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Common Knowledge	comment	There are some things that everyone knows. Well, sorta. As it turns out, people as a whole know less than they think they do. Casual viewers or readers of a work will often come away with their fair share of mistakes that, over time and through word of mouth, evolve into widespread misconceptions. Such fallacies are often used by actual fans as a yardstick of the difference between themselves and the masses, although fans themselves are not immune to holding these misconceptions (particularly by confusing Fanon and Canon). All the same, these notions can be so firmly entrenched in the public zeitgeist that they can force their way into adaptations, much to the annoyance of the aforementioned fans. Named for a Saturday Night Live game show sketch in which the questions were selected by experts reflecting things all high school seniors should know, and the answers were selected from a survey of high school seniors (that is, they were wrong). Sub-Tropes are: Beam Me Up, Scotty!: An 'iconic catchphrase' that no one actually said (though it may be a rewording of existing dialogue, or may have appeared in a sequel or adaptation). Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: A third party speaking or writing about the work gets the basic facts wrong. Fandom-Enraging Misconception: The fandom will flame you if you say this incorrect thing about the work. God Never Said That: The fandom believes something is Word of God when it isn't. I Am Not Shazam: The assumption that the title of a work is the main character's name. Inconsistent Spelling: A character's name lacks a consistent spelling and is spelled in at least two different ways. Some cases may be the result of not being aware of the official spelling. Mandela Effect: When "everyone believes" something is true about the work, to the point of rejecting those who try to correct them. Presumed Flop: A successful work is remembered as a failure. Title Confusion: Misinterpretations and misunderstandings caused by a work's title. Viewer Name Confusion: When the audience gets a character's name wrong. Word of Dante: Influential Fanon that is widely mistaken for canon. May result from or lead to Lost in Imitation, or from any of the subtropes under Time Marches On. May result from Audience-Coloring Adaptation, where people assume the original work is the same as a well-known adaptation of the work. Often a result of Mainstream Obscurity, when a work's existence is known by the general public, but very few people actually know what it's about. When left unchecked, it can lead to Analogy Backfire, Public Medium Ignorance, and Never Live It Down. Compare and contrast fanon and Pop Culture Urban Legends. See also Reality Is Unrealistic, The Coconut Effect, Dead Unicorn Trope, Everybody Knows That, Misblamed, and Shallow Parody. No relation to Lost Common Knowledge or the GSN Game Show of the same name. Contrast Truer to the Text, when an adaptation is more faithful to the original material, Shown Their Work, when a creator portrays something accurately, and Aluminum Christmas Trees, when something seemingly fictional actually exists in Real Life.
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Common Knowledge / int_144ea6e4	comment	Othello: the title character's description of himself as "one that loved not wisely but too well" is often quoted to describe a victim who fell in love with an unworthy person and was ultimately jilted, betrayed or abused. This is almost the opposite of Othello and Desdemona's doomed love, though. In context, Othello means that he loved Desdemona too possessively and jealously, making him believe Iago's lies about her infidelity and driving him to murder her.
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Common Knowledge / int_14e0f4f9	comment	Despite casual references to him as "the fiddler", Tevye, the milkman and lead character of Fiddler on the Roof, is decidedly not the title character, nor is the title character an actual character. He is a visual representation of what it's like for a people bound by ancient tradition to live in an environment that is hostile to said traditions.
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Common Knowledge / int_16e1deec	comment	There's a lot of widely-believed misinformation about the Big Gold Belt, and much of it still persists even after an official biography was published in 2014. Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold (not helped by the fact that the belt was depicted this way in merchandise). When the belt was first made in late 1985◊, the strap was a Cordovan brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silvernote Many in the championship belt community have claimed that the plates were actually made of German silver aka. nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, zinc and copper (sometimes with a bit of tin or lead added) meant to mimic the appearance of silver but with no actual silver present. This is untrue, the engraving on the back of the plates confirms that they are indeed solid sterling silver with 24-karat heavy gold electroplate. background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a new black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999. Even most people who know that the strap was originally brown think that it was replaced much earlier. This is likely because the original brown strap became so dirty and discolored by the mid-'90s that it began to look blacknote The same thing happened to the original "oval" WWF Intercontinental Championship introduced in 1998, which had a purple strap with a brown backing, and the original "Big Eagle" WWF Championship introduced the same year, which had a dark blue strap. The straps on both belts had turned black within a year. The revised designs (the ones with the scratch WWF logo instead of the block logo) were given a black strap. This is probably why the majority of wrestling championship belts nowadays have black straps, since any other color will darken over time from all the dirt, blood, sweat, baby oil and alcohol staining the leather and black leather straps don't have to be cleaned or replaced as often.. As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were brand new to how they looked just five years later). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copiesnote Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the Ready to Rumble movie. The prop belts◊ in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker Joe "J-Mar" Marshall and have very noticeable differences compared to the real Big Gold◊ and the cast copies◊, so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Kevin Nash and Diamond Dallas Page making a total of five direct copies., which were entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during The InVasion Angle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans. Also, most replicas of the original Big Gold that fans can purchase, including the one for sale on WWE Shop, have gold snaps on the strap. Both the original brown strap◊ and the black strap that replaced it had stainless steel snaps, as did the straps on the cast copies◊ used in late-era WCW and the WWF InVasion. The misconception is probably because the later versions of WWE's World Heavyweight Championship had gold snaps. Everyone knows that the original Big Gold Belt was made by Charles Crumrine (even Wikipedia lists him as the maker of the belt). It wasn't. While the plates were indeed manufactured by Crumrine Jewelers, Charles Crumrine himself died on May 22, 1985 while order for the plates was placed on November 20, 1985 (as evidenced by notes from Crumrine in the Big Gold book). The plates were primarily made by Crumrine silversmith Victor Ortiz with some assistance from Charles' daughter Jeanne Lashelle. Some also believe that Crumrine made the strap, which is not the case. Crumrine Jewelers made belt buckles, not belts. The original brown strap was made by Ralph Harris of Harris Leather and Silverworks while the replacement black strap was made by Andre Freitas of AFX Studios (a company who made a lot of costumes and props for WCW, including the all-gold cast copies of the original Big Gold Belt.) Today the belt is owned by Conrad Thompson, a wrestling podcaster and Ric Flair's son-in-law.note He's married to Ric's older daughter Meghan, Ric's younger and more famous daughter Ashley is married to fellow WWE wrestler Andrade "Cien" Almas. He's had the belt since 2013, before he met Ric or married Meghan. In fact, it was his acquisition of the belt that led to him meeting Flair; they met during the writing of the book. He kept his ownership of the Big Gold a secret until after he became famous through his podcasts. It's not in Triple H's office (after Flair gave it to him as a gift) as often believednote According to Flair, he actually gave Triple H the "Vegas Big Gold◊", a knockoff version briefly used by WWF at live events during their legal battle with NWA/WCW over the real Big Gold appearing on WWF television during Flair's WWF run. nor does Scott Steiner have it...anymore.note During the final months of his reign as WCW World Champion, Steiner began using one of the cast copies — the same one that would carry over to WWF in fact — on TV while keeping the real Big Gold at home. Since WCW went out of business right after he lost the title, he kept the original belt for several years before eventually selling it to Conrad. Regarding the infamous dent at the top of the center plate, it's common for fans to claim that it first appeared in 1995 and that either Hulk Hogan or Randy Savage was responsible for it. No one knows exactly how or when the belt became dented, but the Big Gold biography pins the first appearance of the dent to some time in early 1988. While this is difficult to confirm due to the lower video quality back then, the dent can clearly be seen in this clip of Ric Flair's WWF debut on September 9, 1991. This at least proves that the dent existed before Hogan and Savage held the belt. Fans often say that the reason why the original belt did not have any wrestling company logos on it was because it would have been too expensive to do sonote Which is most likely true to a degree. Jim Crockett Promotions may have been a subsidiary of the NWA — and it's most successful one at that — but they were not the NWA and would have likely ended up having to pay a licensing fee to the NWA to have their logo engraved onto the belt. The book also notes that JCP often got into trouble with NWA board members for using the NWA name on their products without permission, but never faced any severe punishment over it because they were the most financially successful company under the NWA banner.. The real reason is because Jim Crockett told Crumrine to not put any NWA logos on it (the original concept art had the NWA letters at the top of the main plate) since he knew that his company was beginning to outgrow the NWA and wanted to ensure that the NWA couldn't claim ownership of the belt when the inevitable split happened. Indeed, when Jim Crockett Promotions became WCW and seceded from the NWA in 1993, WCW and NWA battled for the belt in court with WCW winning full ownership of it and NWA went back to using the "Ten Pounds of Gold" belt that represented the NWA championship before the introduction of the Big Gold.
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Common Knowledge / int_18d56fb8	comment	Nobody Here has a reputation among certain circles as being "creepy" or "disturbing", frequently appearing in lists and articles on mysterious websites. While a couple of the pages contain some Nightmare Fuel, the website as a whole is a harmless art project and is much more frequently funny.
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Common Knowledge / int_1af3cde6	comment	Cats: It's a misconception that the Jellicle cats are all strays. Many, if not most, have owners. They're just outdoor cats who are out at night. The idea that they're meant to be seen as attractive. While some of them are meant to be seen as attractive, others (such as the kittens) are not.
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Common Knowledge / int_1afaadc2	comment	RENT is also misremembered as "the show where the writer/composer died of AIDS just before it opened on Broadway." While it's true that Jonathan Larson died the day after the show's final dress rehearsal, he died of an aortic aneurysm, not AIDS. The wrong assumption just spread because of the prominence of AIDS and HIV within the musical itself.
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Common Knowledge / int_1bfa1b6c	comment	It's pretty widely believed that Seth Rollins is Hispanic, mainly because his legal name is Colby Lopez. We say legal name and not birth name because Lopez is his stepfather's name, he married Col... Seth's mother when Seth was very young and adopted him a short time later. For those curious Rollins is actually of Armenian, German, and Irish descent.
