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— Marvel Editor Tom DeFalco on Changes to a story are an aversion to, but such changes are a necessary part of and. What makes such changes an Authors Saving Throw is when the creators add them to (or remove them from) a story based on what they've heard from their audience. Even writers without capabilities usually gain some form of access to the fandom that has spawned around their creation. They may find out that a they wrote was not well-received and decide to that storyline.

Or they may learn what fans were inspired to do, and incorporate those things into later works as a to the fans. Named for a common term originating in; a 'saving throw' is a die roll representing, say, a hero's attempt to catch themselves when falling off a cliff, or the 's attempt to resist the urge.

• Many fans were angered when they learned that Ryo Saeba's partner, Kaori Makimura, was killed off in its spinoff. Because of this, Tsukasa Hojo, the author of both titles, that Angel Heart was not actually a City Hunter sequel, but a spin-off set in an featuring most of the same characters. •: • Fans claimed Sasuke was a ridiculously at the end of the manga, so Shippuden episode 479 added a shot of Sasuke sitting in prison while blindfolded and heavily restrained, while Sixth Hokage Kakashi jumps through hoops to try and get him released. • A minor one concerning a piece of dialogue: At one point during the final battle with Madara, Kakashi remarks that Sakura's feelings for Sasuke 'had changed over time', some fans interpreted and tried to use this as proof that Sakura didn't love Sasuke anymore; However the anime adaptation added another line where he explicitly clarifies that she but it's now on a. And they end up married at the end of the series. • Many fans had started to disapprove of the incredible over-the-top antics and aspects of, especially since all signs pointed to it being a sequel to (Tenchi says it's been two years since they all got together and when Noboyuki mentions Achika, the young, schoolgirl version from Tenchi Muyo in Love appears).

Episode 13 and 14 later revealed that it was firmly an AU. • was originally intended to end at the Yomi arc, with the apparent deaths of 002 and 009. This would end the manga at volume 15 (or volume 10 in the USA release, which is where Tokyopop did in fact end things).

Fan revolt and the popularity of the series convinced Ishinomori to resume the manga soon enough, and he threw in a retcon stating that 001 managed to teleport the two to safety before they could die (they still wound up comatose and having to be rebuilt, but were alive). •: The Madarame Harem Arc ended with no real winner, making many fans upset that a two-year-long build-up essentially amounted to nothing and possibly even dismissed the development of another character. By the penultimate chapter, several of the characters rag on Madarame before Saki and Kousaka join them to settle the decisions once and for all while calling out his reasoning, telling him to go with Sue. •: The Tartarus arc contained the following saving throws: • People started to view Gray as a ever since the occurred, so Gray receives some, and a much needed unique only to him.

• Because the Oracion Seis are rather popular in the fanbase, Jellal tries to recruit them. • used a different Mewtwo over the one from and. This new Mewtwo ended up as quite the, and soured many fans. The next movie to reuse past legendaries,, would heavily imply they were all the same ones that appeared in their original movies ( at the end of ). • In, the Dressrosa arc was, at almost 2,000 pages long and going on for over two years in Weekly Shonen Jump. As if Eiichiro Oda was apologizing for it dragging on, the following arc, the Zou arc, is literally one-fifth of Dressrosa's length.

• In, one criticism of the Side B semifinals is that all four teams tended to stay in the same positions for much of the round, particularly Rinkai's overwhelming lead and Usuzan being dead last and in danger of going bust for a fair portion of the match. The captain match, however, seems to address this by having things get shaken up a bit, to the point at which Usuzan briefly gets to second place. •: The fact that Souma's father Jouichirou is a world famous chef and one of the best chefs to come out of Tootsuki initially seems to run counter to theme that Souma is simply an everyman who proves that anyone can succeed. Subsequent chapters establish that Jouichirou never actually taught Souma how to cook and didn't even want him to become a chef. It was only through challenging his father every day that Souma gradually became a skilled chef. • In there is a series of episodes where the White Base is in enemy territory on Earth, they need to pass through North and Central America to reach Jaburo.

During this time they run low on spare parts and their mobile suits end up in really bad disrepair. Manual Del Sistema Valery Gerasimov. Fans have often asked whey they didn't start salvaging some of the many Zeon suits that Amuro periodically destroyed to use as backups (especially since Ryu Jose and Hayato are stuck piloting the Guntank, which is basically a cap-ship's cannon on treads).

