History Main / LyingCreator

** Probably the most notorious example came after the fifth season finale, when Jon Snow was stabbed repeatedly by Night's Watch mutineers and left to die in the snow. Literally [[http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Look-Back-Game-Thrones-Actors-Execs-Who-Lied-About-Jon-Snow-135437.html everyone involved with the show]] unequivocally stated the character was dead and never coming back. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss gave countless interviews talking about how difficult it was to kill off the character. The president of HBO said he was "Dead is dead as dead as dead." Harington stated [[http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-dead-finale-season-five-kit-harington-1201519627/ in an interview]], "I’m dead. I’m not coming back next season... We did the Tony Soprano walk. And they said, ‘Look, you’re gone, it’s done.'" David Nutter, the director of the episode, even [[http://winteriscoming.net/2015/07/11/director-david-nutter-to-president-obama-really-jon-snow-is-dead/ told President Obama]] when asked point-blank that "Jon Snow is deader than dead." Harington was spotted near the show's Belfast filming location several times during the filming of the sixth season, and claimed he was only appearing as a corpse. Jon was resurrected in the second episode of the sixth season, and the next day Harington told ''Entertainment Weekly'', "I'd like to say sorry for lying to everyone."

* Before the proper reveal of ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'', several Creator/ElectronicArts spokesmen reassured ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' fans in February 2021 that development on the then-unnamed sixth mainline entry was "ahead of [their] internal milestones," way more than previous development cycles. These claims drew traces of suspicion when developing studio Creator/{{DICE}} announced a month later they began receiving assistance from other studios, including Creator/CriterionGames, and Creator/EAGothenburg, and doubts escalated massively once ''2042'' was released in November of that year in an infamously shoddy state that was not only [[ObviousBeta technically unstable]], but missing several key features, from the class-system to in-game scoreboards. As later comments from current and former developers would reveal, ''2042'' had experienced a major TroubledProduction cycle where [[MidDevelopmentGenreShift the game shifted back and forth in genres]] in large part [[ExecutiveMeddling due to memos from EA]]. The core ideas of the game weren't properly decided until August 2020, [[ChristmasRushed leaving DICE only a year and few months of committed development time]], several developers calling out the "way ahead of schedule" claims a giant PR-friendly lie.

-->-- '''Erasmus Fry''', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', "Calliope"

** The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} lie was that the endings would provide closure, that they would be "triumphant and uplifting", and that Creator/BioWare was not going to "Pull a ''Series/{{Lost}}''." For reference, ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is currently indexed on, among other pages, the GainaxEnding, EsotericHappyEnding, EndingAversion, InferredHolocaust, PyrrhicVictory, DownerEnding, and AmbiguousSituation pages.

** Spencer then promised that ''Comicbook/SecretEmpire'', the CrisisCrossover followup to that story, would [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not be resolved with]] [[spoiler:a Cosmic Cube]]. [[spoiler:It was, as Kobik, who ''was'' the Cosmic Cube, recreated the good-guy Cap to defeat [[FanNickname Steevil]].]]

* Director Sato Tatsuo said, "No romance", in regards to ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates'' and ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange''. What he really meant was "No ''heterosexual'' romance". Or, in the latter, [[spoiler:"NoRomanticResolution"]].

* First, an [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Before it was revealed in 2011 to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary, a significant number of people assumed that the presence of an official timeline for ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' was this trope. Even after it was revealed, some remained incredulous, as some minor issues and contractions still remained. (At which point, Creator/{{Nintendo}} basically told fans the MST3KMantra.)
** When an IGN editor correctly speculated that ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' would involve Link turning into a wolf, Nintendo denied it with "wanna bet?" to cover up any surprises. The IGN editor won the bet.

* Director Sato Tatsuo said, "No romance", in regards to ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates'' and ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange''. What he really meant was "No ''heterosexual'' [[SchoolgirlLesbians romance]]". Or, in the latter, [[spoiler:"NoRomanticResolution"]].

** The Extended Cut DLC has improved some things. It lowered the EMS requirement to 3100, meaning you need a minimum of 6200 war assets to get them without playing multiplayer. All the endings have also been fleshed out with additional dialogue and scenes, the cinematics have been changed to imply less of a PyrrhicVictory ([[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzrRz6Dc0Y&t=9m40s the Citadel is left intact and only the rings of the mass relays are blown apart]], as opposed to the previous cinematics where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o43tVHs-Ns&t=8m05s the entire relays and Citadel are destroyed]]]]), and some plot holes (e.g. your disappearing teammates) have been filled. The DLC also adds a TheBadGuyWins ending, which [=BioWare=] claimed would be in the game in pre-release statements.
*** [=BioWare=] also lied about the DLC. They repeatedly assured those who were satisfied by the game's original endings that there would be no retcons, only additions. Compare the cinematics [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o43tVHs-Ns&t=8m05s before]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzrRz6Dc0Y&t=9m40s after]]. In addition to that, [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3:_Extended_Cut this page, listing the changes to the ending]]

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam[[note]]even going so far as to denounce [=YouTuber ClownfishTV=], who initially brought attention to this in a tweet which Smith [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial adamantly attempted to rebuke]], [[StreisandEffect to no avail]][[/note]]. The first episode ends with Adam sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the universe. From there, Teela serves as the lead character, with the following four episodes revolving around Adam's “death”, which has caused magic to slowly dissipate in Eternia, as well as Teela's own feelings about being LockedOutOfTheLoop.

