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15	Literature, music and television are full of quotable quotes, and they are frequently used as [[LiteraryAllusionTitle titles in other works]]. In this case, only part of a quote is used, one which really doesn't indicate what it's about, but the other part, the one left unsaid, does. This often gets audiences thinking before they see it, and creates expectations about what it will be about, particularly if it's a very well-known quote that everyone can finish without thinking. Other, more obscure, quotes may count as a GeniusBonus, but will still serve the same function in those familiar with them.
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17	Consider a quote that everyone knows from Creator/WilliamShakespeare, "[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} To be, or not to be]]," from a scene in which Hamlet contemplates suicide. For this to be in effect, a work in which a character is considering killing himself would be titled, "To Be", while one that focuses on the reasons he has to live would be titled "Or Not To Be".
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19	SubTrope of LiteraryAllusionTitle and {{Foreshadowing}}. Compare CompoundTitle and DoubleMeaningTitle.
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21	If two parts of a quote are used separately for different (but thematically linked) episodes, they're CrossReferencedTitles.
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': "The Devil's Children" doesn't involve devils or children; it's a play on the proverb that "idle hands are the devil's children", and it's the bit about idle hands that's relevant to the plot.
29	* The Creator/ECComics story "...And All Through The House" [[note]]which was adapted in the ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' film and again as an episode of the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' television series[[/note]] takes place on [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday the night before Christmas]].
30	* Used In-Universe in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'''s "Dream Country" StoryArc. The title of Calliope's capturer's first book is "Here comes a candle" (notable in that there are several actual books called that).
31	* ''Comicbook/SpiderManDanSlott'': The title of the storyline about Peter running Parker Industries was ''Worldwide''. It makes sense for a more international Spider-Man, but it makes even more sense that the obvious next word is "Web".
32	* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''
33	** The storyline ''ComicBook/WhereAngelsFearToTread'' makes more literary sense once the full quote is revealed: "Fools rush in (Oliver Queen [[spoiler:sacrificing himself]]) '''where angels fear to tread''' (Hal as Parallax following ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'' and [[spoiler: Clark as Superman trying to stop the Mutajek 9-9 from hitting Metropolis]]"
34	* Well, not the ''title'' but the tagline on every cover. The ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' had as its tagline, "Justice, Like Lightning..." The first and most obvious clue that our new heroes [[spoiler: aren't heroes, but the ''Avengers'' foes the Masters of Evil in disguise]] is that tagline, if you know the full quote: "Justice, like lightning, should ever appear [[spoiler: to few men's ruin, but '''to all men's fear.''']]"
35	* The ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' not only takes its title from the famous quote attributed to the Roman poet Creator/{{Juvenal}} ("Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"/"Who watches the watchmen?"), but also the name of ''every single chapter'' is a piece of song lyrics/other famous quotes. The full quotes are found at the end of each chapter.
36	** Chapter I: "At Midnight, All the Agents..." (from the song, "Desolation Row", by Music/BobDylan).
37	** Chapter II: Absent Friends (from the song, "The Comedians", by Music/ElvisCostello).
38	** Chapter III: The Judge of All Earth (from the Literature/BookOfGenesis).
39	** Chapter IV: Watchmaker (from the quote, "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.", by UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein).
40	** Chapter V: Fearful Symmetry (from the poem, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger The Tyger]]", by Creator/WilliamBlake).
41	** Chapter VI: The Abyss Gazes Also (from the quote, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.", by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche).
42	** Chapter VII: A Brother to Dragons (from the Literature/BookOfJob).
43	** Chapter VIII: Old Ghosts (from the poem, "Hallowe'en", by Eleanor Farjoen).
44	** Chapter IX: The Darkness of Mere Being (from the book, ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'', by UsefulNotes/CarlJung).
45	** Chapter X: Two Riders Were Approaching... (from the song, "All Along the Watchtower", by Music/BobDylan).
46	** Chapter XI: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty... (from the sonnet, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias Ozymandias]]", by Creator/PercyByssheShelley).
47	** Chapter XII: A Stronger Loving World (from the song, "Sanities", by Music/JohnCale).
48	* ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' vol 2 #8, guest-starring Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk in his mob-enforcer persona of Joe Fixit, is titled "If It Ain't Broke..."
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52	* Both ''Fanfic/AskNotTheSparrow'' and its sequel ''Love Bites'' have titles that are one half of a quote, which is then completed in the chapter title: "Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars" and "love bites, but sometimes it's just a nibble".
