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intentionally lost continuity, not genuine retcons. However, in series with generally tight continuity, retcons are sometimes created after the fact to explain...

various versions of General Zod are replaced by a single version. Some retcons introduced during the Infinite Crisis storyline were the result of editors...

Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005. Set in the 2020s, Louder and Prouder retcons the original series as also having taken place in the 2020s (rather than...

and the Bold Volume 1 #28. This universe included several reboots and retcons starting with Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1986 and culminating in the...

increases in the series. Also, the science that Joe was going to apply to the retcon of the marriage would have made over 30 years of Spider-Man books worthless...

series had always been intended to be five issues long. The story presents a retcon that explains that many of the Punisher's more extreme and irrational actions...

within the franchise's narrative, as well as internal contradictions and retcons. The original series generally avoided assigning real-world dates to its...

gaining his retcon powers. Vriska forms a relationship with Meenah, and begins to accept that her role in the story is done. As John retcons the timeline...

Donna Troy is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She is the original Wonder Girl, and later temporarily adopts another...

archival service (link) Tardive, Ambrose (May 28, 2025). "1 of Marvel's Worst Retcons Might Be Overturned Before Long, And We Have the MCU to Thank". ScreenRant...

original run. The 2022 The Proud Family revival series Louder and Prouder retcons the events of the film to have been a dream. Penny Proud is about to celebrate...

September 13, 2015. "Rumors: Jesse Plemons Cast As Ben Skywalker, Boba Fett Retcon, & More – The Star Wars Underworld". Star Wars Underworld. January 17, 2014...

The Kree, briefly known as the Ruul, are an alien race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are native to the planet Hala...

work behind the scenes. The Illuminati was established to exist (via story retcon) in their first published appearance in New Avengers #7 (July 2005), written...

Secret Wars and Secret Wars II, the Beyonder experienced many notable retcons. At first, he was changed to a Cosmic Cube that was incomplete because...

Heart to travel around the U.S. with his girlfriend. The tenth season retcons most of the events of the prior season. Sacred Heart was never torn down...

John Marshall Stewart is one of the superheroes known as Green Lantern that appear in American comic books published by DC Comics. One of the first African-American...

characters, Purvis and Wade revealed that the film would provide a minor retcon to the continuity of the previous films, with the Quantum organisation alluded...

long running times, and excessive retroactive continuity changes (or retcons). The first Transformers film received mixed reviews from critics, with...

house and the board game the way they appeared in the film—the series retcons rather than using the film's storyline. In the series, the players are...

after the original series finale, the episode's intro scene effectively retcons many of the events of the finale out of existence as a daydream Karen experiences...

Proctor proposes that there is a distinction between reboots, remakes and retcons. The term is thought to originate from the computing term reboot, meaning...

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them to effectively control them. Robert "Bob" Kirkland, introduced in the retcon episode "Red Dawn", has engaged in numerous suspicious activities relating...

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Kofi (July 25, 2019). "Shang-Chi Casting May Confirm Major Mandarin Origin Retcon in MCU". ComicBook.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019. "7 EASTER EGGS TO LOOK...

media. The group was first deemed to be Bowser's children until the 2012 retcon by Shigeru Miyamoto, with the confirmation that they are no longer his children...

1990s portal Video games portal Ninjas in popular culture Future games retcon this into the Lin Kuei being hired by Shang Tsung to fight in the tournament...

finds that he can run at superhuman speed and has similarly fast reflexes. Retcons imply that the inhalation simply activated a latent metagene. After a brief...

created as a retcon to explain some events in the history of the Marvel Universe that were no longer plausible due to previous retcons. Their adventures...

Chris (June 8, 2011). "Time and Time Again: The Complete History of DC's Retcons and Reboots". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on March 24, 2018...

introduced at the start of the fifth season as part of a large in-story retcon: Characters accepted Dawn's presence as if she had always been there, and...

Street Fighter canon, but also occasionally addresses various continuity retcons, and even draws from fanon and non-official sources as well. UDON's Street...

The story Wrath Child, published in Batman Confidential issues 13–16, retcons Gordon's origin yet again: in this continuity, Gordon started his career...

of Frankenstein (1942) and The Wolf Man (1941), though with a number of retcons. Most significantly, Talbot only transforms into werewolf form during a...

August 15, 2014. Cao, Caroline (May 4, 2021). "Star Wars: The Bad Batch retcons a Jedi backstory that's key to Rebels". Polygon. Archived from the original...

presented Jackson's Shaft as the nephew of the original John Shaft; this film retcons him into being his son, mentioning that Sr had lied to his son for decades...

X-Treme X-Men #2 (August 2001) Lealos, Shawn (September 7, 2025). "10 Worst Retcons in Marvel History". ComicBook.com. Retrieved April 14, 2026. Dandeneau...

testified that Retcon squad one three killed innocent civilians without sanction, and wants a deal with the Pentagon to release the Retcon soldiers. Eric...

Spool's corpse. The 1990 sequel/prequel Psycho IV: The Beginning seemingly retcons the character of Emma Spool. In this film, Norman's father is stung to...

the category is strictly for persons aged 18 and above only. The story retcons the flashback from the first film, taking place in 1988 rather than 1985...

Teenage Witch sitcom, Salem's backstory and character underwent several retcons to bring it more in line with the sitcom's version. A late 1990s story...

It tells of the Postal Dude's adventures after Apocalypse Weekend, and retcons Postal III, referring to it as a "horrible vision of a future gone wrong...

1992 to May 16, 1998 in syndication. Highlander: The Series is a slight retcon of the 1986 feature film of the same name, it features a story-line in which...

numbered issues. The new storyline as presented in these issues effectively retcons the events from the previous New 52 series. "The Lies" storyline reveals...

Jennifer (May 22, 2014). "Hugh Jackman on X-Men: Days of Future Past, Retcon, and Why Wolverine Doesn't Multitask". Vulture. Retrieved November 28, 2023...

2019. Plante, Corey (October 31, 2019). "Terminator: Dark Fate boldly retcons the most cringeworthy part of T2". Inverse.com. Archived from the original...

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writers' solution was a retcon in which Mon-El served in the role of paragon instead of Superboy, with several more retcons to follow. Issue #5 featured...

