharp-Develop[[note]]Which is a development environment, not a programming language. But still.[[/note]]), etc
445* Parodied in the joke about the object-oriented version of COBOL, which, given the established naming convention, was called "ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING COBOL".
446* The Bittorrent client "μTorrent", which we're supposed to pronounce "uTorrent". Geek options: muTorrent for the linguistics geek; microTorrent for the science geek (the program was so named because it is one of the smallest and least processor-intensive Torrent programs available).
447* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux #!]] Was a version of the Linux operating system ("[=CrunchBang=]", in pronunciation - might be confusing to UK English speakers, who generally pronounce # as "pound" instead of "crunch" or "hash"). The name calls-back a syntax that commonly starts a type of simple programs called shell scripts.
448* The 'bang paths' of pre-internet email. Before nameservice, you had to specify the host-by-host route to forward email until it got to a backbone host, then again from the backbone to the destination host. Hostnames were separated by the '!' character, and the chain of hosts was referred to as the 'bang path', where 'host1!host2!...' was spoken as 'host1 bang host2 bang ...'. One actual path was '...!crash!bang!boom' through the hosts 'crash', 'bang', and 'boom', making the bang path to someone's email on 'boom' 'bang crash bang bang bang boom'.
449[[/folder]]
450
451[[folder:_Tabletop_Games_]]
452* The ''TabletopGame/{{Alternity}}'' and ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' campaign settings ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter1999'' and ''TabletopGame/StarDrive''.
453* ''TabletopGame/ContinuumRoleplayingInTheYet'' is stylized with the ordinal notation in the name of the game and the eponymous {{Sourcebook}}, though not in the eponymous MagicalSociety. The practice would have been continued the unreleased sourcebook ''Nªrcissist: Crash Free''.
454* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' does this a few times. Mostly it's the A-E ligature, such as [=Æ=]ther Storm or [=Æ=]ther Flash. Originally this wasn't possible to print, so [=Æ=]rathi Berserker is rathi Berserker instead. During the Tempest block, they were also fond of gratuitous use of the italics, such as the ''en''-Kor or the ''il''-Vec.
455* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has the card Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal.
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Video✊Games]]
459* ''VideoGame/QBert''.
460* ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Deus Ex: HumΔn Revolution]]''.[[note]] To be fair, though, there is a defensible reason for this: delta (Δ) is invoked as a symbol to represent Daedalus, whose story and imagery are frequently referenced in the game.[[/note]]
461* The Champion and Turbo editions of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' are written as ''Street Fighter II''', pronounced "Street Fighter II Dash" in Japanese.
462* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'':
463** The Platform/{{Xbox}} version of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXX'' was called ''Guilty Gear X2 #Reload'', [[MusicalThemeNaming pronounced "Sharp Reload."]] It had a sequel called ''Λ Core''.
464** The [[CapcomSequelStagnation revisions]] to ''Guilty Gear XX'' generally had strange names: ''Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload'' (pronounced "Sharp Reload"), ''Guilty Gear XX/'' ("Slash"), and ''Guilty Gear XX Λ Core'' ("Accent Core"), with ''Accent Core'' itself receiving a ''Plus'' and ''Plus R'' update (that's ''six'' iterations of ''XX'' including the vanilla version, for those who haven't kept count). Even the "XX" part of the title is actually pronounced "igzex" (continuing off of ''Guilty Gear X'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3DW3w0RFc which is pronounced "Guilty Gear Zex"]]).
465** Made even worse by ''Guilty Gear Xrd'', which is either pronounced (ex-ard),(ex-ird), or (zird) depending on who in the fan base you ask.
466* One of the ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' games, ''Tokimeki no Houkago ~Nee★Quiz shiyo♥~''
467* ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Hλlf-Life]]''. The symbol is a "lambda", which is the scientific symbol for a substance's [[strike:half-life]] decay constant. Pronouncing the original Greek letter would yield "Hllf-life." Once again, RuleOfCool trumps the rules of spelling.
468** The sequel uses the "squared" symbol instead of a traditional 2, but then again the sheer [[SequelEscalation difference in scale]] between installments makes it [[EvenBetterSequel not completely incorrect.]]
469* ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy We ♥ Katamari]]'', in which the heart is pronounced "love".
470** Not to mention that the game includes a song titled "DISCO ☆ PRINCE".
471* ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid''. The sequel was ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid2''.
472* Quite a few Franchise/{{Pokemon}} have non-alphabetic symbols for names.
473** Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀. the gender symbols are canonically part of their names because they were introduced in the original games, back when Pokémon ''didn't'' have their genders displayed, but they were still intended to be each other's SingleGenderSpecies counterpart.
474** Farfetch'd and Sirfetch'd; the apostrophe is part of the name. It's supposed to be a misspelling of ''far fetched'', referencing the unlikelihood of a duck holding a leek together (duck and leek soup is considered a delicacy in Japan).
475** [=Porygon2=], Porygon's evolution. Called so because Porygon is supposed to be a living computer program, of which the evolution is just an "upgrade".
476** Porygon-Z; the hyphen is part of the name. It is the evolution of the above, and intended to be an [[PlayfulHacker unauthorized upgrade]]. The Z was also used because [[Letters2Numbers it looks like a 2]]. It seems that the hyphen was added specifically to invoke this trope, too.
477** Ho-Oh had a hyphen in its name two generations before Porygon-Z and was introduced in the same generation as [=Porygon2=], though it isn't artificial like the Porygon line. (It's also a palindrome, but that's unrelated to this trope.) Possibly because a ''houou'' is a mythical Japanese bird akin to a phoenix, and it's difficult for non-Japanese speakers to pronounce "Hoou", which would be the literal Romanization.
478** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' introduces Type: Null, an artificial chimera-like Pokemon that starts off as a Normal-type and its evolved form, Silvally, can change its type based on its held item. Oddly, Silvally doesn't follow this naming convention.
479* The Super NES game ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' goes by ''Odekake Lester: Lelele no Le (^^;'' (whatever that is at the end, it's part of the title) in Japan.
480* The star spirit "♥♪!?", also known as Geno, from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''. Geno is the name of the doll he is possessing, and he uses it during the game since his real name is [[TheUnpronounceable hard to pronounce]].
481* ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}''.
482* There's a DoujinSoft shmup called ''∀kashicverse: Malicious Wake''. The HarderThanHard alternate web version released as a standalone game was called ''∀kashicverse ∀lternative ∀rguments''.
483* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'''s iconic Pyramid Head's name in the original Japanese is rendered ▲-head. Don't ask how it's pronounced.
484--> ''Triangle''-head?
485* Capcom [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that the title of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'' is pronounced "Street Fighter Cross Tekken", making the character between "Fighter" and "Tekken" a symbol for the word "cross" rather than the letter X and, hence, an example of this trope.
486* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' uses a similar formatting as Street Fighter X Tekken, with the X standing for "Cross". This is enforced with the title screen announcing "Project Cross Zone."
487* Similarly, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' is ''Kingdom Hearts Chi'' and its later iteration ''Kingdom Hearts Union χ'' is ''Kingdom Hearts Union Cross''.
488* The Sega Master System and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive were marketed by Samsung as part of the "Gam*Boy" line in South Korea. One would think that this was to avoid a lawsuit from Hyundai Electronics, which was selling Nintendo's Game Boy as the Mini Comboy in Korea, or from Nintendo itself, due to its indirect presence in the country through Hyundai, but the release dates of early Japanese game consoles in Korea are completely unknown. The Gam*Boy could have been released before or after the Mini Comboy was, and no one knows for sure. However, the Genesis (Super Gam*Boy) was renamed later in its lifetime presumably because of the Game Boy.
489* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': The logo for the remake, ''Leifthrasir'' is rendered as LEIFÞRASIR, with a thorn. Thorn is a regular letter in Icelandic and Old Norse, but is unlikely to be widely recognised.
490* In ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'', both Yukari and Rise have some attacks which use this. Yukari has "Feather☆Slasher", "Feather☆Arrow", "Feather☆Flip", "Feather☆Shot", "Feather☆Bomb", "Hyper Feather☆Shot" and "Final Feather☆Arrow". Rise has "Rock☆You" and "True♥Story".
491* In the Triangulum Arc of ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 Record Breaker'', Airi and Hinako form an [[IdolSinger idol group]] named "[=AiHina=]☆☆", the latter part of which is pronounced as the word "stars".
492* The title for ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has the "A" in Apocalypse displayed as the symbol for Anarchy overlaid on top of the symbol for Peace.
493* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1'' and its sequel. The semicolon is silent.
