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Trolling Creator

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Trolling Creator	comment	Authors who get some (or a lot) of their kicks from yanking the audience's chain. Sometimes it's to prove a point, sometimes it's out of frustration, and of course sometimes it's for pure schadenfreude... mostly the last one. Note that in many cases their behavior has little impact on the devotion of fans, who sometimes expect it, or feel that it's funny. See also Teasing Creator, Lying Creator, and The Walrus Was Paul.
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Trolling Creator / int_109f965c	comment	Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie has a scene near the end where Arnold wakes up, and thinks that everything that happened, including finding his parents and sealing his relationship with Helga, were All Just a Dream, seemingly undermining everything that's been built up over the series. He then sees his parents downstairs for real, meaning that the whole movie really did happen. Craig Bartlett has a pretty dark sense of humor about this.
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Trolling Creator / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: miHoYo has their moments, especially when it comes to chests. One of their favorite things to do with them is have them dump their contents directly off cliffs and steep hills, sending it into deep holes and valleys for the player to try and quickly grab. Then there's the infamous Precious Chest in Komore Teahouse that only gives 180,000 Mora, 3 Raw Meat and 3 Onikabuto, but no Primogems and doesn't count towards the "Lightning-Riding Treasure Hunter (I)" achievement.
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Trolling Creator / int_177ba579	comment	After information regarding the voice actors for Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location was supposedly leaked, the next teaser image on Cawthon's website stated the game was "cancelled due to leaks". Brightening the image, however, reveals an In-Universe news story about the cancellation of Circus Baby's Pizza World's grand opening due to gas leaks.
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Trolling Creator / int_18f4b8c1	comment	Greg "Jreg" Guevara is fond of being this, particularly with obfuscating jres actual political beliefs. Jre uploaded 6 videos within an hour proclaiming that jre was 6 contradictory political ideologies in a completely earnest tone, made jres discord server publicly accessible for anyone on the internet which effectively turned it into a warzone, made a very serious video about how unsure jre is about the future of the channel, and released a video a week later stating jre's going to quit Youtube, only to upload another video an hour later stating jre's just suddenly changed jres mind and then guilt trips the audience because of how tired jre is of making videos. A few months after the discord dilemma, jre made a livestream where he singlehandedly "purged" individual members of his server, before deleting it altogether. When, practically over night, Jreg blocked an entire subcommunity of fans shitposting on Twitter, it became a meme, however when a few weeks later several fanartists who had been dedicating their time to making Centricide fan conent and had never gone out of their way to harass Jreg were also blocked, the fandom found that jre'd taken things too far. When asked about it, Jreg explained that jre simply wanted to distance jremself from other people's reinterpretation of jress work as to not copy their ideas, and that jre'd done it because internet fame was slowly becoming too much for jrem to handle. Jreg also uploaded a video claiming jre was stopping the Centricide series before it was completed...only to reveal in the final minute of the video that this was all just a set up to drop the trailer for the final installment. The entire The Mental Illnesses series is technically a Bait-and-Switch. The original â€œThe Mental Illnessesâ€� video came out directly after the last Centricide video. The video portrays the concept of personified mental illnesses as flawed and possibly harmful due to how simplified they are. Some took it as a satirization of Centricideâ€™s concept. At the end, Neurotypical declares the series a very bad idea and states â€œthere should not be any more of this.â€� On Twitter Jreg posted the video and made a poll captioned â€œShould this be the next seriesâ€� with both answers of the poll being â€œnoâ€�. Three months later? Itâ€™s an actual series.
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Trolling Creator / int_1aacbbc9	comment	David Gaider, a BioWare employee and the chief writer of the Dragon Age series, is very fond of telling the story of how he came up with the idea to kill off Alistair in the end if he was romanced. According to him, when he first told it to the other writers, the entire group shared an Evil Laugh, foreseeing the fangirls' reaction, and he still smiles fondly whenever a player is devastated by that event.
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Trolling Creator / int_1aff7d8c	comment	Lil Nas X is rapidly becoming hip-hop's answer to Aphex Twin: In response to the Satan Shoes controversy, he put out a video of himself apologizing for the shoe...or not; as he's about to do so, the video then cuts to the lapdance scene from the "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" video. Shortly after releasing the video for "Industry Baby", which includes a scene of him and a group of men dancing naked in a shower with pixelated censorship, he released the uncensored version of the video...which pretends to buffer right before the aforementioned scene and continues buffering for the entire song. In a similar vein as the Satan Shoes video, he took to Twitter to promote a response video to Boosie and T.I., who had made homophobic comments about the "Industry Baby" video, offering a presumable thumbnail and link...which went directly to the "Industry Baby" video.
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Trolling Creator / int_1b7ca727	comment	The Stanley Parable's developer kept changing the unlock criteria of the achievement titled Unachievable over several patches, driving the community into confusion and anger when they couldn't figure out a reliable way to unlock it. The truth wasn't discovered until he revealed his move in a forum post.
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Trolling Creator / int_1b82328b	comment	After Liturgy released The Ark Work, multiple reviewers accused the band of trolling their audience (and metal fans in general). This has been a popular interpretation of the band since Hunter Hunt-Hendrix released his "transcendental black metal" manifesto, in fact, but The Ark Work seems to have taken it to a new level.
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Trolling Creator / int_1c334568	comment	Robert Kirkman, in various interviews concerning The Walking Dead, had kept mentioning that he had plans for the title for 200 and even 300 issues. The title ended with July 2019's #193, to the shock of the fanbase, especially since he had covers for #194 and 195. For bonus points, the fake covers rather unsubtly teased the death of a major character.
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Trolling Creator / int_1d1591e8	comment	The creators of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles promised that while Raphael was currently the leader, Leonardo would eventually step up to become the leader of the team like in every other incarnation. Splinter teased that he may become the leader during the last few seconds of the series finale. In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, set after the series, Raphael is captured and Leo must step up to become the leader in his absence.
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Trolling Creator / int_1d698aef	comment	Vampire Knight's Hino Matsuri seems to have a particular knack for trolling every inch of the story's Love Triangle. This becomes especially apparent towards the ending where she has the heroine finally admit that she's in love with Zero, and kisses him, only to then run back to Kaname and sleep with him. And she soon amped up the trolling via sending Kaname into a decades-long coma, having Zero and Yuuki get married and live together until Zero dies of natural causes, and finally having Yuuki say goodbye to her kids (one is Kaname's child, the other Zero's) before pretty much killing herself to revive Kaname. Uhm, oh boy.
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Trolling Creator / int_1d7b02b7	comment	During the development cycle of Total War: Warhammer II, Creative Assembly spent almost the entire cycle proclaiming there would be only three main races released with the game and that there was absolutely no chance there would be a fourth race of giant talking rats because Rat Men obviously do not exist in the Warhammer Fantasy universe the game is based onnote for those not in the know: They do, they're called "Skaven", they one of the signature factions of the setting, and there is a long-standing Running Gag in the game that In-Universe humanity refuse to acknowledge the Skaven exist. This while sneaking rat motifs into practically all of the early teaser material. The cat-and-rat game between the fandom and creators basically boiled down to how close to release the game could get without an official Skaven reveal, with "Skaven confirmed!" becoming a Running Gag on the game's forum and subreddit. Eventually, the Skaven did get a proper reveal and addition into the game.
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Trolling Creator / int_1dedf61a	comment	Space Ghost Coast to Coast famously had the episode "Fire Ant", which was a special half hour long episode (in a show where most episodes are about 11-15 minutes). Except that only the first 15 minutes are an actual episode. The last half of the show is just Space Ghost silently following an ant for ten minutes. It's deliberately made to be as slow, tedious, and annoying as possible. There's one last joke at the end, if you're willing to sit through the damn thing. A shorter version was later made to fit within the regular timeslot that cuts down the scene.
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Trolling Creator / int_1e534a03	comment	Some fans say this about the creator of Otaku no Musume-san, as Kouta, the main character and the woobie by default, is constantly trolled by everything that he's getting serious about. Consider that he became an otaku after Kanau's mother just left him and disappeared, as a form of consolation. So you can tell how woobie his life is.
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Trolling Creator / int_2172e43f	comment	After the Community Challenge Pack for Batman: Arkham Knight was released, people quickly found an easter egg that seemingly had a date on it (4-25). The developers never addressed this, and people made all kinds of theories about Remaster announcements, Origins 2 announcements, Season of Infamy 2 announcements, More skin packs releases, etc. The date came and... a moderator posts a "Happy birthday Joker" thread on the forums. (Joker first appeared 76 years ago that day). Some predicted this, some found it disappointing, some were demanding free content that was "promised" by the easter egg and some were telling how their dreams and hopes were crushed. However, this Easter Egg might've been a Prequel Hook for Batman: Arkham VR, as "425" is an Arc Number throughout the game, it involves the Joker's blood infection, and part of the easter egg involved Bruce suspecting a murder victim was killed by someone they knew and VR was a nightmare about a Jokerified Bruce killing Nightwing.
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Trolling Creator / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Executive Producer Stephan Nathan's response to being told that dangling an engagement between Booth and Bones in front of the viewers, and then having Pelant tear it to pieces, was not cool? "Hahaha! That was so much fun to do!" Cue the fanbase wanting his head alongside Pelant's.
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Trolling Creator / int_223c2a48	comment	When The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was revealed during E3 2014, was asked a question about Link's appearance in the footage. His reply was "No one specifically said that was Link." This, combined with the somewhat feminine appearance of the character in the trailer, spawned loads of Wild Mass Guessing who it could be, whether it be Zelda, Link's sister, a Reincarnation of Link who was female, or some new female character. A day later, Aonuma admitted that he was joking, and that it really was Link in the footage.
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Trolling Creator / int_2268de37	comment	Grimm: The season 2 midseason finale ended with "To Be Continued ... Sorry". The season finale continued this trend with "To Be Continued .... Come on, you knew this was coming."
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Trolling Creator / int_227431b6	comment	The vampire arc of Runaways, in which the fledgling team accepts a new member who turns out to be a vampire who tries to kill them all, was written for no other purpose than to troll Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a friend of Runaways creator Brian K. Vaughan.
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Trolling Creator / int_24e41891	comment	In a possible example of the creators trolling the cast rather than the audience, Dexter seemingly ramped up the level of Brotherâ€“Sister Incest between Dexter and Debra after the two actors, who were previously married to each other in real life, had divorced.
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Trolling Creator / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The writers have occasionally teased the audience by making it look like they're finally going to reveal which state Springfield is in. Examples include Lisa about to point it out on a US map just before Bart walks in front of the camera and a celebrity cameo flying to Springfield by going to the airport and buying a plane ticket to "the state where Springfield is located." In the episode "Blame It On Lisa", Lisa remarks that you can figure out which state Springfield is in by looking at the "clues" which has lead to fans trying their hardest to look out for them and gradually eliminate states to reveal the one that matches the "clues" but to no avail - Springfield is impossible to exist in any state based on the geographical evidence presented in the show (in fact, in the show, every state has been mentioned as being the one they're not part of at some point). It is said that some episodes, like the infamous "Saddlesore Galactica", were made bizarre and alienating on purpose to annoy the kind of fans who would complain about them online. "Saddlesore Galactica" even includes Comic Book Guy, a caricature of the show's negative online critics, complaining about the plot. Hans Moleman supposedly became a recurring character solely to annoy viewers complaining about his Gonk design. (Ironically, he ended up becoming an Ensemble Dark Horse.)
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Trolling Creator / int_26674ed5	comment	Kojima took his trolling to a new level with Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, with trailers misleading players into believing they'd be playing as Solid Snake, only for players to discover that they'll be playing as Raiden instead for most of the game.
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Trolling Creator / int_26c25f95	comment	When Aonuma made a presence near the end of a Nintendo Direct in February 2021, he was aware that his presence alone would excite fans longing for news and updates pertaining to the then sequel to Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom. So he went on to say that he had nothing from the game to show in that presentation. Aonuma had assured fans in 2020 (during the presentation of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity) that they only needed to wait "a bit longer" for a new preview on the new mainline game, and when delivering the bad news in the later video he used those same words to ask fans for patience. He did promise that information would be presented for real in 2021, and presented a trailer for the remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Switch to compensate the wait:
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Trolling Creator / int_289f3039	comment	In the full reveal for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at E3 2018: After taking a minute to recap the game's premise (while showing footage from for Wii U) he then shows the message "THE END", only for the words "(just kidding)" to show up seconds later. During the time period between the March 8, 2018 teaser and the full E3 reveal that featured that joke, many people assumed that whatever Super Smash Bros. game was coming for the Nintendo Switch would just be a port of the Wii U game with a smattering of extra content (such as the unique content from the Nintendo 3DS game), as was the case with Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. He also trolls Waluigi fans again, not only showing that he's still an Assist Trophy but using him to demonstrate that Assists can now be KOed. At the end of the reveal, Sakurai explains that their main focus was making sure every fighter from the previous games returned, "so I'm kind of hoping you aren't expecting too many new challengers" (at this point, the only new characters unveiled were the Inkling and Daisy) — immediately before revealing that Ridley had finally been Promoted to Playable. Plus Ultimate featured a total of eleven new characters (six brand-new and five Moveset Clones, including the aforementioned Chrom) and thirteen more in DLC (one stand-alone, five in one pass, and six in a second pass, one of the six being two characters in one via a swap mechanic), so your mileage on how much of a cheeky statement that was depends on how many characters one expected.
