History Main / FanWank

*** Again, ''Hyrule Historia'' reveals that ''Ocarina'' actually split the timeline in ''three'', and that a few of the Links and all of the Zeldas are related, though it doesn't even touch on the whole reincarnation issue (although it was strongly hinted in ''SkywardSword'', specially in Zelda's case).
*** Which opened up ''more'' wank, since one of the timeline splits hinged on [[spoiler: Link dying before Ganondorf could be defeated.]]
* ''KingdomHearts'' has enough fan wank going about Nobodies and all associated {{mind screw}}s that they've caused multiple spoogenamis.
** The AnotherSideAnotherStory special ending from the first game deserves a special mention. The quantity of FanWank that single video originated rivaled all the {{Lost}} and Zelda timeline theories.
** The thing about KingdomHearts is that there is an abundance of rules and guidelines within out-of-the-way sources or bits of dialogue in-game. After the first six games, there was enough canonical information to demystify many of the more confusing parts of the series. It's just that there are ''a lot'' of seemingly arbitrary rules that can be hard to keep track of, even if they do make things make sense. Hence, fan-wank.

The etymology of 'wank' shows that it means 'indulgence', particularly any kind of major self-indulgence. Not surprisingly, this leads to it being British slang for [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]], though it's mostly just their own egos that such writers are stroking. [[{{Lemon}} Mostly]]. The term was coined by ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan and DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse writer Craig Hinton, who was no stranger to it himself, and applied it to his own work.

*** This probably in part comes retroactively from {{Naruto}}, as such HandWaving is ''canon'' in Naruto; everything out of the ordinary is done with Chakra.

* The ''StarWars'' franchise is rife with fan explanations and justifications. For example, the Kessel Run being made in a ''unit of distance'':

* Ever since the first ''SherlockHolmes'' stories were published, many learned writers have tried to figure out why Dr Watson's old war wound was in the shoulder in ''A Study In Scarlet'' and in the leg in ''The Sign of Four''. Answers range from "He was actually shot in the buttocks and was too embarrassed to say this" to "He was shot on two separate occasions." There's an organization called The Baker Street Irregulars (it's been around since the 1930's) who devote a great deal of time and effort to filling in all the gaps and resolving all the discrepancies they can, including "Exactly where was 221B Baker Street?" "Why was Dr Watson sometimes James and sometimes John?" and "Was Holmes' dressing-gown purple or mouse-coloured?" (Some of these essays have been published in the book ''17 Steps To Baker Street.'')

* In the [[SgtFrog Sgt. Frog]] There is a lot of [[FanWank Fan Wank]] debates of whether or not the alien frogs, known as kerons, can have hair or not, some fans going as far as to saying their all wigs and or cannot have hair because they are 'frogs' and label any keron with hair, as a [[MarySue Mary sue]]. This originally started on [[DeviantArt DeviantArt]] and then Tumblr, on a fandom confession blog which has since been deleted.
** Which is taken to extreme amounts of stupid given the sheer number of characters with facial hair, and head hair that have appeared in show and manga, but these fans will not accept it unless they are seen brushing, washing, or any other kind of hair care treatment.

* In the [[SgtFrog Sgt. Frog]] There is a lot of [[FanWank Fan Wank]] debates of whether or not the alien frogs, known as kerons, can have hair or not, some fans going as far as to saying their all wigs and or cannot have hair because they are 'frogs' and label any keron with hair, as a [[MarySue Mary sue]].

* In the [[SgtFrog Sgt. Frog]] There is a lot of [[fanwank fan wank]] debates of whether or not the alien frogs, known as kerons, can have hair or not, some fans going as far as to saying their all wigs and or cannot have hair because they are 'frogs' and label any keron with hair, as a [[MarySue Mary sue]].
** Which is taken to extreme amounts of stupid given the sheer number of characters with facial hair, and head hair that have appeared in show and manga, but these fans will not accept it unless they are seen brushing, washing, or any other kind of hair care treatment. [[spoiler: Which gets even more stupid, when in one episode, Keroro ends up with a mutant mole hair on his forehead that grows to a extreme length.]]

