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* 1921 comedy ''Film/{{Leap Year|1921}}'' is called that for no apparent reason. Feb. 29 is never mentioned and it's not really clear what time of year it's supposed to be.
* Is there a KissOfDeath in 1947 FilmNoir ''Film/KissOfDeath''? No, no there is not.
* Creator/AlexanderPayne has a habit with this. Notably ''Film/{{Sideways}}'' doesn't have a lot to do with being sideways, ''Film/TheDescendants'' isn't really overly concerned with the the fact that the leads are descended from King Kamehameha (but it does feature fathers and sons as a recurring theme).
* The film version of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' does include a superhero team called "The Watchmen" ([[IAmNotShazam unlike the graphic novel]]) but they aren't the protagonists of the film--they were a proposed team that was never actually formed. All of the main characters are independent vigilantes with no allegiance to any team, and (apart from Rorschach and Nite Owl) none of them ever fought crime together.
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'':
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
** ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made from steel scrap parts, but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
-->'''Tony Stark:''' Iron Man? That's kinda catchy. Not technically accurate, since it's a gold-titanium alloy, but...
** In ''Film/IronMan3'', the fortune cookie example in the Real Life page is used in one of the Mandarin's speech videos.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', we meet the King of the Dwarves... who turns out to be a giant easily twice Thor's height. [[DoubleSubversion With the]] ''[[DoubleSubversion proportions]]'' [[DoubleSubversion of a human with dwarfism]].
* The weapon in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' is identified as "The Glaive". It isn't a [[BladeOnAStick curved-blade polearm]], but rather a starfish-shaped throwing weapon. Even if you take the older meaning of "glaive" as "sword" it doesn't fit. Due to the film's popularity, a number of other works have named similar weapons "glaives," such as ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''Series/{{Blade}}''.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' features the Incredibly Deadly Viper--[[DeathbringerTheAdorable not so incredibly deadly]]. Justified because it was intentional by Uncle Monty in order to scare the rest of his colleagues as revenge for all their mocking of his name.
* In ''Film/DrDolittle'', Rodney the guinea pig ponders how he came to that name, since he's not a pig, not from Africa, and not an Italian "guinea".
* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'' is about goblins, not trolls, and is not a sequel to ''{{Troll}}''. Furthermore, there are ''two'' different films that go by the title ''Troll 3''; neither of them are about trolls and neither of them are sequels to either ''Troll'' or ''Troll 2''.
* The word "Film/{{Gojira}}" is a portmanteau of "kujira" (whale) and gorilla. Early on in the production, they hadn't decided what Franchise/{{Godzilla}} was going to look like, and the pretty cool name for one scrapped design was eventually combined with a different, really cool design...of a lizard.
* Toho's ''Film/LatitudeZero'' features a monster named Black Moth. Take a wild guess what the monster is. Go on... Give up? It's [[spoiler:a flying lion/eagle hybrid.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the crew of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
** The [[MembershipToken Nine Pieces of Eight]] from ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' are not coins, but random pieces of junk. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe: they used random piece of junk because the founding pirates were flat broke, and called them "Pieces of Eight" because they thought it sounded more pirate-y than "Pieces of Whatever We Happened to Have in our Pockets At The Time."
* In ''Film/MysteryMen''
** The Blue Raja's costume consisted of almost every color ''except'' blue! There's also the issue with his British accent instead of an Indian one. But apparently, that has more to do with people [[ViewersAreGeniuses not knowing the history of India and the British occupation... blah, blah, blah]].
** Then there's also The Spleen, who named himself after a body part that has nothing to do with his [[{{Fartillery}} superpower]]. It may be a play on the saying "Vent your spleen", where you generally let loose with a rather noxious rant. And The Spleen ''does'' vent something quite noxious when he uses his power.
* {{Subverted}} by the film ''Film/{{Raazi}}''. ''Raazi'' is based on an espionage novel called ''Calling Sehmat'', where Sehmat is the name of the female protagonist. When the film came out, a lot of viewers questioned whether the title "Raazi" had any connection with the plot. Turns out, the word "raazi" and the name of the female protagonist, "Sehmat", [[StealthPun both mean]] "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.
* ''StarWars''.
** The Battle of Endor took place on the ''forest moon'' of Endor (which is a gas giant). The Battle of Yavin is slightly better, but not much--it takes place near Yavin IV, which is actually only a moon of the gas giant Yavin.
** Many weapons use terminology that is not specifically correct. For example, lightsabers aren't shaped like sabers. There are also blaster rifles, which don't have any rifling. Turbolasers do not fire true lasers. Ignoring the inherent pseudoscience of the futuristic weaponry, new weapons often sport names that are based on older technology, such as "howitzer" being based after the Czech word for sling.
** Star Destroyers can neither destroy stars nor qualify as equivalents of naval destroyers, given their sheer size and firepower compared to Rebel ships. They're more akin to battleships or aircraft carriers. ''Super'' Star Destroyers are much larger, but still can't destroy stars. Then again, in modern times, Destroyers are typically the most powerful surface combat ships in any navy - [[SpaceIsAnOcean meaning they use "Star" in the same meaning as "Space"]].
* In the movie ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', none of the guns are revolvers, and nothing rotates. It's, like, a deep metaphor, ya know?
* In the second ''Film/KillBill'' movie, Bill comments that there weren't 88 members of the Crazy 88; they just called themselves that "[[RuleOfCool because it sounded cool]]."
* This exchange in ''Film/TrueLies'':
-->'''Faisil:''' They call him the "Sand Spider".
-->'''Trilby:''' Why?
-->'''Faisil:''' Probably because it sounds scary.
* ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}'' (known in America as ''Zombie'', known in some other places as ''Zombie Flesh Eaters'') is not the second "''Zombi''" film, it's the first in its series. Romero's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' was released in Europe under the title Zombi, and the Italian producers decided to capitalize on its success by claiming that their film was actually a sequel or prequel much to the director's Creator/LucioFulci chagrin. Which it wasn't.
* ''Zombie Holocaust'' was released in some places under the title ''Zombi3'', trying to do to Fulci what Fulci did to Romero. In other places, including America, it was released under the title ''Dr. Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate''. There isn't a character named Dr. Butcher in the film, and the evil Doctor character only shows up in the finale of the film. Even the titles ''Zombi3D'' and ''Zombie Holocaust'' are rather inaccurate- the film is predominantly about LIVING cannibals, while zombies only show up for small portions of the tale.
* ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror'' only took place over the course of one night.
* In ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', Creator/AbbottAndCostello go ... to Venus. They were ''supposed'' to go to Mars, however.
* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''. Apparently ''Chick Young and Wilbur Gray Meet Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster'' just wasn't a catchy enough title.
* ''Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory''. The werewolf never actually gets into the dormitory. He mostly just wanders around the grounds.
* ''Krakatoa, East of Java''. Krakatoa is, in fact, West of Java, but they wanted a more exotic-sounding title.
* There are [[SimilarlyNamedWorks three unrelated films]] called ''Madhouse'', only one of which is actually set in a mental institution. The 1990 John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley film is about a house being overrun by uninvited guests that could figuratively be called a "madhouse". In the 1974 Creator/VincentPrice film, it's a plot point that Price's character ''was'' once in a mental institution, but no scenes actually take place there. The Vincent Price one was originally going to be called ''The Revenge Of Dr. Death'' or ''The Return of Dr. Death'', both of which would have been more descriptive of the plot, but the producers thought it would be mistaken for a sequel; It didn't help that there had been a recent film called ''Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls'' either.
* Flash Gordon does not, in fact, conquer the universe in the serial ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''.
* Frankenstein does not conquer the world in ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld''.
* Santa does not in fact, conquer any Martians, at least not in the traditional sense in ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians''.
* ''Teenage Zombies'' doesn't feature any zombies, and has a cast of "teenagers" that look to be [[DawsonCasting days away from a midlife crisis]].
* ''The Man With Two Heads'' only has one head. It's an adaptation of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde''.
* ''Legend of the Dinosaurs'' doesn't technically feature any dinosaurs, only a plesiosaur and a pterosaur.
* The classic Frank Capra romantic comedy ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' takes place over several nights, and no one of them is more significant to the plot than any other.
* ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' has one scene set in Fargo, North Dakota. The rest of it takes place in Minnesota.
* In ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', only the very last scene takes place in that neighborhood of Los Angeles. However, Gittes does use Chinatown [[WretchedHive as a metaphor]] a few times.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant initially assumes (logically enough) that Jessica Rabbit, married to the eponymous hero, is in fact a rabbit. [[EyeShock Then he sees her]], and discovers that she certainly isn't. [[FanService Oh no]].
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'' actually centers on finding a lost city of gold. The Book of Secrets is only a single road sign on the way to it. To put things in perspective, this is like giving the first movie the subtitle of "Ben Franklin's Letters".
* Bobby Fischer never appears in ''Film/SearchingForBobbyFischer.'' In fact, nobody really searches for him in the film. ''Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer'' would have been a more accurate title.
* ''Film/HauntedHoneymoon'': The characters are not on their honeymoon. They are not even married yet.
* ''The Dead Are Alive'' does not feature any [[TheUndead undead]], despite [[NeverTrustATrailer all the film's advertising]] trying to convince viewers otherwise. The film actually is a proto-{{Giallo}} with characters being offed by a very human killer. In fact, the main character ''specifically dismisses'' the possibility of the dead being alive within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Its Italian title translates as "The Etruscan Kills Again", which is equally inaccurate.
* ''Creator/LarryTheCableGuy: Health Inspector''. Is he a cable guy or a health inspector?
* In ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', Old Nehampkin is younger than Young Nehampkin. Creator/WoodyAllen's character {{lampshades}} it while delirious later in the movie.
* ''Frankenstein's Bloody Terror'' is about...werewolves. [[FurAgainstFang Fighting vampires]]. This is actually {{Handwave}}d in the prologue, which explains that the family of werewolves that in the film is actually descended from the Frankenstein family. The reasons behind the title change are more interesting than the actual film. The US distributor promised theaters a Frankenstein picture, but ran out of money midway through production. In desperation, they acquired the rights to an unrelated Spanish picture called ''Mark of the {{Wolfman}}'', added the aforementioned prologue, and released it hoping that no one would notice.
