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- W. is a biopic of former US president George W. Bush or a Canadian series of cartoons about a guy stuck on a desert island.
- The Walking Dead is a 1936 horror film, a 1995 war film, a 2002 song by Puressence, a 2005 song by Z-Trip, a 2005 song by Dropkick Murphys, a 2006 song by Zebrahead, a 2008 song by Spinnerette, and episode of "CSI:Cyber,'' or a comic book series adapted to a TV series, directly adapted into a bad video game and indirectly adapted to a series of much better-received video games.
- The Wall by Pink Floyd and "The Wall" by Kansas share a name and both bands play some form of progressive rock, but the two works are completely different in every other aspect, not just in the style but also the former being the album's name and the latter being a song on the album Leftoverture. The Wall (2017) is a 2017 war movie.
- Warlock is a horror movie series starting with Warlock (1989), a sci-fi novel series, a Marvel comics series, and a strategy game series.
- The War Lord, a Historical Fiction film starring Charlton Heston, and The Warlord, a comic book about a Barbarian Hero.
- Warlords is a 1980 video game on the Atari 2600, a Turn-Based Strategy video game series, and a series of Flash games by Ben Olding. The Warlords is a 2007 film starring Jet Li.
- War Machine is a comic series and a 2017 movie. Warmachine is a game in the Iron Kingdoms setting.
- Warriors can be easily confused for different things; one is a novel series about fighting cats and clans written by Erin Hunter (and it is also known as Warrior Cats) and the other is a cult classic movie The Warriors about gangs from New York. It can be confusing for the average person whenever it is typed on the search engine.
- There is also New Warriors the underrated Marvel comic from the 90s.
- The Wasp is either the Marvel superhero or the Lev Gleason superhero.
- Wasted is either a post-apocalyptic-parody video game or an episode of CSI:NY involving drug smuggling.
- "Waterloo" is a 1959 song by Stonewall Jackson and a 1974 song by ABBA.
- The Way Back (2010), a film set in The '40s about some guys who hike to Mongolia and then India and The Way, Way Back, a 2013 Coming of Age film that was meant to be set in The '80s. "The Way Back" is also the first episodes of Blake's 7.
- We Are the Night: A Chemical Brothers album, and a German vampire film.
- "Weight of the World" is a 2006 song by Evanescence and a 2016 song by Crown the Empire.
- Welcome Home: An ARG about a lost 1970s fictitious puppet show or a thriller flim about a couple going to an Italian villa until something awaits them.
- The Wereling and Wereling (2009) are both YA series with werewolf protagonists. The first is a Paranormal Romance from 2003; the latter is more of a straight-up adventure story, and was retitled Changelings in some markets. As a bonus, their authors are respectively named Stephen and Steve.
- Web of Shadows is the subtitle to either a Spider-Man video game or the third Direct to Video BIONICLE movie.
- Four movies all share the same title of Welcome to the Jungle, including a 2003 action film starring Dwayne Johnson, directed by Peter Berg (of Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon fame) and retitled as The Rundown for its US and Japanese releases, a 2007 horror film, a 2013 comedy film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, a 2017 film again starring Dwayne Johnson.
- Family Matters, Step by Step, and Roseanne all had episodes called "We're Going to Disney World!". They're all two-part episodes, but in Roseanne's case, the name only applies to one part.
- The chain of Wet'n'Wild water parks that can be found across both the U.S. and Australia have no connection to the former Wet 'n Wild Orlando water park.
- The 2003 movie What a Girl Wants has no relation to the Christina Aguilera song from 1999. The song isn't even featured in the film's soundtrack.
- Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom all had episodes entitled "What Kind of Day Has It Been", and all were season finales (the latter two were also the last episodes of the show). This is not a coincidence, as they are all Aaron Sorkin shows and this is an Author Catch Phrase.
- What If? is a Marvel comic series, a series of gamebooks (punctuated What If...), a short story by Isaac Asimov (punctuated multiple ways), a blog, and more.
- What Would You Do?: Situational thought-provoking ABC series featuring hot-button topics or light-hearted Nickelodeon stunt show where people get pied? Or the Breakaway Pop Hit by City High originally from the film Life (1999)?
- There is a porno flick called What's Love Got to Do With It? that is entirely different from the (non-porno) movie of the same name about Tina Turner, starring Angela Bassett. The porn film came out first, so it has the right to use the name and the producer of the other film can't do anything about it.
- Before "Bankrupt", "I'd like to buy a vowel", and "I'd like to solve the puzzle", Wheel of Fortune was the name of a CBS game which aired from 1952-53. In that version, a wheel determined prizes awarded to people who did good deeds.
- Wheel also provides an in-work example, as the show had two different categories called Fill In the Blank. After about a year in which both were used, one of them was renamed Next Line Please. Both are now retired.
- Two TV shows with "Where Are You" as part of their title: Scooby-Doo (with an exclamation point at the end) and Car 54 (question mark).
