Title formula: Take the present participle of a transitive verb, and give it an object, usually (but not always) the name of a character. Not to be confused with verbing the noun. Or with Noun Verber.
Also known as "Gerund ProperNoun", as coined by Kevin Murphy.
Examples:
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Arts
- Drinking Bacchus by Guido Reni.
- The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner.
- Gothic Times: "Shipping Leviathan — Ark of Apocalypse" has the first part of its title styled this way; Shipping (the verb in gerund) Leviathan (the noun). There's also the tenth piece "Living Dead".
- Nue CouchéeTranslation
- Sleeping Venus (Giorgione)
Asian Animation
- Episode 122 of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf is titled "Saving Wolffy". Happy, Happy, Bang! Bang! episode 15 reuses the title.
Fan Works
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: The chapter, Cornering the Duke.
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- Becoming Jane
- Being John Malkovich
- Boxing Helena
- Breaking the Waves
- Bringing Up Baby
- Casting Jon Benet
- Chasing Amy
- Chasing Liberty
- Crossing Delancey
- Deconstructing Harry
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- Downloading Nancy
- Driving Miss Daisy may have been the catalyst for this trope, which reached peak popularity in 1990's Hollywood feature films.
- Drowning Mona
- Eating Raoul
- Feeling Minnesota
- Finding Forrester
- Finding Neverland
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Getting Gotti
- Guarding Tess
- Keeping Mum (a Double-Meaning Title)
- Killing Bono
- Killing Zoe
- Kissing Jessica Stein
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Loving Annabelle
- Loving Jezebel
- Owning Mahowny
- Presenting Lily Mars
- Pushing Tin
- Raising Arizona
- Raising Cain
- Regarding Henry
- Romancing the Stone
- Saving Grace
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Silverman
- Serving Sara
- Stealing Harvard
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle
- Waking Ned Devine
Literature
- Discworld: With some subversions:
- Some of the Moist von Lipwig stories:
- Subversions:
- Hating Alison Ashley
- Killing Mr. Griffin
- Looking for Alaska
- Looking for Alibrandi
- The Master Key: The chapter, "Testing the Instruments."
- Navigating Early
- Reading Lolita In Tehran
- Saving Francesca
- Saving Max
- Saving Zoë
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
- Stealing Harvard
- Warrior Cats: Rising Storm, Thunder Rising, The Blazing Star, The Raging Storm
Live-Action TV
- CSI-verse: Several episode titles across the board, some even repeat between shows.
- CSI: "Pledging Mr. Johnson", "Ending Happy", "Seeing Red", "Stealing Home"
- CSI: Miami: "Losing Face", "Throwing Heat", "Raising Caine", "Cheating Death", "Seeing Red"
- CSI: NY: "Stealing Home", "Raising Shane"
- House: "Finding Judas"
- Judging Amy
- Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
- Pushing Daisies
- Raising Hope
- Saving Grace
- Saving Hope
Music
- Asking Alexandria
- Disturbed: "Droppin' Plates"
- Electric Light Orchestra: "Calling America"
- Flogging Molly
- KISS: "Calling Dr. Love"
- Nickelback: "Savin' Me"
Theatre
Tropes
Video Games
- BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: One of the antagonists is called STORM, and people are gathering to fight it.
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a few in-game books the player can find whose titles fit the trope - Breathing Water, Cleansing of the Fane, The Posting of the Hunt, Touching the Sky, and Walking the World.
- Fighting Street (an obscure Turbo Grafx-CD port of Street Fighter).
Visual Novels
Web Videos
Western Animation
Other
- Disregarding Joy — the title suggested by Tina Fey in a piece for The New Yorker as the kind of "respectable indie dramedysemble" she could get a "strategically chosen small part" in if she decided to take full advantage of her remaining years of employability as an actress.
