It took about two decades for Pete Abrams to reveal just what "Sluggy Freelance" actually means. That didn't stop him from dropping one of the two words without the other here and there like delicious, fan-baiting sprinkles before.
Played straight but simultaneously unsuccessfully invoked in the story "Rescue Mission to the North Pole".
Squishydodo: Attention, Black Op Elves! We have a plea for help on a dangerous mission. And though [reverb] NONE OF US MAY SURVIVE, we must try to rescue Christmas and attempt... the rescue mission to the North Pole!
Squishydodo: You were supposed to reverb the "rescue mission to the Nort Pole" part.
Squintyhoyo: Sorry, MY BAD!
Curse Quest: Avalon picks up a curse quest at the convention. Evidently a curse quest is a quest so deadly that no sane adventurer dares go on one. Avalon soon asks for twelve. Unlike other quest scrolls, a curse quest seems to be on fire, but that may just be an effect and not actual fire.
This one advocates ending everything ever with a title drop. It actually works pretty well.
Cameron Walden has quite the terrible case of Zoophobia.
In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, chapter titles often get dropped as well in a visual gag, as in "Punch Dracula" (guess what the good doctor finds himself forced to do?) and "Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja" (appears on a theater marquee at the beginning of the strip)
On page 167 of Alien Hand Syndrome when Nick is trying to persiade Erin that Mina is possessed, Erin suggests the eponymous (real-life) syndrome as an alternative theory, although she doesn't actually know its name and Dan is the one who comes out with it.
In Oceanfalls, this is Parodied when Nino falls into the Cave of Illusions.
Suggestion Prompt: Nino: Did you just Ocean-fall? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN- THIS IS NOT EVEN AN OCEAN- AND- NOW IS NOT THE TIME-
Invoked by Nino himself later when Kaji interrogates him.
Kaji: An' well, where'd you come from, weirdo? Nino: I came from... Suggestion Prompt: Nino: Say "THE SEA" as loud as possible. You nearly say "THE SEA" as loud as humanly possible, but then you almost instinctively pause for a split second. You feel like the universe brought you to this very spot for a better answer than that. It would want you to answer with something thematic, something more appropriate, yes... Something like... Nino: THE OCEAN Yeah. Like that. That satisfies a few unknown forces out there.
Sometimes you feel like you are trapped in this room. Stuck, if you will, in a sense which possibly borders on the titular.
Teased again when examining the Cruxtruder early in Act II
"Of all the places for Rose to drop the infernal thing. More than ever you feel...what's the word you're looking for?" "Of course. Housetrapped."
The term "Homestuck" does ultimately appear in the lyrics of the track Chain of Prospit from the Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido album.
Hold up, there's data structures you can bone up You might be feeling like you're home stuck
The titles of Homestuck's acts are all dropped with the exceptions of Act 4 and Intermission 2 (which doesn't even have any text, as it consists only of a single flash). Act 6 Act 1's can be found in a walkaround flashnote [S] Seer: Descend in Act 5 Act 2 as part of an item description, but is not dropped within the act itself.
qxlkbhdiscusses this in 9: title drop, where it's pointed out that qxlkbh is a meaningless string that would be hard to fit into a sentence... if qxlkbh wasn't so willing to break the fourth wall:
Doctor: But we've got to preserve some sense of logic in qxlkbh somehow!
Fans! occasionally dropped their title into the story, notably in this strip toward the end of their first Grand Finale, before the Revival;
Rikk: People might call us crazy, and once in awhile me might almost believe them. But we're used to that. We're Fans!.
"Davan, this has to stop, okay? You're always so negative and angry, and it really worries me. You're not nearly the bad person you think you are, and things WILL get better. You've got to go do something positive with your life. I say this as a friend who cares about you."
While the first strip, and a few afterwards, of Lightning Made of Owls make reference to its Non Sequitur title, referring to the title is discouraged on the comic's submission page.
"Phantomarine" is the name of the local Power Crystal, which generates light to repel seaghosts, not needing an electrical current like the related Revenite. Interestingly, Pavel was given a lantern with Phantomarine in it when all of the substance in the known world should be in the Lighthouse Road.
Occurs twice in Prague Race, here and much later here. We still don't know exactly what it means, though.
In Undead Friend, the title is the same name as the game the main characters get stuck in, so the title show sup frequently. It is shown in-comic first in Chapter 2 (though not said out loud until Chapter 6).
in Hue Are You, the main protagonist, Build-a, gets asked this question a lot during the beginning of her adventure
This strip of Love Not Found drops its title when Abeille tries to search for "love" as a valid requirement for a satisfying sexual experience, only to get an error message: "LOVE NOT FOUND."
In Kill Six Billion Demons, Zoss shows up in every book to make a speech including the book's title. By the fourth book, the author's commentary in the Alt Text even refers to the "title drop part" of the book.
Celia: Staphie, what's a word for something "full" of "awe," in a bad way?
Staph: "Sucks."
Unsounded: Duane name-drops the site on which the comic is hosted (casualvillain.com):
Duane: Such casual villains we are.
Heroine Chic: Zoe starts out as an intern working for a designer who makes fashionable super-suits for big-name heroes. When she strikes out on her own, Zoe names her business "Heroine Chic."
Muted: Athalie drops it in Episode 45 after Camille exposes her Green Thumb powers in front of her.
Athalie: You'll be Muted for this, Camille.
Little Nuns In the arc leading to episode 1000, a runaway girl who came to the convent looking for her cousin is writing in her diary with each episode. In the second page (#982), she writes that little nuns came with ducks when they noticed her.
Experience Boost: Keran tries to name the guild that she and Vedrana are starting "Experience Boost". Vedrana is having none of it.
Dinosaur Comics comic.