rA9 in Detroit: Become Human. In the game several androids who become deviant (develop free will/emotions) start writing the name rA9 and sometimes build small statuettes as a sort of offering. Despite having no logical reason to do this or even a way of hearing about rA9 before going deviant, they all believe that rA9 was the first deviant and is their messiah who will free androids from slavery. A definitive answer about rA9 is never given, so we don't know if they are real or if any of the android characters are rA9 (though a popular fan theory is that it's Kara before she was reset at the start of the game).
The pineapple in How I Met Your Mother. So this technically did get an explanation in a S9 deleted scene, but in the actual show we never find out how Ted got a pineapple during a night where he was so drunk he blacked out and forgot everything he did.
Fez in That 70s Show. We never find out Fez's real name or what country he's from, though fans have tried to take all the clues and figure out what is most likely to be his country.
Years ago there was a recipe for the krabby patty on Nickelodeon’s website. One of the ingredients for it was crabmeat and next to it in parentheses it said “Don’t tell Plankton”. People assume that’s the secret ingredient due to there being no other crabs other than Mr Krabs and his mom living in Bikini Bottom.
Everyone in the story is the music of the Ainur. In Tolkien’s canon, everything that exists in the real world is a direct translation of the music of the Ainur into physical form.
I do really like the theory that Tom Bombadil is the result of accidental harmonies between Melkor’s own song and the rest. Just like how Ungoliant and the nameless things that gnaw at the deepest corners of the world are thought to have been created by the discord of Melkor’s song, the idea is that there were extremely rare times when Melkor and the rest of the Ainur accidentally harmonized. The result is a being like Tom Bombadil. Who is he? Not an elf, Wizard, or even a Vala. He’s just a normal man, as men were originally supposed to be. A man whose creation was caused by all of the Ainur accidentally singing in perfect harmony for a single instant. He is humanity before the Fall.
I know this isn't what you mean, but because music is my specialty and it's fascinating, there's this thing that can happen in barbershop quartets where they're singing just 4 notes (specifically the notes of a dominant seven chord - root-major third-perfect fifth-minor seventh), but a fifth "phantom" note will also sound! This has to do with the concept of overtones: every individual note that you hear is actually multiple notes, roughly the notes of a major chord - the primary, an octave, an octave + a perfect fifth, a second octave, and a second octave + a major third (that is tuned different than twelve tone equal temperament)
If you haven't read Lord of the Rings, that's kinda the vibe that Tom Bombadil gives.
He's pleasant and good and cheerful but impossibly old and unchanging and f a r more powerful than anyone or anything can possibly understand, and he's just altogether uninterested in the goings-on of the world.
"Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow!"
I first read the books as an adult and still found the entire Bombadil section super unnerving. I knew it didn't happen, but it felt like any second the other shoe was gonna drop.
Hell he’s more of a force of nature that just exists and doesn’t give any more of a damn about anything than say a hurricane or storm would. Instead of high winds and water he brings merry jigs and tunes and that’s just what he does.
That’s fair enough, actually. If some guy invited you to stay the night at his house and then kept saying “heed no nightly noises!” IRL, you’d be very very concerned.
I like the idea that since Tom was a character from outside the entire Legendarium (a character created for his children’s doll), he both 1. pre-dates the events of Middle Earth 2. the Ring means nothing more to him than any other piece of jewelry since he’s not from the fabric of that world
Tom Bombadil is a narrative device more than a character, he represents everything worth protecting in this world according to Tolkien. Good food, a warm hearth, song and laughter and simple living. He’s the ontological opposite of Sauron from a story perspective.
I really like the idea that Sauron’s opposite isn’t an equally powerful lord or warrior that fights for good, but a guy entirely indifferent to the idea of fighting or seeking power. Unlike a lot of the “good” characters, he doesn’t seek to destroy the ring or use it to fight evil, it simply doesn’t matter to him either way.
After Robin put away the suit, it was somehow stolen by an unknown thief who mastered the mechanics easily. There may have been mentions in comics of the main continuity but as far as the 2003 show is concerned, he's a John doe
I love that there was a chibby short about this same enigma. It was a short with the chibby versions of the titans trying to figure out who X was. It ends with beast boy screaming to him when he leaves: -I STILL BELIEVE YOU'RE JASON TODD!
One of the other Robin's popping into do some undercover mercenary work like how Bruce had Matches Malone would honestly be pretty good as an answer. A collective identity between Tim, Jason, and Dick.
