Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

series was discontinued with Captain America #78 (Sept. 1954). Retroactive continuity, beginning with The Avengers #4 (March 1964), established that the...

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...

to "too long we've been rusting". Idiot plot Continuity (fiction) Deus ex machina Retroactive continuity "plot hole | Definition of plot hole in English...

of Storm on Luke Skywalker and Prince Isolder of Hapes. Through retroactive continuity, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (a 1985 made-for-TV film) was the language's...

time. One such tool is retconning, short for "retroactive continuity", which resolves errors in continuity that came about through previously-written conflicting...

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

Journalist Marcy Wheeler views this defense as a way to create retroactive continuity for DOGE. Wheeler also cites Ryan Goodman's evidence of times when...

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