History Sandbox / CanonFodderWickCheck

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# SoYouWantTo.WriteAConspiracyTheory: [[SoYouWantTo/WriteAStory As with any story]], don't leave your ConspiracyThriller [[NoEnding without a resolution]] (as in, "resolution of the conflict between the protagonist and the conspiracy"). Be it exacting some revenge, rescuing his loved ones, restoring his country's honor, or [[DownerEnding killing him]], you must bring ''his'' story to a close. On the other hand, do ''not'' [[FanDislikedExplanation disclose all of the conspiracy's secrets]] in the main text. Conspiracy theory is the one genre where narrative threads LeftHanging actually [[CanonFodder contribute to]] [[RiddleForTheAges the story quality]] and the readers are invited to [[WildMassGuessing participate]] in [[EpilepticTrees theorizing]] themselves (e.g. along the lines of "WhatIf this [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse long-missing character]] was actually behind that [[PlotHole unexplained event]]?"). And you get a SequelHook for free, too.
# YMMV.OnceUponATime: The show has the tendency to introduce plots which are eventually forgotten (such as [[spoiler:Will and Anastasia being separated and the quest for Lily's father]] in Season 4; the latter was eventually summed up in a throw away line) and interesting backstories which are only vaguely hinted (such as [[spoiler: The Dragon having lost his daughter]]) that led many fans speculate about them.
# {{Fanon}}: A piece of fanon can come about to explain holes in the story that the creators of a work may have either deliberately left open in order to have [[CanonFodder fodder for later stories]], or never gave any thought to because it was considered an unimportant side detail.
# YMMV.TheDreamstone: The show is chock full of very unique and surreal concepts and characters, but with few besides [[VillainProtagonist the Urpneys]] getting a great deal of limelight or characterisation. Along with some of the [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom gaping holes]] in the storyline, this is the source of much curiosity with fans of the series.
# CrypticBackgroundReference: If a story is extended to a long enough series (especially when there's a [[RunningTheAsylum high turnover of writers]]), most of these cryptic references will eventually be explained and/or used as CanonFodder, but often one or two will still never appear ''in story''.
# YMMV.StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics: Geordi's comment that the ''Jenolan'' would probably still be in service is a reminder that while Star Trek series tend to focus on state-of-the-art flagships of their times, the Federation's fleet undoubtedly operates a number of [[WhatAPieceOfJunk venerable old ships]] retrofitted and jury-rigged into relevancy far beyond their prime years. ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' would later explore this less glamorous side of the Federation, following the drama of daily life on a rickety second-hand space station turned vital military and diplomatic outpost, and the idea continues to be prime subject matter for both canon stories and fanwork.
# Headscratchers.DeadSpace3: Well, the point of the markers is that they're old. Extremely old, as in "around even before mammals were common" type old. [[spoiler: Brethren Moons have been eating civilizations for hundreds of millions, if not billions of years, and the aliens on Tau Volantis knew as much about the true origin of the markers as we did]]. For why there's no explanation, see CanonFodder; they need to both retain some mystery and enigma to the Necromorphs and markers, and they probably still want to continue the series. Or, perhaps, they didn't want [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 have some psychic hallucination from the Brother Moon manifesting as Nicole give some shoehorned exposition for the faulty logic that they are 'saving' advanced civilizations by preserving them in Necromorph form]]]]. Perhaps we'll get a proper origin in the future, but if you're hungry for theories, go to the WMG page.

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# TabletopGame.TheGatesOfHell: There are supposed to be at least 27 Arch-devils and 81 Duke. Not nearly all are described. '''YMMV under non-YMMV page'''

# WesternAnimation.ThreeTwoOnePenguins: Produced by Big Idea Productions (the guys who made ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''), ''3-2-1 Penguins!'' chronicles the tale of a young boy named Jason T. Conrad, and his twin sister Michelle Frances Conrad (who is older by five minutes). Both have been shipped off to stay with their very British "[[InsistentTerminology grandmum]]" for the summer, while their parents go...[[CanonFodder someplace else]].
# YMMV.TheLittlePonyLegend: Depending on whether Maggie continues to expand her story or not, the fact that [[spoiler: Korra's daughter is somehow also an avatar to be]] opens the door wide open for what might happen in the next cycle.

# ArtisticLicenseMilitary.LiveActionFilms: In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', a character is identified as "Colonel West" but wears the Starfleet naval insignia of a vice admiral. [[CanonFodder Fandom has understandably made hay out of this.]]

