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* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': "Painting with Squidward" is about Squidward teaching his cabinmates how to draw, paint, and sculpt. It also references the end of the episode, where the winner of the art contest ends up being Squidward squished into a frame: a literal painting with him.

* Music/ChrisBrown's ''11:11'' is his [[ChronologicalAlbumTitle eleventh studio album]] and is scheduled for release on '''November 11''', 2023.

** "Walking Small" refers to Spongebob's incapability of walking tall, as well as Plankton's small size.
** "Idiot Box" revolves around Spongebob and Patrick buying a television (sometimes called an idiot box in pejorative slang) just to give it to Squidward because they just want to play in the box, as two idiots would.

** "Chocolate With Nuts" refers to Spongebob and Patrick selling chocolate "with or without nuts", as well as them being the nuts themselves.

* The final episode of ''Manga/DeathNote'''s AnimatedAdaptation is titled "New World". It's also the climatic end in which the stakes are at their highest: will the [[VillainWorld New World]] be Light's perfect utopia, or one where Kira disappears forever?
** The title of the second movie is "The Last Name." It could refer to Light's struggle to find L's last name, since L's real name is L Lawliet, but it also could refer to whose name will be the last one written in the Death Note.

** The ''Conviction Arc'' (断罪篇 or ''Danzai hen'') is a StoryArc named after the Tower of Conviction in St. Albion, which is a place where sinners are punished. Throughout this Arc, Guts comes into conflict with KnightTemplar antagonists including the Holy Iron Chain Knights and Bishop Mozgus who are on a crusade to stamp out witchcraft and heresy, so that the title refers to how they "convict" and punish anyone who disagrees with their religion. Translating ''danzai'' as "conviction" gives it a second meaning in English, since a "conviction" is also a strongly held belief such as one's religion or being sure that one's cause is just, which is a major theme of the arc for Guts as well as his antagonists, and especially for Farnese.

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* Creator/ProZD has a LetsPlay series called "[=ProZD=] Plays Games with Jay". As many viewers (and [=ProZD=]) acknowledge, the title refers both to Jay and Sungwon playing video games together, but also to how Sungwon [[ButtMonkey messing with Jay]] (or "playing games with him") is the primary form of comedy in the channel.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Volume 1 has the two-parter "Black and White", which focuses on Blake and Weiss (who represent those colors as part of the show's use of ColorfulThemeNaming) getting into a gigantic argument because they both view [[FantasticRacism the treatment of]] [[LittleBitBeastly the Faunus]] in stark "us versus them" terms and neither will acknowledge that the other has valid points -- in other words, they see the issue in black and white.

* The title of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' [[HilariousInHindsight takes on a new significance in the wake of]] ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''. In the game, a "necromantic shockwave" made all of New York's ghosts much stronger; the show is not so much Extreme ''Ghostbusters'', but ''Extreme Ghost'' Busters.

* The "Doki Doki" in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a loud heartbeat. This makes sense, given how it's a romance story... at least at first. [[spoiler:Even after the GenreShift into horror, however, the title still makes sense if you consider that fear can also cause an elevated heart rate.]]

* The title of ''Manga/GirlFriends'' could mean "girls who are friends" or "girls who are lovers". The story revolves around both, being about how Mari and Akko start as best friends but fall in love with each other.

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* ''Fanfic/SynepeiesACollectionOfNTRConsequences'': The story ''The Childhood Friend Waited Too Long'' does this to its source doujin of the same name. In said doujin, Miki was "stolen" from her childhood friend Takashi, because he never confessed his feelings to her until it was too late. Here, it is revealed that Miki had feelings for him too, but resorted to HintDropping which he never picked up on. So by the time she confronts him, it turns out that ''she'' has become the one who waited too long, as Takashi is already dating another girl.

* Kittie's "video album" ''Spit In Your Eye'': The expression to "spit in someone's eye" means to insult them or show contempt, which suits the group's often confrontational lyrics... but it's also a {{Rockumentary}} / concert film about the band touring to promote their album ''Spit'', so it can be read as ''Spit'' "in your eye", as in a video companion piece to the album.

* Lampshaded by the author's notes in chapter eight of ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}''. Tropers/{{StarSword}}C said that "A Captain's Hardest Job" was supposed to refer to Eleya visiting the morgue and sickbay after a battle to check on the dead and wounded, but given she ended up in bed with somebody at the end he wondered if it didn't end up being a bad sex pun instead.
* ''My First Decepticon'', one of the installments in the ''Fanfic/BlackCrayons'' series could refer to both [[spoiler:[[CheerfulChild Annabelle Lennox]]'s first ever encounter with a Decepticon (not counting [[HeelFaceTurn Wheelie]]) and [[EnsembleDarkhorse Barricade]] being the first Decepticon to ever appear in the series. Additionally, since the series is told in SwitchingPOV, this can also refer to the [[Creator/BookwormGal author]] writing a Decepticon for the first time in the series.]]

