Falcon Pain: Every ad I've gotten today has been for V. Perhaps our ad banners are just the beginning...
The Advertisement Server: NO, IT'S JUST THAT MY SEQUENCING ALGORITHMS ARE MALFUNCTIONING. YOU SHOULD BE GETTING THE FULL BACKLOG OF ADS FOR W QUITE SOON.
G-Mon: And where were all the ads for N?
The Advertisement Server: DON'T YOU REMEMBER? THEY CAME AFTER ALL THOSE ONES FOR M.
The Advertisement Server: NO, IT'S JUST THAT MY SEQUENCING ALGORITHMS ARE MALFUNCTIONING. YOU SHOULD BE GETTING THE FULL BACKLOG OF ADS FOR W QUITE SOON.
G-Mon: And where were all the ads for N?
The Advertisement Server: DON'T YOU REMEMBER? THEY CAME AFTER ALL THOSE ONES FOR M.
Related to One-Letter Name, works with a One Letter Title are exactly that: works that are titled with a single letter, of whatever script.
See also Short Titles and Letter Motif.
26 Latin Alphabet Examples:
- A is an album, a Jethro Tull one.
- b is a tabloid by the Baltimore Sun.
- C is a language that's good with runtime.
- D is a Bollywood film about crime.
- E! is a network for gossip when bored.
- F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
- G. is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
- "H." is a hit by tool, the rock band.
- i was the old name of ION TV.
- j is a label that's owned by Sony.
- K is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
- L titles a film, while Changing The World.
- M is a picture that stars Peter Lorre.
- N is a game where a ninja gets glory.
- "O" is Othello, except in high school!
- P was Johnny Depp's band. Pretty cool.
- Q is a flick about a big flying snake.
- R. is a CD that Kelly did make.
- S
was a short-living group of K-Pop.
- T is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
- "U" is by Pearl Jam, released in 'nine-eight.
- V has an alien metaphor. Great.
- W.'s a biopic of George Bush Two.
- X is a manga that CLAMP did debut.
- Y is a comic about the Last Man.
- Z ends our list with a big junta ban.
More examples below, except not in verse.
And because they are not, it is so much better.
More Latin Alphabet Examples:
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A
- A tripped-out conversation novel by Andy Warhol.
- A band who is known for their song "Nothing".
- A song by Knorkator which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
- A song by the Barenaked Ladies.
- A song by the Billy Naylor Band, mostly revolving around the five vowels in the English alphabet (not counting sometimes-vowel Y).
- An instrumental piece by DJ Amuro, which appeared in beatmania IIDX and DanceDanceRevolution Extreme
- A song by South Korean boy band GOT7.
- A song by South Korean girl group Rainbow.
B
- The Clock Crew has covered them all. The most notable one though is B, the very flash movie responsible for the Clock Crew's existence in the first place.
- Do not ever mention /b/.
- Also song of iamamiwhoami
- An anime called B: The Beginning
C
- A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
- An anime, fully titled [C] - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.
- The penultimate episode of Samurai Jack.
D
- A horror game released in 1995.
- A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
- A Japanese Visual Kei metal band.
E
- [e] is the title of Epik High's 6th full-length album.
- E is a song by American Thrash Metal band Wehrmacht.
F
- A manga about Formula One racing that later received an anime adaptation.
- 「F」 is a song by Maximum the Hormone and a tribute to the character Frieza from Dragon Ball. The song's title would inspire the film's title Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' which features the resurrected Frieza as the film's Big Bad.
G
- G: John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
H
- An Elizabeth Shepard found-document novel about an autistic boy's letters from summer camp.
- Also a French Live-Action TV Hospital comedy.
I
- A song by Black Sabbath. KISS also did one, but the fans won't admit it. Neither will the band, who even forgot how to sing it.
- Also a rather good EP by Meshuggah, and the only song contained therein.
- And a side project of Immortal's frontman Abbath.
- And a Bad Brains song.
- i: A news-digest of The Independent.
- Also, an album by The Magnetic Fields, where appropriately enough, all the song titles start with "I".
