[tenryuu]

An uncommon solution I've seen for this is to instead place 'the" after the rest of the title

"Mummy, The", "Thing, The"

[clairity]

that's not uncommon. that's literally how you're supposed to alphabetize, by ignoring the introductory article (referring to 'a', 'an', & 'the', not a piece of writing).

[shric]

Kodi ignores "The" for sorting purposes but still displays it on the titles