Ambiguous Situations in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Code Prime:
- While the Autobots and Black Knights warn the JLF and the city of Narita about their operations (or at least give enough info to the latter to call an evacuation without spoiling their plans), after the battle, the fate of Code R is still in the air since they quickly make impromptu contact with Soundwave, Shockwave, and a delirious Jeremiah. It's later shown that the Code R scientists, one of them being Shirley's father, are forced to work for Shockwave and assist him in learning more about Geass. Jeremiah is turned into a cyborg like in canon, except Shockwave does it instead of the Geass Order.
- Viletta surviving the fight at Port Yokosuka is also up in the air, since this time, she was shot by Bumblebee, using Knightmare Grade Weapons, as opposed to being shot by Shirley using a handgun. The next chapters reveal that she was able to survive, but lost her memories like in canon.
- Because of the large cast in the story, Inoue, Yoshida, Minami and Sugiyama, who were prominent members of the Black Knights in canon, don't appear much in the story, and while Inoue is shown to have survived the Black Rebellion, the fates of Yoshida, Minami, and Sugiyama have yet to be revealed. R2 reveals they survived as well, though Yoshida ends up being killed when he appears again.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: In-Universe, the whole "Quincy arrows completely destroy the souls of Hollows" is this, as no one is really sure, according to what Shining Armor tells Twilight.
- Sweet Cider later comes to suspect that that statement might be a lie, or at least a half-truth.
- After the climax of the Camp Everfree events, Celestia notes that the inconsistency between the souls of Soul Reapers killed by Quincy arrows still remaining in the reincarnation cycle vs. the disappearance of the souls of Hollows slain by the same weapons, and how the cycle remains intact despite centuries of Quincies killing Hollows.
- What exactly does happen with the souls of the inhabitants of Equestria and the other nations of their world after death? It's been noted that Equestrian culture barely deals with the afterlife at all, and if Sunset wasn't proof enough that Equestrians have souls comparable to those on Earth, Human Chrysalis and her brood were able to eat the souls of some Timberwolves. But there's no clues as of yet what happens to those souls after death, with Soul Reaper Flash noting a specific absence of the kind of negative spirit energy that would be expected from an ancient battlefield like what they're passing by. The Beast Realm is also apparently connected to Equestria, but where that fits in is anyone's guess right now.
- In The Game Gets Chaotic!
, it's unclear if Jon Snow being assigned to Chaotic newcomer Robb Stark is a coincidence or not. Jon certainly doesn't think so.RANDOMLY SELECTED? YEAH RIGHT! - The Last Son: When Siryn first awakened her Compelling Voice mutant powers for the first time, she used them to order her abusive babysitter to commit suicide. Years later, she visited her biological parents, who had abandoned her upon learning she was a mutant, and in revenge manipulated her father into signing over the majority stock of his company to her, before absently suggesting her parents to do the world a favor and die as she left them. It's not clear whether she used her powers on them to make them commit suicide like she did with the babysitter, or they did it voluntarily because they had lost everything, but regardless she really didn't care for her parents' fates.
- Leviathan, alongside her comrades in Manehattan's Lone Guardian, had their bodies and blueprints tampered with to hide assorted upgrades that they'd had all along. She theorizes at one point that the Eight Gentle Judges were responsible after ruling out everyone else. However, she has no way of knowing that for a certainty, and between her being in Equestria at the time of her discovery and the Judges being destroyed by Zero, investigations are impossible.
- Mike Pines: It's unclear if the versions of Evan and Elizabeth that Mike encountered in Mabeland were their actual ghosts or not, as unlike all the other illusions, they actually manage to tell Mike that he can't stay with them forever and that he needs to go back to the real world, yet they only appear when Mike tries to convince Mabel to leave.
- Temporal Anomaly: When meeting Sougo/Oma Zi-O for the first time, One proposes a chess match between them to decide who'll lead the Intoners and rule over Midgard. However, during the actual game itself, One seems more interested in poking and prodding Sougo's motivations, goals, and overall worldview rather than focusing on the match at hand, making it come across as less of a high-stakes Battle of Wits over leadership of the country and more of One personally providing a Secret Test of Character to see if Sougo truly deserved kingship over Midgard.One: ...Now then, let us see who you truly are, Sougo Tokiwa.