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Common Knowledge / int_1dbbf4d0	comment	Several people claim that Shawn Michaels gave up the WWF Title because he "lost his smile". However, they are confusing two very different promos that happened months apart. At Survivor Series '96, Shawn lost the belt to his one-time friend Sycho Sid after Sid attacked Michaels' mentor and manager JosÃ© Lothario; a week later, HBK gave an interview where the always upbeat former champion said the event caused to be afraid for his mentor's safety and it hurt him more than losing the belt, it made him lose his smile. Two months later, Michaels regained the belt at the Royal Rumble, but suffered a severe knee injury and needed surgery, so he would be out of action for at least six months and maybe permanently. He gave up the title in a Tear Jerker speech where he made a brief reference to the earlier promo.It also became common knowledge that he only claimed to have lost his smile so he would not have to lose the title to Bret Hart at WrestleMania and did not even need surgery. This is strange for a couple of reasons: First, Michael's surgery was covered on TV — they even showed footage of him getting the operation done — and he walked with a cane on TV for several weeks while he recovered and returned to his old job as a commentator. Secondly, Hart was at the time the most booed face in the company after his 7-month vacation and feud with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, so it is unlikely that they would give him the belt at the biggest event of the year; also, they did give him a brief reign by winning the Final Four and losing it the next night to Sycho Sid, so they could have easily had Hart as champion at WrestleMania without Michaels, he just was not over enough to justify it.
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Common Knowledge / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: A commonly-repeated statement in the broader Warhammer fan community is that Games Workshop torched Warhammer Fantasy and replaced it with Age of Sigmar because the former's Standard Fantasy Setting made it impossible to defend IP infringement disputes, prompting the company to replace it wholesale with a much more distinctive setting and to rename all of the Standard Fantasy Races with more copyright-friendly spellings (Elf to Aelf, Dwarf to Duardin, Orc to Orruk, etcetera). While copyright considerations most likely played a role in picking new names, this was not the primary reason for the overall transition. It is relevant to note here that Games Workshop has used the Warhammer Fantasy setting more or less continuously even after discontinuing the tabletop game — the video games The End Times: Vermintide and Total War: Warhammer, both set entirely in the older setting, were both released after the shift from Fantasy to Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has also see continued publications and support — without any particular change in names or setting, which is not very consistent with the setting itself being the problem. A much more important consideration was that Warhammer Fantasy itself had been having profit issues for long while, and the reboot was intended to introduce a game with an ideally more profitable system. A notion spread around the web is that one of the few early pieces of lore features Daemon Prince Be'lakor being lapidated to death by a band of Seraphon Terradon Riders. Such story is actually a fabrication: sources (like for example 1d4Chan, the gaming wiki for 4chan's /tg/ board) state that this story was published on White Dwarf as part of one of their battle reports... except that it's impossible, since when Age of Sigmar was first released the magazine was briefly shifted into a smaller, weekly format which entirely lacked battle reports, and the magazine scan used as proof clearly comes from an earlier issue of the magazine (more precisely, it's the February 2009 issue, which featured a Warhammer Fantasy Lizardmen vs Chaos Daemons battle report where the Daemons player used the Be'lakor model to represent a generic Daemon Prince — which indeed is killed by a pack of Terradon Riders). Later, Be'lakor was revealed to be still alive and thriving in the new setting, getting a new model and an expanded role as Archaon's rival. It seems to be believed in many corners of the internet that the only people who survived the End Times to make it to Age of Sigmar's Mortal Realms were gods, Skaven, and Lizardmen. In actuality, multiple sources have specified that a small number of survivors were saved via various means as the old world was ending (this has actually been the case since the very first Stormcast Eternals battletome). They are the ancestors of the people of Azyr. A significant number of undead characters, such as Mannfred, Arkhan and Neferata, were also preserved and resurrected by Nagash.
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Common Knowledge / int_25818ae2	comment	Everyone knows that when Sting took on his "Crow" gimmick in late 1996, he never spoke a single word on-camera until the first episode of WCW Thunder in January of 1998, right? Not exactly. While Sting never cut promos or gave any on-camera interviews until this point, he did occasionally talk, albeit in ways that the audience couldn't hear him, such as whispering something in his victims' ear right before performing a Scorpion Death Drop (notably, during Lex Luger's match against the Giant at Starrcade 1996, Sting interrupted the match while both men were down, whispering something to both of them before leaving his baseball bat behind and leaving). The first time Sting spoke again to viewers was actually after beating Hollywood Hulk Hogan at Starrcade 1997. While celebrating with the luchadores, he looks into the camera and says something in Spanish ending in "Mamacita!". The randomness of it, combined with the infamous screwy finish of the match overshadowing what happened after is probably why most fans either don't know about it or don't acknowledge it.
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Common Knowledge / int_2a893b9b	comment	The popular Counter-Strike video DOOR STUCK! in which a player Trolls his teammate by trapping him in a door, is treated by gamers on the casual side of the Casual-Competitive Conflict as an example of how players used to be able to have fun in multiplayer games instead of being forced to treat everything like Tournament Play. Ironically, the video description says this happened in a competitive match, as it says he's "having fun in ESEA", a competitive league which includes Counter-Strike. Furthermore, the video takes place on de_cpl_mill, the "cpl" in which stands for Cyberathlete Professional League, meaning the video would still depend on Counter-Strike having an esports scene to exist in the first place even if they were playing casually.
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Common Knowledge / int_2b727723	comment	On Reddit: Users tend to believe that the guy who allegedly had a sexual relationship with his mother had broken both of his arms, leading to tons of inside jokes about how you should ask your mom for "help" if you break your arm or suffer a similar injury. In reality, he simply said he was incapacitated in a way that made him temporarily unable to use his arms — it remains unknown if his arms were broken, or if it was some other cause, for example paralysis. Another famous inside joke is referring to someone as "Kevin" if they admit that they, as children, thought that dogs were always male and cats were always female. This comes from a story about a weird and not-too-bright kid named Kevin who supposedly thought this. However, what Kevin actually thought was that cats and dogs were the same animal, not that cats or dogs were single-gendered. People tend to mix up this story with the aforementioned common childhood belief.
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Common Knowledge / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony Tales is not G2. My Little Pony is a toy-line before anything else, its generations are defined by the toys. G2 started in the late 90s years after Tales, and it had a very noticeable Art Shift from G1 that makes it very distinguishable from other gens. Despite this, newer fans near constantly refer to Tales as G2. Seen in many My Little Phony parodies, everyone thinks that My Little Pony features no males. While it is true that most ponies are female, even the original G1 line featured several colts and stallions (such as Lucky and the Big Brother Ponies). Both My Little Pony 'n Friends and My Little Pony Tales even featured songs by the female ponies about male ponies (The Big Brother Ponies and Boys, Boys, Boys, respectively). There's also a few non-pony males such as Spike and the other baby dragons. It's only G3 from the 2000s that featured no male toys (though Spike was The One Guy in the animated adaptation), but by then this misconception was already rampant. G4 strays even further from this by featuring a large cast of males, and G5 has a male pony as one of the main characters, in a first for the series. A lot of fans think My Little Pony: Equestria Girls was primarily created to compete with the Monster High Franchise. Actually, according to the documentary The Toys That Made Us, it was the popularity of humanised fanart that made Hasbro interested in the idea.
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Common Knowledge / int_2f92f79b	comment	Richard III The play's most famous line, "Now is the winter of our discontent", is not delivered during a time of great hardship or suffering. It's actually the opposite: the full line is "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York". Richard says it while celebrating the House of York's victory over the House of Lancaster. The fact that a period of inclement weather and labor unrest in the UK became known as the "Winter of Discontent" has probably contributed to the misconception. The way people talk about Richard's Historical Villain Upgrade you'd think he was some sort of paragon of virtue. While a lot of his crimes in the play are pure fiction — such as arranging the death of Clarence — quite a lot of them are historical fact. Not only is Richard still widely considered the prime suspect for killing his nephews, but he also unquestionably usurped them using the flimsy pretext of their illegitimacy.
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Common Knowledge / int_34f3d7a2	comment	Critics of Grease constantly say that in the end, Sandy's greaser makeover is "to please Danny" or "to make Danny love her." But Danny already already loves Sandy when she's a "good girl," and though he does feign indifference to her for a while to uphold his reputation, he gets over that and wants to go steady with her before her makeover. But then she dumps him because he wants to "go all the way" and she doesn't, which leaves him heartbroken. Her transformation can be read in a number of ways (wanting to fit in with the cool kids, abandoning social norms and finding her true self, etc.). But even if she does do it mainly to get back together with Danny, it's more about abandoning her own reservations than about pleasing him.
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Common Knowledge / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet: The play is known for the much-parodied Signature Scene in which Hamlet contemplatively holds the skull of his dead friend Yorick and delivers the "To be or not to be..." soliloquy. These are actually two separate scenes from different parts of the play. Hamlet delivers a different (and much shorter) monologue while holding the skull, and it's not even a soliloquy like "To be or not to be...", as he's directing it at another character. The line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" doesn't mean she complains in a suspiciously over-the-top manner. It means that she promises more than she can reasonably deliver.
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Common Knowledge / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Due to the show's name being based on the titular team of female monster-slayers, the show is often thought to portray a World of Action Girls. However, the setting never makes females more badass: the Huntsmen Academies are egalitarian, adult leadership structures are male-dominated, and there are more named male fighters than female. However, the main cast is initially heavily skewed by consisting of the four-girl protagonist team and a deuteragonist team of two girls and two boys. This evens out over time by the loss of one of the deuteragonist girls, and the addition of a Farm Boy, Cool Uncle, male Spirit Advisor and a female former villain.
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Common Knowledge / int_3c38c613	comment	Shylock in The Merchant of Venice is often considered one of the most famous examples of the Greedy Jew. While he is indeed a villainous Jewish money-lender, and certainly greedy, his primary motivation in the play is not greed but a desire for revenge, to the point where he refuses to spare Antonio's life in exchange for three times the amount Antonio owes him. And while Shylock is probably the best-known character in the play, he is not the titular merchant; the title refers to Antonio.
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Common Knowledge / int_3d55626e	comment	I Will Survive is a Zootopia fan comic in which Judy learns that she's pregnant with Nick's child, leading to a huge argument between them: Judy wants to terminate her pregnancy, while Nick tries to convince her to keep the child. This culminates in Nick deciding to break up with Judy when she refuses to change her mind. The comic earned some infamy for supposedly using Nick and Judy to Anviliciously push a pro-life moral upon readers. The comic doesn't actually take a stance about whether Judy or Nick is right or wrong, and it's more of a character study than an attempt at moralizing. But because the topic of abortion is so controversial, most stories that deal with the issue tend to be heavy-handed one way or the other, leading people to assume that Borba was also trying to preach his opinion on abortion, and it's easy to come to the conclusion that we're meant to sympathize with the pro-life Nick when Judy slaps him (while Nick doesn't use physical violence). The sequels, Born To Be Alive and Never Say Goodbye, try to address this misconception by making Judy more obviously sympathetic.
