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One of these makes a more suitable theme for a 5th birthday party than the other... with some exceptions.

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• Daddy Dearest is both an episode of According to Jim and a chapter of Ma Fille.
• Dam Busters: A 1955 war film, a 1980's arcade Shoot 'Em Up similar to Scramble, and a game involving beavers on the infamous Action 52 cartridge.
• The band Danger Danger's name is also the name of a song by Italo Disco band Silent Circle.
• The Dark: Two horror films, one about a killer alien and the other about the Welsh afterlife.
• Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse for the PS2, and the Dark Angel TV series, which also had a PS2 adaptation. Also a Marvel UK comic, and a Space Marine chapter in Warhammer 40,000.
• Dark Blue refers to two different works both about LAPD cops. One is a 2002 film starring Kurt Russell, the other a 2009 TV series. And a trance song by Cabala (Nick Muir).
• Dark Horse can refer to several things, including George Harrison's record label, one of his albums (which was released on Apple, not on Dark Horse), a single from that album, a Nickelback album, a Katy Perry hit, a comic book company, or a 2015 movie.
• The Darkness is a comic series and video game adaptation, a glam rock band, and a 2016 movie.
• Darkness Series is a fantasy version of WWII by Harry Turtledove, while The Darkness Series is a Harry Potter fanfiction.
• Dark Reign is a 1997 video game, and a Marvel Comics event.
• Dark Skies is a 1996 TV series and a 2013 movie.
• Dark Souls: a 2011 video game series, a fighting game for Nintendo DS based on Bleach, or a 2011 Norwegian horror film.
• Dating My Daughter and Daughter for Dessert are two episodic adult visual novels about fathers who fall into romantic relationships with their daughters.
• Both Michelangelo's and Donatello's sculptures depicting the biblical king are simply named David.
• Dawn, known as Cry for Dawn, is a Bad Girl Comic by Joseph Michael Linsner. Dawn is a 3D platformer by Brave Rabbit Games. There's also a "Dawn" sculpture on one of the tombs found in the Medici Chapels and a "Dawn" painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Times Of Day series.
• "Day After Day" is a George Harrison song recorded by Badfinger, or an Alan Parsons/Eric Woolfson song recorded by The Alan Parsons Project.
• Days of Infamy is an Alternate History novel by Harry Turtledove about Japan pursuing a different path after Pearl Harbor. The same title was also used for an alternate history novel co-authored by Newt Gingrich about Japan pursuing a different path after Pearl Harbor.
• Dead Again is a 1991 film. Dead Again (2007) is the final album by Type O Negative.
• Dead@17 is a comic about teenage girls fighting the living dead. Dead At 17 is a TV movie about the mother of a dead teenage boy.
• Dead of Night is a British anthology horror film, a gamebook, and a fan fic.
• Dead Man Walking is either a 90s crime drama starring Susan Sarandon, or a 1987 B-Movie. And don't confuse either with the song of the same name by The Script.
• Dead or Alive: An extremely popular fighting game by Tecmo, or a new wave group from the 80s who became popular due to Memetic Mutation? Also adding to the confusion is a Tom Clancy novel and a set of completely unrelated films. It's also a popular JAM Project song. "T-T-T-T-TWO JEEGS?!", and a Eurobeat song which samples the 80's band's signature song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".
• Dead Reckoning is a 1947 FilmNoir starring Humphrey Bogart, a part of the Mission: Impossible film series, a video game, and episodes of The Last Ship and CSI: NY.
• Dead Ringer is a 1964 thriller starring Bette Davis as twins. It's also an episode of CSI: Miami involving a serial killer.
• Dead Ringers is a 1988 movie about two twin brothers by David Cronenberg, and a 2002 British television comedy centering around impersonations.
• The Dead Zone is a novel by Stephen King, as well as a movie and a series based upon it. Dead Zone is an episode of Dragon Ball Z and one of CSI: Miami.
• Dear John was an 80s British sitcom about singles (with an American remake starring Judd Hirsch), but also a 2010 Amanda Seyfried weepie based on Nicholas Sparks's novel, and a 1964 Swedish movie, and the name of several songs by acts from Pat Boone to Styx to British radical-feminist new wavers The Au Pairs (oh, and Taylor Swift).
• Death House is a horror film about a power outage at a government research facility/prison for monsters. "Death House" is an episode of CSI: NY about a long-abandoned penthouse full of deadly booby traps.
• Death Race is a 2008 remake of Death Race 2000, as well as a Spin-Off of DEATH BATTLE!. As one might guess from the titles, both feature vehicular races where the competitors are allowed to kill each other.
• The Deep: a 1977 movie based on the Peter Benchley novel of the same name, a 2015 sci-fi/horror novel by Nick Cutter, an Australian animated series based on a graphic novel of the same name, a 2019 novella by Rivers Solomon, or an episode of CSI: NY?
• Deep Blue Sea is a horror film about killer sharks. The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 romantic drama film starring Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weisz.
• The Defenders is another Marvel team book with no relation to another 60s TV show, this time an American court room drama which you might remember being referenced in a episode of Mad Men. And another show called The Defenders debuted on CBS in September 2010.
• Déjà Vu (2006), the 2006 time-travel action thriller, is unrelated to the 1985 film Déjà Vu, a drama about reincarnation, which is in turn unrelated to the old adventure game Déjà Vu (1985), which is also unrelated to that Iron Maiden song. It's that strange feeling you sometimes get that you've seen that title somewhere before.
• The Descendants is a 2011 comedy-drama with George Clooney, Descendants is a 2015 Disney movie starring the children of the Disney Animated Canon villains.
• Deliver Us from Evil is the title of a 2014 horror film by Scott Derrickson, a 2006 documentary about a Catholic priest convicted of child molestation, and the forth Prom Night movie. And a book by conservative political commentator Sean Hannity.