When the story was retold in the Guntank was eventually replaced with a salvaged and modified Zaku which Kai Shiden piloted until they reached Jaburo. • In the original series of, some people complained about how Shinji behaved during the Bardiel incident, where and turned it against NERV, holding its pilot hostage. While it was understandable that Shinji would be reluctant to destroy Unit-03 completely as Gendo was ordering him to, he refused to even try to defend himself against the possessed Eva, even when it had its hands around Unit-01's throat and was about to kill him. Obviously this wouldn't help the hostage either, and Shinji is being so immature that it didn't seem that unreasonable when Gendo activated the Dummy Plug system instead. When it came time for the same scene in, Shinji does grab Unit-03's arms by the wrists and force them away from Unit-01's neck, so Bardiel and overpowers him.

He's still not willing to go all-out to save himself (especially as he knows it's Asuka inside the Eva this time), but he doesn't seem quite so childish and it makes Gendo's use of the Dummy Plug more of the moment it was intended to be. •: After the anime adaptation's third season changed a number of events in a chaotic and filled manner, the author went so far as to write an 'EX Novel' that establishes that the changed events of the third season were the result of an attempting to. The timeline is then corrected by the main character's future children. When a fourth season of the anime was announced, they were quick to assure fans that the changed events of the third season would be ignored, and the fourth will be sticking to the novels' plotline. • had a particularly weak fourth season, and is generally considered the point of where all the story's weak bits began showing. This eventually required the author to retcon almost the entire season into being a shared dream.

The problem was that, while the Saving Throw wasn't a full-blown, people still raged against it because it ended up (apparently) eliminating what they did liked about the season. Which resulted into a and the story becoming 'dormant'. • Readers of the story, 'The Subsistence' were baffled by Dawn's sudden prowess with guns, and most complained that it was an. Then Cornova wrote 'The Incipience' and did some minor rewriting which better explained Dawn's sudden gain of.

• The fan fic, got significant backlash over the. The author accepted the legitimacy of these concerns and set out to completely rewrite the story. • A common complaint about is that the Cruciatus Curse is demoted from being a nightmarish torture to the equivalent of flogging — the students take to bragging about how often they get cruciated.

Thanfiction wrote a scene in Chapter 21 of the first story where Neville, facing Bellatrix, gets hit with the curse — and thinks to himself, just before he whites out from the pain, that the Carrows never did a proper one. • was hit with a over Twilight by her via adopting her younger self and taking her away to the future, especially since it happened offscreen. The sequel, Integration, addressed some concerns the fans had.

It shows that Twilight did offer Starlight the same chance of redemption that she got in canon, but, meaning that. Also, despite her friends, brother, and fellow princesses being extremely supportive of her decision and believing that it was necessary in those circumstances, Twilight is haunted by what she did, feeling like she had purposely murdered the original Starlight, which combined with her being the meant she felt undeserving to be filly Starlight's adoptive mom. • Parodied in 's 3: Predator vs Digimon. Peter Chimaera is a well known writer of and is notorious for his intentionally inaccurate portrayals of the source material he writes fanfiction about.

His first two Digimon stories, for example, erroneously used the name Digimon for a single character, rather than the collective term for multiple species of digital creatures, like it is in the original source. After a lot of complaints about this by people who did not realize the joke, Chimaera pretends he realized this mistake and retcons it in Digimon 3, saying the character Digimon belongs to a new species of Digimon he specifically created for his story. • Legend says that Stesichorus (a Greek poet, who lived in the ) was struck with blindness after he wrote his original poem, in which the author bashed Helen for causing. He recants it by writing down another, but not as popular, oral version of her myth. The other version claims that the real Helen had spent the whole duration of the war in Egypt, and the Helen who went to Troy was just note The Illiad mentions an Eidolon, or image-double, too, but it looks like Homer, or whoever the original author of The Illiad was, couldn't make it fit well with the rest story, so they scrapped it, and the Eidolon concept remains there to be recognized only by hardcore fans of comparative mythology or scholars.

Also used a version of this story in his Helen. This became recognized as a palinode, a literary form, in which a poet writes a second poem to disavow an earlier one. •, wrote two versions of the story of Hippolytus.

Only the survives, but it is widely believed that in the original version outraged the audience because Phaedra (wife of the great hero Theseus) lusts without shame after her step-son Hippolytus, and brazenly attempts to seduce him. The second, surviving version bends over backwards to make Phaedra blameless (she's deeply ashamed of her feelings, and only seems to come on to her step-son because her nurse betrays her). She still comes to no good end, committing suicide and attempting to frame Hippolytus for rape. • A well-known example can be found in stories. In The Adventure of the Final Problem Doyle had both Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty apparently die in a waterfall; after public outrage (and ) he the event, allowing the detective to defeat the and survive. • The novel Scourge had the, Karona, gather five powerful beings representing the colors of magic, namely Multani, Teferi, Fiers, Llowalyn, and Yawgmoth, that Yawgmoth (the of the Weatherlight Saga), who was dramatically killed,. The storyline fans were not amused at the news.

