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It's not uncommon for false rumors to be spread about media. The dawn of the internet has not done much to quell urban legends. If anything, they've become easier to spread. It's not uncommon to see "he said, she said" rumors of Missing Episodes that only aired once. God Never Said That often over time leads to this, as a rumored quote will be circulated so much that it becomes an urban legend. Some say this is due to the "Mandela Effect", a pseudo-scientific theory that false memories are due to parallel dimensions colliding. Compare Urban Legend of Zelda (which is about gameplay-related video game legends), God Never Said That (which is about things creators allegedly said about the work) and Urban Legends (which is about the entire genre of sensational but mostly untrue hearsay lore). For popular misconceptions about the contents of famous works, see Common Knowledge. For celebrities who get urban legends attached to them because they already have bizarre reputations, see The Tyson Zone. When the creators deliberately play with the audience's expectations and make references to the installments that never existed, this is Un-Installment or Retroactive Legacy. |
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It's long been claimed in certain places that, during the Golden and Silver Ages of American comics, major companies banned the use of the word "flick" or the name "Clint", due to fears of what would happen if, due to the poor quality of the paper and printing methods, the "L" and the "I" in either word got blurred together and looked like a "U". There's no evidence of this happening (for a start, Hawkeye, who debuted for Marvel in the Silver Age, has always had the legal name Clint Barton), but it inspired the name of Mark Millar's comics magazine CLiNT. | |
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Supposedly, an issue of either The Mighty Thor or The Avengers features a scene with a random paramedic handing Thor his hammer; this is significant, since only a true hero can even pick up Thor's hammer. The issue in question does not, in fact, exist. It's believed that the sequence people are remembering is one from The Mighty Thor where a downed Thor is helped by Amora the Enchantress, currently disguised as a humble paramedic, helps Thor lift his hammer to retrigger his powers and get back up, but the implication of the scene as previously described are clearly not the case given Amora's status as a Wild Card at best. | |
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One popular form of urban legend is to claim that some mild-mannered, physically unimposing celebrity not only served in the military, but held a position known for requiring toughness and extreme mental and physical fortitude. Variants of this legend have been applied to John Denver,note An Air Force brat who didn't serve himself Don Knottsnote Who really was in the military, but as an entertainer in a GI variety show, not a Marine drill instructor as is popularly claimed and Fred Rogers.note Never served; Rogers went to seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister early into his television career, making him exempt from the draft These may have been partially inspired by the fact that Bob Ross, the warm and soft-spoken host of The Joy of Painting, was a master sergeant in the Air Force. | |
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This story was referenced in The Simpsons' episode "Krusty Gets Kanceled", when The Gabbo Show makes a similar gaffe. | |
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There was a widespread myth that Little Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials had died from trying out a deadly combination of Pop Rocks and soda. As it turns out, his actor John Gilchrist is still alive and well. Plus, the MythBusters proved that six 12-ounce cans of cola and six packages of Pop Rocks would only cause considerable pain to the subject (and even then, only if both gas release mechanisms were blocked), as the reaction did not produce the amount of carbon dioxide necessary for stomach rupture. | |
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After the release of Transformers: The Movie, one rumor was that a G1 figure was made for Unicron, with a projected price tag of over $100 in 1986. This is an odd combination of a misinterpretation of an Orson Welles quote, and jealous children pretending to have a toy bigger than a rival's Metroplex. In actuality, there was a prototype made, along with a prototype toy for Arcee. The Unicron toy◊ was scrapped for its high price, flimsy arms, and unaesthetic appeal (the robot mode looks like a beach ball with legs), while the Arcee toy was shelved due to the belief that boys wouldn't buy action figures of girls. | |
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It's believed that the creators of Adventures in Odyssey didn't like the Animated Adaptation of the series, since they put a Take That! against it in one episode. This not only ignores that the same people worked on both, but said alleged Take That! was from the episode "I Slap Floor" which was a Bizarro Episode written for April Fool's note "I Slap Floor" is an anagram for "April Fools" and therefore, nothing in it should be taken seriously. note The episode also features such things as Eugene & Connie falling in love and Blackgaard somehow being alive again. | |
