A title of a work that's only one word long. Not much more to say.
If the title is a noun, it is possibly also other tropes. Titles that refer to characters either by name or by job (e.g. "Rose", which refers to the character Rose Tyler; or Bartender, which is about the bartender protagonist), they go under Character Title or Job Title, as well.
If the name is the location the work is set in, that's The Place.
Words composed of two or more words that are not usually written as one also count as examples of Portmantitle.
Subtitles do not disqualify a title from this trope.
When adding examples, please give whatever context you can, even if it's as simple as "It's called Wings because all of the main characters are associated with a flying service." Or "It's called Friends because it's about a group of friends." If Word of God or Word of Saint Paul exists for why the title was chosen, give that. Sometimes, such a short title is picked because it's memorable.
Verbed Title and Mononymous Biopic Title are subtropes. Compare to One-Letter Title and Short Titles. Contrast to The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles.
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- Anime & Manga
- Fan Works
- Films — Live-Action
- Literature
- Live-Action TV
- Music
- Theatre
- Video Games
- Webcomics
- Western Animation
Other Examples:
- Companies Committed to Kids:
- "Syringe", from the 90s. Depicts a syringe being filled with dirty street water.
- "Brain", from the 90s. Depicts a brain made of wires that it cut up with pliers to simulate drug-based brain damage.
- "Crack", from the 2000s. Depicts a body bag, supposedly "what a bag of crack looks like".
- Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives:
- "Mark", from the 90s. Depicts the rotoscoped story of Mark, who killed two people while driving drunk and left their children orphans for Christmas.
- "Eyes", from 1992. Depicts an asystolic victim of a drunk driver; the camera zooms out from her eyes, in which one is constricted while the other is dialated.
- Meth Project:
- "Bathtub", from 2005. Depicts a girl finding her future, meth-addicted self in her bathtub.
- "Laundromat", from 2005. Depicts a boy witnessing his future, meth-addicted self robbing a laundromat.
- "Jumped", from 2006. Depicts a meth addict lamenting how he would rather have been jumped in an alley than make it to the party where he first tried meth.
- "Crash", from 2006. Depicts a meth addict lamenting how she would rather have crashed her care on the way to a party than make it there and try meth.
- "Mother", from 2007. Depicts a meth addict stealing from his mother's purse, while his former self narrates about how he loves his mom.
- "Friends", from 2007. Depicts a group of meth addicts dumping their unconscious friend outside an ER, while the friend's former self narrates about being close with her friends.
- "Parents", from 2007. Depicts a meth addict trying to get into his parents' house, with his father locking the door and hugging his wife.
- "OD", from 2008. Depicts a group of teenagers watching TV, with one having a seizure on the ground, then showing a mirror world where they're all meth addicts.
- "Family", from 2008. Depicts three meth addicts breaking into a house, knocking two adults unconscious, and leaving with various stolen items while the homeowners' daughter cries.
- "Shadow", from 2008. Depicts a meth addict named Anthony having a violent outburst with a baseball bat.
- Partnership For A Drug Free Singapore:
- "Blender", from the 90s. Depicts a brain being blended.
- "Rats", from the 90s. Named for comparing taking heroin to being eaten alive by rats.
- "Faces", from the 90s. Depicts a sweaty face alongside the effects of heroin, which includes that human waste is released in sweat due to the digestive system essentially being shut down by heroin use.
- "Comfort", "Birthday", and "Sleeping", from the 90s. Juxtaposes a home video of a toddler boy with an adult heroin addict.
- Partnership to End Addiction:
- "Snake", from the 80s. Depicts a drug dealer who transforms into a Power Rangers-esque snake monster.
- "Circles", from the 80s. Depicts a man engaging in literal Circular Reasoning, saying that he uses cocaine so he can work longer, so he can earn more, so he can do more coke. Repeat ad nauseum.
- "Graveyard", from the 80s. Depicts a man talking to his son about drugs, a little too late.
- "Surgeon", from the 80s. Depicts a surgeon high on marijuana and about to operate.
- "Faces", from 1987. Depicts a girl's face, starting with before she used drugs, and ended with her pale-eyed corpse.
