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The first step in the creative process is an idea. That part is obvious. Coming up with what to call that idea can be troublesome. And if you don't have a name for it, then talking about it is a chore. This is why a lot of works go through a number of names between production and release. The end result may be that you hear actors talk in an interview about a movie they're doing, and then find it came out under a different name altogether.
Working titles can also be used defensively, allowing the creators to refer to their project without giving much away. It can help camouflage a ground-breaking project against someone else copying the idea, or sneak an anticipated sequel under the media radar until it is ready for the world to hear about it. Also can be used to get lower production costs for big sequels as locations or prop companies overcharge on big name features.
In many other cases, the working title is the originally intended title that was changed because of last-minute Executive Meddling.
Not to be confused with the British production company affiliated with Universal.
See also Market-Based Title (which is what some of the Working Titles are if they contain curse words or are otherwise considered obscene innuendo), Censored Title (same) and Permanent Placeholder (when the Working Title sticks).
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Predator was Alien Hunter, Hunter and Primevil.
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Watchmen was originally called Who Killed the Peacemaker, as it was written to star characters from Charlton Comics that DC Comics had recently acquired the rights to.
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Dream Theater formed under the name Majesty, but had to change their name because another band were already using that name. A track on their debut album When Dream and Day Unite was titled "The Ytse Jam" in reference to this. They went through several other names, including Magus and M1, and even spent a week under the name Glasser, before finally settling on the name Dream Theater.
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Blonde on Blonde was originally called I Want You.
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Planning documents for Gunstar Heroes use the titles Blade Gunner and Lunatic Gunstar.
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Hex Hall series: The original title of the first book, Hex Hall, was "Too Near the Glass". It went on submission as "Demonglass", which ended up being the title of book 2 instead.
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Let's Go Luna! went by the name Luna Around the World when it was originally announced.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica had the temporary title of "Mahou Shoujo Apocalypse Madoka Magica" before they finally decided to get rid of the "Apocalypse" part. ("Puella Magi" and "Mahou Shoujo" are just "Magical Girl" in Latin and Japanese, respectively.)
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The Long Good Friday was originally called The Paddy Factor. This was changed to avoid spoiling the plot. After suggesting Harold's Kingdom, Havoc and Citadel Of Blood, The Long Good Friday was chosen, due to its similarities to Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and the Easter setting.
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Rio Bravo was originally called A Bull by the Tail.
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The author originally considered calling the story In Your Bones, In Your Soul before choosing the title Abraxas.
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The album Let It Be was originally called Get Back.
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Sleepless Domain: As seen in early promotional materials, the comic was originally going to be named Umbra Rising. This was changed to the comic's current name several months before it began publication, as Sleepless Domain was determined to better suit the concept.
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Song of the South went into production under the title Uncle Remus.
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The UK version of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? had the working title of The Ultimate Superhero at one point. This is evidenced in the episode where the superheroes visit BBC Television Centre and their guest passes read "The Ultimate Superhero".
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Metallica's Demo Magnetic shows the Death Magnetic songs, aside from "The Unforgiven III" ("UN3") and "My Apocalypse" ("Ten", because it is the tenth song), had amusing ones: "Hi Guy" ("That Was Just Your Life"), "Neinteen" ("The End of the Line"), "Black Squirrel" ("Broken, Beat & Scarred"), "Casper" ("The Day That Never Comes"), "Flamingo" ("All Nightmare Long"), "German Soup" ("Cyanide"), "Gymbag" ("The Judas Kiss"), and "K2LU" ("Suicide & Redemption" - like "The Call of Ktulu", an instrumental).
"Until It Sleeps" from Load had the working title of "Fobd", because the song reminded the band of Soundgarden's "Fell On Black Days" - an early demo, recorded before the band had worked out real lyrics, was released as a B-Side under that title.
Kill 'Em All was originally called Metal Up Your Ass. It was changed as the label thought it would impede the band's commercial success, though the original artwork was later re-used for a T-shirt.
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Kirby Super Star was known as Kirby: Active during development. Shigesato Itoi came up with the final Japanese name, Kirby Super Deluxe. The working title for Kirby Super Star Ultra was Kirby Super Deluxe Plus, which was tweaked to Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe. The filenames are still labeled "sdx_plus".
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Wicked Little Things had two: The Children and Zombies.
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The Black Hearts was originally titled Mercury's Pain to keep up with the naming convention of the series that included the story.note The solo origin stories had the POV character's first name in the title. However, the writer wasn't too fond of it, so they settled on this story being the Odd Name Out.
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Trading Places was originally called Black and White.
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"What's Up, Doc?" was originally titled "Hare's My Story".
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows had two other possible titles, switching "Deathly Hallows" out with the Elder Wand or the Peverell Quest. Rowling admits that she rejected the latter pretty quickly, though, since "Quest" sounded corny.
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Subnautica had the working title of Descend.
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Sonic Unleashed was originally going to be the third installment in the Adventure series, but got renamed to Sonic World Adventure, before reaching its final name. The Japanese version kept the original title though.
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A Hard Day's Night was originally called The Beatles, then Beatlemania. The final title came from Ringo Starr coining a phrase after a hard day.
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The Great Mouse Detective was titled Basil of Baker Street, after the novel it adapted, before the name was changed late in production. Much of the crew was unhappy with the change, leading to a Writer Revolt in which they published a fake memo saying that all of Disney's animated features would be retitled. The rumored reason for the change? Paramount's Young Sherlock Holmes hadn't been a big hit the previous Christmas, and thus Disney wanted to play down their film being a Funny Animal / Mouse World version of a Holmes adventure.
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Before an official title was decided on, Crash Bandicoot was jokingly referred to as The Sonic's Ass Game in development, as it was a mascot platformer where the character moved away from the screen, making their backside visible. The "serious" title was "Willie the Wombat" — though they had never planned on using that for the final game, the player character model is still internally labeled "willie". The final name came from the way that the eponymous character would "crash" his way through the crates and other objects found in the levels.
Crash: Mind Over Mutant was going to be called Crash: Invasion of the Bandicoot Snatchers, but it changed due to problems translating while keeping the joke.
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The loose collection of ideas that eventually became Enlightenments had the working title That Sad Team ICO Fic until the PS4 remaster of Shadow of the Colossus came out and introduced the Enlightenments collectables that gave the fic its name.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey was originally called Bill and Ted Go to Hell. This was changed due to censorship reasons. Megadeth recorded a song called "Go To Hell" for the soundtrack because the movie was still going to be called that when they were asked to contribute.
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Subverted with Monster Hunter. The story goes that "Monster Hunter" was the working title and was intended to be changed later in development, but the developers liked the sheer simplicity of it so much that the name stuck.
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American Graffiti almost had its title changed. The studio didn't like the name, so they went through a lot of alternatives - Another Slow Night in Modesto, The Hot Time, The Wild Summer, Color Them Wild, The Young Crowd, Summer Blood, Wild Is the Blood, The Young and the Doomed, The Last Free Summer, The Summer Before, The Savage Heart, The Cherry Coke Summer, Look Back Once, The Fast and the Deadly, The Fires of Summer, The Violent Four, Before We Grow Up, No More Rock, The Frantic Heart, The Games of Summer, The Toy Dreams Gone, The Yesterday People, The Boys and Their Girls, Last Knight to Make Out, Burger City Blues, A Night to Get Ready, Make Out at Burger City, A Night in '62, Rock Around the Clock, Last Night Together, Remember '62, Goodbye Burger City, High School's Over, Kids, Buddies No More, Ask Wolfman Jack, Pals 'n Gals, Make-Out, Buddies, Supercola, The Race, Growing Up, Burger City, The Drag Years, Those Were the Days, The Good Times, The Sock Hop, Wine, Women & Song, 1962 Was Some Year, Collage, Class of '62, The Rock Set, Rock Generation, To Learn About the World, A New World Tomorrow, Misadventure and Rebus.
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Lolly-Madonna XXX is referred to in 1972 magazines as The Lolly-Madonna War, which is the title of the original novel.
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Escape from Vault Disney! had two potential titles before the show launched with its current name, that being Disney Minus, which was rejected for being too negative, and Once Upon a Stream, which was already taken by a Disney+ podcast starting at around the same time.
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Epic (2013) was originally called Leafmen, which is closer to the book the film is based on.
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Battle Racing Stars was known as Booster Raiders for the entirety of its soft-launch. The name was changed less than a month before its global release due to not being very indicative of what the game is about.
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Battalion Wars, a Nintendo GameCube installment of Nintendo's Advance Wars series, was initially titled Advance Wars: Under Fire, keeping the Advance Wars moniker the series was introduced to internationally. Amusingly, the Japanese version was titled Totsugeki!! Famicom Wars, which used the original Famicom Wars moniker.
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About Scout was originally called Scout.
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A Bucket of Blood was The Living Dead.
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Little Tail Bronx:
Tail Concerto went by the name Little Tail during the prototype stages. It can be presumed that this is where the franchise name came from.
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter was originally announced as Solarobo (note the lack of the "to") and was presented at France's Japan Expo as Project Coda. The latter title ended up a plot point in the game.
Its prequel, Fuga: Melodies of Steel, went under a very generic codename of Tank, judging from the PC executable.
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Jetpack Joyride was originally known as Machine Gun Jetpack, named so after the default jetpack. Lead designer Luke Muscat claims that the name change was the very last tweak they did before the release and the reason for that was the game presenting itself on the app list as "Machine Gun...", which made it more ominous than intended and not very indicative as to what the game is about. Machine Fun Jetpack was a known alternate Halfbrick Studios almost went with, but was quickly rejected in favor of the current name.
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Tom and Jerry:
Switchin' Kitten, the first of Gene Deitch's shorts, was originally titled Dog My Cats. The suits at MGM came up with the final title, which Deitch detested because he felt it wasn't relevant to the "Freaky Friday" Flip plot.
Tall in the Trap was originally titled Top Trap.
Puss 'n' Boats had several working titles, including Down to the Cheese in Ships, Blow the Cat Down, Salt Water Tabby and Bell Bottom Mouser.
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Tomorrow Always Comes for No Deals, Mr. Bond. Much like the previous example, the change was forced by the publisher.
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The Defenders (2017) filmed under the working title of "Group Therapy", a lampshade on how dysfunctional the four main heroes are.
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Hikari Sentai Maskman was titled Fiveman, which explains why their team symbol is the number 5. It was changed during post-production of the first episode, and the Fiveman name was used three years later.
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Fire Emblem:
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade ("The Sword of Seal"), the first Game Boy Advance game in the Fire Emblem series, was originally titled Fire Emblem: Ankoku no Miko ("The Maiden of Darkness").
Both Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance are internally known as Fire Emblem 8. Path of Radiance began development first, but Sacred Stones was scheduled to release first.
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In-universe example in BoJack Horseman: Mr. Peanutbutter's House was initially simply "Unnamed ''Horsin' Around'' Knockoff".
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Underworld's Beaucoup Fish could have been titled Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Underworld - the group ultimately decided that the title, referencing a catchphrase from British talent competition tv show Stars In Their Eyes, would be incomprehensible to international audiences. Instead they titled the album after a Spoken Word in Music sample from the song "Jumbo".
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According to the author, the Star Trek: Voyager fic A Fire of Devotion was originally going to be titled Sam & Annie.
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That '70s Show had the working titles The Kids Are Alright and Teenage Wasteland, but everyone just kept referring to it as "that '70s show" and the title stuck.
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Some Like It Hot was Not Tonight, Josephine.
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The Vampire was It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn.
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The Burning was The Cropsy Maniac.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was originally slated to be It's Always Sunny on Television when initially developed. The final title was developed as another working title, but they couldn't think of a better one so they just left it.
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The same thing happened with Reality Bites.
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The Simpsons:
"You Kent Always Say What You Want" was originally titled "The Kent State Massacre", but was changed after the Virginia Tech shootings.
"Homer's Phobia" was originally titled "Lisa Goes to Camp", but was changed because the pun was thought to be too oblique and the story (which would have been about Lisa getting into collecting kitsch items and Bart doing the same, only for Homer to worry about Bart's sexuality) was rewritten to include the kitschy antique store owner played by John Waters and having him be the one who allegedly influences Bart.
"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" was originally titled "Fat Man and Little Boy", which was later used for an unrelated episode in Season 16.
"Much Apu About Nothing" was originally titled "Anti-Immigration Song".
"Specs in the City" was originally titled "I Only Have My Eyes for You".note This is due to the product featured in the episode, the Oogle Goggles, originally being called MyEyes.
"Daddicus Finch" was originally titled "Lisa Has a Crush on Homer".
"Lisa the Boy Scout" was originally titled "Love Hacktually".
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Kirby's Adventure was originally announced in Nintendo Power as Kirby's Adventure: Nightmare in Dreamland. The subtitle would be reworked for the game's remake, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
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Live Free or Die Hard was first announced as Die Hard 4.0, tying into the films cyber-terrorism plot. When shooting actually began, 20th Century Fox announced the title would be Live Free or Die Hard, although the film was released everywhere but America as 4.0. Director Len Wiseman and star Bruce Willis can be heard on the DVD commentary mocking the change.
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The original trailer for Hyrule Warriors listed the title (in an plain font on a white background) as this. The name stuck.
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During the early development of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the game was actually titled MGS III (skipping a number).
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Happy Smekday! for Home (2015), probably changed because it wouldn't mean much to those who hadn't read The True Meaning of Smekday, the film's source material.
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Fish Police was originally called Inspector Gill of the Fish Police. The original title can be seen in the Issue 0, and in some concept art in the final issue.
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Where Are the Children?: The original title Mary Higgins Clark came up with was Die a Little Death, taken from a memoir of one of King Louis XIV's mistresses, specifically the part where she describes her grief over the death of her baby ("And I with my baby died a little death"). Higgins Clark later changed it to Where Are the Children? at the request of her editor, as she felt Die a Little Death was too suggestive of a "hard-edged crime story", whereas Where are the Children? was agreed to be more compelling and tonally-fitting.
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Godzilla: The Series was referred to as Heat Seekers to hide the fact it was a tie-in with Godzilla (1998). Early concept art and storyboards of Godzilla for the cartoon were referred to as "Gorgon" or "Thingy"/"Thingie", and drawn as a vaguely Spinosaurus-like creature to further disguise the true premise (and the fact even many of the show's producers were not allowed to see Godzilla's redesign until the movie came out in theatres).
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Corvette Summer had Dantley & Vanessa: A Fiberglass Romance, Stingray, and The Hot One.
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Humorously, the working titles for both Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur were Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and were even announced as such: The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside Your Mind/About Dinosaurs. (seen above)
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In late 2010 Egosoft announced they were working on a project which they called TNBT, short for The Next Big Thing. In 2011, it was announced as X: Rebirth.
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Kickin' It had the working title Wasabi Warriors; perhaps it was changed to clarify that it's a martial-arts rather than Cooking Duel show.
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Looney Tunes:
"Porky's Badtime Story" was originally titled "It Happened All Night", but was changed because it was considered too suggestive (when really it was a reference to the screwball comedy It Happened One Night).