* ''The Evil of Frankenstein'' is actually the Hammer Frankenstein film that depicts Baron Frankenstien (as usual played by Peter Cushing) as somewhat sympathetic. He's more of a WellIntentionedExtremist in an unsupportive world that just thinks that all [[ScienceIsBad Science is the work of the Devil]]. The truly evil character is Zoltan, the hypnotist who tries to use the monster for his own murderous purposes.
* Guess what ''doesn't'' happen in ''Toga Party''.
* ''Meatcleaver Massacre'' has nary a meat cleaver in sight.
* At no point during ''Help Me, I'm Possessed'' is anyone possessed.
* When Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures picked up Creator/JessFranco's WitchHunt opus ''The Bloody Judge'' for American distribution, they [[MarketBasedTitle re-titled]] it as ''Night of the Blood Monster'' and printed up [[CoversAlwaysLie posters]] featuring a suitably horrific "Blood Monster" that naturally never appears in the movie itself.
* ''Film/FutureWar''. Take a wild guess as to whether or not it takes place in the future. Now take another wild guess as to whether or not it's about a war.
* There are no mentions of any prophecies in ''Film/{{Prophecy}}''.
* ''Film/BlueMonkey'' was originally titled ''GreenMonkey'', even though there's no monkey of either color in the film.
* In both ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' movies, the first one has a house that's actually a small shack, while [[Film/HouseOfTheDeadIIDeadAim the second]] has an entire college campus.
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' does not in fact involve any Titans, clashing or otherwise. Their existence is acknowledged in the backstory, but by the time the plot starts they've all been defeated. Though it [[SadlyMythtaken incorrectly]] refers to [[{{Medusa}} a Gorgon's]] head being used to fight a sea monster as "a titan against another titan."
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the dragon Toothless ''has'' teeth. Being retractable, they're mostly hidden, and show up when he eats or [[GameFace attacks]]. Hiccup's father Stoick is not TheStoic. And Hiccup never gets hiccups (though in the series it's explained that runts are named Hiccup.)
* Dr. Leopold, the doctor in ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'' does not have a Z anywhere in his last name. This was actually because the film's real title was ''Zaat'', but it was never released in theaters because the distributor unexpectedly went bankrupt at the last minute. It was released on video under a number of different titles. In this case, whoever released it mistakenly thought that "Zaat" was Dr. Leopold's name.
* There are no zombies in ''Film/ZombieIslandMassacre''.
* At the end of ''Film/TheNightTheWorldExploded'', the Earth remains intact and unexploded.
* There are no dinosaurs (or any other prehistoric beasts, for that matter) in ''Film/MassacreInDinosaurValley''.
* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' movies are not about a feline. The "Pink Panther" is a diamond that plays a major role in some, but not all, of the films. The cartoon panther that originally appeared in [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 the first film]]'s credits, also called [[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther The Pink Panther]], took on a life of its own as a film and TV cartoon character and advertising mascot.
* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'' actually takes place in "Precinct 9, Division 13." The title was chosen by the film's distributor, who basically thought "Precinct 13" [[RuleOfCool sounded cool and ominous]].
* At no point in the ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'', are any of the characters ever alone in the dark. They are either with someone else at the time, or they are not in the dark. The film was based on a video game in which the player character ''is'' alone in a haunted house.
* ''Film/NakedLunch'', [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title".]]
* ''Film/TheBarbarianInvasions'' is not a Conan the Barbarian-ripoff, but a story about French Canadian intellectuals talking about sex, aging and politics. Its predecessor ''The Decline of the American Empire'' is, well, more of the same.
* The Swedish movie ''November 30'' actually takes place around June 6 the National Day of Sweden. The title comes from the fact that it's theme is Neo-nazism and November 30 is a date when Swedish neo-Nazis often march to commemorate the death of king [[UsefulNotes/CarolusRex Charles XII]].
* ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'' was also released as ''The Conqueror Worm'' despite having little to do with the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe poem, although a portion of it is recited toward the movie's end. Creator/VincentPrice was in it, so presumably it was titled that way to attract fans of all the Creator/RogerCorman-directed Poe adaptations he'd starred in.
* Mr. Green in ''Film/{{Clue}}''. All of the other guests have {{Meaningful Name}}s that reflect their appearance or attire, but Mr. Green does not wear green or have green eyes or hair. In some versions of the film, he's under an assumed identity, and therefore a "plant."
* In ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'', there was no mention of any "Book of Shadows".
* ''{{Musa}}'', called ''The Warrior'' in English, is not about one specific warrior. It has an ensemble cast, with three characters that more or less share the main spotlight.
* The Terry Gilliam movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' does not have a single scene set in Brazil, nor is the country relevant to the plot in any way or even mentioned once. Its only significance is that an old song titled "Brazil" is played throughout, perhaps because its romantic imagery provides a thematic counterpoint to the bureaucratic police state in which the story takes place.
* In ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', Chazz's rock band has three members and is called The Lone Rangers. Ian the DJ points out that they would more accurately be called The Three Rangers.
* ''Film/TheRoom'' is not about a room. It does have a great many scenes taking place in Johnny's apartment, but it is not the focus of the film at all. If you take director/writer/star Tommy Wiseau's [[WordOfGod word for it]], it's about Johnny's HappyPlace, but even ''that'' doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
* ''Film/RainMan'' is not about a man who is associated in any way with rain. "Rain Man" was what Charlie called Raymond when he was a little kid when he misremembered Raymond as an imaginary friend named Rain Man.
* The Hong Kong film ''Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai'' is known as ''Election 2'' in English. It isn't a sequel to the American film ''Film/{{Election}}'' or any other film. The American release fixed this by naming the film ''Triad Election''.
* Ain't no ghosts in ''ComicBook/GhostWorld''. [[TropesAreNotBad It works pretty well as a metaphor though.]]
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. The faun is never referred to as "Pan" in the film. The Spanish language version of the title translates to "The Labyrinth of the Faun."
* The titular vengeance demon of the ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'' series does not actually have a pumpkin for a head.
* ''The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia'' is not set in Connecticut, but it is in Georgia.
%%* ''Film/TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'', where do we even start?
* ''A Teenage Opera'', a late-[[TheSixties 1960s]] movie which spent a few years in DevelopmentHell before finally being scrapped, wasn't an opera (though it ''was'' a musical) and had few if any teenage characters.
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' does not take place on or anywhere near Judgment Day, ending with it seemingly prevented two to three years before it was supposed to happen. ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' on the other hand...
* In ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'' remake, there is still a kid, but he does not do any karate. It's set in China, so he learns kung fu instead.
* At no point during ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' do the characters watch trains. The title has more relevance in the original novel, however. It's alluded to in one of the trailers as well, but in a way that has [[NeverTrustATrailer nothing to do with either the the book ''or'' the film]].
* The 1994 Cher film ''Mermaids'' has nothing to do with mermaids at all.
* For ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' fans, ''Film/PodPeople''. As Dr. Forrester says, "It has nothing to do with pods... it has nothing to do with people... it has EVERYTHING to do with hurting."
* ''Film/TheMexican'' is not any person from Mexico. It's a gun from Mexico.
* ''Film/ThePrincessAndTheWarrior'' is about a modern-day nurse and a former soldier turned thief.
* Creator/WoodyAllen's movie ''Film/{{Bananas}}'' doesn't have any bananas in it. In an interview, Allen admitted he gave it that title for that very reason.
* ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'': It didn't even conquer a small town.
* A JustifiedTrope in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. M.U.T.O. stands for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism," and it ''originally'' described the so-labeled beast pretty well. However, the label became obsolete with a recent development, in which Stenz describes the creature as [[GiantFlyer "no longer terrestrial"]] in movement. It still applies to the female one, however.
* ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}'' isn't about a wizard. It's about truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin in a truck ''named'' Sorcerer.
* ''{{Film/Snatch}}'': The man known as Boris the Blade, Boris the Bullet-dodger and Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian is an Uzbekistani who prefers to fight with guns and doesn't so much dodge bullets as [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong absorb them]].
* ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' only features one of the original 300.
* ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' is a misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby was a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up''.
* ''Film/{{Surveillance}}'' doesn't feature surveillance.
* No one wakes up screaming in ''Film/IWakeUpScreaming''.
* The protagonist of ''Film/BigDaddy'' is neither big (he's average-sized at best), nor a daddy (well, not until the final scene, at least). And at no point does he ever hold a position of authority over others, which is what the metaphorical "Big Daddy" refers to.
* Averted by ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title character is not a beetle (though he briefly transforms himself into one) and has nothing to do with juice. In fact, technically speaking, "Beetlejuice" isn't even his name; he is known officially as "Betelgeuse" (like the star in the constellation Orion, which apparently has nothing to do with the film, making it in itself an example!), and "Beetlejuice" is simply a folk etymology (phonetic rendering) of the true spelling. That said, Betelgeuse ''does'' eat a raw beetle (well, a cockroach, but why nitpick?) for a snack, and when he bit into it he presumably swallowed a good portion of the bug's "juice."
* The 1958 film ''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace''. Needless to say, a monster that comes from Mars is ''not'' from "beyond space".
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' has no volcano in it. Rather, it has a lava vent issuing magma, and... that's it.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 2'' has nothing to do with a high school musical. In fact, the movie takes place during summer vacation.
* ''Film/SwingParadeOf1946''. At no point does a "Swing Parade" actually occur. Much to the consternation of the Podcast/RiffTrax crew. In fact, very little, if any, of the music in the film is swing to begin with, most of it being more general big-band standards or light musical ballads. The only swing actually in the movie is provided by Louis Jordan and his band, and if you were watching the film in 1946 in the south or other places where laws or customs dictated the excising of blacks from films unless they were servants or Pullman porters you were pretty much out of luck.
* The MarketBasedTitle of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' for Latin America is "[[OperationBlank Operation: Skyfall]]". The TitleDrop is actually TheNamesake (it's the Bond family manor, important to James' backstory and the location of the climactic battle).
* The titular character of ''Film/{{Axeman}}'' is more of a KnifeNut than an [[AnAxeToGrind axeman]], though he does wield an axe a couple times.
* ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': The guys in the masks aren't the ones doing the avenging. They're the ones having vengeance wrought upon them.
* ''Film/TheCandyTangerineMan'': Despite what the theme song implies, the protsgonist's pimp name isn't " The Candy Tangerine Man." It's "The Black Baron."
* In the documentary ''Film/AmericanMovie: The Making of Northwestern'', the subject Mark Borchardt quickly abandons his more ambitious feature film ''Northwestern'' and instead finishes "Coven," a black-and-white short film.
* ''{{Film/Tyrannosaur}}'': Despite the title and the poster having the skeleton of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' buried underground, this dramatic film about [[spoiler: domestic violence, rape, revenge, and suffering]] has absolutely nothing to do with dinosaurs. Turns out, the movie's title is actually a metaphor for the whole story.
* ''Film/{{Abduction}}'' features no kidnappings whatsoever.
* Tarzan's animal friend Cheetah isn't a cheetah, he's a chimp.
* No one ever gets strangled in ''Night Of The Strangler'', though there are several murders committed through other methods. It also takes place over the course of several days rather than a single night.
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' doesn't feature a BrainInAJar: The title is most likely referring to the character Jan, who spends most of the film as a living severed head, not just a brain. You could also argue that "Wouldn't Die" should be "''Couldn't'' Die": "Wouldn't" implies that she refuses to die, when in fact she's being kept alive against her will and repeatedly begs for someone to kill her. The WorkingTitle was the more accurate ''The Head That Wouldn't Die'', but the film makers decided to follow a trend of sci-fi b-movies with "Brain" somewhere in the title.
* ''The Curse Of The Cat People'' doesn't involve a curse, and you'd be hard-pressed to see what it had to do with any "cat people" unless you saw ''Film/CatPeople'', the film it was a sequel to, first: Irena, one of the characters from the first film, appears as a ghost in the sequel... But her involuntary shape-shifting into a cat is never brought up or seen, and it's totally irrelevant to the plot at any rate.
* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': The movie doesn't take place in [[Trope2000 the year 2000]], and the plot is not related to the Holocaust (it's only briefly mentioned when the villain explains his plans for a ''nuclear'' holocaust). Instead, it's a ReligiousHorror film about TheAntichrist set in the 1970s.
* ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' (famously riffed on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') is about a single ordinary (if poorly written) human being who gets lightly scarred by acid and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotized to become a mindless killer]], remaining 100% alive and un-mixed-up for the entirety of the story (at least until he's shot and killed by the police, at which point he stops living and becomes dead). The weird title also implies that the film is some sort of comedy or parody, when it is in fact played completely straight.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' does not feature a nation going rogue.
* ''Triassic Attack'' is a Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie about [[FossilRevival revived dinosaur skeletons]] going on a rampage. All the dinosaurs in question (three total) are from the Cretaceous.
* One of the three [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk Incredible Hulk]] TV movies, ''The Trial of the Incredible Hulk'', plays with this trope. Bruce...or rather, "David" Banner[[note]]Bruce is portrayed as being his middle name...just like in comics, although in the latter, he prefers to go by his middle name, rather than his (real) first name, Robert.[[/note]] is awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit (with ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} as his lawyer, no less), but neither he, nor the Hulk are ever actually seen in a courtroom, let alone on actual trial. That said, there technically was a trial with the Hulk (now in his trademark purple pants) being tried, but that turned out to just be a [[AllJustADream dream sequence]].
* While Toecutter from ''Film/MadMax1'' is a brutal thug, he never cuts off anyone's toes.
* EVE's job in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she ''shouldn't'' be looking according to her name ('''Extra'''terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
* ''Film/ItComesAtNight'': How the title relates to the film is unclear. There is no apparent "it" that "comes at night." The title and marketing imply that there is some sort of supernatural menace in the film, though it's actually about survivors of a supervirus.
* One edition of Creator/DingoPictures ''The Countryside Bears'', the only version released on DVD rather than a PlayStation disc, is titled ''Winky the Little Bear'' as a pun on the title of [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the franchise it knocks off]], but there are no actual characters named Winky; the main character being named Teddy.
* ''Film/HouseOfDracula''. There's a house, and Dracula is there (among others), but it isn't Dracula's house.
** ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' has a similar problem. Not only does the house not belong to Frankenstein, but *no* member of the (by this point, quite extensive) Frankenstein family even *visits*. [[FrankensteinsMonster The Monster]] stops by, though.
* The world doesn't end in ''Film/ApocalypseOfTheDead''
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* Is there a KissOfDeath in 1947 FilmNoir ''Film/KissOfDeath''? No, no there is not.
* Creator/AlexanderPayne has a habit with this. Notably ''Film/{{Sideways}}'' doesn't have a lot to do with being sideways, ''Film/TheDescendants'' isn't really overly concerned with the the fact that the leads are descended from King Kamehameha (but it does feature fathers and sons as a recurring theme).
* The film version of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' does include a superhero team called "The Watchmen" ([[IAmNotShazam unlike the graphic novel]]) but they aren't the protagonists of the film--they were a proposed team that was never actually formed. All of the main characters are independent vigilantes with no allegiance to any team, and (apart from Rorschach and Nite Owl) none of them ever fought crime together.
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'':
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
** ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made from steel scrap parts, but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
-->'''Tony Stark:''' Iron Man? That's kinda catchy. Not technically accurate, since it's a gold-titanium alloy, but...
** In ''Film/IronMan3'', the fortune cookie example in the Real Life page is used in one of the Mandarin's speech videos.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', we meet the King of the Dwarves... who turns out to be a giant easily twice Thor's height. [[DoubleSubversion With the]] ''[[DoubleSubversion proportions]]'' [[DoubleSubversion of a human with dwarfism]].
* The weapon in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' is identified as "The Glaive". It isn't a [[BladeOnAStick curved-blade polearm]], but rather a starfish-shaped throwing weapon. Even if you take the older meaning of "glaive" as "sword" it doesn't fit. Due to the film's popularity, a number of other works have named similar weapons "glaives," such as ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''Series/{{Blade}}''.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' features the Incredibly Deadly Viper--[[DeathbringerTheAdorable not so incredibly deadly]]. Justified because it was intentional by Uncle Monty in order to scare the rest of his colleagues as revenge for all their mocking of his name.
* In ''Film/DrDolittle'', Rodney the guinea pig ponders how he came to that name, since he's not a pig, not from Africa, and not an Italian "guinea".
* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'' is about goblins, not trolls, and is not a sequel to ''{{Troll}}''. Furthermore, there are ''two'' different films that go by the title ''Troll 3''; neither of them are about trolls and neither of them are sequels to either ''Troll'' or ''Troll 2''.
* The word "Film/{{Gojira}}" is a portmanteau of "kujira" (whale) and gorilla. Early on in the production, they hadn't decided what Franchise/{{Godzilla}} was going to look like, and the pretty cool name for one scrapped design was eventually combined with a different, really cool design...of a lizard.
* Toho's ''Film/LatitudeZero'' features a monster named Black Moth. Take a wild guess what the monster is. Go on... Give up? It's [[spoiler:a flying lion/eagle hybrid.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the crew of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
** The [[MembershipToken Nine Pieces of Eight]] from ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' are not coins, but random pieces of junk. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe: they used random piece of junk because the founding pirates were flat broke, and called them "Pieces of Eight" because they thought it sounded more pirate-y than "Pieces of Whatever We Happened to Have in our Pockets At The Time."
* In ''Film/MysteryMen''
** The Blue Raja's costume consisted of almost every color ''except'' blue! There's also the issue with his British accent instead of an Indian one. But apparently, that has more to do with people [[ViewersAreGeniuses not knowing the history of India and the British occupation... blah, blah, blah]].
** Then there's also The Spleen, who named himself after a body part that has nothing to do with his [[{{Fartillery}} superpower]]. It may be a play on the saying "Vent your spleen", where you generally let loose with a rather noxious rant. And The Spleen ''does'' vent something quite noxious when he uses his power.
* {{Subverted}} by the film ''Film/{{Raazi}}''. ''Raazi'' is based on an espionage novel called ''Calling Sehmat'', where Sehmat is the name of the female protagonist. When the film came out, a lot of viewers questioned whether the title "Raazi" had any connection with the plot. Turns out, the word "raazi" and the name of the female protagonist, "Sehmat", [[StealthPun both mean]] "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.
* ''StarWars''.
** The Battle of Endor took place on the ''forest moon'' of Endor (which is a gas giant). The Battle of Yavin is slightly better, but not much--it takes place near Yavin IV, which is actually only a moon of the gas giant Yavin.
** Many weapons use terminology that is not specifically correct. For example, lightsabers aren't shaped like sabers. There are also blaster rifles, which don't have any rifling. Turbolasers do not fire true lasers. Ignoring the inherent pseudoscience of the futuristic weaponry, new weapons often sport names that are based on older technology, such as "howitzer" being based after the Czech word for sling.
** Star Destroyers can neither destroy stars nor qualify as equivalents of naval destroyers, given their sheer size and firepower compared to Rebel ships. They're more akin to battleships or aircraft carriers. ''Super'' Star Destroyers are much larger, but still can't destroy stars. Then again, in modern times, Destroyers are typically the most powerful surface combat ships in any navy - [[SpaceIsAnOcean meaning they use "Star" in the same meaning as "Space"]].
* In the movie ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', none of the guns are revolvers, and nothing rotates. It's, like, a deep metaphor, ya know?
* In the second ''Film/KillBill'' movie, Bill comments that there weren't 88 members of the Crazy 88; they just called themselves that "[[RuleOfCool because it sounded cool]]."
* This exchange in ''Film/TrueLies'':
-->'''Faisil:''' They call him the "Sand Spider".
-->'''Trilby:''' Why?
-->'''Faisil:''' Probably because it sounds scary.
* ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}'' (known in America as ''Zombie'', known in some other places as ''Zombie Flesh Eaters'') is not the second "''Zombi''" film, it's the first in its series. Romero's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' was released in Europe under the title Zombi, and the Italian producers decided to capitalize on its success by claiming that their film was actually a sequel or prequel much to the director's Creator/LucioFulci chagrin. Which it wasn't.