- "Vegetable", from 1987. Depicts a teenage boy talking about how his brother's friend talked him into doing crack, which left him in a vegetative state while the friend died.
- "Jamie", from the 90s. Depicts a meth lab underneath an ordinary apartment, where the titular Jamie lives.
- "Needle", from the 90s. Depicts a man snorting heroin and being impaled by a giant needle.
- "Lenny", from 1995. An interview with a real heroin addict named Lenny, who dreams of being on Broadway, but disappeared in 1996 and hasn't been seen since.
- Queensland Transport:
- "Catherine", from the 90s. Depicts a teenage girl named Catherine being run over by a distracted, speeding driver.
- "Pram", from the 90s. Depicts a man losing control of his car and crashing into a mum pushing her baby in a pram.
- "Negatives", from 2007. Named for being filmed in negative colours.
- "Faces", from the "Slow Down Stupid" campaign. Depicts the faces of various speeding victims.
- "Nightmare", from the "Slow Down Stupid" campaign. Depicts a home video of a couple, then the girlfriend dying on the street.
- "Life", from the "Slow Down Stupid" campaign. Named for encouraging viewers to enoy life by not speeding.
- "Speeding", from the "Fatal 4" campaign. Depicts the first-person POV of a biker after a speeding accident.
- "Tired", from the "Fatal 4" campaign. Depicts the first-person POV of someone waking up in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel.
- "Unbuckled", from the "Fatal 4" campaign. Depicts a man after being flung out of the car from crashing while not wearing a seat belt.
- The Real Cost:
- "Skin", from the 2010s. Depicts a girl paying for a pack of cigarettes with a chunk of her own skin.
- "Teeth", a brother ad to "Skin". Depicts a man paying for a box of cigarettes with one of his own teeth.
- "Delivery", from the 2010s. Depicts a delivery man giving another man a package containing a set of rotting teeth.
- Scotland Against Drugs:
- "Rave", from 1996. Depicts a drug dealer at a rave, boasting about various medicines he sold to other partygoers under the guise of them being drugs.
- "Polaroid", from 1996. Depicts a man's face in a Polaroid picture, transforming from a happy partygoer to the mother of all Nightmare Faces. Sometimes also known as "Photograph" or "Paranoid Instamatic".
- Transport Accident Commission:
- "Girlfriend", their first ad from 1989. Depicts an ER helping a woman involved in a car crash. Famous for being the ad that coined their slogan, "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot".
- "Darren", from the 90s. Depicts a man named Darren getting into a flaming car wreck, and later dying in the ER.
- "Joey", from the 90s. Depicts a man and his brother getting into a car wreck; Joey dies, and his brother is in critical condition.
- "Bones", from the 90s. Depicts a woman going through physical therapy after a car accident. Also known as "Bend Your Knee, Katie".
- "Golf", from the 90s. Depicts a grandfather taking some pills while golfing, which end up landing him and his grandson in a car accident.
- "Fireball", from 1994. Depicts four young adults dying in a fiery car wreck.
- "Julie", from 1998. Depicts a man grieving for his daughter Julie, who died in a car crash caused by her boyfriend.
- "Tracy", from 1998. Depicts a woman who survived a car accident crying for her friend Tracy, who was grievously injured.
- "Pinball", from 1999. Depicts a man without a seatbelt being launched into the windscreen and bouncing around in the car, injuring himself.
- "Shark", from 2003. Depicts a boy being eaten by a shark on the beach with no one batting an eyelid, as a metaphor for Victorians' lack of concern about road-related deaths.
- "Slab", from 2006. Depicts an elaborate musical number where doctors, nurses, and corpses sing about road-related deaths.
- "Swap", from 2010. Depicts a man under the influence of cannabis agreeing to switch the driver's seat to his sober girlfriend.
- Abaporu: The painting is only named Abaporu, from Tupi Abapor'u: abá (man) + poru (man-eater).
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Dawn
- Charity
- Psyche and Cupid: "Psyche"
- David, by Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Gassed by John Singer Sargent
- Gothic Times: "Mutiny", "Risen", "Mother", "Deceit", "Bandito", and "Quarantine".