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Trolling Creator / int_29e77392	comment	Horrible Histories: Toward an actor rather than the audience — Jim Howick suppourts Tottenham, but the writers often have his characters mention being Arsenal fans.
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Trolling Creator / int_2a8943c0	comment	Thomas Astruc, the creator of Miraculous Ladybug qualifies as one. He teased his viewers that Chloe would never get a Miraculous (she got the Bee Miraculous in season 2), Felix won't ever appear (he made his first appearance in the 23rd produced episode of season 3), Mayura will be Hawkmoth's boss (she's treated more like his ally), there will be a zombie apocalypse in Paris (there was one in Zombizou though), and that Gabriel will use the Peacock Miraculous to save the city, but he will be too ashamed to wear a dress, so he will let Paris die instead, and there is a rumor he lied to his audience by believing Chloe will never get redeemed post-Battle of the Miraculous.
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Trolling Creator / int_2b06665c	comment	The author ofThe Digital Domain, a Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad fanfic, received an email by someone demanding the insertion of gay sex, with the recommendation to "make it hot". The author replied that the next chapter would feature something really hot. Cue a chapter where a Megavirus monster causes a car to crash into a gas pump and catch fire.
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Trolling Creator / int_2eab162f	comment	During Steam Train, Ross utterly revels in doing things to annoy, irritate, and wind up Dan, such as saying hilariously weird things, constantly interrupting him, stroking his leg or shoulders, and the like. Such as when they are playing King's Quest V during a rather tense moment when Dan must sneak into a bandit camp and steal a staff:
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Trolling Creator / int_2ec27115	comment	Teen Titans Go!: The creators have shown Robin and Starfire's relationship very differently from the first series, even dubbing over a scene from the Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo movie for a daydream. As many people note, "The Return of Slade" is one long Take That, Audience! that tried to sucker fans into watching and talking about the episode by promising an appearance by Slade, only to discard him about a minute-and-a-half in to focus on a thinly-veiled response to the people who've criticized the show. Some episodes are entirely dedicated to the writers tackling criticism lobbed towards the show or just teasing the massive Hatedom. In addition to the above, there's "Let's Get Serious", "The Fourth Wall", "Finally a Lesson", and "Squash and Stretch". There's even an episode called "The Cape" that's a Gag Dub of the first episode of the 2003 series, with the Go! Titans proclaiming that it's "just as good as they remembered".
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Trolling Creator / int_2f8e3d98	comment	Fans of the dinosaur game Saurian kept requesting Spinosaurus in the game, despite the dinosaur not being found any place or time near the Hell Creek Formation where the game is set. As a response to this, the game devs during a livestream claimed that a new unpublished Spinosaurid called "Montanaspinus" had been discovered in the formation. Poe's Law ensued, however, which resulted in the devs having to explain this was just a prank and that "Montanaspinus" was not a real dinosaur.
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Trolling Creator / int_303695fd	comment	Faith No More at a certain point decide to break the audience's expectations of a cover of "War Pigs" by launching instead into "Easy" (and a straight version!). Bassist Billy Gould even said that â€œIt feels really good to have a couple of thousand of people flipping you off. Just to see the number of middle fingers go up when we went into â€˜Easyâ€™ was amazing." Faith No More have also picked up on the trolling of other artists. At one famous 1995 show, noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub played an opening set for Faith No More consisting of nothing but Cover Versions of "Paranoid" and "Surrender" over and over again, making the audience incredibly angry as a result. When Faith No More came on stage, they opened their set...with their own version of "Paranoid" and teased the audience with its opening riff multiple times throughout the show. For part of the encore, they brought Steel Pole Bath Tub back on stage to play "Paranoid" for the seventh time in the show.
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Trolling Creator / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Masashi Kishimoto explains in this 2017 Jump Festa interview that he already decided that Naruto/Hinata would be the main Official Couple since the early stages of the manga, and he inserted all the Naruto/Sakura Red Herrings specifically to troll shipping fans. He trolled the shipping fandom again (specifically the Sasuke/Karin shippers who suggested that Sarada was in reality Karin's daughter) in the Post-Script Season Naruto Gaiden, with the revelation that Sarada could actually be Sasuke and Karin's daughter and not Sakura's, he even added a scene of a DNA test to confirm this causing the fandom to explode... but then in the end it was revealed that Sakura was indeed Sarada's biological mother all along. With this, Kishimoto's status of troll is fully confirmed. A non-shipping example would be the fight with Pain. Several characters, even Kakashi, end up dying in the fight (with the latter even meeting his father in the afterlife), then Hinata gets a chapter that plays out like A Death in the Limelight. Then Kishimoto plays with Hinata only having a mortal wound instead of being fatal, playing a B-plot during Naruto's fight with the other Ninja's trying to reach and heal Hinata before she completely bleeds out. Hinata is saved shortly before Naruto wins, then Kishimoto springs the trap: Pain gives his life to resurrect everyone he killed in the battle, making nearly all that drama pointless. Very few moments, mostly in story structure, hinted at what he was about to pull off.
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Trolling Creator / int_316eb6b0	comment	Astroneer: In a more direct example than most, LordMinion777 and BreadHeroDan livestreamed the game together in late 2016. During their game, they found a large zebra-striped orb, whose purpose or use they couldn't fathom. When the guys found out that one of the game's devs was in the audience, they asked him what the "zebra egg" was supposed to be; the dev acted like he didn't see anything.note Besides basic trolling, this might have been a Call-Back to earlier in the stream where Wade saw a spaceship rolling around in the background and Dan messed with him by acting like nothing was there.
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Trolling Creator / int_31e1eca3	comment	Happens in PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl. Thought there was an in-game evolution trade that would allow the player to receive a Haunter that will immediately evolve into Gengar? Turns out the trading NPC had the Haunter hold an Everstone so that Haunter wouldn't evolve after trading it over to the player.
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Trolling Creator / int_32098e5	comment	StepManiaX is full of this, mainly on the step artist names. Before the song's gameplay plays, you will see the message Steps By ___ either on the left or right side depending on what side the player is playing on. Often times, it will show who wrote the steps for the song's difficulty as respected credit. Sometimes, you will see names that "don't seem right", indicating that the name of the step artist(s) who wrote the chart hidden to the public. There's quite a number of them that it has its own page. This is likely done to avoid bias against certain step artists.
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Trolling Creator / int_331e00a	comment	When Gearbox showed off the graphics engine for the then-upcoming Borderlands 3, a character model was seen, but the camera was angled so that the pauldron on her arm covered her face. Gearbox teased that this character wasn't worth worrying about, and fans naturally speculated who she was. Said character ultimately turned out to be Moze, one of the player characters, and someone who had absolutely no presence in the series before.
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Trolling Creator / int_334120fc	comment	Brian Clevinger of 8-Bit Theater fame, noted for his love of the Anti-Climax. He wrote two separate fake-out endings to his webcomic (one where Garland sets a computer to blow up the universe, and one where Fighter wakes up as a real-life woman and dismissing the apparent dream as "80% filler"), and admitted to doing the second one solely to see the readers' angry reactions. The fanbase was onto him by that point, though, and thought it was a hilarious and fitting ending. Clevinger was disappointed.
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Trolling Creator / int_33728d94	comment	Dragaera author Steven Brust writes his Vlad Taltos books out of chronological order. To frustrate his readers' attempts to arrange them in chronological order, he's written at least one book with parts that happen before and after other books.
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Trolling Creator / int_33dd1d90	comment	And when he does talk about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, he says stuff like this.
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Trolling Creator / int_35e05f2a	comment	Director Kerry Shawcross and head writer Miles Luna love trolling the RWBY fanbase. When the Volume 3 finale, "End of the Beginning" was released to all on February 14, 2016, Miles posted on Twitter "Happy Valentines Day!" knowing full well that it would be anything but, especially since it utterly sunk the popular "Arkos" (Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos) ship. Even more, during an AfterBuzz livestream of the finale, one of the hosts asked Miles if Jaune would end up dying as well later on down the line, Miles broke out into a wide grin, sending the fandom into a panic.
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Trolling Creator / int_38f1727d	comment	The trailers for Season 5 of Lucifer indicated the whole season would be about Lucifer's twin brother Michael posing as him and completely fooling all the other heroes while Lucifer himself was still stuck running Hell, after the show's fans had long gotten sick of the human characters being Locked Out of the Loop and made to look increasingly idiotic for not noticing the clues in front of their faces. In the actual season, his deception lasts a grand total of one episode before being uncovered and the show moves on to a much better story.
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Trolling Creator / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Even the voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, is given to this at times, most notably when he claimed Mario's line when he throws Bowser a long distance in Super Mario 64 as "So long, King-a Bowser!"note and formatted it without the comma or hyphen, no less, which even MarioWiki has taken to doing when the actual recording has one syllable less, and when he claimed to have rerecorded Wario's "So ein Mist!" line for Mario Party as "D'oh, I missed!" when that game was the clearest indicator of what the line really was.
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Trolling Creator / int_3e783a31	comment	After the premiere of the first season of Sense8, several months went by without any word of whether there would be a second season, causing a hugely worried fanbase as Netflix tends to share news of renewals within a week or two of the release of its new shows. In fact, the announcement was simply being held back until August 8th, the birthday of all the show's protagonists, with their actors releasing a video singing Happy Birthday and casually revealing the renewal at the end.
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Trolling Creator / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan creator Isayama Hajime has become infamous for his various antics. Among his most famous were showing up to a serious interview wearing a Colossal Titan mask and talking about his favorite J-Pop group for 10 minutes, the comical fake previews in every volume, and teasing the fans with Shrug of God after Shrug of God. When asked to do an advertisement band for his assistant's first manga, a romantic series, he did it◊.
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Trolling Creator / int_3f3abe9	comment	The channel is notable for pulling April Fools' pranks on viewers. Perhaps the most (in)famous example was in 2017, where they aired the season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty completely unannounced, and they ran it not once, but eight times straight. Most of the shows this preempts were rerunsnote Specifically, the Bob's Burgers episode "Bob and Deliver", the Rick and Morty episodes "Auto Erotic Assimilation" and "Total Rickall", and the Family Guy episodes "Padre De Familia" and "Peter's Daughter", but this also happened to be the night new episodes of Dragon Ball Supernote The thirteen episode of the God of Destruction Beerus Arc and Samurai Jack's fifth seasonnote Specifically, Episode XCV were supposed to air, causing them to get delayed until the week after. Not very many people were amused by this. Of course, Genndy Tartakovsky himself had been pulling this for all of Season 5, and nowhere was it more obvious than the series's penultimate episode. The preview of the episode showed nothing except Jack coming across a large group of ruined robotic warriors, many of them giant, and remarking on how he knew that place, which many fans also recognized as the lair of The Guardian from Season 3, who protected the time portal that Jack was apparently destined to use. Then we find out that that portal was destroyed as well, and the Guardian is nowhere to be seen; only his red sunglasses in front of the destroyed portal, which are cracked. And that's not even mentioning the cruel cliffhanger at the end of the episode, which he complements by not showing so much as a second from the next episode. What makes this worse is that The Guardian's voice actor was credited for the season, but he only provided voice work for the sixth episode, in which he reprised some returning characters he voiced before (none of which were the Guardian) and provided the voice for a member of a trio of dogs that ruin Scaramouche's attempt to contact Aku, meaning that Tartakovsky had been stringing fans along in the cruelest possible way.
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Trolling Creator / int_40cdadac	comment	After being pestered by fans over not beating the key boss in Mario Gives Up, Let's Player raocow uploaded this, then trolled a couple more times as well.
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Trolling Creator / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Eric Kripke, the creator and original showrunner, released spoilers that Sam would have a new waitress Love Interest named Kristy in Season 4. He was kinda telling the truth (Sam had sex with a "Kristy" in the fourth season premiere, but she is actually the demon Ruby lying about her identity to cover up their involvement from Dean and Bobby), but he admitted that he was just saying it to rile up the fans. It worked. Kripke also wrote quite a few meta episodes lampooning obsessive fangirls. There's another in s07e14 'Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie' there's a timestamp that reads "Right friggin' now!". In the 9th season finale Dean is turned into a demon with black eyes. Jensen Ackles had given an interview not long before it aired saying that finale would be "...a bit of an eye-opener," and mugging for the camera
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Trolling Creator / int_4418fe63	comment	Cybersp0nge of NSFW Comix got tired of fan requests to draw Becky nude, so he finally did so - and gave her a penis. When it turned out that the fans actually liked that, he immediately had her get rid of it. And then he wrote a short arc in which he flip-flopped on whether she did or not - both surgery and All Just a Dream were involved. He finally decided on yes, she still has one.
