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* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': Is there a way to exit the Circus?

** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': [[spoiler:Is there a way to break the Architect's cycle of genocide and reload the Matrix?]]
*** Alternatively: [[spoiler:have Neo and the rebels truly left the Matrix, or just entered ''another'' Matrix?]]

** ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreForAnswer'': What are you fighting for? [[PunchClockHero A paycheck]]? [[ForGreatJustice Freedom and justice]]? [[WellIntentionedExtremist Humanity's survival]] (short-term or long-term)? [[ForTheEvulz Or just because you can]]? The game lets you [[TitleDrop answer]] any of the above.[[labelnote:*]](Though by the time you hear the question [[PermanentlyMissableContent it's a little late to pick "freedom and justice,"]] and even if you did, that path [[DoomedMoralVictor gets cut short anyway]].)[[/labelnote]]
*** More specifically: Is it worth [[ColdEquation sacrificing potentially millions of people]] so that the survivors have a chance to escape the Earth's [[GaiasLament environmental collapse?]] Or is momentary peace and tranquility worth dooming humanity to a slow death? Or does humanity even deserve to live at all at this point?

** Why is magic so weirdly dramatic?
*** And after that's answered, how can magic be fixed?

** Who are Bowler Hat Guy and Doris and why do they hate Lewis? [[spoiler:This one is answered. Bowler Hat Guy is his old roommate Mike, who holds a grudge against Lewis for a problem he didn't mean to create. Doris is one of Lewis's future inventions that went wrong because she was too ambitious and so Lewis tried to shut her down, though was not successful.]]

No, not, "[[DrivingStick What's this third pedal do?]]" or "WhoIsDriving", a Driving Question is when a core element of the plot is a mystery. The most common variation would be a detective murder mystery (where the question is most often "[[MysteryFiction Whodunnit]]?"), but also very popular in NoughtiesDramaSeries, {{Jigsaw Puzzle Plot}}s and SurvivalHorror. In many cases the question is equivalent to, "What the hell is going on and why?" which taken far enough makes for an OntologicalMystery.

* ''Fanfic/Team8'': What single decision [[ForWantOfANail altered]] the history of Konoha?

** ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' has multiple mysteries. Why did Gira lose his memories of [[spoiler:being a prince]]? Why is Gira able to control the Shugods? Why did Racules become so evil? What caused the Fury of the Gods event 15 years ago? What happened to [[spoiler:the previous King of Gokkan]], who went into hiding to investigate it? Who killed Hymeno's parents? And how are all these events connected to each other? After the show's TimeSkip another question come up. [[spoiler:How did Racules come back from the dead and what is he planning?]]

** ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' has multiple mysteries. Why did Gira lose his memories of [[spoiler:being a prince]]? Why did Racules become so evil? What caused the Fury of the Gods event 15 years ago? What happened to [[spoiler:the previous King of Gokkan]], who went into hiding to investigate it? Who killed Hymeno's parents? And how are all these events connected to each other?

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Who ordered the hit on Beckett's mother, and why?

** What really happened after Coulson's "death" at Loki's hands in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''? [[spoiler: He was resurrected by the T.A.H.I.T.I. project, which was designed to resurrect a fallen Avenger and involved injecting a serum made from a dead Kree alien.]]

* [[Videogame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]: Who or what is Alma, and why is Paxton Fettel so obsessed with her?
* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series has several questions, a lot of which never get answered. These include questions like: What happened to the missing children? Are the animatronics actually haunted? Who or what is the Purple Man? What was the Bite of '87? And who even is the player character and why are they staying five nights at Freddy's?

** For Answer: What are you fighting for? [[PunchClockHero A paycheck]]? [[ForGreatJustice Freedom and justice]]? [[WellIntentionedExtremist Humanity's survival]] (short-term or long-term)? [[ForTheEvulz Or just because you can]]? The game lets you [[TitleDrop answer]] any of the above.[[labelnote:*]](Though by the time you hear the question [[PermanentlyMissableContent it's a little late to pick "freedom and justice,"]] and even if you did, that path [[DoomedMoralVictor gets cut short anyway]].)[[/labelnote]]
*** More specifically: Is it worth [[ColdEquation sacrificing potentially millions of people]] so that the survivors have a chance to escape the Earth's [[GaiasLament environmental collapse?]] Or is momentary peace and tranquility worth dooming humanity to a slow death? Or does humanity even deserve to live at all at this point?

** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity: For the first part of the game, what is Protocol 10?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight: Who is the Arkham Knight?

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': What are the sordid secrets of the Mann Family and their inheritors? Who is the Unseen Man in the photograph? Why is the Administrator involved? What are Dell Conagher's motives? What, or who, is The Pyro?