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If you're a rock music fan and someone mentions "Machine Head", what do you think of? The band, the album by Deep Purple^note, or the song by Bush?
Madhouse is a 1990 comedy film starring Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette, a 1974 horror film starring Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, and a 2004 horror film starring Joshua Leonard. All three are completely unrelated and only the 2004 film has anything to do with a literal madhouse. Or the pop band who covered Madonna songs, or the song by Anthrax, or the renowned anime studio.
Mad Men is not to be confused with the group of DC Comics villains known as the "Madmen" (renamed to the Madniks on Batman: The Brave and the Bold).
Mad Money is a 2008 movie with Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes. It is also a CNBC investment show hosted by Jim Cramer. Which the characters in the movie watch at one point.
The soundtrack to Wizards of Waverly Place has Selena Gomez singing THREE songs entitled "Magic" on it, each of which were marked by one or more asterisks matched to the artists who originally performed them. (The songs were originally performed by The Cars, Pilot, and Olivia Newton-John.)
- There are a LOT of unrelated songs, and also several albums by different artists, titled "Magic". There are also a few other works, including a 1917 Hungarian silent film, and a 1978 American horror film starring Anthony Hopkins.
MadWorld, a video game, and "Mad World", a Tears for Fears song.
Major/Minor is an indie game relating to music with a cast full of Funny Animals. Major Minor's Majestic March is...ALSO an indie game relating to music with a cast full of Funny Animals. The differences are that Major\Minor is a story-heavy Visual Novel from startup company Tall Tail Studios, whereas Major Minor's Majestic March is an Excuse Plot Rhythm Game from veteran company NaNaOnSha (the studio behind PaRappa the Rapper). The musical theme for both is not coincidential though, as a "major minor" is a type of musical chord.
Mama is the name of a 1976 musical film^note adaptation of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids", a 2013 horror movie by Andy Muschietti, an episode of Gimme a Break!, an episode of Servant, a song by Genesis, a song by the Spice Girls, a song by My Chemical Romance, and for good measure, a brand of instant noodles.
Mammoth is a 2009 drama about a man's relationship with an Asian sex worker. Mammoth is also a 2006 Syfy Channel Original Movie starring Summer Glau.
Mammoth Hunters is a 1985 novel from the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel. It also happens to be the name of a Russian novel by Sergey Pokrovsky (came out in 1937, later published in 1956 under the same name when combined with its 1940 sequel). Even earlier, it was a 1918 novel by Eduard Štorch.
Depending on who you ask, Marie Moreau is either a kind-hearted girl who wants to be a hero or a complete bitch.
Mandy (2018): Nicolas Cage goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Mandy (1952): A deaf girl's parents argue about how to educate her.
Man of the House is a 1995 family comedy in which Jonathan Taylor Thomas doesn't like the idea of his mother Farrah Fawcett marrying Chevy Chase, and a 2005 comedy drama in which Tommy Lee Jones is in charge of a cheerleading squad who've witnessed a murder.
Mario Adventure is the title of two different ROM hacks, one for Super Mario Bros. 3 and the other for Super Mario 64 (the latter of which is based on Sonic Adventure.) Mario's Adventure (note the possessive) was also the working title for the original Super Mario Bros. None of which should be confused with Another Mario Adventure, which is an SM64 hack made by aglab2 (who also made the previously mentioned Mario Adventure SM64 hack.)
There are two unrelated manga series with the title Mars: One is a Mitsuteru Yokoyama series from the 70s about an amnesiac young man found on a volcanic island who is the key to destroying the world or saving it; it was loosely adapted into God Mars. The other is a 90s shoujo series about an unlikely couple with dark pasts.
M.A.S.H. is a popular game in which someone creates a hilariously outrageous fantasy life for another player, and then there's M*A*S*H, a 1970's comedy/drama in film, book and television incarnations about a group of doctors in a mobile hospital during the Korean War. Averted way back in 1953 with the Humphrey Bogart/June Allyson film Battle Circus, which was originally supposed to be named M*A*S*H 66, after the unit the movie was set in, the 8666th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. MGM's executives demanded a change in the title, fearing that the audience would stay away thinking that the film was about potatoes.
The Mask is a 1994 action comedy based on the Dark Horse comic The Mask. The Mask is a 1961 film known as Eyes of Hell. Mask is a 1985 drama by Peter Bogdanovich. Masks is a 1987 French thriller. M.A.S.K. (an acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) is an action figures line by Kenner with a tie-in animated series.
Mask of the Sun can refer to either Ys IV: Mask of the Sun or a 1982 adventure game for the Apple ][.
The Master is the title of either a 2012 film or a 2016 short film about The LEGO Ninjago Movie that played in theaters with Storks.
Matilda is both a 1978 movie about a Boxing Kangaroo, and a 1988 book (later adapted into a movie) about a smart girl who discovers Mind over Matter powers.
Science fiction franchise The Matrix and the short-lived fantasy TV series Matrix are completely unrelated... except for Carrie-Anne Moss having major roles in both.
Maze is not only a 2000 film starring Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, and Craig Sheffer but also a book, Maze, by author Christopher Manson.
Mega Force was a 1982 motorcycle action film that had an Atari 2600 Licensed Game, and also the international Market-Based Title of the arcade version of Star Force. Not to be confused with the video games Space Megaforce (the North American Market-Based Title of Super Aleste) and Mega Man Star Force, or the TV series Power Rangers Megaforce.
