"Now where's that book? I think it was... 'Super Spectacular Stupendous Spontaneous Summoning Scripture Signals and You'..."
Any and all appellations alluding to letters that are akin to one another.
Or put simply: An Alliterative Title is one in which all or most of the words (aside from articles, conjunctions, and prepositions) begin with the same phonetic sound. This can be done for a variety of reasons or effects, but more often than not it's a catchy, easy way to remember the name of a work.
Often coincides with Added Alliterative Appeal and Alliterative Name or even Author Appeal. Notice a trend?
Opposite to Rhyming Title. "Double, Double" Title is the lovechild of the two, since, of course, the same word alliterates—and rhymes—with itself.
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Anime & Manga
- Bamboo Blade
- Billy Bat
- Black Bird (2006)
- Black Blood Brothers
- Black Butler
- Blood Blockade Battlefront
- Chrono Crusade
- Cosplay Complex
- Count Cain
- Defense Devil
- Damekko Doubutsu
- Diamond Daydreams
- Dog Days
- Dragon Drive
- Fighting Foodons
- Gad Guard
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam (usually shortened to just G Gundam)
- Gunslinger Girl
- Hellsing: The title of the second chapter, "Master of Monster".
- Sunshine Sketch (the manga's English title)
- Honeybee Hutch
- Ikki Tousen's anime seasons after the first, also being Idiosyncratic Episode Naming:
- Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny
- Ikkitousen: Great Guardians
- Ikkitousen: Xtreme Xecutor
- Ikkitousen: Western Wolves
- Kamichama Karin
- Kamisama Kiss
- Koi Kaze
- Kekko Kamen
- Kill la Kill
- Love Lab
- Mahou no Mako-chan
- Moonlight Mile
- Puni Puni Poemi
- Sacred Seven
- Sailor Moon:
- The DiC dub's episode names, among them:
- "Dangerous Dollies"
- "Fight to the Finish"
- "Mercury's Mental Match"
- "An Artful Attack"
- The DiC dub's episode names, among them:
- Saint Seiya
- Samurai 7
- Sengoku Strays
- Taboo-Tattoo
- Venus Versus Virus
- Visions of V (manga spin-off of Devil May Cry 5)
Arts
Asian Animation
- Bhaagam Bhaag
- Boonie Bears
- Crazy Candies
- Flower Fairy
- Happy Heroes
- The Lamput episodes "Diet Doc" and "Doc Dog".
- A few episodes of Noonbory and the Super 7:
- "Ship Shape"
- "Big, Bigger, Biggest"
- "Diggin' Dotoris"
- Pakdam Pakdai
- Rimba Racer
- Simple Samosa must be fixated with the naming quirk, as aside from the title of the show itself, there are a bunch of episodes with alliterative titles:
- "Makkhi Makkhi!"
- "Meethi Masi"
- "Carnival Chaos"
- "Maa Mooli"
- "Doctor D"
- "Sollid Survival"
- "Super Samosa"
- "Hurricane Harinder"
- "Kasturi Khushbu"
- "Rosy Roti"
- "Tip Top Tip"
- "Soost Sauciety"
- "Party Pakwaan"
- "Puppy Paneer"
- "Space Snax"
- "Kohra Ka Keher"
- "Kakadi Kabaddi"
- "Tingu Tin"
- "Lucky Latoo"
- "Chamatkaari Chammach"
- "Barfeela Badshah"
- "Social Samosa"
- Tickety Toc
- Tik Tak Tail
Comic Books
- Amazons Attack!
- Avengers Academy
- Avengers Arena
- Benoit Brisefer
- Billy & Buddy
- Blue Beetle
- Brainiac's Blitz
- Bucky Barnes
- Capture Creatures
- Day of the Dollmaker
- Dizzy Dames
- Douwe Dabbert
- Emmie And Friends:
- Just Jamie
- Becoming Briana
- Truly Tyler
- Remarkably Ruby
- Fantastic Four
- Freedom Fighters (DC)
- Gilles de Geus
- Gotham City Garage
- The Green Giant
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Haagse Harry
- Hunter's Hellcats
- Jupiter Jet
- The Killers of Krypton
- Kingdom Come
- Lucky Luke
- Martian Manhunter
- Mary Marvel
- The Masked Marvel
- Master Mystic
- Millie the Model
- Missile Mouse
- Ms. Marvel
- Pat Patriot: America's Joan of Arc
- The Great Phantom Peril
- Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber
- Power Pack
- Red Robin
- Richie Rich
- Rivers of London:
- Water Weed
- The Fey and the Furious
- Rocket Raccoon
- De Rode Ridder
- Rough Riders
- Samurai Squirrel
- Secret Six
- Seven Soldiers
- Shanna the She-Devil
- Silver Surfer
- Sin City
- Squadron Supreme
- Stardust The Superwizard
- Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.
