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  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes hints in episode #35 that the Secretary of Defense, Dell Rusk,spoiler has an Evil Plan. It also reveals that the Winter Soldier, The Falcon, Red Hulk, and Dr. Leonard Samson assisted him. Fans theorized that they would assist the plan as Unwitting Pawns, who only want to serve America. When episode #46 delivered a throwaway line revealing that Red Skull just turned them Brainwashed and Crazy, those same fans exclaimed that their real reason for helping sounded cheaper than their theory.
  • Batman Beyond:
    • A number of fans weren't fond of the mind control DNA chip plot device in Return of the Joker, thinking the film would have had a stronger impact with Tim snapping due to his past torture and becoming the Joker entirely by himself.
    • Epilogue, aired as the season two finale of Justice League Unlimited, reveals that Terry McGinnis (and by extension his brother Matt) is a clone of Bruce Wayne, or more accurately his biological son because Amanda Waller overwrote Warren McGinnis' DNA with Bruce's. This is contentious for many fans, and disliked by Batman Beyond's creator Alan Burnett, because Amanda Waller's plan to create a new Batman, which also required hiring Phantasm to assassinate the McGinnises to recreate what inspired Bruce to become Batman, only for her to back out of doing the deed, only succeeded thanks to Contrived Coincidence (in the pilot, Terry breaks into the Batcave by complete accident and a different, more successful murder attempt, albeit only on his father inspires him putting on the Batsuit) and undermines Terry's Character Development.
  • As a result of having multiple shows with very few writers carrying over, the Ben 10 franchise suffers from multiple instances caused by trying to expand or explain the series' lore.
    • Ben 10: Alien Force
      • Mid-way through the first season, Ben and Gwen meet their long-lost paternal grandmother, Verdona, who reveals that she is a member of an alien species called Anodites. Gwen's father, Frank, would state magic wasn't real and that Gwen's powers came from her alien heritage, with Gwen forgoing any belief in magic for the next two seasons. This reveal was derided for a variety of reasons; such as the Original Series implying on multiple occasions that Max's wife was deceased, and the idea Gwen was a prodigy via genetics undermined Gwen's hard work to hone her abilities throughout the Original Series and early Alien Force. Furthermore, the notion magic didn't exist was contradicted by the existence of Hex and Charmcaster, two very popular villains. Likely as a response to these criticisms, Season 3 would bring back Charmcaster and Hex as recurring foes, revealing that Frank was wrong about her belief magic didn't exist, with Gwen's powers coming from magic and alien heritage, and Omniverse would put more focus on the magic element of Gwen's powers than on her alien side.
      • The episode "Primus" would reveal that the titular planet acted as a living DNA databank for all the species in the galaxy and was the source of the Omnitrix's abilities, going as far to state that the Omnitrix would be powerless if it weren't for Primus. Many decried this revelation for overcomplicating things and changing the Omnitrix from "the most powerful device in the universe" into a glorified flash drive. Notably, Ben 10: Omniverse would avoid mentioning Primus, with Word of God attempting to indicate that the planet was removed from canon when Ben used Alien X to recreate the universe following the Annihilarrg being unleashed, though later statements by the creators and within the show muddy this particular idea.
      • Season 2 revealed that Kevin's biological father Devin Levin was a Plumber, providing additional context for Kevin's Heel–Face Return. While this was well received, the same can't be said about Season 3 revealing Devin and Max were partners. Many took issue with this plot point as it gave off the impression Ben and Kevin's friendship was predestined rather than by chance. This reveal also retroactively made Max look Unintentionally Unsympathetic for never trying to help Kevin in the Original Series, despite promising a dying Devin he'd look after his family. Omniverse would attempt to Retcon this plot point, but, as a later entry will show, its means of doing so proved equally controversial.
    • Ben 10: Omniverse
      • "Rules of Engagement" would reveal Ben and Julie had broken up between the events of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse after Julie called Ben while he was insulting his opponent in a video game, with Julie interpreting the insults as being hurled towards her, moving on to a new boyfriend named Herve in the process. Many disliked this plot point due to the Idiot Ball required on both sides, given Ben's insults weren't applicable towards Julie, and Ben made no attempts to call Julie back to explain the situation, despite it having been long enough since the incident for Julie to have found a new steady relationship. Even those who disliked the pairing (as well as a retcon in the same episode that Julie disliked Mr. Smoothy's, Ben's favorite smoothie restaurant) found this plot point contrived and unnecessary, given Ultimate Alien had made it clear Ben and Julie's lives and wants were heading in opposite directions, meaning there was a more natural way for them to break up.