* ''Zombie Holocaust'' was released in some places under the title ''Zombi3'', trying to do to Fulci what Fulci did to Romero. In other places, including America, it was released under the title ''Dr. Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate''. There isn't a character named Dr. Butcher in the film, and the evil Doctor character only shows up in the finale of the film. Even the titles ''Zombi3D'' and ''Zombie Holocaust'' are rather inaccurate- the film is predominantly about LIVING cannibals, while zombies only show up for small portions of the tale.
* ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror'' only took place over the course of one night.
* In ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', Creator/AbbottAndCostello go ... to Venus. They were ''supposed'' to go to Mars, however.
* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''. Apparently ''Chick Young and Wilbur Gray Meet Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster'' just wasn't a catchy enough title.
* ''Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory''. The werewolf never actually gets into the dormitory. He mostly just wanders around the grounds.
* ''Krakatoa, East of Java''. Krakatoa is, in fact, West of Java, but they wanted a more exotic-sounding title.
* There are [[SimilarlyNamedWorks three unrelated films]] called ''Madhouse'', only one of which is actually set in a mental institution. The 1990 John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley film is about a house being overrun by uninvited guests that could figuratively be called a "madhouse". In the 1974 Creator/VincentPrice film, it's a plot point that Price's character ''was'' once in a mental institution, but no scenes actually take place there. The Vincent Price one was originally going to be called ''The Revenge Of Dr. Death'' or ''The Return of Dr. Death'', both of which would have been more descriptive of the plot, but the producers thought it would be mistaken for a sequel; It didn't help that there had been a recent film called ''Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls'' either.
* Flash Gordon does not, in fact, conquer the universe in the serial ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''.
* Frankenstein does not conquer the world in ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld''.
* Santa does not in fact, conquer any Martians, at least not in the traditional sense in ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians''.
* ''Teenage Zombies'' doesn't feature any zombies, and has a cast of "teenagers" that look to be [[DawsonCasting days away from a midlife crisis]].
* ''The Man With Two Heads'' only has one head. It's an adaptation of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde''.
* ''Legend of the Dinosaurs'' doesn't technically feature any dinosaurs, only a plesiosaur and a pterosaur.
* The classic Frank Capra romantic comedy ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' takes place over several nights, and no one of them is more significant to the plot than any other.
* ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' has one scene set in Fargo, North Dakota. The rest of it takes place in Minnesota.
* In ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', only the very last scene takes place in that neighborhood of Los Angeles. However, Gittes does use Chinatown [[WretchedHive as a metaphor]] a few times.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant initially assumes (logically enough) that Jessica Rabbit, married to the eponymous hero, is in fact a rabbit. [[EyeShock Then he sees her]], and discovers that she certainly isn't. [[FanService Oh no]].
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'' actually centers on finding a lost city of gold. The Book of Secrets is only a single road sign on the way to it. To put things in perspective, this is like giving the first movie the subtitle of "Ben Franklin's Letters".
* Bobby Fischer never appears in ''Film/SearchingForBobbyFischer.'' In fact, nobody really searches for him in the film. ''Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer'' would have been a more accurate title.
* ''Film/HauntedHoneymoon'': The characters are not on their honeymoon. They are not even married yet.
* ''The Dead Are Alive'' does not feature any [[TheUndead undead]], despite [[NeverTrustATrailer all the film's advertising]] trying to convince viewers otherwise. The film actually is a proto-{{Giallo}} with characters being offed by a very human killer. In fact, the main character ''specifically dismisses'' the possibility of the dead being alive within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Its Italian title translates as "The Etruscan Kills Again", which is equally inaccurate.
* ''Creator/LarryTheCableGuy: Health Inspector''. Is he a cable guy or a health inspector?
* In ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', Old Nehampkin is younger than Young Nehampkin. Creator/WoodyAllen's character {{lampshades}} it while delirious later in the movie.
* ''Frankenstein's Bloody Terror'' is about...werewolves. [[FurAgainstFang Fighting vampires]]. This is actually {{Handwave}}d in the prologue, which explains that the family of werewolves that in the film is actually descended from the Frankenstein family. The reasons behind the title change are more interesting than the actual film. The US distributor promised theaters a Frankenstein picture, but ran out of money midway through production. In desperation, they acquired the rights to an unrelated Spanish picture called ''Mark of the {{Wolfman}}'', added the aforementioned prologue, and released it hoping that no one would notice.
* ''The Evil of Frankenstein'' is actually the Hammer Frankenstein film that depicts Baron Frankenstien (as usual played by Peter Cushing) as somewhat sympathetic. He's more of a WellIntentionedExtremist in an unsupportive world that just thinks that all [[ScienceIsBad Science is the work of the Devil]]. The truly evil character is Zoltan, the hypnotist who tries to use the monster for his own murderous purposes.
* Guess what ''doesn't'' happen in ''Toga Party''.
* ''Meatcleaver Massacre'' has nary a meat cleaver in sight.
* At no point during ''Help Me, I'm Possessed'' is anyone possessed.
* When Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures picked up Creator/JessFranco's WitchHunt opus ''The Bloody Judge'' for American distribution, they [[MarketBasedTitle re-titled]] it as ''Night of the Blood Monster'' and printed up [[CoversAlwaysLie posters]] featuring a suitably horrific "Blood Monster" that naturally never appears in the movie itself.
* ''Film/FutureWar''. Take a wild guess as to whether or not it takes place in the future. Now take another wild guess as to whether or not it's about a war.
* There are no mentions of any prophecies in ''Film/{{Prophecy}}''.
* ''Film/BlueMonkey'' was originally titled ''GreenMonkey'', even though there's no monkey of either color in the film.
* In both ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' movies, the first one has a house that's actually a small shack, while [[Film/HouseOfTheDeadIIDeadAim the second]] has an entire college campus.
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' does not in fact involve any Titans, clashing or otherwise. Their existence is acknowledged in the backstory, but by the time the plot starts they've all been defeated. Though it [[SadlyMythtaken incorrectly]] refers to [[{{Medusa}} a Gorgon's]] head being used to fight a sea monster as "a titan against another titan."
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the dragon Toothless ''has'' teeth. Being retractable, they're mostly hidden, and show up when he eats or [[GameFace attacks]]. Hiccup's father Stoick is not TheStoic. And Hiccup never gets hiccups (though in the series it's explained that runts are named Hiccup.)
* Dr. Leopold, the doctor in ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'' does not have a Z anywhere in his last name. This was actually because the film's real title was ''Zaat'', but it was never released in theaters because the distributor unexpectedly went bankrupt at the last minute. It was released on video under a number of different titles. In this case, whoever released it mistakenly thought that "Zaat" was Dr. Leopold's name.
* There are no zombies in ''Film/ZombieIslandMassacre''.
* At the end of ''Film/TheNightTheWorldExploded'', the Earth remains intact and unexploded.
* There are no dinosaurs (or any other prehistoric beasts, for that matter) in ''Film/MassacreInDinosaurValley''.
* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' movies are not about a feline. The "Pink Panther" is a diamond that plays a major role in some, but not all, of the films. The cartoon panther that originally appeared in [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 the first film]]'s credits, also called [[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther The Pink Panther]], took on a life of its own as a film and TV cartoon character and advertising mascot.
* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'' actually takes place in "Precinct 9, Division 13." The title was chosen by the film's distributor, who basically thought "Precinct 13" [[RuleOfCool sounded cool and ominous]].
* At no point in the ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'', are any of the characters ever alone in the dark. They are either with someone else at the time, or they are not in the dark. The film was based on a video game in which the player character ''is'' alone in a haunted house.
* ''Film/NakedLunch'', [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title".]]
* ''Film/TheBarbarianInvasions'' is not a Conan the Barbarian-ripoff, but a story about French Canadian intellectuals talking about sex, aging and politics. Its predecessor ''The Decline of the American Empire'' is, well, more of the same.
* The Swedish movie ''November 30'' actually takes place around June 6 the National Day of Sweden. The title comes from the fact that it's theme is Neo-nazism and November 30 is a date when Swedish neo-Nazis often march to commemorate the death of king [[UsefulNotes/CarolusRex Charles XII]].
* ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'' was also released as ''The Conqueror Worm'' despite having little to do with the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe poem, although a portion of it is recited toward the movie's end. Creator/VincentPrice was in it, so presumably it was titled that way to attract fans of all the Creator/RogerCorman-directed Poe adaptations he'd starred in.
* Mr. Green in ''Film/{{Clue}}''. All of the other guests have {{Meaningful Name}}s that reflect their appearance or attire, but Mr. Green does not wear green or have green eyes or hair. In some versions of the film, he's under an assumed identity, and therefore a "plant."
* In ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'', there was no mention of any "Book of Shadows".
* ''{{Musa}}'', called ''The Warrior'' in English, is not about one specific warrior. It has an ensemble cast, with three characters that more or less share the main spotlight.
* The Terry Gilliam movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' does not have a single scene set in Brazil, nor is the country relevant to the plot in any way or even mentioned once. Its only significance is that an old song titled "Brazil" is played throughout, perhaps because its romantic imagery provides a thematic counterpoint to the bureaucratic police state in which the story takes place.
* In ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', Chazz's rock band has three members and is called The Lone Rangers. Ian the DJ points out that they would more accurately be called The Three Rangers.
* ''Film/TheRoom'' is not about a room. It does have a great many scenes taking place in Johnny's apartment, but it is not the focus of the film at all. If you take director/writer/star Tommy Wiseau's [[WordOfGod word for it]], it's about Johnny's HappyPlace, but even ''that'' doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
* ''Film/RainMan'' is not about a man who is associated in any way with rain. "Rain Man" was what Charlie called Raymond when he was a little kid when he misremembered Raymond as an imaginary friend named Rain Man.
* The Hong Kong film ''Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai'' is known as ''Election 2'' in English. It isn't a sequel to the American film ''Film/{{Election}}'' or any other film. The American release fixed this by naming the film ''Triad Election''.
* Ain't no ghosts in ''ComicBook/GhostWorld''. [[TropesAreNotBad It works pretty well as a metaphor though.]]
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. The faun is never referred to as "Pan" in the film. The Spanish language version of the title translates to "The Labyrinth of the Faun."
