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* The webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'' was retitled ''Drainers'' when it was published by Cloudscape Comics, likely to avoid issues with the unrelated comic ''The Dregs'', published by Black Mask Studios around the same time.
* Creator/KrisStraub's sci-fi webcomic was initially named ''Starshift Crisis''. When he realized this could lead to a copyright problem (with the video game ''Starshift: The Zaran Legacy''), he renamed it ''Star'''slip''' Crisis''--and even changed every in-comic mention of "starshift" to "starslip", using alternate universes to justify this OrwellianRetcon. Later, the story arc "The End of the End" resulted in another huge CosmicRetcon and an ArtShift with it, so the title was changed again to just ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}''.

* NewSeasonNewName: When an ongoing work changes its name to represent its current arc.

* The ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' movie was originally titled ''[[LongTitle Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn]]'' to cash in on the popularity of Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley. When the movie fizzled at the box office, critics pointed out that it was more of an ensemble film than focusing purely on Harley, and for home release, it was retitled ''Birds of Prey'' or ''Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey''.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' had a lackluster performance in the box office, so Warner Brothers attempted to rebrand it for the home video release by emphasizing the movie's TagLine over the actual title. ''Live. Die. Repeat.'' was plastered across the Blu-Ray cover in massive letters, while ''Edge of Tomorrow'' was shrunken and exiled to the bottom corner. Several digital retailers listed the film as ''Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow''.

* Quentin Tarantino's Film/InglouriousBasterds was initially titled "Inglourious Bastards" but was changed due to offending moviegoers. It was censored even further as advertisements for the movie only referred to it as Inglourious.

* Canadian FolkMusic[=/=]CountryMusic icon Stompin' Tom Connors release his debut album ''The Northlands' Own Tom Connors'' in 1967. A few years later the album was reissued on a different label, but apparently someone [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard]] the album's original title and mistakenly called it ''Northlands Zone''.

* "Film/Airplane!" was re-titled as "Flying High" on its release in Australia.
* Quentin Tarantino's Film/InglouriousBasterds was initially titled "Inglourious Bastards" but was change due to offend moviegoers. It was censored even further as advertisements for the movie only referred to it as Inglourious.

* ''Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch,'' released in 1985, was released on home video as "Film/HowlingIIYourSisterIsAWerewolf".

* Music/PizzicatoFive put out their third album ''On Her Majesty's Request'' in 1989. When they re-released it in 1995, the title was tweaked slightly to '''''By''' Her Majesty's Request''. (Since two songs had to be dropped from this version of the album, it's likely the name change was meant as a sign to buyers that the tracklist had changed.) This stuck around until it was issued on vinyl for the first time in 2018, and this edition retitled ''On Her Majesty's Request -Analogue Edition-''.

* Music/PizzicatoFive put out their third album ''On Her Majesty's Request'' in 1989. When they re-released it in 1995, the title was tweaked slightly to '''''By''' Her Majesty's Request''. This stuck around until it was issued on vinyl for the first time in 2018, and this edition retitled ''On Her Majesty's Request -Analogue Edition-''.

** To comply with TV censorship guidelines during the 1970s, the shorts ''Curtain Razor'' and ''Prince Violent'' were renamed ''Show Stoppers'' and ''Prince Varmint'', respectively, once they hit airwaves.

* The ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' movie was originally titled ''[[OverlyLongTitle Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn]]'' to cash in on the popularity of Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley. When the movie fizzled at the box office, critics pointed out that it was more of an ensemble film than focusing purely on Harley, and for home release, it was retitled ''Birds of Prey'' or ''Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey''.

* The ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'' movie was originally titled ''Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)'' (to cash in on the popularity of Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley). When the movie fizzled at the box office, critics pointed out that it was more of an ensemble film than focusing purely on Harley, and for home release, it was retitled ''Birds of Prey'' or ''Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey''

* In 1990, ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' [[http://platypuscomix.com/hollywood/magiccauldron.html was theatrically re-released]] as ''Taran and the Magic Cauldron'' to try to get more ticket sales and hide the DarkerAndEdgier elements of the film that caused it to be a [[BoxOfficeBomb bomb]] during its initial release. It didn't work, and when the film made its home video debut in 1998, the original title was reinstated.

* In 1990, ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' got [[http://platypuscomix.com/hollywood/magiccauldron.html was theatrically re-released]] as ''Taran and the Magic Cauldron'' to try to get more ticket sales and hide the DarkerAndEdgier elements of the film that caused it to be a BoxOfficeBomb during its' initial release. It didn't work, and the next release of the film (a DirectToVideo one in 1998) kept the original title.