There are two different Mega Man comics that are both titled simply Mega Man, one by Dreamwave Productions and one by Archie Comics.
Mega Man X is not the tenth game in the Mega Man series, but rather a Sequel Series to the classic games. The Mega Man franchise does not use Roman numerals for any of its games, so the tenth game in the classic series is called Mega Man 10.
Men in Black is the title of a comic book series and its derivative science fiction movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, a 1935 The Three Stooges short and a novel by Scott Spencer.
The Star Wars franchise has two installments titled "Mercy Mission": A season 4 episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and a short story starring Hera Syndulla of Star Wars Rebels.
Merlin, a 2008 series based on King Arthur, and Merlin, a 1998 miniseries based on King Arthur. There's also the opera by Isaac Albéniz based on... you guessed it.
The Messenger is a 2009 war drama, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a 1999 film starring Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc, and there are various other films titled The Messenger or The Messengers. The Messenger is a 2001 adventure game and a 2018 platformer.
Metal Gear was the name of a hard rock/heavy metal magazine published in Japan by CBS/Sony from 1989 through 1991, lasting 30 issues. It was a spinoff of CBS/Sony's pop music magazine Pop Gear and had nothing to do with Konami's stealth action game series.
Metamorphoses (Ovid) or Metamorphosis (Kafka)? Indeed, there are many more examples Older Than Steam, radio or television... To mark the difference one would have to check the author.
Metro: A fanfic series, or a Metro franchise based around Russian novels.
Metropolis can refer to Superman’s city, the film by Fritz Lang or even the anime film adapted from Osamu Tezuka's manga.
The Middle? Do you mean the sitcom, the song by Jimmy Eat World, or the song by Zedd?
When you hear Midnight Club, what comes to mind?
- Midnight Club, a 1933 movie about jewel thieves.
- Midnight Club, a series of street racing games for sixth and seventh generation consoles. ^note
- The Midnight Club, a 1994 horror novel that was adapted into a short-lived series.
Mighty Mike was the name the 1995 Apple Macintosh shmup Power Pete was rereleased under in 2001, but it's also the name of a 2019 French-Canadian animated series starring a pug and three turtles against two raccoons.
Milady is the title of at least two adaptations of The Three Musketeers, a 2004 TV film and a 2023 theatrical film.
Milk Money is a 1994 romantic comedy film about three teenagers who try to see a naked prostitute. Milk & Money is a 1996 romantic comedy about a medical school drop-out. Further muddying things up is the 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon Milk and Money, where Porky Pig becomes a milkman so that he and his father won't be evicted from their farm.
Millennium can refer to Millennium (1996), a crime/mystery show written by Chris Carter of the The X-Files and starring Lance Henriksen; The Millennium Trilogy, a series of crime novels and films of Swedish origin; a 1988 DC crossover comic; and a 1983 novel written by John Varley and the 1989 film based on it, which deals with an airplane crash caused by Time Travel.
We're the Millers is a film about a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits pretending to be a family and slowly become one for real; The Millers is a sitcom about a family that's falling apart (parents are separated) but still live together.
The Mirror is a semi-autobiographical film, a 1994 song by Dream Theater, and a 6-episode webseries.
Mirror Mirror (2012) is an adaptation of Snow White. There is also Mirror, Mirror (1995), an Australian/New Zealand series, Mirror, Mirror (2003), a retelling of Snow White by Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror (1990), a horror film, along with its sequels, the theme song for Weiss Schnee, from Web Animation/{{RWBY}, a song by Blind Guardian bearing no relation to "Snow White" (in fact it's about the history of Tolkien's Middle-Earth), the Star Trek: The Original Series episode Mirror, Mirror, and an Adjacency chapter dealing with literal Magic Mirrors.
There's the legendary Punk Rock band The Misfits, and the fictional New Wave Music band The Misfits from Jem, AND the TV series Misfits. The real life band is intentionally named after the film Misfits, though.
Missing Stars is a romance visual novel inspired by Katawa Shoujo. Super Mario 64 The Missing Stars, which is commonly also referred to as simply Missing Stars was the first Super Mario 64 ROM hack with custom levels.^note
MOD artist Mysterium produced a remake of Dr. Awesome (Bjorn Lynne)'s "Bridge to the Universe Part 2" titled "Into The Void". Later, Bjorn Lynne made an original song with the same name. Also, not to be confused with the Nine Inch Nails song.
Money for Nothing is a 1993 John Cusack movie, episodes of NUMB3RS, The Invisible Man, Rizzoli & Isles, & CSI: Miami, a song by Dire Straits and a 2015 BBC TV series.
"Money Honey" is a 1956 song by Elvis Presley, a 1975 song by The Bay City Rollers and a 2008 song by Lady Gaga.
Monkey Business is the title of two different classic comedy films: one stars the Marx Brothers, and the other had Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. It's also the title of an album by The Black Eyed Peas.
Monkey Shines is a 1988 horror movie. Monkey Shines is 1997 Shareware video game.
Monolith Soft, the Japanese developer of Xenosaga, is not to be confused with Monolith Productions, the American developer of No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R., nor with Monolith Corp., the company that developed the Super NES ports of various Neo-Geo games (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown).
Princess Mononoke: Comparatively dark Miyazaki anime film with (shock) an environmental theme. Mononoke: supernatural horror Mind Screw anime series.
