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- W. is not about the Japanese pseudo-Anglicism for "double", or Japanese Internet slang that represents laughter
. - WACCA does not star a Blitzball player who ends his sentences in "ya?" Nor is it about the sound that Pac-Man makes when he's eating.
- Waiting for Godot has nothing to do with that Godot. Or this one. Or the synthpop band, or the game engine.
- Wake Up, Girls! is not about a Bumbling Dad trying to wake his daughters up so they won't be late for school.
- Wakfu is not about another Chinese Kung-fu style.
- Waku Waku 7 is not the seventh in a series.
- Walker, Texas Ranger is not about any player with the surname Walker in the Major League Baseball team in Texas.
- Wallykazam is not a crossover with Wally Gator, Wally Walrus, the original Kid Flash/The Flash III, the one from Where's Wally? note , or anybody named Wally (including the character from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire) paired with Alakazam.
- Waltz with Bashir is not the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Waltz" redone with Dr. Bashir.
- WandaVision is not about the vision of a pink-haired fairy or the Chinese student of Ms. Frizzle's class. Nor does it star Wanda Sykes.
- Wangan Midnight, lit. "Bayshore Midnight", is not set on California's Bayshore Freeway.
- Wanted: Weapons of Fate is not about wanting to gain Bardiche or the powers of Fate Averruncus, nor is it a crossover between Wanted and those series.
- Wario isn't a third Mario brother who works in the military.
- War Thunder is not the Awesome Mc Cool Name of a Native American war chief.
- Warframe is not about paintings of war.
- Warhammer 40,000 is not an estimate for how much money you'll spend on the game.
- It is also not a retirement plan.
- Nor is it how many battle hammers are used. It uses a hell of a lot more weapons than that.
- Warrior Cats is not in any way related to ThunderCats.
- The Warriors are not shooting at the walls of heartache. That would probably be the Lizzies instead.
- Warriors Orochi is not a PC Port of The Warriors optimized for AMD's Bulldozer Architecture.
- Nor is it about the Hidden Sound Village setting up shop in late '70s/early '80s New York City and playing the Riffs and Rogues against each other.
- Warrior U is not about The Ultimate Warrior's short-lived wrestling dojo.
- Nor is it the codename of Wii U, or a game about The Ultimate Warrior on the Wii U.
- Watch_Dogs is not a canine version of Watchmen.
- Watchmen is not about men who possess the power to... tell time.
- Nor is it the Watcher forming a superhero team.
- And if you think it's about Superpowered Rent-A-Cops you're still off, but at least you have the right publisher.
- Watch My Chops is not about demonstrations of cooking or martial arts.
- The Watermelon Woman is not a Gender Flip sequel or remake of Watermelon Man.
- Watership Down is not about an ocean-faring vessel that sinks.
- We Bare Bears does not expose the secret behind pig-faced women in sideshows.
- Nor is it a remake of The Full Monty starring members of the Chicago Bears.
- The Three Bare Bears, the webcomic it was based on, is not a nudist version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
- Wedding Peach is not about peaches getting married. In fact, there is probably not a single mention of actual peaches in the show.
- Nor is it about Princess Peach's Wedding... WITH BOWSER!
- The Wedding Ringer is not the sequel to The Wedding Singer.
- Weeds is not a spinoff of VeggieTales.
- Weekend at Bernie's is not a mini-skit of a certain von Varley cooped up in her quarters and whatever shenanigans she ends up in when her classmates/teacher sleep over/visit.
- Nor as you're spending weekend with these two films of titular character.
- And it's not a Five Nights at Freddy's parody where you only work at the weekend.
- Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening is not a Prequel in Another Medium to the Stranger Things franchise.
- Welcome to the Dollhouse was not the unaired pilot of Dollhouse.
- Welcome to Night Vale is not set in that Vale, or that Vale either.
- Welcome to the NHK isn't a typo for an anime series about professional hockey players.
