History IAmNotShazam / Film

*** Well, it IS an alien...

* The title of ''{{Highlander}}'' refers to Connor and Duncan [=McLeod=]'s origins as Scottish Highlanders, not to the race of immortals (who are simply call that, "Immortals") that they turn out to be part of.

* The title of ''{{Highlander}}'' refers to Connor (and later Duncan) [=McLeod=]'s origins as Scottish Highlanders, not to the race of immortals (who are simply call that, "Immortals") that he turns out to be part of.

* Despite popular belief, the immortals from the ''{{Highlander}}'' film series are not all Highlanders. The title comes from the title character of the first movie, who was a Scottish Highlander (someone from the Scottish Highlands). Despite this, the film series and TV show have kept the name, even after the series was no longer about him, and many people believe Highlander is the common term for an immortal.
** Even the sequel got it wrong!
** Also in the original movie, the BigBad's name is ''not'' Kurgan. In fact, [[NoNameGiven he has no name]]. Everyone refers to him as ''The'' Kurgan because he is from that region, much like how people refer to Connor [=MacLeod=] as "Highlander".

* The main character ''Kikujiro no Natsu'' is not named Kikujiro. We don't know who it is before the ending, which is a simple but brillant twist. Even if the DVD case [[ItWasHisSled may tell you who it is actually.]]

* Ghostface is always mistaken for the name ''{{Scream}}''.

* ''[=~Comic Book: The Movie~=]'' features an in-universe example of the trope's title example: a woman is condescendingly corrected by her four year old that the action figure his father has just bought is Captain Marvel, not Shazam.

** Similarly, there have been pet fish called, not Nemo, but FindingNemo.

** Well, it IS an alien...

* The Dog-Thing from TheThing is not named "Jed", and neither is "the Norwegian sled dog". Jed is the name of the wolf-dog who played the Norwegian sled dog. "Jed" and "Jed-Thing" are [[{{fannon}} fan names]] given to the character and creature because it's less of a mouthful than "Norwegian sled dog" and "Norwegian sled dog-Thing". It may also be a reference to the fact that John Carpenter and Kurt Russell simply refer to the dog as Jed in the DVD commentary.
** Similarly, Jed the wolf dog is not WhiteFang.

* Like the Jaws example above, the extra-terrestrial antagonists's names in the ''{{Alien}}'' series and ''TheThing'' are NOT "the Alien" and "the Thing" respectively, as both creatures remained unnamed. Both titles ''were'' used throughout these movies, but only as descriptive terms ("the aliens", "those things", etc.). Even {{Alien}}'s "Xenomorph", another descriptive term (Greek for "strange form/shape", i.e. an alien being) which was used on two occasions in those films was never intended as any official name.

* A penguin rescued in New Zealand in 2011 was named "HappyFeet" by his rescuers. No, not after any of the penguin characters in the ''film'' ''HappyFeet'', just HappyFeet.

* ''{{Film/Avatar}}'': [[GannonBanned The Na'vi are not avatars]]. Jake is not the only person with one, neither is he one all the time.

* Ghostface is always mistaken for the name ''{{Scream}}''.

* The eponymous whale of the film ''FreeWilly'' was not named "Free Willy". The whale was named simply Willy; the title comes from a scene where Jesse says "let's free Willy!" It doesn't help that the sequels used "Free Willy" in their titles.