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{{quote|'''Yorick:''' As far as answers go, it was vaguely unsatisfying.

'''Beth:''' Is there any explanation that would have been satisfactory?

 

People love a good [[Driving Question|mystery]], and will watch or read a story to the very end just to find out its answer. Sometimes though, for whatever reason, they don't like the answer. The fans then decide it would have been better to just leave the [[Plot Threads]] hanging, which would have given them mulch for their [[Epileptic Trees]].

 

Compare [[Canon Fodder]] and [[The Un-Reveal]]. If the explanation is disliked because it just raises further question, then it's [[Voodoo Shark]].

 

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* ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'': The reveal of the true nature of Shonen Bat and Maromi, {{spoiler|them both being a dog and a sketch from Tsukiko's childhood as well as aspects of a guilt-avoidence function she fabricated, may be considered anti-climactic.}} However, the show avoids this trope mostly by {{spoiler|leaving many aspects vague or outright unexplained/concluded in order to increase suspense.}}

* The ''[[Halo Legends]]'' shorts quickly created a [[Broken Base]] due to their [[Broad Strokes]] regard to the canon, with later explanations only providing partial comfort. One such lose-lose situation was at the end of the ''The Package'', where John fights an Elite in a sword fight referred to in the subtitles as "Thel". Those who read ''Halo: The Cole Protocol'' claimed this violated the canon, since the future Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee had not fought a Spartan until the later events of the novel. Others, however, liked the irony of 'Vadamee nearly killing John only to be his ally later in the series. But that was nullified with the updated release of ''Halo: The Fall Of Reach'', which clarified that it was a different Elite fighting John named Thel '''Lodamee''. Now the canon was fixed again, but the irony was lost because John lost to a random mook.

 

* This is the reason we don't know [[The Joker]]'s origin in ''[[Batman]]''. Some people take [[Alan Moore]]'s [[The Killing Joke|story]] as the truth but at the end the Joker himself says that his memories of his origin [[Multiple Choice Past|change from day to day]].

* The same is true of [[The Phantom Stranger]] - he has four mutually exclusive origins, all of which were published in the same issue of one series and given equal weight. One of these was also written by Moore.

* Invoked by Yorick in the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[Y: The Last Man]]''.

** There is an answer that's explained to the characters, but it's the "vaguely unsatisfying" one of the page quote (unsatisfying to both the readers and the characters) and the writers give it no more weight than any of the other explanations. Of the three reasons set up in the first issue (Yorick's ring, Dr. Mann's baby and 355 with the Amulet of Helene) none of them really lasts the course.

 

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* Likewise, one of the many reasons ''[[Star Control]] 3'' is considered [[Fanon Discontinuity]] by many is because it answered all the major cosmic mysteries brought up in ''Star Control 2'', in an [[Info Dump]] that takes four [[YouTube]] videos to cover. And most of the answers are the very definition of [[Fridge Logic]].

* The [[Big Bad|Guardian]]'s true nature revealed in ''[[Ultima IX]]'' was rather underwhelming (after several games and almost 10 years of build-up), as well as somewhat inconsistent with the previously established story.

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