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* French romance ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'' ("The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain") was released in the English-speaking world shortened to ''[[Film/{{Amelie}} Amélie]]''.

* Creator/{{Capcom}}'s early hit ''Senjō no Ōkami'' (Wolf of the Battlefield) was exported as ''VideoGame/{{Commando}}'', and its sequel (''Senjō no Ōkami II'') became ''Mercs''. ''Wolf of the Battlefield'' has been used on some of the more recent re-releases.

** The original game retains the franchise's respective names in Japanese and English, as it was released without subtitles. But the remake ''Shin Sekaijū no Meikyū: Millennium no Shōjo'' (New Labyrinth of the World Tree: Millennium Girl) was released outside Japan as ''Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl''.

* The Creator/{{Atlus}} game ''Sekaiju no Meikyū'' (Labyrinth of the World Tree) was released as ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' in English-speaking countries. The remake, ''Shin Sekaijū no Meikyū: Millennium no Shōjo'' (New Labyrinth of the World Tree: Millennium Girl), was released outside Japan as ''Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl''.

* ''Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami'' (Myth of Light: Mirror of Palutena) became ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Sokoban}}'' was retitled in several ways for various versions released internationally in 1990: ''Boxxle'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, ''Shove It! The Warehouse Game'' on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, and ''Boxyboy'' on the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 and in arcades. All these came after the game had been brought to Western computers by Spectrum Holobyte with an UntranslatedTitle.

* ''Puppet Princess of Marl Kingdom'' became ''VideoGame/RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'' for the English market. No word on what they would have done if the other games, which all played on the original title, had been translated.

** ''ResidentEvil: Dead Aim'' was given the rather lengthy title of ''Gun Survivor 4 - BIOHAZARD: Heroes Never Die'' in Japanese. ''Gun Survivor 2'' was only released in Japan and Europe (as ''Resident Evil: SURVIVOR 2''), while ''Gun Survivor 3'' was a ''Dino Crisis''-themed installment that was retitled ''Dino Stalker'' outside Japan.

* Developer Arika created the ''Everblue'' series of scuba diving sims for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in Japan; when Nintendo approached them about creating similar games for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, they were called ''Forever Blue'' as a nod to the original series. Localization turned the title into ''VideoGame/EndlessOcean'' outside Japan.

* ''Ni no Kuni: Shikkoku no Madōshi'' (Second Country: The Jet-Black Mage) became ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn'', leaving "Ni no Kuni" untranslated. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version, ''Ni no Kuni: Shiroki Seihai no Joō'' (Second Country: The Queen of White Sacred Ash), got released outside Japan as ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni: Wrath of the White Witch''.

* Depending on the source, the English release of the ''Manga/{{BECK}}'' either adds "Mongolian Chop Squad" as a subtitle or makes it the entire title, because of the prominent [[Music/BeckMusician musician of the same name]]. Interestingly, this is ''exactly'' what happened in-universe to the fictional band the series follows and is named for: BECK is their original name, but they go by the name "Mongolian Chop Squad" outside of Japan for exactly the same reason.

* Depending on the source, the English release of the ''Manga/{{BECK}}'' either adds "Mongolian Chop Squad" as a subtitle or makes it the entire title, because of the prominent [[Music/{{Beck}} musician of the same name]]. Interestingly, this is ''exactly'' what happened in-universe to the fictional band the series follows and is named for: BECK is their original name, but they go by the name "Mongolian Chop Squad" outside of Japan for exactly the same reason.

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'' was originally titled ''Jūōki'' (Beast King Chronicles) in Japanese.

** ''Laputa: Castle in the Sky'' was renamed ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' [[CleanDubName because "laputa" sounds like "la puta", which means "the whore" in Spanish]], though the name is still used in-film (albeit pronounced differently). The name Laputa is taken from the floating city of the same name in ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', which Jonathan Swift used to satirize a society with too much faith in the idea of "reason," and was a riff off of Martin Luther describing Reason as 'the Great Whore'. Creator/HayaoMiyazaki was apparently unaware of Swift's original subtext when he named the film, and he mentioned in an interview that if he knew earlier, he would have dropped "Laputa" from the original title.

* In 1997, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' got a manga spinoff called ''G-Unit'' ("G" being a shorthand for "Gundam"). When it was brought to America in 2002, the manga had to be renamed ''The Last Outpost'' because a rap group named "G-Unit" came into existence earlier that same year. A slight variation in that the original Gundam Wing had the prefix "New Mobile Report" in Japanese, but reverted to "Mobile Suit" (like the original series) for the English dub.

* The Spanish movie ''Film/LasBrujasDeZugarramurdi'' ("The witches of Zugarramurdi") is called ''Witching and Bitching'' in English probably because Zugarramurdi wouldn't mean anything to non-Spanish folks (Zugarramurdi is a Spanish municipality that has a history of {{Witch Hunt}}s just like Salem).

* Belgian vampire film ''Red Lips'' became ''Film/DaughtersOfDarknes''.

* Spanish SciFiHorror film ''Panic on the Trans-Siberian'' became ''Film/HorrorExpres''.

* Italian sci-fi action film ''Cyborg: The Warrior of Steel'' became''Film/CyWarrior''.

** Sonic & Tails -> ''VideoGame/SonicChaos'''.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilDeadAim'' was given the rather lenghty title of ''Gun Survivor 4 - BIOHAZARD: Heroes Never Die'' in Japanese. ''Gun Survivor 2'' was only released in Japan and Europe (as ''Resident Evil: SURVIVOR 2''), while ''Gun Survivor 3'' was a ''Dino Crisis''-themed installment that was retitled ''Dino Stalker'' outside Japan.

* The first English edition of ''Literature/{{Momo}}'' was published under the title ''The Grey Gentlemen''. Subsequent editions used the original title.