Monster is a 1994 manga/anime about a doctor who saves the life of the wrong person. Monster is a 2003 Aileen Wuornos biopic known for Charlize Theron's weight gain, while Monster is a 2022 Anthology Series that centers around another famous Serial Killer^note and a pair of murderous brothers^note. The Lady Gaga song is unrelated, neither are the Skillet song, the urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez, the crime novel by Walter Dean Myers, and the suspense/thriller by Frank Peretti.
The coin-op Monster Bash is not to be confused with the PC platform game Monster Bash. Neither of them are to be confused with the pinball machine.
Monster Farm was a short-lived animated series from Fox Family about a young man who inherits a farm from his great uncle. Tecmo released an unrelated video game of the same name around the same period, which is known as Monster Rancher outside Japan. While one might think that the game was retitled due to the existence of this show, the game was actually released a year before the show started airing. Unfortunately, due to their similar names, it is almost impossible to find information about the cartoon, which is almost entirely lost in English.
Monster House: A Discovery Channel series about thematically remodelling houses, or a 2006 animated film produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg.
Monster Hunter (PC) is an obscure 2000s Maze Game that comes out a couple of years before the other franchise, Monster Hunter for the PlayStation 2.
Moon, the 2009 film by Duncan Jones, is not related to Moon, the 1997 cult "anti-RPG" video game by Love-de-lic, or to Pokémon Moon, for that matter.
Moon Crystal, a somewhat obscure 1992 Famicom game, shares its title with an even more obscure Japanese PC game of the same year. Also there's the anime Sailor Moon Crystal
Moonfall is the name of both a 1998 hard SF novel by Jack McDevitt and a 2022 SF disaster movie directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The two works are unrelated, aside from the fact that they both involve the moon falling.
Moon Lovers is both a 2010 Japanese series and a 2016 South Korean series. The earlier one is also known as Tsuki no Koibito while the latter has the subtitle Scarlet Heart Ryeo, which helps lessen the potential for confusion.
Mother is at least three films and three video games, all unrelated to each other. Not to be confused with mother!, Mother (1996), Mother (2009), or works with similar titles like Mom, or Mama.
Mother Night, the 1961 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, should not be confused with 'night, Mother, the 1981 play by Marsha Norman.
Mother's Day is a 1980 slasher movie, its 2010 remake, and an unrelated 2016 comedy.
Moulin Rouge (1952) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) are both about Toulouse-Lautrec and involve the titular nightclub, but otherwise have nothing in common. Several unrelated movies share the title.
Mouse is either a Japanese animation studio, a comedy manga adapted into an anime, or a South Korean thriller series.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is the title of a 1941 screwball comedy by Alfred Hitchcock and a 2005 action comedy starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Mr. Jones is either a 2013 horror movie or a 2019 historical drama. And also the Signature Song of the Counting Crows.
Mr. Roger is a series of 20-second cartoon shorts about a man who keeps failing to catch a subway train. It has nothing to do with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Murder by Numbers was a 2002 movie, as well as a song by The Police and a 2020 video game.
"Murder By Proxy" is the title of an episode from at least three different Quinn Martin shows - The Streets of San Francisco, Dan August and Cannon (the latter two also share a guest star in Anne Francis).
A Mutt in a Rut is either a 1959 Looney Tunes cartoon starring Elmer Fudd, or a 1949 Noveltoon.
My Girl is either a 1991 coming-of-age comedy romance directed by Howard Zeiff or a 2006 heartfelt slice-of-life manga by Mizu Sahara.
My Generation is an album by The Who, with a famous Title Track, and also a song by Limp Bizkit, a 2000 American documentary, a 2017 British documentary, and a short-running 2010 TV series.
There is more than one fanfic called My Immortal. The wiki page leads to a Harry Potter fanfic. This one is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover, in which The Immortal (from the Angel episode "The Girl In Question") turns out to be ... Captain Jack Harkness.
- Outside of Fan Fiction, it's the name of an Evanescence song, and was the inspiration for the Harry Potter fanfic's title, and probably the others as well.
The 1986 My Little Pony: The Movie is not related to the 2017 My Little Pony: The Movie.
"My Love": Petula Clark's is warmer than the warmest sunshine while Paul McCartney's does it good.
The Commodore 64 game Myth: History in the Making has no relation to Bungie's Myth RTS games.

Napoléon: Probably dozens of works, pretty much all about Napoléon Bonaparte (unless we talk golden retriever puppies). On this wiki, there's the 1927 Abel Gance film with Albert Dieudonné, the 1955 Sacha Guitry film duology with Daniel Gélin and Raymond Pellegrin, the 2002 miniseries with Christian Clavier and the 2023 Ridley Scott film with Joaquin Phoenix. The acute accent on the "e" of "Napoléon" is for the French (or heavily French) productions.
Nashville is either the movie directed by Robert Altman or the TV series starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere (not to mention the other TV series that aired on FOX some years before, and which was very shortlived).
Naughty But Mice is either a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Sniffles the Mouse in his first appearance, or it's a 1947 Herman and Katnip cartoon.
Necropolis could refer to the Gaunt's Ghosts novel by Dan Abnett, The Power of Five novel by Anthony Horowitz, the fifth and final hub of Hexen (and the opening/central level of that hub), the Roguelike by Harebrained Schemes, or the webcomic by Jake Wyatt.