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Trolling Creator / int_4515faf0	comment	The series is also believed by many to be a sequel of sorts to McGoohan's previous series, Danger Man, with "Number Six" actually being Danger Man's John Drake. There is at least one shared character (or possibly just a character with the same name and actor), Number Six's "civilian" clothes are the distinctive outfit usually worn by Drake, and a publicity photo of McGoohan as Drake is X'ed out during the opening credits. Official Prisoner novels flat out name the Prisoner as Drake. For many years, McGoohan publicly maintained that the Prisoner was not Drake, but it is suspected that he was just being contrary.
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Trolling Creator / int_45599333	comment	Slave.In.Utero, author of Tower of God, loves to surprise his fans, especially with raising expectations and predictions on his blog, just to give them something completely unexpected in the next chapter. He also loves to confuse his readership about the gender of his characters and frequently alludes to that.
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Trolling Creator / int_476bc61d	comment	The Direct had multiple "What character is this?" trophy segments, where a trophy is briefly displayed before its name and origin are given. One of these segments opens with the camera behind what appears to be a trophy of Palutena from Kid Icarus: Uprising, a reveal that would dash the character's chances at being a playable character. It cuts to the trophy's hideous Nightmare Face with a Scare Chord instead, revealing it as the boss Pseudo-Palutena. Palutena herself would be confirmed as a fighter at E3 that year.
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Trolling Creator / int_47f0eac3	comment	Listening to fan demand for a new season of Metalocalypse, decided to indulge their fans by giving out a fax number and asking fans to send their requests to the AS offices... where they were then fed straight from the printer into a shredder. On a live stream. And that's not even starting on mocking fans on adding live-action shows to the channel starting in the late 00's.
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Trolling Creator / int_491cd218	comment	Landfall Games, creators of Clustertruck, can do this if your game is integrated with Twitch where they can use a set number of commands only for the game's creators, and mess with you while you stream the game. Things like stopping you in midair, changing your truck's colors, stopping the trucks altogether, or better yet, Rickrolling you.
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Trolling Creator / int_49a87cb3	comment	Square Enix also shows infinite amounts of trolling regarding Final Fantasy VII, forever denying fans any remake of the game. The apex of this came in December 2014, during a gaming panel, the lights dimmed, the screens started showing letters and the announcement: "Final Fantasy VII is coming to the PS4." The whole room (and whoever was watching the live stream) burst into applause and cheers, only to fall silent a few seconds later, as it was revealed that it was just a port of the version available on PC, without any difference. Take a guess at the reaction of the fans on Twitter. Less than a year later, Square Enix finally announced the remake at E3. And that it had already been in development for over eighteen months. That's an epic level of trolling right there.
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Trolling Creator / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has the relic weapons that can get powered up more and more, but each step gets more and more ridiculous. One step involves collecting 12 items with absurdly low drop rates and another involves binding materia whose success rate gets lower and lower each time you succeed. At the end of the quest chain (as of patch 2.45), the NPC involved in the quest suggests that you find 50 of the low drop rate items to finish the last step and your character gives a You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! look before another NPC wisely suggests that you use the relic itself as materia to get your Zodiac weapon. You're then told several times that you only have a 1.4% chance of success to meld the materia and failure will destroy the relic. Most players' hearts probably skipped a beat before realizing that Square was just screwing with them since the success rate is actually 100%. During the 2017 fan fest, fans asked Yoshida when the benchmark for the Stormblood expansion would be released. He proceeded to show an actual bench on the projector before laughing and giving the release date for the benchmark.
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Trolling Creator / int_49ad83ee	comment	On a related note, Blizzard gave their two newest playable characters in World of Warcraft trollbait dances: the male Pandaren has the Party Rock Shuffle, and the female Pandaren has the Caramelldansen. These are the people who date their releases and patches as either "Soon," "Very Soon" or "Soonish," all of which they define as any time between now and the end of time with Very Soon being most likely to be closer to now and Soonish to be closer to the end of time.
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Trolling Creator / int_49cb0175	comment	Ralph Breaks the Internet has a second stinger involving a sneak peek at Frozen II. It starts normal, but then suddenly we get Rickrolled by Ralph.
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Trolling Creator / int_4b2c16eb	comment	Inu of Inu And Friends Gaming often purposefully cuts their Let's Play videos for maximum troll-y cliffhangers. This is apparently a result of watching through the infuriatingly troll-y cliffhangers from Code Geass.
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Trolling Creator / int_4b790c7b	comment	Iron Man 3 During the 2012 Super Bowl, Marvel Studios released a trailer that promised "an extended look". The next scene was Robert Downey Jr. staring for a whole minute at the camera. Any time the director, producer, and especially Ben Kingsley talked about the Mandarin, about his personality and motivations, they were completely trolling everyone with a straight face.
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Trolling Creator / int_4ba244d2	comment	Scott Cawthon in general has been guilty of trolling fans, though not with the intention of insulting/ridiculing them. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 was released just hours after the demo due to complications with uploading it (it would have taken a few days for it to be verified and made available). Five Nights at Freddy's 4 was released nearly three months before expectations, with Scott himself admitting that he was "bad with release dates".
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Trolling Creator / int_4ba244d3	comment	While developing Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Scott Cawthon got hacked and cancelled the game after the culprit posted the game online. Except not really — the game in the link is merely one of Scott's earlier games (There is No Pause Button!) with Freddy's head pasted over the player's sprite and the "Trololol song" playing on loop through the whole game.
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Trolling Creator / int_4ed7331c	comment	Sonic the Other Movie, an abridged series, follows the source material very closely until about two minutes from the end, then violently abandons it for an additional ten minutes of Mind Screw Gainax Ending goodness. It does all makes sense, according to the writers, but this is open for debate.
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Trolling Creator / int_5044930d	comment	For Satisfactory Currently this is best exemplified by the Update 3 reveal stream; most of which consisted of Jace and Snutt, the community managers, sitting in a cinema playing random other games that were not Satisfactory, followed by a countdown, a distortion cut to a Rickroll, followed by a fake Youtube end-of-stream screen before the actual Update 3 trailer played. The entire pipe dilemma is also the result of trolling of epic proportions by CSS. They dropped hints since Early Alpha that there will be pipes, but then kept flip-flopping between denying that there will ever be pipes and hinting that pipes may be added in the future when asked. Come Early Access Update 3 (which was delayed almost 6 months), pipes finally made its way to the game, but not before the above mentioned update 3 reveal stream trolling. The entire CSS team eventually revealed in an interview that the reason for the denial was because they were initially unsure of how to implement pipes and rebalance the game to work with it and didn't want to disappoint the early access backers, and it took them a while to come up with the solution seen in the game today. An issue in post-Update 3 Satisfactory was that coal was improperly capitalized in the resource scanner, being all lower-case, as opposed to all other resources being properly capitalized. This was... 'fixed': Version 0.3.6.1: "Fixed the capitalization of coal in the Resource Scanner." It had been changed to say "cOAL". Version 0.3.6.3: "Actually fixed the capitalization for Coal in the Resource Scanner." Coal was now properly capitalized. Everything else wasn't.◊ Following Update 3, They also trolled about drones (another heavily requested feature) in an interview, with the same flip-flopping of answers when asked to clarify. Sure enough, Drones dropped with Update 4 in March 2021. Before Update 4 dropped, the last few videos prior to the release kept warning pioneers to not go forward with Aluminum production, warning that there will be big changes to the process that will wreak havoc on any working aluminum factory. Come Update 4, the only fix pioneers have to do is to reset their aluminum scrap production refineries- everything still works untouched, assuming that the alt aluminum scrap recipes have been unlocked and both recipes are being used. However, they were not kidding about supercomputer, radio control unit, turbo motor and battery production also being wrecked by changes, although the latter can also be fixed by just unlocking an alternate recipe (aptly named "Classic Battery") and resetting the manufacturer. For a while prior to Update 5, a community-requested feature that had been gaining a lot of traction was the ability to play golf in the game (which started with a post by Snutt asking fans to post to the Q&A site if they want to see it happen). To reference this, the Update 5 Patch Notes video was edited around Jace and Snutt at a golf course. At first, Jace flat out said Hahaha No where it came to golf, but then Snutt put forth a wager - if he won, they would add golf. Jace winning would release dedicated servers (which were possibly the only more requested feature, but considered a forbidden meme due to how hard they were to implement). Cue Snutt racking up a hefty lead throughout the course... right up until the last hole, where he fluffed over seventy shots and eventually lost due to a lizard doggo sneezing Jace's ball into the hole. To add insult to injury, the last clip of the video showed the Q&A site, going on to the request in question and setting it to 'rejected'.note However, by now fans are wise to their trolling antics, and are holding on to the hope that the game will at least drop a putting executive toy in a future update Also related to update 5, they noted that the Northern Forest biome will be reworked for that update, but only factories in the Northern Forest will be affected. People who logged in upon Update 5's launch found all the flora regrown, even in factories in different biomes. How much of this is a bug and how much of this is intentional trolling remains to be seen, but thankfully this is a quick fix involving chainsaws and explosives.
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Trolling Creator / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Andrew Hussie of Homestuck fame is a big fan of psyching out the readers, especially during Act 2. "Andrew is the best troll" has become a meme among the fandom. He prefers, however, to call it "doing jokes", which is an alternate name for this page, to emphasize that he isn't doing this out of malice, but just a sense of fun. A great example is in Act 6 Act 1 when Jane was caught in an explosion and apparently died. A few pages later, Hussie's Author Avatar expressed surprise that there were still characters he hadn't killed off yet, and then proceeded to laugh manically. And then, of course, it turned out that Jane hadn't even died after all, anyway. Many a Skyward Scream in his name was yelled on those days. Also, from the book 2 commentary: The man not only deliberately wrote a Base-Breaking Character whose status as Creator's Pet is heavily disputed, he then went on to show his Author Avatar proposing to her, apparently just because he could. And then there was that time he posted a big, dramatic-looking flash animation that took ages to load... only for it to turn out to be a gif which laughed at the reader and said 'You spend no less than 90 seconds staring at this fucking gif image before you realize that the actual Flash animation is on the next page.' Hussie still has it in him as three years after the Grand Finale and the official end of the story. When The Homestuck Epilogues finally dropped the first page linked to goes to a fake title page for an Archive Of Our Own fanfiction, complete with character list and content warnings! Even better? the format change make complete sense.
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Trolling Creator / int_537fae8b	comment	In an inversion, Ono intended to use the original Mega Man for Street Fighter X Tekken, but Keiji Inafune kiboshed that by saying it had already been done before and challenged him to try something unique. Off the top of his head, Ono suggested taking Mega Man from the original game's infamous American box art and making him obese and middle-aged as a joke at how 25 years had passed since Mega Man's creation. Inafune loved the idea, but Mega Man fans hated it and accused Capcom of rubbing the salt in following the cancellation of Mega Man Universe and Mega Man Legends 3. This was ultimately a problem of timing however as neither Universe nor Legends 3 were cancelled yet when they came up with the idea.
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Trolling Creator / int_5672f274	comment	Similarly to Takeshi's Challenge, Kid Klown In Crazy Chase feels like a longform attempt by Kemco to troll the player with intentionally aggravating design decisions. Hurt animations are painfully long to waste time, there is absolutely no indication of which balloons contain the card symbols you need to beat each level and which ones just give coins and health or even damage you, certain hazards are secretly warps to bonus stages to collect coins (again, with absolutely no indication which ones are warps) and beating the bonus stage awards you with a unique power-up... that only serves to screw you over in different ways, such as making you jump constantly, and the normal and good endings are locked behind a Luck-Based Mission at the very end of the game. Oh, and you take damage at the very start of the game before you can even do anything.
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Trolling Creator / int_5685844c	comment	Persona 4: Arena Ultimax had a character referred to as "P5Protag" internally. This character would be eventually released as Sho Minazuki, a redheaded convict with split personality issues... who turned out to have absolutely nothing to do with P5 aside from sharing a motif color. And to top it all off, his only appearance in P5 would wind up being as DLC for its dancing spinoff.
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Trolling Creator / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017) showrunner Frank Angones revealed on his Tumblr that at least one character shown on the season 3 poster would not survive the season 2 finale, and they would be a major character to boot. Fan speculation ran wild... until the finale aired, and the deaths were shown: one of the Lil' Bulbs, two of Gyro's clones (technically fulfilling the "major character" criteria, particularly since Gyro had long forgotten which one of him was the original), and Watermelon!Mickey Mouse. And yes, all of them were on the poster.
