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Author's Saving Throw
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Creating a sequel or a serialized work comes with the opportunity to improve upon your previous work. An author will often look at elements that fans complained about, and try to address these in an attempt at appeasing their anger. This is what we call an Author's Saving Throw: a change meant to correct a mistake the author made. Even writers without a direct line to the fans usually gain some form of access to the fandom that has spawned around their creation. They may find out that an ending they wrote was not well-received and decide to retcon that storyline. Or they may learn what fans were inspired to do, and incorporate those things into later works as a Shout-Out to the fans. This is common in games, where Low Tier Letdowns will receive a Balance Buff, High Tier Scrappies will receive a Nerf, or Anti-Frustration Features get implemented to make a Scrappy Mechanic less infuriating. Since The 2000s, the ability to release patches means that in video games, making a Saving Throw might not require the release of a whole new work: the game's developers can simply apply the changes to the base game. Tropes Are Tools. When done well, the result may be a Salvaged Story, or a reviled character may be Rescued from the Scrappy Heap. This is also a great way to create a Surprisingly Improved Sequel or Even Better Sequel, as well as to Win Back the Crowd. It could also lead to Improved Second Attempt and Remade and Improved. However, going too far may lead to accusations of Pandering to the Base, and it's easy to overestimate the size of a Vocal Minority, potentially leading to implementing a change that not that many people were asking for in the first place. Named for a common Tabletop Game term originating in Dungeons & Dragons; a "saving throw" is a die roll representing, say, a hero's attempt to catch themselves when falling off a cliff, or the Deadpan Snarker's attempt to resist the urge to taunt Cthulhu. All examples that are not In-Universe require Word of God or Word of Saint Paul confirming why the creators made the changes. |
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Better Days: In the aftermath of negative reaction to Fisk joining a group of privately funded vigilante assassins, Naylor made several journals trying to distance himself from the character, stating that he didn’t necessarily agree with Fisk’s actions and views, and that Fisk was not his self-insert. | |
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A common criticism of the Bleach anime was how much it diverged from the manga with its fillers. Its manga was also criticised of using The Worf Effect one too many times, primarily on the Royal Guard who were largely defeated offscreen. The anime adaptation of the final arc not only has no filler (Veering towards Adaptation Expansion) but also has Kubo's involvement. The second season also ends with a victory for the Royal Guard. | |
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RWBY: Volume 5 was seen as the show's nadir for several reasons. The fandom's criticisms centered around the passivity of the heroes compared to the previous volume's journey-bound tone, the reduced relevance of main protagonist Ruby during major story beats, and lack of exploration of Mistral's exotic setting. CRWBY confirmed they addressed these complaints for the next volume by kicking off Ruby's development into an active leader in the fight against Salem and exploring the Mistral underworld via Cinder's storyline. After Blake's Volume 7 haircut was criticised for poor texturing and looking unflattering in certain lighting, CRWBY confirmed that this led to them upgrading her hair texture to appear more natural, and upgrading Weiss's hair at the same time. |
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Attack on Titan’s creator has said he asks the anime production to change parts of the story he didn’t think he got right in the manga, thereby resulting in a few of these. The most notable of these are the Uprising Arc having much brisker pacing and Eren and Armin’s final conversation having dialogue moved around and altered. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's first five parts, while having rather diverse casts in many ways, were lacking in terms of female characters. The sixth part, Stone Ocean, has a much larger proportion of women in the cast, including a major Action Girl as the lead character. Hirohiko Araki has stated in interviews that he was disappointed at how many of his previous female characters were either Neutral Females or Faux Action Girls, and Stone Ocean was an attempt to make up for this. | |
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Many City Hunter fans were angered when they learned that Ryo Saeba's partner, Kaori Makimura, was going to be killed off in the sequel Angel Heart. Because of this, Tsukasa Hojo, the author of both titles, went on to proclaim that Angel Heart was no longer a sequel to City Hunter, but a spin-off set in an Alternate Universe that just happens to have most of the same characters. | |
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The Last Battle is a controversial ending to The Chronicles of Narnia due to Susan no longer believing in Narnia. Lewis later made some comments assuring readers that he felt Susan would make it to Narnia in her own way, even thinking that it was a story worth its own book. | |
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