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• Just three years after The Who's Quadrophenia featured "I've Had Enough", Who Are You had the song "Had Enough".
• The Lady Gaga song "Hair" is in no way related to the musical. Or the El Goonish Shive story arc.
• Half-Life (with a hyphen) is a series of First-Person Shooter video games by Valve Software or a song by Duncan Sheik, while Half Life (without a hyphen) is a 2006 novel about Conjoined Twins.
• "Hallelujah" is the title of over a dozen different popular songs, the one by Leonard Cohen^note covered by John Cale, Jeff Buckley, and many others being the most popular in general, and the Deep Purple one ^note covered by Blind Guardian among metal fans.
• Hallow's End is either a 2003 horror film, a ROM hack of EarthBound, or an annual event in World of Warcraft.
• Halo is the name of a popular First-Person Shooter series, a Beyoncé song, a song by The Cruxshadows on their album As The Dark Against My Halo, and the titling of Nine Inch Nails releases.
• Handbook for Mortals is a 2017 fantasy novel notorious for its author trying to scam her way onto The New York Times Bestseller List; its title is identical to the completely unrelated 1999 non-fiction book Handbook for Mortals, which offers guidance and advice for people facing chronic or terminal health conditions.
• "Hanky Panky" is a 1964 song by Tommy James and the Shondells and a 1990 song by Madonna.
• The Hanson Brothers, a Ramones-inspired side project of the Canadian punk band Nomeansno named after a trio of characters in the movie Slap Shot, are not to be confused with the pop band Hanson whose members are all brothers with that surname, who themselves are not to be confused with a short-lived British band from the 1970s also called Hanson.
• The Happening: A 2008 apocalyptic horror film by M. Night Shyamalan about an outbreak of mass suicide, and a 1967 comedy film about a group of hippies kidnapping a retired Mafia boss. Also, a song by The Supremes based on the latter movie.
• If you're going to go see Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days, keep in mind that you will most definitely not see The Fonz (or hear a certain Pratt and McClain song). You can see the Fonz in the musical adaptation of the TV series, however (though he won't be played by Henry Winkler).
• Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, while The Hard Times is a News Parody website.
• Hardly Working is the name of both a 1980 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, and a web series produced by Dropout.
• In 1965 two biographical films about Jean Harlow, both simply titled Harlow, were released within weeks of one another.
• Hatchet is either a 1987 Gary Paulsen novel commonly read in schools or a 2006 slasher movie.
• "Haunted" by Type O Negative, "Haunted" by Gary Numan, "Haunted" by Taylor Swift, "Haunted" by Disturbed, "Haunted" by Evanescence, Haunted (2005) by Chuck Palahniuk, "Haunted (1988)" by James Herbert, three "Haunted" television shows (1960s, 2002, and 2009), six albums titled "Haunted," "The Haunted" (two bands), and that's not all of them.
• As far as The Haunting goes, you'd already expect there to be two to watch out for, namely the original 1963 film and its 1999 remake. If you live outside North America, however, then you have three to deal with — The Haunting '63, The Haunting '99, and another film called "The Haunting", which in actual fact is a retitled version of the Roger Corman film The Terror. Corman's film was released in the same year as the first Haunting film, and so he took advantage of the fact that studios could be incredibly lax about releasing their films outside of North America (assuming they even bothered at all) to pass his own film off as The Haunting.
• Haven is the title of a 2010 supernatural television drama and a 2020 sci-fi adventure RPG. There's also the 2002 action-adventure game Haven: Call of the King.
• Heart of Glass is a 1976 Werner Herzog film, a song by Blondie, or an episode of CSI:NY.
• Heart of Stone is a 2001 psychological thriller film and a 2023 spy action thriller film. It is also a Cher album and song.
• Heart of the City is a newspaper comic strip, a crime drama TV series that ran for one season in 1986, two unrelated songs by Nick Lowe and Frank Mills, and three different musical albums by Tom Grant, Dave Kelly, and Barrabás.
• He Said, She Said is either a 1969 game show (the precursor to Tattletales) or a 1991 rom-com movie with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins.
• "Heart Skips a Beat" is a song by either Olly Murs or Lenka.
• "Heartbreak Hotel" is the name of three completely unrelated songs by Elvis Presley, The Jacksons, and Whitney Houston.
• "Heartbreaker" is the title of at least half a dozen songs by a wide range of performers, with Pat Benatar, Dionne Warwick and Led Zeppelin among the more notable ones.
• "Hearts of Iron", a Sabaton song about the German Army late in World War II, shares its name with Hearts of Iron, a series of 4X PC games by Paradox Interactive. Paradox licensed the tune, among others by the band, as an add-on soundtrack for the fourth installment in the series.
• Heat is best known as a 1995 film starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. It should not be confused with the 1986 film starring Burt Reynolds or the 2013 film starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.
• Heaven and Hell is a much-loved album — but is it by Black Sabbath or by Vangelis?
• Heaven Can Wait (1978) is unrelated to Heaven Can Wait (1943) except for the title. (The 1978 film is a remake ... of a different movie named Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was later remade again as Down To Earth (2001); confused yet?) Or the We The Kings song. Or, indeed, the Meat Loaf song, or the Gamma Ray song, or the Michael Jackson song, or the Iron Maiden song, or the Lemmings level.
• The ITV series Heartbeat shares its name with two US series (one of them puts its name as HeartBeat. Both have been shown on UK television (not no name change).