53	* The ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "For The Smurf Of Money", to which Tapper completes the full quote, "...is the root of all evil." (1st Timothy 6:10)
54	* Creator/{{Foobar137}}'s works:
55	** For "And You Don't Know Why But You're Dying To Try", the song continues, "You want to kiss the girl". The story is about Perry trying to convince Phineas to kiss Isabella.
56	** "Whither Thou Goest" comes from the Bible, Ruth 1:16: "Whither thou goest, I will go". Pacifica completes the quote in the story when she chooses Mabel over her parents.
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60	* The title of the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger film ''Film/The6thDay'' is part of, "God created man in His own image. And behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." (Genesis 1:27, 31).
61	* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'': The title comes from a quote from ''On the Origin of the Species,'' an abbreviated version of which appears as a title card: "American animals slowly migrated by successive generations from the outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves." All words fade but "Kentucky" to present the setting of the film. The plot includes the theft of a rare version of ''On the Origin of the Species''.
62	* The film ''Film/ComeAndSee'' is about a boy's experiences during the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. Its title alludes to [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation 6]], where John is told to "come and see", and then writes "[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse and I looked, and behold, a pale horse whose rider's name was Death]]."
63	* ''Film/CryHavoc'', about Army nurses on the Bataan Peninsula as it's overrun by the Japanese in 1942, takes its title from a line in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': "Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war."
64	* The short ''Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed'' indicates that Deadpool's attempt to be a hero is going to go wrong, as NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.
65	* In ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', two library-bound survivors ask whether they should burn the works of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, whose "The Antichrist" states in its preface: "Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously." Part of this line provided this movie's title.
66	* ''Film/FoolsRushIn'' is a bit ambiguous. The original is a quote from Alexander Pope: "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". This quote was then referenced in the lyrics to "Can't Help Falling in Love", made famous by Music/ElvisPresley: "Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you". The title is likely taken from the song, which is [[AdaptationDisplacement now more famous than the original quote]], and which is actually featured in the film.
67	* ''Film/TheHarderTheyFall1956'' references the well-known adage "The bigger they come, the harder they fall".
68	* ''Film/LoveActually'', truncated from the line [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_All_Around "Love actually is all around."]]
69	* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'', but the film's really about what you ''don't'' see until the very end..."now you don't."
70	* ''Film/OnceBitten'', about a teenager who discovers the older woman who seduced him is a vampire. It comes from the adage "Once bitten, twice shy".
71	* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'' "[[WellIntentionedExtremist is paved with good intentions]]". The usual quote is "hell", but "perdition" hides the intent of the quote as to make it obvious, and is a less inflaming word to more pious moviegoers.
72	* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'': From a quote often attributed to Creator/MarkTwain – "Truth is stranger than fiction."
73	* ''Film/ThroughAGlassDarkly'': It's from the well-known [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+13&version=KJV 12th chapter]] of [[AsTheGoodBookSays I Corinthians]], in which Paul describes the limit of human understanding as "we see through a glass, darkly.". Appropriate for a film in which Karin is a schizophrenic suffering from hallucinations, and her father, brother, and husband wonder what to do and what to believe in.
74	* ''Film/ToCatchAThief'' takes its title from the second half of the idiom "It takes a thief to catch a thief", which holds that the best person to get inside a criminal's mind is another criminal. The plot of the film is about a reformed thief playing detective to entrap another thief who has been using his MO.
75	* The rather non-descriptive title of ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'' is part of a line from the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet. The full line reads: "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come", which reveals the premise of the dying dream plot.
76	* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's ''Anime/TheWindRises'' takes its title from the poem, "Le Cimetiere marin" ("The Graveyard By The Sea"), by Paul Valery. The full quote is: "Le vent se leve!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" ("The Wind Rises!... We must try to live!") This is presented at the start of the film, as well as quoted [[ViewersAreGoldfish several times during it]], so the viewer doesn't actually need to know the poem.
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80	* Creator/LianeMoriarty's novel (and later streaming TV miniseries) ''Apples Never Fall'' ("far from the tree"). It's about family secrets, and the full phrase is a way to say that children aren't so different from their parents
81	* ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' comes from ''Theatre/TheTempest'' and Miranda's exclamation "O brave new world/ That has such people in't!"
82	* The Wilfred Owen poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" ("it is sweet and fitting") is a cross-language example - the full quote being "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country), which is much more appropriate to the poem's WarIsHell subject matter (though it is still an ironic usage).