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Common Knowledge / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Some people think that every strip has some deeper meaning. While there are indeed plenty of deep, philosophical strips, there are also a lot of strips without deeper meanings, such as the one where Calvin pretends to be an onion for the school play. Some people also think the infamous bootleg "Peeing Calvin" decals led to the cancellation of the strip. That isn't true. The comic strip ended in 1995, well before the now-notorious decal got any significance. The last strip is not the one where Calvin takes medication and starts seeing Hobbes as just a stuffed animal. That was a fan creation; the actual last strip shows Calvin and Hobbes sledding off into the distance on a snowy day.
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Common Knowledge / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: The foundation has three main object classes: "Safe", "Euclid", and "Keter". They classify SCPs by how difficult it is to contain them, but many people mistake them as how dangerous they are. Essentially, "Safe" is generally reserved for nonsentient SCPs that you can leave unmonitored without issue, even if they would be incredibly destructive when activated.note (The site notes that under this classification, a button that destroys the universe when pressed would be considered "Safe".) Meanwhile, SCPs that are sentient or living will be almost always be at least "Euclid", even if they aren't particularly threatening, as they require regular attention and supervision to contain. The difference between these two categories is based on how much effort is needed to contain them, rather than how dangerous they are.note (A cat that can teleport by switching places with any other cat on Earth is given as an example of a "Keter" SCP, despite being no more dangerous than an ordinary housecat.) That said, many entries from the site's early days that would otherwise be classified as "Euclid" are instead "Safe", which may contribute to this misconception. In 2019, some members of the wiki created and introduced an extended (and optional, as many users dislike it) classification systems to remedy this, one of which actually says how dangerous a specific SCP is ("notice", "caution", "warning", "danger", and "critical"). SCP-999 is typically assumed to have eyes, arms and a mouth due to fan art, but it actually lacks organs and appendages altogether. SCP-4335 is often depicted with yellow eyes and a toothy mouth locked into a shit-eating grin. However, the article's actual portrayal of it is completely featureless, considering it's a sentient void. Some fan videos of the creature also show it being able to hold Minecraft weapons, even though 4335 is never demonstrated doing so (and would have no reason to, since it has the Endermen and its tentacles at its disposal for combat.) Kain Pathos Crow is sometimes depicted with anthropomorphism, even though he really is just a talking dog to the point that a Mini-Mecha is required for him to do certain human things like having opposible fingers. His mugshot on his personal file might be a source of this confusion, as the dog used for the photo is standing upright and wearing a human-looking suit.
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Common Knowledge / int_436dff03	comment	On Rotten Tomatoes, the percentage score isn't an indicator of how good a movie is, but rather the percentage of critics who liked it. Theoretically, a movie could get a 100% score if all the ratings were 6/10 (which is considered So Okay, It's Average rather than truly good), or 0% if all of the ratings were 5/10.
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Common Knowledge / int_436f9154	comment	Annie: Many people know that in Amanda Dehnert's Darker and Edgier production for the Trinity Rep theatre in 2003, Annie woke up at the end and found that her adoption by Daddy Warbucks was All Just a Dream. But most sources claim that she woke up back at Miss Hannigan's orphanage, turning the ending into a total Downer Ending. Actually, she didn't wake up back at the orphanage, but in an abandoned theatre, where she had taken refuge and fallen asleep after running away from the orphanage at the beginning. Then she sang a bittersweet reprise of "Tomorrow" before wandering off with Sandy in search of a new life. It was meant as a realistic "Ray of Hope" Ending, not a downer. Still, the show's original director/lyricist Martin Charnin disapproved and forced the production team to switch back to the original Happily Ever After ending.
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Common Knowledge / int_43c9273b	comment	Gypsy: Rose Hovick is never referred to as "Momma Rose". The professional name she goes by is "Madame Rose" and her daughters just call her "Momma". "Momma Rose" is really just a Fan Nickname.
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Common Knowledge / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: A common fan theory is that Garfield hates Mondays because it's when Jon goes to work; he secretly appreciates Jon but is too proud to admit it. One of the strip's most famous Running Gags involves something bad happening to Garfield on Mondays. This was often a Pie in the Face, but ranged from having a piano falling on him to even falling into a sinkhole. We also see Jon on a lot of Monday strips, and the Garfield and Friends episode "Caped Avenger" shows that he works from home as a cartoonist, with clients coming over to his house so he can pitch ideas. Nermal often talks about how cute he is, is drawn with eyelashes, is smaller than Garfield, and in animated adaptations, speaks with a feminine voice. While it's easy to assume Nermal is female, he's actually male. Not helping is that he was voiced by Desiree Goyette in Garfield and Friends.
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Common Knowledge / int_467c89f7	comment	Everyone knows that FASA lost the copyright suit brought against it by Harmony Gold and as part of the judgement was forced to never use the Unseen artwork again, right? Not quite. The settlement agreement was put under seal, which means that nobody other than the parties who were in that courtroom in Chicago in 1995-96 have any knowledge of who, if anyone, actually won or lost the case (it could conceivably have ended up in a "amicable" (so-to-speak) settlement with no actual "winner" or "loser"). The story that FASA and its successor companies (Wizkids, FanPro, and InMediaRes Productions/Catalyst Game Labs) have always maintained is that the discontinuance of the Unseen artwork was voluntary, a sizable portion of a larger mandate to end the use of all artwork not created in-house. This stemmed from the lawsuit (in the "let's avoid any more headaches" sense) but it was not as far as anyone can tell, dictated by anything in the settlement. In fact, in 2009, they did test the waters in returning the non-Macross art to sourcebooks, before concerns over returning the minis to production gave Topps, the current rightsholder, pause.
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Common Knowledge / int_49d8fedd	comment	Love Is...: While the main couple are often thought to be young children, they're actually adults drawn in a Super-Deformed style. Not only was this confirmed by original creator Kim Casali, some strips make it clear they're married with kids.
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Common Knowledge / int_4c99197e	comment	Wilkins is commonly thought to be a prototype for Kermit the Frog, due to him having a similar body structure and voice. Actually, Kermit made his debut two years earlier on Sam and Friends. True, he was quite different at this stage (he was a lizard instead of a frog), but he very much came before Wilkins.
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Common Knowledge / int_4ddffc77	comment	In summer 2018, Tama Tonga and his family have betrayed the Bullet Club to form a group called the Firing Squad. Except, as Tama express here, that's not the point of the story at all.
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Common Knowledge / int_4fc1c922	comment	Wicked: Wicked is commonly described by non-fans as a Wizard of Oz rewrite where Glinda the Good Witch is the villain and the Wicked Witch of the West is good. This is wrong on Glinda's part. She's antagonistic towards Elphaba for part of the story, but not a villain. The two are best friends (with a lot of Homoerotic Subtext added in) who are on opposing sides. Glinda isn't the villain, the Wizard of Oz is. Despite common belief, Wicked is not a true Perspective Flip on the classic MGM film, or the original Oz books for that matter. It's an Alternate Continuity with various differences from the originals and with elements taken from both of them. Contrary to popular belief, Shiz isn't a Wizarding School; sorcery is just one of several subjects taught there, and not all students learn it.
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Common Knowledge / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The trolls' pale romance does not just mean the two people are involved are very close friends, there is also a major element involved of one party pacifying the other. The confusion likely stems from the four types of troll romances being broadly split between positive/negative feelings and romantic/platonic. Pale is positive and platonic, leading to some fans to believe that it is the default for non-romantic relationships or a synonym for close friends.
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Common Knowledge / int_5ae078da	comment	Everybody knows that ECW's infamous "Mass Transit" incident happened because Paul Heyman stupidly allowed a random 17-year-old with no wrestling experience to wrestle New Jack after he lied about his age. Not quite. While it's true that Erich Kulas (better known as "Mass Transit") was seriously injured after lying about his age, it's less well-known that Kulas was already scheduled to wrestle in that night's house show before he convinced Heyman to let him replace Axl Rotten in a tag-team match against New Jack and Mustafa Saed: he was also set to face the dwarf wrestlers Tiny the Terrible and Half Nelson in a two-on-one match—a considerably less dangerous match that required considerably less experience and skill. With that in mind, it's somewhat more understandable that Heyman allowed him to take part in a more high-profile match, although that decision is still generally regarded as extremely irresponsible.
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Common Knowledge / int_5e150650	comment	A Green Sun Prince in Exalted 2e is not necessarily offered their Deal with the Devil after My Greatest Failure. This is nearly always the case, because it's in the nature of mortals to fail — especially in the sort of circumstances that would attract an Exaltation — but if, somehow, against all odds, they manage to succeed, the Infernal Exaltation doesn't just go away. It would take a very unusual person to accept under those conditions, but the offer is still made. (3e/Essence GSPs have different criteria, being selected from victims of injustice and oppresion, so this doesn't apply for them.)
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Common Knowledge / int_615a3895	comment	My Little Pony Tales is not G2. My Little Pony is a toy-line before anything else, its generations are defined by the toys. G2 started in the late 90s years after Tales, and it had a very noticeable Art Shift from G1 that makes it very distinguishable from other gens. Despite this, newer fans near constantly refer to Tales as G2.
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Common Knowledge / int_6250d2c3	comment	College Roomies from Hell!!!'s trio of male protagonists all acquired a mutant ability: Mike's arm was replaced with a super-strong tentacle, Dave got laser vision, and Roger got an eye in his hand (not his were-coyote nature, even though that's often mistakenly cited; he had that already). The confusion arises because this is what Roger uses when they have to fight, alongside the others' abilities, and because the eye in the hand hasn't been mentioned in a long time.
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Common Knowledge / int_64d851d	comment	Many assume that the line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," from Henry VI Part 2 is an Evil Lawyer Joke. A joke, yes, but targeted at the speaker, not lawyers; the line is often spoken way out of context. First of all, the speaker — Dick the Butcher — is a thug and a killer. Second, he was saying this in reply to his friend Jack's scheme to revolt against the King, or rather, his plans should they succeed. (In a more modern setting, the joke may have started by Jack saying, "When I'm the King, there'll be two cars in every garage, and a chicken in every pot" but Dick interrupting and shouting, "AND NO LAWYERS!") In Shakespeare's time, lawyers were regarded as the protectors of truth, and Dick, being the scum he was, wanted to get rid of such people.
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Common Knowledge / int_65268dd1	comment	Schaffrillas Productions: Because his mascot is Tamatoa and his most popular reviews tend to cover animated works, James is often seen as an animation reviewer akin to The Mysterious Mr. Enter and Saberspark. However, this isn't the case, as his channel covers a wide variety of content beyond animated works, such as live-action works, video games, and musicals, amongst other things
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Common Knowledge / int_66f6fc1e	comment	Everyone knows that Kevin Sullivan "booked his own divorce" by setting up an angle in WCW where his wife Nancy aka. Woman was cheating on him with Chris Benoit, which led to Chris and Nancy actually having an affair in real life. According to Kevin Sullivan, he and Nancy were already separated before the angle took place.
