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• Qiang Jin Jiu is a poem by Li Bai, a novel by Tang Jiu Qing, and a manhua by Hua Xiang Mo Gu. The latter two are named after the first one and are both danmei, but otherwise they aren't related.
• There's Quartet the 1982 Ultravox album, Quartet the 1986 Sega arcade game, and Quartett!! the 2004 visual novel.
• Queen of Hearts is a retelling of Persona 5 in which Makoto is the leader of the Phantom Thieves, as well as the one with the Wild Card ability. The Queen of Hearts is a Frozen (2013) fanfic. The Queen of Heart (no plural) is a series of To Heart fan games.
• The song "Que Sera Sera" on the Katamari Damacy soundtrack is an entirely different song from the more famous one that was made famous by Doris Day and first recorded over half a century ago. Or the song by Wax Tailor.
• The Quick and the Dead. Yes, there was the Sam Raimi film, but it was also a 1987 made-for-tv movie with Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw, which was based on a book.
• Quiz Show is the name of the 1994 film starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, an episode of This Is Alice, and an episode of Time And Again.
• There's a Korean MMO called Queen's Blade Online that has nothing to do with the franchise of the same name, to the point where it was localized under a different name overseas as Scarlet Blade to prevent confusion. The only thing they share is having the main cast composed of extremely fanservice-laden Action Girls.

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• J. Eifie Nichols' novel The Radiant Dawn has nothing to do with Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
• The old Roguelike game Ragnarok has no relation to Ragnarok Online.
• The Raiden Project was a PS1 compilation port of Raiden and Raiden II. The Raven Project was an FMV Rail Shooter similar to Star Wars: Rebel Assault.
• Two movies have been titled The Rainmaker. The 1956 one was adapted from a play by N. Richard Nash (which was later musicalized as 110 in the Shade). The 1997 one was originally a novel by John Grisham.
• Uwe Boll's 2009 film Rampage is unconnected to Midway's video game series, or the movie adaptation Rampage, despite the fact that Boll is known for his In Name Only video game adaptations. Also unrelated to the 1987 legal drama Rampage by William Friedkin. It is also the name of episodes of Cold Case, NUMB3RS, and CSI: Miami.
• Bernini's The Rape of Proserpina shares its name with a Rubens painting: The Rape of Proserpina.
• "Rapid Fire" is a 1980 metal song by Judas Priest. Rapid Fire is a 1993 martial-arts film starring Brandon Lee.
• "Raspberry Heaven" is either a song by Martin Waslewski or the ending theme of Azumanga Daioh.
• Rebel Moon is a 2023 Space Opera film by Zack Snyder, and also the title of an obscure 1995 DOS video game.
• Rec is a cutesy slice-of-life anime about a voice actress. [REC] is a Spanish horror film.
• Red is a 1994 movie in the Three Colors Trilogy, a 2008 movie based on a Jack Ketchum novel, a 2010 action movie based on a comic, a 1998 manga by Kenichi Muraeda, a 2006 manga by Sanae Rokuya, a 2007 manga by Naoki Yamamoto, a Ted Dekker novel, a Christian metal band, a Taylor Swift song and album, a musical about Little Red Riding Hood, a play about painter Mark Rothko, a Doctor Who audio drama, a Dark Angel episode, a Smallville episode, and a game company (as well as a brand of professional ... as in Hollywood studio grade ... digital movie cameras). RED is a 2016 video game.
• "Red and Black" (or "Red & Black") is Jeanne's battle theme in Bayonetta, or the music played in cutscenes of horrifying events in Etrian Odyssey. Incidentally, both games are owned by Sega in the loosest sense; the latter's owning company, Atlus, is owned by Sega. The Red and the Black is a novel by French author Stendhal, an episode of The X-Files, a song by Blue Öyster Cult, and a song by Iron Maiden.
• Red Baron is the title of an old Vector Game by Atari, predating by a decade the Red Baron series of flight simulators by Dynamix, which predated Red Baron: Ace of the Sky, which was licensed by the pizza brand and was made available by clipping pizza box coupons. Red Baron is an anime series based on the Toku series Super Robot Red Baron. The Red Baron is a 1972 Rankin/Bass animated movie and a 2008 live-action movie.
• Redcap, a 1964 ITV drama series about Royal Military Police investigator John Mann, Red Cap, a 2003 BBC drama series about Royal Military Police investigator Jo McDonagh, and Redcap, a 2006 novel by Brian Callison about Royal Military Police investigator Staff Sergeant Walker. Red Cap is also a 1991 novel by G. Clifton Wisler which isn't about a Royal Military Police investigator, but a drummer boy in the American Civil War. And Red Caps was a 2011 Finnish/Italian animated series about Santa's little helpers.
• Red Heat, a 1985 Girls Behind Bars movie with Linda Blair as an American college student visiting her soldier fiancé in what was then called West Germany sees the East German secret police kidnapping someone and gets kidnapped herself thrown in East German prison where she gets into a Cat Fight with Sylvia Kristel with music by Tangerine Dream? Or a 1988 movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Russian cop who chases the Big Bad to Chicago and teams up with Chicago cop Jim Belushi with music by James Horner?
