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Retronyming is the concept of modifying an object's name because the original name has changed its meaning.
When applied to a movie, TV show, video game, etc., it usually consists of adding a "1" after the title of the first part of a series (in the case of Numbered Sequels), or something akin. In Real Life, this often applies to technology that has branched out from a single product. For example, the term "landline phone" didn't need to exist in 1985; there were home phones, work phones, and pay phones, but there was no need to specify that it was a hard-wired connection, because almost nobody knew of any other kind.
Happens frequently when Title: The Adaptation is involved. Things designated as "Classic", "Original", "Vanilla" or "1/I" are very common examples. The Original Series is a subtrope. Franchise-Driven Retitling is another subtrope. Also note that when it comes to creative works, this tropes refers to "official" retroactive renaming, not Fan Nicknames for the work.
The Other Wiki has an extensive article including a link to a growing list of examples.
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The first season of The Real World has since been renamed The Real World: New York.
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The original English releases of the first four Digimon anime were released under the blanket title Digimon: Digital Monsters, modern rereleases tend to make use of the original Japanese titles Digimon Adventure, Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier to differentiate between the alternate continuities.
Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 are more likely to be marketed under the old Digimon: Digital Monsters than the latter two series, and in cases where the name Adventure actually is used, 02 isn’t always given a separate title.
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Batman (1966) (see comics above)
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The first Battletoads game for the Game Boy was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled Battletoads in Ragnarok's World.
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Inverted: Farewell, My Dear Cramer was refitted with the name Sayonara Football: Farewell My Dear Cramer after it became clear that it was a sequel to Sayonara Football.
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Ben-Hur (1959)
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The second Game Boy Advance game in the Fire Emblem series was the first to be released outside Japan. Those releases simply called the game "Fire Emblem" with no subtitle, but more recent Western marketing materials covering the history of the series named it Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, which is a translation of the original Japanese title (Rekka no Ken).
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The first Criminal Case game was originally called "Criminal Case", but was later called Criminal Case: Grimsborough once Criminal Case: Pacific Bay got released.
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In the U.S., the Great Teacher Onizuka series became a huge hit for Tokyopop, the company distributing it. As GTO was a Sequel Series following one of the main characters from Shonan Jun'ai Gumi, when Tokyopop translated the original, it was retitled GTO: The Early Years. Other Japanese adaptations have done similar retronyms, such as its Live-Action Adaptation adding the subtitle Young GTO!.
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Metroid
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Lampshaded in one of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes. The story takes place in the 1930s depression era, where Grandpa Simpson states that times haven't been this bad since World War I. This leads Lenny to remark why he keeps calling it that, followed by his response "Oh, you'll see!"
In a regular episode, during one of his long boring stories, Grandpa explains that they used to call WW1, "International Civil War 2".
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Avonlea: In 1996, when Season 7 began airing on Disney Channel, episodes of the first six seasons began airing on weeknights under the title The Avonlea Saga.
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1941 (2009)
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The Return of Jafar, the Pilot Movie for Aladdin: The Series, came to DVD with a case adding Aladdin's name at the beginning of the title.
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Cossacks (2022)
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior was originally released as Mad Max 2 in Australia, and as The Road Warrior in America where the first film was almost completely unknown. Years later the two titles tend to be joined together with "The Road Warrior" as a subtitle, to match the names of the sequels Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
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The original beatmania IIDX was called just beatmania IIDX, but starting in beatmania IIDX 9th Style, the first game to have song folders by, among other things, debut versions, its folder is labeled "1st Style".
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The original Back to the Future film is sometimes called Back to the Future Part I, especially when it's being discussed within the context of the overall Back to the Future trilogy. Of course, this is just a backwards extrapolation of the titles of Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.
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Wagnaria!! (originally WORKING!!) was spun off from a webcomic with a different cast. When it came time to print the webcomic in physical volumes, it was retitled Web-ban WORKING!! (WORKING! Web Edition) and later WWW.WORKING!! to differentiate the two series.
