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Anime & Manga
- AIR
- ARIA
- Avenger
- Bartender
- Basilisk
- Bastard
- Berserk
- Blame!
- Bleach
- Catnapped!
- CLANNAD
- Claymore
- Colorful
- Fireball
- Flag
- ICE
- Monster
- One
- Piano
- Of the 25 episodes of Saki, 17 fit this: "Encounter", "Battle", "Confrontation", "Tradition", "Beginner", "Prank", "Awakening", "Existance", "Demon", "Conspiracy", "Nightmare", "Link", "Friends", "Sisters", "Promise", "Determination", and "Nationals".
- Several of the chapters in Sands of Destruction are single words. Chapter 3 is "Scar", chapter 4 is "Warrior", chapter 5 is "Retribution", chapter 7 is "Destruct", chapter 8 is "Retreat", and chapter 11 is "Pride". Chapter 9 was only a single word in Japanese, 語り部, but the English translation adds an article to make it "The Storyteller".
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Comic Books
Fan Fic
- The Back to the Future fanfic Homecoming.
- A good amount of Calvin and Hobbes: The Series' episode titles, especially in Season 4:
- "Chains"
- "Hypercube"
- "Surge"
- "Invasion"
- "Pug" (the pug's real name is Tug)
- "Hero"
- "Repeat"
- "Remember"
- "Karma"
- The unused ideas chapter includes several more, such as "Cowpokes", "Toboggan", "Claustrophobia", "Monophobia", "Alternate", and "Freudian".
- The Lord of the Rings fanfic Left.
- The Massive Multiplayer Crossover series by Sovereign GFC lands square in this trope.
- The Star Trek: The Original Series fanfics Retribution, Insontis and Heroes
- Then there's the Star Trek: The Next Generation fic Paradise
. Its chapters so far are:
- Arrival
- Paradise
- Home
- Shadows (Announced by the Author, unpublished.)
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- All chapters of Austraeoh. Here are the first few: "Sunrise", "Map", "Food", "Flash", "Spring", "Cabin", "Cave", "Limestone" etc.
- Enough
- Intercom
- The Elemental Chess Trilogy includes Brilliancy, Triumvirate, and Chronology.
- Cinderjuice
- Ripples
Film
- Airplane!
- Airport
- Alien and Aliens
- Anaconda
- Anomalisa
- Antichrist
- Arachnia
- Armageddon
- Avatar
- Axeman
- Big
- Bloodwine
- Bound (1996)
- Brave
- Bug!!
- Bullseye
- Cars
- Carver
- Charade
- Click
- Cloverfield
- Clue
- Clueless
- Commando
- Contact
- Cornered!
- Critters
- Cure
- Deadpool
- Diggstown
- Dinosaur
- Dodsworth
- Dogtooth
- Drive
- Earthquake
- Elf
- Epic
- Eraser
- Eraserhead
- Fantasia
- Faster
- Fearless (1993)
- Fearless (2006)
- Frantic
- Friday
- Frozen (2010)
- Frozen (2013)
- Ghostbusters
- Giant
- Gigantic
- Godzilla has had four films named just that: the 1954 film (commonly called Gojira even outside of Japan for differentiation), the 1984/1985 film (though certain versions of the film also call it The Return of Godzilla), the 1998 American film, and the 2014 American film.
