Character Name and the Noun Phrase

GREAT!
Now do the same title format six more times!^note Seven, if you count the change from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone".

"It will be called Harry Potter and... something. Catchy, don't you think? And I think I'll follow the same model for seven."

— J. K. Rowling (on the title of the sixth book before it was announced)

This is a standard way to name individual works in a loosely-linked series; it is currently most common in children's books. Frequently the noun phrase in question will be of The X of Y form.

A common variant is to use the possessive instead of "and the", giving Character Name's Noun Phrase or Character Name and his Noun Phrase.

It's common to play with this trope in parodical works, whether the work itself is the parody (Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan) or the parody is an in-universe Expy (Angelica Button and The Dragon King's Trundle Bed). It's also helpful when writing crossovers, especially in Fan Fiction. Just take the "Character Name" part and add the "And The Noun Phrase" part from another series to create a Portmantitle: Indiana Jones and the Chocolate Factory. Another variation is to add the title of a movie that doesn't follow this pattern to a Character Name from a series that does: Indiana Jones and the Minority Report. (Confusingly, there is a novel called Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone, written before the Harry Potter book came out.)

While not to be confused with The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles, there can be overlap. See also Name and Name, in which the noun phrase refers to one of the characters.

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The Trope and the Example Subpages:

• Literature and the Words That Fuel Imagination

The Trope and the Other Examples:

Anime & Manga and the World of Wonders for Otaku

• Most of the episodes of the Cardcaptor Sakura anime have Japanese titles that begin with "Sakura and..."
• Many of the Doraemon movies have titles beginning with "Nobita and..." The possessive variation is also common (with Nobita), Nobita being the boy who the titular Doraemon has been sent from the future to aid.
• When the third Himitsu no Akko-chan anime was dubbed in Italian, it was given the title "Stilly e lo Specchio Magico" ("Stilly^note Stilly is Akko-chan's Italian name. and the Magic Mirror").^note The first anime had been dubbed as simply "Lo Specchio Magico", while the second was dubbed as "Un Mondo di Magia" ("A World of Magic").
• Jack and the Witch, an anime movie made by Toei in the 1960s.
• Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, the English title of the manga series Hoshi no Samidare.
• Mary and The Witch's Flower, a 2017 anime movie by Studio Ponoc.
• Every chapter and episode title in Mashle: Magic and Muscles follows this theme, such as "Mash Burnedead and the Magic Scale" or "Mash Burnedead and the Unpopular Classmate." As it's set at a Wizarding School, this theming was most certainly derived from Harry Potter, albeit most of them are Played for Laughs by sounding a lot more mundane.
• This is the case for several of the Pokémon movies and a two-part special (Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu!). The character named in the title is usually a secondary character exclusive to the film (the main characters are always Ash and his friends), often a rare or legendary Pokemon that would be out of place in a regular episode. They are:
  • Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
  • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
  • Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
  • Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
  • Pokémon: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
  • Pokémon: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
  • Pokémon: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
  • Pokémon: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
• Spice and Wolf (also known in Japan as Wolf and Spice) has each episode of its anime adaptation titled "Wolf and" something relating to the episode.
• Unico in the Island of Magic
• The German dubbed version of the Vicky the Viking anime is called Wickie und die Starken Männer (lit. "Vicky and the Strong Men").
• Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, though it has become an Artifact Title since it was revealed that there are in fact 14 witches at a time, and they are regularly replaced, making the number of witches the titular Yamada has met no less than 21.
• Yotsuba&!, though it's the titles of the individual chapters instead of the volumes.

Asian Animation and the Slice of Asian Life

• Happy Heroes: The mini-seasons Happy Heroes and the Magical Lab and Happy Heroes and the City of Mystery. In this case it's more like "Character Group Name and the Noun Phrase".
• Jet and the Pet Rangers
• Certain episodes of Motu Patlu have titles following this naming format. Usually these are named "Motu Patlu aur [x]" (with "aur" meaning "and" in Hindi).
• Noonbory and the Super 7, which also uses this for some episode titles:
  • "Coldygury and the Hot Lost Buns"
  • "Luky and the Runaway Tree"
  • "Wangury and the Windbike"
  • "Rosygury and the Bee Bee Trap"
  • "Coldygury and the Dotoris"
  • "Cozy and the Rosy-Stalk"