A few years later, the Time Spiral block trilogy had Teferi deny his meeting with Karona, and several characters stated that they'd personally confirmed that Yawgmoth was dead. • In, wrote a new ending for when the original wasn't well received by fans. •: • The franchise has been up to its elbows in these. First the controversial books introduced, and her philosophy that the Force was too complex to be summed up as simple light vs. This ticked off a lot of fans, so the writers did the and in response, which had Jacen Solo (Vergere's main pupil) become a and fall to as a result of her teachings.

Problem was, many fans felt bothered with Jacen's fall, so the current series is it to have been not because of Vergere's teachings, but because he encountered something during a journey through the galaxy that made him go crazy. • 's has been very polarizing, due to her single minded approach to storytelling. After four novels of vicious anti-Jedi sentiment at the hands of the Mandalorian characters, she included two scenes in her last novel to try and fix things up. First, she made call out Skirata for being an asshole, and the renegade clones a bunch of brainwashed slaves, effectively comparing Skirata to the Jedi he was trying to save his troops from. Then, she revealed Djinn Altis' rogue Jedi convent, giving a fresh perspective that was separate from both the Republic Jedi and the Mandalorians, putting a on the whole series focus. • A example: Her first book,, was despised by the fandom for the scientist Catherine Halsey while portraying her rival Admiral Parangosky as a model of honesty. Thus, in her second book, Parangosky was now depicted as more sinister and ruthless (willing to starve an entire species by secretly making their crops and meat inedible) while Halsey gets some sympathetic reveals, such as that she still cries over the death of her daughter Miranda Keyes.

• In-universe, and somewhat more literal, example in the fifth book (sorry, ), Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman. Ribble (who, via a — apparently the Hypno-ring George and Harold used works in reverse on women — turned into Wedgie Woman) sprays on Captain Underpants, rendering him powerless. George and Harold, in an effort to save the Captain, quickly write a comic book to try to negate this weakness. To make a long story short. •: The People's Republic of Haven started the series as a welfare state gone wrong, with the majority of its citizens on welfare, not contributing to the economy, forcing the Republic to conquer in order to survive. A lot of people have taken this as an attack on the concept of a welfare state. In the novella I Will Build My House of Steel, found in the Manticore companion book House of Steel, Weber mentions that several other star systems, influenced by Haven, enacted similar reforms, but they actually pulled it off without gutting their economies, by virtue of having relatively honest politicians.

Until, that is, they got conquered by Haven. • When Weber introduced the concept of the prolong treatment in the second book of the series, The Honor of The Queen, it's explicitly stated that the 3rd generation prolong treatment, which is given in infancy, extends all stages of life, such that people from a planet without prolong are stated to be disturbed to be visiting a Manticoran warship that looks like it's crewed mostly by teens and pre-teens (really crew in their chronological 20s and 30s). Later in the series it's also mentioned that the (mixed sex) crews are required to have birth control implants while serving on ships because sex between consenting crew members who spend long periods in close quarters is considered inevitable, and is tolerated. When the and factor of those two facts considered together was pointed out (and that this would be true of the entire culture, not just the military), later stories in the universe make a point of mentioning that prolong also includes treatment that causes one to physically at a normal rate until they reach adulthood,. • In-universe example in; a fan kidnaps a writer to force him to do an Author's Saving Throw after he killed off a beloved character in his series. • In the series, John Scalzi reveals in the afterword of Zoe's Tale that he decided to do a of the previous book rather than continuing the story, as he was never happy with Zoe's offscreen recruitment of a whole army, and thought the many fans that accused it of being a had a good point. He also took the opportunity to provide more closure to the werewolf storyline.

• • Many fans complained that, since catching the basically scored 15 times as many points as a goal and ended the game, the Seeker made the rest of the game irrelevant. Shaw Laminate Flooring Installation Moisture Testing there. The World Cup game shown in demonstrates that—at the professional level, at least—a world-class Seeker is no match for a good team. The Weasley twins successfully manage to win a bet that Ireland's team will win the game, but that Bulgaria's Seeker will still get the Snitch, showing that catching the Snitch doesn't guarantee victory. • One of the most disliked elements of the series was the idea of sending Harry to live with the.

