Line #69 Main/TimeTitle


1	When your story is centered around some important day or special length of time, why not name your story after it?
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3	This is a SubTrope of EventTitle because events take time. This is also basically the time variant of ThePlace, but for times instead of locations. Overlaps highly with NumberOfObjectsTitle when there's a number of a time interval stated. And its SuperTrope, TitleByNumber because time deals with numbers.
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5	Chapter titles have a higher than average chance for this because then it marks the time that the chapter takes place.
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7	!!SubTrope-s:
8	[[index]]
9	* AgeOfTitles: Because an age is a vague length of time.
10	* RunningTimeInTheTitle
11	* TitleByYear: A year is mentioned in the title.
12	** AnnualTitle: The year of publication is mentioned in the title.
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15	!!Examples
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17	[[foldercontrol]]
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19	[[folder:Comic Books]]
20	* ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''
21	[[/folder]]
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23	[[folder:Fanfic]]
24	* ''Fanfic/DeadOfNight'': Due to involving TheUndead that are paranormal detectives that work at night.
25	* ''Fanfic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony'': Twilight Sparkle broke time when she got her cutie mark.
26	* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Chapter 16, the ChristmasEpisode, is titled "Beebo Day", a.k.a alternate Christmas.
27	[[/folder]]
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29	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
30	* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldInEightyDaysBurbankAnimation''
31	[[/folder]]
32
33	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
34	* ''Film/OneHourPhoto'': A film developer, meaning the job that uses blackrooms, takes a creepy fascination with a regular customer's family.
35	* ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'': It shows the events of a single school day from the perspectives of six troubled students, leading up to a suicide at 2:37 p.m.
36	* ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor'': A political thriller about a [=CIA=] bookworm marked for murder by his superiors because HeKnowsTooMuch.
37	* ''Film/SixDays'': About a six-day-long hostage taking.
38	* ''Film/SixDaysSevenNights'': A 1998 survival adventure with a romantic subplot between a LovableRogue aviator and a DefrostingIceQueen fashion model that takes place over what was intended as a weeklong vacation in Makatea.
39	* ''Film/The6thDay'': The title comes from:
40	-->"God created man in His own image. And behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
41	-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis 1:27, 31]].'''
42	* ''Film/NineMonths'': The approximate length of a pregnancy and a pregnancy is the IncitingIncident of the movie.
43	* The ''9½ Weeks'' series:
44	** The first movie, ''Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks'': The duration of the romantic relationship between the protagonists John Gray and Elizabeth [=McGraw=].
45	** Direct-to-video first sequel ''Another 9½ Weeks'', a.k.a ''Love in Paris''.
46	* ''Film/DieHard2'' does this in a roundabout way: the film is adapted from a book called ''93 Minutes'', referring to the amount of time the protagonist has to save the day before his wife's plane crashes. The film itself is about 90 minutes long.
47	** Direct-to-video second sequel ''The First 9½ Weeks''.
48	* ''Film/ElevenFourteen'': About two car crashes at the titular time.
49	* ''Film/TwelveOhOnePM'': Its GroundhogDayLoop starts at the titular time.
50	* ''Film/ThirteenMinutes2021'': Refers to "the short time frame residents have to seek shelter" before a tornado strikes a particular location; the disaster film centers around four families affected by a devastating tornado.
51	* ''[[Film/FifteenMinutes 15 Minutes]]'', referring to Andy Warhol's quote about FifteenMinutesOfFame. Two people plan to become celebrities by committing a televised celebrity murder and then pleading insanity.
52	* ''Film/TwentyEightDays'': The length of the rehabilitation program the main character goes to.
53	* The ''28 [Time] Later'' series:
54	** ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'': The main story starts twenty-eight days after the prologue.
55	** ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'': The story begins twenty-eight weeks after the events of the first film.
56	* ''Film/SplitSecond1992''
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58	[[AC:Films Adapted from Literature]]
59	* ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'': TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Literature/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' about the thirty or so seconds of time that B-25 bombers had, to bomb Tokyo in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
60	* ''48 Hrs.'' series of Creator/WalterHill action films:
61	** ''Film/FortyEightHrs'': The protagonists must track down escaped convict Albert Ganz (James Remar) within 48 hours.
62	** ''Film/AnotherFortyEightHrs''
63	* ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'': The protagonist is informed he only has that long to live, although, the running time is ''70 Minutes''.
64	* ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', indicating the length of time Aron Ralston was trapped in a canyon with his hand lodged under a boulder.
65	* ''Film/ThreeHundredSixtyFiveDays'', a.k.a a year, which refers to the amount of time Massimo intends to [[AbductionIsLove keep]] Laura to give her a chance to fall in love with him.
66	* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'': The film takes a look at Tom and Summer's quasi-relationship from Tom's perspective, numbering the days and events that lead to its buildup and eventual downfall.