494* ''VideoGame/CrossBeats''. Averted with its arcade counterpart, ''crossbeats REV.''
495* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' has a fighter named K' (pronounced K Dash)
496* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' is an acronym for First Encounter Assault Recon. The name is used until the third game, ''F.3.A.R.''. All interactions are pronounced as "fear" however.
497* The official title of the game that this wiki knows as ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook'' is ''Atelier Sophie ~The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book~''.
498* There is [[http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.it/2017/01/pc.html a doujin shooter game]] whose title is rendered as ''_____'', because for some reason all the text in it is some made-up alien language, including the numbers.
499* ''VideoGame/GalGun'' and its sequels. The * is silent.
500* The final level of the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' mod ''Kama Sutra'' is named "[=<|>=]" in the documentation, and its in-game title is a [[https://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP30:_P%C3%AD%C4%8Da_(Kama_Sutra) simple geometric symbol]] (warning: potentially NSFW content on linked page).
501* ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} TET]][[TheBackwardsR Я]][[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} IS]]'', of course.
502* ''VideoGame/DonaldDuckGoinQuackers''.
503* ''VideoGame/TellingLies'', stylized as ''telling l!es'' in promos and on the title screen.
504* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Rebirth'''s second expansion is named ''Afterbirth†'', pronounced Afterbirth Plus. It's quite fitting, as it's an add-on for the larger ''Afterbirth'' expansion but ties into the game's ReligiousHorror theme.
505* ''VideoGame/BattleChasersNightwar:'' Styled as Battle Chasers Nigh†war (with a dagger, not a cross) on the cover art.
506* ''VideoGame/HeroAndDaughter'': The UpdatedRerelease, ''Hero and Daughter+''.
507* ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'': In game, the pop star group [=SPiKA=]'s latest single is titled Wish☆Wing. The game also has a re-release called ''Tokyo Xanadu [=eX+=]''.
508* One of the three main campaigns in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', which has you battle against the delinquent Team Star, is titled "★ Starfall Street ★" (「スターダスト★ストリート」 ''Stardust ★ Street'' in Japanese).
509* Indie Steam game ''pear potion🍐'' has an all lowercase letter title plus an emoji. [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1405950/pear_potion/ Yes]], the pear is not just a part of the logo graphics.
510* ''[[https://www.mobygames.com/game/12374/uro-man/ €uro-Man]]'', a ''Pac-Man'' clone with 2.5-D graphics made in 2001 as an introduction to the Euro currency.
511* ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaPartyGames'': The "s" at the end of the games' respective titles is replaced with a dollar sign. This references Wario's (greedy) plan to make money in the video game business.
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513
514[[folder:Visual✽Novel]]
515* ''[[VisualNovel/UtaNoPrinceSama Uta no]]☆[[VisualNovel/UtaNoPrinceSama Prince-sama]]♪''.
516* ''VisualNovel/CrossChannel'', the source material for the Flash game ''VideoGame/NanacaCrash''.
517* ''VisualNovel/NanatsuiroDrops'' is technically ''Nanatsuiro★Drops''.
518* ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' -- the first a also sports umlauts in the series logo. The ";" also applies for the later visual-novels made by Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, namely ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' and ''VisualNovel/RoboticsNotes''.
519* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Even more so its parodic [[AlternateUniverse alternate continuity]] ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', which then stepped it up ''further'' with OddlyNamedSequel ''Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya [[GratuitousGerman 2wei!]]'' (yes, the exclamation point is also part of the title.)
520* ''φnal Approach'' (''VisualNovel/FinalApproach'' - the Greek letter is a phi)
521* ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou''
522* ''Franchise/AceAttorney:''
523** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials & Tribulations'' features the PhantomThief Mask☆[=DeMasque=]. The fandom has come to a consensus that the star is "pronounced" by pausing and making a "jazz hands" gesture.
524** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' has the following exchange:
525--->'''Trucy:''' When I sign my name, I always put in a little diamond! "Trucy ♦ Wright" See? Cute, don'tcha think?
526--->'''Apollo:''' It's a little confusing. Won't people think your middle name is diamond?
527--->'''Trucy:''' Hey! You could write your name like "Apollo = Justice"!
528--->'''Apollo:''' I do like justice, but that's taking it a bit far.
529** The Italian version has Trucy suggesting "Apollo @ Justice", and Apollo remarking it would look like his e-mail address.