- Nor does it have anything to do with NHK.
- Welcome to the Wayne has nothing to do with Batman.
- Welkin Weasels is not a Valkyria Chronicles Hate Fic.
- West Side Story is not Tupac's side of the feud with Biggie Smalls.
- It also does not take place on Westside Island.
- The West Wing is not about the forbidden zone in the Beast's castle from Beauty and the Beast.
- WET has nothing to do with either water or arousal.
- The Whale is not an adaptation from Moby-Dick. You might looking for this movie or that movie instead.
- Whale Wars does not involve actual warfare where cetaceans play a key role in it.
- Nor is it Star Wars WITH WHALES!
- What About Mimi? has nothing to do with Mimi Tachikawa or the Mimi from The Drew Carey Show. Or the one from Duel Masters. Or even the one from Super Paper Mario.
- Whateley Universe has nothing to do with Wheatley.
- What's Up, Doc? does not feature Bugs Bunny or any other Looney Tunes characters.
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape is not a horror movie. Or a porno.
- It's also not about a literal grape.
- When Marnie Was There is not about a rival in the eighth generation of Pokémon.
- When The Game Stands Tall is not a biopic of Triple H.
- Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego does not involve a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot into Dio Brando's stand.
- Where the Buffalo Roam is not a Western, at all.
- The title character in Where's Waldo? does not have the surname Kaye, Kitty, Faldo or Magoo.
- And no, there isn't a book called "Where's Prezly?", either.
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is not about an actual dance craze, not even an in-universe one.
- Nor is it set in a Prohibition-era speakeasy during The Roaring '20s.
- Most especially, it has nothing to do with FoxTrot.
- White Album 2 is not The Beatles' second foray into psychedelic creativity.
- The White Lotus isn't about the car James Bond drove in The Spy Who Loved Me.
- The White Queen is not about Emma Frost.
- Whites is not a show about white people. Well, okay, it is a show about white people, but that's just a coincidence.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit is not a spinoff of an Abbott and Costello routine.
- Whomp! is not about an enemy from Super Mario 64.
- Wick is a survival-horror game. No, it doesn't involve surviving against John Wick.
- The titular location in Sprouts Wiggly Waffle does not move and wiggle around.
- The Wii U is not a university where you study to make Wii games. None of its games that end in the letter "U" are specifically about learning institutions either.
- It's not a peripheral for the Wii either.note
- The Wii name isn't short for "WonderSwan ii".
- Wild ARMs is not about someone with perpetually flailing limbs or fights by flailing his or her limbs.
- Nor is it a sequel to ARMS
- Likewise, Wild Arms Advanced 3rd is not a GBA game.
- And it's not about baseball pitchers with control problems.
- A Wild Hare Appeared, but nobody's sending out any Pokémon to fight it.
- Wild n' Out is not an all-gay version of Road Rules or Wild Boys.
- The Wild Thornberrys is not about Thornberrys gone wild.
- Wild Woody is not really about... that, but it's also not a spinoff of Toy Story or Woody Woodpecker.
- Willow has nothing to do with Miss Rosenberg.
- The band Wilson Phillips isn't named after a single person. The Wilson in this band's name comes from two of The Beach Boys' daughters while Phillips refers to Chynna Phillips herself.
- Windows XP is not Windows with a tongue-sticking-out emoji.
- Windows 7 does not have an iconic spoiled-to-death murder scene. Nor does it have hang glider support.
- Windows 8 does not have anti-gravity support.
- Windows 10 does not have sequels named Windows RED, Windows Happy Sky, Windows DistorteD, or WINDOWS GOOOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDD!!
- Windows 11 does not support the Double Gear System.
- Wings has nothing to do with Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band. (For that matter, neither does Wings.)
- Winky Dink is not another nickname for a penis.
- Nor is it the origin of "Somebody Ring the Dinkster?" That would be Dinky Winks.