• Heavy Metal is both a comics magazine and a (related)animated movie. The Iron Man/X-O Manowar crossover is titled Heavy Metal. Heavy Metal Thunder is a game by Square Enix.
• Helix is a roguelike shooter released in 2021, or a multiplayer FPS Hero-Shooter with MOBA-like Mechanics released into early access in 2021, or a single player platform action released in...2021. Or a TV series, released in 2014.
• Help is a 1965 comedy film starring The Beatles, a 2021 drama film about the COVID-19 Pandemic, and an episode of CSI: NY concerning a serial rapist. There's also The Help, a 2011 film about black maids in the USA.
• Here Comes the Grump can refer to a 1969 cartoon or a song by Adam Ant.
• Hero is a 1992 movie known as Accidental Hero, and a 2002 wuxia film.
• Heroes is a series about human superheroes and an episode of CSI: NY.
• The NBC miniseries Heroes Reborn shares its name with the MarvelComics event of the same name.
• Hero Zero is a Comics' Greatest World miniseries and a game by Playata GmbH.
• "Hey Joe!" by Frankie Laine (notice the exclamation) is not "Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts (and Jimi Hendrix, among others).
• High and Low: Two different works, both from Japan as it happens: a 1963 film by Akira Kurosawa, and a multimedia series (the latter work is usually written with an ampersand as High & Low).
• The High Cost of Living (2010) and Death: The High Cost of Living (Development Hell) are about women dealing with death, but only one has Death herself.
• "High Hopes" is a 1959 song by Frank Sinatra, a 1994 song by Pink Floyd and a 2018 song by Panic! at the Disco.
• High School Girls and Joshi Kausei's titles mean the same thing in Japanese (see Joshikousei), but are written with different kana (and the second one's title is left untranslated in the English version).
• In 1957, it was announced that writers Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds were nominated for Best Screenplay Oscar for their script to the movie High Society. Ullman and Bernds were surprised, since their movie was a lowbrow Bowery Boys farce. As it turned out, the actual nominee was John Patrick, who wrote the screenplay for the High Society movie that starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. High Society is also the second book in Cerebus the Aardvark.
• The Hike:
  • The Hike (2023) by Lucy Clarke shares its name with the 2016 novel The Hike by Drew Magary. Besides both stories heavily featuring a hike in the woods as a central plot element, they're very different books; Magary's The Hike is a Comic Fantasy set in Pennsylvania, while Lucy Clarke's The Hike is a mundane thriller set in Norway.
  • There's also another thriller about a hike gone wrong involving four people titled The Hike, written by Susi Holliday and published in 2022, though that one is set in the Swiss Alps and the main characters are two sisters and their husbands, rather than a group of friends.
• The Slasher Movie The Hills Run Red shares its name with a 1966 Italian western (which is also known as River of Dollars). This fact is also discussed in-universe of the former, where The Hills Run Red is the name of a lost horror movie.
• The title of "Hitman" is a fairly generic one to be fair, so logically, this was inevitably going to happen:
  • Hitman is a popular series of video games about the assassin Agent 47, however, IO Interactive pulled a Stopped Numbering Sequels move back in 2016 for the below entries:
    • Hitman (2016) does not refer to first game; Hitman: Codename 47
    • Hitman 2 does not refer to second game; Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
    • Hitman 3 does not refer to third game; Hitman: Contracts
  • Hitman was a popular 1993 comic book about the assassin Tommy Monaghan, which is also not related to the above video games' prequel comic series Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman
  • Hit Man was Peter Tomarken's first game show.
  • "The Hitman" is also the nickname of wrestler Bret Hart.
• "Holiday" is a song from Weezer's 1994 self-titled debut album that name-drops Kerouac's On the Road, a politically-charged song from Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot, and a 1983 song by Madonna.
• The Hollow is a live-action film, an animated TV series, and a mystery novel.
• The Hollow Men is a poem by T. S. Eliot. The Hollowmen is an Australian TV series.
• "Home" is a trance song by Chakra remixed by Above & Beyond, and a later song by Above & Beyond themselves.
  • There are many other songs called "Home", such as Three Days Grace's third hit, Daughtry's second hit, and Phillip Phillips' first hit (ironically, the latter two both came from American Idol).
• Homefront is a video game featuring a North Korean invasion of a small American town. The 90s television series Homefront was a drama featuring life in a small American town after World War II ended. And Homefront is a Jason Statham action flick.
• Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 comedy film starring Nicolas Cage and an episode of CSI: Vegas about a couple being murdered on their honeymoon.
• Hong Kong '97 is both an infamous 1995 bootleg Super Famicom game and a 1994 action movie.
• Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi (Translated as Scary True Stories) is the name of at least three unrelated Japanese horror anthology franchises:
  • The original is a bimonthly magazine published by Asahi Shimbun from 1987 to 2010, which would serve as an inspiration to a 1991-1992 Direct to Video movie trilogy, known overseas as "Scary True Stories", a forerunner of the 1990s horror boom in Japan. The movies' enduring popularity made it possible to adapt it to a yearly Fuji TV television special and two seasons since 1999 from today.
  • In 1992, TV Asahi made a television show under the same name^note "Honto" written as kanji instead of hiragana, i.e. "本当" instead of "ほんと", with the subtitle of Mystery Taiken Zone or Natsu no Fushigi Mystery depending on the season's half, probably to cash in the movies' fame. The show was followed by five Direct to Video movies from 1999 to 2003 (either subtitled Noroi Shiryō or Mystery Taiken Zone again), the first of them being translated overseas as "Curse, Death & Spirit".