• Red Steel is a video game and a setting in the Mystara Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.
• Redial is either a song by Laura Marano, a song by Hatsune Miku, or a song from Bomberman Hero.
• Relayer is a 1974 album by Yes and a 2022 mecha SRPG developed by Kadokawa.
• Renegade - a 1986 side-scrolling beat-'em-up by Technos Japan Corp (a localization of the Japanese game Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun)? Or a 1992 TV series starring Lorenzo Lamas? Or the Italian original title of a 1987 movie starring Terence Hill and his son Ross Or a Command & Conquer fanfic? Or a song by Styx?
• The Replacements, a 2000s cartoon about replacement parents? The Replacements, a film about American Football? Or The Replacements, an 80s power pop band?
• "Rent" the Pet Shop Boys song, and RENT the Rock Opera musical.
• "Respectable" is a 1978 song by The Rolling Stones and a 1987 song by Mel & Kim.
• Restart is the name of a Brazillian band, a 2017 novel, and two different visual novels, one released in 2015 based on Kuroko's Basketball, and another being an original work that came out in 2021.
• Aside from being a stock subtitle, Resurrection is the name of an 1899 Leo Tolstoy novel, a 1980 movie, a 1999 movie, and a 2014 show.
• Return to Oz is a 1964 Rankin/Bass animated TV movie, and a 1985 Disney movie.
• Revelation and Revelations are common titles for fan fiction. Revelations by Aralinn, a fan sequel to The Lord of the Rings about vampires, is just one of more than 50 stories at FanFiction.Net with that exact title Revelations plural, not counting Revelation singular.
• Revenge the 2010s TV show is unrelated to Revenge the 1990 movie, although they both feature Madeleine Stowe in a main role. And they both end with her character getting Killed Off for Real. "Revenge" is also a Minecraft Parody about getting revenge against a creeper, though Stowe doesn't star in it. Aw, man...
• This trope affected late-60s one-hit wonders Thunderclap Newman. The song that would end up being their only hit was about to be released under the name Revolution, but when The Beatles released their single of that name, the Thunderclap Newman single was hastily renamed Something in the Air.
• "Rhythm of the Night" is the biggest hit by 80s dance-pop group De Barge. "The Rhythm of the Night" is the only (U.S.) hit by 90s Europop group Corona.
• "Richard" is the name of two different songs on the Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number soundtrack. One of them is a song by Dubmood with a somewhat somber tone, the other is a grim, gritty tune by Life Companions.
• It's probably best not to confuse Rifts (that ultra-eclectic postapocalyptic tabletop game) with Rift (that MMO involving a conflict between blind faith and reckless science and dragon-things tearing big holes in the world). There's already been a minor legal fuss over it, after all.
• "The Ring"- Horror franchise or the Season 1 finale of Oscar's Orchestra?
• Rio is an animated film about talking animals going to Carnival. "Rio" is the episode of CSI: Miami in which Horatio and Eric get revenge on Marisol's killer. Rio is also the name of Duran Duran's second album and its Title Track.
• Riot are a band from New York City whose Fire Down Under has been referred to as the first speed metal album. Quiet Riot were a bubblegum-ish band from Los Angeles with rather undistinguished material, but whose management was interested in actually promoting them. It's now difficult to speak of Riot without it being taken as meaning Quiet Riot. It's also a Paramore album. And a song by Three Days Grace.
• There is a 1996 FMV game named Ripper and an unrelated 2001 Slasher Movie also named Ripper. Both are however about a Jack the Ripper-copycat.
• Risk is a board game, an episode of CSI:NY, and a novelette by Isaac Asimov.
• Data East's 1984 laserdisc FMV game Road Blaster should not be confused with Atari Games' 1986 racing game RoadBlasters. The Sega CD port of the former was renamed Road Avenger, presumably to avoid confusion.
• The Patrick Swayze cheesefest Road House (1989) has nothing to do with the Film Noir Road House (1948).
• Robot Wars is a successful British combat show and an American robot tournament. Super Robot Wars is a Japanese video game series which people confusingly abbreviate to Robot Wars. The Japanese video game series is released ^note Only the OG games are exported due to licensing reasons as Super Robot Taisen outside of Japan.
• RocketMan is a 1997 sci-fi comedy that plays the Elton John song "Rocket Man" in the credits. Rocketman is an actual Elton John biopic released in 2019. There was also a 2005 BBC drama comedy Mini Series called Rocket Man about a dyslexic widower and father of two trying to make a homemade rocket to scatter his wife's ashes in space.
• "Rocks" is the title of songs by Primal Scream, BONES, the Isaacs and Imagine Dragons. And an Aerosmith album.
• Rogue is a 1980 video game that inspired the Roguelike. Rogue is an X-Men comic about the mutant superhero Rogue.
• The pinball video game Rollerball by HAL Laboratory, has nothing to do with the movie Rollerball.
• In 1952, The Rolling Stones was just a novel. One decade later, there was a band that fully took property of that name. And don't confuse with Rolling Stone magazine, who even put the last word in plural in one of the many times the Stones were in the cover◊.
• Ronin is a Frank Miller comic and Syfy miniseries, and a spy film. Rōnin is a cyberpunk action game.