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky allegedly threatened to sue over the commercial use of its name. Snopes actually has a page claiming this one is true... but it's filed under "The Repository of Lost Legends" and has a link at the bottom explaining that it's a joke and you shouldn't just believe everything you read. | |
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There was a rumor that Jerry Ordway threatened to quit DC Comics over Supergirl's appearance in "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot", which contradicted DC's then-current policy that Superman was the only survivor of Krypton and Kara Zor-El never existed. When asked about it, though, Ordway said he was annoyed over it (since he considered DC was betraying the Superman's reboot's mission statement), but he did not threaten to quit. He could not afford to lose his job. | |
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Among roleplaying circles, there is an in-joke / meme that claims female player characters in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons took a -4 strength penalty during character creation. However, there is no such rule in the book. The closest thing is a section on page 15, where a chart gives different minimum and maximums each of the demihumans have in their attributes. These number can change depending on gender. However, the mechanics doesn't involve subtracting points from rolls or affect humans, thus making the meme wrong. | |
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For a time, it was widely claimed that Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling based the Leaky Cauldron off an Exeter pub named the Old Fire House. Rowling herself debunked the rumor, saying she'd never visited or even heard of the Old Fire House at the time she was creating the Potterverse's famous places. | |
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There is a persistent rumor that the final strip of Calvin and Hobbes is this one, which has Calvin being on medication and no longer wanting to play with Hobbes, who turns back into a plush toy. The strip widely circulated online is a parody created by someone to make an anti-medication point, though the actual artist is unknown (and the lack of Watterson's distinctive hand-lettering is a dead giveaway). The actual final strip adopts an And the Adventure Continues perspective. | |
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Jim Davis's first comic strip Gnorm Gnat supposedly ended with a human foot squashing Gnorm. This, however, isn't true and is just an urban legend that's been widely circulated (including by Davis himself). The actual final strip was a simple 1975 Christmas strip of Gnorm saying "Thanks, Pendleton" to the fourth wall. An unpublished strip did feature a bug getting stomped by a human foot as a punchline, but it was a one-off character, not Gnorm. | |
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For years fans believed that Goldust was behind the Attitude Era's caught on camera segments "GTV" to facilitate an upcoming return to the ring. In 2015, wwe.com released "5 WWE Myths Busted" debunking this theory and other long-believed behind-the-scenes WWE rumors. In the case of "GTV", Vince Russo revealed that the mastermind was actually meant to be MTV's Tom Green, whom Russo had a friendly working relationship with behind camera. | |
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One legend claims that the Ultimate Warrior— who eventually passed away in 2014 —actually died in the early '90s, and his death was covered up by having another wrestler (sometimes stated to be Kerry Von Erich) impersonate him for his appearance at Wrestlemania 8. Needless to say, it isn't true. | |
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The Slender Man Mythos is a memetically-spread loosely-defined canon of horror fiction that uses the general trappings of urban folklore (missing children in the woods, mysterious stalkers, and the fact that no two tellings of the same tale are exactly the same) to pretty creepy effect. It worked, too, considering how many people think it's true. | |
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Stories spread around online claim that the original Shrek book contains lines such as "Shrek reached into his bag for his gun that killed clouds" and (of Shrek's wedding) "No priest would officiate because God hated Shrek for being alive, so they used a crocodile". These are actually fabrications made by a Tumblr user as a joke and are not found in the actual book. | |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: There is a widely disseminated story that Eric Carle was not happy at being forced to include the scene of the caterpillar suffering a stomachache. It originated from a fake interview published as an April Fool's Day prank. | |
