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A title of a work that's only one word long.
Note: Titles that's the name of a character (e.g. Rose; it refers to the character Rose Tyler) don't go here, they go under Character Title. Words comprised of two or more words written as one don't count either.
Compare to One Letter Title. Contrast to The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles and Long Title. Verbed Title and Mononymous Biopic Title are subtropes.
Helpful tip for new tropers: To link to a one-word trope, enclose in curly braces: {{Trope}}. Can be embedded inside square brackets: [[{{Trope}} visible text]]. And now you know. (In case you were wondering, the above text uses the [=This is not a link=] tag.
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Anime & Manga
- AIR
- ARIA
- Avenger
- Bartender
- Basilisk
- Bastard!!
- Beck
- 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".
- WORKING!!
Fan Fic
Film
Literature
- Many short stories and novels by Isaac Asimov are this. Examples include Blank, Foundation, Robbie, Trends, Heredity, History, Reason, Liar! Nightfall, Runaround, Escape, Evidence, Hostess, Sally, Everest, Flies, Risk, and Someday.
- This was explained by Asimov as the result of a particularly poorly-written (and titled) story from his youth.* The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use. 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
- Fearless
- Fiasco
- Gone, with sequels Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light
- Haunted 1988
- Haunted 2005
- IT
- Misery
- Paprika
- The short stories "Offerings", "Called"
 , "Assumption", "Fields", and "Epinikion" by Desmond Warzel.
- The series Galaxy of Fear is obviously more than one word, but individual books Clones and Spore both fit this trope.
Live-Action TV
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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", Pangaea, and the classic Workin, Cookin, Walkin, Steamin, and Relaxin' albums.
- 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.
- Pearl Jam are prone to this in studio albums (exceptions are No Code, Riot Act and the Self-Titled Album), and were on song titles (which they retracted by writing "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.")
- Brazilian band Skank have 8 studio albums. Only one doesn't fit the trope.
Newspaper Comics
Poetry
Video Games
Web Animation
Webcomics
Western Animation
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