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| 6 | ->''"''Aqua United Patrol Squad 1'' is not at all a stupid title for the new season of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' which everybody knows and loves and why you gonna mess with SOMETHING THAT AIN'T BROKE?!"'' |
| 7 | -->-- '''Anonymous Carler''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6EWSYuk3g promo]] for ''[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Whatever-the-Hell-Title They're Calling It This Season]]'' |
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| 9 | A title change in an ongoing series, prompted by some plot event, a break in production or switching between publishers. Frequently, but not always, involves adding a new subtitle or suffix. Despite the name, does not have to occur at the start of a new season. |
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| 11 | In some cases, producers will pass off an essentially new series as a renamed ReTool of an existing series just to preserve its distribution channel. This was once common in American comic books [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/11/24/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-26/ due to a quirk of postal regulations]]. Publishing a new title required a new postal code for second-class mail subscriptions and, thus, a new postal fee as well. To avoid paying the fees, instead of just canceling one book and starting up another with issue #1, they would give the old series a title change... but not ''too'' much of a title change, so as to avoid the wrath of the Postal Service. |
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| 13 | Common in anime because of the way Japanese television works. Japanese series don't traditionally have "seasons" the way American television does; they produce either a [[BritishBrevity small, preplanned number of episodes]] in advance - usually [[TwelveEpisodeAnime some multiple of 13]] - or they [[LongRunner just]] ''[[ArcFatigue keep]]'' '''[[EndingFatigue going]]''' without a break, because if they didn't, they'd lose their time slot. If the creators of a show that ''has'' taken a break want to bring it back, they need to find a time slot and pitch it as if it were a brand new show, so they generally retitle it to reflect this. Sometimes what would be considered a "second season" in America is treated as a NumberedSequel as though it were a film sequel, as in ''Manga/{{Genshiken}} 2'' and ''Anime/TheBigO 2''. These are sometimes marketed as "seasons" for American release. |
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| 15 | Can be an attempt to avert an ArtifactTitle. |
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| 17 | For odd sequel titles, see OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo. See also OfficiallyShortenedTitle. Compare SequelSeries, which can oftentimes tie into this. |
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| 19 | !!Examples: |
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| 22 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 23 | * The seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' were, in order, ''Sailor Moon'', ''Sailor Moon R'', ''Sailor Moon S'', ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]'', and ''Sailor Moon Sailor Stars''. It is important to note that these actually ''mean'' something, or at least the last three do (Super [the form that Sailor Moon achieves], Supers [the others upgrading to this form], Stars [a reference to either the Sailor Starlights or the fact there are hundreds of Sailor Senshi in the universe]). The R in the second season title is widely debated by fans; popular candidates are "Romance" or "Return" (the latter of which would be a logical pick as this was the season in which Usagi must return to being Sailor Moon because of a new evil that has come to Earth), but there is no concrete WordOfGod to answer this one. |
| 24 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' was renewed as ''Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage''. Then the OVA series that continued it was ''Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail.'' |
| 25 | * The ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' manga was renamed "Trigun Maximum" when it continued into another magazine. This naming was kept in the American version. |
| 26 | * The manga ''Gensoumaden Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' became ''Saiyuki Reload'' when it switched magazines, and then the subtitle changed again to ''Gunlock''. |
| 27 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is a prime example of this. The series became ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai'' in the second season. Then the first OVA was renamed ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei'' and the second OVA ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira''. A bit of a mouthful, isn't it? Also, each arc has a different name, which surely doesn't help relieve the confusion of new audiences. The sequel, ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' is sometimes accompanied by the subtitle of "Franchise/WhenTheyCry 3", but there's hardly any relationship between ''Higurashi Kai'' and this theoretical third season. This is because the original visual novels are numbered that way, ''Higurashi'' (ep 1-4) is ''When They Cry 1'', ''Higurashi Kai'' (5-8) is ''When They Cry 2'', ''Umineko'' (1-4) is ''3'', and ''Umineko Chiru'' (5-8) is ''4''. There are so far no outright statements that they are linked but there are hints (especially the [[spoiler: Bernkastel/Rika and Lambadelta/Takano thing]]) towards a connection and there are some theories that it will be a total of 4 series (''When They Cry'' 5&6 and 7&8) because ''Higurashi'' contained 8 episodes and ''Umineko'' is now confirmed to be finished with episode 8. |
| 28 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' became ''Hetalia World Series'' in its third season. It was then retitled ''Hetalia: The Beautiful World'' for season 5 and ''Hetalia: World Twinkle'' for season 6. |
| 29 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 30 | ** {{Invoked|Trope}} with ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. In addition to new production staff, Creator/{{Toei|Company}} decided to give ''Dragon Ball'' a rebrand so that they could market it as a brand new show despite little change between the two at that point. As for the name, several options were considered by Toei that focused around new addition Gohan, but Toriyama settled on "Z", the last letter of the alphabet, as he was considering ending the story soon.[[note]]This is considered deeply ironic today as ''Z'' wound up being twice as long as the portion that came before it, causing something of a CreatorBreakdown[[/note]]. This happened to coincide with a notably ramp up in the drama and ki-based action that made the franchise explode in popularity, such that ''Z'' is effectively a brand in and of itself. As a result, 90% of the time people outside Japan will refer to the entire franchise as "DBZ" and not "Dragon Ball". |
| 31 | *** In the English translation of the manga, the ''Z'' addition was also added to any volumes that the ''Z'' anime took its material from (Raditz to Boo, essentially). Everywhere else in the world it's called ''Dragon Ball'' from start to finish. |
| 32 | ** Occured a second time with ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', this time more justified given that it was going past the end of [[Manga/DragonBall the manga]] and creating original storylines. In this case, GT stands for "Grand Tour" since the initial idea was a Dragon Ball Hunt InSpace This would become an ArtifactTitle as the story would move on from that idea when the creators couldn't make it work and fell back on the traditional "Villain Arc" format. |
| 33 | ** {{Midquel}} SequelSeries ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' also has this, although like ''Z'' before it it's become something of a brand in and of itself thanks to being used for several movies. Unlike ''Z'' and ''GT'', there's no real reason for the name. |
| 34 | * After TheOriginalSeries of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', the following seasons were titled ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', and the concurrent manga-first fourth seasons ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' and ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce''. There's also the spin-offs ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX'' and ''Anime/VividStrike'', which are named such due to Nanoha herself being PutOnABus. |
| 35 | * ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' has four seasons thus far and starts adding subtitles with the second; subtitles to date are "×365", "×Hoshimittsu" ("Three Stars"), and "×Honeycomb", with a pair of straight-to-DVD [=OVAs=] subtitled "×SP" ("Special"). |