- Winnie the Pooh doesn't involve a certain female horse villager using the bathroom or being replaced by anthropomorphic feces.
- Winston's Potty Chair does not belong to Winston Churchill, or Winston Zeddemore, or Lola Loud's crush.
- WipEout Fusion doesn't involve shapeshifting alien parasites.
- Wipeout HD Fury doesn't inherently make its players angry.
- Wipeout 2048 isn't a Wipeout-themed version of the puzzle game 2048.
- Witch Hunter Robin is not about everyone's favorite comedian as a witchfinder during the Salem Witch Trials. Or The Boy Wonder doing the same for that matter. Or a certain former SEMME agent who now works in a toy store doing it, either.
- Witch Hat Atelier is not about a workshop that makes witch hats.
- A Witch's Tale is not in a series with The Witch's House.
- Witness has nothing to do with the Christian denomination that distributes The Watchtower. The same applies to The Witness.
- The Wolf Among Us isn't a spinoff of Among Us where you have to identify who among your teammates is a werewolf instead of an alien impostor.
- The Wolf of Wall Street is not about a wolf who's escaped New York Zoo and is going on a rampage against everyone employed in Wall Street.
- You won't find Gordon Gekko here either.
- Wolf Spider isn't about the family of spiders who carry their young on their backs.
- The Woman in Red is not about the one from The Matrix.
- And The Woman in Black is not the Blaxploitation version of The Woman In Red. The same goes for the white person version of The Woman in White.
- Nor is it about Ada Wong or Pauline.
- Woman in the Dunes, The Woman In The Window 2021, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, The Woman In The Wall and the upcoming film The Woman In The Yard are not make up a franchise.
- Wonder Boy is not a Spear Counterpart to Wonder Woman.
- Or a Spin-Off Babies version of Wonder Man.
- It's not the Tenacious D's song either.
- Squirrel Boy is not a Spear Counterpart to Squirrel Girl, either.
- And it's not a prequel to the movie Wonder Boys
- It also isn't a console that can play both Game Boy and WonderSwan games.
- Or a Spin-Off Babies version of Wonder Man
- Wonder Egg Priority is not about going to the grocery store with the intent of getting Kinder Surprise Eggs ahead of everything else.
- The WonderSwan is not a swan dressed as Wonder Woman.
- Wonder Woman 1984 does not feature Diana of Thymescria taking on Big Brother, Ing Soc, the Four Ministries, and the Inner Party, though that would be awesome.
- There also weren't 1,982 sequels in between the first film and this one that you have to worry about.
- Wonderella is not Wonder Woman going to the royal ball thanks to her fairy godmother.
- Nor is she Barbarella's cousin.
- Or Stripperella's aunt.
- Work It Out Wombats! is not a Band Toon about The Wombats.
- Not all films from British production company Working Title Films have their Working Title.
- The World According to Garp is not about Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp from One Piece, nor that his grandson Luffy should join him in the Marines.
- The World God Only Knows is not when Word of God is being annoyingly secretive. Neither is it a crossover between JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Haruhi Suzumiya.
- The World Ends with You is the name of a game. It is not a scaled-up, heroic version of Load-Bearing Boss. Neither does it have to do with being The Chosen One who will defeat Dio Brando and The World.
- And in case you use the Japanese title (It's A Wonderful World), it also has nothing to do with either the song by Louis Armstrong, or the movie in which a man is convinced the world is better off without him. (And no, the Trope based on it doesn't apply, either.)
- NEO: The World Ends with You does not star The Matrix's protagonist or Abyssmare's lead singer.
- The World God Only Knows is not a work so bizarre that only the creator understands it.
- The World Is Not Enough is not Dio Brando's realisation that he needs a stronger technique than The World to defeat Jotaro. These "The World" puns are pretty dang easy to make too.
- The World of Apu is not a documentary that centers around the Kwik-E-Mart owner.
- The World of Golden Eggs is not about the Bonus Stages of Angry Birds.