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Trolling Creator / int_57965cef	comment	Captain Marvel (2019): In January 2019, Sam Jackson did an interview in which he said that Carol can time travel. The week the movie came out that March, he finally revealed that it was something he just made up because he was tired of people asking him for spoilers.
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Trolling Creator / int_5aa962c	comment	The creators of Las Lindas are rather infamous for their habit of interrupting the story (usually at a suspense point, or important plot point about to be revealed) and doing a page that has nothing to do with the story.
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Trolling Creator / int_5d7f0a07	comment	The author of Turnabout Storm, NeoArtimus, had a nice record of teasing, and occasionally lying to fans during the development of the series. This said, the ending of the rather long awaited Part 4/4 pushed her straight into troll territory. note Word of God does confirm that the main reason to do this way was practical; the conclusion would have been too long otherwise.
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Trolling Creator / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: The trailers and promos were basically trolling fans since day one. Apart from shots that weren't even in the film (such as Hulk fighting alongside the Avengers and the Wakandan Army), and fake scenes being shot to protect the secrecy of the real plot of the film, almost every trailer baited the audiences into thinking that the Avengers and Guardians were going to resolve the threat of Thanos' quest for the Infinity Stones by the end of the film, despite the apparent increased stakes. And we all know how that turned out. In the wake of all this, this meme◊ became the profile picture of their official Twitter circa December 2018.
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Trolling Creator / int_6234eae7	comment	Many of the more ridiculous looking Mobile Armors or battleships (especially the Zanscare machines in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam) were Tomino's response to Sunrise wanting toy models to sell. He'd see just how stupid looking he could make them and still have them accepted. Apparently something similar was going on with the names of the machines as well, which is why you have Mobile Suits named things like "Gouf", "Hamma-Hamma", "Zssa", and "Birkenau".
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Trolling Creator / int_6272adf3	comment	An interesting example happened with The Shield around Season 5's finale. Some spoilers leaked that said Ronnie would die and Lem would leave and go to Mexico. These spoilers mentioned a lot of things that came through in the episode, but were totally wrong about the ending. That's because the creators themselves put those spoilers out.
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Trolling Creator / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony's creator put out a bonus video, "A Very UFP Christmas Special", on December 25. Aside from the introduction and conclusion, it consists entirely of Twilight saying "I'm not making a video on Christmas!"
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Trolling Creator / int_66a1dcea	comment	A Tomb Raider promo video from the '90s concluded with one of the developers, seated at his workstation, responding to a burning fan question: What does Lara look like without her clothes on? He turned to his computer, which had Lara's in-game model open in a modeling program, and after a drawn-out moment of anticipation, he.... turned the texturing off, reducing her to a wireframe.
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Trolling Creator / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man 3 During the 2012 Super Bowl, Marvel Studios released a trailer that promised "an extended look". The next scene was Robert Downey Jr. staring for a whole minute at the camera. Any time the director, producer, and especially Ben Kingsley talked about the Mandarin, about his personality and motivations, they were completely trolling everyone with a straight face. Ant-Man: How does Marvel show off the first trailer? It reveals the "ant-sized" trailer... and the footage is ant-sized. Taika Waititi comes off a this for some Marvel Comics purists in regards to his MCU contributions. He went as far as saying he barely opened a single Mighty Thor comic book, didn't like what was in it and decided to make Thor: Ragnarok without taking any inspiration from it, and that the film was "written by a 6 year old". Then a couple years later he trolled further by pretending Thor: Love and Thunder has been written by a 10 year old. Avengers: Infinity War: The trailers and promos were basically trolling fans since day one. Apart from shots that weren't even in the film (such as Hulk fighting alongside the Avengers and the Wakandan Army), and fake scenes being shot to protect the secrecy of the real plot of the film, almost every trailer baited the audiences into thinking that the Avengers and Guardians were going to resolve the threat of Thanos' quest for the Infinity Stones by the end of the film, despite the apparent increased stakes. And we all know how that turned out. In the wake of all this, this meme◊ became the profile picture of their official Twitter circa December 2018. Captain Marvel (2019): In January 2019, Sam Jackson did an interview in which he said that Carol can time travel. The week the movie came out that March, he finally revealed that it was something he just made up because he was tired of people asking him for spoilers. After the release date for Deadpool 3 was announced, packaged with the reveal that Hugh Jackman would be reprising his role as Wolverine from the X-Men Film Series, Ryan Reynolds released a video where he and Hugh apparently explain how Wolverine's still around following his death in Logan. Except a few seconds after they start explaining, all their dialogue gets covered up by Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".
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Trolling Creator / int_6ab7b40b	comment	After Tekken 8 was announced, Harada made an announcement for their calls for more details about the game. Said announcement consisted of him wearing a shirt that read "Ask Me About #SaveTheD8"note The date was 12.8.22 - the date of that year's Video Game Awards, and a brief addition in English:
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Trolling Creator / int_6b85085e	comment	Ed Boon, the creator of Mortal Kombat, likes to troll his fans quite a bit — everything from misleading tweets about possible characters in MK games to teasing at a crossover with Street Fighter.
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Trolling Creator / int_6bf2d08	comment	And speaking of, Ross's Super Mario Maker levels are this trope. Pure distilled vintage 190 proof spite. His #1 goal in making levels is to make Arin and Dan suffer, his #2 goal is to make the rest of the world suffer, and his #3 goal is to have dance parties.
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Trolling Creator / int_6cdec540	comment	James Roberts, writer of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, is known for messing around with fans over his Twitter account for kicks: When a preview for issue 12 showed fan-favorite characters Rewind and Swerve getting injured, he played Metaphorically True on the fandom by claiming that issue 13 takes place entirely in flashback (it does, but the flashback is set after issue 12), just to trick the fandom into thinking the two would die. Before issue 13 was out, he deliberately used an out-of-context quote to make everyone think that a member of the Lost Light crew would betray or abandon the crew. No such thing happens. After the particularly intense issue 20 (which featured two major character deaths, several major reveals, and ended on a Darkest Hour cliffhanger), his first post was this:
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Trolling Creator / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	RK Milholland of Something*Positive does this a lot. The more he abuses his fans, the more they love him (to his eternal bewilderment). And in-universe, Davan, whom Milholland modeled on himself, starts his own Comic Within A Comic, only to grow bored with it. However, rather than abandoning the project, he decides to use it to troll his fanbase. Hopefully, this will turn out better for him than for Davan (Catgirl rampage!)
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Trolling Creator / int_70959613	comment	In Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow's character starts dribbling a soccer ball before smashing it and saying, "No more soccer!" This is in response to fans of Shaolin Soccer who kept demanding a sequel.
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Trolling Creator / int_74aab514	comment	Kensuke Tanaka, the lead producer for KanColle, is often regarded as one, and it's more than just for the truckloads of salt-inducing seasonal events and RNG-dependent outcomes. One of his first acts was to affirm that ships do sink at orange (i.e. 50% health or lower, aka "medium damage"), which was in direct contradiction to information provided in the tutorial (i.e. only heavily damaged ships are at risk of being sunk), and in at least two to four events, he intentionally withheld key information regarding the events, such as the existence of the sixth map in the Summer 2014 Event which bars all AL/MI participants, the precise location of the debuff nodes for the final map of Summer 2015, the air-raid debuff at E5 for Spring 2016 E6, on top of the boss having an Achilles' Heel that can only be struck during the initial airstrike, as well as understating the number of Saiuns needed for the Winter 2017 Event. Many Admirals consider him being the resident Misblamed creator of the game completely justified for this reason.
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Trolling Creator / int_750beb7a	comment	In Tomb Raider, there is a health kit in one level that cannot be reached by normal means (only abusing the corner bug will teleport Lara to the top of the platform and reach it) and it was put there as a joke from the developers just to screw with the players. They would do this again for the next two sequels and the one in the third game is doubled as Shmuck Bait since the item is sitting on top of a mud pit where you can't grab the item and you'll just sink and drown instead.
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Trolling Creator / int_77aa72de	comment	Kayin, creator of I Wanna Be the Guy, delves into this occasionally. Perhaps not surprising, considering the game itself trolls the player at every opportunity. Best exemplified when EG Floe premiered I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden at EVO 2012; Kayin logged into the game session and proceeded to either help Floe with particularly hard sections or spawn random death traps and Interface Screw, whichever was funnier at the moment.
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Trolling Creator / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman writer Tom King posted a half-serious Batfamily combat rankings list that enraged fans to no extent, prompting other writers to get in on the fun as well. Some of the controversial picks included ranking both Cassandra Cain and Dick Grayson over Batman himself, and putting Jason Todd and Tim Drake below some notable female characters. To add insult to injury, he also jokingly ranked Jason below Ace the Bathound in terms of intelligence.
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Trolling Creator / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court Tom Siddell has been riding on the unexpected plot twists that seem to be the complete opposite of what the readers were hoping. Examples? Nearly every author comment is a sarcastic response about the comic. Every time something completely unexpected happens to shed some light on a previous question while simultaneously raising more questions, he says "Mystery Solved!" MANY ships have been burned, as exemplified by this strip. There's basically a Take That! directed to those specific readers in EVERY CHAPTER. The mystery of Jones. After a long time of speculation from the readers, and a Running Gag about her most definitely not being a robot, Tom finally writes a chapter where Annie just directly asks Jones what she is. This leads to a series of flashbacks that keep going back further and further in her backstory and basically tell us that Jones is a Time Abyss who has been on Earth since before it could support life. Then we return to the present and Jones says: "And to answer your previous question... I do not know what I am." This is bad enough, but in the author's comment section there's a flashing GIF banner.◊ Chapter 55: The Break-Out. Antimony psyches herself up to get Renard back from her father. Tony hands the doll over without a word, and asks if there will be anything else. They exchange good-nights, and Annie leaves. End of chapter! Next page: Coyote, laughing.
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Trolling Creator / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Berkeley Breathed said in a 2007 interview that he was going to kill off Opus the Penguin. Two months later, he recanted it after getting the desired rise from fans. Then a year later he drew a strip where Opus is told that "the end is near." At the end of the series, Opus doesn't die — he transcends his reality and becomes a character in Goodnight Moon.
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Trolling Creator / int_7f343ea	comment	Tom, creator of Twokinds, plays increasingly elaborate - and epic - April Fools Day pranks, the latest "revealing" that two characters were being possessed by characters killed off in previous chapters. He has since apologized and, sadly, promised not to do it again.
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Trolling Creator / int_7f39a041	comment	On the other side of the Pacific, Hideaki Sorachi of Gintama fame is seen as an even greater troll than Kubo. There are even terms stating that "Gorilla is playing with the crotch of the readers again". Ch 238 showed a bunch of dialogue that seems to imply Tae and Gin became a couple - but then at the last page it showed it was someone else who sounds like them. The Renho arc helped introduce Sorachi's trolling style to anime viewers. It started off with a tear-jerking scene of Elizabeth leaving his friends behind, with a longer credit song to mark it as a saga, making it greatly resemble the Four Devas arc... Until the post credit scene, which shows that the Elizabeth that left is only a temp. Cue fans asking the Gorilla to return their tears. The Anime does it too. For example, they advertised a movie trailer of the fan favorite Benizakura arc... only to afterwards state that no one would be stupid enough to give them a movie. And then a real movie of the Benizakura arc came out! Followed by a trailer for the second movie that focused on Gintoki's past. For months, the Gorilla kept saying the manga would be ending in Jump at chapter 698. He kept his word... only for the very last page to have Gintoki say it's jumping ship to Jump Giga, with a note on how it was impossible to end it at that point. Also at the end of episode 367, Gintoki explains how Gintama ending will end up as a scam. Well played, Sorachi. Well played. It got even better: even with the 3 bonus chapters it got in Jump Giga, it still won't stay dead: the last leg of its run would be played out in the manga's own app, but who knows how long that would take.
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Trolling Creator / int_85e32df4	comment	Arin describes Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in this way, feeling that the game is so mean and has such utter contempt for the player with its obtuse and cheap difficulty that Shigeru Miyamoto's goal must have been to just screw with the player purely out of spite.
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Trolling Creator / int_8705dd29	comment	In a 2017 interview with Denis Dyack regarding the game Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, he was asked about the HMCS Bitter, a location that had been found by hackers who were looking through the game code regarding a conversion of the locations to 3D, and was considered to be Dummied Out content. Dyack instead claimed that there was a legitimate way to reach the Bitter by flipping four invisible switches located around Nosgoth, but he refused to elaborate further on the matter, saying he would never talk about it beyond this confirmation that it existed.
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Trolling Creator / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In November 2016, series creator Daron Nefcy sent out a context-less "Sorry not sorry" tweet that left her followers baffled as to what she was talking about. Two hours later, the episode "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" debuted, enraging many shippers.