Nekketsu Oyako, a 1994 side-scrolling beat-'em-up for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn published by Tecnosoft, has nothing to do with the Nekketsu series developed by Technos Japan Corp.
On the MSPA forums, there are two ongoing projects by the name Nepeta Quest 2011, a fancomic and a fangame. This is understandable as they were both started for the same reason.
NeverEnd is an RPG by Mayhem Studios, and a roguelike by Duck.
Neverwinter Nights shares its name with an early MMORPG from 1991.
- Justified Trope: They share the same source material, Dungeons & Dragons.
New Amsterdam (2008), a television series about an immortal detective, should not be confused with New Amsterdam, a book by Elizabeth Bear about a vampire (and thus immortal) detective. Neither should be confused with the medical drama New Amsterdam (2018), the Elvis Costello song, or the old name for New York City (which is what all of them are named for).
New Moon, the second The Twilight Saga book and The Film of the Book, is of course unrelated to the Sigmund Romberg operetta The New Moon, which was filmed twice as New Moon.
The Newsroom is either a drama about the goings-on inside a cable news network created by Aaron Sorkin, or a Canadian satirical series about the goings-on inside a Toronto newscast created by and starring Ken Finkleman.
"New York, New York" (as in "It's a helluva town!") is a Leonard Bernstein number from On the Town. "Theme from New York, New York" (as in "Start spreadin' the news...") is an unrelated number from the film New York, New York - and it often gets the "Theme From" part missed off, causing quite a bit of confusion. Nina Hagen's "New York, New York" and Gerard Kenny's "New York, New York (So Good They Named It Twice) are also unrelated, including to each other.
Nightfall: Cory Doctorow wrote in the introduction to one of his books (a book which notably - and deliberately -featured a ton of stories with names similar or identical to existing famous SF stories) that "every" writer will eventually write a story under the title Nightfall. It's funny precisely because it's true; on this very Wiki alone there's listings for at least two different fanfics of that name, (one Nightfall for MS Paint Adventures and one for How to Train your Dragon), the video game spin-off movie Halo: Nightfall and of course, the very reason why Doctorow's observation would be especially funny to his science fiction fan readers in the first place: Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall (1941)", aka one of the most famous stories in the entire genre. None of these of course should be confused with Corruption at Nightfall (a My Little Pony fanfic); or with the concept album Nightfall in Middle Earth by Blind Guardian (which likewise shouldn't be confused with the Darkwing Duck fanfic Nightfall in the Negaverse), the Guild Wars campaign "Nightfall", the Freemium format game Nightfall: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery...you get the idea. Oh, and none of those of course should be confused with the iconic Knightfall story of Batman fame (the one where Bane infamously broke the Dark Knight's back) Oh, and for extra bonus poinst? Pitch Black was originally going to be titled Nightfall as well. Yeah, there's a reason Doctorow made that joke.
Nightmare in Dream Land is either a Sailor Moon episode or a Kirby's Adventure remake.
Nightmares is either a chapter of the Turning Red fanfic The Panda Chronicles or an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
'night, Mother is a play with only two characters: a woman and her grown, epileptic daughter who lives with her. Capitalize the "n" and you get an episode of CSI: NY about a sleepwalking woman who's a murder suspect.
Night of the Demon, Night of the Demon and Night Of The Demons are all about different types of demons, though only the middle one involves a Satanic Bigfoot.
There are four games named Nightshade. One 1985 ZX Spectrum videogame, a 1991 NES game Nightshade (1992), one 2003 PS2 videogame Nightshade (2003), and a visual novel Nightshade (2016). Also a happy hardcore song by Melody & Mezzo based on Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.5
Night Shift is a short story collection by Stephen King, as well as a comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton.
Night Watch (Series) is a Russian urban fantasy series. Not to be confused with the Discworld novel.
- Or the World War II novel by Sarah Waters. Or the Alistair MacNeil novel about the theft of the Rembrandt painting. Or the sequel to Ressurection Man by Sean Stewart. Or the Greyhawk novel by Robin Wayne Bailey. Or the only published SF story by James Inglis. And apparently it's the title of Stephenie Meyer's next book as well.
- Perhaps most confusing, it's also the name of a Danish horror film and its American remake.
  - And a season of an Icelandic comedy series, starring Jón Gnarr, the current mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland's capital.
9 (animated film), Nine (musical), and 9-nine- Series (visual novel series).
- Just as long as you aren't turned off by the similarity of the title with that of The Nine, which probably deserved its swift cancellation. No relation to The NIN9S.
- Also there was District 9. Truly '09 was the year of the 9.
Nine Lives is the name of a 1957 epic war movie about Norwegian war hero Jan Baalsrud's escape to the Swedish border, and a 2016 comedy about a business tycoon getting reincarnated as a cat.
Ninja Assault: The horrible Ninja Gaiden knockoff on Action 52? Or a PlayStation 2 Light Gun Game?
No More Heroes: A song by The Stranglers, as well as a video game about an otaku assassin.
The Noob and Noob may be both comical stories set in a fictional MMORPG, but the first is a webcomic written in English with a paper publication and the second is a French Web Original with comic book and novel adaptations.
No Good Deed is a 2002 film starring Samuel L. Jackson, a 2014 film starring Idris Elba, and episodes of both CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
No One Lives Forever: A PS2 game, or an Oingo Boingo song?
