History Main / WORDOFGOD

* ''WordOfGod/{{Encanto}}''

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' story writer Greg Farshtey kept a good relationship with the fan community. Not only did Greg provide Word of God for any question a fan might have had, but he sometimes distributed advance information and occasionally allowed fans to influence minor details, with "Sure Why Not"? Around the time the franchise ended, Greg wanted and give the fans more of a say in where the story should go, but his newborn child kept him from this, and later LEGO adopted a rule that forbid him from talking to fans online. However, they still let him occasionally use the official LEGO message boards to answer fan questions.

* ''WordOfGod/LuzClawthorne''

* ''ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms'': ''[[FigmentDisneyKingdoms Figment]]'' writer Jim Zub [[https://mobile.twitter.com/JimZub/status/1366223266076065795 revealed on Twitter]] that Capri is 13 years old at the time of the events of ''Figment 2''.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms'': ''Figment'' writer Jim Zub [[https://mobile.twitter.com/JimZub/status/1366223266076065795 revealed on Twitter]] that Capri is 13 years old at the time of the events of ''Figment 2''.

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* ''WordOfGod/TheBookOfLife''

* ''WordOfGod/FridayNightFunkinSoft''
* ''WordOfGod/GravityFalls''
* ''WordOfGod/JimmyTwoShoes''

* ''WordOfGod/TheOwlHouse''

!!Other examples:

When the word does not come from the creator themself but from someone involved in some ancillary role in production, that's WordOfSaintPaul. When the word does not come from the original creators but over time is still treated as such it is WordOfDante. Doesn't always end up giving fans the answers they were looking for, such as in the case of a FlipFlopOfGod or a ShrugOfGod. Cases of God deliberately misleading the audience go under LyingCreator or TrollingCreator. And then there are cases of fans either misinterpreting or just making up Word of God, resulting in GodNeverSaidThat.

DiagnosisOfGod and WordOfGay are subtropes. Compare AllThereInTheManual. Contrast DeathOfTheAuthor, and WhatCouldHaveBeen. See also: CanonDiscontinuity, CreatorWorship, BrokenBase, and {{Revision}}.

DiagnosisOfGod and WordOfGay are subtropes. Compare AllThereInTheManual. Contrast DeathOfTheAuthor, and WhatCouldHaveBeen. See also: CanonDiscontinuity, CreatorWorship, BrokenBase, and {{Revision}}. Not to be confused with actual scripture, which we have a whole [[SacredLiterature index]] for.

It's important to keep in mind that just because someone wrote a character or setting, doesn't mean they decided on a correct answer to every question that could possibly be asked about that character or setting. It is not at all uncommon for fans to ask questions which they believe to be obvious, but which the creator has never considered. In particular, questions about a character's sexuality, gender identity or race often fall into this category. Everyone's creative process is different. Not all writers make highly detailed character charts, or decide on details of a character's identity that aren't directly plot-relevant. The fandom might consider those details important because the work happens to speak to people who have a particular identity: but that doesn't mean the author considered that fact important enough to spend time thinking about. Culture can play a role here as well, since what might be considered an essential fact about a person in one culture could be viewed as extraneous in another. Japanese creators, for example, will often decide what a character's blood type is: but may not pay any mind to their sexuality. Western fans can find this very strange and frustrating.

The other reason creators often refuse to answer questions about character identity is of course, politics. This is particularly likely to be true when the creator is in a different country from the fandom. In the heat of internet discourse, it can be difficult to remember that what is a pedestrian factoid in your country can be a hot-button political issue in a different one. Creators may have good reason to fear social or even legal repercussions if they answer questions like this: something which fandoms are often not as sensitive to as they should be. Creators whose primary motivation is profit may additionally not want to alienate parts of the fandom: refusing to resolve {{Fanon}} disputes, especially if they are politically tinged, can be an effective strategy for doing that.

* When WebVideo/MatthewSantoro was asked which of his clones would win in a fight to the death, he said that surprisingly, it would be Eugene, the {{nerd}} - [[TheSmartGuy despite being physically weak, he would be able to build something like a tank to defend himself, because he's the only clone intelligent enough to do so]].

* Burnie Burns, writer of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', gave the community the chance to conduct [[http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1833878/Red%20vs.%20Blue/Burnie%20Interview.mp3 two]] [[http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-6478/TS-280090.mp3 interviews]] just for this purpose, so long as nobody asked questions about [[MysteriousPast Tex]] or future episodes. It is unclear whether or not that helped, though - some of the fan community believes his adherence to RuleOfFunny makes WildMassGuessing a fruitless endeavor, while others simply believe that [[LyingCreator Burnie lies]].

* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'':
** The series is stated to take place in an AlternateUniverse, separate from the other Ranger series. Good thing too, or else that would have meant all the previous Rangers and/or their descendants would have been horribly killed in the end and all their work for naught. This was later canonized when Scott crossed dimensions and guest-starred in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''.

** Johnathan Tzachor, producer of the franchise for all of Saban's seasons, has claimed that any season he didn't produce either in part or full (''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' and ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'') are no longer considered as being part of the franchise's canon. However, in this case he's been overruled by Saban. Ironically, due to the ending of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge''[[note]]the first series made after Saban had purchased the series back from Disney that was made after Tzachor had left his role as producer[[/note]], all of the series he produced might not be canon either[[labelnote:spoiler]][[spoiler: The ending of ''Dino Charge'' has the team travel back in time and stop the extinction of the dinosaurs, which in all previous series, were extinct; when the team returns to the present, humanity is living alongside dinosaurs - while scientifically impossible, does contradict all the previous series, with the exception of RPM, which, as previously stated, is in an alternate universe]][[/labelnote]].

* A rare InUniverse example in ''TheTrialOfTimHeidecker''. Tim pays Creator/NicholasMeyer to travel to San Bernardino as a defense witness, solely for the purpose of settling a bet with Gregg whether ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' or ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' is the one set in San Francisco.