Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in fictional story telling whereby facts and events established through the narrative...
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The film (likewise with the connected sequels) is an alternate retroactive continuity of the Brady Bunch storyline and lore, based on the kitschy-camp...
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for ex post facto law Retroactive data structures, datum structures that allow modifications to past actions Retroactive continuity in fiction Retrospective...
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In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 is the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics titles take place. The designation "Earth-616"...
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MacGuffins, product placement, long running times, and excessive retroactive continuity changes (or retcons). The first Transformers film received mixed...
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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...
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Reboot (fiction) (redirect from Reboot (continuity))
Retrieved 19 July 2018. Proctor, William (7 April 2017). "Reboots and Retroactive continuity". The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds: 230–231. Retrieved...
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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...
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Postdiction (redirect from Retroactive clairvoyance)
Divination Forer effect Fortune-telling Hindsight bias Magical thinking Retroactive continuity Texas sharpshooter fallacy Dennis, Simon; Kintsch, Walter (2007)...
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perspective of an adult recalling his childhood. Given a host of retroactive continuity issues explored within the series, he has since been considered...
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of the Underground Railroad. Batman's history has undergone many retroactive continuity revisions, both minor and major. Elements of the character's history...
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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...
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data Middle-earth canon – Works of Tolkien set in Middle-earth Retroactive continuity – Revision of existing facts in succeeding works of fiction Canon...
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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...
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facts is sometimes deliberate; this is a retcon, as it is a retroactive change in continuity. Retcons sometimes clarify ambiguities or correct perceived...
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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...
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featured the journey to Saturn instead: Clarke acknowledges this retroactive continuity in his author's foreword. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Hyams, Peter (1984)...
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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...
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into the mainstream continuity following the 2016 "DC Rebirth" initiative, and in 2020, comes out to his children as gay, retroactively establishing this...
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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...
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Backstory (category Continuity (fiction))
previously written main story may require the adjustment device known as retroactive continuity, informally known as "retcon".[citation needed] Actors may create...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Seven Wonders (2012) by Steven Saylor Novels portal Clip show Retroactive continuity Weinberg, Robert (1980). "A.E. van Vogt". Icshi.net (interview)...
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the same fictional setting or have been incorporated into it via retroactive continuity include Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, Angels...
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Plot hole (category Continuity errors)
to "too long we've been rusting". Idiot plot Continuity (fiction) Deus ex machina Retroactive continuity "plot hole | Definition of plot hole in English...
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the original miniseries from Deadpool's point of view and used retroactive continuity to fix inconsistencies with later stories. In the end, the Wasp...
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Marge (Ellen Tobie) and they had two children together, though a retroactive continuity error cancelled the children from existence ("likes his snacks,...
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