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The preceding paragraph is all stuff I just made up. But it's canonical now. — Sarah Monette
A statement regarding a controversy in a series. The Word Of God is considered inarguable because it comes from someone thought to be the ultimate authority, usually a creator or executive producer. Such edicts can even go against events as were broadcast, due to someone (a director, most likely, or a bullpen writer) having got it wrong. Can lead to Creative Differences.
On a similar note, the term Bible is sometimes used for the definitive guidelines for writing an episode of a TV series. Where a show might have a lot of details, there can sometimes be a book which contains rules about the show, backstory, forbidden interactions, etc. that book is referred to as the show's Bible.
In the case of Adaptation Decay, fans look for the Word Of God to settle Fanon disputes, but the Authority may have moved on and doesn't care to respond.
Note that many people reject the notion of Word Of God, considering something to be canon only if it appeared in the original source material, and that if the creator wanted a certain fact to be canon that s/he should have included it in the work to begin with (an opinion most creators laugh at, and with good reason... you try telling Stephen King that the background notes that affected his Dark Tower series but never were published "don't count" and see how far it gets you...).
Some people go even further, considering the uncertainty and ambiguity of canon to be a good thing and decry the Word Of God as shackling the imagination and interpretations of the fans — a belief supported by some modern literary criticism, notably in Wimstatt and Beardsley's "The Intentional Fallacy" and Barthes' Death Of The Author essay, both of which argue that the author has no right to control what other people think of his or her work.
If a work has more than one creator and the they disagree with each other on a crucial point, you'll likely see fans embrace conflicting statements. What happens when multiple fans are equipped with the Word Of God?
Bible fight!
See also Re Vision, Dis Continuity, Creator Worship. When the word does not come from the original creators but over time is still treated as such it is Word Of Dante. Contrast Lying Creator, Flip Flop Of God, Shrug Of God, Death Of The Author, and What Could Have Been. Word Of Gay is a subtrope.
Be warned that using the phrase "Word of God" on some of the more... obsessive fans out there (especially those obsessive fans who disagree with the Word Of God in the first place) can result in the obsessives believing you are saying that the creator of the series in question is the REAL God. So be careful... all we're saying...
Note: We don't require citations like The Other Wiki does, however, since this trope is about comments made by a creator about a work of media outside of said work of media, it is highly recommended that citations be provided. We don't particularly want to slander anyone by accident, but more importantly, citations will allow for full-context interviews and thus broader summations of the Word Of God, since we can get it straight from the God's mouth instead of secondhand.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Eiichiro Oda, creator of One Piece, jokes with this explaining things about the series such as how Zoro can speak with a sword in his mouth (because "it is his heart that allows him to speak.")
- And many, many others, of varying levels of seriousness.
- In an interview in the "How To Read" volume of Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba expressly states that the random girl at the very end is not in fact Misa Amane and is just stuck in there for the sake of something pretty. Many actively ignore this for the sole reason that they think that's how it should be. Whatever floats your boat, dude.
- The author of the Sailor Moon manga has affirmed that the characters of Haruka Tenou (Sailor Uranus) and Michiru Kaiou (Sailor Neptune) were intended as a lesbian couple. This is heavily hinted at in both the anime and manga, but never stated outright and occasionally a point of contention among some fans.
- Ironically, her husband, the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho, has stated that Sensui and Itsuki are a gay male couple. He experiences as much backlash as she does, because the only open affection shown is on Itsuki's part.
- Masaki Kajishima, the original creator of Tenchi Muyo and the main writer for tje Ryo-Oh-Ki OVAs (even called "Kajishima canon" in Japan) is very fond of releasing tie-in novels, factbooks, doujinshis and other infodumps, where he explain his 'verse in more depth — mainly because he couldn't readily obtain funding for the next series, but still has something to say. These infodumps are generally treated as canon by Japanese fans, but tended not to appear in the West, which, for example, made third series a Wall Banger for many fans, as it derailed years of Fanon.
- The odd translation errors like "New Yark" and the "Great Canyon" from the dub of Mobile Suit Gundam were not actually errors. According to one translator, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself (or "a little bald wizard," as the translator put it) requested the changes; this would not be surprising at all considering the same little bald wizard requested that one episode be taken out of the US release, for very obvious reasons.
- Apparently, Cloverfield's odd little manga, with monsters being controllable by people, a cult, and Slusho.