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Trolling Creator / int_8b41b7ab	comment	Akira Hiramoto of Prison School with respect to that manga's ending. The final serialized chapter was released on December 2017 with an abrupt Downer Ending, with the author promising a "much improved" epilogue on the release of the final volume (April 2018). Fans eagerly waited four months only to find that this epilogue was nothing more than a few panels of the boys dreaming about the Wet T-Shirts Contest with neither background explanation nor conclusion. In retrospect, this may also double as Torch the Franchise and Run for the author.
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Trolling Creator / int_8ce9c201	comment	Wilbur Soot is infamous for being this for the Dream SMP, from proclaiming that ridiculous things are canonical (such as his canon counterpart banging a literal fish, among other things) to posting updates on how Ghostbur was doing in the Afterlife, seemingly just to watch the fandom weep and question "what the fuck is wrong with [him]". Just a day or two after the latter incident, he updated his flair on the Dream SMP subreddit accordingly to "Dream SMP Member (Enjoyer of Tears)".
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Trolling Creator / int_8d8100ab	comment	After Lost concluded, leaving an untold number of unanswered questions, the creators were asked who built the enormous four-toed statue of Taweret. The response: "I assume the Egyptians did it."
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Trolling Creator / int_8d98042f	comment	Game Grumps Arin describes Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in this way, feeling that the game is so mean and has such utter contempt for the player with its obtuse and cheap difficulty that Shigeru Miyamoto's goal must have been to just screw with the player purely out of spite. And speaking of, Ross's Super Mario Maker levels are this trope. Pure distilled vintage 190 proof spite. His #1 goal in making levels is to make Arin and Dan suffer, his #2 goal is to make the rest of the world suffer, and his #3 goal is to have dance parties. During Steam Train, Ross utterly revels in doing things to annoy, irritate, and wind up Dan, such as saying hilariously weird things, constantly interrupting him, stroking his leg or shoulders, and the like. Such as when they are playing King's Quest V during a rather tense moment when Dan must sneak into a bandit camp and steal a staff:
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Trolling Creator / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Persona 4: Arena Ultimax had a character referred to as "P5Protag" internally. This character would be eventually released as Sho Minazuki, a redheaded convict with split personality issues... who turned out to have absolutely nothing to do with P5 aside from sharing a motif color. And to top it all off, his only appearance in P5 would wind up being as DLC for its dancing spinoff. From the same game, we have the Malevolent Entity, a creature whose ability to take on other Shadows' forms, use of false memories, and plan to get the characters to fall into despair make him look like the oft-requested comeback of Nyarlathotep, villain of the first two and a half games. Who does he turn out to be? Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, a completely unrelated deity. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth marked the return of the Persona 3 Portable female protagonist. Fans were sure she'd finally get a Canon Name like the other featured protagonists, since her only other name came from the one continuity where both male and female protagonists were siblings. The Q series doesn't name any of its protagonists, instead calling them "Persona [X] Protagonist" where applicable on canon material. FeMC was no exception.
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Trolling Creator / int_9068877a	comment	From the same guys, after season 16 of Red vs. Blue divided fans like hell, the writers decided to do this whiteboard for a S17 discussion (a joke so self-aware there's a skateboarder Jumping the Shark...).
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Trolling Creator / int_960062b7	comment	Horikoshi Kohei seems to positively delight in tweaking My Hero Academia fans about the "UA traitor" subplot. After the idea was introduced, it went untouched for such a long time that some readers wondered if it had been abandoned entirely; allegedly, when asked about it during an interview, Horikoshi claimed he'd forgotten about the plot thread, which very few readers believed. Then in Chapter 241, Kaminari (the fandom's #1 suspect) seemingly performed the Paranormal Liberation Front's hand gesture during a mock interview, driving the Epileptic Trees through the roof...and in the very next chapter Horikoshi took an axe to them by having Principal Nezu very definitively state "Whoever the traitor is, it's not one of the students" after reviewing all the information they'd gathered. And then the traitor turned out to be one of the students — namely Yuga Aoyama, who was not focused on enough to show any evidence for or against said role and whose reasons to be the traitor, while sympatheticnote he was Quirkless and his parents desperately made a deal with All For One to give him a Quirk in exchange for his spying namely his navel laser also were not foreshadowednote the navel laser is Awesome, but Impractical and hurts him if he overuses it because his body was literally not made for it, but nearly everybody else in the class has a potential for being hurt by their Quirks if they overuse it such as Denki or even Todoroki, so it was not exactly the biggest of clues.
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Trolling Creator / int_971e8e24	comment	RedLetterMedia: Mr. Plinkett "review" of Transformers: The Last Knight consists on him talking for thirty seconds about how awful the movie is before saying that he shouldn't waste any more time on it and saying "Bye!", leaving a black screen with Transformers' sounds that runs for about 58 minutes. It should be mentioned that in the original video the length of the black screen was of 20 minutes, then after they received backlash for it in the comments they increased it to its current length in response. Half in the Bag episodes will sometimes begin with the two hosts talking about popular movies that the fans have been clamoring for them to review, only for the hosts to immediately transition into talking about something else. A Running Gag of the channel for many years was their growing collection of VHS copies of Nukie despite the fact that they'd never reviewed it. They made a few Bait-and-Switch impressions that they were finally going to review the movie, such as putting the film in all possible slots of one Plinketto episode, only for them to always review something else instead. They eventually made a video titled "We Finally Watched Nukie - The VHS Grading Video," but it was actually about VHS grading and didn't contain an actual review of the film. Shortly thereafter, at long last, they released "Actually Watching Nukie," finally putting the gag to bed.
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Trolling Creator / int_97663e21	comment	Creative Release has a character eventually state that "The author is a troll."
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Trolling Creator / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: When Joel Hodgson was replaced by Mike Nelson as the show's main character, online communities were abound with flame wars between two halves of the fandom arguing over which of them was better. Joel later admitted that for fun, he would occasionally add fuel to the fire by anonymously posting comments that in his opinion Mike was better than Joel to see people bitching about it. During a panel discussion at a convention that took place sometime after Mike became host, Kevin Murphy screwed with the crowd by pointing to the back of the room and yelling, "Oh my god, it's Joel!" When the Netflix revival was confirmed to be getting another season during the 2017 Turkey Day marathon, many fans suspected the crew knew for quite a while beforehand, given the amount of time that goes into choosing which movies to feature on top of the actual writing and filming process.
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Trolling Creator / int_98e97d57	comment	When announcing names for Rune Factory 4, XSEED Games tweeted that they had changed Vishnal, one of the characters fans were more anxious about name changes in localization, to Vance. They tweeted again several minutes later announcing that they were only kidding, and his name had made the transition to the US intact.
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Trolling Creator / int_998ab9ab	comment	SOPHIE often tried to play herself as an anonymous producer early on in her career before she publicly came out as a transgender woman in 2017, resulting in a very interesting Boiler Room liveset in 2014. While the show was advertised under her name and was playing her music, the DJ on stage wasn't actually her, but a Drag Queen she hired to mime a performance while she stood near the set as a bodyguard. Fortunately this was a one-off incident, and would eventually come around to properly doing live performances as herself.
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Trolling Creator / int_9a7088bc	comment	And yet again in the Mirror universe event. The Mirror Universe was originally established in Star Trek: The Original Series as a universe where the relatively peaceful Federation were bloodthirsty conquerors (And Evil Spock had a goatee). It reappeared on Deep Space 9 where rather uptight Kira Nerys was a manipulative ruthless Depraved Bisexual with power. In the latest season it is revealed The Mirror Federation is lead by a ruthless emperor. Who is the Emperor? Only the most hated and complained about character on Star Trek. Wesley Crusher.
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Trolling Creator / int_9d47a2a2	comment	After the implied death of Jon Snow in the Season 5 finale, who faces his fate a lot earlier than in the original book series, HBO has clearly been having too much fun on whether or not he is actually dead. Almost every single commercial for Season 6 leaves the question ambigious, with teases that he really is dead, or not even focusing at all on the subject.
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Trolling Creator / int_9db1766a	comment	Tameem Antoniades became this when his team, Ninja Theory, rebooted the hit action game series, Devil May Cry. The reboot made controversial changes to the series' hero, Dante, with Tameem commenting in the interviews he did not find the classic Dante appealing or cool. This angered fans a lot, of course. Even though he stated he did not care what fans thought, the reboot's Dante was modified during development to act like Dante and even look like him. Tameem's trolling status went even further when, in the reboot, Dante threw away a wig that made him look like the classic Dante.
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Trolling Creator / int_a331546f	comment	The writers behind Game Theory are fond of this. For example, early in the story the readers were worried that the Butterfly of Doom might prevent Quint from adopting Subaru and Ginga. The authors promptly released a segment on how Quint rescued them, and then it was mentioned in story that she was in the process of adopting them, alleviating those concerns. And then Power Games revealed that Subaru and Ginga were kidnapped while Quint was away.
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Trolling Creator / int_a332db0e	comment	MatPat of Game Theory has recently been fond of poking fun at the fact that his viewers are starting to get frustrated with the fact he hasn't made a part 2 of his Watch_Dogs game theory, preferring to jump to Mario, Zelda, and even claiming its what the fans want with an alleged poll.
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Trolling Creator / int_a366d0a8	comment	Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth marked the return of the Persona 3 Portable female protagonist. Fans were sure she'd finally get a Canon Name like the other featured protagonists, since her only other name came from the one continuity where both male and female protagonists were siblings. The Q series doesn't name any of its protagonists, instead calling them "Persona [X] Protagonist" where applicable on canon material. FeMC was no exception.
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Trolling Creator / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: The creators can be like this. They admitted to doing things like intentionally giving the Murderous Moppets more screentime and bringing back the Ghost Pirate (who viewers didn't care much about) at every opportunity. The episode The Revenge Society was a playful Take That, Audience!. It took the long-awaited return of the most competent villain on the show, Phantom Limb, and turned him into a raving lunatic (he got better), and also revealed that the entire ORB MacGuffin hunt from the previous season was completely pointless. In this video, Doc Hammer admits the only reason he keeps the Moppets around is because people hate them. Before he knew they were The Scrappies, he would often forget to write them in scenes and story-lines. A major reason for the episode "The Invisible Hand of Fate" was that fans at the time didn't like Pete White and Billy Quizboy, and so the creators decided to do an entire episode that was entirely focused on the pair and their backstory. As they put it, "You don't want White and Billy? We're gonna hit you with a lotta White and Billy!" That said, it worked out very well, as it significantly fleshed out the pair and tied them into the show's metaplot, which made a lot of fans come around to them.
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Trolling Creator / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass demonstrates that this doesn't just happen to fans: In the audio commendary for Episode 4, Ami Koshimizu (Kallen's voice actress) says she was told that Kallen's older brother Naoto died some time before the start of the series. Ichiro Okouchi (the show's co-creator and head writer) replies "Really? I wonder about that..."; Koshimizu is naturally surprised by this remark and demands an explanation which, of course, Okouchi never gives. Neither the show nor supplemental materials ever revealed anything further about Naoto, suggesting that it really was just trolling.
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Trolling Creator / int_a8a1b3ae	comment	On January 22, 2021, a day before Brawl Talk, Brawl Stars's social media accounts posted a picture which heavily implied the arrival of a cat brawler, complete with the caption "Meow?". Brawl Talk starts with Ryan and Dani talking about the new season, "Space Cats", and are about to introduce us to the "first cat brawler", Kit. Then the screen cuts to black, a cat scream is heard, and we learn that Kit was replaced by Colonel Ruffs, a dog brawler. This could have actually been a great surprise, had the Korean YouTube channel not not accidentally uploaded the Brawl Talk the day before.
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Trolling Creator / int_ab2a760	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's: Scott Cawthon in general has been guilty of trolling fans, though not with the intention of insulting/ridiculing them. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 was released just hours after the demo due to complications with uploading it (it would have taken a few days for it to be verified and made available). Five Nights at Freddy's 4 was released nearly three months before expectations, with Scott himself admitting that he was "bad with release dates". While developing Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Scott Cawthon got hacked and cancelled the game after the culprit posted the game online. Except not really — the game in the link is merely one of Scott's earlier games (There is No Pause Button!) with Freddy's head pasted over the player's sprite and the "Trololol song" playing on loop through the whole game. As an example of him trolling fans, he was once asked if Mangle was a boy or a girl. His answer was yes. After information regarding the voice actors for Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location was supposedly leaked, the next teaser image on Cawthon's website stated the game was "cancelled due to leaks". Brightening the image, however, reveals an In-Universe news story about the cancellation of Circus Baby's Pizza World's grand opening due to gas leaks. And, on the eve of the release date, he was at it again with a "kid friendly" version of Sister Location due to the actual game being "too dark". Much like the "hacked" version of 3, it's actually his earlier game, Sit and Survive, with the protagonist wearing a Freddy mask. He struck once again as he claimed the next game in the series, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, was just a spin-off, similar to FNAF World. Everyone believed him, as Sister Location was considered by fans to be the final game. It turned out to be Five Nights at Freddy's 6, and he may have just pulled off one of the greatest trolls ever.
