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* Shortly after Caitlin Clark set the career scoring record in NCAA Division I women's basketball in February 2024, veteran sportswriter Sally Jenkins [[https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-erased-entire-generation-women-205233004.html pointed out]] that Clark wasn't (yet) the all-time scoring leader in major-college women's basketball. The ''actual'' record holder, Lynette Woodard, played for Kansas from 1977–1981, with her college career ending immediately before the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports. Before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. After the NCAA ran the AIAW out of business, it first stuck AIAW-era records under asterisks at the back of its record book before completely scrubbing them. Jenkins asked the NCAA why AIAW-era records weren't recognized; a spokesperson responded they "were not completed while the schools/teams in question were NCAA members." Jenkins considered this treatment an erasure of women's basketball players, pointing out the following: Going into the 2024 season, Michigan is credited with the most wins in [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball NCAA Division I football]], with 989 since its first season in 1879. Yet, the NCAA itself ''didn't exist'' until 1906.[[note]]The linked story said the NCAA was founded in 1910; that was actually the date it adopted the NCAA name.[[/note]] And in what Jenkins called "the ultimate fit of illogic", the NCAA record book includes women's ''coaching records'' from the AIAW era. (In a postscript, Clark passed Woodard's total less than a week after Jenkins' story ran.)

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* Shortly after Caitlin Clark UsefulNotes/CaitlinClark set the career scoring record in NCAA Division I women's basketball in February 2024, veteran sportswriter Sally Jenkins [[https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-erased-entire-generation-women-205233004.html pointed out]] that Clark wasn't (yet) the all-time scoring leader in major-college women's basketball. The ''actual'' record holder, Lynette Woodard, played for Kansas from 1977–1981, with her college career ending immediately before the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports. Before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. After the NCAA ran the AIAW out of business, it first stuck AIAW-era records under asterisks at the back of its record book before completely scrubbing them. Jenkins asked the NCAA why AIAW-era records weren't recognized; a spokesperson responded they "were not completed while the schools/teams in question were NCAA members." Jenkins considered this treatment an erasure of women's basketball players, pointing out the following: Going into the 2024 season, Michigan is credited with the most wins in [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball NCAA Division I football]], with 989 since its first season in 1879. Yet, the NCAA itself ''didn't exist'' until 1906.[[note]]The linked story said the NCAA was founded in 1910; that was actually the date it adopted the NCAA name.[[/note]] And in what Jenkins called "the ultimate fit of illogic", the NCAA record book includes women's ''coaching records'' from the AIAW era. (In a postscript, Clark passed Woodard's total less than a week after Jenkins' story ran.)
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There are numerous reasons why this can happen. It can be an uncomfortable case of CreatorBacklash, MisaimedFandom, OvershadowedByControversy, ValuesDissonance, or UnfortunateImplications for the writers. It can also happen when FanonDiscontinuity is so vehement that [[AuthorsSavingThrow the writers end up agreeing and rewrite the canon]]. Sometimes it's just a moment or piece of writing viewed as stupid, unpopular, or simply not making sense within that universe. However, this can also happen if the work was made by a person or developer other than the original creator of the franchise, and, in rare cases, can also happen when they admit CreatorsApathy about canonicity. A {{retcon}} big enough, or dueling writers that are ArmedWithCanon can cause elements of a work, like characters, events, or episodes to be turfed out of the canon. Sometimes, the work was never canonical to begin with, but fans weren't sure and/or hoped it was, and we get a confirmation it wasn't.

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There are numerous reasons why this can happen. It can be an uncomfortable case of CreatorBacklash, MisaimedFandom, OvershadowedByControversy, ValuesDissonance, or UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications for the writers. It can also happen when FanonDiscontinuity is so vehement that [[AuthorsSavingThrow the writers end up agreeing and rewrite the canon]]. Sometimes it's just a moment or piece of writing viewed as stupid, unpopular, or simply not making sense within that universe. However, this can also happen if the work was made by a person or developer other than the original creator of the franchise, and, in rare cases, can also happen when they admit CreatorsApathy about canonicity. A {{retcon}} big enough, or dueling writers that are ArmedWithCanon can cause elements of a work, like characters, events, or episodes to be turfed out of the canon. Sometimes, the work was never canonical to begin with, but fans weren't sure and/or hoped it was, and we get a confirmation it wasn't.
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** It appears that ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1992}}'' animated series (designed as a prequel to [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the first movie]]) has been kicked out of continuity by ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', as ''Ariel's Beginning'' is also a prequel to the first movie that would generally be consistent with the series but features a totally different version of Ariel and Flounder's first meeting than was presented in the series. Or it's just the one episode about their meeting that is touched -- it has not been clarified.