** In 2012, he assured everyone that we wouldn't find out anything about Creator/JennaLouiseColeman's character until Christmas. A week later, on the first of September, Creator/JennaLouiseColeman prominently showed up in the season premiere, though the only things revealed about her character in that episode were a lot of questions. (The Christmas special added even more questions with the reveal that there were ''at least'' three Clara Oswalds in different time periods, which can't be identical descendants of each other — the resultant StoryArc has the Doctor trying to figure out how this is so.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam[[note]]even going so far as to denounce [[https://m.youtube.com/c/ClownfishTV ClownfishTV]], who initially brought attention to this in a tweet which Smith [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial adamantly attempted to rebuke]], [[StreisandEffect to no avail]][[/note]]. The first episode ends with Adam sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the universe. From there, Teela serves as the lead character, with the following four episodes revolving around Adam's “death”, which has caused magic to slowly dissipate in Eternia, as well as Teela's own feelings about being LockedOutOfTheLoop.

* First, an [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Before it was revealed in 2011 to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary, a significant number of people assumed that the presence of an official timeline for ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' was this trope. Even after it was revealed, some remained incredulous, as some minor issues and contractions still remained. (At which point, UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo}} basically told fans the MST3KMantra.)

** Waltz did it again in the lead up to ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' when he claimed that he would not return for the film and that there was a "new enemy". Sure enough, [[spoiler:Blofeld does return and kicks off the plot by manipulating Bond into ending his relationship with Madeline but he is very quickly killed off by the real BigBad, Safin]].

** Waltz did it again in the lead up to ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' when he claimed that he would not return for the film and that there was a "new enemy". Cue [[spoiler:an imprisoned Blofeld]] featuring prominently in the debut trailer.

* First, an [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Before it was revealed in 2011 to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary, a significant number of people assumed that the presence of an official timeline for ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' was this trope. Even after it was revealed, some remained incredulous, as some minor issues and contractions still remained. (At which point, Nintendo basically told fans the MST3KMantra.)

** The N64 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 Nintendo Switch, 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.

** For the most part though, this was surprisingly averted by Masahiro Sakurai. It's certainly a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]] to have millions of people visit your site weekly, raising an unprecedented fever pitch of anticipation for your game, by doing nothing more than regularly updating a site with simple, accurate information.

* Sometime after Mega Evolution was revealed to be a feature in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', WordOfGod said that no sixth generation Pokémon would get Megas. Come ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]]'' and Diancie, a sixth generation Pokémon, was revealed to have a Mega. However, this could be a case of ExactWords, as Diancie hadn't been officially revealed at the time of ''X and Y'' and its Mega didn't debut until ''[=OmegaRuby=] and [=AlphaSapphire=]''.

* Rocksteady mentioned that, despite fan demand, they had no plans to include a section where you played as [[SecretIdentity Bruce Wayne]] in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. This was then confirmed by [[Creator/KevinConroy Word of Actor]]. Guess who you play as during the (vanilla) opening of the game?

** When promoting the game, it was said that the titular Arkham Knight was an original character created by Geoff Johns specifically for the game. This is not true, as his identity is that of [[spoiler: Jason Todd, a longtime ''Batman'' character]] that was actually the ''first choice'' that fans came up with in regards to he was. While there's some slight changes to his motivations and backstory, he's essentially the same character.
** Inverted in a case of real life CassandraTruth, [[spoiler:Rocksteady ''didn't lie about the Joker remaining dead. Granted, he's a SpiritAdvisor who still pulls a HijackedByGanon, but the Joker is physically dead and cremated in the canon of the games.]]

** When promoting ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', it was said that the titular Arkham Knight was an original character created by Geoff Johns specifically for the game. This is not true, as his identity is that of [[spoiler: Jason Todd, a longtime ''Batman'' character]] that was actually the ''first choice'' that fans came up with in regards to he was. While there's some slight changes to his motivations and backstory, he's essentially the same character.

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam[[note]]even going so far as to denounce [[https://m.youtube.com/c/ClownfishTV ClownfishTV]], who initially brought attention to this in a tweet which Smith [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial adamantly attempted to rebuke]], [[StreisandEffect to no avail][[/note]]. The first episode ends with Adam sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the universe. From there, Teela serves as the lead character, with the following four episodes revolving around Adam's “death”, which has caused magic to slowly dissipate in Eternia, as well as Teela's own feelings about being LockedOutOfTheLoop.