  • Publisher Broadway Co Ltd. made a similar series of Direct to Video Found Footage Films named Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video that started in 1999 and has been going since then... However, they have been releasing a spin-off more similar to the original inspiration since 2004, with yet again an almost identical name^note "Honto" written with an extra vowel, i.e. "ほんとう" / "Hontou" instead of "ほんと" / "Honto".
• The Host: English title of a Korean monster movie, Stephenie Meyer sci-fi romance novel, or the first in a series of first-person indie horror games.
• House is a TV series about a doctor played by Hugh Laurie, a Japanese Horror/Comedy film from 1977 (the Japanese title being Hausu), an unrelated American Horror/Comedy from 1986 (featuring William Katt and George Wendt), and a straight Horror film from 2008. Also, it's a dance music genre.
  • Meanwhile House! (note the exclamation point) is a 2000 comedy about a bingo hall in Wales.
• Hover! is a game included with some versions of Microsoft Windows. Hover is a 2017 video game.
• There's Ciem: The Human Centipede from Dozerfleet Comics. Then, there's Tom Six's The Human Centipede. One's a Sims machinomic about a superheroine who is pretty much an Alternate Company Equivalent of Marvel's Spider-Girl, just with different animal-themed powers. The other is a gross-out D-grade horror film.
• "The Human Factor" is the title of episodes of both The Outer Limits (1963) and The Outer Limits (1995) but the latter is not a remake of the former.
• Hunger is a 2008 film about Irish prisoners. Hunger is also the title of a [PROTOTYPE] fanfic. The fanfic's author was completely unaware of the film.
  • The Hunger, on the other hand, is a film starring Catherine Deneuve as a bisexual vampire and also a British/Canadian horror anthology television series prone to Cruel Twist Endings, both also featuring David Bowie.
  • "The Hunger" also the name of a 1987 album by Michael Bolton.
• The Hunger Games is about a teenage girl who takes her sister's place in a competition where 24 teenagers fight to the death till one remains. The Hunger Games is also the name of a Taiwanese variety TV show where contestants complete various tasks while hungry, with the winners given meals as a reward.
• Hunter was the name of two Australian TV series; one was a spy drama from The '60s, the other a children's educational program from the late eighties and early nineties. And of course, there's the U.S. action series from The '80s starring former NFL star Fred Dryer. There was also a U.S. cartoon series called The Hunter that aired as a segment on King Leonardo and His Short Subjects. It is also the name of an action-adventure game for Amiga and Atari ST, and an Atari 2600 game that is lost to time.
• Hush is a Batman story, a 1998 movie, a 2016 movie, a series about a relationship expert, an episode of CSI: NY, and a Deep Purple song.
• "Hypocrite" is a reggae song written by Leo Sibbles of The Heptones. "Hypocrites" is a reggae song written and performed by Bob Marley. A mix-up between the two is likely the reason why The Specials' 1996 single "Hypocrite" was credited as written by Marley, though it's actually a cover of the Sibbles song.

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• I Moved Your Cheese (2001) by Darrel Bristow-Bovey, a satire of self-help in general, and I Moved Your Cheese 2011 by Deepak Malhotra, an unofficial sequel to the business fable Who Moved My Cheese?.
• What is this I, Robot that you speak of? Do you mean the Eando Binder story, the Isaac Asimov anthology (with a movie based on it In Name Only), or the Atari arcade game? There's also the song Iro-Bot by Coheed and Cambria, and the album I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project.
• I Shot Andy Warhol: a crime/drama film about the assassination attempt on Andy Warhol or a hacked Hogan's Alley ROM with Warhol replacing the gangsters?
• I Spy: a series of puzzle books (which was adapted into a stop-motion series and a video game), or a 1960s TV series.
• "I Wanna Be Your Star", a trance/happy hardcore song by Melody & Mezzo, "I Wanna Be A Star", a Hyper Techno song by Water Queen, and I Wanna Be The Star, a Platform Hell game inspired by I Wanna Be the Guy.
• About five years before the massive Gloria Gaynor hit, there was a totally different song called "I Will Survive" by now-forgotten group Arrival.
• Ibitsu is a dark manga about a twisted relationship between a man and woman, but is it a Sex Comedy by Kazuto Okada about a twisted BDSM relationship or a horror manga about a college student being stalked and harassed by a strange and twisted girl in a Lolita dress?
• Identity Crisis (2004) is a DC comics miniseries that deals with skeletons in the Justice League's closet and Identity Crisis (1998), where Spidey must clear his name after being framed for murder and letting himself get goaded by Norman Osborn into whaling on him on camera. Technically two DC stories (1996 saw a story where Brainiac pulled a "Freaky Friday" Flip on Superman) and two Spider-Man stories (1997, the year between the Superman story and the later '98 Spider-Man one, involving the Chameleon pulling a Mind Screw on Peter). It's also the name of unrelated episodes of CSI and CSI: NY.
• "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" is the title of Aerosmith's Award-Bait Song from the film Armageddon (1998), and an unrelated song from Vanities (the 2000s musical adaptation of the Jack Heifner play, not to be confused with the 1920s Earl Carroll musical series).
• If I Had a Hammer is an American folk song by Peter, Paul and Mary. It's also episodes of CSI and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
• If My Heart Had Wings: a visual novel or a Faith Hill song?
• There are two anime named Ikkyu-san: a long-running series from 1975 to 1982 based on a real-life historical figure, and a short-lived 1978 series about a high-school baseball player.
• The Illusionist: Yes, it's a period drama about a magician, but are you referring to the live-action one or the 2010 animated one?
