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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Q''': ''Do you particularly enjoy being deliberately vague?''
'''A''': ''[[Mathematician's Answer|Maybe?]]''
|'''[[Gunnerkrigg Court|Tom Siddell]]'s''' [http://www.formspring.me/gunnerkrigg/q/831796547 typical Formspring answer.]}}
Sometimes you get the feeling that a series creator is having a little ''too'' much fun messing with their audience's collective heads.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* An unofficial motto of the ''[[Bee Train]]'' fandom actually is "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160523225309/http://www.beetrainfan.org/wiki/index.php?title=MiaHT [Kouichi] Mashimo is a huge tease]".
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** And it reached epic levels for ''[[Hetaween 2011]]'' with his [[Fan Nickname]] becoming "Himapapatrollking" and many people becoming convinced that he was secretly watching their posts about the event with how he suddenly introduced new characters without warning, brought back [[One-Scene Wonder]] characters, and still found time to mercilessly tease fans by deliberately avoiding showing the face of said new characters.
* [[Eiichiro Oda]] of ''[[One Piece]]'' fame certainly has some interesting answers when fans ask him questions, just to screw around with them. Given Oda's sense of humor and the generally odd nature of the ''[[One Piece]]'' world, it's sometimes hard to tell when his answers are serious and when they're just jokes.
* Kunihiko Ikuhara and ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' - see especially the car girl incident and Miki's
* When asked if a particular plot point had some deeper meaning, the writer of ''[[Star Driver]]'' was quoted as saying "Everything is double--no, ''triple'' marinated with meaning!"
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== [[Fan
* The author behind ''[[Renegade (fanfic)|Renegade]]'' draws an inordinate amount of pleasure from toying with the readers, offering periodic bits of [[Word of God]] and copious amounts of [[Shrug of God|shrugs]]. One of his favorite non-answers in [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=163762 the discussion thread] on [[Spacebattles.com]] is to respond to someone's question or comment with a picture of [[Gargoyles|David Xanatos]] with a smug grin on his face. The deliberate vagueness of the picture (Am I on the right track? Am I completely wrong? Does he know something I don't? ''GAAAAAAAAH!'') just makes it worse.
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