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People love a good mystery and will watch or read a story to the very end just to find out its answer. Sometimes though, for whatever reason, they don't like the answer. The fans then decide it would have been better to just leave the Plot Threads hanging, which would have given them mulch for their Epileptic Trees. When a show has a premise that hinges on one or more big unanswered questions, fans feel there is an obligation that these questions be answered. Failure to do so leads to The Chris Carter Effect, which can turn off fans in frustration. Likewise, not answering enough questions in a Kudzu Plot alienates fans. The hard place to the above rock is that when a series answers a question and the answer isn't quite as epic, clever, or mind-shattering as imagined. Maybe fan expectations are just too high. Maybe the answer is honestly unsatisfying. Maybe the answer conflicts with the genre established earlier in the work, like a sci-fi explanation in a fantasy book or vice-versa. Maybe it reveals that a character that did something seemingly of their own free will was instead subject to Mind Control or brainwashing. Maybe it reveals that rather than The Hero succeeding because of their own merits they were destined by a higher power to do so. Maybe it's a question no one asked or wanted to be answered at all, meaning no answer would be satisfying. Regardless, the fans hear your explanation, and they don't like it. It's a Fan-Disliked Explanation. It should be noted that one factor in whether fans expect a mystery to be resolved or not is how prominent and important it was made originally. Lost made such a huge deal about the mystery of "the numbers" that expectations for the solution were raised to an incredible pitch. In the case of Sherlock Holmes's backstory, though, it is made abundantly clear that it's irrelevant and that no clarification is to be expected. When the authors deliberately choose not to solve the mystery, possibly to avoid this trope, that's Riddle for the Ages. If fans outright reject a Word of God explanation as non-canonical, that can be an example of Death of the Author. It's just like how everybody wants their ship to go through, but when it does, the result is Shipping Bed Death. Whether a show is better served by answering all, some, or none of the questions it raises varies by viewer. It's worth noting that this trope doesn't just focus on answers that are unsatisfying, but situations where an unanswered question actually helped the narrative. As you can expect, this is therefore YMMV. This sometimes overlaps with Be Careful What You Wish For, when fans prefer all the various explanations rather than the actual answer, and Nothing Is Scarier, where a monster becomes less scary or threatening once what it is and where it came from are explained. Compare Canon Fodder and The Unreveal. The exact opposite is Fanon, in which fan theories are widely treated as canon. If the explanation is disliked because it just raises further questions, then it's Voodoo Shark. This can occur in cases of Writer Conflicts with Canon. See also Retroactive Idiot Ball. |
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This is the usual reason people hated the last book in The Pendragon Adventure. The whole existence of Solara seemed to come from nowhere and some important questions (such as who Saint Dane made his promise to) were never answered. | |
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The ending of Zero Time Dilemma has the series' antagonist claim that all of his actions have actually been to prepare the protagonists to track down and stop a Greater-Scope Villain who has never been even hinted at before. The characters don't necessarily buy his good intentions, but it seems as though everything that Virtue's Last Reward built up about Brother and Left is made irrelevant by this last-minute new characterization. Fans also dislike the twist with the alien teleporter because of the implications that the entire series had its problem rooted in aliens that weren't even mentioned in previous games. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Good luck finding anyone who found the reveal that Tails' parents were taken by BEM scientist Ceneca-9009 to her home planet to be necessary or satisfying. Around the same time, it was revealed that the same spoiler-tagged character was responsible for the mass dereboticization in "The Last Robian". This explanation was widely seen as lazy. A lot of fans hated the name Ken Penders intended to give Sonic (Ogilvie), due to it being incredibly silly-sounding (of course, given Sonic's earlier reaction to someone bringing up his birth name, this may have been the point). Ian Flynn agreed, and apart from explaining that Sonic had his name legally changed, he never revealed his first name at all during his run. The reveal that Mobius was Earth All Along, having been bombarded with "Gene Bombs" by an alien race called the Xorda in the late 21st century, was near-universally despised, mainly because there were no hints about it beforehand and it left contradictory plotholes. (The original Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) was going to have a similar twist, but the comic had long since deviated from it.) The reveal that the spoiler-tagged event was responsible for the creation of the Chaos Emeralds was met with similar scorn, to the point that Ian Flynn himself would explicitly state otherwise. |
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Most fans aren't fond of the backstory given to the titular weasel in The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild. In Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, Buck was established as a rare sentient mammal in a Death World that had to took extreme meassures to be able to defeat Rudy which lead to him becoming the Crazy Survivalist we know and love. But in the spin-off, Buck is depicted as someone who was the leader of a group of heroic mammals that proved to be the last resistance in a Fantastic Racism motivated-war, which hardly fits with how uncivilized the Lost World was shown to be in the previous movies and how Buck was portrayed as a loner before The Herd's arrival (which is why he went insane and started talking with inanimate objects). | |
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Lightyear makes a new interpretation of the villain Zurg, where he's actually an older version of Buzz all along. Along with contradicting plenty of the lore established in the Toy Story films, this also makes Zurg less of an effective threat once you remove the mystery of who this creature is, along with some saying he’s neither evil nor an emperor. | |
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The initial explanation for female Transformers in The Transformers Megaseries—there aren't any naturally, the sole one we know of is the result of a Mad Scientist's experiment that drove her crazy—was almost universally seen as the low point of Simon Furman's time on the book. Aside from making it seemingly impossible for others besides Arcee to exist, it seemingly personified Men Are Generic, Women Are Special (other Transformers are treated as male, and nobody asked for an origin for that), the implication that being turned into a woman turned someone crazy and murderous has Unfortunate Implications on its face, and even if you agreed with Furman that female Transformers were silly or needed explaining, you would probably have preferred one that didn't raise so many weird questions. Later writers went with the more accepted answer that "having No Biological Sex doesn't mean you also have no gender; some Transformers just look like that and use female pronouns", and Arcee was given a retcon to make things a bit more palatable (she actually took part in the experiment willingly; it's just that he tortured her after he was done because he was a jackass). | |
