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8	Sometimes when a work wants to sound comedic and edgy, or maybe just easy to remember, it will adopt a title consisting of {{One Word\|Title}}; a verb in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_perfect past perfect]] tense. That is, presenting something as both in the past and completed. ''"Finished"'' rather than ''"was finishing"''.
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10	The verb in the title was also chosen likely because it applies to a character, or something else in the story.
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12	Occasionally they'll even take a word that isn't a verb and make it into one. This trend seems to go in and out of style, though currently it seems to be in vogue once again.
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14	This trope doesn't always transfer well across languages, and works will often be given more self-explanatory titles overseas. In Russian, for example, it doesn't sound any kind of comedic or edgy. That's why ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' was released in Russia as ''Rapunzel: [[TheForeignSubtitle A Tangled Story]]''.
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16	A SubTrope of OneWordTitle.
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18	''Note: When adding examples, please give whatever context you can, even if it's as simple as "It's called 'Comicbook/{{Empowered}}' because it's a ProtagonistTitle and that's the main character's codename." If WordOfGod or WordOfSaintPaul exists for why the title was chosen, give that.''
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20	!!Examples:
21
22	[[foldercontrol]]
23
24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* ''Anime/{{Catnapped}}''
26	* ''Anime/{{Scryed}}''
27	* The North American dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' had an episode entitled "Treed".
28	[[/folder]]
29
30	[[folder:Arts]]
31	* ''Art/{{Gassed}}''
32	[[/folder]]
33
34	[[folder:Comic Books]]
35	* The first arc in Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' was called "Gifted", an allusion to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
36	* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'': It's the codename of a superheroine, so also a ProtagonistTitle.
37	* ''ComicBook/{{Hexed}}'': Named for the protagonist's condition.
38	* ''ComicBook/{{Hunted}}''
39	* ''ComicBook/{{Ungrounded}}''
40	[[/folder]]
41
42	[[folder:Fan Works]]
43	* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': It’s a stretch, but the name itself is '''Always Visible'''.
44	* ''Fanfic/CursedTheLastMockingbird9''
45	* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/#post-6355677 Captured!]]: Ami and the mercenaries get captured by an enemy Keeper.
46	* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': A few times:
47	** The stories:
48	*** ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumUnnoticed Unnoticed]]'': About a pony who is unnoticed.
49	*** ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumGoosed Goosed!]]'': About an invasion of geese into Ponyville.
50	** Chapters:
51	*** ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumASeriesOfEgotisticalEvents A Series Of Egotistical Events]]'', ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/386775/8/a-series-of-egotistical-events/grounded Grounded]]'', the final chapter.
52	* ''Fanfic/{{Quizzical}}'': Multiple:
53	** ''Thweet Geniuth'': ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/72475/7/thweet-geniuth/busted Busted]]''.
54	** ''Basements of Doom'':
55	*** Chapter 2: ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/79894/2/quizzical-greystone-and-the-basements-of-doom/chapter-2-pony-napped Pony-napped]]''.
56	*** Chapter 7: ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/79894/6/quizzical-greystone-and-the-basements-of-doom/chapter-6-zapped Zapped!]]''.
57	* ''Fanfic/{{Derailed}}'': A PunBasedTitle because it involves a train trip gone awry.
58	* ''Fanfic/{{Adjacency}}'': The fifth chapter, [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/144314/5/adjacency/chapter-5-scattered "Scattered"]].
59	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinOnlineVS'':
60	** Pico's new song against the Uberkids is called "Unloaded" as a reference to the Mindchamber animation that it's based off of, which is itself referencing Film/TheMatrix2Reloaded.
61	** In a less transparent example, [[WebAnimation/Eddsworld Eduardo]]'s song is called "Challeng-Edd", which is a PortmanTitle of "challenged" and "Edd".
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
65	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'', which had the working title of ''Anna and the Snow Queen'' and kept it in at least one country (Japan). In an interview with ''Bleeding Cool'' in September 2013, Producer Peter Del Vecho explained the new name was a DoubleMeaningTitle referring to the snowy environment that dominates throughout the film and the frozen sisterly relationship that is the focus of the story, plus the frozen heart motif.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'': Titled as such because not only is the main character named Little Red Riding ''Hood'', but all the characters are hoodwinked (i.e. misled) by the film's HiddenVillain.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Originally titled ''Rapunzel'', it was renamed to appeal to a wider audience (the producers were afraid that the movie would get stuck in the GirlShowGhetto if it was named after the female lead).