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Trolling Creator / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content has a rather unstable relationship with his hardcore fans. When asked if he had ever written a story arc deliberately to piss off the 'shippers, he replied "see my entire comic". One of the strips is even titled "Suck It, Shippers". He has basically stated (probably in a lost Formspring entry) that this is the reason he spells his name with "ph" instead of "ff". One of the later stripsnote set in the period where Marten and the college intern Claire started sharing a lot of screentime together as soon as she revealed herself to be a trans woman - which got kind of blatant when Marten suddenly realized he needed her to drive him to his father's wedding epitomizes the Ship Tease seen in previous strips with its commentary: "I am trolling you guys pretty hard".
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Trolling Creator / int_acb92fd0	comment	A behind-the-scenes example: after finishing shooting the first series of Father Ted, Dermot Morgan approached Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews and sarcastically asked them what they were going to do to him next, jokingly mentioning being covered in slurry as an example. And so the very first scene for Series 2 that they wrote down was the one from "Hell" in which Ted and Dougal are slathered in the contents of a septic tank truck, a scene whose shooting Ardal O'Hanlon described more than once as one of his worst experiences. In the documentary, Linehan admits that they did that because at the time he and Mathews "felt like smartasses".
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Trolling Creator / int_af7aead4	comment	In an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver George R. R. Martin has this exchange with John.
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Trolling Creator / int_afeeacf6	comment	In a similar vein to that; Another Abrams movie, The Force Awakens, seems to set up a cool fight scene on a freighter ship involving two, badass criminal gangs. One is an angry young◊ Violent Glaswegian (named Bala-Tik) with a bunch of Super Serum-augemented silent red cyborgs (The Guavian Death Gang!) and the other consists of the guys◊ from that Indonesian action flick series, The Raid (The Kanjiklub!)....but most of both groups get munched by terrifying (albeit kind of silly) CGI monsters◊ (which resemble tentacled meatballs with teeth) before they can do anything (Granted; A few surviving red guys do exchange blaster-fire with Han & Chewie, though but all the The Raid guys end up eaten or M.I.A and the Violent Glaswegian only shows up in the very end to radio The First Order of the heroes whereabouts as they escape.)!
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Trolling Creator / int_b0b22636	comment	On the January 21, 2014 episode of Wheel of Fortune, during the closing segment, host Pat Sajak pulled out a phone and stated that he would tweet something. As the episodes are taped in advance, he decided to have fun with this the day the episode aired â€” presumably sitting at his home in Maryland, he proceeded to tweet "Vanna looks hot tonight" at the approximate time that the show's closing segment would've aired in each time zone before deleting it.
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Trolling Creator / int_b24f49ab	comment	In the first making-of documentary for Back to the Future Part II, Robert Zemekis said that hoverboards actually existed, but parents groups were keeping Mattel from releasing them. He later said it was a joke and wanted to get a rise out of kids. He even faked "test footage" of the hoverboards in action with special effects to sell the gag.
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Trolling Creator / int_b2c6c7a4	comment	When the hololive fangame HoloCure announced the game's release to Steam, the announcement was dressed up as a formal letter, which many in both the video game and Hololive fandom associate with bad news (such as a game cancelation or idol graduation/termination), which isn't helped by the wording of the first half of the letter implying bad news.
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Trolling Creator / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: In a commentary for Season 1, the producers talk about the difficulty of adapting certain things from the books, and specifically tell us not to get our hopes up that white ravens will be included. In episode one of Season 2 (filmed before the commentaries were made), we do get a white raven. In the interviews before and during season 1, Martin was saying of Sean Bean's character Eddard "Ned" Stark that he was the character the books follow, and thus much of the limelight for every season would be on him. All the readers of the books (and Sean's fans) laughednote Ned gets executed at the end of the first book, translating into Episode 9 of the show, but the non-readers sure didn't and reacted with shock and quite a bit of anger. Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) is fond of obliquely spoiling future plot developments on Instagram. She also messed with people's expectations when she posted a heart-shape made of stones, which teased that Lady Stoneheart would appear in Season 4. She didn't. In an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver George R. R. Martin has this exchange with John. After the implied death of Jon Snow in the Season 5 finale, who faces his fate a lot earlier than in the original book series, HBO has clearly been having too much fun on whether or not he is actually dead. Almost every single commercial for Season 6 leaves the question ambigious, with teases that he really is dead, or not even focusing at all on the subject.
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Trolling Creator / int_b40eb913	comment	Infinite Crisis: Many believe Superboy Prime was specifically written to mock fanboys.
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Trolling Creator / int_b6222010	comment	In a similar vein as the Satan Shoes video, he took to Twitter to promote a response video to Boosie and T.I., who had made homophobic comments about the "Industry Baby" video, offering a presumable thumbnail and link...which went directly to the "Industry Baby" video.
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Trolling Creator / int_b6886bfd	comment	One of the trailers for Star Trek Into Darkness had a URL linking to a new poster for the film hidden in one of the frames. The frame they chose showed Alice Eve in her underwear, leading to not many people noticing it. Some fans were no doubt rolling their eyes when Abrams seems to setup a monster chase scene early in the film. The creature is instantly stunned and never seen again. Adding to the humor, it turned out that the monster was actually Kirk's ride, intended to help him escape from the horde of angry tribals pursuing him. In a similar vein to that; Another Abrams movie, The Force Awakens, seems to set up a cool fight scene on a freighter ship involving two, badass criminal gangs. One is an angry young◊ Violent Glaswegian (named Bala-Tik) with a bunch of Super Serum-augemented silent red cyborgs (The Guavian Death Gang!) and the other consists of the guys◊ from that Indonesian action flick series, The Raid (The Kanjiklub!)....but most of both groups get munched by terrifying (albeit kind of silly) CGI monsters◊ (which resemble tentacled meatballs with teeth) before they can do anything (Granted; A few surviving red guys do exchange blaster-fire with Han & Chewie, though but all the The Raid guys end up eaten or M.I.A and the Violent Glaswegian only shows up in the very end to radio The First Order of the heroes whereabouts as they escape.)!
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Trolling Creator / int_b962c879	comment	Hiro Mashima added a character in Fairy Tail who looks exactly like one of the most popular characters from his previous work, with both of them being highly notable characters, and then did a crossover between the two stories. Guess which two characters never even get mentioned? That's nothing compared to his seven year time skip where none of his core cast aged. Let's not even get started with Chapters 261-263... after trolling the fans for 3 chapters in a row, he whips out Chapter 264 which treads into Magnificent Bastard territory. Generally, it has become somewhat of a fan meme on some Fairy Tail forums that Hiro trolls his readers,note Which goes all the way back to the very beginning of the story (i.e., when Lucy sets out to join Fairy Tail). sometimes even stretching to Hate Dumb when he actually isn't trolling in the way the trope describes,note Except when he is. but people insist he is.note Except when he isn't.
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Trolling Creator / int_b9e26f05	comment	The opening of Fargo says it's based on a true story, but the Coen brothers revealed that they just said that to mess with the audience.
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Trolling Creator / int_bbbccf7	comment	The creators have shown Robin and Starfire's relationship very differently from the first series, even dubbing over a scene from the Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo movie for a daydream.
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Trolling Creator / int_bc848d30	comment	The Super Bowl LIII halftime show playing "Sicko Mode" instead of "Sweet Victory" while also giving the SpongeBob SquarePants cast little screen time might have been the NFL attempting to troll the notoriously-unsatisfiable SpongeBob fandom, who requested the song in honor of Stephen Hillenburg's death. Originally, fans gave Nickelodeon heat for this, but they clarified that what little tie-in to SpongeBob that did occur was the best that could be done given that the NFL's plans for the show had be finalized months prior.
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Trolling Creator / int_bd737d2d	comment	Season 3 of How to Get Away with Murder opened with Annalise's house burning down, with one person found dead inside and another in critical condition, and then as per the series' standards, it flashed back to an earlier time, with the show finally catching up with the "present" at the winter finale. The fans were promised that each week, the creators would reveal who wasn't dead, and sure enough, each episode ended with a flash forward to the day of the fire showing at least one character whose status was unknown to be alive and well. Except one week's scene failed to show any of the characters who had previously been shown to be alive, and furthermore, was set entirely indoors in a windowless room. Come the winter finale, the scene turned out to have taken place during the daytime, hours before the fire, and the character shown to be alive in that scene was the corpse. Not content to merely be a Lying Creator, however, the show then proceeded to drop hints that the character in question had merely faked their death, possibly with the help of their alleged killer, only to repeatedly snuff out the fans' hopes over and over again, with the WMGs seemingly quashed for good when all of the alleged co-conspirators were dead by Season 5. Nope. Season 6's winter finale showed that the character was alive all along. The series finale in all its advertising asked "Who Killed Annalise". No one "killed" her. The scene in the winter finale that appeared to show a dead character alive and attending Annalise's funeral was in fact a hint that she lived a long life—long enough for the character's son, who wasn't even born until six months after he died, to grow up to look just like his father.
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Trolling Creator / int_bdbcdadf	comment	FoxOnPie, the author of Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! loves to yank readers' chains during periods of Wild Mass Guessing. In the midst of speculation of the identity of the mysterious socialite who appears in Chapter 7, he jokingly said that she was related to Kite Man. In another case, he said that Kim Possible was a previous holder of One For All. In both cases, users responded as if he were completely serious.
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Trolling Creator / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Occasionally Ashley will pop in anonymously on fan conversations in which therories are being tossed about and post actual spoilers as theory. Like the fact that Mikaila used the sharpness aspect of the broken glass to attack Bastion, six years before the pages revealing the fact were published. On her Q&A tumblr Ashley posted a response claiming Mason would still be crowing about being saved by "Ssael" when he was a grandpa, right before the update in which Mason messily died, ensuring he would never be a grandpa.
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Trolling Creator / int_c19c6efa	comment	Notch once announced that Minecraft contained one recipe which nobody had ever found and that didn't appear in the recipe-finding Recipe Book mod. This was all he ever said on the matter.
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Trolling Creator / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Tara Strong, who voices Twilight Sparkle, uses her Twitter account as a means to troll the brony fanbase with great dedication. Not long after this began, she actually recorded a little ditty (which was later animated) in which she boasts that "ain't no other pony trollin' down like me." Her Twitter exploits wasted no time in embracing the resulting "Twilightlicious" trend. Lauren Faust herself it would seem. Especially seeing how she continued... Meghan McCarthy likes to troll the fans, from tweeting fake episode titles for season 4 to calling writer Amy Keating Rogers in the middle of her panel at Everfree NW to remind her that she is not to tell that Pinkie Pie is becoming an alicorn. M.A. Larson just revels in trolling the more... emotional bronies. His response to the anger about Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn was this. There's a reason the more rational side of that fandom claim those first two initials stand for "Motherfuckin' Awesome" and tag such antics on Derpibooru with "Larson You Magnificent Bastard". Following the show's Grand Finale in 2019, he announced via Twitter that he was returning (having left the show at the end of Season 7) to head Season 10... which had already been revealed to be coming via the comics team. G.M. Berrow is getting in on it too—shortly after the synopsis for one of her books was revealed that heavily spoils the ending of season 5 (it involves Starlight Glimmer), she took to Twitter saying "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." Pretty much everyone at the Hub has taken a playful pot shot at the bronies at one point or another. They went on record assuring people that Twilight would not become an alicorn and that "Equestria Girls" was a false rumor. Needless to say when they happened, brony rage shook the planet itself.
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Trolling Creator / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: As well as all the Moffat examples in the "creators" section above, the publicity for the 2021 New Year special "Revolution of the Daleks" heavily featured the introduction of a new Dalek design, which was hugely controversial the last time and caused quite a bit of online debate this time. In the episode, the new-design Daleks are denounced as "impure" and massacred by standard Russell T. Davies-era-design Daleks.
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Trolling Creator / int_c62995ba	comment	Nimbus Llewelyn, best known for being the creator of Child of the Storm, is a master of this. He has enough Chekhov's Guns to rival JK Rowling, but has explicitly stated that the difference between a hint and a red herring largely depends on his mood. He also teased Harry's Animagus form being revealed, and indeed put in a scene where Harry gains his Animagus form... and turns into Captain Jack Harkness. Readers were then informed that yes, it was a joke, and no, they shouldn't be surprised. He also teased in an author's note that Tonight, Someone Dies...then resurrected them and cheerfully added, "I never said it would stick." In addition, another author's note mentioned that he considered calling Chapter 70 (in which Luna Lovegood and Arthur Weasley get killed off) 'Yes, I Really Am A Bastard.' As the author is a big fan of Spider-Man, readers were wondering when Peter Parker would get bitten, gain his powers, and join the story. In Chapter 29 of the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, Peter Parker does indeed get bit...by a vampire. In Chapter 41 of Ghosts, Nimbus justified his changing the nature of the First Task by noting that "Harry would quite literally walk over any normal dragon with ease." As it turns out, the key word there is "normal", and Harry winds up fighting an Elder Wyrm, which is indeed a kind of dragon, albeit one far more badass than a mere Hungarian Horntail.
