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Moving the light novel examples to the literature section, since the light novel namespace is being phased out.


* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': What exactly is the [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]]?



* The ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series: What ''is'' Haruhi Suzumiya? Where do her powers come from? What exactly happened during the mysterious event three years ago that drew most of the SOS Brigade members to her?



* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': Who was the culprit of the murders in the year 1995? Was it Shiki? And what happened that put her in a two year coma?


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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': What exactly is the [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]]?
* The ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series: What ''is'' Haruhi Suzumiya? Where do her powers come from? What exactly happened during the mysterious event three years ago that drew most of the SOS Brigade members to her?
* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': Who was the culprit of the murders in the year 1995? Was it Shiki? And what happened that put her in a two year coma?

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* In ''Series/{{Powers}}'' season 2 the question is "Who killed [[spoiler: Retro Girl]]?" and more importantly, "How?"

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* In ''Series/{{Powers}}'' season 2 the question is "Who killed [[spoiler: Retro [[spoiler:Retro Girl]]?" and more importantly, "How?"



* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': Who is Number One? Who runs The Village? Why did Number Six resign? (This is an interesting example, because whoever runs the village knows who Number One is and ''wants'' to know why Number Six resigned, Number Six knows why he resigned, but doesn't know the answers to the first two questions, and the '''audience''' knows pretty much ''bupkis'' ... and [[spoiler: it's never explicitly cleared up either]].)

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* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': Who is Number One? Who runs The Village? Why did Number Six resign? (This is an interesting example, because whoever runs the village knows who Number One is and ''wants'' to know why Number Six resigned, Number Six knows why he resigned, but doesn't know the answers to the first two questions, and the '''audience''' knows pretty much ''bupkis'' ... and [[spoiler: it's [[spoiler:it's never explicitly cleared up either]].)



** Season 3: Both "Who is the serial rapist?" and "Who killed [[spoiler:Dean O'Dell?]]"

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** Season 3: Both "Who is the serial rapist?" and "Who killed [[spoiler:Dean O'Dell?]]"O'Dell]]?"



** Season 2: What caused the waters to start rising? Where did all of the portals come from? [[spoiler: who is the mysterious voice]]?
** Season 3: What created the barrier around Illium and how do you leave? Later this becomes [[spoiler: why are the gods trying to keep the barrier in place]]?
** Season 4: "How do you make Valentine a better place?" is a more thematic one than normal. Later the question of [[spoiler: what is Solomon Luna hiding]] becomes the driving force.

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** Season 2: What caused the waters to start rising? Where did all of the portals come from? [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:Who is the mysterious voice]]?
** Season 3: What created the barrier around Illium and how do you leave? Later this becomes [[spoiler: why [[spoiler:why are the gods trying to keep the barrier in place]]?
** Season 4: "How do you make Valentine a better place?" is a more thematic one than normal. Later the question of [[spoiler: what [[spoiler:what is Solomon Luna hiding]] becomes the driving force.



* ''VideoGame/BeaconOfHope'': Where did all the human inhabitants of Hope go, and why are the appliances now alive?
* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds''. A game in which the only powerups are better [[DrivingQuestion driving questions]]. Your first question is likely to be "how do I avoid crashing my ship into the moon?" but once you've answered this you're bound to ask "[[spoiler:What is the [[{{Precursors}} Ash Twin Project]]"]]?" "Why am I stuck in a [[spoiler:[[TimeLoop time loop]]]]?" And "how does the [[spoiler:[[NegativeSpaceWedgie eye of the universe]]]] tie into all this?" The game's set up so if you can answer all three questions you can win from a new game in five minutes. Unfortunately, like all the best mysteries, it can only be experienced once.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''. You wake up without knowledge of who you are, what you're doing here, and why you can't remember anything. The first order of business is to fix that, and it takes most of the game.
** The ArcWords "What can change the nature of a man?" would also qualify. [[spoiler:Also a double subversion. Ravel tells you that she was never interested in ''the'' answer, but only ''your'' answer, and then regardless of the answer you give, she dismisses it anyway. It's only at the very end that the Nameless One realizes that the answer is Belief.]]
** ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'': What does one life matter?

