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Many spy, thriller, and speculative fiction novels follow a specific formula in their titles:
The...
Noun or person's/place's name, often something esoteric and classical that sounds like it could be code for something (often Gratuitous Greek).
Noun with political or symbolic undertones. Also, often some type of document.
This creates a feeling of conspiracy, like the reader has just glimpsed the title on a sealed manila folder and now needs to dig through the secrets of powerful men to discover... just what is The Antigone Cypher?
Compare The Crime Job, The Case of..., and Ominous Legal Phrase Title. |
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The Eiger Sanction |
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The Kerchief Implication |
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. really takes it up a notch: every episode is named "The [Something] Affair". |
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British game show, The Krypton Factor. |
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The Looking-Glass Wars |
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The Stanley Parable |
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The Solstice Entrancement |
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The Fear Index |
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The Talos Principle |
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The Ipcress File |
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The McKenzie Break |
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Every episode of the Men in Black cartoon was titled in this style as "The (Insert Subject Here) Syndrome''. |
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The Night's Dawn Trilogy has a different name for the series, but two of the individual novels follow this pattern:
The Reality Dysfunction
The Neutronium Alchemist |
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The Forever Watch |
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The Elsinore Vacillation |
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The Genesis Code |
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The Rialto Forfeit |
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In the Corner Gas Animated episode "Spy Me to the Moon", Davis gets an advanced copy of the last book in the Max Braylorn Spy Trilogy, "The Braylorn Redundancy". |
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The Parallax View |
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Parodied in the Discworld novel The Last Continent, where a humorous aside notes how any self-improving book you bring along for beach reading seems to transform into a conspiracy thriller with at least one Greek letter in the title, like The Gamma Imperative or The Mu Kau Pi Caper. |
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The Treyton Injections |
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Every episode title from The Big Bang Theory ("The Fuzzy Boots Corollary", "The Hamburger Postulate", etc.). It should be noted that these are intended to sound scientific, rather than thrilling. |
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The Terminal Man |
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Metal Gear is a series of interactive sci-fi spy thrillers, and name clearly fits. It's not as obviously noticeable however, because modern installments are usually called "Metal Gear Solid", making the pattern less obvious. Considering that Hideo Kojima is a huge movie buff, and Metal Gear games are styled after thriller movies, this is almost certainly intentional. The subtitles of nearly all games fit in their own right. In-universe, events in the canonical timeline are known under such names. "Phantom Pain Incident", "Shadow Moses Incident", "Tanker Incident", "Zanzibar Land Disturbance" or "Mercenary War". |
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The Manchurian Candidate |
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The Turing Option |
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xkcd: The Corliss Resolution (to The Fermi Paradox). |
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The Middleman does a variation of this (with two meaningful-sounding nouns or, occasionally, adjectives in the middle) for every episode:
The Pilot Episode Sanction
The Accidental Occidental Conception
The Sino-Mexican Revelation
The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum
The Flying Fish Zombification
The Boy Band Superfan Interrogation
The Cursed Tuba Contingency
The Ectoplasmic Pan-Hellenic Investigation
The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown
The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation
The Clotharian Contamination Protocol
The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome |
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The Bourne...
Identity
Supremacy
Ultimatum
By other authors:
Legacy
Betrayal
Sanction
Deception
Objective
Dominion
Imperative
Retribution
Ascendancy
Enigma
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy, a video game based on the Matt Damon Bourne movies, follows this naming pattern. |
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| | The Bourne Series |
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The Mattei Affair |
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The Fourth Protocol |
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The Cassandra Crossing |
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The original US edition of Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers was titled The Dawson Pedigree, though later editions have reverted to Sayers' title. |
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The Capulet Infatuation |
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The Russia House |
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In Warehouse 13, Claudia Donovan tries to hack into the Warehouse computer and finds out that this was anticipated, and she's activated something called the "Donovan Contingency". Her reaction: "Cool! I'm the star of a Ludlum novel." |
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The Venom Business |
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The French Connection |
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The Dunsinane Deforestation |
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Mad Lib Thriller Title |
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Lost features The Dharma Initiative. |
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| | Lost |
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Mad Lib Thriller Title |
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The Lazarus Instrumentality, a quest in New World. |
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Parodied in Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 405 ("Being from Another Planet"). During the film a bookshelf is shown, and Joel and the 'Bots begin rattling off a Long List of fictional titles from "the Ludlum Library" starting with the relatively innocuous The Horshack Conspiracy before spinning out into nonsense like The Migraine Containment, The Crankshaft McNogginbee, and The Greengreen Gagrinegagrinega. |
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Generally averted in episode titles for The Professionals, despite the frequent appearance of government conspiracies or foreign spies. However "The Ojuka Situation" involves the attempted assassination of a foreign head-of-state by the agents of an unnamed power. |
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Whether live or animated, classic Star Trek liked these titles, with examples such as The Corbomite Maneuver, The Enterprise Incident, The Lorelei Signal, The Ambergris Element, and many more.