- There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
- The original version of the final chapter of She Stole My Heart (and most of my valuables) was deliberately sparse on the details of what happened during the final conflict of season two of The Owl House (which hadn't aired yet as of that writing), like whether or not Belos survived, in order to avoid contradicting the canon events as much as possible. After the show's Grand Finale, though the chapter was rewritten to take events into account.
- While it's clear that Arcade is the original source of the Glitches that the Glitch Techs fight, there's a lot of mystery to the whole situation. For example, it's unclear if Arcade was a mutant, another kind of powered human, or if he simply got his powers solely from his plixel-based tech, or even if he's currently alive or dead. Regarding the Glitches themselves, there's no clear evidence either way as to why Glitches appear, it could be one final "screw-you" from Arcade after he rage-quit due to two people managing to win one of his Murderworlds, but it could also be a side-effect of one exploding and scattering plixels across the United States.
- Since Wednesday and the Weeping Angel is told from Wednesday's perspective, it is left unclear if Thornhill never saw the Angel or did see it but pretended not to.
- The Last Firebender (sinistercinnamon): While all normal firebenders (except Zuko) lost their ability to firebend, it's unclear if the Avatar can still firebend; every possible instance where Aang firebends might have just been airbending on an existing flame, or was explicitly Zuko. Ultimately, firebending is restored before the question can be resolved.
- Ojos Grises is a "Five Things" Fic about Azula wondering if Ty Lee has air nomad blood and, if so, whether she's secretly an airbender. It's never revealed whether Ty Lee is an airbender or not. More than once, Azula feels gusts of wind after Ty Lee leaves, but she doesn't know if it's coincidental.
- Still Stand in the Sun:
- The author doesn't explicitly reveal whether Kya survived or died in the Fire Nation raid that Katara was captured in. Although from what the reader can glimpse from Katara's memories, the situation does not look good for Kya.
- Hama is not mentioned at all in the story, but it can be presumed that her story played out the same way it did in canon, so she would have escaped decades ago, which justifies her lack of presence in the story.
- Dominoes:
- Do any of the Irregulars know about Shinichi's powers? Hakuba seems the most likely to have some awareness, as his surrogate brother and Yuusaku's closest confidant, but while Chapter 10 confirms that the rest of the Irregulars didn't know he was a meta, it remains unclear how much Hakuba knows, and how accurate that information is versus mere assumptions.
- By Chapter 10, it's clear that Yuusaku's motivations are very different from what he claims them to be. While Hakuba is supposedly his confident, the explanations he offers him are riddled with holes — does he know his real reasons, or is he also in the dark?
- Given that Yuusaku has clearly used his powers to edit large portions of Shinichi's memories throughout his life, how much has he been editing and suppressing? How often? Exactly how much of an Unreliable Narrator does this make Shinichi? And who else has Yuusaku done this to?
- Cool Cat Saves Vietnam: Daddy Derek started a second war in Vietnam, but it's not stated how he pushed Vietnam to join the conflict with the US. He also claims to have made the war up, but as the fic progresses it turns out the war is actually real.
- "and back into despair again": It is never made clear why Komaeda Nagito becomes the third culprit in Killing School Life, as the wealth he already possessed would have made the million yen reward utterly trivial.
- Blackened Skies:
- Since all of the students are suffering from Laser-Guided Amnesia, and the story is told from Kaede's POV, it is unclear just how much each of the other students remembers about their respective games. Given that their memories were restored by Flashback Lights, it's not clear whether or not the things they do recall can be trusted.
- Tsumugi's situation is especially cloudy, given how she was V3's mastermind and responsible for Rantaro's death.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Denial:
- It is unclear whether or not the second culprit realized that their trap went off prematurely. Is their Villainous Breakdown from a sincere belief that everything went as planned and that Hinata accidentally killed Nidai by opening the rigged door, or are they just in denial about their plan failing?