• "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" is one of the first songs recorded by Elvis Presley, and was subsequently covered by many other artists, but Giorgio Moroder is not among them: he just borrowed the title for an otherwise entirely different song of his own.
• "I'm with Cupid" is the name to both a Season 10 episode of The Simpsons and a Season 6 episode of King of the Hill.
• Immortal is a 2004 science-fiction/fantasy film made by Enki Bilal and based on his works, and a death metal band. It may also refer to the Super-Trope Immortality, which lists the various types of immortality used throughout fiction. Immortals (note the plural) is a film about the ancient Greek mythological hero Theseus. There are also several Fan Fics called My Immortal listed below. "Immortals" is also a song by Fall Out Boy from Big Hero 6. And The Immortal (1990) is an adventure video game.
• Impossible Creatures is the name of both a real-time strategy game and a fantasy adventure novel.
• Independence Day is the name of a 1983 drama film and a much more famous 1996 alien invasion film.
• The movie Indestructible Man should not be confused with the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Indestructible Man, about a Captain Ersatz Captain Scarlet, or with DC Comics' Steel: The Indestructible Man.
• Infinity War is a Marvel Comics storyline and a pair of movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Infinity Wars is a game by Lightmare Studios.
• Infinity Train is an animated anthology series about people trapped on a mysterious, seemingly endless train in the middle of an alien wasteland. Demon Slayer: Infinity Train is the English title of a 2020 film adapting the "Mugen Train" arc of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, wherein the main characters are forced into Lotus Eater Machines by recurring antagonist demon Enmu while on a train. The creator of the former even joked about the names being similar, saying the subtitle for the show's fourth season would be "Demon Slayer".
• Among other things, In Harm's Way is a John Wayne / Kirk Douglas film, the James Bassett World War II novel it's based upon, an a episode of CSI Vegas, and a trope on this site. There's also an episode of Angel called "Harm's Way."
• There are two High Fantasy series titled "Inheritance." There's the Inheritance Cycle ^note  Which was called The Inheritance Trilogy until book 4 was released. which is a story about a young farm boy who discovers a dragon egg, and becomes a dragon rider. There's also the Inheritance Trilogy which is about interactions of gods and mortals. Then there's the other Inheritance Trilogy written by Ian Douglas, though that one is military science fiction rather than fantasy. And then you have the collection of short stories by fantasy author Robin Hobb named The Inheritance, taking its title from one of the stories included.
• Warner Bros. produced two cartoons entitled Injun Trouble: a 1938 Looney Tunes short featuring Porky Pig (remade as "Wagon Heels" in 1945) and a 1969 Merrie Melodies short featuring Cool Cat.
• In Security is both a tv series and a comic strip.
• Inside Out is a BBC current affairs series, a PBS educational series, a Pixar movie, a Triple H movie, a YA novel by Maria V. Snyder, a song by Phil Collins, a song by Korn, and an episode of CSI: Miami.
• Inside The Box is both an urban fantasy/scifi novel and a Canadian game show.
• Insomnia is a 2002 remake of a 1997 Norwegian suspense film of the same title. It's also the title of a completely-unrelated novel by Stephen King.
  • Then there's Insomniac, a Green Day album.
  • And let's not confuse either of those with the song by Faithless, or with Insomniac Games.
• "In the Dark" is a collaboration between Dutch Electronic Dance Music DJ-producer Tiësto and British singer-songwriter Christian Burns(formerly of the Boy Band BBMak), a 1973 album (and song) by Toots & the Maytals, and a 1981 hit for Billy Squier; while "Into the Dark" is a collaboration between Dutch EDM DJ-producer Ferry Corsten and British singer-songwriter Howard Jones.
• In the Night Garden: the first volume of The Orphan's Tales or the CBeebies series?
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells, the Syfy series The Invisible Man, and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. There's also the song of the same name by Queen.
• Warrior Cats shares a couple similar titles: it has books called Into the Wild and Into the Woods, not to be confused with Jon Krakauer's Into The Wild (or its movie adaptation) and the musical Into the Woods (or its movie adaptation).
• There are two very different films under the title Into the Storm. The 2009 version is a biopic about Winston Churchill, the 2014 version is a Disaster Movie with tornadoes.
  • And there is the song "Into the Storm" by Blind Guardian, based on The Silmarillion.
• So you're interested in a movie called "Invasion U.S.A.", about a Soviet invasion of America. Do you mean the 1952 film starring Gerald Mohr, or the 1985 film with Chuck Norris?
• Invincible is a comic about a young superhero. It's also the title of a movie about Vince Papale, and another movie about a Jewish strongman in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • It's also a 1985 hit for Pat Benatar and a 2009 rock hit for Las Vegas band Adelitas Way (the WWE Superstars theme). And Michael Jackson's last album.
• The Iron Maiden pinball machine has nothing to do with the rock band.
• Iron Man is a Marvel comic book superhero, an antihero sung about by Black Sabbath (who were careful to make it clear by the lyrics that they were not referencing the Marvel character) and a children's book written in the UK by Ted Hughes, which was given an animated In Name Only film adaptation in the U.S. You might have heard of it. It was called The Iron Giant.
• The Island:
  • A 2005 Michael Bay film based on Clonus, or a 2006 Pavel Lungin film about a monk?
  • There's also the Pendulum song, which partially averts this by being split up into two parts.
  • The Island is also a 1979 novel by Peter Benchley, which was adapted into film in 1980.