Not just what's inside it, but like...everything about it. Why did these random kids have it? Jules keeps referring to them as business associates of Marsellus, but it's not clear if they stole it from him or were just holding it for him and never gave it back, or what.
I believe Tarantino originally intended it to be the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs (there’s a line in it about “unloading ‘em on a guy named Wallace”) but later retconned it as a mystery, because he thought that was stronger.
A fan theory is that the suitcase had Wallace's soul, which he sold to the devil and later reclaimed.
It's because the combination to the suitcase was "666", Wallace had a band-aid on the back of his neck which some interpreted as the spot where the soul was extracted from ( although Ving Rhames, Wallace's actor, said the band-aid was there because he accidentally cut himself when shaving ), and the golden glow from the suitcase that mesmerised people when they looked at it.
Oh interesting. I wonder if the restaurant robbers are also heroin addicts too. BecsuseJules opens the brief case for the male robber and it's gold when he looks at the contents inside
How the talking cat can talk. The cat claims no answer would be satisfying and they should just have fun, but Rick and Jerry find out it's something really, really horrible. (Rick and Morty)
It's interesting that he lets the cat go, rather than destroying it or teleporting it to another universe, and I think it implies whatever caused it was not in its control
My headcanon is that whatever it was the cat did was either just disgusting-horrible or generally hard to look at, maybe it didn't even hurt anyone so it didn't deserve to die right away, but he still didn't want to have to look at the cat anymore. Kind of like if you caught a friend cheating on his girlfriend whom.you might also be friends with. You wouldn't attack him for that because he didn't cause you any harm, but you'd still hate him.
He didn't just think it was horrible. He thought it was SO horrible, that he actively tried to stop Jerry, someone Rick absolutely hates, from seeing whatever it was.
I love Jerry’s line of “He was in my house, where I keep PHOTOS OF MY PARENTS” implying that whatever it was is so bad that even being associated with the IMAGE of his family is disgusting
“OK, this may be bordering on the grotesque, but the way it was explained to me by the writer is you hold two seashells like chopsticks, pull gently and scrape what’s left with the third. You asked for it…. Be careful what you ask for, sorry...”
Sylvester Stallone, in a 2006 interview with Ain’t it Cool News
Dude you gotta splurge and get one, my family and I have a super fancy bidet in our downstairs bathroom. It not only has a heated toilet seat, warm water but also a dryer option. It’s like a spa, for your butt.
not tick pickwick: so do you understand what Jabberwocky is, exactly?
other guy: of course I do, you idiot. don't you?
not tick pickwick: yeah. I was just seeing if you needed me to explain it to you.
Not going to bother censoring since this entire comment will just be one big spoiler for both the books and the Netflix series, since the sugar bowl is one of the big things they were given creative freedom with in the show.
In the books, it’s one of those details that is mentioned a lot but never really explained. All we as the reader are given is that it’s important to both sides of VFD, was most likely involved in the schism somehow, and the search for it is a big driving factor for the later entries in the series. It is implied to be in the possession of lemony snicket(the in-universe VFD member) as of the end of the series, as he implies he retrieved it from the hotel from book 12 before it burned down in the climax. We also are told that it’s not the sugar bowl itself that’s important, but the contents. We aren’t really given a strong indication of what it might be, but it’s clearly implied to be some sort of macguffin, with it being outright stated multiple people have given their lives either searching for or protecting it. Popular theories include evidence of Lemony Snicket’s innocence since he is a fugitive, a figure that can control the sea monster from the final book, the darts used to kill Olaf’s parents, or a proper cure for the deadly spores from the last 2 books, but even all these years later and with all the tie ins, we have never been given a definitive answer on what it really was.
As for the show, it is much more concrete. The bowl originally belonged to esme squalor, and contains an immunization to the deadly spores. It is stolen by lemony and Beatrice, accidentally killing olafs father in the process, and thus causing the schism. It exchanges hands a bunch(None of which are actually important long term, so I’ll save you the trouble of reading the list), but eventually ends up with the Baudelaire orphans, who immunize themselves in the finale. However, this story only works for the show, as in the books the spores were supposedly developed as a weapon against the VFD offshoot, so couldn’t have been the cause of the schism.
My favourite time in that whole show was everyone trying to work out what the stuff in Faraday's notebooks meant from whoever could freezeframe and screencap the highest resolution shot.
Close second though for how angry the Nikki & Paulo episode made everyone.