* The titular vengeance demon of the ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'' series does not actually have a pumpkin for a head.
* ''The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia'' is not set in Connecticut, but it is in Georgia.
%%* ''Film/TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'', where do we even start?
* ''A Teenage Opera'', a late-[[TheSixties 1960s]] movie which spent a few years in DevelopmentHell before finally being scrapped, wasn't an opera (though it ''was'' a musical) and had few if any teenage characters.
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' does not take place on or anywhere near Judgment Day, ending with it seemingly prevented two to three years before it was supposed to happen. ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' on the other hand...
* In ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'' remake, there is still a kid, but he does not do any karate. It's set in China, so he learns kung fu instead.
* At no point during ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' do the characters watch trains. The title has more relevance in the original novel, however. It's alluded to in one of the trailers as well, but in a way that has [[NeverTrustATrailer nothing to do with either the the book ''or'' the film]].
* The 1994 Cher film ''Mermaids'' has nothing to do with mermaids at all.
* For ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' fans, ''Film/PodPeople''. As Dr. Forrester says, "It has nothing to do with pods... it has nothing to do with people... it has EVERYTHING to do with hurting."
* ''Film/TheMexican'' is not any person from Mexico. It's a gun from Mexico.
* ''Film/ThePrincessAndTheWarrior'' is about a modern-day nurse and a former soldier turned thief.
* Creator/WoodyAllen's movie ''Film/{{Bananas}}'' doesn't have any bananas in it. In an interview, Allen admitted he gave it that title for that very reason.
* ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'': It didn't even conquer a small town.
* A JustifiedTrope in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. M.U.T.O. stands for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism," and it ''originally'' described the so-labeled beast pretty well. However, the label became obsolete with a recent development, in which Stenz describes the creature as [[GiantFlyer "no longer terrestrial"]] in movement. It still applies to the female one, however.
* ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}'' isn't about a wizard. It's about truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin in a truck ''named'' Sorcerer.
* ''{{Film/Snatch}}'': The man known as Boris the Blade, Boris the Bullet-dodger and Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian is an Uzbekistani who prefers to fight with guns and doesn't so much dodge bullets as [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong absorb them]].
* ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' only features one of the original 300.
* ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' is a misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby was a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up''.
* ''Film/{{Surveillance}}'' doesn't feature surveillance.
* No one wakes up screaming in ''Film/IWakeUpScreaming''.
* The protagonist of ''Film/BigDaddy'' is neither big (he's average-sized at best), nor a daddy (well, not until the final scene, at least). And at no point does he ever hold a position of authority over others, which is what the metaphorical "Big Daddy" refers to.
* Averted by ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title character is not a beetle (though he briefly transforms himself into one) and has nothing to do with juice. In fact, technically speaking, "Beetlejuice" isn't even his name; he is known officially as "Betelgeuse" (like the star in the constellation Orion, which apparently has nothing to do with the film, making it in itself an example!), and "Beetlejuice" is simply a folk etymology (phonetic rendering) of the true spelling. That said, Betelgeuse ''does'' eat a raw beetle (well, a cockroach, but why nitpick?) for a snack, and when he bit into it he presumably swallowed a good portion of the bug's "juice."
* The 1958 film ''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace''. Needless to say, a monster that comes from Mars is ''not'' from "beyond space".
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' has no volcano in it. Rather, it has a lava vent issuing magma, and... that's it.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 2'' has nothing to do with a high school musical. In fact, the movie takes place during summer vacation.
* ''Film/SwingParadeOf1946''. At no point does a "Swing Parade" actually occur. Much to the consternation of the Podcast/RiffTrax crew. In fact, very little, if any, of the music in the film is swing to begin with, most of it being more general big-band standards or light musical ballads. The only swing actually in the movie is provided by Louis Jordan and his band, and if you were watching the film in 1946 in the south or other places where laws or customs dictated the excising of blacks from films unless they were servants or Pullman porters you were pretty much out of luck.
* The MarketBasedTitle of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' for Latin America is "[[OperationBlank Operation: Skyfall]]". The TitleDrop is actually TheNamesake (it's the Bond family manor, important to James' backstory and the location of the climactic battle).
* The titular character of ''Film/{{Axeman}}'' is more of a KnifeNut than an [[AnAxeToGrind axeman]], though he does wield an axe a couple times.
* ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': The guys in the masks aren't the ones doing the avenging. They're the ones having vengeance wrought upon them.
* ''Film/TheCandyTangerineMan'': Despite what the theme song implies, the protsgonist's pimp name isn't " The Candy Tangerine Man." It's "The Black Baron."
* In the documentary ''Film/AmericanMovie: The Making of Northwestern'', the subject Mark Borchardt quickly abandons his more ambitious feature film ''Northwestern'' and instead finishes "Coven," a black-and-white short film.
* ''{{Film/Tyrannosaur}}'': Despite the title and the poster having the skeleton of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' buried underground, this dramatic film about [[spoiler: domestic violence, rape, revenge, and suffering]] has absolutely nothing to do with dinosaurs. Turns out, the movie's title is actually a metaphor for the whole story.
* ''Film/{{Abduction}}'' features no kidnappings whatsoever.
* Tarzan's animal friend Cheetah isn't a cheetah, he's a chimp.
* No one ever gets strangled in ''Night Of The Strangler'', though there are several murders committed through other methods. It also takes place over the course of several days rather than a single night.
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' doesn't feature a BrainInAJar: The title is most likely referring to the character Jan, who spends most of the film as a living severed head, not just a brain. You could also argue that "Wouldn't Die" should be "''Couldn't'' Die": "Wouldn't" implies that she refuses to die, when in fact she's being kept alive against her will and repeatedly begs for someone to kill her. The WorkingTitle was the more accurate ''The Head That Wouldn't Die'', but the film makers decided to follow a trend of sci-fi b-movies with "Brain" somewhere in the title.
* ''The Curse Of The Cat People'' doesn't involve a curse, and you'd be hard-pressed to see what it had to do with any "cat people" unless you saw ''Film/CatPeople'', the film it was a sequel to, first: Irena, one of the characters from the first film, appears as a ghost in the sequel... But her involuntary shape-shifting into a cat is never brought up or seen, and it's totally irrelevant to the plot at any rate.
* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': The movie doesn't take place in [[Trope2000 the year 2000]], and the plot is not related to the Holocaust (it's only briefly mentioned when the villain explains his plans for a ''nuclear'' holocaust). Instead, it's a ReligiousHorror film about TheAntichrist set in the 1970s.
* ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' (famously riffed on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') is about a single ordinary (if poorly written) human being who gets lightly scarred by acid and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotized to become a mindless killer]], remaining 100% alive and un-mixed-up for the entirety of the story (at least until he's shot and killed by the police, at which point he stops living and becomes dead). The weird title also implies that the film is some sort of comedy or parody, when it is in fact played completely straight.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' does not feature a nation going rogue.
* ''Triassic Attack'' is a Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie about [[FossilRevival revived dinosaur skeletons]] going on a rampage. All the dinosaurs in question (three total) are from the Cretaceous.
* One of the three [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk Incredible Hulk]] TV movies, ''The Trial of the Incredible Hulk'', plays with this trope. Bruce...or rather, "David" Banner[[note]]Bruce is portrayed as being his middle name...just like in comics, although in the latter, he prefers to go by his middle name, rather than his (real) first name, Robert.[[/note]] is awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit (with ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} as his lawyer, no less), but neither he, nor the Hulk are ever actually seen in a courtroom, let alone on actual trial. That said, there technically was a trial with the Hulk (now in his trademark purple pants) being tried, but that turned out to just be a [[AllJustADream dream sequence]].
* While Toecutter from ''Film/MadMax1'' is a brutal thug, he never cuts off anyone's toes.
* EVE's job in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she ''shouldn't'' be looking according to her name ('''Extra'''terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
* ''Film/ItComesAtNight'': How the title relates to the film is unclear. There is no apparent "it" that "comes at night." The title and marketing imply that there is some sort of supernatural menace in the film, though it's actually about survivors of a supervirus.
* One edition of Creator/DingoPictures ''The Countryside Bears'', the only version released on DVD rather than a PlayStation disc, is titled ''Winky the Little Bear'' as a pun on the title of [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the franchise it knocks off]], but there are no actual characters named Winky; the main character being named Teddy.
* ''Film/HouseOfDracula''. There's a house, and Dracula is there (among others), but it isn't Dracula's house.
** ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' has a similar problem. Not only does the house not belong to Frankenstein, but *no* member of the (by this point, quite extensive) Frankenstein family even *visits*. [[FrankensteinsMonster The Monster]] stops by, though.
* The world doesn't end in ''Film/ApocalypseOfTheDead''
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* Is there a KissOfDeath in 1947 FilmNoir ''Film/KissOfDeath''? No, no there is not.
* Creator/AlexanderPayne has a habit with this. Notably ''Film/{{Sideways}}'' doesn't have a lot to do with being sideways, ''Film/TheDescendants'' isn't really overly concerned with the the fact that the leads are descended from King Kamehameha (but it does feature fathers and sons as a recurring theme).
* The film version of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' does include a superhero team called "The Watchmen" ([[IAmNotShazam unlike the graphic novel]]) but they aren't the protagonists of the film--they were a proposed team that was never actually formed. All of the main characters are independent vigilantes with no allegiance to any team, and (apart from Rorschach and Nite Owl) none of them ever fought crime together.
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'':
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
** ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made from steel scrap parts, but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
-->'''Tony Stark:''' Iron Man? That's kinda catchy. Not technically accurate, since it's a gold-titanium alloy, but...
** In ''Film/IronMan3'', the fortune cookie example in the Real Life page is used in one of the Mandarin's speech videos.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', we meet the King of the Dwarves... who turns out to be a giant easily twice Thor's height. [[DoubleSubversion With the]] ''[[DoubleSubversion proportions]]'' [[DoubleSubversion of a human with dwarfism]].
