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Total War: Rome II

Total War: Rome II (Rome 2, ROME II) is Creative Assembly's 2013 PC grand strategy game, the best-selling Total War, set from 272 BC; troubled launch, later improved in Emperor Edition with Empire Divided and Rise of the Republic DLC.

Total War: Shogun 2

Total War: Shogun 2 (トータルウォー:ショーグン2) is Creative Assembly's 2011 Sengoku-era strategy game where a daimyo unifies Japan; known for Realm Divide, Fall of the Samurai, and the delisted 2026 Complete Edition remaster.

Total War: Three Kingdoms

Total War: Three Kingdoms (2019) is Creative Assembly's turn-based strategy and real-time tactics game set in 190 CE China, with Romance and Records modes, the Guanxi relationship system, 12 warlords, and Mandate of Heaven, Eight Princes, and A World Betrayed DLC; support ended in 2021.

Total War: Warhammer

Total War: Warhammer is a Creative Assembly strategy trilogy (2016, 2017, 2022) published by Sega, adapting Warhammer Fantasy into turn-based campaigns with real-time battles; a sci-fi successor, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, is in development.

Total War: Warhammer 40,000

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 (also Total War: Warhammer 40K) is Creative Assembly and SEGA's upcoming sci-fi Total War game, announced December 12, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, with four launch factions and the new Warcore engine.

Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II (2017) is a Creative Assembly strategy game for PC combining turn-based campaigns and real-time battles, with High Elves, Lizardmen, Dark Elves, and Skaven, the Great Vortex campaign, and the Mortal Empires combined map.

Total War: Warhammer III

Total War: Warhammer III (2022, Creative Assembly/SEGA) is the concluding fantasy strategy game of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, with Chaos factions, Kislev, and Cathay, survival battles, and the Immortal Empires combined-map mode.

Total Wipeout

Total Wipeout is a British physical game show that aired on BBC One from 2009 to 2012. It featured twenty contestants tackling obstacle courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Total-body PET

Total-body PET is positron emission tomography with a long axial field of view that images the whole adult body in one bed position, cutting radiation dose sharply.

TotalBiscuit

TotalBiscuit, alias of John Peter Bain (1984–2018), British YouTube game critic, The Cynical Brit, WTF is... series, StarCraft II caster, Axiom founder, died of bowel cancer at 33.

TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies SE, formerly Total, TotalFinaElf, and Compagnie Française des Pétroles, is a French integrated energy company founded in 1924, headquartered at La Défense near Paris.

Totalitarian democracy

Totalitarian democracy, a concept coined by J. L. Talmon in The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (1952), describes regimes claiming popular sovereignty while enforcing a sole political truth, contrasted with liberal democracy.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a form of government seeking total control over state, society, and private life through a single ideology, mass party, mobilization, and terror. Key theorists are Arendt, Friedrich and Brzezinski, and Linz, who contrasts it with authoritarianism.

Totally chlorine free bleaching

Totally chlorine free (TCF) bleaching is a pulp bleaching method using only oxygen-based chemicals, developed in the late 1980s and mostly practiced in Sweden and Finland.

Totally Completely Fine

Totally Completely Fine: 2023 Australian dark comedy-drama, a Stan Original with Sundance Now and Fremantle Australia. Six episodes starring Thomasin McKenzie as Vivian Cunningham, guardian of a clifftop suicide site; premiered April 20, 2023 on Sundance Now and AMC+.

Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery

Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery, or TECAB, is a minimally invasive coronary bypass performed through chest ports with a robot, first performed in 1998 in Paris.

Totally extraperitoneal repair

Totally extraperitoneal (TEP) repair is a laparoscopic operation for inguinal hernia in which a large mesh is placed in the preperitoneal space without ever entering the peritoneal cavity.

Totally F***ed Up

Totally F*ed Up (1993) is Gregg Araki's indie comedy-drama, first of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, following six queer Los Angeles teens across fifteen episodes; homage to Godard's Masculin féminin, distributed by Strand Releasing.

Totally Killer

Totally Killer (2023) is a Blumhouse horror-comedy on Prime Video, directed by Nahnatchka Khan, in which Kiernan Shipka's Jamie time-travels to 1987 to stop the Sweet Sixteen Killer.

Totally Spies!

Totally Spies! is a French animated spy comedy created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel at Marathon Media, first broadcast in France on 3 November 2001, following WOOHP agents Sam, Clover, and Alex; revived on Gulli in May 2024 with a live-action Amazon MGM adaptation in development.

Tote bag

Tote bag: large open-top canvas or fabric bag with two parallel handles. Etymology: 'tote' (carry) from 1670s Virginia; 'tote bag' by 1900. Iconic example is L.L.Bean's Boat and Tote, begun as the 1944 Bean's Ice Carrier for hauling block ice.

Totea Deep Gas Field

Totea Deep is an onshore natural gas field in Gorj County, southwestern Romania, discovered in 2011 and operated by OMV Petrom, with proven reserves of 4.7 billion cubic meters.

Totem

A totem is an animal, plant, or other entity in a kinship or mystical relationship with a clan or individual, serving as its emblem and name.

Totem pole

Totem pole (kootéeyaa, gyáaʼaang, ptsʼaan): monumental carved red cedar pole of Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples, displaying crests, honoring the dead, and recording clan history; scholars prefer "crest pole".

Totenkopf

Totenkopf, German for "death's head," is a skull-and-crossbones symbol adopted by the Nazi SS in the mid-1930s, worn by the SS-Totenkopfverbände camp guards and the 3rd SS Panzer Division, and now a banned neo-Nazi hate symbol.

Totie Fields

Totie Fields (Sophie Feldman), American stand-up comedienne of the 1960s-1970s, Ed Sullivan Show regular and Las Vegas headliner known for self-deprecating humor about her weight; died 1978 after leg amputation and mastectomy.

Totipotent stem cell

Totipotent stem cell: the zygote and earliest blastomeres, able to form all embryonic and extra-embryonic lineages including placenta; distinguished from pluripotent cells and in vitro totipotent-like models.

Totnes

Totnes is a historic market town in South Hams, Devon, at the lowest bridging point of the River Dart, population 10,419 (2021). Known for its Norman castle, Saxon burh origins, and as the founding site of the Transition Towns movement in 2006.

Toto (album)

Toto is the 1978 self-titled debut album by Los Angeles session-musician band Toto on Columbia: #9 Billboard 200, gold then platinum, with "Hold the Line" at #5 Hot 100; produced by the band at Studio 55.

Toto (band)

Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977, best known for "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," and "Africa" and the 1982 album Toto IV.