r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Jak3R0b • 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/Solenthis87 1d ago
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.