* The weapon in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' is identified as "The Glaive". It isn't a [[BladeOnAStick curved-blade polearm]], but rather a starfish-shaped throwing weapon. Even if you take the older meaning of "glaive" as "sword" it doesn't fit. Due to the film's popularity, a number of other works have named similar weapons "glaives," such as ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''Series/{{Blade}}''.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' features the Incredibly Deadly Viper--[[DeathbringerTheAdorable not so incredibly deadly]]. Justified because it was intentional by Uncle Monty in order to scare the rest of his colleagues as revenge for all their mocking of his name.
* In ''Film/DrDolittle'', Rodney the guinea pig ponders how he came to that name, since he's not a pig, not from Africa, and not an Italian "guinea".
* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'' is about goblins, not trolls, and is not a sequel to ''{{Troll}}''. Furthermore, there are ''two'' different films that go by the title ''Troll 3''; neither of them are about trolls and neither of them are sequels to either ''Troll'' or ''Troll 2''.
* The word "Film/{{Gojira}}" is a portmanteau of "kujira" (whale) and gorilla. Early on in the production, they hadn't decided what Franchise/{{Godzilla}} was going to look like, and the pretty cool name for one scrapped design was eventually combined with a different, really cool design...of a lizard.
* Toho's ''Film/LatitudeZero'' features a monster named Black Moth. Take a wild guess what the monster is. Go on... Give up? It's [[spoiler:a flying lion/eagle hybrid.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the crew of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
** The [[MembershipToken Nine Pieces of Eight]] from ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' are not coins, but random pieces of junk. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe: they used random piece of junk because the founding pirates were flat broke, and called them "Pieces of Eight" because they thought it sounded more pirate-y than "Pieces of Whatever We Happened to Have in our Pockets At The Time."
* In ''Film/MysteryMen''
** The Blue Raja's costume consisted of almost every color ''except'' blue! There's also the issue with his British accent instead of an Indian one. But apparently, that has more to do with people [[ViewersAreGeniuses not knowing the history of India and the British occupation... blah, blah, blah]].
** Then there's also The Spleen, who named himself after a body part that has nothing to do with his [[{{Fartillery}} superpower]]. It may be a play on the saying "Vent your spleen", where you generally let loose with a rather noxious rant. And The Spleen ''does'' vent something quite noxious when he uses his power.
* {{Subverted}} by the film ''Film/{{Raazi}}''. ''Raazi'' is based on an espionage novel called ''Calling Sehmat'', where Sehmat is the name of the female protagonist. When the film came out, a lot of viewers questioned whether the title "Raazi" had any connection with the plot. Turns out, the word "raazi" and the name of the female protagonist, "Sehmat", [[StealthPun both mean]] "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.
* ''StarWars''.
** The Battle of Endor took place on the ''forest moon'' of Endor (which is a gas giant). The Battle of Yavin is slightly better, but not much--it takes place near Yavin IV, which is actually only a moon of the gas giant Yavin.
** Many weapons use terminology that is not specifically correct. For example, lightsabers aren't shaped like sabers. There are also blaster rifles, which don't have any rifling. Turbolasers do not fire true lasers. Ignoring the inherent pseudoscience of the futuristic weaponry, new weapons often sport names that are based on older technology, such as "howitzer" being based after the Czech word for sling.
** Star Destroyers can neither destroy stars nor qualify as equivalents of naval destroyers, given their sheer size and firepower compared to Rebel ships. They're more akin to battleships or aircraft carriers. ''Super'' Star Destroyers are much larger, but still can't destroy stars. Then again, in modern times, Destroyers are typically the most powerful surface combat ships in any navy - [[SpaceIsAnOcean meaning they use "Star" in the same meaning as "Space"]].
* In the movie ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', none of the guns are revolvers, and nothing rotates. It's, like, a deep metaphor, ya know?
* In the second ''Film/KillBill'' movie, Bill comments that there weren't 88 members of the Crazy 88; they just called themselves that "[[RuleOfCool because it sounded cool]]."
* This exchange in ''Film/TrueLies'':
-->'''Faisil:''' They call him the "Sand Spider".
-->'''Trilby:''' Why?
-->'''Faisil:''' Probably because it sounds scary.
* ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}'' (known in America as ''Zombie'', known in some other places as ''Zombie Flesh Eaters'') is not the second "''Zombi''" film, it's the first in its series. Romero's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' was released in Europe under the title Zombi, and the Italian producers decided to capitalize on its success by claiming that their film was actually a sequel or prequel much to the director's Creator/LucioFulci chagrin. Which it wasn't.
* ''Zombie Holocaust'' was released in some places under the title ''Zombi3'', trying to do to Fulci what Fulci did to Romero. In other places, including America, it was released under the title ''Dr. Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate''. There isn't a character named Dr. Butcher in the film, and the evil Doctor character only shows up in the finale of the film. Even the titles ''Zombi3D'' and ''Zombie Holocaust'' are rather inaccurate- the film is predominantly about LIVING cannibals, while zombies only show up for small portions of the tale.
* ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror'' only took place over the course of one night.
* In ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', Creator/AbbottAndCostello go ... to Venus. They were ''supposed'' to go to Mars, however.
* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''. Apparently ''Chick Young and Wilbur Gray Meet Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster'' just wasn't a catchy enough title.
* ''Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory''. The werewolf never actually gets into the dormitory. He mostly just wanders around the grounds.
* ''Krakatoa, East of Java''. Krakatoa is, in fact, West of Java, but they wanted a more exotic-sounding title.
* There are [[SimilarlyNamedWorks three unrelated films]] called ''Madhouse'', only one of which is actually set in a mental institution. The 1990 John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley film is about a house being overrun by uninvited guests that could figuratively be called a "madhouse". In the 1974 Creator/VincentPrice film, it's a plot point that Price's character ''was'' once in a mental institution, but no scenes actually take place there. The Vincent Price one was originally going to be called ''The Revenge Of Dr. Death'' or ''The Return of Dr. Death'', both of which would have been more descriptive of the plot, but the producers thought it would be mistaken for a sequel; It didn't help that there had been a recent film called ''Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls'' either.
* Flash Gordon does not, in fact, conquer the universe in the serial ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''.
* Frankenstein does not conquer the world in ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld''.
* Santa does not in fact, conquer any Martians, at least not in the traditional sense in ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians''.
* ''Teenage Zombies'' doesn't feature any zombies, and has a cast of "teenagers" that look to be [[DawsonCasting days away from a midlife crisis]].
* ''The Man With Two Heads'' only has one head. It's an adaptation of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde''.
* ''Legend of the Dinosaurs'' doesn't technically feature any dinosaurs, only a plesiosaur and a pterosaur.
* The classic Frank Capra romantic comedy ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' takes place over several nights, and no one of them is more significant to the plot than any other.
* ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' has one scene set in Fargo, North Dakota. The rest of it takes place in Minnesota.
* In ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', only the very last scene takes place in that neighborhood of Los Angeles. However, Gittes does use Chinatown [[WretchedHive as a metaphor]] a few times.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant initially assumes (logically enough) that Jessica Rabbit, married to the eponymous hero, is in fact a rabbit. [[EyeShock Then he sees her]], and discovers that she certainly isn't. [[FanService Oh no]].
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'' actually centers on finding a lost city of gold. The Book of Secrets is only a single road sign on the way to it. To put things in perspective, this is like giving the first movie the subtitle of "Ben Franklin's Letters".
* Bobby Fischer never appears in ''Film/SearchingForBobbyFischer.'' In fact, nobody really searches for him in the film. ''Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer'' would have been a more accurate title.
* ''Film/HauntedHoneymoon'': The characters are not on their honeymoon. They are not even married yet.
* ''The Dead Are Alive'' does not feature any [[TheUndead undead]], despite [[NeverTrustATrailer all the film's advertising]] trying to convince viewers otherwise. The film actually is a proto-{{Giallo}} with characters being offed by a very human killer. In fact, the main character ''specifically dismisses'' the possibility of the dead being alive within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Its Italian title translates as "The Etruscan Kills Again", which is equally inaccurate.
* ''Creator/LarryTheCableGuy: Health Inspector''. Is he a cable guy or a health inspector?
* In ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', Old Nehampkin is younger than Young Nehampkin. Creator/WoodyAllen's character {{lampshades}} it while delirious later in the movie.
* ''Frankenstein's Bloody Terror'' is about...werewolves. [[FurAgainstFang Fighting vampires]]. This is actually {{Handwave}}d in the prologue, which explains that the family of werewolves that in the film is actually descended from the Frankenstein family. The reasons behind the title change are more interesting than the actual film. The US distributor promised theaters a Frankenstein picture, but ran out of money midway through production. In desperation, they acquired the rights to an unrelated Spanish picture called ''Mark of the {{Wolfman}}'', added the aforementioned prologue, and released it hoping that no one would notice.
* ''The Evil of Frankenstein'' is actually the Hammer Frankenstein film that depicts Baron Frankenstien (as usual played by Peter Cushing) as somewhat sympathetic. He's more of a WellIntentionedExtremist in an unsupportive world that just thinks that all [[ScienceIsBad Science is the work of the Devil]]. The truly evil character is Zoltan, the hypnotist who tries to use the monster for his own murderous purposes.
* Guess what ''doesn't'' happen in ''Toga Party''.
* ''Meatcleaver Massacre'' has nary a meat cleaver in sight.
* At no point during ''Help Me, I'm Possessed'' is anyone possessed.
* When Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures picked up Creator/JessFranco's WitchHunt opus ''The Bloody Judge'' for American distribution, they [[MarketBasedTitle re-titled]] it as ''Night of the Blood Monster'' and printed up [[CoversAlwaysLie posters]] featuring a suitably horrific "Blood Monster" that naturally never appears in the movie itself.
* ''Film/FutureWar''. Take a wild guess as to whether or not it takes place in the future. Now take another wild guess as to whether or not it's about a war.
* There are no mentions of any prophecies in ''Film/{{Prophecy}}''.
* ''Film/BlueMonkey'' was originally titled ''GreenMonkey'', even though there's no monkey of either color in the film.
* In both ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' movies, the first one has a house that's actually a small shack, while [[Film/HouseOfTheDeadIIDeadAim the second]] has an entire college campus.