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Death on the Nile (1978)
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Yo-kai Watch
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The first major antagonist in the Fist of the North Star manga was Kenshiro's old rival Shin, who engraved the seven scars on Kenshiro's chest and captured his fiancee Yuria. At the time Shin was established to be the sole master of the Nanto Seiken style, much in the same way Kenshiro was the sole successor of Hokuto Shinken, with not a hint of any other students or branches in existence. After Shin was killed off, other practitioners and sects of Nanto Seiken were gradually introduced, with Shin himself being revealed to be just one of the school's six grand masters known as the Nanto Roku Seiken (Six Sacred Fists of Nanto), with the other masters being trained in avian-themed styles (SuichÅ�ken or the Waterfowl style, KÅ�kakuken or the Crimson Crane style, Hakuroken or the White Heron style and HÅ�-Å�ken or the Phoenix style),note The Last Nanto General, the sixth member, is not trained in a specific style. but Shin's own brand of Nanto Seiken was never given a name in the manga. A 1986 guidebook titled Hokuto no Ken Special: All About The Man eventually revealed that Shin trained in Nanto Koshuken or the "Lone Eagle" style.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)
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Following Alien Hominid getting an HD remaster optimised for Steam and Nintendo Switch titled Alien Hominid HD, The HD remaster released for Xbox Live originally going by that name was renamed Alien Hominid 360.
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One of Cracked columnist Winston Rowntree's The 4 Reasons We Fall in Love With a Piece of Pop Culture is that it's "porn", which he defines as any cultural work "that you seek out to animalistically fill a specific need." He runs through a bunch of things jokingly called porn, coining the retronym "Sex Porn" in the process.
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Likewise, "WrestleMania" can refer to the yearly WWE event; so when talking specifically about the first one, just billed "WrestleMania" at the time, fans and even WWE call it "WrestleMania 1" or "the First WrestleMania".
WrestleMania XXX in 2014 was the last one to get a number designation, so now fans have to give each edition one of these as soon as the event is over.
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Assassin's Creed
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The VGA remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was titled Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards.
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series was originally referred to as just Spider-Man during its original 2003 release. The exact Character Title was already used across different media. Therefore, it had gone through various nicknames like "MTV's Spider-Man", "Spider-Man 2003", or "Spider-Man Animated Series" by the Annie Awards. It wasn't until the 2004 home release that it was officially referred to by its current title retroactively. It slightly differs the series' name from its similarly-named '90s predecessor Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
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In the first Kamen Rider TV series, Takeshi Hong� was not known as Kamen Rider No. 1 until Kamen Rider No. 2 (Hayato Ichimonji) was introduced.
The 1979 series, simply titled Kamen Rider (as was the main hero Hiroshi Tsukaba) was originally going to be a Continuity Reboot; after that plan was scrapped, the previous Kamen Riders showed up to help out and they gave Hiroshi the sobriquet "Skyrider". The show itself kept its name for the initial TV run, but reruns and home releases renamed it New Kamen Rider. This title was changed again to Kamen Rider Skyrider to avoid confusion with the movie Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue (the Japanese word for "new" is also "Shin"). As for Hiroshi himself, these days he tends to just be called "Skyrider", as opposed to "Kamen Rider Skyrider" or anything like that. And on the subject of Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue, the "Prologue" gained new weight in distinguishing it from the 2023 film Shin Kamen Rider, named as such because it's part of the Shin Japan Heroes Universe.
The earlier TV shows in the franchise became known as the "Showa Kamen Rider Series" in 2001 when Kamen Rider Kuuga kicked off a new series of shows dubbed the "Heisei Kamen Rider Series".
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After it became clear that future seasons would follow an anthology format (meaning that every year would focus on a new cast in new situations) and have subtitle names, the first season of American Horror Story was given the subtitle Murder House.
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The original Megazord from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers later became known as the "Dino Megazord" to distinguish it from all the other Megazords in the Power Rangers series, although the name was mainly used for the 2010 reissue of the toy.
In France, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was broadcast as just "Power Rangers" back in the franchise's early days, forcing Netflix France to add "Mighty Morphin" to the title as a distinguishing subtitle.
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The Japanese subtitle of Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Ora no Gohan o Kaese! ("Return My Gohan!"), wasn't used until the film's home video release.
Many of Toei's initial film versions of their popular tokusatsu and anime franchises often got new titles when further film versions of the same franchises were made.