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Common Knowledge / int_68d7b51d	comment	A notion spread around the web is that one of the few early pieces of lore features Daemon Prince Be'lakor being lapidated to death by a band of Seraphon Terradon Riders. Such story is actually a fabrication: sources (like for example 1d4Chan, the gaming wiki for 4chan's /tg/ board) state that this story was published on White Dwarf as part of one of their battle reports... except that it's impossible, since when Age of Sigmar was first released the magazine was briefly shifted into a smaller, weekly format which entirely lacked battle reports, and the magazine scan used as proof clearly comes from an earlier issue of the magazine (more precisely, it's the February 2009 issue, which featured a Warhammer Fantasy Lizardmen vs Chaos Daemons battle report where the Daemons player used the Be'lakor model to represent a generic Daemon Prince — which indeed is killed by a pack of Terradon Riders). Later, Be'lakor was revealed to be still alive and thriving in the new setting, getting a new model and an expanded role as Archaon's rival.
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Common Knowledge / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons examples: The game is heavily steeped in the occult, and the "deeper" you go into the game, the more you are called upon to actually recite occultic prayers, cast real spells and summon real demons with incantations based on actual pagan rituals. None of that is true and is all based on the completely made-up testimony of Patricia Pulling, who blamed the game for her son's suicide and later claimed to be an expert on it while attempting to get the game banned. In fact, D&D as a whole could be considered The Moral Substitute compared to many other RPGs; good and evil are clearly defined, the protagonist classes include paladins and clerics while the antagonists include The Legions of Hell, and Gary Gygax himself was reluctant to include stats for angels (which are always Good) because he thought players might be tempted to kill them otherwise. There is a small kernel of truth to the legend — in the First Edition DMG, there are template summoning circles, some of which look like they may have been cribbed from real-world thaumaturgy, depicted for summoning Aerial Servants in the DM's glosses on adjudicating spells. Gary Gygax most likely intended these as an Obvious Rule Patch to make summoning by his players' characters a bit more onerous, time-consuming and expensive (and to give the Killer Game Master some fun if the character screwed it up). Oh, bards. The always underpowered losers, with about as much use as Sir Robin's minstrels and likely to meet the same fate. What kind of idiot wanders into a dungeon to fight monsters with an instrument? The kind of idiot who's going to save the whole party, as it turns out. Over the course of D&D's many editions, bards have been a mid-tier class at worst, and often edge on being one of the best. The original bard was a special super class that could only be entered after a complicated process that would usually make them the strongest character at the table. The 2e bard, the first one to become a regular class, was a more than serviceable caster and thief, and often preferable to the actual thief. The 3.5 bard was the most powerful core class not considered an outright Game-Breaker. The 4e bard was a completely competent Leader with some handy specialized skills. The current 5e bard is often regarded as flat-out the best core class, with the potential to be a Master of All. Though some versions have been poorly designed or Difficult, but Awesome, the class as a whole has never been weak. A mixture of new players failing to understand their mechanics and how they synergize with each other, the longstanding trope of the comic-relief Wandering Minstrel, and the crappiness of Edward in Final Fantasy IV may be to blame for this one. Contrary to almost all depictions (and how they're portrayed in every other form of media), elves in D&D are, by the rules as written, a head shorter than humans on average, given the height ranges given. 3.5e rules gave the random height for elves of either gender as a base of 4' 5" plus 2d6 inches, giving a range of 4.5 to 5.5 feet. By comparison, human women started at the same base height and human men at 5' 10" with a modifier of 2d10 inches (a range of 5' 5" to 6' 3" for women, and 6' 8" for men). As of 5e, elves range from "5 to 6 feet tall", while humans are described as "barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet", making elves a little taller, but giving roughly the same range (scrapping the random tables as they were rarely used, and being more inclusive of human short kings and tall queens). One related to another common misconception. Among those who know that Tiamat wasn't actually a dragon originally, it's widely believed that this inaccuracy originated with D&D. This is objectively wrong, since Tiamat's been described as a dragon in (non-fiction) literature as early as 1888. D&D did basically make up Tiamat's design from scratch, though. In most editions, rolling a natural one (ie. rolling a 1 on a d20, before any modifiers are applied) is only an automatic failure when rolling to hit an enemy. The idea that it's an automatic failure for any roll is a common house rule (and most of the time, it's such a low roll that it fails anyway), but it is not officially a part of the game. By a similar count, the Critical Failure (that is to say, rolling so badly on a standard roll that a negative effect occurs) has never been a core rule, flitting somewhere between popular house rule and official-but-not-default variant. By default, regardless of edition, the only thing that happens when a character rolls a 1 on their attack roll is that they miss. However the DM can call for a d20 roll after a wild magic sorcerer casts a spell, causing a random effect on a nat 1, however this is not exactly a critical fail. Again similarly, a natural 20 is normally only an auto-success, and only on attack rolls and saving throws (and only in some editions for saving throws). It is not an automatic success on a skill check, and it's not a super-duper ultra success. The only exceptions are Death saving throws in Fifth Edition, where natural 20s and natural 1s have explicit special effects (they count as an automatic revive and two failures, respectively), critical hits (which can sometimes happen on slightly lower rolls) and attack rolls with a Vorpal Sword (which either beheads the target or deals a massive amount of extra damage note which is further multiplied by virtue of being a critical hit if the target cannot be beheaded or could survive such a fate - at least in later editions). In third edition, there was an obscure race called the "dvati". For some reason, fan art of this race frequently gives them Pointy Ears despite no official description nor illustration giving them such ears.
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Common Knowledge / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	Something*Positive's creator R.K. Milholland gets a lot of complaints grounded in this trope from readers; the most common objection is "Your comic didn't use to be mean," despite the fact that the main character sent a coat hanger to an ex-girlfriend as a baby shower present in the first strip.
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Common Knowledge / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: People who haven't been on the site in years tend to say, "I bet my Neopets are dead now". However, Neopets do not die except for plot characters, despite "dying" being their lowest level of hunger. Everybody "knows" that the Kadoaties at the Kadoatery whine for blue Draik eggs all the time. What they don't know is that they used to do this, but don't anymore. One myth is that you can win a Kadoatie from the Kadoatery— you can't; the only prizes are trophies and an avatar. The idea that Shenkuu is "the Neopian equivalent of Asia" is only partially true— it was based loosely on medieval Asia. Some people seem to think that Queen Fyora made the Grey Faerie lose her powers. Actually, the Grey Faerie lost her powers due to the cruelty of a character named Jennumara. Some people incorrectly refer to Jhudora or the Darkest Faerie as "the Dark Faerie", Illusen as "the Earth Faerie", Marina or Naia as "the Water Faerie", etc. This is incorrect—- there are six main types of faerie (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Light, and Dark) in addition to several unique faeries who don't belong to a type, such as Queen Fyora and Taelia. Each main faerie type actually has many individuals who fit under it. In short, Illusen, for instance, is "an Earth Faerie", not "the Earth Faerie". "Lupes eat Chias" is only partly true. Lupes used to eat Chias in the ancient times, but it's incredibly rare these days.
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Common Knowledge / int_70473c57	comment	The Rugrats Theory isn't nearly as violent or "creepy" as fan-art and derivatives make it seem. It deals with dark themes, such as child loss and drug addiction, but it's mainly about a mentally ill child who has trouble deciphering reality from hallucination. The one violent thing Angelica does is hit Dil, resulting in his Childhood Brain Damage and Cloudcuckoolander personality in All Grown Up!.
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Common Knowledge / int_74795739	comment	"Pirate" is never rhymed with "pilot" in The Pirates of Penzance, not even in the song about Ruth's confusion between the two words. Most people will swear up and down otherwise, even insisting they "remember" the two words being rhymed.
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Common Knowledge / int_755c9804	comment	It's true that "Bionicle saved LEGO", but that's not the whole picture, despite former LEGO CEO JÃ¸rgen Vig Knudstorp being quoted as saying such. In 2003, when the company had no licensed properties to rely on (as there were no Star Wars or Harry Potter movies that year), Bionicle was their only line that turned in a profit. However, Star Wars toys, the post-2000 redesign of the LEGO City theme and general behind-the-scenes management shifts were also major factors in stabilizing the company. So Bionicle did keep LEGO afloat in a time of need, and gave them crucial experience in managing an in-house property, tie-in media and strengthening relations with consumers, but it wasn't the only thing that kept them from going bankrupt, unless you're strictly talking about their 2003 profits. For that matter, the sales of Bionicle toys have been on a decline at that time too.
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Common Knowledge / int_7c9864d1	comment	Twelfth Night — the opening speech by Orsino: "If music be the food of love, play on" is not in praise of music, or of love. It continues "Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,/The appetite may sicken, and so die", meaning that he wishes to bring his love for Olivia to an end, and asks for more music so as to achieve this through an excess of it.
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Common Knowledge / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller has a reputation for being one of the few tabletop games in which your character can die during character creation, which has players roll to determine what events occurred in their life, good and bad beforehand rather than having the player dictate their past. While this was true when the game first came out, this was quickly made into an optional rule in the 1980's and only recently brought back as of 2018. In any event, this is an exceedingly rare thing to have happen, to the point where in order for your character to die this way, it'd have to be nigh-deliberate, such as having that character refuse to seek medical attention for a grievous injury. Despite this, the game is still mistakenly known for "the one that kills you in character creation" as if it happens all the time, causing some potential players to avoid or demean the game for this reason alone. Part of the confusion is that "you can die in character creation" has remained an optional rule for several editions; even the creators mock it, referring to it as "Iron Man Character Creation".
