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** Also, in the second and the third games, Guybrush askes [[LucasArts]] (via telephone) and [[Le Chuck]] what's ''The Secret of Monkey Island'', dropping the first game's title.
* In ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', you can tell the creature the Space Pirates have been studying will turn out to be pretty nasty once you learn that it's been code-named...well, take a wild guess.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' tends to name each game's [[MacGuffin]] [The] Fire Emblem. However only the GBA titles say the subtitles, which are names of an important artifact.
** The Japanese title of the 11th game ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Goddess of Dawn]]'' is Micaiah's title. The English title of "Radiant Dawn" is never mentioned.
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' -- welcome in that we get to find out what they were smoking when they came up with that one. (Turns out it's suggesting that the parts of the world you ignore might as well not exist, and with [[Emo Teen|Neku]] (who is told this) that means a lot might as well not exist. Thank you, {{smallcaps|[[Title Drop]]}}!)
** As a bonus, the game also namedrops the Japanese title, ''What A Wonderful World'', [[Instrumentality|ad nauseum]] near the end of the game.
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* The [[Turn-Based Strategy]] ''Shattered Union'' ends the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpTiHSFioI intro] in particularly...'''Dramatic Fashion'''.
* The penultimate quest in the last content patch for ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', which involves the players and one of their faction's leaders {{spoiler|escaping an [[Curb Stomp Battle|encounter]] with}} [[Big Bad|Arthas Menethil]]. This leads directly into the raid on Icecrown Citadel, and is named "Wrath of the Lich King".
** In the final patch of Cataclysm, Deathwing yells "[[Badass Boast|I]] [[I Am the Noun|AM]] [[
* The Armageddon weapon in ''[[Worms]]: Armageddon''.
* ''"I used to find joy in the company of others. Now, I have only [[The Company of Myself]]."''
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* Akin to the [[James Bond|Bond]] [[Title Drop/Film|films]], the various console games also had name drops such as '''From Russia With Love''' and '''Everything or Nothing'''.
* In ''[[Corpse Party]]: Book of Shadows'', one chapter is called ''Shangri-La''<ref>Itself a reference to ''Blood Covered'''s opening theme</ref> and deals with a [[Nightmare Fetishist]] stranded in Tenjin. He enthusiastically describes his horrific surroundings as a 'Corpse Party' and compares it to Shangri-La.
* Sir Johannes's last journal entry in ''Rogue Legacy'', following [[The Reveal]]: "I entered this castle a swordsman, a savior... But all I have left is a rogue's legacy."
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