There's Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) the RPG by Red Entertainment and Matrix Software, but also the Rhythm Game Nostalgia by Konami.
Notorious:
- It is either the Alfred Hitchcock thriller or the Biggie Smalls biopic.
- Also, it's a Duran Duran song — which was sampled by Biggie for a song of same name yet again.
- Or So NoTORIous, a short-lived sitcom starring Tori Spelling.
Nova is a Marvel Comics superhero comic, a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany, a series of novels by William S. Burroughs, a musical group, a science documentary series on American public television, or an iPod/iPhone video game.
Novocaine is the name of a 2001 film starring Steve Martin and a 2025 film starring Jack Quaid.
Nowhere Boy is either a movie about John Lennon or a manhwa about a very unhappy guy who wants the world to end (a wish that is granted by God). Nowhere Boys is an Australian TV series about teenagers trapped in a parallel world.
Nowhere Man is a sci-fi drama series about a man whose life is "erased" by a shadowy Government Conspiracy, as well as a classic song by The Beatles (likely the inspiration for the show's title).
Now You See It. A CBS game show? Or a Disney film? Or maybe you meant Now You See Me.
The Nun can refer to Denis Diderot's novel (La Religieuse in the original French, which is also the name of a Céline Dion song) and its two separate film adaptations in 1966 and 2013. It's also the title of two unrelated horror movies: a Spanish one from 2005 and an American one from 2018.

O, a Setting Update of Othello, "O", a Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas, O: The Oprah Magazine, and O, a satyrical book about Barack Obama. The Tale of O is something else altogether.
- Also, it's Omarion's first hit and its parent album.
On the Object Shows main page, there are at least Fifty separate shows titled "Object [insert noun here]"^note and eighteen titled "Battle For [insert prize here]"^note due to the tendency of such shows to Follow the Leader on whatever is popular in the Object Show Community.
Oblivion: a 2006 video game, a 1994 space western, a 2013 sci-fi movie and the fifth book of The Power of Five.
Obsession is either a 1976 Brian De Palma thriller, a perfume by Calvin Klein, or an episode of any of the following: Law & Order, CSI: NY, Star Trek: The Original Series, Smallville or Sliders. There's also a YA novel entitled The Obsession.
O.C.: The Fox drama or the rapper from Diggin' in tha Crates?
The Odyssey is either an ancient Greek epic poem or a 1990s Canadian TV show, or even a 1972 games console.
Oh Shit! is a Pac-Man clone released in 1985 for the MSX, but it's also the name of three different songs, one by Buzzcocks, one by KMFDM and one by The Pharcyde, as well as a level in Pizza Tower.
"Once Upon A Dream" is the name of a song in Sleeping Beauty (1959), a song by Billy Fury, a song and album by The Rascals, and a song in the Frank Wildhorn musical Jekyll & Hyde.
Once Upon a Time is a series about Disney characters, a novel series, a French cartoon franchise, a stock phrase, and the English title of a Chinese film.
Chris Cornell sought the lyrics of "One" by U2. Once he was singing along to the first result of "One lyrics", he noticed it was actually "One" by Metallica, and took that combination to the stage. And while introducing it, Cornell would note a third song called "One", by Harry Nilsson. Another one is by the industrial band Bigod 20.
The One is a Jet Li movie, a manhua and many songs (by Backstreet Boys, Elton John, Foo Fighters, Garbage, etc.).
One Piece Mansion, a little-known Capcom game for the PS1, has nothing to do with the popular manga and anime One Piece. The title nonetheless misleads quite a few fans of the manga to this day, until they realize the similar names are a coincidence.
"On the Move" is both the name of an episode of Numberjacks and a chapter of Junior Officers. Both of them have connections to CBeebies; one being directly from one of their shows, the other from a fanfiction based on one of their shows.
"Open Your Heart" is the title of multiple songs, including one by Madonna, another by Crush 40 that is the main theme of Sonic Adventure, and yet another by the Irish Boy Band Westlife.
There are at least eight movies called The Other Woman, featuring ladies as diverse as Cleo Moore (1954), Jill Eikenberry (1995, Made-for-TV Movie), Natalie Portman (2009) and Kate Upton (2014).
"Out of Scale" may refer to both a Chip 'n Dale cartoon and a Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode. They barely even have two protagonists in common.
Systems in Blue's Out of the Blue is not to be confused with the System F (Ferry Corsten) song and album of the same name. That, in turn, should not be confused with System SF, an alias of Konami musician Sota Fujimori. Neither of the first two should be confused with the album Out of the Blue by the Electric Light Orchestra. And none of them should be confused with the song and album of the same name from Debbie Gibson, or the five TV series (two American, two British and one Australian) of that title.
To avoid confusion with the Soap Opera Another World, the Cinematic Platformer Another World was retitled Out of This World in America, which caused confusion with a short-lived sitcom from the same period also titled Out of This World (1987). From a much earlier period, Out of This World was a Cole Porter musical farce flavored by Greek mythology, and earlier still a movie musical where Eddie Bracken becomes a popular crooner because he literally has Bing Crosby's singing voice. There was also a game for the Magnavox Odyssey² titled Out of This World!, from 1979. Even before that is another television show with the name, from 1962, which inspired an anthology series.
As this page at Wikipedia shows, the phrase One Step Beyond refers to several works, including three TV series. So far, the only two of those works that have pages on this wiki are the first album by Madness and the 1959 anthology series.
