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Some authors plan meticulously. Before they even start to write, they have a detailed plot synopsis, fictional biographies, pages on the setting and worldbuilding, and a detailed backstory to the main tale... at the least. Others just sit down at their word processor and type "stream of consciousness"-style, putting down whatever comes into their head. This article is dedicated to them. This is not necessarily a trope about authors who simply write without a speck of planning at all (although it can be), but rather those who, overall, are improvising as they write. They may already have invented their characters, perhaps they have a vague plot bubbling in their head, even a few notes on Backstory or setting. What separates this kind of writing from planned writing is that these writers are prepared to throw those notes in the trash the moment they come up with an idea that they prefer. So you're writing a hardboiled crime fiction novel: Remember that diner you thought up on the spot to give your sleuth somewhere to eat his lunch? That would be perfect as a front business for the Big Bad's drug-dealing business. Making a movie? That actor's take on that character is way better than what you originally had in mind. Why not rewrite half his part to take advantage of that vision? Penning a Science Fiction story? Even though you're partway into writing, incorporating some plot points from today's newspaper headline about the Sleazy Politician into your story would be a great way to amp up the unpleasantness of antagonist, the evil governor of the space station. This does not always happen voluntarily, mind you. In some cases, the writer did indeed have a carefully planned storyline in mind until it was suddenly struck down by either Executive Meddling, an Executive Veto, or some other case of Real Life Writes the Plot, and the writer had to scramble against the deadline to come with a replacement story. When this spills into the midst of production it can result in Acting in the Dark as the actors don't know what's happening next. This is especially common for manga writers making comics for serial magazines, because of the nature of that business in Japan; they must get out at least one completed installment done for each magazine issue, or risk ending their source of income and livelihood. Because writing well is incredibly hard to do, and the schedule of a mangaka is one of the most ridiculous in the publishing world,◊ writers frequently resort to this trope just to get an issue out there! Sometimes it even forces widely published and respected artists to put out chapters they clearly had not even finished drawing. The trope name comes from the phrase "flying by the seat of your pants", a colloquialism for "deciding a course of action as you go along". Like most things, this can be done well, or badly. There's more than a few examples where the final product ends up so well put together that you would have never guessed it was an example of this writing approach. Aborted Arc, The Chris Carter Effect, and Kudzu Plot are what happens when Writing by the Seat of Your Pants leaves too many loose plot threads. This is the novelistic version of Schrödinger's Gun or the Indy Ploy; when the author of a series canonizes fan suggestions as he goes along, see Ascended Fanon. Can also be related to I Just Write the Thing. Compare Off the Rails where a GM may be forced to improvise as players break away from the planned story. Contrast The Producer Thinks of Everything and Developer's Foresight, where the creative team behind a project has meticulously planned every facet of their story or game. When used on This Very Wiki, it can lead to Serial Tweaker Syndromeâ„¢, so please check your edits with the Preview button before committing them. Please only add examples where the author admitted to doing this. This is not a page for speculation. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 was never intended to be connected to Xenosaga and instead be a completely new story, titled Monado: Beginning of the World, but Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata asked director Tetsuya Takahashi to rename the game and use the Xeno- prefix as a homage to the series Takahashi had wanted to succeed but failed. But when Xenoblade turned out to be the success he had sought for so long, and since the Xeno- was already in the name, Takahashi started rewriting the story to add connections to Xenosaga, culminating in a large Retcon in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 that directly links it to a key component of his old series. | |
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X-Men: This was a major part of the franchise in the 1990s and is often cited as a reason for the franchise developing a major case of The Chris Carter Effect. Essentially, many books were written with the collector's market in mind, who bought books that seemed like they'd be worth something in a few years (such as the introduction of a new character, or the first big hintings of a major story arc), and so they would merrily introduce new characters without having any idea what their deal was, or drop major foreshadowing without having a clear plan what they were actually foreshadowing. Famous examples of both were Cable, whose backstory wasn't worked out until years later, and the Third Summers Brother, which took decades to be resolved properly by a character who didn't even exist at the time. Scott Lobdell famously began hinting at Onslaught without any real idea who the character would turn out to be. He just thought it'd be cool to hint at a new villain who was powerful enough to kick the shit out of the Juggernaut. With The Reveal of it being Professor X's dark side, it suddenly makes sense why Onslaught felt the need to beat the crap out of his abusive step-brother. Though this did lead to Early-Installment Weirdness such as X-Men (1991), Vol. 2, #50 seeing Onslaught trying to kidnap Professor X, which ultimately means Onslaught nonsensically tried to kidnap himself. The X-Traitor tape was a major part of Bishop's backstory, but Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio eventually confirmed they had no set suspect when they started. Fan speculation pointed to either Gambit, as an older man called "the Witness" who supposedly looked and talked like an older Gambit was the Sole Survivor of the X-Traitor's attack on the X-Men, or Bishop himself, as part of a Stable Time Loop. However, after a while, not much was done with it—until it got Arc Welded into the aforementioned Onslaught with the title villain (and hence, by extension, an unwitting Professor Xavier himself) being the traitor. |
