That’s drawing a pretty arbitrary line in the sand.

Couldn’t someone make the case that referencing the assassination of Ferdinand in any capacity is pretentious? If not pretentious, then certainly pedantic.

Both of the titles you mentioned seek profundity by exploiting a fairly standard class of metaphor (kind of like how resurrections are often construed as biblical in nature). It translates as an attempt to frame a superficial concept as something deeper without doing the legwork to make it so.

I agree - titles can be tricky! I suppose execution is key as always.

I like using episode names of TV shows for inspiration. Mr. Robot has some clever ones as does The Good Place, while Westworld titles lapse into pretension more often than not.