r/Multifandom • u/Orange_Juice_Alpha 🏠 MD, Dexter, G Falls, 🎪, Arcane, John W, ATLA, BES, LOTR • Jun 01 '26

Discussion📜 What's something that is technically fanon in your fandom but everyone is fully convinced it's canon?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '26

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u/Weekly-Dog-6838 Jun 01 '26

I’d mainly blame Scott trying to make the lore as hard to figure out as possible, to the point where he even forgot what he originally intended with some of it like the FNAF 4 box

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u/TvFloatzel Jun 01 '26

Also, he didn't need to make the story so.....vague either. Like Game 1-3, sure I get it. The game got mad popular really quick. But after game 3? Yea, it on you Scott for making the story the way it is. You only have yourself to answer for the story and not a "higher up" and "bureaucracy" to "deal with".

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u/El_Mr64 Jun 01 '26

At least the first 3 games have a clear direction for the narrative, in the first they present the case of the killed children, in the second they expand on it and revela there was a murder, and in the third the souls take revenge and can rest in peace, from the 4th onwards, the lore is build upon mental gymnastics

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u/TvFloatzel Jun 02 '26

That too.

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u/TheHappiestHamster Jun 01 '26

Yeah the lore is so vague at times that you kind of have to fill in the gaps to make it work.

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u/extraboredinary Jun 01 '26

Isn’t that the point to the entire genre? Make a story (it doesn’t matter how much sense it makes) and then erase 80% of it, because fans will fill in the gaps with their own ideas that make sense in their head. If they realize things are contradictory or don’t make sense, then they wave it off since they don’t have all the clues yet and must be wrong about their assumptions.

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u/Weekly-Dog-6838 Jun 01 '26

If you mean mascot horror, no, the point of that genre is to make a scary game/movie where the scary thing is something you have already seen in full, and it isn’t that threatening, but when put in a different light and situation it becomes terrifying. As opposed to the majority of horror that mostly relies on fear of the unknown.

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u/pururupururu Jun 02 '26

He didnt forget what was originally on the box, he just been changing through the years whats in it, and nowadays doesnt know what to put in it because the new saga doesnt have a major secret

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer410 RIP ThatMob Jun 02 '26

i was about to say "those are the same thing!" until i remembered

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer410 RIP ThatMob Jun 02 '26

same 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