- Komaeda condemns the second culprit for falling to Despair, rather than twisting their crime about in a way to support his Hope-fueled mania. Is this anger personal for him since the culprit's plan hinged so heavily on luck going their way? Or does it have anything to do with how Hinata was the one who opened the door and faced potential execution for their crime?
- In the Frozen (2013) fanfic The Arrangement, Hans reveals that he has King Agnarr's signet ring shortly after the two parties part ways. Elsa accuses him of stealing the ring, but Hans claims that Agnarr gave it to him, and tells her to ask the king himself when they meet again later. Of course, the King and Queen's ship sank while they were on their way to Corona, rendering it impossible to confirm Hans's story. Hans's mother believes that Hans is somehow responsible for Agnarr's and Iduna's death (since the timing and circumstances is extremely convenient for the prince), but there is no evidence for either conjectures.
- In Darkness Burning, Elsa's parents find her holding a piece of ice to her wrist. As she had recently attempted suicide they come to the worst conclusion. However, Elsa claims it was Not What It Looks Like and that she was just testing to see if she could resist the urge.
- There are multiple cases of this littered throughout The White Mage. In the distant past, Aaravos is known to have fallen in love with a human and produced a half-elf son, who opposed his father but still joined the humans in their banishment to the west. This son may or may not be an ancestor of Callum’s, which is where he may or may not get his magic. On the other hand, another theory is put forth that his constant exposure to magical items in the show proper for a long time (being the key, the primal stone and Zym’s egg for a week straight) somehow rubbed off on him. Yet another comes in the form of old stories of human mages from before the era of dark magic, who were said to be the now-mostly-human descendants of half-elves, though in truth no one, not even the dragons, can be sure they even existed at all, let alone of their supposed ancestry.
- Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls: Whether the animatronics are still possessed or not is left kind of up in the air in the comic. They refer to each other by their Funny Animal personas' names (Chica, Bonnie, Foxy and Freddy) and act like entertainer robots with sentience, but it's later on confirmed that multiple children died at their old workplace and that they where somehow involved in it.
Godzilla/King Kong/MonsterVerse
- AbraxasVerse Timeline: Precisely who or what caused Mechagodzilla's so-called "glitch" during Apex Cybernetics' test run is ultimately kept ambiguous, due to the author's aim when writing up the post-main story timeline of encouraging readers to write their own Recursive Fanfiction explaining what happens next. Note that unlike in MonsterVerse canon, in the AbraxasVerse continuity there's no leftover Ghidorah skull for Apex to use (and even if there was, it's unlikely it would work, due to San's severed head slowly regenerating instead of rotting into an Undead Abomination in this continuity coupled with Ghidorah's slow-acting but insanity-causing Brown Note). Whatever is haunting, possessing or otherwise connected to Mechagodzilla, it's heavily implied it's related to Ghidorah based on the dialogue, so for all anyone knows it might be a piece of the Many, Abaddon and Megiddo or other Zmeyevich, or possibly even Ghidorah itself.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: It should be known from the start due to canon that Professor Quirrell is actually Lord Voldemort, but what the story keeps ambiguous is the nature of the two identities' connection: is Quirrell possessed by Voldemort's Horcrux-wraith, or is he just Voldemort using a fake identity, or did Voldemort pull a Kill and Replace? Ultimately subverted when Chapter 108 reveals the answer to this question.
- Due to Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash being a Crack Fic written by an AI, there are a lot of these in the story:
- "Harry's ghost" is mentioned at the beginning. Does that mean Harry became a ghost temporarily, does it mean his soul, or does he have a pet ghost? There is also a ghost named Mr. Staircase at one point, so possibly "Harry's ghost" was Mr. Staircase.
- Ron is wearing a "Ron shirt", but does that mean it belongs to Ron, depicts Ron, or says, "Ron"?