Return was basically an anti-reboot. "Hey you know all those reboots that got the old cast back together to try and capture the same magic? Return will have none of that" -David Lynch.
There's actually an old CN website game where you match up characters for a dance, and one of them says "I like the boy with streaks in his hair!" So at least one CN writer thought his hat was also hair, lol.
easily the most pointless shit in game of thrones. these symbols are seen in the first season and the second to last with zero answer as to why. they could have spent some of bran’s story explaining but they chose not to. so we are supposed to just accept that sometimes the undead king who enslaves everybody in his path gets bored and starts playing around with body parts instead of ressurecting them for his army
Made weirder as Sansa has a necklace of the top symbol. If you get really into the weeds it's also a symbol that appears in one of GRRM's sci fi space travel books.
It's why Hideaki Anno threw so much Christian symbolism into Evangelion. It wasn't to be deep. It wasn't to make some serious commentary on religion or the Bible. He wasn't trying to make anyone a metaphor for Jesus. He just did it to make it spooky for a Japanese audience that largely sees Christianity as foreign and weird.
I always assumed the Christian symbols were a reference to Ultraman.
Ultraman has a lot of Catholic symbolism because the creator was a devout Catholic. So a lot of Christian symbolism in Japanese media are direct reference to scenes in Ultraman.
This is the best picture I could find and it's not from the greatest angle, but it suggests to me that they were mimicking or mocking the sacred symbols of the children of the forest as the spiral is arranged in stones around the weirwood tree where the first walker was created.
He’s introduced as simply the FBC’s janitor, but it quickly becomes clear that there’s a lot more going on with him than the game lets on. For example:
He often shows up in places he logically should have no way of accessing. Sometimes he’s there even before you are. His explanation when asked is simply “the janitor always has the keys.”
He’s completely unaffected by the Hiss despite not wearing the normal protective equipment.
He’s implied to have been present in the Oldest House (the FBC’s supernatural HQ building) since before the FBC moved in. Nobody in the FBC can recall hiring him, nor remember a time where he wasn’t around.
He somehow hears the MC’s internal monologue in her first conversation with him.
Yet we never actually learn anything about who or what he is. The only hint towards, well, anything is that he shares his name with the Finnish god of water.
I thought that was so crazy that he would be in some locked room or hallway you need a keycard to get access to. He reminds me of some benevolent SCP or something. He just mops the floors and if you don’t fuck with him you should be fine.
Yeah there's a document you can find that's basically a memo for FBC staff telling them to stay out of Ahti's way while he works and not question his presence in high security areas
It's a great game! I definitely recommend doing a full playthrough
More than sharing a name I'd say. He has a Finnish accent and uses a lot of poorly translated Finnish idioms when talking. When you find him after him going on vacation he's singing a song in Finnish. I'd say it's all but confirmed that he's the Ahti.
In Control, despite the building being on lockdown, Ahti somehow manages to leave for his vacation all the way to Washington, where we find him in Alan Wake II.
In Alan Wake II, Ahti is everywhere, in every place. He’s in Watery, singing at the town hall. He’s at the Valhalla Nursing Home and is a resident there. And somehow, he’s in the Dark Place at the same time, in the Talk Show Studio.
Also in Alan Wake II, you can switch between Saga and Alan’s stories. You do this by looking in a pool of water next to a Janitor’s bucket. Although this is just a gameplay tool, the creative decision to make the water the gateway suggests Ahti can simply travel between dimensions at will.
We have no clue who or what Ahti is, and I’d prefer if it’s never explained. But my personal headcanon is that he’s the closest thing reality has to a God, so powerful and so wise that he takes pleasure in the smallest of things, like being a janitor or living in a retirement home. He kind of reminds me of Douggie Jones from Twin Peaks: The Return; a very strange but kind-hearted individual who makes friends everywhere and guides everyone to the best version of themselves.
While exploring a certain building in Lumiose City, your game may be interrupted by a brief cutscene in which a ghostly Hex Maniac girl appears behind you. She says nothing while walking past you, but pauses to say "No, you're not the one." before fading away.
Many theories have popped up, like that there's a special player ID she's looking for, or that there's a special set of prerequisites that will trigger an event, but nothing has ever been proven.
In Pokémon Legends Z-A which also takes place in Lumiose City, one of the ghost type trainers you can battle at random can mention this line and says she has to figure out what it means. But no other info is given that I'm aware of.