"Get Rich Quick Porky" was originally titled "The Oily Bird Gets Porky".
"Jungle Jitters" was originally titled "The Fulla Bluff Salesman".
"Falling Hare" was originally titled "Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin".
The reason for the above change was that Walt Disney was planning a movie about gremlins and asked other studios to hold off any gremlin related projects. Warner Bros. already had two gremlin cartoons well into production, so they simply changed the titles. The second short, "Russian Rhapsody", was originally "Gremlins from the Kremlin".
"Scent-imental Over You" was originally titled "Forever Ambushed".
"Daffy Duck Slept Here" was originally titled "Room and Bored".
"Homeless Hare" was originally titled "Blueprint Bunny".
"What's Up, Doc?" was originally titled "Hare's My Story".
"Rabbit Fire" was originally titled "What's Up, Duck?".
"Punch Trunk" was originally titled "Little Doubt".
"Design For Leaving" was originally titled "Future Antics".
"Gone Batty" was originally titled "Trunkful of Curves".
"Goo Goo Goliath" was originally titled "Stork Clubbed".
"Lighthouse Mouse" was originally titled "Light Mouse Keeping".
"One Froggy Evening" was originally titled "It Hopped One Night".
"The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" was originally titled "Of Mice and Menace".
"Wideo Wabbit" was originally titled "Omni-Bunny".
"Hare-Way to the Stars" was originally titled "Up in the Hare".
"Mice Follies" was originally titled "Mouse-Trapped".
"The Dixie Fryer" was originally tiled "Southern Flied Chicken".
"Dog Gone People" was originally titled "Canine Mutiny".
"Road to Andalay" was originally titled "Tequila Mockingbird".
"Well Worn Daffy" was originally titled "Gunga Daffy".
"Quacker Tracker" was originally titled "A Hunting We Will Go-Go".
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Monsieur Verdoux was The Ladykiller and A Comedy of Murders.
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Magic Adventures of Mumfie was originally called "Here Comes Mumfie", which was changed because there was already a puppet show with the same name.
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Clash of the Dinosaurs was going to be called Dino Body.
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Wreck-It Ralph was originally called High Score, Reboot Ralph, and Joe Jump. (Though it should be noted that those versions of the film, other than involving video game characters, had somewhat different premises).
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Ikaruga was known in development as Project RS2.
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Barbie: The Pearl Princess was originally called "Barbie in The Pearl Princess" and "Barbie: Pearl of The Sea".
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Deadly Premonition was first announced in 2007 under the title Rainy Woods.
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My Adventures with Superman was called Superman: Up and Away during production.
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Follies was originally to have been titled The Girls Upstairs.
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The Story of Thor was going to be published in North America as Legend of Thor instead of The Legend of Oasis.
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Faith No More's "Ricochet" had the working title of "Nirvana", and sometimes appeared on their setlists under that name even after it was released under another title. This inspired its share of Wild Mass Guessing among fans at the time — it doesn't help that the song includes the lines "And I'd rather be shot in my face/than hear what you're going to say". However the band maintain that the working title was chosen because it happened to be written on the day of Kurt Cobain's death (and thus slightly before he was actually reported dead), not because the lyrics actually had anything to do with him.
An instrumental jam that eventually became the verse section of "Zombie Eaters" was informally known to the band as "Surprise! You're Dead". While the finished song ended up being called something else, Mike Patton liked the title "Surprise! You're Dead" enough that he used it for a totally different song on the same album.
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Tomato Adventure went by the title of Gimmick Land when it was originally in development.
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The working title of Sonic and the Secret Rings was "Sonic Wildfire".
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Dr. Mario had the simple Working Title of Virus and originally didn't feature Mario at all.
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ANNO: Mutationem's early title when it was in development was called ThirtySeven - 37.
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Roseanne was going to be Life and Stuff. The title was used for the pilot episode.
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NCIS: Los Angeles was called NCIS: Legend when being developed.
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City of Angels was originally Death is for Suckers, a phrase that occurs near the start of the Private Eye Monologue; Double Exposure was an intermediate title.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) was originally called Head Cheese, then Leatherface.
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Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony was just known as "The Brony Doc" until late in production.
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Power Rangers Dino Fury, as revealed by director Simon Bennett, was originally titled Dino Knights, fitting with the heroes of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. By this point, Hasbro have final approval of all names, and it was ultimately changed.
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Half-Life was developed under the code name Quiver.
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Batman Forever was originally known as Blinko.
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The working titles for Kirby Fighters Deluxe and Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe were respectively "Royal Rampage! Pink Fighting Championship" and "Sorry, No Kirby! Dedede's Drum Dash".
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The final season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force was initially to be known as Aqua TiVo Avoidance Plan, but was later given a Meaningful Rename into Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever.
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Uberwald Nights for The Fifth Elephant
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Kirby:
Kirby's Dream Land was originally proposed as Popopo of the Spring Breeze, and then renamed Twinkle Popo. The latter name is a somewhat famous trivia point, as it was used late enough in development that box art and advertising material was produced using that name. They eventually delayed the release to decide on a more internationally-appealing name, and landed on Kirby of the Stars in Japan and Kirby's Dream Land internationally.
Kirby's Adventure was originally announced in Nintendo Power as Kirby's Adventure: Nightmare in Dreamland. The subtitle would be reworked for the game's remake, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
Kirby Super Star was known as Kirby: Active during development. Shigesato Itoi came up with the final Japanese name, Kirby Super Deluxe. The working title for Kirby Super Star Ultra was Kirby Super Deluxe Plus, which was tweaked to Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe. The filenames are still labeled "sdx_plus".
Kirby Air Ride started out as a Nintendo 64 game called Kirby Ball 64 — indicating it as a sequel to Kirby's Dream Course, which is Kirby Ball in Japan — and later Kirby's Air Ride before ending on the final name. The Japanese name is Kirby's Airride, which is pretty close.
Kirby's Return to Dream Land was announced as Kirby Wii, which is a more literal translation of the Japanese name. An earlier considered name was Kirby: Super Friends.
The working titles for Kirby Fighters Deluxe and Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe were respectively "Royal Rampage! Pink Fighting Championship" and "Sorry, No Kirby! Dedede's Drum Dash".
The original working title for Kirby: Planet Robobot was "Kirby: HAGANE" (hagane means "steel" in Japanese). That was felt to be too edgy, so it was changed to "Robot Planet," which seemed too simplistic. It was tweaked to "Roborobo Planet", and then "Robobo Planet", the final Japanese name. The English version then tweaked that further to "Planet Robobot".
Kirby Star Allies was announced as Kirby for Nintendo Switch.
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The Princess and the Frog was The Frog Princess, after the specific version of ''The Frog Prince'' that inspired it.
After that movie didn't do as well as Disney hoped, the studio retitled the next two fairy tale-inspired films on their docket in turn to avoid the Girl-Show Ghetto: Rapunzel became Tangled (though Rapunzel remained the Market-Based Title in some countries), and The Snow Queen became Frozen (again, some countries got the original title in some way).
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The Puzzle Place was known as The Puzzleworks in its pilot episodes, and before that, it was announced as The Puzzle Factory.
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"Summer School" for Double Homework.
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Classic Disney Shorts:
The Silly Symphony short "Bugs in Love" had the working title "Bug Symphony".
"Pluto's Judgement Day" was originally titled "Pluto's Nightmare".
"Polar Trappers" was originally titled "Arctic Trappers" and "Antarctic Trappers".
"The Fox Hunt" was originally titled "Master of the 'Ounds".
"Mr. Duck Steps Out" was originally titled "Donald's Date" and "Donald in the Groove".
"Pluto's Playmate" was originally titled "Big-Hearted Pluto".
"The Art of Skiing" was originally titled "How to Ski".
The Donald Duck cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" was originally titled "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land", but was changed when the song became a runaway hit (though some people call it "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land" regardless).
"The Flying Jalopy" was originally titled "Mr. Duck Gets His Wings".
"The Simple Things" was originally titled "Boy Meets Gull" and "Gull Crazy".
"Canvas Back Duck" was originally titled "Forgot to Duck".
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Donkey Kong Country was codenamed "The Country Project" due to Rare's headquarters being in the countryside.
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When Harry Met Sally... was originally called "Harry, This is Sally...".
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Dragon Age: Inquisition was originally just known as Dragon Age III, and then as Dragon Age III: Inquisition. The developers quickly realized that DAIII:I was a rather clumsy abbreviation, and dropped the number.
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Peep Show was originally titled POV.
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Yellow Submarine had the working title All You Need Is Love. Ringo suggested the name Yellow Submarine (the song which he, of course, sang) because "you can put anything in a submarine."
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land was announced as Kirby Wii, which is a more literal translation of the Japanese name. An earlier considered name was Kirby: Super Friends.
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Resident Evil: Gun Survivor 2 had the working title Biohazard: Fire Zone.
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In-Universe Example in Quantum Break; you can find the outline of a book Will is writing called A Civilian's Guide to Time Travel (Cliché Working Title).
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Wild Things was Sex Crimes, which was its actual title in multiple countries. This makes the intro of the movie also a Title Drop when Sam gives a lecture on the topic.
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Idiocracy used both 3001 and The United States of Uhh-merica.
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Pillars of Eternity was announced on Kickstarter as Project Eternity.
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Harry Potter:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a rather interesting case. The working title was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which, as you may recognize, is now the title of the sixth book. Originally, the second book would have contained the Chamber of Secrets plotline and the Half-Blood Prince plotline side-by-side. Ultimately, J. K. Rowling decided to keep the Chamber of Secrets plotline and move the Half-Blood Prince plotline to a later book, hence the sixth's re-use of various plot points from the second, such as a mysterious old schoolbook.
After the fourth book's working title, Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament, was leaked, Rowling changed it to Harry Potter and the Triwizard Tournament. Finally she settled on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows had two other possible titles, switching "Deathly Hallows" out with the Elder Wand or the Peverell Quest. Rowling admits that she rejected the latter pretty quickly, though, since "Quest" sounded corny.
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The Last Guardian went by the working title "Project Trico", the name of the griffon-like creature that accompanies the playable character, before getting its official name at E3 2009.
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In an interesting example, the original title for the sixth alien film was Romulus, but due to this becoming so intertwined with production that people started calling the film Alien: Romulus, this ended up being what the full film was called.
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Just Dance 2014 was originally called Just Dance 5.
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Ōban Star-Racers originally had the title of Molly: Star Racer. Production fluxed back and forth between the two titles.
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In his Doctor Who Magazine column for March 2011, Steven Moffat announced what some of the upcoming episodes wouldn't be called: The first episode of the new season wouldn't be "Year of the Moon" ("I really like that title, but absolutely nobody else does in the whole wide world"), the second wouldn't be "Look Behind You!", and the mid-season finale either wouldn't be "His Darkest Hour" or it wouldn't be "A Good Man Goes to War". Neil Gaiman's episode, meanwhile, had a story so secret Moffat couldn't even tell us what it wasn't called. ("Bigger on the Inside", and before that "The House of Nothing").
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Similarly, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was originally titled Super Mario Bros. 5: Yoshi's Island in a prototype build. Both titles are still sequels to Super Mario World. Subverted in Japan, where it was changed to Super Mario: Yoshi's Island.
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Chris Cornell's solo debut Euphoria Morning was originally going to be titled Euphoria Mourning, but he decided that the fact that "mourning" and "morning" are homonyms would cause confusion about the title when it was said aloud on the radio. He later regretted this decision (citing friends telling him the album title sounded like an air freshener scent) and went back to the working title 16 years after the fact: A 2015 reissue restored the original intended spelling to the artwork.
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Kingsman:
Kingsman: The Secret Service was Kingsman and Sons and The Secret Service.
The working title for Kingsman: The Golden Circle was Kingsman: The Golden Triangle, but it was changed because test audiences didn't understand what it meant (it's a reference to the real-life area where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet).
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Beck's "Broken Train" was originally going to be called "Out of Kontrol" before a last-minute title change — basically shifting the Title Drop from the pre-chorus to the chorus itself. The reason for this was to avoid having Similarly Named Works — The Chemical Brothers' "Out of Control" was released as a single a month earlier. Some promo copies of Midnite Vultures still had the song listed as "Out of Kontrol".
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The Dark Knight Rises was Magnus Rex.
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Earlier titles for the film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit included The Vegeburglars and The Great Vegetable Plot.
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Jurassic World was filmed under the title Ebb Tide, while Jurassic World Dominion used Arcadia.
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Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights was originally called Deal With This, Retards. This was changed by Channel 4 to avoid offending people.
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Diamonds In The Desert had more than two names. It was originally planned as a slapstick heist fic in the tradition of the Aces Go Places series and thus named Mouse Mission. After watching Mission: Impossible which was still before writing a single word, the author reconsidered, changed the genre and started writing it under the working title All The Glitter. Since this title still wasn't fitting enough, the story was eventually renamed again to Diamonds In The Desert.
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The Prowler was Most Likely to Die.
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The Wonderful 101 was named "Project P-100" during its early stages.
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The Evil Dead (1981) was Book of the Dead.
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Grange Hill was originally called Grange Park, which would go on to be used as the name of the school in Phil Redmond's other series Brookside.
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Andy Richter Controls the Universe was originally titled Anything Can Happen.
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The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths was originally called Margaret on the Guillotine. Morrissey did use the title for a track on his first solo album Viva Hate.
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Ultra Q was going to be called Unbalance. But with the popularity of the word "Ultra" in Japan at the time, it was changed, with the "Q" added to stand for "Question" or "Quest" to fit the mystery themes of the show. The title of Unbalance was later recycled by TsuPro for a horror series.
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High School Musical was meant to be a working title, but the title was still being used in post-production and it stuck.
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The Breakfast Club went through some alternate titles - Detention, The Lunch Bunch and Library Revolution.
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Annie Warbucks, the sequel to Annie, was originally Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge. The title change was partly because Miss Hannigan was written out of the show, but also necessitating changing the lyrics to one of the songs: "Above the Law" originally had the punny refrain "You can be Annie, too!"
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Power Rangers and Super Sentai:
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was originally pitched as Galaxy Rangers, which is also the international title used for its source series.
During development, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive was originally titled Drive Force and later Relic Hunters.
Power Rangers Jungle Fury was titled Beast Fist early on in its development (a translation of the term "Juken", used in its parent show Gekiranger).
Power Rangers Dino Fury, as revealed by director Simon Bennett, was originally titled Dino Knights, fitting with the heroes of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. By this point, Hasbro have final approval of all names, and it was ultimately changed.
Hikari Sentai Maskman was titled Fiveman, which explains why their team symbol is the number 5. It was changed during post-production of the first episode, and the Fiveman name was used three years later.
''Choujin Sentai Jetman, evidently, had at least a couple; director Keita Amemiya gave the tentative title of "Jumpman" in a magazine before the premiere, while Toshihide Wakamatsu (Gai Yuki) would recall that it was originally "Birdman".
As revealed by Tom Constantine, a proposed title for Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger was Sentai Sentai Sentaiger. The name "Sentaiger" ended up being used by the Geardalinger as the generic sound used when activating Sentai Gears for previous teams.