* In the [[SgtFrog Sgt. Frog]] There is a lot of ''Fan Wank'' debates of whether or not the alien frogs, known as kerons, can have hair or not. Some fans going as far as to saying their all wigs and or cannot have hair because they are 'frogs' and label any keron with hair, as a [[MarySue Mary sue]].
** Which is taken to extreme amounts of stupid given the sheer number of characters with facial hair, and head hair that have appeared in show and manga, but these fans will not accept it unless they are seen brushing, washing, or any other kind of hair treatment.

* Events in ''TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''TheMatrixRevolutions''. The plot is so impenetrable that it has actually spawned a cottage industry of books seeking to explain it. The content of these books ranges from cutting-edge philosophy to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke some nonsense about space lizards]], suggesting that Lovecraftian madness awaits any mortal who should happen to solve the mystery.

** Adding to the confusion is when Klingons from TOS appeared on DS9 and suddenly had ridged foreheads. One theory regarding this is that those Klingons got cosmetic surgery to make themselves look like "normal" Klingons.

* In ''[[StargateVerse Stargate]]'' fandom, one of the most obvious and yet never directly addressed questions is why all the aliens speak English. Various theories have emerged, the most popular being that the stargates themselves act as translators.

* ''KamenRiderDecade'' is a short television series that [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] into {{alternate universe}}s of the nine ''Kamen Rider'' shows that preceeded it and then brings back the leads for ALL of the shows in ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker'' (albeit as {{Fake Shemp}}s; [[KamenRiderDouble one of the few who isn't a Shemp]] is an EarlyBirdCameo) with numerous references abound, especially for ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}''. It's fanwank to the nth degree.

* ''CyanideAndHappiness'' [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1819/ mocked this]] once.

* The big issue in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' fandom (and quite possibly ''the'' fanwank debate to rule them all) is the question of whether or not the Balrog had wings. Other, smaller debates include whether or not Tolkien's elves have PointedEars and what color Legolas' hair was in the book.

* The ending of ''MassEffect3'' has inspired FanWank that is enveloping the entire series. This is one of the reasons that Bioware released an extended ending DLC. Allegedly it was the intended effect, if the head writer really did write "LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE" in his notes on the ending. [[DownerEnding Most fans took this in a direction he didn't intend.]]

** Many people on Lemmy's Land have a distaste for Bowser Jr., thinking that he was the reason the Koopalings were thrown from the spotlight for such a long time.

* [[{{Continuation}} What exactly happened]] after the TooGoodToLast show ended (see ''{{Firefly}}'' and ''MySoCalledLife'').

-->-- '''Chad Orzel''' [[http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2010/10/the_astrophysics_of_bedtime_st.php tries to make sense of ''Goodnight, Moon!"]]

* V from ''VForVendetta'''s gender. It's pure fan wank in both the graphic novel and film that V, a person consistently referred to in both the novel and movie as "he" and "the ''man'' from room five" is [[spoiler:Valerie, a female character we only see in flashback, presumably after some serious surgery.]]

*** Which opened up ''more'' wank, since one of the timeline splits hinged on [[spoiler: Link dying before Gannondorf could be defeated.]]

->These two methods clearly do not agree with one another, which means one of two things: either I'm terribly over-analyzing the content of the illustrations of a beloved children's book, or the bunny's bedroom is moving at extremely high velocity relative to the earth, so that relativistic time dilation makes the six-minute rise of the moon appear to take an hour and ten minutes. Calculating the necessary velocity is left as an exercise for the interested reader. [[note]]It's 0.9963 ''c'', or roughly 668 million miles per hour.[[/note]]

* Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain of the 'Batman' family being either in Hong Kong or at various beach resorts and probably on a variety of recreational drugs, following the New52 reboot. Neither have been acknowledged on panel as existing.