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Winnie-the-Pooh in archive footage only. The sequence reveals through a retcon, that Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) is an in-universe B-movie...

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self-awareness. The Beyonder later underwent another retcon, briefly becoming a mutant inhuman, and after a last retcon is now considered to be a member of the alien...

2016-08-02. "HE-MAN: THE ETERNITY WAR #6 | DC". Dccomics.com. 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2016-08-02. How He-Man's Sword Retcons A Story From The Toy Line...

was sent twenty years into Earth-616's past. This allowed for several retcons which were used to explain that he (now known as Dark Beast) was responsible...

iteration of the team introduced in the early 1970s and later modified by retcons in the 1980s. This roster covers the iteration of the team introduced in...

fictional history stretching back to the Golden Age of Comic Books, including retcons and reboots; for example, they referred to Secret Crisis of the Infinity...

Rosanna Greenstreet. Cao, Caroline (4 May 2021). "Star Wars: The Bad Batch retcons a Jedi backstory that's key to Rebels". Polygon. Archived from the original...

introduction of "Pennyworth" this is treated as having always been their name by retcon. This name was subsequently given to an alternative version of the character...

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world. A retcon changed Lord's controller to the villainous computer program Kilg%re, which had taken over Metron's machine. A second retcon mitigated...

26, 2024. West, Amy (July 24, 2024). "No, Deadpool and Wolverine doesn't retcon Loki season 2: The new Marvel movie's tie-in with the TVA, explained". Total...

eight years old by a robber named Joe Chill, in 1924. According to a later retcon, Martha died from a heart attack soon after Thomas is shot. Like his Earth-One...

so the voyage in the film is to Jupiter instead. The second book, 2010, retcons the storyline of the first book to make the destination Jupiter as seen...

consciousness and data are uploaded to the Millennium Falcon, which serves as a retcon of the previous Star Wars films, including The Empire Strikes Back, in which...

Time #3. Batman Bruce Wayne Founding honorary member. History deleted by retcon after Crisis on Infinite Earths. Doctor Fate Kent Nelson Founding member...

Centauri in 2117 (though the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Broken Bow" later retcons the year of Cochrane's disappearance to be 2119 or later). James T. Kirk...

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(April 24, 2025). "Wednesday Season 2's New OG Addams Family Character Repeats A Big Retcon From The 1990s Movies". Screen Rant. Retrieved 30 April 2025....

and Television Series. McFarland. ISBN 9781476622231. The 2019 sequel retcons him into being Shaft II's biological father, the film mentioning that Shaft...

wrote that he "has virtually no story to speak of outside of the [MK9] retcon". His "Reverse Rip" from the reboot was rated 35th by Prima Games in their...

original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021. "Magic: The Gathering Retcons Iconic Planeswalker, And Fans Aren't Happy". Game Rant. November 15, 2019...

implied that the departure of the Hypertime concept, rather than a simple retcon, is Booster's work, as in the future he tasked himself with the role of...

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three official replacements until Rogers resumed the role years later. This retcon became necessary after Marvel's conflicting accounts of Captain America...

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company, was confirmed to return as the lead writer. The reveal trailer retcons the events of the Shisno Trilogy and Zero (seasons 15–18) as simulations...

to writing the New Gods in 2007's Death of the New Gods mini-series, the retcon was revised, with the Anti-Life Equation Entity being revealed to be one-half...

inconsistencies exist between Ponderosa and Bonanza, and a few glaring retcons are present. Most notable among these is the fate of Little Joe's mother...

several issues or, indeed, years. Origins are often subject to revision and retcons, and may find themselves having additional information retrofitted in at...

explanations by writers and editors at Marvel Comics following the story's retcon in 1986. At the time of the Dark Phoenix's creation, Byrne felt that, "If...

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loophole in the script allowing Barry Allen to be reintroduced, without a retcon, into DC Universe continuity. Wolfman first hinted at the loophole in his...

praising the art style and action, however criticized the story and the retcons, as well as the treatment of Ben Reilly. This storyline details Jackal...

assistant. Guillam is a major character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which retcons the chronology of Call for the Dead to make Guillam only forty in 1973...

archival service (link) Pitman, Robert (April 1, 2023). "6 Halloween Movie Retcons That Made The Franchise Better". Screen Rant.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated...

created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Bright. Trick Shot's introduction was a retcon to Hawkeye's origins, explaining how the character became a talented archer...

Giant Size Special was the character's only major appearance and was a retcon story, written as if she had been a superhero and member of the Justice...

Looniversity, but it never loses that nostalgic allure" and due to the retcon change for Buster and Babs being siblings instead of couples. This episode...

adaptations of Darkstalkers and Rival Schools. It addresses various continuity retcons, and draws from fan-fiction and non-official sources. In 2005, UDON released...

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Retrieved March 17, 2018. Williams, Jordan (December 27, 2021). "New Blood Retcons Dexter's Bay Harbor Butcher Drug". Screen Rant. Archived from the original...

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Spider-Man Proto-Goblin Nels van Adder Spider-Man #-1 (July 1997) In a retcon, Norman Osborn tests the incomplete version of the formula on Oscorp employee...

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directing credit. A recap sequence, detailing events of the first season, retcons the ending of the first-season finale "It's Cow or Never" by changing the...

influence on their lives. That's how she [fits in]". Describing the film's retcon of Fast Five (2011), Leterrier said it was to "explore the price of justice"...

Gamora, it is revealed that Nebula was raised alongside Gamora by Thanos, a retcon inspired by the character's depiction in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

free. Psycho IV: The Beginning, the fourth and final film in the series, retcons the revelations of the second and third film, supplying that Norman's father...

February 1, 2022. "D&D: WotC's New Batch of Errata Removes Racial Alignments, Retcons Drow". Bell of Lost Souls. 2021-12-14. Archived from the original on 2022-02-01...

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established that he acted as the Rocketeer in the past. However the series retcons the setting of Los Angeles to the fictional Hughesville, in reference to...

Without Fear miniseries. With artist John Romita Jr., Miller expanded his retcon of the life and death of Murdock's father, Jack Murdock, and Murdock's first...

Christmas films Santa Claus in film The 2022 TV series The Santa Clauses retcons this event as an intentional action on Santa's part and shows him retiring...

