Similarly Named Works / T to V

T

• Punk band D.O.A. used the title Talk - Action = 0 for two otherwise completely unrelated releases - a 1991 Live Album and a 2010 studio album. To avoid confusion, the former is usually called "Talk - Action = 0 (Live)".
• Taken is a 2008 thriller starring Liam Neeson, and a 2002 sci-fi miniseries.
• A Tale of Two Kitties is either Tweety's debut cartoon, a Garfield sequel, an episode of T.U.F.F. Puppy, a 1996 Good Housekeeping movie, or one of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man books.
• TaleSpin: The cartoon spawned several Licensed Games, none of them for the Atari ST or Amiga, which instead had an unrelated Point and Click Game Maker tool by that name.
• Not only is Taskmaster a name of the popular comic book character, it's also the name of a British comedy show where The Taskmaster (no relation) sets ludicrous tasks for celebrity contestants. It's also a wrestling name, used by Kevin Sullivan. There's also a game called TaskMaker, which is wholly unrelated to everything listed above (oddly, it isn't about making tasks).
• Pictured on the main page is Tangled. It's a 2001 thriller starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, while Tangled is a 2010 Disney animated film starring the voice of Mandy Moore as Rapunzel.
• The comedy TV series Taxi has got exactly nothing to do with the Luc Besson action comedy movies of the same name, or the Harry Chapin song, or the Williams Electronics' pinball table (aside from, perhaps, a taxicab).
• Taxi Driver is either Martin Scorsese's breakout movie or a 1954 Indian musical.
• Tempest is a 1981 video game, a 2016 game by Lion's Shade, and a Bob Dylan album. The Tempest is a Shakespeare play.
• Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri is an obscure 1996 Looking Glass Studios FPS. The 2011 TV series Terra Nova is completely unrelated.
• That's What Friends Are For — a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, famously covered by Dionne Warwick and Friends, or the Vulture Song from The Jungle Book. There's also the 2015 movie simply called Room.
• The Thin Blue Line was a 1990s Brit Com starring Rowan Atkinson, as well as a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris about a man falsely convicted and sentenced to death for murder.
• The Thin Red Line was a number of things. Aside from a World War II novel that was adapted into two different movies, it was also a real-life military battle during the Crimean War. It was also the debut album by Canadian rock band Glass Tiger, plus the title track which was based on the real-life battle, and it was also another single performed by Saxon.
• Think Fast is either a Nickelodeon game show or a Disney quiz-themed video game on the Nintendo Wii.
• This Love by Maroon 5 is most certainly not related to the Pantera song.
• This Present Darkness: a Frank Peretti novel or a The Lord of the Rings fanfic?
• Threat Vector has two novels: one written by Michael DiMercurio and another written by Tom Clancy.
• The Thunder Force Shoot 'em Up series is unrelated to Thunderforce, a single-plane Beat 'em Up for the Commodore 64.
• Three the Hard Way can either refer to a Blaxploitation film made in 1974, or an RPG Maker 2000 game created by iishenron in 2003.
• ‘Til Death, the 2006 US sitcom and Till Death..., the 1981 ITV followup to the sixties/seventies BBC sitcomTill Death Us Do Part.
• Time Killer, a 1959 Hugo Award-nominated novel, is not Time Killers, a fighting game from the '90s. Neither of them are related to Time Killers, the anthology of short stories written by Kazue Kato.
• There are two video games named Tin Star set in The Wild West. The one that was released in 1994 is an on-rails Light Gun Game published by Nintendo and developed by Software Creations. The one that was released in 2014 is a Game written by Allen Gies and hosted on Choice of Games. Neither has any connection to Tex Tinstar, a segment on The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show.
• There are at least 12 different films about the sinking of the Titanic, and out of those, at least nine are simply called Titanic (the two exceptions would be A Night to Remember and The Legend of the Titanic). Are we talking the 1954 film, the 1996 film with Catherine Zeta-Jones, the 1997 James Cameron film (by far the most famous), the Nazi version, or even the animated movie Titanic: The Legend Goes On (often abbreviated as Titanic- The Animated Musical)? The TV drama to mark the centenary is also named simply Titanic.
• Titus is a 1999 film adaptation of Titus Andronicus, and a 2000 comedy TV series.
• Toad the Wet Sprocket was a 1990s band. The NWOBHM Metal for Muthas compilation included a song from a different band named Toad the Wet Sprocket.
