9 Video Game Fan Theories The Creators Completely Rejected

Ditto a failed clone of Mew? Guess again.

Mew Clone Ditto Pokemon
Niantic

Expecting video game makers to answer every little question you have is just plain ridiculous. They're busy people and they have a difficult enough time as it is having to deal with GamerGate's "intelligent debate." So no, you'll probably never definitively know the true secret of Monkey Island. Or how Kirby got his name. Or why Valve seem more content to make jokes about Half-Life 3 than actually making the f*ckng game.

Occasionally though, the game industry will do a JK Rowling and respond to specific fan theories. We already know, for instance, that Nintendo legend Satoru Iwata has confirmed that Super Smash Bros' characters are just toys and that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says Super Mario Bros 3 is indeed a play. It's all there in their own words.

But game creators have also been just as vocal in smashing some theories to bits as well...

9. Zero Went On A Crazed Killing Spree - Mega Man

Mega Man Zero
Capcom

The Theory

According to one popular theory, Maverick Hunter Zero - who turned up first in Mega Man X after being created by Dr Wily - has a dark secret. He apparently went berserk and killed the original Mega Man (as well as the rest of the original cast). Heavy stuff.

The Rejection

Well, not according to Keiji Inafune, the father of Mega Man forebear, Rockman, who took the opportunity of one session answering Capcom-Unity Member's questions to bat the theory away.

One fan submitted the question asking whether Zero had killed "the family" after the events of the Classic series and his response was: "No, Zero did not kill them. According to the way I created him, Zero is not such a person - it is not in his profile." And who would know better than him?

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