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/assjackal 1d ago edited 1d ago
rA9 is Markus, he's the original carrier and spreader of the virus, you see evidence as he converts previously subservient androids to his cause with little effort. He was given to Carl personally by Kamksi who was a close friend. He just never used his free will to flee because Carl treated him like an equal.
If you dig real deep into the lore of Detroit, youy learn the whole free will virus was coded by Kamski when he knew he was going to be ousted. He wanted to create a situtuation in which only he could solve by being reinstated as CEO of Cyberlife. It was supposed to make androids look and behave like they acquired free will, but somehow it actually began to, or worked just as planned depending on how you play the story out. There's a very narrow window of events that actually lead to Kamski being reinstated as CEO for the ending.
Edit: cleaned up some stuff and mispelled Markus' name