# Headscratchers.DeadSpace3: Well, the point of the markers is that they're old. Extremely old, as in "around even before mammals were common" type old. [[spoiler: Brethren Moons have been eating civilizations for hundreds of millions, if not billions of years, and the aliens on Tau Volantis knew as much about the true origin of the markers as we did]]. For why there's no explanation, see CanonFodder; they need to both retain some mystery and enigma to the Necromorphs and markers, and they probably still want to continue the series. Or, perhaps, they didn't want [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 have some psychic hallucination from the Brother Moon manifesting as Nicole give some shoehorned exposition for the faulty logic that they are 'saving' advanced civilizations by preserving them in Necromorph form]]]]. Perhaps we'll get a proper origin in the future, but if you're hungry for theories, go to the WMG page.
# YMMV.MaximumRide: The series frequently wanders off and leaves plot threads hanging -- unfortunately, most of the fandom focuses on [[RomanticPlotTumor Fang/Max shipping]] and won't even touch the missing [[MadScientist mad scientists]], Max's past in the School, Jeb's true motives... '''TheChrisCarterEffect states it failed to answer then/fans stopped caring, so opposite.'''
# Characters.CityOfHeroesEnemyGroups: The Outcasts are angry (in part) because of discrimination against mutants. This is never mentioned again.
# YMMV.StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing: According to ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfJamesTKirk'', the relief ship that comes to Tarsus IV was the newly-commissioned ''Enterprise'' under Captain Robert April. This helped fuel young Kirk's desire to join Starfleet.

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# YMMV.BZPower: Either Greg knows his subject material like the back of his hand, or his close connections with the fandom has helped him keep CanonFodder to a bare minimum in BIONICLE {{Canon}}.

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# Recap.DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath: A throwaway line by Romana about the "Braxiatel Collection" became massive CanonFodder[[invoked]] in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, and Braxiatel himself stars in a handful of spinoff series nowadays. According to the Expanded Universe (including [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]]), he's the Doctor's brother.

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# YMMV.IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs: Buck's backstory is a prominent one, among others. The best explanation is that he's got it all mixed up himself.

# Recap.WestworldS01E10TheBicameralMind: MilitariesAreUseless: Quality Assurance security guards act as CanonFodder for Armistice and Hector.

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# YMMV.CivilWar2024: The political backdrop to the civil war is left almost entirely unexplained, leaving viewers free to speculate how things got to this point and what (if any) ideology the different factions are aligned with. '''Standalone work with nothing to suggest it will be addressed later.'''

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# YMMV.TheOrvilleS1E07MajorityRule:
** Who ''administers'' the upvote/downvote system? When did it originate, and how did it become the all-consuming [[PlanetOfHats Hat]] of the Sargosians?
** One of the fake images that puts [=LaMarr=] over the top at the climax, saving his life, is a video clip of him in military fatigues returning from a deployment to greet his dog. The upvote/downvote system is indicated to be global, so who exactly is there to fight?
# WMG.RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga: Maybe, maybe not. There's a lot of CanonFodder left unexplored -- their motivations, what Male!CT was doing at the dig site, what they (and the Director) wanted with the monitor, whether they really were an insurrection or just a splinter group, etc. From that angle, they've been seeded through the story the way Project Freelancer's backstory was seeded through the Blood Gulch Chronicles -- tangential to the current story, but with a lot of room for future exploration.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed.]]

# LeftHanging: Sometimes the result of being ScrewedByTheNetwork. This ''will'' lead to CanonFodder and, thus, FanficFuel.

# YMMV.JediAcademyTrilogy: Only six of Luke's original twelve apprentices[[note]]Tionne, Kam Solusar, Kirana Ti, Dorsk 81, Streen, and Gantoris[[/note]] are named in the trilogy, done intentionally on Anderson's part for later authors to add their creations. ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' added Brakiss, ''Literature/IJedi'' added Corran Horn, and ''The New Essential Chronology'' confirmed [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Kyle Katarn]] as the ninth student. [[WordOfGod Leland Chee]] declared that the Anx pictured in a picture of the students in ''The Essential Chronology'' was Madurrin (first featured in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Destiny's Way]]''). There are [[ContinuitySnarl at least four candidates for the other two slots]]: Havet Storm (''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast''), Keyan Farlander (from a ''Magazine/StarWarsInsider'' #57 article), Nichos Marr (''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Children of the Jedi]]''), and Harlan (''[[TabletopGame/StarWarsD6 The Jedi Academy Sourcebook]]'').

# VideoGame.PokemonFusionGeneration: TimeSkip: The three year gap between Generations III and IV [[CanonFodder provides the setting for Fusion Generation]].

# YMMV.StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E11Contagion:
** The Iconians and their gateways inspired many Star Trek novels, and eventually made a reappearance in the canon series in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E23ToTheDeath To the Death]]."
** They also went from a fascinating (if possibly dangerous) archaeological footnote in the two TV episodes to driving the plot of most of ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.

# YMMV.StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing: According to ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfJamesTKirk'', the relief ship that comes to Tarsus IV was the newly-commissioned ''Enterprise'' under Captain Robert April. This helped fuel young Kirk's desire to join Starfleet.
# Recap.BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E1BuffyVsDracula: Dracula owes Spike £11. A non-canon ''Spike'' comic [[CanonFodder explains this]] as being the cost of an autographed copy of Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' that Spike bought for Drusilla -- Drac tossed it in the fireplace.[[invoked]]
# YMMV.TheBirds: Just what ''did'' cause the birds to attack? It's never specified either way, but that hasn't stopped people from guessing. Explanations range from a sudden heatwave angering them, to the lovebirds somehow causing it. The trailer implies that birds have just decided to declare war on mankind as payback for millennia of being hunted and abused.

