15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You

6. The Lone Ranger

What It Suggests

That the titular hero operates alone. Ranges alone too, more specifically.

The Truth

He does nothing of the sort. He spends pretty much all of his time with a side-kick - Tonto the Comanche - and is hardly alone at all. Even when he dies at the start, he does so in the company of a gang of riders. Strictly speaking, he's also not a ranger - he's a lawyer who is deputised and then becomes a spirit walker.

So really, this film should have been called The Companioned Spirit Walker, which is much less catchy. But then Disney didn't know how to market it anyway, so who even cares?

The name is actually the subject of a joke in Brendan Frasier's rock movie Airheads, in which his band (with three members) is called The Lone Rangers and someone points out the name should be The Three Rangers.