83	* ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' is {{quote mine}}d from [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves." Quoth Creator/JohnGreen, "Which is an easy thing to say if you're, like, you know, Shakespeare or a Roman nobleman, but in the broad sense, I don't know that I agree with Shakespeare a hundred percent." Diseases, especially diseases like cancer, rarely come to affect people who "deserve" it. It's really very random. And cancer is what really serves as the most negative influence on the characters' lives, so the fault did indeed lie in their stars. Never mind that Shakespeare's characters were speaking of the rise of a tyrant in their country, something that ''is'' the responsibility of the citizens to stop, regardless of "stars". They'd probably agree that diseases and politics are very different.
84	* Creator/BenElton's UsefulNotes/WorldWarI novel ''Literature/TheFirstCasualty'' is named for a quotation attributed to US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson: "The first casualty when war comes is truth."
85	* Some of the titles in the ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' are this coupled with LiteraryAllusionTitle, and are taken from a quote which is (one of the) work's epigraph(s):
86	** The first novel, ''The Blade Itself'' comes from a quotation from Homer that "The blade itself incites to deeds of violence'' (as discussed [[http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32594/origin-of-quote-in-abercrombies-the-blade-itself here]], it is a loose translation).
87	** The second novel is titled ''Before They Are Hanged'', and derives from a Henrich Heine quote, "We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged."
88	** The third novel's title, ''The Last Argument of Kings'', refers to the words LouisXIV had inscribed on his cannons: "Ultima Ratio Regum," which is Latin for "the last argument of kings."
89	** A standalone novel ''Literature/BestServedCold'' derives from the proverb that "Revenge is a dish best served cold", which fits the novel being about the heroine's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
90	** Another standalone novel, ''Literature/TheHeroes'' alludes to a quote by Bertolt Brecht that "Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes" (incidentally, the same quote is used as the series title of another grimdark fantasy, ''Literature/ALandFitForHeroes'').
91	* ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' is part of a line from a devotional writing by Creator/JohnDonne. In this case, it's the ''previous'' line that is most thematically appropriate: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" (the novel is largely an exploration of the nature of [[TrueCompanions companionship]] in a time of war and death). However, completing the line that the title is taken from also makes it into a SpoilerTitle: "And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies it tolls for thee]].]]"
92	* The sequel to ''Literature/GentlemenPreferBlondes'' was ''But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes''.
93	* One of the stories in ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket'' is called ''Cast Long Shadows''. As in "old sins cast long shadows". It alludes to the fact that in the story Matthew Fairchild commits the greatest sin of his life, something that will haunt him for a long time. [[spoiler:He gave his mother a truth serum that turned out to be poison, which caused her to have a miscarriage.]]
94	* ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' refers to a longer quote from Friedrich Schiller, which makes up the titles of its three acts: "Against Stupidity ... The Gods Themselves ... Contend in Vain." Fitting, since the willful stupidity of certain characters literally threatens to destroy the world.
95	* [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Heinlein]]'s ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil''. Even though there is plenty of evil in the world of this story, it (and lack of fear thereof) isn't really important to the plot. However, the other part of the quote "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death", is a perfect title for the story.
96	* The title of the novel ''Literature/TheMirrorCrackdFromSideToSide'' by Creator/AgathaChristie comes from a quote from the poem "The Lady of Shalott" by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson. There's no mirror in the novel, but there is a woman under a kind of curse.
97	-->Out flew the web and floated wide-
98	-->The mirror crack'd from side to side;
99	-->"The curse is come upon me," cried
100	-->The Lady of Shalott
101	* The title of ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' would be a SpoilerTitle if its source, a sixteenth-century political work titled "The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment [[spoiler:of women]]", wasn't so obscure. In-universe, the title refers to the regiment the main character joins, which has a troll, a vampire, and [[TheIgor an Igor]] in it.
102	* ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' is taken from a line in the Creator/RobertBurns poem "To A Mouse". The full line goes "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry"), foreshadowing how the plans of the main characters will go unfullfilled due to tragic circumstances.
103	* The short story ''Of the Artist'' in ''Literature/PareidoliaAndTheGildedScar'' is based on an Oscar Wilde quote "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist [[note]],not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself [[/note]]"
104	* Creator/AgathaChristie's novel ''Literature/ThePaleHorse'' has a DoubleMeaningTitle. Most obviously, "The Pale Horse" is the name of an old inn that is central to the plot. But, also, it is an allusion to the Book of Revelations: "I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death." In the book, three old women claim to be able to kill people using magic, and they have the body count to back up their claim.
