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Compare [[Media Research Failure]]. Contrast [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]. See also [[Mainstream Obscurity]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Kagami is looking for a "''LeLouch''" manga for Konata. "What the heck is a ''[[Code Geass]]''?"
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* [[The Treachery of Images]] by René Magritte is sometimes called "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" or "This is not a pipe".
* ''[[:File:Whistlers Mother high res.jpg|Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1]]''. Or as it's almost universally known, ''Whistler's Mother''.
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Older Than Radio]]: The Armenian folktale ''The Daredevils of Sassoun'' is commonly just called ''David of Sassoun'' after the main character, despite the real title sounding much cooler.
* Even the Wikipedia page starts with "''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' is a novel by Daniel Defoe..." The actual title was:
{{quote|''[[Long Title|The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un‐inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates.]]''}}{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* ''[[Gulliver's Travels|Gullivers Travels]]''. While his name is still in the title, it's not just "Gulliver's Travels". The full title was: "Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then Captain of Several Ships."{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
== Live Action TV ==
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== Real Life ==
* The actor Sylvester McCoy (born Percy Kent-Smith) got his stage name this way. Some of his earlier work was as a sidekick/warm-up man to the stand-up comedian-cum-performance artist [[Ken Campbell]], as a fictional character called "Sylveste McCoy". To further the joke, his character was credited in the playbill as "Sylveste McCoy as Sylveste McCoy". One reviewer didn't get the joke and used it in the review as if it was his real name, so he said [[Sure Why Not]] and used it as his stage name from then on (though adding an "r" to the end - no, those weren't typos earlier).
* The Nehi Corporation used to make a line of popular fruit-flavored sodas (the one most commonly known today is the Grape Nehi, Radar's favorite soda in ''[[
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