One-Word Title
A title of a work that's only one word long.
Note: Titles that are the name of a character (e.g. Rose; it refers to the character Rose Tyler) don't go here, they go under Character Title. Words comprised of two or more words written as one (e.g. Exo Squad) don't count either.
Compare to One-Letter Title. Contrast to The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles and Long Title. Verbed Title and Mononymous Biopic Title are subtropes.
Examples of One-Word Title include:
Anime & Manga
- AIR
- Aria
- Avenger
- Bartender
- Basilisk
- Bastard!!
- Beck
- Berserk
- Blame
- Bleach
- Catnapped
- Clannad
- Claymore
- Colorful
- Fireball
- Flag
- ICE
- Monster
- One
- Piano
- Of the 25 episodes of Saki, 17 fit this: "Encounter", "Battle", "Confrontation", "Tradition", "Beginner", "Prank", "Awakening", "Existance", "Demon", "Conspiracy", "Nightmare", "Link", "Friends", "Sisters", "Promise", "Determination", and "Nationals".
- Working!!
Film
- Airplane!
- Airport
- Alien and Aliens
- Anaconda
- Armageddon
- Big
- Brave
- Bug!
- Cars
- Charade
- Click
- Clue
- Clueless
- Commando
- Cornered
- Dinosaur
- Drive
- Earthquake
- Elf
- Eraser
- Exodus
- Faster
- Fearless
- Frantic
- Friday
- Ghostbusters
- Godzilla
- The Japanese orginal Gojira also qualifies.
- Gravity (2009)
- Gravity (2013)
- Greed
- Gremlins
- Hairspray
- Hitch
- Insidious
- Jaws
- Matinee
- Missing (Costa-Gavras; not to be confused with The Missing)
- Predator and Predators
- Prey
- Primer
- Psycho
- Ratatouille
- Rent
- Rogue
- Safe
- Saw
- Scream
- Scream 1981
- Serenity is a borderline case, as Word of God and the prevailing fan opinion is that Serenity (the ship) is a character herself.
- Taken
- Tarantula
- Them
- Topaz
- Twins
- Twister
- Up
- Volcano
Literature
- Fearless
- Fiasco
- Gone (novel), with sequels Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light.
- Haunted (1988)
- Haunted (2005)
- IT
- Misery
- Paprika
- The short stories "Offerings", "Called", "Assumption", "Fields", and "Epinikion" by Desmond Warzel.
Live-Action TV
- Alias
- Amen
- Blockbusters
- Bonanza
- Brimstone
- Bullseye
- Chase (The Game Show)
- Chase (The show about fugitives)
- Cheers
- Community
- Concentration
- COPS
- Crusade
- Cupid
- Damages
- Dateline
- Dinosaurs
- Distraction
- From Doctor Who:
- Dogfights
- Dollhouse
- Drive
- Dynasty
- Emergency
- Entourage
- Episodes
- Fantasy
- Fearless
- Firefly
- Friends
- Fringe
- Ghostwriter
- Glee
- Goosebumps
- Gravity
- Greed (Game Show)
- Greek
- Heroes
- Huge
- Invasion
- Iris
- Jackass
- Leverage
- Life
- Lingo
- Lost
- Monsters
- Passions
- Password
- Popular
- Psych
- Reaper
- Renegade
- Roar
- Roots
- Rubicon
- Scrubs
- Shameless
- Sliders
- Soap
- Supernatural
- Taken
- Taxi
- Terriers
- Threshold
- Today
- Trauma
- Undercovers
- Unfabulous
- Victorious
- Weeds
- Wildfire
- Wings
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Music
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- "One". There's actually more than one "One": there's the Three Dog Night hit, the Metallica song, and a notable (Stephen Sondheim?) Broadway showtune.
- The master of understatement Miles Davis was particularly partial to these, many of which were songs penned by Wayne Shorter: "Iris", Pangaea, and the classic Workin, Cookin, Walkin, Steamin, and Relaxin' albums.
- Disturbed is a fan of this trope. Most of their albums contain twelve or so songs, all but one or two of which have a One Word Title.
- Pearl Jam are prone to this in studio albums (exceptions are No Code, Riot Act and the Self-Titled Album), and were on song titles (which they retracted by writing "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.")
- Brazilian band Skank have 8 studio albums. Only one doesn't fit the trope.
- Gravity is the title of 19 record albums and 33 songs... that we know about as of July 2019.
Newspaper Comics
Poetry
- Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
Video Games
- Abuse
- Adventure
- Aquaria
- Banshee
- Barbarian
- Blood
- Blur
- Braid
- Brink
- Bug!!
- Bully
- Cadaver
- Centipede
- Commando
- Crush
- Crysis
- Disciples
- Doom
- Fable
- Fallout
- Flash Back
- Gauntlet (1985 video game)
- Gothic
- Gravity
- Gubble
- Heretic
- Journey
- Joust
- Manhunt
- Messiah
- Metroid, but only for the very first game and the franchise as a whole.
- Oni
- Outcast
- Phantasmagoria
- Portal
- Postal
- Praetorians
- Prey
- Pure
- Purple
- Quake
- Rogue
- Sacrifice
- Sacred
- Singularity
- Spore
- Syndicate
- Warlords
- Wasteland
- A number of Doom WADs, including:
- Chosen
- Crestfallen
- Decade
- Earth
- Gravity
- Obituary
- Phobia
- Requiem
- Scythe
- Serenity
- Stronghold
- Void
Web Animation
Webcomics
Western Animation
- Centurions
- Detention
- Dinosaucers
- Downtown
- Inhumanoids
- MAD
- Recess
- Rugrats
- Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
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