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* ''VideoGame/BeaconOfHope'': Where did all the human inhabitants of Hope go, ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters'': What are you willing to do in order to set your life right?
* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'':
** For Answer: What are you fighting for? [[PunchClockHero A paycheck]]? [[ForGreatJustice Freedom
and why are the appliances now alive?
* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds''. A
justice]]? [[WellIntentionedExtremist Humanity's survival]] (short-term or long-term)? [[ForTheEvulz Or just because you can]]? The game in which lets you [[TitleDrop answer]] any of the only powerups are better [[DrivingQuestion driving questions]]. Your first above.[[labelnote:*]](Though by the time you hear the question is likely [[PermanentlyMissableContent it's a little late to be "how do I avoid crashing my ship into the moon?" but once you've answered this you're bound to ask "[[spoiler:What is the [[{{Precursors}} Ash Twin Project]]"]]?" "Why am I stuck in a [[spoiler:[[TimeLoop time loop]]]]?" And "how does the [[spoiler:[[NegativeSpaceWedgie eye of the universe]]]] tie into all this?" The game's set up so pick "freedom and justice,"]] and even if you can answer all three questions you can win from a new game in five minutes. Unfortunately, like all the best mysteries, it can only be experienced once.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''. You wake up without knowledge of who you are, what you're doing here, and why you can't remember anything. The first order of business is to fix that, and it takes most of the game.
** The ArcWords "What can change the nature of a man?" would also qualify. [[spoiler:Also a double subversion. Ravel tells you
did, that she was never interested in ''the'' answer, but only ''your'' answer, and then regardless path [[DoomedMoralVictor gets cut short anyway]].)[[/labelnote]]
*** More specifically: Is it worth [[ColdEquation sacrificing potentially millions
of the answer you give, she dismisses it anyway. It's only at the very end people]] so that the Nameless One realizes that survivors have a chance to escape the answer Earth's [[GaiasLament environmental collapse?]] Or is Belief.]]
** ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'': What
momentary peace and tranquility worth dooming humanity to a slow death? Or does one life matter?humanity even deserve to live at all at this point?
** Armored Core 3: What's going on in Layered? Is the Controller really malfunctioning?
** Armored Core Silent Line: What's beyond the Silent Line?



* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' mod ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'': Who is killing off the Kosigan family? And what can you do about it?
** ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' chapter 2: Where is Master Nathan, and how can you rescue him?
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': What and where is the Star Forge? Also, [[spoiler: What did Revan and Malak find that caused them to fall to the Dark Side?]]
** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Where are the lost Jedi Masters? Who is [[EvilMentor Kreia]]?
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': Did Death's Hand have the Emperor's backing or has he taken over? Who is the scaly blue lady that keeps appearing to me in visions? How can you rescue Master Li?

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* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' mod ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'': Who is killing off the Kosigan family? And what can you do about it?
** ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' chapter 2: Where is Master Nathan, and how can you rescue him?
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': What and where
''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'': "Who is the Star Forge? Also, [[spoiler: What did Revan protagonist, and Malak find that caused them to fall to what was his sin?"
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': What's
the Dark Side?]]
Joker planning?
** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Where are VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity: For the lost Jedi Masters? Who is [[EvilMentor Kreia]]?
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': Did Death's Hand have
first part of the Emperor's backing or has he taken over? game, what is Protocol 10?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight:
Who is the scaly blue lady that keeps appearing Arkham Knight?
* ''VideoGame/BeaconOfHope'': Where did all the human inhabitants of Hope go, and why are the appliances now alive?
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': How did Rapture fall apart, and what is the hero's connection
to me in visions? it?
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Who is Booker [=DeWitt=], and who are his {{Mysterious Benefactor}}s? Who is "the girl", and what is her significance to them? What are the exact terms of Booker's "debt?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': What ''is'' Paleblood and [[FindTheCure where can I find it]]?
* ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}:'' What happened to Lizbert Megafig?
* ''VideoGame/CallofDutyBlackOps'': What do the numbers mean?
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': Specific to players who already played [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the first game]] - "What's going on and how does it relate to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': What is the Federal Bureau of Control? What is the Hiss? What is the Board?
* ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'': Who or what caused the Shutdown? Is there any way to undo it?
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
How can you rescue Master Li?I save the flames that sustain life as we know it? Another question presents itself later: [[spoiler:Is saving the flames truly the right thing to do?]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': What happened to the crew members?
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': What did Isaac Clark inadvertently do?
* ''VideoGame/{{Devotion}}'': Where is Mei Shin? [[spoiler:She's dead, and her corpse is in the bathroom.]]