| 36 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' at 26 episodes a season, with later seasons named ''NEXT'', ''TRY'', ''Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R'' (the latter two being a typical 26-episode season split in two). |
| 37 | * ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', known as ''Digimon Xros Wars'' in Japan, unlike the preceding ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, split itself into two seasons to reflect a change in the story arc; episode 31 marked the start of said second season, retitled ''"Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms"''. After that, the third season, which covers a new story arc, was called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime''. In the original Japanese version, the nine series of ''Digimon'' are all distinctly separate series, not individual seasons of one overarching show (thought the second series is a direct sequel to the first), so they don't fall under this trope; in the US, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 first]] [[Anime/DigimonTamers five]] [[Anime/DigimonFrontier American]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad series]], were all dubbed as individual seasons of one show, but it was all called "''Digimon: Digital Monsters''" with no individual season names. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/KOn'''s second season has a title with a little difference: one additional exclamation point. [[labelnote:note]]''K-On!!''[[/labelnote]] |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'' also adds exclamation points in the third season, now with three exclamation points!!! |
| 40 | * {{Yuri|Genre}} manga ''Strawberry Shake'' became ''Manga/StrawberryShakeSweet'' when it changed magazines. |
| 41 | * The second season of ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' is ''Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful''. |
| 42 | * Season 2 of ''Anime/UFOUltramaidenValkyrie'' is titled ''UFO Princess Valkyrie: December's Nocturne''. |
| 43 | * ''Rozen Maiden: Träumend'', season 2 of ''Manga/RozenMaiden''. The {{prequel}} is named ''Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre''. ''Ouvertüre'' is explained, as it means opening, as in beginning. ''Träumend'', which means dreaming, isn't much, though. |
| 44 | * The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' anime changes its name when it adapts the plot from the latest games released at the time. In the original Japanese, this practice actually began in Generation III, while the dub began this practice earlier with the ''Generation II'' games, with changes for every 52 episode broadcast season. |
| 45 | ** In Japan there's the original ''Pocket Monsters'' for the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue first]] [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver two]] generations of games, then the subtitle ''Advanced Generation'' for [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Generation III]], ''Diamond & Pearl'' for [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Generation IV]], ''Best Wishes!'' for [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Generation V]], ''XY'' and ''XY & Z'' for [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Generation VI]], and ''Sun and Moon'' for [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation VII]]. The series following ''Sun and Moon'' subverted this and forewent a subtitle entirely; as it was more of a "world tour" season and not solely about [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Generation VIII]], the writers thought it would have been misleading to call the season ''Sword and Shield''. |
| 46 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Pocket Monsters]]'' was dubbed as ''Pokémon'' for two seasons, then was subtitled with ''The Johto Journeys'', ''Johto League Champions'' and finally ''Master Quest'', one season each. |
| 47 | *** Later [=DVD=] releases of the Pokémon anime gave the first two seasons new subtitles: ''Pokémon: Indigo League'' and ''Pokémon: The Adventures In/On The Orange Islands'', respectively. |
| 48 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire Advanced Generation]]'' got subtitled ''Advanced'', ''Advanced Challenge'', ''Advanced Battle'', and ''Battle Frontier'' in the dub. |
| 49 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl Diamond & Pearl]]'' got subtitled as ''Diamond and Pearl'', ''Diamond and Pearl Battle Dimension'', ''Diamond and Pearl Galactic Battles'', and ''Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh League Victors'' in the dub. |
| 50 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Best Wishes!]]'' got subtitled as ''Black and White'', ''Black & White: Rival Destinies'' and ''Black & White: Adventures in Unova''. |
| 51 | *** Even Japan started falling into this trap for the BW series, with ''Season 2'', ''Season 2 Episode N'', and ''Decolora Adventure'' (which in the dub, became ''Adventures in Unova and Beyond'') |
| 52 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY XY]]'' became ''[[TitleTheAdaptation The Series: XY]]'', with the following season being known as ''The Series: XY - Kalos Quest'', and the third season becoming ''The Series: XYZ'', matching up the Japanese subtitle of that season ''XY & Z''. |
| 53 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun and Moon]]'' followed the pattern set by ''XY'', becoming ''The Series: Sun and Moon'', ''The Series: Sun and Moon - Ultra Adventures'', and ''The Series: Sun and Moon - Ultra Legends'' in the dub. |
| 54 | ** ''[[Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries Pocket Monsters (2019)]]'' had the subtitle ''W'' (for "World"/"Double") in the Korean dub, while the English dub subtitled it ''Journeys - The Series'', the second season becoming ''Master Journeys - The Series'', and the third season ''Ultimate Journeys - The Series''. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' combined this with ColonCancer: the second season is titled ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Second Gig''. |
| 56 | * The second season of ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' was ''Zero no Tsukaima: Futatsuki no Kishi''; the third was ''Zero no Tsukaima: Princess no Rondo''. |
| 57 | * ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' had a new title for each subsequent season: ''Ojamajo Doremi #'', ''Mo~tto Ojamajo Doremi'' and ''Ojamajo Doremi Dokkan!'' An OVA titled ''Ojamajo Doremi Naisho'' came out, but it's set during the third season. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'' became ''Code Geass [=R2=]" in its second season. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' became ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Second Season]]''. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': ''Ranma 1/2'' originally aired for only eighteen episodes before being cancelled by the network for poor ratings. A month later, the series was UnCancelled and redubbed ''Ranma 1/2 熱闘編'' (''Nettohen''), and went on for a much more successful run. When Creator/VizMedia got a hold of the rights, they split up the episodes into North American-friendly ''season'' sets--seven in all--starting from ''Digital Dojo'' to ''Ranma [[GrandFinale Forever]]''. |
| 61 | * A borderline example, but when ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' got a second season, it was named ''Strike Witches 2'', complete with a new logo. |
| 62 | * ''Super Robot Wars'': Divine Wars became Super Robot Wars: The Inspector because the first season focused on the war against Divine Crusaders while in the second season a group of aliens called the Inspectors attacked. Neither group are the final bosses of the season though. |
| 63 | * The last few issues of ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' are titled ''21st Century Boys''. |
| 64 | * The second season of ''Manga/SquidGirl'' is titled ''"Shinryaku!? Ika Musume"''. Notice the question mark? |
| 65 | * ''Manga/ShugoChara'', which was followed by the even more excited "''Shugo Chara!! Doki''" and "''Shugo Chara! Party!''". |
| 66 | * Although the original Japanese run of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' kept the same title throughout, the English dub began adding a new subtitle to it with each new season starting with the third. Season 3 was known as "Enter the Shadow Realm", Season 4 was "Waking the Dragons", the first half of season 5 was "Grand Championship" and the second half of season 5 was titled "Dawn of the Duel." |
| 67 | ** The [[Manga/YuGiOh manga version]] went through something similar: while the Japanese release was all one series, Viz split up the North American release into three different series, with ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' covering the beginning through the Monster World arc, ''Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist'' covering Duelist Kingdom through Battle City, and ''Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium World'' covering the ending. This was mostly done to allow the series to be released more quickly by publishing the latter two parts simultaneously. |