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socialite. Some of the retcons introduced in Sandman Mystery Theatre have been reflected in modern DC continuity. One such retcon that was later overturned...

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usually declaring themselves the authorities when they want to erase or retcon materials that were approved by the setting's original creator (with Star...

October 5, 2019. The series gained a new animation style, small character retcons, and its accompanying subtitle: Masters of Myth. The series was first announced...

called "Him" (loosely based on Joseph Kony). In 2006, Moonstone published a retcon of the Phantom's origin, "Legacy", by Raab and Quinn. Three years later...

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previously. In an attempt to resolve the problem it was established through retcons that the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl had continued to operate sporadically...

the "Execute Program" story arc of The Invincible Iron Man (vol. 4), a retcon establishes that Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen had been captured not by Communists...

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

dramatically different designs of the Gundams, the story in Endless Waltz retcons them as if the original designs from the TV series never existed. However...

which wrapped up in No. 74 (legacy numbering 875). The story saw several retcons to the Spider-Man mythos including that Kindred was Gabriel and Sarah Stacy...

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(20 November 2023). "Russell T. Davies Explains Doctor Who's Big Davros Retcon". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 14 July...

common language of the Galaxy, explaining Cassian's accent. The series retcons Cassian's prior backstory as established in Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate...

Retrieved July 15, 2021. Tyler, Adrienne (October 7, 2023). "Loki Season 2 Retcons Season 1's Huge Kang Twist". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on...

became the first incarnation of the Doom Patrol. In keeping with the above retcon that he manipulated the original Doom Patrol's transformations, it has been...

Jordan (April 16, 2023). "Nicholas Hoult's Renfield Survived Dracula?! New Retcon Explained". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on April 16, 2023. Retrieved...

characters, some notable heroes—many of which continue to appear in modern-day retcon appearances and flashbacks—include the Whizzer, Miss America, the Destroyer...

ISBN 978-1-4654-3785-3. OCLC 905520892. Millien, Mark (June 1, 2022). "Brotherhood Retcons Several Of The Most Amazing Lightsaber Battles Of All Time". Comic Book...

Thor crying over a dead Wade Wilson, and potentially sets up a big Loki retcon". SFX. GamesRadar+. Archived from the original on April 12, 2024. Retrieved...

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#71 (December 1969) establishes that Namor was part of the Invaders, a retcon of his 1940s appearances that presents him as a member of a team of heroes...

adjustment device known as retroactive continuity, informally known as "retcon".[citation needed] Actors may create their own backstories for characters...

tie the game and film canons together, as it created contradictions and retcons. She apologized to everyone who did not like the movie. Before filming...

transitions the fantasy of the original film into science fiction, and retcons the mystical warriors of the first film into aliens. It received a harsh...

Beginning. Magnificus and Beautia were depicted as his only children. A second retcon in 1994 established Sivana as a wealthy tycoon with political influence...

Grabow). His Asher Thomas character was controversial, as his backstory was a retcon of Jason and A.J.'s history. He played a recurring character on season 3...

member of the Injustice Society who wields element-manipulating armor. In a retcon to Flash Comics #1, Hughes is said to have engineered the unlikely "accident"...

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World Records as the longest running story in video games without reboots, retcons, or revisions. The Mishima saga covering the first ten games until Tekken...

establish a St. Ninian's church near Redwall Abbey, but a later novel retcons St. Ninian's as a misnomer for a building that was never a church. The...

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Kofi (25 July 2019). "Shang-Chi Casting May Confirm Major Mandarin Origin Retcon in MCU". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved...

Mother Box. Since then, their marriage and daughter has been voided by a retcon during John Byrne's Jack Kirby's Fourth World series. When last shown, Dreamer...

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Steel retcon". Eurogamer. Retrieved October 30, 2020. Wood, Austin (October 18, 2018). "Bethesda explains the perceived Brotherhood of Steel retcon in Fallout...

reacquainted with Chandler Bing, Ross's college roommate; however, later episodes retcon this, and she is shown to have met Chandler on Thanksgiving, whilst Ross...

(2021-12-14). "D&D: WotC's New Batch of Errata Removes Racial Alignments, Retcons Drow". Bell of Lost Souls. Retrieved 2022-05-15. Jeremy Crawford (2021-02-21)...

Ozymandias believes), or by the Stasi of his native East Germany. In the retcon we learn that Hollis Mason, mistakenly believing him to be Müller, attacked...

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raised by Roman II for most of their lives. In 2002, Hogestyn said about the retcon: "This is daytime television, and you never know where the story is going...

of Enter the Dominatrix. Because of this, the narrative features many retcons, plot holes, and over-the-top moments, which the Saints acknowledge. The...

Coruscant Star Wars location First appearance Legends: Star Wars #61 (1982) (retcon) Heir to the Empire (1991) Canon: Return of the Jedi (1997 special edition)...

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When that team dissolves, Marvel retroactively changes the continuity ("retcon") of several members, having them join Citizen V's V-Battalion. After the...

story for Wonder Girl, her link to Wonder Woman having been severed due to retcons created in the aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths. Pérez sketched through...

requires familiarity with the 1982 film, and Watts' effort to "basically retcon the goofy biology of the movie alien, which was based on the goofy biology...

Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, and Luke Mitchell. The episode retcons the history of Hydra that was established in the films, tying it into the...

Retrieved September 6, 2015. Hunt, James (November 1, 2020). "Boba Fett Armor Retcon: The Mandalorian Changes Disney's Star Wars Canon?". Screen Rant. Archived...

with the real Doom returning in new armor to reclaim Latveria. Simonson's retcon suggested the last true appearance of Doom was in the "Battle of the Baxter...

Retrieved 2020-11-21. Hall, Charlie (2021-05-18). "Dungeons & Dragons retcons one of its most problematic characters". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-05-18...

that "making Mufasa and Scar something other than blood relations is a retcon, though it at least explains why they have different accents." The film's...

26, 2024. West, Amy (July 24, 2024). "No, Deadpool and Wolverine doesn't retcon Loki season 2: The new Marvel movie's tie-in with the TVA, explained". Total...

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retcon) Tony Isabella, Arvell Jones Marvel Premiere #20 (mentioned by name), Marvel Premiere #21 (first full appearance), Marvel Team-Up #1 (retcon)...

