Presumed Flop: A successful work is falsely remembered as a failure.Mandela Effect: When the audience misremembers a particular event, work or person en masse.I Am Not Shazam: Assuming that the title of a work is the main character's name.God Never Said That: Fans either misinterpret something the creator said or assume the creator said something when they said no such thing.
Fandom-Enraging Misconception: A good way to piss off the fandom is to bring up a misconception of the work.Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Documentations of a work get their facts about the work blatantly wrong, to the point that people familiar enough with the work will know that they didn't do their research properly.Beam Me Up, Scotty!: An iconic catchphrase that either doesn't actually exist or is really a misquoted variant of what the character actually said.Named for a Saturday Night Live game show sketch in which the questions were selected by experts reflecting things all high school seniors should know, and the answers were selected from a survey of high school seniors (that is, they were wrong). Such fallacies are often used by actual fans as a yardstick of the difference between themselves and the masses, although fans themselves are not immune to holding these misconceptions (particularly by confusing Fanon and Canon).Īll the same, these notions can be so firmly entrenched in the public zeitgeist that they can force their way into adaptations, much to the annoyance of the aforementioned fans. Casual viewers or readers of a work will often come away with their fair share of mistakes that, over time and through word of mouth, evolve into widespread misconceptions. As it turns out, people as a whole know less than they think they do. There are some things that everyone knows.
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