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Danger Man was originally called Lone Wolf.
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King of the Hill's original show titles included: Hank Hill and His Clan, The Hank Hill Comedy Hour, Dale Gribble and The Other Guy, I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass!, Citizen Hank, and Propane Man.
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Starship Troopers (the film) was originally known as Bug Hunt, an unrelated script that was later changed into an adaptation of the novel.
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Sesame Street went through various working titles, including 123 Avenue B, which was rejected for being too New York specific. This was even parodied in the show's 1969 pitch reel, where Muppets suggest various bad titles. The creative team ultimately settled on Sesame Street because it was "the least bad title" they could think of.
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Macross was originally pitched by Studio Nue as "Megaroad", but advertising agency Big West wanted to change the title to "Macbeth", as one of Big West's executives was a Shakespeare fan. As a compromise, they changed the title to "Macross". The "Megaroad" name was eventually used for the SDF-2 Megaroad-01, which appeared in the 1987 OVA, Macross: Flashback 2012.
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Discworld:
Unclear Physics for Interesting Times
Words in the Head for Feet of Clay
Uberwald Nights for The Fifth Elephant
For Fear of Little Men (as in "We dare not go a-hunting...) for The Wee Free Men
The Science of Discworld IV was actually available for pre-order on Amazon with the subtitle The Magic of Roundworld, before a fan at a convention suggested Judgement Day.
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James Bond:
The Undertaker's Wind for Live and Let Die.
Meltdown for Licence Renewed.
Tomorrow Always Comes for No Deals, Mr. Bond. Much like the previous example, the change was forced by the publisher.
No Tears for Hong Kong for Zero Minus Ten. The original name ended up being used as a Market-Based Title in some countries.
The World Is Not Enough for The Facts of Death.
A Better Way to Die for High Time to Kill.
Doppelganger for DoubleShot. The title comes from the old legends about seeing one's double, which was seen as a bad omen.
Red Widow Dawn for The Man with the Red Tattoo, which is the name of the bad guys' Evil Plan.
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Total Drama:
World Tour was originally announced as Total Drama: The Musical.
Revenge of the Island started out as Total Drama Comedy, then Total Drama - Return to Wawanakwa and lastly Total Drama Reloaded.
Total DramaRama was announced as Total Drama Daycare.
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Parklife by Blur was originally called London.
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Dragon Rage was originally going to be called Dragon Wars of Might and Magic.
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Halloween (1978) was called The Babysitter Murders.
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The Skin Horse storyline "Yes, Virginia" was intially "Playing Pilgrims", before Shaenon and Jeff realised there was a much better title for a story about Virginia Lee on a Secret Santa. The Official Fan-Submitted Content storyline "Ghosts I Have Been" was intially "Be the Jeff 2017".
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Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, before Disney shortened it to Ralph Breaks the Internet.
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Torchwood itself takes its title from what was the anagram code name for the first season of the Doctor Who revival.
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American Justice was going to be called Get Justice.
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was originally pitched as Galaxy Rangers, which is also the international title used for its source series.
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The Binding of Isaac went by Love Sick then later Mom in early development. The current title was chosen as a reference to the Biblical story of the same name, as well as a play on The Legend of Zelda, which the gameplay is inspired by.
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Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch! (1971) had the working name "The Yo-Yo Bears".
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Power Bomberman was originally released as Rho Bomberman, but it was changed to its current title a few months later, with the release of version 0.3.1.
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: As revealed in the Developer's Note for Time's Shadow:
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P903 is How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk.
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Return of the Jedi had Blue Harvest as a working title to keep the production hidden — besides from overeager fans, they really didn't want to repeat the experience of being overcharged by location managers for The Empire Strikes Back. When Family Guy made their first Star Wars special, they called it Blue Harvest. The film was later going to be named Revenge of the Jedi, which was changed due to revenge not being what a Jedi usually does. Revenge of the Sith gave this a Call-Back.
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Fifth Harmony's "Work from Home" was initially going to be called "Work", but then Rihanna's "Work" was released a month earlier. Tellingly, the word "work" is repeated much more often in the refrain than the full phrase "work from home".
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Work It Out Wombats! was originally titled just Wombats!
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The Mobius Final Fantasy working title was Mevius Final Fantasy.
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Ben 10: Alien Force was originally called Ben 10: Hero Generation, though this was due to that version having an entirely different concept.
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Disney's live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch was given the working title Bad Dog, referencing the titular mischievous alien who gets adopted as a dog. More amusingly, the production company established just for this film was named "Blue Koala Pictures, Inc.", so named after the blue Stitch's resemblance to the marsupial.
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Spider-Man on the PlayStation 4 had the working title Spider-Man PS4.
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Chaos on the Bridge was originally going to be called Wacky Doodle. Inspired by a statement by Maurice Hurley, one of the interview subjects: “Star Trek is not like any other show because it is one unique vision, and if you agree with Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future, you should be locked up somewhere. It's wacky doodle, but it's his wacky doodle.�
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EuroTrip was originally called The Ugly Americans, but was changed by DreamWorks SKG, likely to cash in on the success of Road Trip.
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Luke Cage (2016) filmed under the working title "Tiara", a reference to Luke's comics outfit.
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Smile was originally called Teen Angel.
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The Mad Monster was The Mad Monsters.
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands had the working title of Rumble Jaw to hide its existence from not only fans, but also anyone at the studio who wasn't a member of the production team. The producer even had artwork commissioned to hang on the studio walls in place of new Adventure Time artwork to help sell the deception until the miniseries was officially announced.
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Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Special originally went by the title Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience prior to the special's release.
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado went though multiple titles. Originally, it was going to just be Soldado. But then it was changed to Sicario:Soldado, presumably to make it clearer that it was a sequel to Sicario. But then for whatever reason, the title was changed again to it's final title.
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Phantom Investigators was originally called Daemona Prune. The executives at Kids' WB! suggested the change early in production.
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For a brief time before release, the English version of Strider was known as "The Falcon" due to Capcom's marketing dept. not being sold on the word "Strider" at first, but later conceded it was fine and reverted the decision. "Ninja Dynamics" was another English name considered.
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The Donald Duck cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" was originally titled "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land", but was changed when the song became a runaway hit (though some people call it "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land" regardless).
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Before settling for the Ultimate Marvel name, the name "Ground Zero" was also considered.
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Head over Heels was titled Foot and Mouth for most of the time it was in development.
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The Undertaker's Wind for Live and Let Die.
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Mario Kart 7 was announced as Mario Kart.
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One Touch of Venus was originally titled One Man's Venus.
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Poison Ivy Gulch revealed here that early titles included "Pig Iron Peak", "Pasta Western", "Lasagna Western" and "Tortellini Western", the last three being a play on the term Spaghetti Western.
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Subverted with New Super Mario Bros., where the working title was kept.
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Resident Evil:
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was originally intended as a side-story to the series and was known under a variety of working titles such as "Biohazard Gaiden" (not to be confused with the later Game Boy Color game of the same name), "Biohazard 1.9/2.1" and "Biohazard: Last Escape". The "3" was added to the last title, as Capcom wanted to release a final numbered Resident Evil game before moving on to the next-generation platforms.
Resident Evil – Code: Veronica was originally titled "Biohazard 3" during its early drafts, until Capcom decided to keep the numbered installments on the PlayStation. Ironically enough, Resident Evil 4 ended up being made for the GameCube.
Resident Evil: Gun Survivor 2 had the working title Biohazard: Fire Zone.
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Lampshaded with a 1960s comedy starring cast members from The Dick Van Dyke Show titled "Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title" (probably the one clever part of the movie).
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Sonic Forces was titled Sonic Resistance in development.
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When Paul Bogart signed to direct Mr. Ricco, it was just called Ricco.
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Tales of Phantasia was originally intended to have the less English-sounding title Tale Phantasia.
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Jessica Jones (2015) used the working title "Violet", reflecting Jessica's main theme color.
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Metal Gear:
The original title for Metal Gear was titled "Intruder". In the MSX2 version, pausing the game and typing "intruder" and then resuming play will increase the ammo capacity of every weapon to 999, providing something of a Title Drop.
Metal Gear Solid was originally titled Metal Gear 3 (back when the game was being made for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer) until Kojima figured that not many people played the original MSX2 games.
During the early development of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the game was actually titled MGS III (skipping a number).
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was originally known as "Metal Gear Solid 5". Unlike the previous PSP game in the series, Portable Ops, Peace Walker was directed by Hideo Kojima, who considers PW to be just as important as the numbered console entries.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was first announced at E3 2009 under the title Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was being developed under the code name of Project Ogre, a reference to the shrapnel impale on Big Boss' forehead (which makes it look like an oni's horn).
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The Price Is Right was given the working name Auction-Aire when NBC optioned and piloted it in 1956.
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The sixteenth official James Bond movie Licence to Kill was originally titled Licence Revoked (with plenty of printed material using the name) before it was changed - presumably because too many people were associating it with driver's licences, or simply didn't know what 'revoked' meant.
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Young Bond
Out of Breath for SilverFin. Before settling with the current one, there were also other Silver[Something] titles for the book; SilverBack, SilverSkin, SilverHead and SilverFist.
Shoot the Moon, The Big Smoke, and Six Days in December for Double or Die.
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Turning Red: According to the "Making Of" video, the film had various developmental names, some of the Pun-Based Title variety.
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors reached the beta stage with the title Monsters, but LucasArts demanded a more trademarkable title. The manual includes a long list of rejected alternate titles for the game.
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"Pluto's Judgement Day" was originally titled "Pluto's Nightmare".
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The Dark Side of the Moon was originally called Eclipse. This was actually something of a back and forth - The Dark Side of the Moon was their first choice, but when they learned a group called Medicine Head released an album with a nearly identical title while they were still working on theirs, they settled on Eclipse. However, Medicine Head's Dark Side of the Moon proved to be a commercial flop, so it was decided they could use the name again.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was at one point intended to be titled The Last Man in Europe.
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Shine a Light was originally The Lighthouse Keepers.
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Mortal Engines was shipped to cinemas under the name Squeaky Wheels.
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Its prequel, Fuga: Melodies of Steel, went under a very generic codename of Tank, judging from the PC executable.
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The Dark Knight was Rory's First Kiss. A track of the same name is on the score's bonus disc.
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The name Sonic Generations was originally thought to be the Working Title for a new Sonic game, but this was averted and confirmed as the game's official title. Oddly enough, the game did have a working title, being marginally leaked as Sonic Anniversary.
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O Lucky Man! was originally titled The Coffee Man. Nobody liked that title, so Lindsay Anderson changed it to Lucky Man.
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One of the more famous examples is "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down, which was originally called "Suicide". At the beginning of the song, you can hear Serj Tankian announce, "We're rolling 'Suicide'."
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Donkey Hodie: The PBS Kids app and the schedule of one PBS affiliate listed "Duck Duck's Great Adventure" under the title "Duck Duck Can't Choose".
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Twice Round the Daffodils was Ring for Nurse.
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Gen¹³ was going to be Gen X, but was changed when Marvel was coming out with Generation X.
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Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame were originally titled Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Avengers: Infinity War Part 2, respectively. The Movie Multipack aspect was later dropped.
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The White Album was originally called A Doll's House, after the Henrik Ibsen play of the same name. The release of Music in a Doll's House by the British band Family in the middle of the recording sessions forced a title change. It was Richard Hamilton, who designed the album art, who suggested a Self-Titled Album.
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Mutant Mudds was originally planned as a Third-Person Shooter called Maximillian and the Rise of the Mutant Mudds.
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The Baby Shark's Big Show! episode "All I Want For Fishmas" had its' title given in early listings as "We Wish You A Merry Fishmas", the name of a song sung in the episode.
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Analog: [Invoked] In the April 1941 issue's "In Times To Come" column, the Chief Editor explains renaming one of the next month's stories, originally submitted as "Foriegn Policy", would be named "Solution Unsatisfactory".
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Super Mario Bros. was very briefly considered to be renamed Mario's Adventure for the US market. The arcade port, Vs. Super Mario Bros., was going to be called Vs. Mario's Adventure.
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Sofia the First: The crossover special with Elena of Avalor was originally titled, "Sofia the First: Journey to Avalor". When the spinoff ended up airing early, it was retitled "Elena and the Secret of Avalor" and added in a Framing Device where Elena recounts the events to Naomi as a flashback.
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Total DramaRama was announced as Total Drama Daycare.
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The first game was originally called "Mr. �リ�ズミ" ("Mr. Hedgehog"), which is often translated as "Mr. Needlemouse" (a literal translation of the Japanese word for "hedgehog"). Sega has acknowledged the Needlemouse name many times; as a Development Gag, Sonic the Hedgehog 4's Working Title was "Project Needlemouse". Humorously, an official Japanese quiz even gave "Mr. Needlemouse" a Japanese Recursive Translation (ミスター・ニードルマウス) to the disbelief of Yuji Naka, one of Sonic's creators.
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PAYDAY: The Heist was initially called Stonecold, and later, PAYDAY: Crime Wave. Both titles were reused as names of songs in the soundtrack, and the "Crimewave" subtitle was also used for the sequel's release on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
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Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade ("The Sword of Seal"), the first Game Boy Advance game in the Fire Emblem series, was originally titled Fire Emblem: Ankoku no Miko ("The Maiden of Darkness").
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy was intended to be the Tales of the Unknown series with three parts: The Bard's Tale, The Archmage's Tale and The Thieves' Tale.
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Stardust Telepath had a host of various working titles when it first started development in the fall of 2018 at Manga Time Kirara, including Hello Blue and Nice to Meet You, Alien as possibilities. Stardust Rocket eventually became the chosen name, before the head of Kirara editor suggested combining stardust and telepath together, thus forming the series' finalized title.
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) was originally proposed as Whoopass Stew featuring the Whoopass Girls. And instead of the Professor accidentally spilling "Chemical X" into the formula, he accidentally opens "a can of whoopass".
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Psych-Out was originally called The Love Children. It was changed so audiences wouldn't think it was a film about bastards.
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When Kira Is Justice was first published, it was known as C0's Death Note.
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Each of the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Netflix shows used a different working title for shooting, with the title being in some way related to something in the actual show. This practice continues with the MCU shows on Disney+:
Daredevil (2015): Season 1 filmed under the working title "Bluff". Seasons 2 and 3 used the working title "Ringside", alluding to Matt being the son of a boxer.
Jessica Jones (2015) used the working title "Violet", reflecting Jessica's main theme color.
Luke Cage (2016) filmed under the working title "Tiara", a reference to Luke's comics outfit.
Iron Fist (2017) filmed under the working title "Kick", since Danny is a martial artist.
The Defenders (2017) filmed under the working title of "Group Therapy", a lampshade on how dysfunctional the four main heroes are.
The Punisher (2017) filmed under the working title of "Crime".
The first season of Loki (2021) was codenamed "River Cruise". The yet-to-be-released second season has the codename "Architect".
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Mortal Kombat (1992) was originally Dragon Attack, after the Queen song of the same name, which co-creator Ed Boon had a fondness of. It is from this title that the franchise's iconic dragon logo comes from, and the colours mentioned in the song served as the base for the colours used in the game's arcade cabinet.
