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Happens frequently when [[Title: the Adaptation]] is involved. Things designated as "Classic", "Original" or "1/I" are very often examples.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Japanese subtitle of the first ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' feature film, ''Ora no Gohan o Kaese!'' ("Gimme Back My Gohan!"), wasn't used until the film's home video release.
** Many of Toei's initial film versions of their popular tokusatsu and anime franchises often got new titles when further film versions of the same franchises were made.
* The fighting style of Kenshiro's [[Token Motivational Nemesis|old nemesis]] Shin in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' was originally named Nanto Seiken. Subsequent stories after published after Shin was killed off introduced various branch styles of Nanto Seiken (Nanto Suichoken, Nanto Kokakuken, Nanto Hakuroken and Nanto Ho-oken), turning "Nanto Seiken" into an umbrella term for all these martial arts. When the ''Hokuto no Ken Special'' reference guide was published in 1986, Shin's style was officially declared to be "Nanto Koshuken" to distinguish it from the general term.
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== Video Games ==
* [[Colossal Cave Adventure]]
* The first ''[[Battletoads]]'' game for the [[Game Boy]] was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled ''Battletoads in Ragnarok's World''.
* Subverted by ''[[Command
* The canceled first version of ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' was retitled ''Resident Evil 1.5.'' to distinguish it from the actually released game.
* The PSP version of the first ''[[Star Ocean]]'' is known as ''Star Ocean 1: First Departure''.
== Web Original ==
* One of [[Cracked.com|Winston Rowntree]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209220354/http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-reasons-we-fall-in-love-with-piece-pop-culture_p2/ The 4 Reasons We Fall in Love With a Piece of Pop Culture] is that it's "porn", which he defines as any cultural work "that you seek out to animalistically fill a specific need." He runs through a bunch of [[:Category:It's Not Porn, It's an Index|things jokingly called porn]], coining the retronym "Sex Porn" in the process.
== Western Animation ==
* Lampshaded in one of ''[[The Simpsons]]'''s [[Halloween Episode|Halloween specials]]. The story takes place in the 1930s depression era, where Grandpa Simpson states that times haven't been this bad since [[World War
* ''The Return of Jafar'', the [[Pilot Movie]] for ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]: [[Recycled: the Series|The Series]]'', came to DVD with a case adding Aladdin's name at the beginning of the title.
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* PlayStation One (also known as PS1 or the [[Updated Rerelease]] PSOne)
** An inversion: the original PlayStation was once commonly referred by the gaming media as the PSX, a holdover from its development days back when it was called the "PlayStation X". Sony later used the PSX name for a DVD-R recorder that played [[Play Station 1]] and [[PlayStation 2]] games, much to the confusion of people who still used the PSX abbreviation when referring to the original PlayStation.
* The first two [[Super Bowl
* Acoustic guitar (only called such after the electric kind was invented)
* Corded phone and landline
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