- For Code Geass Word of God has stated that Lelouch is, in fact, dead, despite a popular fantheory that he is 'the cart-driver' in the final scene. Many fans choose to discount this with the theory that his identity as Lelouch vi Britannia is dead, but he lives on under the pseudonym of RR.
- Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion, does not often comment on Eva unless he feels it is an important issue. The most famous of his statements is the one jossing the theory that Misato shot Kaji. He specified that it was a nameless security agent.
- Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano grew tired of fielding questions from detail-obsessed fans about Alucard never being shown reloading his guns in the manga. He got around this in a question-and-answer omake by saying that "they're all cosmoguns that hold a million rounds."
- Ranma 1/2 has had Rumiko Takahashi state that the Jusenkyo Nanniichuan (Spring of Drowned Man) will cure Ranma and the other cursed men. It's possible that this clarification would never have needed to have been made, if not for an early plot hole (the Saotomes not getting cured right there and then, and then following the guide to the Joketsuzoku) that then developed a Fanon theory of its own, and, worse still, a villainous character returning with an extra curse having been "merged" into his original one. The author has also insisted that Nabiki Tendo is truly evil, perhaps one of the closest things the series has (besides Happosai) to being a true villain.
- The creator of The Slayers has insisted that Idiot Hero Gourry Gabriev actually has the potential to be a sorcerer of power perhaps equal to Lina Inverse.
- While the writers of the anime version of Bleach heap Ship Tease upon Ship Tease, culminating in a movie that might as well be a romance, Kubo Tite felt the need to state that in his manga the relationship between Ichigo and Rukia is not romantic but more like The Straight Will And Grace.
Comic Books
Video Games
- The Metal Gear Solid series contains a great number of mysteries, many of which are introduced in one game, with potential answers hinted at in that game or its sequels, only for the true (and completely different) answers to be revealed in even later games. To this end, in the voice credits for Metal Gear Solid 4, the final game which answers all important questions, Hideo Kojima (the series' longtime writer/director) is credited as the "Voice of God".
- To be fair, that wasn't a joke, he actually has a single line in the game: When the ghost of Psycho Mantis appears after Screaming Mantis' defeat, you can hear Kojima scream "Traitor!"
- The Japan-only video game Neon Genesis Evangelion 2 had a set of unlockable files, supposedly based on those of the shadowy organization SEELE and revealing the deep secrets of the series, based on a series of interviews with the show's creator, Hideaki Anno. These include such never-revealed-in-the-anime facts as Yui Ikari being the daughter of a member of SEELE, Asuka's mother's soul being split in two, the maternal part of which was inside EVA-02, and the Moons actually being terraforming agents left behind by a Precursor race. The White Moon and the Black were examples of two different seeds of life (Angels and Humans respectively) which were never intended to exist on the same world, with both crashing on Earth by pure accident. This extra information might not allow Neon Genesis Evangelion to make complete sense, but it certainly does help...
- Shigeru Miyamoto made a statement in an interview regarding the timeline of the Legend Of Zelda series which contradicted game canon such as in-game text, fueling the ongoing conflict about the chronology of the games.
- Then again said comment was made before the creation of 4 swords and The Minish cap.
- That comment also might have been a mistranslation, or he might have simply misspoken. The general consensus among Zelda fans is that Eiji Aonuma's Word Of God overrides Shigeru Miyamoto's, because Miyamoto admittedly doesn't care that much about the storyline of the games, preferring to make a solid game first, and then writing a storyline around said game. Eiji Aonuma is the one who usually works out how where a game fits into the timeline. It's his Word Of God that confirmed the timeline split.
- You've got real trouble when one Word Of God contradicts another. The Mega Man Zero series ran into this with the character of Harpuia, who was supposed to be male but looked and sounded rather girly — girly enough, apparently, to fool Capcom of America, who said the character was female. Capcom of Japan corrected this, and later games helped by using pronouns for him more often.
- The Super Smash Bros. Dojo includes a lot of clarifying information about the storyline of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, since all the characters are Heroic Mimes.
- And a major framing scene was cut for time... and because most of the story is reserved until after the end of the mode by hiding it in trophies.
- There's still a Fallout 3 fan controversy over whether Fawkes is male or female or asexual. Many take Wes Johnson's publicized comments as the Word Of God because he was the voice actor, and the interview with those comments were printed with a shot of him standing with Todd Howard and Pete Hines of Bethesda.