In-Universe, Super Saiyan 2 wasn't named until chapter 474 of the manga, 64 chapters after it first debuted and 109 Chapters after the concept was first mentioned. Until then, it was generally referred to as "beyond Super Saiyan", which didn't do much to distinguish it from the "jacked up" form of Super Saiyan 1, Ascended Super Saiyan.
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Robin Hood (1973)
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EarthBound (1994) (Mother 2) was the first game in the Mother series to get an American release, although a prototype for an unreleased localization of the original Mother eventually surfaced titled "Earth Bound" (note the space). When said prototype was eventually released as a ROM image online, some fans created hack that changed the title to EarthBound Zero, a title most fans used to refer to hack and prototype alike. It was eventually released as EarthBound Beginnings on the Wii U Virtual Console (with the title screen just saying "Earth Bound").
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The earlier TV shows in the franchise became known as the "Showa Kamen Rider Series" in 2001 when Kamen Rider Kuuga kicked off a new series of shows dubbed the "Heisei Kamen Rider Series".
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DuckTales (1987), to compare to the 2017 reboot.
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When Goodson-Todman brought The Price Is Right back for syndication and CBS in 1972, it had the word "New" affixed to the title to distinguish it from the Bill Cullen show. The word "New" was dropped in June of 1973, yet the 1994 syndicated edition used "New" in listings for the show as it was horse of a different color in contrast to the daytime show.
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Mario Party
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Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 are more likely to be marketed under the old Digimon: Digital Monsters than the latter two series, and in cases where the name Adventure actually is used, 02 isn’t always given a separate title.
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The Pink Panther (1963)
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Resident Evil
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The canceled first version of Resident Evil 2 was retitled Resident Evil 1.5 to distinguish it from the actually released game.
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Lethal Weapon (1987)
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Super Mario Bros.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) goes by The Powerpuff Girls Classic on video streaming sites like Hulu, to distinguish it from the 2016 reboot.
Fellow Cartoon Network series Ben 10 similarly goes by Ben 10 Classic thanks to its 2016 reboot, with it and its three sequels being referred to as the "classic continuity".
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Mortal Kombat (1992)
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The very first Sin City story was titled just that... Sin City. The series caught on, resulting in future stories containing secondary titles (i.e. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For). Even when the original story was first collected in a trade paperback format, it retained its original title. Word of God gave it the nickname The Hard Goodbye and that's what Fanon called it when discussing this particular story. When the movie came out, the collected editions added this title. Likewise, this particular sequence in the movie shares the same title. It resulted in a slightly awkward line, however. Every story name drops its own title but this one never contained the line "the hard goodbye" since that wasn't its original name. The line was added to the dialogue in the movie.
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Love/Hate (2009)
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Etrian Odyssey
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When the first Escape Velocity was ported as a total conversion to the third game, Nova, the port (outside the actual game) used the name that had already been established in the community for when it was necessary to distinguish Escape Velocity the game from the series as a whole: Escape Velocity Classic.
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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is sometimes referred to as "Jak One". This is derived from the legacy skins of Jak in Jak X: Combat Racing, where the Jak II and Jak 3 versions of him are named after the games they appear in, with TPL Jak being called "Jak One". This establishes a Running Gag where the main sequels are all numbered differently, using a word, a Roman numeral and an Arabic number.
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Kid Icarus (1986)
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Kingdom Hearts
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Mass Effect
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Downfall (2004)
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The "Combat Evolved" in Halo: Combat Evolved was originally a Tag Line tacked on by Executive Meddling much to the displeasure of Bungie, who internally called the game just "Halo" (as stated in a retrospective Edge article) and left the title as such on the main menu, the spine on the keep case, and the instruction manual. By the time 343 Industries took over the Halo series, "Combat Evolved" turned out to be highly convenient in distinguishing this first game from the series itself so it got promoted to official subtitle in rereleases (case in point: the interface of the Compilation Re-release The Master Chief Collection always calls the game "Halo: Combat Evolved" instead of "Halo".).
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Colossal Cave Adventure — originally just called "Adventure"; called what it is now so as not to be confused with other games, including the Atari 2600 classic.
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The Accountant (2016)
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Rapa-Nui (1994)
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Bad Boys (1995)
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It (1990)
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The Incredible Hulk (2008)
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Later reruns of Good Morning Miss Bliss were renamed Saved By The Bell: The Junior High Years after the success of Saved by the Bell. Also an example of Edited for Syndication as the original opening titles were removed and replaced with ones that matched those of Saved by the Bell, and featured new opening narration from Mark-Paul Gosselaar in character as Zack Morris.