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Analog: invoked The May 1942 issue has a nonfiction article, Willy Ley's "The Birth of a Superstition", that talks about things that "everyone knows" about historical stories has been proven false several times. The main subject is the evolution of colour vision (based on The Odyssey not having enough descriptions of the colour blue), but also mentioned are the fictions of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor beginning with "fate knocks at the door", and Cinderella having glass slippers.note Mason Locke Weems invented the cherry tree, Anton Schindler invented the quote, and glass was a mistranslation However, the Cinderella reference is itself a misconception. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: It's claimed that Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Actually, Donald Duck is quite popular in Finland. There were at least rumours that moral guardians tried to get the comic banned because of the above-mentioned reason. This seems to have spun out from a story from The '70s where a municipal government or a board for/of youths decided to stop their order of the comic due to their poor financial situation. They had joked that the reason was because of Donald not wearing pants, but that's all it was: a joke. One that got picked up by some foreign (as in not-Finnish) newspapers as fact and it continues to spread from there. | |
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In the original French translation of Animal Farm, Napoleon the pig had his name changed to Cesar. A popular rumor claimed that this was because of a French law prohibiting naming a pig "Napoleon"; however, there is no evidence that such a law ever existed. Later French translations of the book would reinstate Napoleon's original name. | |
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One famous comic book urban legend is that artist Wally Wood deliberately drew Power Girl's breasts larger and larger in each successive issue until someone told him to stop. There is, however, no verifiable evidence of this, and actually examining the issues in question plainly shows that Power Girl's bust is more or less drawn the same size throughout. | |
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In TSR's Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game from the 80s, the copyright symbol appears next to the word "Nazi" on some of the cardboard tokens used, sparking a rumor that TSR tried to copyright "Nazi". The copyright was actually referring to the artwork used. | |
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There are rumors of a Geno plush from the 1996 Super Mario RPG Japanese plush set line. No official Geno plush photos or videos have even been revealed, but it's a rumor that Geno does have an official plush. While the also-rumored Mallow plush was confirmed when a set sheet was found, Geno was nowhere to be seen, debunking the rumor. | |
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Superman: There was a rumor concerning an one-shot that redid the iconic Kryptonite Nevermore storyline for the Post-Crisis continuity. Being that it was released prior to The Death of Superman and was set early in Superman's career, it was claimed that the ending was left ambiguous, suggesting that if the wedding between Clark Kent and Lois Lane didn't sit well with fans (as that was the original storyline before Executive Meddling forced them to change gears), it would give them an out to reveal that the Superman Lois married was actually the Sand Superman and bring back the original afterwards. The creators of the story confirmed, however, that this was never the case at all. There was a rumor that Jerry Ordway threatened to quit DC Comics over Supergirl's appearance in "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot", which contradicted DC's then-current policy that Superman was the only survivor of Krypton and Kara Zor-El never existed. When asked about it, though, Ordway said he was annoyed over it (since he considered DC was betraying the Superman's reboot's mission statement), but he did not threaten to quit. He could not afford to lose his job. One famous comic book urban legend is that artist Wally Wood deliberately drew Power Girl's breasts larger and larger in each successive issue until someone told him to stop. There is, however, no verifiable evidence of this, and actually examining the issues in question plainly shows that Power Girl's bust is more or less drawn the same size throughout. |
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Due to entries on this wiki, there's the rumor that Tekno and Amy from Sonic the Comic have been confirmed as a couple at a convention. No such confirmation exists. In 2018, however, Nigel Kitching wrote a Sonic the Comic – Online! issue that casually mentions Tekno and Amy as a couple in the distant future. | |
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There was a rumor concerning an one-shot that redid the iconic Kryptonite Nevermore storyline for the Post-Crisis continuity. Being that it was released prior to The Death of Superman and was set early in Superman's career, it was claimed that the ending was left ambiguous, suggesting that if the wedding between Clark Kent and Lois Lane didn't sit well with fans (as that was the original storyline before Executive Meddling forced them to change gears), it would give them an out to reveal that the Superman Lois married was actually the Sand Superman and bring back the original afterwards. The creators of the story confirmed, however, that this was never the case at all. | |