Origin (A death metal band originally formed by guitarists Paul Ryan and Jeremy Turner in 1997 in Topeka, Kansas), Origin (A manga by Boichi set about 40 years after another one of his works, Sun-Ken Rock), Origin (A YouTube original Sci-fi Mystery Thriller), Origin (A Fan Remake of The Legend of Zelda made by Dark Flame Wolf, and also her last project on Zelda Classic), and Origin (A techno thriller novel by Dan Brown).
Original Sin is a Marvel Comics storyline, a 2001 movie and a Divinity RPG.
The manga and anime Outlanders is unrelated to Outlander, a novel series adapted into a TV series, unrelated to the movie Outlander, unrelated to the movie Outland, not to be confused with the Berke Breathed comic strip Outland, the 2011 video game Outland, the Norwegian geek store chain Outland, or its publishing arm Outland Press (which has released the Norwegian translations of Pokémon Adventures and a few other titles).
Outer Wilds and The Outer Worlds have similar enough titles that confusion between the two was common- not helped by the fact both of them came out in the same year as timed Epic Games Store exclusives.
The Outlaws: The Outlaws - a German quasi-autobiography about post-World War I conflicts in an around Germany; The Outlaws - a British comedy series about people who are forced to complete Community sentences in Bristol together; The Out-Laws - an American comedy film about a guy finding out his fiancée's parents are bank robbers.
The title Overlord refers to both a video game series where the main character is a Tin Tyrant and spreads evil (or not) with legions of goblin-like Minions, a light novel series where the main character is trapped in the body of a lich from one of his favorite MMORPGs, a 2018 movie involving D-Day and Nazi Zombies, and a 1975 movie that involves D-Day but is a serious anti-war drama with absolutely no Nazi Zombies.
Years before Blizzard's team-based multiplayer Hero Shooter Overwatch, there was an Asymmetric Multiplayer Half-Life 2 mod with the same title. In the mod, one player controls Combine forces from an Real-Time Strategy point of view, while all the other players are on the opposing team and control an individual resistance fighter in typical First-Person Shooter gameplay.
The Owl House shares its name with a museum located in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The museum is full of sculptures, but you won't find Ms. Clawthorne there anytime soon.

P'tit Loup is either the French name of obscure Disney character Lil' Bad Wolf or a spin-off of Orianne Lallemand and Eléonore Thuillier's “Le Loup" series of children's books.
The Package is the name of both a 1989 conspiracy thriller film staring Gene Hackman, and a 2013 action film starring Dolph Lundgren and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. It's also a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, and episodes of Seinfeld and Uncle Grandpa.
Paint It, Black is a song by The Rolling Stones. Without the comma, it's episodes of CSI: Miami and Supernatural, as well as a trope on this site.
The Palace is a 2008 British comedy. Palace is a 2011 Chinese period drama.
There are two old movies titled The Paleface: a 1922 silent starring Buster Keaton, and a 1948 Western spoof starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell.
Pale Horses is the name of both the sixth album from mewithoutYou and a song by Moby from his ninth studio album Wait for Me.
The list of 2010 Hugo Award nominees includes both Palimpsest, a fantasy novel by Catherynne M. Valente, and "Palimpsest", a science fiction novella by Charles Stross.
The web game Pandemic involves you creating a disease and attempting to wipe out humanity with it. The tabletop game Pandemic has you co-operate as a team to find the cures for four simultaneous outbreaks of disease. If the two were related, they would be a Perspective Flip of each other.
There is a band called Panopticon which has an album by the same name. Panopticon is also an album by Isis. And both of them are named after Jeremy Bentham's concept for a prison, in which a guard would be able to see all the prisoners, but the prisoners would be unable to see the guard. There's also a song by The Smashing Pumpkins with the same name.
Paprika is the name of Satoshi Kon's 2006 anime movie about dreams, a 2014 children's animated series by Xilam, and a 1991 Italian softcore porn flick by Tinto Brass.
Paradox is the title of several movies, including one starring Kevin Sorbo, one starring Zoë Bell, and one starring Tony Jaa.
"Passion" is the name of at least three 1990's Electronic Dance Music songs: a 1994 Eurodance single by Netzwerk, a 1996 freestyle single by K5, and a 1997 techno single by Gearwhore. "P.A.S.S.I.O.N." is a 1991 New Jack Swing song by Rythm Syndicate.
Pastamania can refer to the failed 1995 pasta restaurant endorsed and financed by Hulk Hogan or the successful Singaporean fast casual pasta and pizza restaurant chain that's popular in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, India and the Middle East.
"Patches" is a 1962 song by Dickey Lee and a 1970 song by Chairmen of the Board.
There are two movies named The Patriot that were released pretty close to each other. The first is a 1998 thriller starring Steven Seagal, the second a 2000 war movie starring Mel Gibson.
The Dungeons & Dragons schism Pathfinder is somewhat controversial, but to confuse it with the novel by the same name, the movie by the same name, or the other movie by the same name, is probably going too far.
Pendulum is the name of three different music media. There have been two Australian electronic bands called Pendulum. The first came from Melbourne, were ambient house and recorded one album in 1997 called "3 Knocks" before breaking up. The second come from Perth, and are drum and bass/electronic rock and have been much more successful, releasing three studio albums, an EP, a live album, and a remix album as of 2022. Of course there are plenty of people who download "3 Knocks" thinking it is by the latter Pendulum. The third is an album by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
"Penthouse Mouse" is both a 1963 Tom and Jerry short and a Tom & Jerry Kids segment, the former even having the description of the latter on Max.