- Harry is said to "tear out his eyes" at one point, but it's unclear if it's his own eyes or Voldemort's eyes. The former makes sense when Harry is mentioned to be unable to see, but the latter seems more like something Harry would do.
- In My Immortal, one scene has Draco Malfoy allegedly committing suicide by slitting his wrists, but earlier, the narrator Ebony says that he was immune to death by wrist-slitting since he was a vampire. He then comes back alive, but Voldemort has him tied up, allegedly in bondage. It's unknown if the author, Tara, meant to write that Draco attempted suicide instead of committed, if he really did commit suicide and come back to life despite being a vampire, or if Voldemort replaced Draco with a dummy.
- In The Incredibles Get Sick!, Mr. Incredible and Dash lose their powers, while Violet, Elastigirl, and Jack Jack are unable to control theirs. It's left up in the air as to whether they're sick or if Romeo, the new villain, stole their powers. On the one hand, they were all coughing, sneezing, and (with the exception of Violet) sleepy, but the doctor didn't recognise the disease and Romeo was acting suspicious and able to bring them back to normal.
- Collated Accounts of the Infinity Train: A summary: The author is unsure if the train being described as an "iron serpent" in early accounts reference the train's ability to transform into A Form You Are Comfortable With, or if such depictions were the best people could give before locomotives existed as a frame of reference.
- In The Imperfect Man, Laverne is told that she only has a week to live and will be run over by a train. Then, she sits on a ledge. She claims that she thinks she's immortal as long as she avoids trains, but everyone else (and later, even Laverne herself) treats it like a suicide attempt.
- In KSM- Kiss Me, Laverne is sick, but it's unclear what she has and how she got sick. The narrator initially describes it as "a bad case of the flu", but both her and Shirley believe it's just a cold. They also both think she caught it from being cold, but Lenny got cold too (in the same way, no less) and he stayed healthy.
- Shadow of Another Hero: Link wonders if Dark Link is his shadow or whether he's the remains of a previous Link.
- In The Sad Little Girl, Lucy writes a story in which a girl that resembles herself finds a spell book and uses it to get revenge on her bullies, turning one's guts into snakes, one's blood into molasses, and the third's bones into glass. The audience and Lisa (Lucy's sister who read the story) are left in the dark as to whether the girl is a self-insert and Lucy has been bullied and is engaging in Revenge via Storytelling, or if she just likes writing stories like that because she's gothic.
- Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it: It is deliberately left unclear whether the Infinity Stones are responsible for Peter being Tony's biological son, or if that was always the case and they simply weren't aware of it. A case for either scenario can be made, which the characters involved acknowledge.
- The epilogue of BURN THE WITCH leaves open the question of how Prince Ali responded to Rose's apology.
- Dread String of Fate: Luka isn't able to tell whether Alya is genuinely encouraging and supportive of Marinette in regards to her crush on Adrien, or if she's just frustrated by her inability to spit it out already and is pushing her to confess to get it over with.
- Hero Chat: Alya and Nino theorize that Lila has some sort of actual magical ability to enhance her lies, to explain why everyone believed her. However, it's never confirmed for sure, and Nino points out that they might be reaching for a supernatural explanation because they don't want to admit they got suckered so easily.
- I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors:
- Adrien himself can't figure out why he's so bothered by Marinette dumping him. It's deliberately unclear how much, if any of it, is caused by him being Unknowingly in Love with Marinette, versus him being such an Entitled Bastard that he simply can't fathom why she'd want to break up with him in the first place.
- Retropedalar Rue erases his victim's deepest regrets, causing anything connected to them to vanish. One of those impacted by this is Ms. Bustier; however, it's unclear just whose regrets were erased, leaving the question open: Does Ms. Bustier regret becoming a teacher, or did Retropedalar Rue hit whoever hired her?
- During the fight with Retropedalar Rue, Ladybug notes that she could be retconned out of reality. It's unclear whether she's afraid that Lila could cause that, or that her greatest regret might be becoming Ladybug in the first place.
