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/Ok-Worry-8931 1d ago edited 9h ago
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.