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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Yorick:''' As far as answers go, it was vaguely unsatisfying.
'''Beth:''' Is there any explanation that would have been satisfactory?
'''Yorick:''' Um, [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|aliens?]] I would have also accepted [[A Wizard Did It|witchcraft]] or anything involving [[Nanomachines|nanobots.]]
|''[[Y: The Last Man]]''}}
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]].
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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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[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.
** In the
* 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.
** Says Brian K. Vaughan on the subject:
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== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Groundhog Day]]'' managed to avert the trope. There were ideas to give the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] an explanation - a curse put on the protagonist by a jilted lover - but it was decided that no explanation they could think of would be satisfactory.
* This is one the biggest reasons why the director's/final cut of ''[[Blade Runner]]'' is generally considered superior to the theatrical cut. The narration present in the latter removes all the ambiguity that makes the film a classic in the first place.
* One of the biggest complaints about ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]'' was that it established a mythology that the immortals are aliens from a planet known as Zeist, which only serves to raise more questions. The re-edits establish them as wizards from Earth's distant past. Either way, the film is [[Canon
* Some people feel this way about the scene of Roy Neary inside the mothership from the special edition of ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. One of these people is [[Steven Spielberg]] himself, who had never wanted to do that scene in the first place, but could only get the money to create a special edition if he included something which a marketing campaign could be hung on. Years later, Spielberg created a director's edition, which removed that scene, but kept the other special edition scenes.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This was one of the main criticisms of ''[[Condemned]] 2: Bloodshot''; [[Doing
* 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.
* One of the main complaints of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' was how some of the plot threads were either given haphazard resolutions or dropped entirely. Most however, such as {{spoiler|Yuri's vigilante actions,}} were given decent resolutions.
* ''[[Command
** It ''did'' confirm that Kane {{spoiler|was an alien being trapped on Earth for the past several millenia}}.
* ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' decided it was a good time to go into Samus' history that was vaguely hinted at in ''[[Metroid]] Fusion'', trying to explore her past and who {{spoiler|Adam Malkovich}} was to her. Unfortunately, many people's reactions was that it turned Samus [[Chickification|into a shell of the woman she's portrayed as otherwise and gives her some really unnecessary attachment issues.]]
** This became downright stupid in the [[Internet Backdraft|infamous Ridley scene,]] as it would have made a lot more sense to show a flashback to [[Doomed Hometown|the ravaging of K2L]] when Samus freezes up (To clarify, [[You Killed My Father|Ridley killed her mother]] and almost killed Samus before [[Interspecies Adoption|Old Bird]] intervened), rather than show a shot of ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|turning her into a little child]]'' ([[Continuity Lock Out|which only makes sense if you've read an obscure manga that was never released outside of Japan]]) then pulling something about PTSD [[Ass Pull|straight out of nowhere.]]
* For some fans ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' was a huge case of this.
* The ending of ''[[Mass Effect]] 3'' caused uproar among fans, who started not just a petition, but also ''a whole goddamn charity'' to get Bioware to change it.
** Although this is a case caused by a ''lack'' of explanation. Unlike one would expect, the game offers no explanation for the consequences of your choices or...well, anything. One of the reasons it irks fans so much is that they've spent five whole years debating their choices and having the importance of their actions built up. The devs have promised to fix this with new DLC.
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