- Guernica by Pablo Picasso
- Medici Chapels: The allegorical sculptures are named like this: "Dawn", "Dusk", "Day", and "Night".
- Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
- Olympia by Édouard Manet
- Ophelia by John Everett Millais
- Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
- The Scream by Edvard Much: In its original language, it's merely called Skirk (translation Shriek)
- Akis: Akis is the "first name of the protagonist" type.
- Bernard: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Canimals: About a bunch of cute animals with cans for their bodies.
- A few of the official English Happy Heroes episode titles consist of only one word.
- Season 7 episodes 1 and 2 (Multi-Part Episode), "Extraterrestrial".
- Season 8 episode 11, "Floating".
- Season 8 episode 18, "Counterattack".
- Kodama: Antagonist-type Species Title.
- Kuiba: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title, except that the protagonist doesn't know he has that name.
- Lamput: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Larva: Protagonist Species Title.
- Mermaid: Named for an important character. An Antagonist Title, revealed only at the end.
- Momo (2022): Titled for the protagonist.
- Oddbods: Titled for the protagonist group's name.
- Stitch & Ai: The episodes "Gotcha!", "Spirals", "Brothers", and "Monstrosity"; "Nuo Opera" was also promoted as "Creatures" for the United States when the show was on DisneyNow.
- Tobot: Vehicle Title for general name of the Humongous Mecha in focus.
- 1963: Named for being Retraux to look like it was published that year.
- Aero: The wind-elemental eponymous heroine's codename.
- Ant: Codename of Protagonist Title.
- Barracuda: Not only the series as a whole, but also each of the individual volumes, which are (in English):
- Barracuda: Vehicle Title for the ship of the protagonists.
- Plural Idiosyncratic Episode Naming for most volumes:
- "Slaves"
- "Scars"
- "Duels"
- "Revolts"
- "Cannibals"
- "Deliverance".
- Bizarrogirl: Named after the titular anti-hero and co-protagonist.
- Blackbird: Named for an In-Universe status. "Blackbird" means a paragon who is a loner and not part of a greater cabal.
- Blackhawk: The name of the titular military unit.
- Bone: A play on Species Title, as the Bones are named after their species, or possibly their species is named after their surname.
- Burlap: Name given to mysterious Sackhead Slasher vigilante targeting Serial Killers.
- Catstronauts: Something-Nauts, Portmantitle referring to cat astronauts.
- Chassis: First Name of Protagonist Title.
- Chew: A Epunymous Title. "Chew" is a homophone for "Chu", the last name of the main character who also has a superpower based around eating.
- Chlorophylle: Name of the main character.
- Copperhead: The Place where the story is set.
- Criminal (2006): Job Title of all the protagonists, as a deconstruction of the crime genre.
- Critter: Protagonist Title
- Crucible: Named after the titular super-hero academy.
- Jeff Lemire series using Idiosyncratic Episode Naming ["Direction Verb"-er]:
- Die: Double-Meaning Title: As the name of the tabletop game that's being played, and as the singular of "dice".
- Dolltopia: The Place that the protagonist goes and also becomes under threat.
- Duster (2015): Appears to be a Job Title for the protagonist's crop duster job.
- Elsewhere (2017): The main protagonist falls through a portal into some place elsewhere.
- Excalibur: Team Title:
- Farmhand: Job Title-type Pun-Based Title for farming hands with Organic Technology and another name for a farmer.
- Fatale: As a reference to the Femme Fatale supernatural power of the protagonist.
- Funnyman (1948): Codename of Protagonist Title.
- Ghostopolis: The name of the supernatural city where the story is set.
- Girrion: In-Universe name for a type of technology.
- Gunsmoke: Name of Protagonist Title.
- Halcyon: Previously called Utopian. Current title is a Team Title.
- Happy!: Secondary Character Title. Happy's a little blue flying horse that assists the protagonist.
- Harleen: First Name of Protagonist Title.
- Haunt: Named as protagonist is being haunted by a ghost.
- Henchmen: The title of The Protagonist's job.
- Hide: Verb for the protagonist's need to.
- Hillbilly: Job Title of protagonist.
- Hinterkind: Group title Antagonist Title.
- Horizon
- Hound
- Invincible: Codename of Protagonist Title.