Comic Books and the Miraculous Adventures Drawn on Papers

• A lot of the Asterix books have this format: Asterix and the Golden Sickle, Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, etc. (It was considerably rarer in the original French, though).
• The Atomic Robo series. The first collection is Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne.
• Batgirl and the Birds of Prey
• Batman and the Outsiders
• Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!^note The Animated Adaptation was broadcast in Canada as "Bucky O'Hare and the Toad 'Menace'" due to the word "war" being taboo for animated / family shows at the time.
• Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!
• Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen
• Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxi Cab
• Doctor Doom and The Masters of Evil. A six issue miniseries revolving around Doctor Doom teaming up with several Marvel villains^note  Or rather, he lets them work for him as he's achieving his own personal goals.
• Italian Disney comic stories (and Italian translations of Disney comics from other languages) use such titles all the time.
• Guardian and the Newsboy Legion
• The Hilda series of graphic novels initially subverted this by having the first book titled Hildafolk, but starting from the second book (Hilda and the Midnight Troll) onwards, it's played straight. (It got to a point that the first book was eventually reprinted as Hilda and the Troll to go with the flow.)
• The comic for Jem is officially called "Jem And The Holograms". Unlike in the cartoon, Rio has complained about how he thinks Jem is putting herself above of the others.
• Josie and the Pussycats started out as a Slice of Life comic named "Josie!" before it became about a band.
• Mr. T and the T-Force
• Red Hood and the Outlaws
• Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series uses the character's name in all six volume titles - the strictest example of this trope is the third volume, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness. Which, in turn is a reference to The Smashing Pumpkins album titled in the same format (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness).
• Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
• Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool
• Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes
• Tintin avoided this trope until the series' final two albums, Tintin and the Picaros and the unfinished Tintin and Alpha-Art. The films with original stories (animated or live-action) use it more, with Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, Tintin and the Golden Fleece and Tintin and the Blue Oranges.
• Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
• The first volume of The Unwritten is titled "Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity". The in-universe Tommy Taylor novels also follow this naming pattern, more likely than not to specifically evoke the Harry Potter series.
• Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics)
• Wonder Woman and the Star Riders

Comic Strips and the Little Stories Printed on Newspapers

• Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie! As well as the lesser-known Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander.
• The Captain and the Kids (original title: The Katzenjammer Kids)
• Terry and the Pirates

Fairy Tales and the Stories as Old as Time

• Catherine and Her Fate: Doubles as Name and Name, since the fate is an Anthropomorphic Personification.
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A young girl named Goldilocks wanders into the house of a family of three bears, eating their food and sleeping on their furniture while the bears are out.
• King Midas and the Golden Touch: The protagonist, King Midas, wishes that everything he touches would turn to gold, hence giving he himself a magic touch.
• Aladdin and the Magic Lamp: Protagonist Aladdin finds a magical lamp which contains a genie that will grant him three wishes.
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Cinderella and the Glass Slipper: Cinderella, a young woman being raised by her cruel stepmother, goes to a royal ball wearing magical clothes and falls in love with the prince. At the end of the night they vanish, with the exception of her glass slippers - one of which was inadvertently left at the palace, and which is the prince's only clue to her identity.
• Jack and the Beanstalk: Gullible Jack trades his cow for magic beans, which grow into a giant beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk into the clouds and an adventure ensues.
• The Princess and the Pea

Fan Works and the Pride of Fans

• Hermione Granger: The Witching Hour (Harry Potter, The Gamer): In a variant using colons instead of the conjunction "and".
• Scott Pilgrim vs. Snow Flower and the Secret Hall Pass. Played straight, since the title is a parody of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, of course.
• Courtney and the Violin of Despair, with the noun phrase naming the story's Artifact of Death. In addition, this Total Drama story ends with a sequel hook for a story that (if it ever gets written) would obviously be called, "Courtney and the Violin of Doom".
• The Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories "Empath And The Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Empath And The Golden Magic Bird", and "Grouchy And The Love Doll".
• Every chapter of My Little Wesker follows the naming scheme "Albert Wesker and (the) [phrase]".
• Harry Potter and the Florinese Dream, a very old crossover putting the Harry Potter characters into The Princess Bride.
• Bug Princess and the Seven Months
• In-universe in Saving the Saviour. Tonks owns a romance novel called Isabile and the Werewolf of the Rannock Moor.
• Parodied with Harry Potter and the Something Something.
• Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash.
• The fic which was ultimately named Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium had, for many months prior to publication, the Working Title of Varric Tethras and the Continual Nervous Breakdown.
• One chapter of Junior Officers is titled "Blythe and the Risso's Dolphin".
• Infinity Train: Grace and the Angry Glitch (Tech) (Infinity Train, Glitch Techs) which represents the titular characters of the story.