- Suicide Squad
- Sullivan's Sluggers
- Superman and Spider-Man: The crossover is titled "The Heroes and the Holocaust".
- Teen Titans
- Tif et Tondu
- V for Vendetta
- War World
- Wendigo Wood
- Wonder Woman
- Zsazsa Zaturnnah
- Many book titles in the Suske en Wiske series have alliterative titles. It's one of their trademarks, too.
- Stunt Dawgs: In the comic book, the Dawgs are hired to perform stunts at a movie titled "Sexy Siberian Snow Surfers".
- Several Alan Moore stories in 2000 AD have alliterative titles of the form "The [adjective] [noun] of [name]". For example the Tharg's Future Shocks story "The Regrettable Ruse of Rocket Redglare" or the Tharg's Time Twisters story "The Startling Success of Sideways Scuttleton".
- Strangers at the Heart's Core's fifth chapter: "Memories of Menace".
- The Hunt for Reactron storyline is also known as Friends and Fugitives.
Comic Strips
- Baby Blues
- Beetle Bailey
- Buster Brown
- Dan Dare
- Footrot Flats
- The Fortunes of Flossie
- Hägar the Horrible
- Jungle Jim
- The Katzenjammer Kids
- The K Chronicles
- Krazy Kat
- Little Lulu
- Mandrake the Magician
- Millie The Model
- The Pertwillaby Papers
- Priscilla's Pop
- Rose is Rose
- Sam's Strip
- Snuffy Smith
- Spy vs. Spy
- Stone Soup
- Twisted Toyfare Theatre
Fairy Tales
- "The Feather of Finist the Falcon"
- One of the alternate names of Russian fairy tale "Morozko" is "Father Frost"
- "The Golden Goose"
- "The Goose Girl"
- "Hans the Hedgehog"
- "Jorinde and Joringel"
- "Maid Maleen"
- "The Six Swans"
- "Vasilissa the Beautiful"
Fan Works
- Adopted Displaced
- Anchor Foal: Some chapters:
- Ascend (xTSGx): The title of two of Chapter One's books:
- Anomalous Abnormalities of Anatomy
- Deja Vu, Dreams, and Delusions: Understanding Hallucinations and Other Mental Strangites, due to Alliterative List.
- A Basket, a Blanket and a Bundle of Bills
- Between the Lines (MrQuestionMark): "The Silent Screams"
.
- Beyond the Borders
- Blank Book
- Cape and Cowl
- Captains Crash
- Curiosity Maintentance Crew: Filler Fillies
- Daring DONE!
- Diamond Dentistry
- Ditzy Doo's Dismally Derpy Day
- The Doctor's Doctor
- Dogged Determination
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: Frenzied Fortification
.
- Flight, Failure, Faith and Family
- A Force of Four
- Friday Night Fever
- Funeral for a Flash
- The Game of the Gods has alliterative chapter titles, such as:
- "Anjara's Agony"
- "Mirrililli's Misery"
- The Glaring Gaffes Of Gabby Gums: Located here
.
- The Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse chapter "Soaring Showdown".
- The Green Glade
- The 10th chapter of Heart of Fire is titled "A Heavy Heart".
- The sequel Heart of Ashes has "Public Performance" (Chapter 5), "Familiar Faces" (Chapter 6) and "Darkness Descends" (Chapter 21).
- Second story arc of Hellsister Trilogy is titled "The Apokolips Agenda".
- Hope for the Heartless
- Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. A few of its chapters are also alliterative which include, "System Shock", "Tag Team", "Of Sins and Shadows", "The Damned Don't Dance", "Theater of Tragedy", "Day of the Dead" and "Demon Days".
- The Junior Officers chapter "Woman, Wife, Worker".
- Lee's Letter
'
- Loved and Lost
- In Mythic Alliance
Sirius disguises an Animagus guide as a copy of The Magical Musical Mysteries of Miles Mandolin.
- Four chapters of Old West; "Pieces of the Puzzle" (Chapter 12), "Forbidden Fruit" (Chapter 19), "Drinkin' Doubles" (Chapter 21) and "The Sunset Shot" (Chapter 34).
- One Word
- Out of the Depths
mentions a book called Leggerworth's Litany of Legendary Legends.
- Oversaturated World: A few, some are:
- Chromatic Chronomancy
.
- Group Precipitation's, Face Facts
- House of Shadows's sole chapter: Hidden Horrors
- Also, In-Universe, Siren Spell Stories, the Sirens' television program.