Next Generation continued to carry the tradition, although a bit less enthusiastically: The Icarus Factor and The Vengeance Factor are perhaps the only inarguable examples.
Star Trek: Voyager also got into the act, with The Omega Directive, The Voyager Conspiracy, and The Killing Game. |
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Tintin: The Calculus Affair, and a few others. |
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The Anderson Tapes |
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The Hudsucker Proxy — which is odd, seeing as it's a screwball comedy rather than a thriller. |
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The Xanadu Talisman, from the Modesty Blaise series. |
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In season seven of The Venture Bros., every episode written by Doc Hammer has this style of title in homage to Robert Ludlum, due to Hammer's admitted distaste for coming up with pun episode titles. Each episode commentary on the DVD has fellow writer Jackson Publick quiz Hammer on the episode's title due to how esoteric some of the titles get, such as "The Rorqual Affair" and "The Inamorata Consequence". |
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The Adversary Cycle |
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The Pelican Brief |
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The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause |
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Parodied in a Saturday Night Live segment for fictional author Harlan Kane's new novel, The Abacus Conundrum. Other books by the author include The Medici Codex, The Genghis Rubicon, The Harlequin Protocol, The Ichabod Formula, The Pinochet Sudoku, The Nostradamus Mechanism, The Godiva Gyroscope, The Pokemon Directive, The Vespucci Containment, The Fuddrucker Ultimatum, The Marmaduke Betrayal, The Brenda Effect, The Picasso Embrogio, and Mac For Dummies. |
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The Callisto Protocol |
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The Bedford Incident |
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In the Hitman: Absolution level "Death Factory", two NPCs talk about a secretive area of the factory called "the Omega Facility", one of them remarks on the name: |
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The Laundry Files books are entirely named “The (Something) (Document(s))”:
The Atrocity Archive
The Jennifer Morgue
The Fuller Memorandum
The Apocalypse Codex
The Rhesus Chart
The Annihilation Score
The Nightmare Stacks |
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Hitman (2016) & Hitman 2's escalation contracts are all named in this particular fashion, such as "The Dexter Discordance", "The Aelwin Augment" and "The Delgado Larceny". "The Kotti Paradigm" and "The Bigmooney Flamboyancy" are notable in that they are named after usernames (the former is a speedrunner, the latter a Youtube personality).
In the Hitman: Absolution level "Death Factory", two NPCs talk about a secretive area of the factory called "the Omega Facility", one of them remarks on the name: |
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The China Syndrome |
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The Doghouse Diaries |
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The Caine Mutiny. It's not a thriller, but the title fits, and is ominous enough. |
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Doctor Who:
"The Macra Terror"
"The Sontaran Experiment"
"The Armageddon Factor".
"The Shakespeare Code" — a deliberate pastiche of this title type.
"The Lazarus Experiment"
"The Sontaran Stratagem"
"The God Complex".
"The Tsuranga Conundrum"
The Expanded Universe Telos Novella The Dalek Factor. |
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The Eiger Sanction |
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The Andromeda Strain |
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes |
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The Odessa File |
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Jeopardy! had an entire category about this trope in the “Battle of the Decades” tournament called “Make Your Own Spy Novel Titles” where contestants would see a “word equation” and you had to give the title which sounded like a spy novel. For Example,
Clue: “The + a Mongol emperor's poetic palace + a type of papal teaching letter first issued in 1740“. Correct Response: “The Xanadu Encyclical”. |
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The Poseidon Adventure |
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Parodied in How NOT to Write a Novel with "The Manchurian Parallax of the Thetan Conspiracy Enigma". |
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Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective |
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy, a video game based on the Matt Damon Bourne movies, follows this naming pattern. |
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The Caine Mutiny |
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Star Trek: Voyager also got into the act, with The Omega Directive, The Voyager Conspiracy, and The Killing Game. |
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Most Artemis Fowl books:
The Arctic Incident
The Eternity Code
The Opal Deception
The Atlantis Complex |
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The Ωmega Man |
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The first series in the BBC's Quatermass franchise was called The Quatermass Experiment. |
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Next Generation continued to carry the tradition, although a bit less enthusiastically: The Icarus Factor and The Vengeance Factor are perhaps the only inarguable examples. |
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