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** It appears that ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1992}}'' animated series (designed as a prequel to [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the first movie]]) has been kicked out of continuity by ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidArielsBeginning'', as ''Ariel's Beginning'' is also a prequel to the first movie that would generally be consistent with the series but features a totally different version of Ariel and Flounder's first meeting than was presented in the series. Or it's just the one episode about their meeting that is touched -- it has not been clarified.
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*** Tts spin-off shows ''The Paws of Destiny'' and ''The Dragon Knight'' had Po changing his title to Dragon Master. This film completely ignores this change, and Po is instead still going by his original title of Dragon Warrior. Additionally, by the time of ''The Dragon Knight'', it was shown that Po as the "Dragon Master" by that point was a national folk hero in China considering the food tour he was going on and how the Emperor of that series took away his title and made him a nationally disgraced pariah. This movie dials back that development and scales Po back down to being just a localized hero whose adventures and fame haven't traveled all that wide and a lot of people in Juniper City don't even know who he is or why he's so important.

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*** Tts Its spin-off shows ''The Paws of Destiny'' and ''The Dragon Knight'' had Po changing his title to Dragon Master. This film completely ignores this change, and Po is instead still going by his original title of Dragon Warrior. Additionally, by the time of ''The Dragon Knight'', it was shown that Po as the "Dragon Master" by that point was a national folk hero in China considering the food tour he was going on and how the Emperor of that series took away his title and made him a nationally disgraced pariah. This movie dials back that development and scales Po back down to being just a localized hero whose adventures and fame haven't traveled all that wide and a lot of people in Juniper City don't even know who he is or why he's so important.

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* Could a wrestler's ''entire career'' be removed from the canon? If so, then that's what happened to Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. He [[UnPerson never wrestled]], so all accomplishments are disregarded including his 2004 Wrestling/RoyalRumble win and title victory at Wrestling/WrestleMania XX, and no mention of him is made on the [=WWE=]'s official website. Read up on why [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double-murder_and_suicide here.]] Wrestling/HulkHogan got the same fate in 2015 after it was found out he made racist and homophobic comments, but was allowed to return to WWE programming in 2018.

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* Could a wrestler's ''entire career'' be removed from the canon? If so, then that's what happened to Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. He [[UnPerson never wrestled]], so all accomplishments are disregarded including his 2004 Wrestling/RoyalRumble win and title victory at Wrestling/WrestleMania XX, and no mention of him is made on the [=WWE=]'s official website. [[note]]Though he is mentioned in a couple places where he kind of has to be, like title histories[[/note]] Read up on why [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double-murder_and_suicide here.]] Wrestling/HulkHogan got the same fate in 2015 after it was found out he made racist and homophobic comments, but was allowed to return to WWE programming in 2018.


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* Both Wrestling/BookerT and Wrestling/DustinRhodes likewise never stepped foot in a TNA ring as far as they are concerned. Dustin in particular really does not people bringing this up, mainly because his substance abuse issues were completely out of control at that point ([[Wrestling/JeffHardy sound]] [[Wrestling/KurtAngle familiar]]?) and he'd rather not revisit that part of his life.
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There are numerous reasons why this can happen. It can be an uncomfortable case of CreatorBacklash, MisaimedFandom, ValuesDissonance, or UnfortunateImplications for the writers. It can also happen when FanonDiscontinuity is so vehement that [[AuthorsSavingThrow the writers end up agreeing and rewrite the canon]]. Sometimes it's just a moment or piece of writing viewed as stupid, unpopular, or simply not making sense within that universe. However, this can also happen if the work was made by a person or developer other than the original creator of the franchise, and, in rare cases, can also happen when they admit CreatorsApathy about canonicity. A {{retcon}} big enough, or dueling writers that are ArmedWithCanon can cause elements of a work, like characters, events, or episodes to be turfed out of the canon. Sometimes, the work was never canonical to begin with, but fans weren't sure and/or hoped it was, and we get a confirmation it wasn't.

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There are numerous reasons why this can happen. It can be an uncomfortable case of CreatorBacklash, MisaimedFandom, OvershadowedByControversy, ValuesDissonance, or UnfortunateImplications for the writers. It can also happen when FanonDiscontinuity is so vehement that [[AuthorsSavingThrow the writers end up agreeing and rewrite the canon]]. Sometimes it's just a moment or piece of writing viewed as stupid, unpopular, or simply not making sense within that universe. However, this can also happen if the work was made by a person or developer other than the original creator of the franchise, and, in rare cases, can also happen when they admit CreatorsApathy about canonicity. A {{retcon}} big enough, or dueling writers that are ArmedWithCanon can cause elements of a work, like characters, events, or episodes to be turfed out of the canon. Sometimes, the work was never canonical to begin with, but fans weren't sure and/or hoped it was, and we get a confirmation it wasn't.
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* The ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' basically treats its television spin-offs as this, with the films and short films made by Dreamwork's film division as being the true primary canon, while the television series made by Dreamwork's TV division being set in an alternate timeline.