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Youtube Poop is the prime victim to this trope. In a nutshell, you download a video, import it into a video editor like Sony Vegas, and then you go from there, thinking of joke ideas. A few collabs are built upon this trope where entrants make an entry that has to correlate with the story. The pooper that goes after the last pooper's entry has to continue the story following the same video format. No scripts are applied because that defeats the whole purpose of the trope. |
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MS Paint Adventures, especially in the earlier adventures. The latest adventure, Homestuck, is the only one to have any sort of planning before being written, having started with the four central characters, their weapons, some general game mechanics (such as Inventory Management Puzzle, Item Crafting, and Reality Warper), and a handful of plot points, including an ending, worked out beforehand. The rest of the universe-spanning, time-traveling, chronology-fucking, nearly 9000 pages of an extremely convoluted plot has been made along the way. | |
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Repeatedly on the forum for The Whiteboard, Doc Nickel has admitted that he makes up the strips as they go, without any previous planning. This has occasionally resulted in an Aborted Arc like one year's Thanksgiving storyline. | |
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Check, Please!'s creator has stated that she has planned the most important plot point very thoroughly, but everything in between is pretty much this. | |
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The relationship between the story and gameplay of the Uncharted series was often this trope, where cool level setpieces were devised first and then the story was written to justify getting there. While this mostly worked without the audience noticing, the seams came apart with the third game, Drake's Deception, particularly in regards to the shipyard and cruise ship arc that ultimately served no purpose to the gamenote This is because the entire story ends with Nate discovering that Sully was never captured by the pirates he was chasing, and he would ultimately wind up back on the shores of the town he'd been taken from and start his search for Sully "for real". Furthermore, the main theme of Nate being willing to do anything for Sully is covered a second time with the Rub Al-Khali desert sequence, rendering the entire ship arc redundant outside of the awesome cruise ship physics. | |
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RWBY, by the same company as the above; the writing team uses what they call "Tentpole" writing: they have core plot points that were worked out when the series was first envisioned, but everything between them is filled out as the story goes along. For instance, the fall of Beacon at the end of Volume 3 was planned for years, but not even Ozpin's voice actor knew if the character would return or not; his ability to reincarnate was something that was imagined between Volumes 3 and 4. | |
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One of the funniest examples prior to its retirement was the Hardcore Championship belt, which also carried a 24/7 defense rule - whoever owned the belt had to be paranoid about being ambushed anytime, anywhere, with such highlights as Crash Holly fighting off two opponents at Fun Times USA (a children's indoor playground), or the rapid-fire changing of the title during WrestleMania 18, where Christian wound up holding it for a brief span after unwittingly knocking out Molly Holly with a door. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson notes in commentary that when writing out a multi-part story, he doesn't think of an ending in conception because he prefers the story to flow organically. Sometimes it would create a storyline and resolution which would pleasantly surprise himself (such as the arc where Calvin decides to duplicate himself), but other times he would write himself into a corner (such as an arc where Calvin has strange things happen to him while trying to do his homework, such as his gravity reversing or getting bigger and bigger; according to the man himself in the 20th anniversary book, Watterson ran out of ideas and felt Arc Fatigue was setting in, and so the arc ended on a sudden Gainax Ending with one last comic to give the arc closure afterward). | |
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World of Warcraft: In regards to writing for Garrosh, Blizzard's writers were essentially not given a clear idea of what seemed to be his end goal. While he was pitched as the Horde's Varian Wrynn, or a war-focused version of Thrall, it seems the only idea that somewhat seemed planned was that Garrosh would become the Big Bad of one of the expansions. The writers for the Stonetalon Mountain questline in Cataclysm for example wrote an entire questline about him disciplining an orc general who kills a bunch of innocent druids by throwing him to his death before speaking about honor, only to later find out later that Garrosh was apparently supposed to develop into the Big Bad of the next expansion. Leaks from the writing team indicate this was what drove the abrupt story swerves in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. Then Senior Creative Director Alex Afrasiabi devised and championed the Burning of Teldrassil whose fallout has driven every plot development since then. The main intent seems to have been driving up player numbers for the new expansion by opening with a massively shocking moment. However he apparently had no plan for how the story would progress past this point and was removed from his position before he could develop one. The writing team was left trying to piece together a narrative to explain this for the next four years. |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja may or may not be this. Observe... | |
