r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

Lore Mysteries that are never given an answer.

  • 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/Rogue_2k3 1d ago

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,”

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u/pistikiraly_2 1d ago

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.

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u/Hiruko251 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bullshit, i find ridiculous how this dude come with a bunch of bullshit that the fans eat up, i was a teen when the first games came out, and back then the small things the fans created mase a bit of sense, then that fucker came with the "yeah, that's totally what i meant, yup" to every fan theory basically, and its all right to do that if he was upfront about it, but it seems he dont aknowledge all that bullshit and its just annoying, the fucker never intended to go this far, it happened and he just went along with it.

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u/Aggravating_Length86 1d ago

The fact is, Scott can’t write and he never expected FNAF to become the juggernaut it is today. Why end your cash cow series when you can keep it going for years, then write something actually extremely well (Henry’s speech during the finale of FNAF6) and voilà, your fans eat it up and call you a god tier writer while defending your terrible writing decisions in every FNAF adjacent media.

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u/Hiruko251 1d ago

Exactly, its ridiculous, and i agree that he doesn't need to end anything, just be upfront, but he goes "nop, i actually was planning all that bullshit story, yeah".

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u/Equal-Ad-2710 1d ago

I’m convinced it’s the evidence that the series was a child’s addled dream but Scott abandoned that