      • "The Rooters of All Evil" would reveal that the species of Osmosians and their planet Osmosis V were a fabrication created by Fake Memories and false databases and that Kevin's father was never a Plumber. A rogue Plumber faction called the Rooters created this ruse to cover up their experiments using Kevin's powers to create Half-Human Hybrids (with Ragnarok, the criminal said to have killed Devin, confirmed to be an operative of the Rooters). Said hybrids, in addition to the main Rooters operatives (aside from Phil, whose hybridization is instead a side effect of previously being a Nemetrix host), are the Plumbers Kids from the past two series, despite Alien Force establishing they were all the result of a human and alien parent. While it at least justified why Helen and Pierce were shown to be completely different hybrids despite being sister and brother (notably, Pierce, the only Plumbers Kid whose alien half wasn't previously seen as an Omnitrix alien, was revealed to have his alien DNA derived from Kevin's friend Argit), this reveal was panned for the copious amounts of Fridge Logic it would take to create this ruse considering that characters like Azmuth and Paradox acted as if Osmosians were a real species, how it ignored the fact the main villain of Ultimate Alien Season 1 was an Osmosian named Aggregornote , and removed agency from Kevin and the Plumbers Kids' decision to aid Ben in the fight against The Highbreed. Word of God was this was done to return Kevin to his roots of being a mutant after Alien Force retconned him into being the son of a Human Alien. This is despite the fact the only evidence Kevin was ever intended to be a mutant was a single toy bio, the likes of which are unreliable in this franchise.note 
      • Omniverse would imply and Word of God would confirm that the future seen in Omniverse was the same one that was seen in the Classic Series' two episodes set in the future, in spite of minor changesnote . Many fans threw this into Fanon Discontinuity seeing this as the show continuing to push Kai as Ben's true love, despite being the least liked of Ben's love interests by far. Even non-shippers took issue with this statement for not following the franchise's laws of time travel,note  along with the depressing implications that Ben was destined to isolate himself from his family in his devotion to being a hero and that Kevin would end up relapsing into villainy at some point, becoming an Abusive Parent to his son.
  • Previously, the Cars franchise had implied that in-universe history progressed similarly to real-life history, with car technology and designs advancing concurrently; the franchise deliberately left history before the invention of cars extremely ambiguous. Cars on the Road states that there was a car version of the dinosaurs and the Stone Age.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door's final episodes had a couple plot points that fans found hard to believe, even if it didn't reach the level of vitriolic backlash common to larger fandoms:
    • Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y. had the reveal that Chad, a.k.a. Numbuh 274's Face–Heel Turn was actually faked, and he'd actually been a deep-cover Mole serving the true powers behind the KND, higher than even Numbuh 362, all along. This creates conflict with many of his earlier appearances where he genuinely appears to have been on the side of the Teen Ninjas, with no real hints apart from maybe Operation: E.N.D. This caused many to reject the twist as an Ass Pull, especially since the main subplot of Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y. was Chad and Numbuh 1 coming to blows after being forced to work together.
    • The final season set up a running plot about a radical "splinter cell" within the KND with outright murderous intentions toward adults that Numbuh 1 is tasked with exposing. In the finale, it is revealed that the cell actually never existed, and the entire thing was a Secret Test of Character engineered by the KND's chief scientist, Numbuh 74.239, and chief diplomat, Numbuh Infinity (who also turn out to be the higher powers 274 works for), to see if Nigel was worthy of promotion into the Galactic Kids Next Door. 74.239 also reveals that adulthood is a disease that the GKND is trying to eradicate. Fans had numerous quibbles with this reveal, including the separation of Nigel from his friends, the scuttling of an interesting-sounding plot, and the "disease" reveal being ridiculous even for an It Runs on Nonsensoleum series and conflicts with the much-better received message of Operation Z.E.R.O. that growing up is a natural process and must be accepted, even if it means an end to childhood fun. With that said, the creator attempted to pitch a sequel series in the 2010s that heavily implies the GKND, including 74.239 and Infinity, is actually malevolent, calling into question how true anything they say is.