• Dennis the Menace is a British comic about a mischievous child who bothers his neighbors. It's not to be confused with Dennis the Menace, which is an American comic about a mischievous child who bothers his neighbors. Both debuted on 12 March 1951, neither author knowing about the other one's existence. The animated adaption of the British one, however, is called Dennis And Gnasher.
• Descent is a video game and a tabletop game. The Descent is a horror novel and a horror movie.
• Detention There are three works with the same name, but all three have different storylines.
• Devil's Reign is a Grendel story line, and a crossover between Marvel Comics and Top Cow.
• "Devil Woman" is a 1962 song by Marty Robbins and a 1976 song by Cliff Richard.
• Devil World, the 1984 Famicom game by Nintendo, is unrelated to the arcade game of the same name that was released three years later. The latter is actually a modified version of the Konami arcade game Dark Adventure that was released in territories outside North America .
• Diablo is not to be confused with an old Puzzle Game of the same name by Manuel Constantinidis, involving connecting pipes.
• Die Motherfucker Die: One such song is by Dope, another by Suicide Commando.
• The Dig is the name of a 1995 video game, a 2007 novel about the Sutton Hoo archeological excavation, later adapted into a Netflix film in 2021, and an Irish drama film from 2018.
• "Dignity" is a 1987 song by Deacon Blue and a 1989 song by Bob Dylan.
• Dilbert can refer to a comic strip by Scott Adams, or a World War II-era comic strip by Robert Osborn (no relation to the film historian).
• Diner, the film by Barry Levinson, and Diner, the pinball table by Mark Ritchie, have no relation to each other... although they're both pretty funny.
• Dinosaurs is a 1990 TV series. Dinosaur is a 2000 CGI movie.
• Dirty Duck is an underground comic strip by Bobby London that ran in National Lampoon and Playboy. It has nothing to do with Down and Dirty Duck. Bobby London hates the movie because of the confusion that caused, especially since the promotional materials for the movie shorten the title to just "Dirty Duck".
• "Doctor Love" is a 1976 song by Tina Charles, a 1977 song by First Choice and a 1996 song by Dr. Love.
• A short film called Dodgeball came out in 2001, a few years before DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. If you got your info off the internet and are wondering which character Senta Moses played in the big movie, the answer is: She didn't.
• Dodger, the 2012 novel by Terry Pratchett about a character who inspires Charles Dickens to create the Artful Dodger, and Dodger, the 2013 novel by James Benmore which continues the story of the Dickens character.
• The Dogfather is either a 1970s cartoon produced by DePatie-Freleng or a 2010 film starring Chris Parnell. Neither should be confused with the Snoop Dogg album Tha Doggfather.
• Dogma and Dogman have nothing to do with each other. One is an American satirical comedy centered around religion and Christian themes, the other is an Italian drama based on real events.
• Doki Doki Literature Club!, Doki-Doki Universe, Doki Doki! PreCure, Doki Doki Panic, Doki Doki Awesome, DokiDoki CheckMate, and Doki Doki School Hours are unrelated. One's about a robot travelling around the universe and learning what it is to be human, one's about a ditzy teacher, one's a web reviewer with a talking plant, one's a platforming game that eventually turned into Super Mario Bros. 2, one's about a knight and a prince who fall in love, one's a Disguised Horror Story psychological horror-based visual novel, and one's an anime about Magical Girls. Guess which one's which.
• The Dolphin emulator is an open source Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator. The Dolphin Emulator is a GameCube emulator made by Nintendo for development purposes. Dolphin is a web browser for mobile phones. And Dolphin is an open source file manager.
• "Don't Bring Me Down" is a 1964 song by The Pretty Things, a 1966 song by The Animals and a 1979 song by Electric Light Orchestra.
• Two unrelated game shows called Double Dare: The Goodson-Todman quiz show from 1976 and the Nickelodeon messy stunt-fest from ten years later. Interestingly, Edd Kalehoff composed the themes of both shows! It was also the name of a 1985 cop show starring Billy Dee Williams.
• There's a Nintendo DS homebrew fangame simply called Touhou DS to go along with Touhou Double Spoiler. It's easy to be confused if you want to type "DS" to simplify the searches.
• Downfall is a German film about the last days of World War II in Europe inside Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, known as Der Untergang in its native language. It is also a game show hosted by Chris Jericho, a board game which involves twiddling knobs to collect tokens, a horror adventure game, and a Bleach fanfic.
• The song "Dr. No" by Systems in Blue has nothing to do with the James Bond story and film, although someone made a Fan Vid for the song using clips from the film.
• Dragon Fighter is a side-scrolling action game on the NES by Natsume, or a 2003 Syfy Channel Original Movie.
• Dragonfire is a 1982 video game by Imagic, a spy novel by Andrew Kaplan, a 1987 Doctor Who serial, and a tabletop game based on Dungeons & Dragons. Dragon Fire is a 1993 martial arts film, a political novel by Humphrey Hawksley, the fifth game in the Quest for Glory series, or a song by Japanese pop group AAA.
• Dragon Force, a strategy video game on the Saturn, and power metal band Dragonforce.
• Dragon Knight is a series of fantasy novels, a Dragonlance: The New Adventures novel, a video game series by ELF, a game by SakuraGame, a game by D.K Studio, a game by Crea Games, a game by PNJ, a browser game by infiplay, a browser game by AllusiveGold, a 1990 Dragonlance adventure by TSR, or the localization of Kamen Rider Ryuki.
• Dragon Lord is a 1982 Jackie Chan film known as Dragon Strike. Dragon Lord is a 1990 game by Palace Software known as Dragon's Breath. Dragonlord is a symphonic black metal band. The Dragon Lord is a historical fantasy novel by David Drake.