105	* "Literature/ThatThouArtMindfulOfHim" takes its title from a [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Biblical psalm]] which asks "What is Man that thou art mindful of Him?". The question "What is Man?" (or as we'd more likely say now, "What is the definition of a human being?") is [[DrivingQuestion central to the story]] because it affects how [[ThreeLawsCompliant robots interpret the Three Laws]].
106	* ''Literature/TheseOldShades'', from the poem "Epilogue to ''Eighteenth Century Vignettes''" by Austin Dobson: "Whereas with these old Shades of mine,/Their ways and dress delight me;/And should I trip by word or line,/They cannot well indict me."
107	* ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'', from Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" ("...Theirs but to do and die")
108	* ''Too Like the Lightning'', the first book of the ''Literature/TerraIgnota'' series, derives its title from a passage in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,/Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be/Ere one can say "It lightens." While in the original context, Juliet is expressing doubt about Romeo's constancy, in the context of the novel, it serves to raise questions about the novel's utopian setting and/or shocking events which threaten its continued utopianism.
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112	* ''Series/The100'' is rather fond of this:
113	** "I Am Become Death". The quote itself is dropped after the characters blow up a bridge ([[RuleOfSymbolism making]] a [[EverythingMakesAMushroom mushroom cloud]]), holding off a Grounder attack in the process.
114	--->'''Clarke:''' "I am become death, destroyer of worlds". It's Oppenheimer, the man who built the first...\
115	'''Bellamy:''' I know who Oppenheimer is.
116	** "Long into an Abyss", an episode about [[HeWhoFightsMonsters the consequences]] of [[TheChainsOfCommanding leadership]], fittingly gets its title from Creator/FriedrichNietzsche.
117	--->"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze '''long into an abyss''', the abyss also gazes into you."
118	** "Ye Who Enter Here", from ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'''s infamous "Abandon hope...".
119	** The episode "Nevermore" gets its title from ''Literature/TheRaven'', in which a raven drives a man to insanity ("Quoth the raven..."). In this episode, Raven is possessed and deals out {{Breaking Speech}}es to the other characters.
120	** "Red Sky At Morning", from an oft-quoted mariner rhyme: "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. / Red sky at morning, sailors take warning." Fittingly, in this episode, Clarke and company visit Luna's sea-dwelling people, and the trip goes awry.
121	* ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'':
122	** ''De Mortuis'': ''De mortuis nil nisi bonum decendem est.'' 'Of the dead say nothing but good.' Thinking a man has killed his wife, two of his friends badmouth her, and that turns out badly.
123	** ''None So Blind...'' '...as he who will not see.' Things turn out badly for the main character because he willfully ignores something.
124	* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', Wednesday Addams has a complete-the-quote name. Her name comes from the popular folk poem that starts "Monday's child is fair of face" and gives similar descriptions for the other days of the week. The line for Wednesday is "Wednesday's child is full of woe", which perfectly describes the solemn Wednesday.
125	* The title of ''Series/{{Andor}}'' episode 5, "[[Recap/AndorS1E5TheAxeForgets The Axe Forgets]]", is half of the proverb "the axe forgets but the tree remembers". It is about how individual resentments about the Empire's torrential exploitation and abuse will eventually give rise of the Rebellion.
126	* The first episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' is titled "[[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf City of...]]", apparently referring to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles (where the series is set), the "city of angels".
127	* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
128	** The episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E08AndTheSkyFullOfStars And the Sky, Full of Stars]]" plays with this; it's a slight misquote of... not a literary quote, but a line that Sinclair actually used in [[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E00TheGathering the pilot episode]], referring to the Battle of the Line (which "And the Sky" centers on):
129	--->''"We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours."''
130	** Another episode is titled "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E15AndNowForAWord And Now for a Word]]", which in the old days was usually finished with "from our sponsors". This episode is shown as an [[AlphabetNewsNetwork ISN]] documentary on the station, and includes a commercial for the [[MutantDraftBoard Psi Corps]], which has a [[SubliminalSeduction single frame with the words]], "The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps." The implication is that Psi Corps was the sponsor and that they got their word in.
131	* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E9FunAndGames Fun and Games]]" is a really somber episode, since the full quote is "It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt" and it shows how Jimmy and Kim's fun have been sucked out by [[spoiler:their part in Howard's death]].
