One Word Title / Fan Works

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Fan Works with One-Word Titles.

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Arrowverse

• Survivors, featuring the last children of Krypton.

Back to the Future

• Homecoming.

Beetlejuice

• Cinderjuice

Calvin and Hobbes

• A good amount of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series' episode titles, especially in Season 4:
  • "Chains"
  • "Hypercube"
  • "Surge"
  • "Invasion"
  • "Pug" (the pug's real name is Tug)
  • "Hero"
  • "Repeat"
  • "Remember"
  • "Karma"
  • The unused ideas chapter includes several more, such as "Cowpokes", "Toboggan", "Claustrophobia", "Monophobia", "Alternate", and "Freudian".

Crossovers

• "Displaced" (Batman, Spider-Man): It has Spider-Man trapped in The DCU.
• Kage (Jackie Chan Adventures, W.I.T.C.H.)
• Monsters (Once Upon a Time, Aliens)
• Paradoxus (Winx Club, World of Warcraft): The title it's in Latin and translates as "contrary to expectation", which points to the fanfic's Central Theme. It also alludes to temporal paradoxes.
• Pretty Cure: Magic of the Rainbow
  • "Gymnastics"
  • "Horseriding"
  • "Meditation"
• The Massive Multiplayer Crossover series by Sovereign GFC lands square in this trope:
  • Origins
  • Frontier
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds A Live has many of its chapters being one title.

Dragon Age

• Skyhold Academy Yearbook includes "Disorienuptials", which is also a Portmantitle and a Double-Meaning Title.

EXO

• Zodiac.

Fullmetal Alchemist

• The Elemental Chess Trilogy:
  • Brilliancy
  • Triumvirate
  • Chronology

Hawaii Five-0

• Bystander
• Comfort

Homestuck

• Brainbent
• Cultstuck
• Hackbent
• Heartstuck
• Heinoustuck
• Hemostuck
• Hexane
• Hivefled
• Homestesque
• Hoofstuck
• HSETAU
• Promstuck
• Wreckstuck

Inside Out

• Intercom

The Legend of Zelda

• Naming: The title comes from the fact all of Hyrule's princesses are named after the Zelda that was put into a coma.

The Lord of the Rings

• Left.

Marvel Universe

• FIRE!

Miraculous Ladybug

• Recommencer

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Adjacency
• Anthropology
• Ascend:
  • The fanfic's title itself.
  • The Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, the first three being "Denial", "Illusions", and "Errands".
• Austraeoh: All of its chapters. Here are the first few: "Sunrise", "Map", "Food", "Flash", "Spring", "Cabin", "Cave", "Limestone" etc.
• Caretakers
• Compliance
• Forever
• Misunderstandings
• Oversaturated World: Some of its stories, and some of the chapters of some stories:
  • The initial story, Oversaturation, whose nine chapters feature Idiosyncratic Episode Naming by all relating to color, and all of them being examples as well: Neutrals, Tones, Brightness, Secondaries, Clashing, Contrast, Running, Spectrum, and Light.
  • "Sugarcatharsis"
  • "Enthralled"
  • "Group Precipitation" has some of its chapters exhibit this:
    • Xenocurious.
    • Metamorphosis.
    • Supernal.
    • Glamourous.
    • Rutaceae.
    • Recharging.
    • Rapturous.
    • Passion.
    • Zapostate.
    • Depending on how dashes are interpreted, possibly also Chibi-Doosa, Re-markable, Fixer-Upper, and All-natural
  • Criffleball
• Past Sins: Glimpses 2: Idiosyncratic Episode Naming of the Variants chapters of Glimpses 2 one word: "Depths", "Day", "Dreams", "Remedial", "Legacy".
• Psychedelic Epiphany Series: The second story, "Psychadelic".
• Quizzical: It's a Protagonist Title as well, named for Quizzical Greystone.
• Statistics
• The Story Shuffle series: Used in multiple stories in multiple anthologies:
  • Story Shuffle:
    • Aftershock: About surprises and violence and human versions of winged horses that can fly and create sonic booms.
    • Downtime, a story where Twilight Sparkle relaxes.
    • Coda, a story about music and endings.
  • Story Shuffle 2: Double Masters: For some of its one-shots, such as:
    • "Paparazzoid": Likely a Portmantitle of Paparazzo and Droid, because a spying robot is involved in the story.
    • "Vivace": A musical term, because a musician is the protagonist.
• Sunsplit Saga: The title for each of the Saga's stories, Sunsplit, Sunspawned, Sunshipped, and Sunscarred, presumably to reference the main characters, whose names start with "Sun", and as an Idiosyncratic Episode Naming Portmantitle pattern.
• The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments: Vision, a The Place title, for the city it takes place in.
• Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency: Soul Survivor: All three of the chapter titles:
  • Areté
  • Avatar
  • Awakening
• Triptych Continuum:
  • The initial story, Triptych, whose, currently 31, chapters feature Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, with most of them being examples as well, and all being terms related to art: Outlines, Palette, Shading, Angles, Landscape, Layering... The ones which aren't examples of this trope are: Chapter 13: Morellian Analysis, Chapter 15: En Plein Air and Chapter 26: Earth Tones.
  • Scootalift
  • Goosed!
  • Blessing
  • Unnoticed
• Variables
• Windfall: Secondary Character Title for new character, the baby being during in the story.

