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When the title of a work is chosen by the publisher or someone else who is not the author, and the author may not even like the title. See also Market-Based Title. Examples: |
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The Far Side was descended from a similarly warped gag comic called Nature's Way. Gary Larson didn't mind the change at all - "They could have called it Revenge of the Zucchini People for all I cared". | |
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"The Acquisitive Chuckle": Dr Asimov originally titled this story simply "The Chuckle", but the magazine editors who bought the story renamed it, and Asimov liked the change enough to keep the new name when he inevitably reprinted the story. | |
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Many of Asimov's Black Widowers stories got their titles changed on their initial magazine publication. His compilations generally change them back — with the occasional Ascended Fanon. "The Acquisitive Chuckle": Dr Asimov originally titled this story simply "The Chuckle", but the magazine editors who bought the story renamed it, and Asimov liked the change enough to keep the new name when he inevitably reprinted the story. "Ph as in Phony": The magazine changed the title to "The Phony Ph.D." because Dr Asimov's title was too similar to a series of stories written by Lawrence Treat. For his own collection, however, he prefers his title, and apologizes to Mr Treat in the Tales of the Black Widowers afterword. |
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The first Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson was called The Tomb by the publisher who wanted people to think it was a sequel to his earlier horror book, The Keep. No actual tomb appears in the story. (Ironically, Wilson later decided to retrospectively link the two books as sharing a continuity.) | |
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Archie Goodwin, a higher-up at DC Comics, came up with the title The Long Halloween for the classic Batman miniseries. | |
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Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies and Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (both titles chosen by their Japanese developer Namco) were re-dubbed "Ace Combat: Distant Thunder" and "Ace Combat: Squadron Leader" in the PAL regions. The numbers were filed off to conceal the existence of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (it wasn't shipped to Europe). | |
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"In a Good Cause--": This story was republished with the title "Ideals Die Hard" for Authentic Science Fiction (issue #78, March 1957). | |
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The title of V for Vendetta supposedly came down from the publishers, and gave Moore and Lloyd a new impetus in crafting the graphic novel. | |
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The names of the volumes of The Lord of the Rings were not chosen by Tolkien. Tolkien never even wanted it to be a trilogy. It was originally envisioned as a six book series. Supposedly the book was broken up into three volumes because in the early 1950s, Britain had not sufficiently recovered from World War II paper rationing to publish the whole thing at once. Thus LOTR being the Trope Maker for the whole modern idea of a "trilogy" is entirely accidental. That is why which Two Towers are referred to (Orthanc, Barad-dûr, Cirith Ungol, Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith - pick two) is never specified by Tolkien himself. He also rejected the name Return of the King because it... kinda spoiled the aforementioned fact, preferring War of the Ring instead. Subverted in the Icelandic translation Hilmir snýr heim, which does indeed mean King comes home but in such an antiquated fashion that most first time readers don't make the connection. |
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When filming the 1986 version of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, Michael Mann changed the title to Manhunter. His reason was that because the original title might lead potential audiences to think this was a Kung Fu Movie. | |
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Animorphs titles were all publisher chosen. | |
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Peanuts was named by the syndicate. Charles M. Schulz hated the name. Given that his choice was Li'l Folks, the Syndicate clearly did him a favor, even if he didn't appreciate it. "Peanuts" is a Word Salad Title (despite being only one word). Someone at the syndicate was under the impression that it was another word for "kids", because of the term "peanut gallery". | |
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The Dark Eye was supposed to be called Aventuria, after the world it is set in. The publisher Schmidt Spiele changed the title to The Dark Eye and Palantir like artifacts were quickly added to account for the title. | |
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The title of October Sky was chosen by a producer who came up with it by making anagrams of the book's original title "Rocket Boys". Homer Hickam doesn't seem to have minded too much, as he let the book be marketed as "October Sky" after the film was released. | |
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I, Robot: This collection's title was not a name he picked or wanted, since it belonged to a short story by a different author. | |
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Newspaper publisher Joseph Patterson was famous for his "hands-on" management of comic strips, including choosing the titles such as Dick Tracy and Terry and the Pirates. One story is that Milton Caniff was a bit baffled when Patterson chose this latter for the title of his new comic strip, because initially he hadn't planned to include any character named "Terry", and also hadn't planned to include any pirates. | |
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Stephenie Meyer's original name for Twilight was Forks. Her agent made her change it, and most people would probably agree with her that Forks is not a great name for a paranormal romance. | |
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The albums Paranoid and Vol 4 by Black Sabbath were originally called War Pigs and Snowblind respectively. The record company changed the name of both before releasing them, the first to avoid offending people involved in the Vietnam War and to capitalise on the single's popularity, and the second because of the drug reference. | |
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Daishi Odashima said he intended to name Soulcalibur V "Soul Edge II". However, Namco wouldn't have it and insisted he continue using the Soulcalibur name. With Calibur's widespread recognition eclipsing the popularity of the original game, calling the sixth installment of the series that without the subtitle of "Soulcalibur V" would've been somewhat silly. |
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The sixth book in the Warrior Cats subseries Power of Three was originally going to be called Cruel Season, but the publishers thought it was too depressing and changed it to Sunrise. They never seem to complain about the actual content of any of the books, though... | |
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"Ph as in Phony": The magazine changed the title to "The Phony Ph.D." because Dr Asimov's title was too similar to a series of stories written by Lawrence Treat. For his own collection, however, he prefers his title, and apologizes to Mr Treat in the Tales of the Black Widowers afterword. | |
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The title of Field of Dreams was changed from the original book's title "Shoeless Joe". Ironically, as director Phillip Alden Robinson found out, "Shoeless Joe" in itself was the publisher's title for Bill Kinsella's novel. His title: "Dream Field." | |
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