- Shadow Of The Colossus featured sixteen colossi that are not named in-game. Eventually names started to pop-up with sources claiming to be from either Dengeki or Famitsu, which are usually Word Of God sources for Japanese games. Fumito Ueda eventually states in the official artbook that none of the colossi have names — only nicknames given by the staff during development. Who came up with the reportedly "official" names... nobody knows for sure.
Film
- The film Sunshine has tons of backstory that appears nowhere in the film itself, including the reason why the sun is burning out five billion years ahead of schedule.
- It also explains why the Sun is "Burning out" instead of "Burning up", that's what supposed to happen to the Sun.
- It also explains why such questionable characters for the Mission, such as Harvey and Searle. The former aparently was a Jack-of-All-Trades who could substitute pretty much any of the other members of the tripulation, AND cheated his way into the mission at a psychological exam. Searle on the other hand was the one that (correctly) theorised that the first mission failed because of a psychological reason and thus was sent to keep the psychological state of the crew in check, except that he then was shown to be a bit too excentric to really keep the crew mind as a high priority.
- Ridley Scott has been very clear in interviews in stating that, in his film Blade Runner, Deckard himself was a replicant. The only clue that this might be true in the movie, though, was the origami unicorn created by Gaff (Edward James Olmos) after Deckard dreamed of a unicorn. Unfortunately for anyone who saw the film in theaters and was trying to add up the clues, the unicorn dream was one of the victims of the Executive Meddling that the film underwent after leaving Scott's hands. The final half of a line by Gaff at the end of the film ("You've done a man's job sir... but are you a man?"), which raises the issue even if it fails to resolve it, was also cut. (It appears in its entirety in "Dangerous Days," the documentary about the making of the film in the 5-disc Final Cut collector's edition.)
- The 2007 Transformers movie left plenty of questions unanswered and a few Sequel Hooks, and with Transformers fans being who they are have asked a lot of questions. One in particular was whether or not Starscream took part in the F-22 assault on Megatron hiding in his alternate form. It would certainly be in tradition with the character, and the writers have said Sure Why Not so far. Another question was the unexplained absence of Barricade from the final battle. The comic book depicted him being killed by Optimus Prime, but the writers said they did it deliberately to bring him back in the upcoming sequel, Revenge of the Fallen.
- There's an interesting twist on this in Star Wars. Pretty much every character to appear in the Cantina Scenes in A New Hope and the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special has his or her own species and backstory. Some of this came about through various authors, some of it was composed by fans and put on the databank, meaning that fans get to make their own Word of God. Of course, most of this will never be used, and the people who write the books will blithely ignore it if they want.
- Some of them are pretty formulaic, but there are some gems in the Databank. Like the entry for Slyther Bushforb, which is basically Noir IN SPACE!
It was a dark night, one that would have undoubtedly been stormy had Coruscant's Weather Control Network permitted it. Not many Nuknogs ever left the filthy swamps of Sump, which is why he knew the dame that walked into his office was trouble with a capital trill.
- A better example is Lucas stomping on the idea that "bringing balance to the Force" involved equalising the Light and Dark sides — apparently, the Dark Side is inherently an imbalance.
- Lucas has also said the Jedi have sex, but cannot form a romantic attachment, not surprisingly a major issue in fanfiction. Karen Traviss has similarly said two Mandalorians are a male couple, and married, but you don't even need to call that Word of God; you can put it together if you read Boba Fett: A Practical Man and LOTF.
- Toho has stated that King Kong won in both the American and Japanese versions of King Kong VS Godzilla.
Literature
- JRR Tolkien was notorious for constantly reworking ideas and being disorganized, especially considering the scope of his work. Much of what is commonly "known" about The Lord Of The Rings is actually gleaned from Tolkien's authorial notes and letters to others, leading to the oft paraphrased quote that he could spend whole pages describing trees, but never mention that elves have pointy ears.
- Much of the information regarding what happens to the characters after the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has come from interviews with J.K. Rowling. Among the "highlights": Ginny's career as a professional Quidditch player; Harry and Ron being high-level Aurors; Luna Lovegood's eventual marriage to a character never even mentioned in the books; Dolores Umbridge being thrown in prison for crimes against Muggle-borns; who killed Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin (Antonin Dolohov and Bellatrix Lestrange, respectively); and that Dumbledore was gay. J.K. Rowling is also writing a Harry Potter encyclopedia which will contain background information which never made it into the novels, providing further Word Of God when it's published.