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Nearly every X-Men fan hated Chuck Austen's revelation that Nightcrawler's biological father was Azazel — a demon (or possibly demon-like mutant) imprisoned in another dimension. Not only was there very little buildup or foreshadowing for that reveal, several readers were uncomfortable with the idea that the devoutly religious Kurt Wagner was secretly half-demon all along, and many saw it as a shoddy attempt at incorporating Christian mythology into the X-Men mythos (particularly since the same era featured the revelation that Archangel was descended from actual angels). It didn't help that many saw it as a Broken Aesop since Kurt was initially introduced being chased by racist, superstitious villagers who thought he was a demon when he was really just a guy with a skin condition—the Azazel story means the villagers were actually right the whole time. As an alternative, many fans prefer to accept Chris Claremont's original plan for his backstory: Mystique and Destiny are his parents, and Mystique used her shapeshifting powers to temporarily become male so that she and her lover could conceive a child (something that would finally become comics canon years later, though not without raising more questions behind how the idea played out). The character of Azazel has stuck around and made several more well-received appearances (including in the film X-Men: First Class), but to this day no one defends his original story. | |
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Hagrid's explanation in the first book that the reason wizards maintain secrecy is because "Muggles would want them to solve all their problems." Many fans consider such an explanation to be callous and self-centered, particularly in light of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald showcasing that World War II and the Holocaust happened in-universe, indicating the "good guy" wizards could have intervened but instead chose to more or less turn a blind eye for no reason other than personal peace of mind. Moreover, the series' lore establishes that wizards have valid reason to be fearful of Muggles knowing how completely outclassed they are for technology and such, which some fans view as a far more reasonable explanation. | |
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This is half of why Trouble (Marvel Comics) is so reviled and isn't really canon with either the main Marvel universe or the Ultimate Marvel one: it attempted to retcon that Spider-Man's father Richard Parker and Aunt May had an affair behind Mary Fitzpatrick and Uncle Ben's back as teens—and that Peter himself was the product of it, much to the hatred of fans and creators.note The other half being the incompatibility this attempted retcon had with mainline Marvel canon (Where May and Ben were established as far older than Richard and Mary and already married by the time Peter's parents even met) and with Ultimate Marvel (where Richard and Mary Parker were renowned scientists). | |
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A major point of contention concerning Bambi II with fans of the original was its decision to humanise and develop the characterisations and backgrounds of many of the animal characters, since keeping the universe a vague enchanting caricature of nature driven more by ambiance and instinct was to many the whole point of the first installment. The approach isn't universally despised, however, since this breach at least wasn't executed horribly and offered the film's universe broader more engaging personalities and lore ripe for Fanfic Fuel. | |
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RWBY: During Volume 8, the writers announced what General Ironwood's Semblance was: Mettle, which they explained hardens his resolve and causes him to hyper-focus when solving problems. Presumably, they intended this as an explanation as to why Ironwood is always so fixated on his solution to a problem and his refusal to consider alternatives. Many fans' reactions went along the lines of: "So his Semblance is he's stubborn? That's not a superpower, that's a personality trait." Further, many feel that Ironwood's actions are adequately explained by him simply being stubborn and bullheaded and that this Semblance takes away some of Ironwood's agency in his own decisions. Not to mention it's never mentioned nor hinted at in the show itself, so fans have questioned why there's any kind of narrative need for this explanation in the first place. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): "The Good, the Bad and the Ponies": Twilight Sparkle explains she can't use her Story-Breaker Power to stop the the villains due to a law that princesses can't use their powers against Equestria's citizens even if they were threatening and attacking her friends and others. This was universally despised as horrifically out of character for Twilight, who had/would become the Princess of Friendship by willing to sacrifice the only chance at saving Equestria to save her friends, to be unwilling to do so especially over a law so arbitrary/minor it never came up when Twilight and the Princesses used their powers on others prior. Even those who felt this could have been theoretically valid balked once she used fraud and kidnapping (one of those she supposedly couldn't use her powers against) to trick the villains into breaking a mere property law and then used her magic to imprison them, making it so morally inconsistent it sunk whatever credibility the law had and left no reason for not just writing Twilight out of this story. Luckily the writers realized how poorly received it was and ignored it since with Twilight not hesitating to use her powers to protect others. Since the My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic tackled the backstories of the major-league villains from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, this was inevitable: Good luck finding anyone who views the banishment of the Sirens to the present in Issue #3, thus invalidating their Really 700 Years Old aspect fanon held them to, as necessary or desirable. Nobody liked the Nyx (disparagingly nicknamed the "Moon Furbies") from Issue #4 and the explanation that they create all dreams, nightmares, and Princess Luna's Dream Walking abilities, simply because it was overly silly and killed a lot of the mystique surrounding Luna's ability to enter dreams. The explanation that Princess Celestia had the same ability to enter dreams as Luna was similarly disliked since fans felt it severely diminished what made Luna special, to the point that the show itself explicitly stated otherwise in a later episode. Considering the metric truckload of fan art this franchise generates, it's very telling that this issue and its characters got next to none. The majority of fan art that it did get was made to mock or outright insult it. Issue #5 explained that the holes in the changeling's legs are leftover battle wounds from battling Princess Celestia a thousand years ago. While fans were fine with the idea of Chrysalis herself being that old, most found it odd and off-putting that the entire changeling species was just that one swarm that never aged, healed, or increased in number. Again, this along with their entire origin was given a Discontinuity Nod in the main canon that instead shows that changelings are born with these holes, that they live and age normally, and that the holes and generally emaciated appearance is the result of them constantly being hungry instead. Speaking