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Common Knowledge / int_7f6eb95d	comment	Romeo and Juliet: While the famous line "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" is usually quoted right, more or less, most people are unaware of the true meaning, often believing that Juliet is asking "Where are you, Romeo?" "Wherefor" does not mean "where", it means "why". Compare "therefore". In other words, Juliet is asking why Romeo must be who he is, a member of the family with which her own family has a long-standing feud. And everybody "knows" that Juliet delivers that line from a balcony. Of course she does — it's the famous "balcony scene", isn't it? Well... no. It may typically be staged that way, but what the playscript actually says is that Juliet appears at a window. What's more, balconies had only recently been invented in Italy (where the story is set, to be fair), and were unknown in England at the time, as well as being considered rather vulgar. "Star-crossed lovers" is not a synonym for "happily ever after". It means that they are ill-fated, that destiny is against them. ("Stars" stand in for "fate", and "crossed" in this case is akin to a "double-cross", i.e. a betrayal. If the stars have "crossed" you, then bad things will happen to you.) They die. There's a reason the Star-Crossed Lovers trope means a relationship is doomed to failure. The prospect of 13-year-old Juliet getting engaged to Paris is often considered something that's creepy to modern audiences, but normal in Shakespeare's day. Except that while doing so was technically legal in the Elizabethan era, audiences would generally have considered it unacceptable as well; true, people did tend to get married younger in those days, but not that young. By all accounts and indications, Shakespeare intended for his audience to be disturbed at Juliet getting married so young; her father tells Paris to wait a few years before marrying her when the prospect is first brought up, and him later changing his mind and trying to make Juliet go through with it is played in a resoundingly negative light.
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Common Knowledge / int_8124a34e	comment	The titular character of Barbie is usually pinned as a teenager by adults, which has caused issues such as when one of the doll-lines was banned for supposedly supporting Teen Pregnancy. Barbie can be a teenager, but since the 1980s, at earliest, she's more frequently been depicted as an adult. Skipper is the default teenager of the family. Additionally, the "pregnant" doll, Midge, was explicitly portrayed as a married adult, with dolls of her husband and toddler son also available.
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Common Knowledge / int_822aaa02	comment	A lot of fans think My Little Pony: Equestria Girls was primarily created to compete with the Monster High Franchise. Actually, according to the documentary The Toys That Made Us, it was the popularity of humanised fanart that made Hasbro interested in the idea.
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Common Knowledge / int_829b2f67	comment	The Sound of Music: Even though Maria is a classic example of the Magical Nanny trope, she's technically not the von Trapp children's nanny. She's their governess — in charge of their education, not their physical care. The confusion likely stems from her sharing an actress and a few plot parallels with cinema's most famous nanny, Mary Poppins, plus the fact that nowadays the distinction between nannies and governesses is not as well known since the latter rarely exists anymore.
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Common Knowledge / int_840a0712	comment	Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles): The depiction of Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic having a violent, stoic alter ego named "Pinkamena Diane Pie" is sometimes believed to come from this fanfic. It was thought to be inspired by her flat-haired, schizoid self from a disturbing scene in "Party of One" where Pinkie has a full conversation about how rude her friends are with various inanimate objects. However, not only was the fic released before "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" (where the name "Pinkamena Diane Pie" is first used, as Pinkie's full name) and "Party of One" premiered, but Pinkie is her curly-maned and cheerful self despite torturing ponies to death, this supposed "Pinkamena" alter ego never appearing. A lot of the unease of the fic comes from the fact that Pinkie, as her normal happy-go-lucky hyperactive self, is either unaware or apathetic to the horrors she's committing; a violent alter ego would defeat the whole point. The blog Ask Pinkamina Diane Pie probably didn't help. Cupcakes is very frequently cited as a creepypasta. It was never intended to be one. It's a fanfic, or a Dark Fic more specifically. Creepypastas tend to be presented as something that has happened or could happen in the real world, with "scary lost episode of a kids' show"-type stories having a Framing Device claiming that the episode exists, usually involving the narrator randomly stumbling across a copy. Cupcakes, meanwhile, has no such framing device and never tries to pretend that it's anything other than a non-canon work of fiction. In the story, Pinkie wears a dress made of stitched-together cutie marks and wings of many ponies. One famous piece of fanart shows that Luna's cutie mark is among them, leading fans to assume that this fanfic's version of Pinkie managed to murder a Physical Goddess, something which even TV Tropes claimed was part of the story for years. The actual fanfic, however, never specifies whose cutie marks make up the dress, and Luna is never mentioned at all.
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Common Knowledge / int_84a52c39	comment	Everyone remembers Scott Hall throwing the WCW World Television Title in the trash, right? It was actually Kevin Nash, though Hall was the one vacating the title.
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Common Knowledge / int_8516bd41	comment	One of the most well-known numbers from Chicago is the "Cell Block Tango" (which everyone knows is called "They Had It Coming"), in which six women on trial for murdering their lovers protest their innocence, even though the audience knows better. Except... only three of them make even a flimsy attempt to claim innocence of the crime. June says her husband "ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times", and Velma claims to not remember anything between opening the hotel-room door to see her man and her sister getting busy and "washing the blood off my hands". The sixth, The Hunyak, actually is innocent (Bilingual Bonus reveals the ugly circumstances of her arrest and conviction). The other three freely admit to it, though they also insist that the murders were justified, for whatever reason.
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Common Knowledge / int_85aa7b4e	comment	Old Man Henderson is known as "the character who won Call of Cthulhu". Except that the group was actually playing Trail of Cthulhu, which is very similar, but still not the same game. In this case, the confusion started at the source, as it was Henderson's own player who first called him that before later being corrected by one of his fellow players, who admitted there is little difference between the two, but still enough that he felt it was worth mentioning.
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Common Knowledge / int_88842009	comment	Chess (1984): Everyone knows the producers changed the ending so that The American won the final chess match for the American productions, whereas The Russian won in all the productions shown outside of the United States. Except this isn't true. Originally the final chess match wasn't even against The American, but a completely different character. One of the major changes from the Concept Album was that the final chess match would be a rematch between The Russian and The American. However, the American always won in every production, no matter the country. It wasn't until a further revision almost five years later that The Russian won the match. Also, the productions in which The American wins also make the character much more of a bastard, which means it probably wasn't an attempt to endear the production to American audiences.
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Common Knowledge / int_8ab0ec8a	comment	A Streetcar Named Desire: The script actually leaves up to directorial interpretation whether or not Stanley really raped Blanche; all it says about their final confrontation is that she collapses in the midst of her hysteria and "he picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed." That can easily be staged as her falling into a catatonic trance and him taking advantage, but it suggests just as validly that he was just cruelly taunting her and puts her to bed to sleep off her drunkenness after she passes out (which sets a very different tone for the following scene of Stella confiding to Eunice that she simply doesn't believe Blanche's dramatic claim and receiving reassurance that she should stick with that thought). Of course, more often than not, the stage direction is completely disregarded and a Moral Event Horizon violent rape is substituted.
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Common Knowledge / int_8c1324fe	comment	Little Orphan Annie is sometimes mistakenly thought to have been adapted as a movie in the 1930s starring Shirley Temple as the title character. But while there were two '30s film adaptations of the strip, one in 1932 starring Mitzi Green and one in 1938 starring Ann Gillis, and while Shirley Temple frequently did play orphans onscreen, she never played Annie.
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Common Knowledge / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: The Unseen fiasco created a few of these: Everyone knows that FASA lost the copyright suit brought against it by Harmony Gold and as part of the judgement was forced to never use the Unseen artwork again, right? Not quite. The settlement agreement was put under seal, which means that nobody other than the parties who were in that courtroom in Chicago in 1995-96 have any knowledge of who, if anyone, actually won or lost the case (it could conceivably have ended up in a "amicable" (so-to-speak) settlement with no actual "winner" or "loser"). The story that FASA and its successor companies (Wizkids, FanPro, and InMediaRes Productions/Catalyst Game Labs) have always maintained is that the discontinuance of the Unseen artwork was voluntary, a sizable portion of a larger mandate to end the use of all artwork not created in-house. This stemmed from the lawsuit (in the "let's avoid any more headaches" sense) but it was not as far as anyone can tell, dictated by anything in the settlement. In fact, in 2009, they did test the waters in returning the non-Macross art to sourcebooks, before concerns over returning the minis to production gave Topps, the current rightsholder, pause. The actual 'Mechs were decanonized because of the mess. No they weren't. The problem was, they were deliberately put Out of Focus in sourcebook material and scenarios to avoid having to depict them in artwork. That, and the fact that no minis could legally be made of them, nor could they be used in official events, led to the misconception that they were retconned out of the game altogether. The main bone of contention were the Land-Air 'Mechs, trimodal Transforming Mecha based on the Veritech/Valkyrie fighters. To keep their appearance from being a problem again, they hard-nerfed the class to the point of uselessness to keep it out of sight and therefore out of mind (and litigation), right? Not entirely; more Land-Air 'Mechs were actually added to the game during the Word of Blake Jihad as the Spectral LAM Series and retroactively added the failed Scorpion, Champion, and Shadow Hawk series of LAMs, as well as the one-off Screamer prototype. The real problem was that there simply is no good way to balance a unit that can suddenly triple its movement in a single turn—prior rules made Land-Air 'Mechs very powerful, especially as flankers and raiders. The current ruleset diminished them (particularly by preventing them from using highly desirable weight-saving technologies) but also adds penalties to certain actions such as Airmech combat. The current rights holders (Catalyst Game Labs) decided that trying to balance the rules affecting eight units out of a list of several thousand wasn't worth the effort and have left Land-Air 'Mechs in their current state to work on rules and scenarios with much farther-reaching effects.
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Common Knowledge / int_90f7114	comment	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: "In the stage musical, Tobias is a mentally disabled adult, but in the movie, he's a child." This is an often repeated statement. The script actually describes him as "adolescent," meaning that in most productions he's probably meant to be in his late teens, and just played by actors in their 20s or early 30s because of theatre's traditional Dawson Casting. Nor does the movie depart from that description, since Ed Sanders was 13 during filming, although he obviously does come across as younger and less mentally disabled than the character usually does onstage.
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Common Knowledge / int_9324d4c	comment	A large number of fans argue that the Yogscast Minecraft Series is the first set of videos that the Yogscast did. While it certainly projected them into the public eye, it is not true. Their first videos were actually World of Warcraft ones, and were enough for them to develop a small but devoted fandom.
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Common Knowledge / int_964ef08b	comment	At Over the Edge 1999, no one watching on PPV saw Owen Hart fall to his death. He was being lowered to the ring during a pre-taped interview segment backstage prior to the accident. It's likely that the live crowd did see him fall, but the audience at home were unaware until a very shaken Jim Ross announced it.note It was filmed and recorded by the hard camera though, the original copy is either in the WWE vault next to the Chris Benoit tribute episode of Raw and all the other stuff that can never be shown on TV, or in the possession of Martha Hart's lawyers (or possibly Martha herself).