| 68 | * The ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' anime is followed by ''Genshiken 2'', adapting the last few volumes of the manga, which is simple enough. Then, just to complicate things, the manga and anime continue with ''Genshiken Nidaime'' in Japan, which is released in America as ''Genshiken Second Season''. So for those keeping score, it goes ''Genshiken'' -> ''Genshiken 2'' -> ''Genshiken Second Season''. |
| 69 | * ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'' started adding subtitles for each season after the first. Season Two was Asia Circuit, Season Three was Link Joker, and Season Four was Legion Mate. All four are even listed separately on the official release on Cruncyroll. |
| 70 | * The second season of ''Literature/CoffinPrincessChaika'' has "Avenging Battle" added to the title. |
| 71 | * ''[[Anime/DarkerThanBlack Darker Than Black: The Black Contractor]]'' became ''Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor'' for its second season, and ''Darker Than Black: The Black Contractor Gaiden'' for the {{Interquel}} [[Main/OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]]. |
| 72 | * Every new installment of the ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' series is some form of the word ''monogatari'' ("Story") with some prefix attached to it (''Bakemono'' = monster, ergo, ''Bakemonogatari'' = "Monster Story"). "Bakemonogatari" was just the first instance of the thematic title used to mark the starting point of the series (well, ''[[AnachronicOrder one]]'' of them, at least), so arguably, the umbrella title for the whole shebang is "Monogatari". |
| 73 | * ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' did this four times, all later on in the show. What's technically Season 7 of the series as a whole is the first season to be called ''Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream'', and the following season continues on with this title; the 9th season changes the title again, this time to ''Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends''; the 10th and 11th seasons are labeled ''GO-GO Tamagotchi!''; and the 12th and final season is titled ''Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO!''. |
| 74 | * The second and third seasons of ''Anime/DogDays'' were named ''Dog Days[='=]'' and ''Dog Days[=''=]''. The apostrophes are supposed to be pronounced as "Dash" and "Double Dash". |
| 75 | * The second season of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is titled ''Kaguya-sama: Love is War?'' (''Love is War'' is crossed out on the logo proper). |
| 76 | * ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'', following its unexpected success in 2018, was followed up by a second season titled ''Zombie Land Saga [[RevengeOfTheSequel Revenge]]'', which started in April 2021. |
| 77 | * ''Manga/BreakTheBorder'' dropped the subtitle ''rebirth of ECHOES'' when it resumed serialization on ''IMAZINE.World''. |
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| 80 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 81 | * ''Animation/BoonieBears'': The seasons' names, starting from Season 2, are ''Boonie Bears or Bust'', ''Forest Frenzy'', ''Spring Into Action'', ''Snow Daze'', ''Sunsational Summer'', ''Autumn Awesomeness'', ''The Adventurers'', ''The Adventurers 2'', and ''Monster Plan''. |
| 82 | * ''Animation/DobyAndDisy'' has five seasons, which are individually titled ''Exploring Journey'', ''Detective Kubi'', ''Learning Chinese with Doby & Disy'', ''Sing with Us'', and ''Hello Dream''. |
| 83 | * ''Animation/FlowerAngel'': |
| 84 | ** Season 2 [[AvertedTrope doesn't really have a unique name]], instead simply being called ''Flower Angel Season 2''. |
| 85 | ** Seasons 3 and 4 are titled ''Flower Angel: Guardian Angel''. |
| 86 | ** Season 5 onwards is titled something like ''Flower Angel: Four Seasons Flower Language''. |
| 87 | * Each season of ''Animation/GGBond'' has a different subtitle appended to it. Just to name a few examples, Season 1 is called ''Magic Jurassic'', Season 2 is ''Martial Arts 2008'', and Season 3 is ''Adventure in the Future''. |
| 88 | * Every season of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' beyond the first one has a special name appended to it, such as Season 2 being titled ''Happy Heroes and the Happy Superhero'', Season 3 being titled ''Happy Heroes and the Battle'', Season 4 being titled ''Happy Heroes and the Adventure'', etc. |
| 89 | * A lot of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' seasons tend to have unique titles, such as ''Mighty Little Defenders'', ''The Little Detective'', ''Around the World in 20 Days'', etc. Its spin-off ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'' follows the same formula. |
| 90 | * Every season of ''[[VideoGame/RocoKingdom Roco Kingdom Adventure]]'' beyond the first one has a unique name. Season 2 is ''Roco Kingdom Adventure 2: Enzo's Diary'' and Season 3 is ''Roco Kingdom Adventure 3: The Eight Medals''. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
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| 93 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 94 | * ComicBooks will sometimes continue the numbering of an old series with a new series. One example was ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' taking over numbering from ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'' when ''Hulk'' relaunched with a new #1. |
| 95 | * Creator/ECComics had one of the most infamous examples of this, as they tried to meet the changing tastes of comic book readers. |
| 96 | ** ''Moon Girl'' started as a title about a superheroine. The title became ''Moon Girl Fights Crime'' in issues #7 and #8, because "crime" comics were hot. Romance books were also selling, so the book became ''A Moon, a Girl...Romance'' from #9, until finally abandoning Moons and Girls altogether and becoming ''Weird Fantasy'' with #13. |
| 97 | ** "The Crypt of Terror" and [[HorrorHost the Crypt-Keeper]] were introduced as part of ''Crime Patrol'' #15. Issue #16 was entirely dedicated to horror, and with issue #17 ''The Crypt of Terror'' displaced ''Crime Patrol''. The title was further altered to ''Tales from the Crypt'' with issue #20, so as to be less scary to sellers. |
| 98 | ** ''The Haunt of Fear'' took over the numbering of ''Gunfighter'' from #15, but since the Post Office objected in this case, the fourth ''Haunt of Fear'' had to be issued as #4 instead of #18. |
| 99 | * The final two issues of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's Golden Age series were titled ''Captain America's Weird Tales'', because horror was selling and superheroes weren't. |
| 100 | ** Once ComicBook/IronMan graduated to his own title, ''Tales of Suspense'' subsequently changed its title to ''Captain America'' at issue #100. |
| 101 | * ''Franchise/XMen'': |
| 102 | ** When the original ''X-Men'' book began publishing new stories in 1975 with a new team line-up, its cover title from issue #94 was ''All-New All-Different X-Men''. As of issue #116 the cover title changed to ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', which ended up becoming the comic's official title as of issue #142 (halfway through the famous ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast story). |
| 103 | ** The second volume of ''[[ComicBook/XMen1991 X-Men]]'', begun in 1991, changed its title to ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' in 2001 from issue #114 when Creator/GrantMorrison took over as writer to emphasize the new tone of the book. Not long after Morrison left it went back to just being called ''X-Men'' with issue #157. Then in 2008 it was renamed ''X-Men: Legacy'' from issue #208 to emphasize more on the fact that it was less of an ensemble book and moreso focused on a central character and their history in the X-Men universe. |
| 104 | ** The teen superhero team book ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'' was rebranded as simply ''New X-Men'' from issue #20. |
| 105 | * ''ComicBook/{{Azrael}}'' was retitled ''Azrael: Agent of The Bat'' starting with issue #47. |
| 106 | * ''She's Josie'' changed its name to ''Josie'' starting with issue #17, only to change its name to (the obviously most famous title) ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats starting with issue #45. |
| 107 | * In 1989 Creator/DCComics launched a PresentDay version of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' called ''L.E.G.I.O.N. '89''. When the year changed, it became ''L.E.G.I.O.N. '90''. This continued, with the annuals sometimes playing with it (like ''L.E.G.I.O.N. '01'' for the ''ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}'' crossover, or a TuxedoAndMartini {{Elseworld}} called ''L.E.G.I.O.N '007'') until the book was relaunched post-''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' as ''R.E.B.E.L.S. '94'', which was ''R.E.B.E.L.S. '96'' when it was cancelled. |
| 108 | * ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': |