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Trolling Creator / int_c720f71e	comment	In a YouTube recap of Star Wars Rebels, Rebels Recon, for the episode "Idiot's Array", Pablo Hidalgo is asked who Fulcrum is. He begins to explain only for the video to become corrupted and cut to a "please stand by" image. And it goes straight to the preview for the next episode, leaving the question unanswered until the first season finale "Fire Across the Galaxy".
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Trolling Creator / int_cb6abef3	comment	It apparently came back to bite him when he wrote The Avengers (2012): According to his DVD commentary, Marvel told him that they wanted to kill off Agent Coulson; he immediately realized that he was going to get a lot of crap for this, and that no one would believe it wasn't his idea.
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Trolling Creator / int_cbae024e	comment	This Twitter reply in July 15th, 2015: The best(?) part is that by then most the fans know better than just overreacting to anything Butcher says and suspect that some form of Exact Words was at play. Although, trying to figure out that one out is bound to delve into Epileptic Trees territory, meaning that the author gets his trolling done in any case. Well played, Jim Butcher. Well played.
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Trolling Creator / int_cd899ed6	comment	Following the show's Grand Finale in 2019, he announced via Twitter that he was returning (having left the show at the end of Season 7) to head Season 10... which had already been revealed to be coming via the comics team.
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Trolling Creator / int_d01106a8	comment	Vinny of Vinesauce fame enjoys messing with his fans in general, but nowhere is this more obvious than in his Tomodachi Life series. While it's present earlier on, it really becomers apparent near the end of the first series with the Jahn invasion arc starting around Episode 47, which involves him deleting many islanders offscreen, adding "new" ones without any explanation, and generally acting Not Himself on-stream. What does this build up to? Absolutely nothing, as the plot is wrapped up offscreen. He lampshades this at the end of Episode 49, during an art showcase:
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Trolling Creator / int_d1296ad5	comment	Agent Ali: On 29th Februaury 2020, the official Agent Ali YouTube channel posted a video titled "ejen ali the movie FULL 2019." Instead of the actual film, however, the video is an animated loop of Comot dancing to the movie's "Mamak Maju" song for the same duration as that of the movie. The title itself is similar to that of pirated movies uploaded to YouTube.
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Trolling Creator / int_d27c007d	comment	Episode 15 of Kill la Kill ends with Mr. Exposition promising the long-awaited explanation for what the hell is going on in the show in the first place. Episode 16 starts with the secondary main character announcing it's time for a Recap Episode! He then breezes through the recap in less than a minute. The shipping crowd has also been trolled, since not even the ending of the last episode outright confirms or denies the status of the two most popular pairings. Is Mako in lesbians with Ryuko? Will Gamagoori finally confess to Mako? Who knows!
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Trolling Creator / int_d2ef54a3	comment	When "Season Two" of Dumbing of Age started, Willis put up a silhouetted cast picture, with characters "appearing" as they got reintroduced. Since some of the characters have distinctive appearances even in silhouette, Assumptions Were Made. Then Walky mentions in passing that Mike (last seen in hospital) is dead, and the next strip introduces Booster, who doesn't even look much like Mike, but has a hairstyle that lets them fit in the "Mike-shaped" space on the cast pic.
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Trolling Creator / int_d616724d	comment	For April Fools Day 2012, Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, hyped up to a new champion release, a manatee named Urf. On the day of his release, they released a story about how the day before, Urf had been murdered by Warwick, to whom they released a skin featuring Urf's carcass. However, rather than rage, the fandom just went with it and turned Urf into the unofficial mascot of League. Riot Games noticed, and eventually turned Urf into the official go-to for gags, such as Ultra Rapid Fire mode which they insisted was "the future of League."
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Trolling Creator / int_d77e9e33	comment	He struck once again as he claimed the next game in the series, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, was just a spin-off, similar to FNAF World. Everyone believed him, as Sister Location was considered by fans to be the final game. It turned out to be Five Nights at Freddy's 6, and he may have just pulled off one of the greatest trolls ever.
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Trolling Creator / int_d8592cbe	comment	The author(s) of Daring Do and the Journey to the Center of the Earth initially posted this story as a single 20,000 word long chapter. Fimfic users complained about the length and asked to split the story into smaller chapters. The result is that it was split into three chapters... by word count, so each chapter had exactly the same number of words, even though it resulted in chapter breaks happening in the middle of sentences.
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Trolling Creator / int_d8c2cfe4	comment	Ant-Man: How does Marvel show off the first trailer? It reveals the "ant-sized" trailer... and the footage is ant-sized.
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Trolling Creator / int_d9b8b9d0	comment	As The Dark Id put it: "Trolled by Cavia."◊
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Trolling Creator / int_d9c602eb	comment	The first season of South Park ended on a cliffhanger as everyone waited to learn who Cartman's father was. The reveal was promised to come on April 1, but after teasing the answer with "Now, finally, the shocking truth about Cartman's lineageâ€¦" Trey Parker and Matt Stone threw in an April Fools Joke at the public with "Not Without my Anus", an episode starring Terrence and Phillip, the boys' favorite Canadian TV stars. Cartman's father's identity is mentioned during "Not Without My Anus," but it's almost completely drowned out by Terrence and Phillip's laughter, so it's extremely easy to miss, and was not properly revealed until several weeks later. Many viewers were not pleased. Oh, and the identity of Cartman's father was subject to a Retcon years later anyhow.
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Trolling Creator / int_db47f8fc	comment	David Willis, author of the Walkyverse, is well know for screwing his audience at every opportunity, mostly through drama bombs. There's a reason the fandom's catch phrase is "DAMN YOU WILLIS!" (which, of course, he turned into his twitter handle). When "Season Two" of Dumbing of Age started, Willis put up a silhouetted cast picture, with characters "appearing" as they got reintroduced. Since some of the characters have distinctive appearances even in silhouette, Assumptions Were Made. Then Walky mentions in passing that Mike (last seen in hospital) is dead, and the next strip introduces Booster, who doesn't even look much like Mike, but has a hairstyle that lets them fit in the "Mike-shaped" space on the cast pic.
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Trolling Creator / int_db96ded4	comment	They have continued their evil, trolling ways into The Legend of Korra. Case in point? This line from the very first episode, which they later acknowledged was "100% trolling"note though not for long, as the question contained would be answered the next year in The Search:
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Trolling Creator / int_de4c5fd4	comment	The author of Gender Confusion, Fly Free, and AK:PCO is known among her readers for pulling plot points out of thin air... that end up making sense anyway, along with proof that it was planned out long in advance. There's also the mass amounts of ship tease that she is prone to inserting, particularly in Fly Free, and the many times when she has led the audience to believe, with many assurances, a conclusion concerning one character... that is later proven to be very different from what she had actually planned, without ever having outright lied to the audience.
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Trolling Creator / int_de976635	comment	The Book of Boba Fett: Viewers of the teaser thought one line sounded suspiciously similar to the title character of The Mandalorian, even though he didn't appear onscreen. Articles and videos began crediting it to Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal, treating it as confirmation that either his series would cross over with The Book of Boba Fett, or (since the captions attributed the quote to either "Alien 1" or "Translator" rather than "The Mandalorian") Pascal landed more than one Star Wars role. It turned out that Boba Fett showrunner Robert Rodriguez recorded the line himself, but he didn't correct any of those articles or videos right away. Instead, he let the rumors that Pascal said it circulate for over a month, before he finally revealed the truth to The Hollywood Reporter. (Pascal couldn't credit Rodriguez because filming The Last of Us (2023) prevented him from finding time to post about the teaser.)
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Trolling Creator / int_decd5ac3	comment	It was announced that on July 14th, 2014 there would be a big character announcement. But hours before the big event, Sakurai casually (emphasis on 'casually') posted his usual Pic of the Day... that had Rayman on it. Considering that this was the first time a non-Nintendo universe character was introduced with a trophy, fans wouldn't be blamed for thinking that was the announcement... until later that day, when: both male and female Robin and Lucina were announced as fighters. There's also a bit of a "take that" to the many, many people who wanted Chrom in the game, as he was shown lying unconscious on the ground in the trailer. He eventually says "I guess I'll get my chance another day", before promptly passing back out. Then the trailer cuts to some gameplay footage promising that no, he's getting his chance now... as Robin's Final Smash. His actual chance as a fighter came, like Ridley, four years later in the fifth installment, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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Trolling Creator / int_e04f934e	comment	While it came out that Sakurai wasn't the one that chose to make Byleth playable, the reveal trailer did poke fun at Fire Emblem's reputation in the Smash community when Sothis quips "Too many swordsmen, are there?" It mocked the memes further by having Byleth abuse Exact Words: He turns into his female counterpart, therefore becoming a swordswoman.
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Trolling Creator / int_e0a7e36	comment	Kailin and Richard from Samurai Princess have been known to joke around with their fan base but their ability to troll becomes apparent with their April Fool's day joke for 2011. They teased a spin off featuring a fan favorite character, and when fan favorite Jacquline slipped off a cliff and was falling to her doom Kailin mentioned she had just finished watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Richard claimed all he had written for the next page's script was SPLAT!
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Trolling Creator / int_e10df048	comment	Cult of Luna told journalists that Eternal Kingdom was based on a diary they found in an old mental institution. They later revealed they were just trying to expose lazy journalism.
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Trolling Creator / int_e1575a9d	comment	MegaTokyo's Visual Novel fund had an absurd $500,000 stretch goal to add "excessively romantic content". Turned out it wasn't so absurd, because they raised almost $300,000; so the author announced he would honor the "secret" $300k stretch goal... whatever that means. He tends to do this in general, too: most of his hints about upcoming plot twists are completely false, but the story is such a Mind Screw that almost anything seems plausible.
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Trolling Creator / int_e21b531	comment	No, your copy of Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 isn't damaged. "It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)" is supposed to make you think so, with the way it ends - cutting off abruptly after apparent issues with one of the stereo channels. The joke worked so well people actually brought their copies back to where they bought them, thinking they'd gotten one that was damaged. They take it to another level in concert: Playing on the obvious innuendo already in the song, they really throw any and all subtlety out the window to close out this particular number as Valo screeches some raunchy lyrics from "Wall of Fire" to the rest of his band playing "TV Eye".
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Trolling Creator / int_e22c949c	comment	The Nintendo Direct at E3 2019 was a double whammy. Sakurai had told fans on Twitter to expect a (as in one) new character reveal, and the Direct started with the reveal of the Dragon Quest Hero. People thought that was it, until halfway through the Direct, Sakurai posts another tweet, hinting at a second reveal. It ended up being a shot-for-shot remake of the K. Rool reveal, only now K. Rool is with the Kongs and the Duck Hunt duo was the pranksters, posing as a different mammal/bird pair and the Kongs' old Rareware buddies Banjo-Kazooie.
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Trolling Creator / int_e26905cd	comment	Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada responded to a tweet complaining about Tekken 7 character Lucky Chloe, stating not to worry about it since characters can be deleted and replaced for the American market, and she would be replaced by a muscled skinhead with powerful attacks. News sites reported Lucky Chloe was exclusive to Japan and Europe, until Michael Murray, designer at Bandai Namco, responded on Twitter: "It's amusing how many [people] are [taking] Haradaâ€™s trolling about Chloe seriously. Heâ€™s good at getting free publicity." That's not even getting into the tweet itself. To the user loudly proclaiming that Lucky Chloe should be removed from Tekken 7, he only had this to say: After Tekken 8 was announced, Harada made an announcement for their calls for more details about the game. Said announcement consisted of him wearing a shirt that read "Ask Me About #SaveTheD8"note The date was 12.8.22 - the date of that year's Video Game Awards, and a brief addition in English:
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Trolling Creator / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967): This series has one of the most classic and well-known examples of this trope. After its Gainax Ending "Fall Out" aired, series creator Patrick McGoohan had people routinely coming to his doorstep demanding to know what it was all about. His comment: McGoohan had almost complete creative control, a budget 1.4 times as large as that of most other series, and no idea where the show was going from episode to episode. After what was broadcast as episode 11, the script editor, George Markstein, quit the series and was not replaced. Scripts and story ideas from that point on came from random people and places: a Western-themed episode was suggested by a video editor, and the infamous episode "The Girl Who Was Death" was an unused script from Danger Man (featuring characters, props and locations from it). The series is also believed by many to be a sequel of sorts to McGoohan's previous series, Danger Man, with "Number Six" actually being Danger Man's John Drake. There is at least one shared character (or possibly just a character with the same name and actor), Number Six's "civilian" clothes are the distinctive outfit usually worn by Drake, and a publicity photo of McGoohan as Drake is X'ed out during the opening credits. Official Prisoner novels flat out name the Prisoner as Drake. For many years, McGoohan publicly maintained that the Prisoner was not Drake, but it is suspected that he was just being contrary.