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Common Knowledge / int_9ab064e6	comment	Les MisÃ©rables: It does not take place during The French Revolution, but the song "Do You Hear the People Sing" is frequently assumed to refer to it. It does, however, take place during a French revolution (one of many) just not The French Revolution. A highly unsuccessful French revolution. Jean Valjean was not an innocent man wrongly imprisoned, as a lot of people (including some of those responsible for the show) seem to believe. It was the length of his sentence (five years of hard labor for stealing bread to feed his sister's children) that Valjean felt was unjust, as well as the fact that he was given fourteen more years for repeated escape attempts, and that his ex-convict status made it impossible to find lodging or honest work when he was released. For many years, a rumor persisted that Frances Ruffelle, the original London and Broadway Ã‰ponine whose performance won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, was the first choice to sing the role in the 10th Anniversary Concert in 1995, but that she turned it down and was replaced by Lea Salonga. Fans who preferred Ruffelle's rugged "street rat" voice in the role to Salonga's more conventionally pretty-voiced performance were especially prone to repeating that rumor. But eventually, Ruffelle clarified in an interview that she was never asked to take part in that concert. She did sing in the finale of the 25th Anniversary Concert in 2010, however, and has a minor role in the 2012 film version.
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Common Knowledge / int_9b31d06	comment	There is a rumor going around in certain Hat Films fan circles that Alex "Alsmiffy" Smith is in the Territorial Army (the British equivalent of the National Guard). Not only is Smiffy not in the British Army at all (in reality, all the pics of him in camo gear are from him playing Airsoft), but the Territorial Army does not even exist anymore, having been replaced by the Army Reserves. He addresses it in this video and on Twitter.
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Common Knowledge / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon fanfic Lucki is famous for having received nothing but mindless praise from its reviewers despite having a god-mode powerhouse as its protagonist, and no one suspecting a thing, cheering her on even as her conduct gets worse and worse, until the final chapter where the world comes to an end as a direct result of her intransigence, at which point the author revealed the main character was a Parody Sue all along and castigated the reviewers for having fallen for it just because she lost a few battles. Except that the part about the story getting mindless praise is only really true after chapter six or so. Before then, a few reviewers pointed out issues they saw and warned the author that Lucki could become a Sue if she were not careful, even if none of the reviews went into detailed constructive criticism up to the authorâ€™s ordinary standards. The reason the critical reviews dropped off is that most competent writers arenâ€™t going to sit through six chapters of mediocre writing with a clichÃ© plot, leaving only the inexperienced reviewers left, so only those who kept reading to the end â€” a minority of the readership â€” were fooled.
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Common Knowledge / int_af6562ac	comment	Sailor Nothing is a Deconstructive Parody of Magical Girl anime that uses Sailor Moon as its basis, but it's not an outright Sailor Moon fanfic. The website even states that it's in no way related to Sailor Moon. Still, it's repeatedly mistaken for a Sailor Moon fanfic. The fact that one of the characters has the same first name as a major Sailor Moon character doesn't help.
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Common Knowledge / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts: It's frequently claimed that Charlie Brown never wins. This proved a bone of contention when The Peanuts Movie gave him a happy ending. But in truth, there have been numerous occasions — some surprisingly early on in the strip's run — where Charlie comes out on top in the end. Marcie and Peppermint Patty being a couple has been a recurring joke for decades due to Marcie's high respect for Peppermint Patty and Patty's tomboyishness. They've both been shown to have crushes on Charlie, which debunks the concept of them being exclusively lesbian (which is what the idea usually goes with).
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Common Knowledge / int_b2c6c7a4	comment	Lots of people tend to assume that VOMS is a company like hololive or Nijisanji, but this is very much not the case. According to Pikamee, the talents sign contracts with GYARI which basically allows them to use his art, models and music as long as they "don't do anything stupid" while they're using them. The members of VOMS are also basically ordinary people who happen to do VTubing as a hobby or secondary source of income, as opposed to the companies mentioned above who treat it much more seriously and often lean towards pre-established internet figures for their talents.
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Common Knowledge / int_b311bdc7	comment	Mega64: It's easy to assume that a group that specializes in video game related skits would have named themselves after the Nintendo 64, but the truth is the name came from how Rocco, as told through a podcast, felt he was being followed by the number 64 as it was his locker number in school and a grade he got on a test. In fact, Rocco made it a screen name weeks before the Nintendo 64 was even announced.
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Common Knowledge / int_b703ff63	comment	VOMS Project: Lots of people tend to assume that VOMS is a company like hololive or Nijisanji, but this is very much not the case. According to Pikamee, the talents sign contracts with GYARI which basically allows them to use his art, models and music as long as they "don't do anything stupid" while they're using them. The members of VOMS are also basically ordinary people who happen to do VTubing as a hobby or secondary source of income, as opposed to the companies mentioned above who treat it much more seriously and often lean towards pre-established internet figures for their talents. Pikamee's graduation was not caused by the Hogwarts Legacy controversy, nor was she "bullied into graduating" as many claim. Pikamee and GYARI were in talks about her graduation for a good few months before the controversy occurred, and she would've likely announced her graduation around that time anyway if she hadn't cancelled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and extended her hiatus, as March is the end of Japan's fiscal year. That said, the controversy did rob fans of the extra time they could have spent with her.
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Common Knowledge / int_bb849177	comment	Similar to Hulk Hogan, everyone "knows" that Goldberg can't wrestle, can't work any match longer than a few minutes, and has no moves other than "Spear, Jackhammer, pin". In reality, this only applies to his part-time WWE run, in which his first match back was just over a month before his 50th birthday. When active in his prime, Goldberg actually performed a considerable number of different moves over the years, constantly trying out new things that you wouldn't expect like the Dragon Screw Leg Whip, Corkscrew Dropkick, a couple of submission moves like a rolling kneebar and ankle locknote The Goldberg gimmick was originally conceived as a ripoff of Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn, Eric Bischoff thought he could book a guy pretending to be a UFC fighter better than Vince McMahon could book two real ones. Seeing as how Goldberg became the most over guy in wrestling not named Steve Austin for a while, and Shamrock and Severn had only one PPV main event and zero world titles between them (while being employed by Vince that is, Shamrock would later become TNA's first world champion and Severn was N.W.A champion before TNA was around, if you consider that a world title), Bischoff was right and almost every variety of slam under the sun, as can be seen in his top move compilation video (which compiles 35 recognised moves, plus 3 bonus moves).
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Common Knowledge / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Every fan knows that the Squats were driven to extinction by the Tyranids in order to facilitate their removal as a playable faction in the third edition of the game. Not many realize that this has been retconned as of sixth edition and that they've been mentioned in other army books as a thriving race in the galaxy still, just without their own army list (until 2022, that is). On that note, Squats weren't removed as a faction because they were considered "too silly" (Black Comedy has always been a cornerstone of 40K, after all) or because the models weren't selling, but because Games Workshop themselves didn't know what to do with them and there was nothing the Squats could do that wasn't already covered by other factions. Their silliness was stated to be a factor, but less because comedy is bad, and more because the designers felt they came across as a shallow, lame joke rather than a fleshed-out group that could also be funny. Malal, the fifth Chaos God, is commonly alluded to in the context of 40K in the fandom. Not only is Malal no longer canon, but he was also never canon to 40K. He briefly did exist in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, but Games Workshop had already lost the rights to use him by the time Chaos was added as a faction in 40K. The closest there is is the Sons of Malice warband, which uses a lot of Malal iconography as a Mythology Gag, but for obvious reasons, Malal himself is never mentioned. For that matter, describing him as "the fifth Chaos God" is not exactly accurate — in terms of when he was first mentioned in publications, he actually predates Slaanesh and Tzeentch. When the collapse of the old human empire from the Dark Age of Technology comes up, it's usually described as having been due to the Fall of the Eldar and Slaanesh's birth happening at the same time, which created devastating Warp storms and destroyed all starfaring nations of the time... but this isn't what happened. The Fall of the Eldar happened a long time afterwards, during the 30th Millennium, and the psychic shockwave instead cleared away the Warp storms plaguing the galaxy and allowed the Emperor to launch the Great Crusade. The fall of the human empire occurred sometime around the 23rd to 25th millennia and was a result of stresses such as the sudden development of human psykers and slowly increasing Warp turbulence (the early signs of what would become Slaanesh's birth much later), but the primary cause was a widespread AI rebellion, the Revolt of the Iron Men, which wiped out the majority of humanity's infrastructure, advanced technology, and population. The Tau are not Communists — they have a caste system, something which is anathema to the classless nature of Communism. Their ideology has more in common with Utilitarianism than anything else. A widely spread meme about how the Dark Angels home "the Rock" was named after a gay nightclub near the GW headquarters. A less common addition being that the Primarch Angron was named after a bouncer at the gay nightclub who was nicknamed "Angry Ron". There was never any such nightclub or bar (gay or not) with the name in the area. The more likely reason for the name was that Nottingham Castle, which is located on a ridge named "Castle Rock", was simply called "The Rock" in local parlance. This seems to be something of a cross-pollination with the very real bit of trivia that the Dark Angels Primarch, Lion El'Johnson, is a barely-modified reference to the gay poet Lionel Johnson, who wrote a poem called "Dark Angel" (the joke being that the Dark Angels are defined by trying to cover up a shameful secret about their chapter). Canonically, Leman Russ does not have a beard and Rogal Dorn does not have a mustache. You would never guess that from looking at how fanartists draw them. Among those more in tune with the more obscure lore of the franchise, you'll occasionally see mentions of the Little Sisters of Purification, an all-female Space Marine chapter from the 80s. Given the (controversial) canon stance that all Space Marines are male, this is often either brought up as an example of Early-Installment Weirdness or a justification for adding female Marines "back" into the lore. Except the Little Sisters of Purification weren't canon even back then. They weren't even created by Games Workshop. They were created for a scenario published in Challenge, a third-party gaming magazine. Abaddon the Despoiler is frequently described as a General Failure who's launched twelve separate invasions of the galaxy that all stalled on the first planet, only becoming more than that due to blatant Retcon in time for the Thirteenth Black Crusade event... except those weren't retcons at all. The earliest Chaos material for the game lays out in detail exactly what Abaddon was trying to do in the first twelve Black Crusades, every one of which was successful at their goals; Games Workshop didn't retcon the info in, they just dusted it off. Decades of Memetic Mutation dumped all of that lore for the sake of "Failbaddon" jokes. Another part of this is that the game's setting has been frozen at the end of the 41st Millennium for a decent chunk of its history; as a result, Abaddon's assault of Cadia, which takes place at the very end of the millennium, ended up looking like he was fruitlessly beating against a planet for years. Even though the number "40,000" is in the game's title, the game has long since left the 41st Millennium. The current date for the "present" of the canon is in the early 42nd Millennium. (It's also acknowledged that, given the size of the galaxy and the massive gaps in bookkeeping, nobody's actually sure what year it is.) A common assertion by fans of the Imperium seeking to justify its zealous anti-xenos policies, especially amongst the more rabid ones, is that humanity used to have alien allies prior to the Age of Strife, only for them to universally betray humanity once it was weakened. In fact, no such assertions are made in canon (or at least they only come from "modern" Imperials, those who have over 10,000 years of propaganda guiding them) — official histories of the setting in the core rulebooks of each edition talk about betrayal and traitors only when discussing the Horus Heresy, the bloody Chaos-backed Civil War that led to the modern Imperium. Whilst many human worlds were canonically liberated from terrible alien menaces, these are always described as being openly hostile entities — there are actually very, very few references to even attempted diplomacy between humans and aliens prior to the Great Crusade, and in fact the Emperor's forces encountered several human/alien alliances were all races involved were on good terms. And destroyed them out of hand, because the Imperium has always been the Villain Protagonist of the setting. The popularity of the belief stems from a mixture of the Always Chaotic Evil nature of the most recognizable alien factions and the fact it makes so much sense as in-universe propaganda, being literally drawn from the Nazi's "Great Betrayal" rhetoric and thus being a perfect ingredient for the authoritarian dystopia stew that is the Imperium. While fandom holds that Inquisitors will cheerfully request Exterminatus (the complete and utter destruction of a planet's life and biosphere, and often infrastructure as well) at the first sign of heresy or lacking faith (e.g. someone coughing in church or saying "Emperor-damnit"), and those kinds of lunatics likely do exist, Exterminatus is a far more complicated process than someone signing off and saying "oh well, plenty more planets". It requires the Inquisitor to make the call that taking the planet back from Chaos/orks/the Tyranids is impossible (not "impossible without the loss of billions of lives and materiel over decades", flat-out impossible), a Space Marine fleet to get to the planet (often an active warzone) via warp travel (and Hyperspace Is a Scary Place), and then launch the barrage from orbit, costing the Imperium a world that is usually an important source of materials/weapons/people. Then the Inquisition still checks if the call was justified. And in some cases (such as virus-bombing a planet attacked by Nurglites) it "just gave them ideas". When Inquisitor Kryptman went on a Salt the Earth strategy involving making multiple planets uninhabitable to slow down the Tyranids, he was openly condemned and stripped of his position for using Exterminatus on planets that were not yet seen as unsalvageable, showing that in lore most Inquisitors view it as a Godzilla Threshold option.
