Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in fictional story telling whereby facts and events established through the narrative...

The film (likewise with the connected sequels) is an alternate retroactive continuity of the Brady Bunch storyline and lore, based on the kitschy-camp...

for ex post facto law Retroactive data structures, datum structures that allow modifications to past actions Retroactive continuity in fiction Retrospective...

MacGuffins, product placement, long running times, and excessive retroactive continuity changes (or retcons). The first Transformers film received mixed...

characters (as well as the Simpson family) that had been removed through retroactive continuity. The intent behind the meme is to satirize the Mandela effect and...

Retrieved 19 July 2018. Proctor, William (7 April 2017). "Reboots and Retroactive continuity". The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds: 230–231. Retrieved...

In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 is the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics titles take place. The designation "Earth-616"...

The All-Winners Squad is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The company's first such team, it first...

Divination Forer effect Fortune-telling Hindsight bias Magical thinking Retroactive continuity Texas sharpshooter fallacy Dennis, Simon; Kintsch, Walter (2007)...

perspective of an adult recalling his childhood. Given a host of retroactive continuity issues explored within the series, he has since been considered...

beginning during the events of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, the plot is a retroactive continuity to the earliest period in the Mortal Kombat series: the events of...

data Middle-earth canon – Works of Tolkien set in Middle-earth Retroactive continuity – Revision of existing facts in succeeding works of fiction Canon...

of the Underground Railroad. Batman's history has undergone many retroactive continuity revisions, both minor and major. Elements of the character's history...

facts is sometimes deliberate; this is a retcon, as it is a retroactive change in continuity. Retcons sometimes clarify ambiguities or correct perceived...

Bruce Wayne buying the house himself, by the 1950s at the latest, retroactive continuity established that the manor had belonged to the Wayne family for...

featured the journey to Saturn instead: Clarke acknowledges this retroactive continuity in his author's foreword. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Hyams, Peter (1984)...

Marvel's 1940s precursor, Timely Comics. In 1976, Marvel revealed via retroactive continuity that Mace had become the third Captain America some time after his...

of America (vol. 2). In The New 52 era, further changes to the retroactive continuity of the DC Universe were made, such as Cyborg, one of DC's premier...

else suggested that became one of the most significant cases of retroactive continuity in comic book history: Jean Grey had never actually been the Phoenix...

into the mainstream continuity following the 2016 "DC Rebirth" initiative, and in 2020, comes out to his children as gay, retroactively establishing this...

mental concept of what a Martian should look like. Later series use retroactive continuity (retcon) to establish that his real form is private and that, even...

appeared as Makkari in The Eternals #5 (November 1976), but through retroactive continuity was later established as also having been Mercury in Red Raven Comics...

the original miniseries from Deadpool's point of view and used retroactive continuity to fix inconsistencies with later stories. In the end, the Wasp...

the same fictional setting or have been incorporated into it via retroactive continuity include Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, Angels...

Charlie tries to reveal himself to Jake but fails. As a result of retroactive continuity, the series finale reveals that Charlie never dies but is held captive...

trials is executed with a weapon called the Retroactive Cannon, or Ret-Can (a reference to retroactive continuity, or "retcon", a practice used by storytellers...

previously written main story may require the adjustment device known as retroactive continuity, informally known as "retcon".[citation needed] Actors may create...

The Seven Wonders (2012) by Steven Saylor Novels portal Clip show Retroactive continuity Weinberg, Robert (1980). "A.E. van Vogt". Icshi.net (interview)...

Marge (Ellen Tobie) and they had two children together, though a retroactive continuity error cancelled the children from existence ("likes his snacks,...

subsequent adventures in the 1950s. It was established through retroactive continuity that the character was a completely different one from the original...