* The webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'' was retitled ''Drainers'' when it was published by Creator/CloudscapeComics, likely to avoid issues with the unrelated comic ''ComicBook/TheDregs'', published by Creator/BlackMaskStudios around the same time.
* Creator/KrisStraub's sci-fi webcomic was initially named ''Starshift Crisis''. When he realized this could lead to a copyright problem (with the video game ''VideoGame/StarshiftTheZaranLegacy''), he renamed it ''Star'''slip''' Crisis''--and even changed every in-comic mention of "starshift" to "starslip", using alternate universes to justify this OrwellianRetcon. Later, the story arc "The End of the End" resulted in another huge CosmicRetcon and an ArtShift with it, so the title was changed again to just ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}''.

* When Creator/RCARecords reissued Music/DavidBowie's 1969 SelfTitledAlbum in 1972 off the back of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars''[='=] smash UK success, it was retitled ''Music/SpaceOddity'', a name that remained in place until it was reverted back to the self-titled name in 2009.

* Music/PizzicatoFive put out their third album ''On Her Majesty's Request'' in 1989. When they re-released it in 1995, the title was tweaked slightly to '''''By''' Her Majesty's Request''. This stuck around until it was issued on vinyl for the first time in 2018, and this edition retitled ''On Her Majesty's Request -Analogue Edition-''.

** To comply with TV censorship guidelines during the 1970s, the shorts ''Curtain Razor'' and ''Prince Violent'' were renamed ''Show Stoppers'' and ''Prince Varmint'', respectively.

* When Music/FrankZappa reissued ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' on CD, he re-recorded many of the instrumental parts, which drew fan outcry for clashing with the {{Retraux}} DooWop sound of the original LP. Zappa Records relented and released the original version of the album on CD in 2010--but to avoid confusion with the remixed version, which was still in print, the original was retitled ''Greasy Love Songs''. ([[{{Irony}} So the original version got retitled, and the remixed version got the original title...]])

* Music/VinceGuaraldi's third album was ''Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus'', featuring the song "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" which became Guaraldi's breakthrough hit single. Sometime after the song caught on, the label [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jazz_Impressions_of_Black_Orpheus.jpeg redesigned the album cover]] to add the blurb, "Featuring: Cast Your Fate to the Wind". Even later, they [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OrpheusCastyourfate.jpg outright swapped the position of the blurb and the actual album title,]] leading a lot of people to refer to the album as ''Cast Your Fate to the Wind'' even though it wasn't ever officially retitled.

* ThisVeryWiki is no stranger to the phenomenon. See Administrivia/RenamedTropes for the long list of trope articles that got retitled after their launch, along with the reasons why.

* ''Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch,'' released in 1985, was released on home video as "Film/HowlingIIYourSisterIsAWerewolf."

* * For its first eight seasons, ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' went by the Chinese title 开心宝贝 (pinyin "Kaixin Baobei", English translation "Happy Babies"). Starting from Season 9, it switched to being called 开心超人联盟 (pinyin "Kaixin Chaoren Lianmeng", English translation "Happy Superman Alliance"). The seasons prior to Season 9 retained their old name, though, and official English translations - for the most part - have stuck to the name ''Happy Friends'' for all the seasons.

* ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'' was an AnthologyComic that shifted towards being a ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica comic, before getting retitled ''All-Star Western'' and turned into a cowboy themed anthology comic at issue #57 in 1951.

* Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan released what's probably [[UrExample the first album]] of SynthPop in 1962 under the title ''Electronic Music: A New Concept of Music Created by Sonic Vibrations'' (and the two composers were just credited as "The Electrosonics"). The next year, it was rereleased as ''The Fascinating World of Electronic Music'' (and this time Baltan and Dissevelt were credited individually). In 1968 it was rereleased on a new record label as ''Song of the Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations of Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan''--and this time, six of the eight songs were retitled as well. "Drifting" was renamed "Moon Maid", "Mechanical Motions" became "The Raymakers" and so on. ''Song of the Second Moon'' seems to have become the ''de facto'' title, as most recent reissues have used it.

* When Music/FrankZappa reissued ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' on CD, he rerecorded many of the instrumental parts, which drew fan outcry for clashing with the {{Retraux}} DooWop sound of the original LP. Zappa Records relented and released the original version of the album on CD in 2010--but to avoid confusion with the remixed version, which was still in print, the original was retitled ''Greasy Love Songs''. ([[{{Irony}} So the original version got retitled, and the remixed version got the original title...]])
* Music/PizzicatoFive put out their third album ''On Her Majesty's Request'' in 1989. When they rereleased it in 1995, the title was tweaked slightly to '''''By''' Her Majesty's Request''. This stuck around until it was issued on vinyl for the first time in 2018, and this edition retitled ''On Her Majesty's Request -Analogue Edition-''.

* For its first eight seasons, ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' went by the Chinese title 开心宝贝 (pinyin "Kaixin Baobei", English translation "Happy Babies"). Starting from Season 9, it switched to being called 开心超人联盟 (pinyin "Kaixin Chaoren Lianmeng", English translation "Happy Superman Alliance"). The seasons prior to Season 9 retained their old name, though, and official English translations - for the most part - have stuck to the name ''Happy Friends'' for all the seasons.