530* ''VisualNovel/{{Higurashi|WhenTheyCry}} No '''Na'''ku Koro Ni'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Umineko|WhenTheyCry}} No '''Na'''ku Koro Ni'' officially are written with a red "Na". The official dub of ''Higurashi'' calls it ''When They '''C'''ry'', with a red "C."
531** ''Higurashi Day'''b'''reak'' by Tasogare Frontier: The b is officially off-color, although the color depends on the material - if the rest of the text is white, the b is normally black, but if the rest of the text is black, the b is red. Spelled in Japanese, the "bu" (ブ) is treated the same way.
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534[[folder:#Web <Animat.ion>]]
535* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has Bubs' Concession Stand. Its sign on top has a "5" replacing the second "S" in "concession", making it say "BUBS' [=CONCES5ION=] STAND".
536[[/folder]]
537
538[[folder:Web O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L]]
539* ''WebVideo/ProZD'': Satired in ''anime story arc titles'', which includes titles such as ''Dog 5'' and ''Ho! Tell d.u.s.k.''.
540[[/folder]]
541
542[[folder:Web->comics]]
543* ''Webcomic/{{Boyfriends}}'' has "''☆ Pretty Planet Idol Puri ☆''", a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional in-universe anime]].
544* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', with the languages ~ATH (til death), ^CAKE (caret cake), and DIS* (dis asterisk).
545* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' Exclamation point mandatory!
546[[/folder]]
547
548[[folder:Western❯❮Animation]]
549* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is known in Japan as ''ジェニーはティーン☆ロボット''[[labelnote:translation]]Jenny Is a Teen☆Robot[[/labelnote]]
550* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
551** "$pringfield". Since the episode has Springfield legalizing gambling, probably a ShoutOut to the live action TV show ''Vega$''.
552** Another episode, "Luca$," deals with a one-off character who styles himself by the same name (he actually pronounces it "Lucadollar").
553* The Creator/PBSKids show, ''[[WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat Peg + Cat]]''. It's appropriate, since it's about math.
554* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' toyline, ([[TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX the pony formerly known as]]) Derpy Hooves's "name" is symbolized as a muffin.
555* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', where Mabel performs a song in the episode "Scaryoke" by "&ndra" (pronounced "[[PunnyName Ampersandra]]"; the spelling should probably be "&ra").
556* There's a ShowWithinAShow on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' titled ''$tock Market Today''.
557* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In place of the "R" in the episode title "Nurse Stimpy" is the "℞" symbol.
558* The follow-up series to the film ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'' is titled ''I ♥ Arlo'', the symbol being pronounced "heart" as in ''Film/IHeartHuckabees'' above.
559[[/folder]]
560
561[[folder:➒ther]]
562* The TropeNamer is an aversion. "Lucky Charms" itself has no symbols in its name.
563* Media distributors:
564** The 2004 merger of BBC Video and another video distribution company produced a new entity called [=2|Entertain=], presumably playing off their intended mission ("to entertain"). The numeral means it also overlaps with Letters2Numbers.
565** Sm:)e Records.
566** The now-defunct British satellite channel L!ve TV.
567** Canal+, a French film and television studio and distributor, and TV channel.
568** E!, the American cable and satellite television network.
569* Cisco ūmi telepresence.
570* Using currency symbols is often used as a slight against institutions to accuse them of putting profits ahead of morals:
571** $cientology
572** Micro$oft.
573** Appl€
574** NA$CAR.
575** $tarbuck$.
576** Di$ney.
577** 4Kid$. Also acceptable is $Kids, since keyboards will have the 4 key become $ when Shift is held.
578** When ''Advanced TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' was the monster that all the small role-playing game companies contended with, it was common to refer to the company that owned it as T$R. This usage became quite common with a segment of the player-base during the '90s, when the Internet was initiallly taking off with the public, since the company became quite infamous for being legally aggressive and claiming that they owned any website that mentioned D&D rules, sending legal threats to any and all D&D fansites they became aware of. Basically, TSR started attacking their own fanbase for giving their product free promotion and publicity. (Go ahead and ask some old D&D grognards about trying to run a fan website back in the '90s, and find out just how many of them received Cease and Desist letters from T$R.) And then there's the latest (4th) [=D&D=] edition, known as "$e". This was originally a typo, but has since reached a full-blown [[MemeticMutation meme]].