- Gozu
- Gravity
- Greed
- Gremlins
- Gunmen
- Gutterballs
- Hairspray
- Hercules (2014)
- Hitch
- Hoodwinked
- Hop
- Humongous
- Idiocracy
- Inception (Nolan)
- Inside
- Insidious
- Insomnia (Nolan)
- Interstellar (Nolan)
- Intruder
- Kontroll
- Legend (1985)
- Legion
- Looper
- Maniac
- Matinee
- Melancholia
- Metro
- Minions
- Mirage (1965)
- Mirrors
- Missing (Costa-Gavras; not to be confused with The Missing)
- Moana
- Monsters
- Oblivion (1994)
- Oblivion (2013)
- Ouija
- Pandorum
- Pieces
- Possession
- Predator and Predators
- Predestination
- Prey
- Pride 2014
- Primer
- Prison
- Prometheus
- Prophecy
- Psycho
- Ratatouille
- [REC]
- RENT
- Repulsion
- Robot
- Robots
- Rogue
- Runaway
- Safe
- Salt
- Savaged
- Saw
- Scarface (1983)
- Scream (1996)
- Scream (1981)
- Seconds
- Serenity
- Shame
- Shocker
- Sicario
- Sisters (1973)
- Sleuth
- Smoke
- Speed
- Splash
- Starstruck
- Stitches (2001)
- Stitches (2012)
- Sunrise
- Tabu
- Taken
- Tangled (which was originally going to go with a Character Title, Rapunzel, until late in production)
- Tarantula
- Teeth
- Them!
- Thumbsucker
- Together
- Topaz
- Tormented
- Transformers
- Tremors
- Triangle
- Twins
- Twister
- Up
- Volcano
- Wild
- Witchboard
- Witness
- Zootopia
Literature
- Many short stories and novels by Isaac Asimov are this. Examples include Blank, Foundation, Trends, Heredity, History, Reason, Liar!, Nightfall, Runaround, Escape, Evidence, Hostess, Everest, Flies, Risk, and Someday.
- This was explained by Asimov as the result of a particularly poorly-written (and titled) story from his youth.* He claimed in a later introduction to the story that its flaws and inaccurate title permanently soured him to longer titles.
- Delirium, with sequels Pandemonium and Lena
- The Discworld novels Sourcery, Pyramids, Maskerade, Jingo, Thud! and Snuff.
- Epic and its sequels Saga and Edda
- Fearless
- Fiasco
- In Gustav Meyrink's The Golem not only each chapter is titled with just one word, they are all just one syllable long (in the original German). This includes "Schlaf", "Tag", "I", "Prag" etc.
- Gone, with sequels Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light
- Haunted 1988
- Haunted 2005
- Holes
- Impossible and its sequels Extraordinary and Unthinkable
- It
- Misery
- The Orthogonal trilogy, though the individual book titles have many words.
- Paprika
- The short stories "Offerings", "Called", "Assumption", "Fields", and "Epinikion" by Desmond Warzel.
- Tunnels and its sequels, Deeper, Freefall, Closer, Spiral, and Terminal.
- The series Galaxy of Fear is obviously more than one word, but individual books Clones and Spore both fit this trope.
Live-Action TV
- Alias
- Amen
- Blackadder II used this for all its episode titles:
- Bells
- Head
- Potato
- Money
- Beer
- Chains
- Blockbusters
- Bonanza
- Bones
- Brimstone
- Bullseye US
- Bullseye UK
- Cha$e (The Game Show)
- Chase
- Cheers
- Community
- Concentration
- Cops
- Crusade
- Damages
- Dateline
- Dinosaurs
- Distraction
- From Doctor Who:
- The Young Ones lived this trope for 11 out of the 12 episodes:
- Demolition
- oil
- Boring
- Bomb
- Interesting
- Flood
- Bambi
- Cash
- Nasty
- Time
- Sick
- Dogfights
- Dollhouse
- Drive
- Dynasty
- Elementary
- Emergency!
- Every episode of Endeavour:
- "Girl"
- "Fugue"
- "Rocket"
- "Home"
- "Trove"
- "Nocturne"
- "Sway"
- "Neverland"
- "Ride"
- "Arcadia"
- "Prey"
- "Coda"
- Enterprise, prior to being retitled as Star Trek: Enterprise.
- Entourage
- Episodes
- Fantasy
- Fearless
- Firefly
- Friends
- Fringe
- Girls
- Glee
- Goosebumps
- Gravity
- Greed (Game Show)
- Greek
- Heroes
- Huge
- Hustle
- Invasion!
