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But sometimes, the [[Word of God]] can't quite make up its mind what to say. Maybe the writer hasn't decided what the right answer is, or [[Bellisario's Maxim|the audience asked him a question he didn't think he'd have to answer at all]]. Maybe he actually changed his mind sometime after he gave the original answer. Sometimes, it's simply that the creator is a [[Lying Creator]]. Or the "creator" is actually a series of ghost writers as in some franchise series and [[Depending on the Writer]] don't do a great job of keeping the character consistent. Either way, a Flip Flop Of God is when the [[Word of God]] contradicts itself somehow. The fundamental unreliability this reveals -- any author, at any time, might commit this trope -- can be considered an argument in favor of the [[Death of the Author]].
Different from [[Retcon]], because [[Retcon|Retcons]] are changes to something that happens in the story, instead of the [[Word of God]]. When the author refuses to outright answer a question, it's a [[Shrug of God]]. Also different from a [[Sword and Sandal|flip-flop]] ''worn'' by an [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|in-universe god]], or a [[Lotus Eater Machine|god that's]] [[The Matrix|made of]] [[wikipedia:Flip-flop
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*** Also, pre [[Kingdom Hearts II|Kingdom Hearts 2]] Nomura said that Namine has no connection to Kairi whatsoever {{spoiler|just because she screwed around with Sora's memories and replaced Kairi with herself}}. Come endgame of 2, she turns out to be {{spoiler|Kairi's nobody, albeit a special kind of nobody born from Kairi's heart leaving Sora's body}}. [[Lying Creator|Damn you Nomura!]]
*** Before [[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]] Nomura stated that Nobodies don't age and Xemnas was about thirty when he was turned into one. {{spoiler|BBS shows at least two Nobodies looking considerably younger less then a year prior to their losing hearts and Xemnas by all appearances being a teenager.}}
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' had this. Is {{spoiler|[[Girl of the Week|Angela Cross]] (from ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando|Going Commando]]'') a Lombax?}} 1. A fan letter gets an answer from one of the employees - {{spoiler|she is.}} 2. When ''[[Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction|Tools of Destruction]]'' comes to [[
* [[SNK]] seems to change its position as to where ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' fits into the universe of its other games by the day. Either it's an [[Alternate Continuity]] to ''[[Art of Fighting]]''/''[[Fatal Fury]]'', or it's a follow-up to that universe. More recently, Shion ([[The Dragon]] from ''The King of Fighters XI'') is either male or has no official gender, depending on when you ask.
** Given that Geese Howard (the [[Big Bad]] of ''Fatal Fury'') ''[[Killed Off for Real|died]]'' in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'', [[Schrodinger's Cast|yet made a triumphant, unexpected appearance]] in ''KOF '96'' and continues to make the occasional cameo (or rarer playable appearance) in later ''KOF'' games, it's a pretty safe bet that ''KOF'' has the same basic backstory as the ''AoF/FF'' timeline but divurges after that. It's also telling that the cast of ''AoF'' is roughly around the same age as their ''Fatal Fury'' counterparts despite ''Art of Fighting'' presumably taking place in the late 1970s (''Fatal Fury'' is similarly assumed to occur in the 90s) and a young Geese Howard showing up in the second ''AoF'' as the [[True Final Boss]] (as well as [[Foreshadowing]] for his role in ''Fatal Fury'' in the first place).
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