of backstories, fans were not happy with the way the main series' Cosmos arc effectively whitewashed Discord's past villainy by portraying his past self as the Token Good Sidekick and lovesick character in an abusive relationship — and as a generally well-intentioned character from the beginning and not responsible for any of the actual evil from his first reign — rather than the genuinely villainous and chaotic character the show portrayed him as. The consensus is that this revelation throws Discord's entire characterization from the tv series completely out the window for the sake of establishing Cosmos as a more serious threat, that it profoundly damages the impact of his journey towards good by removing a need for it, that it ruins the significance of Fluttershy being his first friend by establishing that he did in fact have friends in the past, that it robs the character of much of the agency that made him such a memorable villain in the first place, and that it cheapens the series' core theme of The Power of Friendship by revealing he was Good All Along rather than a truly malicious creature who was changed for the better by friendship. Even fans who like the comic tend to be fairly adamant that the backstory was false and that Discord was lying about what really happened. In IDW Holidays 2014, the Crusaders stated reason for framing Sunset Shimmer is disliked for failing to bring up Sunsets past actions that would have made it and how Easily Forgiven they were more justifiable and failing to explain why they continued to frame her after achieving that goal. The 10th Anniversary short "Written by Spike" revealed the comics were written by Spike In-Universe, explaining their continuity errors and inconsistency with the show were in-universe Artistic License. This proved just as contentious for raising new issues regarding Spike being responsible for the comics poorly-received moments and portrayals of his friends despite claiming his changes were to improve the work. In the Generation 5 comics, it's revealed what caused Happy Ending Override of G4. According to the comics, it started shortly after "The Last Problem" when Opaline manipulated the pony tribes into prejudice against each other over their magic, which caused such disastrous consequences, Twilight Sparkle resorted to gathering all the world magic into the Unity Crystals so they'd only have magic if in harmony with each other. This was widely criticized by the fanbase, as the Mane Six have dealt with this same thing before and without resorting to such drastic measures, and it's questionable how the ponies would turn against each other so quickly when Twilight's reign was a golden age of harmony throughout the known world. Further, it gave more fuel to complaints about Twilight taking the throne that under her rule peace only lasted a matter of decades and was so fragile that it was all undone by a single pony. |
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The associated comic also explained the reason why Bruce and Diana never got together: she got together with Justice Lord Batman after another adventure concerning the Lords' universe, and stayed there with him until peace was restored during the Beyond timeframe. This one is disliked because it doesn't mesh well with Diana's character: she was Strangled by the Red String with a Replacement Goldfish (since Bruce thought inter-team dating was a bad idea), and she also abandons her world a la Supergirl/Brainiac 5, except with even less reason (she had her home and family to return to, was Ambassador to Man's World, etc.) Furthermore, it was an explanation nobody needed or wanted—Bruce's obsession with the cowl is inevitably going to lead to him driving away all his loved ones and friends in the DCAU, we didn't need the additional angst to go with it. | |
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Harry Potter: The notorious "wizards used to poo their pants" claim from the official Twitter account for Pottermore, part of a larger statement meant to explain the existence of the castle plumbing. On top of raising hundreds of questions, it was such a bizarre and disgusting claim that it became the prime example in the fanbase of why many supplementary statements regarding the series' lore are disregarded. The reveal via Word of God that Dumbledore is gay was divisive, but the explanation that Dumbledore was once in love with Gellert Grindelwald, a dark wizard who could be considered Voldemort's precursor, and seemingly swore off romance for good after that relationship blew up in his face in both a literal and figurative sense was even more widely disliked for homophobic implications and contradicting one of the series themes. Likewise, the reveal in the fifth book that while Lily's Heroic Sacrifice to protect baby Harry from Voldemort and his followers used The Power of Love, the charm required Harry to be sent to live with the Dursleys because he needed to live with a blood relative of Lily's in order for the protections to actually work. The Dursleys do not love Harry in the slightest, and at best they just simply begrudged his existence, yet they're allowed to count under a spell forged by love solely because Petunia is the only person alive who shares DNA with both Lily and Harry. Meanwhile, living with a genuinely loving family like the Weasleys, his equally loving godfather Sirius, a Muggle family Harry wasn't biologically related to, or even being raised in the foster system (or just having Dumbledore provide whatever house Harry lives in with his own protective wards, which is an established thing he can do) would not protect Harry simply because none of those potential guardians are blood relatives. This struck many fans as a poorly-written plot convenience to justify Harry living with his horrible relatives for as long as possible. Moreover, it broke one of the story's most prevalent lessons about how you choose your own family. The eventual reveal that Snape's motivation for everything was due to a one-sided crush on Lily, which the story thinks justifies his actions. While well received at the time it has become more controversial and to a lot of readers, this only served to make him more unlikable and painted most of his bad behavior in an even worse light. Hagrid's explanation in the first book that the reason wizards maintain secrecy is because "Muggles would want them to solve all their problems." Many fans consider such an explanation to be callous and self-centered, particularly in light of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald showcasing that World War II and the Holocaust happened in-universe, indicating the "good guy" wizards could have intervened but instead chose to more or less turn a blind eye for no reason other than personal peace of mind. Moreover, the series' lore establishes that wizards have valid reason to be fearful of Muggles knowing how completely outclassed they are for technology and such, which some fans view as a far more reasonable explanation. Many fans disliked the final book's off-handed reveal that the Secret-Keeper that anchors the Fidelius Charm could be within the place protected (read: rendered completely invisible and intangible) by the charm. Not only does this fact make the charm extremely overpowered, it reduces James and Lily Potter's decision to make the traitorous Peter Pettigrew the Secret Keeper for their cottage to sheer idiocy. |