• Please don't confuse Room ^note  A novel about a woman confined to an enclosure with her son adapted into an award-winning film with The Room ^note "You're tearin' me apart, Lisa!".
  • Further confusing the issue is a Flash game based on the film. Neither should be confused with totally-unrelated mobile phone game The Room, or the fourth Silent Hill game also named The Room.
  • And further confusing is that there's actually a 2019 film titled The Room, a French horror film which once again, has nothing to do with Tommy Wiseau's movie.
• The Rookie can refer to one of two completely different movies or an ABC police drama.
• Doctor Who has a Series 1 episode titled "Rose", and a Series 11 episode titled "Rosa". Both are Character Titles, but the former refers to Rose Tyler, while the latter refers to Rosa Parks.
• Rules of Engagement by Elizabeth Moon, the fifth book in the Familias Regnant series, should not be confused with Rules of Engagement, the TV sitcom. Nor, for that matter, with Rules of Engagement by Peter Morwood, which is a Star Trek Expanded Universe novel. Nor the Tommy Lee Jones movie, Rules of Engagement. Or the film directed by William Friedkin and starring Samuel L. Jackson. Or the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode which, like the movie, is also about a decorated officer who's accused of wrongfully attacking civilians in combat.
• Run Silent, Run Deep is a 1958 Clark Gable / Burt Lancaster movie about rival submariners. While an episode of CSI:NY took its title from the film, the plot involving wannabe gangsters is completely different.
• "Run to the Sun" was the title of a song by Erasure, as well as an earlier italo-disco song by Mauro Farina as Max Coveri, which in turn was later one of the many artist names used by Maurizio de Jorio.
• "Runaway" is the title of half a dozen songs by artists ranging from Del Shannon to Jefferson Starship to Bon Jovi.
• The Running Man is a Stephen King novel (adapted into an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie) about a Deadly Game in a dystopian future America. It's also the title of a 1963 film starring Laurence Harvey about a man who commits Insurance Fraud. And it's also the name of a Korean game show. It's also the name of a season two episode of NUMB3RS.
• Running Out of Time is both a a middle grade novel about a girl who thinks she's from the 1840s and a crime thriller film from 1999. There's multiple other media with the title such as songs and other books, but they don't have articles yet.
• Rush Hour: Film series, not to be confused with the sketch show of the same name, or the hit song by Jane Wiedlin.
• Rush, the Canadian Progressive Rock trio, have had at one point to remind Rush, the American conservative talk show host, to not use their music with this as justification. And if any of these are related to Rush, a 1991 crime drama taking place in Texas, it'd be a surprise. Also, people looking in record shops for music by the prog group have reportedly been annoyed at having to wade through Jennifer Rush albums in their search. There's also Rush (2013), the Ron Howard docudrama about a '70s Formula 1 rivalry, and two Australian TV series: crime drama Rush (2008) and historical drama Rush (1974), as well as an episode of CSI: NY.

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• The Saddle Club refers to both the 1988 children's book series by Bonnie Bryant and also a 2012 Urban Books novel about a male prostitution ring disguised as a horse racing club for women.
• Safe was a 1993 British TV movie about homeless people and a 1995 American movie by Todd Haynes about Julianne Moore going mad. As both got a lot of critical acclaim particularly in the UK, this was very confusing, though the latter is often written [safe]. It's also the title of a 2012 crime thriller starring Jason Statham.
• Safe Haven is either a 2010 novel by Nicholas Sparks (later adapted into a film) or a debut album of singer Ruth B. Safe Havens (with an extra "s") is a newspaper comic strip by Bill Holbrook.
• Saga is a progressive rock band. SaGa is a video game series. Saga is a book in The Avatar Chronicles, and Saga is a comic.
• French actor Lambert Wilson starred in two films titled Sahara. One from 1983 with Brooke Shields, and another in 2005 led by Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz. The two films are unrelated. Neither is related to the 1943 film starring Humphrey Bogart, or the 2017 animated film about talking snakes.
• Salamander is about political skullduggery in Belgium. Not to be confused with Konami's Gradius spinoff Salamander (a.k.a. Life Force in North America) or its anime adaptation.
• Sally Forth can refer to a family-friendly newspaper comic, or a more adult comic that ran in military newspapers.
• Salt is an Adam Roberts novel, a 1987 movie known as Uppu, a 2006 movie, a 2009 Australian documentary, a 2010 action movie, and a game by Lavaboots Studios.
• San Andreas is a 1984 novel by Alistair MacLean about war at sea, a 2015 disaster film, or a game in the Grand Theft Auto series.
• There's Sanctuary, a Live-Action TV show about a group of people who hunt down monsters, and Sanctuary, a manga^note Adapted into both an anime and a live action film about two survivors of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia, acting as a politician and a Yakuza to reform Japan.
  • Sanctuary is also the title of the third novel in Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series and of a Thieves' World novel by Lynn Abbey.
  • It's also been the titles of songs by Iron Maiden and The J. Geils Band.
  • It's also the title of a Nora Roberts book, and The Film of the Book.
• The Sandman (1816) (1816) is a Gothic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. No relation to The Sandman (Danish: Ole-Lukøie), a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the Golden-Age superhero called The Sandman, or indeed The Sandman (1989) (1989-96), comic book series by Neil Gaiman.