| 109 | ** When the character's history was rebooted in 1986 following ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the original namesake title ''Superman'' was changed to ''The Adventures of Superman'' as of issue #424, while a second volume of ''Superman'' started up the same month. This lasted twenty years until ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' when the second ''Superman'' volume was cancelled and ''Adventures'' became ''Superman'' once more as of issue #650. |
| 110 | ** During the late 80s, ''Action Comics'' became an AnthologyComic with a weekly release schedule. To reflect that, issues #601 through #642 were branded ''Action Comics Weekly''. |
| 111 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' and the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': |
| 112 | ** The ''Superboy'' comic book changed its cover title to ''Superboy starring the Legion of Super-Heroes'' with issue #197, as it shifted focus to Superboy's adventures with the 30th-century superhero team. Three years later, the title officially changed to ''Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes'' as of issue #222. |
| 113 | ** The title changed again to ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' with issue #259, as Superboy left the team and began starring in his own new book, ''The New Adventures of Superboy'', set back in Smallville. |
| 114 | ** In 1984 the title changed once again to ''Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' as of issue #314, while a new volume of ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' started up at the same time (set sometime after the events of ''Tales'', and printed on higher-quality paper). After one year, ''Tales'' caught up to the beginning of the new ''Legion'' volume and began reprinting its stories until eventually being cancelled. |
| 115 | ** In 2006, the "Threeboot" incarnation of the Legion had their comic's title change from ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' (vol. 5) to ''Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes'' from issue #16 as Kara Zor-El joined the team. After she left the team, the title reverted back to ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' with issue #37. |
| 116 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 117 | ** Spidey's second title, ''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'', got shortened to ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' with issue #134. |
| 118 | ** The fourth title, the adjectiveless ''Spider-Man'', was changed to ''ComicBook/PeterParkerSpiderMan'' with issue #75, coinciding with the ending to ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. |
| 119 | * The name of the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI serial ''ComicBook/GoldenEyesAndHerHeroBill'' changed to ''"Golden Eyes" and Her Hero "Bill" Over There'' after a handful of installments to reflect that Golden Eyes had enlisted as an ambulance driver and that the action had moved to France - the serial would retain the new title for the remainder of publication. |
| 120 | * When ''ComicBook/StrayBullets'' finally returned from a 9-year hiatus, it was retitled ''Stray Bullets: Killers'' and given a new #1 despite continuing the plot of the original series and keeping the same creator. The following arc did the same thing, with the series now being called ''Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses''. |
| 121 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': |
| 122 | ** In 1984, ''The New Teen Titans'' changed its name to ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' with issue #40, while a new volume of ''The New Teen Titans'' started up at the same time (set sometime after the events of ''Tales'', and printed on higher-quality paper). After 18 issues, ''Tales'' caught up to the beginning of the second ''New Teen Titans'' volume and began reprinting its stories until eventually being cancelled. |
| 123 | ** ''The New Teen Titans'' vol. 2 changed its title as of issue #50 to ''The New Titans'', as it was increasingly clear that the main characters were not teens anymore. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 127 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' was renamed ''Yu-Gi-Oh! [[spoiler:The Cancelled Series]]'' for the first half of season 3, to fit with Creator/LittleKuriboh's altered plot line. The second half of the season subsequently called itself [[spoiler:The Renewed Series]] as well. It went back to its original title in Season 4. |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 131 | * The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series. Each subseries has a different name: ''Warriors'', ''Warriors: The New Prophecy'', ''Warriors: The Power of Three'', ''Warriors: Omen of the Stars'', and ''Warriors: Dawn of the Clans''. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | * ''8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter'' became ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' after the death of John Ritter. |
| 137 | * ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' started out as ''17 Kids and Counting'' in 2008, but the Duggars had two more kids since then (and have another on the way). |
| 138 | * Creator/TheBBC's US-focused news show ''100 Days'' was meant to cover the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, but quickly gained a reputation for the quality of its coverage so that instead of ending after 100 days as planned, it was kept on and simply retitled ''Beyond 100 Days''. |
| 139 | * ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' was originally known only as ''Superboy'' for the first two seasons. It became ''The Adventures of Superboy'' starting with season three, in which many changes took place, including a change of setting and a significant shift in tone. |
| 140 | * After it was expanded from 30 minutes to a full hour, ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' was renamed into ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' for its final three seasons. |
| 141 | * ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' was renamed ''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace'' following its ninth season. CBS wanted the show to continue indefinitely, while series creator Creator/NormanLear was eager for it to end before it got stale. To keep Lear happy without sacrificing their cash cow, CBS agreed to relaunch the show under a new title and drop his creator credit. |
| 142 | * ''All Quiet on the Preston Front'' became simply ''Preston Front'' after its first season, since everybody called it that anyway. |
| 143 | * ''Series/AnneWithAnE'' went by ''Anne'' for its first season in Canada, but changed to ''Anne With An E'' to match its international branding for season 2 onwards. |
| 144 | * Each series of ''Series/BabylonFive'' has its own subtitle: 'Signs and Portents', 'The Coming of Shadows', 'Point of No Return', 'No Surrender, No Retreat' and 'The Wheel of Fire'. However, this subtitle does not appear in the credits and was strictly informal until the DVD releases, when the subtitle was included on the front cover packaging. The SequelSeries ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' would have been named 'To The Ends Of The Earth', after the WhamEpisode that never happened due to cancellation. |
| 145 | ** The season titles were also the titles of the most significant episodes in that season, which did appear on screen. Thus, Season I was named ''Signs and Portents'' after the episode that introduced Morden and really kicked off the MythArc, and so on. |
| 146 | * An easily missed example: ''Series/BlakesSeven'' was renamed ''Blake's Seven'' in the new opening titles for its fourth and final season. |
| 147 | * ''Big Bad Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' became ''Beetleborgs Metallix'' once they ran out of ''Series/JuukouBFighter'' footage and switched over to ''Series/BFighterKabuto''. |
| 148 | * ''Series/BillyTheExterminator'' Season 7 (which takes place in Canada instead of Louisiana) is officially titled ''Billy Goes North''. |
| 149 | * The first season of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' was known as ''The Black Adder''. The next series would be called ''Blackadder II'', ''Blackadder The Third'', and ''[[PunnyName Blackadder Goes Forth]]''. Proposed ideas for a fifth series sometimes seemed to ''start'' with a new play on ''Blackadder 5'' and work backwards to a setting. These included a rock band called ''The Blackadder Five'', a spy spoof called ''Blackadder 005'' or ''Blackadder MI-5'' and a school story called ''Blackadder in the Fifth''. |
| 150 | * ''Series/{{Bunkd}}'': In Season 6, the show gained the subtitle ''Learning the Ropes'' to reflect that the setting moved from a camp in the woods to a dude ranch. |
| 151 | * ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Celebrity Apprentice]]'' became ''The '''New''' Celebrity Apprentice'' in 2017 for its new host, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. |