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The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story "The World Shapers" was written primarily to explain a mysterious Noodle Incident dialogue line in the TV story "The Invasion", in which the Cyberplanner refers to the Doctor and Jamie having once defeated the Cybermen on "Planet 14". In the process, it sought to give the Cybermen a new origin story by suggesting that they evolved from the Voord culture on the planet Marinus, which had previously been depicted in "The Keys of Marinus". Unfortunately, the story was widely reviled as over-complicated Fan Wank and Continuity Porn (putting Jamie through a Trauma Conga Line and then killing him off didn't help). | |
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SMG4: "SMG4's Origins" as a whole got this reaction, partially due to heavily Retconing much of the series lore and partially for providing explanations for aspects of the series many fans had simply taken for granted, thus taking away their novelty. The SMG4 Universe is explicitly confirmed to be an Alternate Universe branching off from the end of Super Mario 64. SMG4 and SMG3 are revealed to be alien-like invaders that arrived in USB flash drive-like spaceships (with the former's spaceship being the reason why everyone, most tragically of all Mario, is much crazier and dumber than their canon counterparts) and just happen to look like Mario. Finally, SMG4 and SMG3 meet here instead of "smg4 VS smg3" (or even "Memewarts", which was already a retcon itself), with the duo simply instantly hating each other when the latter arrives in his spaceship. While the 10th-anniversary movie helped clear things up and elaborate on the more confusing bits of this new backstory, it was nonetheless still criticized for the major retcons to the cast's preexisting (and already conflicting) backstories, most egregiously the very preceding episode's set of backstories (which were also criticized for similar reasons). | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: This trope is one reason why Bill Watterson decided to not explain what the infamous Noodle Incident was because he felt he couldn't come up with anything that would live up to the readers' expectations. | |
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Since the My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic tackled the backstories of the major-league villains from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, this was inevitable: Good luck finding anyone who views the banishment of the Sirens to the present in Issue #3, thus invalidating their Really 700 Years Old aspect fanon held them to, as necessary or desirable. Nobody liked the Nyx (disparagingly nicknamed the "Moon Furbies") from Issue #4 and the explanation that they create all dreams, nightmares, and Princess Luna's Dream Walking abilities, simply because it was overly silly and killed a lot of the mystique surrounding Luna's ability to enter dreams. The explanation that Princess Celestia had the same ability to enter dreams as Luna was similarly disliked since fans felt it severely diminished what made Luna special, to the point that the show itself explicitly stated otherwise in a later episode. Considering the metric truckload of fan art this franchise generates, it's very telling that this issue and its characters got next to none. The majority of fan art that it did get was made to mock or outright insult it. Issue #5 explained that the holes in the changeling's legs are leftover battle wounds from battling Princess Celestia a thousand years ago. While fans were fine with the idea of Chrysalis herself being that old, most found it odd and off-putting that the entire changeling species was just that one swarm that never aged, healed, or increased in number. Again, this along with their entire origin was given a Discontinuity Nod in the main canon that instead shows that changelings are born with these holes, that they live and age normally, and that the holes and generally emaciated appearance is the result of them constantly being hungry instead. |
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You'll be hard-pressed to find a fan of The Transformers who thinks that Season 3's revelation of Unicron — the planet-eating-planet/Giant robot and Satanic Archetype of the Transformers mythos — being created by this silly-looking alien monkey thing◊ named Primacron was a good idea.noteOne manga made years later would attribute the Quintessons as another creation of his, which fans aren't too keen on either. Hasbro seems to agree, as all later depictions of Unicron ignore Primacron in favour of the Primus/Unicron myth used in the Marvel comic. | |
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The Phantom Stranger has four mutually exclusive origins, all of which were published in the same issue of Secret Origins and given equal weight. One of them was written by Alan Moore. Meanwhile, in the New 52, The Phantom Stranger now has a definitive origin. (He's Judas Iscariot.) True to form, a lot of people prefer him to have no origin, in no small part because the aforementioned one hooked him up with an In Name Only revamp of The Question and a new character, Pandora, who was unceremoniously killed off in Rebirth. | |
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Among other plot points from Virtue's Last Reward that did not return in ZTD, there was a conspicuous lack of any follow-up on the secret ending of VLR. The creator eventually clarified that that ending was not canon because it took place on a higher layer of reality note It was created long after the game was completed but was added in because he was inspired by the Tohoku earthquake and wanted to leave a message of hope; this was also why this particular scene was not voiced in Japanese and that when important character Kyle was heavily implied to appear in ZTD, what it actually meant was that Kyle would appear in our reality in the year ZTD takes place. As you can probably guess from that description, this was not taken well. | |
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Wolverine: The villain Romulus was stated to be behind most of the events in Wolverine's life, up to and including the Weapon X program, and including new stuff like raising a previously unrevealed son of Wolverine named Daken to become his Antagonistic Offspring. Fans prefer the mystery not to be revealed in such a simplistic way or prefer the other dangling plot threads. The nature of the two characters' relationship was confusing, due to contradictions in the stories themselves. Romulus is a Wolverine look-alike, and was initially implied to be a direct ancestor of Wolvie. Some stories depicted him as being behind the deaths of nearly every woman in Wolvie's life, as a form of mental conditioning. Others depicted him simply as Wolvie's long-term boss. And one of Romulus' last appearances has him implying that they were business partners, and that some of the Weapon X plans were Wolverine's brainchild to begin with. Fans have had quite differing views on how to make sense of all the contradictory data in the stories. |
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Luann: The August 2023 conclusion of the Gunther/Bets road trip saw Gunther return home without Bets. He blatantly lied to his mother and stepdad about the circumstances of his solo return (He and Bets were still good, but Bets decided to stay on the road), but confessed to roommate/step-cousin Leslie (He wanted to return to school, she didn't.) Not only did this not go down well with the fandom (mostly because it came off as a lazy rehash of Rosa's departure), but the Evanses advertised a tie-in novelization that filled in the whole story, the timing of which made it sound like the explanation would appear there, not in the strip. Further irritating readers was Gunther's dithering about the status of his and Bets' relationship (as several readers on both GoComics and ArcaMax observed: If you have to ask, no, you're not together anymore). It didn't help that it was yet another character of color Put on a Bus (joining Delta and the aforementioned Rosa).Also not helping was that this angle introduced a Voodoo Shark: Bets' whole identity was that she was an online influencer who reflexively live-blogged everything. Gunther's family should've been able to follow along with their adventures via social media. And even if she left out the break-up details, the sudden lack of updates (and subsequent lack of Gunther) should've alerted everyone that something was wrong. | |