  • How about to former ECW star The Sandman?
  • There are also several songs called "Sandman" (and at least one called "Mr. Sandman" and one called "Enter Sandman") and at least two films called The Sandman.
• Sangatsu no Lion is a 1991 Japanese live-action drama film. It is also the name of a Japanese manga about shogi.
• Thin Lizzy have two completely different songs called "Sarah" - one from 1972's Shades of a Blue Orphanage and one from 1979's Black Rose: A Rock Legend. Both are about different relatives of Phil Lynott with the same name - the 1972 "Sarah" was about his grandmother, while the 1979 "Sarah" was about his daughter.
• Saturday Night Live, a mid-Seventies sketch comedy show on NBC that featured Bill Murray in its cast. No relation, of course, to Saturday Night Live, a mid-Seventies sketch comedy show on *ABC* that featured Bill Murray in its cast. In fact, the existence of the ABC show prevented NBC from using the desired title until 1976, which is why the first two seasons of the REAL Saturday Night Live shorten the title to "Saturday Night", and also why they say "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!" at the beginning of each episode.
• Scare Tactics is a camera prank show and an episode of both Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and The Ghost and Molly McGee.
• Scarecrow is the name of a 1983 movie from the Soviet Union and a 1973 movie starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. If you throw in the definite article, The Scarecrow is the title of a short film starring Buster Keaton, an animated feature film, and a mystery novel by Michael Connelly. Scarecrow is also a Batman villain obsessed with spreading fear to his victims.
• Scared Stiff: a 1953 Dean Martin / Jerry Lewis comedy, a pinball game, and an episode of CSI:NY about a woman who had apparently been frightened to death.
• Science Friction is an album by Tim Berne, a song by XTC, a book by Michael Shermer, and two unrelated cartoons in the Woody Woodpecker and The Ant and the Aardvark series of shorts.
• Before Wes Craven's Scream, there was 1981 low-budget slasher named Scream. The 1981 film has also used the alternate title The Outing on some VHS versions, which is shared by a slasher film from 1987. It is also the name of songs by Michael and Janet Jackson, Avenged Sevenfold, and Adelitas Way. And of course, there's Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, which inspired the mask worn by the killer in the Wes Craven film.
• S.D.I. is the name of two unrelated video games released in 1987: a trackball-based Arcade Game by Sega, and a computer game published by Cinemaware.
• Seaquest is an Atari 2600 game, SeaQuest is a 1993 TV series, and Sea Quest is a spinoff of Beast Quest.
• Search is the title of a 1972 American sci-fi series and a 2020 South Korean sci-fi/thriller series. There's also Search: WWW, a 2019 South Korean romance series.
• Season of the Witch is a 1973 George A. Romero movie, the third Halloween movie, and a 2011 movie. And the Donovan song.
• The Sea World marine park in Australia, the Sea World aquarium in Indonesia, and the SeaWorld chain of marine parks in the U.S. all have zero relation to each other.
• Second Chance is a Game Show from 1977, an unrelated sci-fi series from 2016 about an old man who is de-aged to his younger self, and two unrelated top-10 hit songs by Shinedown and 38 Special.
• The Second Reality demo is not to be confused with The Second Reality Project, a Game Mod of Super Mario World. There's also an unrelated mind.in.a.box song titled "Second Reality".
• "The Second Time Around" is a 1960 song by Bing Crosby and a 1979 song by Shalimar. "Second Time Around" is the title of half-a-dozen or so songs by artists ranging from Lady Gaga to Indigo Girls.
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) and Secret of Cerulean Sand (2002) are both steampunk Animes.
• Secret War is a different crossover than the 1984 crossover Secret Wars or the 2015 crossover Secret Wars.
• Seek And Destroy is the name of two different games, both involving tanks: a 1996 MS-DOS and Amiga Shoot 'Em Up and a 2002 Playstation 2 Action Game. It's also the name of a Metallica song.
• Seiken Densetsu is a Square Enix game series in the World of Mana, and a 1983 PC-8801 game by Compac.^note Not to be confused with computer maker Compaq.
• The Real-Time Strategy game Sengoku shares its title with an unrelated series of Beat Em Ups by SNK and Sengoku Ace, a Shoot 'Em Up set in feudal Japan.
• The Sentinel is a 1970s horror film starring Chris Sarandon; a 2006 political thriller starring Michael Douglas; and a late-'90s sci-fi series. It was also a short story by Arthur C. Clarke which was a major inspiration behind 2001: A Space Odyssey; and a bizarre conquest game which appeared on most 8-bit computers.
• Serenity is the 2005 followup to Firefly, and a 2019 thriller.
• Seven is a 1979 action movie and a 1995 thriller known as Se7en.
• The Seven Deadly Sins could either refer to the Medieval European Fantasy themed manga The Seven Deadly Sins about seven knights themed around the Seven Deadly Sins, or an anime about scantily clad female demons, themed around the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Shades of Grey, a quirky and innovative fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde is almost named the same as the more popular and well-known Fifty Shades of Grey. To make the confusion perfect, some translations kept the English title of the latter, but cut the "Fifty". There's also "Shades of Grey" by the Monkees.
