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6	Looking for a good name for your work of fiction? Look no further, just find a number tangentially related to the premise and use that as the title. Supposedly, this makes it sound "mysterious," especially if the number is also used as an ArcNumber.
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8	Compare RunningTimeInTheTitle. A SuperTrope to AdvancedTech2000 (the number indicates this is a more technologically advanced version than v1), AnnualTitle (the number indicates approximate year of release), and Title1 (the number indicates it is first in a series).
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10	Titles with years go on SubTrope: TitleByYear. Other subtropes are, NumberedSequels, NPlusOneSequelTitle, and NumberOfObjectsTitle, TimeTitle. YouAreNumberSix is a sister trope, for when it's a character rather than a work that's named after a number.
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13	!Examples:
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15	[[foldercontrol]]
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17	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
18	* ''Manga/BlackJack 21''.
19	* ''Anime/Daitarn3''
20	* ''Manga/Eyeshield21''.
21	* ''Anime/Figure17TsubasaAndHikaru''.
22	* ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. Eureka is the name of the female lead. "Seven" is never talked about.
23	* ''Anime/Macross7''
24	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''
25	* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven''
26	* ''Anime/VoltesV''
27	* ''Anime/Zambot3''
28	[[/folder]]
29
30	[[folder:Comic Books]]
31	* The eighteenth and final issue of the first volume of ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' is unimaginatively titled "Eighteen".
32	* DC comics series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''.
33	* ComicBook/Hex11
34	[[/folder]]
35
36	[[folder:Fan Works]]
37	* ''Fanfic/ACertainUnknownLevel0'': Level 0 is a power level ranking, and a ProtagonistTitle.
38	* ''Manga/Evangelion303''
39	* ''Fanfic/FiveScoreDividedByFour'': A.k.a "5 * 20 / 4", which equals 25.
40	* ''FanFic/TantabusMarkII''
41	* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji''
42	[[/folder]]
43
44	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
45	* ''13'' is a ForeignRemake of ''Film/ThirteenTzameti''. The protagonist is forced to take part in a DeadlyGame of RussianRoulette. The players are only known by a number, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky his being 13]].
46	* ''Film/ThreeHundred'', referring to the 300 Spartans defending Thermopylae from the Persians.
47	* The Russian film ''[[Film/Twelve2007 12]]'', a remake of ''12 Angry Men''.
48	* ''Film/FourteenOhEight''.
49	* ''Film/{{Pi}}'' (3.1415...)
50	* ''Film/Se7en'', referring to the pervasive theme of the SevenDeadlySins.
51	* ''Film/Thr3e'', based off the book by Creator/TedDekker.
52	* ''Film/EightAndAHalf'', so called by director Creator/FedericoFellini because he had previously directed six features, two shorts, and one film with a co-director--counting the shorts and the collaborative works as half-pictures, that made this one number eight and a half.
53	* ''Film/District9''
54	* ''Film/TheNumber23''
55	* ''3'', slightly justified as the title of a {{biopic}} of Dale Earnhardt, who used the number for most of his career.
56	* ''61*'' attached to Roger Maris; nothing to do with his own number (for most of his career, 9), but it's the number most associated with him (for his breaking of Babe Ruth's 60-homers-a-season record, the asterisk being added because seasons were shorter in Ruth's day).
57	* An upcoming film called ''3993''.
58	* The movie ''Film/TwentyOne'', which is about blackjack.
59	* The 1979 movie ''Film/{{Seven\|1979}}'' about a MagnificentSeven group of hitmen hired to kill a group of seven gangsters planning to take over Hawaii.
60	* The movie ''187'', which is named after the Los Angeles penal code for homicide.
61	* Horror film ''Film/NineSevenSixEvil'', directed by Creator/RobertEnglund.
62	* ''Film/NineToFive'', referring to 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., a normal working day in the U.S.
63	* ''Film/Ten1979''
64	* ''Film/Thirteen2003'', which refers to the ages of the two lead characters.
65	* The shot-on-video slasher film ''555''.
66	* ''Film/FortyTwo'', named after UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson's jersey number with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
67	* ''Film/{{R100}}'', a riff on Japanese movie ratings. A movie rated "R100" would be unsuitable for viewers under 100 years old.
68	* ''[[Film/SurvivorStyle5Plus Survivor Style 5+]]''
69	* ''Film/TwentyTwo'', the number being the date of any month when another woman gets killed.