- Irredeemable and its spinoff Incorruptable: Irredeemable is about a Superman-expy going off the deep end after accidentally going past the tipping point, and then not looking back although in the end while he can't be redeemed, by sacrificing himself he planted the seeds for redemption in a convoluted, multi-verse-y way. Incorruptable is about the opposite, a Card-Carrying Villain forced to become good because with the events of Irredeemable, the world is in too much danger for him to be eeeeeeevil.
- Kabuki: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title
- Killtopia: The Place where the story occurs.
- Monstress: Implied to be Protagonist Title, as she's carrying a Monstrum in her body.
- Nailbiter: Job Title-type Protagonist Title.
- Neonomicon: Reference to the Necronomicon of H. P. Lovecraft, whose works this is based off.
- Norby: Most of the comics in Boys Life appear as one word entries in the Table of Contents. The chapters themselves use the name of the original book.
- Owly: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title
- Postal: Named for an important character being a postal worker.
- Providence: Double-Meaning Title, of H. P. Lovecraft references: A reference to Lovecraft's birth city, but also means a divinely ordained chain of events. It is implied throughout the story that Black's journey is due to forces above his own volition and he is continuously referred to as a "herald".
- Psychonaut
- Red (2003): A reference to "red status", a.k.a being an active CIA agent which the protagonist returns to after retirement, and also the color of blood, in a story where there is a lot of murder.
- Saga
- Seconds, named after the restaurant in which most of the plot transpires. Also a Double-Meaning Title, as it's referring to both "Seconds" as in a second helping of a meal, and the idea of a second chance (as the book has a Peggy Sue plot).
- Shadowhawk
- Shadowland
- Shadowpact: Team Title.
- Silverblade
- Sleepless
- Snowman
- Stray
- Tomahawk
- Tomboy
- Trees: Subverted Species Title. It's not actually about the plants. It's just what the humans call the huge alien towers that landed on Earth.
- Trouble: Implied Event Title, likely referring to the Teen Pregnancy trouble of the story.
- Typhon: First name of Protagonist Title.
- Vibe
- Watchmen: The comic takes its name from the quote "who watches the watchmen?" which refers to
- Whisper
- Yakari
- Yasmeen
- Yellowjacket
- Zero: Last name of Protagonist Title.
- Zion
- Baldo: Nickname of Protagonist Title.
- Blondie (1930): First name of Secondary Character Title.
- Conchy: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Dilbert: Starring the eponymous engineer, except when it doesn't.
- Garfield: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Marvin: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Peanuts: So called because it was a slang term for children in its creator's day. Prior to that, he'd called the strip Lil' Folks.
- Pickles: Family Title. The surname of Earl, Opal, and their daughter Sylvia, is Pickles.
- Zits: Referencing its pubescent protagonist and how the comic is about his life.
- "Kolobok": Named after the main character.
- "Morozko": Only One Name-type Secondary Character Title.
- "Reygoch" is named after one of the main characters.
- Abominable: Protagonist is a yeti, a.k.a abominable snowman.
- Anastasia: Protagonist Title.
- Anomalisa: Upon seeing how Lisa is an "anomaly," Michael dubs her "Anomalisa.", so a type of Secondary Character Title, and Portmantitle.
- Antz: It's a movie about ants. The "z" in the title isn't just Xtreme Kool Letterz but also a reference to "A-to-Z."
- Away: The action that the child protagonist spends the entire film doing in regards to the dark spirit pursuing him.
- Beowulf: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Brave: Brave is presumably named for the emotion, displayed by its protagonist, Merida, given the Title Drop:
Merida: Fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.
- Cars: Set in a world of anthropomorphized cars.
- Coco: A Secondary Character Title, named for protagonist Miguel's great-grandmother, whose history is relevant to the plot of the movie.
- Coraline: Protagonist Title.
- From the Disney Animated Canon:
- Aladdin: Protagonist Title.
- Bambi: Protagonist Title.
- Bolt: Protagonist Title.
- Cinderella: Protagonist Title.
- Dinosaur
- Dumbo: Protagonist Title.
