Basic Trope: Too many (i.e. two or more) colons in a title.
- Straight: Bob The Strong: The Third Part: The Final Battle.
- Exaggerated: Star Empire: Bob The Strong: The Third Part: The Final Battle: Bob Vs. The Emperor: The Ultimate Showdown: The Great War.
- Downplayed: Star Empire: Bob The Strong — The Final Battle
- Justified:
- All of these are events that happen in the movie.
- Bob The Strong: III was remade as Bob The Strong: The Third Part: the Final Battle, which was remade as Bob The Strong: The Third Part: The Final Battle: Bob Vs. The Emperor, which was remade as…
- Inverted: Bob The Strong The Third Part The Final Battle.
- Subverted:
- Before the release of the movie, the creator changes the title.
- Those aren't colons, they're the nails that affix the title to the title card.
- Double Subverted: But after some time, he realizes he liked the original title, and changes it back.
- Parodied:
- Super Happy Fun Land: Gumball Shoes: Monitor Deodorant: Too Many Colons
- Bob The Strong Colon The Third Part Colon The Final Battle
- :Bob: :The: :Strong: :The: :Third: :Part: :The: :Final: :Battle:
- :B:o:b: :T:h:e: :S:t:r:o:n:g: :T:h:e: :T:h:i:r:d: :P:a:r:t: :T:h:e: :F:i:n:a:l: :B:a:t:t:l:e:
- The title consists of colons only. It's called :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.
- The title is literally Colon Colon Colon Colon.
- Bob suddenly clutches near his colon in pain, yelling "OW!!! WHY, TITLE, WHY?!" It turns out that the title is the true Big Bad.
- Zig Zagged: The creator changes the title back and forth between the title without colons and the original title.
- Averted: Bob the Strong.
- Enforced: The creator wanted to mention all the events that happen in the movie.
- Lampshaded: Hey, don't you think our title has too many colons?
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Dr. Bludlord von Hell uses the title to give Bob and his sidekick Alex literal cancer.
- Defied: Bob breaks the fourth wall to change the title to just "Bob The Strong Three".
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do some movie titles have so many colons? One colon is more than enough."
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