- And "Magical Mayhem", Sunset's Vlog about magic.
- Chromatic Chronomancy
- The Palaververse: The Strangest of These: One bodice-ripper novel is titled "‘Shackled Stallions in the Solar Sera—", probably "Seraglio" is the last known word, given how often it comes up in the story.
- The Past Sins series:
- From the original story, "Mother of a Nightmare"
:
a book, Skillful Seeking: Scrying and Searching Spells" - The Road Home (Past Sins) has the title of Cadance's Unicornia History school paper: "Unicornia and its Undeniably Unsettling Underbelly." It is discussed:
Nyx couldn’t help but snicker a little. "That’s a lot of U’s."
"Yeah, but it got me an A."
- From the original story, "Mother of a Nightmare"
- Chapter 3 of The Pez Dispenser and the Reign of Terror is titled "Claustrophobia, Chaos, and Candy!"
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: A few of the individual chapter titles, such as:
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: Chapter 3: Explosions and Explanations
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: Chapter 4: Terror on the Tower
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: The Wintering: Chapter 4: Toasts, Turkey, and Tenderness
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: The Wintering: Chapter 9: Sun and Stone
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain: Chapter 3: Explosions and Explanations
- In Quick to the Trigger, Dr. Oliver's book is known as Serpentine Stories: The Myths of the Sacred Serpents.
- The Silver Spooner
(no relation to the Dial 'M' for Monkey character)
- Shining and Sweet, including some chapters from it and its parent series:
- "Anxiety Attack"
- "Christmas Concert"
- "Daddy Dearest"
- "Birthday Boy"
- "Hippo Hop"
- "Bullying Blues"
- "Happy Hour"
- Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K: Some of the episodes in the series have alliterative titles.
- "A Storm of Sabers" (Episode 12)
- "Soldiers of the Storm" (special episode released between Episodes 12 and 13)
- "Warriors, War Machines, WAR" (Episode 28)
- "Shifting Sands" (Episode 32)
- "Operation Omega" (Episode 34)
- "Hidden Hunters" (Episode 37)
- "The Death of Defiance" (Episode 39)
- Steel Soul Saga: For the saga as a whole, the individual stories, and one chapter:
- The Steel Soul Saga.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming of the individual stories:
- Steel Soul
- Steel Spirit
- Electric Extrapolation, the fourth chapter of Steel Spirit.
- The Story Shuffle series: The individual collections, and some chapters within them:
- Sunday Night Suicide
- Sunday Skivvies
- Sunsplit Saga
- Teeny Tiny Twilight
- Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency: "Soul Survivor"
: Because the protagonist deals with souls, to an extent, and she's a Sole Survivor.
- Triptych Continuum:
- Turnabout Storm has an in-universe example with Twilight's summoning Spell Book: Super Spectacular Stupendous Spontaneous Summoning Scripture Signals and You.
- The novelization has titles like these for Chapters 17 ("Room Raiders"), 37 ("Dusk Decisions"), 38 ("Pretrial Procedures"), 50 ("The Above-Average Apprentice"), 65 ("Channel Change") and 66 ("Revelry, Races and Returns").
- The Ultimate Evil has "A Little Lamb" (Chapter 2), "Dawn of the Dragon" (Chapter 9) and "To Move Mountains" (Chapter 13).
- The sequel called The Stronger Evil has so far "Vengeance and Violence" (Chapter 2) and "Shadow's Spell" (Chapter 11).
- The titles of the 13th and 22nd chapters of The Vow are respectively named "Stained Snow" and "Lies and Love".
- Every chapter of Vow of Nudity follows the Alliteration & Adventurers format, in spirit of its source material.
- Windfall: One Fictional Document that's mentioned is something called "Dazzlefizz's Dissertations on Dweomers".
Films — Animation
- One of the alternate names for All Creatures Big and Small is Two by Two.
- Batman: Bad Blood
- Beauty and the Beast
- Big Buck Bunny
- The Boss Baby
- Brother Bear
- Ethel & Ernest
- Frozen Fever
- Fun and Fancy Free
- Make Mine Music
- My Moon
- Peter Pan
- Rock and Rule
- Samson and Sally
- The Sword in the Stone
- Wakko's Wish
- Wonder Woman (2009)
- Wreck-It Ralph
Music
- Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony. The four parts have alliterative titles too: "Boisterous Bourrée," "Playful Pizzicato," "Sentimental Sarabande," and "Frolicsome Finale."
- "Awake and Alive" by Skillet.
- Back in Black by AC/DC.
