History Main / FranchiseDrivenRetitling

Naturally this can be happening when you have a first work that nobody was sure was going to be popular and so they didn't think of a franchise when naming it. It can also happen during an adaptation process -- book series often also only pick up a series name much further down the line, often unofficially, and often don't bother with this process. When they come to being adapted to another medium, somebody will have plans for a franchise but not a name.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'' was initially released with just the title of ''Command & Conquer'' and either appending ''95'' for the original and ''(Gold)'' for the UpdatedRerelease on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows. However, game files and code revealed the WorkingTitle of ''Tiberian Dawn''. While official re-releases, even in the 2020 ''Remastered Collection'', strictly refer to it as just ''Command & Conquer'', fans (and Wiki/ThisVeryWiki) prefer to refer to it as ''Tiberian Dawn'' to differentiate it. This may be for the best as otherwise ''Command & Conquer'' could refer to the franchise, the game itself ''and'' the music track from ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade Renegade]]''.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' was later renamed to ''Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark'' since its DVD release.
* ''Film/FirstBlood'' led to the sequel ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and the third film is called ''Film/RamboIII'', dropping the ''First Blood'' part of the title. Confusingly enough, the fourth film is simply titled ''Film/{{Rambo|IV}}'', the original plan being to mirror what was done with ''Film/RockyBalboa'' and call it ''John Rambo'' (as it was [[MarketBasedTitle in some regions]]).

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' used to combine this with MarketBasedTitle. Hoping to create and capitalize on a unified brand for all ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' spin-off games, Creator/{{Atlus}} USA prefixed ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' with "Shin Megami Tensei" for their international releases, whereas in Japan the connection to SMT was more implicit. However, after ''Persona'' became a MorePopularSpinoff, they stopped doing this in 2012.

* ''Film/FirstBlood'' led to the sequel ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and the third film is called ''Film/RamboIII'', dropping the ''First Blood'' part of the title. Confusingly enough, the fourth film is simply titled ''Film/{{Rambo}}'', the original plan being to mirror what was done with ''Film/RockyBalboa'' and call it ''John Rambo'' (as it was [[MarketBasedTitle in some regions]]).

* The book ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' was adapted into the movie ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Not as cheap as it seems, considering there already was a famous dinosaur adventure story called ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}'' -- one which had directly inspired Creator/MichaelCrichton, and (to make things more complicated) inspired the evolution theory which Crichton's book ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 The Lost World]]'' was named after. People could have been forgiven for getting confused.

Subtrope of {{Retronym}}, can help lead to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* Since there was already a ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' video game on the NES, [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the arcade game of the same name]] was ported to the NES as ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game''. Likewise, the arcade sequel,''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', became ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV'' on the Super NES due to the existence of ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject The Manhattan Project]]'', a third NES game that was released less than a year before the SNES port of ''Turtles in Time''.

* Gege Akutami released a four-chapter mini-series on ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Jump GIGA]]'' titled ''Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School''. Due to the popularity of the series, his sequel series ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' was picked up by ''Weekly Shonen Jump'', and ''Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School'' was subsequently complied into a single volume titled ''Jujutsu Kaisen 0''.

* The sequels to ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' all carried the "Ace Attorney" name, since some of the sequels (namely ''Apollo Justice'' and ''Ace Attorney Investigations'') don't actually star Phoenix Wright.

* ''Akalabeth: World of Doom'' was titled ''Ultima 0: Akalabeth'' in the ''Ultima Collection'', as it is considered a precursor to the original ''Ultima''.

* Since there was already a ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' video game on the NES, [[ VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the arcade game of the same name]] was ported to the NES as ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game''. Likewise, the arcade sequel,''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', became ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV'' on the Super NES due to the existence of ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject The Manhattan Project]]'', a third NES game that was released less than a year before the SNES port of ''Turtles in Time''.

* The first ''StarWars'' film was originally called just ''Star Wars''. The 1980 sequel, ''Star Wars Episode V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', featured an episode number and subtitle in the opening crawl as part of its GenreThrowback nature to give the impression of a long running film serial. When the original film was re-released in 1981, ''Episode IV: Film/ANewHope'' was added above the original opening crawl.

* Since there was already a ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' video game on the NES, [[ VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the arcade game of the same name]] was ported to the NES as ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game''. Likewise, the arcade sequel,''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', became ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV'' on the Super NES due to the existence of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIIITheManhattanProject'', a third NES game that was released less than a year before the SNES port.

* After ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' on the NES, the arcade game ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' was ported to the NES as ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game''. A game exclusive to the NES was released as the third game in the series, ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project]]''. The arcade game ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'' was ported to the SNES and titled as the fourth game in the series, ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time]]''.

* ''Akalabeth: World of Doom'' was titled ''Ultima 0: Akalabeth'' in the ''Ultima Collection'', as it is considered a prequel.

* Following ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', the film adaptations of the novels ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', and ''Breaking Dawn'' all carried the supertitle ''The Twilight Saga''.

* Following ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', the film adaptations of the novels ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', and ''Breaking Dawn'' all carried the supertitle ''TheTwilightSaga''.

* The first ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' was released with the subtitle ''Chapter I – The Sarien Encounter''. The VGA remake was titled ''Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter'' to more closely match ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers''.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' was later renamed to ''Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark''.

* The book ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 The Lost World]]'' was adapted into the movie ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Not as cheap as it seems, considering there already was a famous dinosaur adventure story called ''Literature/TheLostWorld'' -- one which had directly inspired Creator/MichaelCrichton, and (to make things more complicated) inspired the evolution theory which Crichton's book ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 The Lost World]]'' was named after. People could have been forgiven for getting confused.

* The sequels to ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' all carried the "Ace Attorney" name, since some of the sequels (namely ''Apollo Justice'' and ''Ace Attorney Investigations'') don't actually star Phoenix Wright.