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The book The Grapes of Wrath is said to have been translated in some countries as The Angry Raisins. There is no evidence for this. | |
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One post posits that while the comic ended mostly the same, but that Secret Empire was meant to mirror Secret Invasion (2008) with the World Security Council (a group introduced over in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and brought over in Captain America: Steve Rogers) would have taken over, proceeding to clamp down on super-heroics, mimicking the Dark Reign era. Many of the fallen elder heroes would have returned via Generations and would go on a trip to reconnect with the people while the younger heroes would lead the fight against the WSC. These titles would also be converted into a brand new Ultimate line — Miles Morales' Spider-Man title would go back to Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men/X-Men: Blue would become Ultimate X-Men, Champions into The Ultimates, etc. | |
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Arthur: It's been alleged that the reason Marc Brown drew Arthur with a nose that looked more like a tapir's trunk than an actual aardvark nose is because an editor decided real aardvark noses were too phallic-looking to be appropriate for a children's book. There is absolutely no evidence to support this claim. | |
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Spider-Man: There's a long-standing rumor that Gwen Stacy never died in the Mexican version, and Peter married her instead of Mary Jane Watson. For context: in the early days of the comic, the publishing company La Prensa got permission to publish Spanish translations of Spider-Man comics in Mexico; the comics proved to be such a hit with Mexican audiences that they eventually started publishing two comics per month instead of one, and eventually overtook Marvel Comics' publishing schedule. Because of this, Marvel gave Mexican artist Jose Luis Duran permission to draw his own original Spider-Man stories with full creative control — and in one of these original stories, Peter and Gwen got married, even though "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" had already been published by that point. Contrary to rumor, though, that story was revealed to be All Just a Dream, and its events were never intended to be canon. | |
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One popular form of urban legend is to claim that a celebrity had some iconic part of their anatomy insured. Claims like these have been made about Tom Jones and his chest hair, Dolly Parton and her bosom, and Jennifer Lopez and her butt. These ultimately descend from Betty Grable insuring her legs for $1 million, which actually did happen, but was just a colorful publicity stunt engineered by 20th Century Fox. | |
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There is a rumor that Red, White & Royal Blue is a former Real-Person Fic of the The Social Network actors Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. The author, Casey McQuiston, never confirms this but some readers speculate that she might be a former fanfic writer involved in The Social Network fandom. YouTuber Jane Mulcahy investigated this rumor and found out there's no evidence about it as she couldn't find the original fanfic though she did allegedly suspect that McQuiston wrote a Social Network real-person fic due to the writing style. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Rumors circulated that the show would be dubbed in Japanese with an impressive cast, a claim that Creative Power Entertaining - the company that produces Pleasant Goat - cited as being false. It's also been rumored that the franchise is banned in France, which was also proven false. For the record, the show has never officially aired in France as of now. |
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Due to the highly divisive nature of the events leading to Secret Empire, there were two 4chan posts that claim as to what the true ending to the story and how it would shape Generations and Marvel Legacy: One post posits that while the comic ended mostly the same, but that Secret Empire was meant to mirror Secret Invasion (2008) with the World Security Council (a group introduced over in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and brought over in Captain America: Steve Rogers) would have taken over, proceeding to clamp down on super-heroics, mimicking the Dark Reign era. Many of the fallen elder heroes would have returned via Generations and would go on a trip to reconnect with the people while the younger heroes would lead the fight against the WSC. These titles would also be converted into a brand new Ultimate line — Miles Morales' Spider-Man title would go back to Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men/X-Men: Blue would become Ultimate X-Men, Champions into The Ultimates, etc. Another post posits a quite different ending and follow up. This post would claim that Secret Empire was originally planned to end with Sam Wilson becoming Captain America once and for all, defeating an unrepentant Steve Rogers. With many of the previous heroes either dead or disgraced in some way, the legacy characters would have fallen into the spotlight. It's claimed that the immense backlash against HYDRA Steve lead to a hastily re-written ending to how it is now. |