68	[[/folder]]
69
70	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
71	* ''Film/FourClosed''
72	* ''Film/{{Accepted}}''
73	* ''Film/{{Afflicted}}''
74	* ''Film/{{Allied}}''
75	* ''Film/{{Amsterdamned}}''
76	* ''Film/{{Ambushed}}''
77	* ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}''
78	* ''Film/Bedazzled1967''
79	* ''Film/Bedazzled2000''
80	* ''Film/{{Bedeviled}}''
81	* ''Film/{{Begotten}}''
82	* ''Film/{{Bent}}''
83	* ''Film/{{Blooded}}'': Takes its title from the ritual of daubing a new hunter's cheeks with blood following their first kill. This happens in the film to Eve, and Ben explains the tradition as he does it, making it also a TitleDrop.
84	* ''Film/{{Bodied}}''
85	* ''Film/{{Botched}}''
86	* ''Film/Bound1996''
87	* ''Film/Branded2012''
88	* ''Film/{{Buried}}''
89	* ''Film/{{Bushwhacked}}''
90	* ''Film/{{Caged}}''
91	* ''Film/{{Carved}}''
92	* ''Film/{{Chained}}''
93	* ''Film/{{Contracted}}''
94	* ''Film/{{Cornered}}''
95	* ''Film/{{Crazed}}''
96	* ''Film/{{Cursed\|2005}}''
97	* ''Film/{{Deceived}}''T
98	* ''Film/Derailed2002''
99	* ''Film/{{Derailed}} (2005)''
100	* ''Film/{{Dismissed}}''
101	* ''Film/{{Elevated}}''
102	* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''
103	* ''Film/{{Exiled}}''
104	* ''Film/{{Fallen}}''
105	* ''Film/{{Flipped}}''
106	* ''Film/{{Found}}''
107	* ''Film/{{Freaked}}''
108	* ''Film/{{Gifted}}''
109	* ''Film/{{Godmothered}}''
110	* ''Film/{{Hardwired}}''
111	* ''Film/{{Hired}}''
112	* ''Film/Hunted1952''
113	* ''Film/{{Marooned}}''
114	* ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''
115	* ''Film/{{Obsessed}}''
116	* ''Film/{{Outsourced}}''
117	* ''Film/{{Paid}}''
118	* ''Film/Possessed1931''
119	* ''Film/{{Repossessed}}''
120	* ''Film/{{Savaged}}''
121	* ''Film/{{Saved}}''
122	* ''Film/{{Screwed}}''
123	* ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'': An example of the made-up-word variant.
124	* ''Film/{{Spellbound}}''
125	* ''Film/{{Strapped}}''
126	* ''Film/{{Taken}}''
127	* ''Film/Tormented1960''
128	* ''Film/Tormented2009''
129	* ''Film/{{Thunderstruck\|2012}}''
130	* ''Film/{{Uncaged}}''
131	* ''Film/{{Undefeated}}''
132	* ''Film/{{Undisputed}}''
133	* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', a [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] Western.
134	* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}''
135	* ''Film/{{Unhinged\|2020}}''
136	* ''Film/{{Uninhabited}}''
137	* ''Film/{{Uninvited\|1988}}''
138	* ''Unleashed'': Originally titled ''Film/DannyTheDog'', probably also changed to invoke this trope.
139	* ''Film/{{Wanted}}''
140	* ''Zapped'':
141	** ''Film/Zapped1982''
142	** ''Film/Zapped2014''
143	[[/folder]]
144
145	[[folder:Literature]]
146	* Creator/NaomiNovik's ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}''.
147	* Terry Wogan's book ''Literature/{{Banjaxed}}''.
148	* ''Literature/{{Flawed}}'': Naming the concept that is the central point of the world of the novel.
149	* ''Literature/{{Flipped}}''
150	* ''Literature/{{Enchanted}}''
151	* Haunted:
152	** ''Literature/Haunted1988''
153	** ''Literature/Haunted2005''
154	* ''Literature/{{Kidnapped}}''
155	* ''Literature/{{Matched}}'': About a girl who has been ''Matched'' to some boy. And its sequels:
156	** ''Crossed''
157	** ''Reached''
158	* Fully half of the titles from Kelley Armstrong's ''Literature/TheOtherworld'' series:
159	** Bitten
160	** Stolen
161	** Haunted
162	** Broken
163	** Frostbitten
164	** Spellbound
165	* Creator/DesmondWarzel's short story, [[http://www.goldenvisionsmagazine.biz/October-Flash-Fiction.html "Called"]].