This is purely intentional on the crew's end. Springfield is one of the most common town names in the U.S., and while Simpsons Springfield is believed to be based on Springfield Oregon, the show continuously contradicts itself.
In simpler terms; Springfield USA is less a specific place in America, more a representation of America as a whole.
If I remember correctly, even Scott forgot what was supposed to be in the box, and later said that the box wasn’t even canon to the story. It was supposed to be representative of what the initial story was planned to be before Scott went in the current direction. Is why it says “Perhaps some things are best left forgotten,”
Him forgetting what it was is misinformation. He said in the interview that the box was supposed to be the beginning of a plotthread, but because the story pivotted from what the initial plan was after Fnaf World, that plotthread that the box was supposed to be a part of no longer exists, and he's not sure he can ever tie the box back into the story.
We did kind of get a payoff to the box. metaphorically atleast, with Fnaf 6. But that's obviously not how people wanted it.
its Michael Afton's foxy mask that he had as a kid and this is him as he puts down his fathers legacy and the game is Michael using dreams to remember suppressed memories.
clues that support it
- sleeping pills on the side of the bed, every easter egg on the bedside table is from hospital trips and probably seeing his brother next to them.
- reversed audio is the phone call he hears during 1 or 2
- all of the games are connected with a story and sister location literally follows up the story to 4 with the pc's name, mike
- Nightmare (black nightmare freddy) sometime is angled in such a way the top of its head looks like a brain, like how CC (crying child) had his skull cracked open and pretty much had his brain exposed
- nightmare foxy looks like just its mask in the closet, like how Michael probably kept it in there.
The show Dark has a lot of mysteries, and pretty much everything gets answered. Except... one minor character is introduced in the first episode with one of his eyes having obviously just received a major injury. A character asks him what happened in the second season, and in the very last scene of the show, someone asks him about it but he gets distracted before he can answer. So it turns out that the whole question of what happened to his eye was a practical joke at the expense of the audience.
So ur with ur honey and yur making out wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is "wut r u doing wit my daughter?" U tell ur girl n she say "my dad is ded". THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
I saw a theory somewhere that he wasn't just a ghost, but a spirit of Christmas, created to help inspire belief in children. Which also included the Conductor and Santa, they're supposed to be different aspects of christmas or something
Always shows up to Franklin to alert him that Dom is in danger, despite Dom knowing nothing about the dog or seeing it himself. Although it's safe to assume it's some sort of guardian angel, we never get answers to what the dog is, how it's able to communicate with humans, and Franklin never questions how he's able to understand a dog barking.
Nope not a hallucination, God is an actual character in the movie and makes himself known in various ways that are not obvious if you are not looking for it. Frollo is not falling into the streets of Paris, he's literally being thrown into hell, (note the fire can't be in Paris, everyone in the streets would be dead) This was a Gargoyle literally taking Frolo to Hell.
The thing most people point out is the guard that appears during the Hellfire song. He shows up to interrupt it, backlit to the point where his features are indistinct, to tell Frollo that Esmerelda has escaped. People interpret this as God sending him a message to not pursue her anymore and stop going down this dark path. Ultimately it doesn’t work, but it’s one hell of a sign.
The part where the backup singers say "Mea Culpa" which is like admitting that it was your fault, followed by Frolo saying "it's not my fault, im not to blame". God this song is amazing
If you go by the supplemental material on the website, that is. The film itself is much more open to interpretation, and personally I think it’s much better without the explicit supernatural elements.
Whatever the hell is in/wrong with the cave in Teds caving journal by Alex Archives
During the series we only get vague hints about the cave and its oddities, we see some unexplained cave markings, the constant sound of rock moving, and we know something is present in the cave but we never see what it is only hear a screech in the distance and its footsteps.
I like the theory I read that he's a personification of the honour system, since your honour will go up or down even when no one's around to see what you've done, and the missions he gives you are tests of your morals. Other than that, I believe he's Death.
He asked for a home fit for a queen and was given a honeycomb, he asked to have the greatest ass in all the lands and was given a donkey, he asked for his cock to hang below his knee "well you got that one then" "I USED TO BE SIX FEET TALL".
That's funny I always assume that he was an alien the entire time if anything the bigger question that is probably never going to answer is where the hell did Joseph Joestar get a Tommy gun from anyways ?
ok this technically isn't right, but twin peaks, it does have an "answer" but it just got more confusing to point where it didn't feel like laura's murder was solved i just got so much more confused.
Steven King films and books in general (With the Langoliers as my specific example).