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Masters of the Universe was not the result of Mattel repackaging a Conan the Barbarian toyline to divert it from a kid-unfriendly film. In fact, the Conan rights holders did sue the company for not making Conan toys while later releasing a Suspiciously Similar Substitute, only for the lawsuit to prove that Mattel was already working on He-Man and friends when they signed the contract. | |
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As far as Dr. Seuss's books go, there is a rumor that has circulated around the internet for many years that the first edition of There's a Wocket in My Pocket! contained two creatures— the "Red under the bed" and the "Burnace in the furnace"— that were removed from the 1996 reprint because they were too scary for children. These characters were never in any version. | |
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Legend has it that if you ask at SF conventions, you'll hear tales of some SF writer who created a book specifically to be as bad as possible. It turned out to be the exact opposite since a cult of people sprung up around it demanding more, so he said "why the fuck not!" and made a career on it. Depending on who you ask this person was John Norman, creator of the Gor series; Piers Anthony creator of Xanth (Anthony denied this, claiming Xanth came from a long-standing idea that he had of turning his home state Florida into a magical land; besides, the first three books were already written and contracted as a trilogy); Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian); L. Ron Hubbard, or Robert A. Heinlein. It is such a well-known enough story that at least one book featured it as a foreword. It was also claimed of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes, by no less a personage than Rudyard Kipling in his autobiography ("He was reported to have said that he wanted to find out how bad a book he could write and 'get away with,' which is a legitimate ambition."). Setting aside Kipling's pique about his Raised by Wolves idea being turned into a genre, this appears to be a garbling of a Self-Deprecating comment Burroughs made about the pulps, and his own place in them. | |
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There was a supposed lost Creepypasta about the Soviet Union killing God in either the 50s or 70s. It was even cited as a primary inspiration for the SCP Foundation's Global Occult Coalition, which was a major piece of evidence for the pasta's existence. After a nearly ten-year search for the story however, it was eventually discovered to originate from a 4Chan post of someone describing the outline of what they thought could make for a cool story. The GOC's creator even confirmed that the post was what had originally inspired him. | |
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Transformers: Transformers has a number of rumors, such as the one that there was a "giant-sized" Optimus Prime figure released during the original G1 run, which was actually a Korean bootleg. After the release of Transformers: The Movie, one rumor was that a G1 figure was made for Unicron, with a projected price tag of over $100 in 1986. This is an odd combination of a misinterpretation of an Orson Welles quote, and jealous children pretending to have a toy bigger than a rival's Metroplex. In actuality, there was a prototype made, along with a prototype toy for Arcee. The Unicron toy◊ was scrapped for its high price, flimsy arms, and unaesthetic appeal (the robot mode looks like a beach ball with legs), while the Arcee toy was shelved due to the belief that boys wouldn't buy action figures of girls. One of the most persistent rumors was that Bluestreak, whose toy is all-silver, had a variant with blue sides. It's a rumor that makes a lot of sense: his name implies him to be blue,note It's meant to refer to the phrase "talk a blue streak", which signifies he's a chatterbox, but when was the last time you heard someone say that? his colors are inaccurate to the show, which implies the silver version to be a variant (even if the show version is mostly black), there were some strange color variants or mispackagings in G1, and most pivotally, his box art, instructions, and various toy catalog pictures depict a toy with blue sides. In reality, what Bluestreak was (along with most of the early figures), was an imported version of a Japanese toy: said toy did indeed come in multiple color patterns, one of which was blue, and that version, somehow, did indeed end up being the one to inspire his box art and instructions. However, there's no evidence that the blue version ever made its way to the Transformers line,note nobody's been able to track down a blue Bluestreak in original packaging, anyway and it seems that every G1 Bluestreak sold in the 80s was the silver version. Hasbro ended up playing into this trope in various ways — they have released subsequent Bluestreak toys that were colored blue, and released silver-colored versions of the character with the name "Silverstreak", while in the 2020s they went all the way and released a blue Silverstreak and a silver Bluestreak, bringing it all full circle. |
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