* The fourth chapter of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/43382086/chapters/110112523#workskin Chaser and the Ruined Kingdom]]'' is called ''Chaser and the Two-faced Friend''. At first glance it seems to be about Ash, who Goh finds out [[Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew knew where to find a Mew all along but never told him]], but that issue actually gets resolved pretty quickly. The actual two-faced friend [[spoiler: is the BigBad of Anime/Pokemon2000 who Goh had just met.]]
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': The chapter, ''Staff Difficulties'', about problems regarding a magical staff, and the problems that Ami has, controlling her warlocks, which are her staff, as in workers.
* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', with the subtitle referring to the title character (1) being lucky to have been born with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, and (2) being lucky to be chosen as Smurfette's OneTrueLove. Also (3) he is lucky to be the only begotten son of Papa Smurf, as all his fellow Smurfs are actually HappilyAdopted.
* The title of the ''FanFic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' story, ''Ancient History'', could refer to both [[spoiler:Amity Park being transformed into an ancient Egyptian kingdom, and Tucker facing the return of the two biggest mistakes in his past]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''Fanfic/InShortSupply'' deals with the Irkens' height-based class system, with both a lack of medium-sized Irkens and [[TheNapoleon Zim]]'s own shortness central to the story.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'': "Boiling Point" can mean either that the ''Boiling'' Isles are the starting ''Point'' of the story, or the climatic moment that sets off the story where Boscha reaches her RageBreakingPoint.
* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'':

* The title of the ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' fic, "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9117847/1/Off-The-Path Off The Path]]" not only refers to the incident in which a tank fell from a path into a river, causing Miho to save it, but, in the last chapter, the title also refers to Miho's departure from tankery, one step in her changing ideals about tankery.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13688453/1/The-Fall-of-Atlantis The Fall of Atlantis]]'' is about the destruction of the ancient civilization, which in both the story and in canon was caused by Plagg. [[spoiler:It also describes the fall of the kwami Attlantis who, disillusioned by his selfish partner Calix and the warmongering nation he leads, tricks Plagg into destroying the island nation and all of its inhabitants]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SelaginellaLepidophylla'' deals with Rose Quartz coming back from the dead (or did she?) using [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent a modified Time Thing]]. The title is the scientific name for a plant that is called "Stone Flower", "Resurrection Plant", and "False Rose of Jericho", among other names.

* In Romulan the title ''Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn'' literally means "Aid to the Needy". This obviously refers primarily to the ch'M'R ''Aen'rhien'''s humanitarian mission to deliver vaccines and antiviral drugs to the planet Glintara, but it could also refer to Jaleh Khoroushi needing companionship as the TokenHuman on a Romulan ship (a need filled by Tovan tr'Khev).
* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' AlternateUniverseFic, ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains''. Does it refer to the Spring Bonnie suit leftover from the days of Fredbear's, [[spoiler:the murderer still being around]], all the further questions about the restaurant's past that come up when one gets solved, or how each of the main characters had something "remaining" in the pizzeria.
* "Arm Candy", part of the ''Fanfic/SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts'' series, is about Bruce Wayne's relationships with the young women who hang off his arms at parties (which turn out to be, both the relationships and the women, less shallow than many people assume). The title also refers to [[spoiler:a scene in which Bruce learns that one of the young women, who grew up with abusive parents, draws decorations on her arms as an alternative to self-harming]].
* ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' is a series of ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fanfics set in an AlternateUniverse where there are two [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisitors]] - a female human and a male elf. The series title refers to the fact that there are two Inquisitors, of course; but it also refers to the fact that, in the series backstory, there are two [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Heroes of Ferelden]], who were ''also'' a female human and a male elf.[[note]]ItMakesSenseInContext - the author likes playing human females in the DA games and wrote the series as a gift for her best friend, who likes playing male elves.[[/note]]
* For the majority of the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', the title seems to refer to [[AntagonistTitle Shendu]], the simultaneous BigBad and VillainProtagonist who's called that by [[PrecursorHeroes Lo Pei]]. However, the last chapter has Valerie Payne, [[VillainousCrush Shendu's obsession]], providing another meaning to that when she voices her self-loathing over [[{{Brainwashed}} what she was]] in the [[RewritingReality Demon World]].
-->'''Valerie''': I was just so caught up in my own love story that I ignored the suffering and misery of my own species… My father once told me something… evil is not the act, but those who stand by and watch. Shendu committed unspeakable horrors, but I did nothing. I committed the ultimate evil by simply allowing it to happen.
* The ''Cleaner'' sidestory of ''Fanfic/TheUniversiad'' -- as in cleaning up loose ends, or being less messy than the alternatives? [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]
* Aside from the obvious, ''[[Fanfic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries Vinyl and Octavia Have Multiple Dates]]'' can also refer to the fact that the story opens on Vinyl and Octavia eating a lot of dates (the fruit).

* The title of ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'' fic ''Fanfic/WellMatched'' refers to Kate and Sophie being evenly-skilled boxing opponents, and to their romantic compatibility.

* Music/RandyTravis's "On The Other Hand," as a man contemplates whether or not to start an affair. The title referring to to the idiom of choices being weighed, and also to the wedding band on his hand that ends up being why he decides not to.