  • Danny Phantom: According to Word of God, the "ghosts" are actually creatures from another dimension who sometimes take on the appearance, memories, and personalities of dead people (not being the actual souls of the dead themselves). This explanation has been universally disliked by fans for being nonsensical and just generally messing up the whole plot of the show. The show itself seems to ignore this explanation often enough, as seen with the backstories of characters such as Desiree, Sidney Poindexter, and Cujo, who seem to be simply spirits of the deceased.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy:
    • The creator stated this trope is why he ultimately decided against revealing what Edd was hiding under his hat.
    • Word of God has regularly stated that Plank is just a normal piece of wood. Fans feel that it's a Troll answer, as it doesn't explain the weird things Plank does on his own.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
  • For Gravity Falls, the creator Jossed that the Pines family are practicing Jews. He states that Grunkle Stan was raised as such but became an atheist, and the twins are being raised nonreligious but are prone to celebrating Jewish holidays, similar to himself and his own twin sister. Some fans continue to reject this idea and unlike other examples of this trope, the creator also declared after saying the above that he's also perfectly fine with Death of the Author being at play in this situation.
  • Plenty of Inspector Gadget fans prefer that the main villain, Dr. Claw, be unseen due to this trope. Officially, an action figure revealed his face, leading to many disappointed or confused fans.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • The explanation that Amon's ability to take away bending was actually bloodbending that didn't require a full moon, an ability he got from his crime-boss father Yakone and shared with his brother, Tarrlok, and that Yakone putting his sons through Training from Hell to the point of abuse was why Amon felt he had to take away everybody's bending, was seen as this for various reasons; with many feeling as though it wasn't as interesting as Amon's fake backstory as being a non-bender who was given his ability by the spirits after having his face scarred and his family killed by a firebender, or just thought it was lazy to tie the two together. The fact that it unintentionally canonized an aspect of one of the community's most infamous works almost certainly didn't help.
    • Several fans find the reveal in the "Beginnings" two-parter that the Avatar Spirit is Raava, a spirit of light and peace, to make the Avatar as a being much less compelling. Detractors often feel that this reveal takes away agency from the Avatar as a person and reduces them from being an incarnation of balance between all elements into a generic peacekeeping deity figure. There’s also the fact that, despite her and Vaatu visually homaging Yin and Yang — an East Asian concept of balance — the story takes a "Dark Is Evil and must be suppressed" approach, which is philosophically more Western (or to be charitable, Zoroastrian) than the usual thematic trappings of the setting imply.
  • The Lion Guard gives us the first explanation of Scar's backstory since the semi-canon books The Lion King: Six New Adventures. note In TLG Scar was the previous leader of The Lion Guard whose powers got to his head. After murdering the other members, his powers were taken away by the Great Kings of the Past. Many fans absolutely loathe this explanation to his Start of Darkness, as the concept of "The Roar of the Elders" is heavily fantastical compared to the movies and said explanation implies that Mufasa never punished his brother for murder.
  • The Loud House: Some fans dislike the story of how Lincoln was born in "Not a Loud" for how outlandish it is. Basically, Vanzilla broke down on the way to the hospital, so Lincoln was delivered by the President and the First Lady, who happened to be passing by.
  • In the Milo Murphy's Law / Phineas and Ferb Crossover, four years after the latter show ended, it's explained that Phineas and Ferb impact probability similar to how Milo does, and all the Contrived Coincidences from Phineas are examples. When Milo is around, whatever can go wrong will go wrong; "the Phineas and Ferb Effect" sees to it that the boys will succeed in nearly anything they want to do. Some fans were displeased by the Retcon as they feel it undermines their powerful sibling bond, unwavering optimism, inventive knack and creative spirits in favor of their success being Because Destiny Says So.