579** See also Game$ Work$hop
580** Autistic community members and autism rights activists who oppose the practices of Autism Speaks refer to them as Autism $peaks or A$ for short.
581* Sony's ''U R Not [[red:e]]'' ads for the Platform/PlayStation.
582* And Toys 'Я' Us, meant to evoke a child's attempt at handwriting rather than the Cyrillic letter.
583* The famous (and often parodied) I ♥ NY T-shirts.
584* The Swedish feminist party (which didn't ''quite'' take off in the 2006 elections, and now hasn't been heard from in a while) chose "F¡" for their symbol. It was, of course, impossible to stop the party's detractors from reading it as "Fi", which is the traditional Swedish military abbreviation for "enemy" ("fiende" in Swedish).
585* The [[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=coexist%20bumper%20sticker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Coexist]] bumper sticker, which comes in many variations.
586* The ¥€$ currency in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell''.
587* Actor Laurence Tureaud legally changed his name to Creator/MrT.
588-->"First name: Mister, Middle name: Period, Last name: T!"
589* The English seaside town Westward Ho!, in which the exclamation mark is an official part of the name. This was because it was originally a planned community named after a novel by Charles Kingsley.
590* ''[[Series/EarthStarVoyager Earth]]☆[[Series/EarthStarVoyager Star Voyager]]'': A PoorlyDisguisedPilot that originally aired as a 2-part miniseries on ABC's ''Wonderful World of Disney'' in January 1988. It focused on a bunch of young people from a late 21st century [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Future Earth]] as they [[Franchise/StarTrek trekked through]] [[SerialNumbersFiledOff the stars]] to find a new home for the human race.
591* [[Creator/{{Acclaim}} A<<laim]].
592* On ''Series/TopGearUK'', the new "reasonably priced car" is a Kia Cee'd (pronounced like "seed"). Jeremy Clarkson, however, insists on calling it the "[[JustForFun/IReadThatAs see apostrophe dee]]."
593* g0y, used by gay men who don't want to identify as gay. They get amusingly pissy if you call them "goys".
594* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'''s English titles use the format ''You VERB (Not) X''. Yes, "not" is in parentheses.
595* [[ThoseWackyNazis The SS]] symbol was ᛋᛋ, a pair of runic 'S'es, which look like lightning bolts.
596* According to an urban legend with problematic racist origins, a mother named her child [[http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp Le-a]], which she insisted should be pronounced Ledasha.
597* Author Jennifer 8. Lee. Yes, her middle name is the numeral 8, with a period after.
598* Game designer Mark Rein•Hagen.
599* One of Ooyala's previous logos was o•o•y•a•l•a. The •'s were colored.
600* The logo of the [[UsefulNotes/{{JAXA}} Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency]] (J☆XA).
601* A few Japanese models and celebrities render their stage names in Western alphabet to stand out more. ☆HOSHINO trumps them all with the use of a symbol and all caps ("Star" is "hoshi" in Japanese), though it doesn't seem to have worked that much.
602** Manga artist Oh!great chose his pen name as a bilingual play on words. The exclamation point is not spoken; rather, it emphasizes the stress on the first syllable of the phrase. When pronounced with a Japanese accent, the English expression "oh great!" sounds very similar to the author's real name: Ogure Ito.
603* Author David Malki ! spells his name with an "!" (it's not pronounced).
604* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' has a doorbell in place of the second "o" in "Mormon".
605* Franchise/{{Transformers}} is an odd case. In the G1 and G2 franchises, whenever the name is broken up over two lines, it is spelled Trans * Formers, where the * is either faction's symbol (Autobot by default, Decepticon when used on a G1 Decepticon toy's package). The G1 packaging also added text to the right of the symbol identifying the toy's character as either a "Heroic Autobot" or "Evil Decepticon".
606* Spam listings are unfortunately rife on online store sites like [[https://shopee.ph Shopee]], where bot accounts stealing otherwise legitimate sellers' listings are polluting search results. These are often distinguised by their use of obscure ASCII or Unicode characters in said spam listing titles, e.g. "∋❈【 ONLY BOX 】1pcs For [=iPhone=] [=SE2020=] X XS MAX XR US EU Version Empty Phone Package Packing Box Case" or "【Ready Stock】┇✻✆Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 32GB 10th Generation for Portable".
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