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this film is a direct follow-up to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, it also retcons most of its events by removing the character of Scrappy-Doo and all of...

life was already fully explored by Claremont, this would make a perfect retcon flashback that could set up a future relationship between Illyana and Strange...

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album, Retcon. Albums What Could Go Wrong (2016) Another Light (2017) Kerosene (2019) Realign (2020) Visions (2022) Afterthoughts (2022) Retcon (2026)...

Kermit's beginnings as one of over 2,000 tadpole children; the first chapter retcons the film Kermit's Swamp Years in many ways by reimagining the character's...

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Nick (November 10, 2025). "The Simpsons Just Redeemed One of Its Worst Retcons After 17 Years (But Not How You Think)". Comicbook.com. Retrieved November...

26, 2024. West, Amy (July 24, 2024). "No, Deadpool and Wolverine doesn't retcon Loki season 2: The new Marvel movie's tie-in with the TVA, explained". Total...

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status quo of their most popular characters became attractive. Although retcons were used as a way to explain apparent inconsistencies in stories written...

of his run-in with "some bozo in black". However, through some slight retcons, specifically with the non-chronological release of Spawn #19 and 20, the...

2022, and collected as Gwen Stacy: Beyond Amazing in 2024. Nick Spencer retcons and erases the story of Gwen Stacy's affair with Norman Osborn, in his...

participates in a jewel heist, and Chief Wiggum's wife Sarah receives a retcon and voice change for this episode as being an ex-criminal prostitute. Nick...

who die are often brought back to life through supernatural means or via retcons (retroactive changes to the continuity), the alteration of previously established...

flatline and have a funeral. Once Tylo reprised her character in 2005, a retcon explained that Taylor had actually gone into a coma. Stunts and complex...

Jim Downing and seems to have become allies with Simmons again, which retcons his betrayal until #297, which reveals that his betrayal is still canon...

then cracks his head with a wooden post and slashes his throat. Luciano retcons with an acquaintance in organized crime, where the guy translates a local...

brief membership in Justice League International). This began a series of retcons to the Hawkman characters that ended with a new Hawkman returning in the...

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4 years. (Though the character's exact ages were not determined until a retcon was established in season 11). In 2008, the New York City Chapter of the...

2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020. Orquiola, John (March 3, 2022). "Star Trek Retcons Completely Change Jean-Luc Picard's Origin". Screen Rant. Archived from...

the revelation that Lucrecia is the product of Rosario's rape creates a retcon so that Lucrecia is César's older sister. César Córdoba Pedraza (Diego Velásquez)...

(December 20, 2019). "Star Wars: All The Ways Rise of Skywalker Completely Retcons The Last Jedi". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 21...

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character. Attorney Jesse J. Kruger, however, noted that character reboots and retcons could create enough differences so that any future version of Superboy...

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Tom Harris, where she serves as "tech support" or a deus ex machina to retcon certain aspects of the original books. Although usually somber and deadpan...

Nazi Red Skull; Hydra's changing origin was one of the earliest Marvel retcons. After its initial defeat, several of its branches surfaced, appearing...

the Nazi Red Skull; Hydra's changing origin is one of Marvel's earliest retcons. After its initial defeat, some of its branches, such as its scientific...

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retelling of The Amazing Spider-Man #15 which incorporated several DeMatteis retcons, such as that Kraven was abusive towards the Chameleon. Sergei Kravinoff...

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to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. (This represents a retcon introduced in "Nightmare Planet.") Over the millennia the insects and plants...

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manufactured a false timeline, convinced friends in Natchez to vouch for the retcon, and offered a semi-plausible "they were confused about divorce law" excuse...

encounters the title creature 25 years after her mother trapped it in a well (a retcon from the original film, in which Nathan and Alex Murphy knocked the leprechaun...

which allows him to manifest the fabric of dreams into reality. A later retcon in The Sandman reveals that the Materioptikon is powered by Morpheus' Dreamstone...

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and one of the trolls, Terezi, survive. With Terezi's guidance, John retcons key events in the narrative, most notably Vriska's death, setting up a...

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the three-issue miniseries Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives in 1997, with the retcon that Kingsley was the original Hobgoblin while Leeds was brainwashed into...

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presents the latest revision of Superman's origin, containing many subtle retcons to Superman: Birthright, the latest major revision of Superman's continuity...

Tolkien's name was edited in all previously released material to match the retcon, including subtitles of past episodes. Because "The Big Fix" establishes...

included that the film being based on accurate science, that it would not retcon any events from the previous films, and that humorous dialogue be included...

Hobgoblin to replace the Green Goblin as Spider-Man's archenemy. In addition, a retcon during the "Clone Saga" determined that the original Green Goblin survived...

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the film's release, Warner Bros. Animation developed a stand-alone sequel/retcon reboot Return to Zombie Island from a different creative team, released...

issues of the origin story. Backstory Continuity Origin myth Prequel Reboot Retcon Hatfield, Charles; et al. (2013). The Superhero Reader. Jackson, Mississippi:...

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who wasn't before, and a different version of events." This game also retcons the ending of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, where Taven defeats Blaze, to...

side-stepping the 1994 Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! event, which similarly tried to retcon the history of the DCU). In 2005, the critically lauded Batman Begins film...

that Long was reprising his role as Brandon and that the move was meant to retcon the earlier film into the View Askewniverse. Long's character was not named...

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(April 1976). This story, by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Don Heck, retcons the Thin Man as a founding member of the superhero team the Liberty Legion...

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Colossus and sent his ashes to Russia – but as Astonishing would later retcon, this wasn't Colossus' real body. The actual corpse was in the possession...

back into reality, she is able to interact with other people again, which retcons the previous episode's cliffhanger. Noko explains that she came from an...

episode was directed by Rob Oliver and written by Al Jean. This episode is a retcon of the events of Homer's mother Mona Simpson since "Mother Simpson", in...

little, like fellow World War II vet and agent Dum Dum Dugan, despite a retcon explanation for agency head Nick Fury's youthfulness. As a S.H.I.E.L.D....

Eye spying on all mutants, who also kidnapped Domino. This series also retcons multiple X-Men backstories with the introduction of ForgetMeNot. His power...

renamed The New Titans, rewriting the origin of Wonder Girl, following the retcons in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Pérez remained as penciller with the book...