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' does not in fact involve any Titans, clashing or otherwise. Their existence is acknowledged in the backstory, but by the time the plot starts they've all been defeated. Though it [[SadlyMythtaken incorrectly]] refers to [[{{Medusa}} a Gorgon's]] head being used to fight a sea monster as "a titan against another titan."
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the dragon Toothless ''has'' teeth. Being retractable, they're mostly hidden, and show up when he eats or [[GameFace attacks]]. Hiccup's father Stoick is not TheStoic. And Hiccup never gets hiccups (though in the series it's explained that runts are named Hiccup.)
* Dr. Leopold, the doctor in ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'' does not have a Z anywhere in his last name. This was actually because the film's real title was ''Zaat'', but it was never released in theaters because the distributor unexpectedly went bankrupt at the last minute. It was released on video under a number of different titles. In this case, whoever released it mistakenly thought that "Zaat" was Dr. Leopold's name.
* There are no zombies in ''Film/ZombieIslandMassacre''.
* At the end of ''Film/TheNightTheWorldExploded'', the Earth remains intact and unexploded.
* There are no dinosaurs (or any other prehistoric beasts, for that matter) in ''Film/MassacreInDinosaurValley''.
* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' movies are not about a feline. The "Pink Panther" is a diamond that plays a major role in some, but not all, of the films. The cartoon panther that originally appeared in [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 the first film]]'s credits, also called [[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther The Pink Panther]], took on a life of its own as a film and TV cartoon character and advertising mascot.
* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'' actually takes place in "Precinct 9, Division 13." The title was chosen by the film's distributor, who basically thought "Precinct 13" [[RuleOfCool sounded cool and ominous]].
* At no point in the ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'', are any of the characters ever alone in the dark. They are either with someone else at the time, or they are not in the dark. The film was based on a video game in which the player character ''is'' alone in a haunted house.
* ''Film/NakedLunch'', [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title".]]
* ''Film/TheBarbarianInvasions'' is not a Conan the Barbarian-ripoff, but a story about French Canadian intellectuals talking about sex, aging and politics. Its predecessor ''The Decline of the American Empire'' is, well, more of the same.
* The Swedish movie ''November 30'' actually takes place around June 6 the National Day of Sweden. The title comes from the fact that it's theme is Neo-nazism and November 30 is a date when Swedish neo-Nazis often march to commemorate the death of king [[UsefulNotes/CarolusRex Charles XII]].
* ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'' was also released as ''The Conqueror Worm'' despite having little to do with the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe poem, although a portion of it is recited toward the movie's end. Creator/VincentPrice was in it, so presumably it was titled that way to attract fans of all the Creator/RogerCorman-directed Poe adaptations he'd starred in.
* Mr. Green in ''Film/{{Clue}}''. All of the other guests have {{Meaningful Name}}s that reflect their appearance or attire, but Mr. Green does not wear green or have green eyes or hair. In some versions of the film, he's under an assumed identity, and therefore a "plant."
* In ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'', there was no mention of any "Book of Shadows".
* ''{{Musa}}'', called ''The Warrior'' in English, is not about one specific warrior. It has an ensemble cast, with three characters that more or less share the main spotlight.
* The Terry Gilliam movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' does not have a single scene set in Brazil, nor is the country relevant to the plot in any way or even mentioned once. Its only significance is that an old song titled "Brazil" is played throughout, perhaps because its romantic imagery provides a thematic counterpoint to the bureaucratic police state in which the story takes place.
* In ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', Chazz's rock band has three members and is called The Lone Rangers. Ian the DJ points out that they would more accurately be called The Three Rangers.
* ''Film/TheRoom'' is not about a room. It does have a great many scenes taking place in Johnny's apartment, but it is not the focus of the film at all. If you take director/writer/star Tommy Wiseau's [[WordOfGod word for it]], it's about Johnny's HappyPlace, but even ''that'' doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
* ''Film/RainMan'' is not about a man who is associated in any way with rain. "Rain Man" was what Charlie called Raymond when he was a little kid when he misremembered Raymond as an imaginary friend named Rain Man.
* The Hong Kong film ''Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai'' is known as ''Election 2'' in English. It isn't a sequel to the American film ''Film/{{Election}}'' or any other film. The American release fixed this by naming the film ''Triad Election''.
* Ain't no ghosts in ''ComicBook/GhostWorld''. [[TropesAreNotBad It works pretty well as a metaphor though.]]
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. The faun is never referred to as "Pan" in the film. The Spanish language version of the title translates to "The Labyrinth of the Faun."
* The titular vengeance demon of the ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'' series does not actually have a pumpkin for a head.
* ''The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia'' is not set in Connecticut, but it is in Georgia.
%%* ''Film/TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'', where do we even start?
* ''A Teenage Opera'', a late-[[TheSixties 1960s]] movie which spent a few years in DevelopmentHell before finally being scrapped, wasn't an opera (though it ''was'' a musical) and had few if any teenage characters.
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' does not take place on or anywhere near Judgment Day, ending with it seemingly prevented two to three years before it was supposed to happen. ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' on the other hand...
* In ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'' remake, there is still a kid, but he does not do any karate. It's set in China, so he learns kung fu instead.
* At no point during ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' do the characters watch trains. The title has more relevance in the original novel, however. It's alluded to in one of the trailers as well, but in a way that has [[NeverTrustATrailer nothing to do with either the the book ''or'' the film]].
* The 1994 Cher film ''Mermaids'' has nothing to do with mermaids at all.
* For ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' fans, ''Film/PodPeople''. As Dr. Forrester says, "It has nothing to do with pods... it has nothing to do with people... it has EVERYTHING to do with hurting."
* ''Film/TheMexican'' is not any person from Mexico. It's a gun from Mexico.
* ''Film/ThePrincessAndTheWarrior'' is about a modern-day nurse and a former soldier turned thief.
* Creator/WoodyAllen's movie ''Film/{{Bananas}}'' doesn't have any bananas in it. In an interview, Allen admitted he gave it that title for that very reason.
* ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'': It didn't even conquer a small town.
* A JustifiedTrope in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. M.U.T.O. stands for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism," and it ''originally'' described the so-labeled beast pretty well. However, the label became obsolete with a recent development, in which Stenz describes the creature as [[GiantFlyer "no longer terrestrial"]] in movement. It still applies to the female one, however.
* ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}'' isn't about a wizard. It's about truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin in a truck ''named'' Sorcerer.
* ''{{Film/Snatch}}'': The man known as Boris the Blade, Boris the Bullet-dodger and Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian is an Uzbekistani who prefers to fight with guns and doesn't so much dodge bullets as [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong absorb them]].
* ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' only features one of the original 300.
* ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' is a misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby was a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up''.
* ''Film/{{Surveillance}}'' doesn't feature surveillance.
* No one wakes up screaming in ''Film/IWakeUpScreaming''.
* The protagonist of ''Film/BigDaddy'' is neither big (he's average-sized at best), nor a daddy (well, not until the final scene, at least). And at no point does he ever hold a position of authority over others, which is what the metaphorical "Big Daddy" refers to.
* Averted by ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title character is not a beetle (though he briefly transforms himself into one) and has nothing to do with juice. In fact, technically speaking, "Beetlejuice" isn't even his name; he is known officially as "Betelgeuse" (like the star in the constellation Orion, which apparently has nothing to do with the film, making it in itself an example!), and "Beetlejuice" is simply a folk etymology (phonetic rendering) of the true spelling. That said, Betelgeuse ''does'' eat a raw beetle (well, a cockroach, but why nitpick?) for a snack, and when he bit into it he presumably swallowed a good portion of the bug's "juice."
* The 1958 film ''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace''. Needless to say, a monster that comes from Mars is ''not'' from "beyond space".
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' has no volcano in it. Rather, it has a lava vent issuing magma, and... that's it.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 2'' has nothing to do with a high school musical. In fact, the movie takes place during summer vacation.
* ''Film/SwingParadeOf1946''. At no point does a "Swing Parade" actually occur. Much to the consternation of the Podcast/RiffTrax crew. In fact, very little, if any, of the music in the film is swing to begin with, most of it being more general big-band standards or light musical ballads. The only swing actually in the movie is provided by Louis Jordan and his band, and if you were watching the film in 1946 in the south or other places where laws or customs dictated the excising of blacks from films unless they were servants or Pullman porters you were pretty much out of luck.
* The MarketBasedTitle of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' for Latin America is "[[OperationBlank Operation: Skyfall]]". The TitleDrop is actually TheNamesake (it's the Bond family manor, important to James' backstory and the location of the climactic battle).
* The titular character of ''Film/{{Axeman}}'' is more of a KnifeNut than an [[AnAxeToGrind axeman]], though he does wield an axe a couple times.
* ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': The guys in the masks aren't the ones doing the avenging. They're the ones having vengeance wrought upon them.
* ''Film/TheCandyTangerineMan'': Despite what the theme song implies, the protsgonist's pimp name isn't " The Candy Tangerine Man." It's "The Black Baron."
* In the documentary ''Film/AmericanMovie: The Making of Northwestern'', the subject Mark Borchardt quickly abandons his more ambitious feature film ''Northwestern'' and instead finishes "Coven," a black-and-white short film.
* ''{{Film/Tyrannosaur}}'': Despite the title and the poster having the skeleton of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' buried underground, this dramatic film about [[spoiler: domestic violence, rape, revenge, and suffering]] has absolutely nothing to do with dinosaurs. Turns out, the movie's title is actually a metaphor for the whole story.
* ''Film/{{Abduction}}'' features no kidnappings whatsoever.
* Tarzan's animal friend Cheetah isn't a cheetah, he's a chimp.
* No one ever gets strangled in ''Night Of The Strangler'', though there are several murders committed through other methods. It also takes place over the course of several days rather than a single night.
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' doesn't feature a BrainInAJar: The title is most likely referring to the character Jan, who spends most of the film as a living severed head, not just a brain. You could also argue that "Wouldn't Die" should be "''Couldn't'' Die": "Wouldn't" implies that she refuses to die, when in fact she's being kept alive against her will and repeatedly begs for someone to kill her. The WorkingTitle was the more accurate ''The Head That Wouldn't Die'', but the film makers decided to follow a trend of sci-fi b-movies with "Brain" somewhere in the title.