| 152 | * By the end of the first season of ''Series/{{Cougartown}}'', the producers felt that the name [[ArtifactTitle no longer fit the show's premise]], but couldn't come up with a new name. So in the first episode of the second season, the title card reads ''(Still) Cougartown''. The subtitle became a CouchGag in subsequent episodes - ''(Badly Titled) Cougartown'', ''(Titles Are Hard) Cougartown'', etc. It finally changed to ''Sunshine State''... for the last episode of the series. |
| 153 | * ''Series/Deutschland83'' got two sequel seasons, respectively called ''Deutschland 86'' and ''Deutschland 89'' after the years in which they are set. |
| 154 | * ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'''s run starting in 1967 was called ''Dragnet 1967'', ''Dragnet 1968'', thru 1971. |
| 155 | ** And the 2003-2004 series starring Ed O'Neil as Joe Friday (yes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdW7COxlSKA really]]) changed its name from ''Dragnet'' to ''L.A. Dragnet''. |
| 156 | * The third and fourth seasons of ''Series/{{Engrenages}}[=/=]Spiral'' got individual subtitles in English-language marketing, being titled ''The Butcher of La Villette'' and ''State of Chaos''. |
| 157 | * The fifth series of ''Series/FantasyFootballLeague'', broadcast at the time of the 1998 World Cup, was actually called ''Fantasy World Cup'' - although most people carried on referring to it by its original name. |
| 158 | * Russian {{Rescue}} show ''Five Minutes of Silence'' has different subtitles for each subsequent season. Season 2 is ''Five Minutes of Silence: The Return'', season 3 is ''Five Minutes of Silence: New Horizons'', and season 4 is ''Five Minutes of Silence: Siberian Frosts''. |
| 159 | * Creator/JamesEarlJones played a private detective in a critically-acclaimed series called ''Gabriel's Fire'' which premiered in 1990 and won four Emmys. For its [[SecondSeasonDownfall abbreviated second and last season]], the show was [[ReTool retooled]] and renamed ''Pros and Cons''. |
| 160 | * The TV adaptation of ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' was renamed ''Ultimate Goosebumps'' for seasons 3 and 4. The show was named ''Goosebumps'' when it aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork during Halloween (including the "Ultimate Goosebumps" episodes). |
| 161 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' added the subtitle "Rise of the Villains" in Season 2, switching to "Wrath of the Villains" for the second half. For Season 3, they used "Mad City" and "Heroes Rise". All of Season 4 used "A Dark Knight". |
| 162 | * ''Series/TheGruenTransfer'' blurs the line between this trope and {{Spin Off}}s ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_(TV_series) The Other Wiki]] goes with the former interpretation), changing its title as it has shifted in focus: from ''The Gruen Transfer'' (advertising) to ''Gruen Planet'' (spin and PR in general) to simply ''Gruen'' (somewhere in between). It has also temporarily rebranded several times as ''Gruen Nation'' (elections advertising, spin and PR) and once as ''Gruen Sweat'' (Olympics advertising, spin and PR). |
| 163 | * When the famous Australian variety show ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' moved from Saturday mornings to nights in 1984, the show was renamed ''Hey Hey It's Saturday Night''. In 1985, the title went back to ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' and stayed that way until the show ended in 1999. |
| 164 | * ''Series/HannahMontana'' became ''Hannah Montana Forever'' for its fourth and final season. |
| 165 | * ''Homefront: Inside Out'' dropped the "Inside Out" part of its title after the original ''Homefront'' show it spun off from was axed. |
| 166 | * After undergoing a bit of a {{retool}} halfway through, ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'''s first series ended at 25 episodes and a new season started up immediately after, entitled "''Inazuman Flash''". |
| 167 | * After being {{Reviv|al}}ed by Creator/SpikeTV, the ''Series/{{Cops}}'' SpinOff ''Jail'''s fourth season was titled ''Jail: Las Vegas'', and the fifth season was titled ''Jail: Big Texas''. |
| 168 | * While it's not technically a sequel, the short-lived TV series ''James at 15'' was renamed ''James at 16'' as of the episode wherein he celebrated his 16th birthday. |
| 169 | * The second and final season of ''Series/{{Jonas}}'' became ''Jonas L.A.'', from moving the setting of the show to Los Angeles. |
| 170 | * The {{Sentai}} homage ''Series/KanpaiSenshiAfterV''[[note]]Cheers Warriors After V[[/note]], for its second season, was renamed ''Shin[[note]]New[[/note]] Kanpai Senshi After V'' |
| 171 | * ''Series/LabRats'' gained the subtitle ''Bionic Island'' for its fourth season ReTool. |
| 172 | * The fourth and final season of ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' gained the subtitle ''Cali Style'', referring the the family's relocation to California. |
| 173 | * When Creator/ChannelFour decided the magazine show ''Light Lunch'' wasn't working in an actual lunchtime slot, the early evening version was ''Late Lunch''. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/{{Moribito}}'': The three seasons are subtitled ''Guardian of the Spirit'', ''The Anguish of the Destroyers'', and ''Balsa's Fate'' respectively. In Japanese, though, the series has the same title as ''Guardian of the Spirit'' and only the latter two have subtitles. |
| 175 | * ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' was going to take a page out of the ''Power Rangers'' book by renaming itself ''Mystic Knights Battle Thunder'' for the next season. It was cancelled after its single season instead, however. |
| 176 | * ''Series/MythicQuestRavensBanquet'' dropped its subtitle for season 2. |
| 177 | * ''Series/TheNewPope'' is the "sequel" to ''Series/TheYoungPope''. Might as well be considered its second season. |
| 178 | * Season 3 of ''Series/OddSquad'' has the subtitle ''Mobile Unit''. |
| 179 | * ''Series/TheOrville'' was announced as ''The Orville: New Horizons'' for its third season. |
| 180 | * The second series of ''Series/ParisPolice1900'' was titled ''Paris Police 1905'' to indicate the TimeSkip. |
| 181 | * ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'' was shortened down to just ''Parker Lewis'' for the third and final season. |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 183 | ** Part of season 3 of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was titled ''Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers'', which goes under dispute as to whether it's its own identity or not. Following the third season of ''Mighty Morphin''' we had ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' and ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. After ''In Space'' tied up all the loose ends and ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' serving as an epilogue/transition, the seasons continuing from there (beginning with ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'') became SequelSeries. |
| 184 | ** In the Neo-Saban era, a storyline and cast sticks around for two shorter seasons instead of one longer one; and the second season gets "Super" stuck in the title somewhere to represent a MidSeasonUpgrade: ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' was renamed ''Power Rangers Super Samurai'', ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' turned into ''Super Megaforce'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' became ''Dino Supercharge'', and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' became ''Super Ninja Steel''. |
| 185 | * After being just known as ''Series/RedDwarf'' for its first two series, the third series had an OpeningScroll that dubbed the series "Red Dwarf III", although the main title sequence and new logo did not incorporate the number (a few fans also list the third season as having a subtitle "The Saga Continuums", also taken from the crawl). For some reason the listings magazines picked up on this and from then on the show was renamed each series ("Red Dwarf IV", "V" etc). even though the opening titles did not reflect this. However, the covers of the video releases did. In fact, the later video releases of the first two seasons retitled them 'Red Dwarf I' and 'II', respectively. This numbering was finally acknowledged in the opening titles of Series VII, and every subsequent series has also been numbered onscreen (Series VIII used tally marks, reflecting that series' prison setting, and "Back to Earth" was a three-part miniseries, but every other series has used the roman numeral). |
| 186 | * The TransatlanticEquivalent of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' was called ''Saturday Live'' until it got rescheduled to Fridays and renamed ''Friday Night Live''. |
| 187 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Yes, the show that has saw many changes in cast, crew, directors, and writing teams has had its title changed a few times. |