Films — Animation and the Epic of Fully Animated Motion Picture

• The third movie in Disney's Aladdin trilogy was called Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
• The first two Winnie the Pooh featurettes by Disney ('...and the Honey Tree', '...and the Blustery Day'), as well as the fourth ('...and a Day for Eeyore').
• A few of the Barbie Direct to Video movies follow this pattern:
  • Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
  • The full title of Barbie: Mariposa is "Barbie Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends".
  • Barbie & The Diamond Castle
  • Barbie and the Three Musketeers
  • Barbie: Mariposa and the Fairy Princess
  • Barbie and the Secret Door
• Beauty and the Beast
• A number of the Scooby-Doo made-for-video animated movies follow this (Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost, Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster, Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword, etc.)
• Thunder and the House of Magic, the American title for the Belgian film The House of Magic.
• Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• The English title of Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas.^note The original Spanish title (translated to Tad Jones 2: The Secret of King Midas) follows the Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo format instead.
• Three of the Tinker Bell films are named this way: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, and Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast.

Films — Live-Action and the Superiority of High Octane Realism

• Done in countries which put an "007" in the title of all James Bond films (007 and the Goldfinger etc.).
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
• Anna and the King of Siam, as well as a later (non-musical) adaptation called Anna and the King.
• Arthur and the Invisibles
• Chu Chu And The Philly Flash
• Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs.
• Dr. Who and the Daleks.
• Eddie and the Cruisers
• The Emperor and His Brother
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
• The Gendarme film series:
  • Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres
  • Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes
• Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
• Harry and the Hendersons
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Indiana Jones. Even Raiders of the Lost Ark has been retconned into Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer.
• Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Robin and the 7 Hoods
• Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
• Sarah Landon and The Paranormal Hour.
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Superman And The Mole Men
• Canadian children's film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller.
• Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry.
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold

Live-Action TV and the Living Tales on the Telly

• 2 Broke Girls combines this with Episode Finishes the Title (where the episode name constitutes the "and the Noun Phrase" part).
• The Barbarian and the Troll
• The title of literally every Chicken Jane and Cliff Hanger book in Between the Lions.
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
• d'Artagnan And Three Musketeers
• Doctor Who: During the classic series, scripts were often titled internally with a "Dr. Who and the..." format to prevent them getting mixed up with the scripts for other shows — so you'd have scripts called things like "Dr. Who and the Slave Traders" (part of "The Romans") or "Dr. Who and the Temple of Evil" (part of "The Aztecs"), and, as the character's name is not "Dr. Who", broadcast as "The Slave Traders" and "The Temple of Evil". This practice did leak into the show twice by accident — the first time was when the series abandoned the practice of titling each episode in favour of titling each serial, causing some internal confusion, so the Next Episode title at the end of "The Gunfighters" was shown as "Dr. Who and the Savages", though it was fixed in the serial itself. The second time was just a slip-up, and led to a Jon Pertwee story being called "Doctor Who and the Silurians" for the whole way through. The "Dr. Who and the..." titles have been used occasionally in the Expanded Universe as an Intentionally Awkward Title designed to evoke feelings of Fan Dumb (such as the audio drama "Dr. Who and the Pirates") as well as the occasional Canon Discontinuity (as in Dr. Who and the Daleks, which starred a human time traveller named Dr. Who).
  • Straight examples include "Delta and the Bannermen" and short "Clarence and the Whispermen"
  • "Vincent and the Doctor" LOOKS like this trope, but is actually an example of Name and Name.
• Gabby Duran & the Unsittables
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir put the trope into reverse.
• Jake and the Fatman
• All episodes of Joey were titled "Joey and the [noun phrase]".
  • This is the Idiosyncratic Episode Naming format of Caroline in the City, only with "Caroline" in place of "Joey."
• Johnny and the Sprites
• The Librarians 2014 combines this with Episode Finishes the Title (where the episode name constitutes the "and the Noun Phrase" part).
• Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
• All episodes of Monk have titles following the format of either "Mr. Monk and the [noun phrase]" or "Mr. Monk [does something]", with the one exception being "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk". This was lampshaded in an episode when an obsessed fan mentions she wrote a Fan Fic with a title fitting this trope.
• NCIS: New Orleans, season 2 has "Billy and the Kid".
• Roger and the Rottentrolls.
• Just about every episode of the British courtroom mystery series Rumpole of the Bailey had its title in the form of "Rumpole and the...".
• Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
• The CBBC comedy adventure series Uncle Jack and Operation Green and its sequels Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster, Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy and Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon.