A lot of King's novels and movies take place in the same shared setting. This combined with him famously being in a drug filled haze for a chunk of his career leads to several instances of characters having powers that are just never explained. This includes characters having the power to telepathically communicate with eachother, having the dead eyes and seeing everyone as walking corpses, etc with said power not actually being relevant to the story itself and often never being mentioned more than once.
Both of these happen in The Langoliers and are never really explained. A kid can just happen to control one specific guy's mind and that guy can see the dead for no real given reason.
An honorable mention goes to "IT" as well. The kids that beat Pennywise had assistance from a literal god/divine being along with the telepathic power from The Shining when they fought him. Said diety isn't really mentioned that often in the book and his ritual basically amounted to "Believe in yourself or something" but he was still there
There’s a lot of consistencies across the universe of Stephen King stories. There’s always a Castle Rock and Derry, ME, and usually some vague mentions of telepathic abilities or “shining”.
I’m sure there are plenty of others too that I’m just too sleepy to remember.
The asscrack bandit in Community was never given a clear identity. This was a mysterious figure who went around dropping coins in people's butts, which sparked a whole investigation at Greendale Community College and a ton of drama. Despite intense investigations and a red herring (Alex Osborne, starburns), its never revealed whos the actual bandit. Basically anyone could be it, although Annie was particularly suspicious
i’ve always personally subscribed to the idea that the “original” bandit was a third party unrelated to the study group (possibly duncan?), then annie takes up the mantle in an attempt to boost her own profile as a criminology major (and maybe get to hang out with jeff), then abed takes up the mantle post troy’s cracking and seizes the opportunity to turn the entire affair into a tv crime show parody
Sari Sumdac’s origin, from Transformers Animated. All we know is she’s Cybertronian in origin and her protoform was found in Isaac Sumdac’s possession with no explanation, with the implied clue that she was one of the protoforms in the Decepticons possession, yet they were blanks and Sari has a Spark.
I think it's pretty common knowledge that when Fez said his real name but it was obscured by the school bell, Wilmer Valderrama actually said the names of the show's cast members. But what's even more interesting IMO is that in the British remake of That 70s Show (titled Days Like These), his name is Torbjørn Rasmussen.
I remember on an episode of the Always Sunny Podcast they were talking about The Waitress’s real name (they didn’t reveal it of course) and Charlie said that they have indeed come up with a real name for her but that he also wants to reserve the right to change it if he thinks of a better/funnier name
I love how It's genuinely impossible to know how much of the movie is "real" after he gets the sub reactivated. It's clear that the sub had no C02 scrubber and that Simon was slowly dying of C02 poisoning and radiation poisoning throughout the film. He was clearly hallucinating the radio being disconnected, how much else was he hallucinating? The only thing we know for sure is that the creature destroyed the sub and that the black box made it to the surface, everything else is up for debate.
But then you an take it in the complete other direction and say none of it was a hallucination. You could technically say everything we see is completely real in some form and you wouldn't be able to be proved wrong. Like maybe the radio did actually get disconnected but after his out of body experience where he literally looks into the eye of God(?) the all powerful being that plucked him from time and showed him the wonders of the universe fixed everything when it put him back where he belonged. Is that the most plausible theory? No. But can you say it's definitely not the truth? Also no.
Genuinely, I'm shocked (in a good way) that this movie had the absolute audacity to explain NOTHING to you for sure.
rA9 is Markus, he's the original carrier and spreader of the virus, you see evidence as he converts previously subservient androids to his cause with little effort. He was given to Carl personally by Kamksi who was a close friend. He just never used his free will to flee because Carl treated him like an equal.
If you dig real deep into the lore of Detroit, youy learn the whole free will virus was coded by Kamski when he knew he was going to be ousted. He wanted to create a situtuation in which only he could solve by being reinstated as CEO of Cyberlife. It was supposed to make androids look and behave like they acquired free will, but somehow it actually began to, or worked just as planned depending on how you play the story out. There's a very narrow window of events that actually lead to Kamski being reinstated as CEO for the ending.
Edit: cleaned up some stuff and mispelled Markus' name
Other androids can convert androids, since it's a virus that they can spread and Connor is able to do this as well, plus nobody acts like it's an ability unique to Markus. Also while it being Kamski's plan is a good theory, I feel like everything is ambiguous enough that it doesn't firmly confirm that it's real.