- Encanto
- Fantasia In music, a ""Fantasia" is a selection of popular tunes woven into a loosely bound composition. The film is a group of separate animated shorts, each one inspired by a popular classical music composition.
- Frozen: Verbed Title - Fantasy about a queen with uncontrollable ice magic.
- Hercules: Protagonist Title.
- Moana: Protagonist Title.
- Mulan: Protagonist Title.
- Pinocchio: Protagonist Title.
- Pocahontas: Protagonist Title.
- Tangled: An example of the Sub-Trope Verbed Title, but the Working Title was originally going to go with an example of both this and Protagonist Title, Rapunzel, until late in production.'
- Tarzan: Protagonist Title.
- Wish (2023): Verbed Title - animated story about a living wishing star.
- Zootopia: It's a world of animals.
- Elio: Protagonist Title.
- Epic:
- EPIC: Days of the Dinosaur
- Epic (2013): Likely a reference to its Epic Movie-style.
- Ferdinand: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Home (2015): Likely a Double-Meaning Title, for how the Boov made Earth their new home, while moving basically all humans out of theirs, to relocate just on Australia.
- Hop: A reference to the rabbit protagonist.
- Madagascar: The Place where the protagonists are accidentally sent.
- Migration: What the protagonists want to do.
- Minions: Species Title.
- NIMONA (2023): Protagonist Title.
- Oink (2022): The pig that's given to the protagonist by her grandpa, who is planning to use it for a sausage-cooking contest.
- Onward: As a general direction of travel for the protagonists, presumably.
- ParaNorman: Also an example of a Portmantitle, made of "Paranormal" + "Norman", and the Epunymous Protagonist Title references the protagonist, Norman, and his paranormal ability to speak to the dead.
- Pastacolypse: An apocalyptic attack on the world being carried out by pasta creatures made by the main antagonist. Also counts as a Portmantitle.
- Ratatouille: Often mistaken for a Protagonist Title by those who only know of the film through its advertising. The film actually stars a rat named Remy, and the title is a pun on the titular dish that the chef he idolizes specializes in.
- Renaissance
- Robots: Species Title.
- Rio: The Place where the protagonist wants to go.
- Shrek: Protagonist Title.
- Sing: What the protagonist wants to do.
- Storks: Species Title of the protagonist.
- Trolls: Species Title of the protagonists.
- Turbo: Double-Meaning Title: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title and his wish to go fast.
- Up: Protagonist's direction of travel.
- Wolfwalkers: Species Title of protagonists and source of conflict.
- Zarafa: A Only One Name Character Title.
- Analog:
- Given how large the original title made Astounding compared to the rest of the title (Astounding Stories), you could be forgiven for assuming the title was simply one word. The changes to the title only reinforce the idea that the magazine is simply Astounding.
- Analog still sometimes shows up with a subtitle (such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact), but the cover usually shows only the one word prominently enough to be associated with a title.
- A couple of chapters of Digimon Legendary Skies:
- Chapter 6 - "同伴", which can be translated as either "Companion", "Fellow", "Partner" or "Comrade".
- Possibly Chapter 8 - "真面目", which can be translated as either "Serious/Seriousness", "Earnest/Earnestness" or "Dilligent", but can also be read as "True Character".
- Ensemble
- Goong: Hangul: 궁, literally Palace. The Place where the protagonist is.
- Laon: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- Noblesse: Referencing the "nobles" of Lukedonia, a powerful race once worshiped by humans, which the protagonist is one.
- ONE.: Secondary Character Title: In the first and only the first volume, Eumpa Won's last name is changed to 'One', presumably to fit with the title.
- Priest: Job Title of protagonist.
- Rebirth: Event Title about the protagonist's resurrection that happens early on in the story and continues from there.
- Rure
- Thesis
- Trace (Nasty Cat): Named after the singular for the superpowered people of the story.
- Veritas: Arc Word.
- Yureka: Only One Name-type Secondary Character Title.
- Theogony: Greek for "genealogy of the gods," and is pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Ramayana: A compound word in Sanskrit roughly meaning "The Journey of Rama," which narrates the story of Prince Rama, the 7th incarnation of the god Vishnu.