166	* Thomas Pynchon's ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'' has a cheesy family film called ''Cashiered''.
167	* ''Literature/{{Repossessed}}''
168	* ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'': All 12 books of this series are past tense verbs:
169	** ''Marked''
170	** ''Betrayed''
171	** ''Chosen''
172	** ''Untamed''
173	** ''Hunted''
174	** ''Tempted''
175	** ''Burned''
176	** ''Awakened''
177	** ''Destined''
178	** ''Hidden''
179	** ''Revealed''
180	** ''Redeemed''
181	* ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles'': Some of its books:
182	** Hounded
183	** Hexed
184	** Hammered
185	** Tricked
186	** Trapped
187	** Hunted
188	** Shattered
189	* ''Literature/ThereIsNoEpicLootHereOnlyPuns'': [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/78069566 "Catfished"]], due to involving fishing and a catfish.
190	[[/folder]]
191
192	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
193	* ''Series/{{Accused}}''
194	* ''Series/{{Banished\|2015}}''
195	* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''
196	* ''Series/{{Bitten}}''
197	* ''Series/Branded1965''
198	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had episodes titled:
199	** "Flooded"
200	** "Smashed"
201	** "Wrecked"
202	** "Gone" (That's an irregular verb).
203	* ''Series/{{Bunkd}}''
204	* ''Series/BustedKorea'' (Literally ''The Criminal is Gone'' in the original Korean.)
205	* ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}''
206	* ''Series/{{Chopped}}''
207	* ''Series/{{Delocated}}''
208	* ''Series/DisConnected''
209	* ''Series/{{Disjointed}}''
210	* ''Series/{{Enlisted}}''
211	* ''Series/{{Enlightened}}''
212	* ''Series/{{Excused}}''
213	* ''Series/{{Hounded}}''
214	* ''Series/{{Infested}}''
215	* ''Series/{{Justified}}''
216	* ''Series/{{Kidnapped}}'' (NBC CopShow)
217	* ''Series/{{Kidnapped\|MTV}}'' (MTV GameShow)
218	* ''Series/{{Lost}}''
219	* ''Series/{{Mortified}}'': Describes how the central character usually feels.
220	* ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}''
221	* ''Series/{{Outsourced}}''
222	* ''Series/{{Pranked}}''
223	* ''Series/{{Privileged}}''
224	* ''Series/{{Punkd}}'': Creator of the '''d'' variant that has begun to show up more often. When Jeff Bridges hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' there was a commercial for his new show ''Jeff'd'', which was a really lame version of ''Punk'd''.
225	* ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'': Some episodes:
226	** "Shorthanded"
227	** "Fractured"
228	* ''Series/{{Shafted}}''
229	* ''Series/{{Spaced}}''
230	* ''Series/{{Spirited}}''
231	* ''Series/{{Switched}}'': "Switched" refers to the body switching that happens in the story, but it subtly refers to [[spoiler:how Umine's and Ayumi's world views have changed]] by the end of the story.
232	* ''Series/{{Taken}}''
233	* ''Series/{{Tanked}}''
234	* ''Series/{{Torn}}''
235	* ''Trapped'':
236	** ''Series/Trapped2015''
237	** ''Series/TrappedGameShow''
238	* ''Series/{{Trashed}}''
239	* ''Series/{{Trollied}}''
240	* ''Series/Twisted2013''
241	* ''Series/{{Undeclared}}''
242	* ''Series/{{Undressed}}'': Referencing how that state is a requirement for most sex, and it features ''frank'' discussion of sex and sexuality, as well showing a lot of {{fanservice}} from both men and women and sex scenes that pushed what could be shown on basic cable.
243	* ''Series/{{Unforgotten}}''
244	* ''Series/{{Unwrapped}}''
245	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': At least one episode, "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS04E11Claimed Claimed]]".
246	* ''Series/{{Warped}}'' (its episode titles are titled this way as well)
247	* ''Series/{{Wrecked}}''
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Magazines]]
251	* The now-defunct ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}'' Magazine, as well as the current website spawned from its ashes.
252	[[/folder]]
253
254	[[folder:Music]]
255	* "Busted:
256	** [[Music/TheBonzoDogBand The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]]'s "Busted".