• Isle of the Dead is the name of a Takashi Murakami mixed-media painting, a live-action film, and a videogame.
• The Video Game Subarashiki Kono Sekai: It's a Wonderful World had to be re-titled to The World Ends with You for the English localization, because it shares its title with a 1930s Screwball Comedy. It also sounds similar to the name of the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World".
• There have been two different TV series titled It Takes a Thief. The first was a 1968 Spy Fiction show about a Gentleman Thief who steals for the government. The second was a 2005 Reality Show about two Reformed Criminals who break into homes—with permission—to improve the owners' security systems.
  • And then there's Coolio's debut album of the same name.
  • And the best-of album by Thievery Corporation.
• "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" is the name of both a British dark comedy film from 2010 and an episode of the Beetlejuice cartoon, although the plots are completely different.
• It Was a Very Good Year is a song by Frank Sinatra and an episode of CSI that harkens back to the 1960's.

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• One of the most notorious film examples is two 1990s movies called Jack Frost. Both are about men who die and come back as snowmen, but the only difference is that one is a gory slasher film and the other is a lighthearted family movie. And of course, there's a third film titled Jack Frost, this one a 1960s Russian production (also known as Morozko) which was mocked by the MST3K guys.
  • The first two examples were eventually Lampshaded in MAD Magazine's "Planet TAD" section in one issue. In this case, the titular Tad buys his younger sister the slasher film instead of the family film, scarring her for life.
• Jeopardy! is a long-running American quiz show. Jeopardy is a three-year UK science fiction show. This is an example of double jeopardy.
• The manga Jesus has nothing to do with the old Enix game JESUS, and neither have to do with Jesus Christ.
• Jetpac should not be confused with Jetpack. They have little in common except a player character with a Jet Pack.
• J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is a 1990 computer game, and a 1994 SNES game.
• Joey: both an unsuccessful spinoff of Friends and an Australian film about a baby kangaroo.
• There is no shortage of works named Judgment Day, including but not limited to: a 1940 German film, a 1949 Czech comedy film, a 1988 horror film, a 1993 television film subtitled The John List Story, a 1998 direct-to-video film, the second Terminator movie, an episode of Highlander, an episode of The New Batman Adventures, a series of WWE events from 1998-2009 as well as their more recent dominant faction, and the Season 5 finale of NCIS.
• "Juliet": Completely unrelated songs by the Four Pennies, LMNT, Cavetown, Robin Gibb and Lawson. In addition to this, "Juliette" is the title of songs by Hollerado, Kalapana and Little Feat.
• Jumper: A sci-fi story by Steven Gould or masochistic platformer by Maddy Thorson? Ironically, the former also had a Licensed Game, which sadly makes things more confusing.
  • Or, it could be a Third Eye Blind hit from 1998.
• "Just Another Day" is the title of three separate songs by 1) Jon Secada (the most famous one), 2) Oingo Boingo and 3) John Cena and Tha Trademarc. They are all relatively low-key numbers and generally pessimistic in tone, but those are the only two things they all have in common. The first one is a Silly Love Song, the second is about The End of the World as We Know It, and the third is simply about how the protagonist's life sucks. Additionally, it's the name usually given to a music track from The Lost Vikings, though where the name comes from (or if it's even official) isn't known. Outside of music, "Just Another Day" can refer to a series of comedic mods for FreeSpace 2

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• K9, the 1989 James Belushi film about a police dog, and K9, the 2010 Doctor Who spin-off about the tin dog. Also the canine minion of Marvin The Martian.
• Kaibutsu-kun is a comedy manga from the 1960s about a monster prince who goes to live with humans. Tonari No Kaibutsu-kun is an unrelated romantic manga from 2008 about a girl and her male classmate. Both manga gained anime adaptations (the former having two).
• Kamen Rider
  • Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider Zi-O have no real connection beyond being part of the same franchise. At least they're pronounced differently. ^note "Zed-Oh" for the former, "Ji-Oh" for the latter.
  • Likewise, Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue is not actually a prologue to Shin Kamen Rider; the planned follow-up to the former was scrapped, while the latter has closer ties to Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman.
• Kamichama Karin, a manga about a girl who can transform into a goddess, and Karin, a manga about a vampire girl. This is apparently why Tokyopop changed the title of the latter.
  • Kamichama Karin Chu, a sequel to a manga about a girl who can transform into a goddess, and Kamichu!, a manga about a girl who, uh, becomes a goddess.
• Kanon, the Visual Novel by Key/Visual Arts, the manga Kanon (Chiho Saito), and Kannon, a 2015 album by Sunn O))).
• The number of movies named The Kid is insane. As a sampling, there's Charlie Chaplin's 1921 entry about his Little Tramp character taking care of an orphan; a 1997 Canadian movie about a boxer; a 2000 feature (titled Disney's The Kid) where Bruce Willis meets his kid self; and a vulgar 2001 animated film. Then there are the dozen or so others.
• The Kids Are All Right was a documentary on a former Muscular Dystrophy Association poster child who protested the organization after being abandoned by them. It's not to be confused with the more recent comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right about the children of a lesbian couple. Or the 2008 game show The Kids Are All Right hosted by John Barrowman. Or with The Kids Are Alright, a concert documentary of The Who, or their song of the same name. Or "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring, "The Kids Aren't Alright" by Fall Out Boy, and the AWOLNATION song, THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT. Confused yet?
• ''The Killer' is a 1972 Shaw Brothers film, a 1989 John Woo film, a French comic book and the latter's 2023 David Fincher film adaptation.