| 188 | ** Back when the show first started, it was called ''NBC's Saturday Night''. Creator/LorneMichaels wanted his show to be called ''Saturday Night Live'' right off the bat, but ABC already had a variety show called ''Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell''(Cosell later hosted the last episode of ''SNL'''s tenth season). |
| 189 | ** In its second season, the "NBC" part was dropped and the show was just called ''Saturday Night'', at which time, the ABC version of ''Saturday Night Live'' had already been cancelled and Bill Murray (a cast member from ''that'' ''SNL'') was hired as a replacement for Chevy Chase (who left the NBC ''SNL'' for a girl and a movie career). By the end of season two the NBC show finally started using the name ''Saturday Night Live''. |
| 190 | ** During the 1980-1981 season, the show was retitled ''Series/SaturdayNightLive '80'' to separate this season from the first five. This, much like Jean Doumanian's tenure during that season, didn't last and wasn't looked at favorably among fans. When Dick Ebersol was hired as Doumanian's replacement, the show was changed back to being called ''Saturday Night Live,'' though its Weekend Update segment went through many title changes under Ebersol's reign as executive producer (it was called ''SNL Newsbreak'' in season seven, then ''Saturday Night News'' in seasons 8, 9, and 10). |
| 191 | *** From season seven on, ''Saturday Night Live'' has kept its name, though most fans today (and in a lot of commercial bumpers from season 22 to now) refer to the show as ''SNL'' due to ease of reference. |
| 192 | ** ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in its 15th, 20th, 25th, and 35th seasons have been referred to as ''Saturday Night Live'' or ''SNL'' plus the respective number (''SNL 15'', ''SNL 20'', ''SNL 25'', and ''SNL 35'') to commemorate the show staying on the air for 15, 20, 25, and 35 years. |
| 193 | * ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'' adds the subtitle ''Schmicago'' in the second season's intro, due to the change in setting. |
| 194 | * ''Scrotal Recall'' was re-titled ''Series/{{Lovesick}}'' after being picked up by Creator/{{Netflix}}. |
| 195 | * Creator/BillLawrence urged for ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' to be renamed ''Scrubs Med'' for its ninth and final season, given the cast changes and altered status quo. |
| 196 | * The Canadian sketch show ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' became ''SCTV Network 90'' in 1981 when it expands to 90 minutes and broadens its audience to Americans. |
| 197 | * ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' was rebranded as ''seaQuest 2032'' for its third and final season due to the changes in main character, the TimeShift, and the DarkerAndEdgier setting. |
| 198 | * ''Series/SevenColorMask'', after 31 episodes comprising four arcs, was renamed ''New Seven-Color Mask'' for the remaining 26 episodes and three arcs to reflect the change in leading actor. |
| 199 | * ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'' was changed to ''So Random!'' in its most recent season, focusing on the ShowWithinAShow that is titled as such. This was done due to the lead actor Music/DemiLovato going to rehab. |
| 200 | * ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus]]'' has a different subtitle for each of its seasons. Many people assume that the title of series as a whole is ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand'', but that's only the title of the first season. In fact, it's still listed under that title in this very wiki. |
| 201 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' was nearly renamed ''Stargate Command'' for its [[ReTool ninth season]], in recognition of its major cast changes (including a new lead actor) and new main villain (the Ori). Ultimately they kept the original title. |
| 202 | * Originally, the name of the fifth live-action ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series was just ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''. They added "Star Trek" back into the title in the [[ReTool third]] [[GrowingTheBeard season]]. [[note]]The original broadcasts of the first two episodes of season 3 retained the ''Enterprise'' title, with ''Star Trek'' added for the third episode. This was changed on later screenings.[[/note]] |
| 203 | * Downplayed example with ''Series/StrangerThings''. All seasons after the first are titled as if they were sequels to a film; Season 2 is ''Stranger Things 2'', Season 3 ''Stranger Things 3'', Season 4 ''Stranger Things 4'', and Season 5 ''Stranger Things 5''. |
| 204 | * BBC series ''[[Series/TheSupersizersEat Supersizers]]'' started as a one-off special ''Edwardian Supersize Me''. Its first series is called ''The Supersizers Go...'' and the second one is known as ''The Supersizers Eat...'' -- each episode name also includes the time period they go to or eat. |
| 205 | * Due to Disney's three/four seasons/65 episodes rule, after ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' hit that mark, Creator/DisneyChannel retooled the show, renaming it ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' due to the new setting (a ship rather than a hotel). |
| 206 | * A lot of location-based RealityTV shows do this to reflect the change in location for the new season: ''Series/{{Survivor}}: Africa'', ''Survivor: Thailand'', etc. ''Survivor'' later started using titles that reflected a theme, such as ''Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains'' or ''Survivor: Winners at War'', before latter reverting to simply using numbers for seasons that didn't have a theme, as the show stopped moving locations. |
| 207 | * Almost-example: Had ''Series/{{Threshold}}'' not been cancelled, series two would have been called "Foothold" and series three "Stranglehold". Both names would have represented the progress of the aliens in taking over the world. |
| 208 | * In 1955 CBS retitled its long-running Sunday night VarietyShow, ''Toast of the Town'', to ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' after its eponymous host. |
| 209 | * When ''Series/TheTorkelsons'' got a ReTool in its second season, it was also renamed ''Almost Home''. |
| 210 | * ''Series/TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace'' became ''Two Guys and a Girl'' with the third season, which abandoned the pizza place setting. |
| 211 | ** This prompted the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, ''And a Pizza Place''. |
| 212 | * ''Valerie'', originally named for its star, Valerie Harper, became ''Valerie's Family: The Hogans'' in the third season after Harper left the show. Thereafter it was called ''The Hogan Family''. |
| 213 | * Among the many changes that came with the second season of ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988'' was to relabel it ''War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion''. |
| 214 | ** The rub is that while this made a kinda sense at first, poor writing led to a continuity collapse that ultimately showed that there was never a "first" invasion. |
| 215 | * The later seasons of ''Series/YesMinister'' were renamed ''Yes, Prime Minister'', to reflect Jim Hacker's promotion to PM. |
| 216 | * The Canadian sci-fi show ''Series/{{Zixx}}'' appended ''Level One'', ''Level Two'' and ''Level Three'' to its title to represent the current season. |
| 217 | * Season two of ''Series/ZoeDuncanJackAndJane'' got renamed to ''Zoe...'', pronounced "Zoe dot dot dot". |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Magazine]] |
| 221 | * ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'': As a [[LongRunners long-time member]] of the same magazine racks as comic books, ''Analog'' has changed names several times over the decades. It began in 1930 as ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', but was shortened to ''Astounding Stories'' starting with the February 1931 issue. Later on, the name changed slightly to ''Astounding Science-Fiction'' for the March 1939 issue. Many years later, the name was changed to ''Astounding Science Fact & fiction'' (the lowercase is used to emphasize [[NonFiction Fact]] in the magazine) in the February 1960 issue, and spent the next several months fading down ''Astounding'' and fading up with its replacement ''Analog''. Legally speaking, the magazine has both names (check the index page), but the cover has been ''Analog'' ever since (with occasional tweaks to the subtitle). |
| 222 | * ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf The Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'' initially started off as ''Red Dwarf Magazine'' before it changed to it's more well known name from the third issue onwards. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 226 | * ''Literature/{{Moribito}}'': The radio drama changes from ''Guardian of the Spirit'' to ''Guardian of the Darkness'' in Season 2. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 230 | * Subverted by the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series, which had ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'' instead of ''Myst II'', but returned to the series' title from ''VideoGame/MystIII'' onward. |