- Iris
- Jackass
- Jeopardy!
- Leverage
- Life
- Lingo
- Lost
- Manga.Monster
- Series.Monsters
- NUMB3RS
- Paradox
- Passions
- Password
- Popular
- Psych
- Reaper
- Renegade
- Revenge
- All episodes of Revenge also have one word titles.
- Roar
- Roots
- Rubicon
- Scandal
- Scrubs
- Shameless
- Sliders
- Smallville
- All episodes of Smallville also have one word titles.
- Soap
- Supernatural
- Taken
- Taxi
- Terriers
- Threshold
- Today
- Trauma
- Treme
- Undercovers
- Unfabulous
- Veep
- Victorious
- Weeds
- Wings
- Wipeout (1988)
- Wipeout (2008)
Machinima
- Supermarioglitchy4s Super Mario 64 Bloopers:
- "Dreams"
- "Flashbacks"
- "Ssenmodnar"
- "Mineswap"
- "Yoshrooms"
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Music
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- "One". There's actually more than one "One".
- The master of understatement Miles Davis was particularly partial to these, many of which were songs penned by Wayne Shorter: "Iris", Panthalassa, and the classic Workin, Cookin, Walkin, Steamin, and Relaxin' albums.
- Moby's album Play. Features the songs "Honey", "Porcelain", "Rushing", "Bodyrock", "Machete", "7", "Everloving", "Inside", "Flower", "Sunday", "Summer", "Spirit", "Sunspot", and "Running".
- Disturbed is a fan of this trope. Most of their albums contain twelve or so songs, all but one or two of which have a One-Word Title.
- Lionel Richie's "Easy". note
- Pearl Jam are prone to this in studio albums (exceptions are No Code, Riot Act, Lightning Bolt and the Self-Titled Album), and were on song titles (which they retracted by writing "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town", though there already were exceptions like "Why Go" and the B-sides "Dirty Frank" and "Yellow Ledbetter").
- Brazilian band Skank have 8 studio albums. Only one doesn't fit the trope.
- That Handsome Devil's reinterpretation of The Jungle Book condenses each of the songs' titles into one word (i.e. "Bare" for "The Bare Necessities).
- Every song on Elton John's Made in England album has a one word title, with the exception of the title track.
- "Go" from Asia's Astra album.
- Toxicity by System of a Down, which contains the tracks "Needles", "Bounce", "Forest", "Science", "Shimmy", "Toxicity", "Psycho" and "Aerials". ("Chop Suey!" from this album was originally titled "Suicide", so it could count too.)
- Their fourth and fifth albums, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, each have a one word title. Collectively, they contain the one-word tracks "Revenga", "Cigaro", "Question!", "Attack", "Dreaming", "Hypnotize", and "Tentative".
- Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is a Portmanteau between "California" and "fornication". Contains the tracks "Porcelain", "Californication", "Easily", and "Otherside" (which is a portmanteau between... well, you probably know).
- Strip by Adam Ant.
- Dennis Wilson had several one-word song titles, such as "Moonshine", "Dreamer", "Time" and "Rainbows", all from Pacific Ocean Blue.
- Strip by Adam Ant.
- The Beach Boys have had their fare share of such titles too: SMiLE, Friends, Sunflower,...
- As did The Beatles, with Help! and Revolver.
- Björk enjoys this trope too: Debut (as well as the tracks "Crying" and "Aeroplane"), Post, Homogenic, Vespertine, Medúlla,...
- Black Sabbath's album Paranoid, as well as the song of the same name.
- David Bowie's Low (as well as the track "Warszawa"), Heroes (as well as the tracks "Neuköln" and "Blackout" on that album) and Lodger.
- Velvet Underground has Loaded and Squeeze.
- Jeff Buckley's Grace, as well as the title track.
- Sandinista! by The Clash.
- Homework and Discovery'' by Daft Punk.
- Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist.
- Doe Maar: Virus.
- Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
- So (and the track "Sledgehammer") by Peter Gabriel.
- Ellie Goulding: Halcyon.
- Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
- Michael Jackson also had a tendency to use one word for his album titles: Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, History, Invincible,...
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung
- Closer by Joy Division (with the tracks "Isolation", "Passover", "Colony" and "Decades")
- Tapestry by Carole King.
- Abigail (and the individual tracks "Abigail", "Arrival" and "Omens") by King Diamond .
- Destroyer (and the track "Beth"), Dynasty (and the track "Charisma"), Unmasked (and the track "Shandi") by Kiss.
- Autobahn by Kraftwerk.
- John Lennon's Imagine.
- Linkin Park's Meteora, and the individual tracks "Session", "Numb" and "Faint".
- Erotica and the individual tracks "Erotica", "Fever", "Waiting", "Words" and "Rain", by Madonna. Also her Self-Titled Album Madonna
- Burnin', Live, Exodus, Kaya, Survival, Uprising, Confrontation and Legend by Bob Marley.
- McCartney and RAM by Paul McCartney.
- Synchronicity by The Police.
- Murmur by R.E.M..
- Lou Reed's Transformer and Berlin.
- Joyride by Roxette.
- Run DMC by Run-D.M.C..
- Amy Winehouse's Frank.
- Skylarking (and the individual tracks "Grass" and "Dying" by XTC).
- Stand! by Sly And The Family Stone.
- Horses (and the individual tracks "Gloria", "Land" and "Elegie") by Patti Smith. Her albums Easter and Wave are another two examples.
- Tourist by St Germain
- War by U2.
- Apostrophe ('), ThingFish and Guitar by Frank Zappa.
- Aftermath by The Rolling Stones.
- Dummy (and the tracks "Mysterons", "Numb","Roads", "Biscuit" and "Pedestal") by Portishead.
- Pink Floyd has three albums with a one word title: More, Animals and Meddle.
- Bleach, Incesticide and Nevermind by Nirvana.
- The Residents have Eskimo.
- Joyride by Roxette.
- Abraxas and Shaman by Santana.
- Graceland by Paul Simon.
- Flood by They Might Be Giants
- dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld.
- Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits.
- Pinkerton (and the track "Getchoo") by Weezer.
- Emergency! by Tony Williams.
- Blue by Joni Mitchell.
- Elephant (and the track "Hypnotize") by The White Stripes.
- Dry by PJ Harvey.
- Tourist by St Germain.
- Pet Shop Boys: Every album.
- Primal Scream: Screamadelica.
- The Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
- M.I.A.: Kala and Arular.
- Syd Barrett: Barrett
- Slint: Spiderland
- The Antlers: Hospice
- Fugazi: Repeater
- Belly: There was the name of the band. There were their two albums, Star and King. Then there were about half the songs on those albums, including "Angel", "Dusted", "Gepetto", "Witch", "Star", "Stay", "Puberty", "Red", "Silverfish", "King", "Broken", and "Thief".
Newspaper Comics
Pinball
- Avatar
- Barracora
- Breakshot
- Caveman
- Checkpoint
- Comet
- Congo
- Contact
- Corvette
- Diner
- Earthshaker!
- Embryon
- Fathom!
- Fire!
- Fireball
- Firepower
- Flash
- Gamatron
- Genie
- Gladiators
- Hyperball
- Kingpin
- Mayfair
- Meteor
- Paragon
- Robot
- Rollergames
- Sapporo
- Seawitch
- Sorcerer
- Spectrum
- Taxi
- Wizard!
- Varkon
- Victory
- Viper
- Whirlwind
- Xenon
Poetry
- Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and "Kaddish"
- Gregory Corso's "Gasoline," "Bomb" and "Marriage"
Theater
Theme Parks
- At the Disney Theme Parks:
- At SeaWorld:
- Kraken
- Mako
- Manta
- At Universal Studios:
- Accelerator
- Backdraft
- Disaster!