- Ginny's full given name — Ginevra — was also revealed by Rowling in an interview before it was printed in any of the books. This led to tension among fanfic writers, specifically between those "in the know" and those who still insisted on calling the character Virginia.
- The Dragonriders of Pern fandom could be considered a subversion. Several Word Of God proclamations from Anne McCaffrey herself have been worked around or outright ignored in fanworks: most notably her proclamation that all Blue riders and all male Green riders were gay (born or made that way).
- The Dresden Files: "Justin's dead! D-E-D dead!", frequent reply of the author to fan theories that Harry Dresden's Evil Mentor (whom, canonically, Harry burned to death) may somehow still be alive, and involved in the events of the various novels.
- This might be because the TV series did bring Justin back... sort of, it's a Xanatos Gambit or similar plan he set up before his death. However, the books and TV series both inhabit their own separate continuities, so if Jim Butcher says that Justin's dead, then then he's not coming back, people.
- David Weber, writer of (among other things) the Honor Harrington series, occasionally makes proclamations on points of confusion by fans, on the newsgroup featuring him (alt.books.david-weber) and the Baen Bar, a forum maintained by the publisher of many Science Fiction and Fantasy works. These are occasionally collected, and posted here for perusal by those not reading the forums and/or newsgroup, maintained by Joe Buckley (who's a regular Red Shirt in various Baen-published novels; the Honorverse has had several Buckleys killed in and of itself).
- In the Wheel of Time book series, many fans speculated that Demandred was disguised as Mazrim Taim. This theory persisted until Robert Jordan himself discredited it.
- Neil Gaiman has said in interviews that he intended Silas from The Graveyard Book to be a vampire. On the other hand, he also said "If you miss it, that's fine. You'll just get a slightly different book."
- Aaron Allston, writer of part of the X Wing Series, in his faq posits what he thinks happened to his characters in the twenty or so years between Wraith Squadron and the Vong War, as well as some details that never made it into the books, like ship names.
- Ironically, and depending on your beliefs, The Bible is one of the least Word-of-Godded books there is. Which is kind of a shame, really.
- Mainstream Christian belief is that it doesn't really need any more clarification since it is Word Of God.
- Catholics believe that when the Pope or all the Catholic Bishops as a Whole make Infallible Statements or otherwise appeal to official Church Teaching throughout the ages, it serves to clarify matters that may be the source of significant theological/moral disagreements when using the Bible alone. Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit Himself directs this process, making the phrase "Word of God" a very literal one in this case that acts as a Divine Version of this Trope at work in Real Life, depending on your beliefs.
- Much like there are orthodox and liberal Jews and Muslims, there are differences within the Catholic church (you just can't force one billion people to agree on everything, after all). Not every Catholic believes in the Infallible Statements (which were implemented in 1870); a great many Catholics, including priests and even bishops, disagree with it. When Benedict XVI broke the excommunication of the Lefevbrist bishops, many Catholics thought that this time Panzer screwed up.
- Well, The Lefebvrite issue is more of a procedural issue than a Papal Infallibility issue, so it's perfectly fine (as of now — it changes somewhat if the Lefebvrists get their old jobs back) to criticize the Pope's actions on that regard.
- Warrior Cats: Though only hinted at in the actual books (most notably Cinderpelt's fight with Leafpool in Twilight), Word Of God has revealed that Cinderpelt and Firestar is a canon pairing... sort of. Firestar, being a complete idiot when it comes to she-cats, still thinks he and Cinderpelt were "Just Friends".
Live Action TV
- In later seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, questions not answered in the actual show tended to be addressed only in Joss Whedon's interviews. Some fans considered anything Joss said in an interview to be canon, while others did not and were annoyed by this practice.
- The Doctor Who episode "The Brain of Morbius" shows the faces of several actors who, depending on your interpretation of the scene, may be Doctors predating the canonical first Doctor. Despite the fact that the canon is very clear on the fact that the Doctor's lives are all accounted for, some people on the production staff have affirmed that they intended the faces to be earlier Doctors. In any case, it has been enough to prompt most fans to prefer wild theories to the very simple and valid obvious alternative explanation that the faces belonged to someone else.