* ''Franchise/SilentHill'': Several of the games run on one over-riding question.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'': "Have you seen a little girl? She just turned seven last month. Short, black hair . . ."
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': Where is Mary, and what does she want?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Averted for the most part. The protagonist Heather wants nothing to do with anyone -- at least until [[spoiler: Claudia kills her dad]].
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'': What does the room want from Henry?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'': Why can't Travis leave Silent Hill?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'': Why is Alex's life such a mess?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'': Same as ''Silent Hill 1'', although the answer is extremely different.
* ''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?
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' has several, the most prominent being "Who are the Patriots?" and perhaps "Who is Ocelot ''really'' working for?"
** [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent No-one knows the answer to the second question.]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Possibly not even Ocelot himself.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'': "Who is the protagonist, and what was his sin?"
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': Specific to players who already played [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the first game]] - "What's going on and how does it relate to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''?"

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* ''Franchise/SilentHill'': Several of the games run on one over-riding question.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'': "Have you seen a little girl? She just turned seven last month. Short, black hair . . ."
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': Where is Mary, and what does she want?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Averted for the most part. The protagonist Heather wants nothing to do with anyone -- at least until [[spoiler: Claudia kills her dad]].
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'':
''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'': What does the room want from Henry?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'': Why can't Travis leave Silent Hill?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'': Why is Alex's life such a mess?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'': Same as ''Silent Hill 1'', although the answer is extremely different.
* ''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?
titular Rapture?
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' has several, the most prominent being "Who are the Patriots?" and perhaps "Who a very simple one: ''what is Ocelot ''really'' working for?"
** [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent No-one knows the answer to the second question.]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Possibly not even Ocelot himself.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'': "Who is the protagonist, and what was his sin?"
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': Specific to players who already played [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the first game]] - "What's
going on and how does it relate to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''?"on''?



* [[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?
* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Sissel has one driving question throughout the story. "Who am I?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Guenevere}}'': What kind of queen will you be?
* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' franchise: What is the G-Man trying to achieve? And what does he want from Gordon?
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode One'': What did Alyx steal from the Combine?
** ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', second half: What does the G-Man's message to Eli mean?
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': Who is the Origami Killer?



* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'':
** 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?
** Armored Core 3: What's going on in Layered? Is the Controller really malfunctioning?
** Armored Core Silent Line: What's beyond the Silent Line?
* [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl]]: Who or what is The Strelok? And why should you kill him?
* [[Videogame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]: Who or what is Alma, and why is Paxton Fettel so obsessed with her?
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': What happened to the crew members?
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': What did Isaac Clark inadvertently do?
* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' franchise: What is the G-Man trying to achieve? And what does he want from Gordon?
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode One'': What did Alyx steal from the Combine?
** ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', second half: What does the G-Man's message to Eli mean?
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': What's the Joker planning?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity: For the first part of the game, what is Protocol 10?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight: Who is the Arkham Knight?