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Trolling Creator / int_e293455a	comment	The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Lovers Walk" has Cordelia get impaled through the stomach with rebar after falling through the floor of an abandoned building. While the others try to rescue her, the background music and dialogue heavily imply that Cordelia is dying, right before a Funeral Cut... to someone else's funeral. Cordelia survived and is in hospital.
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Trolling Creator / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Toei pulled one over the Pretty Cure fans concerning the identity of Cure Ace. Many fans were led to believe, when the existence of of the fifth Cure had been revealed, that it would be one of two options: it would either be the missing Marie-Ange, continuing the tradition of older people (Yuri) or royalty (Hikari and Ako) being Cures or it would be Regina, continuing the tradition of Heelâ€“Face Turn Cures (Setsuna and Ellen). Turns out, it's neither of them - it's an entirely brand new girl taking up the role. Near the end of the series, it turns out that, well... it was all three: Regina and the brand new girl, Aguri Madoka, were the same person with Regina being an Enemy Without and the fairy Ai was Marie-Ange "reborn". Thus, the mysterious Cure Ace was an older person, royalty, a High-Heelâ€“Face Turn AND a new girl!
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Trolling Creator / int_e45d6706	comment	Fraser of Video Games Awesome! absolutely loves to make fun of his viewers every chance he gets.
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Trolling Creator / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom's Nightmare difficulty owes itself to this trope. People on Usenet were talking about the game's highest difficulty, Ultra-Violence, being too easy. In response, John Romero and John Carmack threw together a new difficulty mode as a joke, with the specific intent of it being as frustrating, unpleasant, and unfair as possible: aside from all the benefits of Ultra-Violence, enemies are vastly more aggressive and attack more frequently, projectile speeds and the movement speeds of some enemies are increased (with pinky demons in particular becoming downright ridiculous), nearly all slain enemies will respawn at a random time after being dead, and just to throw the player a minor bone for all of the above, ammo pickups are doubled. The mode was barely playtested, and what testers they did use couldn't even get more than a few levels into the campaign before giving up. It was declared perfect, and released in version 1.2. To their pleasant surprise, Nightmare was welcomed happily, as it provided a sort of "ultimate challenge" for players.
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Trolling Creator / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Yager's Spec Ops: The Line falls into the "to prove a point" category without any ill intent on the dev's part. The game frequently and harshly criticizes the player for fulfilling a Power Fantasy by way of gruesome virtual war crimes. The devs have stated in interviews they wanted the players coming in with a certain set of expectations, kept the initial part of the game very familiar to players in order to foster that feeling, then set up their shots at the player. Even loading screens get in on the act, mocking the players with phrases such as "This is all your fault." "How many Americans have you killed today?" and "To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless."
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Trolling Creator / int_eed89257	comment	In ULTRAKILL, after completing Secret Level 0-S, if players attempt to complete level 4-3 without the torch found at the start of the level (which is required to complete the level's challenge), eventually the message "Something wicked this way comes" will appear on the screen as the eponymous Invincible Boogeyman's breath is overheard while the level's music stops. Then, after a few seconds... the music resumes as the message "Just kidding :)" pops up. Hakita surely must've thought it would be funny to make the players crap their pants with that one.
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Trolling Creator / int_ef661e97	comment	Yoshinori Ono of Capcom (the man in charge of Street Fighter) is slowly gaining this status. He did declare he wanted to see the gamers suffer with the constant inclusion of Seth and he tops himself by fooling the audience of Street Fighter X Tekken by bringing Dan Hibiki — who had already been killed off within the SFxT timeline because Ono and the dev team didn't want him in the game — to a wishlist poll, and when he saw Dan winning by a far margin, he declared the winner... by replacing Dan with Sony's mascots Toro and Kuro. Ono has even admitted that trolling the fanbase is part of his job. Let's face it, the man is clearly enjoying himself. In an inversion, Ono intended to use the original Mega Man for Street Fighter X Tekken, but Keiji Inafune kiboshed that by saying it had already been done before and challenged him to try something unique. Off the top of his head, Ono suggested taking Mega Man from the original game's infamous American box art and making him obese and middle-aged as a joke at how 25 years had passed since Mega Man's creation. Inafune loved the idea, but Mega Man fans hated it and accused Capcom of rubbing the salt in following the cancellation of Mega Man Universe and Mega Man Legends 3. This was ultimately a problem of timing however as neither Universe nor Legends 3 were cancelled yet when they came up with the idea. Ono and the whole Street Fighter team reached new heights during the reveal of the 5th brand new character of Ultra Street Fighter IV. As the hints said that this character was female and hasn't been in a fighting game before, people were actually expecting someone seriously brand new. Who did they reveal? Decapre, one of Bison's assassins based on Cammy, who looks like Cammy with a sinister mask, has a charged moveset variation of Cammy, and —technically speaking— was in Street Fighter Alpha 3 prior. Rubbing the salt further, her intro video features M. Bison, drawn in his Alpha 3 sprite, facing off against fan-favorites that people liked quite a bit, Rainbow Mika and Retsu... and brushing them away easily. Again, for the fans, the day they got trolled was the most outrageous thing in their life. But for Ono and the SF Team... it was Monday. Unfortunately, given the non-reaction of the audience to the trailer and Capcom already skating on thin ice in light of later events, the joke has pretty much fallen flat. Though funnily enough, Mika did make it to the roster of the next game. In a case of Ono trolling that could have been, during the buildup to a new Street Fighter V character, Ono had released a couple of screenshots of Brazil and Ryu getting shocked by electricity. Fans took it and immediately assumed it was Blanka (who is well known to be one of Ono's favorite Street Fighter characters), and Ono was going to keep the teasing going all the way to the Brazil Game Show, complete with dressing up as Blanka at the event to get people assuming things. It would all turn out to be a Red Herring for an actual newcomer named Laura (Sean's older sister) who was also from Brazil and had electricity powers. But then, well, Famitsu leaked pictures of Laura a couple weeks before the show, ruining the reveal altogether, and made worse by Sony releasing Laura's reveal trailer a couple days early too, so all potential trolling plans were flushed down the toilet. However, when the Arcade Edition of the game was released, Blanka was one of the characters included.
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Trolling Creator / int_efcd2d93	comment	When players of Untitled Goose Game started creating left-wing narratives in which the goose was not just being a jerk, but disrupting capitalism, the creators jokingly claimed that in their canon the game was set in a socialist utopia, and everyone the goose harrassed was a good Marxist.
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Trolling Creator / int_f3ae2950	comment	The sheer fact that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance even exists is proof to Kojima's troll status. The other games in the franchise were touching character dramas, full of philosophical dilemmas about the tragedy of war and, hey, here's a game where you play as a badass cyborg ninja slicing through watermelons while fighting giant robots with your electric sword! Well, there is some philosophy in that game... it's just a simple "If you believe in your philosophy, bash the other guy who doesn't agree with you."
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Trolling Creator / int_f3d889f7	comment	Promotional press material of Zack Snyder's Justice League showcased a new look for Jared Leto's Joker. A trailer involved the meme "We live in a society" associated with the Joker and an interview showed Leto donning a Crown of Thorns to resemble the crucifixion, both of which caused internet outcry. But neither the line or the crown actually appear in the movie, and given the close proximity to release was likely done just to have fun or stir things up a little. It's not the first time Leto has made headlines with "outrageous" film set antics, those from the filming of Suicide Squad were already notorious (though according to himself, a good part of these were just urban legends).
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Trolling Creator / int_f3dc974e	comment	Downplayed in Starcraft I: the cheat code "there is no cow level" is a reference to an urban legend regarding a supposed Easter Egg in the first Diablo, involving an alleged cow level with murder cows as enemies. It was not true, but the fanbase was high on it.
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Trolling Creator / int_f53c91ab	comment	Seo Kouji, author of A Town Where You Live and Suzuka, is quickly gaining this reputation.
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Trolling Creator / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria's creator Redigit gave some bizarre "lore reveals" on Discord, namely that the Guide is the brother of the ninja inside King Slime, the son of the Moon Lord, the great grandson of a Nymph, and the same entity as the Wall of Flesh. Also, the Dryad's "Garden Garment" isn't an outfit but just vines that are part of her body and she apparently goes around naked. Fans are unsure how seriously to take any of thisnote It had been a theory that the Guide and the Wall of Flesh were in fact the same being long before the Discord posts and even the official wiki is undecided.
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Trolling Creator / int_f8d1500a	comment	Takeshi's Challenge announces on its title screen that it was created by a man who hates video games. Much of what the player is supposed to do in the game falls under Violation of Common Sense.
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Trolling Creator / int_f981bbf2	comment	Bennett White thinks the anime/manga fanbase really needs to get over Nina TuckerExplanation a character from Fullmetal Alchemist, a five-year-old girl who was turned into a Half-Human Hybrid by her father in one of the title's earliest scenes of pure horror, which Memetic Mutation has never let die among the genres' fandom and makes crude jokes about her every now and then just to rile people up.
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Trolling Creator / int_fab472d2	comment	In Dark Souls, there is a starting item you can choose at the very beginning called "the Pendant". It has no obvious use, but many players assumed there had to be some significance behind it, because why would it be in the game otherwise? It helps that Dark Souls is a game in which even the tiniest of details can be extremely important for understanding the story or the gameplay, making fans even more on the lookout for such things. The game's director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, would repeatedly hint that there was some great secret behind this item, but no matter how hard the fans looked, they couldn't find anything. After years of this, Miyazaki finally revealed what the Pendant does: absolutely nothing. It was a Red Herring from the start. And just to rub it in, the key item for accessing the game's DLC is a Pendant... a different Pendant with no relation to the first.
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Trolling Creator / int_fc16eb7b	comment	Transwiththeplans, author of Of Gemstones and Watches releases Chapter 34. On Christmas Eve. In the chapter, Max Tennyson dies. One reviewer made a review that simply said: "I hate you."
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Trolling Creator / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: Alex Hirsch went to the trouble of creating a fake spoiler image, leaking it to the fanbase, and then tweeting about it◊ a few days after it was deemed to be inaccurate. The hoax was revealed over a year later when an episode aired that disproved the leaked image, and Hirsch himself admitted to the gambit. He later explained that he did this because the fanbase prematurely put together the clues to one of the show's biggest mysteries, and he wanted to lead them off the trail while figuring out how to deal with such a problem. Ironically, the Red Herring may have helped fans get closer to the full picture, as even those who weren't fooled started paying more attention to the character shown in the fake "leak", leading to many correctly guessing the actual role the character played in the show's mythos. He stated that at least one character would not survive Season 2. Note that he didn't say main character. The character who died turned out to be the mayor, who only appeared in a single episode. Technically, there were two other deaths in that season as well, but they were Big Henry and Time Baby, the former of whom died in the same episode he was introduced in and was a minor character with only a couple minutes of screen time, and the latter of whom was mentioned in a cryptogram to eventually manage to regenerate himself and come back anyway. These instances of misleading came back to bite him when he was trying to warn fans that a then-upcoming character named Tad Strange was just a short gag and not a surprise new villain like the fans expected him to be. He later went into detail about the situation here. In the show's final episode, we finally learn the importance of the Zodiac Wheel that appears at the beginning and end of every episode. Its purpose is suitably grand and epic... and also ends up completely pointless to the story. Hirsch later revealed that it was conceived purely to be a piece of intriguing imagery for the opening sequence, with the symbols being chosen randomly from the episodes they had completed at the time. It was only when they saw fans speculating about them online that they retroactively attached each one to a character and even considered the idea of giving it any narrative importance.
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Trolling Creator / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Averted when he actually gave in when everyone demanded that he review Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Of course the review was overwhelmingly negative, partially due to his own dislike for the series and partially as a screw you to everyone who bothered him to review it.
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Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Jreg (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Max0r (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
MikeJ (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
RedLetterMedia (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
SpongeBob Conspiracy (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Chatty Crystal (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Metronome Sapphire (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Randomized Colosseum (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Twitch Plays Pokemon Rising Ruby (Web Video) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
SMGPMD (Webcomic) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Samurai Princess (Webcomic) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Sandra and Woo (Webcomic) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Sweet Jade and Hella John (Webcomic) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Yonkoma Nuzlocke (Webcomic) / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator

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