* ''The Curse Of The Cat People'' doesn't involve a curse, and you'd be hard-pressed to see what it had to do with any "cat people" unless you saw ''Film/CatPeople'', the film it was a sequel to, first: Irena, one of the characters from the first film, appears as a ghost in the sequel... But her involuntary shape-shifting into a cat is never brought up or seen, and it's totally irrelevant to the plot at any rate.
* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': The movie doesn't take place in [[Trope2000 the year 2000]], and the plot is not related to the Holocaust (it's only briefly mentioned when the villain explains his plans for a ''nuclear'' holocaust). Instead, it's a ReligiousHorror film about TheAntichrist set in the 1970s.
* ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' (famously riffed on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') is about a single ordinary (if poorly written) human being who gets lightly scarred by acid and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotized to become a mindless killer]], remaining 100% alive and un-mixed-up for the entirety of the story (at least until he's shot and killed by the police, at which point he stops living and becomes dead). The weird title also implies that the film is some sort of comedy or parody, when it is in fact played completely straight.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' does not feature a nation going rogue.
* ''Triassic Attack'' is a Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie about [[FossilRevival revived dinosaur skeletons]] going on a rampage. All the dinosaurs in question (three total) are from the Cretaceous.
* One of the three [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk Incredible Hulk]] TV movies, ''The Trial of the Incredible Hulk'', plays with this trope. Bruce...or rather, "David" Banner[[note]]Bruce is portrayed as being his middle name...just like in comics, although in the latter, he prefers to go by his middle name, rather than his (real) first name, Robert.[[/note]] is awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit (with ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} as his lawyer, no less), but neither he, nor the Hulk are ever actually seen in a courtroom, let alone on actual trial. That said, there technically was a trial with the Hulk (now in his trademark purple pants) being tried, but that turned out to just be a [[AllJustADream dream sequence]].
* While Toecutter from ''Film/MadMax1'' is a brutal thug, he never cuts off anyone's toes.
* EVE's job in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she ''shouldn't'' be looking according to her name ('''Extra'''terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
* ''Film/ItComesAtNight'': How the title relates to the film is unclear. There is no apparent "it" that "comes at night." The title and marketing imply that there is some sort of supernatural menace in the film, though it's actually about survivors of a supervirus.
* One edition of Creator/DingoPictures ''The Countryside Bears'', the only version released on DVD rather than a PlayStation disc, is titled ''Winky the Little Bear'' as a pun on the title of [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the franchise it knocks off]], but there are no actual characters named Winky; the main character being named Teddy.
* ''Film/HouseOfDracula''. There's a house, and Dracula is there (among others), but it isn't Dracula's house.
** ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' has a similar problem. Not only does the house not belong to Frankenstein, but *no* member of the (by this point, quite extensive) Frankenstein family even *visits*. [[FrankensteinsMonster The Monster]] stops by, though.
* The world doesn't end in ''Film/ApocalypseOfTheDead''
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* {{Subverted}} by the film ''Film/{{Raazi}}''. ''Raazi'' is based on an espionage novel called ''Calling Sehmat'', where Sehmat is the name of the female protagonist. When the film came out, a lot of viewers questioned whether the title "Raazi" had any connection with the plot. Turns out, the word "raazi" and the name of the female protagonist, "Sehmat", [[StealthPun both mean]] "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.
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** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', we meet the King of the Dwarves... who turns out to be a giant easily twice Thor's height. [[DoubleSubversion With the]] ''[[DoubleSubversion proportions]]'' [[DoubleSubversion of a human with dwarfism]].
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* While Toecutter from ''Film/MadMax'' is a brutal thug, he never cuts off anyone's toes.
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* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 2'' has nothing to do with a high school musical. In fact, the movie takes place summer vacation.
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* ''Film/HouseOfDracula''. There's a house, and Dracula is there (among others), but it isn't Dracula's house.
** ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' has a similar problem. Not only does the house not belong to Frankenstein, but *no* member of the (by this point, quite extensive) Frankenstein family even *visits*. [[FrankensteinsMonster The Monster]] stops by, though.
** ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' has a similar problem. Not only does the house not belong to Frankenstein, but *no* member of the (by this point, quite extensive) Frankenstein family even *visits*. [[FrankensteinsMonster The Monster]] stops by, though.
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* One edition of Creator/DingoPictures ''The Countryside Bears'', the only version released on DVD rather than a PlayStation disc, is titled ''Winky the Little Bear'' as a pun on the title of [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the franchise it knocks off]], but there are no actual characters named Winky; the main character being named Teddy.
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* ''Film/ItComesAtNight'': How the title relates to the film is unclear. There is no apparent "it" that "comes at night." The title and marketing imply that there is some sort of supernatural menace in the film, though it's actually about survivors of a supervirus.
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** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
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** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], from steel scrap parts, but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
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** ''Film/BatmanForever'':
*** Despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever it just seems that way.
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** ''Film/BatmanForever'':
*** Despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever it just seems that way.
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*** And as of the Disney's [[{{Retcon}} "Legends" retcon]], Super Star Destroyers are now a kind of Star Dreadnaught and not Star Destroyers at all, despite still being called "Super Star Destroyers".
** Jedi Knights are really more like warrior monks than they are knights. Unlike traditional knights in the real world, their status is not bestowed by a king or ruler; Jedi are an insular society unto themselves. Nor do they employ titles such as "sir". They also don't own much in the way of personal possessions or property, both of which lords may reward knights for loyalty. Also, knights were very much part of a royal's court, unlike Jedi who were not supposed to be involved in politics. Real knights served the wishes of their lord, lady, or monarch. Jedi do exist to serve, but they serve of their own accord and in whatever way they see fit. They are not really at anyone's beck and call and all [=VIPs=] of the Old Republic know that.
** Han Solo ''doesn't'' do his jobs solo. He's always accompanied by Chewie.
** Jedi Knights are really more like warrior monks than they are knights. Unlike traditional knights in the real world, their status is not bestowed by a king or ruler; Jedi are an insular society unto themselves. Nor do they employ titles such as "sir". They also don't own much in the way of personal possessions or property, both of which lords may reward knights for loyalty. Also, knights were very much part of a royal's court, unlike Jedi who were not supposed to be involved in politics. Real knights served the wishes of their lord, lady, or monarch. Jedi do exist to serve, but they serve of their own accord and in whatever way they see fit. They are not really at anyone's beck and call and all [=VIPs=] of the Old Republic know that.
** Han Solo ''doesn't'' do his jobs solo. He's always accompanied by Chewie.
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* ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' (famously riffed on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') is about a single ordinary (if poorly written) human being who gets lightly scarred by acid and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotized to become a mindless killer]], remaining 100% alive and un-mixed-up for the entirety of the story (at least until he's shot and killed by the police, at which point he stops living and becomes dead).
** Though not descriptive of the story (such as it is) the title is a fairly accurate description of the film itself (such as it is).
** Though not descriptive of the story (such as it is) the title is a fairly accurate description of the film itself (such as it is).
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* ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' (famously riffed on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') is about a single ordinary (if poorly written) human being who gets lightly scarred by acid and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotized to become a mindless killer]], remaining 100% alive and un-mixed-up for the entirety of the story (at least until he's shot and killed by the police, at which point he stops living and becomes dead).
** Though not descriptive of the story (such as it is) thedead). The weird title is a fairly accurate description of also implies that the film itself (such as is some sort of comedy or parody, when it is).is in fact played completely straight.
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** {{Justified|Trope}} if you interpret it as "Vegetation Evaluator who is herself Extraterrestrial," though.
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* The doctor in ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'' does not have a Z anywhere in his last name.
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* The Dr. Leopold, the doctor in ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'' does not have a Z anywhere in his last name.name. This was actually because the film's real title was ''Zaat'', but it was never released in theaters because the distributor unexpectedly went bankrupt at the last minute. It was released on video under a number of different titles. In this case, whoever released it mistakenly thought that "Zaat" was Dr. Leopold's name.
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* While Toecutter from ''Film/MadMax'' is a brutal thug, he never cuts of anyone's toes.
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* EVE's job in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she ''shouldn't'' be looking according to her name ('''Extra'''terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
** {{Justified|Trope}} if you interpret it as "Vegetation Evaluator who is herself Extraterrestrial," though.
* EVE's job in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she ''shouldn't'' be looking according to her name ('''Extra'''terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
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** Despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever it just seems that way.
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* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has the Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
** Also, despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever...It just seems that way.
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
* In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has the Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
** Also, despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever...It just seems that way.
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
* In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
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** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has ** ''Film/BatmanForever'':
** Despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever it just seems that way.
** The Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
**Also, despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever...It just seems that way.
*''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' is not entirely about the titular duo, although one subplot has them go through a bit of a fallout because Robin is under the influence of Poison Ivy's spores, and Batgirl is also introduced and featured throughout the film, as pointed out by some critics it would've made more sense if it and ''Batman Forever'' swapped titles.
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** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' there's no indication whatsoever that Batman has been absent from Gotham for an extended period of time nor does he at any point in the film make a grand return of any sort. The title is apparently a reference to the fact that Batman has "returned" to star in another movie.
** Despite its name, the movie is approximately 122 minutes in length. It does not last forever it just seems that way.
** The Nygma Tech Box. It looks like a blender with fins, and it's not boxlike at all.
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** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark's first suit was made [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but his later ones are more advanced. He lampshades the trope when he first sees the media nickname:
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* In ''Film/IronMan3'', the fortune cookie example in the Real Life page is used in one of the Mandarin's speech videos.
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** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the crew of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
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** The FlyingDutchman, which, unlike in the original legend, does not move through the air, and is not Dutch. Its captain is a Welshman with a Scots accent. ''Flying'' in those days, meant 'fast' as often as it meant 'moving through the air' (and very occasionally still does, in phrases such as "flying start"). The equivalent today would be "Racing Dutchman." So it could still be considered accurate in a way.
** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the '''crew''' of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
** The titular curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' isn't actually on the ''Black Pearl'', it's on the '''crew''' of the ''Black Pearl''; their connection to the ''Black Pearl'' had nothing to do with them winding up cursed. And though there is indeed a cursed treasure in the movie, it's a chest of golden coins.
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