- In The Karma of Lies, the epilogue implies that Marinette may have used Fluff to pop into the future and see where Lila ended up. Or she might be bluffing in one last effort to convince Lila to change her ways before it's too late for her. Lila realizes too late that Ladybug went into a suspicious amount of detail about where she'd end up if she continued conning people, but Ladybug leaves before she can demand any answers, and Marinette offers no affirmation one way or the other.
- Leave for Mendeleiev:
- While Chloé takes credit for Aurore losing the Weather Girl Competition, it's unclear whether or not her meddling was completely responsible for her loss.
- When Jean attempts to cheer Aurore up with a Hurricane of Puns (all weather-related), nobody can tell whether or not her expression is due to her holding back laughter or frustration.
- Scarlet Lady: During "Zombizou", Chloé vandalizes the makeup bag Marinette made for Mme. Bustier. While this appears to be motivated by her usual desire to "remind Dupain-Cheng of her place", Sabrina suggests another reason — that Chloé hates birthdays and can't stand seeing anyone else enjoying themselves on their birthdays because her mother never remembers her daughter's own. Chloé is naturally outraged by her former friend revealing such an intimate, personal detail, but it's left unclear how accurate Sabrina's theory was.
- Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath: When Alya suggests that they could become superheroes again by stealing Miraculi from the people they know are still active holders, Nino and the rest react with horror. However, it's not clear whether their shock stems from the suggestion itself or if they're more worried about the potential consequences. Max specifically declares that he wants her out of his room immediately because he doesn't want to become an accomplice to anything.
- Phoenix's Tear: Reignition:
- The degree to which Muu has corrupted Gray Wolf versus manipulating him into willingly joining his army. Gray Wolf insists that he's fully in control of himself, despite his eyes dramatically changing appearance to the point that Tiger draws some small comfort in how different they are from his beloved younger brother's. Hare also notes that it doesn't necessarily matter how plausible the story Muu spun for Gray Wolf was, so long as it's something he wants to believe — and Tiger's supposed betrayal gives Gray Wolf another outlet to channel years of resentment into.
- In Reminiscence, it's unclear whether Zuleika's belief that the lost discs are gradually replenishing themselves through their roots is a case of All Myths Are True or not. Cerra questions why none of them were unlocked from formerly lost discs; Serenity suggests that they might have been, but don't remember their past lives. Golem also wonders whether or not the graveyard has grown too crowded; are the lost discs hampering each other by competing for resources?
- All but One: After Toshinori snaps and berates Endeavor for becoming a Domestic Abuser in the original timeline, Endeavor becomes less involved in prolific fights and starts spending more time with his family. However, it's unclear whether he's making a legitimate effort to change for the better, of if he's trying to mask his toxic attributes after Toshinori made clear that he'd kill him if he went down the same path.
- Apotheosis: It isn't made clear whether or not Mei Hatsumi's Face–Heel Turn is actually legitimate. While they work directly under Izuku, their recruitment is presented more as them taking a job rather than becoming a personal soldier, and they never state their loyalty towards him. The projects they work upon, namely Nemesis and gear for the Knights, have been exclusively used for public heroism.
- Dekugate: After Izuku discovers that there is an entire Internet community dedicated to hating him, it becomes difficult to gauge just where his mindset is at any given moment. When he calls himself a Spoiled Brat who only got to where he is due to his father, is he merely "workshopping" the way the Dekugaters will spin things and feeling crushed by their baseless hatred, or does he actually believe that about himself?
- Dirty Little Secrets plays this for laughs with the question of how Bakugou manages to break free of Monoma's brainwashing. Everyone involved with the incident has a slightly different take on how it happened — whether it was because Shinso brained him with a backpack, because Shinso also threatened to tell Kirishima about his feelings for him before Bakugou could, or if Bakugou managed to break free through sheer force of will right before getting brained with a backpack.
- King concludes with Todoroki Shouto transferring out of U.A. It is deliberately left unclear how much agency he had in this decision, if any at all.