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Mortal Kombat:
Mortal Kombat (1992) was originally Dragon Attack, after the Queen song of the same name, which co-creator Ed Boon had a fondness of. It is from this title that the franchise's iconic dragon logo comes from, and the colours mentioned in the song served as the base for the colours used in the game's arcade cabinet.
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance would have been called Mortal Kombat: Vengeance, according to its Concept Art Gallery.
Mortal Kombat X was originally called Mortal Kombat 2, keeping in line with the previous installment, one part Continuity Reboot and one part Alternate Continuity, simply being titled Mortal Kombat.
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Super Mario Maker had the working title of Mario Maker.
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White Noise had the working title Panasonic.
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The Great Muppet Caper was originally called simply The Muppet Movie 2.
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Mortal Kombat X was originally called Mortal Kombat 2, keeping in line with the previous installment, one part Continuity Reboot and one part Alternate Continuity, simply being titled Mortal Kombat.
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Pokémon Gold and Silver were originally known as Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver. Pokémon Crystal, their Updated Re-release, was once known as Pokémon X. The working title was later repurposed for Pokémon X and Y.
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Words of Radiance, the second book of The Stormlight Archive had the working title "Book of Endless Pages" for a while. It was changed because the publisher thought the title was just a bit too on the nose given its length.
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In that same season, Hanna-Barbera was developing a show with the title "Stop That Pigeon," which featured a jelly-bellied Red Baronesque figure and a dachshund with pilot's goggles. It evolved into Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, recruiting the villains from Wacky Races.
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Please Turn Over was originally Book of the Month.
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"One Froggy Evening" was originally titled "It Hopped One Night".
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The River by Bruce Springsteen was originally called Ties That Bind.
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The Sims:
The original game went through several working titles when it started development in 1995, including Project X and Dollhouse Simulator. Electronic Arts decided against the latter name because they didn't want to potentially alienate a male audience.
The Sims 4 was originally developed as a multiplayer game with the codename Project Olympus.
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War was originally going to be called "IQ" in Japan (Aikyuu lit. Love Seeking / Love Longing), before the editor had them change it to the less vague "Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen" (Kaguya Wants to be Confessed To: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains).
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Kirby's Dream Land was originally proposed as Popopo of the Spring Breeze, and then renamed Twinkle Popo. The latter name is a somewhat famous trivia point, as it was used late enough in development that box art and advertising material was produced using that name. They eventually delayed the release to decide on a more internationally-appealing name, and landed on Kirby of the Stars in Japan and Kirby's Dream Land internationally.
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Attack of the Giant Leeches was Attack of the Blood Leeches.
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The sequel series to Avatar: The Last Airbender was originally going to be Avatar: The Legend of Korra, taking the basis of the British name for the original series. However, legal issues about the term 'Avatar' meant that it was changed to The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra. After fan complaints about its bulk and lack of in-universe sense (she is no longer "the last airbender"), it became simply The Legend of Korra, maintaining the "Avatar" prefix overseas.
From the original series, two episodes went through this: "The Blue Spirit" was originally called "The Red Spirit" and "The Blind Bandit" was originally called "The Earthbending Tournament".
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The pilot for The Inbetweeners was titled Baggy Trousers. In a radio interview, Joe Thomas (who plays Simon) revealed a working title of 1, 2, 3, 4. This is presumably a reference to the song of the same name by Feist, which appears predominantly in the soundtrack of the first and second series.
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The Fast and the Furious (2001): Racer X, Redline and Race Wars.
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The King of Marvin Gardens was The Philosopher King.
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Breaking In went through the working titles Security and Titan Team.
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Duke Nukem was going to be Metal Force.
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Woody Guthrie's song "This Land Is Your Land" was originally "God Blessed America for Me."
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Pebble in the Sky: The original draft was written as Grow Old with Me (alternatively, Grow Old Along with Me), a Literary Allusion Title to the first lines of "Rabbi Ben Ezra", by Robert Browning. Joseph Schwartz is quoting the poem to himself in the opening (and closing) chapters.
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The Creeping Terror was The Crawling Monster.
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Before the title was announced for The Ex Hex, the author often referred to it on Twitter as "Hocus Pocus (But They F***)".
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Unclear Physics for Interesting Times
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Nothing but Trouble was originally called Git, then Road to Ruin, then Valkenvania.
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It Could Happen to You was originally called Cop Gives Waitress 2 Million Dollar Tip, an attempt to emulate a sensationalist tabloid headline.
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Archer was originally called Duchess, after Sterling Archer's code name, but was changed just a few days before the opening sequence was finished.
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Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road was announced on Twitter / X under the working title of Project Xehanort, along with a contest to guess the name of the game.
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Beetlejuice was originally going to be called House Ghosts. As a joke, Tim Burton also suggested the name Scared Sheetless, and was horrified when the studio actually considered using it.
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The Legend of Zelda:
The first game began development with the working title Adventure or Adventure Title.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask began development under the title Zelda Gaiden.
The original trailer for Hyrule Warriors listed the title (in an plain font on a white background) as this. The name stuck.
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Death of a Salesman was originally conceived as The Inside of His Head.
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Super Mario World was known in development as Super Mario Bros. 4; though the name was changed, it nonetheless stuck as a subtitle for the Japanese release.
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Fantasia had the rather plain title The Concert Feature while in production. A contest was held to find a better title and the musical term fantasia (meaning a free-form composition using familiar themes) seemed the most appropriate. Its sequel, Fantasia 2000, was originally going to be called Fantasia Continued.
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''Choujin Sentai Jetman, evidently, had at least a couple; director Keita Amemiya gave the tentative title of "Jumpman" in a magazine before the premiere, while Toshihide Wakamatsu (Gai Yuki) would recall that it was originally "Birdman".
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I Come in Peace was Lethal Contact.
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Played straight with the rest of the franchise. 10 Cloverfield Lane was Valencia, while The Cloverfield Paradox was God Particle (and possibly Cloverfield Station). This is partially because the films were not originally intended to be part of the franchise.
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Iron Fist (2017) filmed under the working title "Kick", since Danny is a martial artist.
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Sonic Mania had the working title of Sonic Discovery. Iizuka Takashi, head of Sonic Team, suggested the new name, as he felt it was a game made "for the mania, by the mania".
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things was Zreaks.
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Pulp Fiction was Black Mask.
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Seinfeld was going to be Stand Up, The Jerry Seinfeld Show, or The Seinfeld Chronicles, which was used for the pilot episode.
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What's My Line? had the working title Occupation Unknown.
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He Knows You're Alone was Shriek and The Uninvited.
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Degrassi: The Next Generation was originally conceived as Ready, Willing and Wired. When Stephen Stohn suggested the eventual title, apparently Linda Schuyler disliked the sense of rehashing past successes and felt the Star Trek reference sounded forced at first. But, since name recognition both in the U.S. and abroad is always an uphill battle for a Canadian Series, tying it in with the still-popular previous efforts made good business sense.
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Raising the Wind was originally The Happy Band.
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Threshold (Windows 10)note Named after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, which Installation O4 orbits near.
Project Spartan (Microsoft Edge)note also named after Halo
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The Flintstones was originally going to be called The Flagstones and had a brief working title of The Gladstones (GLadstone being a Los Angeles telephone exchange at the time).
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever began production under the Epunymous Title I Picked a Daisy.
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The Toxic Avenger was filmed under the working title The Monster Hero — which gets a number of Title Drop moments, as it was changed at the last minute.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, according to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was originally titled "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose" but the MPAA wouldn't allow it (despite there being plenty of films with "Hell" in the title). Hence the final title, which is arguably even worse. The MPAA does deny this story, however.
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie originally had the working titles The Powerpuff Girls: Maiden Voyage and The Powerpuff Girls: First Flight.
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"Mr. Duck Steps Out" was originally titled "Donald's Date" and "Donald in the Groove".
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The American release of Magical Doropie was to have been titled Francesca's Wand; it became The Krion Conquest instead.
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My Bloody Valentine was The Secret.
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Fallout had a weird situation. After Fallout 2, the team created a project for a prequel and code named it "Van Buren." Then Black Isle went bust and Van Buren never saw the light of day. After Bethesda bought it up, they made Fallout 3, which reused nothing from the Van Buren project... and then Bethesda farmed out their next project, Fallout: New Vegas, to Obsidian, the successor studio to Black Isle, who reused a lot of elements from the discarded Van Buren project for New Vegas and elevated Van Buren to Broad Strokes canon. However, all the remaining old material is still called Van Buren.
The first Fallout game had the working title of Vault 13, the underground bunker the game starts in. According to the creator Tim Cain, the title was changed specifically because it wouldn't work for the title of the sequel. Subsequent brainstormings with the developers gave several alternate names, including The Vault, Ground-Zero, Survivors, Warriors of the Apocalypse, Radstorm, Nuclear Winter, Doomsday Winter, After the Bomb, and many more. It was the founder of Interplay, Brian Fargo, who suggested the name Fallout, and while Cain wasn't fond of it at first, he found that it perfectly described the post-apocalyptic setting of the game.
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The original game went through several working titles when it started development in 1995, including Project X and Dollhouse Simulator. Electronic Arts decided against the latter name because they didn't want to potentially alienate a male audience.
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The Sims 4 was originally developed as a multiplayer game with the codename Project Olympus.
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To Tell the Truth had come about when Monty Hall brokered a meeting for producer Bob Stewart with Goodson-Todman in 1956 with a concept he called Three of a Kind. It went to pilot as Nothing But the Truth and was eventually renamed To Tell the Truth upon debuting on CBS.
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The Lord of the Rings was going to be six books. The first book was going to be The First Journey, The Ring Sets Out, or The Return of the Shadow. Book two was going to be The Journey of the Nine Companions, or The Ring Goes South. Book three was going to be The Treason of Isengard. Book four was going to be The Journey of the Ring-bearers, or The Ring Goes East. Book five was going to be The War of the Ring. Book six was going to be The End of the Third Age.
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According to the main programmer Jon Burton, Sonic 3D Blast was titled Sonic Spindrift in development. He says he does not know why the title was changed, though we can assume that after the cancellation of Sonic X-Treme Sega wanted to release a Sonic game that would emphasize the "3D" aspect of the gameplay.
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King Kong (1933)'s original draft title was The Beast, but the film executives disliked such a generic, bland-sounding title, and after a number of suggestions, it was eventually named after the ape-monster himself, Kong, before being changed late in production to King Kong (he's never actually referred to as "King" Kong in the film itself) so that audiences wouldn't confuse it for one of the director's one-word titled documentaries (like Chang and Grass). One of the scrapped title suggestions, The Eighth Wonder, would become Kong's most famous nickname as "The Eighth Wonder of the World".
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Monster in the Closet was The Incredible Closet Monster.
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Batman film series:
Batman Returns were known as Dictel and Batman II.
Batman Forever was originally known as Blinko.
Batman & Robin was originally known as Batman 4Ever.
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Star Trek:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan went through a lot of working titles as the story took shape. The earliest draft was titled Star Trek II: War of the Generations, as it involved Khan backing a youth revolt against the Federation led by Kirk's son. Next it became Star Trek II: The Omega System as the story had Khan get hold of a doomsday weapon; when art director Mike Minor suggested making the movie revolve around something more positive, it became Star Trek II: The Genesis Project. When director Nicholas Meyer did his (uncredited) rewrite of the script, the title became Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country (a reference to Hamlet) –- an Executive Veto changed this to Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan.note Meyer later got to recycle this title for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Then finally the word "Vengeance" was changed to "Wrath" as it clashed with the then-upcoming Star Wars Episode VI: Revenge of the Jedi (which itself was later changed to Return of the Jedi anyway).
Star Trek: Generations started development as Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Movie. It was probably changed because that is a very awkward name for a movie.
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Nigga Please by Ol’ Dirty Bastard was originally called Black Man Is God, the White Man Is the Devil.
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Super Mario Bros.:
Super Mario Bros. was very briefly considered to be renamed Mario's Adventure for the US market. The arcade port, Vs. Super Mario Bros., was going to be called Vs. Mario's Adventure.
Super Mario 3D Land was announced as Super Mario.
Mario Kart 7 was announced as Mario Kart.
Paper Mario 64 was going to be known as Super Mario RPG 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was originally known as ​Paper Mario 2, and Mario Story 2 in Japan. Paper Mario: Sticker Star was announced as Paper Mario.
Super Mario Maker had the working title of Mario Maker.
Super Mario World was known in development as Super Mario Bros. 4; though the name was changed, it nonetheless stuck as a subtitle for the Japanese release.
Similarly, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was originally titled Super Mario Bros. 5: Yoshi's Island in a prototype build. Both titles are still sequels to Super Mario World. Subverted in Japan, where it was changed to Super Mario: Yoshi's Island.
Subverted with New Super Mario Bros., where the working title was kept.
Dr. Mario had the simple Working Title of Virus and originally didn't feature Mario at all.
Super Mario Odyssey: The "Steam Gardens" area was originally known as Kogwald. The rename was likely made to better match the locale, since cogs are mostly absent from its steam-based machinery.
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Dunkirk was Bodega Bay.
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Freaky was filmed under a title that made the X Meets Y clear, Freaky Friday the 13th.
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Attack of the Clones had the working title Jar Jar's Great Adventure, even though he isn't there nearly as much as last time.
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Speaking of My Fair Lady, its working title was Lady Liza, but the song of that name was cut. My Fair Liza was allegedly considered too.
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Paper Mario 64 was going to be known as Super Mario RPG 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was originally known as ​Paper Mario 2, and Mario Story 2 in Japan. Paper Mario: Sticker Star was announced as Paper Mario.
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Crash: Mind Over Mutant was going to be called Crash: Invasion of the Bandicoot Snatchers, but it changed due to problems translating while keeping the joke.
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Rescue on Fractalus! was developed and almost released as Behind Jaggi Lines.
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"The Ugly Little Boy": Dr. Asimov used "The Ugly Little Boy" as the title when he was submitting it to Galaxy Science Fiction. It was published under the name "Lastborn", but Dr. Asimov changed it back when given the opportunity.
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"Falling Hare" was originally titled "Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin".
The reason for the above change was that Walt Disney was planning a movie about gremlins and asked other studios to hold off any gremlin related projects. Warner Bros. already had two gremlin cartoons well into production, so they simply changed the titles. The second short, "Russian Rhapsody", was originally "Gremlins from the Kremlin".
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According to one of many stories, the band Derek and the Dominos were supposed to be called Eric and the Dynamos, but someone misheard their name and the new name stuck.
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Mixels was originally called "Monsters" before Cartoon Network came into the deal.
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The Invention of Lying was originally going to be called This Side of the Truth. Ricky Gervais' blog would indicate that changing it was a voluntary attempt to get the point across better, but that hasn't stopped people from complaining about Executive Meddling and "dumbing down" and stupid American audiences that need everything spelled out for them.
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Godzilla Minus One had the working title of Blockbuster Kaiju Movie.