• DragonQuest is a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game by SPI. Dragon Quest is a video game series with several anime and manga spinoffs, or a second season episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Dragon Quest, or Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Quest Game, is a 1992 D&D game by TSR. Dragon Quest or A Twist in the Tail is a game by Antic for the Atari 400/800 computer. Dragon Quest is a game by Bug Byte Software for the BBC Model B computer. Dragonquest or Dragonquest! is a game by The Programmer's Guild for the TRS80 computer. Dragonquest is a Dragonriders of Pern novel, or a 2009 fantasy film by The Asylum.
• Dragon Slayer is a video game series by Falcom, the first game in that series, or a proto-Synthwave song by Anders Lundqvist. Dragonslayer is a 1981 fantasy film, a Swedish heavy metal album by the band formerly known as Dragonslayer, an album by Sunset Rubdown, or 2011 skateboarding documentary film.
• "Dragon Soul" is the opening theme of Dragon Ball Z Kai, by Takayoshi Tanimoto. DragonSoul is a Mobile Phone Game by Fantasy Legend Studios. Dragon Souls is a game by Avant Games.
• Dragon Storm is an RPG and CCG by Black Dragon Press, a Mobile Phone Game game by Mobirix, or a 2004 Syfy Channel Original Movie. Dragonstorm is a fantasy novel by Graham Edwards.
• DragonStrike is a D&D board game with a video tutorial, a Hasbro board game about escaping from a dragon, and an SSI video game in the Dragonlance D&D setting. Dragon Strike is another title for the Jackie Chan film Dragon Lord. Dragon Strike is a novel by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton, and Dragon Strike is the fourth novel in E. E. Knight's Age of Fire.
• Dragon Tales is a cartoon series. Dragon Tails is a webcomic.
• Dragon Warrior is the Market-Based Title of Dragon Quest. Dragon Warriors is a tabletop role-playing game, a Mobile Phone Game by TheOne Games, and a 2014 fantasy movie.
• Dragon Wars is a computer RPG by the designers of The Bard's Tale Trilogy, a fantasy web serial novel, a Lady Death comic, and another title for the movie D-War. The game Dragon Rage is known as Dragon Wars of Might And Magic.
• The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo is the title of two novels, one by Adam Roberts and one by Michael Dahl. The former is a direct parody of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, only with dragons, the latter just riffs on the title.
• Dramatica is a website on narratology. Encyclopaedia Dramatica is a wiki for cataloging internet memes and troll lore. It's so controversial, it's part of the Permanent Red Link Club on this site.
• Aerosmith's first big hit, "Dream On", and Nazareth's "Dream On" are two different songs, even though they do sound a bit similar. Neither should be confused with the HBO comedy series of the same name.
• Drive (2011) is a film by Nicolas Winding Refn starring Ryan Gosling. There's also a Tim Minear TV show starring Nathan Fillion, and a film starring Mark Dacascos carrying the same name. There's also the song "Drive" by The Cars, as well as a completely different song caled "Drive" by R.E.M., and yet another by Incubus. As well as another by Jonathan Coulton, but that one's kind of obscure.
• The Driver video game series is unrelated to the 1978 crime film The Driver.
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) is a dark comedy about beauty pageant contestants, while Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010) is a satirical film about a dead model whose corpse becomes a fashion icon.
• Duck Soup is a comedy classic, but do you mean the 1927 Laurel and Hardy film or the 1933 Marx Brothers film?
• Duel was a short story by Richard Matheson that became a 1971 film directed by Steven Spielberg, while Duel is a multinational Game Show format.
• Around the time of Duke Nukem Forever's release, Duke University tweeted to clarify that people using the hashtag "#alwaysbetonduke" were not referring to them.
• Dune: There's the Science Fiction literary universe created by Frank Herbert and its various adaptations, and The Dune, a slow burn French-Israeli mystery/drama film.
• Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (aka Dungeon & Magic), a first-person dungeon crawler released in 1989 for the NES, has nothing to do with the 1993 arcade game Dungeon Magic (aka Lightbringer), despite the fact that both were published by Taito.
• Dunkirk (2017) and Dunkirk (1958) are two different films about Operation Dynamo, the emergency evacuation of the BEF from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
• Capcom's 1989 Arcade Game Dynasty Wars has nothing to do with Koei's later Dynasty Warriors series, although they're both based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms (though the former game is technically based on a manga adaptation of it).

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• E/R was a short-lived 1980s sitcom on CBS, while ER was a long-running 1990s-2000s medical drama on NBC. Oddly enough, George Clooney and Mary McDonnell appeared in both shows.
• Earth Defense Force is a sidescrolling arcade and SNES shmup. Earth Defense Force 2017 is an Xbox 360 third-person shooter.
• Earthbound is a 1983 Adventure Game, while EarthBound is a 1994 Role-Playing Game that is part of the Mother series.
• Earth 27 M as no connection to the canon Earth-27 of the Marvel Multiverse, home reality of Magnus of the Exiles.
• There are two films called Edge of Darkness. One is a 2010 thriller starring Mel Gibson in an attempted comeback. The other is a war film made in 1943.
• El Camino, the 2011 album from The Black Keys is not related to El Camino, the 2019 Breaking Bad sequel movie.
• There are two completely unrelated pinball machines named El Dorado: a real one made by Gottlieb in 1975 and a digital one made by Zen Studios in 2008. Further adding to the confusion is that Gottlieb's El Dorado has been digitally remade for The Pinball Arcade. There is also El Dorado, the western film, in which James Caan keeps reciting snatches from the poem Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe (not to be confused with the Cadillac Eldorado), and the Iron Maiden song "El Dorado" about the 2008 financial crisis.
• Elsewhere can be a 2005 novel about a girl in the afterlife or a a 2017 comic about Amelia Earhart trapped in another world.
• By Emperor, did you mean the Stephen Baxter novel, the unrelated book series about Julius Caesar, the Norwegian metal group, the 2012 film about Emperor Shōwa and General MacArthur, or Emperor: Battle for Dune? Or just any of the hundreds of characters who go by the title?