Music and the Wonderful Melodies

• Long John and the Silver Beetles (after Buddy Holly and the Crickets), before shortening their name to The Beatles.
  • Prior to being just The Beatles, they were back-up under the billing Tony Sheridan And The Beatles.
• Bill Haley and his Comets.
• David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, possibly his best-remembered album.
• T.Rex, featuring Bowie's pal Marc Bolan, put out an obscure LP called ''Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow,'. The title plays on Bolan's late 60's plan if T. Rex did not work out as a band to adopt the name "Zinc Alloy" for continued music-making; a name which partially inspired the persona of Ziggy Stardust. For reasons that may have to do with label mandate "Marc Bolan and T.Rex" was put on the album cover as well. The inclusion of "...And the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow" is most likely a tongue-in-cheek nod to Bowie's successful album.
• Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
• The Smashing Pumpkins's Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
• Hootie & the Blowfish. Subverted in that "Hootie" is not a character name, even if a lot of people think it is.
  • Actually a subversion, as the band was named after two friends of the band members (one friend nicknamed "Hootie", the other nicknamed "the Blowfish"); the ambiguous grammatical number of the latter led people to think it was this trope.
• Parodied by the groups Jump 'n' The Saddle and Phil 'n' The Blanks.
• "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", a famous Rush song.
• Elton John has the song "Benny and the Jets" and the album Capt. Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
• The Supremes later became "Diana Ross and the Supremes".
• Red Nickels and his Five Pennies.
• Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, before Peter Green left the group
• Tears for Fears' Raoul and the Kings of Spain and "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams."
• George Thorogood and the (Delaware) Destroyers (of "Bad to the Bone" fame)
• Huey Lewis and the News
• Adam and the Ants
• During the Big Band era, many acts were billed as "[Name of Bandleader] and His Orchestra."
• Mexican band Beto y Sus Canarios (Beto and His Canaries)
• Brazilian band Kid Abelha e os Abóboras Selvagens (Kid Bee and the Savage Pumpkins)
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz
• DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince (also a Name and Name example, although The Fresh Prince was the actual rapper ^note In fact one of their albums even states this very fact ("He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper."))
• Dion and the Belmonts (although Dion wasn't originally a member)
• The same goes for (Frankie Lymon and) the Teenagers.
• Peter and the Wolf
• Bob Marley and the Wailers. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
• Prince and the Revolution^note "The Revolution" was actually his touring band. Prince and the New Power Generation
• Bruce Hornsby and the Range (best known for their song "(That's Just) The Way it is"^note Which may be better known to hip hop fans as having been sampled by 2Pac for his posthumous song "Changes".)
• Question Mark And The Mysterians , of 1966's "96 Tears" fame
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
• Dr Hook and the Medicine Show of "Cover of The Rolling Stone" fame, before they shortened their name to just Dr. Hook.
• Echo & the Bunnymen of "The Killing Moon" Fame
• Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers is what a good portion of the Modern Lovers albums are labeled as.
• Punk band Richard Hell and the Voidoids
• Jaron and the Long Road to Love, a solo project of Jaron Lowenstein.
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, an indie cover band.^note They took their name from the name of a book. They are often called either "Me First" or "The Gimmes" for short.
• Martha (Reeves) and the Vandellas (of "Dancing in the Street" fame)
• Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians (of "What I Am" fame)
• Gladys Knight and the Pips
• K. C. and the Sunshine Band
• The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp"
• Derek and the Dominos^note Started by Eric Clapton, it lasted for only one album.
• Kobra And The Lotus
• Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (best known for their [famous] cover version of Hot Rod Lincoln^note Although, it had previously been a hit for Johnny Bond, who also covered the song.)
  • Charlie Ryan and the Livingston Boys; a solo project by Charlie Ryan, who originally wrote and recorded the song.
• Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine (although before that, they were known as simply "Miami Sound Machine"^note The name was dropped altogether beginning with "Cuts Both Ways" in 1989, officially making Gloria a solo act, although it was still the same band.)
• Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (best remembered for their New Year's Eve broadcasts^note First on radio, then on TV. long before Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve^note Although even before that, he had done a New Year's Eve special in Philadelphia (where American Bandstand was initially produced) in the 1950s.)
• Herb Alpert^note The "A" of A&M Records which he co-founded with Jerry Moss. and the Tijuana Brass^note It was initially a solo project that didn't even have a full band at first. The group has also been billed as "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass", and are commonly known as simply "The Tijuana Brass".
• Katrina and the Waves
• Tears for Fears:
  • Raoul and the Kings of Spain
  • "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams"
• Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers
• Reparata and the Delrons