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Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout:
The original one-page pitch for the game has the title "Fool's Gauntlet". "Stumble Chums" was also considered as a title at one point.
Some rounds have different working names than their final release: Hoopsie Legends was "Hoops Blockade", Pegwin Pursuit was "Chicken Chase", The Slimescraper was "Slime Climb 2", Power Trip was "Territory Control", and concept art for Season 5 reveals that Bubble Trouble was called "Bubble Poppers" at one point.
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Bicycle Boy was intended to be the working title, for obvious reasons. But the author could not think of anything better.
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead was shot as The Real World, but the title was changed to avoid confusion with MTV's then-upcoming reality show of the same name.
The same thing happened with Reality Bites.
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A New Hope had the working title The Star Wars for the first drafts, including the May, 1973 story synopsis, May, 1974 Rough Draft, and July 1974 Revised First Draft. The January 28, 1975 second draft was titled The Adventures of the Starkiller (episode one) "The Star Wars", or, Adventures of the Starkiller (episode one) "The Star Wars", or, The Star Wars - Episode One - "The Star Wars". The August 1, 1975 Third Draft is The Star Wars – From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller. The January 1, 1976 Fourth Draft, titled Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the “Journal of the Whills� (Saga I) Star Wars, is no longer called The Star Wars, as well as the January 15, 1976 Revised Fourth Draft, titled Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope, from the Journal of the Whills.
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Creep was originally going to be Peachfuzz. The "Peachfuzz" wolf mask doesn't become a plot point until halfway through the film, so the creators decided that viewers would be too distracted by what the significance of the odd title was until The Namesake was dropped.
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Walking on Sunshine was originally going to be called Holiday.
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Doppelganger for DoubleShot. The title comes from the old legends about seeing one's double, which was seen as a bad omen.
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Prince of Persia (2008) was originally going to carry the subtitle Prodigy.
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When Aaron Copland received a commission to compose music for a Martha Graham ballet, his composition bore the heading Ballet for Martha. The Literary Allusion Title Appalachian Spring was apparently decided on by her shortly before the premiere.
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After the fourth book's working title, Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament, was leaked, Rowling changed it to Harry Potter and the Triwizard Tournament. Finally she settled on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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Soap was only supposed to be the working title but after getting the show done they couldn't think of a better title so left it.
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Muppets Most Wanted was originally announced as The Muppets ... Again! The opening number ends with a repeated Title Drop of the original title.
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The Wii U Xenoblade Chronicles 1 game, called Xenoblade Chronicles X, initially had the project name of X.
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The Loud House:
"White Hare" was originally titled "Hide Nor Hare".
"Insta-Gran" was originally titled "Geri-Antics", this title would later be used for a season four episode.
"Middle Men" was originally titled "Lesson Plan".
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The Lion King (1994) was titled King of the Jungle before the crew realized that lions don't actually live in the jungle.
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The movie Once Upon a Forest was originally going to be called The Endangered, but was changed because of Executive Meddling into something Lighter and Softer.
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Doing It Right This Time was an example that became a Permanent Placeholder.
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood:
"Someone Else's Feelings" was originally called "Daniel Learns About Empathy". This title is retained on several TV listings.
Early television listings for "Daniel Sits On The Potty" called it "Daniel Takes His Time On The Potty", with the current name being chosen to avoid confusion with "Daniel Takes His Time".
"Daniel Stops Himself From Hurting Someone" was the original name of "Circle Time Squabble".
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In-universe in How the Tantabus Parses Sleep; one chapter has Daring Do working on a book called Daring Do and the Working Titles of Fate.
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James Pond: Underwater Agent had the working title Guppy.
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Teenagers from Outer Space was, at various points, Ray-Gun Terror, Killers from Outer Space, The Boy from Out of This World and Invasion of the Gargon.
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Xenogears was originally to be called -Project Noah- after Krelian's plan to restore Merkava, walk with god and revive Deus, but it was changed for unknown reasons mid-development to the name of Weltall's ultimate form. Presumably, Square didn't want the already stretched controversial religious theming to extend to the title.
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Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones was originally called Tropical Disease.
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Fraggle Rock: Jim Henson first conceived of the series with the temporary title of The Woozle World. It was also called Fraggle Hill for a while.
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1991: The Year Punk Broke, a rockumentary / concert film following Sonic Youth and Nirvana on a European tour together, had the working title of Tooth or Hair. This was meant as a pun on Madonna's 1991 tour documentary Truth or Dare, which was referenced several times in the film.
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Inanimate Insanity Invitational had the working title of Inanimate Insanity: Fans vs. Favorites, as shown by Adam during the storyboard phase of the opening.
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Subverted with Snakes on a Plane, which was only an Exactly What It Says on the Tin working title. Samuel L. Jackson liked the name so much that it he threatened to quit if they changed it (the proposed final title was the horribly generic Pacific Air Flight 121), while the public reaction to it created so much viral interest that they'd have been stupid to do so anyway.
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While directing Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, likely to keep the nature of the film a secret, used the working title "Wimpy" (the nickname of a crew member).
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Getting Together is referred to in some early articles as The Bobby Sherman Show.
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What a Girl Wants went through two other song titles in its development: American Girl and London Calling. The latter namesake song remained on the film's soundtrack, while the former song and "What A Girl Wants" weren't used at all.
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Licensed to Ill by Beastie Boys was originally called Don't Be a Faggot, wisely changed at Columbia's behest.
"Sabotage" evolved out of an instrumental jam the band started referring to as "Chris Rock". That Chris Rock was well-known at the time, but it was a Creator In-Joke rather than a direct Shout-Out - there was a studio engineer named Chris who never had anything to say about the music they were recording until he heard them play "Sabotage", which he was enthusiastic about, seemingly because it was more of a rock song... So it was "Chris Rock" because it was the "rock" song that Chris liked.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark was The Adventures of Indiana Smith and Indiana Jones.
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The World Is Not Enough for The Facts of Death.
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Life of Brian started out as a joke made by Eric Idle when asked what Monty Python's next film would be - Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory.
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Monster a-Go Go began production under the title Terror at Half Day.
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It's mentioned in the author's notes on Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium that the story's title, until shortly before it started appearing on AO3, was Varric Tethras and the Continual Nervous Breakdown.
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Wagons West: Most of the novels would announce the title of the next book in the series on the next page after the end. Three of those got changed from what was announced to what they were published by.
Oklahoma Sooners became Oklahoma Pride.
Taos Homecoming became Homecoming.
The Awakening of India Blackstone became simply Awakening.
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Ben 10:
Ben 10: Alien Force was originally called Ben 10: Hero Generation, though this was due to that version having an entirely different concept.
Ultimate Alien was originally called Evolutions before shortened to Evolution until finally became Ultimate Alien.
The Ben 10: Omniverse episode "Rook Tales" was originally titled "Separation Anxiety".
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Brave was originally titled The Bear and the Bow.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan went through a lot of working titles as the story took shape. The earliest draft was titled Star Trek II: War of the Generations, as it involved Khan backing a youth revolt against the Federation led by Kirk's son. Next it became Star Trek II: The Omega System as the story had Khan get hold of a doomsday weapon; when art director Mike Minor suggested making the movie revolve around something more positive, it became Star Trek II: The Genesis Project. When director Nicholas Meyer did his (uncredited) rewrite of the script, the title became Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country (a reference to Hamlet) –- an Executive Veto changed this to Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan.note Meyer later got to recycle this title for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Then finally the word "Vengeance" was changed to "Wrath" as it clashed with the then-upcoming Star Wars Episode VI: Revenge of the Jedi (which itself was later changed to Return of the Jedi anyway).
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a rather interesting case. The working title was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which, as you may recognize, is now the title of the sixth book. Originally, the second book would have contained the Chamber of Secrets plotline and the Half-Blood Prince plotline side-by-side. Ultimately, J. K. Rowling decided to keep the Chamber of Secrets plotline and move the Half-Blood Prince plotline to a later book, hence the sixth's re-use of various plot points from the second, such as a mysterious old schoolbook.
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Mulan was China Doll and Legend of Mulan.
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Slayer's God Hates Us All was originally going to be Soundtrack to the Apocalypse. Tom Araya decided the latter sounded more like a title for a retrospective box set than an album, so they named it after a lyric from the song "Disciple" instead... At the same time, they decided a box set was actually a good idea, so two years later they put one together and did in fact call it Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.
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The Animals songs "Dogs" and "Sheep" begun being called by their opening lines, "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling" (in the latter's case, the opening of what became the post-breakdown verse - and even then, changed to "Bleating and babbling").
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Daredevil (2015): Season 1 filmed under the working title "Bluff". Seasons 2 and 3 used the working title "Ringside", alluding to Matt being the son of a boxer.
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When it was first pitched in 1992-1994, Andrew Stanton's film WALL•E was known as Trash Planet.
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In the Monsterverse, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) had the working title of Fathom, while fifth entry, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had the working name of Origins.
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"Porky's Badtime Story" was originally titled "It Happened All Night", but was changed because it was considered too suggestive (when really it was a reference to the screwball comedy It Happened One Night).
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Bug Fables was initially titled Paper Bugs (what with it being an homage to the Paper Mario series set in a world of civilized bugs) before the finalized title was revealed in January 2018, alongside the IndieGoGo campaign.
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The Ides of March was originally called Farragut North, after the play it's based on. The original title still gets a Title Drop a few times.
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Stratovarius originally formed under the name Black Water. When Timo Tolkki joined, they changed their name to Stratovarius, a portmanteau of the Fender Stratocaster model of electric guitar and a Stradivarius violin, intended to represent the fusion of classical and power metal elements in the band's style.
Their second album had the working title Stratovarius II, before it was released as Twilight Time.
A crossover with What Could Have Been — The album Polaris was being developed under the codename R...R..., with Timo Tolkki as the main songwriter. However, after a long period of high tension between Tolkki and the other band members, he eventually left the group, forming a new band named Revolution Renaissance, which would have been the name of the album. The remaining band members decided to rework the album entirely, releasing it as Polaris.
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No Tears for Hong Kong for Zero Minus Ten. The original name ended up being used as a Market-Based Title in some countries.
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Interstellar was Flora's Letter.
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The Last House on the Left was Krug & Company and Sex Crime of the Century.
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Kirby Air Ride started out as a Nintendo 64 game called Kirby Ball 64 — indicating it as a sequel to Kirby's Dream Course, which is Kirby Ball in Japan — and later Kirby's Air Ride before ending on the final name. The Japanese name is Kirby's Airride, which is pretty close.
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Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance would have been called Mortal Kombat: Vengeance, according to its Concept Art Gallery.
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A Matter of Loaf and Death was originally to be named Trouble at T'Mill.
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Armed Forces by Elvis Costello was originally called Emotional Facism.
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Angry Birds 2 was soft-launched in Canada under the name, "Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction".
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'80s All Over had the working title Klytus, I'm Bored, which the producer judged a bit too obscure, as discussed in the December 1980 episode.
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Resident Evil – Code: Veronica was originally titled "Biohazard 3" during its early drafts, until Capcom decided to keep the numbered installments on the PlayStation. Ironically enough, Resident Evil 4 ended up being made for the GameCube.
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The first draft volume of One Piece was released under the title Romance Dawn, and did not feature the titular treasure. The name Romance Dawn has since been used a few times in the manga and anime as a Mythology Gag.
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Batman Returns were known as Dictel and Batman II.
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Static-X initially formed as Drill, then became Static - the "X" was added once they realized there were already multiple other bands calling themselves Static. At one point they had also wanted to call themselves Wisconsin Death Trip, after a historical non-fiction book the band had become fascinated with - when their label told them the name was too long, Wisconsin Death Trip became the title of their first album instead.
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Pokémon:
Pokémon Gold and Silver were originally known as Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver. Pokémon Crystal, their Updated Re-release, was once known as Pokémon X. The working title was later repurposed for Pokémon X and Y.
Pokémon Sun and Moon's code name was Pokémon Niji (Japanese for rainbow)
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Power Rangers Jungle Fury was titled Beast Fist early on in its development (a translation of the term "Juken", used in its parent show Gekiranger).
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Godzilla:
Godzilla (1954)'s working title was The Giant Monster From 20,000 Miles Under the Sea... as if the film being heavily influenced by The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms wasn't obvious enough.
In the Monsterverse, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) had the working title of Fathom, while fifth entry, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had the working name of Origins.
Godzilla Minus One had the working title of Blockbuster Kaiju Movie.
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Oklahoma! began production under the title of its source play, Green Grow the Lilacs, but started its out-of-town tryouts as Away We Go.
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During development, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive was originally titled Drive Force and later Relic Hunters.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters was first teased in the home series episode "Deleted Scenes" under the title of Untitled Master Shake Project.
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Ultraseven was produced under the name Ultra Eye, which later became the name of Dan's Transformation Trinket.
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? had the working title The Cash Mountain.
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Rocketship X-M was originally None Came Back.
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Super Mario 3D Land was announced as Super Mario.
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Road Blaster had the prototype title Turbo Blaster.
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Audiosurf 2 had the working title of Audiosurf Air (most likely emphasizing its Wakeboard mode). This title is still used in a few places (Steam's music library being one of them).
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Out of Breath for SilverFin. Before settling with the current one, there were also other Silver[Something] titles for the book; SilverBack, SilverSkin, SilverHead and SilverFist.
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When VR Troopers was still in development as a one-hero show, it was going to be titled Psycon. Later it was renamed Cybertron. It was probably changed after that to avoid stepping on Hasbro's toes.
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The Emperor's New Groove began as a serious musical drama entitled Kingdom of/in the Sun (sources disagree about the title).
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Annie Hall was originally called Anhedonia, which is a medical term for the inability to feel pleasure.
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Dinosaur Revolution was called Reign of the Dinosaurs for most of its production, and would have received a companion show titled Science of Reign of the Dinosaurs. These got merged to form the show that ended up on screen. The European version re-installed Reign of the Dinosaurs as the title.
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Twisted Metal was originally High Octane, as seen in the original FMV endings.
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Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!: On Al Lowe's site, the page "Larry 7 Rejected Titles" lists thirty seven alternate titles.
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Chrono Cross was called "Project Kid" at one point while in development. Like Xenogears, this was actually a thing in the game.
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Multiwinia was originally meant to be a working title with users suggesting the title of this game. However, the original stuck.
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The original title for Smile (2022) was There's Something Wrong with Rose.
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Metal Gear Solid was originally titled Metal Gear 3 (back when the game was being made for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer) until Kojima figured that not many people played the original MSX2 games.
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The Tigger Movie was originally titled Winnie the Pooh and the Family Tree.
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Final Fantasy:
Final Fantasy had the working title Fighting Fantasy, but the name was already being used for a tabletop game. Even before that, the game's original project name was simply "FF", with the full name being decided later in development—while "Fantasy" was always part of the title, any word could have been used instead of Final as long as it kept an Alliterative Title.
The Mobius Final Fantasy working title was Mevius Final Fantasy.