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Ever since his debut Apollo Justice's upbringing had been shrouded in mystery. All that was certain was Apollo was put into an orphanage after the death of his biological father. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice felt the need to answer it by revealing that when his father got killed in an arson attack (and his mother Thalassa being unaware of his survival), Apollo was found and raised by Dhurke Sahdmadhi. Because Dhurke was falsely accused of murdering his wife the Queen of Khura'in, he had to send Apollo to America for his safety, and he had two foster siblings never mentioned prior. This revelation proved to be controversial for fans as it gave Apollo sudden importance in the game when Phoenix had clearly been the protagonist for the first half and appeared to contradict the little we did know about Apollo's past prior, making him unrecognizable from the character presented in previous games. | |
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Hannibal Rising explains that Hannibal's cannibalistic habits are the result of realizing the soup he'd been served by a set of soldiers contained the remains of his little sister, among other details that spoil the mystery of where Hannibal came from and how he became what he is. Harris claims that he never wanted to write a prequel, but was told by his publishers that, if he didn't, they'd find someone else to write it for him. | |
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In Batman Beyond: The reason why Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were estranged from one another was left unexplained. The comic book continuation of the series revealed that Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) after breaking up with Bruce renewed her relationship with Dick. Then she found out that she was pregnant with Bruce's child. This caused a fight between the two men before Barbara miscarried while fighting muggers. Although the offscreen relationship between Bruce and Barbara was already controversial due to the large age difference, many fans felt that this plot would be more at home in a soap. The associated comic also explained the reason why Bruce and Diana never got together: she got together with Justice Lord Batman after another adventure concerning the Lords' universe, and stayed there with him until peace was restored during the Beyond timeframe. This one is disliked because it doesn't mesh well with Diana's character: she was Strangled by the Red String with a Replacement Goldfish (since Bruce thought inter-team dating was a bad idea), and she also abandons her world a la Supergirl/Brainiac 5, except with even less reason (she had her home and family to return to, was Ambassador to Man's World, etc.) Furthermore, it was an explanation nobody needed or wanted—Bruce's obsession with the cowl is inevitably going to lead to him driving away all his loved ones and friends in the DCAU, we didn't need the additional angst to go with it. |
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The Wicked Years: Many fans dislike that the family tree in A Lion Among Men lists Nessarose as Frexspar's child. In the original Wicked book, it's vague whether Nessarose was the daughter of Melena's husband Frexspar or their mutual lover Turtle Heart. Nessarose has pale skin like Frex (then again, Nessa's sister Elphaba also had a dark-skinned lover but her son was light-skinned) but the time of her conception makes more sense for Turtle Heart. The first book also mentions that Frexspar favors Nessa so much because he sees her as his, Melena, and Turtle Heart's child. Fans prefer that all three Thropp children are half-siblings, rather than Elphaba being the Chocolate Baby. | |
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A number of players of Daughter for Dessert didn’t like the protagonist's backstory regarding his relationship with Lainie. | |
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Quite a few fans of Transformers: Prime along with the rest of the Aligned universe, don't like the identity of the unnamed Thirteenth Prime as given in Transformers: The Covenant of Primus, who turned out to be Optimus Prime. The general dislike toward it boils down to undermining the feeling that he got where he did due to the hardships he faced and that he was basically destined to lead the Autobots instead. | |
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When the Game Grumps play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Danny is not happy about how The King of Red Lions isn't actually a living boat, but just an avatar of the King of Hyrule. He had come to love the idea that a boat could be enchanted and sentient and how it and Link had become allies on their journey, and felt that all of that was lost with the reveal that the boat was nothing more than a puppet controlled by someone else. | |
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The first Animorphs Prequel reveals that as a teenager, Chapman was a little Jerkass who sold out humanity to the Yeerks for no real logical reason. Up until this point, all we knew about the real Chapman was that he let himself be infested to save his daughter and could overpower his Yeerk to defend her. Given how trippy The Andalite Chronicles is (and the fact that traitor!Chapman seemingly dies before mysteriously reappearing on Earth), some fans still stubbornly insist that "Hendrick Chapman" must have been VP Chapman's Evil Twin or something. The One is a case of Fan-Disliked Lack of Explanation, since it shows up in the last few pages of the series with no context. People have suggested that it could be Crayak, the being that chased him out of his home galaxy, or whatever messed with Jake's head in book #41, but K. A. Applegate Jossed each theory without providing any other clues. |
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Helluva Boss: "Spring Broken" revealed Blitzo adopted Loona when she was seventeen, displeasing fans who assumed he adopted her as a child which they felt was a stronger setup for their relationship and offers a much more nuanced look into Loona's mixed feelings about her adopted father. "OZZIE'S" reveals that Moxxie and Millie are in their first year of marriage, which many viewed as less compelling than them being so in love despite being many years past their "honeymoon phase". "The Circus" revealing Stella was evil since childhood and nothing but abusive of Stolas long before his resulting infidelity had detractors feel it was trying too hard to excuse Stolas's wrongdoings and negated the moral grayness/ambiguity that made it compelling. It also became part of the series growing criticism of shafting female characters, reducing Stella to a one-dimensional Hate Sink deprived of any depth or agency beyond propping up male characters' conflicts. |