- The White Album is a compilation of experimental music by The Beatles. White Album is also a Visual Novel romance story from Aquaplus.
- White Noise is a 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, a webcomic by Melinda Timpone, a webcomic by Adrien Lee, a 2005 horror film, and a 2014 video game with a sequel.
- White Tigers:
- White Tiger: a Puerto Rican comics character.
- White Tiger: a Russian film about tanks in World War II.
- The White Tiger: a novel about modern India.
- Who Are You? is a song by The Who, the Korean drama series Who Are You?, and episodes of other shows including the original CSI (which also uses the song as its theme), Arrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Batwoman (2019). There's also an ep of The Walking Dead entitled "Who Are You Now."
- The Whole Truth is a TV show starring Rob Morrow, Maura Tierney, and Eamonn Walker, a 2016 film starring Keanu Reeves, a 1958 film starring Stewart Granger and Donna Reed. It is also the name of an episode of Street Time.
- Who Cut the Cheese? by Stilton Jarlsberg and Who Cut the Cheese? by Mason Brown are both parodies of Who Moved My Cheese? and both published in 2000.
- Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, and Benny Hill have all done movies titled Who Done It?.
- Wick (2020) has the same name as another horror game, Wick, which came out in 2015. The two both even feature candles as a main part of the game, although the similarities end there.
- Wicked City is a novel series and anime adaptation by Hideyuki Kikuchi, a 1949 film directed by François Villiers, a musical by Chad Beguelin, and a 2015 procedural drama TV series. The Wicked City is a 1916 comedy short, a 1972 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the 1992 live-action film adaptation of the anime.
- Wild Hunt is the subtitle of both the third game in the The Witcher series and the first Riddles of Fate puzzle game from Elephant Games.
- Comic book series WildStar and computer game WildStar are not related.
- Wings is an absurdly common title. This list does not pretend to be exhaustive:
- A song by Cimorelli from the Believe It and Made In America EPs.
- A song of the same name by Little Mix.
- Paul McCartney's 1970s backing group.
- A song by Ringo Starr.
- A song by Jeff Williams as part of the RWBY soundtrack.
- An American sitcom from the early 90s.
- A Japanese shoujo magazine, which published RG Veda, Antique Bakery, and Princess Princess, among others.
- An American aviation magazine.
- A Discovery Channel series about aviation.
- A 1927 film which won the first Best Picture Oscar.
- A video game series that started on the Amiga.
- Wingspan can be a literary work of hyperfiction, a 2019 tabletop game (or its video game adaptation), a television documentary about Paul McCartney's career, or a Mulgrew Miller album.
- "Winner": 2012 song by the Noisettes, or the Pet Shop Boys?
- Wipeout is the title of two American gameshows. The BBC did versions of both, and the British version of the second one was renamed Total Wipeout to avert confusion. It's also the name of a futuristic racing video game series.
- It's also the Surfari's only hit.
- And to make things even more confusing? The latter Wipeout game show has had a video game made of it.
- Rednex (Yes, the same band who did "Cotton-Eyed Joe") named their only ballad hit single "Wish You Were Here" although that was already the title of one of Pink Floyd's most famous songs, as well as one by Avril Lavigne.. There was also the once-popular title song of the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here.
- In 2001, Incubus had a hit by that name, although that was sometimes called I Wish You Were Here.
- Without a Trace is the name of the 2002 series and the name of a 1983 movie Without a Trace starring Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, and David Dukes.
- "Without You I'm Nothing" was a 1987 album by confrontational standup/singer Sandra Bernhard. Three years later, she filmed a concert movie with the same title. Eight years after that, it was the title of Placebo's breakthrough album.
- Wizard and the Princess, or The Wizard and the Princess, is the predecessor to King's Quest. The Wizard and the Princess is also a game by Clifford Ramshaw for the Commodore 16 and VIC-20. The Wizard and the Lonely Princess is a Harry Potter x My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic.
- Wizards & Warriors is a series of platformers by Rare, or a 2000 PC RPG by David W. Bradley. Wizards & Warriors is a 1983 fantasy TV series known as Greystone's Odyssey.
- In 1994, the film Wolf was released. A video game called Wolf (DOS) was also released the same year, and it is not a Licensed Game (or even an unlicensed game about the same topic as the film). The film is about werewolves; the game, about actual, ordinary wolves.
- Wonder 3 is a compilation of three arcade games, two of which are action games while the third is an unrelated puzzle game by Capcom. It has absolutely nothing to do with an Osamu Tezuka work also called Wonder 3 in Japan, but is known elsewhere as The Amazing 3.
- The Wolf of Wall Street can refer to a 1929 (now lost) movie about a ruthless stockbroker, or a 2013 movie about a ruthless stockbroker (itself based on a 2007 memoir of the same name).