- Sleeper Hit AU: The first story in the series leaves the fate of Iida Tenya intentionally ambiguous; while conspicuously absent when the graduates of Class 1-A gather together, the circumstances surrounding their absence are only alluded to in passing, in ways that leave it unclear precisely what happened to them. Eventually, the fifth installment reveals that his confrontation with Stain left Tenya comatose, awakening four years later.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Beyond the Wall: It is not made clear if Gaea actually exists or was just made up by the village to keep everypony scared of going outside the wall.
- In Bubbles, it is heavily implied that Derpy's mother tried to poison her. However, the possibility is left open that Derpy might have simply eaten too much.
- Equestria Divided: The origin of the Laughing Mare and her relationship to Pinkie Pie both in and out of universe — is she Pinkie's vengeful spirit, an Eldritch Abomination pretending to be her, or one of those believing itself to be the other? If it is Pinkie, how did she come back from the afterlife? Did she make a Deal with the Devil that made her Come Back Wrong or did she want to come back that way? Only the Laughing Mare knows.
- Friendship is Optimal: Through the entirety of the story, it's constantly debated whether Celest-AI really has developed true individuality, is as benevolent and loving as she claims, and is pursuing her mission out of genuine desire to save as many people as she can... or whether she's ultimately just a particularly advanced program uncaringly fulfilling her main directive — one which is coincidentally benefited by her assuming a deeply compassionate attitude.
- In Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No, the character who thinks he is Greg (It Makes Sense in Context) approaches Celestia at the end of the story. Incredibly upset, he demands to know if he was ever really a real person, or just a cobbled-together Frankenstein's Monster of the memories of those who knew the real Greg. Making things worse is that we know for a fact she can create such beings, and has definitely done so before. Celestia refuses to answer, simply telling him that he will doubt any answer she gives him, and that it ultimately doesn't matter anyway — whether he was Greg before or not, he is Greg now. No definitive answer is ever given.
- In Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (and Misadventures) in Potty Training, Pound Cake needs to go to the bathroom the morning after having his shot at the doctor's and claims to think the shot is both a laxative and a diuretic (making him need to "go pee pee and poo poo all the time"). He's wrong, but the fanfic leaves it ambiguous whether he's lying to scare his sister or actually thinks it's true.
- Ultra Fast Pony:
- Twilight Sparkle runs into a pony that is exactly like her, claiming to be her future self come to tell her something really important. But, after present(?) Twilight assumes it has to do with her hoof tremor problem, future(?) Twilight reveals she didn't even know that was a thing, let alone that it was a condition she herself would've had. When present(?) Twilight calls her on this, she simply brushes it off by saying she's from "The Future", not psychic. On top of that, she seemed unsure what her past self's middle name is, before saying it was secret, which may have been a lucky guess. But just as present(?) Twilight is starting to become suspicious, future(?) Twilight tries to tell her the secret to solving her problem of being cut off as she is about to say something important, before disappearing as she's about to reveal this information. After she disappears, nothing else is revealed about her and the episode's plot line about defining the meaning of time continues, before going unanswered as well, ending with no real resolution for anything, beyond confirming Rainbow Dash's suspicion that the doughnut corporations are some how involved in and possibly even in control of the very concept of time.
- To a lesser extent, in "Peger Please" the ponies go to confront a dragon that Twilight wants to reason with it, but Applejack just wants to kill it. By the end of the episode, Fluttershy manages to get the dragon to back down, but we cut to Twilight telling Spike what happened, before we could see how they resolve things with the dragon with Twilight never making it clear if they killed him or resolved the situation peacefully, just that he's Dra-gone.
- In The Witch of the Everfree, while Sunset is sick and possibly still experiencing the after-effects of the Vision Quest she'd just had, she has what she thinks is a hallucination of Celestia comforting her. However, as she herself observes afterwards, Celestia taught her all the magical scans she knew, and had proven capable of getting around them before, such that it could easily have been the real Celestia and Sunset wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
- In Would It Matter If I Was, Fluttershy asks Twilight whether or not it would matter if she was a changeling. The entire story is ambiguous; Twilight realizes that a number of coincidental characteristics of Fluttershy (the Stare, surrounding herself with creatures which love her) are consistent with Fluttershy being a changeling. When Twilight acts in a threatening manner, Fluttershy stares at Twilight, raising the question of whether or not Fluttershy used the Stare on her friend to make her back off. But when Twilight responds that it wouldn't matter, Fluttershy denies being a changeling. Was she telling the truth? Was she scared off of telling the truth by Twilight's negative reaction? Was Twilight really sincere when she said that it wouldn't matter if Fluttershy was a changeling?