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Pat McGrath Ve Neill Charlotte Tilbury Gucci Westman "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi, 2017-04-03, ISBN 978-1-4968-1132-5...

Elly. Guido Sardenia in the Revelations localization; Eternal Punishment retcons this name into an alias. Chris in the Revelations localization. Revelations:...

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City. This may be the first use of the name of this city in comics. Later retcons established Mr. Scarlet's base in either New York City or Fawcett City...

Massachusetts". www.cambridgema.gov. Retrieved November 13, 2023. "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi, April 3, 2017, doi:10...

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decapitates him. Halloween: Resurrection, which picks up three years after H20, retcons Michael's death, establishing that the man Laurie decapitated was a paramedic...

Halloween, served as a direct sequel to the original 1978 and effected a retcon of previous sequels; Universal Pictures distributed the film and its subsequent...

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(except for a non-canonical one-off story in 2024). Friday's adventures are a retcon of the Rogue Trooper storyline. Since all the G.I.s were identical and had...

latest Fallout controversy that claims Todd Howard used the Fallout show to 'retcon' non-Bethesda Fallout games". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on April...

she was an unwitting pawn) to steal Diet Smith's Moon technology. In a retcon, her powers are high voltage electricity and telepathy. Buddy Waldorf; -...

to him, the Punisher snaps, "I don't want to talk about it". The series retcons the events in Marvel Super Action #1, which had the Costa brothers die...

2022). "Dominion's New Maisie Origin Story Is A Massive Jurassic World Retcon". ScreenRant. Retrieved October 25, 2022. Cheeda, Saim (June 18, 2022)....

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to Transformation Island by Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Following the retcons in Crisis on Infinite Earths, the group's history begins when they menace...

hour's drive from New York. Overall, despite having been written before the retcon introduced in the Resident Evil remake and Resident Evil Zero, the book...

turtleneck," and the relationship was ruined). In the revived series, which retcons the events of the first series finale, Grace has divorced Leo, and is once...

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Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7948-4213-0. Retrieved 5 June 2025. "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi, 2017-04-03, ISBN 978-1-4968-1132-5...

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for Extant! (the details of which are listed above). After this, DC also retcons Monarch's portion of Hall's timeline with the final issue of the six-issue...

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2026. Koselke, Anna (September 17, 2025). "CD Projekt Red dev once again retcons V's age in Cyberpunk 2077, assuring fans the protagonist "is 27 not 22...

after she had treated him from a brutal beating). The backup introduces a retcon in which the Joker is responsible for orchestrating the major moments of...

April 9, 2021. Raymond, Nicholas (March 2, 2021). "Dragon Ball's Hercule Retcon Is Actually A Correction". Screen Rant. Retrieved April 9, 2021. "Translations...

the Cat lives in Burnham, etc. Lord Snooty's returns in the 21st century retcons Bunkerton as a district in Beanotown. Anderson, born in England, is the...

Betsy Ross. Created by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Frank Robbins in the Retcon series The Invaders #26 (March 1978), she had appeared, sans power, as Gwenny...

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un-marry a character, or fix something like that: you just do a huge universal retcon, and say a few events in history didn't happen. But that's really not the...

first time. The discrepancy is eventually explained when it is revealed by retcon that the first "Hercules" encountered was actually an alien Space Phantom...

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eight component parts of the drama. In making his argument, he attempts to retcon much of the Greeks and Shakespeare by making opinions of what they meant...

Magdalene brainwashed her into believing she was from Drakulon. Further retcons were presented in Vampirella Lives and in Blood Lust. Drakulon is real...

the Klingons were somewhat rebooted with a "turtle-head" look, although a retcon was given to explain this in an Enterprise episode. Other story arcs focus...

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The Return (1999) (retcon) Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) (V) (retcon) Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) (V) (retcon) Urusei Yatsura *...

Mandarin's martial arts powers has been the subject of multiple implied retcons by Marvel Comics. The Mandarin is one of Marvel Earth's greatest scientific...

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Cyclops' relationships are particularly complicated because of the many retcons involved in the publication history of the Jean Grey and Madelyne Pryor...

graphic novel Gamora: Memento Mori (2017). While being set on Earth-616, it retcons some elements of the established continuity to match the film version.[citation...

Retrieved October 27, 2025. Bradley, Ollie (January 13, 2024). "Echo Retcons Maya Lopez's Powers To Be Something Greater Than The Comics". Screen Rant...

April 7, 2024. Cao, Caroline (May 4, 2021). "Star Wars: The Bad Batch retcons a Jedi backstory that's key to Rebels". Polygon. Archived from the original...

Vermis crashed until being recaptured and hypnotized by Hydra. Origin retcons the spider-blood serum and genetic accelerator elements of the character's...

thus new scenes were filmed to present the episode as a "flashback". The retcon explanation in "Runaway" is that Detective Jeffries transferred to Vice...

host, bestowing its power to a host willingly. This followed a similar retcon as Parallax, originally the new supervillain alias of Hal Jordan, which...

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British progressive magazine the New Statesman felt that the episode was a retcon, making a serious story about the character's homosexuality instead of the...

was not present in the original series. One storyline in this comic book retcons the "serious episodes" - which some critics claim ended about a third of...

Vergil was alive. However, Hideki Kamiya gave Morihashi the freedom to retcon Vergil's backstory and make him a living teenager for the events of Devil...

grandfather, a Vaudeville ventriloquist, left Conky to him. This could be a retcon for Conky's origin or an indication of Conky's warping influence on Bubbles'...

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as most branches tend to return to the original stream (explaining some retcons as well as crossovers). However, all realities existed within only one...

Retrieved 2021-05-13. Hall, Charlie (2021-05-18). "Dungeons & Dragons retcons one of its most problematic characters". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-05-18...

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series, most characters in the DC Comics universe underwent some revamp or retcon in their storyline history, and Wonder Woman was one of several characters...

is seemingly non-sensical and indicates a possible continuity error or retcon. "The Official Website for Assassin's Creed ® : Blade of Shao Jun". Viz...

went to high school with the gang, where she and Dee dated the same guy (a retcon after not knowing Dee when they "first meet" in the second episode of the...

Summers). She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168 (April 1983). Multiple retcons in her publication history and that of Jean have particularly complicated...