• Killer Instinct is a video game series by Rare, a 1988 film known as Deadly Observation, a 1991 film known as Homicidal Impulse, a 1992 film known as Mad Dog Coll, a 2001 horror movie, a 2005 crime drama TV series, a 2006 thriller novel by Joseph Finder, the first part of the 2008 Mesrine film duology, a 2011 true crime TV series, and a 2015 true crime TV series.
• There's both a 2013 video game named Killer is Dead and a 2005 promotional short story based off of Killer7 named Killer is Dead (which remains unfinished to this day). Ironically, they both take place in the same universe.
• The 1936 UK movie King of Hearts is unrelated to the 1966 French movie King of Hearts which is unrelated to the 1996 US movie King of Hearts.
• King of the Hill can refer to an animated sitcom, a 1993 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, a 2007 Spanish film (sometimes called "The King of the Mountain"), an episode of The Simpsons, or an episode of Cheers. There are also several unrelated songs with that name by Quiet Riot, Roger McGuinn, Westside Connection, and others.
• King of Thorn is a post-apocalyptic manga by Yuji Iwahara. King of Thorns is the second book in fantasy The Broken Empire Trilogy by British writer Mark Lawrence.
• Kingdom Come is the name of a heavy metal band, a 1996 DC Comics mini-series, and a 2001 film.
• Kingdom Wars is a 3D strategy game by Reverie World Studios, and a Mobile Phone Game by Mobirix.
• King's Quest is a video game series. Kings Quest is a comic by Dynamite Comics.
• The King's Woman is the English title of both a 2003 Korean drama and a 2017 Chinese drama.
• Kinpatsu no Jeanie ("Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"), a 1979 anime, has no connection with a 1992-93 anime Kaze No Naka No Shojo Kinpatsu No Jeanie ("The Girl in the Wind: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"). Both shows were loosely inspired by the Stephen Foster song of the same name, but that's where the similarity ends. Coincidentally, both shows aired on the same network (TV Tokyo).
• Kira☆Kira is a Visual Novel about a high school punk rock band, while Kira☆Kira is a Newbery Medal-winning young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata.
• There are at least two paintings named The Kiss. One by Francisco Hayez in 1859 and another in Art Nouveau by Gustav Klimt in 1907.
• Kiss (2007) is a YA novel by Jacqueline Wilson. Kiss 2009 is a suspense novel by Ted Dekker & Erin Healy.
  • And of course, there's the band and its franchise.
  • Let's not also forget the song by Prince!
• "Kiss the Girl" is the title of a song from the Disney movie The Little Mermaid. It is also the title of a song about the Doctor Who episode "The Lodger".
• "Kiss and Tell" is the title of a 1943 Broadway play by F. Hugh Herbert and its film adaptation. It is also the title of a 2000 romance novel by Cherry Adair, a 1996 independent feature film, a 1996 TV film directed by Andy Wolk, a 2021 film directed by Desmond Elliot, an episode of Arthur, an episode of Gilmore Girls, an episode of Young Americans, a novel in the Marianna's BookUniverse series, an album by the Swedish band Sahara Hotnights, another album by Selena Gomez and a song on said album, as well as several other songs by other singers and bands. There is also a companion guide to Sex and the City called Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, a Katekyō Hitman Reborn! fanfic titled Don't Kiss and Tell, and an episode of The Legend of Zelda (1989) titled "Kiss 'n Tell".
• Knightmare is the name of both a British children's Game Show and a Shoot 'Em Up for the MSX. The former also had a video game adaptation to make it more confusing.
• Knives Out is the name of a 2019 mystery film. It's also the name of a mobile Battle Royale Game. And a Radiohead song, who the movie's director borrowed the name from.
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a 1973 Bob Dylan song, the Cowboy Bebop movie, a Neon Genesis Evangelion episode, and a 2014 Nigerian musical film.
• There are no less than 10 unrelated movies with some variation of Knockout as their title, including a 1914 silent slapstick comedy and a 2000 drama about a female boxer. And that's not even getting into similarly-titled TV shows, albums, songs, novels, comic books, and even a pinball game.
• Kung Fu (1972) is a TV series starring David Carradine, or the NES port of the arcade game Kung Fu Master. Kung Fu Master is a 1988 French drama film.
• Kurobe is a black comedy manga from 1969 about a man who can control people's shadows. It should not be confused with the unrelated Jungle Kurobe, a children's anime and manga from 1973 about a pygmie living with a Japanese family. Not helping the confusion is that both titles were produced by Fujiko Fujio (although the former was created by Fujiko Fujio A., while the other was by Fujiko F. Fujio.)
• Kurogane, an action manga set in the Edo Period that ran from 1996 to 1997 and Kurogane, a present day Kendo sports manga released in 2011.

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• Lab Rats is either a short lived British sitcom about a research lab, or a much longer-lasting Disney superhero sitcom. Or a short lived DC comic book title from the early 2000s or a Late 2000s Australian Science Themed Game Show.
• Labyrinth is an American movie with David Bowie and a British miniseries with Katie McGrath. Even more confusingly for soundtrack fans, Trevor Jones scored both. It's also a 2005 novel by Kate Moss, and an RPG/CCG dungeon crawler by Free Range Games. Or Labrinth a British R&B singer.
