Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness

When naming anything- a place, a weapon, a title, a society, anything- just add a prepositional phrase to get instant AWESOME! This is most commonly seen when being used to beef up the titles of movies and books. The most frequently used preposition for this is "of (put noun of choice here)", but "with" and "for" are also usable. Often times, when this is used, the thing being upgraded wouldn't be half as cool or interesting without their handy-dandy prepositional phrases.

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Compare Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With. Can often be A Good Name for a Rock Band, even if that trope name's not an example of one.

Examples of Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness include:

Anime and Manga

Most of these are likely to be introduced by translations, rather than being original to the Japanese versions, simply because there is almost always another possible word order the translation could use, but didn't.

  • The Familiar Of Zero
  • There's a reason fans of Naruto tend to prefer the subtitles' name for the last battle between Naruto and Sasuke in Part One over the dub's name. Compare the Valley of the End to the Final Valley and make your own decision.
  • Legend of Galactic Heroes

Fan Works

  • Jeft seems to think so in With Strings Attached, according to the names he gave various places and people in his handmade world Damaeren: the Plains of Death, the Brothers of Doom, the Forest of Screams, and so forth.

Film

Literature

Live Action TV

Music

  • Another double phrase example: Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King
  • Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire, though they changed their name from "Rhapsody" because of a trademark dispute. Still ... "The power of the Dragonflame will burn brighter than ever before!"
  • Same goes for Nanowar, who became "Nanowar Of Steel" due to trademark shenanigans.
  • A few of the songs from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra fit this trope, like "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve," "Queen of the Winter Night," and "The Dreams of Candlelight."

New Media

Western Animation

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