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animation studio J.C.Staff. Unlike the first season, the second season retcons the events of the first season by claiming at the onset that a month has...

considered to have happened concurrently with the Justice Society's in a retcon. The headquarters for the JSA was a hotel suite in New York City initially...

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2023. Oddo, Marco Vito (May 6, 2023). "'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' Retcons a 'Vol. 1' Easter Egg". Collider. Retrieved July 23, 2023. Silverio, Ben...

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the Eugenics Wars). The later series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would retcon this to taking place in the mid-21st century, concurrent with the nuclear...

Perry and Steve Bissette. Varnae's involvement with Dracula's origin was a retcon to the original Marvel version of Dracula's origin. According to the origin...

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Ollie (December 27, 2023). "The MCU's First Original Superhero Completely Retcons 1 Infinity Stone's Powers". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on...

com. November 13, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2021. "Magic: The Gathering Retcons Iconic Planeswalker, And Fans Aren't Happy". Game Rant. November 15, 2019...

crossover. This four issue mini-series would not be written by David Hines and retcon the entire ending of the "Silent War" series. Written by Joe Pakaski, it...

Hunger: Teenagers and Fanfiction". Voya. Jones, Nick (February 2002). "Retcon Tricks". Star Trek Monthly Magazine: 18–21. Burt, Stephen (Winter 2005)...

He is shot and seemingly killed by Spring, but Flashman and the Tiger retcons this by mentioning that he was murdered by Sebastian Moran. Looney - A...

original five X-Men. This meant the resurrection of Jean Grey (performed by retcon, the character appearing from #101 having never really been her), and having...

job, and is now pursuing a career as a writer. However, the season did retcon the pregnancy announcement from the third-season finale - though the scene...

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Retroactive Cannon, or Ret-Can (a reference to retroactive continuity, or "retcon", a practice used by storytellers to add previously unknown material to...

Obelix does not share a birthday with Asterix. This coincides with the retcon introduced in the short story Birth of Asterix, which was published in 1994...

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was long established as being of Romani heritage. Over time, however, retcons called her parentage into question, which drew criticism for how the character’s...

Paradise, which is now a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Paradise Lost also retcons Postal III as it was revealed that the events of that game were just a...

writer. Simone was replaced in 2014 as writer for Batgirl, with significant retcons made to the character's backstory following Simone's departure. In 2013...

performing in the circus and convinces Hamegg to turn Astro over to him. (In a retcon, the story becomes far more violent and complex). He then takes Astro in...

the original on July 11, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023. Despite the two retcons: The discovery of Alex North's marriage to Marlena and John and Hope's...

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a high templar and a military commander introduced in Brood War. Later retcons, particularly with the character's appearances in the novels Queen of Blades...

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confirm the character's survival after his fall into the sarlacc's mouth and retcon his apparent death. In the second season's premiere, "Chapter 9: The Marshal"...

the Green Goblin as Spider-Man's archenemy. During the "Clone Saga", a retcon was made, which determined that Norman Osborn survived the events of The...

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deceptively reference Cypher, a long-deceased member of the New Mutants. Through retcons, Cipher is depicted as having been present during events prior to her character's...

constantly forced to surprise lummoxes far bigger than he was. Through retcon, aspects of the Atlas and Silver Age characters' history meshed, so that...

device that was introduced in the season opener "Within". This was largely a retcon placed in the series after the fact. The series rationalized this revelation...

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the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018. "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi "My Odyssey". Penguin India. Archived...

armor that reshapes to fit her, including her tail. The same series also retcons her status as a mutant, noting that her powers are the result of an unspecified...

Superman. Initially, Superboy's genetic material came from Westfield; a later retcon established that Superboy's genetic material came from Superman and Lex...

as his design. He also gave Morihashi freedom in terms of the story's retcons regarding Vergil's history. Kamiya stated on Twitter that he was interested...

April 13, 2023. Gallagher, Simon (July 10, 2021). "Black Widow's Ending Retcons Captain America's Civil War Jailbreak". Screen Rant. Retrieved May 28,...

Earth-Two Superman in Justice League of America #73 (August 1969). This retcon declared the Golden Age Superman and Lois Lane stories (i.e. comics published...

new neighbors saying they provided a new dynamic to the series. Notes Via retcon, this story is later revealed to be a lie in the season 11 episode "Joe's...

placed a contract on Sydney's life (this was apparently something of a retcon to cover for actress Lena Olin presumably not returning to the series)....

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February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "Pokemon Legends: Arceus Poke Ball Retcon Doesn't Make Much Sense". Game Rant. 5 February 2022. Archived from the...

Bears a strong resemblance to the Wacky Races character Muttley; Mumbly's retcon from good detective (as depicted in his preceding cartoon show) to villain...

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work behind the scenes. The Illuminati was established to exist (via story retcon) in their first published appearance in New Avengers #7 (July 2005), written...

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season". In a Collider article, Usama Masood wrote, "If anything, the finale retcons the original idea that The Legends will be unknown heroes in the future...

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framed as sequels to prior stories (more common in Frantic) will often retcon various details, circumstances, and character motivations. Fran Madaraki...

initially established that the Marauders followed Tommy to the Alley, later retcons show that Gambit led them into the tunnels. Webber, Tim (May 15, 2019)...

explained his absence in Ultraman Leo. The Ultraman Story movie in 1984 would retcon this into providing a story of Taro being raised on the Land of Light, with...

freed from Leifeng Pagoda because her son's filial piety moved Heaven. A retcon or revisionist version of the story relates that Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen...

Danny (June 8, 2018). "Halloween 2018 Trailer Confirms Major Michael Myers Retcon". Screen Rant. Retrieved December 30, 2020. Konrad, Jeremy (July 27, 2018)...

organization that first appeared in Marvel: The Lost Generation—essentially a retcon to fill the gaps caused by Marvel's "sliding timescale", in which the emergence...

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House (2001), which deals with Sawyer as an adult. That book presents a retcon that the Territories are a parallel to All-World. This is made most clear...

2020. Bacon, Thomas (September 4, 2023). "6 Biggest Star Wars Reveals & Retcons Lucasfilm Just Made About Return of the Jedi". ScreenRant. Fullerton, Huw...