132	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': What goes around "[[Recap/CSINYS03E23 ...Comes Around]]" has Mac threatening to use the same kind of politics/making-them-look-bad-in-the-media tricks against his superiors as they've been doing to him for three episodes in a row.
133	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
134	** S2-3: "What Is Dead May Never Die", but rises again, harder and stronger.
135	** S5-5: "Kill the Boy", and let the man be born.
136	* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': "...Someone Like Me As a Member" deals with Eleanor's dislike of social groups and her overcoming this over the course of the episode. The title is taken from a Groucho Marx quote: "I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member."
137	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': "All Happy Families Are Alike" takes its title from the opening line of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'': "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." No points for guessing what the episode is about.
138	* "''Series/{{It Takes a Thief\|1968}}''... to catch a thief." The 1968-70 adventure series focuses on a cat burglar employed as a thief by the government in exchange for commuting his prison sentence, while the 2005 reality series involves helping homeowners patch up holes in their security systems by staging a burglary (with the homeowners' knowledge and consent) that exploits those holes.
139	* The ''Series/TheLastOfTheBaskets'' episode, "Do Unto Others...", takes its title from Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's quote, "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you".
140	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Season 2 ends with the episodes "Second Star to the Right" and "And Straight On 'Til Morning".
141	* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': The finale is titled after the traditional fairy tale ending line: "And They Lived..." (happily ever after).
142	* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' takes its title from a saying popular among 19th century Vaudeville performers: "Only fools and horses work for a living."
143	* The final episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' Series VIII is titled "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only the Good...]]". Unsurprisingly, the phrase "Only the good die young" gets quoted during the episode.
144	* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'':
145	** "The Sincerest Form of Flattery'': The episode deals with an AI-controlled attack sub that [[AIIsACrapshoot goes rogue]], but which was programmed using Bridger's personality, and using tactics he developed. Imitation, after all...
146	** "By Any Other Name" deals with an underwater horticultural colony being overrun by an unknown force, [[spoiler:a plant that mutated and became intelligent and aggressive. And immune to lasers. A rose (or crazy B-movie inspired monster plant) by any other name]].
147	** "And Everything Nice" has Lucas falling for a girl on shore [[spoiler: but this turns out to be a subversion as sugar and spice she is not. She's actually part of a terrorist cell using Lucas to gain access to UEO facilities]].
148	* "''Series/ShowMeAHero'' ... and I'll write you a tragedy." A quote by Creator/FScottFitzgerald.
149	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
150	** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E16IfWishesWereHorses If Wishes Were Horses]]", beggars would ride.
151	** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E04NorTheBattleToTheStrong Nor the Battle to the Strong]]" also draws its name from a biblical quote: "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." It's the last bit that really captures what the episode is about.
152	** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E07LetHeWhoIsWithoutSin Let He Who Is Without Sin...]]", half of the famous [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] quote, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
153	** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]", referencing the Joker's line in ''Film/Batman1989: ''Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?''
154	* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The final episode of the series, "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E21TheseAreTheVoyages These Are the Voyages...]]" of the starship ''Enterprise''.
155	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
156	** An episode regarding an infertile species is titled "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E16WhenTheBoughBreaks When the Bough Breaks]]" (the cradle will fall).
157	** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]" takes its title from a quote by UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr:
158	--->The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
159	** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E22TheMostToys The Most Toys]]" is taken from the quote "He who dies with the most toys wins", a sentiment shared by the antagonist, as he is willing to threaten and risk lives for the purpose of increasing his collection. The ending reinforces it, as he is defeated not by being killed but by living long enough to see his collection confiscated.
160	** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E15ThineOwnSelf Thine Own Self]]" comes from a quote from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'': "This above all, to thine own self be true."
161	** The GrandFinale is titled "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]" (must come to an end.)
162	* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]", which actually isn't about people being destroyed, by gods or otherwise. However, if you know the entire quote ("Whom gods destroy, they first drive mad"), you'll see it's a perfect title for an episode about an insane asylum.
163	* "''Series/StrangerThings'' have happened...", and they ''always'' seem to happen in Hawkins, Indiana.
164	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
165	** The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir I Shot an Arrow into the Air]]" qualifies. The next line of Longfellow's poem is "It fell to earth, I know not where", foreshadowing that [[spoiler:the astronauts have not landed on a desert planet, but in a desert on Earth]].
166	** The title of the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" comes from the saying "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." [[spoiler:The IronicHell seen in this episode is a casino where you always win: indeed a nice place to visit, but one that drives you crazy with boredom if you're stuck there for all eternity.]]
