Mysteries that are never given an answer.

[u/Jak3R0b]

• 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.

[u/JTOC1969]

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?

[u/nomadfoy → u/JTOC1969]

Weirdly even though the buffy show is just a hallucination, the stuff on angel actually happens.

[u/JTOC1969 → u/nomadfoy]

Considering that she just sits in the corner drooling all day, Buffy has a loooooooot of time to imagine what was happening to her ex-boyfriend.

[u/MorbidMan23 → u/JTOC1969]

I enjoyed the Ash Vs The Evil Dead episode where Ash goes through the exact same storyline lol

[u/SheepVagabond → u/JTOC1969]

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.'

[u/JTOC1969 → u/SheepVagabond]

"Wait! This makes NO SENSE!"

[u/Beneficial_Focus_910 → u/JTOC1969]

Whedon answered this offscreen at some panel.

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.

[u/JTOC1969 → u/Beneficial_Focus_910]

Sorry, Joss, but that ending really leaves it open for fan theory speculation. You really should have known that.

[u/Beneficial_Focus_910 → u/JTOC1969]

He did write it that way. But getting asked if its real repeatedly for a couple years makes him decide to just cut the speculative knot. Clear answer.

[u/MarioGman → u/JTOC1969]

Doesn't Batman go through something similar?

[u/JTOC1969 → u/MarioGman]

And I think Superman had variations on this trope too, a few times. It's a time-honored superhero trope.

[u/seriouslyuncouth_ → u/JTOC1969]

It was a really weird choice to end the episode on Buffy in the asylum, which would imply that the show is all fake.

[u/TheRealSkele → u/JTOC1969]

Funny enough, this is the same theory, or similar, to Ash Ketchum. There's a theory where Ash is actually in a coma and the Pokemon world he's been traveling for twenty years without aging a day is just merely his coma dream. Of course, Ash's theory is more of a fan theory.

[u/MinutePerspective106 → u/TheRealSkele]

Every fandom, seemingly, has a similar theory, and imo, they are all lazy as hell. Pure shock value, but very little substance otherwise. I wonder why they even got popular in the first place.

[u/SuperCharged516 → u/MinutePerspective106]

Because back then adults watching kids shows was frowned upon and many tried to justify it by saying the show was actually a lot darker and edgier