- Mahabharata: Another Sanskrit word, roughly meaning "Epic of the Bhaarats." Notably contains Bhagavad Gita, the famous sequence of Prince Ajurna's dialogue with his charioteer Krishna, the 8th avatar of Vishnu.
- The Bible: Many of its internal Books, when discussed, usually omit the "Book of", such as the Book of Genesis, Book of Exodus, and the Book of Judges.
- The Qur'an: Again, depending on if the "The" is omitted. Its original title in Arabic is Al-Qu'ran, which is technically a compound word, so it fits.
- Avatar: Named after the film it's based on, Avatar.
- Barracora: Character Title, Only One Name-type. She's laid out under the pinball table.
- Breakshot
- Caveman: Protagonist Title of the mini-game inside.
- Checkpoint
- The Williams Electronics "rollercoaster" series, named after such featured in the games:
- Comet: Named for a popular coaster at Chicago's (now closed) Riverview Amusement Park, Comet takes players for a fun time at the carnival.
- Cyclone
- Hurricane
- Congo: Based on the film, Congo, based on a novel that all use the name.
- Contact: Named after the electrical "contact" (switch) to initiate the action.
- Corvette: Released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette.
- Diner: The Place. Taking place in a 1950s-style train car diner.
- Earthshaker!: Event Title about the big event of the game. And it's about earthquakes.
- Embryon: Important word. Hit the two captive balls in the middle of the playfield to spell EMBRYON, and it's a game about embryos-ish.
- Fathom: Because of its underwater theme. One Working Title also counts: "Barracuda", but not the others, "Deep Threat", "Reef Threat" and "Black Coral".
- Fire! (1987): It was loosely based on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
- Fireball
- Firepower
- Flash: Referencing its flash lamps effects, presumably.
- Gamatron: Character Title for the robot depicted.
- Genie: Character Title for the genie depicted.
- Gladiators
- Hyperball
- Kingpin: Job Title for where the mobster protagonist wants to become. Also a Character Title for who the voice of the game is from.
- Mayfair: It is an unofficial adaptation of the 1964 film adaptation of My Fair Lady.
- Meteor: It was a tie-in to the 1979 disaster movie of the same name.
- Paragon: The Place where the game is set.
- Robot: Antagonist Title, as fighting a Robot War.
- Rollergames: It is based on the short-lived roller derby 'sports entertainment' television show of the same name from 1989.
- Rush (2022) is based on the band of the same name.
- Sapporo: The Place. Commemorates the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
- Seawitch: Job Title and Character Title, given the two seawitches fighting.
- Sorcerer: Job Title-type Antagonist Title for the Evil Sorcerer depicted.
- Spectrum: A Mastermind-type Puzzle Game involving colors. A.k.a the color spectrum.
- Taxi: Vehicle Title for the Player Character, who is driving one.
- Wizard!!: Artifact Title, What Could Have Been: According to designer Greg Kmiec, he originally intended Wizard! to be centered around a white-bearded medieval wizard who used magic to turn over the Flip Flags.
- Varkon: Only One Name-type Antagonist Title.
- Victory: The game is, quite simply, a fictionalized auto race in pinball form. Event Title for the goal.
- Viper: The viper in question is the "Roto-Shooter," a rotating turret in the center of the game's playfield.
- Whirlwind: The game is themed around a rampaging tornado.
- Xenon: Secondary Character Title. The game centers around Xenon, the supercomputer at the heart of a futuristic society.
- Allen Ginsberg's:
- "Howl (1955)"
- "Kaddish"
- Gregory Corso:
- "Gasoline"
- "Bomb"
- "Marriage"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's:
- Mutability
- Ozymandias: About the king.
- William Blake's London: About The Place.
- Hearts: Named because Hearts (and the Queen of Spades) are penalty cards.
- Spades: Named because Spades trump any other cards in the deck.
- Abyss: Named to evoke the game's setting in an underwater city. It doubles as a reference to moral depravity, as their political system is marked by corruption and power struggles.
- Azul ("blue" in Portuguese): Named as a nod to the Portuguese tiles called azulejos, which the game is inspired by.
- Bang!: Named for the sound a gun makes, which is also the name of the cards played to shoot other players.
