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* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' members tends to leave several aspects of their backstories a mystery, either to allow them to add or change details as desired later down the line or to encourage fan speculation. This is particularly true of the English branch, whose members tend to have much more intricate lore at debut than the Japanese or Indonesian branches. A few particularly noteworthy examples include:
** What forbidden knowledge did [[Characters/HololiveEnglishGenerationThreeAdvent Shiori Novella]] discover that led to her being imprisoned in the Cell? All we know is that it was something the gods didn't want any mortals finding out, and that merely reading the forbidden information somehow caused half of her hair to be bleached white.
** How much of [[Characters/HololiveJapanGenerationSixHoloX La+'s]] backstory is meant to be true "in-universe", and how much is just her self-aggrandizing in an attempt to assert dominance as the leader of [=HoloX=]?
** For a non-backstory example, who was responsible for digging the infamous one-block-wide hole in the [=HoloEN=] [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server]], which almost all of the talents ended up falling to their death down at some point? The first time it was ever seen on-stream was in one of Kiara's streams, and her reactions imply she had never seen it before.
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** Was the speaker hijacking that caused widespread panic and loss of life in ''DEANDISASTER'' actually caused by the Anti-Dean Association, as the episode claims? Or was it a FalseFlagOperation pulled off by Dean's own administration in order to establish the Department of Technology and create an excuse to [[spoiler:feed suspected ADA members to the Special Trees and other entities inside the monuments]]?
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* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos'', like many AnalogHorror shows, leaves a large amount of its narrative to the imagination; and though some of the more cryptic plot points were ultimately circled back to in later seasons, some have remained unsolved. Among the larger mysteries:
** Was [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman President James Dean]] a supernatural entity or simply a normal person? If the latter, how was he able to [[CharmPerson so utterly win over the hearts and minds of the American people]] nigh-instantly, especially given how brief and non-specific his original campaign ad was?
** Where exactly did [[EldritchAbomination Alcatraz]] and the "Alcatraz Matter" that makes it up come from? It serves a major role in four of the five story arcs, and [[spoiler:''The Modern Day'' in particular establishes it as the GreaterScopeVillain of both that season and possibly the series as a whole]], but unlike other major antagonists like [[spoiler:the Horned Serpent, Freedom, and the Angel]], we get absolutely ''zero'' indication of where the living island came from.
** How much of the CreationMyth from ''MONUMENTMYTHOLOGY'' (if any) is meant to be accurate in canon, and how much is meant as a metaphor? The existence of [[spoiler:the Martian Serpent]] in Season 3 would suggest that at least the final part is meant to be taken literally, and [[spoiler:''ALCATRAZ, ALWAYS'' includes a clip from this episode, mentioning the primordial entities "Tree" and "Serpent" (hinting at a connection to the two figures glimpsed inside the black hole) but does not elaborate further]].
** ''GOLDENGATEGIRL'' reveals that one of the major sources of divergence between the Deanverse and the Montyverse is the fact that, in the latter, James Dean's sister [[spoiler:Eunice]] is DrivenToSuicide, an event which is later [[FrameUp blamed on young journalist Howard Melrose]] and causes James Dean to abandon his presidential hopes, instead becoming Monty Clift's vice president. However, the story never explains why this event occurred in the Montyverse and not the Deanverse (especially given that the apparent trigger for the timeline shift was [[spoiler:the Angel traveling back in time to avert the Great Division]], an event which happened long ''after'' this point in the timeline), nor what actually drove [[spoiler:Eunice]] to this in the first place.
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** Pretty much everything about the ending. [[spoiler:Is the eyeless Dell Conagher who appears in the DyingDream really his ghost, or is it something else? Who was he going to call after Ludwig went into the bathroom? Why did Ludwig have such a panicked reaction when he realized the drug he had been taking all this time was Emesis Diazepam? Is Ludwig's reunion with Jeremy at the end merely a DyingDream, or is this actually the two of them reconnecting in the afterlife? If the latter, is it [[KilledOffForReal for good]], or will Ludwig's ResurrectiveImmortality kick in again?]]

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** Pretty much everything about the ending. [[spoiler:Is the eyeless Dell Conagher who appears in the DyingDream really his ghost, or is it something else? Who was he going to call after Ludwig went into the bathroom? bathroom, and why did he previously claim to not have a phone? Why did Ludwig have such a panicked reaction when he realized the drug he had been taking all this time was Emesis Diazepam? Is Ludwig's reunion with Jeremy at the end merely a DyingDream, or is this actually the two of them reconnecting in the afterlife? If the latter, is it [[KilledOffForReal for good]], or will Ludwig's ResurrectiveImmortality kick in again?]]
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->''"What I couldn't work out was how he managed to make another man pregnant. I guess we'd never know. So, just to restate, that is something we'll never know; you're not going to find out later."''

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->''"What I couldn't work out was how he managed to [[MisterSeahorse make another man pregnant.pregnant]]. I guess we'd never know. So, just to restate, that is something we'll never know; you're not going to find out later."''

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin describes a particular "NoodleIncident". It happened at school, Calvin is terrified of his parents finding out, and Hobbes thinks Calvin deserves a Pulitzer prize for his explanation. Other than that? No one will ever know, because it's funnier that way.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
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Calvin describes a particular "NoodleIncident". It happened at school, Calvin is terrified of his parents finding out, and Hobbes thinks Calvin deserves a Pulitzer prize for his explanation. Other than that? No one will ever know, because it's funnier that way.way.
** The exact nature of Hobbes, which Watterson went out of his way to ever answer definitely. The most he would ever say is that Calvin sees Hobbes one way and everyone else sees him another way. Is everyone's conception of reality the same? Is one more ''right'' than any other? If Hobbes is "real" to Calvin, does that make him "real" to us?
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* The identity of two-time Music/{{MFDOOM}} collaborator Mr. Fantastik.

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* The identity of two-time Music/{{MFDOOM}} collaborator Mr. Fantastik. Fans have spent years attempting to figure out his identity with no success.
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* The identity of two-time Music/{{MFDOOM}} collaborator Mr. Fantastik.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': What caused the fire at the school which killed Tadashi? [[spoiler:The film ultimately reveals that Callaghan survived the fire using Hiro's microbots, which he subsequently stole and used as part of his {{Revenge}} plan, but it's left unstated whether he actually set the fire or simply took advantage of it to make his escape.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': What caused the fire at the school which killed Tadashi? [[spoiler:The film ultimately reveals that Callaghan survived the fire using Hiro's microbots, which he subsequently stole and used as part of his {{Revenge}} plan, but it's left unstated whether he actually set the fire or simply took advantage of it to make his escape.]] [[spoiler:Tadashi]]?
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* Music/NewRadicals' "Someday We'll Know" is all about this trope.

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* Music/NewRadicals' "Someday We'll Know" is all about this trope.trope, but the most important riddle is [[TheLostLenore "why aren't you here with me tonight?']]
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%%* Music/DoctorSteel (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

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%%* Music/DoctorSteel (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)* What were the circumstances behind Music/DoctorSteel's forced retirement?


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* Music/NewRadicals' "Someday We'll Know" is all about this trope.

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