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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''HAL:''' I'm evil. ''(kills astronauts)''
'''Dave Bowman:''' I must shut you down now, HAL.
'''HAL:''' Daisy, Daisy...
'''Dave Bowman:''' Now I must finish this mission alone.
''(STRANGE THINGS happen, and they MAKE SENSE.)''
'''Reader:''' Wow. I understand the movie now.
|[http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/clarke.2001.shtml RinkWorks condensation] of the novel version of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.}}
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'': Abandoned the "nice kids in rural Japanese town go nuts and start killing each other" premise in order to clear up the [[Mind Screw]] of the first season in its entirety.
* ''[[Advent Children]]'' pretty much exists entirely to clear up the [[Mind Screw]] at the end of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. Or at least assure the world that they hadn't intended the ending to be a [[Kill'Em All]].
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* The DVD commentary for ''[[FLCL]]'' clears some things up.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The introduction of the Graphic Novel version of the (deservedly) obscure comic book sequel to ''[[The Prisoner]]'' rationalized away the last episode in a particularly unimaginative way.
* The tie-in [[All There in the Manual|Graphic Novels]] for ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' qualify; they usually take place as side-stories complimenting the concurrent episodes (helping to make sense of different viewpoints in the story), and also offer glimpses into the pasts and minds of various characters (helping to make sense of them and the Heroes-verse in general).
** Up until they're [[Retcon
== Fan Fiction ==▼
* ''[[Thousand Shinji (Fanfic)|Thousand Shinji]]'' delivers a [[Lampshade Hanging]]/[[Take That]] to the [[Mind Screw]] of the original ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': "For those of you prepared to rant at me, there is one more chapter to this story, so unlike Gainax, you will actually get an explaination (sic) as part of the denouement." It then proceeds to do just that, having {{spoiler|the canon!40k gods}} explain what looked like a [[Gainax Ending]].▼
▲* ''[[
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* Much of the film ''[[
* There were ''intended'' to be releases of these for ''[[Southland Tales]]'', but they never appeared. Just as well, because [[Mind Screw|trying to make sense out of that movie would probably take out at least one forest]].
** You can in fact purchase them on Amazon.com right now. It has a release date of July 11, 2006 which is well ahead of the movies US release of November 14, 2007.
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** The book was later actually published and released. It explains most of the background and events present in the movie.
* Several small scenes during the credits of ''[[Wild Things]]'' piece together the otherwise incomprehensible series of twists and turns the story takes.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The Book of Lost Memories'' was written to explain the mountains of symbolism (but not the plot) in the first three ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games. Whether this lessens the ambiguity or makes an already [[Mind Screw
* The ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Bruce Kalish had to explain a good deal of ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'''s plotholes in interviews after the fact. Also, the official website explained that A-Squad had been brainwashed (as opposed to the improbable apparent scenario in-show: the whole team deciding to go bad.)
* The final season of ''[[Lost]]'' seems to be shaping up to be this. [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|It's about time...]]
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* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' impressively managed to be one of these for not just ''Ashes'' but its parent series ''[[Life On Mars]]''.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* The story that [[Peter Gabriel]] wrote for the liner notes of the [[Genesis (
▲== Music ==
▲* The story that [[Peter Gabriel]] wrote for the liner notes of the [[Genesis (Music)|Genesis]] [[Concept Album]] ''[[The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway]]''.
** It actually doesn't explain things that well. For that, see [http://www.bloovis.com/music/lamb.html this site]. And prepare to walk away ''still'' [[Gainax Ending|not sure]]...
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'': The Secret Reports. Of course, getting them all unlocks [[The Stinger]], which is more confusing than anything in the actual plot.
** Similarly, the Ansem Reports in the [[Kingdom Hearts]] game, by the same people.
*** [[Kingdom Hearts]]: [[Birth By Sleep]] is also a
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' managed to clear up the plot of ''MGS2'', at the price of creating a truly spectacular [[Continuity Lock Out]] and [[Doing
** Speaking of MGS2, the game was going to contain a Mind Screwdriver of its own in the form of Psycho Mantis' mask as an unlockable. It was going to let you hear the thoughts of other characters during cutscenes/codec calls, and those thoughts were supposedly going to give you a major clue to what was really going on in the game's plot. But alas, [[Executive Meddling|the game was rushed for the holidays]], so it didn't get implemented.
* ''[[The Umbrella Chronicles]]'' is a retelling of several games in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series which attempts to fill in the plot holes the previous games left behind. (''Resident Evil: Code Veronica'' featured a video, on a bonus disc, which tried to do the same; "The Wesker Report" was subsequently made obsolete when the next games retconned the story in a different way.)
** And Resident Evil 5 had a nice Author's Saving Throw, though it might be a [[Voodoo Shark]], explaining what was up with how Wesker got better, one of the main parts that was kept. {{spoiler|Original Version. Wesker got a secret formula that turns people into sentient uber-not-zombies. Second explanation, turns out Wesker was part of an old Umbrella project, the formula only works for him, and was leaked to him.}}
* The game version of ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'' was made to further flesh out the characters in the original story as well as answer the question as to why AM was doing what it was.
* The "True Ending" of ''[[Ever 17]]'' clears up just about every mystery in the game. And some things that weren't, but were probably misinterpreted.
* The Once Upon A Time chapter that shows up at the end of ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' is one of these, if you get the good ending.
* Trilby's Notes, of the [[Chzo Mythos]],ended with the title character being saved by an unknown man in red. The identity of this man was not revealed until the ending of the next game, and it was a mind screw. It also explains how the man was able to revive Trilby.
** The Special Edition versions of the games (especially 6 Days) provide a few other Screwdrivers as well, most notably {{spoiler|why Chzo was interested in the [[Failure Is the Only Option]] [[Plan]] at all.}}
* ''[[Assassin's Creed
* ''Hand in [[
* ''[[Homestuck]]'''s three [[Recap Episode
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▲* ''[[Homestuck]]'''s three [[Recap Episode|Recap Episodes]] (and similarly, the two ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' recaps) are an invaluable aid to those who find themselves lost in the [[Kudzu Plot]]. [[Andrew Hussie]]'s Formspring and the MSPA forums are also pretty handy references for clearing up ambiguous plot points.
▲== Web Originals ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' serve to explain a large amount of the more wacky elements of previous seasons, most noticeably the "time travel" incident in Season 3 and any point in the series where a character died and got back up again.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' had a season one episode "Tree Trunks" where the titular elephant bit into the crystal apple she was looking for so she could bake an apple pie out of it. She exploded, and then was seen giggling and laughing through the apple. [[Gainax Ending|End Episode.]] Season two had a followup, "Crystals Have Power" where she went insane, became queen of the crystal realm, and tried to turn Finn into her Crystal King. Jake [[Beat the Curse Out of Him|punched the crystal chunk out of her]] and she returned home to bake them another apple pie.
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