67	* [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film adaptations of the book]], ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'':
68	** ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''
69	** ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004''
70	* ''Film/DeadOfNight'': Since the bulk of the movie takes place in a dream at night.
71	* ''Gone In 60 Seconds'': A movie and its remake:
72	** ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974''
73	** ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'': A renowned car thief gets pulled out of retirement to rescue his kid brother from the clutches of a deranged crime lord. The protagonist and his cohorts are skilled professionals, able to "boost" any car in 60 seconds or less. Kiss your ride goodbye.
74	* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'': Subverted as the title has no direct meaning to the story. It's actually not set during ''a'' night in Soho, but named after a song.
75	[[/folder]]
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77	[[folder:Literature]]
78	* ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'': The date of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's assassination (in the American MM/DD/YY format), which the novel is partially about.
79	* ''Literature/NineteenMinutes'': The length of time the IncitingIncident of a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]] takes to happen.
80	* ''Literature/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'': An account by Captain Ted Lawson of the Doolittle bombing raid on Imperial Japan during World War II. The B-25 bombers were launched from the [=USS Hornet=] and had about thirty seconds of time over Tokyo to drop their bombs.
81	* The title of ''Literature/ThreeHundredSixtyFiveDays'' refers to the number of days Massimo intends to hold Laura captive in the hopes of making her love him. The first novel itself takes place over around three to four months, though; given that the ending of ''The Next 365 Days'' depicts Laura's 30th birthday (she was kidnapped by Massimo on her 29th birthday), the entire trilogy takes place over around a year.
82	* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, ''In the Time of Dinosaurs''.
83	* ''Literature/ArabianNights'': Also known as ''The Tales of One Thousand and One Nights'' (Farsi ''Hezār-o yek šab'', Arabic ''Kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla''), based on the framing device in which Scheherazade delays her husband's planned execution of her by reciting stories over the course of 1001 nights.
84	* ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''
85	* ''Literature/CutlerSeries'': Its books have TemporalThemeNaming-type IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, but while it looks like this, it's not: ''Dawn'', is actually a ProtagonistTitle, ''Secrets of the Morning'', ''Twilight's Child'', ''Midnight Whispers'', ''Darkest Hour''.
86	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Dog Days'': Dog Days is a term used for Summer, which is the time period the book is set in.
87	* ''Literature/DeadOfNight'': Because monsters are a threat at night and it's a horror-y title fitting the story's themes.
88	* ''Literature/TheMagicTreehouse'': The American titles for the books in the series, IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming. For example:
89	## "Dinosaurs Before Dark"
90	## "The Knight at Dawn"
91	## "Mummies in the Morning"
92	## "Pirates Past Noon"
93	* ''Literature/SomethingLikeSeries'': The first four books have titles themed around the four seasons, and the last uses "Forever".
94	* ''Literature/ThereIsNoEpicLootHereOnlyPuns'': TheHiddenHour is referenced in the chapter title of [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/there-is-no-epic-loot-here-only-puns-dungeon.590739/post-44640193 "Witching Hour"]], where Devina explores her evolution into a Witch Doctor.
95	[[/folder]]
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97	[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
98	* ''Series/SevenDays1998'': An elite [=NSA=] agent can travel back in time by seven days to correct history that's GoneHorriblyWrong.
99	* ''Series/TwentyMinutes'': Referencing this line:
100	--> I know something crucial you don't: no matter how many years you've set your life right, it takes but 20 minutes to take it all away.
101	* ''Series/ThirtySevenDays'': The series covers the weeks between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 18 June 1914 to the British declaration of war on Germany on 4 August that year.
102	* ''Series/FortyNineDays'' revolves around Jihyun who enters a coma due to a car accident. She's given a second chance to live on one condition: she must borrow the body of another woman and have 3 people cry genuine tears for her within 49 days.
103	* ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor60Days'' is about the Minister of Environment Park Mujin who has to sit as Acting President for 60 days after a devastating attack on the National Assembly.
104	* ''Series/HappyDays'': The show started out as a nostalgic look at 1950s America.
105	* ''Series/IslandOfTheSeaWolves'': Each episode is titled after the season it takes place in: "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall".
106	* ''Series/MinuteToWinIt'': A contestant tries to complete 10 tasks of increasing difficulty involving various household items. Each task has a time limit of 60 seconds.
107	* ''Series/SplitSecond1972'': A GameShow whose gimmick is that all three contestants may answer questions based on their reaction times.
108	* ''Series/QueenForSevenDays''
109	[[/folder]]
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111	[[folder:Music]]
112	* Kpop group Music/FourMinute. Their name has two meanings: that the members will attract fans in 4 minutes (which is why their songs are always less than 4 minutes), and that they'll do their best ''for'' every ''minute''. They have an album called ''[=4Minutes=] Left''.
113	* AlternativeHipHop group Arrested Development's debut album, ''3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...'', is named after the amount of time it took for the band to secure a recording contract.
