Questioning Title?
This is a specific type of title that poses a question to the reader. This question may relate to the Arc Words in some way, but need not. Depending on the writer, the answer may be explicitly given, implied, or left ambiguous.
See also Driving Question and Category:This Index Asked You a Question. And as always, remember that if you Ask a Stupid Question, you will Get a Stupid Answer.
Examples of Questioning Title? include:
Anime and Manga
- Full Metal Panic Fumoffu which originally didn't have the "Fumoffu" bit until the creators realized people were confusing it with the first season of the show (titled Full Metal Panic!). Also sort of a Word Salad Title.
- Hayao Miyazaki's 2023 film How Do You Live?.
Art
- And When Did You Last See Your Father?, by William Frederick Yeames
Comic Books
- Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield, a comic book arc.
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
- Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Film
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
- Dude, Where's My Car?
- Is Paris Burning?
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Quo Vadis? - a title shared by five films, a TV miniseries, and a video game.
- Shall We Dance?
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- What?, a film directed by Roman Polanski.
- One critic said the title also worked as a review of the movie itself.
- What About Bob?
- What Did You Do In the War, Daddy?
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Whatever Happened to Solange?
- What Price Glory?
- What Price Hollywood?
- What's New, Pussycat?
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
- What's Up, Doc?
- What's Up, Tiger Lily?
- What the Bleep Do We Know, a
propaganda vehicle for a New Age cultfilm directed by William Antz. - Where's Poppa?
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Also the book it was based on, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?
- Who Slew Auntie Roo?
- Who's Minding the Mint?
- Who's Minding the Store?
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- Why Did I Get Married?
Literature
- What Is The What by Dave Eggers is a biography on a survivor of the Rwanda genocide.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is about a bounty hunter that chases robots.
- Where's Wally?/Waldo?
- The Imponderables series of trivia/reference books, with titles like When Do Fish Sleep? and Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
- The defictionalized Discworld book Where's My Cow?
Live-Action TV
- Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
- Are You Being Served?
- Car 54, Where Are You?
- Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?? and the various games titles.
- What's My Line?
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Doctor Who A question which has taken over 47 years to answer
- Who's The Boss?
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? Or, how many Bald Jokes can we tell?
Music
- The Who
- Who are You
- Averted with Who's Next - it wasn't their first album, it was the next one.
- "Where Is the Love?" by The Black Eyed Peas.
- "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
- Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
- "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- Deep Purple, Who Do We Think We Are?
- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?"
- Supertramp, Crisis? What Crisis?
- "Who'll Stop the Rain?" and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "What Do You Want from Life?", The Tubes
- "Do You Hear What I Hear?"