• "Lady" is the name of a 1967 song by Jack Jones, a 1970 song by Dennis Wilson, a 1974 song by Styx, a 1978 song by Little River Band, a 1980 song by Kenny Rogers (written by Lionel Ritchie), a 1996 song by D'Angelo, and a 2004 song by Lenny Kravitz (and those are just the ones listed without subtitles on The Other Wiki's "Disambiguation" page). Please note that none of these is a cover version of any of the others, and six of the seven were Billboard Top 40 hits (Wilson's "Lady" was not released as a single in the US).
• "Lady Double Dealer" is the name of a song by Krokus. There's no way it could have escaped their attention that Deep Purple had done a song of the same title a few years earlier, but Krokus were a bunch of lovable street urchin thieves when it came to songwriting ideas.
  • Krokus also has two completely different songs titled "No Way", the first one from their first (self-titled) album (1976), the second one from the same album as the aforementioned "Lady Double Dealer" (Metal Rendez-vous, 1980). (The first one of these is easy to ignore, because the album it's from had very few copies printed and is therefore almost impossible to find.)
• Land Of The Lost could refer to a 1974 Sid And Marty Krofft series, that series' remake or movie adaptation; or a 1940s' radio series, that broadcasts' Comic-Book Adaptation or Novelization, or the three Noveltoons adaptations made from 1948-51.
• The Indian movie Lagaan and the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• The Last Command can be either a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg or a 1993 Star Wars novel written by Timothy Zahn.
• Amongst the fanmade Friday Night Funkin' songs, Last Hope could be either Chara's song from the Dusttale crossover, or Taeyai's song from Cyber Sensation.
• Last Mission, an omnidirectional arcade Shoot 'Em Up by Data East, is not to be confused with The Last Mission, a Flip Screen Action Game by Opera Soft. There is also La dernière mission, a French graphic adventure for the Amstrad CPC whose title translates to the same thing.
• mind.in.a.box remixed the theme from The Last Ninja 3, but also produced an original chiptune titled "The Last Ninja". The Last Ninja is also the title of a TV movie starring Mako and Michael Beck, unrelated to the games.
• "The Last Song" is a 2004 song by Hilary Duff, a 2006 song by Foo Fighters, a 1973 hit for Canadian pop band Edward Bear, a 1992 Tear Jerker song by Elton John about a father visiting his LGBT son dying of AIDS, or a 2010 Tear Jerker movie written by Nicholas Sparks and starring Miley Cyrus, involving a divorced man dying of cancer and his jaded ex-piano prodigy daughter visiting him in Georgia.
• "The Last Train" is either a 2010 Dark Wave song by the Italian duo The Frozen Autumn, or a 2019 darkwave song and EP by the Swedish duo Sine City.
• The Last Supper is a famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It's also a Black Comedy film starring Cameron Diaz and Courtney B. Vance. Last Supper is an episode of CSI about a dead body being fed to contestants on a cooking show and an episode of The Outer Limits (1995) about a young man bringing his girlfriend home to meet his parents for the first time.
• The Late Show hosted by David Letterman or the movie The Late Show. Don't confuse the latter with The Late Shift, a movie about how Letterman eventually got the former. There's also a late show in Australia, a BBC arts program that aired in the early-90s, and a Canadian CBC radio documentary that provides listeners with extended obituaries.
• The Late Late Show is either an American late night chat show which is currently hosted by James Corden, or a long-running Irish late night chat show which airs every Friday night.
• "Laura," a country song sung by Tom Jones, is completely unrelated to the 40s ballad "Laura" and the same-name movie the latter appeared in. Neither of which are related to the 1982 song "Laura", from the Billy Joel album The Nylon Curtain^note A rare case of Billy letting out a Precision F-Strike in song.
• Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 film starring Nicolas Cage and an episode of CSI.
• Legend is a 1985 movie, a 2015 movie, and a 2005 WildStorm comic.
• Legion is a Marvel Comics character, the son of Professor Charles Xavier, with a TV series adaptation, DC Comics' modern iteration of the Legion of Super-Heroes, or a movie.
• Lenore is a 1773 seminal horror ballad by Gottfried August Bürger. It is also a rather shorter 1843 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, who quite proably was influenced by Bürger and also used the name in his story Eleonora (1841) and as that of the narrator's lost love in The Raven. The comic Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl by Roman Dirge is inspired more by Poe than Bürger.
• The 2023 animated Netflix movie Leo was released just over a month after the Indian movie of the same name. However, the latter was given the subtitle Bloody Sweet in order to avoid confusion.
• Nada Surf put out an album called Let Go the same year Avril Lavigne called her debut the same thing. Reportedly, Nada Surf had that title in mind for a while, found out there was a major hit release with the same title, and decided to stick with it anyway.
• "Let It Go" is either referring to Yuna Ito's song or the more well-known piece in Frozen. KC and the Sunshine Band, Scatman John, Keyshia Cole, Tim McGraw, Def Leppard, Cavo, James Bay, and Mitchell Musso all have unrelated songs called "Let It Go" as well.
• There are two completely different songs called "Let the Beat Hit 'em". One song is by 80s group Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, the other is a song that appears in various BEMANI games.
• Game Show Let's Make a Deal was most famously hosted by Monty Hall in the 1960-1970's and has undergone several incarnations, including one hosted by Wayne Brady. It's also the name of episodes of CSI and The Odd Couple.
• Liberté, a 2019 historical Erotic Film set in pre-revolutionary France, and Liberté, an Alternate History deckbuilding video game set during The French Revolution.