Myths & Religion and the Life of Gods

• From The Bible, we have "Noah and the Ark" (more popularly known as "Noah's Ark"), a story of Earth's last good human being and his family being saved from a flood after God instructs them to build a giant ark and pile all the animals on Earth into it.
• From Greek Mythology, we have Pandora's Box. Pandora, a human woman, receives a mysterious box as a wedding present with firm instructions to never open it. Curiosity eventually gets the better of her and she opens the box.
• King Arthur and the (12) Knights of the Round Table.

Pinballs and the Fantastic Flippers

• Capt. Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, named after the Elton John album of the same title.
• Dr. Dude and his Excellent Ray
• Asteroid Annie and the Aliens
• Elvira and the Party Monsters
• Granny and the Gators (video game/pinball table hybrid)

Podcasts and the Tales Brought to You by Lovely Voices

• All of the Juno Steel episodes of The Penumbra Podcast have titles that begin with "Juno Steel and..." (except for Nureyev's episodes, which begin with "Peter Nureyev and...").

Radio and the Wavelengths of Knowledge

• Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, the title invented by Mark Kermode when reviewing the Percy Jackson and the Olympians film and pointing out its similarities with Harry Potter.
• Some of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audios and novels have titles of the format "Professor Bernice Summerfield and...". Given that she's a former Doctor Who companion and an Adventurer Archaeologist, this is likely intended to reflect both the Target novelisations and Indiana Jones.
• Hamish and Dougal's Indy parody has the title "Inverurie Jones and the Thimble of Doom".

Tabletop Games and the Adventure of Physical Materials

• The pulp Role-Playing Game Spirit of the Century has players collaborate to come up with stories between their characters, using this or a few other 'old-style' penny-dreadful varieties.

Theatre and the Events Reenacted on Stage

• Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Jacobowsky and the Colonel
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which is based upon a Biblical story about a well-liked and pious man named Joseph who receives a fantastic multicolored coat.

Toys and the Bane of Childhood

• Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls
• There were two Barbie sub-lines, both music themed: Barbie and the Rockers, and Barbie and the Sensations.