While Ingmar Bergman's seminal film Persona (1966) and Atlus' video game franchise Persona surprisingly do share one major motif (namely Jungian psychology), they have nothing to do with each other.
"Personality" is a 1945 song by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, 1959 song by Lloyd Price and a 1967 NBC game show.
Ghostland Observatory's song "Piano Man" is totally unrelated to Billy Joel's song.
Also including Similarly Named Bands; "Piece of Heaven" by A7 and "Little Piece of Heaven" by Avenged Sevenfold (sometimes abbreviated A7X).
The Phantom of Wolf Creek from the Bret King Mysteries came out in the 1960s, while The Phantom Outlaw at Wolf Creek is an installment in another young readers mystery series from about thirty years later, Accidental Detectives.
"Piano Problem" has been used as an episode title for Donkey Hodie and SuperKitties.
The Piano Teacher's original French title is "La Pianiste" ("The Pianist"). The film The Pianist came out the following year, and the title was translated literally into French as "Le Pianiste". The only difference between the two titles is the gender of the article (which in this case indicates the natural gender of the subject). The title of "The Piano Teacher" also happens to be similar to that of The Piano.
The name of Survival Horror video game Piggy coincides with the English title for 2022 Spanish horror film Cerdita about a bullied teenager.
Arr, ye mateys! Here there be pirates!
- The Pirate can refer to a 1948 musical film starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, a 1973 Shaw Brothers movie or an 1821 novel by Walter Scott.
- Pirates can refer to the Roman Polanski film, the 2014 South Korean film, the 1994 arcade game, Sid Meier's Pirates!, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, Pirates Legend Of The Black Buccaneer, or Pirates: Adventures in Art. There's also LEGO Pirates, which is not to be confused with LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean.
- Swap the i for a y and you get either Pyrates or The Pyrates.
Player/The Player is the name of several works: an American film, an American series, a 2021 Chinese series, a 2021 Thai series, and a 2018 South Korean series.
"Please Don't Go" by KC & The Sunshine Band, later covered by KWS, Double You, and Basshunter, and "Please Don't Go" by No Mercy, whose chorus sounds similar. Also "Please Don't Go" by Donald Peers. Then, there's a Mike Posner song called Please Don't Go.
Point Blank would be a name of a 1967 film, a name of Namco's Lighter and Softer shooting gallery light-gun game Point Blank (1994), or Point Blank, a Korean MMOFPS (which is very popular in Indonesia) also known as Project Blackout in North America. It is not to be confused with Point Blanc, the second book in a series about a teenage spy. Also a Bruce Springsteen song, and a Southern Rock band.
Point of View: a video game, a short story by Isaac Asimov, a trope on this site, and episodes of CSI: NY, StargateSG1 and M*A*S*H.
Some Pokémon-related examples:
- Pokémon 2 (or rather, Pocket Monster 2: Gold and Silver) was an early working title for Pokémon Gold and Silver. Pokémon II is the name of a bootleg Sega Genesis game that plays like an isometric Pac-Man clone,^note while Pocket Monster II is the name of another Genesis bootleg, a platformer with graphics cribbed from several licensed games.
- Pokémon Adventure is the name of a bootleg platformer game for the Game Boy Color^note, and is not to be confused with Pokémon Adventures, the official manga series.
- Besides being one half of the first Unova games, Pokémon Black is also the title of an alleged hacked cartridge in a creepypasta which gives the player a ghost that can kill Pokémon and trainers. The story was first known to be posted on July 27th, 2010, before the Unova games were released but after the titles were announced on the Japanese website on April 9 of that year. The creepypasta is generally known as "Pokémon Creepy Black" or "Pokémon Ghost Black" to distinguish it from the official game.
  - There's also a ROM hack of Pokémon Ruby titled Pokémon Chaos Black, which is also completely unrelated.
- Telefang Power and Speed Versions for the Game Boy Color were badly translated into English as the bootleg hacks Pokémon Diamond and Jade respectively, well before the official Pokémon games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl came out. There's also an unrelated bootleg titled Pokémon Diamond: Special Pikachu Edition, which has nothing to do with either Pokémon Diamond or the actual Special Pikachu Edition, but is rather a reskin of an unlicensed GBC port of Super Mario Bros. 3. That bootleg later got another reskin that calls itself Pokémon Sapphire, and for extra bonus points, there's also two different bootlegs calling themself Pokémon Ruby, one of which is in fact a poor quality English translation of the Power version of Telefang 2.
- The opening and ending theme of The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon on said album was entitled Pokémon Go!, which is not to be confused the smash hit AR mobile game or the cringy Misha song centered around said game.
- Pokémon Gold is one half of the Johto games. Pokémon Golder is a series of animated parody videos of said games, originally released on Newgrounds. Pokémon Golden is a bootleg NES game, specifically a reskin of Tom and Jerry: The Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse! with Jerry's sprite poorly redrawn into a bipedal Eevee.