| 231 | * The ''Bokujo Monogatari'' series was translated by Natsume as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon1'' to ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning''. Afterwards, Marvelous decided to translate the series in-house with Creator/XSeedGames as ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' starting with ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014''. Natsume was left with the ''Harvest Moon'' name but no games. They ended up making their own [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonTheLostValley original title]] using the ''Harvest Moon'' name and some of the characters (which [[NoExportForYou understandably wasn't released in Japan]]). Since then, the series has been split into the InNameOnly Natsume ''VideoGame/{{Harvest Moon|Natsume}}'' games, while the original series now goes under ''Story of Seasons''. Alas, this name change hasn't been understood by many casual fans. Even news websites and retailers get confused, causing some retailers to reject the ''Story of Seasons'' games for being an "unknown" series while the ''Harvest Moon'' games have brand recognition. |
| 232 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' franchise has something of a problem with keeping a consistent name, both in Japan and abroad. The first game is called ''Deception: Invitation to Darkness'' in English and ''Kokumeikan'' in Japanese, with the first sequel becoming ''[[SequelTheOriginalTitle Kagero: Deception II]]'' and ''Kagero: Kokumeikan Shinsho''. Then the third game starts the craziness: ''Deception III: Dark Delusion'' here, '''''Soumatou''''' in Japanese. This CompletelyDifferentTitle is reversed with the fourth game, ''Kagero 2: Dark Illusion'' in Japanese, '''''VideoGame/{{Trapt}}''''' in English. Finally, the fifth game splits the difference with the English title being ''Deception IV: Blood Ties'' and ''Kagero: Darkside Princess'' in Japanese. Phew! |
| 233 | * The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' had an issue with the name of its original game “''Soul Edge''” when it was released on consoles (the story goes deeper than just this game, look up a man named “Tim Langdell” for more details). Namco worked around this by renaming the console release as “''Soul Blade''” in North America but then come the sequel, the entire series was renamed “''Soulcalibur''” so they could just sidestep the problem entirely. |
| 234 | * Creator/{{SEGA}}'s ''Ryū ga Gotoku'' series was first localized outside Japan as ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza|1}}''. That stayed the series' English name until 2022. In 2020, the seventh numbered game, ''Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue'', was released outside Asia as ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', with the name intended to help transition the English series to the new name; [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yakuza/images/0/0a/YLAD_-_Logo.png the game's logo]] notably has ''Like A Dragon'' take up significantly more space than ''Yakuza'' despite ostensibely being a subtitle. In 2022, the series officially changed its English name to ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'', with the announcement of ''[[VideoGame/RyuGaGotokuIshin Like a Dragon: Ishin!]]'', ''VideoGame/LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName'' and ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth''. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 238 | * Each season of ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' after the first takes on a different title, relating to the current competition at hand. |
| 239 | ** ''Battle for Dream Island Again'', the same competition, but done again. |
| 240 | ** ''dnalsI maerD roF elttaB'' is the inverse, where instead of eliminating contestants, they get placed back into the competition. |
| 241 | ** ''Battle for BFDI'' (later ''Battle For BFB''), in which the prize is another proper season of the show. |
| 242 | ** ''The Power of Two'', as it's hosted by Two and the prize is becoming a RealityWarper. |
| 243 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', once the first story arc was finished, did this for the following three seasons (known as ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection''): ''Reconstruction'' (Season 6), ''Recreation'' (7) and ''Revelation'' (8). While the following seasons were simply numbered again, if grouped into arcs, Season 16 went that path again with ''Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox'', which in turn was followed by ''Singularity''. Season 18 again had a subtitle, ''Red vs. Blue: Zero''. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 247 | * Kris Straub's sci-fi webcomic was initially named ''Starshift Crisis''. When he realized this could lead to a copyright problem (with the video game ''Starshift: The Zaran Legacy''), he renamed it ''Starslip Crisis''--and even changed every in-comic mention of "starshift" to "starslip", using alternate universes to justify this OrwellianRetcon. Later, the story arc "The End of the End" resulted in another huge CosmicRetcon and an ArtShift with it, so the title was changed again to just ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}''. |
| 248 | * ''[=GastroPhobia=]'' remained that for the first three volumes of its life, named after the parent-child duo of Gastro (child) and Phobia (parent). When Volume 4 hit, the series changed to ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'', to reflect [[spoiler:Gastro realizing that she's a trans girl and renaming herself Pepsia]]. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 252 | * From "The Day of the Eternal Song" onwards, ''WebVideo/KateModern'' changed its name to ''in the name of ...[=KateModern=]''. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 256 | * ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' became "All Hail King Julien: Exiled" for its fifth season because of the titular character losing his crown to [[BigBad Koto]] who then took over his kingdom. Oddly, Netflix puts it as a separate show from the main series. After the fifth season ended it goes back to just being the normal title. |
| 257 | * The final season of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was retooled to have its episodes focusing on movie parodies. To reflect this, the title was changed to ''The Chipmunks Go to the Movies'', complete with a new theme song. |
| 258 | * The Norwegian dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' changed from "Escape from Farthing Wood" (translated title) to "Animals of White Deer Park" in season 2. |
| 259 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': |
| 260 | ** Starting with season 8 (10), the show became ''Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1'', as discussed in the page quote source video, two related videos, and the first episode of the season. |
| 261 | ** The season after that, the show was again renamed to ''Aqua Something You Know Whatever'', complete with "call it whatever you want" commercials. |
| 262 | ** The ''next season'' renamed it ''Aqua TV Show Show''. |
| 263 | ** And the final season was renamed ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever''. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': |
| 265 | ** Season 5 went with the title ''Archer Vice'', shaking up the plot a bit by having ISIS disbanded and the principle cast forming a drug cartel, trying to sell a literal tonne of cocaine. After the season ended and the spy premise of the show was reinstated, ''Archer'' went back to its original title. |
| 266 | ** Seasons 8, 9 and 10 are called ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDreamland'', ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDangerIsland'' and ''Archer 1999'' respectively. They are all set in alternate universes, which are actually part of Archer's [[AdventuresInComaland coma dream]]. |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'''s third and final season was titled ''Atomic Betty: Mission Earth'' due to a {{retool}} of the series' formula that took the action from outer space to Earth. |
| 268 | * Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' was titled ''Avengers: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} Revolution''. Season 4 was ''Avengers: Secret Wars''. Season 5 is ''Avengers: ComicBook/BlackPanther's Quest''. |
| 269 | * The second season of ''WesternAnimation/TheBabaloos'' was titled ''The Babaloos On Vacation'', to go with the focus on bringing the characters into more outdoors environments. |
| 270 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': Outside of the show's native French, its title in seasons three and four is ''Teen Crumpets'', which reflects the narrowed main cast to the teenagers. This is also a MarketBasedTitle. |