• Tom and Jerry is an 1821 play, a 1931 cartoon series, a Simon & Garfunkel album, and one of several cartoon series about a cat and a mouse.
• Tomboy is a Golden Age comic, a Modern Age comic and a 2011 French drama film.
• The Tommy Wi-Show is both a series on Machinima's YouTube channel in which Tommy Wiseau plays video games and a one-off skit by Doug Walker done as a Take That! towards Wiseau Films for forcing him to take down his The Nostalgia Critic review of The Room.
• Top Gear, a popular automotive programme on BBC Two which shares its name with an old BBC radio show and a racing game series from the '90s and early '00s.
• If you have an Electronic Program Guide on your TV, you may be surprised when you stop the remote at a movie called Top Gun and realize that you're watching a 1950s Western instead of Tom Cruise and wicked aerial stunts.
• 20 years after the original "Tour de France", Kraftwerk produced a completely different tune titled "Tour de France 2003". The Tour de France Soundtracks album included both that and a re-recording of the original.
• Traveller is a role-playing game, Traveler is a 2007 TV series, and Travelers is a 2016 TV series.
• The Tree of Life is a 2011 movie. Tree of Life is a game by oddonegames.
• "Troll Bridge" is the title of two short stories; one each by friends and former collaborators Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, all of which which have nothing in common save the pun on "toll bridge" and the reference to trolls living under bridges. (And a trope, based on the same pun.)
• True Blue is the name of at least two albums: one by Madonna and another by dj TAKA, with both albums having Title Tracks to boot.
• Trust is the name of three different bands, five music albums (including one by Elvis Costello), at least a dozen songs (from bands as diverse as Megadeth to Ayumi Hamasaki), a music production duo, three movies (from 1990, 2009, and 2010), two movies called The Trust (produced 101 years apart!), a British legal drama TV series, an episode of Wildfire, a group from Stargate SG 1, a magazine about investment trusts, a political party in the UK and a totally unrelated one in Greece, and at least four different My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics, all of which are unrelated.
• Truth and Ideals either refers to the first entry within Citadel of the Heart or the unrelated Truth And Ideals The Unova Chronicles. Oddly enough, both of them share their basic premise of being Pokémon fics which heavily revolve around Generation V, with the former meant to be an In Their Own Image version of multiple aspects from both the anime and the games under the same roof, and the second being a novelization of a playthrough of Pokémon Black and White and being Truer to the Text as a result.
• Turbo is a 1981 arcade game, a Power Rangers movie, and a 2013 animated movie.
• Depending on whether you live in Canada or Mexico, TVO can either be an acronym for "TV Ontario" a public TV network, or the name a Spanish language game show hosted by Gabriela "Gaby" Ruffo.^note It was also seen in the U.S. on Univision.
• The Twelve Days of Nickmas is either a Nickelodeon promo showed around the holidays in the early 2000s or a Film Cow video.
• Now when you say Twilight, do you mean Stephenie Meyer's outrageously successful vampire series or the Howard Chaykin mini-series deconstructing DC's 1960s space adventurers? Or the song from Electric Light Orchestra's Time album? Or one of the novels in a lengthy series about feral cats? Or a play about the 1992 Los Angeles riots? Or the 1998 thriller/noir starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, and a briefly topless Reese Witherspoon?
  • Don't try to clarify by talking about sparkle. She's tired of people asking why there are vampires in her to begin with.
    • In any event, "Twilight" was also the name of a G1 pony. Twilight Sparkle was likely named after her.
  • Twilight is also the name of a novel by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, about a fictional Holocaust survivor who becomes a psychiatrist and treats people who think they're people from The Bible.
• Twilight Unbound is an Ask a Pony blog about Twilight Sparkle, while Twilight Unbound: The Stephanie Meyer Story is a comic book biography of Stephanie Meyer.
• There are two movies called Twister, which naturally both involve tornadoes: There's the much-better-known Disaster Movie from 1996 and the Black Comedy independent film from 1989.
• There is an obscure MSX2 game called Twinkle Star that was released on a magazine disk. It has no apparent relation to Twinkle Star Sprites, despite also being a Cute 'em Up.