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* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'':
** For Answer:
''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': Did Death's Hand have the Emperor's backing or has he taken over? Who is the scaly blue lady that keeps appearing to me in visions? How can you rescue Master Li?
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
What and where is the Star Forge? Also, [[spoiler:what did Revan and Malak find that caused them to fall to the Dark Side]]?
** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Where
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 the lost Jedi Masters? Who is [[EvilMentor Kreia]]?
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has "What will happen when the Wind Fish awakes?"
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' Trilogy: How do we stop the Reapers? Each
game lets you [[TitleDrop answer]] any of has its own:
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': What, and where, is
the above.[[labelnote:*]](Though by Conduit?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Why are
the time you hear Collectors abducting human colonists?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': How do we build
the question [[PermanentlyMissableContent it's a little late to pick "freedom Crucible? What does it do?
* ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]''
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
''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Can peace truly be achieved between humans and tranquility worth dooming humanity robots/reploids? [[spoiler:The timeframe between ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' finally answers "Yes."]] Zero has the memetic "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOR!?" [[spoiler:''Zero 4'' also answers this.]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' has several, the most prominent being "Who are the Patriots?" and perhaps "Who is Ocelot ''really'' working for?"
** [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent No-one knows the answer
to a slow death? Or does humanity the second question.]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Possibly not even deserve Ocelot himself.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' games tends
to live at all at this point?
** Armored Core 3: What's going on in Layered? Is
put the Controller really malfunctioning?
** Armored Core Silent Line: What's beyond the Silent Line?
* [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl]]: Who or what is The Strelok? And why should you kill him?
* [[Videogame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]: Who or what is Alma, and why is Paxton Fettel so obsessed
player in unfamiliar situations with her?
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'':
only one or two questions to drive the player's actions forward.
** ''MYST'':
What happened to here and who is trustworthy?
** ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'': Where is Catherine and Gehn? Who took
the crew members?
prison book?
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': What did Isaac Clark inadvertently do?
* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' franchise: What
''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'': Who is this strange hobo, and why does he have it out for Atrus?
** ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'': Who kidnapped Yeesha and for what purpose? Have Sirrus and Achenar's time in their respective prison ages reformed them?
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' mod ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'': Who is killing off
the G-Man trying to achieve? Kosigan family? And what does he want from Gordon?
can you do about it?
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode One'': What did Alyx steal from the Combine?
** ''Half-Life
''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' chapter 2: Episode Two'', second half: What does the G-Man's message to Eli mean?
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': What's the Joker planning?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity: For the first part of the game, what
Where is Protocol 10?
** VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight:
Master Nathan, and how can you rescue him?
* ''VideoGame/TheOutboundGhost'':
Who is the Arkham Knight?Outbound Killer, responsible for turning Outbound into a literal GhostTown? And what is the secret that allows a ghost to use [[PersonalityPowers Figments]]? One of these is answered in the game itself, while the other is used to set up a SequelHook.
* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds''. A game in which the only powerups are better [[DrivingQuestion driving questions]]. Your first question is likely to be "how do I avoid crashing my ship into the moon?" but once you've answered this you're bound to ask "[[spoiler:What is the [[{{Precursors}} Ash Twin Project]]"]]?" "Why am I stuck in a [[spoiler:[[TimeLoop time loop]]]]?" And "how does the [[spoiler:[[NegativeSpaceWedgie eye of the universe]]]] tie into all this?" The game's set up so if you can answer all three questions you can win from a new game in five minutes. Unfortunately, like all the best mysteries, it can only be experienced once.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'':
** You wake up without knowledge of who you are, what you're doing here, and why you can't remember anything. The first order of business is to fix that, and it takes most of the game.
** The ArcWords "What can change the nature of a man?" would also qualify. [[spoiler:Also a double subversion. Ravel tells you that she was never interested in ''the'' answer, but only ''your'' answer, and then regardless of the answer you give, she dismisses it anyway. It's only at the very end that the Nameless One realizes that the answer is Belief.]]



* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': How can I save the flames that sustain life as we know it? Another question presents itself later: [[spoiler:Is saving the flames truly the right thing to do?]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': What ''is'' Paleblood and [[FindTheCure where can I find it]]?

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* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': How can I save ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' (the whole game): Who is TheMole trying to bring back Maligula?
* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'':
** What happened to
the flames that sustain life as we know it? Another passengers and crew of the Obra Dinn, and why did it return to harbor years after its disappearance?
** A second
question presents itself later: [[spoiler:Is saving arises later on: [[spoiler:What happened in Chapter 8 to make the flames truly Kraken spare the right thing to do?]]
ship?]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Who is Rabid Jack? Who is the Dark Lord? What ''is'' Paleblood and [[FindTheCure where can I find it]]?is Zanik's destiny? Is there a way to save Morytania from its Vampyre rulers? What is at the bottom of Daemonheim? Where are the Elder Artifacts? What is Sliske planning? Is there a way to stop the Elder Gods from destroying the universe? What is Zaros up to? What is the player character's connection with Xau-tak?



* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Sissel has one driving question throughout the story. "Who am I?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' games tends to put the player in unfamiliar situations with only one or two questions to drive the player's actions forward.
** ''MYST'': What happened here and who is trustworthy?
** ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'': Where is Catherine and Gehn? Who took the prison book?
** ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'': Who is this strange hobo, and why does he have it out for Atrus?
** ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'': Who kidnapped Yeesha and for what purpose? Have Sirrus and Achenar's time in their respective prison ages reformed them?
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': How did Rapture fall apart, and what is the hero's connection to it?
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Who is Booker [=DeWitt=], and who are his {{Mysterious Benefactor}}s? Who is "the girl", and what is her significance to them? What are the exact terms of Booker's "debt?"
* ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters'': What are you willing to do in order to set your life right?
* ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'': What is the titular Rapture?
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': Who is the Origami Killer?
* ''VideoGame/{{Guenevere}}'': What kind of queen will you be?
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' Trilogy: How do we stop the Reapers? Each game has its own:
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': What, and where, is the Conduit?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Why are the Collectors abducting human colonists?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': How do we build the Crucible? What does it do?
* ''VideoGame/CallofDutyBlackOps'': What do the numbers mean?

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* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Sissel has one driving question throughout ''Franchise/SilentHill'': Several of the story. "Who am I?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}''
games tends to put run on one over-riding question.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'': "Have you seen a little girl? She just turned seven last month. Short, black hair . . ."
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': Where is Mary, and what does she want?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Averted for
the player in unfamiliar situations most part. The protagonist Heather wants nothing to do with only one or two questions to drive anyone -- at least until [[spoiler: Claudia kills her dad]].
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'': What does
the player's actions forward.
room want from Henry?
** ''MYST'': ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'': Why can't Travis leave Silent Hill?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'': Why is Alex's life such a mess?
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'': Same as ''Silent Hill 1'', although the answer is extremely different.
* ''VideoGame/SpiritsOfAnglerwoodForest'':
What happened here and who is trustworthy?
** ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'': Where is Catherine and Gehn?
to Edgar's parents?
* [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl]]:
Who took the prison book?
** ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'': Who is this strange hobo, and why does he have it out for Atrus?
** ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'': Who kidnapped Yeesha and for what purpose? Have Sirrus and Achenar's time in their respective prison ages reformed them?
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': How did Rapture fall apart, and
or what is the hero's connection to it?
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'':
The Strelok? And why should you kill him?
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'':
Who is Booker [=DeWitt=], and who are his {{Mysterious Benefactor}}s? Who is "the girl", and what is her significance to them? murdered Frank Cummings?
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
What are the exact terms sordid secrets of Booker's "debt?"
* ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters'': What are you willing to do in order to set your life right?
* ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'': What is
the titular Rapture?
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'':
Mann Family and their inheritors? Who is the Origami Killer?
* ''VideoGame/{{Guenevere}}'': What kind of queen will you be?
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' Trilogy: How do we stop
Unseen Man in the Reapers? Each game has its own:
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': What, and where,
photograph? Why is the Conduit?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Why
Administrator involved? What are the Collectors abducting human colonists?
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': How do we build the Crucible?
Dell Conagher's motives? What, or who, is The Pyro?
* ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'':
What does it do?
* ''VideoGame/CallofDutyBlackOps'': What do the numbers mean?
one life matter?



* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'':
** What happened to the passengers and crew of the Obra Dinn, and why did it return to harbor years after its disappearance?
** A second question arises later on: [[spoiler:What happened in Chapter 8 to make the Kraken spare the ship?]]
* ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Can peace truly be achieved between humans and robots/reploids? [[spoiler: The timeframe between ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' finally answers "Yes."]] Zero has the memetic "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOR!?" [[spoiler: ''Zero 4'' also answers this.]]



* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' has a very simple one: ''what is going on''?
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has "What will happen when the Wind Fish awakes?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': What is the Federal Bureau of Control? What is the Hiss? What is the Board?
* ''VideoGame/SpiritsOfAnglerwoodForest'': What happened to Edgar's parents?
* ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'': Who or what caused the Shutdown? Is there any way to undo it?
* ''VideoGame/{{Devotion}}'': Where is Mei Shin? [[spoiler:She's dead, and her corpse is in the bathroom.]]
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Who is Rabid Jack? Who is the Dark Lord? What is Zanik's destiny? Is there a way to save Morytania from its Vampyre rulers? What is at the bottom of Daemonheim? Where are the Elder Artifacts? What is Sliske planning? Is there a way to stop the Elder Gods from destroying the universe? What is Zaros up to? What is the player character's connection with Xau-tak?
* 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?
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Who murdered Frank Cummings?
* ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}:'' What happened to Lizbert Megafig?
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* ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'' has a few, but its biggest two were "Who made Brain Burst?" and "What happens when you reach level 10?"

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* ''Anime/{{Odd Taxi}}'': Where is the missing girl? Who is the missing girl? (And after those are answered [[spoiler:Who killed her?]]) Who, or what, is in Odokawa's closet? Is there something wrong with Odokawa's brain?

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* ''Anime/{{Odd Taxi}}'': Where is the missing girl? Who is the missing girl? (And after those are answered [[spoiler:Who killed her?]]) What does Odokawa know about the case? Who, or what, is in Odokawa's closet? Is there something wrong with Odokawa's brain?
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* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': What problem does becoming Saul Goodman solve?
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* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' How does an RBMK reactor explode? (The answer, delivered by Legasov in the final episode: lies.)

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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''.
** For Season 1: Where or what happened to Sauron? Who is the Stranger from the meteor?

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Who was Lewis' mother and why did she give him up? [[spoiler:Despite that question driving the whole movie [[RiddleForTheAges it's never answered]], because Lewis ultimately decides not to find out, since he wants to let go of his past and move onto his future]].
** Who is Bowler Hat Guy and why does he hate Lewis? [[spoiler:This one is answered. It's his old roommate Mike, who holds a grudge against Lewis for a problem he didn't mean to create.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'':
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Who was Lewis' mother and why did she give him up? [[spoiler:Despite that question driving the whole movie [[RiddleForTheAges it's never answered]], because Lewis ultimately decides not to find out, since he wants to let go of his past and move onto his future]].
** Who is are Bowler Hat Guy and Doris and why does he do they hate Lewis? [[spoiler:This one is answered. It's Bowler Hat Guy is his old roommate Mike, who holds a grudge against Lewis for a problem he didn't mean to create.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.]]
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*** 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 [[KillEmAll deserve to live at all]] at this point?

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*** 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 [[KillEmAll deserve to live at all]] all at this point?
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'': Who is Puppycat truly? Why was he cursed? Why did he suddenly appear in Bee's life? And why do the Warlocks want to capture him?

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Who was Lewis' mother and why did she give him up? [[spoiler:Despite that question driving the whole movie, [[RiddleForTheAges it is sadly never answered]], as Lewis ultimately decides not to find out]]. Also, who is Bowler Hat Guy and why does he hate Lewis?

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* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Who was Lewis' mother and why did she give him up? [[spoiler:Despite that question driving the whole movie, movie [[RiddleForTheAges it is sadly it's never answered]], as because Lewis ultimately decides not to find out]]. Also, who out, since he wants to let go of his past and move onto his future]].
** Who
is Bowler Hat Guy and why does he hate Lewis?Lewis? [[spoiler:This one is answered. It's his old roommate Mike, who holds a grudge against Lewis for a problem he didn't mean to create.]]