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Common Knowledge / int_bff01809	comment	Malal, the fifth Chaos God, is commonly alluded to in the context of 40K in the fandom. Not only is Malal no longer canon, but he was also never canon to 40K. He briefly did exist in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, but Games Workshop had already lost the rights to use him by the time Chaos was added as a faction in 40K. The closest there is is the Sons of Malice warband, which uses a lot of Malal iconography as a Mythology Gag, but for obvious reasons, Malal himself is never mentioned. For that matter, describing him as "the fifth Chaos God" is not exactly accurate — in terms of when he was first mentioned in publications, he actually predates Slaanesh and Tzeentch.
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Common Knowledge / int_c19c6efa	comment	SCP-4335 is often depicted with yellow eyes and a toothy mouth locked into a shit-eating grin. However, the article's actual portrayal of it is completely featureless, considering it's a sentient void. Some fan videos of the creature also show it being able to hold Minecraft weapons, even though 4335 is never demonstrated doing so (and would have no reason to, since it has the Endermen and its tentacles at its disposal for combat.)
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Common Knowledge / int_c3210502	comment	Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan gets a lot of flak for being an Invincible Hero, like AndrÃ© the Giant, during his WWF Title runs. However, he lost several timesnote (either by count-out or in a non-title match) to put his opponent over as a viable threat for the title. Between 1984 and 1991 the supposedly never-losing Hogan lost 137 times, against over 3 dozen wrestlers.note (Big John Studd, "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff, George "The Animal" Steele, "Dr. D" David Schultz, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Brutus Beefcake, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, "The Magnificent" Muraco, Terry Funk, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, King Kong Bundy, Antonio Inoki, Akira Maeda, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Riki Choshu, Mr. Saito, Seigi Sakaguchi, Fujiwara. The Cobra, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis, Kamala the Ugandan Giant, Hercules, Killer Khan, "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, The One Man Gang, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, The Big Bossman, The Genius, Mr. Perfect, the Ultimate Warrior, Earthquake, Sgt. Slaughter, the Legion of Doom, Ric Flair, The Undertaker.) During his first run, he would usually lose once or twice a month. He actually did even worse during his second run, losing over a third of his matches. The only year in which he regularly wrestlednote (i.e. had 30+ matches) and averaged less than one loss per month was 1988 — which he spent the majority of without the belt. The reason for this misconception might be because champions in the mid-'90s did tend to be Invincible Heroes. Contrast Hogan in 1984-87 with Bret Hart's run as the top face a decade later: during that timeframe Hogan lost 55 matches and Hart lost 15. It should however be pointed out that most of Hogan's losses during that time period (especially in the WWF) were by countout, not from being pinned or submitting. Nowadays, countouts are considered a cop-out finish and rarely ever used. And his subsequent run in WCW did have him utilize his "Creative Control" card quite often. RD Reynolds of WrestleCrap has acknowledged Hogan's loss record, but pointed out that there's a difference between losing and putting someone over — when Hogan loses a match, it's usually a case of him inflicting a Curb-Stomp Battle until suddenly being defeated via a dirty trick. This is against the entire point of jobbing since it fails to make the winning wrestler look strong (after all, they were getting thrashed until they suddenly won)note And even when he actually did put someone over he was still doing it only for his own benefit. For example, he only agreed to lose the world title on Nitro to Goldberg so he could take credit for the massive crowd (the 41,000+ at the Georgia Dome was WCW's biggest crowd ever) and the big ratings increase (which would have happened anyway, ratings were only down because Nitro was getting bumped around the TNT schedule thanks to the NBA Playoffs). It may be this factor that gives us the "Hogan never loses" belief. Hogan tends to be remembered as much more squeaky-clean (if not boring) than his actions at the time would suggest. For instance, while 1984's Hulk vs. The Iron Sheik is remembered as a cartoonish battle of the All-American Face vs. the Foreign Wrestling Heel, it's Hogan who starts the match with a flurry of cheap shots. He was also fond of back rakes and face stomps, both heel tactics, and wasn't above using "bad powder" and chairshots on opponents when the ref was distracted. This is because Hogan was trained to wrestle as a heel, had been one until his run in the AWA and never bothered to change up his style later. Watch a Hogan match from late 1995, then watch one from shortly after he turned heel a few months later. Outside of Hogan now wearing black trunks instead of yellow it's pretty much the exact same match until the run-in finish.
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Common Knowledge / int_c4282b71	comment	The depiction of Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic having a violent, stoic alter ego named "Pinkamena Diane Pie" is sometimes believed to come from this fanfic. It was thought to be inspired by her flat-haired, schizoid self from a disturbing scene in "Party of One" where Pinkie has a full conversation about how rude her friends are with various inanimate objects. However, not only was the fic released before "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" (where the name "Pinkamena Diane Pie" is first used, as Pinkie's full name) and "Party of One" premiered, but Pinkie is her curly-maned and cheerful self despite torturing ponies to death, this supposed "Pinkamena" alter ego never appearing. A lot of the unease of the fic comes from the fact that Pinkie, as her normal happy-go-lucky hyperactive self, is either unaware or apathetic to the horrors she's committing; a violent alter ego would defeat the whole point. The blog Ask Pinkamina Diane Pie probably didn't help.
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Common Knowledge / int_c75ae76b	comment	Dick Tracy: People not familiar with the comic tend to think of Flattop as Tracyâ€™s archenemy. In the actual comic, he was permanently killed off at the end of his only story arc, like many of Tracy's other enemies. However, he proved extremely popular with fans, to the point that his death famously prompted public mourning in real life. Because of this, Chester Gould and his successors couldn't resist creating a large family for Flattop, the majority of whom were/are violent criminals who had/have it in for Tracy.
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Common Knowledge / int_cc4c3b88	comment	In a similar but much less morbid example it's commonly believed that Kurt Angle's wife Karen left him for Jeff Jarrett, whom she would later marry (and they're still married as of this writing.) Like with Sullivan and Woman Kurt and Karen separated well before Karen and Jeff got together, what got Jarrett in trouble is that he lied to TNA head Dixie Carter about it.note Keep in mind that Jarrett was minority owner (with Carter's parents being the majority owners) and he and his father founded the company, so regardless of what happened between Kurt and Karen someone from upper management shacking up with one of the wrestler's ex wives was a pretty bad look, especially when the divorce wasn't even finalized yet. According to Kurt there's never been any real hostility between him and Jeff, and he's accepted his responsibility in torpedoing his marriage with his past drug and alcohol issues.
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Common Knowledge / int_ce903ad3	comment	Everyone knows that Diamond Dallas Page didn't start wrestling until 1991 when he was 35 years old. Page actually attempted to pursue a wrestling career in his twenties, but quit after only a few matches due to knee problems he'd had from a string of injuries during his youth. After spending several years running a nightclub, followed by a moderately successful career as a wrestling manager and announcer who occasionally wrestled, he decided to become a full-time wrestler.
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Common Knowledge / int_d1be6a89	comment	Heathcliff is commonly seen as a Garfield ripoff, but in reality, the first Heathcliff strip came out three years before the first Garfield strip. Not only that, but the two strips have virtually nothing in common aside from both starring a fat orange cat.
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Common Knowledge / int_d22a9a66	comment	It is commonly believed that Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf was banned following a controversy where a kid imitated the show and injured themselves. While a kid did injure themselves after watching this show, the show was never banned from television and it continued airing, but some episodes did get bowdlerized following the incident.
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Common Knowledge / int_d383246	comment	While on the subject of Sting it's commonly believed that the other Sting, Gordon Sumner, owns the rights to the name "Sting" and the wrestler, Steve Borden, has to pay a small annual fee to Sumner to fulfill the legal obligations of protecting the trademark.note Not requiring him to do this is known as "abandonment", which basically means that said trademark is now public domain In reality it's actually Borden that owns the name, not Sumner, even though Sumner was calling himself "Sting" long before Borden even got into the wrestling business. This makes sense if you think about it, while the idea of The Police just grabbing some other guy to pay bass and sing and calling him "Sting" and hoping no one noticed would be ridiculous, this kind of thing happens in wrestling all the time, in fact a fake Sting existed in WCW at the same time as the real one.