167	* The US TV sitcom ''Series/TilDeath'' implies the rest of "do us part."
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170	[[folder:Music]]
171	* Music/OrigamiAngel: The first track of ''Music/SomewhereCity'' "Welcome to..." The album cover has the sign for Somewhere City, featuring the tagline "Welcome to Somewhere City: The city never lets me down!", suggesting that it's meant to be "Welcome to Somewhere City".
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174	[[folder:Theatre]]
175	* ''Theatre/AbandonAllHope'' by {{Creator/Peter Fenton}} is a dark comedy set in Hell, referencing the line from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”
176	* ''Theatre/BothYourHouses'' is a play about an idealistic young congressman who sets out to defeat a corrupt appropriations bill, fails, and then vows to bring down the whole corrupt system. The quote is from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': "A plague o' both your houses!"
177	* ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' has nothing to do with inheritance or wind, but a great deal to do with the idea of a community tearing itself apart. The complete quotation, which comes from the Book of Proverbs, is recited by Brady when Reverend Brown turns on his own daughter:
178	-->"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind:
179	--> and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
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182	[[folder:TV Tropes]]
183	* AllThatGlitters (is not gold) is a saying that (or at least its most well-known form) comes from a line in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. (Though it should be noted that this is somewhat a case of BeamMeUpScotty, since the actual word used in the play is "glisters", not "glitters".
184	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer used to [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 laugh and call him names]], for something that will probably wind up saving the day.
185	* AndCallHimGeorge is not about calling an animal George, but hugging and petting it to death. The original WesternAnimation/{{Tex Avery MGM Cartoon\|s}} quote goes: "I'm gonna love him, and hug him, and pet him, and call him George!" Avery himself was referencing ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'', with Lennie being a large brute who loves soft furry things... and murdered them by accident because he didn't know his own strength.
186	* I have no mouth AndIMustScream. Referring to the [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream short story of the same name]], in which someone is left incapacitated, but still aware of their surroundings, with no conceivable way to get themselves out of it.
187	* BehindEveryGreatMan stands an even greater woman.
188	* Revenge is a dish BestServedCold.
189	* DoNotGoGentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
190	* DueToTheDead is missing the first part, "the respect", or "the reverence".
191	* A man who represents himself in court has AFoolForAClient.
192	* HeWhoFightsMonsters comes from the famous quote by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche. The full quote is presented on the trope page, and it goes like this: "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you".
193	* IfICantHaveYou, then no one can!
194	* IfIWantedYouDead, you would already be dead. There are several variations on this one, but the gist of all of them is that whoever's saying it is perfectly capable of killing someone, but has not for a specific reason.
195	* "LooseLips sink ships." Coming from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, this was a reminder for people to watch what they say lest unfriendly people overhear sensitive information.
196	* MasterOfNone is taken from "JackOfAllTrades, master of none", referring to them filling in several niches simultaneously while not being good at any of them.
197	* The trope MilesToGoBeforeISleep partially refers to the line before -- "But I have promises to keep," i.e. one last job to do before death.
198	* TheNeedsOfTheMany is one part of a quote from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': "...outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
199	* It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou, it's the ''sudden'' stop at the end.
200	* OutOfTheFryingPan, into the fire. When you escape one danger only to end up in an even bigger one.
201	* ThePenIsMightier than the sword. In the case of the trope, the pen is used as an ''actual'' weapon rather than a metaphorical one.
202	* SpeakOfTheDevil, and he shall appear.
203	* "The way to a man's heart is ThroughHisStomach." This proverb is also the page quote, clearing up any confusion that might persist about the name.
204	* Despite the BeamMeUpScotty nature of the quote (having been reworded a bit since the 1200s), a character facing this problem might indeed wonder 'Who will rid me of this TurbulentPriest?'
205	* Character is WhatYouAreInTheDark.
206	* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer, everything looks like a nail.
207	* "WithFriendsLikeThese" and "...WhoNeedsEnemies" both take their titles from a single saying.
208	* The two redirects for WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility are "With Great Power" and "Comes Great Responsibility", each being one half of the quote.
209	* The other half of WomanScorned is "Hell hath no fury..." -- fitting, as it's about a rampaging ex-love interest.
210	* History is WrittenByTheWinners.
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213	[[folder:Video Games]]
214	* ''VideoGame/AnotherCrabsTreasure'' features a FunnyAnimal hermit crab trying to get his shell back, and using pieces of junk to protect himself in the meantime. After all, one crab's trash is...