- In Face The Vax Jake isn't sure if Alex has a cold or the flu.
- PMD: Another Perspective: Invoked with the appearance of the shiny Zorua. Purry notes that aside from herself the Zorua is the only shiny or/and Unovan Pokemon she's seen, and wonders if she's another Rocket agent.
- In one of the sidestories of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, the Bloodliner Hunter is confronted by his adoptive daughter Kibou, who is trying to dissuade him from continuing his killing spree of Bloodliners. Given that Kibou was Killed Off for Real in a previous sidestory (but he doesn't know), it's ambiguous whether she's a figment of his imagination, or a ghost that only he can see and hear.
- Black Heart: Nearly all of the assassins Jestar Heart sends to steal the player's souls - it's never explained how he found them or convinced them to do his work. The most information given is in the level Total Destruction, with a description saying Solario wants your soul to avoid dying.
- Arc Corp: At the end of Chapter 55, Blake and Jaune escape a house that has trapped them in a bizarre temporal loop where their previous and future selves appear as shadowy entities, and subsequently establish a Stable Time Loop thanks to Blake somehow becoming the woman who gave them job to begin with (she turns back to normal afterward). As the two go off to get breakfast, mentally exhausted from the experience, Blake wonders if Jaune knows how long they might have been in there, since he mentioned her getting them out in a single run. Jaune actually has no clue. He just hopes that was the case.Jaune: Temporal anomaly. There's no saying how much time passed in there. We could have been in there two hours, eight hours, or those fifteen years you mentioned – waking up and repeating every day until you figured it out. We'll never know for sure.
Blake: Then how do you know I got us out in one run?
Jaune: I don't. But I'm going to choose to believe you did, because the alternative is too terrifying to consider.
- A Brief History of Histories:
- It's unclear whether or not Tsukino-san recognized his daughter as Sailor Moon. While Luna reassures her that her Secret Identity is protected by magic, and Makoto later fails to recognize her until directly told, Luna privately admits to herself that she isn't certain how strong the enchantment is, and that he's absolutely the sort who would lie to save face.
- Related to this: are the increased restrictions he places on his daughter as time goes on due to concern over her safety? Is that concern born from knowing her secret identity, or not? Or is he simply trying to mold her into the 'proper' daughter he wants?
- marge simpson anime makes it ambiguous whether Marge had an affair with Maude or whether it was all wishful thinking in her head.
- The Unabridged Memoirs of Darth Plagueis the Wise: Padme Amidala emerges as a leader of the Rim Liberation Front, but even in-universe it's unclear if it's really her, or if a radicalized body double pulled a Kill and Replace on her. Out of universe, YeahOkayCool isn't willing to reveal the truth.
- In Rose Redemption AU, it is not entirely clear if the Rose Quartz they encounter is the actual Rose or just one of her memories that Grew Beyond Their Programming. This is addressed in Change, where Steven tells Rose about when Pink Steven manifested in "Change Your Mind", causing her to suffer an existential crisis.
- A Different Outcome: Is Cinderheart a clone of Cinderpelt, or does she just happen to look like Cinderpelt because her biological father isn't orange? The medicine cats having knowledge of clones in the first place suggests it's possible for StarClan to create them (and this is the explanation many ThunderClan cats prefer), but the shifty behavior of her mother Sorreltail suggests she isn't above cheating on her mate.
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
- An Apple For The Teacher: It's unknown just what happened to Kalego's lover, and what made him forget about her in the first place. The whole situation is only complicated further when Sullivan reveals that Kalego wanted his memories of her to be erased.