- Responding to a message board request, Coupling creator (and sole writer) Stephen Moffat wrote a breakdown of the characters' lives several years after the fourth and final season. This gave Moffat the chance to write an "ending" for the character of Jeff, despite actor Richard Coyle leaving the previous year.
- The new Battlestar Galactica has occasionally relied on this, such as producer Mark Verheiden confirming that Six was released from prison as part of President Lee Adama's amnesty to the rebel Cylons in the episode Revelations, explaining why she appears in famous final shot of nuked-out Earth.
- However, the Word of God has occasionally not been helpful. In the episode "Hero" it is revealed that Tigh and Adama served on the battlestar Valkyrie one year before the series begins and were moved to Galactica as punishment after a vital mission failed, contradicting multiple statements that Adama had commanded Galactica for 2-3 years prior to the series. A document seen on-screen in the very same episode suggested he'd actually been in command of Galactica for six years. When asked about the problem, producer Ronald D. Moore said there wasn't a problem, they'd worked it out behind the scenes and it all tracked, but didn't share this explanation with fans, leaving the situation unresolved.
- Many people resolve this by assuming they were moved back to Galactica from active duty on the Valkyrie, the punishment being command of an inactive ship.
- In weekly podcasts, the producers of Lost have occasionally clarified plot points, such as confirming Jae Lee's death in "The Glass Ballerina" was a suicide. However, they are not always to be taken at their word: before season 3, in a long list of things we wouldn't see, they named "time travel" and "Desmond running naked through the jungle." Both were seen.
- Nearly two decades after the series finale of Family Ties, and after a couple years of speculation from fans, Gary David Goldberg (the creator of the sitcom) has finally given his own input on Alex P. Keaton's current political leanings. Quite naturally, his response has managed to alienate certain fans of the show. The speculations have arose during the 2006 US elections, where Michael J. Fox (who played Alex P. Keaton) was lobbying for the legalization of ESCR. Furthermore, Michael J. Fox has also given his input on Alex P. Keaton's current political leanings (and place of residence).
- TV execs had told creator Ryan Murphy he had the greenlight for season 3 of Popular, which is why the season 2 season finale was a cliffhanger. After the series was cancelled, Murphy released the rough outline of season 3 that he'd already worked out.
Newspaper Comics
- The creator of Krazy Kat, George Herriman, officially stated that the title character was "something like a sprite, an elf. They have no sex. So that Kat can't be a he or a she." Despite this, the 1962 animated series made Krazy explicitly female, to avoid controversy.
- Charles Schulz of Peanuts stated that Linus' belief in the Great Pumpkin is not and was never intended to be a metaphor for faith. There's no reason to think he was that secular... or religious for that matter. Of course, strips later in the run (featuring such things as Linus going door to door to spread the word of the Great Pumpkin, convincing Marcie before she is sent to be "deprogrammed" by her parents) suggest he was open to playing with the idea.
Other
- Bionicle story writer Greg Farshtey keeps a good relationship with the fan community. Not only does Greg provide Word of God for any question a fan might have, but he sometimes distributes advance information and occasionally allows fans to influence minor details. (Word of Fans?)
Tabletop Games
- The CCG Yu-Gi-Oh game has what's known as "BKSS — Because Konami Said So", a phenomena where certain cards are given rulings that make no sense whatsoever, but are rendered iron-clad enforcable, because Konami — the game's creator — said that's how it went. This has become painfully obvious after UDE, the English Yu-Gi-Oh distributer, refused to administer a ruling on the card "Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster" that completely contradicted the card's text itself; when this discrepancy was pointed out to them, even Konami themselves admitted that the ruling was in error, yet still refused to change it.
- Collectible Card Games are a kind of shaky ground, as they're part board game and part tournament game. Magic The Gathering has a seasonally updated database that updates the wording of every card in the game, to the point that year-old cards already have official wordings that differ from what is printed on the cards.
- While these changes do not usually affect how the cards work, every so often the game is given a major overhaul that changes many things at once. (Changes to timing rules with the advent of 6th Edition, and the Grand Creature Type Update of 2007 come to mind)
- Gary Gygax, in the years before his death, did go onto a number of Internet forums and served as something of a Word Of God in that he offered rules clarifications and design justifications for the Dungeons And Dragons rules system he created (though he often resisted doing so due to the fact that he had moved on to a succession of other game systems, namely Dangerous Journeys and Lejendary Adventures). His working with Troll Lord Games on their Castles and Crusades game, mostly through sage advice, seems to have constituted among old-school gamers almost a Celebrity Endorsement of God.