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Arryn's House Of The Dragon Season 2 Return Hints At A Wild Daemon & Viserys Retcon". ScreenRant. Retrieved August 14, 2024. "Rhea Royce". Sky Community. May...

leave Ashdene Ridge to return to Ireland, to be with his family. This retcons the backstory of Mike, whose character had originally revealed contradictory...

Later (1998) (retcon) Halloween: Resurrection (2002) (retcon) Halloween (2007) (remake) Halloween II (2009) (remake) Halloween (2018) (retcon) Halloween...

Time renamed Faustaff's ally Gordon Ogg into "Gordon Begg", in order to retcon him into a Von Bek and underline those character's respective status as...

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at the Wayback Machine. Drew and Patrick "100 Bullets: Brother Lono 2", Retcon Punch! (July 22, 2013). Azzarello, Brian & Eduardo Risso. 100 Bullets: Brother...

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has been a god for millennia. Much of this information was presented as a retcon to justify changes from previous editions' settings. It is unclear whether...

boatload of explosives in DC Comics Presents #38. In the original post-Crisis retcon of the team, both Wing and the Vigilante's sidekick Stuff the Chinatown...

an eternally recurring Ragnarok. Green Lantern (vol. 3) #19 attempted to retcon Alan Scott's origin and power ring to accommodate the changes made by Crisis...

including Batman and Superman this October, but stresses that it's "not a retcon or reboot"". gamesradar. Retrieved 2024-07-22. Luken, Jackson (2024-10-19)...

Book Co. Ltd., 1991 (ISBN 962-325-195-5), pp. 5–6. Iron Arm, Golden Sabre retcons the reason why Wu Song travels to Kaifeng. In the Water Margin, the county...

Later in the 1980s Alan Moore wrote a retcon of Adam Strange's reason for his visits to Rann. In this retcon the population of the planet, the majority...

McTavish was also instrumental in a major, but popular retroactive continuity (retcon) storyline in 1993. Shortly after being introduced, Kendall Hart (Sarah...

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Jason has always been some sort of supernatural force. He also decided to retcon the ending of the fifth film, where Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd) was a serial...

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Claw's grandniece, Suwan, was in love with Woo in the 1950s series. In retcon stories, Woo is an FBI agent assigned in 1958 to oversee the 1950s superhero...

Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E. #1 Grady, Kai (May 31, 2022). "Batman 1989 Retcon Secretly Gave A Classic DC Villain Secretly His Live-Action Debut". Screen...

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instead from the "shock" of his murder due to her having a weak heart. This retcon was ultimately undone, with Martha again being gunned down with Thomas.)...

Rockwell's cameo, and positively stated on the Mandarin reveal, "rather than a retcon this feels like an expansion, a pulling back of the curtain to reveal more...

(Hypertime), which was used as an explanation for character changes, errors, and retcons in DC continuity. Eventually, Alexander reveals to Superboy-Prime that...

persistent enemy is Hydra, a criminal organization founded (after some retcon) by Baron Strucker. S.H.I.E.L.D. was presented as an extant, full-blown...

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have argued that the extended backstory of Claire and Carmy feels like a "retcon" and that Claire is presented as a weakly characterized "Mary Sue" type...

revealed if Daphne believed he was Enrico's or if she lied). After numerous retcons (which included revealing John Black was Tony's half-brother via Daphne...

killed' territory...it also runs the entire franchise into the ground and retcons the first film into oblivion in the space of 15 minutes...This is a film...

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receiving criticism for the scripts, characterization, and the perceived retcon of the Doctor's origins in the episode "The Timeless Children". Some have...

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(March 14, 2013). "Alternating Currents: Batman 18, Mikyzptlk and Scott". Retcon Punch. Retrieved February 21, 2014. Batman Eternal #41 (March 2015) Batman...

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in-universe explanation given for these changes as it was classified as a retcon. The fourth edition of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, released in...

attempt to return her to reality, allowing her to travel in time, Gwen retcons the Marvel Universe into believing her to be a mutant after being given...

partner share a devoted kiss. Bug's appearance in "My Own Private Rodeo" retcons his appearance in earlier episodes, where he bears a near-identicality...

(8 July 2021). "Marvel's Trouble Was Spider-Man's Most Outrageous Failed Retcon". CBR.com. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Brady, Matt (22 May...

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married and had one son, Hector Hall, the previous Doctor Fate. Through retcon, Carter and Shiera also joined the Justice League of America in the late...

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Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes, the Gunhawks returned, but with retcons in their previous history. It was "revealed" that the published adventures...

(1990) (retcon) Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) (prequel) Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) (retcon) The Exorcist: Believer (2023) (retcon) Untitled...

republishing stories involving them, before rebooting the canon entirely to retcon out not only his but any other former writers' original characters and concepts...

Batwoman, but with a revamped origin). Despite her initial post-Crisis origin retcon, Bette Kane has regained her prior history using the Bat-Girl identity in...

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X, in order to allow the latter to prepare for the Z'Nox invasion. This retcon established that Changeling was killed in battle while disguised as Professor...

team. The ties between Jean Grey and the Phoenix (leaning into the second retcon Claremont establishes) were revisited and the death of Phoenix occurs in...

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eventually becomes the newest Aqualad. In The New 52, the 2011 relaunch and retcon of DC Comics' entire superhero line, a greatly disillusioned Aquaman, distressed...

by serving with the Exiles could he win them back. According to a 2010 retcon, during this time period Angel served as a member of Beast's squad of X-Men...

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created by writer Jenny Blake Isabella and artist Arvell Jones. A later retcon in Marvel Team-Up #64 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne revealed she had...

Retrieved July 12, 2025. Blake, Vikki (July 16, 2025). "Ready Or Not Modder Retcons 'Censorship' Changes Within An Hour Of New Patch Going Live". IGN. Retrieved...

has a complicated history, and his origin involves a complex series of retcons. Although the character's first real appearance is as "Bucky" in Captain...

have been made to account for the numerous story threads presented via retcon in Half-Life 2. While most of the general design and progress through the...

stories from the first television series. Another episode of Gundam Evolve retcons an event from Char's Counterattack where Amuro confronts Char's underling...

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Firestorm. In the 2019 series Doomsday Clock, Firestorm's origin underwent a retcon, revealing that Martin Stein is the head of the Department of Metahuman...