• Life (2007), the Live-Action Television drama. Life, a BBC documentary. Life (2002), a manga series. Life, a movie starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, Life, a science-fiction film, Life, a 2020 BBC drama series. The Game of Life (the Milton-Bradley board game). Conway's Game of Life. Life, the breakfast cereal. And most, if not all of these, are named after Real Life. And Life Magazine, which bought its title from a defunct unrelated humor magazine.
• Lifeline is a series of Interactive Fiction mobile games, and the American title of the PlayStation 2 game Operator's Side. Especially confusing as both games involve remotely guiding another character to escape with directions, and the person you need to guide in both Operator's Side and the first mobile game is a passenger on a space station.
• Lifelight is either a song by Aerosmith or the main theme from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Life Itself is a 2014 biopic about Roger Ebert, and a 2018 drama film by Dan Fogelman.
• "Life on Mars?" is a song by David Bowie. It's also the title of a television programme named after it, and the title of another television programme named after both the above. The Radiators (US) have their own completely unrelated song of the same name, as do the Israeli trance group Astral Projection. It's also the title of a book by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, and also a group of Lego models.
• The Lightlark Saga (which is also the title of the first book) has a very similar title to the Larklight trilogy by Philip Reeve, just with "lark" and "light" swapped. Besides the similar names, the two series have nothing in common (Larklight is a Steampunk Space Opera, Lightlark is High Fantasy).
• Lingo is a GSN game show with no relation whatsoever to the CBeebies show, The Lingo Show.
• "Little Busters" is a visual novel by Key/Visual Arts and a song by The Pillows famously featured in FLCL.
• Before he sold Peanuts Charles M. Schulz did a weekly comic for his local paper called Li'l Folks and originally wanted to call his daily strip that. However his syndicate forced him to change the title because there was another comic strip called Little Folks. That one was drawn by Tack Knight and ran in the 1930s.
• Little Miss Sunshine, one of the characters in the Mr. Men series. Little Miss Sunshine, R-rated film about a dysfunctional family's attempt to enter a beauty pageant miles away from their home.
• Little Princess is a series of books by Tony Ross, or a video game by AliceSoft / Champion Soft., and is unrelated to A Little Princess, the 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Living in Oblivion is an indie film about indie filmmaking, and a blog where Chris Livingston attempts to play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as a Non-Player Character.
• Lobo is a comic by DC Comics, and a comic by Dell Comics.
• Lone Wolf, a well-known 1980s Heroic Fantasy Gamebook series with a vaguely pseudo-Asian setting, and the equally well-known samurai manga series Lone Wolf and Cub are sometimes confused or mistakenly believed to have some connection.
• The Longest Day is a 1962 English/American/German film about World War 2. It shares the first part of its title with The Longest Day in Chang'an, a 2019 Chinese series about the Tang Dynasty. People looking for the series have to remember not to shorten the title, or they'll find the film instead.
• "The Look of Love": A 60s blues song by Dusty Springfield, or an 80s post-disco electro song by ABC?
• Cartoon Network aired two series known as The Looney Tunes Show: the first being a 2001 anthology series that consists of classic Looney Tunes shorts, the second being an original series that places the characters in a sitcom setting 10 years after that.
• Lords of the Fallen, not to be confused with its sequel, The Lords of the Fallen.
• The Losers can be a DC war comic, its 2010 film adaptation or a 1970 biker movie.
• Lost is a 2004 mind screwy television program created by J. J. Abrams. But there was also a short-lived reality-TV show by that same name in 2001, as well as a pair of movies, three books, four albums, and a partridge in a pear tree.
• The Lost Boys is a Joel Schumacher film about homoerotic vampires. It should definitely not be confused with Lost Boys, which is an Orson Scott Card novel about murdered children.
• Lost Girl is a television series about supernatural creatures called Fae. Lost Girls is an adult comic book by Alan Moore featuring Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy. The latter is also the name of a summer camp horror play.
• Lost Highway is a rock and roll song by Bon Jovi, a country song by Leon Payne, and a surrealist film by David Lynch.
• There's Lost Continent (a sci-fi movie from Robert L. Lippert), The Lost Continent (a fantasy/adventure movie from Hammer Films) and Atlantis: The Lost Continent (a fantasy movie from George Pal). And those are just the movies.
• Freddie Mercury and Robyn both recorded synthpop songs titled "Love Kills", and Little Boots covered the former's song.
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, and The Lost World by Michael Crichton.
• Love and Death, the 1975 comedy film by and starring Woody Allen, and Love & Death, the 2023 crime drama miniseries starring Elizabeth Olsen. And the second volume in a paperback compilation of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing stories.
• Love And Monsters, a 2020 monster adventure film starring Dylan O'Brien, and a 2006 episode of Doctor Who.
• "Love In Your Eyes" is a 1986 synthpop single by Limahl, while "Love Is In Your Eyes" is a 1985 Europop song and album by Gerard Joling. Not to mention the two artists sound surprisingly similar.
• Bonnie Tyler has the song "Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It)". RPLA has a different song with (almost) the same title. And Ratt has the song "Loving You Is a Dirty Job".
• "Lucille" is a 1957 song by Little Richard and a 1977 song by Kenny Rogers.
• Lucky Star might mean... Lucky Star, a 1929 romantic drama film, The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr, a 1952 series of science-fiction novels, a 1983 Madonna song, Lucky Star, a 2003 comedy manga and anime, and many other things...
• Lust for Life is either Iggy Pop's 1977 album, a 2009 song by Drake from his third mixtape So Far Gone, a 1922 German silent romantic comedy film, or a 1934 biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh by Irving Stone and also the 1956 biopic based on said novel, starring Kirk Douglas.

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