- Codenames: Named because thematically, the game is all about spies using codenames to find each other.
- Fluxx: Named for the fact that its rules constantly fluctuate.
- Jaipur: Named for its setting. Your goal is to become the Maharaja's personal trader by showing that you are the best candidate for the job.
- Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games is a big fan of this: Of his ten designed games so far, eight of them qualify: Viticulture, Euphoria’', Scythe, ‘'Charterstone, Tapestry, Smitten, Expeditions and Vantage.
- Monopoly: Named because the game is about obtaining monopolies and leveraging them to drive your opponents into bankruptcy.
- Pandemic: Named for what your team is fighting against.
- Saboteur: Named for the player faction trying to thwart the other players' goal.
- Seasons: Named for its signature season mechanic, which determines which resources will be available to the players at which times.
- Splendor: Named to evoke the beauty of the gems your merchant guild deals with, as well as the grandeur of the nobles you can attract.
- Uno: Named for the rule that you have to shout "Uno!" when you're on the edge of winning.
- Villainous: Named because iconic villains have been promoted to Villain Protagonists.
- Wingspan: Named as a nod to the birds the game revolves around. They even have a "wingspan" property that some game pieces care about.
- At the Disney Theme Parks:
- At SeaWorld:
- Kraken
- Mako
- Manta
- At Universal Studios:
- Accelerator
- Backdraft
- Disaster!
- Doomsday:
- Grinchmas
- Horrorwood
- Insanity
- Jaws
- Kongfrontation
- Barbie
- Bratz
- Furby
- Hairdorables
- Tamagotchi: Portmanteau of "tamago" (Japanese for "egg") and "watch" (the kind that tells time).
- Cinders: Protagonist Title, as a work based on fellow single-word Protagonist Title Cinderella, with both characters' names based on "cinders", a.k.a partially burned wood.
- CLANNAD: Intended as a reference to the series' themes about family, due to the creator mistakenly believing "Clannad" was the Irish word for "family."
- The Hayarigami series, that starts with Hayarigami, given where the Numbered Sequels place their numbers.
- NekoMiko: Referencing the Catgirls, "Neko" means cat, who are Miko, and start the plot.
- Nicole: First name of Protagonist Title.
- NinNin Days: With the alternate title, NinNinDays.
- Planetarian
- SC2VN: An acronym title for StarCraft 2 Visual Novel.
- Snatcher
- Chadam is a Protagonist Title.
- ENA. Also doubles as a Protagonist Title.
- Kiwi!: The cartoon is about a small kiwi bird trying to achieve its tragic dream.
- Monsterbox
- Siblings: Family Title about the siblings that are the central characters.
- Sonic: Only One Name-type Protagonist Title.
- SMG4 :
- "Dreams"
- "Flashbacks"
- "Ssenmodnar"
- "Mineswap"
- "Yoshrooms"
- The Misadventures of R2 and Miku: Multiple:
- "Disease"
- "Clones"
- "Appendix"
- Deal, a Gravity Falls fan-comic refering to the deal Bill forces on Gwen.
- Camdrome, so named after the main focus of the game, the evil AI known as Camdrome.
- All of the individual stories on Nobody Here are given a single-word title on the home page.
- Aventures and Starventures: Tabletop Game adventures, and the same, but in Star Wars.
- The Chronicles Of Vocaloid Randomness: the episodes are named with only a singe word.
- CLW Entertainment: The video "Thumbs".
- Dad, named after the main character "Dad" and focusing on him and his family.
- Noob
- Mitten Squad: Some video titles:
- Numberphile: The video, "16".
- Pikasprey, which is the nickname of the series creator.
- Pokémon Talk: Most episodes, for example, from Season 1:
- "Genwunners" (previously, "Gen1ers")
- "Celebrity"
- "Spotlight"
- "Eeveelutions"
- "Allergies"
- "Danger"
- "Revenge"
- "Finale"
- Seriesly: Reviewing popular film franchises / series one entry at a time. Also Pun-Based Title:
Hey everybody, and welcome to Seriesly, where we take franchises Serious Business way too seriously.
- Sonic
- Versus: A competitive, co-commentary series of Let's Plays of various games. A.k.a versus each other.