History Main / NamedAfterFirstInstallment

* ''Fanfic/{{Enslaved}}'': VerbedTitle it shares with [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5306755/1/Enslaved its first chapter]]. This refers to the story concept, as summarized on Website/FanfictionDotNet:

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': The series is named after the character Index, who served as the focus of the first arc back when the author, Creator/KazumaKamachi, first wrote it as a one-shot. This is despite her being rather OutOfFocus in later novels. When his publisher later decided to adapt it into a full series, he chose to just keep the original title so as to avoid confusion. Then it received manga spinoffs that focused on different characters and the ScienceFiction elements, so those spinoffs reused the ''A Certain'' portion in their titles.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' is named after the first arc, which took place in the titular DeadlyGame. While the rest of the arcs and spin-offs take place in other games and virtual worlds, the effects of the time spent in ''Sword Art Online'' and the technology that built it linger throughout the series.
* Both the manga and anime adaptations of the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series are named after the first novel, ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya''. Spinoffs, however, are just given similar titling to the IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming of the novels.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The original game was just titled VideoGame/MortalKombat1 with all future sequels either using the name along with a number or subtitle, the title named is based on the Mortal Kombat tournaments important to the franchise, especially in the first game.

* In its home of Japan, the ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' series was titled after the [[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings first game]] in the trilogy. This would have been true of its overseas counterparts as well (where it would have been named ''Earth Bound''), but due to never being exported until 2015, its overseas title is named after [[VideoGame/EarthBound the second installment]] instead.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The first game was simply titled ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''.[[note]]Except for Japan, where ''The Legend of Zelda'' was a subtitle and the full title was ''Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda''[[/note]] The second game, ''Videogame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', included ''Zelda'' in the title, but using ''The Legend of Zelda'' as the series title was firmly established beginning with ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''.

* ''TheLightlarkSaga'': The series is named after the first book ''Lightlark'' which doubles as ThePlace.

* The first three films in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy were titled ''Star Wars'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. The first film was later retitled ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'', with the moniker "Star Wars" elevated to a blanket term for the nine films of the Skywalker Saga, plus spin-off productions such as ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

* The first short film that kickstarted the ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' franchise was simply titled ''Anime/{{Little Witch Academia|2013}}''.

!!!Please list entries on this page under the series as a whole, not the first installment of the series. When doing so:

!!Please list entries on this page under the series as a whole, not the first installment of the series. When doing so:

Please list entries on this page under the series as a whole, not the first installment of the series. When doing so:

May be a result of NumberedSequels, where the first installment has no number, the second has a "2" on the end of it, etc. In this case, the obvious name of the series is the name of the first entry, since that's what ties the titles together. When dealing with such a series, this wiki usually lists the first entry as ''[=Namespace/SeriesName1=]''.

!!Plays on this trope, sorted by the series which gets named:

* Inverted by the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', which takes the title of the fourth and last book of the series. The first book series is titled ''Literature/{{Eragon}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': The series and first movie are named for and revolve around LivingToys.

* The first three films in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy were titled ''Star Wars'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. The first film was later retitled ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'', with the moniker "Star Wars" elevated to a blanket term for the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy, plus spin-off productions such as ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

* ''Series/{{Moribito}}'': The live-action drama is named in Japanese after the first book of its source ''[[Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit Guardian of the Spirit]]'', which is part of the book series of the same English title.