- Jaws
- Kongfrontation
Video Games
- Abadox, but only the Japanese version as the US release added a subtitle.
- Abuse
- Adventure
- Zap Dramatic's Ambition.
- Ascendancy
- Asteroids
- Audiosurf
- Awesomenauts
- Banshee
- Barbarian
- Bastion
- Biohazard, known outside Japan as Resident Evil
- Black
- Bleed
- Blood
- blur
- Borderlands
- Braid
- Breakout
- Brink
- Bug!!
- Bully
- Cadaver
- Carmageddon
- Castlevania
- Centipede
- Clash
- Commando
- Consortium
- Contra
- Crusader
- Crush
- Crysis
- Daikatana
- Danganronpa, excluding subtitles, is technically one word, but it is often stylized as two.
- Darksiders
- Demento, known as Haunting Ground outside Japan
- Derelict
- Descent
- Destiny
- Diablo
- Disciples
- Dishonored
- Doom
- Driver
- Dubloon
- Dystopia
- Elite
- Fable
- Fallout
- Fez
- Flashback
- Fracture
- Freelancer
- Galerians
- Gauntlet
- Georganism
- Genocide
- Gothic
- Gunpoint
- Hamsterball
- Harvest
- Harvester
- Hatris
- Heretic
- Homeworld
- Ib
- Ikari (The Japanese version of Ikari Warriors)
- Ikaruga
- Illbleed
- Infamous, stylized as inFAMOUS
- Jackal
- Journey
- Joust
- Kage (AKA Shadow of the Ninja/Blue Shadow)
- Karateka
- Kuon
- Kurushi (The European version of Intelligent Qube)
- Lemmings
- Loaded and its sequel Reloaded
- Mafia
- Magicka
- Manhunt
- Marathon
- Messiah
- Metroid, but only for the very first game and the franchise as a whole.
- Myst
- Nocturne
- Ōkami
- Oneshot
- Oni
- Outcast
- Outlast
- Overboard
- Painkiller
- Pandemonium!
- Paperboy
- Phantasmagoria
- Pikmin
- Pong
- Portal
- Postal
- Praetorians
- Prey
- [PROTOTYPE]
- Psychonauts
- Pure
- Purple
- Puzznic
- Quake
- Rage
- Rampage
- Rampart
- Renegade
- Rez
- Riven, although sometimes subtitled "The sequel to Myst" in promotional art.
- Rogue
- Rollcage
- Rune
- Rust
- Sacrifice
- Sacred
- Sanctum
- Shanghai
- Shatter
- Shenmue
- Shinobi
- Silkworm
- Singularity
- Siren
- Skate
- Something, but not counting the sequel Something Else.
- Sonic.exe
- Spelunky
- Spore
- Stolen
- Strife
- Syberia
- Syndicate
- Tekken
- Terraria
- Tetris
- Torchlight
- Tribes
- Trine
- Trog
- Truxton
- Unreal
- Warlords
- Wasteland
- Wipeout
- Wolfenstein
- Worms
- Plenty of Doom WADs; apparently, if you're short on inspiration, just pick a (preferrably sinister or badass-sounding) word. Examples include: Chosen, , Crestfallen, Decade, Earth, Gravity, Obituary, Phobia, Requiem, Resurgence, Scythe, Serenity, Stronghold, Sunder, Vanguard, Void...
- Youpimon! (a French RPG Maker 2000 game made by Piocheur)
- Zyclunt (a.k.a. Blade Warrior)
Web Animation
Webcomics
Web Original
Western Animation
- Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers used this trope on 25 episodes (out of 65, over a third of the series).
- Braceface
- Centurions
- Cyberchase
- Detention
- Dinosaucers
- Downtown
- Futurama
- Inhumanoids
- MAD
- About half of the episodes of the first and second Moral Orel have One Word Titles, but ALL episodes of the third season have them.
- Recess
- Rugrats
- Visionaries
- Wunschpunsch