U

• The Ugly Truth is both a 2009 romantic comedy film and the fifth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.
• Ultraviolet and Ultraviolet are about vampires. However, one is a film, the other is a TV series, and they weren't even produced in the same country.
• Undefeated is the 2011 Oscar winner for Best Documentary. THE Undefeated from the same year is a documentary praising Sarah Palin. You can't get further apart than that.
• "Under Your Thumb" is the title of songs by Vaccine, Everyday Sunday and Godley & Creme.
• Underdog is both the name of a Western Animation series and film adaptation about a heroic canine and a gritty Manga centered around a Deadly Game that depicts graphic scenes of sex and murder.
• Underworld is an action/horror franchise about werewolves battling vampires, a 1996 comedy thriller starring Dennis Leary, and a Marvel Comics miniseries. Neither of them is related to the Sabreman game Underwurlde.
• The Adventure Game Uninvited was released only a few years before a So Bad, It's Good movie of the same title about a killer mutant cat. The Uninvited is also the title of a classic 1944 haunted-house mystery film and a not-so-classic 2009 remake of the Korean thriller A Tale of Two Sisters.
  • Also, it's a 1998 hit for Alanis Morrisette.
• Unknown somehow wound up being the title of two different psychological thrillers released just five years apart; the 2011 film is far better-known than the 2006 version, in part because it had Liam Neeson rather than Jim Caviezel as its lead.
• Unleashed is a 2001 movie, a 2005 martial arts movie, and a 2016 comedy.
• Unreal the demo by Future Crew, and Unreal the First-Person Shooter series by Epic Games (whom some Future Crew members worked with). Unrelated to the game UnReal World, or the 2015 TV series UnREAL.
• Unreal Estate is either an online work of literature, an Australian lifestyle program, or a SpongeBob episode.
• Up: a Right Said Fred album, a Peter Gabriel album or a Pixar movie?
  • Or, while we're at it, a Russ Meyer movie?
    • In fact, before the release of Pixar's movie, members of IMDB were confused as to why they would be remaking a sex comedy.
  • Not to mention an R.E.M. album.
  • And a Shania Twain album, although that was technically Up!.
    • Which, in turn, is not to be confused with the Volkswagen up!. Not the Up!, the Up, or the up. The up!.
  • "Up" is also the series title of a Granada TV documentary series covering the lives of a group of British children, one documentary every seven years. The first showed the children at age 7, and was thus called "7-Up" — which (probably not coincidentally) is also the name of a soft drink.

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V

• V is at once a TV series about aliens infiltrating Earth, a remake of said series, and a completely unrelated short story by Stephen King about an OCD sufferer trying to keep an Eldritch Abomination at bay. Also an Australasian energy drink, for Vendetta, and a dance remix of Vivaldi's "Winter" featured in beatmania IIDX and Dance Dance Revolution.
• There's VALIS, the novel by Philip K. Dick, and Valis, the video game series by Telenet Japan. They're not related.
• Vampire is a tabletop game with a card game and video game adaptations, and a video game series by Capcom.
• Vega$ was a show on ABC in the late 1970s. Las Vegas was a show on NBC in the early 2000s. And CBS is soon to premiere a show titled Vegas. And all three of them are crime dramas!
• Vikings is a 2013 TV series, and a BBC documentary. Vikings: War of Clans is a Mobile Phone Game. The Vikings is a 1958 movie.
• Viper is a pinball game, an H-Game series, a TV series, a rapper, and a heavy metal band. Code Name: Viper is an unrelated NES game.
• The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama film Based on a True Story that stars Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. The Vow is a 2014 Kung Fu Panda fanfic (through unrelated, it is also a romantic and dramatic story).
• Vanitas is the name of an album by Anaal Nathrakh and a Dir en grey song.
• Vermillion by DC Comics' imprint Helix Comics, Sword of Vermilion by Sega, known as Vermilion in Japan, Lord of Vermilion by Think Garage, Million Knights Vermillion by NRF, and Vermillion Watch by Eipix Entertainment are all unrelated.

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