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The Walking Dead (2010)
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The first Space Quest was released with the subtitle Chapter I – The Sarien Encounter. The VGA remake was titled Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter.
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The black-and-white 1950s series of Dragnet is syndicated as Badge 714 to avoid confusion with the later (and probably more notorious) color series of the late 1960s.
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Star Fox
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The base game of Shovel Knight originally had no subtitle, even as additional expansions staring other characters started to come out. When Yacht Club Games announced the Treasure Trove, they also gave the base game the subtitle Shovel of Hope.
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The Lion King (1994)
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Street Fighter
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The home media releases of Raiders of the Lost Ark retroactively retitled it Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on their packaging, in line with the titles of the sequels. The title at the start on the movie was left unchanged though.
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Zorro (1957)
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Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka, the Kunio-kun game that featured the First Appearance of River City Girls's protagonists, was released in English 27 years later as River City Girls Zero following the latter game's popularity.
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Star Trek: The Original Series has only ever been referred as just Star Trek in its own title sequence. The Original Series became a commercial moniker once Star Trek: The Next Generation came out, and the various tie-ins, encyclopedias, technical manuals, chronologies, series bibles, Fan Speak, etc tend to refer to the different shows by a three letter acronym for ease of discussion, with The Original Series being (TOS), The Next Generation being (TNG) and followed by (DS9), (VOY), (ENT) and so on.
Some level of distinguishing was required in fandom much earlier when Star Trek: The Animated Series came out in 1973, and this series is now also retronymed as TAS in line with the others. Routine distinction of TOS as such would likely have intensified if Star Trek: Phase II had gone to series (would fans have referred to it as Phase I?) instead of becoming the first movie. As it turned out the universal use of The Original Series and TOS was not a thing until 1987 and the widespread use of the handy TNG abbreviation, whereupon TOS very quickly arose as a deliberate backwards emulation.
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The first game in the Command & Conquer series was given the subtitle "Tiberian Dawn" after the release of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, to help differentiate them from the Command & Conquer: Red Alert sub-series — though some of the documents on the official disc already referred to "Tiberian Dawn", suggesting it may have been an internal project name that got promoted to subtitle later on.
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Jurassic Park (1993)
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In-universe inversion: in A Song of Ice and Fire, reigning monarchs in Westeros not named after an ancestor are optimistically styled "the First of His Name" (as in, "King Robert Baratheon, the First of His Name") under the assumption that their dynasty will both continue to rule and name future monarchs after them. It's not looking good for either Robert or his "sons", Kings Joffrey and Tommen of the Houses Lannister and Baratheon, the First of Their Respective Names, to be commemorated this way.
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The Killer (1989)
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Toy Story
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After Fate/Grand Order entered Arc 1.5: Epic of Remnant, the first arc received the subtitle Observer on Timeless Temple.
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Gremlins (1984)
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Final Fantasy:
The original game was initially called just Final Fantasy, but remakes of it change the title to Final Fantasy I.
Final Fantasy Adventure was remade for the Game Boy Advance under the title Sword of Mana in order to fit with the other World of Mana games. Over a decade after that, it received another Updated Re-release on iOS, Android and Play Station Vita, this time bearing the title Adventures of Mana.
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Trollhunters: the subtitle "Tales of Arcadia" was added once the spawned two spin-offs.
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The first Ultima was titled Ultima, and later titled Ultima 1 - The Original, and Ultima I - The First Age of Darkness.
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In-universe example: it is a plot point in one Encyclopedia Brown mystery that the First Battle of Bull Run would not have been called such until after the second.
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Unreal
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The original The Legend of Zelda, originally a Famicom Disk System title, was re-released in Japan as a regular cartridge under the title of Zelda no Densetsu 1. However, the game itself had already referred to itself with the "1" in the ending sequence of the second quest.
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Tremors
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Mission: Thunderbolt was rereleased as JauntTrooper: Mission Thunderbolt.