- Pokémon Gold Silver is the name of a Chinese bootleg platformer for the Super NES starring Chikorita and Totodile, which steals graphics from Trials of Mana and music from the SNES version of Bonkers. It must not be confused with Pokémon Gold and Silver, the official 2nd generation main series RPGs
- Pokémon Horizon is a Sun/Moon-era manga revolving around a boy's adventures in Alola. Pokémon Horizons: The Series is the 9th-generation anime series, following a girl and her friends' adventures all around the world.
- Pokémon: I Choose You is both the anime's pilot episode and the movie based on the anime's first episode. "I Choose You" is either the ending song from said movie or a song by Sara Bareilles.
- Pokémon Masters, the mobile game, is not to be confused with the album Pokémon 2.B.A. Master, the board game Pokémon Master Trainer, Master Quest, which is the 5th season of Pokémon the Series, or Master Journeys, which is the 24th season of the anime.
- Pokemon Naranja (orange, the color, in Spanish) is a ROM hack of Pokémon Ruby that adapts the anime's Orange Islands arc into game form. It's not to be confused with Pokémon Orange, an unrelated ROM hack of Pokémon Crystal, or with the Naranja Academy from Pokémon Scarlet.
- Pokémon X is either one half of the 3DS Kalos adventures, a collection of English songs from the anime to commemorate the series' tenth anniversary, a sprite comic based on Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, or Pokémon Crystal's working title.
Poker Face is a song by Lady Gaga and a mystery series by Rian Johnson.
Portal is a name of a 1986 interactive novel game and a better-known, completely unrelated 2007 video game.
Power is both a TV-series and a book.
The Power of One is both a book^note set in South Africa during World War II, and the English title of the second Pokémon the Series movie, otherwise known as Pokémon 2000.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Jennifer Rush, and Huey Lewis and the News, released three totally different songs named "The Power of Love" onto the same markets within a few months. All three became big hits (the most famous, of course, is the Huey Lewis song, which topped the US charts - albeit in the UK the #1s were the other two, with the Jennifer Rush song being the best-selling single of the year, not to mention inspiring a Céline Dion cover in 1993 that went #1 in the US). There is also song from the DIC dub of Sailor Moon with that name.
Powerless is both a Marvel Comics miniseries and an unrelated DC comedic television series.
Before the 90s courtroom drama The Practice, there was an early 70s one season sitcom starring Danny Thomas as a doctor who refuses to give up his practice in a low income neighborhood despite the protests of his Private Practice son. In between the two there was a British TV series called The Practice as well (a soap set in the world of medicine). Luckily the gaps in between all three shows were so wide that no one was confused and no retitling was done (both US shows of that name have aired in Britain).
Prey is a 2006 first-person shooter, a 2017 Immersive Sim, a 2002 novel, a 2009 episode of CSI:NY about a stalker, and a 2022 movie. Amusingly, the first and the last involve Native Americans fighting aliens (in the latter, the Predator).
Once again with the in-work examples, The Price Is Right has had two different pricing games called Bullseye and Balance Game.
- In turn, the The Price Is Right segment "Bullseye" should not be confused with the British darts-themed game show Bullseye, nor with the American quiz show Bullseye.
- The Price Is Right has a pricing game called "Pass The Buck". Not to be confused with the short-lived 1978 CBS game show Pass The Buck (hosted by Bill Cullen).
- The Price Is Right also had a pricing game called "Blank Check" which shared its name with the short-lived Barry & Enright game show Blank Check. The pricing game is now known as "Check Game" after Enright threatened to sue Mark Goodson Productions for trademark infringement.
Primal is the name of a 2003 video game, a 2010 movie, a 2019 movie and a 2019 animated series.
Primeval the British TV series about time anomalies and prehistoric beasties, and Primeval the horror/thriller film about political unrest in Africa.
Princess Academy is either an novel series by Shannon Hale, or an Indonesian comic book series published by Muffin Graphics.
Princess By Mistake is the title of a 1993 Fractured Fairy Tale for kids by Penelope Lively and a 2016 Space Opera romance by Aurelia Skye.
The Princess Guide is the name of both an episode of The Simpsons about Homer escorting an African king's daughter and an Action RPG/Raising Sim hybrid by Nippon Ichi about the player being the tutor to one of four princesses.
To avoid confusion with the British series The Prisoner, the Australian series Prisoner was renamed Prisoner: Cell Block H when it aired in the UK.
"Prisoner of Love" is the title of half a dozen songs by artists ranging from Pat Benatar to Foreigner to Ru Paul to ex-Culture Beat singer Tania Evans.
Does The Producers sound like A Good Name for a Rock Band? Well, it was, and had nothing to do with Mel Brooks.
The Protector could refer to a 1979 novel by Malcolm Braly, a 2003 novel by David Morrell, a 1985 action film starring Jackie Chan, a 2005 Thai martial arts film, and a 2011 Lifetime TV series starring Ally Walker.
Prototype is an Ultraverse comic and a video game series.
The Purge (2013) is a US sci-fi thriller about home invasion. Puhdistus (2012) is a Finnish drama about life in Soviet Estonia, released as The Purge in the UK and as Purge in the USA.
Proteus is a 1995 horror film about a shapeshifting monster on an oil rig, Proteus is an indie game where players explore a peaceful island at their leisure.
Push is a novel about an abused black woman, a film about drugs, and another film about societal outcasts with superpowers living in Hong Kong. The Film of the Book was called Precious to avoid further confusion. There's also "Push", a song by Matchbox Twenty.
"PTV", an episode of Family Guy, has the same name as the predecessor to the PBS Kids block.