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Every set of cards for Magic: The Gathering gets a code name. When sets were grouped in blocks, this was something that made sense in threes (since blocks usually have three sets) such as Friends, Romans, Countrymen, with the actual names turning up once flavour has been fully assembled. Occasionally they came up with clever things to do with this; Lorwyn was announced with the code names Peanut, Butter, Jelly, but Lorwyn's unique schtick was that every fifty years it would flip between "sunlight happyland" and "Deep One merfolk freakyland", with a large and small set for each version - so the block wasn't "Peanut, Butter, Jelly" but "Peanut, Butter" and "Jelly, Doughnut". When blocks were abandoned, the "premium" sets went to sports-themed code names in alphabetical order, since the code names need to be assigned well before the set gets any design work. (Strixhaven, the sixth set under the new naming scheme, was "Fencing".) "Supplemental" sets, since they're typically given code names after some work has been done on them, may have code names that are more specific to what the set is based on.
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"The Callistan Menace": Dr. Asimov used "Stowaway" as the title when he was submitting it to various Science Fiction Pulp Magazines. Editor Frederik Pohl, who accepted it, changed the name for publication.
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Stephen Sondheim's Road Show went through three of these during the long time it spent in Development Hell: Wise Guys (which had unintended Mafia associations), Gold! (after a song that was already in the show; Sondheim had wanted the show to be retitled Get Rich Quick!) and Bounce (with a new title song, which became "What A Waste" in the show's final revision).
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Blood Cult was The Sorority House Murders.
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"Read It and Weep" was originally titled "Reading Rainbow".
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ReBoot: Code of Honor was originally pitched as "ReBoot: Arrival".
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Scream (1996) had the working title of Scary Movie. Scary Movie, made later to parody it, was put together from scripts titled Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween and Last Summer I Screamed Because Friday the 13th Fell on Halloween.
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The codename for the PC Port of Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is Project N, according to the game's assets folder.
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Raiden Fighters was originally titled Gun Dogs, a name still stamped on some of the arcade cartridge ROMs. This would normally be evidence that it was a Dolled-Up Installment, but an early Japanese flyer for Gun Dogs already associated the game with the Raiden series.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV was initially announced to have the subtitle of The Last Saga during the ending of Cold Steel III, but the subtitle had morphed into The End Of Saga by the time Cold Steel IV was finalized and officially announced to the public. The reason of the change is as of yet unknown, but is nonetheless perplexing as the former was actually grammatically correct, while the latter is not.
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Solatorobo: Red the Hunter was originally announced as Solarobo (note the lack of the "to") and was presented at France's Japan Expo as Project Coda. The latter title ended up a plot point in the game.
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The Amazing World of Gumball: The show was originally going to be called Gumball and was not a reference to the main character's name, as the name came from Ben Bocquelet thinking of random things a boy would have in his pocket. Meanwhile, some of the episodes in his series underwent changes in title:
"The World" note (the season two episode where the objects of Elmore come to life and the show is temporarily called The Amazing World of Elmore) was originally called "The Objects"
"The Extras" note (the season three episode where the background characters, minor characters, and living prop characters scare off Gumball and Darwin and have their own episode) was originally called "The People"
"The Fraud"note the season three episode where Principal Brown thinks Gumball and Darwin are going to expose him for having a fake diploma and not being qualified to be a principal was originally called "The Phoney"
"The Boss"note the season three episode where Rocky the janitor takes an office job to pay for his father's operation was originally called "The Heart"note possibly because the episode was originally written with Mr. Robinson having a heart attack instead of suffering from a stuffing deficiency
"The Void"note the season three episode where Gumball, Darwin, and Mr. Small venture into Elmore's dimension of mistakes to save a character who disappeared after season one was originally called "The Hole"
"The Question"note season three episode where Gumball and Darwin find the meaning of life was originally called "The Answer"
"The Origins"note season four episode — and the first two-parter episode — showing how Gumball and Darwin became brothers was originally called "The Roots".
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TRON: Legacy was going to be called TR2N (or possibly T2.0N). The stylized 2 can still be seen, notably when Rinzler is looking for clues by the End of Line club.
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Taos Homecoming became Homecoming.
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"Lighthouse Mouse" was originally titled "Light Mouse Keeping".
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The proposal for what eventually became Wing Commander was named Squadronnote A nod to this is featured in the single player portion of Star Citizen, titled Squadron 42. and Wingleader.
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Jhariah said on Twitter in 2022 that "DEBT COLLECTOR" was originally called "LIE! LIE! LIE!"
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Signs of the Sojourner was called "Project Thunder" during production.
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Ultimate Alien was originally called Evolutions before shortened to Evolution until finally became Ultimate Alien.
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The first game began development with the working title Adventure or Adventure Title.
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Batman & Robin was originally known as Batman 4Ever.
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Code Vein is referred inside the game's files as God Eater Zero, but it changed to avoid spoiling a major plot twist that happens late in the game's story.
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The sequel trilogy (VII-IX) has "Foodles", "Space Bear", and "Black Diamond" as the three films' working titles.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Several parts have had initial titles that were later replaced. For instance, Stardust Crusaders was first advertised as Heritage for the Future (hence the name of the fighting game), or Golden Wind was known as Golden Heritage, while Stone Ocean was at first known as Jolyne Cujoh as a Protagonist Title.
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The Wicked Lovely series had a few:
"Shiver" for Fragile Eternity
"Skin Starved" for Radiant Shadows
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Perfect Strangers was originally called "The Greenhorn", likely in reference to how new and exciting was for Balki.
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Love Again, the American remake of SMS für Dich, was originally titled Text for You (a rough translation of the original title) then changed to It's All Coming Back to Me after the Céline Dionnote who plays herself in the filmsong "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", before settling on it's final title.
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Plants vs. Zombies had almost one hundred alternate titles during development before the final title was selected, almost all of them either Pun-Based Titles or referencing other zombie media. These alternate titles include Bloom & Doom, Zom-Bottany and Lawn of the Dead (this last one being a personal favourite of one of the developers). Some of these alternate titles would be reused in-game; for example, Bloom & Doom became the name of the company producing the seed packets for your plants.
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Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III were shot back-to-back as Paradox and Three, respectively.
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Sonata Arctica formed as a hard rock band under the name Tricky Beans, before changing their name slightly to Tricky Means. Later, they changed their style to power metal (emulating fellow Finnish symphonic power metal band Stratovarius, who were already quite popular at the time) and renamed themselves Sonata Arctica.
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Imagine Me & You was originally going to be called Click, after the French term for Love at First Sight. However, they had to change it to avoid confusion with the other movie called Click.
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Words in the Head for Feet of Clay
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In the lead up teaser animations for Puyo Puyo 7, Sega referred to the game as Project Ringo, named after the then new protagonist to be introduced to the Puyo Puyo series, Ringo Ando.
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Charli XCX's CRASH was originally titled Sorry If I Hurt You and had a corresponding Title Track, but she changed it to CRASH as an homage to the film by David Cronenberg. The song was released on the deluxe edition.
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Ultra Series:
Ultra Q was going to be called Unbalance. But with the popularity of the word "Ultra" in Japan at the time, it was changed, with the "Q" added to stand for "Question" or "Quest" to fit the mystery themes of the show. The title of Unbalance was later recycled by TsuPro for a horror series.
Ultraman had several as it went through multiple drafts. Among the more notable of these are Bemlar: Scientific Investigation Agency and Redman (the latter of which was later recycled for a different show).
Ultraseven was produced under the name Ultra Eye, which later became the name of Dan's Transformation Trinket.
Ultraman Ace was originally to be named Ultra A. This was changed because it turned out the name was already copyrighted. Incidentally, this is also when the franchise began using Character Titles as the franchise naming convention, as all the previous series were just called Ultra ___.
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Help!: The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name Eight Arms to Hold You was considered. However, they were able to use the name "Help" anyway by adding an exclamation mark.
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Babylon 5 was originally pitched with the title The Babylon Project.
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Sonic the Hedgehog:
The first game was originally called "Mr. �リ�ズミ" ("Mr. Hedgehog"), which is often translated as "Mr. Needlemouse" (a literal translation of the Japanese word for "hedgehog"). Sega has acknowledged the Needlemouse name many times; as a Development Gag, Sonic the Hedgehog 4's Working Title was "Project Needlemouse". Humorously, an official Japanese quiz even gave "Mr. Needlemouse" a Japanese Recursive Translation (ミスター・ニードルマウス) to the disbelief of Yuji Naka, one of Sonic's creators.
Knuckles Chaotix began development as a Sega Genesis game titled Sonic Crackers, with the ROM header referring to it as Sonic Studium. Note that the title was likely meant to be Sonic Clackers, since the game's main gimmick works exactly like the toy of the same name. As Sonic Crackers was built in April 1st it led many to believe to be a hoax when it was first discovered, but the text "SonicCrackersS32X" can be found in one early prototype of Chaotix, proving its legitimacy.
According to the main programmer Jon Burton, Sonic 3D Blast was titled Sonic Spindrift in development. He says he does not know why the title was changed, though we can assume that after the cancellation of Sonic X-Treme Sega wanted to release a Sonic game that would emphasize the "3D" aspect of the gameplay.
Sonic Unleashed was originally going to be the third installment in the Adventure series, but got renamed to Sonic World Adventure, before reaching its final name. The Japanese version kept the original title though.
The name Sonic Generations was originally thought to be the Working Title for a new Sonic game, but this was averted and confirmed as the game's official title. Oddly enough, the game did have a working title, being marginally leaked as Sonic Anniversary.
Sonic Mania had the working title of Sonic Discovery. Iizuka Takashi, head of Sonic Team, suggested the new name, as he felt it was a game made "for the mania, by the mania".
Sonic Forces was titled Sonic Resistance in development.
Sonic Frontiers was originally Sonic Rangers according to press release and metadata of the initial unnamed teaser.
Sonic Superstars was named "Sonic Orion" internally prior to its full reveal. The save game on Switch still references this name and some screenshots with the Orion name had appeared on the official site before being eventually removed.
The working title of Sonic and the Secret Rings was "Sonic Wildfire".
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Cel Damage began development under the title of Cartoon Mayhem.
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Ninja Gaiden may have been the tentative title of Ninja Ryūkenden (Ninja Dragon Sword Legend) in Japanese, and in English, was tentatively titled Dragon Ninja.
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The first season of Loki (2021) was codenamed "River Cruise". The yet-to-be-released second season has the codename "Architect".
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The initial script for The Muppets Take Manhattan by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses was called The Muppets: The Legend Continues. Another title was Muppet Movie III.
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The working title for Kingsman: The Golden Circle was Kingsman: The Golden Triangle, but it was changed because test audiences didn't understand what it meant (it's a reference to the real-life area where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet).
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Stranger Things was originally going to be called Montauk, and be based on the experiments that supposedly happened in the real-life New York town. Later the Duffer Brothers went through a list of other possible titles, settling on Stranger Things due to its similarity to Needful Things by Stephen King. They continued to have "a lot of heated arguments" about this afterwards, though.
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The Patrick Star Show:
An earlier idea for the show was for it to stick with one-word titles. In this case, "Late for Breakfast" would have been called "HUNGRY!". It wasn't, and the outline changed it to "Patrick's Late for Dinner" before it was later finalized.
"Backpay Payback" was originally titled "Payback's a Squid", likely changed due to being a pun on the phrase "payback's a bitch".
"Patrick's Got a Zoo Loose" was originally "Patrick's Got an Alien Zoo Loose", likely shortened to make it less of a Word Salad Title.
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Sonic Frontiers was originally Sonic Rangers according to press release and metadata of the initial unnamed teaser.
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Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE: Formerly known as Fire Emblem X Shin Megami Tensei, due to being a crossover between those two franchises. It was also known as Stainless, perhaps as a reference to the preferred reputation of an Idol Singer (the game being all about the idol business).
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Disco Elysium was originally given the working title Torson & McLaine at the project's beginning. For a while, the game was going to be released under the title No Truce with the Furies, but it was changed into its final title in early 2018.
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Wallace & Gromit:
Earlier titles for the film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit included The Vegeburglars and The Great Vegetable Plot.
A Matter of Loaf and Death was originally to be named Trouble at T'Mill.
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The first Alien film was known as Star Beast in its earliest stages. When the writer went through the script he saw characters constantly referring to the Alien, and then the title came out at him, noting that is both a noun and an adjective.
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was originally known as "Metal Gear Solid 5". Unlike the previous PSP game in the series, Portable Ops, Peace Walker was directed by Hideo Kojima, who considers PW to be just as important as the numbered console entries.
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The Call was shot under the title The Hive, which is the nickname for the building where Halle Berry's character works (managing to even get a Title Drop). The renaming occurred as soon as the film got a release date, as the film's premise is focused around a phone call that links the two leads.
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As revealed by Tom Constantine, a proposed title for Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger was Sentai Sentai Sentaiger. The name "Sentaiger" ended up being used by the Geardalinger as the generic sound used when activating Sentai Gears for previous teams.
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Pet Sounds was originally called Remember the Zoo.
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October Sky is an interesting case. The working title, "Rocket Boys" — also the name of the memoir which the movie is based on — is an anagram of October Sky.
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Henry & Verlin was originally called Eyes That Went Away.
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SpongeBob SquarePants was originally known as SpongeBoy Ahoy!, with the initial storyboards for the pilot carrying this title. For years it has been accepted as fact that the reason the title was changed because SpongeBoy was already being used as a mop brand, however the SpongeBoy mop doesn't exist (it's actually a pencil).
"F.U.N." was originally titled "My Fair Plankton".
"Can You Spare a Dime?" was originally titled "Down and Out in Bikini Bottom".
"The Camping Episode" was originally titled "Squid Gets Mauled".
"Shell of a Man" was originally titled "Molting" and "Shell Game".
"The Clash of Triton" was originally titled "Neptune's Party".
"One Coarse Meal" was originally titled "Plankton Got Served".
"Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle" was originally titled "Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle".
"Sanctuary!" was originally titled "One Snail Sponge".
"Mermaid Pants" was originally titled "Mermaid Pants and Barnacle Star".
"Moving Bubble Bass" was originally titled "Move Your Bubble Bass", which was changed for obvious reasons.
"Krusty Kleaners" was originally titled "Clean Livin'".
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The Silly Symphony short "Bugs in Love" had the working title "Bug Symphony".
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El Goonish Shive: On multiple occasions, Dan has named storylines provisionally as "Title pending" before replacing them with appropriate titles partway through. This was turned into an in-joke during the storyline with "party" in its URL, which never got a proper name and eventually was divided into the chapters "Title Pending 2 - Even More Pending", "Title Pending 3 - Untitled Party", and "Title Pending 5 or 6". The final strip of the arc retroactively named it "Reflections", but it's still listed as "Title Pending" in the archive.
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Blazing Saddles was called Tex X, Black Bart and The Purple Sage at various points.
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Noah's song "Kupeluk Hatimu" was called "David Slow" at first, referring to its slow tempo and the fact that it's one of two songs that David wrote for Keterkaitan Keterikatan.
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The Arthur (1981) remake was shipped to theaters as On the Rocks — the subtitle of the original film's sequel.
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Subverted with Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. When the game was announced at E3 2013, everyone assumed that the name was a working title, but once the game was released, it still carried the name of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (the latter half is obviously split across the game's two versions).