- "Astral America", "Bulletproof Blues", and "Rope, Rapture and the Rising Sun" by Apollo 440.
- Backstreet Boys loves this trope:
- Their debut album is a Self-Titled Album.
- Their follow-up is Backstreet's Back.
- Their fourth is titled Black & Blue.
- Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.
- Bang, Bang, Boom! by The Moffats.
- The Beastie Boys have two from the album Paul's Boutique: "The Sounds of Science" and "B-Boy Bouillabaisse".
- beerbongs & bentleys by Post Malone.
- Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones.
- Between the Buttons by The Rolling Stones.
- A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones.
- Bish Bosch by Scott Walker.
- Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.
- Black and Blue by The Rolling Stones.
- Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan.
- Bridges to Babylon by The Rolling Stones
- "Bye, Bye, Bye" by *NSYNC.
- "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol.
- Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton.
- "Cold, Calm and Collected" by The Rolling Stones.
- "Come Clean", the second studio album of Puddle of Mudd.
- "Corporal Clegg" by Pink Floyd, from A Saucerful of Secrets.
- Demon Days by Gorillaz.
- Diamond Dogs by David Bowie.
- Easter Everywhere by The 13th Floor Elevators.
- "Femme Fatale" by Velvet Underground from The Velvet Underground & Nico.
- "Filthy Funky" by Papa John Creach, from, appropriately enough, Filthy!
- "Free Form Funkafied Filth" by Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles, a Meaningful Name as it is a 25-minute jam from Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!
- The Smiths have a short album's worth of these: "Death of a Disco Dancer," Meat Is Murder, "Rubber Ring," "Rushholme Ruffians," "These Things Take Time," "Well I Wonder," "What's the World," "Wonderful Woman."
- Friend or Foe? by Adam Ant.
- Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder.
- GAMI GANG by Origami Angel. The album also has a track called "Bed Bath & Batman Beyond".
- Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye by Michael Logen.
- Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock.
- "Heart in Hand" by Vertical Horizon.
- "Kling Klang" by Kraftwerk, from Kraftwerk 2.
- Let Love In by Nick Cave.
- Linkin Park
- Their third note album is titled Minutes to Midnight.
- They have a single released in 2017 titled "Good Goodbye".
- Lust for Life by Iggy Pop.
- Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles.
- “Make a Move on Me” by Olivia Newton-John
- The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk.
- Many marches by John Philip Sousa, such as Sabre and Spurs, The Fairest of the Fair, Bullets and Bayonets, March of the Mitten Men, and more.
- Maria, Maria by Project J & B and Santana.
- Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.
- Metal on Metal by Canadian metal band Anvil. All their official albums fit that alliterative pattern.
- Moanin' in the Moonlight by Howlin' Wolf.
- Moody Motorcycle by Human Highway - the album also has a Title Track, as well as a song called "What World".
- Moondog Matinee by The Band.
- Muscle Museum by Muse.
- Music of My Mind by Stevie Wonder.
- "Ngayon Na"note by Slapshock.
- "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky" by The Monkees.
- "Poems, Prayers, and Promises" by John Denver.
- Price to Play by Staind.
- Ready to Roll by Jet Black Stare.
- Revolution Roulette, the third album from Poets of the Fall and its Title Track, a song
about courting the possibility of Full-Circle Revolution.
- Road to Ruin by The Ramones.
- Rocket to Russia by The Ramones.
- "Rockin' With the Rhythm of the Rain" by The Judds.
- Safe and Sound and Bad Blood by Taylor Swift.
- A Saucerful of Secrets by Pink Floyd.
- "Sea Song" by Robert Wyatt.
- Seventeen Seconds (Album) by The Cure.
- Sixteen Stone by Bush along with songs like "Cold Contagious", "She's a Stallion", and "Land of the Living".
- Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley.
- Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis.
- "Slim Slow Slider" by Van Morrison.
- Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys.
- Songs for Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra.
- Andrew Gold's famously catchy "Spooky Scary Skeletons." The lyrics themselves delightfully use as many words beginning with "s" and "sh" as possible.
- "Sticks + Stones" by Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts.
- Summer Sunshine by The Corrs.
- The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley.
- Tailgates & Tanlines by Luke Bryan.
- Tears for Fears:
- "Head over Heels"
- "Gas Giants"
- "Humdrum and Humble"
- "Time of Times" by Badly Drawn Boy.
- "Tip-Toe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim (whose stage name also goes on alliterative "T"s).
- Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä by YUP
- "Torn in Two" by Breaking Benjamin.
- The Touch by Stan Bush.
- Wish You Were Here (1975) by Pink Floyd.
- "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.
- Yeah, Yeah, Yeah by Chris Brown.