  • Miraculous Ladybug: When the premise of the "Miraculous World: Shanghai" special was first announced (that Marinette would be traveling to China for then-unspecified reasons), many fans figured it would be because of something related to the Miraculouses (which are of Chinese origin) or her heritage (as she's half-Chinese herself, and it was mentioned that more members of her family would be appearing). Instead, the special came out, and it was revealed that the reason behind her trip was so that she could follow her crush Adrien there (at a time when said crush had become heavily controversial amongst the fans, no less). Needless to say, many fans prefer to ignore it or stick to their original guesses.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Fans were under the impression Luna's turn into Nightmare Moon was purely the result of her giving in to her own feelings of being overshadowed and under-appreciated by the ponies of Equestria, in line with the opening narration of the show. The IDW comics however would explain that it was an outside source that was the cause of the transformation, having taken advantage of this feeling rather than Luna herself deliberately turning against Celestia. When these events were finally shown it was kept ambiguous whether Luna was in full control or not, and showed that Nightmare Moon's "reign" lasted for about an hour at most consisting of a very brief fight between her and Princess Celestia before Nightmare Moon was defeated and banished. Overall, fans found this underwhelming to say the least, felt the show's detailing of the events very disappointing for something so anticipated, and believe said events make Luna's guilt over it come off as silly and overblown to some fans to the point of Fridge Logic unless they take later comics as canon.
    • Starlight Glimmer went from very popular to very controversial once her Freudian Excuse was revealed, with even those who remain fans of her saw as disappointing and underdeveloped.
    • "The Crystalling" states Flurry Heart was the first alicorn born in Equestria's history. The implication Luna and Celestia weren't born alicorns irked many fans who headcanoned them as from a race of natural alicorns. The author of The Journal of the Two Sisters which did portray them as such argued this could be their being born before Equestria's founding, but this isn't implied in the show, which would further contradict Journal later.
    • "To Where and Back Again – Part 2" reveals the changelings Horror Hunger and Body Horror appearance was due to their stealing The Power of Love as opposed to sharing it, after which they would turn into bright, colorful, fairy-like creatures reminiscent of G1's flutterponies and without hesitation kick out Queen Chrysalis once it was revealed she cared less their well being than forcing her rule. A very long-accepted Fanon was that changelings were a Henchmen Race bordering on Woobie Species enslaved by an Evil Queen and fully able to be Friendly Neighborhood Vampires, but that they could and would change so completely and easily crossed into Glurge. It was also criticized for making them needlessly lose their Creepy Awesome designs and what made their race unique, many fans believing their redemption would have been more impactful and have more story potential if they had to achieve acceptance despite their appearance and ways, if not outright breaking the anti-racism message.
    • "The Beginning of the End – Part 1":
      • The stated reason for Celestia and Luna retiring and Passing the Torch to Twilight is that "Equestria is currently enjoying its longest period of harmony in recent years." Many found this unbelievable given how often Equestria has been threatened throughout the series, and outright impossible Equestria would have survived this long much less be prosperous as it was if this was considered peaceful in comparison. If this was due to Twilight and friends being so much more effective at dealing with threats, there's no reason they wouldn't have stated this when explaining how they were worthy of succeeding them.
      • Luna explaining she's "looking forward to a little R&R", while seen as valid for Celestia, was disliked as she had only ruled for a fraction of the time and her whole character arc was defined by her desiring recognition and approval for it making it seem OOC she'd give it up on an apparent whim. Luna also had the job of Dream Walker and Dream Weaver it fails to explain how/who would take it over in her place, either seemingly leaving Twilight with a 24/7 responsibility that Luna barely managed to handle part-time, even with greater experience or implying Luna's job was so pointless and unimportant that it doesn't actually need to be done.
      • They state "Everything you've gone through over the years has been a training program" explaining the long-running question of why despite their power they left the Mane Six to deal with everything and why Twilight was ready to take over despite giving such short notice. While the former was a popular fan theory, by this point many found it discredited by the sheer number of times they proved inept even when they did act, how nearly all the threats were so unexpected and urgent they wouldn't have held back, and how it was even a critical Plot Point in The Cutie Remark that Equestria was doomed to destruction without the Mane Six there to save the day on the princess's behalf. And, as Twilight points out, the things they learned and accomplished over the years are different than the political experience this position she was supposedly being groomed for would actually require.