114	* Music/DavidBowie had an affinity for this trope, and as such, it shows up a ''lot'' throughout his output:
115	** "Love You till Tuesday" off of Bowie's [[Music/DavidBowie1967 debut album]] details a man whose sense of love is so fleeting that he can only be attracted to a partner for two days at a time ("My burning desire started on Sunday/Give me your heart and I'll love you till Tuesday").
116	** "Five Years", the opener to ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'', is named after how much time Earth has left to live in the album's story.
117	** The sequel to ''Ziggy Stardust'', ''Music/AladdinSane'', features a song literally called "Time" about how suffocating the inevitable passage of years is.
118	** [[Music/StationToStation "Golden Years"]] is named after the period of time in which a person's life was at its most productive and fulfilling, typically their youth, tying in with the ironic lyrics about living life through a NostalgiaFilter.
119	** ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' has two instances. "Day-In Day-Out", the opener, uses its title to invoke feelings of ennui and ironically juxtapose them against a portrait of a woman living in poverty. The track right after it is "Time Will Crawl", whose title refers to the approaching death of humanity after a nuclear disaster (having been inspired by UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}).
120	** [[Music/{{Earthling}} "Seven Years in Tibet"]] is named as such after the 1957 novel of the same name, tying in with its lyrics about the killing of a Tibetan monk; incidentally, the song released 40 years after the book did.
121	** [[Music/HoursDavidBowieAlbum "Thursday's Child"]] derives its name from both a line in the nursery rhyme "Monday's Child" and a line in Music/TheVelvetUnderground's [[Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico "All Tomorrow's Parties"]] (itself a reference to the nursery rhyme), tying in with the lyrics looking back on Bowie's life up to 1999.
122	** ''Music/TheNextDay'' and its TitleTrack take their names from Holy Saturday, the day between UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' crucifixion and resurrection, invoking it as a metaphor for Bowie's prolonged hiatus after an on-stage heart attack in 2004 and his feelings looking back on it.
123	** ''Music/BlackstarAlbum'' features two instances. "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" takes its subtitle refers to the period in ''Theatre/TisPityShesAWhore'' in which siblings Giovanni and Annabella have [[BrotherSisterIncest an affair with one another]], being Bowie's adaptation of the play. Meanwhile, "Dollar Days", the penultimate track on the album, is named after a term for days when stores sell items at very low prices.
124	* Music/SteelyDan frontman Donald Fagen's [[Music/TheNightfly "I.G.Y."]] is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year International Geophysical Year]], a global science project spanning from mid-1957 to the end of 1958 in which researchers on both sides of the Iron Curtain collaborated on various scientific efforts across eleven different fields. The symbolism of the year and the innovations that it led to (most notably the ''Sputnik 1'' satellite launch by the Soviet Union) are both reflected in the song's optimistic and intentionally {{Zeerust}}y lyrics.
125	* Music/DavidGuetta's "Just for One Day (Heroes)", which Music/DavidBowie provided guest vocals on, takes its name from a line in the TitleTrack of Bowie's 1977 album ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]''.
126	* Music/IggyPop's "Tonight" (off of ''Music/LustForLife'') is named after the final night between the narrator and his girlfriend, as he comforts her during her gradual death of a drug overdose.
127	* The carol "The 12 Days of Christmas" is named after the length of time it spans: twelve consecutive days (even though Christmas itself lasts only one).
128	[[/folder]]
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130	[[folder:Theatre]]
131	* ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays'': a 1948 play centering on the period when Henry [=VIII=] divorced his wife, Catherine of Aragon, to pursue his mistress, Anne Boleyn. Anne lasted just about one thousand days from that point: because she failed to birth a male heir, she was tried for adultery in a KangarooCourt, and sentenced to beheading. This work was made into a film in 1969, starring Creator/RichardBurton and Creator/GenevieveBujold.
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134	[[folder:Video Games]]
135	* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': The protagonists have 9 hours to survive their situation.
136	* ''VideoGame/SixtySeconds'': About the amount of time the player has in the preparation phase.
137	* ''VideoGame/EightyDays'': An ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' adaptation.
138	* ''VideoGame/NinetyNineNights''
139	* ''VideoGame/HalfMinuteHero'': The titular protagonist dies after that amount of time.
140	* ''VideoGame/{{Minit}}'': [[XtremeKoolLetterz Creative spelling]] of "minute", because you die after 60 seconds.
141	* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', referring to the amount of time the titular door can remain sealed.
142	* ''VideoGame/SplitSecond2010''
143	* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'': The characters have to survive until dawn for them to be rescued.
144	[[/folder]]
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146	[[folder:Webcomics]]
147	* ''Webcomic/ThisCrocWillDieIn100Days'': A comic that counts down from 100 days, where the croc does die.
148	[[/folder]]
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150	[[folder:Western Animation]]
151	* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''
152	[[/folder]]

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