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# YMMV.DogSoldiers: The sequence where Megan cuts her hand on a pane of glass has been hotly debated on forums as to what it really means. WordOfGod is that it was meant to foreshadow a plot point for a planned sequel.

# YMMV.AsTheWorldTurns: Reid's childhood. After his death, his uncle gave a couple of hints about it, though it was clear the two didn't get along very well. '''Originally sub-bullet to/redundant with FanficFuel.'''

# Fridge.JusticeLeague2017: The fact that it worked out for the best is MoralLuck, and his motivations for doing so, and his brushing aside Diana's complaints about how leaders have to ask people to die for them and command CanonFodder suggests a lot of dark stuff about Batman's character, and his past with Robin and his general KnightTemplar ethos.

# AudienceReactions: Empty spaces for fans (and their works) to fill in the blanks.

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# YMMV.StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror: The Romulan War, and in particular Stiles' ancestor's role in it, as mentioned but not elaborated on. The fourth season of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' shows the build-up to the war, and had it been renewed for a fifth the war itself would have been depicted.

# Anime.MobileSuitGundamAGE: When [[spoiler:Desil disobeys orders during the battle at Nortrom and engages the Gundam, Zeheart deliberately withholds reinforcements, which leads to Desil's defeat and death.]] His subordinates then accuse him of invoking this trope in order to conveniently get rid of him, but he points out that they probably would have ended up as CanonFodder if he'd allowed them to assist.
# Literature.{{Stinger}}: MenOfSherwood: Aside from a few prominent members, the delinquents who make up the Renegades and Rattlers are largely interchangeable besides a few prominent members and seem like they'll be CanonFodder {{Asshole Victim}}s. However, the EnemyMine scenario that follows an enemy attack sees them working together against the eponymous antagonist and almost all of them live.

# YMMV.MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli: The Ponytones' back story - both individually and as an ensemble - is well worth exploring. '''FanficFuel as nothing suggested it would be addressed later and it wasn't.'''

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# YMMV.StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E11Contagion
# YMMV.BZPower
# TakeThatScrappy.FanWorks
# YMMV.StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing
# YMMV.MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli
# YMMV.SeptimusHeap
# Recap.BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E1BuffyVsDracula
# YMMV.TheBirds
# YMMV.PhantomBrave
# YMMV.{{Futurama}}
# WesternAnimation.ChipNDaleRescueRangers
# CanonUniverse
# YMMV.StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E21Symbiosis
# YMMV.QueensBlade
# YMMV.Superbook2011
# FollowTheLeader.FanWorks
# YMMV.StarTrekVoyagerS4E19TheOmegaDirective
# YMMV.{{Sing}}
# YMMV.TheGreatMouseDetective
# YMMV.BadBunny
# Characters.StellarisEmpires
# ContinuityTropes
# Characters.EnterTheArenaAsYourAvatarNeutralAndIndependentCharacters
# LostRomanLegion
# YMMV.MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction
# YMMV.{{Ninjala}}
# YMMV.{{Neptunia}}
# IReadThatAs.AToF
# Characters.Warhammer40000AstartesChapters
# YMMV.TheSecretGarden1993
# YMMV.ThreeTwoOnePenguins
# YMMV.YesPrettyCure5GoGoTheMovieHappyBirthdayInTheLandOfSweets

# Literature.{{Stinger}}
# VideoGame.PokemonFusionGeneration
# AudienceReactions
# Characters.CityOfHeroesEnemyGroups

# YMMV.AsTheWorldTurns
# CrypticBackgroundReference
# YMMV.StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics
# Headscratchers.DeadSpace3
# YMMV.JediAcademyTrilogy
# Fridge.JusticeLeague2017
# YMMV.MaximumRide

# {{Fanon}}
# Recap.WestworldS01E10TheBicameralMind
# ArtisticLicenseMilitary.LiveActionFilms
# YMMV.TheDreamstone
# LeftHanging

# Anime.MobileSuitGundamAGE
# Literature.Stinger

# YMMV.Futurama

# YMMV.Sing

# YMMV.Ninjala
# YMMV.Neptunia

# YMMV.DogSoldiers
# YMMV.StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror
# Recap.DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath
# YMMV.OnceUponATime

# YMMV.TheOrvilleS1E07MajorityRule
# WMG.RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga
# WesternAnimation.ThreeTwoOnePenguins
# YMMV.TheLittlePonyLegend
# SoYouWantTo.WriteAConspiracyTheory
# YMMV.IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs
# TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter

# Fanon

# PokedexOfTropes

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