    • Daring Do's last appearance would reveal Ahuizotl was actually a heroic guardian the entire time with Daring basically being the villain from his perspective. This was lambasted by fans, who pointed out how little sense it made for a character who's been portrayed the entire time as nothing but a gleeful Card-Carrying Villain and was in general a poor send-off for Daring.
    • In the Grand Finale, Arc Villain Grogar was revealed to actually be Discord in disguise, with the whole Legion of Doom thing merely being a Batman Gambit/False Flag Operation/Engineered Heroics to give Twilight Sparkle a confidence boost. This has drawn a lot of ire as it would be within his power to create fake villains or threats so there was no need to use genuine villains who could pose a genuine threat. Many felt it would have been forgivable if Discord intended to reform them via The Power of Friendship as he was, showing his Character Development. Instead, it made for a needlessly idiotic plan and cast aside Discord's development for what's seen as a cheap plot twist. Even all of this aside, you'd be very hard-pressed to find anyone who didn't just want the real Grogar to return — even fans who had no problem with Discord's plan and were overall satisfied with the reveal tend to admit they'd have been happier if Grogar had actually come back.
  • My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Twilight Sparkle's messages reveals the Happy Ending Override and changes between G4 and G5 were caused by Opaline attempting to steal all magic, forcing Twilight to place it in the Unity Crystals to keep it from her. G4 fans saw this as underdeveloped at best for what was supposed to make G5 appeal to them, as Opaline came off as no more powerful and less intelligent than prior villains so seemingly should have been defeated without Twilight having to resort to such and failed to address many of the inconsistencies in the setting. That the vagueness and contradictions meant it failed to clearly decanonize the comics more detailed but even more disliked explanation didn't help.
  • Pibby: When pitch documents were shown in late 2023 describing the Glitch as being a manifestation of internet meme culture of all things, to say people were divided is to put it gently, with some people going as far as to say they were glad the show didn't get greenlit if that was the intended explanation for the Glitch. While it's unclear if that remained true by the time of the Pilot or even the Adult Swim bumpers, most fan projects generally choose to disregard the internet meme edge entirely in favor of portraying the Glitch as something more along the lines of a more standard assimilator or the manifestation of cancelation.
  • South Park: "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" reveals that Cartman's father was...his mother, who has both male and female genitalia and impregnated a woman. This reveal ended up being retconned in "201", with this being revealed to be a lie. Cartman's true father was a former Denver Bronco (it was previously established that Liane Cartman screwed the 1989 Denver Broncos on the night her son was conceived) named Jack Tenorman, the father of Scott Tenorman who Cartman killed and fed to his half-brother in "Scott Tenorman Must Die" and pretty much all fans prefer this twist over the original.
  • Star Wars
    • The Clone Wars reveals that the titular clones were implemented with inhibitor chips to force them to follow the orders they are designated to, including Order 66. Many fans dislike this feeling it took away the clones' agency in Order 66 (instead of choosing to obey Order 66, they were simply brainwashed to do so) makes them less interesting as characters, and removes a lot of the grey morality that previous works in Legends used in their depictions of the order. This addition wasn't universally hated, however but is much more controversial than other additions to the canon the show had.
    • The Reveal in the Season 1 finale of The Bad Batch that Crosshair's chip was removed, meaning that all the horrific crimes he had carried out were of his own agency, has been divisive among fans of the character, as a few scenes such as Crosshair having a headache in the finale as well as opinion that Crosshair is acting out-of-character seemed to suggest otherwise. Despite Word of God confirming in a post-season finale interview that he was telling the truth, fans believe that both Crosshair and the creators are lying given Crosshair's attitude and the creators may be trying to preserve drama until this is further addressed in the future.