Pinballs
Podcasts
Pro Wrestling
- Bad Blood
- Bash at the Beach
- Beach Blast
- Capital Combat
- Cyber Slam (phonetically, at least)
- Cyber Sunday (phonetically, at least)
- December To Dismember
- Halloween Havoc
- Hardcore Heaven
- Holiday Hell
- Royal Rumble
- Spring Stampede
- SummerSlam
- Super Summer Sizzler
- Survivor Series
- Taboo Tuesday
- Tribute to the Troops
- WrestleWar
Radio
Tabletop Games
Theatre
- Big Bad
- Blood Brothers
- The Blue Bird
- Bullets over Broadway
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Can-Can
- The Cat and the Canary
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Hands on a Hardbody
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Mamma Mia!
- The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
- The Music Man
- Next to Normal
- The Peony Pavilion
- Perfect Pie
- Peter Pan (1954)
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Promises, Promises
- The Sultan of Sulu
Theme Parks
- At the Disney Theme Parks:
- Critter Country
- Expedition Everest
- The American Adventure
- Mission to Mars
- Roaring Rapids
- Rocket Rods
- Cranium Command
- Castle Carrousel
- At SeaWorld:
- Alligator Alley
- Jazzy Jellies
- Pacific Point Preserve
- Pelican Preserve
- At the Universal Studios theme parks:
Toys
- Beanie Babies
- One of the European Flick-to-Stick Bungees sets is called Bionic Bungees.
- Micro Machines
Visual Novels
- Ace Attorney (as the franchise title itself is)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations (sometimes shortened to Trials and Tribulations)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (sometimes shortened to Dual Destinies)
- The fan translation for Gyakuten Kenji 2 has the subtitle Prosecutor's Path.
- The Show Within a Show Steel Samurai can also count, along with the spin-off Pink Princess and the foreign knockoff Plumed Punisher.
- Chrono Clock
- Lagoon Lounge
- Major/Minor
- Tears of Themis
Web Animation
- Alternate History Hub: "How A Corporation Conquered A Sub-Continent"
. Also an Event Title.
- Becky Bucket
- Burger Brawl
- Excellent Entities and its second season Extraordinary Excellent Entities
- Fight in Flight
- Gorilla Girl
- Gotham Girls
- The Q&As in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: "Awful Answers" and "Atrocious Answers."
- Inanimate Insanity', as well as the following seasons Inanimate Insanity II and Inanimate Insanity Invitational (also known as Inanimate Insanity III) and its Spin-Off Fan's Fantastic Features''
- Lazy League
- Meet the Millers
- Minilife TV:
- Object Oppose
- Object Overload
- Paper Puppets
- The Paula Principle
- Recess Reindeer
- Reverse Ratings
- Star Wars: Forces of Destiny:
- Supernova Specialization
- titletext [ ]
- Several videos of the group Ze Pyromancers including, but not limited to, "Headtaker Headaches
", "A Familiar Feeling
", "Preoccupation Procrastination
", and so on.
Webcomics
- The Daily Derp
- Deep Dive Daredevils
- Digger:
- Chapter 4: Metaphors and Machinations
- Chapter 5: Of Warriors and Wombats
- Chapter 8: The Unspeakable and the Unspoken
- Chapter 9: The Mad and the Misunderstood
- El Goonish Shive: Some of the strips have such titles:
- Gunnerkrigg Court:
- Huckleberry: All the main issue titles so far are alliterative.
- Issue 1: "Hello, Huckleberry!"
- Issue 2: "At war with a worm"
- Issue 3: "Colorful Chaos"
- Issue 4: "World of worms"
- Issue 5: "Fowl & Flashbacks"
- Mind Mistress
- Miss Melee
- Pocket Princesses
- Purple Pussy: Named after the protagonist, a purple cat.
- Sailor Sun
- Silent Sillies
- Stand Still, Stay Silent
- Strange School
- Wonder Weenies
Web Original
Web Videos
- Episode 5 of Chuggaaconroy's Let's Play of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: "Big Bottle Bash Brings Back BowWow"
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
- Game Grumps
- Locomotives of British Railways: Series 1, Episode 1, Suberban Struggle
.
- Mitten Squad: Some videos:
- The Mr Men Movie
- Numberphile: "Topology of a Twisted Torus"
.
- Solid jj use alliteration for the title of "Sincerely Sinister Sinestro".
- Twisted Translations
Real Life
- The New Yorker's "Case of the Cantaloupe Calves" article https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/steve-king-and-the-case-of-the-cantaloupe-calves
is titled after politician Steve King's phrase "cover the size of cantaloupes"