257	** There's also "Busted" by Harlan Howard, made famous by Music/RayCharles and Music/JohnnyCash,
258	** The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' song "B-U-S-T-E-D".
259	** Also the group, Music/{{Busted}}.
260	* Son of Svengoolie's last show had the song "Cancelled."
261	* ''[[AuthorAppeal Extremely]]'' [[RunningGag common]] in Music/{{Disturbed}}'s discography. In fact you can sum up the entire discography of as Verbed Title, Adjective Noun, TheXOfY, or The Something.
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
265	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''
266	* ''TabletopGame/{{Unmasked}}''
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder:Video Games]]
270	* ''VideoGame/{{Bejeweled}}''
271	* ''VideoGame/{{Blasted}}''
272	* ''VideoGame/{{Bound}}''
273	* ''VideoGame/{{Capsized}}''
274	* ''VideoGame/{{Captured}}''
275	* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins''
276	* ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped''
277	* ''VideoGame/{{Crazd}}''
278	* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}''
279	* ''VideoGame/{{Exhumed}}''
280	* ''VideoGame/{{Forced}}''
281	* ''VideoGame/{{Loaded}}'' and its sequel ''Re-Loaded''
282	* ''VideoGame/{{Shackled}}''
283	* ''VideoGame/{{Sheltered}}''
284	* ''VideoGame/{{Stolen}}''
285	* ''VideoGame/{{Stranded}}''
286	* ''VideoGame/{{Submerged}}''
287	* ''VideoGame/{{Sundered}}''
288	* ''VideoGame/{{Suspended}}''
289	* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}''
290	* ''VideoGame/{{Twisted}}: The Game Show''
291	* ''VideoGame/{{Unavowed}}''
292	* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''
293	* ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}''
294	* ''VideoGame/{{Unloved}}''
295	* The subtitles to ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' games are often named this way. So far there's been:
296	** ''[[VideoGame/WarioWareTwisted Twisted]]'': The subtitle ''Twisted!'' refers to its Platform/GameBoyAdvance cartridge having a built-in gyroscope, allowing the game to showcase microgames that revolve around tilting the handheld system.
297	** ''[[VideoGame/WarioWareTouched Touched]]'': Being a Platform/NintendoDS game, the game is subtitled ''Touched!'' to reference the reliance on the system's touch screen to play microgames (the microphone is used as well).
298	** ''[[VideoGame/WarioWareSnapped Snapped]]'': The game revolves around the player making use of the photograh shots taken at their face and hands in order to play microgames, hence the subtitle ''Snapped!''
299	* ''VideoGame/{{Whacked}}''
300	[[/folder]]
301
302	[[folder:Webcomics]]
303	* ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}''
304	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
305	* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=281-haunted Comic 281: "Haunted"]], named for ascribing flying spatulas to ghosts. Of pancakes.
306	* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''
307	* ''Webcomic/{{Thunderstruck}}''
308	[[/folder]]
309
310	[[folder:Web Videos]]
311	* ''WebVideo/PokemonTalk'': "Animated", where the Pokemon are animated instead of plushies.
312	* ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'': Also a DoubleMeaningTitle: "Unraveled" refers both to BDG picking apart the lore of the games at the seams, and the lore picking him apart at the seams.
313	[[/folder]]
314
315	[[folder:Western Animation]]
316	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': Multiple episode titles have been formatted this way, such as "Gridlocked", "Raccooned", "Uncaged", "Skunked, "Clubbed", "Desserted", "Chipwrecked", "Squashed!", and "Takened".
317	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cellbound}}''
318	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Committed}}''
319	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Looped}}''
320	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': It's common for a special (and before Season 5, other [[ExtraLongEpisode Extra-Long Episodes]]) to be titled this way with an exclamation mark at the end (e.g. "Tricked!", "Tripped!", "Cooked!", "Schooled!", "Ghosted!"). The SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' uses the title convention for some of its own specials too ("Cursed!").
321	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}''
322	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}''
323	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}''
324	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Unsupervised}}''
325	* Episode 3A of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was titled "Jinxed".
326	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E24Bubbled Bubbled]]": Steven is stuck in a bubble in outer space.
327	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The episode, "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderImprisoned Imprisoned]]".
328	* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' was titled [[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS4E37Cleaved "Cleaved"]].
329	[[/folder]]
330
331	[[folder:Tropes]]
332	* {{Birdcaged}}
333	* {{Jossed}}
334	* PressGanged
335	[[/folder]]

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