Word of Dante attempts to be a sister trope to Word of God and Word of Saint Paul, the difference being that this one focuses on statements spread by specific individuals not involved in the work's creation. Unlike those, however, this relies on the audience accepting the statement as true. This may not be necessary with Common Knowledge, Fanon, and Audience-Coloring Adaptation.
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Comes from statement by someone else
Characters.The Adventures Of Pete And Pete
- Meaningful Name: Hellstrom
- Subverted by "Endless", though, because—in direct contrast to every other kid bad guy—the nickname has no apparent meaning and it's never explained why he has it. Fans have theorized that it's because he's endlessly repeating high school or because his hatred of Big Pete is endless (Nickelodeon Magazine posited the latter).
Comes from work created by someone else
Fanfic.Spah Verse
- Word of Dante: The original story has never portrayed Harry and Pratik as anything other than friends. This has not stopped readers from asking everything from whether they're in love to whether they're already dating after a different author wrote a story about the two OC's as a case of Single-Target Sexuality.
"Common Knowledge"
Characters.The Four Gospels
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Subverted. Jesus is both the legal and biological heir of David. Legally through Joseph, but it turns out that the genealogy in Luke is actually Mary's, (though this is never explicitly stated) tracing her back to David. In addition, there are a few women so well-respected that Matthew felt the need to mention them: Tamar, Bath-sheba, Rahab and Ruth (who is in fact the great-grandmother of David).
Unclear
Characters.The Haunted Mansion
RaceLift.Changing The Minority
Fanfic.Rainbow In The DarkSayer and Kalash93 said that it is possible that Rainbow in the Dark exists in the same universe, although perhaps not in the same continuity as Racer and the Geek. Small nods, links, and references are present. This is still completely nebulous.
- Losing Your Head: Uncle Theodore (Thurl Ravenscroft's character)'s head is cursed to fall off according to Word of Dante.
RaceLift.Changing The Minority
- This Race Lift extended to other members of the Holy Family and to some degree became Word of Dante; there was an account of a Marian apparition
— possibly that of the Virgin of Guadalupe — in which the witness of the vision was rebuked by a priest at least in part because he described her as having dark skin.
- Alternate Character Reading: Though Seto is a unisex name, Seto's 'female name' was originally Seri, which uses the same kanji. Word of Dante/God, AKA UsagiSquared herself, states that she never knew that Seto was a unisex name to begin with. But that's okay. It's later a major plot point in Noa's Virtual World.
Fanfic.Rainbow In The DarkSayer and Kalash93 said that it is possible that Rainbow in the Dark exists in the same universe, although perhaps not in the same continuity as Racer and the Geek. Small nods, links, and references are present. This is still completely nebulous.
Misuse
Characters.The Incredible Hercules
Fanfic.Dalton
- In response to the aforementioned joke at his funeral, Writer Greg Pak has also confirmed that he and Fred Van Lente fully interpreted Hercules as being bisexual. Word of Saint Paul
Fanfic.Dalton
- Word of Dante: The actual Warblers actors on Glee have read this fic. One, Aaron Page, has "claimed" the part of Logan. It was in his Twitter bio for a while. Focuses on actors, not fans