• Employee of the Month is a 2004 dark comedy starring Matt Dillon. It is also a 2006 comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson, a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, a computer game based on said series, and an episode of 6teen that involves brainwashing.
• The Beatles and The Doors both have a song called "The End". The latter is considerably darker and is one of The Doors' longer songs (a pretty high bar, but it's nearly twelve minutes long). The former is one of the Beatles' shorter songs (2:20). Pearl Jam also has an Album Closure song titled "The End".
• The Endless series does one to itself. Dungeon of the Endless is a roguelike RPG with Tower Defense elements released in 2014. Endless Dungeon is also a rouguelike RPG with Tower Defense elements releasing in 2021.
• Endless Frontier is a game in the Super Robot Wars OG Saga series, or a Mobile Phone Game by ekkor.
• Endurance is either a Discovery Kids reality series or a Disney documentary. Neither of which should be confused with any of the numerous books or documentaries about polar explorer Ernest Shackleton called Endurance/The Endurance after his ship.
• The Enemy is either a horror novel by Charlie Higson, a British indie rock band, a song by Godsmack and a song by Paradise Lost.
• There is a movie and a Doki Doki Literature Club! fanfic both titled "Enemies Within".
• The Enforcer is a 1951 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. It's also a 1976 film in the Dirty Harry series starring Clint Eastwood.
• "Englishman in New York" by Sting, and "An Englishman in New York" by Godley and Creme. An idiotor on Wikipedia (who clearly had never heard both songs, and probably hadn't heard either of them) once created a page claiming that one was a cover of the other (they aren't even the same style).
• Epic is a 1984 Australian animated film, a 2013 3D animated film, a tabletop game in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, a strategy card game, a Faith No More song, an R. Kelly album, a book in The Avatar Chronicles, a space flight sim by Digital Image Design, and a game developer/publisher.
• Escape Room is a 2019 movie about people having to escape a deadly escape room game. However, another movie with the same title came out two years prior, as they both have very similar concepts. And to make things even more confusing? There was another 2017 movie with the same title released about two months prior to the other 2017 movie.
• Before Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity, there was a four-player Asteroids-like game for Windows 3.1 called Escape Velocity. Also the title of a Chemical Brothers song, the debut album of synthwave artist Dynatron, and a science fiction novel by Christopher Stasheff.
• The webtoon Eskimo Bob shares its name with a Bob the Builder episode that was renamed "Bob of the North" in North America.
• Eternal Love: An alternate English title of Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, or the name of a completely different Chinese drama which also aired in 2017?
• "EternuS" is a trance song by Sanxion 7 featured in the DanceDanceRevolution series. Aeternus is the second album of the aforementioned Dynatron.
• Euphoria is a 2019 American Teen Drama based on an Israeli series by the same name. It should NOT be confused with the extremely debauched Visual Novel and Hentai Euphoria.
• Evening's Empire is a 1991 Doctor Who Magazine comic strip which was famously unfinished until released in 1993 as a one shot comic book. It's also the title of a 2002 science fiction novel by David Herter and a 2011 "history of the night" by Craig Koslofsky. Evening's Empires is a 2013 science fiction novel by Paul MacAuley. They all appear to be Titled After the Song "Mr Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan ("Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand").
• "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" is a 1960 song by Connie Francis and a 2003 song by Aretha Franklin.
• Despite both being horror films from the 1980's, Evil Dead Trap is otherwise unrelated to the classic Evil Dead series starring Bruce Campbell.
• Excalibur is a movie and a comic. And of course a legendary sword, with a host of things named after it.
• Ex Machina, an original live-action film with a robot, and Appleseed Ex Machina, a CGI anime adaptation with cyborgs. There's also the comic book series Ex Machina.
• Exile, the 1988 BBC Micro Metroidvania with a surprisingly good physics engine. Exile, the mid-90s Mac RPGs remade into Avernum. Exile, the Action RPG series by Telenet Japan. Exile, the second book in The Dark Elf Trilogy. Exile, the fourth book in Legacy of the Force. Exile, the subtitle of the third Myst game.
• The Exiled Prince is the name of both a DLC for Dragon Age II and the second installment of the Dark Parables series of hidden object games. Even more coincidentally, they were released within ten days of one another in 2011 - the latter on February 28th, and the former on March 8th.
• There's two feature movies named The Expendables: The 2010 action star-studded flick and the 1989 Cirio Santiago movie set in Vietnam. Coincidentally both feature the main subject of elite mercenary teams taking down enemy leaders, but very different in plot. There's also a Made-for-TV Movie called The Expendables which predates the 2010 one, a variant on The Dirty Dozen involving a group of female convicts.
• Extraction is the title of two different action films. The one released in 2015 is a spy thriller starring Bruce Willis and Kellan Lutz. The one released in 2020 casts Chris Hemsworth as a mercenary tasked with rescuing a drug lord's son.
• There are three feature movies named [An] Eye for an Eye: the 1996 thriller starring Sally Field, Ed Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland; the 1981 crime action film with Chuck Norris and Christopher Lee; and the 1966 western with Robert Lansing and Patrick Wayne.
• Eye in the Sky: The Alan Parsons Project song that is featured in the album of the same name, the trance song by Nostrum, Mars & Mystre, or the 2016 film?
• Eye of the Beholder is a Metallica song, video game, Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode, Aladdin: The Series episode, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episode, Bravestarr episode, Gargoyles episode, Mummies Alive! episode, Street Fighter episode, ThunderCats episode, Degrassi: The Next Generation episode, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode, Highlander episode, Knots Landing episode, The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg episode, Northern Exposure episode, and a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. The Eye of the Beholder is a Dungeons & Dragons (1983) episode, Night Court episode, Star Trek: The Animated Series episode, a The Twilight Zone episode and a remake of the episode.

