History Main / LyingCreator

* Creator/MichaelBay found he could keep no secrets while making ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'', so he subverted it by being completely open. After his computer was hacked, anyway. However, he ''publicly announced'' that there would be false leads and red herrings thrown out there in regards to the sequel. Writer Roberto Orci remarked that it seemed most fans could tell the real news from false news, and [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailers leading]] up to ''Film/TrasformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' outright disproved Bay's remarks. Bay was more successful in his misinformation for ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon,'' where he stated that fan-favorite Shockwave would be the main antagonist of the film. The result was that TheReveal of the true BigBad [[spoiler:(Sentinel Prime, ancient leader of the Autobots and Optimus's former mentor and father-figure)]] was a huge blow to viewers. While Shockwave does appear in the film, his role is [[DemotedToExtra sadly short]].

** The UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' was designed to have things added to it by a disk for the [=N64DD=] add-on to the system, codenamed ''Ura Zelda''. This was never released in the end. Years later a special edition of ''Ocarina of Time'' was made, called ''Master Quest'', which had the insides of dungeons altered and was otherwise the same. In an odd example of the trope, Nintendo said that this is what ''Ura Zelda'' was supposed to be but many fans don't believe it, claiming that ''Ura'' was said to change more than this. Conversely, Nintendo might have simply lied about how big the changes for ''Ura Zelda'' were going to be. So the assumption is that Nintendo lied...but fans are unsure ''how'' they lied.
** After the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, then only known by the codename NX, was announced, Nintendo said that ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' would be a UsefulNotes/WiiU exclusive rather than a dual Wii U/NX release, only to go back on this later.
** On a non-Zelda note, Nintendo and Nvidia claimed that the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch will contain a Nvidia Tegra X1 [=SoC=] that has been customized to their exact needs. When Tech Insider got their hands on a sample of the CPU and proceeded to analyze the silicon, they found it to be a stock X1 with no modifications whatsoever. On the other hand, it does have [[ExactWords one customization]] - Nintendo's otherwise-meaningless custom part number silkscreened on the package.

** Kojima has stated that the only reason that [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain MGSV]] doesn't have a UsefulNotes/WiiU version because there's nothing he can do with the [=GamePad=], only to announce a few weeks later that the [=PS4=] version will have remote play capability with the Vita and the UsefulNotes/XboxOne will have Smartglass capabilities. Perhaps he's trying to be polite and trying to avoid calling Nintendo's choice of hardware "underpowered", given that he's a fan of many of Nintendo's franchises and is also good friends with Nintendo icon Creator/MasahiroSakurai.

* Steve Lycett of Sumo Digital [[http://www.tssznews.com/2009/11/30/exclusive-banjo-kazooie-in-asr-not-so-fast-says-lycett/ said]] that he'd "not hold too much stock in" leaked evidence pointing towards a {{guest|Fighter}} appearance from [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo and Kazooie]] in the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} version of ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]''. Then he let Sega go ahead and officially announce the bear and bird a few weeks later.

* Music/CamperVanBeethoven initially claimed their CoverAlbum of Music/FleetwoodMac's ''Tusk'' was mostly recorded in 1987, with a few overdubs made in 2003, but later admitted that it was entirely made in 2003. They went so far as to make up an elaborate backstory about being stranded in a cabin with a four track machine and a copy of ''Tusk'', and tried to really make it sound like it could have been produced in those conditions. The whole project was done to test out how they'd get along in a studio setting after being broken up for years. In some interviews they also claimed to have sent out promo copies of ''Tusk'' to various publications with a phony press release claiming it was a side project of Music/TheStrokes - they didn't actually do this, but ''telling interviewers that they did'' was the lie.

* Creator/MichaelBay found he could keep no secrets while making ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', so he subverted it by being completely open. After his computer was hacked, anyway. However, he ''publicly announced'' that there would be false leads and red herrings thrown out there in regards to the sequel. Writer Roberto Orci remarked that it seemed most fans could tell the real news from false news, and [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailers leading]] up to ''Revenge of the Fallen'' outright disproved Bay's remarks. Bay was more successful in his misinformation for ''Dark of the Moon,'' where he stated that fan-favorite Shockwave would be the main antagonist of the film. The result was that TheReveal of the true BigBad [[spoiler:(Sentinel Prime, ancient leader of the Autobots and Optimus's former mentor and father-figure)]] was a huge blow to viewers. While Shockwave does appear in the film, his role is [[DemotedToExtra sadly short]].

Sometimes, an author will skirt the edges of this; expect ExactWords to come into play.

*** For one thing, he once said that he didn't like the Master and wasn't planning on bringing him back. This also caused fans to distrust him when he said something sensible and thankfully true like "It's better not to show the Time War."
*** As with the ''Star Wars'' example above, Davies used a phony name, an anagram of ''Series/DoctorWho'', during production of the 2005 series to prevent would-be pirates from spotting the tapes. That phony name would later become [[Series/{{Torchwood}} the name of a spinoff series]].
*** After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]], he told the press Rose was gone for good. He told Creator/BilliePiper, "See you in two years".
*** RTD continued to lie about ''Doctor Who'' even after stepping down from it the first time round. He said he would never write an episode for Creator/MattSmith's Doctor. Guess who guest-stars in the RTD-penned ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' story [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor "Death of the Doctor"]]?

** Creator/ChrisChibnall took a different approach and simply released very little information in advance about the plot content of Series 11. The history of this in the franchise meant that hardly any fans believed him when he claimed that the season would not feature any previously existing characters or alien cultures. However, he turned out to be telling the truth... in ExactWords, as the 2019 New Year's Day special, broadcast only a few weeks after the end of the season proper, featured [[spoiler:a Dalek]].

** Before RTD and The Moff, there was Creator/JohnNathanTurner, who famously wrote the title "The Doctor's Wife" on his planner in order to find out if there was a leak to the fan press in his office. There was, but he never found out who it was. Later adopted by (guess who?) Creator/StevenMoffat, who commissioned Creator/NeilGaiman to write an episode with that title. The section of the fandom that didn't like River Song went berserk — but River did not appear in that episode.

* Jaimers, a highly-prolific ShootEmUp [=YouTuber=] who uploads top-level gameplay videos of shmups he plays, uploaded a few videos of the game ''[=0st//ranger=]'' by System Erasure, claiming it to be an early-access demo offered only to content creators. This is to hide the fact that it's actually PostEndGameContent for ''VideoGame/VoidStranger'' - namely, it's a minigame based on the UnexpectedShmupLevel in the spoiler-heavy game's finale.

* Jaimers, a highly-prolific ShootEmUp [=YouTuber=] who uploads top-level gameplay videos of shmups he plays, uploaded a few videos of the game ''[=0st//ranger=]'' by System Erasure, claiming it to be an early-access demo offered only to content creators. This is to hide the fact that it's actually PostEndGameContent for ''VideoGame/VoidStranger'' - namely, it's a minigame based on the UnexpectedShmupLevel in the game's finale.