K
- K is a multimedia (anime/manga/novels) series revolving around supernatural Kings.
- A song by Glitched Hero Y.
L
- A South Korean movie.
- A novel by Norwegian author Erlend Loe.
- An album by Godley and Creme (of 10cc).
M
- A non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
- A British one-man band from 1979, known for their One-Hit Wonder song "Pop Muzik".
- A song by Kent about Jocke Berg's grandma when she was ill.
- An album by monochrome-coat.
- A song by Ayumi Hamasaki.
N
- A short story by Stephen King.
- Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
- Also a song created by iamamiwhoami
O
- "O", a Cirque du Soleil show.
- The title of an Ethereal Choir song on Coldplay's album Ghost Stories. On the original album, it actually contains a Hidden Track titled "Fly On", followed by ~2 minutes of silence, upon which "O" plays. In the Target exclusive version of the album, "Fly On" and "O" were combined, and the silence was cut. On both versions of the album, the song is titled "O".
- The title of Oprah's magazine.
- O, a 2001 film directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
- An anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
- O is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya album
- Ö is an album by German singer/songwriter Herbert Grönemeyer.
- The author of cool and new web comic.
- Song of iamamiwhoami
P
- A song by Venetian Snares.
Q
- q is an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC formerly hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
- Q is a song by Queen Bee.
- Q, a novel by Luther Blisset (actually a collective pseudonym)
R
- -R- is the debut solo album by Rosé of BLACKPINK.
S
- The US title of a Boys' Love Genre Light Novel series.
- S. is a 1988 John Updike novel
- The stage name of Jenn Ghetto, a slowcore musician
T
- An EP by Funker Vogt.
- A song by iamamiwhoami
U
- One of the songs by WASP's "Kill, Fuck, Die."
- Also a song by Paula Abdul
- Also a song and an album by Yuya Matsushita.
- Also a song by iamamiwhoami
- Also a song by Super Junior.
V
- Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
- A dj TAKA song based on the "Winter" movement of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, originally produced for the beatmania IIDX series.
- In addition to the original V, there was also a reboot series in 2009.
W
- Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
- An interstital cartoon that aired on Teletoon in The 2000s.
- A video essay by jan Misali that is all about the letter "W".
X
- A science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
- A Japan-only Game Boy game.
- An episode of Teen Titans.
- A Los Angeles Punk Rock band from The '80s.
- An Australian punk band, also from The '80s.
- A Def Leppard album.
- A hard trance instrumental by DJ Scot Project. Most, if not all songs by him have this often having subtitles in parentheses, like "U (I Got A Feeling)," "F (Future is Now!)," and "O (Overdrive)."
- An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
- A rebranded version of Twitter.
- Also how X Japan called themselves before going international.
- A song by Poppy from her album Am I A Girl?.note
- X, the 24th book in the Kinsey Millhone series.
- A comic book series by Dark Horse Comics.
- A slasher film released in 2022.
Y
- Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
- A song by iamamiwhoami from the album bounty.
Z
- A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
- A free-roaming Shoot 'Em Up for the Commodore 64, also known as Z-Pilot.
- There's also a Polish novel titled Z., with the dot.note
- My Morning Jacket's fourth album, from 2005.
Non-Latin Alphabet Examples
- Jeem TV is a children’s television channel.
- π.
- The Petriculture Cycle: "π" is the title of the fourth story.
- "?" is an episode in the second season of Lost.
- 9
- Ё (pronounced "Yo") is a Russian planned hybrid electric car.
- A novel called The Aleph, but spelled out.
- In-universe example: in a Soviet comedy "Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика" (Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures), Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio call the planned operation "Y", "so that nobody would guess it".
- Mister Mosquito's Japanese name is simply 蚊 (Ka, meaning "Mosquito").
- Person of Interest Season 3, Episode 17: "/". "/" is the root directory for a Unix or Linux operating system. Root Path was mentioned as the title on IMDb, which is at least somewhat accurate.
- A 1971 film starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn about an Outlaw Couple robbing a bank was titled simply $.