215	* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': Season 2's second-to-last and last episodes have the titles (A cure for) "What Ails You" and (Two threads in the) "Same Stitch", the latter of which can also be {{Title Drop}}ped by John Doe[[spoiler:/Joker]] in the episode.
216	--> "We're two threads in the same stitch, bound together... even under strain."
217	* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' has a mission called "Where Angels Fear to Tread" which should begin with "Fools Rush in..." Considering [[WhamEpisode what happens during the mission]] this is very appropriate.
218	* The original ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' is largely about [[DeusExMachina machines]] (whether human or AI), though some of them do have a [[AGodAmI god complex]].
219	* ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' plays with this in the quest "Whom Gods Annoy". The quest's name is a reference to the quote "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad", and the quest itself involves a CursedItem that the [[MadGod Daedric Prince of Madness Sheogorath]] created for the purpose of {{Troll}}ing mortal.
220	* Happens thrice in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''
221	** Halfway through the main storyline is a quest titled "All Good Things", referencing the saying "All good things must come to an end." Having just triumphed over [[ElementalEmbodiment Titan]], you return to the Scions' safehouse to report in person. [[spoiler:And you find the aftermath of a brutal [[TheEmpire Garlean]] attack, with only one survivor who hangs on just long enough to tell you what happened and where to go. Worse, the Garleans were there specifically looking for ''you''.]]
222	** The last quest of the 2.5 storyline (and, by extension, of ''A Realm Reborn'') is titled "Before the Dawn". Given [[WhamEpisode all the horrible things]] that have happened by the time you get there (extremely short version: [[spoiler:the Ul'dahn Syndicate launches a coup, with the aid of the traitorous Ilberd and several of his fellow Crystal Braves, the sultana is poisoned, you and your fellow Scions are framed for the crime, and most of them stay behind to buy you time to escape and clear your name]]) it's easily the DarkestHour of the story.
223	** Late in 3.1's story, you engage in a quest called "Against the Dying of the Light" part of a line from ''Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight'' (the same source as DoNotGoGentle. The full line is "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light."), [[spoiler: Which has the Warrior of Light, along with Thancred, Y'sholta, Alphinaud, Aymeric and Artoiel going into the Vault to rescue hostages from [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist extremists]], and ends with one of the hostages being saved by a dragon. Note that Aymeric is also injured during this. The missing part of the line could reference that the antagonists of the quests are not willing to see their way of of life go so quickly, in other words, they rage against the dying of their light. It could also reference how Aymeric is willing to fight despite his injuries.]]
224	** And on a lighter note, there's the achievements for completing high-end raids as a tank which, when taken together, make a whole quote: "A [[{{Pun}} Tankless]] Job", "But Somebody's Gotta Do It".
225	* One sublevel of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' is titled "It's Quiet..." complete with ellipsis. It is ''impossible'' to not immediately say to yourself "[[ItsQuietTooQuiet ...TOO quiet.]]"
226	* ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch'' has one Achievement "Damned If You Do..." Guess what the other one is called? [[spoiler:Both achievements refer to how [[DownerEnding both endings]] do not end well for Kane. You can either return for your allies in crime which causes your daughter who Kane did all of this for to get shot and die, or you can abandon them to die and take your daughter and the money and run, but your daughter will despise you for it.]]
227	* ''VideoGame/LegoTheLordOfTheRings'' has an Achievement/Trophy called "One Does Not Simply...". Completing the quote tells you how to unlock it: [[spoiler:Walk into Mordor]]. Of course, when looking through lists of achievements, the title and requirement are written together, forming the whole quote.
228	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', a number of missions and achievements are partial references to quotes or songs, for instance the mission "A House Divided", a reference to an Abraham Lincoln quote ending in "... against itself cannot stand." The original speech was given during his campaign to be elected to the US Senate in 1858, and was primarily concerned with the question of slavery, while predicting that the US would fall apart on itself if the question wasn't resolved soon. Naturally, UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar broke out a few years later due in large part to that exact issue, and the mission in-game centers on [[spoiler: The Geth]] being divided on how to deal with the Reapers and [[spoiler: a faction hoping to force the rest into obeying the Reapers.]]
229	* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has a mission close to the end of the game, "The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed", in which John Marston must protect his family when their farmstead is attacked by the US Cavalry. If you're familiar with the original quote, a passage from [[Literature/TheBible Corinthians]], you know there are two words missing from the end, [[spoiler:"... is Death"]], which makes it pretty easy to guess that [[spoiler:John is killed at the end of the mission]].