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• Fables is a comic book about storybook characters. Fable is a video game (series) about God knows what. Oh, and Aesop's Fables. Fable is also a 1996 Point-and-Click adventure game, completely unrelated to any of the above works, best known for its incredibly disappointing Gainax Ending. Also a 1996 trance single by Robert Miles of "Children" fame.
• Face/Off is unrelated to the series Face Off.
• The Facts of Life is also the name of a 1960 movie that stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
• Fair Game is a 1959 short story by Philip K. Dick, a 1986 Australian action film, a novel by Paula Gosling that served as the basis for the film Cobra, a 1995 film adaptation of said book, a 2005 romantic comedy film, and a book and a movie about the outed CIA agent Valerie Plame.
• The long-running punk band The Fall has nothing to do with the adventure-fantasy film or the British crime drama.
• Fallen Angel is a Cabanel painting, 1945 movie, a made-for-tv Hallmark Hall of Fame movie staring Gary Sinise and Joely Richardson, a comic by Peter David, a roleplay, a Kamen Rider Hibiki episode, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode, a Xena: Warrior Princess episode, a The X-Files episode, and a game in the Sacred series. Fallen Angels is a novel in the Horus Heresy, a novel by Larry Niven, a 1995 movie by Wong Kar-wai, a New Mutants spinoff, and an episode of The Incredible Hulk (1977).
• "Fame" was either David Bowie's ode to the downside of stardom (co-written by John Lennon) or Irene Cara's unapologetic celebration of it and the title tune of the 1980 film of the same name.
• A Family Affair is a Nero Wolfe mystery, a trope on this site about adultery, and episodes of Criminal Minds, Xena and American Dad!. Family Affair is a 1960's domestic comedy about three orphans living with their bachelor uncle and episode of CSI.
• Family Secrets is either a primetime very special series on ABC, a short-lived daytime game show on NBC, a 1984 tv-movie starring Maureen Stapleton, Stefanie Powers and Melissa Gilbert, or an episode of CSI: Cyber.
• Fantastic Force is a 90's Fantastic Four spinoff and 2009 miniseries, and an animated movie known as Los ilusionautas, The Illusionauts, or Fantastic 4orce.
• Falling Stars, Battletech/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic crossover, or Falling Stars, Lucky Star/Fallout 3 crossover?
• Fantasy Defense is a tower defense game by SN Mobile Technology, a tower defense game by UA Games, a tower defense game by app4yous, and a card game by Mandoo Games.
• Fantasy Island is also the name of an animated series produced by Mondo TV that's set in the same universe as their animated movie The Legend of the Titanic.
• Fantavision is vector graphics animation software. FantaVision is a PS2 puzzle game.
• Far Cry is the name of a game and its film adaptation, as well as the name of the series as a whole. It is also the name of an unrelated novel.
• The Fast and the Furious was a 1955 thriller about a car thief and a kidnapped woman, but now everyone associates the title with that totally unrelated Cash-Cow Franchise beginning in 2001 about illegal street racing. The 1955 film inspired two quasi-remakes: Ron Howard's 1977 directorial debut Grand Theft Auto (which in turn inspired the popular video game series about the "gangsta" lifestyle, albeit very, very indirectly), and the 1994 Charlie Sheen action-comedy The Chase (1994) (which, as noted above, is not related to any Similarly Named Works). So, in conclusion, one Similarly Named Work inspired both another Similarly Named Work and one work that could have been a Similarly Named Work but (just barely) wasn't. Confusing, isn't it?
• The first cartoon to feature Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner was called Fast and Furry-ous, produced by Warner Bros. Animation in 1949. 56 years later, the studio produced a Tom and Jerry direct-to-video moving sharing a similar punny title: The Fast and the Furry.
• Fatal Attraction is a 1987 movie. Fatal Attractions (Marvel Comics) is a 1993 X-Men storyline, and Fatal Attractions (2010) is a 2010 Animal Planet TV series.
• FATE is an action RPG series by WildTangent. Fate is a series of visual novels and games in the Nasuverse.
• "Father of the Bride" is the title of no less than three films: Father of the Bride (1950) starring Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride (1991) starring Steve Martin, and Father of the Bride (2022) starring Andy García. It's also the title of a CSI episode.
• Fear Itself is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, a The Outer Limits (1995) episode, a The 4400 episode, a Teen Titans episode, a 2008 horror series, 2011 Marvel Comics crossover, and a horror RPG from Pelgrane Press.
• Fearless (1993) is a drama film about a man played by Jeff Bridges who undergoes a psychological change after surviving an airplane crash, a 2006 fictionalized biopic about martial arts master Huo Yuanjia starring Jet Li, a book series about a teenager who was born with an inability to feel fear (which was unsuccessfully adapted into a TV Series), a Pink Floyd song (from the album Meddle) and a Taylor Swift song and album (the song of said title is in the album of said title).
• Before the Colin Firth and Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore films based on the book, there was the 1985 film Fever Pitch starring Ryan O'Neal.
• The Fifth Man is the name of an episode of Stargate SG-1, NUMB3RS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Daniel Boone, a 2017 short film, an episode of Night Heat, and Breakers.
• Ten years before the Rachel Platten song of the same name, Scott Stapp released a song called "Fight Song". The latter has the lyric "This is my fight song," as the last line of the chorus, while the former has it as the first line of the chorus.
• Final Combat is the title of two different bootleg video games. The first is a knockoff of Battle City by Taiwanese developer Sachen, the second is a Chinese Team Fortress 2 clone.
• "The Final Countdown" is Europe's hit song and also a Climax Boss and Final Boss theme used in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 (albeit spelled "The Final Count Down"). It's also a 1981 Kirk Douglas thriller about the USS Nimitz going back in time to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Final Fantasy Mystic Quest shares its name with the European release of Final Fantasy Adventure, which was retitled to Mystic Quest. Aside from being part of the same series, they are quite different: one is a Zelda-esque top-down action-adventure game (as well as the first title in what would become known as the World of Mana series), while the other is a more traditional JRPG.
