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Alternate Titles
A Category of Titles of Various Works that are Exceptionally Long
100

We can't talk about this rule from a hit movie starring Brad Pitt without breaking it.

What is the 2nd rule of Fight Club?

100

This genre, inspired by Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is usually marked by exploration-based progression, where certain areas are closed off until you obtain the right items or abilities.

What is a Metroidvania?

100

After the American Civil War, this US state refused to return a confederate battle flag to its home state of Virginia, because they claimed they earned it in battle.

What is Minnesota?

100

This alternate title for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is meant to evoke the terrible power in Victor's experiments.

What is The Modern Prometheus?

100

Let's be honest. You knew this album by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard was going to be in this category.

What is PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation?

200

This rule states that you must not worship anything that is not God.

What is the 2nd commandment?

200

This genre is typified by its approach to progression: if you fail, you must start over from the beginning, but you'll be stronger.

What is a roguelite?

200

This country temporarily banned the use of pride flags in government buildings after an unofficial country declared war on them as a political statement.

What is Australia?

200

This alternate title for The Hobbit is characterized as the title Bilbo assigns to his in-universe book chronicling his adventures.

What is There and Back Again?

200

This full title of a Terry Pratchett novel about an Angel and a Demon conspiring to prevent Armageddon provides some foreshadowing about one of its characters.

What is Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch?

300

This law states that entropy only increases in a closed system.

What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

300

This genre is exemplified by piecemeal storytelling, difficult boss battles with a focus on strategy over sheer strength, and sparsely-placed save points.

What is a souls-like?

300

This infamous leader had a government finalize their surrender to him in the same railcar his government had finalized their surrender in decades earlier.

Who is Adolf Hitler?

300
This alternate title for Slaughterhouse Five is hinted at in the first chapter, due to a suggestion from a bystander that the soldiers in WWII were not men, merely children sent off to their death.

What is The Children's Crusade?

300

The musical artist, "Godspeed You! Black Emperor", creator of this album, also has a long winded name, but not as long as the album itself.

What is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven?

400

This law states that a robot must obey human commands unless that command would endanger a human.

What is Asimov's 2nd law of robotics?

400

These "old-style" games are typically light on story, and focus on quick reaction and movement-based gameplay through large, nonlinear levels with a series of locks and keys.

What is a boomer-shooter?

400

This historical leader supposedly ordered the sea itself flogged and branded as punishment for a storm destroying a bridge he wanted built.

Who is Xerxes I?

400

The Golden Compass is actually an alternate title for the North American release of this novel by Philip Pullman.

What is Northern Lights?

400

This Tiffany Aching novel has the longest name of any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

What is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents?

500

This law states that the line between a planet and its star will sweep out equal areas in equal time.

What is Kepler's 2nd law of planetary motion?

500

Named by Yahtzee Croshaw, this genre is characterized by repetitive, but rewarding tasks set in a world which is unconventional, dramatic, or otherwise fantastical.

What is a post-dad game?

500

This country rejected the adoption of a universal personal defense weapon among NATO countries due to the fact that NATO's preferred weapon was made in Belgium, rather than their country.

What is Germany?

500

This alternate title for Moby Dick is... rather plain, really.

What is The Whale?

500

This full title of Charles Darwin's most famous work is not the longest title in this category, but it is still quite the mouthful.

What is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life?

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