| 271 | * Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' became ''The Adventures of Batman and Robin'', then ''The New Batman Adventures'' (though reruns don't use this title, instead using the original ''BTAS'' intro; these episodes originally ran alongside ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' as ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' with a combined open). Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' became ''Justice League Unlimited''. |
| 272 | * Season 2 of ''[[WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'' was renamed to ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion'', and season 3 was called ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'' (in marketing, at least, the season's onscreen title was simply ''Blinky Bill''). |
| 273 | * When ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' moved [[ChannelHop from Nickelodeon to ABC]], it was retitled ''Brand-Spanking New Doug'', then ''Creator/{{Disney}}'s Doug''. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'' was going to do this in season 4 with ''Dragon Booster: Academy'', even going as far as emblazoning the new title on the final scene of season 3... then it got ScrewedByTheNetwork(s) and cancelled. |
| 275 | * ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' became ''Dragons: Defenders of Berk'' for its second season to reflect the more action-oriented direction, and then ''Dragons: Race to the Edge'' from the third season onwards after the ChannelHop from Creator/CartoonNetwork to Creator/{{Netflix}}. |
| 276 | * After season 1, each season of ''WesternAnimation/FastAndFuriousSpyRacers'' has a different subtitle depending on the plot's overall location. Seasons 2-5 are titled ''Rio'', ''Sahara'', ''Mexico'', and ''South Pacific'', respectively. Season 6, ''Homecoming'', is titled after the story's return to the first season's main setting, Los Angeles. |
| 277 | * When ''{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}}'' entered its third season, it became part of {{Creator/ABC}}'s Saturday morning lineup as ''Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles''. [[CanonDiscontinuity Though some would claim it didn't]]. |
| 278 | * The second season of ''WesternAnimation/HappyMonsterBand'' renames the show ''Happy Monster Band: World Tour''. |
| 279 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'' is now called ''Harvey Girls Forever!'' starting in season 2. |
| 280 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'' was renamed ''The Incredible Hulk and ComicBook/SheHulk'' for its second season. |
| 281 | * ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverlandPirates'' was renamed to ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'' for its fourth season. |
| 282 | * The UnCanceled season of ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'' is now fittingly titled ''A New Kind of Magic''. |
| 283 | * ''Mix Master: King of Cards'' become ''Mix Master: Final Force'' in its second season. |
| 284 | * ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' was retitled ''Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures'' in its third season, to reflect how the show was becoming less about racing and more about the SliceOfLife adventures of Mickey and pals. |
| 285 | * For its third season, ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' gained a subtitle and was called ''¡Mucha Lucha!: Gigante'', with the theme song being updated to reflect the change as well. |
| 286 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' turned into ''Ninjago Rebooted'' for its third season because of the CyberPunk setting. |
| 287 | * ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': As of season 6 the show is now called ''PJ Masks: Power Heroes'' to emphasize that the [[SixthRanger recurring extra heroes]] that were gradually introduced over the previous seasons are now promoted to main characters forming a team along with the original core trio the show started with. |
| 288 | * ''Animation/{{Pucca}}''[='=]s third season received the subtitle "Love Recipe". Although it is subverted in the Korean dub, where the name for the 2008 series was "Jjajang Girl Pucca", whereas the third season is simply named "Pucca". |
| 289 | * The ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' cartoon was known as ''Redwall'' for the first season, then ''Mattimeo: A Tale of Redwall'' for the second season, ''then'' it became ''Martin the Warrior: A Tale of Redwall'' for the third season. |
| 290 | * A partial example: The FinaleSeason of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' was advertised on-air as "Regular Show [[spoiler:[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in Space]]]]" due to the events of the previous season's finale. The show itself remained as "Regular Show" in its own title cards, television guides, digital releases, etc. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' was followed by ''Sabrina's Secret Life''. |
| 292 | * The sixth and final season of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' earns the title ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture''. ''Future'', like [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie the movie]], acts as an epilogue miniseries to the show, almost like a different series. |
| 293 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' was succeeded by ''The All-New Super Friends Hour'', ''Challenge of the Super Friends'', ''The World's Greatest Super Friends'', ''Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show'', And ''The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians''. These name changes brought along various modifications to the show's format, added and dropped heroes and villains, etc.; the final season, ''Galactic Guardians'', dropped the ''Super Friends'' name as the show got a bit DarkerAndEdgier and also [[MerchandiseDriven tied-in with]] Creator/{{Kenner}}'s ''Super Powers Collection'' toyline to an extent. |
| 294 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' was renamed to ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and then ''WesternAnimation/{{Super Mario World|1991}}'' as the plot changed to reflect the then-new games. |
| 295 | * The last two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' are entitled ''Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure'', due to the show's shift of focus from SliceOfLife affairs to larger adventure stories. |
| 296 | * The final two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' respectively added ''Fast Forward'' and ''Back to the Sewers'' to the title. |
| 297 | * The fifth and final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' lengthened its title to ''Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. |
| 298 | * Every ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' season has a different name in the form, ''Total Drama X''. Season 1 is ''Total Drama Island'', a ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' parody satirizing reality show and teen drama conventions; Season 2 is ''Total Drama Action'', satirizing movie conventions; Season 3 is ''Total Drama World Tour'' (called ''Total Drama Musical'' in development), featuring a HollywoodAtlas and the cast singing OncePerEpisode; Season 4 is ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'', returning to the original island (now a toxic waste dump) with a new slate of contestants; Season 5 is ''Total Drama All-Stars'', an All-Stars season; Season 5.2[[note]]''Pahkitew Island'' is officially considered to be the second half of Season 5 rather than as the 6th Season[[/note]] is ''Total Drama Pahkitew Island'', set on a new island with another all-new contestant roster. |
| 299 | * From season 3-5, ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' added the word "Undercover" underneath the title in the opening and its EyeCatch. The subtitle was dropped for its sixth season {{revival}}. |
| 300 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' became ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' for its third season. |
| 301 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' became ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise Combiner Force'' in it's fourth season. |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/TrueAndTheRainbowKingdom'' changes its name to ''True: Magical Friends'' for the first half of its second season and ''True: Wonderful Wishes'' for the second half. |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'': |
| 304 | ** Season 3 is subtitled ''Web Warriors''. |
| 305 | ** Season 4 has been retitled ''Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six''. |
| 306 | * ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' became known as ''New Looney Tunes'' in season 2 due to adding more ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters to the show's roster. |
| 307 | * The second season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' is entitled ''Young Justice: Invasion'', while the third season is entitled ''Young Justice: Outsiders'' and the fourth season is ''Young Justice: Phantoms''. |
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