  • Using the spelling "Shades of Gray", it's also the title of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate SG-1, Homicide: Life on the Street, Danny Phantom, and Heroes.
• Shadowbane is a Forgotten Realms novel and novel series, and a defunct MMORPG.
• Shadowland is a novel by Peter Straub, a novel in The Mediator series by Meg Cabot, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and a Marvel Comics crossover. Shadowlands is a 1993 movie, as well as expansion packs for the MMORPGs Anarchy Online and World of Warcraft.
• Shadows of Mordor is a 1987 game by Beam Software. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a 2014 game by Monolith Productions.
• Shadow Warrior is a 1997 game and 2013 reboot, and an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
• Shift 2 is either the second in a series of Puzzle Platformer games, or the divorced sequel to Need for Speed: Shift.
• "She'll Leave You With a Smile": George Strait recorded two different songs by this title. The one from 2001's The Road Less Traveled was released as a single; the one from 1997's Carrying Your Love With Me was not.
• Shelter (also known as 6 Souls) is a horror flick from 2010, starring Julianne Moore as a forensic psychiatrist who discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. There is also Shelter from 2007, the Coming-Out Story of Zach who falls in love with his best friend's older brother. Perhaps this is why the Julianne Moore film was given a Market-Based Title when released in the US (6 Souls).
• Shimmer and Shine is the name of both a 1993 episode of Desmond's and a 2015 Nick Jr. TV series.
• Shivers (1995) is a survival horror game by Sierra, a 1975 film by David Cronenberg, a kids' horror series by M. D. Spenser and a 2021 song by Ed Sheeran.
• Shop 'Til You Drop is a lively Game Show set in the center court of a shopping mall. "Shop Till You Drop" is an episode of CSI: NY about a murder in a department store at Christmastime.
• "Sick Day" is the name of episodes of Abbott Elementary, Criminal Minds, Dragons: Rescue Riders, Kim Possible, Milo Murphy's Law, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, and chapters of the Punch-Out!! fanfic Ma Fille and the Turning Red fanfic The Panda Chronicles.
• Signed, Sealed, Delivered is a Stevie Wonder song, a Hallmark Channel original series, and an episode of CSI: Vegas.
• Silent Dragon is a 1992 arcade game and a WildStorm comic. The Silent Dragon is a Children of The Dragon Nimbus novel by Irene Radford.
• There's Silent Hill the survival horror game series by Konami, and then there's the Christmas and completely non-horror song "Silent Hill" in DanceDanceRevolution, which is also a Konami series.
• While all are timed with/around Christmas, Silent Night is either a traditional carol, a 2021 Black Comedy starring Keira Knightley, or an episode of CSI:NY involving a deaf family.
• Simple Man was used as a title by Lynyrd Skynyrd (later covered by Shinedown), The Charlie Daniels Band, Klaus Nomi and Turbulent.
• Sing is either a 2016 animated movie about singing animals or a 1989 live-action movie about a high-school musical (not that one). Nor is the animated film the Hungarian movie that won Best Live Action Short Film at the 2017 Oscars.
• Sing Yourself Silly is the name of both a direct-to-video Sesame Street special and the only live VeggieTales show to get a DVD release.
• "Singularity":
  • ...is a song by ETIA. produced for Arcaea as well as a song by Vocaloid producer keisei. This actually created a problem when the former was crossed over into Groove Coaster, due to the latter song already being in the game; the problem was fixed by renaming the newer song as "Singularity -Binary Enfold-", referring to the Arcaea DLC pack it was introduced in. "Singularity" is also the name of an O.N.G.E.K.I. song by technoplanet, and unlike with the GC collab, no renaming was done when ETIA.'s song was crossed over to that game. "Singularity" is also the name of a Jun Kuroda song in Orzmic, and just to keep things a little confusing, Kuroda also made songs for Arcaea.
  • Unrelated to all that, there is Singularity, a 2010 game published by Activision, and Singularity, a 1985 novel by William Sleator.
  • A 1995 trance single by Brainchild (AKA Matthias Hoffman AKA Cygnus X), remade by Ayla (AKA Ingo Kunzi AKA DJ Tandu) in 2000.
• Sinner Man (or Sinnerman) is a 20th century standard most famously recorded by Nina Simone. An entirely different Sinner Man is a disco classic by Sarah Dash.
• Skate or Die! is a skateboarding game ported to the NES. Skate or Die is a 2008 French action film.
• Skin is a short-lived 2003 TV series, a 2018 short film directed by Guy Nattiv, a 2018 feature film that, believe it or not, was also directed by Guy Nattiv, and a 2008 feature film that, somehow, was not directed by Guy Nattiv.
• Skins is the title of a a horror webcomic, a British TV series or film.
• Sky Burial is the name of an album by black metal/sludge band Inter Arma, and also the name of an album by dark ambient project Echtra (formerly also a black metal band). To make things even more confusing, they were both released in 2013.
• A Sky Full of Stars: a visual novel or a Coldplay song?
