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."
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.
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."
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 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.
And because they are not, it is so much better.
More Latin Alphabet Examples:
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 Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
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/.
C
- A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
- An anime, fully titled [C] - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.
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.
F
- 「F」 is a song by Maximum the Hormone and a tribute to the character Freeza from Dragon Ball. The song's title would inspire the film's title Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ which features the resurrected Freeza 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.
L
- A South Korean movie.
- A novel by Norwegian author Erlend Loe.
M
- A non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
- A British one hit wonder one man band from 1979.
- A song by Kent about Jocke Berg's grandma when she was ill.
N
- A short story by Stephen King.
- Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
O
- "O", a Cirque du Soleil show.
- The title of Oprah's magazine.
- 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.
Q
- Q is an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC formerly hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
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.
U
- One of the songs by WASP
- Also a song by Paula Abdul
- Also a song and an album by Yuya Matsushita.
V
- Is also Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
- Is a dj TAKA song based on the "Winter" movement of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, originally produced for the beatmania IIDX series.
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.
- 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.
- An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
- Also how X Japan called themselves before going international.
Y
- Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
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
Non-Latin Alphabet Examples
- π.
- π is also the title of the fourth story in the Petriculture cycle.
- ? 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".
- 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.