    • One praised aspect of the first season of Resistance was that they managed to make the destruction of the Hosnian system much more impactful that in The Force Awakens by having the family of the protagonist, Kazuda dying in the incident, unlike the original movie where no one knew anyone from the system. So, many fans were quite disappointed when a later episode revealed the whole family was offworld when the Cataclysm happened.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
    • Blood Moon Ball had Tom inviting Star to the eponymous event where the light of the blood moon selects two people to "bind their souls together for eternity", only for Star to end up dancing with Marco instead, the episode left ambiguous what exactly does this mean, but it was mostly seen as another case of Ship Tease. Then the Sequel Episode revealed the Blood Moon is actually a curse that forces both parties to seek the other whether they wanted to or not. This got a polarizing response from a major part of the fanbase: Star/Marco shippers didn't like the idea that most of their relationship together was forced onto them from a third party and made one of the most popular episodes involving Ship Tease being painted in a darker light. Tom fans hated that it make the original episode resemble a Date Rape and saw it as a case of a Retroactive Idiot Ball as he knows the two are meant to be yet he keeps dating Star and non-shipping fans hate that it gives shipping more importance in the lore that it needs to have.
    • The attempt to address some of the implications in a later episode ended up being equally polarizing. In "Here To Help", Marco reveals he knows the Blood Moon didn't cause his feelings for Star because he has felt like that since the beginning. The problem is that 1) Star/Marco shippers enjoyed the relationship partly for the natural development from friends to lovers, so the idea that they felt like this from the start downplayed a lot of the development from both characters. 2) This downplayed the bonds and romances both characters got with other characters throughout the series, which fans of Jackie, Tom and Kelly didn't appreciate and 3) For that to work you would have to ignore Marco spending the first two seasons pinning over Jackie.
    • Also from "Here To Help". The reason why Mina Loveberry managed to rebuild the Solarian Army is because Moon helped her and was in fact the one in charge of the Solarian Rebellion and the Coup from Rhombulus back in "Cornonation" because she was distrustful of Eclipsa being a good ruler thanks to her interference in her fight with Meteora which lead her to be sent to the Magic Realm temporarily. As a lot of fans pointed out, this feels weirdly out of character and only manages to make a character that up to this moment was the Big Good into a petty jerkass that's capable of letting a genocidal lunatic like Mina get what she wants instead of letting go of a grudge that was entirely her fault. Other fans also disliked because it contradicts how Moon was portrayed until now, particularly with Season 3 having her forming a friendship with Eclipsa and starting supporting her and a previous episode of this season has her being asked by Mina to join her cause only for Moon stating the obvious reasons why she wouldn't do it.
    • While never fully adressed, the final episodes heavily imply that the cheek marks present in the Butterfly family are caused as the result of exposure to magic in anyone, which is why Marco briefly gained them. The problem is that in previous episodes Heinous and Marco gaining cheek marks were meant to be Wham Shots and it was a major source of Epileptic Trees of what exactly caused this, making all the build up rather pointless in hindsight. This also ignores that no male magic users (except Jushtin Butterfly) possessed cheek marks,note  and that numerous female members of the Butterfly family in "Game of Flags" possessed cheek marks despite having no indication they knew magic, or possibility of them wielding the wand.
  • Steven Universe:
    • There's a vocal portion of the fanbase who didn't like that the Gems don't actually have any gender, they just present themselves as female. A lot of this dislike boils down to feeling that it was poor non-binary representation since this never comes up in the show itself, that a female One-Gender Race was more interesting, or were just disappointed that their ideas of male Gems were completely debunked. The additional context gained when Creator Rebecca Sugar came out as non-binary herself towards the end of the show helped to warm some of these fans up to the idea.
    • In "A Single Pale Rose", it was revealed that Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz were the same person. Rose Quartz was the alias used by Pink Diamond in her attempts to get the other Diamonds to abandon Earth, and Pearl was essentially her slave. Towards the end of the war, Pink faked her death in a bid to get Homeworld forces to leave, which it did thanks to the other Diamonds attempting to kill all Gems on the planet and then destroy it wholesale out of grief. Corruption was an unintended side effect of this. For her part in this, Rose told Pearl to never speak of it again, after which Pearl was literally incapable of explaining the truth behind Pink Diamond's "shattering". Though some fans loved this reveal, others hated it, feeling that it undermined Pearl's entire character arc and sense of agency, sent Rose Quartz over the line by making her indirectly responsible for all the events of the series, and/or were not amused by the implication that the rebellion was doomed to failure. The show would follow up on this twist, with the Crystal Gems in-universe having conflicted views at best on what happened, though how much it helps varies from person to person.

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