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Darwin's Soldiers: Serris states that nearly everything he write was improvised on the fly, including the two sequels. | |
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Penny Arcade is written without a Strip Buffer, so the creators can stay up-to-date on gaming news. Different reason for the trope, same idea. It helps that it's a gag-a-day strip, rather than needing any sort of continuity. | |
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An example of a hotshot title change from 2009: Jillian Hall defeats Mickie James to win the Divas Championship on the October 12 Raw. Her title reign lasts just a few short minutes, as Melina - just traded to Raw from Smackdown - comes in and wins the title in short order. (Of course, it was around this time rumors of WWE punishing Mickie for being too fat and/or behavioral issues came to light, which caused some fans to look at the hotshot reign as a punishment: rather than drop the title to Melina and look good in the process, Mickie dropped it to Jillian - essentially a Joke Character in WWE's Divas division - and had to watch Melina win it minutes later.) | |
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The Vinesauce Tomodachi Life series is a rare case where this is enforced. Tomodachi Life leaves many events and outcomes to the Random Number God, so any number of plot twists and character traits are established with no real foreshadowing (for the most part). Since Vinny is livestreaming the game and can't save scum his way out of certain events, he ends up being just as surprised as the viewers are by them. Essentially, the series writes itself on the fly. Around Episode 47, near the start of the Jahn invasion, Vinny starts playing the game offscreen to manipulate things to demonstrate the Jahn's takeover. Even then, he still relies on coincidental random events to strengthen the plot. | |
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Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC: Parodied, where Sergio, In-Universe, doesn't decide on who the Big Bad is until Batman is about to reveal his identity (pictured above). He then goes on an Archive Binge to find the "most disgusting, loathsome villain of all DC history". | |
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Resident Evil 4 was written by Shinji Mikami in just three weeks, which likely accounts for the game's somewhat bizarre Denser and Wackier storyline. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day had no formal script written for it. Chris Seavor improvised the game's entire story and cast as he went along. This was also the reason why he did almost all the voices in the game himself. | |
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Impulse: The original writers admitted they were writing by the seat of their pants in the first trade. Given the character, this is quite appropriate. | |
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Vince Russo in particular became an even more notorious example during his stint as writer for WCW toward the end of the Monday Night War. Characters turned and won and lost titles so often that fans lost track, numerous angles were abandoned midstream (most famously Stacy Keibler's "pregnancy"), wrestlers would retire "forever" only to show up next episode (quick even by wrestling standards). There is a reason bad and nonsensical booking leads to chants of "Fire Russo!" even in promotions he's never worked for. | |
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Moonflowers was essentially written from the summary, with a loose plot outline that runs on Rules Lawyering, Loophole Abuse, and Rule of Scary. This is largely due to the antagonists being The Fair Folk, who aren't known for conforming to human logic. | |
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This was the case for the first five episodes of Challenge to Win season 1. Instead of writing a script, the creator of the show (who also wrote these episodes) simply thought up a scene, animated it, then voiced it. In fact, the first episode was so disorganized from this style of writing that the prize of the first season was changed from a beach to a magic lamp later during the first season's production. | |
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Bob and George, especially at the beginning, when it was just filler. | |
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Silent Hill: Promise is written similarly to MS Paint Adventures, updating daily using commands from readers. | |
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One notable example is the secret ending of the first game, titled “Another Side, Another Story�, showing a confrontation between two mysterious figures in a dark city with lots of quotes without context being shown onscreen. This video was explicitly meant to be a concept trailer, more to show Nomura’s ideas for a sequel that wasn’t guaranteed at the time he was making the first game. Once the game became a hit and a franchise was sure to ensue, the Final Mix edition had more foreshadowing to the future Nomura was now free to start planning out. The scene from “Another Side, Another Story�, as well as its Final Mix addition “Deep Dive�, would later be adapted into the climax of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and much of the quotes were given context and incorporated into Kingdom Hearts II. Notably, when the next secret ending at the end of II came around, it wasn’t abstract like “Another Side� and depicted legitimate events from a future game. | |
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This was the case with much of the Mass Effect series. Different interviews with writers across the series reveals that many things about the series' overall plot and some bits of lore was more or less constantly in flux and changed around quite a bit as members of the writing team were added or left (most notably the lead writer for the first Mass Effect, Drew Karpyshyn, left around half-way through the production of the second game and was replaced by Mac Walters). According to interviews in the interactive documentary about the third game, Final Hours, the (quite controversial) ending was not decided upon up until a few months before the game's release. | |