230	* One [[CosmeticAward feat]] in ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' that involves putting out a campfire is named after a famous PublicServiceAnnouncement tagline: "Only You[[labelnote:...]]can prevent forest fires / wildfires.[[/labelnote]]".
231	* "Better to let ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' lie." Basically "Don't kick the hornet's nest."
232	* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' is largely about [[HonorAmongThieves honor]].
233	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' quest "Rising Tide", the player scours the Solar System for the wrecked Railjack parts, which are then repaired and assembled into a fully functioning spaceship which will let the Tenno take on the enemies' space fleets. "A rising tide lifts all the boats", after all.
234	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
235	** There's a quest in the Mt. Hyjal region that's a play on the phrase, "If you're not with us, you're against us", but switches it around a bit. The actual title is, "If You're Not Against Us...", and the point is to convince a demonic satyr to help repel the invading Twilight's Hammer, [[spoiler: which he does, though he arranges it so that in the process he can escape the chains imprisoning him there]].
236	** One of the Halfhill daily quests is called "Water, Water Everywhere", which comes from ''Literature/RimeOfTheAncientMariner'' and is about watering Farmer Fung's drying out crops, "nor any drop to drink."
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239	[[folder:Webcomics]]
240	* The ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' story arc in which King is told that dog heaven is easier to get into than human heaven, but if he dies before he accepts or rejects being a dog, he qualifies for neither, is called "Not All Dogs", riffing on ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''.
241	* One ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1078.html strip]] has Roy bemoaning that he wasted so much time trying to unlock his sword's "legacy weapon" powers to fight undead, only to drop it off an airship. As he screams in frustration, it appears in his hand: not the power he was expecting but certainly one he can use. The title is "But If You Try Sometimes", referencing Music/TheRollingStonesBand lyric "You can't always get what you want/But if you try sometimes/You just might find/You get what you need".
242	* All the storylines in ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' have Children's {{Literary Allusion Title}}s, and ''usually'' the reference is right there in the title ("I Can Fly" introduces Nick the helicopter; "Big Bad Wolves" is about werewolves). There have been some exceptions:
243	** "Yes, Virginia" is about Virginia Lee joining the team's Secret Santa ("... there really is a Santa Claus")
244	** "Sure as You're Born", from the Creator/ShelSilverstein poem "The Unicorn", is about [[spoiler: the WeirdnessCensor mysteriously spreading from about 20% of the US population to nearly everyone. ''You're'' never going to see a unicorn.]]
245	** "Unsinkable" is from ''Literature/CyrusTheUnsinkableSeaSerpent'', and does indeed involve a sea serpent.
246	** "The Lee of the Stone" is about [[spoiler: Artie]] being targeted by A-Sig and having to abandon his comfortable life. The quote is from ''Literature/MrsFrisbyAndTheRatsOfNIMH'', but the full context is the owl telling Mrs Frisby "You must move your house to the lee of the stone" to be safe.
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249	[[folder:Western Animation]]
250	* The title of the PilotEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E1Woooo Woo-oo!]]". This makes no sense until you hear the theme song (well, unless you're familiar with the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 original series]]).
251	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has this with the episode "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS3E10LongLiveTheQueen Long Live the Queen]]". A gender conjugated version of the last part of the phrase "The King is dead, Long live the King". [[spoiler: The BigBad of the season kills the Earth Queen halfway through the episode]].
252	* A ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' episode dealing with a BadFuture gets this tangled with IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, where all the episodes are "The [blank] Syndrome", but once you pare down "The Future's So Bright Syndrome", you're left with, "The Future's So Bright... [[spoiler:I Gotta Wear Shades]]".
253	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' is titled "He Ain't Heavy" which makes very little sense unless you're familiar with the phrase "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" (derived from a hit song by Music/TheHollies). The plot involves Adora needing to rescue Prince Adam (her brother) from the Horde.
254	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' featured ADayInTheLimelight episode for the gang's eponymous DarkIsNotEvil member titled, "Nevermore." Three guesses as to whom it was referring. [[spoiler: (As the rest of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe poem goes, "[[DontExplainTheJoke quoth the Raven...]]")]]
255	* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' has the episode, [[Recap/VoltronLegendaryDefenderS6E6 All Good Things]], which refers to the saying "All good things '''must come to an end'''."
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