History Main / TheTheTitleConfusion

* ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'': While most of the films keep the definitive article, ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacre2022'' drops it.

* The first sequel to ''Film/TheExorcist'' was ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic''. Most of the other films in [[Franchise/TheExorcist the franchise]] wwnt back to using the definitive article, with the exception of the prequel ''Film/ExorcistTheBeginning''.

* ''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} The Transformers]]'' or just ''Transformers''? Post-[[Film/TransformersFilmSeries movies]] it seems to have stuck without the "the". The 1986 movie itself however was titled ''The Transformers: The Movie''.

* The British Broadcasting Corporation is referred to on this very wiki as ''Creator/{{The|BBC}}'' [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]], despite not officially being branded as such, and despite there being no possible confusion with any other "BBC" out there. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, meanwhile, is referred to here as ''Creator/{{The|ABC}}'' [[Creator/TheABC ABC]], to prevent confusion with America's Creator/{{ABC}}.

* Ships are variously referred to both with and without "the" prior to their names. For the most obvious example see the ''Titanic'', but it is not incorrect to omit "the", leading ships such as the USS ''Juneau'' to be referred to as both "''Juneau''" and "the ''Juneau''". To add to the confusion, some ships, such as USS ''The Sullivans'', have "the" as part of their actual name.[[note]]''The Sullivans'' was named after five brothers who were killed in action when the ''Juneau'' was sunk by a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.[[/note]] However, whether it is correct to use "the" prior to designations (USS, HMS, etc.) depends on what they stand for. "The" works fine prior to USS ("United States Ship") and RMS ("Royal Mail Steamer") but not HMS ("His/Her Majesty's Ship") as this is ungramatical.

* The third arc of ''Literature/WarriorCats'', ''Literature/WarriorCatsPowerOfThree'', is often written with a "the" and abbreviated "TPoT" by fans, despite not actually having a "the".

Compare SpellMyNameWithAThe, when the use of a "the" is ''insisted''.

** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': The first movie (and with it, the whole franchise) is known as ''Fast and Furious'' in France.

* Averted with the ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise, where ''The Fast and the Furious'' is the name of the first movie, while ''Fast and Furious'' is the name of the fourth movie.

* ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' is the popular ballet's traditional English title, but its original Russian title, ''Shchelkunchik'', just translates as ''Nutcracker'' since Russian has no articles. The first ballet company ever to stage it in America, the San Francisco Ballet, has always called it by the latter name, with no "The."
** Basically the same applies to the original German fairy tale: it has no articles whatsoever in German (''Nußknacker und Mausekönig''), but in the English translation it is usually ''Literature/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseKing''. Made more egregious by the fact that German, unlike Russian, ''does'' have articles, so their omission must have been a deliberate decision on part of [[Creator/ETAHoffmann the author]].

** Basically the same applies to the original German fairy tale: it has no articles whatsoever in German (''Nußknacker und Mausekönig''), but in the English translation it is usually ''Literature/The Nutcracker and the Mouse King''. Made more egregious by the fact that German, unlike Russian, ''does'' have articles, so their omission must have been a deliberate decision on part of [[Creator/ETAHoffmann the author]].

** Basically the same applies to the original German fairy tale: it has no articles whatsoever in German, but in the English trasnaltion it is usually ''Literature/The Nutcracker and the Mouse King''. Made more egregious by the fact that German, unlike Russian, ''does'' have articles, so their omission must have been a deliberate decision on part of [[Creator/ETAHoffmann the author]].

* ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' is the popular ballet's traditional English title, but its original Russian title, ''Shchelkunchik'', just translates as ''Nutcracker''. The first ballet company ever to stage it in America, the San Francisco Ballet, has always called it by the latter name, with no "The."

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': [=E1M9=] is titled Military Base, or in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version, The Military Base.

* Japanese box art of ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' has the title written in English, but also has a Japanese transliteration - "ラストストーリー", meaning just "Last Story".

* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'', SpinOff TV series of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon film ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', has an episode titled "The Law of the Jungle" in its title card. However, the VHS release, Creator/DisneyPlus, and even the credits all omit the "The" in the title, making it simply called "Law of the Jungle".

** ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigin'', or ''Wolverine: The Origin'', or ''Origin''.

** Also happens in-story: when Radagast talks about a land he's heard of called Shire, Gandalf tells him it's ''The'' Shire.