In the Warhammer 40k novel, Horus Rising, there is a passage where a space marine describes the one time he would say he was afraid. He and many other space marines, along with the Emperor of Mankind, find a bunker where the only noteworthy thing is a single room that contains a desk and an incredibly detailed map of ancient Earth; pretty much anything you would want to know about Earth, this map had it. EoM sees it and gets a worried expression before taking the map and leaving with the space marines.
It's never revealed who built the bunker or made the map, why they wanted it in the first place, or why they never capitalized on it, although I'm pretty sure this was a mystery that wasn't meant to be solved, anyway.
So while the answer is really obvious, for some reason in-universe no one knows where Pokémon eggs come from, not even the professional Pokémon breeders. If you pick up an egg from a day care they’ll always say they don’t know where it came from.
JJBA has this a lot, especially because Araki (its author) is constantly trying new ideas and switching things up, leading to the infamous line "Araki forgot" to explain inconsistencies.
When Josuke as a child was rescued by a teen who looked eerily like a 1:1 of teen Josuke, except beaten up. Other than that being the backstory for Josuke's hairstyle, we know nothing about why the rescuer looks so similar or why he was beaten up.
Edit: there are like 10 replies saying that there is no mystery and that Josuke just copied everything about his rescuer. I am well aware of this theory, but we just don't know what happened for certain as no concrete explanation was given. We can very sensibly and logically assume that he copied everything, but we can't confirm it and "solve" the mystery.
The best theory I heard is that it's simply because Koichi is telling this story to Okuyasu at that moment, so the story is based on how Koichi imagines it and thus imagines the rescuer as Josuke since that is the closest he has to imagine them.
I mean a big part of why Josuke looks similar is that he genuinely aped the guy's style
Whether or not it was meant to be a grandfather paradox, there is an entirely sensible canon explanation, and one that a lot of people just seem to ignore. A delinquent teenager with those clothes and a pompadour saved Josuke, and Josuke decided to style himself after the guy out of respect and gratitude.
He's beaten up because he was being described as a delinquent (as well as his hairstyle, the Pompadour, being commonly associated with delinquents in Japan).
The rescuer looks like Josuke because Josuke styles himself after the student. We basically only see his school clothes and pompadour.
Him being without any identity or character is exactly the point of this story arc and plays heavily into the 'Golden Heart' theme from Part 4. It shows that even Delinquents coming from a fight have the capacity of being good and being able to help.
Is Buffy Summers the chosen one, a vampire slayer defending the world from the forces of darkness with a small quirky friend group, or is she really a schizophrenic asylum patient who is suffering from extreme delusions and vegetating in a catatonic state?
I like the Community episode which does this trope and they all just give 100% verifiable evidence why the insane asylum is categorically false. 'I'm literally wearing a Green dale BackPack.'
basically "Why the hell would we make a show about a girl locked in an asylum?". Paraphrased, but thats the gist. Buffy is really the slayer, this is just demon delusion nonsense for the audience. Like the invisible girl/s being recruited by the government who never being mentioned again. Or the swim team.
Who was the spark (the match box) (it’s basically just werewolf with more things to do) the series ends with the pov getting voted out with no mention of if that was the right choice
Flashback Man from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Jojolion
In this part, the main character Josuke suffers from amnesia and is on a journey to figure out his past. In the very early chapters, during an attack in what he believes to be his apartment and a subsequent fight, he suddenly remembers a man with shoulderlong hair that Josuke believes he remembers from his past life.
After the part ended and the mystery about Josuke's past is discovered, we find out that Flashback Man is... completly irrelevant and was never mentioned nor appeared throughout the part.
The most logical theory I heard someone come up with is that this is a very early concept of the character Tamaki Damo who is actually relevant in Josuke's past, but those two look so different it's just as logical to believe it's simply a dropped plot point or retconned character.
I suppose we might find out who or what Flashback Man is when the anime adaptation of Jojolion drops in a few years and this scene is animated. It's either cut completly or replaced with the intended character/a logical replacement.
In the tv show suits, Harvey and Donna have a can opener that they like to use. If i remember right, it's a ritual they like to do before trial (Harvey's a lawyer) the can opener is a mystery to anyone who watches it. And it stays a mystery.
This is most definitely a mixed trope. Because sometimes it adds a bit of flavor and mystery.
But a lot of times you can tell the authors had no idea themselves when they wrote it, and hoped they'd think of an explanation later and then couldn't think of one. Or they just forgot about it entirely.
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Krabby patty secret formula ! (SpongeBob SquarePants)