• Final Score (1986) and Final Score, two action movies released three decades apart. The former is more of a revenge-driven film while the latter is a "Die Hard" on an X clone.
• The Platform Game Fire & Ice: The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote is unrelated to Fire and Ice (1983), the Ralph Bakshi movie, and is also not to be confused with Fire 'n Ice, the U.S. title of Solomon's Key 2. Or Fire and Ice, the second Warrior Cats book, for that matter. Or Fire on Ice, a Choose Your Own Adventure book. None of these should be confused with the Russian ZX Spectrum game "Fire and Ice", which in turn should not be confused with the Speccy adventure game "They Say the World Will End in Fire and Ice", although it often was (the latter was of course usually abbreviated to the last three words). Should I mention there was also a song called "Fire and Ice" by Pat Benatar? Or a Sonic Boom video game?
• Fireball by Don Spencer (composed by Barry Gray, as the closing-credits music of Fireball XL5) is not to be confused with Fireball by Deep Purple. (Although this is now unlikely anyway, as the former has been renamed for its first line, I Wish I Was A Spaceman.) It is also the name of a short series on Disney Channel Japan which has a prequel, the classic Bally pinball machine and an Atari 2600 game by Starpath.
• Firefox the movie and game, or the web browser.
• Flash has nothing to do with a certain DC Comics speedster, or Adobe Flash.
• Larry Niven's Known Space series includes a short story named "Flatlander" and an unrelated novel also named Flatlander. (In-universe, "flatlander" is the nickname for people born on a particular planet; the protagonist of the novel is a flatlander, while the short story is about a character from another planet meeting and befriending a flatlander.)
• Flower is either a surreal exploration-based game by thatgamecompany or the DJ YOSHITAKA song that has appeared in more rhythm games — including non-Konami ones — than is probably necessary.
• Forsaken is a 1998 video game, a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, a 2001 horror film, and a 2015 western.
• Flying Hero, a fire-rescue Breaking Out game for the Famicom, has no connection whatsoever to Flying Hero: Bugyuru no Daibouken, a TwinBee clone for the Super Famicom developed by Arc System Works.
• Fly Me to the Moon has nothing to do with the animated film, the Sonic fanfiction, the Pokémon/Animal Crossing fanfiction or Frank Sinatra's classic song.
• Kate Bush wrote a beautiful love song titled The Fog, which has nothing to do with the John Carpenter film.
• Gina Palomino wrote a children's book in 2020 titled Follow That Bird!. It has nothing to do with Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird.
• Following is a 1998 movie by Christopher Nolan. The Following is a 2013 TV series starring Kevin Bacon.
• Nat King Cole's "For All We Know" is unrelated to the Carpenters' "For All We Know."
• There are two books named The Forever War: a science-fiction novel about a pointless quagmire of an interstellar war and a non-fiction book about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• If you post on a space forum about watching For All Mankind, you’ll probably be asked to clarify whether you mean the documentary with Brian Eno’s music or the alternate-history TV series.
• For Your Eyes Only is the name of a James Bond short story, its film adaptation, its theme song, and a Naruto fanfic that has nothing to do with James Bond (and precious little to do with Naruto.)
• The Fosters is not a home for imaginary friends.
• Fracture is a 2007 movie and a 2008 third person shooter.
• Fraidy Cat is either an Uncle Croc's Block segment about an alley cat visited by the spirits of his past lives or a Tom and Jerry short about Jerry pulling various pranks on Tom to scare him (only it's Tom's cowardly lookalike cousin but Jerry doesn't know it).
• The short-lived coming-of-age series Freaks and Geeks shares its name with episodes of CSI and Supernatural.
• Fred: The Movie is the name of both the first full-length film based on the Fred YouTube series, and a pro-Fred Phelps documentary produced by Westboro Baptist Church bigshot Steve Drain.
• Free!, the anime sequel to the Light Novel High Speed!, is completely unrelated to the Schoolgirl Series manga Free! (exclamation point included). There's also the 60s band.
• There are two different musicals titled Freedom Bound. The first, written by Michael and Jill Gallina, is about an immigrant family, the second, an original production by Mad River Theater Works, is about an escaped slave on the Underground Railroad.
• Freedom Force: a 1988 Operation Wolf-like Light Gun Game published by Sunsoft for the NES, a 2002 tactical RPG and Affectionate Parody of the Silver Age comic books by Irrational Games, or another Market-Based Title of the animated movie The Illusionauts? The Freedom Force is a 1978 animated series as part of the animation block Tarzan and the Super 7.
• Freedoom (title case) is a project to create an open-source Doom WADfile. FreeDoom (camel case) was a free Doom source port for Android devices.
• The Freshman is a 1925 comedy starring Harold Lloyd, a completely unrelated 1990 comedy starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick, and an also unrelated visual novel. And the sole hit song of The Verve Pipe (no relation to The Verve).
• Friday is a movie starring Ice Cube (and its song). Friday is also a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. "Friday" is a viral music video. Fridays was a sketch comedy series that was an early rival to Saturday Night Live.
• Frightmare is the title of two slasher films, one from 1974 and one from 1983.
• Both Barry Adamson and Mint Royale have instrumental songs called "From Rusholme With Love".^note Rusholme is a district of Manchester, England, the city both acts are from. Of course, both are punning on From Russia with Love.
• Frozen is a 2010 drama/thriller hybrid film written and directed by Adam Green. And Frozen is a 2013 Disney animated movie based of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale. As well as a Madonna song.
• Full House, the American TV series. And the British one, and the Korean one (with a Filipino remake), and the Filipino sitcom, and the Korean reality show. The manhwa, the book, several music albums.
• Fun House can refer to an album by The Stooges, a children's game show, or a 1990 pinball machine. There's also Funhouse, an album and song by P!nk.
