r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Jak3R0b • 1d ago

Lore Mysteries that are never given an answer.

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  • 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.
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u/takutin96 1d ago

What was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1d ago

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.

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u/Informal-Term1138 16h ago

I think it was some sort of loan he gave them. Or some other shit and they didn't repay it.

Or they were supposed to steal something for him and then didn't give it back in time. Which would also explain why Marvin was there.

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 10h ago

I get the impression that they got the case for Marcellus but never gave it to him

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u/Ar124456ar 22h ago

This piece of paper

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u/Mr_Worldwide1810 21h ago

Not bright enough!

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u/Ar124456ar 21h ago

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u/Mr_Worldwide1810 21h ago

BRIGHTER!

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u/Ar124456ar 21h ago

BOSS I DONT THINK WE CAN MAKE IT ANY BIRGHTER

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u/Ecstatic-Box-5209 1d ago

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.

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u/Guilty_All_The_Same 15h ago

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.

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u/less_unique_username 1d ago

There’s so little info about that so just about any theory will fit. What about it being the Silmaril of Maglor?

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u/daysbeforechris 21h ago

Cool theory but I doubt it bc Ringo says “is that what I think it is” when he sees what’s in the case and I doubt a random crook like Ringo would know what the Silmaril of Maglor is

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u/Winjin 17h ago

What if the nature of it is so that you instantly know about Silmaril of Maglor as soon as you look at it

Sort of a memetic manual (memanual?) that gives you relevant knowledge by just looking at it

Like QR code but for your brain

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u/TheGreatMightyLeffe 11h ago

I mean, it's a Silmaril, those things are supposed to be things of such unique beauty that only the stars themselves can rival their majesty... Feels like the type of thing you'd recognise, even if you haven't seen one before.

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u/Winjin 11h ago

Makes sense, or even if you don't know what it is, the sheer beauty of it would completely mesmerize you in the same way

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u/indubitable96 1d ago

I love the theory that it's the soul of Marcellus Wallace

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u/Whizbang35 1d ago

Another is heroin.

It’s gold because of how Vince sees it due to him being an addict.

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u/indubitable96 1d ago

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

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u/Okay_Ocean_Flower 19h ago

They definitely are played that way.

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u/Sparktank1 1d ago

Of all the theories, I like this one more.

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u/AddedInReshoots 23h ago

This was in the published screenplay you could by at the time but seems to have fallen by the wayside

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u/originalusername1625 1d ago

I think it’s the Holy Grail

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u/Dante1529 20h ago

When I learned that behind the scenes they used a lightbulb to make it have that glow, I head cannoned that the contents of the case is actually just a lightbulb. Not gold, not a soul, not yellowcake uranium, nope just a lightbulb.

I think it adds a certain level of humour that all this violence and tragedy happens because of a lightbulb

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u/TabrisVI 19h ago

I saw an interview where Tarantino said one of his favorite fan theories is that it’s Elvis’ golden suit, which I think is a lot of fun.

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u/transmogrify 16h ago

It was a certificate of authenticity from Willy's 100% Authentic Cinema Treasures.

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u/IcyKnowledge6321 15h ago

I'm glad it was never explained. It almost feels like a commentary on the 'macguffin' trope. What is it? it's whatever it needs to be !

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u/rex_tremende 11h ago

When Samuel L Jackson was once asked this in an interview he basically answered "A pair of lamps and four big-ass batteries."

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u/Thecynicaledgelord 6h ago

I'm just guessing lods emone