70	* ''Film/SixtyFive'', as in how many millions of years in the past the film is set.
71	[[/folder]]
72
73	[[folder:Literature]]
74	* As for times, add the short story ''12:01''.
75	[[/folder]]
76
77	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
78	* ''Series/TwentyFour''; and for that matter, Franchise/TheDCU series 52 and the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "42", as each of these titles is a ShoutOut to 24 due to using RealTime format. "42" was also a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
79	* The ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode ".07%". This was a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story "The Seven Percent Solution."
80	* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' science fiction series.
81	* ''90210''.
82	* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episodes "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E1The37s The 37's]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E22ElevenFiftyNine 11:59]]".
83	* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1411001001 11001001]]".
84	* An enormous number of episodes on ''Series/TheWestWing'' include numbers and don't fit in subtropes, some named for bills or code names used in the episodes, such as "H. Con-172" and "7A WF 83429". The best example of this trope, however, would probably be the fourth season episode "Twenty Five".
85	* The ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "316".
86	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has episodes called "3" (as it features an "Unholy Trinity") and "731" (after a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 war crime story]]).
87	* An infamous 1950s game show (along with two revivals) ''Series/TwentyOne''.
88	* Three games with "three": ''Series/ThreeOnAMatch'', ''3 For The Money'' (a short-lived NBC show from 1975), and ''3's A Crowd'' (a ''Newlywed Game'' clone with the husband's secretary thrown in).
89	* Others with game shows with numerical titles: ''Seven Keys,'' ''Series/OneVersusAHundred'', ''Two For The Money'', ''Series/FiftyGrandSlam'', ''It Takes Two'' and ''One In A Million.''
90	* ''Series/NorthernExposure'': ''Grosse Pointe, 48230'' and ''Three Doctors''.
91	* ''Series/Numb3rs'':
92	** ''Nine Wives''.
93	** ''One Hour''.
94	** ''Thirteen''.
95	** ''Atomic No. 33''.
96	** ''Thirty-Six Hours''.
97	** ''The Fifth Man''.
98	** ''7 Men Out''.
99	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' episodes "2-Pi-R" (which involves Finch undercover as a math teacher) and "6,741" (the number's relevance is only revealed at the end of the episode: it's [[spoiler:how many times Shaw has gone through Samaritan's LotusEaterMachine]]).
100	* ''Series/The100'', which initially referred to the 100 young people sent down to Earth.
101	* The ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' episode "90265", which parodied ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''.
102	* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "200".
103	* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
104	** Season 5's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS5E17NintyNinthRanger 99th Ranger]]", which details Brookdale, Texas, police officer Bobbie Hunt applying to become a Texas Ranger and shadowing Walker during his workdays after one Ranger is killed in the line of duty, all the while dealing with her [[DomesticAbuse abusive ex-husband]], Russell Stafford, trying to discourage her from her dream. She ultimately gets the job.
105	** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E16SixHours 6 Hours]]", where Walker and his companions RaceAgainstTheClock ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the title says it all]]) to rescue a billionaire's daughter from her [[BodyguardBetrayal traitorous bodyguard]] before [[MurderDotCom she is murdered on live TV]].
106	[[/folder]]
107
108	[[folder:Music]]
109	* Music/JohnCage's "composition" ''4:33'', which consists of that exact amount (in minutes and seconds) of complete silence.
110	** [[spoiler:Cage has maintained that the point behind ''4:33'' is not complete silence, which is unattainable, but rather for the audience to attune itself to the ambient noise of the performance venue itself. This, of course, makes each performance of ''4:33'' unique.]]
111	** He also wrote a series of "number pieces" which are named after the number of performers and the order in which it was written. For example, the fourth piece for one performer is called One[[superscript:4]].
112	* The Music/{{Yes}} album ''Music/NineOhOneTwoFive'', which incidentally enough was named after its catalogue number.
113	* In the same vein, Music/{{Spliff}}'s hit album ''85555'' was named after its CBS catalog number.
114	* Music/IronMaiden song "2 AM".
115	* Music/EmilieAutumn's "306".
116	* Ken Laszlo's "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8" (as in counting from 1 to 8, serving both as an EpicRiff and part of the song's chorus)
117	* ''The Catalogue'' by Music/{{Kraftwerk}} was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally planned to be titled]] ''12345678'', too, both hinting at containing Kraftwerk's eight albums from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'' on and quoting "Numbers".