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The X-Traitor tape was a major part of Bishop's backstory, but Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio eventually confirmed they had no set suspect when they started. Fan speculation pointed to either Gambit, as an older man called "the Witness" who supposedly looked and talked like an older Gambit was the Sole Survivor of the X-Traitor's attack on the X-Men, or Bishop himself, as part of a Stable Time Loop. However, after a while, not much was done with it—until it got Arc Welded into the aforementioned Onslaught with the title villain (and hence, by extension, an unwitting Professor Xavier himself) being the traitor. | |
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The rest of the games prior to Tools of Destruction (where they finally hired a professional writer to pen their scripts) had their stories made in a similar fashion. For example, one of the biggest plot points of Going Commando (that being Captain Qwark was the real villain along) wasn't added until midway through the game's development. | |
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Red vs. Blue started like this, as Burnie Burns first thought of six episodes, then expanded to eight, and ultimately a full 19 episode season (that led to a still ongoing series) as he kept having new ideas, with major plot events (Church dying, Tex being a woman) conceived shortly before they were filmed. To avert a repeat, before production on the second season started Burnie and Matt Hullum did a rough plot outline, leaving only the individual scripts to be done on a short-term basis. | |
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Webcomic The Truth About Bleach mocks Bleach's tendency to do this: | |
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Elvis Costello recorded the album Momofuku in six days. He joked that "the record was made so quickly that I didn't even tell myself about it for a couple weeks." | |
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Herge said that this was how he worked on Tintin at the beginning of its life. He needed a new installment each Thursday and said that he often found himself working on it on Wednesday, not knowing how he'd get Tintin out of the mess he left him in last Thursday. He stopped doing this with The Blue Lotus and started plotting things out more fully. | |
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Done in-universe in NieR: Automata, where the lyrics for the theme song to Emil's Shop are clearly just being made up on the spot by Emil. | |
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The position late 2013/early 2014 Daniel Bryan was in smacks of this. After setting up a seemingly interesting storyline between a now-heel Triple H (playing the Corrupt Corporate Executive) and a chosen champion Randy Orton, Bryan got shoved into the background of his own feud after the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view and basically sat on the sidelines (feuding with The Wyatt Family) during the run-up to the TLC event (where Orton and John Cena were scheduled to unify the WWE and World Heavyweight championships). Fan reaction towards this was overwhelmingly negative and only got louder when Batista returned and won the Royal Rumble (at a time when everyone expected Bryan to pull it off). Eventually this fan reaction hit home in the creative department and Bryan's very short two week face-heel-face turn in Januarynote Apparently caused by sports fans using the "YES!" chants at games and the leadup to WrestleMania XXX is showing a drastic change in plans from the original blueprints. It's likely had things gone as were planned, the main event of Batista vs. Orton at WrestleMania would have been the end result. | |
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Questionable Content gets points for being a Monday through Friday comic that is not only drawn without a Strip Buffer but is written and drawn by Jeph Jacques literally the night before. Sometimes if he's struck by a burst of inspiration, he'll do two comics in a day, waiting to post the second one, and sometimes if he's stuck for an idea he won't start drawing until 3 AM... | |
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Zombie Roomie: The author makes it clear he never really plans out any of his stories and just writes from life experiences more or less. This is the reason why some story arcs pause mid-way through for some irrelevant one-shots. | |
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Whereas many of hololive's talents are essentially just streaming as themselves with a character, Haachama's streams, especially since the start of 2021, are frequently entirely based on furthering her characters' lore, which is often done in response to fan theories and can incorporate fan submissions made just an hour before the start of the stream. | |
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The Daily Object Show and other similar "speed-run" Object Shows release new episodes within a day, or sometimes hours.note Though the episodes' runtime is about a few minutes on average which helps lighten the workload To top it off, most of these shows involve some amount of viewer voting, making it harder to preplan everything. | |
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Spider-Man: The Clone Saga started off as a simple story, but when it became an unexpected success and Executive Meddling required it to be drawn out, it's clear the writers lost any of idea of where it was going. As detailed in The Life of Reilly, particular areas of contention were the identity of the "real" Peter Parker, the mastermind behind the clone plan, and pretty much everything about Judas Traveller. | |
