Why is it written as medium specifc?: Non Appearing Title

Is's Opposite Trope Title Drop doesn't indicate that it's song specific yet this one seems to give the impression that this is a music only trope. I see no reason to restrict this trope to songs especially becuase there are no other tropes covering this territory.

The problem is that only in music is Title Drop so prevalent in such a short space that it's reverse is tropeable. Otherwise it's just Title Drop averted. For music Title Drop is so common it makes more sense to be aversions only.

It's conventional for the song title to appear in the lyrics. If it doesn't, that's an exception to the rule.

Could you add that explanation to the main page then? But wait.... Shouldn't it be more notable that a feature length film never mentions it's own title?

No, because most of them don't, at least not exact wording.

A movie like Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo? Seems like a Title Drop would be very unusual. Or if the title of the movie is the name of the main character, is it a Title Drop whenever they say his name?

edited 22nd Jan '11 10:55:15 PM by troacctid

Edit: I thought I could come up with a longer list. I thought I had something with James Bond, but a lot of Bond movies don't have movie named theme songs.

edited 23rd Jan '11 5:28:32 AM by BlackWolfe

If the page were opened to all mediums, it wouldn't just end up being a list of works that don't use Title Drop, because that page excludes certain occasions where the title would is mentioned (for example, when the title is a character's name which gets said all the time).

So this is just a rollout of the music section of Title Drop, where aversions would usually be mentioned? If so, we can be explicit about that.

If the title is used, it's used a certain way. If it's not used, it's not used, simple as that. We can't write guidelines on how something isn't used.

edited 2nd Feb '11 6:35:12 AM by halfmillennium

Here I was thinking this was an episode of a show that didn't have a title card show up in the ep.

^Likewise. I also thought this would've covered something like the name "The Rolling Stones" not appearing on the cover of the band's debut self-titled album, but apparently this is strictly limited to song titles.

edited 2nd Feb '11 9:19:33 AM by SeanMurrayI

We do have the trope Title, Please!, for where episode titles don't appear. It's sort of shaky as a trope (though the subjective banner is bogus).

^Funny enough, both the trope this topic is about and Title, Please! have been strictly limited to a single medium. I'd imagine Title, Please! would be the one most deserving of broadening its genre focus, but Non-Appearing Title still sounds a lot more like what Title, Please! is about; I mean, that's the trope where no titles at all ever appear.

I just started a YKTTW thread called Dropped Title, for works whose titles bear no obvious relationship to their content. In the description, I've listed Non-Appearing Title as a sub-trope relating specifically to songs.

edited 8th Jun '11 3:18:10 PM by BlueIceTea

Technically, how does anything "appear" in a song? Or dialogue? "Unsung Title" would be better for music, wouldn't it?

...Okay, Title, Please! desperately needs a rename. I wasn't aware that displaying episode titles on screen was ever the norm as that page claims; I seem to recall reading that the people behind The Simpsons didn't initially think fans would ever figure out what their episode titles were. That was in the 80s.

The original Star Trek did, but other than that, I don't recall it being the norm either.

Showing episode titles probably wasn't the norm, but it couldn't have been that uncommon either, considering that Police Squad parodied them.