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask began development under the title Zelda Gaiden.
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Without a Trace was originally called Vanished, but the name was then changed when CBS picked up the series.
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Stone Cold was The Brotherhood.
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks had the working title of Equestria Girls 2. This title was still used for advertisements in some countries.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was going to be Man of Steel 2, and then was going to be Batman v. Superman.
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House of the Dragon: "Red Gun: Fire Unit" was used to refer to the series on the set.
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) was filmed under the title Bad Cupcake.
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As Team Fortress 2 had been in development in some way since before the release of Team Fortress Classic, the game has had many working titles. These include Half-Life Team Fortress, Valve's Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms and Team Fortress 2: Invasion. The last title was later reused for an alien themed update in the final TF2.
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Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon was going to be called At Least I Didn't Blow Up OUR Moon, but the publishers wanted something that matched the title of the previous book to make it clear that they were connected. The author considers the working title to be the "real" title.
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The original script title for Blade Runner was Dangerous Days. Ridley Scott optioned a short story named 'Blade Runner' specifically so he could use the title (the story itself having nothing to do with the movie), basically because it just sounded cool.
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Hellboy (2019)'s title was Hellboy: The Blood Queen initially, before reverting to simply Hellboy.
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Mega Man & Bass was called Rockman 8.5, and a reference to this title still exists in the final game's coding.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night was Slayride.
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Final Fantasy had the working title Fighting Fantasy, but the name was already being used for a tabletop game. Even before that, the game's original project name was simply "FF", with the full name being decided later in development—while "Fantasy" was always part of the title, any word could have been used instead of Final as long as it kept an Alliterative Title.
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Early development artwork for Close Enough featured the titles Splitting Rent and Almost Family.
During Candice's nightmare in "Halloween Enough", in which she wanders through the show's production offices, a piece of paper can be seen listing "potential series titles", including 20's and 30's, Half Past 30, Apartmental, Joint Tenants, Experirenting and Rentaled.
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An interesting case with The Mitchells vs. the Machines: it was retitled to Connected in February 2020, but then the change was reverted in January 2021, and the working title became its final title.
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Super Mario Odyssey: The "Steam Gardens" area was originally known as Kogwald. The rename was likely made to better match the locale, since cogs are mostly absent from its steam-based machinery.
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Both Tattletales and its beta edition He Said, She Said had developmental titles. He Said, She Said was first planned in 1966 for NBC as It Had to Be You, but was shelved for three years and was eventually syndicated. It was redeveloped for CBS under the name Celebrity Match Mates in 1973 and had Gene Rayburn as the host. Rayburn landed the Match Game reboot, so as the show made it to the air in February 1974 as Tattletales, Bert Convy was tapped as host.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
"Suited for Success" was originally "Dressed for Failure". (Changed for sounding too negative)
"Stare Master" was originally titled "Fluster-shy".
"Owls Well that Ends Well" was originally "Hoo Goes There".
"Sisterhooves Social" was originally titled "Sissy Fit".
"May the Best Pet Win!" was originally titled "The Tortoise and the Mare".
"Read It and Weep" was originally titled "Reading Rainbow".
"Secret of My Excess" was originally "Giving Dangerously" and then "Attack of the 50 Foot Dragon".
"One Bad Apple" was originally titled "Bully for You".
"Keep Calm and Flutter On" was originally titled "Fluttershy's Home for Reformed Draconequii".
"The Cutie Map" was originally titled "Cutie Markless".
In universe example: Trixie's magic show in "No Second Prances" goes through several different titles. Each title receives a lukewarm response from whoever she's talking to, after which she backpedals with "It's a working title!"
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Many episodes of Doctor Who were filmed under a different name to the one they were broadcast under.
Due in part to the tendency to use working titles and the fact that each individual episode had titles at first, there is some debate as to what some early Hartnell stories should be called. For instance, the second serial had seven episodes, titled "The Dead Planet", "The Survivors", "The Escape", "The Ambush", "The Expedition", "The Ordeal", and "The Rescue", and the story as a whole used the titles "The Mutants" and "The Dead Planet" during production. Despite all this, the title most commonly used for marketing is "The Daleks".
Three separate stories were originally known as "Return of the Cybermen", with at least one being changed so the Cybermen would be a surprise.
"The Claws of Axos" was known as "The Vampire from Space" right up until transmission, with the first episode being listed in the Radio Times under that title.
"The Deadly Assassin" was originally "The Dangerous Assassin", until Robert Holmes decided it didn't "sound right".
"The Face of Evil" was originally "The Day God Went Mad", apparently just to wind up the Moral Guardians.
"The Caves of Androzani" was originally called "Chain Reaction".
"The Long Game" was "The Companion Who Couldn't", giving away how short Adam's story arc was going to be.
When the first series of New-Era Who was in production, all the production materials gave the series name as "Torchwood" - an anagram of Doctor Who - in an effort to keep it secret. The title eventually acquired its own series because Russell T. Davies liked the way it sounded.
"Silence in the Library" was originally known as "A River Song Ending" because Steven Moffat and Russell T. Davies were having a game of coming up with titles with rude acronyms. And yes, this is how River Song got her name to begin with.
In his Doctor Who Magazine column for March 2011, Steven Moffat announced what some of the upcoming episodes wouldn't be called: The first episode of the new season wouldn't be "Year of the Moon" ("I really like that title, but absolutely nobody else does in the whole wide world"), the second wouldn't be "Look Behind You!", and the mid-season finale either wouldn't be "His Darkest Hour" or it wouldn't be "A Good Man Goes to War". Neil Gaiman's episode, meanwhile, had a story so secret Moffat couldn't even tell us what it wasn't called. ("Bigger on the Inside", and before that "The House of Nothing").
In a later column, Moffat mentions that "The Eleventh Hour" was originally "The Doctor Returns" before "some smartarse" pointed out he hadn't gone anywhere.
One two-parter of Series 9 was first announced as "Invasion of the Zygons"/"Inversion of the Zygons", but subsequently changed to "The Zygon Invasion"/"The Zygon Inversion", probably because it was catchier.
Sarah Dollard's "Trap Street" was a standalone script subsequently revised into a Story Arc-critical Wham Episode and retitled "Face the Raven".
"The Pilot" was originally announced as "A Star in Her Eye", but subsequently given a Double-Meaning Title referencing both the antagonist and the episode being written to serve as a jumping-on point for new or lapsed viewers since it introduced a new companion.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale was called Drawdog prior to it being promoted on Kickstarter.
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The board game Trivial Pursuit was originally going to be called Six Thousand Questions.
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The film adaptation of Greg Sestero's book The Disaster Artist about the production of The Room (2003) was originally announced as under the same title as the book, but it was later renamed The Masterpiece. It was ultimately released under the original title.
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Both Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance are internally known as Fire Emblem 8. Path of Radiance began development first, but Sacred Stones was scheduled to release first.
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Crüe Ball was known as Twisted Flipper before acquiring the Mötley Crüe endorsement.
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When production first began, Ma Fille was known as Little Katrina. The name Mr. and Little Miss Beaufort was also used before being published as Ma Fille.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was being developed under the code name of Project Ogre, a reference to the shrapnel impale on Big Boss' forehead (which makes it look like an oni's horn).
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The Great Gatsby had a few working titles: Trimalchio (after a character who throws an elaborate party in Petronius's Satyricon), Trimalchio in West Egg, Gold-Hatted Gatsby (after the dedication quote) and Under the Red White and Blue.
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Bride of the Monster was The Atomic Monster and Monster of the Marshes.
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Doom 64 originally went by "The Absolution" but was changed to "Doom 64" to stay on-brand (although this caused confusion as it implied it was a conversion of a Doom game for the Nintendo 64 instead of a completely original Doom installment). The name was used as a map name in the game itself instead.
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Twilight itself had the working title Forks, the name of the town that it's set in. Word of God admits that it wouldn't be a very good title, but she didn't know what else to call it. They came up with "Twilight" while listing words with a nice, mysterious feel; originally they tried coming up with another word to pair with it, but eventually decided Twilight was good on its own.
The final book of the series, Breaking Dawn, was originally going to be titled Forever Dawn.
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Better with You went through the titles Better Together, Couples, and Leapfrog.
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The first Fatal Fury game had the working title of Real Bout, which had several title drops thorough the backgrounds of the game's stages. It was eventually used as the actual title for a later sub-series of Fatal Fury games.
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Home on the Range began production under the title Sweatin' Bullets.
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No More Heroes was originally to be called Heroes (no relation to the TV show, though that might be why it changed).
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The original title for Metal Gear was titled "Intruder". In the MSX2 version, pausing the game and typing "intruder" and then resuming play will increase the ammo capacity of every weapon to 999, providing something of a Title Drop.
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Keeper of the Lost Cities: Book one (Keeper of the Lost Cities) was originally named "Chasing Everblaze", and then briefly "Everblaze", which would become the title of book three instead.
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Various proposed titles for Monty Python's Flying Circus included Whither Canada?, The Nose Show, Ow! It's Colin Plint!, A Horse, a Spoon and a Basin, The Toad Elevating Moment, Owl Stretching Time and even Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus. Several of these titles were later used for individual episodes.
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The Happening was originally titled The Green Effect, which arguably better fits its theme.
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Silent Fall had Indian Summer.
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Tremors was Land Sharks, Beneath Perfection and Dead Silence.
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My Life as a Teenage Robot:
"Gridiron Glory" was originally titled "Teen Spirit".
"I Was a Preschool Dropout" was originally titled "Back to Preschool".
"Hostile Makeover" was originally titled "When It's Time to Change".
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The Thief and the Cobbler had such titles as The Thief Who Never Gave Up, Once..., simply The Thief, or The Cobbler and the Thief. The film was released after Executive Meddling under two names: The Princess and the Cobbler and the punny Arabian Knight, before being released on VHS as The Thief and the Cobbler. This doesn't even mention the early period when it was about Mulla Nasruddin, and has names such as Nasruddin!, The Majestic Fool or The Amazing Nasruddin.
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Vince McMahon originally wanted to call WWE's flagship event "The Colossal Tussle". Yes, really. Thankfully, Howard Finkel blurted out "WrestleMania" in a company meeting and the rest was history.
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Ultraman had several as it went through multiple drafts. Among the more notable of these are Bemlar: Scientific Investigation Agency and Redman (the latter of which was later recycled for a different show).
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Ultraman Ace was originally to be named Ultra A. This was changed because it turned out the name was already copyrighted. Incidentally, this is also when the franchise began using Character Titles as the franchise naming convention, as all the previous series were just called Ultra ___.
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"Robbie": "Robbie" was the title Dr Asimov used to submit the story to Astounding Science Fiction (rejected by John W. Campbell) and several other magazines. The story wasn't published until Dr Asimov's friend, Frederik Pohl, became the head editor of two new magazines. He changed the title to "Strange Playfellow". Dr Asimov changed it back when publishing I, Robot.
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The first Gradius game was named Scramble 2 during development, as it was originally meant to be a direct sequel to Scramble. According to this interview, it was only changed to Gradius after the core gameplay was nearly finalized, motivated by the need to make the game's instruction sheet.
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Star Trek: Generations started development as Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Movie. It was probably changed because that is a very awkward name for a movie.
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Ghostbusters (2016) had the code name Flapjack, probably derived from the last lines: as the Ghostbusters lost the hearse Patty's uncle borrowed, Patty says he has to make do with one hearse and double up on the bodies. He replies “What? I’m not stacking them like flapjacks!�. (given "Flapjack" is an Inherently Funny Word, the blooper reel has a montage of the cast shoehorning it into dialogue)
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Aerosmith: The song "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" was originally being written under the title "Cruisin' for a Lady", with different lyrics. However, someone misheard the line "Do the lucky lady" as "Dude looks like a lady", and when Steven Tyler found out, he decided to change the song's title and lyrics to match the mishearing.
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, early in its development, was titled Lazy Goat and Big Big Wolf. This is connected to an example of What Could Have Been - when the show went by this prototype title, Paddi (known in the original Chinese version as Lazy Goat) was the main character instead of Weslie.
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The first book in The Hunger Games trilogy had the working title The Tribute of District Twelve.
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Casablanca was Everybody Comes to Rick's.
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Spoon's "The Ghost of You Lingers" had the working title of "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga", a title that was supposed to sound like its staccato piano part. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga ended up becoming the name of the album it was on instead.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969) originally had the working titles Who's Scared? and Mysteries Five. After CBS rejected the original presentation art as too scary, the network's head of daytime and children's programming, Fred Silverman, heard Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night" while flying back to New York and the "scooby dooby doo" tag at the end of the song caught his attention. He called Joe Barbera and told him to give the show a comedy slant, make the dog the star and call him Scooby-Doo. He was originally a sheepdog called Too Much, but was changed to a Great Dane as one of the artists at Hanna-Barbera raised Great Danes as a hobby and the Archie show (which followed Scooby on CBS) already had a sheepdog, Jughead's pet Hot Dog.
In that same season, Hanna-Barbera was developing a show with the title "Stop That Pigeon," which featured a jelly-bellied Red Baronesque figure and a dachshund with pilot's goggles. It evolved into Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, recruiting the villains from Wacky Races.
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Tommy by The Who was originally called Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
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Proposed titles for A Momentary Lapse of Reason included Signs of Life, Of Promises Broken, and Delusions of Maturity. Signs of Life was supposedly rejected as a title because it would be too easy for Caustic Critics to make quips about the band showing "no signs of life".
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was originally going to be called Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, the title of the first volume of the comic. It was changed to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the title of the second volume) because that was thought to be a more exciting title.
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Pokémon Sun and Moon's code name was Pokémon Niji (Japanese for rainbow)
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Q*bert was originally called Snots and Boogers by its character designer. Gottlieb threw out a lot of ideas for a better title, and one executive nearly succeeded in changing it to @!#?@!.
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Putty was still known as Silly Putty when demos were released on magazine coverdisks. Writing Around Trademarks is the obvious reason why the title was reduced.
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Cannon Dancer was first going to be called "Killing" while in development. There's still a crash error screen in the game that, when activated, prints the otherwise nonsensical phrase "This PCB is not Killing".
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"Hare-Way to the Stars" was originally titled "Up in the Hare".
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Deadpool (2016)'s working title was Wham!, as a shout-out to George Michael's former group. Their album, Make It Big, and their song, "Careless Whisper", appeared in the movie.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service was Kingsman and Sons and The Secret Service.
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The Ben 10: Omniverse episode "Rook Tales" was originally titled "Separation Anxiety".
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The Science of Discworld IV was actually available for pre-order on Amazon with the subtitle The Magic of Roundworld, before a fan at a convention suggested Judgement Day.
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The Legend of Frenchie King: According to an article published in the Evening Standard while the movie was in production, its initial English title was Love on Horseback.
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Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter was originally called Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons.
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Down and Dirty Duck was originally made under the title Cheap!, to the point where there actually are quite a few Title Drops of the old name in the finished product. It can even be quite jarring to viewers not familiar with this fact. According to Mick Garris at Trailers from Hell, producer Roger Corman realized the movie would be promoted as Roger Corman's Cheap!