- Nor is it about the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs.
- "World is Mine" featuring Miku Hatsune is not an Answer Song to "The World is Yours" by Nas.
- Nor an Akame ga Kill! character obtaining Dio's Stand
- World of Mana is not a world full of the biblical manna bread. (Notice the spelling here)
- Secret of Mana is not about finding the way to recreate such bread.
- Trials of Mana is not about a hero or heroes doing a quest to find manna bread.
- Nor are they attempting to recreate such bread through random experimentation.
- Sword of Mana is not about a sword made of that bread.
- Legend of Mana is not about either the bread or the Mexican rock band of the same name becoming legendary.
- Children of Mana is neither about kids made of manna, or the children of the members already mentioned Mexican band.
- Dawn of Mana is neither about manna bread running out, or the Mexican band disbanding or going into an Audience-Alienating Era.
- World of Warships is not World of Warcraft WITH WARSHIPS!
- Nor is it shipping World of Warcraft characters.
- The World's End has nothing to do with playing WORLD'S END charts.
- On a similar note World's End Harem is definitively not a harem decicated to playing said charts.
- Neither of them have anything to do with The World Ends with You.
- World Trigger is not something that everyone in the entire world is triggered by, nor does it mean Earth is actually a superweapon that will function once you find the trigger and pull it.
- Nor does it involve Chrono Trigger.
- Worm has nothing to do with Worms.
- It does not have anything to do with Pitiful Worms, either.
- Wormy
- It's not about the SpongeBob SquarePants episode.
- Nor is it related to Worms.
- Nor is it Luke Skywalker's nickname.
- Nor is it a kid-friendly version of Worm.
- It's also not about Cedric's pet name for his raven.
- Wolverine and the X-Men does not tie in to a TV cartoon.
X
- X/1999 is set in 1999, but actually premiered in 1992. 30 years later, X (2022) isn't a remake of the previous film.
- The Xbox isn't actually X-shaped...well, the release version of the console isn't, though prototype consoles actually are.
- It also isn't a box with the X's on it.
- The Xbox One isn't the first console in Microsoft's Xbox line of consoles. Quite the opposite as of this writing, actually.
- The Xbox 360 is not a 360-bit console. Nor is it a console that requires a 360-degree TV to play. And it is definitely not the 360th Xbox system.
- The Xbox Series X is not the 10th Xbox system. Likewise the Xbox Series S is not a special edition Xbox system.
- The X-Files does not refer to a spy family's dossiers.
- Nor is it a leak of Twitter / X internal memos.
- Xenogears does not feature gears created from xenomorphs.
- Meanwhile, Xenosaga is not a tale about said xenomorphs.
- And lastly, Xenoblade Chronicles 1 does not have a blade created from or by said xenomorphs.
- XII Stag does not feature twelve deer. Or twelve stag beetles, either.
- Xexex is not xtreme sex, nor is it related to the similarly hard-to-pronounce NES action-adventure game Xexyz.
- Xiaolin Showdown is not a sequel to Shaolin Soccer (although one of the showdowns is named after the aforementioned movie).
- X-Men is not a Gender Bender story about some former men.
- Likewise, X2: X-Men United is not about a football team.
- Neither of them should be confused with Arrow's last coaster before going bankrupt and merging with S&S with only the 4D Coaster asset surviving
- It's also not a crossover between 2 of A24's 2022 movies.
- ×××HOLiC is not about fans of Vin Diesel and Ice Cube, nor about being addicted to porn or high-proof alcohol.
Y
- Yearning: A Gay Story is not related to Christine Love's Visual Novels Digital: A Love Story and Analogue: A Hate Story.
- Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is not how the Wicked Witch of the West responded to Dorothy when she asked "So do I cure some of them? And if so, how many?"
- Y: The Last Man is not the Spear Counterpart to the Final Girl.