- Working Girl is a 1988 romantic comedy starring Melanie Griffith. It is also an acclaimed gritty drama about a day in the life of an employee at a New York brothel. As well as a 1982 song by The Members.
- At World's End, the third Pirates of the Caribbean film, and World's End, an entry in the Sandman comic book series.
- There's also The World's End, the third film in Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy.
- World's End is also a science fiction novel by Joan D. Vinge, sequel to her novel The Snow Queen (which is not the same as the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same name, though inspired by it).
- World War 3 is a Marvel Comics Heroes Reborn and WildStorm crossover, and a WCW 1995-1998 pay-per-view event. World War III is a JLA (1997) story arc, a mini-series as part of the 52 story line, a story arc in G.I. Joe (Devil's Due), a story arc in A Certain Magical Index, a 1982 miniseries, and a 1998 mockumentary. The Return of Mephistopheles: World War III is the second volume of The Spectral Chronicles. World War III: Black Gold is a 2001 RTS. World War Three is a Doctor Who episode.
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is an animated show. But there's also an online reaction YouTuber called Wubzzy
. He's aware of it. - The Wraith is both a 1986 revenge film and a Golden Age comic.
X
- X could refer to an American punk band, a Japanese band that eventually renamed itself X Japan, a 1992 Game Boy game, a 2022 horror movie, the social media website formerly known as Twitter, or a 4X space simulator game series by Egosoft. It might also be a manga by CLAMP that was retitled as X/1999 in the States to avoid confusion with two different comic book series titled X from Dark Horse and Marvel. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
- It's Xanadu, and the singer's high-pitched. Are you hearing Olivia Newton-John or Geddy Lee? The name "Xanadu" is also used for a Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich hit, although technically that one is "The Legend of Xanadu".
- Xanadu was also an early, pre-production name for X.A.N.A., the antagonist computer A.I. in Code Lyoko.
- Xanadu is a sequel and spinoff video game series related to Dragon Slayer, including The Legend of Xanadu on the PC Engine CD.
- Xepher can refer to a song from beatmania IIDX or a Visual Kei band.
- The comic book X-Factor, not to be confused with Simon Cowell's reality series, or the Iron Maiden album.
- X-Force is an X-Men spinoff. X-Force is a Mobile Phone Game by Yahgame.
- X-Men vs. the Avengers is a 1987 crossover, not to be confused with the 2012 crossover Avengers vs. X-Men.
Y
- Yazoo can refer to either a 1980s Synth-Pop band or a flavoured milk drink sold in the UK - coincidentally the former's home country.
- Yesterday's Children is a Based on a True Story film about reincarnation, as well as the first novel in David Gerrold's Star Wolf series.
- Yadamon, a 1992-93 anime about a young witch in training, should not be confused with a 1967-68 anime Chibikko Kaiju Yadamon (Little Monster Yadamon), about a tiny kaiju who lives with humans.
- "Yesterday" is by The Beatles, and also the name of a 1998 R&B single by Debelah Morgan. "Yesterdays" is by Guns N' Roses.
- Youngblood is a 1978 coming-of-age film, a 1986 film starring Patrick Swayze, a comic book, and an episode of CSI: NY.
- Young Man With A Horn is a 1950 film starring Kirk Douglas. It's also the title of an episode of CSI.
- You've Got Mail is a Rom-Com starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. "You've Got Male" is an episode of CSI.
Z
- Z is a political thriller, a strategy game, and a novel about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald adapted into a TV series.
- There are now two movies named Zapped (one from 1982 and the other from 2014). There's also a British fantasy sitcom by that name, which ran from 2016-18.
- Zero Hour is a DC Comics Crisis Crossover. "Zero Hour" in the Star Wars universe is either the Rebels Season 3 finale, or the second Blade Squadron story. There's also Zero Hour! (1957), the 1957 airplane drama that was remade into the comedy Airplane!, and Zero Hour (2013), the short-lived 2013 TV Conspiracy Thriller.
- Zero Tolerance is the title of a 3D shooter for the Sega Genesis, three different action movies, a rap album by Pastor Troy, and a death metal compilation album by Chuck Schuldiner.
- Zombieland is a 2009 movie about a group of people trying to survive a Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Land Saga is a 2018 anime about a group of zombie girls trying to make it big in the idol business.
- Zookeeper 1983 is an arcade platformer released by Taito in 1983. A different Zoo Keeper game, initially developed by Robot Communications and later ported to GBA, PS2 and the Nintendo DS, is a Match-Three Game with an animal motif. Neither has anything to do with the movie Zookeeper (2011).
- The Japanese Nintendo 64 game titled Zool: Majuu Tsukai Densetsu is not at all related to Zool, Gremlin Graphics' series of platformers involving an extraterrestrial ninja.
- Zoom is either an old show on PBS, a low-rated movie starring Tim Allen, a puzzle video game, a 1982 song by Fat Larry's Band, or a media platform which allows for internet conferencing.