118	* Music/VanHalen's album ''5150'', named after the police code for an escaped mental patient (which Eddie then decided to employ baptizing his home studio).
119	** A later instrumental is "316", after the March 16 birthday of Eddie's son Wolfgang (now the band's bassist).
120	* Toto's albums ''[[ChronologicalAlbumTitle Toto IV]]'' and ''The Seventh One''.
121	* Music/{{Anthrax}}'s short instrumental "9" from ''State of Euphoria''.
122	* "3's and 7's" by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge
123	* Almost all of the songs in the CD "Revés" from the album Revés/Yosoy by [[CafeTacvba Café Tacvba]]
124	* Music/SugarRay's third album, ''14:59'', an ironic response to critics who believed the band's FifteenMinutesOfFame were almost up. (Given the response to their fourth and fifth albums, this title would later prove [[HilariousInHindsight surprisingly accurate]].) If read as a 24 hour time, it also says "1 to 3".
125	* Music/{{Coldplay}}'s song [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "42"]].
126	* Likewise, Music/Level42 named themselves after [[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything]].
127	* The Music/{{Weezer}} outtake "367": Rivers Cuomo actually organizes every song he writes into a "catalog of riffs" that goes all the way back to when he was 14, and under this system "367" was his 367th composition.
128	* The Music/{{Chicago\|Band}} song "25 or 6 to 4".
129	* The Music/HarryNilsson song "One", [[ChartDisplacement better known]] for its {{cover\|edUp}} by Music/ThreeDogNight.
130	* "808", a 1999 top-10 hit song by the girl group Blaque (co-written by a group member and Music/RKelly).
131	* All of Russian nu-metal band The Slot's albums - numbered in order of their release - with the exceptions of their English-language compilation, "Break The Code" and their recent anniversary compilation, "[=#SLOT15=]".
132	** One - "[=Slot1=]"
133	** Three - "Тринити" ("Trinity")
134	** Four - "4ever" ("Forever")
135	** Five - "F5"
136	** Six - "Шестой" ("Sixth")
137	** Seven - Septima
138	* Music/BlackSabbath's ''13'', as well as the instrumental "E5150". The latter is sort of a pun in roman numerals - "5 1 50" would be "V I L", so the title means "EVIL".
139	* Music/TheBeatles: ''Eight Days A Week'' (from ''Music/BeatlesForSale''), ''Revolution #1'', ''Revolution #9'' (''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''), ''One After 909.'' (from ''Music/LetItBe''). The band even released a compilation album named ''One'', collecting all their number one hit singles.
140	* ''Music/LedZeppelin'' ''[[Music/LedZeppelinII II]]'' and ''[[Music/LedZeppelinIII III]]''. The fourth album, which is technically untitled, is commonly referred to as ''Music/LedZeppelinIV''.
141	* The Music/JethroTull BSide "17".
142	* [[Music/BiffyClyro Biffy Clyro's]] "27" and "57", as well as the more recent "9/15ths".
143	* ''Music/TwentyTwenty'' by Music/TheBeachBoys partially gets its name due to being the 20th overall album the band had released for Capitol at that point, as well as being the final album the band would release for them before their departure for Creator/RepriseRecords.
144	* ''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'' by Music/BrianEno: All tracks have a title that describes which part of the record they can be found on: "1/1", for instance, means the first track of the first side.
145	* Music/JeanMichelJarre:
146	** On ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'', ''Music/{{Equinoxe}}'', ''Magnetic Fields'' and ''Chronologie'', the tracks all have the same title as the album with a "part number" attached to it, for example "Oxygène (Part IV)", later also simply called "Oxygène 4".
147	** ''Zoolook'' has "Ethnicolor (Part II)" as a follow-up to the opener, "Ethnicolor".
148	** ''Rendez-vous'' has "First Rendez-vous" through "Fifth Rendez-vous" and "Last Rendez-vous". "Second Rendez-vous" is sub-divided into four numbered parts, "Fifth Rendez-vous" into three; the parts have always been separate tracks on CD.
149	** "Industrial Revolution" on ''Revolutions'' is sub-divided into an "Overture" and three numbered parts.
150	** ''Oxygène 7-13'' itself, a variant on the NumberedSequel. Also, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the album title indicates]], the track numbers continue ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'''s numbering. "Oxygène 7" is sub-divided into three parts again.
151	** ''Sessions 2000'' has dates for titles. The album title itself fits more into AdvancedTech2000 territory, though. It's also an AnnualTitle in the sense that it was recorded in 2000; it was released in 2002, however.