Video Games and the Electronic Amusement Apparatus

• Allora And The Broken Portal
• Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
• Asterix and the Magic Carpet
• Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
• Bendy and the Dark Revival
• Bendy and the Ink Machine
• Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
• Billy Blade and the Temple of Time
• Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. Billy Hatcher, who coincidentally has a Punny Name that makes him perfect for the task at hand, and his friends are called upon to save a bunch of birds in their home world from darkness. The powers he receives to do so involve the ability to create and push around giant eggs.
• The Borderlands series typically uses this naming convention for their DLC. Examples include "Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot" and "Claptrap's Robot Revolution" from the first game as well as "Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty", "Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage", and "Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt" from the sequel.
• A Boy and His Blob, original and remake.
• Captain America and the Avengers
• Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle
• A few of the Dark Parables subtitles:
  • Jack and the Sky Kingdom
  • The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide
  • Goldilocks and the Fallen Star
  • Swan Princess and the Dire Tree
• Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
• Elliot and the Musical Journey
• Eric and the Floaters, the European localization of the original Bomberman for the MSX.
• Felix And The Fruit Monsters, a loose Pac-Man derivative for the BBC Micro.
• Fin and the Ancient Mystery
• Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe
• Garfield and His Nine Lives
• Gina Lash And The Temple Of Swirls and its sequel, Gina Lash And The Spy Who Swirled Me
• Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure for the DS mixes it up a bit.
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: Jimmy, is the protagonist, and the Pulsating Mass is the main threat.
• Kid Kool And The Quest For The Seven Wonder Herbs
• Some Kirby games make use of this naming convention:
  • Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
  • Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
    • Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush ^note  The European and Australian Market-Based Title for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
• Lufia & The Fortress of Doom
• Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
• Malcolm And The Magnificent Pie
• Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift
• Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
• Max And The Magic Marker
• Mhairie Sioux Escrivain And The Dracula Of Hogwarts
• Montahue Scott and the Mobius Belt
• Mortimer And The Riddles Of The Medallion
• The Mortimer Beckett series:
  • Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor
  • Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox
  • Mortimer Beckett and the Lost King
  • Mortimer Beckett and the Crimson Thief
  • Mortimer Beckett and the Book of Gold
• Mr Robot And His Robot Factory
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• P.P. Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
• Pier Solar and the Great Architects
• Professor Fizzwizzle And The Molten Mystery
• The Princess Remedy series: Idiosyncratic Episode Naming to create long titles in a "Princess Remedy In A [X] of [Y]" style:
  • Princess Remedy In a World of Hurt
  • Princess Remedy In A Heap Of Trouble
• Professor Layton and the (thing that is going to cause Layton and company a world of trouble)
• Rex Nebular And The Cosmic Gender Bender
• Three of the Samantha Swift games follow this formula:
  • 'Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Atlantis
  • Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch
  • Samantha Swift and the Fountains of Fate
• Shantae:
  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
  • Shantae and the Seven Sirens
• Sinbad And The Throne Of The Falcon
• Sir Ramic Hobbes and the High Level Gorilla and its sequel, Sir Ramic Hobbes and the Oriental Wok.
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
• With the Sonic Storybook Series, we have games like Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight.
• Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
• Spodgeville Murphy and the Jewelled Eye of Wossname
• The various Sydney Hunter games have these titles.
  • Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death
  • Sydney Hunter and the Shrines of Peril
  • Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe
  • Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan
• Tak and the Power of Juju
• Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life
• Thaxted Havershill and the Golden Wombat
• Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon
• Ulysses And The Golden Fleece
• Wally Bear and the NO! Gang
• Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey
• Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Visual Novels and the Japanese's Miraculous Combination of Words and Images

• Marco & the Galaxy Dragon
• Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet

Web Animation and the Living Drawings of the Net

• Eddie at The LMV follows this format but with the word "at" instead of "and". "The LMV" is the name of the band that Eddie is a part of.

Webcomics and the Diverse Drawings of the Net

• The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer
• The Girl Genius bound collections (Kaja Foglio has said that this is a Shout-Out to Tom Swift); in the series itself, the Heterodyne Boys books are apparently all titled like this.
  • Incidentally, the "Heterodyne Boys" appears to be a reference to The Hardy Boys series, which was from the same StrateMeyer Syndicate as Tom Swift.
• In Narbonic, storylines featuring Lupin "Wolf" Madblood had this sort of titles: "Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit", "Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair", etc.
• El Goonish Shive has the storylines: "Indiana Elliot and the Temple of Swedish Furniture" referencing Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and "Nanase Craft and the Crypt of Zappiness", referencing Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

Web Originals and the Wonders of the Net

• Harry Potter is spoofed in the science-fiction webzine "Axxón" in a fake book review, where the main character is called "Hewlett Packard" and some titles (translated from Spanish) are: Hewlett Packard and the Primordial Matter, Hewlett Packard and the Cold-Storage Chamber, Hewlett Packard and the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes, Hewlett Packard and the Recalcitrant Bastard. More (in Spanish) here.
• The first The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story is entitled Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving. Amusingly, Lord Thymon is actually the villain of the piece while the Department are the heroes.
• Another suggestion, courtesy of the author of Get Medieval: random historical events.◊ It works quite well.
• Karolina Żebrowska:Most of the Miss Tatternickle sketches have their names styled this way. For example "Miss Tatternickle And The Mysterious Box" and "Miss Tatternickle And The Graveyard Mystery".
• All the Phase novels in the Whateley Universe have titles like this. "Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind", "Ayla and the Blackmailer", ...
• Scrimmy Bingus and the Crungy Spingus