Even if they didn't know the Dursleys would turn towards Harry, they certainly did by the end of the first novel. The original explanation - Dumbledore wanted Harry raised away from the Wizarding world to guard against Harry growing up arrogant and entitled - only served to inflame the readership's condemnation, pointing out that if that was all that Dumbledore wanted, Harry could have been simply dropped off at an orphanage or another place where Harry was guaranteed to find a loving Muggle family. Come, we find out that Harry's next door neighbor was actually Dumbledore's agent, sent to make sure Harry was safe. Then in the final chapters, Dumbledore reveals the REAL reason he sent Harry to the Dursleys: because of the nature of Lily's enchantment, it meant that as long as Harry was under the guardianship of her family, he had magical protection away from Hogwarts from the Death Eaters. Petuina Dursley, Lily's estranged older sister, was the only remaining relative of hers, leaving Dumbledore with no choice but to leave Harry there.

Later, Dumbledore apologizes to Harry for putting him through all of that and admits that Harry grew up to become a much better person than anybody would have expected under those kind of circumstances. • In 's sixth season, magic was portrayed as akin to a drug, which was highly dangerous and addictive, and could even lead to users becoming 'junkies' willing to do anything for a 'fix,' as happened to Willow slowly over the course of the season.

Himself didn't like this development, and fans agreed; season seven's first episode featured a scene where Giles explicitly states that magic is not addictive, and it's explained that Willow's actions were actually due to her not using magic. • The episode 'The Girl In Question' was reviled by the fans for many reasons but mostly because Buffy was revealed to be dating an figure named 'The Immortal' who happened to be an old rival of Buffy's previous lovers Angel and Spike. This was for a long time the last thing known about her in the entire Buffyverse.

The comic continuation revealed that this Buffy was actually another slayer impersonating her and that Andrew Wells lied to Angel and Spike. • • In, Alpha Five was replaced with Alpha Six, a. Didn't go over well. At the end of Turbo, he's damaged and repaired with speech circuitry meant for Alpha Five, making him an of his predecessor during and. •: One of the complaints from was that the Samurai Rangers had Mega Mode for use in the Megazord but never explained why the Rangers couldn't use it in regular battle. So in 'The Royal Rangers', Kendall introduces the Dino Drive mode, specifically stating it was just for when the Rangers use the Megazord. •: • In the first film for, the very serious and nihilistic Doctor Shinigami suddenly appears, after being Natsumi's rather quirky grandfather for the whole season.

Fans didn't understand. So, in the second film, they make him that way again.

But this time, they reveal that he's under the effect of a 'Doctor Shinigami' type Gaia Memory. Which is an obvious throw, as those are introduced in the next, only-barely-related series,. • The series also tried to address the controversy around Tackle, the from, who was and never officially declared a Kamen Rider, mostly due to the fact that she's a woman. • In Movie War 2010, Decade meets an version of Tackle, whose entire backstory revolves around the fact that she was. Tackle ends up pulling a near the end, but not before helping out Decade and.

She is also a much better fighter than the original, who was often a. • tried to offer a non-sexist explanation as to why Tackle isn't considered a legitimate Kamen Rider. • tried to mitigate the fan backlash over the series' tone (as well the general complaints from fans of the ) by bringing back the previous Kamen Riders as part of the show's final storyline. Prior to this, both Black and Black RX were supposed to have been part of a.

• A month after the Season 3 finale, it was announced that, in part due to fan reaction, it wasn't Sara Tancredi's, and she would be back next season. The other big part of the decision was the fact that Sara had only been killed in the first place because of behind-the-scenes drama between the then-pregnant actress and the executive producers. By the fourth season, everyone was friends again so the character returned. And ironically got pregnant.

• The third season finale of, Zack is revealed to have been manipulated into becoming the apprentice to a cannibalistic serial killer, and claims to have murdered a man. During an episode of the fourth season, he says that he didn't actually kill anyone himself, he just told the Gormogon where to find a victim and claims he would have killed the victim himself if the Gormogon had told him to.

In his mind, this equated to having done the deed himself. •: • The included a scene in which the Doctor says that he is half-human; this was widely disliked and subject to. To ameliorate this, without upsetting the fans who enjoy this interpretation ( doubled down on making him half-human), that the Doctor did indeed utter those words, very carefully not specifying whether they were true. After all, the Doctor lies. 'Hell Bent', the Moffat-penned Series 9 finale, has Ashildr/Me ask the Doctor if he's half-human (it has to do with the possibility that he is The Hybrid), but he only asks her if it matters what he is by way of reply, and the conversation takes another path from there. • In /, the depiction of the Ood as a happy servitor race and the Doctor's acceptance of it as unprob.