• Sledgehammer refers to, among other things, a horror movie from 1983, a TV show from 1986-1987, a 1974 song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a 1986 song by Peter Gabriel, a 2007 song by The Fall of Troy, and a 2013 song by Fifth Harmony. The Peter Gabriel song was used in advertisements for the TV show, but otherwise, none of these have anything to do with each other.
• Sleepwalker is a comic and a 1993 video game. Sleepwalkers is a horror movie.
• Slime Time is a short-lived game show from the late 80s attempting to cash in on the success of Double Dare (1986). Not to be confused with Slime Time Live, Nickelodeon's wraparound block of games from 2000 to 2003.
• Smooth Criminal is either a Michael Jackson song or an episode of CSI:NY featuring Ne-Yo as a hitman.
• Snoopy Tennis was released for the Game & Watch in 1982. Nineteen years later, another game entitled Snoopy Tennis was released for the Game Boy Color.
• Snow Day is a 2000 Nickelodeon comedy film about the adventures of some kids having a day off from school. "Snow Day" is an episode of CSI:NY about an Irish drug gang intent on stealing their massive amount of seized cocaine back from the NYPD Crime Lab. South Park: Snow Day! is also the title of an upcoming South Park game.
• Snuggle fabric softener must absolutely NOT be confused with Snuggles, a doll by the Ideal Toy Company that could move with a pull string (and which predates the fabric softener).^note That said, there have been dolls of the fabric softener teddy bear mascot that were made for a short time during the 1980s.
• Soldier, a 1972 song by Harvey Andrews, a 1972 song by Neil Young, a 1980 album by Iggy Pop, a 1981 song by ABBA, a 2002 song by Eminem, a 2005 song by Destiny's Child, a 2007 song by Drowning Pool, a 2008 song by Erykah Badu, a 2011 song by Gavin DeGraw, a 2012 song by Ulrik Munther, a 2013 song by Samantha Jade, the Harlan Ellison short story known as "Soldier From Tomorrow", the 1964 The Outer Limits episode based on "Soldier From Tomorrow", a 1998 sci-fi action film, a 1998 Bollywood action thriller, a 2009 film by Vijaya Nirmala, and a 2010 film by Dulal Bhowmik.
• Soldier of Fortune, the First-Person Shooter series, is unrelated to the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum games of the same name. Neither is to be confused with Soldiers of Fortune, which was a Market-Based Title for The Chaos Engine. Or the magazine Soldier of Fortune.
• Solo is a comic by Marvel Comics, a comic by DC Comics, and a movie about Han Solo.
• Solstice is an NES game, and Solstice is a visual novel.
• "Somebody to Love" by The Great Society, also played by Jefferson Airplane, and "Somebody to Love" by Queen haven't got much more in common than the title. The Justin Bieber song and the Kacey Musgraves song are unrelated to either song.
• The 1939 movie Some Like It Hot, featuring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross and Gene Krupa, is unrelated to Some Like It Hot, the famous drag comedy from twenty years later. Neither are related to The Power Station's 1985 smash hit.
• Frank Sinatra has two albums with almost the same titles Songs for Swingin' Lovers! and Songs for Young Lovers, which are often confused with each other despite one different adjective in the title.
• Sonic Boom is the title of three games by Sega, only two of which are connected to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The other is a Vertical Scrolling Shooter dating back to 1987. It's also the theme song to Sonic CD that was created specifically for North America.
• Sorcerer the computer adventure and Sorcerer the pinball machine both have the same general theme (as evident from the title), but are otherwise unrelated. Neither have any connection to the movie, or to its Tangerine Dream soundtrack, or the Tabletop RPG Sorcerer (2001).
• There are at least four video games that have nothing to do with each other called Sorcery!.
• "Soulmate" or "Soulmates":
  • There's an English-language 1992 film, a 1997 film, a 2005 film, a 2014 film, a 2021 film, and a 2023 film so far. Also a Korean AND a French film released in the same year as the 2023 one. They're all different genres too, varying from Romantic Comedies to Horror films, since the term can be used in both a straightforward sense and to denote an unhealthy obsession.
  • A 2020 series that only lasted 1 season featuring Bill Skarsgård, and numerous lesser-known miniseries and other media.
• "S.O.S." was a pop tune from 1975 by ABBA. More recently it was a dance club number from Rihanna.
• South Pacific is also the title of a 1943 play by Howard Rigsby and Dorothy Heyward, unrelated to the later musical—though both plays happen to be about confronting American racial prejudice during World War II.
• When most people think of Space Ace, they think of the LaserDisc arcade game made by the same people who made Dragon's Lair. However, "Space Ace" can also refer to the very first show Tatsunoko Production ever made: Uchuu Ace (which literally translates as "Space Ace").
• Space Cadet refers to two different literary works that both happen to also be Science Fiction. One is a 1948 young adult novel written by Robert A. Heinlein, while the other is an Alternate History timeline by Rvbomally.
• Space Quest is a Sierra adventure game series, and the second episode of Frasier.
• Spark the Electric Jester is a Retraux action game influenced by Sega Genesis games, namely the early Sonic the Hedgehog games. Spectacular Sparky is a Retraux action game influenced by Sega Genesis games, namely the work of Treasure. And lets not forget Sparkster, an action game actually released for the Sega Genesis.
