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aka: H
FalconPain: "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."
TV Tropes page "Ad of Win"

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 a "Tool"-ish rock band.
  • i was a network, now 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 gory.
  • O is Othello, except in high school!
  • P was Johnny Depp's band. Pretty cool.
  • Q is a flick about a 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:

  • a: A tripped-out conversation novel by Andy Warhol.
  • A: A band who is known for their song Nothing.
  • A: A song by Knorkator which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
  • 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/.
  • C: A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
  • D: A horror game released in 1995.
    • A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
  • 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.
  • 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 a side project of Immortal's frontman Abbath.
  • L is a South Korean movie.
  • M is a non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
  • N is also a short story by Stephen King.
    • Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
  • "O": the title of Oprah's magazine, a Cirque du Soleil show, and an anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
  • Q is an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi
  • S. is a 1988 John Updike novel
  • U: One of the songs by W.A.S.P.
  • V is also Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
  • W: Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
  • X: a science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
  • Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
  • Z: A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
    • There's also a Polish novel titled Z., with the dot.*

Non-Latin Alphabet Examples

  • π.
  • ? is an episode in the second season of Lost.
  • 9

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