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* ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' and other [[Prose Descriptive Qualities|PDQ]] system games are fond of this one - there's usually a power currency (Style Dice, Hero Points) to let the players declare significant facts about the game, such as inventing useful NPCs or giving them new abilities. S7S even encourages players to make flat statements that something exists and tossing a Style Die down, as opposed to asking if it's so and having to pay the cost the GM sets (though the GM should ask for more dice on particularly large changes anyway).
* ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' and other [[Prose Descriptive Qualities|PDQ]] system games are fond of this one - there's usually a power currency (Style Dice, Hero Points) to let the players declare significant facts about the game, such as inventing useful NPCs or giving them new abilities. S7S even encourages players to make flat statements that something exists and tossing a Style Die down, as opposed to asking if it's so and having to pay the cost the GM sets (though the GM should ask for more dice on particularly large changes anyway).
** PDQ2 rules game ''Vox'' has a starting scenario to run character creation similar to a FATE game, where you choose what you can do as you need to do it until all your abilities are set.
** PDQ2 rules game ''Vox'' has a starting scenario to run character creation similar to a FATE game, where you choose what you can do as you need to do it until all your abilities are set.

== Theater ==
* A musical based on ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' stops the action at the point where [[Charles Dickens]]' death left the novel unfinished and then uses audience votes to determine the villain, lovers and true identity of Dick Datchery.


== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
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** {{spoiler|It would be revealed that the boys were ''always'' clones.}}
** {{spoiler|It would be revealed that the boys were ''always'' clones.}}
* ''[[Total Drama]]'' has an alternate ending each season where the runner-up (in slightly different circumstances) actually won the prize. In fact, for the second season, it was declared that both endings ''were'' the possible "real ending", since each country voted differently on which of that final two they wanted to win. Unfortunately, the first and third season endings ended up very contrived by comparison.
* ''[[Total Drama]]'' has an alternate ending each season where the runner-up (in slightly different circumstances) actually won the prize. In fact, for the second season, it was declared that both endings ''were'' the possible "real ending", since each country voted differently on which of that final two they wanted to win. Unfortunately, the first and third season endings ended up very contrived by comparison.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] is a veritable font of minor [[Shrodingers Guns]] (Schrodinger's Derringers if you will), with all manner of nods towards it's [[Periphery Demographic|unexpected older fanbase]]. The most obvious is Derpy Hooves, who was an animator's joke in the first episode, but started getting inserted into episodes after the creators noticed the internet had latched onto her, and has even recently had a (rather controversial) voiced appearance.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] is a veritable font of minor Schrödinger's Guns (Schrodinger's Derringers if you will), with all manner of nods towards it's [[Periphery Demographic|unexpected older fanbase]]. The most obvious is Derpy Hooves, who was an animator's joke in the first episode, but started getting inserted into episodes after the creators noticed the internet had latched onto her, and has even had a (rather controversial) voiced appearance.


== Real Life ==
== Real Life ==
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== Theater ==
* A musical based on ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' stops the action at the point where [[Charles Dickens]]' death left the novel unfinished and then uses audience votes to determine the villain, lovers and true identity of Dick Datchery.


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