Naruto

• Chiaroscuro
• Echoes.
• Kokuten

NUMB3RS

• Anxiety
• Changes
• Manipulation
• Secrets
• Surfacing

''The Octonauts"

• Junior Officers:
  • "Anime"
  • "Heal"
  • "Nightmare"
  • "Babysitting"

Pretty Cure

• Don't Cry For Me, I've Already Wilted:
  • "Bedtime"
• Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse:
  • "Sleepover"
  • "Showdown"
• Twinkling in the Dark
  • "Bruises"
  • "Dramamine"

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

• Fargo
• Pedestal

Punch-Out!!

• Ma Fille chapters:
  • "Teething"
  • "Halloween"
  • "Escape"
  • "Cousins"
  • "Medicine"

RWBY

• Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: The Idiosyncratic Episode Naming for every chapter:
  • "Chance"
  • "Dreams"
  • "Initiation"
  • "Victory"
  • "Responsibility"
  • "Control"
  • "Leadership"
  • "Fear"
  • "Malachor"
  • "Hunger"
  • "Satiation"
  • "Dance"
  • "Breach"
  • "Aftermath"
  • "Vytal"
  • "Gnawing"
  • "Destiny"
  • "Legends"
  • "Nihilus"
  • "Chaos"
  • "Death"
  • "Vengeance"

Sailor Moon

• Dungeon Keeper Ami: There are a few chapters named that way, such as:
  • Recovering: About recovering from the Reaper duel.
  • Deadline, which is also a Portmantitle, and is about the deadline to rescue some sacrifices.
  • Ultimatum, where one is given.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

• CatRa.

Smallville

• "Influence", named because of the main character making a life-changing choice under the influence of a mind-altering substance.

Star Trek

• Retribution
• Insontis
• Heroes
• The chapter titles of Paradise:
  • Arrival
  • Paradise
  • Home
  • Shadows (Announced by the Author, unpublished.)

Star Wars

• Precipice.

Supergirl

• Hellsister Trilogy: The first and third arcs are named "Hellsister", after the main character's evil counterpart, and "Hellspawn", after her evil twin's son.

Turning Red

• The Panda Chronicles:
  • "Nightmares"

Warhammer 40,000

• Toyhammer, where the main character's Warhammer toys become alive.

Whateley Universe

• Domoverse: The fanfic's title as well as the story "Never", where a large focus is on what the protagonist will never be able to do.
• Kitsune: As a reference to the protagonist basically being one.
• Ma'at: Depending whether hyphens are word separators:
  • The fanfic as a whole is called "Ma-at", an Only One Name Character Title:
    Ma'at was the goddess of the physical and moral law of Egypt, of order and truth.
  • "Chapter 1: Inbw-hdj", which is named for a location, as it says immediately after:
  Sunday, March 18, 2007
  Southbound road from Cairo to Inbw-hdj (Memphis)

W.I.T.C.H.

• Ripples

Worm

• Atonement.
• Intrepid.

Unsorted

• Enough
• Forever!

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