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* The ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' franchise basically treats its television spin-offs as this, with the films and short films made by Dreamwork's film division as being the true primary canon, while the television series made by Dreamwork's TV division being set in an alternate timeline.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'' appears to have rendered the shows ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsofDestiny'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaTheDragonKnight'' officially non-canon primarily by virtue of Po still being called the Dragon Warrior rather than having his title changed to "Dragon Master" as in the shows. Furthermore, Po mentions that he never worked with criminals before his work Zhen (something that happened in ''Dragon Knight'') and Ping is shown to be single and being co-dads with Li to Po rather than being in a relationship with Forouzan as he was at the end of ''Dragon Knight''.

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* The ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' basically treats its television spin-offs as this, with the films and short films made by Dreamwork's film division as being the true primary canon, while the television series made by Dreamwork's TV division being set in an alternate timeline.
** Generally the events of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' fit well with the overall canon of the films, but that changes with the episode "Enter the Dragon" which features Po master the Hero's Chi, but the events of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' ignores this with Po not knowing what Chi is and learns how to use it for first time in that film.
** In-between the releases of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'', there were two series released;
** While the three shows reference events depicted in each other even continuity with the three series is not perfect, as ''The Paws of Destiny'' features a reference to Ke-Pa the main antagonist of "Enter the Dragon" from ''Legends of Awesomeness'' which is the episode where Po masters Chi, even though ''The Paws of Destiny'' serves as a sequel to the third film which ignored said episode and all three shows depict the current Emperor of China (or Empress in the case of ''The Paws of Destiny'') as being a different character and even species.
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''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'' being the biggest example as it appears to have rendered the shows ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsofDestiny'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaTheDragonKnight'' officially non-canon primarily by virtue non-canon.
*** Tts spin-off shows ''The Paws
of Po still being called the Destiny'' and ''The Dragon Warrior rather than having Knight'' had Po changing his title changed to Dragon Master. This film completely ignores this change, and Po is instead still going by his original title of Dragon Warrior. Additionally, by the time of ''The Dragon Knight'', it was shown that Po as the "Dragon Master" as in the shows. Furthermore, Po mentions by that point was a national folk hero in China considering the food tour he was going on and how the Emperor of that series took away his title and made him a nationally disgraced pariah. This movie dials back that development and scales Po back down to being just a localized hero whose adventures and fame haven't traveled all that wide and a lot of people in Juniper City don't even know who he is or why he's so important.
*** While travelling with Zhen to Juniper City, Po claims he has
never worked had to work with criminals a wanted criminal before, and is horrified when his association with her gets him his own wanted poster. This makes it abundantly clear that the events of ''The Dragon Knight'', which also revolves around Po becoming a fugitive - including getting a wanted poster - and teaming up with other criminals, is not part of this continuity.
*** At the end of ''The Dragon Knight'' which was the last ''KFP'' iteration
before his work Zhen (something that happened in ''Dragon Knight'') and this movie, Mr. Ping is shown to be single and being co-dads [[spoiler: ended up with Li to Po rather than being in a relationship the pirate queen Forouzan as an OfficialCouple, with Forouzan as he was at essentially becoming Po's stepmom]]. In this movie, all of that is overridden and Mr. Ping is single again, spending most of the end movie on misadventures with Li Shan.
*** In both ''The Paws Of Destiny'' and ''The Dragon Knight'', Po and Ping have clearly taken residence in the Panda village as their new home with Ping even having a new restaurant there to continue his business, but this movie shows them still living in the Valley
of ''Dragon Knight''.Peace much like the previous movies and ''Legends of Awesomeness'', with this time being the inverse in where its Li Shan who moved away from the village to live in the Valley of Peace.
*** Even in the design department, both ''The Paws Of Destiny'' and ''The Dragon Knight'' feature the rabbits having totally different designs from those depicted in the movies and the original series, while this movie goes back to the rabbits original designs instead of their newer ones.
*** In ''The Paws Of Destiny'', Ping still saw Li as a rival for Po's affection and does not get along with him, yet in this film Ping see's Li as an equal and both help each to co-parent Po.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'' appears to have rendered the shows ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsofDestiny'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaTheDragonKnight'' officially non-canon.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'' appears to have rendered the shows ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsofDestiny'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaTheDragonKnight'' officially non-canon.non-canon primarily by virtue of Po still being called the Dragon Warrior rather than having his title changed to "Dragon Master" as in the shows. Furthermore, Po mentions that he never worked with criminals before his work Zhen (something that happened in ''Dragon Knight'') and Ping is shown to be single and being co-dads with Li to Po rather than being in a relationship with Forouzan as he was at the end of ''Dragon Knight''.
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