152	** ''[[NumberedSequel Oxygène 3]]'', not to mention that the track numbering continues from "Oxygène 14" to "Oxygène 20".
153	** Unofficially, "Oxygène 5", "Equinoxe 8" and "Magnetic Fields 1" are sub-divided into two, two and three parts respectively. "Equinoxe 8 Part 1" is more commonly known as "Band In The Rain".
154	* Music/Excuse17: Excuse 17 were named by vocalist and guitarist Becca Albee's habit of arranging ideas and thoughts into chronological order.
155	* Music/DeathCabForCutie's "405", named after I-405, a stretch of freeway in Seattle, Washington.
156	* Music/ButtholeSurfers' "1408", after a home address the band once shared.
157	* Music/AphroditesChild's NewSoundAlbum ''666'' combines this trope with TheNumberOfTheBeast.
158	* "Albedo 0.39" by Music/{{Vangelis}} is actually a physical property of Earth.
159	* "Genesis Ch.1 v.32" by the Music/AlanParsonsProject looks like a reference to a [[Literature/TheBible Bible verse]], but Genesis chapter 1 has only 31 verses.
160	* "19th Nervous Breakdown" by Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}.
161	* {{Music/Slipknot}}'s SelfTitledAlbum starts with AlbumIntroTrack "742617000027", named after the album's catalog number.
162	* The 2018 Music/{{Sting}}/Shaggy collaboration ''44/876'' (which opens with a TitleTrack) takes its name from the international calling code for Sting's native UK and the [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan NANP area code]] for Shaggy's native Jamaica.
163	* Julio Iglesias' 1984 album ''1100 Bel Air Place'', which marked his breakthrough in the English-speaking world, was his then-current Los Angeles address.
164	* Music/TaylorSwift:
165	** ''Music/{{Fearless}}'' has a track named "Fifteen," dedicated to her best friend whom she met in high school.
166	** One of the singles from her fourth album ''[[Music/Red2012 Red]]'' is named "22," her age at the time of the album's release.
167	** Her fifth album is titled ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' after her birth year.
168	** Crossing over with SelfReferentialTrackPlacement, the first, seventh, and, eighth tracks from her eighth album ''[[Music/Folklore2020 folklore]]'' are "the 1", "seven", and "august" respectively.
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171	[[folder:Theater]]
172	* ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}''
173	[[/folder]]
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175	[[folder:Video Games]]
176	* ''VideoGame/Cassette50'', which is named after the 50 games that were included on the tape.
177	* The puzzle game ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree''.
178	* ''VideoGame/FE000000'', which is actually 2.008e19728, the number of eternity points for a complexity and complexity points for a finality. You can see it with the Hex notation.
179	* The huge number of games for the Platform/Nintendo64 (which itself is an example) that [[SuperTitle64Advance end in the number 64]]. Famous examples are:
180	** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''
181	** ''VideoGame/MarioKart64''
182	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''
183	** ''[[VideoGame/DrMario Dr. Mario 64]]''
184	** ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64''
185	** ''VideoGame/OgreBattle64''
186	** ''VideoGame/{{Clayfighter}} [[PunBasedTitle 63 1/3]]''.
187	* ''VideoGame/{{XIII}}''
188	* ''VideoGame/{{One}}''
189	* ''19 ([[GratuitousGerman Neunzehn]])'', a TurnBasedStrategy game for the Famicom.
190	* ''VideoGame/TennisForTwo'': Name incorporates the expected number of players.
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
194	* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' for the DS, which is also known as ''999''.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Western Animation]]
198	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''
199	[[/folder]]
200
201	[[folder:Webcomics]]
202	* ''Webcomic/LotusCobraIsEvil'': [[https://i.imgur.com/SDreFMM.jpg "Starting again from zero"]], which is used for a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
203	[[/folder]]
204
205	[[folder:Web Videos]]
206	* WebVideo/{{Numberphile}}: As a creator of math / number-focused videos, well, here's some of them:
207	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPFWfAxIiwg "11.11.11"]], about November 11th, 2011.
208	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umYvFdU54Po "255 and Pac-Man"]].
209	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLQNvuZH3GU "16"]].
210	* WebVideo/TheSpiffingBrit: The video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7ZRaKnO2A "0 - 1 Million : Cities Skylines Timelapse Part 1"]], where the description defines those numbers as referring to population.
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