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Judge Dredd: Creator John Wagner has said this is the way he prefers to write. Case in point: the reappearance of the Dark Judges in "Day of Chaos" wasn't originally planned, but with all that was going on in Mega-City One at the time, bringing them back was the perfect way to make things even worse. | |
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Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, made up his stories as he went along. His maxim was that if even he didn't know where a story was going at the start, then his readers certainly wouldn't be able to guess. Once he forced himself into a corner that he, at first glance, could only solve by having the Dick tell Chester Gould to get him out of this situation and a giant hand erased the death trap. His syndicate publisher, Joseph Patterson, found it stupid so he told Gould to find another solution. | |
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The story for every game in the series was only written when development for that title began, which was problematic in regards to the Future saga where the first entry, Tools of Destruction, ended in a cliffhanger that was partially elaborated on in Quest for Booty before finally being addressed in full in A Crack in Time. Certain elements in Tools such as Flint Vorselon and the Court of Azimuth were deliberately put into the game with the idea that they'd be expanded upon later. | |
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Mr. Mendo's Hack Attack, nowadays, is completely improvised and more or less created entirely through the editing process. Ironically, this has led to new episodes coming out more frequently. | |
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In the Hobo Bros' "Hobo Theatre" videos, this is the whole point. Luke has to tell a story using Garry's Mod props and characters while Kevin reads a list of words or phrases that Luke has to work into the story. | |
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The majority of Iron Maiden's album The Book of Souls was written, rehearsed once or twice, and then recorded right on the spot- mostly so the band could keep a feeling of freshness and spontaneity in the music. Only two songs were pre-planned- the two Dickinson compositions, "If Eternity Should Fail" (which was originally meant to be a solo album track) and the closing 18-minute "Empire of the Clouds" (which took at least a month or two to write and was composed on a piano). | |
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This is David Willis' method of writing, as he goes into detail about here | |
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Can based their entire sound off of stitching together songs from extremely long jam sessions. Their second vocalist, Damo Suzuki, would additionally improvise lyrics while the tape was rolling. Jams that spanned hours in length would be edited into pieces that could span as long as an entire side of a record. This even extended to their soundtrack contributions, which were made on the spot with only vague descriptions of each scene to go off of. | |
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Homestar Runner's Strong Bad Emails, being a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot series, was this by necessity in the early days, when there might only be one message worth answering any given week, but continued to rely on last-minute execution right up until the long hiatus, with episodes often being finished in the wee hours of the morning the day it went up. Most famously, "dragon" was originally going to cut straight from Strong Bad burning his brother's drawing to wrapping up the email at his computer, but then Matt improvised the Trogdor song at "4 or 5 o'clock on Monday" while making breakfast and they knew they had to make it a whole thing. | |
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New Avengers: The revelation that the Ronin was Maya Lopez in disguise was a last-minute change after the original plan (where Ronin would have been revealed to be Matt Murdock) fell through. This is rather evident from the fact that there is nothing even slightly androgynous about Ronin's very buff, masculine build — and then he takes off his mask and s/he's now a typically beautiful comic book woman. |
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Forest Hill: The author originally planned for the comic to mostly be a lighthearted slice of life comic, until the author realized that the violent and possibly sexual behavior of The Bully Benni, could be a sign that he was being abused. This ends up turning into a Plot Tumor, as Benni became a main character and the comic begins a story arc dealing with the topic of child abuse. The author eventually added a content warning to the website due to the comic no longer being appropriate for children to read without permission from a parent. | |
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Amazingly enough, even Myst qualifies as this. One may expect otherwise considering the entire backbone of the series' overarching plot is all about literary themes and how worlds are literally written into existence and have to be very delicately crafted, but the designers of the game took much more of a "design first, write second" approach. When developing the first game, they would design worlds that they thought looked cool, and then slowly crafted a story around them. Its sequel, Riven was the only one that had solid planning for its story, but all other games in the series were basically thought up out of whole cloth without much of a plan in place for where the story would go as the series progressed. | |
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Catwoman: An In-Universe example: in a 1990s story, she was hired to steal the script of a movie that was being filmed on an island. She found out, however, that the filmmaker didn't have a script or a screenplay: he was improvising the whole thing without telling anyone about it. The guy was also Ax-Crazy and tried to kill the crew. Thanks to Catwoman, who saved the crew, the only one to die was himself. In order to not lose the contract's payment, Catwoman wrote a script herself and signed as the dead filmmaker. The movie made with her script became a blockbuster. | |
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