Eli5: What does retconning even mean? : r explainlikeimfive Retcon means Retroactive Continuity It’s when previously established facts in a literary body are overwritten later For example, in book 1 of a series, it’s established a character was born in April But in book 5, you find out their birth certificate was wrong and they were actually born in May It’s not to be confused with a plot twist A plot twist is part of a story A retcon is a
How did the term retcon lose its meaning? - Reddit The term "retcon" is short for retroactive continuity Anything that retroactively alters a story is a retcon, whether that's adding to it, subtracting from it, or changing it Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's father is a retcon Goku being an alien is a retcon Tailed Beasts in Naruto are a retcon None of these retcons really contradict anything, but they're still retcons
What’s actually a good tolerable example of retconning? I honestly don't consider that a retcon, since we already got glimpses of O'Neil's true personality ("Give my regards to King Tut asshole!") in the film At the start of the film he was suicidal due to what happened with his son (making him the perfect candidate to lead the expedition), but by the end he's come to terms with it and decided to go on living, paving the way for Richard Dean
what does a retcon mean? : r comicbooks - Reddit The main difference between reboot retcon is that a reboot changes everything (usually) and resets it to #1, wheras a retcon just removes certain events For example, a new creative team starts working on "Generic Man" and decides the previous writer screwed up in last year's storyline by having him move to France and open a winery
Whats the most powerful weapon EVER made in 40k lore? It was scattered in caches throughout the Dark Angels fleet, on Caliban and world they garrisioned like Graymare -source Forge World Black Book 9 crusade, as well ad the Lord of the first novel This is the first legion, the Legion whose organisational structure was so diffuse and complex it confused Guilliman, the Primarch whose special ability was organisation (he muses in Unremembered
What was Scott’s retcon? - Reddit An actual retcon to this would be later games stating outright that he was never convicted And in regards to Charlies's gender, while yes the SAVE HIM minigame clearly labels Charlie as a boy, this was later explained in UCN where it is revealed that the Puppet is a male character, and Charlie is a girl
What are all the retcons in the series : r Naruto - Reddit The biggest one is probably the power scaling Were supposed to beleive in PT 1 that lightning cutter and a 3 tomoe sharingan was enough to make Kakashi legendary When by en of series Hashirama is pulling shit like 1000 hands Then there's the Itachi Retcon which fundamentally changes the entire series The tailed beast Retcon The the night of Naruto's birth Retcon Nagatos rinnegan Retcon
A thing that bugs me about the concept of a Retcon - Reddit The thing is, retcon is basically fans saying "Oh, the author didn't actually think of this thing when they wrote that part at the time, and so they just added it in after the fact and pretended it was always like that " Basically readers trying to see from the perspective of the writer
Recent Retcon : r OnePunchMan - Reddit Now, in the Retcon, as his power scales up, only Blast will be able to deal with him, and he may need Saitama's help In other words, the ninjas apparently will be left aside in their own saga It's the "Garou effect" All opponents from him will have to be represented by Murata on a stratospheric power scale, to be considered a threat