• Spectrum was a military organisation in 1968 Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. The Spectrum was a (coincidentally-named) late-1960s pop group who, because of the coincidence, were invited to do the closing-credits music for Captain Scarlet. Then there was the 1982 pinball game Spectrum and the 1982 computer the ZX Spectrum, unrelated to either of these or to each other.
• In 1936, long before the film Speed about a bomb on a bus, there was a film of the same name about a race car driver setting the land speed record. Also the name of a Covenant song.
• The Spider Woman is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film, or several comic book titles by Marvel Comics. Spider-Women is a 2016 crossover featuring several of the aforementioned comics characters.
• Spliced is a 2002 horror film known as The Wisher, or a 2009 Canadian animated series. Splice is a 2009 science fiction horror film, a puzzle game by Cipher Prime, or a cloud based music and collaboration platform.
• The manga Spriggan has nothing to do with the Spriggan series of Shoot Em Ups by Naxat/Compile.
• "Spring Broken" is the name of both an episode from Season 2 of Clone High and an episode from Season 1 of Helluva Boss.
• SPY×FAMILY (the "x" is silent) is a manga about a family formed by a spy, whose members appear normal to him and to the public but are absolutely not (and he keeps his true job hidden from them too). My Spy Family is a British television series about a family of spies, whose members are all aware of each other's spy background.
• The 1970s song Stairway to Heaven that was very popular in Jamaica, and is still played on the radio there sometimes, is from the O'Jays album "Family Reunion". Many Jamaicans are unaware of the earlier, unrelated song of the same name by Led Zeppelin. It was also the name of a hit song by Neil Sedaka back in the '60s, long before either of those songs became a hit.
• The Battle of Stalingrad during World War II has inspired many works by that name. We have articles for a 1993 German film called "Stalingrad" and a 2013 Russian film called "Stalingrad", but there are several more unlisted works. Also, in France, Enemy at the Gates is known as Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates.
• There was an obscure Turn-Based Strategy game for the Apple ][ titled Starcraft—no relation to Starcraft, of course. Starcraft was also the name of a defunct Japanese company that ported many Western games to Japanese computers.
• Nintendo's Star Fox is completely unrelated to Star Fox, an almost universally derided Atari 2600 game released a decade before. Another unrelated game titled Starfox (spelled as one word) was released in Europe for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The Star Fox is also a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson.
• The original arcade version of Defender II was released under the name Stargate. No relation to that franchise of movies and TV series, of course.
• Starlight is either a 2000 song by trance duo Rocco & Heist, 2001 song by French house project The Supermen Lovers, a 2006 song by Muse, or a 2022 song by British rapper Dave.
• "Star Tours" could be a Star Wars-themed simulator ride that opened in Disneyland in 1987, or it could be the fourth episode of Oscar's Orchestra, a cartoon that aired in 1995.
• Imagic's Star Voyager is a simple space-themed Shoot 'Em Up that appeared on the Atari 2600. Another game called Star Voyager was released on the NES in 1987, its gameplay owing a lot more to Star Raiders than the original Star Voyager.
• There was a coin-op called Star Wars ("starw" in MAME) which was a bootleg of Galaxy Wars, released in 1979, 2 years after the first Star Wars film, but before the arcade game.
  • There's also Exidy's Star Fire, a loose adaptation of Star Wars that also predates the official arcade game.
    • If you're a Child of the Eighties, "Star Wars" means lightsabers and Wookiees. If you're an adult from the eighties, "Star Wars" probably meant Ronald Reagan's missile defense system.
  • A deliberate case was Wilco's album Star Wars, so named exactly to recontextualize the title in a way it had nothing to do with the sci-fi franchise.
• There are two songs named "START", right down to the capitalization no less: The D4DJ song by Merm4id and the song by Strawberry Prince that is featured in Cardfight!! Vanguard. This can get especially confusing because both songs are made for Bushiroad properties, both songs are in D4DJ Groovy Mix, and their titles are listed identically in that game's songlist, meaning that for players who like to share screenshots of their scores, the only thing differentiating the two songs on Score Screens are their note counts.
• Long before Twisted Sister's most famous album (released in 1984), there had been a completely unrelated movie called Stay Hungry (known for being one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's first acting gigs).
• Stealing Home is a coming-of-age dramedy starring Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster. It's also episodes of three series in the same "Universe" which have nothing else in common with each other or the film: Cold Case - a baseball player seeking to avoid deportation, CSI: NY - a murdered husband in a "committed threesome," and CSI - a house actually gets stolen!
• Stellaris is not only a 2016 4X real-time strategy game set in space, but also an educational Italian "interactive cartoon" adventure game for young kids, released exactly 20 years before. Here's the Italian game's episode with a space setting... Hilariously, since the name is the same, the YouTube Gaming subsite recognizes the adventure game's clips as clips from the other Stellaris!
• "Step by step! Ooh, baby!..." This is a song you won't hear in the similarly named sitcom. Nor is it related to the The Alan Parsons Project song of the same name.
• Still Alive, the ending song from Portal, is completely unrelated to Still Alive (The Theme from Mirror's Edge). Or Still Alive, the song by Finnish band The Crash. Or Still Alive, the song by Chilean industrial band Vigilante. Or the song Still Alive, from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX+.