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Common Knowledge / int_d98cee6b	comment	Everybody knows that TIME Magazine's famous "Person of the Year" title is an award intended to honor public figures for their contributions to society, which is why the magazine has gotten considerable backlash for giving it to a few rather controversial public figures over the years. Except it isn't an award at all: it's a statement about which public figure had the most profound impact on the world (for good or for ill) in a given year. Case in point: Adolf Hitler was Person of the Year in 1938, and Josef Stalin was Person of the Year in 1939 and 1942. Time has partially contributed to the misconception themselves, since they've generally avoided giving the title to controversial figures ever since they faced backlash for giving it to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979; the 2001 title, which went to Rudy Giuliani instead of Osama bin Laden, is one of the more infamous examples of the title straying from its original intended meaning. Their 2006 title of "You" referring to anonymous user-generated internet content, which was criticized as gimmicky, was seen as another example of avoiding backlash, since the contenders in online polls were controversial figures such as Hugo ChÃ¡vez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Common Knowledge / int_dc368a13	comment	Penny and Aggie are not Canadian. In early strips, T and GisÃ¨le put them in a purposefully ambiguous location on the Eastern Seaboard, and due to a previous collaboration by them set in Canada, many assumed this one to be set there as well, some ex-readers or (very) casual readers still so assuming. However, as strip became more plot-driven, T was forced to choose a side of the border, and the setting is now unarguably American even to someone who's only read the comic proper.
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Common Knowledge / int_ddd4b174	comment	Monopoly is often thought of as a complicated game that takes forever to play, when actually the sheer opposite holds true. Beyond simple math and a basic understanding of risk/reward management, it's actually a fairly simple game to understand and play and is really only more complicated than simple luck based games like Parcheesi. As for its length, it's actually a really quick and dirty game owing to huge Unstable Equilibrium... as long as you actually follow the game rules: Any time a player lands on a property, it goes up for auction if he doesn't buy it. Since the auctions are much cheaper than the list price, this forces players to choose between the high risk of blowing all their money on properties or letting their opponents get monopolies which greatly speeds up the game. You also can buy property immediately — "taking a lap" before being allowed to buy isn't actually a rule and it's actually fairly possible to win before completing a lap. No, you don't get to take that pile of money if you land on Free Parking. This is actually a Popular Game Variant designed specifically to prevent the game's Unstable Equilibrium and make it fairer for young kids but constantly handing lucky players wads of free cash makes it much harder for them to run out of money and greatly delays the game's win condition. You're also supposed to give your assets to whoever you owe money to upon bankruptcy (you don't surrender it to the bank unless the bank is the one who bankrupts you, in which case everything you own gets auctioned off a property at a time) and yes you do earn money while in jail (in fact, in the late game being in jail is beneficial since everyone is potentially landing on your properties and paying you... while you're kicking back paying nothing).
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Common Knowledge / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner It's often assumed that the show takes place in the fictional nation of Strong Badia, but this is inaccurate. The central setting of the series is actually Free Country, USA; while Strong Badia refers to a specific field within its borders that Strong Bad has claimed as his own nation. Many viewers have sent Strong Bad emails demonstrating this confusion and the Strong Bad Email episode "keep cool" has him explain that Strong Badia doesn't extend beyond the vacant lot he rents from Bubs. On the Homestar Runner Wiki, it is not uncommon for users to add facts relating to The Brothers Chaps being from Atlanta. This is not 100% correct, in two ways: one, they actually live in the nearby town of Decatur, and two, they were born in Indiana.
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Common Knowledge / int_e3406858	comment	Hogan tends to be remembered as much more squeaky-clean (if not boring) than his actions at the time would suggest. For instance, while 1984's Hulk vs. The Iron Sheik is remembered as a cartoonish battle of the All-American Face vs. the Foreign Wrestling Heel, it's Hogan who starts the match with a flurry of cheap shots. He was also fond of back rakes and face stomps, both heel tactics, and wasn't above using "bad powder" and chairshots on opponents when the ref was distracted. This is because Hogan was trained to wrestle as a heel, had been one until his run in the AWA and never bothered to change up his style later. Watch a Hogan match from late 1995, then watch one from shortly after he turned heel a few months later. Outside of Hogan now wearing black trunks instead of yellow it's pretty much the exact same match until the run-in finish.
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Common Knowledge / int_e3ce3877	comment	Itâ€™s commonly believed that the WWE purchased WCW lock, stock, and barrel on March 26, 2001, except they didnâ€™t. WWE only purchased certain assets of WCW, which included its trademarks and logos (including the World Championship Wrestling/WCW name), several contracts to lower to midcard wrestlers, and its video library. The rest of WCWâ€™s assets, which includes several contracts to the main event wrestlers (Ric Flair, Sting, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, to name a few), as well as the legal matters (including Hulk Hoganâ€™s Bash at the Beach 2000 and Sid Eudy's Sin 2001 lawsuits, and several anti-discrimination lawsuits), was retained by the then-current AOL Time Warner and spun off into a holding company called Universal Wrestling Corporation, which was also the name briefly used by Turner Broadcasting after acquiring Jim Crockett Promotions in 1989. Universal Wrestling Corporation somehow existed until 2017, even though it had no assets and didn't promote a single wrestling show. The final episode of WCW Monday Nitro wasn't WCWâ€™s final show; there were two WCW shows that were still broadcast after WWE's purchase of WCW. First, there was the final episode of the syndicated recap show WCW Worldwide that aired a week after Nitro's final episode was broadcast. Finally, there was WCW Classics, which aired on Turner South, a regional entertainment network that was only broadcast in the Southern United States; WWE, whom by that time owned WCW's archives, continued to license the footage to Turner South until the series ended on July 2001. Itâ€™s also believed that incoming AOL Time Warner executive Jamie Kellner cancelled all WCW shows on Turnerâ€™s networks because of his supposed personal dislike for professional wrestling, but this isnâ€™t the case. Both TNT and TBS were undergoing a rebrand that saw the respective networks become more focused on drama and comedy shows, hence their taglines, â€œTNT: We Know Dramaâ€� and â€œTBS: Very Funnyâ€�. Also, the rebrand brought in more advertisers; historically, professional wrestling was perceived by them as low class entertainment.
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Common Knowledge / int_eddc4ca3	comment	Pikamee's graduation was not caused by the Hogwarts Legacy controversy, nor was she "bullied into graduating" as many claim. Pikamee and GYARI were in talks about her graduation for a good few months before the controversy occurred, and she would've likely announced her graduation around that time anyway if she hadn't cancelled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and extended her hiatus, as March is the end of Japan's fiscal year. That said, the controversy did rob fans of the extra time they could have spent with her.
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Common Knowledge / int_ee6c1abc	comment	It's often assumed that the show takes place in the fictional nation of Strong Badia, but this is inaccurate. The central setting of the series is actually Free Country, USA; while Strong Badia refers to a specific field within its borders that Strong Bad has claimed as his own nation. Many viewers have sent Strong Bad emails demonstrating this confusion and the Strong Bad Email episode "keep cool" has him explain that Strong Badia doesn't extend beyond the vacant lot he rents from Bubs.
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Common Knowledge / int_f64ceaf2	comment	Cupcakes is very frequently cited as a creepypasta. It was never intended to be one. It's a fanfic, or a Dark Fic more specifically. Creepypastas tend to be presented as something that has happened or could happen in the real world, with "scary lost episode of a kids' show"-type stories having a Framing Device claiming that the episode exists, usually involving the narrator randomly stumbling across a copy. Cupcakes, meanwhile, has no such framing device and never tries to pretend that it's anything other than a non-canon work of fiction.
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Common Knowledge / int_f99c3ee	comment	The villain of the first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared video is officially named "Sketchbook", not "Notepad". They are also officially of unknown gender, though fans near exclusively consider Sketchbook female.
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Common Knowledge / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	Everyone remembers Triple H getting squashed by Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania XII as punishment for the "curtain call"note Where Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash all broke Kayfabe and hugged in the ring at the end of a show in New York (it's also referred to as the "MSG Incident", Hall & Nash had given their notice weeks earlier and this was their last night in the company), causing a near mutiny among the old guard working backstage. Triple H ended up being the only one punished because Michaels was WWF world champion (and with Bret Hart taking time off Michaels was basically the only upper card babyface on the roster) and Hall & Nash had taken their talents down south, and he spent the next few months jobbing out, it's even mentioned on a couple pages of this website. Problem is, the "curtain call" happened about six weeks after WrestleMania XII. Triple H got squashed by Warrior because he was deemed the one heel over enough that the fans would want to see him get wiped out in short order but not over enough that the loss would really matter (keep in mind that Triple H had only been in the company for about 4 months), and while he obviously didn't much care for being treated like a job guy he certainly appreciated getting what was the biggest one night payoff of his life up until that point. If he was already in Vince's doghouse someone else would have been collecting that WrestleMania bonus.
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Common Knowledge / int_fcd86271	comment	The King and I: As with Maria in The Sound of Music, Anna Leonowens is often misremembered as the Siamese royal children's nanny. She's actually their schoolteacher, whom their father the King brings to court to give them a "modern" Western-style education.
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Common Knowledge / int_fd06fd96	comment	The closing line of Boris Godunov (the original play by Alexander Pushkin, not the opera) is "The People are speechless", and it is constantly quoted to illustrate the passive and meek reaction of crowds to crisis and oppression. However, in its actual context, the line means the exact opposite: the people adamantly refuse to cheer for the new usurper after hearing his associates brutally murder the previous Tsar's wife and teenage son. Pushkin originally ended the play with the people shouting "Glory to Tsar Dmitry!", but he also asked the publisher to do whatever changes necessary to get the play past censorship; that was one of the changes.
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Common Knowledge / int_fd8221d2	comment	Everyone knows that the original Big Gold Belt was made by Charles Crumrine (even Wikipedia lists him as the maker of the belt). It wasn't. While the plates were indeed manufactured by Crumrine Jewelers, Charles Crumrine himself died on May 22, 1985 while order for the plates was placed on November 20, 1985 (as evidenced by notes from Crumrine in the Big Gold book). The plates were primarily made by Crumrine silversmith Victor Ortiz with some assistance from Charles' daughter Jeanne Lashelle. Some also believe that Crumrine made the strap, which is not the case. Crumrine Jewelers made belt buckles, not belts. The original brown strap was made by Ralph Harris of Harris Leather and Silverworks while the replacement black strap was made by Andre Freitas of AFX Studios (a company who made a lot of costumes and props for WCW, including the all-gold cast copies of the original Big Gold Belt.)
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