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Most of the time, the Word of God knows exactly what it's talking about. It's consistent. It's, well, Canon. But sometimes, the Word of God can't quite make up its mind what to say. Maybe the writer hasn't decided what the right answer is, or the audience asked him a question he didn't think he'd have to answer at all. Maybe he actually changed his mind sometime after he gave the original answer. Sometimes, it's simply that the creator is a Lying Creator. Or the "creator" is actually a series of ghost writers as in some franchise series and Depending on the Writer don't do a great job of keeping the character consistent. Either way, a Flip Flop Of God is when the Word of God contradicts itself somehow. The fundamental unreliability this reveals -- any author, at any time, might commit this

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  • Most of the time, the Word of God knows exactly what it's talking about. It's consistent. It's, well, Canon. But sometimes, the Word of God can't quite make up its mind what to say. Maybe the writer hasn't decided what the right answer is, or the audience asked him a question he didn't think he'd have to answer at all. Maybe he actually changed his mind sometime after he gave the original answer. Sometimes, it's simply that the creator is a Lying Creator. Or the "creator" is actually a series of ghost writers as in some franchise series and Depending on the Writer don't do a great job of keeping the character consistent. Either way, a Flip Flop Of God is when the Word of God contradicts itself somehow. The fundamental unreliability this reveals -- any author, at any time, might commit this
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  • Most of the time, the Word of God knows exactly what it's talking about. It's consistent. It's, well, Canon. But sometimes, the Word of God can't quite make up its mind what to say. Maybe the writer hasn't decided what the right answer is, or the audience asked him a question he didn't think he'd have to answer at all. Maybe he actually changed his mind sometime after he gave the original answer. Sometimes, it's simply that the creator is a Lying Creator. Or the "creator" is actually a series of ghost writers as in some franchise series and Depending on the Writer don't do a great job of keeping the character consistent. Either way, a Flip Flop Of God is when the Word of God contradicts itself somehow. The fundamental unreliability this reveals -- any author, at any time, might commit this trope -- can be considered an argument in favor of the Death of the Author. Different from Retcon, because Retcons are changes to something that happens in the story, instead of the Word of God. When the author refuses to outright answer a question, it's a Shrug of God. Also different from a flip-flop worn by an in-universe god, or a god that's made of flip-flops. Examples of Flip-Flop of God include:
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