Theatre
Web Comics
Web Original
- Tales Of MU has a lot of this, possibly driven by the blog format.
- Dorf Quest basically requires Wordof God to make sense — casual statements said after each section end up being important plot points later on.
- Stuart Slade, author of The Salvation War, will answer just about any serious question about the logistics of his versions of Hell and Heaven and their relationship with our universe that isn't explicitly spelled out in the story itself. Pretty much none of these are necessary to following the story, but they do make a great display of how much thought he puts into it.
Western Animation
- Regarding the Avatar The Last Airbender Ship To Ship Combat and the subsequent Zutara Ship Sinking, Bryan and Mike have said multiple times that Aang and Katara were always meant to be the Official Couple as far back as when season one was still coming out.
- They have also divulged that Aang does, in fact, have a tattoo there.
- This Troper wonder if a context and reference can be provided for this, as the mind boggles at how such a detail could be legitimately brought up in any interview regarding a Kid's show.
- The two of them also confirmed that Jet really is dead. In commentary, they laughed that he's now in "Hot Guy Heaven". The in-series lack-of-clarity on the issue is later Lampshaded in season 3.
- Butch Hartman stated in an interview that the ghosts in Danny Phantom are really monsters from a different dimension, that is the Ghost Zone. Explains why they can have offspring and apparently age, but doesn't explain why some were once human to begin with.
- Which contradicts some of the actual dead ghosts in the series. However, Danny's mom once described them as something like "ectoplasmic manifestations of post-human consciousnenss", which implies that they're simply monsters that think they're dead humans.
- Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman split with Disney and later cited Creative Differences at a third season made without his input. Greg himself has addressed many obscure questions otherwise unanswered by show material and is considered the authoritative source, to the point most fans do not consider the last season canon.
- The comic book moreover continues where the second season left off and completely ignores the third season.
- The creators of Hey Arnold! have purportedly stated that Helga's mother is an alcoholic, although they knew that saying so directly would never fly on Nickelodeon. Incidentally, they said in the same interview his last name is Shortman.
- The creators of The Simpsons often explain the "real meaning" of various episodes on DVD commentary—such as "Homer's Enemy" being about how a "normal" person couldn't survive in Springfield, or (more recently) "The Principal and the Pauper" being a jab at the Jonas Quinn idea.
- The creators of Kim Possible, Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, have stated on numerous occasions that Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable will be together forever and that they were always meant to get together from the very beginning of the series. The Director Steve Loter has said that the alien villains died, and that Shego and Drakken are definitely dating, at the end of Graduation.
- Christy Marx, the head writer for Jem And The Holograms, interfaces frequently with the fans.
- Word Of God has stated in response to Animation Errors and Discontinuity of Jimmy Neutron that "it was caused by a vacuum created by Carl's window."
- Dwayne McDuffie, creator of Static Shock, has stated that Richie, Static's sidekick and best friend, is in fact gay, as is his comic book counterpart. When asked if Static knew, he replied "Not yet."
- Dwayne also also runs a Q&A thread about Ben 10 Alien Force, where he (among other things) clarifies such contested points as Gwen's magic and Kevin's powers. Some fans like to ignore it, due to the fact that he lied once, about Grandpa Max's fate, though it could be said that lying was the only way to preserve any suspense when asked that question.
- Teen Titans provided very little backstory for most of the main characters and none at all for the characters created specifically for the show who never appeared in the original comics. However, Word Of God from Amy Wolfram has given us an origin story for the Amazing Mumbo: he was an ordinary Stage Magician who got his hands on a real magic wand, which gave him Functional Magic at the expense of his sanity. Yeah, it's a little vague, but still better than nothing, right?
- Transformers has featured numerous instances of this, but in particular, Transformers Animated featured a cameo by an unnamed red Bumblebee-like robot. When character designer Derrick Wyatt saw that TF Wiki.net, in accordance with its policies on nameless characters, was referring to the character as "Little red Autobot," he wrote in and told them that the character was indeed named Cliffjumper and the page should be moved to that name.
- Wyatt has become quite a well of information recent, for example heavily implying Highbrow (who was only seen in a flashback) was secretly killed by Shockwave.
- Also, he clarified Alpha Trion's role in the Autobot government (He's the civilian leader, as opposed to Ultra Magnus' military leadership).
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