• Full Throttle, the LucasArts adventure game, should not be confused with Full Throttle, an OutRun clone by Taito also known by the Market-Based Title Top Speed.
• Fun with Dick and Jane is, unfortunately, not an adaptation of the Dick and Jane books.
• Two different game shows have been called Funny You Should Ask; the first one ran from 1968-1969, and involved guessing how celebrities described themselves. The second one debuted in 2017, and involves simply agreeing or disagreeing with celebrities' answers to trivia questions.
• Future War is a 1997 movie. Future War 198X is an anime. Future Wars is an adventure game by Delphine Software, and a strategy game by Headup Games.
• Future World can refer to a part of Epcot, a 1976 sci-fi film or a 2018 post-apocalyptic film.

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• The classic 70's anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman was given an English dub in 1986 under the title G-Force: Guardians of Space, though it's usually referred to as just G-Force without the subtitle. In 2009, Disney produced G-Force. The former is a Japanese cartoon about a team of bird-themed superheroes, while the latter is a movie about talking spy-hamsters. It's also a shooter on the Action 52 cartridge.
• There are two oddly similar yet also wildly different manga called Gakuen Heaven. One is an adaptation of a Yaoi dating sim series set in an all-boys school, the other is an ecchi series about a ronin teacher at an all-girls school.
• The Galaxy Game is the first book in Phil Jane's comedy space opera series also called The Galaxy Game, and the second book in Karen Lord's non-comedy space opera series beginning with The Best of All Possible Worlds. It was also the name of a 1971 arcade machine.
• Gambit is a 1966 movie and 2012 remake, an XMen member with his own comic series, and a 1972-76 CBS game show.
• The Game of Life is both a board game by Milton Bradley and a cellular automaton "game" by John Conway. The latter was even sometimes played on Go boards prior to the advent of personal computers.
• The Game is the name of many works, including a 1997 movie with Michael Douglas; a sports TV series, a spy TV series, a rapper, an album by Queen, a book about pick-up artists and that memetic mind game.
• The Game of the Gods and The Games of the Gods are two different stories, though they are both fan fiction of The Lord of the Rings involving Mary Sue characters. The Game (singular) of the Gods involves a Cosmic Chess Game between two gods: Morgoth creates evil Mary Sues, and Varda slays them. The Games (plural) of the Gods is a Nonindicative Name and features Rachel, who hates being a Mary Sue.
• Game Boy was a Japanese video game magazine published from 1985 until 1994 that was completely unrelated to Nintendo's portable game machine. It was best known for having Satoshi Urushihara provide the cover artwork for several issues from May 1989 until July 1991.
• "Games People Play" may refer to a 1968 hit by Joe South, a 1975 hit by the Spinners^note re-titled "(They Just Can't Stop It, The) Games People Play" to avoid confusion, or a 1979 hit by The Alan Parsons Project. There's a 1997 Westwood game compilation, Games People Play: Hearts, Spades & Euchre and a canceled game compilation by Blizzard. And a 1969 book on transactional analysis by Eric Berne.
• Gasoline Alley is a long-running newspaper comic strip, and a 1970 album (and song) by Rod Stewart. And an antique toy shop in Seattle.
• Gauntlet was the title of a Defender clone, released by Micro Power for the BBC Micro and Amstrad CPC, which predated the Arcade Game Gauntlet. Oh, & there's an unrelated Atari 2600 game by Answer Software Corporation which most people know it for being extremely difficult to find in the wild.
• Generation X is Billy Idol's first band, a comic, and a TV movie based on the comic.
• Genesis: there have been lot of things have been titled after the Book of Genesis (the first book of The Bible), including the band Genesis and their Self-Titled Album ^note When they were first starting out, there was an American band also called Genesis, but that band ended up falling into obscurity, and they're today regarded as little more than a footnote in the British band's history. It was also used in some regions as the name of the Mega Drive game console, but there's also the Flash game Genesis 2009 and Genesis Beyond The Revelation, one of Square's earliest games.
• Gentlemen and Players is the title of a Raffles story, a TV show, and a Joanne Harris novel.
• There was a short-lived live action series from the 1970s called The Ghost Busters. There's a blockbuster movie from the 1980s called Ghostbusters which inspired a song by Ray Parker, Jr. There's a syndicated cartoon called Ghostbusters and there's a Saturday morning (and later syndicated) cartoon called The Real Ghostbusters. Two of the above had two guys and a gorilla, and two of the above had four guys and a green blob named Slimer. Have a guess which one's which! All the way back in 1960, a serialized TV cartoon Q.T. Hush called the first chapter of the The Goofy Ghost Caper arc Ghost Busters.
• Ghost Stories is the name of a children's anime with a well-known Gag Dub, a Danny Phantom and The Avengers crossover fanfic, a Seanan McGuire short story series, a 1964 Japanese movie, a 2017 American movie, and the sixth Coldplay album.
• Ghosted: A 2017 series and a 2023 film.
• Ghostwriter is a 90's TV series. The Ghost Writer is a 2010 movie known as The Ghost.
• The 1985 arcade billiards game "Gimme a Break!" has nothing to do with the sitcom.
• There are three books with the title The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo. One is a direct parody of The Millennium Trilogy,set in a world of Draconic Humanoids, by Adam Roberts. One is the first volume of the Dragonborn series by Michael Dahl. And the third is the first of the Heiress and the Detective series by Scott F. Neve, in which the dragon is itself a tattoo.
• Ghost Tale can refer to either a 2021 Horror Film directed by Katherine King, the 2015 Facebook and iOS game, Ghost Tales, along with the name of an animated short from Marza Animation Planet that features three ghosts who originally appeared in Sonic: Night of the Werehog.
• The Gift is either directed by Sam Raimi or Joel Edgerton on his feature directorial debut. There's also a 1990 CBBC series and a 1997 Australian children's drama both with this title.