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Within the Ultra Series, the Ultraman from Return of Ultraman was given several nicknames, such as the "New Ultraman" or "Ultraman the 2nd", to distinguish him from the original Ultraman (who, as an aside, has no official distinctive name to this day, forcing fans to label him with nicknames along the lines of "the original Ultraman") until he was officially named "Ultraman Jack" in the 1984 Ultraman Zoffy movie.
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When Disney brought TRON and The Muppet Movie to Blu-Ray, the cases of both flicks had the subtitle "The Original Classic", so people could distinguish them from TRON: Legacy and the 2011 The Muppets movie.
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This wiki sometimes uses retronyms to disambiguate the first work of a series from the series itself as a whole (since, if the series doesn't have enough different media for a Franchise page, they'll both be placed under the media tab) if there were no subtitles to be used. Those have become Artifact Titles for the most part, but the URL still shows an "1" (Arabic) or "I" (Roman) at the end no matter what (a few others, like Crash Bandicoot (1996) and Ratchet & Clank (2002), use their release year instead). Examples of "1" include:
Ant-Man
Assassin's Creed
Etrian Odyssey
Ghost Recon
Iron Man
Kingdom Hearts
The Legend of Zelda
Mario Party
Mass Effect
Mega Man
Metroid
Quake
Resident Evil
Sonic the Hedgehog
Star Fox
Street Fighter
Super Mario Bros.
Toy Story
Tremors
Unreal
X-Men
Yo-kai Watch
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The Mark of Zorro (1920)
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Pitch Black had the "Chronicles of Riddick" moniker attached to subsequent rereleases, after the sequel and the Escape from Butcher Bay video game established it as the series's umbrella title.
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Final Fantasy Adventure was remade for the Game Boy Advance under the title Sword of Mana in order to fit with the other World of Mana games. Over a decade after that, it received another Updated Re-release on iOS, Android and Play Station Vita, this time bearing the title Adventures of Mana.
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X-Men
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In his 1975 book about TV game shows, Norm Blumenthal (the producer of the original Concentration) joshingly billed the original NBC version of The Match Game as Match Game '62 (as the reboot used an abbreviated year in their title).
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) had a few of these, but when IDW reprinted vol. 3, they renamed it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends, both to differentiate it from the rest of the series, and as a reference to its (original) status as Canon Discontinuity.
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The original game was initially called just Final Fantasy, but remakes of it change the title to Final Fantasy I.
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Doctor Who episodes from 1963-1989 are now frequently referred to as "classic" Doctor Who, to differentiate from the revival since 2005.
Lampshaded in "Twice Upon a Time". One of the guest characters is a time-displaced World War I captain. At one point, the Doctor calls him "an officer from World War I", to which the captain immediately questions the "I" only to be replied "spoilers".
It took a while for fans to figure out what to call the reboot pilot movie starring Paul McGann (at least when small children were around): its only title on screen was Doctor Who, creating a need for a means of distinguishing it from the 1963-89 series and other Who properties, and producer Philip Segal did not help matters by grudgingly suggesting that if fans really wanted a name for it they could use "The Enemy Within" (which no one did). Eventually everyone settled on calling it Doctor Who: The TV Movie, and it is now so marketed (though the title sequence still has only Doctor Who).
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The Magnificent Seven (1960)
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Pikmin (2001) was formally retitled Pikmin 1 when it received an Updated Re-release on the Nintendo Switch alongside its sequel.
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7th Heaven: From 1998 to 2000, episodes from Seasons 1 & 2 aired on The WB under the title 7th Heaven: Beginnings.
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When Hasbro created the Transformers: Generation 2 line in 1993, fans started to refer to pre-1993 era as Generation 1. Eventually, Hasbro began to use it as an official name as well.
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The first King's Quest was titled King's Quest and King's Quest: Quest for the Crown. The VGA remake was titled King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown.
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The PSP version of Star Ocean is known as Star Ocean 1: First Departure.
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Some level of distinguishing was required in fandom much earlier when Star Trek: The Animated Series came out in 1973, and this series is now also retronymed as TAS in line with the others. Routine distinction of TOS as such would likely have intensified if Star Trek: Phase II had gone to series (would fans have referred to it as Phase I?) instead of becoming the first movie. As it turned out the universal use of The Original Series and TOS was not a thing until 1987 and the widespread use of the handy TNG abbreviation, whereupon TOS very quickly arose as a deliberate backwards emulation.