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam. The first episode ends with Adam sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the universe. From there, Teela serves as the lead character, with the following four episodes revolving around Adam's “death”, which has caused magic to slowly dissipate in Eternia, as well as Teela's own feelings about being LockedOutOfTheLoop.

* Wargaming, the company behind ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships'', long said they would not add submarines to warships because of the difficulty of balancing them, the fact that their historical role was already filled by destroyers in the game, the difficulty of adding underwater modeling to the existing maps, and the fact that the game engine simply couldn't handle it. Then for the October 2018 Halloween event they added a mode with submarines proving fan speculation that the last one was an outright fabrication. For its part Wargaming admitted they lied about the last one because they didn't think fans would appreciate the difficulties the other challenges posed.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** Sometime after Mega Evolution was revealed to be a feature in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', WordOfGod said that no sixth generation Pokémon would get Megas. Come ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]]'' and Diancie, a sixth generation Pokémon, was revealed to have a Mega. However, this could be a case of ExactWords, as Diancie hadn't been officially revealed at the time of ''X and Y'' and its Mega didn't debut until ''[=OmegaRuby=] and [=AlphaSapphire=]''.
** When people learned that ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' had its Pokemon roster cut in half compared to the previous games, WordOfGod stated that the reduced count would help the dev team create better models and animations for the creatures. Once people got their hands on the game, they saw that not only the models did not change at all from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', most of the animations were recycled as well on top of the games themselves coming up short both graphics and content wise. And later, even though Gamefreak where adamant on the topic of not adding the cut Pokemon back in at a later date through patches or the like, they announced DLC expansions that would reintroduce some of the missing Pokemon despite their prior statements.

* ''{{Webcomic/Kagerou}}'' is an ''[[{{Gorn}} extremely]]'' [[BloodyTropes bloody]] webcomic. When it gets [[LudicrousGibs especially bad]], Luka Delaney actually ''apologizes'' for all of the blood, claiming to dislike it. And yet inevitably, within a few chapters the blood starts flowing freely once again.

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam. The first episode ends with Adam sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the universe. from there, Teela serves as the lead character, with the following four episodes revolve around Adam's “death”, which has caused magic to slowly dissipate in Eternia, as well as Teela's own feelings about being LockedOutOfTheLoop.

** Fans were sent into confusion when [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/03/sunset-shimmer-celestias-mystery.html Sunset Shimmer's]] toy was released, with a description suspiciously similar to Twilight Sparkle's. When questioned, Meghan [=McCarthy=] said that "she didn't know who [her questioner] was referring to" and that "[[BlatantLies she wasn't being secretive or evasive]]." Sunset turned out to be the antagonist of ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls2013''.

* Creator/KevinSmith constantly denied rumors that ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' would actually be about Teela instead of series protagonist He-Man/Prince Adam. He-Man is out of commission in the first episode (only for around five episodes) and the show revolves around his “death” which has caused magic to slowly disipate in Eternia.

** [[http://cdn.derpiboo.ru/media/BAhbBlsHOgZmSSIsMjAxMi8xMS8wOS8yMV8zMV81NF83NTNfMTQ2OTQ2X19VTk9QVF9fBjoGRVQ/146946__safe_twilight-sparkle_text_alicorn_spoiler-s03_tara-strong_twitter_alicorn-twilight_50f88f31a4c72df50b000135.png.png The creators assured fans]] that Twilight Sparkle wouldn't [[spoiler:become an {{Alicorn}}]] in the Season 3 finale. She does.
** Fans were sent into confusion when [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/03/sunset-shimmer-celestias-mystery.html Sunset Shimmer's]] toy was released, with a description suspiciously similar to Twilight Sparkle's. When questioned, Meghan [=McCarthy=] said that "she didn't know who [her questioner] was referring to" and that "she wasn't being secretive or evasive." [[spoiler: Then Shimmer turned out to be the antagonist of ''Equestria Girls'', TheMovie, making this a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial]].
** After those tweets, Meghan was saddled with an unsavory reputation for being a Lying Creator, and sought to undo it over the next season. Unfortunately, one such [[http://derpicdn.net/img/view/2013/6/16/350059__safe_equestria+girls_flash+sentry_spoiler-colon-equestria+girls_season+4_twitter_meghan+mccarthy_spoiler-colon-s04.JPG tweet confirming the lack of a particular polarizing character]] in Season 4 was undone when he [[TheCameo cameo'd]] [[http://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/1/25/533830__safe_twilight+sparkle_rarity_animated_princess+twilight_princess+cadance_pegasus_hub+logo_flash+sentry_hubble.gif in [=S4E10=]]] and had a speaking role in the finale. ([[ExactWords She did say he's "not a character", and he really isn't, being more of a background pony]].)