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The Review Must Go On, the final episode of Demo Reel and a pilot for the revival of The Nostalgia Critic, revealed that Donnie Dupre and the Critic are the same person. The events from the former were a purgatory experience he had after he merged with the Plot Hole in To Boldly Flee, partially because of a paradox wherein he willing did something he was written to do, partially to learn how it felt to make bad movies. The video ends with him returning to his reality while his friends from Demo Reel fade away. While some fans were okay with this, and Word of God is that it was intended as a Downer Ending, others hated it, feeling that it invalidated the entire storyline of Demo Reel and The Critic's Heroic Sacrifice (if not his entire character arc) from To Boldly Flee, just to bring back The Nostalgia Critic after creator Doug Walker explicitly stated that he wouldn't. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has "Who sent the assassin to kill Bran Stark?", with the answer seemingly being Prince Joffrey. Two characters independently come to the conclusion that Joffrey did it, Joffrey acts suspiciously when probed about the matter, and the author stated that the mystery was solved in that book. However, him being the culprit requires a very specific motivation, most of the "clues" occur right before the reveal two books after the mystery was last relevant and/or refer to events that happened off-page ("You remember that time at breakfast when King Robert said...."), leading to a conclusion that many fans found unsatisfactory. As a result, many fans still believe that the explanation was mistaken and the true person who hired the assassin has still not been revealed. | |
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The 28 Days Later 2009-2011 comic series of the same name, which follows Selena after the movie's ending and explains her final fate at the end of 28 Weeks Later. A lot of the fandom didn't like how the comics wrote Jim out via him being arrested and sentenced to execution for killing the rogue, would-be rapist soldiers that kidnapped his friends, while having comic-original character Clint Harris supplant Jim as Selena's love interest. Even on the franchise's wiki, whereas both movies and the 28 Days Later: The Aftermath graphic novel all had articles and information since their inceptions, there was zero mention of the '09-'11 comic series for a long time, and the initial work towards adding information on and from the comics to the database was largely carried out by a single user. | |
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Scooby-Doo Direct-to-Video Film Series: After 34 years of being Left Hanging, The Curse of the 13th Ghost was meant to finally give a definitive conclusion to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo only for the movie to pull a very controversial use of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane which states the original series was nothing but a high-altitude hallucination and the titular 13th Ghost may only have being a cloud of dust. Even if one doesn't take Velma's explanation as granted, the fact that fans waited so long for a conclusion to the series only to get a ambiguous assumption that nothing on the series really happened pissed off more that a few viewers who wonder what was the point of even trying to conclude the storyline if they weren't going to go all the way. From the same movie, fans were unimpressed with The Reveal of the reason of Fred's absence in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. He went to cheerleading camp, Some fans noted there's no real reason why Fred would go in there nor why he would have any interest into it beyond fitting with his arc in the movie of supporting Daphne as the leader of the Gang and it hasn't being mentioned or brought back since then. Return To Zombie Island decides to retcon the events of the original movie to explain why the characters are now back to being teenagers and why Daphne isn't hosting a TV show anymore (it's clumsily handwaved as having been a high school project). Many fans have called this out, pointing out the extreme improbability of teenagers getting a reality show that travels across the country, which in the original movie was stated to be going into its second season, and still have time to solve mysteries and get through school. It also seems unlikely that Shaggy would be employed as a customs officer and Velma would be owning and running a bookstore if they were high schoolers. Not to mention it would retroactively make Velma and Beau Neville's Ship Tease kind of creepy given he's clearly an adult. Many fans didn't even mind they were adults in that film and liked that the group had matured a little while not completely getting over their quirks (they weren't even that old, in their early 20s at least, and still mystery solving), stating the whole retcon was just a personal preference of the writers trying to harken back to the original series that makes little sense in this continuity. |
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Return To Zombie Island decides to retcon the events of the original movie to explain why the characters are now back to being teenagers and why Daphne isn't hosting a TV show anymore (it's clumsily handwaved as having been a high school project). Many fans have called this out, pointing out the extreme improbability of teenagers getting a reality show that travels across the country, which in the original movie was stated to be going into its second season, and still have time to solve mysteries and get through school. It also seems unlikely that Shaggy would be employed as a customs officer and Velma would be owning and running a bookstore if they were high schoolers. Not to mention it would retroactively make Velma and Beau Neville's Ship Tease kind of creepy given he's clearly an adult. Many fans didn't even mind they were adults in that film and liked that the group had matured a little while not completely getting over their quirks (they weren't even that old, in their early 20s at least, and still mystery solving), stating the whole retcon was just a personal preference of the writers trying to harken back to the original series that makes little sense in this continuity. | |
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Virtually everyone who watched Forrest Gump assumes that the virus doctors-cannot-identify that kills Jenny at the end is AIDS. However, the author of the original novel, Winston Groom, revealed it was Hepatitis C in the sequel Gump and co. This is ignored by many fans because they feel the AIDS epidemic deserved to be referenced in the film's historical setting. It is also worth pointing that the film is an extremely loose adaptation of the first book anyway (Jenny doesn't die in it, for one), with completely different tone and characterizations, and that Groom wrote the sequel in part as a Take That! to the studio for mangling his book and also screwing him out of profit with Hollywood Accounting. It wasn't until 2019 when screenwriter Eric Roth confirmed that the movie version of the character did indeed die of AIDS. | |
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Later Japanese material would establish Transformers: Car Robots within the Japanese Generation 1 timeline, taking place between Season 2 and the Movie with Fire Convoy's team and the Destrongers coming from the future era of Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo. Though pre-release material had treated Car Robots as part of the G1 timeline, this was only vaguely alluded to in the show proper, which otherwise seemed like a Continuity Reboot. Indeed, the English dub, Transformers: Robots in Disguise is very much a reboot, with zero ties to the English G1 continuities outside of a handful of characters showing up in future media. | |