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Superman Returns was planned to have a sequel, titled Superman: The Man of Steel. The next movie still used part of the title.
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South Park:
"Raising the Bar" was titled "Rascal Tipping" during production.
"Oh, Jeez" was originally titled "The Very First Gentlemen". This was changed to coincide with a last minute change in content since the episode dealt with the 2016 US election and they hadn't expected Trump to win ("Oh Jeez" being the catchphrase of Mr. Garrison, the Trump stand-in on the show).
"Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" was going to be called "Nice" after a recurring expression in the episode.
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Tail Concerto went by the name Little Tail during the prototype stages. It can be presumed that this is where the franchise name came from.
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Project Gotham Racing's codename was... Project Gotham Racing. The predecessor was Metropolis Street Racing, and PGR was chosen as their codename, but a wrong billboard commission (where it was supposed to be announced with a proper name instead of the codename) prior to its reveal forced Microsoft and Bizarre Creations to move forward with this name. The developers revealed that due to this, their next projects had profane codenames, just to avoid this mistake.
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50 First Dates was 50 First Kisses. It's possible the casting of Drew Barrymore had something to do with the change: She starred in Never Been Kissed five years earlier and maybe it was thought that viewers would have confused it for a sequel.
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Warrior Cats has several.
When the second series was set to be just a trilogy, the working title for the trilogy was "Warriors: The Next Generation". Vicky said she had files on her computer with "TNG" in the name for years after they were out.
The Curse for Dark River, as seen in advanced-release copies of The Sight.
Cruel Season for Sunrise.
The Fourth Apprentice for the Omen Of The Stars series; the first book (which ended up getting the name The Fourth Apprentice) would have been Ambush.
Betrayal or Dark Betrayal for Night Whispers. (Vicky and the US editor Erica were "fighting most sweetly" about it, according to Kate.)
Crookedstar's Secret for Crookedstar's Promise, as HarperCollins' catalog originally listed it as such.
Strangers in the Snow for Shattered Peace, according to illustrator James Barry
Goosefeather's Curse had the working titles Goosefeather's Past (per a listing on a HarperCollins website) and Goosefeather's Madness (according to Vicky before its release).
Squirrelflight's Kin for Squirrelflight's Hope, according to a comment from Kate on her blog
Leopardstar's Salvation for Leopardstar's Honor, based on one of Kate's social media posts.
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons:
One Ham's Family was originally titled The Smart Little Pig.
What's Buzzin' Buzzard? was originally titled Vulture a la King.
Henpecked Hoboes was originally titled Bums Away.
Little 'Tinker was originally titled Smellbound.
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Wrestlemaniac was The Mexican Porn Massacre.
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Meltdown for Licence Renewed.
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Kirby Star Allies was announced as Kirby for Nintendo Switch.
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Godzilla (1954)'s working title was The Giant Monster From 20,000 Miles Under the Sea... as if the film being heavily influenced by The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms wasn't obvious enough.
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Black Christmas (1974) was Stop Me.
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Blood Bros seems to have had the working title Cabal II in West. This was confirmed by Dummied Out text not present in Blood Bros. but in a different Arcade Game running on the same hardware, Sky Smasher.
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Tekken was originally titled Rave War. Law's "Rave War Combo" move may be an homage to that.
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The musical Something for the Boys began production as Jenny Get Your Gun. It's no coincidence that the same star and same writers next joined forces on Annie Get Your Gun.
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To Boldly Flee originally had the working title Star Space: The Search for Plot. Many Channel Awesome producers have said in various commentaries that most of them had no idea the film's title had been changed until the trailers started coming out. According to said commentaries, Linkara seems to be the only producer who liked the working title better.
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This Is Not a Werewolf Story originally had a different title, though the author hasn't revealed what it was. Apparently she changed it out of frustration that, despite the protagonist insisting that he's Totally Not a Werewolf, one would-be agent rejected it with the message "I'm not taking any werewolf stories.�
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Weirdsister College had a working title of The Worst Witch: The College Years (and ended up being used in an autumn CITV promo).
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Strange Interlude was originally titled Godfather.
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"Rabbit Fire" was originally titled "What's Up, Duck?".
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Anyone around at the beginning of The Lion King Adventures would know that the original title for the series was The Lion King: Friends to the End.
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Heaven's Gate was originally called The Johnson County War.
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Averted in the case of Steve Jackson's Generic Universal RolePlaying System, which was never intended to be released under that name, and was always supposed to get an evocative, marketable title at some point... but it never happened. The working title was its joke name at the company: Great Unnamed RolePlaying System = GURPS for short - was used as a placeholder while waiting for someone to think of a better name. But no one did, and GURPS, became the title it was released as.
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Doom: An early name for Doom was "Attack Of The Attackers". There were planned to be six episodes instead of three. The first episode would be called Evil: Unleashed, later used for the name of the Jaguar port. Knee-Deep in the Dead was supposed to be the title of the third episode.
Doom 64 originally went by "The Absolution" but was changed to "Doom 64" to stay on-brand (although this caused confusion as it implied it was a conversion of a Doom game for the Nintendo 64 instead of a completely original Doom installment). The name was used as a map name in the game itself instead.
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The Monster & The Girl was originally named this as a working title; the author considered other names, but decided in the end to use the working title.
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Rosie's Rules: The pitch pilot was called Alexa Land.
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Miracle Creek: Angie Kim and her editor wanted to call the book Miracle Submarine, but changed it because some booksellers thought it was too weird.
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Squid Game was first announced as Round 6. (Brazil still used it as the eventual title)
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Gears of War was originally called Geist, named after the original name for the Locust. It was close to becoming a Permanent Placeholder too, until Nintendo released an unrelated game also named Geist, causing Gears of War to be adopted instead.
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Several Family Guy episodes have had working titles:
"FOX-y Lady" was originally titled "Anchorwoman: The Legend of Lois Griffin".
"We Love You, Conrad" was originally titled "An American Dog in Paris".note The change is due to the fact that Brian was originally going to date Paris Hilton in the episode, but she turned down the offer to voice herself, leading to the show being rewritten so that Lauren Conrad is Brian's date.
"Spies Reminiscent of Us" was originally titled "Road to '85".note This was because the episode was originally in development as a "Road to..." episode before "Road to the Multiverse" became the one for that season.
"Excellence in Broadcasting" was originally titled "Peter Griffin is a Big Fat Idiot".note This was probably because the episode was about Peter becoming friends with Rush Limbaugh rather than Brian.
"Tiegs for Two" was originally titled "Famiry Guy".note The change was actually a good thing, because the story of Peter antagonizing a Chinese launderer is actually the B-plot.
The third Star Wars parody, "It's a Trap!", was originally titled "The Great Muppet Caper".
"Lottery Fever" was originally titled "Powerball Fever".
"Ratings Guy" was originally titled "All in the Nielsen Family"
"Jesus, Mary & Joseph!" was originally titled "Jesus Christ!"
"Baking Bad" was originally titled "Peter and Lois Open a Store" (the episode is still called that on the DVD set and on Netflix).
"Papa Has a Rollin' Son" was originally titled "Crip Off the Old Block".
"A Shot in the Dark" was originally titled "Stand Your Brown".
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All About Eve was originally called Best Actress.
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Red Widow Dawn for The Man with the Red Tattoo, which is the name of the bad guys' Evil Plan.
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Pointless was originally pitched under the title Obviously.
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Go Jetters was initially pitched under the name Titch Hikers.
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Amphibia was originally called "Amphibiland", but the name was changed because it was already being used in Kulipari, another show set in a world of amphibians. This title was still used in some dubs of the show, however.
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A Better Way to Die for High Time to Kill.
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Illusion of Gaia, the localization of Gaia Gens�ki (The Gaia Fantasy Chronicles), was going to be released as Soul Blazer: Illusion of Gaia, due to being developed by Quintet, developer of SoulBlazer.
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters filmed under the title Hourglass (referencing the titular organization's logo), and working titles included Godzilla and the Titans and just Monarch.
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The Universe Falls version of "Northwest Mansion Mystery" was going to keep its original title, as shown by the list of episode titles the author posted. Come release, however, it is titled Northwest Mansion Nightmare, as it also adapts "Nightmare Hospital".
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Pacific Rim: Uprising was initially called Maelstrom.
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Closer Than Ever began as a one-act nightclub revue titled Next Time Now!. When the show grew to two acts, the authors realized that it needed a proper finale as well as a better title, and thus wrote "Closer Than Ever" to fulfill both requirements.
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The 18th Mystery Trackers installment, Fatal Lesson, was originally going to be called Tragedy in the Training Camp.
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P902 is a Dark Universe
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City of Titans was originally announced under the working title Plan Z: The Phoenix Project. This didn't prevent at least two other projects on Kickstarter from using very similar names, so the final title was apparently decided on earlier than planned.
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Hong Kong Phooey was originally penciled on ABC's Saturday morning schedule as Kung Phooey. A Charlton comic story actually called him that.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was first announced at E3 2009 under the title Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
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The first few demo versions of BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm were titled BoxxyQuest 2: Storm Gathering. When it was decided to release the game publicly (it was originally intended for a small private forum, like the original), it was renamed to avoid putting off new players.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League: "Project 166" was used to refer to the movie by its crew when it was being worked on for the 2021 release.
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The original title for Puzzle Bobble may have been intended to be Bubble Buster, which is at least what appears on a Dummied Out title screen.
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was originally intended as a side-story to the series and was known under a variety of working titles such as "Biohazard Gaiden" (not to be confused with the later Game Boy Color game of the same name), "Biohazard 1.9/2.1" and "Biohazard: Last Escape". The "3" was added to the last title, as Capcom wanted to release a final numbered Resident Evil game before moving on to the next-generation platforms.
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One of the working titles for Crisis on Infinite Earths was "History of the DC Universe", which would eventually become a two-issue limited series that tells the Post-Crisis history of The DCU. Another working title that was shown in ads was "DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths".
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Shoot the Moon, The Big Smoke, and Six Days in December for Double or Die.
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Everyone thought that Cloverfield was just a working title. Then the movie came out under that name.
Played straight with the rest of the franchise. 10 Cloverfield Lane was Valencia, while The Cloverfield Paradox was God Particle (and possibly Cloverfield Station). This is partially because the films were not originally intended to be part of the franchise.
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The two The Matrix sequels were shot back to back under the code name The Burly Man. Possibly in reference, the two major Neo vs. Smith fights in the two sequels are referred to as the "Burly Brawl" and the "Super Burly Brawl".
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Sonic Superstars was named "Sonic Orion" internally prior to its full reveal. The save game on Switch still references this name and some screenshots with the Orion name had appeared on the official site before being eventually removed.
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Code Lyoko was originally Garage Kids, with a darker theme and lacking Aelita. The digital world was called "Xanadu" instead of "Lyoko". Also, Yumi could use telekinesis in the real world. It was later revamped, with a clearer boundary between the digital world and the real world.
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Subverted with Octopath Traveler, which was originally announced as "Project Octopath Traveler". By the time the demo came out, Square Enix had just lopped off the word "Project", and that ended up becoming the final title. The follow-up game, Triangle Strategy, followed the same pattern (started life as "Project TRIANGLE STRATEGY" and then finalized by dropping "Project").
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Torchwood: Miracle Day was originally going to be named The New World, as evidenced by early promotional materials before changing to Miracle Day. However, the first episode keeps the original name and one character name-drops it in the season finale.
Torchwood itself takes its title from what was the anagram code name for the first season of the Doctor Who revival.
The episode Torchwood S1 E9 "Random Shoes" was originally called Invisible Eugene, and the working title was used in some promotional material.
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An instrumental jam that eventually became the verse section of "Zombie Eaters" was informally known to the band as "Surprise! You're Dead". While the finished song ended up being called something else, Mike Patton liked the title "Surprise! You're Dead" enough that he used it for a totally different song on the same album.
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Citizen Kane was The American, then John Citizen, then U.S.A.
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The original pitch of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes was titled "Super Lakewood Plaza Turbo" before being shortened to "Lakewood Plaza Turbo" for the pilot.
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Knuckles Chaotix began development as a Sega Genesis game titled Sonic Crackers, with the ROM header referring to it as Sonic Studium. Note that the title was likely meant to be Sonic Clackers, since the game's main gimmick works exactly like the toy of the same name. As Sonic Crackers was built in April 1st it led many to believe to be a hoax when it was first discovered, but the text "SonicCrackersS32X" can be found in one early prototype of Chaotix, proving its legitimacy.
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The original working title for Kirby: Planet Robobot was "Kirby: HAGANE" (hagane means "steel" in Japanese). That was felt to be too edgy, so it was changed to "Robot Planet," which seemed too simplistic. It was tweaked to "Roborobo Planet", and then "Robobo Planet", the final Japanese name. The English version then tweaked that further to "Planet Robobot".
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The eighteenth film Tomorrow Never Dies was originally called Tomorrow Never Lies, which ties into the plot about a newspaper that makes the news. But there was a typo and the name stuck.
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Anything Goes was Hard to Get, then Bon Voyage.
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Inception was titled Oliver's Arrows.
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Planet Waves by Bob Dylan was originally called Ceremonies of the Horsemen.
Blonde on Blonde was originally called I Want You.
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You, Me and the Apocalypse was originally known as Apocalypse: Slough, but was changed as it was feared the Americans would not get the joke ("Slough" rhymes with "now", as in Apocalypse Now). It was changed to ''You, Me and the End of the World" before gaining its final title.
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Tabula Rasa, early in development, was referred to as Ultima X.
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Young Americans by David Bowie was originally called Shilling the Rube.
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Final Fight was original titled Street Fighter '89, but was changed after play testers criticized the game of being a Dolled-Up Installment. Ironically enough, members of the Final Fight cast would later migrate into the Street Fighter series.
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Modern Bond movies tend to start off just going by their official numbering before they end up getting official titles. Die Another Day was originally referred to as Bond 20, Skyfall as Bond 23, and No Time to Die as Bond 25.
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The third game of the Dark Parables series, Rise of the Snow Queen, was originally teased as being titled Snowfall Kingdom.
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The Punisher (2017) filmed under the working title of "Crime".
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Alex Rider:
Eagle Strike was variously known in its early stages as Eagle Eye, Gameslayer and Never Play Dead (the last of which appears to be an Orphaned Reference).
The original title for Crocodile Tears was Endurance Point, which received a negative response when Horowitz mentioned it to schoolchildren.
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The Muppets:
The Great Muppet Caper was originally called simply The Muppet Movie 2.
The initial script for The Muppets Take Manhattan by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses was called The Muppets: The Legend Continues. Another title was Muppet Movie III.
Muppets Most Wanted was originally announced as The Muppets ... Again! The opening number ends with a repeated Title Drop of the original title.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had a number of these including Star Trek A New Beginning, Star Trek A New Generation, Star Trek The New Generation and Star Trek Enterprise 7 (the latter title is explained by the fact the ship was to be known as the Enterprise 7 rather than the Enterprise D).
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The Goldbergs's working title was "How the Hell am I Normal?"
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