2022. Retrieved April 1, 2022. Orquiola, John (March 3, 2022). "Star Trek Retcons Completely Change Jean-Luc Picard's Origin". Screen Rant. Archived from...

five children: Ridge, Thorne, Kristen, Felicia and Angela. Two different retcons have taken away two of his children. The Angela that Eric meets in 1988...

storm to land near Oz, as do other animals, and Toto, as explained in a retcon, always had the ability since arriving in Oz, but never used it.[citation...

publication of the WildStorm (DC) comics, Harmony Gold officially decided to retcon the Robotech Universe. The following Robotech material is now relegated...

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first time in this episode; Moynihan had crafted the character in order to retcon why various names had been ascribed to the being over the course of several...

games, and borrows little from Mean Streets beyond its basic plot. It retcons many details from that game further sharpening the divide between the early...

previous comics, it is neither a total reimagining. Rather, it selectively retcons The Sentinels era to fit with the new "official" continuity, and provide...

complications, and global terrorist activities; Metal Gear Solid 3 would later retcon the year FOXHOUND was established, stating in the ending timeline that FOXHOUND...

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separate character. Morrison has expressed criticism of this subsequent retcon in interviews. Marvel also wanted to continue using Magneto; Austen stated...

20, 2022). "Bib Fortuna Betraying Boba Fett Hints at Return of the Jedi Retcon". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved...

clear if him, Dorothy and Tessa skip ahead a grade or if its an intentional retcon), he and Scooter appear mostly as background characters with little to no...

reprised his role in the sequel videogame Aliens: Colonial Marines, which retcons his death and established Hicks as the true last survivor of the USS Sulaco...

Solomon, Marcus (May 31, 2009). "Adicts, The, Fallujah 71, The Maxies, The Retcons, and Godzilla: April 5, 2009 @ American Legion Post 79 (Riverside, CA)"...

always been angry as a kid when I found out that Bucky dying was some huge retcon that they did because Stan Lee didn't want to have sidekicks. [Laughs.]...

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one of them." He stated that while it wasn't a needless origin story or a retcon of what came before, the film felt empty and forgettable. Screen International...

character had died in the original film, and she did not want to unnecessarily retcon her death. The screenplay was written by Robinson and Sam Lansky after McKendrick...

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9, 2019). "Crisis on Infinite Earths Makes a Major Legends of Tomorrow Retcon". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019...

The Chief Niles Caulder JLA #94 (Early May 2004) First appearance is a retcon removing all previous appearances. Teen Titans vol. 3, #32 (March 2006)...

Ocean Master (and before joining the short-lived Injustice League in the retcon Silver Age third-week event). Black Manta and Aquaman battled repeatedly...

the superhero team the Invaders, fighting Nazis during World War II (in retcon stories that premiered in 1970s comics). With the Invaders, he was soon...

Rangers Introduces the New Rita Repulsa, and Her Origin Story Features a Big Retcon". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2025-10-26. Jennings, Collier (2024-12-17). "'Power...

February 7, 2019. Raymond, Nicholas (March 2, 2021). "Dragon Ball's Hercule Retcon Is Actually A Correction". Screen Rant. Retrieved April 9, 2021. Martin...

institution. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), the final film in the series, retcons the revelations of the second film and third film, supplying that Norman's...

"adaptation took a page from the medium it's part of and provides everyone with a retcon of the group's past". Friedman noted that "Acaba attempted to run an independent...

List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2000s "A Short History of 'Retcon'". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved November 24, 2019. "Jailhouse Rock". In...

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ascribed to an encounter between Dodds and the entity known as Dream via retcon. The visions haunt Dodds, who uses his keen intellect and amateur detective...

(2006) (prequel) Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) (retcon) Leatherface (2017) (retcon) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) (retcon) Transformers (a) The Transformers: The...

reopens the case her husband was working on when he was killed. This episode retcons the death of McCall's husband from the pilot episode. Guest stars Leslie...

titled The Power of Shazam!, which ran from 1995 to 1999. After a previous retcon by Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake in 1987 with the Shazam!: The New Beginning...

name is incorrectly listed as "Kessler" in the apartment building. This retcons the pilot's use of "Kessler" as the character's name. George finds out...

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commander as opposed to their brother. This likely either served as a complete retcon of his character, or was the almost comedic reveal that they never cared...

telekinesis that mimics Superman's flight and superhuman durability. A later retcon established that Superboy is a hybrid clone created from the DNA of Superman...

Retrieved July 27, 2022. Freitag, Lee (December 7, 2022). "The Santa Clauses Retcons the 1994 Film with a Spider-Verse-Like Twist". Comic Book Resources. Archived...

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A member of the Referential Six whose abilities and name are a play on "retcon". Anything he says comes true. Tag Man (voiced by Justin Roiland) – An enormous...

"just fizzled out a little, after a strong build up", and felt that the retcon of the Doctor saving Gallifrey felt "like years of darkness was sort-of...

that he was never popular in school, unlike Robert. Note: This episode retcons a crossover with The Nanny, where Ray appears in-character at a different...

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fits into the DCU via a recap at the start of the season, which notably retcons the DCEU's Justice League who appeared in "It's Cow or Never" by replacing...

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accidentally entered the shots of both scenes, with Moffat attempting to retcon both crew members as being splinters of Clara. "The Name of the Doctor"...

remarked that the story was "nonsensical", with "rings upon rings and comical retcons". Phillip Kollar from Polygon remarked that fans of the Tolkien's legendarium...

Fang Foom. During the course of his run, Byrne became the first writer to retcon Iron Man's origin, removing explicit ties to the Vietnam War (while maintaining...

The existence of the microcephalic Angela was an early retcon in the series, but a later retcon reveals that the Angela viewers meet is an imposter who...

Sins Remembered (ISBN 0-7851-1628-1). Straczynski ultimately wished to retcon the characters out of existence using the events of the "One More Day" story...

with the new, such as Nicholas Pasco, whose return compounded the story's retcon as his character died in the original. Fresh scenes also included veteran...

the finale episode to line up with continuity as an "annoyingly clever retcon", and also highlighted the season's cinematic visuals and music which he...

controversial with many longtime Legion fans, as it incorporated several major retcons: the editorially-mandated excision of Superboy from Legion history, the...