• "Girls! Girls! Girls!" is an Elvis Presley song from an eponymous movie. "Girls, Girls, Girls" is a song by both Mötley Crüe and Jay-Z, which are unrelated to one other.
• Gish is a video game and an album by The Smashing Pumpkins.
• Gladiator is a 1930 novel, a 1986 arcade game, and a 2000 movie, which also has a video game adaptation.
• The Glass House is both a horror film starring Leelee Sobieski and an unrelated Austrialian talk show. And Glass Houses was a Billy Joel album.
• Glory is a 1989 movie, a comic by Image Comics, and a comic by Defiant Comics.
• Go, Johnny, Go is either a 1959 American film featuring rock 'n' roll legends such as Chuck Berry and Ritchie Valens or a 1997 Filipino film featuring now-retired basketball star Johnny Abarrientos.
• Goblins is a webcomic by Tarol Hunt; Goblin's (with an apostrophe) is a French comic book series. Both have goblins as protagonists, but the first is about Dungeons & Dragons goblins becoming heroes, while the second is more World of Warcraft-style goblins serving as stupid comic reliefs. Not to be confused with Sierra's Gobliiins.
• "God is a DJ": either a Faithless song, or a song by P!nk.
• The Godfather is the Mafia series of books and films and a wrestling persona of Charles Wright.
• Gold Digger is a comic, a song by EPMD, a song by Ludacris, a song by Kanye West, and a Mobile Phone Game.
• Golden Balls is a 1993 Spanish film and a British game show.
• Golden Boy is (a) a manga about a freeter pervert who changes the lives of women he meets for the better, (b) a novel about an intersex teenage boy and (c) Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015^note for those unaware, Israel are allowed to take part in it despite being in Asia due to entry being open to countries in the European Broadcasting Union - which is not related to the European Union - which is based on the ITU's European Broadcasting Area, which includes Israel..
• The Goldbergs, the ABC sitcom, is not a remake of the 1930's-40's radio/television series of the same name.
• Gone Baby Gone is a Morgan Freeman movie based on the novel of the same name. It's also episodes of CSI: Miami and Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The 1966 Spaghetti Western film starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef; or the 1992 Filipino film starring Gabby Concepcion, Paquito Diaz, and Rene Requiestas.
• The Good Doctor is the medical drama on ABC, not The Good Doctor starring Orlando Bloom.
• The Good Life was a short-lived American sitcom from the early '70s about a middle-class couple who quit the rat race and become live-in servants to a wealthy couple - and also a British sitcom from the mid-'70s about a middle-class couple who quit the rat race and start a self-sufficient agrarian life in their suburban home. When the latter was shown in the US, it was retitled The Good Neighbors, itself no relation to the 2010 film, Good Neighbors. Also, "The Good Life" was a 2010 rock hit for Three Days Grace and "Good Life" was a 2011 pop hit for OneRepublic.
• A script-writing error caused there to be two episodes of Goodnight Sweetheart called "In The Mood". Beyond the name, there is no special connection between the episodes.
• Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 film about Dian Fossey's work with primates. Guerillas in the Mist is an episode of CSI: Miami about urban criminals with high-tech weapons that pretty much vaporize their victims.
• Gotcha is a 1973 arcade game. Gotcha! is an NES game based on the 1985 movie Gotcha!, not related to the short film Gotcha, or the unreleased game Gotcha! for the PC and Jaguar. Gotcha Force is a game for the GameCube.
• Goth: A Japanese literature, manga and film franchise or an American horror film.
• Gothic is a 1986 movie, and Gothic is a video game series.
• Gotta Dance is either the Pikachu short shown alongside Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker or a Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! episode.
• There's Grand Theft Auto, the popular video game series, and the 1977 film Grand Theft Auto, which was Ron Howard's directorial debut. The PG-rated 1977 movie has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the M-rated Grand Theft Auto video game series. There is also the crime of grand theft auto itself, which the games have a lot of.
• Grays Anatomy is a well-known textbook; Grey's Anatomy is a TV medical drama. In the Not Always Right story "Anatomy of an Idiot", a customer returns a copy to a bookstore. "It was terrible; it's not at all like the television show. ... I don't know what they were thinking with this book."
• The Great Train Robbery was a 1903 film which was one of the first Western movies and also one of the first motion pictures to tell a story. It was also a 1979 heist film with Donald Sutherland, Sean Connery, and Lesley-Anne Down, directed by Michael Crichton and based on his own novel. Both were Very Loosely Based on a True Story in which some guys try to rob a train—except one involves some villanous bandits breaking into a train and stealing things from the passengers in the middle of the Old West, while the other sees three Loveable Rogues scheming to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train in Victorian England.
  • The 1979 film is known in places (in the UK for example) as The First Great Train Robbery; the aversion is less related to the 1903 film's title and more to avoid confusion/misled patrons after the more recent real life Great Train Robbery of 1963 in Buckinghamshire, England, since the movie and book are based on the 1855 event.
• Green is a 1988 album by R.E.M., and R.E.M. is a 1990 EP by Green. The band Green, who had existed nearly as long as R.E.M. had, deliberately named the single that way in response to the R.E.M. album title.
• Japanese video game developer Grezzo (thankfully) didn't work on the infamously blasphemous Doom WAD named Grezzo 2
• There's Grown Ups, a British sitcom from the '90s; Grown Ups, an American sitcom from the '90s; and Grown Ups, a 2010 American film with Adam Sandler and its 2013 sequel. There's also another British sitcom named Grownups.
• "Guilty Love" is both a song by Klavier Gavin's band The Gavinners (as well as Klavier's own theme) and a single by the South Korean Boy Band 2PM.
• The Capcom game Gun.Smoke is unrelated to Gunsmoke, the TV series, the BBC Micro game of the same name, or the Golden Age comic.

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