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The attempt in the runup to Infinite Crisis to explain Power Girl's costume (she always meant to put a symbol on her chest but never settled on one, reflecting her attempts to find an identity for herself and her lack of place in the universe) was relentlessly mocked for the simple reason of trying to come up with an angsty backstory reason for a boob window. Even the biggest fans of her costume design noted that it would be an infinitely more sensible explanation to simply say that Power Girl, as many women who are not interdimensional refugees do, enjoys wearing an outfit that accentuates her chest. | |
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Zero Escape: The ending of Zero Time Dilemma has the series' antagonist claim that all of his actions have actually been to prepare the protagonists to track down and stop a Greater-Scope Villain who has never been even hinted at before. The characters don't necessarily buy his good intentions, but it seems as though everything that Virtue's Last Reward built up about Brother and Left is made irrelevant by this last-minute new characterization. Fans also dislike the twist with the alien teleporter because of the implications that the entire series had its problem rooted in aliens that weren't even mentioned in previous games. Among other plot points from Virtue's Last Reward that did not return in ZTD, there was a conspicuous lack of any follow-up on the secret ending of VLR. The creator eventually clarified that that ending was not canon because it took place on a higher layer of reality note It was created long after the game was completed but was added in because he was inspired by the Tohoku earthquake and wanted to leave a message of hope; this was also why this particular scene was not voiced in Japanese and that when important character Kyle was heavily implied to appear in ZTD, what it actually meant was that Kyle would appear in our reality in the year ZTD takes place. As you can probably guess from that description, this was not taken well. |
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52, despite its ability to follow through its separate storylines being credited as one of the reasons for its success, left a few plot threads dangling, particularly with regards to Booster Gold and Skeets due to an Aborted Arc. The original storyline for Booster and Skeets involved them fixing the timeline of the universe, which had become broken in the recent Infinite Crisis. To set up this story Skeets had frequent memory errors, where events as they occurred were different (sometimes drastically so) than as they had been recorded in the future. However, after these issues had been written, the writers decided that this plot was too generic, and had been done too often before by other time-traveling heroes, so they decided to go in a different direction and have an actual malevolent entity responsible for everything, including Skeets' out-of-character actions. Eventually, the series revealed that Skeets had been infested and was being controlled by a matured Mr. Mind, who planned to eat reality. However, though this covered why Skeets himself was evil and why several of Booster later actions were disasters, it never addressed why Skeets' earlier memory errors occurred in the first place since they were before Mr. Mind escaped from his cocoon. | |
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Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock made its readers produce thousands of guesses about what is behind the girls' disappearances — from the whole thing being the work of a rapist/kidnapper to the headmistress molesting girls and driving them to suicide to the rock itself trapping them inside. After the author's death, the eighteenth chapter with the explanation was finally released. As it turned out, the girls and teacher turned into lizards and got sucked into a time warp. The fans felt that it was anticlimactic and nonsensicalnote it was noted by Lindsay's publisher that it came from a first draft, but it doesn't stop fans thinking it was written by the publishers to sell more . Even Peter Weir, the director of The Film of the Book, has admitted that he knew of the deleted chapter but Lindsay's refusal to show it to him was probably a blessing. | |
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Stitch & Ai: Several Lilo & Stitch fans took issue with the show not having any of Dr. Jumba Jookiba's genetic experiments appear (apart from Stitch himself), with the show instead having Jumba recreate Chinese mythological creatures based on what he reads on ancient Chinese scrolls given to him by a mysterious sage. Although the show's director, who was one of the executive producers of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, explained that those creatures are all experiments, said fans didn't buy that, still seeing them as just recreated Chinese mythological creatures and saying that they are not exactly "genuine" experiments, save for maybe Dim Long, the one new experiment with a recurring role on the show. Likewise, some fans didn't buy the director's claim that Stitch's metamorphosis program and newly-introduced giant destructive form was what he was supposed to become all this time, but Lilo's and Ai's love for him was a suppressant for such, especially considering that Stitch is already dangerous and destructive enough as his normal pint-sized self. Furthermore, a deleted version of the original film's opening shows that Chris Sanders (the character's actual creator, who had no participation in this series whatsoever) never envisioned giving Stitch this kind of ability, and Stitch's giant form also contradicts Lilo & Stitch: The Series, specifically the episode "Short Stuff", which shows that Stitch is much more clumsier when enlarged to a giant size. |
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While the third case and trial in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is hated by the fandom for a number of reasons, some fans didn't like Mikan Tsumiki's motive being the Despair Disease, which they saw as a pointless plot device, although it did hint at the true nature of the students. Given that one of Mikan's victims was Hiyoko Saionji, who notoriously bullied her, some say it would've been better if Mikan snapped from Hiyoko's treatment of her and that's what led her to murder (although this would then raise questions on why she also killed Ibuki Mioda). | |
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The Twilight Saga: A few of Stephenie Meyer's attempts to explain things in the series weren't appreciated by some readers, mostly because they tended to open up a whole new can of worms in regards to the logistics of the world. Team Jacob especially did not like the explanation that he apparently only loved Bella because he was subconsciously waiting for Renesmee, as they felt it cheapened the bond between their OTP, essentially made the love triangle that had dominated much of the series pointless, and/or because it had weird implications that Jacob had somehow imprinted on Bella's ovum. | |
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The origin of Cobra given in G.I. Joe: The Movie, declaring them to be the current incarnation and footsoldiers of an ancient Himalayan snake cult called Cobra-La, with Cobra Commander being a full-on snake man under the helmet, was controversial to say the least, as it seemed far too out-there and weird even for a Saturday morning cartoon (the cartoon rarely acknowledged it after, to the point that some consider the film non-canon). Notably, Larry Hama, who wrote the comic, made it one of the few things he just point-blank refused to include in his version of the series, even giving Cobra Commander an origin that clearly contradicted the film. | |