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* Both ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' and ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFilesNirvanaInitiative'' are fundimentally murder mysteries, but there's a bunch of supplimental questions the game asks. The first game has "Who killed Shoko Nadami?" along with "Who is/Where was/What happened to Kaname Date 6 years ago, before he lost his memories?" The second game starts with "Who killed Jin Furue?" But then adds "Where is Kaname Date?" "What happened 6 years ago that made Ryuki into a wreak?"" and "How was the left half of Jin Furue's body seemingly transported 6 years into the future?"
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** Season 4: What's causing the DMA?
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* ''VideoGame/BeaconOfHope'': Where did all the human inhabitants of Hope go, and why are the appliances now alive?
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'': Why is Krass the only Master of the Universe who doesn't have a [[ArchEnemy Nemesis]] and why can't she perform a [[SignatureMove Master Strike]]?
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* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Is there actually a werewolf? And if so, who is it?
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* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'':
** Season 1: What is causing all of the odd events in Stoneroot?
** Season 2: What caused the waters to start rising? Where did all of the portals come from? [[spoiler: who is the mysterious voice]]?
** Season 3: What created the barrier around Illium and how do you leave? Later this becomes [[spoiler: why are the gods trying to keep the barrier in place]]?
** Season 4: "How do you make Valentine a better place?" is a more thematic one than normal. Later the question of [[spoiler: what is Solomon Luna hiding]] becomes the driving force.
** Season 5: What happened to the Maxwells? What destroyed the Reigar homeworld? What is [[spoiler: Cassius planning to do with the Maxells]]?
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Who is Aloy's mother and what happened to the Old World?
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* ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'': "What is Jorel's brother's real name?"
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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated:'' Who is Mr. E, and what happened to the [[LegacyCharacter original]] Mystery Incorporated?
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* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Who is Rabid Jack? Who is the Dark Lord? What is Zanik's destiny? Is there a way to save Morytania from its Vampyre rulers? What is at the bottom of Daemonheim? Where are the Elder Artifacts? What is Sliske planning? Is there a way to stop the Elder Gods from destroying the universe? What is Zaros up to? What is the player character's connection with Xau-tak? How do you turn off the Everlight?

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* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Who is Rabid Jack? Who is the Dark Lord? What is Zanik's destiny? Is there a way to save Morytania from its Vampyre rulers? What is at the bottom of Daemonheim? Where are the Elder Artifacts? What is Sliske planning? Is there a way to stop the Elder Gods from destroying the universe? What is Zaros up to? What is the player character's connection with Xau-tak? How do you turn off the Everlight?Xau-tak?
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** How did Demona survive the massacre at Castle Wyvern, why hasn't she aged a day in 1,000 years, and how is she connected to Macbeth? These mysteries are finally resolved in the "City of Stone" multi-parter.
** What happened to the unhatched gargoyle eggs that Goliath left in Tom's care before he was turned to stone? Resolved in the "Avalon" multi-parter.

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* For the first arc of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': What am I? (in other words what has become of the Amazons, and why are Diana's memories all wrong?)

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**
For the first arc of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': What am I? (in other words what has become of the Amazons, and why are Diana's memories all wrong?)wrong?)
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanDeadEarth'': How did the world end? And how is it Diana's fault?

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* Season 6 of ''Series/MIHigh'' has: Who is Zoe?



* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': For season one: "Who is the Dragon Reborn?" Moiraine's information points to one of the five Emond's Fielders: Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, or Nynaeve, with hints appearing throughout the season to indicate it might be any one of them.



* Season 6 of ''Series/MIHigh'' has: Who is Zoe?
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* ''Santa Calls'': Why did Santa ask the Aimesworth kids to visit him in the North Pole?
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** In ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'', Who is Reimi Sugimoto's killer? [[spoiler:And after that's found out, who is he hiding as]]? This is actually an interesting example, because the viewer ''already knows'' the answer to these questions, but the ''characters'' [[DramaticIrony are the ones who have to figure it out]].

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** In ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'', Who who is Reimi Sugimoto's killer? [[spoiler:And after that's found out, who is he hiding as]]? This is actually an interesting example, because the viewer ''already knows'' the answer to these questions, but the ''characters'' [[DramaticIrony are the ones who have to figure it out]].

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has "what will happen when the Wind Fish awakes?"

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has "what "What will happen when the Wind Fish awakes?"



* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': What happened to Della Duck and what is the Spear of Selene she stole? [[spoiler:The Spear of Selene is actually a spaceship Scrooge was building for the Duck family to take to the Moon. But Della, impulsive fool that she was, stole the rocketship while the Triplets were still in their eggs and thanks to the ship being incomplete, got herself caught in a cosmic storm.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': Where are Adam, Mira, and Kai? And how do they return home?
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "Who is the Author of [[GreatBigBookOfEverything the Journals]]?" was this for most of the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' had "Who is Amon?" during its first season, while the second had "Why are the spirits angry?"
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': While it hasn't been around long enough to form a true plot arc, one big question has arisen in the first season: Why did Mara, the She-Ra before Adora, turn against the First Ones and send Etheria into Despondos?
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': for much of Season 5 the big question is "Did Rose Quartz really shatter Pink Diamond?" After the truth is revealed the question changes to "Can [[BigBad White Diamond]] be reasoned with?" Two other important questions that comes up are "Did Rose Quartz have a secret purpose for creating Steven?" and "Are Rose Quartz and Steven the same person or different?"

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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
** Season 1:
What happened to Della Duck and what Duck?
** Season 3: What
is the Spear of Selene she stole? [[spoiler:The Spear of Selene is actually a spaceship Scrooge was building for the Duck family to take to the Moon. But Della, impulsive fool that she was, stole the rocketship while the Triplets were still in their eggs and thanks to the ship being incomplete, got herself caught in a cosmic storm.]]
F.O.W.L.'s ultimate goal?
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'':
** Season 1:
Where are Adam, Mira, and Kai? And how do they return home?
** Season 2: How did they end up back in the Hollow?
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "Who is the Author of [[GreatBigBookOfEverything the Journals]]?" was this for most of the series.
Journals]]?"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' had "Who ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Season 1: Who
is Amon?" during its first season, while the second had "Why Amon?
** Season 2: Why
are the spirits angry?"
angry?
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': While it hasn't been around long enough Though secondary to form a true plot arc, one big question the main plot, the show has arisen in "Why did the first season: Why did Mara, the previous She-Ra before Adora, turn against the First Ones and send Etheria into Despondos?
Ones?"
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': for much of Season 5 For the fifth season, the big question is "Did Rose Quartz really shatter Pink Diamond?" After the truth is revealed the question changes to "Can [[BigBad White Diamond]] be reasoned with?" Two other important questions that comes up are "Did Rose Quartz have a secret purpose for creating Steven?" and "Are Rose Quartz and Steven the same person or different?"Diamond?"

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* Though [[ItWasHisSled it's fairly common knowledge nowadays]], the power behind Dio's Stand in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] of ''Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure'' was a major mystery at the time that wasn't revealed until partway through the final battle and required a HeroicSacrifice to discover.
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]], Who is Kira? [[spoiler: Then, who is he hiding as]]? This is actually an interesting example, because the viewer already knows the answer to these questions, but the ''characters'' are the one who has to figure it out.
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]], Who is the Boss and what does he want with Trish?
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJoJolion Part 8]], Who is Josuke, and what does he have to do with Kira? [[spoiler: Then just who or what are the rock people?]]

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* Though ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Although
[[ItWasHisSled it's fairly common knowledge nowadays]], the power behind Dio's Stand [[BigBad DIO]]'s [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] of ''Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure'' ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'' was a major mystery at the time that heavily drives the latter half of the Part, and wasn't revealed until partway through the final battle and [[spoiler:and required a HeroicSacrifice to discover.
discover]].
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]], ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'', Who is Kira? [[spoiler: Then, Reimi Sugimoto's killer? [[spoiler:And after that's found out, who is he hiding as]]? This is actually an interesting example, because the viewer already knows ''already knows'' the answer to these questions, but the ''characters'' [[DramaticIrony are the one ones who has have to figure it out.
out]].
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]], Who In ''Manga/GoldenWind'', who is [[TheDon the Boss and what does he want with Trish?
boss of Passione]]?
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJoJolion Part 8]], Who In ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'', who is Josuke, and what does he have is his relation to do with Kira? [[spoiler: Then [[spoiler:After that's answered, the question then becomes just who or what are the rock people?]]Rock Humans]]?

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