A simple Title Trope where: A noun / is something referred to as / a word. Usually the referring word is "Called" or "Named".
So: "A Boy Named Bob". "A Girl Named Alice". "A Thing Called Balice".
Not to be confused with titles such as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". In that example, the boy is not referred to as "Wolf".
Examples
- The Authority had a five-issue series called "A Man called Kev"
- A UK comic strip parodying Westerns had the title A Man Called Horace.
- A Boy Called Boris
- A Boy Called Dad
- A Boy Called Hate
- A Boy Called Po
- Boy Called Twist
- A Fish Called Wanda
- A Girl Called Jules
- A Girl Called Malala
- A Girl Called Rosemary
- A Girl Named Sooner
- A Girl Named Tamiko
- A Man Called Horse, and its similarly-named sequel The Return of A Man Called Horse
- A Man Called Nereus
- A Place Called Home
- A Place Called Pluto
- A Woman Called Golda
- A Boy Called Bat
- A Child Called "It", and its follow-up A Man Named Dave
- A Man Called Ove
- A Place Called Freedom By Ken Follett
- A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
- A Place Called Ugly by Avi
- "A Boy Named Sue" Performed by Johnny Cash, written by Shel Silverstein.
- A Kid Named Cudi
- "A Man Named Jayne", the great Luke Ski's parody of "A Boy Named Sue" about Firefly
- "Town Called Malice" by The Jam