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Warrior Cats: Fans wondered why Thistleclaw ended up in the Dark Forest because while he was an aggressive War Hawk, he didn't commit any crimes in his life - and even the attempted murderer Ashfur made it to StarClan. Enter the novella Spottedleaf's Heart, where he essentially became a pedophile grooming Spottedpaw while also training in the Dark Forest. This made the novella one of the most unpopular works in the entire lengthy series, as most felt that the subject matter wasn't handled well. While it is not settled in stone by Word of God note : One of the authors (Kate Cary) leaves it open for fans to decide for themselves, and another author, (Victoria Holmes), says they do. the idea that StarClan cats eventually cease existing when forgotten by all living cats is heavily disliked by fans. One of the alternate ideas proposed, that once forgotten by all living cats, they become like a faint star and spend the rest of eternity alone, albeit in a pleasant state of rest and peace, is also disliked by fans. Most fans would prefer they just get a regular, eternal afterlife instead of making things needlessly depressing. |
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Ace Attorney: The remake-exclusive bonus case of the first game decided to put to rest the rumors that Miles Edgeworth would sometimes fake evidence in order to ensure a guilty verdict by revealing that they were nothing but nasty rumors and that he never faked evidence, only presented evidence he didn't know was forged once. A number of fans didn't like this reveal due to the fact that it renders a lot of Edgeworth's Character Development in the game moot. Ever since his debut Apollo Justice's upbringing had been shrouded in mystery. All that was certain was Apollo was put into an orphanage after the death of his biological father. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice felt the need to answer it by revealing that when his father got killed in an arson attack (and his mother Thalassa being unaware of his survival), Apollo was found and raised by Dhurke Sahdmadhi. Because Dhurke was falsely accused of murdering his wife the Queen of Khura'in, he had to send Apollo to America for his safety, and he had two foster siblings never mentioned prior. This revelation proved to be controversial for fans as it gave Apollo sudden importance in the game when Phoenix had clearly been the protagonist for the first half and appeared to contradict the little we did know about Apollo's past prior, making him unrecognizable from the character presented in previous games. |
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Several Lilo & Stitch fans took issue with the show not having any of Dr. Jumba Jookiba's genetic experiments appear (apart from Stitch himself), with the show instead having Jumba recreate Chinese mythological creatures based on what he reads on ancient Chinese scrolls given to him by a mysterious sage. Although the show's director, who was one of the executive producers of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, explained that those creatures are all experiments, said fans didn't buy that, still seeing them as just recreated Chinese mythological creatures and saying that they are not exactly "genuine" experiments, save for maybe Dim Long, the one new experiment with a recurring role on the show. | |
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Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering is a young adult horror with a brilliantly foreboding sense of tension, paranoia, and discord running throughout the entire story, with the imagery of things in the shadows and the gruesome image of the abattoir and the sense that something very evil has poisoned the whole city and everyone in it by literally poisoning the earth and that only these kids can repair the damage. We know that something big and terrible is going to happen, and we've got everything, including the dark, dismal skies. So the ending including the explanation of what happened to the last group of people who tried, and where the entire school shows up in the abattoir in warpaint, and we see the Big Bad being rather...less than imposing, was a bit of a letdown. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search reveals what happened to Zuko's mother Ursa and why Ozai was an Abusive Parent to Zuko. Ursa was forced to marry Ozai who threatened her true love interest, later claiming Zuko was her lover's child to confirm Ozai was spying on her correspondences which Ozai, who knew this was a lie, punished her for by mistreating Zuko. Ursa later willingly gave herself Identity Amnesia so that she forgets her children unable to bear leaving them. This was disliked for making Ursa, popular for her Mama Bear portrayal, responsible for all her son's misery and a weak-willed coward, and making Ozai a one-dimensional domestic abuser cheapening his character and the families tragedy by revealing he never actually loved them. | |
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Transformers: You'll be hard-pressed to find a fan of The Transformers who thinks that Season 3's revelation of Unicron — the planet-eating-planet/Giant robot and Satanic Archetype of the Transformers mythos — being created by this silly-looking alien monkey thing◊ named Primacron was a good idea.noteOne manga made years later would attribute the Quintessons as another creation of his, which fans aren't too keen on either. Hasbro seems to agree, as all later depictions of Unicron ignore Primacron in favour of the Primus/Unicron myth used in the Marvel comic. To a lesser extent, most fans tend to brush off the explanation that Quintessons created Transformers in favor of Primus as creator. Quite a few fans of Transformers: Prime along with the rest of the Aligned universe, don't like the identity of the unnamed Thirteenth Prime as given in Transformers: The Covenant of Primus, who turned out to be Optimus Prime. The general dislike toward it boils down to undermining the feeling that he got where he did due to the hardships he faced and that he was basically destined to lead the Autobots instead. Later Japanese material would establish Transformers: Car Robots within the Japanese Generation 1 timeline, taking place between Season 2 and the Movie with Fire Convoy's team and the Destrongers coming from the future era of Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo. Though pre-release material had treated Car Robots as part of the G1 timeline, this was only vaguely alluded to in the show proper, which otherwise seemed like a Continuity Reboot. Indeed, the English dub, Transformers: Robots in Disguise is very much a reboot, with zero ties to the English G1 continuities outside of a handful of characters showing up in future media. |
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In the Generation 5 comics, it's revealed what caused Happy Ending Override of G4. According to the comics, it started shortly after "The Last Problem" when Opaline manipulated the pony tribes into prejudice against each other over their magic, which caused such disastrous consequences, Twilight Sparkle resorted to gathering all the world magic into the Unity Crystals so they'd only have magic if in harmony with each other. This was widely criticized by the fanbase, as the Mane Six have dealt with this same thing before and without resorting to such drastic measures, and it's questionable how the ponies would turn against each other so quickly when Twilight's reign was a golden age of harmony throughout the known world. Further, it gave more fuel to complaints about Twilight taking the throne that under her rule peace only lasted a matter of decades and was so fragile that it was all undone by a single pony. | |
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