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* The ''Batman''-themed TV series ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' has a gangster character named Fish Mooney. You hear the name and you assume "Fish Mooney" is some scuzzy Irish guy. But the character is not scuzzy [[EvilIsSexy (on the outside, anyway)]], not Irish, and not a guy.

* Franchise/Arrowverse:
** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' takes place mostly on Earth-1 and the crisis is happening is because the Nazis are ''leaving'' Earth-X to attack other Earths.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]]: The eponymous "girl" never actually appears inside a fireplace. It's the Doctor who appears in her fireplace.

* The Series/EurovisionSongContest has regular entries from Australia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Israel, used to have entries from Turkey[[note]]or "Türquie", although they never used that name when in Eurovision[[/note]] and once had an entry from Morocco. There have also been aborted attempts from Lebanon and Tunisia. This is because - Australia aside - entry is open to any member of the European Broadcasting Union, which extends into both Asia and Africa.

** Tensou Sentai Goseiger. Gosei translates as "five star" as seen with Gosei Sentai Dairanger. Goseiger does have the usual five warriors but has nothing to do with stars o any nature unless you count Gosei World as with Gingaman the term Gosei is just a Proper name.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': An antiques dealer known as "The Frenchman" is actually a Japanese woman.

* Series/Arrowverse:

* Everybody does not die in the ''Series/{{House}}'' series finale "Everybody Dies".

** {{Inverted|Trope}{ slightly with the series name itself, which is actually only the title of the first book, but has more relevance to the television series. Although the books still have heavy amount of politics and the show had a decent amount of magical/supernatural elements, fans have quipped since the series ended that there's a reason why the show was called "A Game of Thrones" whereas the book series was called ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Many advertisements around the end of the run would still ask "Who will end up sitting on the Iron Throne?", a topic slightly less popular than the book series which has questions more in the vein of "Who will still be alive after the apocalypse hits Westeros?".

* Similarly, ''Series/CougarTown'' stopped being about middle-aged women chasing younger men (with the exception of one minor recurring character) after the first few episodes. The makers seriously considered retitling it, but in the end stayed with the ArtifactTitle. They do, however, [[IncrediblyLamePun mock the title]] in the [[CouchGag title card]] every week.

** The towers were, one might say... [[IncrediblyLamePun Faulty?]]

** The ArtifactTitle "Seven Kingdoms" originally referred to the seven independent nations of Westeros that existed south of the Wall before Aegon's Conquest: the North, the Vale of Arryn, the Iron Islands, the Westerlands, the Reach, the Stormlands, and Dorne. Following the Conquest, the Riverlands and Crownlands were separated from the Iron Islands and Stormlands respectively, and Dorne was only added to the realm two centuries later when Daeron II married the Prince of Dorne's sister and vice versa. The Targaryens claimed authority over Dorne long before it became a reality, and even then made many concessions to the Dornish. This eventually created one kingdom with nine provinces. By the end of Season 6, the Seven Kingdoms is mostly an entity on paper. House Lannister controls the Iron Throne but the North has returned to the control of their hated enemies House Stark, who still claim their independence. The Iron Islands have remained defiant and set to launch a fresh campaign, the Vale has declared for the North. The Tyrell-Lannister alliance has disintegrated after Cersei had their heirs assassinated and the remaining Tyrells are now working with renegade Ironborn and the Martells to restore the throne to Targaryens back to power.

*** You might even call it a meta-indicative title, as the fact that it is a non-indicative title is itself indicative of the content of the show.

* The trope comes up in ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' in a passing reference to Golden Delicious apples, which Charles [=McGill=] describes as "usually pretty tasteless".

** Vought's current superhero team is known as the Seven. But for most of the show, the team doesn't have seven members on it. At the start of season 1, Starlight joins to replace the retiring Lamplighter. Over the course of the season, Translucent is killed and the Deep is [[ReassignedToAntarctica sent to Sandusky, Ohio]] after he's exposed as a predator. They regain a member when Stormfront is appointed at the start of season 2, but she's gone at the end of the season [[spoiler:after her Nazi ties are exposed]]. At the start of season 3, Vought decides to put on a reality show called ''American Hero'' to audition two new members to fill the vacant spots on the Seven, which end up being filled by Supersonic and the Deep. This brief period of the Seven once again actually having seven members is very short lived, and they lose four of their members by the end of the season, as [[spoiler:Starlight grows disillusioned enough with Vought to quit the Seven and become a full-time member of the Boys, Queen Maeve fakes her own death after being de-powered by Soldier Boy and retires, and Supersonic and Black Noir are murdered by Homelander on separate occasions]].

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': As Butcher points out to [[InvisibleStreaker Translucent]], if his powers really reflected his namesake, he would actually still be visible.

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] slightly with the series name itself, which is actually only the title of the first book, but has more relevance to the television series. Although the books still have heavy amount of politics and the show had a decent amount of magical/supernatural elements, fans have quipped since the series ended that there's a reason why the show was called "A Game of Thrones" whereas the book series was called ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Many advertisements around the end of the run would still ask "Who will end up sitting on the Iron Throne?", a topic slightly less popular than the book series which has questions more in the vein of "Who will still be alive after the apocalypse hits Westeros?".

* When Jamie Lynn Sigler (aka [[Series/TheSopranos Meadow Soprano]]) was attempting to kick start a pop music career (([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golt9BQUmcE no, seriously,]])) she said that one of the reasons she auditioned for the part of Meadow was because when she saw the title ''The Sopranos'', she honestly thought it would involve music somehow.

** ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'': The iconic {{kaiju}} Red King is ''not'' red, but a yellow-blue mix. The real reason for his name was that he was originally intended to be the BigBad in a prototype of the series called ''Redman'', and the name ended up sticking when he was recycled as a recurring MonsterOfTheWeek.

* Subverted (in the correct use of the term) on ''Series/GetSmart'' -- the Cone of Silence ''would'' be a straight example of this trope, as it's not a cone but a set of 2 spheres. However, it turns out [[NamesakeGag it was invented by a man named Cone]].

** ''Film/TheIndestructibleMan'': Got destroyed.

** The show's not about a house, either.

* The iconic ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' {{kaiju}} Red King is ''not'' red, but a yellow-blue mix. The real reason for his name was that he was originally intended to be the BigBad in a prototype of the series called ''Redman'', and the name ended up sticking when he was recycled as a recurring MonsterOfTheWeek.

** For a superhero called ''Film/{{Pumaman}}'', the guy seemed to have a large number of powers that didn't seem all that relevant to pumas.