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The Namesake
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Suppose you go see a film called The Boat. Movie starts and it takes place as far away from a body of water as is possible. No boats. An hour can pass and you won't see a single boat. But just when you were thinking "maybe it's a Word Salad Title", it is revealed that the characters suffered such a horrific shipwreck that they are now afraid to even speak of anything related to boats and the ocean. Expect to hear someone in the theater go, "Oh, that's why they call it that." This trope is similar to a Title Drop except that a character need not say it aloud. A namesake is the thing within a story after which the story itself is named. It could be a character, a place, an object, or indeed a metaphor. Often, the namesake is rather obvious (Romeo and Juliet is obviously named that way because there's a character called "Romeo" and another called "Juliet"; The Time Machine obviously includes a machine to travel through time), but sometimes, authors (or film studios) want to use titles that draw attention, and that's when the namesake may not appear until the end of the story, or might indeed only be a metaphor for a certain situation in the story which doesn't become clear until the end. In short, this becomes a trope when the reason why the book/movie/chapter/episode/etc. is called the way it is, isn't revealed to the audience until near the end; regardless of whether the characters knew about it all along or not. If the book/movie/chapter/episode is named after a pivotal plot point rather than an actual person/place/thing, then it's a Spoiler Title. Examples below should be stories where either what the title "promised" wasn't delivered until rather late in the story, or the title seemed non-indicative, and later was revealed to be physically in the story. Please do not put stories whose name was intentionally misleading all along, with the title thing never actually appearing. Sometimes, this is turned on its head when titles that the audience expects to refer to a metaphorical namesake become literal. As an example, if you haven't read Asimov's short story "Nightfall", you'll probably think the title is a metaphor for the situation the characters find themselves in, similar to Stephenie Meyer's use of the title Twilight. Asimov's story, in fact, revolves literally around an imminent sunset, which is an event the characters have never experienced. May be lampshaded if, once the namesake finally appears, a character asks, "why do they call it that?" usually immediately after the Title Drop. Compare Justified Title, when an apparently thematic title is revealed to really be a reference to some concrete element within the story, and Epunymous Title when it's a pun on the main character's name. Not to be confused with Namesake Gag, the book and film entitled The Namesake. In literary circles, this is called an "eponym", a term also used to refer to a Character Title. This is a Super-Trope to Metafictional Title, where the namesake is a book or something else that characters read. |
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Title Drop Chapter | |
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The title, reused from the first story, refers to the (first) Foundation, which Hari Seldon arranged to have colonized the distant planet Terminus. | |
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Crossed, Double-Crossed is a book shown in an episode of the TV series Charmed. Though the characters in the book generally mistrust each other, there isn't an actual betrayal until the end; when the main characters find themselves surrounded by bad guys and the book's narrator reveals The Namesake by saying, "The couple knew they'd been double-crossed and there was no way out." | |
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In-Universe, the Acolytes of Flame have named themselves after the Time of Flame, when the gods rain fire down on Kalgash for the sins of humanity. An event that occurs every two thousand, forty-nine years. | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses | |
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The titular "Green Patches" refer to the alien organs that allows the Saybrook lifeforms to communicate via Telepathy. | |
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Mid-Season Upgrade | |
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Frequently, the title refers to the protagonist's Mid-Season Upgrade rather than their original mobile suit; the Zeta Gundam, 00 Gundam, and God Gundam note The dub calls it the Burning Gundam; theoretically, the show should have been called B Gundam... come to mind. | |
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The German title is "Das Chronoskop" and the Italian title is "Il cronoscopio". Both translations promote the time-viewing device to titular importance due to its impact on the story. | |
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Orwellian Retcon | |
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The titular "Misbegotten Missionary" (the original title) is the Villain Protagonist who wants to share their type of "unified life" with all of Earth. | |
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The Plan | |
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The alternative title, The 1,000 Year Plan, refers to Hari Seldon's Plan for a mere thousand years between the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the next Galactic Empire. | |
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