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Ghostbusters (1984)
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Napoléon (2002)
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This is quite common when it comes to reality TV shows getting more seasons, usually this is just done by putting a '1' on the end (like The Amazing Race), but certain shows have done differently to match later season themes, usually by adding the place onto the end where the show was filmed.
The first season of Survivor has since been named Survivor: Borneo.
The first season of The Real World has since been renamed The Real World: New York.
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Little Women (1994)
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Monster Hunter (2004)
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) is now marketed as Battlestar Galactica: The Original Series, especially when shilled alongside Galactica 1980 and Battlestar Galactica (2003).
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Paddington (2014)
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The first season of Survivor has since been named Survivor: Borneo.
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The first season of Sailor Moon was simply called Sailor Moon, while every following season got a letter or subtitle (Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon SuperS, and Sailor Moon Sailor Stars). Season 1 is usually referred to as Sailor Moon Classic to distinguish it from the rest. In addition, the entire original anime series is now sometimes called Sailor Moon Classic following the premiere of the Sailor Moon Crystal reboot.
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The Sam & Max: Freelance Police episodic videogames Sam & Max Save the World and Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space were originally called Sam & Max: Season One and Sam & Max: Season Two.
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Ant-Man
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The first Quest for Glory, after changing its title from Hero's Quest, was titled Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero in both EGA and VGA versions.
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Mega Man
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Warrior Cats:
The first series was called simply Warriors (or Warrior Cats, depending on where you live). After several other subseries came out, all under the same series name (e.g. "Warriors: The New Prophecy"), fans started calling the first series "The Original Series" or "The First Arc". It was later officially rebranded as The Prophecies Begin, though the fan-nicknames are used just as often.
The manga trilogy featuring Graystripe originally didn't have a trilogy name (such as "Ravenpaw's Path", etc) like the others - the volumes were just titled "Warriors: The Lost Warrior" and so forth, which caused a lot of confusion. The boxed set of the three, and later the full-color re-release, named the trilogy Graystripe's Adventure.
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Quake
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Angry Birds was renamed to Angry Birds Classic when made into a free game.
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Dune (1984)
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2021's Dune is a weird example in that it has Dune: Part One as title, but only in the ending cards. While it was publicly known that it would cover only about half of the book, it was probably a marketing decision to keep it as just Dune. Since Dune: Part Two has come out, the first film tends to be referred to more and more as Dune: Part One.
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The Avengers (1960s)
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The Creator (1999)
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
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TV broadcast prints of State Fair started using the title It Happened One Summer when the 1960s remake came out. Eventually, the critical and financial failures of the remake lessened the chances of mistaking the older movie for it, so this retronym became discarded.
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LISA was given the subtitle The First in order to match its RPG sequel, LISA: The Painful.
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Ronin (1998)
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1941 (1979)
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Ghost Recon
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The 1979 series, simply titled Kamen Rider (as was the main hero Hiroshi Tsukaba) was originally going to be a Continuity Reboot; after that plan was scrapped, the previous Kamen Riders showed up to help out and they gave Hiroshi the sobriquet "Skyrider". The show itself kept its name for the initial TV run, but reruns and home releases renamed it New Kamen Rider. This title was changed again to Kamen Rider Skyrider to avoid confusion with the movie Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue (the Japanese word for "new" is also "Shin"). As for Hiroshi himself, these days he tends to just be called "Skyrider", as opposed to "Kamen Rider Skyrider" or anything like that. And on the subject of Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue, the "Prologue" gained new weight in distinguishing it from the 2023 film Shin Kamen Rider, named as such because it's part of the Shin Japan Heroes Universe.
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Supergirl (1984)
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Get Carter (1971)
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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5 was renamed to Maximum Tune 5 (no "Wangan Midnight" part) for the North American release. Within the game, prior Maximum Tune games are renamed in the same format (as shown in soundtrack labels) despite having been released in the region with the Wangan Midnight parts of their respective titles intact, and Wangan Midnight R gets renamed to just Midnight R.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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Starship Troopers has Rico's narration call military sailors on the ocean "wet navy", to disambiguate them from the Space Navy that operates the starships; other SF authors have used this as well. No term is established for what ordinary ground soldiers are called to separate them from mobile infantry. "Sitting ducks" comes to mind.
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