- Yo-kai Watch is not about youkai who watch movie marathons. Nor is it about a Totally Radical protagonist named Kai Watch.
- Yo Gabba Gabba! is not a The Ramones tribute album.
- Yogi Bear is not about a bear that teachs Yoga.
- Yo Yogi! doesn't take place in the Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan.
- Sadly, Yojimbo isn't an adaptation of Usagi Yojimbo.
- Yona of the Dawn isn't a spinoff of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with Yona the Yak as the main character.
- You Are Umasou is not about declaring that someone else's name is Umasou, regardless of their actual name.
- YouTube Poop is not about videos of excrement on YouTube. Usually.
- Neither is it about blowing shit up... literally. Interrupting Meme aside.note
- Young Dracula is, sadly, not a sequel to Young Frankenstein.
- Nor is it a sequel to Kid Dracula.
- Young Justice is not about a child appointed to the Supreme Court.
- The main character of You're the Worst is not Britta Perry.
- Your Name is not a response to "Say My Name." Nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with Call Me by Your Name.
- None of Yume Nikki's and Mirai Nikki's protagonists are named Nikki.
- The two also have nothing to do with each other.
- Neither of them are the mascot for Swapnote.
- Yuri!!! on Ice is not a Yuri Genre anime; in fact, it's commonly mistaken for yaoi. Nor is it about Yuri Sakazaki skating, or about someone named Yuri who ends up frozen over.
- Nor is it about this Yuri partaking in ice skating.
- Nor is it about this Yuri partaking in ice skating
Z
- Z Cars has nothing to do with the Nissan sports car.
- Zanac is not a chill pill. That's Xanax.
- Zardoz is not synonymous with Generation Xerox.
- Zero Punctuation is not a writing style comprised of only letters and numbers.
- Although, that is the way he sounds when he talks...
- ZeroRanger does not feature Zero becoming one of the Power Rangers. Nor is it a sequel to Zero Wing, despite that also being a shmup.
- Zero Wing is not a Gundam, no matter how many times you watch that AMV.
- Nor is it an aircraft with a problem in aerodynamic faculties. (Wing Damage!)
- It's not a documentary about flightless birds.
- Nor is it a sequel to Zero Hour.
- It's not the predecessor to Giga Wing, either.
- The Zeta Project has nothing to do with Anaheim Electronics' R&D of variable mobile suit technology.
- Nor is it the creation of E-105 Zeta.
- Nor is it about Zeta Players.
- Nor as about the Evil Planner to destroy both Bird and Pig islands.
- Ziggy is not a spinoff of Power Rangers RPM centering around the life of the Green Ranger, as entertaining as that might be.
- Or a smaller Zig model.
- Nor is it David Bowie's alter-ego.
- Nor is it a spinoff show starring Sam Beckett's sentient computer.
- Nor is it a hilarious sitcom starring the spawn of a famous reggae singer.
- Or the character from LazyTown.
- Nor is it about the character from Xenosaga (you want Xenosaga: Pied Piper, which looks more unlikely to be released outside Japan every day.)
- Nor is it about Sigui the nun.
- Zoids is not the story of the family of Dr. Zoidberg.
- Zombie Land Saga is not the Japanese Foreign Remake of Zombieland.
- Zombie Loan is not about a service that rents out zombies, nor is it about when a zombie gives money expecting to be repaid later.
- Zombie Powder is not about ground-up zombies, nor is it about bath salts.
- Zone of the Enders is not about the Endermen and their own world.
- Zoombies is not about zombies who drive recklessly, in spite of what you might encounter in The Far Side.
- Zoophobia is not the Spiritual Antithesis to Zootopia.
- Zootopia and Zoolander aren't related to each other.
- Zorro, the Gay Blade is not a Hate Fic involving a hatedom nickname for Beyblade.
- Nor is Zorro a homosexual sword.
- The ZX Spectrum Vega+ is not called ZX Spectrum Balrog+ in Japan.