Western Animation and the Occidental Art of Whimsical Illustrations

• Alvin and the Chipmunks (sometimes billed as simply "The Chipmunks")
• A lot of episodes of Arthur are like this.
• Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
• Blaze and the Monster Machines
• Bubu And The Little Owls
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The protagonists in the case are the noun phrase, the Planeteers, five kids who travel the world educating people (and the audience at home) about the importance of taking care of the environment. The superhero Captain Planet himself can be, and is, summoned by the Planeteers at least once per episode to deal with a particularly dire threat, but he is only the focus of the action for a minute or two.
• Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys
• The Dora the Explorer episode "Dora and the Very Sleepy Bear".
• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
• Many (but not all) episodes of Nickelodeon's Doug are titled this way, along with almost every episode of the Disney version.
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• Fifi and the Flowertots
• The Flintstone Kids: The Brazilian title of "To Baby or Not to Baby" is "Capitão Caverna e o Elixir da Juventude"^note Captain Caveman and the Elixir of Youth.
• The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
• Many Franklin stories are titled this way. Additionally, the CGI follow-up is titled Franklin and Friends.
• Galtar and the Golden Lance
• Garfield and Friends
• The Ghost and Molly McGee
• Goober and the Ghost Chasers
• Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, though this title was never used on screen. The show itself is simply called "Heathcliff", with The Catillac Cats identified on screen as "Cats And Company."
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The Nostalgia Critic's review of the live-action movie (called Masters of the Universe, weirdly enough) featured many parody renamings throughout, including He-Man and the Mystic Time Travelers of the Oingo Boingo.
• Every episode of Hercules: The Animated Series was "Hercules and the (insert noun phrase here)."
• Holly Hobbie and Friends
• Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
• Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
• Jamie And The Magic Torch
• Jem and the Holograms (although both the show and the toyline accompanying it are simply named Jem). One episode involved an elderly singer named Bobby Bailey who was once the lead singer of "Bobby Bailey and the Tornadoes."
• Josie and the Pussycats.
• Kid Cosmic episode titles follow this format.
• King Arthur & the Knights of Justice
• King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
• Kiya and the Kimoja Heroes: Not only the series itself but some episode titles as well. "Kiya and the Kite Monster" and "Kiya and the Boombastic".
• Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails
• Nearly every episode of The Legend of Tarzan, even when the episode isn't based on a novel that did it.
• Nearly every episode of the Madeline series can count, though there are exceptions, such as Madeline on Safari, My Fair Madeline, and Madeline's Rescue.
• Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
• Mickey and the Roadster Racers
• Mike the Knight: The episode titles follow this format.
• Mina and The Count
• The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Read it and Weep" has Rainbow Dash getting into a series of books about an Adventurer Archaeologist pegasus named Daring Do, all of which apparently follow this pattern: the first two books are "Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone" and "Daring Do and the Griffon's Goblet".
• Peter Pan & the Pirates
• Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (known outside the U.S. as "Starla and the Jewel Riders"), a toy tie-in which features a group of women, the "Jewel Riders" who bonded to magical animals and fought evil with their help.
• The Octonauts: Every episode title follows the format of "The Octonauts and..."
• Oggy and the Cockroaches
• Rude Dog and the Dweebs
• Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies
• About half the episodes of Samurai Jack are named this way.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
• The Simpsons gives us "Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great Frisco Freak-Out", a film starring Troy McClure.
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• Every episode of Spirit: Riding Free follows the format "Lucky and the..."
• A subversion with this one; while its pilot episode was titled Star and the Forces of Evil, the series proper was retitled Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
• One of the 1980's Strawberry Shortcake specials was called ''Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name."
• Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic (starring real life magician Princess Tenko)
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
• Quite popular in Thomas & Friends, with episodes such as "James and the Red Balloon" or "Toby and the Stout Gentleman". In recent years, a lot of them are of the form "Thomas and the...".
• The MGM short Tom Turkey and his Harmonica Humdingers
• True and the Rainbow Kingdom
• Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
• Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)

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