• There are two unrelated series of children's books titled Stinky Steve. The first is a series of comedic novels about Minecraft's player character developing flatulence-based superpowers, while the second is a series of educational books for kids with pot-smoking parents.
• Covenant produced a song called "Storm" in 1996, then in 2006, Eskil Simonsson of that group sang vocals on a Front Line Assembly song titled "The Storm".
• Strange Aeons is either a webseries set in The Slender Man Mythos, a Necronomidol EP, or a videogame mod for Doom set in the Cthulhu Mythos. There's also Strange Eons, an otherwise unrelated novel beside being another Cthulhu Mythos work.
• Stranger or The Stranger are titles to: a 2017 Korean TV series (Stranger), a 2014 novel (Stranger), a famous novel by Albert Camus (The Stranger), a 1967 film based on the Camus novel (The Stranger), Orson Welles's most commercially successful film (The Stranger), and a series of BBV Productions videos.
• Stranger Things is a 2016 sci-fi horror Netflix series as well as a 2010 American-British drama film about a woman and a homeless man she allows to stay in her shed.
• Strange Hill was a comic strip in Whizzer and Chips. Eddie Potter at Strange Hill School was a comic strip in The Dandy. Strange Hill High is a puppet show on CBBC. All of them are named in imitation of Grange Hill, and both comics are set at an All-Ghouls School, but those are the only similarities.
• Strange World is:
  • The name of three different songs by Iron Maiden, Ke, and Push / M.I.K.E.
  • A song by Parachute, and This Strange World is a song from the movie My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.
  • A 2022 Disney animation. (and in Brazil, the translated title was for 18 years a magazine, which got revived in a promotional tie-in to the movie◊)
• The Street Fighter, a series of 1970s grindhouse films starring Sonny Chiba, and Street Fighter, a series of fighting games (which even spun off some movies of its own).
• Streets of Fire is a movie, a Bruce Springsteen song intended for the movie, and an Initial D song.
• Strike: a Russian silent film and a TV series based on the Cormoran Strike Novels.
• Strike it Rich can refer to one of two different game shows. The first was a charitable albeit exploitative show from the 1950s while the second was an unrelated game show produced by Kline & Friends in 1986. The latter found greater success in Britain as Strike It Lucky.
• Stuck on You is either a Farrelly brothers comedy about conjoined twins, an episode of CSI:NY with a couple pinned to a wall by a crossbow arrow, or Elvis Presley's first hit single after being discharged from the Army in 1960.
• Stupid Cupid is either a 1944 short starring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd (billed as "The Stupid Cupid"), a 1958 Connie Francis song, or a 2010 episode of The Fairly OddParents!.
• There are several unrelated songs called "Stupid Girl". One by The Rolling Stones in 1966, another by Neil Young and Crazy Horse in 1975, another by Garbage in 1996 (which sampled The Clash's "Train in Vain"), and another by Cold in 2003. P!nk also had a song called "Stupid Girls" in 2006, which was thematically similar to the song by Garbage.
• P. G. Wodehouse quipped in the introduction to one of his early Blandings Castle novels that he hoped it made the list of the eleven best books named Summer Lightning.
• Suicide Squad is a 1935 movie about firemen, a 1959-62 DC title about war veterans, and the ongoing DC title about a black ops team consisting of supervillains (which in turn was adapted into two movies).
• There are two manga magazines in Japan with "Sunday" as part of the title: the more well known Weekly Shonen Sunday by Shogakukan, and the seinen magazine Weekly Manga Sunday published by a company called Jistsugyo no Nihon Sha.^note In 2012, the "Weekly" was dropped from the title, and started being published twice a month. A year later, it was discontinued.
• Super Mario Sunshine 64 is either a flash game made by Runouw which is a predecessor to Super Mario 63, or a ROM hack of Super Mario 64 by Kaze Emanuar.
• Summer Nightmare is a visual novel, a Firecracker album and an Anime break TV Receptor album.
• Sunshine is both a 1999 film about three generations of a Hungarian-Jewish family living throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and a 2007 science fiction film about a space mission to reignite the sun. There's also a 1973 Made-for-TV movie called Sunshine. And a vampire novel.
• There are countless songs titled "Sunrise", many of which are in the trance genre.
• Super Tennis is a video game on Sega Master System^note known as Great Tennis in Japan and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
• "Super Trouper" is the title track of ABBA's 1980 album Super Trouper. Super Troopers (no "U" in it) is a 2001 comedy film about Vermont state troopers.
• Survivors, a 1970s British post-apocalyptic drama and its 2000s remake, should not be confused with the YA series about dogs, Survivors, by Erin Hunter. Or the American reality show Survivor. Or the band best known for the hit "Eye of the Tiger".
• Sweet Home: a Korean webcomic, a Korean series based on the webcomic, a Japanese film, or a Japanese video game based on the film? See also "Sweet Home Alabama".
• Sweet Sixteen is a 1983 slasher flick and episodes of Parks and Recreation and Little House on the Prairie. Sweet 16 is an episode of CSI: NY.
• Swordquest is an Atari 2600 video game, and Sword Quest is a browser game.

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